WATCH: the rich asshole backer desperately tries to avoid revealing who told him to talk to Michael Wolff
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David Bossie, who served as deputy campaign manager for some rich asshole’s presidential campaign, admitted on Fox News Monday that he did talk with journalist Michael Wolff for his bestselling book “Fire and Fury: Inside the rich asshole White House.”
However, when asked who had encouraged him to speak with Wolff for the book, Bossie suddenly clammed up and desperately tried to avoid admitting that former the rich asshole campaign chief Steve Bannon was the guilty party.
“Did someone tell you to sit down with him?” asked host Bill Hemmer during his interview with Bossie. “How did that come about?”
“I sat down with him,” acknowledged Bossie. “I had really not been interested in sitting down with anybody about any book, mostly because Corey Lewandowski and I were writing our own. I found very little value wanting to sit with him. What he has turned out, this book, is just — the National Enquirer on steroids and that’s all I consider it.”
Hemmer refused to let Bossie off the hook, however, and pressed him repeatedly to answer who asked him to talk with Wolff.
Eventually, Bossie relented and admitted it was Bannon.
“It was Steve and I had a conversation about it and he asked me to sit down with him,” he said.
“Your office in the rich asshole Tower was right next to Steve Bannon,” Hemmer replied. “Why would Steve Bannon bring in such an outsider, let’s say, to write this?”
“I haven’t talked to Steve about that and I don’t know why he would have allowed this,” he said. “However, there are other people who spoke to this person within the White House, within the administration. And they have some explaining to do as well.”
US ends protected status for 200,000 Salvadorans
FILE PHOTO: A Salvadoran man holds his nation's flag and a sign during a protest rally for immigrants rights on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, U.S., October 8, 2013. REUTERS/Gary Cameron/File Photo
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Around 200,000 Salvadorans allowed to live in the United States since 2001 after earthquakes in El Salvador must leave the country in 2019, U.S. officials said on Monday, marking the rich asshole administration’s latest move to tighten immigration law enforcement.
Termination of the Salvadorans’ temporary protected status (TPS) will take effect Sept. 9, 2019, to give them time to leave or seek lawful residency, and for El Salvador to prepare for their return, officials said.
The decision to end TPS for Salvadorans is part of the administration’s broader push to deport immigrants who are in the United States illegally. The decision was heavily criticized by immigrant advocates who said it ignored violence in El Salvador, which has one of the world’s highest murder rates.
The rich asshole administration has faced a series of deadlines over the past year to decide whether to end the protected status of immigrants in the United States whose home countries have been affected by disasters. Administration officials have said TPS is supposed to provide a temporary haven for victims, not a permanent status in the United States.
Taken together, the decisions by the rich asshole administration mean approximately 250,000 people who previously had permission to live and work in the United States will, over the course of the next two years, lose those protections and be open to deportation if they choose to stay in the country.
Haitians and Nicaraguans will lose their protected status in 2019 and Hondurans could lose theirs later this year. South Sudanese immigrants’ protected status was extended until May 2019.
Salvadorans are the largest group by far with temporary protected status. An estimated 200,000 Salvadoran immigrants have the protection, according to a November report by the Congressional Research Service. That is more than three times the number of people in the next largest group with the status, Hondurans. Salvadorans were granted the protections after a pair of earthquakes in 2001 that killed more than 1,150 people between them and left hundreds of thousands homeless.
Critics have complained the TPS program allows participants to repeatedly extend their stays in 6-month to 18-month increments in case of a natural disaster, civil strife or other emergencies in their homelands.
Mike Pence shares ‘intimate’ dinner with right-wing pastor who prays for deaths of liberal justices
Mike and Karen Pence meet with religious right leaders at the Naval Observatory (White House)
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Vice President Mike Pence and his wife hosted a small gathering of right-wing Christian leaders in their official residence at the Naval Observatory.
The White House released a photo of the event Thursday, which “prayer warrior” Frank Amedia also announced in an email, reported Right Wing Watch.
Amedia said he and other religious right activists enjoyed “a very small and intimate dinner meeting with Vice President Pence and his wife Karen,” where they discussed an evangelical event March 20-22 in Branson, Missouri, hosted by apocalyptic televangelist Jim Bakker.
“I perceive that this timing is critical and strategic as I have been advising that I have received that February is a time of chaos in our nation politically,” Amedia told his followers, “with flash points on the coasts and in the heartland, as well as the caution of the ‘ides of March’ looming which will try to swallow up the spiritual surge of progress and pierce the heart of our political and church reformation.”
Amedia, a volunteer policy liaison for President some rich asshole’s campaign, founded the POTUS Shield network of pastors who believe government should be controlled by conservative Christians.
He told followers that Pence and his wife, who are conservative Christians, “are keenly aware” of the POTUS Shield’s work and asked Amedia to thank his followers on behalf of the vice president and the rich asshole for their “relentless commitment to be a shield and weapon of spiritual force.”
Amedia and his followers believe the rich asshole will help usher in a spiritual revival that will turn America into an explicitly Christian nation, and group members pray for God to “sweep away” Supreme Court justices who don’t share their viewpoint.
the rich asshole spiritual adviser warns followers of ‘consequences’ if they don’t send her up to a month’s salary
some rich asshole with Pastor Paula White (Photo: Facebook)
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Paula White, a prosperity gospel minister who has often served as a spiritual adviser for President some rich asshole, has regularly drawn criticism from conservative Evangelicals for preaching what they consider to be “heretical” teachings that warp the divine message of the Gospel.
Now White is raising eyebrows with a new scheme that involves asking her followers to send her up to a full month’s salary — or else face “consequences.”
Via The Christian Post, White has launched a “First Fruits” campaign on her website that asks her followers to ring in the new year by sending her a significant chunk of money this month.
“Each January, I put God first and honor Him with the first of our substance by sowing a first fruits offering of one month’s pay,” White writes. “That is a big sacrifice, but it is a seed for the harvest I am believing for in the coming year. And God always provides! Every year many others join us and sow a month’s pay, a week’s pay, others give a day’s pay, but everyone gives their best- The results are miraculous!”
White explains that it’s important to donate money to her at the start of every new year because it helps you get off on the right foot with the Lord.
“All Firsts belong to God,” she says. “When you honor this principle it provides the foundation and structure for God’s blessings and promises in your life, it unlocks deep dimensions of spiritual truths that literally transform your life! When you apply this everything comes in divine alignment for His plan and promises for you.”
However, White also warns that bad things could happen to followers who don’t send her money this month because to not do so would contradict God’s word.
“When you don’t honor it, whether through ignorance or direct disobedience there are consequences,” she writes.
White, who opened the National Day of Prayer Event at the White House last year, has drawn criticism from many Christians over the years, including her business in which she sells believers “resurrection seeds” that will grant them eternal life for the low price of just $1,144
BET host Robin Thede calls out the rich asshole for ’empowering racism’ — and lauds Oprah for doing the opposite
BET host Robin Thede (left) and CNN host Brooke Baldwin (right). Image via screengrab.
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Oprah Winfrey’s hints about her potential presidential run were the talk of the town on Monday — and one CNN panelist painted her as a direct foil to President some rich asshole.
While the initial parallels between the rich asshole and Winfrey are obvious (both are pop culture icons with no prior political experience), BET host Robin Thede nailed down their biggest difference.
“I do think that instead of making people feel bad about their situation or empowered in their racism, she is somebody who is trying to empower people in positivity,” Thede said.
“Ouch, Robin,” host Brooke Baldwin responded.
“I’m sorry,” Thede responded, “is there a lie?”
Though the BET host does not support a potential Winfrey candidacy, she said she understood the draw.
“She’s trying to empower people in positivity,” she said. “Everybody can agree on that. There’s not a contingent who hate Oprah for her positive message. They might hate her because she’s a black woman or because of her business or whatever.”
Nevertheless, Thede said she can see why Winfrey’s Golden Globes speech resulted in a social media “frenzy” — the talk show veteran did, according to her, look like then-candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Watch below, via CNN.
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Oprah Winfrey’s hints about her potential presidential run were the talk of the town on Monday — and one CNN panelist painted her as a direct foil to President some rich asshole.
While the initial parallels between the rich asshole and Winfrey are obvious (both are pop culture icons with no prior political experience), BET host Robin Thede nailed down their biggest difference.
“I do think that instead of making people feel bad about their situation or empowered in their racism, she is somebody who is trying to empower people in positivity,” Thede said.
“Ouch, Robin,” host Brooke Baldwin responded.
“I’m sorry,” Thede responded, “is there a lie?”
Though the BET host does not support a potential Winfrey candidacy, she said she understood the draw.
“She’s trying to empower people in positivity,” she said. “Everybody can agree on that. There’s not a contingent who hate Oprah for her positive message. They might hate her because she’s a black woman or because of her business or whatever.”
Nevertheless, Thede said she can see why Winfrey’s Golden Globes speech resulted in a social media “frenzy” — the talk show veteran did, according to her, look like then-candidate Barack Obama at the 2008 Democratic National Convention.
Watch below, via CNN.
WATCH LIVE: some rich asshole delivers speech to speech to American Farm Bureau Federation in Nashville
President some rich asshole delivered a televised statement a day after returning from a marathon trip to Asia. (AFP / Nicholas Kamm)
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President some rich asshole is addressing the American Farm Bureau Federation in Nashville, Tennessee on Monday. He is expected to boast about the impacts of the recently enacted tax reform legislation and discuss issues related to rural development.
Watch streaming video of the speech, scheduled to begin at 4:10 p.m. (ET), below:
the rich asshole genius? He ranks lowest among last 15
January 8, 2018
Nina Burleigh
Posted with permission from Newsweek
President Donald Some rich asshole—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of “being, like really smart”—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.
The analysis assessed the first 30,000 words each president spoke in office, and ranked them on the Flesch-Kincaid grade level scale and more than two dozen other common tests analyzing English language difficulty levels. Some rich asshole clocked in around mid-fourth grade, the worst since Truman, who spoke at nearly a sixth-grade level.
At the top of the list were Hoover and Jimmy Carter, who were basically at an 11th-grade level, and President Barack Obama, in third place with a high ninth-grade level of communicating with the American people.
The Flesch-Kincaid scale was developed in 1975 for the U.S. Navy to assess the relative difficulty of training manuals biased on word length and sentence length. A database of Some rich asshole’s words, compiled by the incomparable factba.se, ran the comparative analysis yesterday, in response to the president’s claim that he is “a genius.”
Some rich asshole has been swinging back hard against on the record allegations in Michael Wolff's bombshell new book that members of his own team called him “dumb” and “a dope.”
In a Saturday morning tweet, Some rich asshole reminded people that he was elected to the presidency “on my first try.”
“I think that would qualify as not smart, but genius....and a very stable genius at that!” He also tweeted hat “throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart."
....Actually, throughout my life, my two greatest assets have been mental stability and being, like, really smart. Crooked Hillary Clinton also played these cards very hard and, as everyone knows, went down in flames. I went from VERY successful businessman, to top T.V. Star.....
In comments at Camp David later, he added that he was “a very excellent student” and “came out and made billions and billions of dollars ... ran for president one time and won.”
Factba.se has collected interviews, speeches and press conferences from previous presidents, using material publicly available from presidential libraries, and including the University of California, Santa Barbara’s American Presidency Project, which contains presidential press conferences going back to Hoover in 1929.
The website excluded communiques issued by the last two presidents on social media and limited the study to unscripted words uttered at press conferences and other public appearances.
The words were run through a variety of lexicological analyses, besides the Flesch-Kincaid, and the results were the same. In every one, Some rich asshole came in dead last. Some rich asshole also uses the fewest "unique words" (2,605) of any president—Obama was the best at 4,869—and uses words with the fewest average syllables, with 1.33 per word, compared to positively multi-syllabic president Hoover at 1.57.
“By every metric and methodology tested, Donald Some rich asshole’s vocabulary and grammatical structure is significantly more simple, and less diverse, than any President since Herbert Hoover, when measuring “off-script” words, that is, words far less likely to have been written in advance for the speaker,” Factba.se CEO Bill Frischling wrote. “The gap between Some rich asshole and the next closest president ... is larger than any other gap using Flesch-Kincaid. Statistically speaking, there is a significant gap.”
The White House is furious at Wolff's book, Fire and Fury, but the book makes a compelling case that West Wing insiders do not have confidence in the president.
National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster reportedly called Some rich asshole an “idiot” with the intelligence of a “kindergartener” back in November. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson reportedly called the President “a fucking moron.”
And Some rich asshole’s National Economic Council chief Gary Cohn allegedly wrote in an email that the White House was in chaos.
"It's worse than you can imagine. An idiot surrounded by clowns,” Cohn wrote. “Some rich asshole won't read anything—not one-page memos, not the brief policy papers; nothing. He gets up halfway through meetings with world leaders because he is bored. And his staff is no better.”
One member of that staff, Stephen Miller, had to be physically escorted from CNN's State of the Union talk show on Sunday in a dispute with host Jake Tapper. Miller declined to discuss specific issues, but repeatedly defended the president.
‘Biggest leaker in White House is the rich asshole’ complaining on the phone to his ‘motormouth’ friends: Wolff
Author Michael Wolff on MSNBC -- screenshot
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Appearing on MSNBC with host Katy Tur, Fire and Fury author Michael Wolff revealed that, for all some rich asshole’s protestations, the biggest dispenser of White House leaks is the president because he can’t help but complain and blurt out insides gossip to his “motormouth” buddies on the phone at night.
The author also pushed back at former White House advisor Steve Bannon’s Sunday apology to the rich asshole, where Bannon claimed he was speaking about ex-the rich asshole campaign manager Paul Manafort when he described “treasonous” behavior in dealing with the Russians during the campaign.
After Wolff admitted he is still in communication with some White House aides, host Tur asked him about Bannon’s statement.
“You talked about Bannon in that statement,” Tur began. “He’s trying to say he was talking about Paul Manafort. You say, absolutely not, he was talking about Don Jr.”
“Again, Steve was incredibly helpful on this book, and his insights are penetrating and I don’t feel great about putting him in what seems obviously a difficult position,” Wolff replied. “But he was talking about Don Jr., he was not talking about Paul Manafort. ”
“Why release that statement then claiming otherwise,” Tur pressed.
“I think he released the minimal amount of contrition and dissembling that he could,” Wolff suggested. “He’s certainly not challenging everything that I quoted him as saying and I think that he’s — Steve is trying to figure out what to do right now.”
Asked about White House leaks, Wolff explained what he saw
“You talk about how everyone was a leaker,” Tur began. “One day you’re talking about Kushner and Katie Walsh — Kushner accused Walsh of leaking about him. Anyone feel they shouldn’t be leaking to the press about what’s going on inside the White House? ”
“No,” Wolff blurted. “The biggest leaker was some rich asshole. I mean, many of the leaks that he would come out and rail against started because he gets on the phone at night, with his coterie of friends, and billionaires and motormouths. I mean, is some rich asshole aware of what he’s saying? I would suspect not all of it. And it just goes. And then — and then they call other people to say, ‘oh, my God, this is what he said,’ and then those people call other people and suddenly you have leaked.”
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‘You had one job’: Internet roasts ex-the rich asshole adviser’s hilariously botched attempt to discredit Wolff
some rich asshole and former White House advisor Sebastian Gorka
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Former the rich asshole adviser Sebastian Gorka on Monday published an editorial in The Hill in which he tried to discredit Michael Wolff, the author of the bestselling book Fire and Fury: Inside the rich asshole White House.
However, Gorka seems to have inadvertently undermined President some rich asshole’s claim that Wolff was not given wide access to the White House to report on his book.
“When I met Michael Wolff in Reince Priebus’ office, where he was waiting to talk to Steve Bannon, and after I had been told to also speak to him for his book, my attitude was polite but firm: ‘Thanks but no thanks,'” writes Gorka. “Our brief encounter reinforced my gut feeling that this oleaginous scribe had no interest in being fair and unbiased.”
This statement contradicts the rich asshole’s insistence last week that he “authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book.” After all, if the rich asshole had turned down Wolff’s request to report from the White House multiple times, why would Gorka have been instructed to talk with Wolff — and why would Wolff have been allowed to hang out in former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus’ office?
The internet erupted in mockery at Gorka unwittingly confirming Wolff’s own account of how he got access to the White House, while simultaneously kneecapping his former boss.
Check out the top reactions below.
Lol Gorka tries to discredit Wolff by placing him in the West Wing with full cooperation of the President and the two senior-most White House officials.
You had one job, dude. pic.twitter.com/xoj3GRBtaE
Considering the size of Gorka’s Head he isn’t very smart. Unlike The Stable Genius. twitter.com/aravosis/statu…
Locust Abortion TechnicianAHAHAHAHAHAHA Gorka never disappoints twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
I assure you, Mr. Wolff, the true STABLE GENIUS in the White House was I, GORKA~! twitter.com/TPM/status/950…
Gorka is Fredo. They're ALL Fredo.
Not a Michael in sight. twitter.com/maggieNYT/stat…
Gorka references Wolff’s quote on “page 10” but disavows having bought or read it.The incompetence is staggering.
a brain genious move in the game of 14 dimensional chess twitter.com/thedailybeast/…
sovietblobfish‘That’s why they don’t put you on TV’: Leak reveals Tapper torched Miller again after interview shut down
Stephen Miller appears on CNN's State of the Union (screen grab)
White House aide Stephen Miller’s angry tantrum against Jake Tapper didn’t end after the CNN host prematurely ended their interview and cut off Miller’s microphone.
CBS News’ Arden Farhi has posted a transcript of what went down between Miller and Tapper after CNN’s State of the Union went to commercial on Sunday — and it shows that Miller continued ranting furiously at Tapper for not giving him a free platform to shower praise on President some rich asshole.
“Jake, what I care about is having three minutes to tell the truth about the President of the United States,” Miller told Tapper after the interview ended.
“I let you give, like, a three-minute filibuster at the very top,” countered Tapper.
“You gave me two minutes!” Miller complained.
“OK, Stephen, thanks for coming in,” Tapper responded, obviously trying to move on from the interview.
“You should be ashamed of yourself,” an angry Miller replied. “Honestly.”
Tapper responded by telling Miller that his on-air tantrum was one reason why the White House very rarely booked him for spots on cable news shows.
“That’s why they don’t put you on TV,” Tapper said.
As Miller continued to complain about Tapper cutting him off, the cable news host shot back by noting that he shouldn’t be so offended since he spent “the entire interview attacking CNN.”
“I’m not acting offended,” Miller replied. “I am offended. I’m offended by you and I’m offended by your network!”
Read the whole transcript below.
Here’s a transcript of at least part of the not-seen-on-TV conversation between Stephen Miller and @jaketapper during the commercial break that followed the @CNNSotu interview...
Report: the rich asshole fills his day with ‘Executive Time,’ which is code for TV
David Covucci—Jan 8 at 5:53AM | Last updated
While campaigning for office, President some rich asshole repeatedly claimed Hillary Clinton didn’t have the stamina to be president, but according to a new report, the rich asshole’s work day is as leisurely as can be to accommodate him.
According to new media site Axios, the rich asshole officially starts his day at 11am ET and typically ends it around 6pm, which is a seven-hour workday. We should all be so lucky.
During the day, as well as before and after, the rich asshole’s schedule is filled with “Executive time,” which, according to Axios, is code for watching TV.
The schedule says the rich asshole has “Executive Time” in the Oval Office every day from 8am to 11am, but the reality is he spends that time in his residence, watching TV, making phone calls and tweeting.
the rich asshole comes down for his first meeting of the day, which is often an intelligence briefing, at 11am.
An example of a recent day of the president sounds pretty relaxed:
On Tuesday, the rich asshole has his first meeting of the day with Chief of Staff John Kelly at 11am. He then has “Executive Time” for an hour followed by an hour lunch in the private dining room. Then it’s another 1 hour 15 minutes of “Executive Time” followed by a 45 minute meeting with National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster. Then another 15 minutes of “Executive Time” before the rich asshole takes his last meeting of the day — a 3:45pm meeting with the head of Presidential Personnel Johnny DeStefano — before ending his official day at 4:15pm.
That’s three-and-a-half hours of me time in one work day. It’s also a pivot from earlier in his presidency, where the rich asshole worked longer hours. When asked about his shrinking schedule, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the rich asshole was “one of the hardest workers [she’d] ever seen and puts in long hours and long days nearly every day of the week all year long.”
That said, at nine this morning, the president was tweeting about something he saw on Fox & Friends.
The issue of the rich asshole’s personal TV consumption has come up before. In their year-end review, the New York Times White House team noted that the president spent upwards of four hours a day watching television, a claim the president directly rebuked.
Earlier in his presidency, the rich asshole said he had no time for television while in the midst of retweeting several Fox & Friends segments.
Jan 8 at 4:04AM
A small fire broke out on the roof of the rich asshole Tower in New York on Monday morning, according to numerous reports.
The fire caused smoke to be seen billowing from the roof of the skyscraper, which is home to President some rich asshole‘s luxury apartment.
Two people suffered injuries as a result of the fire, which the New York Daily News reports appeared to break out in the building’s heating and cooling system.
the rich asshole was in Washington D.C. at the time of the fire.
“There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of the rich asshole Tower,” he wrote on Monday morning. “The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise!”
There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of Trump Tower. The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise! twitter.com/reuters/status…
While the fire was relatively small and did not spread, it did not stop conspiracy theories from cropping up online.
At least one page on Facebook already began spreading rumors that the president may have died in the fire.
The page, Neon Nettle, posted that it had “sources” that told them it was a “deep state assassination attempt.”
But they weren’t alone. Other people thought the fire must have been nefarious in nature.
I'll be willing to bet this was intentionally set. The people can't destroy Trump the conventional way so they need to resort to desperate measures. foxnews.com/us/2018/01/08/…
@B75434425
Trump Tower on Fire.... was it intentional? Clinton Fire....
Trump Tower on Fire.... was it intentional? Clinton Fire....
The fire comes less than a week after a fire at Hillary Clinton’s house became fodder for conspiracy theories as well.
The week got off to an interesting start, as news broke that the rich asshole Tower in midtown Manhattan was on fire, with video and photos appearing all over Twitter.
The fire in the 58-story building was reported at 6:58 a.m. Monday morning and the responding fire department called in three injuries, which weren’t life-threatening. It appeared to have been contained to “a small penthouse on one of the upper floors,” according to Business Insider.
Last week, the book, Fire and Fury dominated news headlines. The reaction to the tell-all could certainly be described as Fury, so it seems fitting that this week we would get the Fire.
“We were able to extinguish the fire without any problems within the building. Everything went according to plan,” Manhattan Borough Commander Asst. Chief Roger Sakowich said of the blaze.
Eric the rich asshole downplayed the event in a tweet, saying “There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of the rich asshole Tower. The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise!”
There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of Trump Tower. The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise! twitter.com/reuters/status…
While Eric wanted to downplay the extent of the fire, the videos and photos flooding our news feed showed a large plume of smoke emerging from the top of the tower.
Others on Twitter found humor in the situation, such as Occupy Democrats columnist, Grant Stern
.
This comment was particularly well-received:
One Twitter user saw it in literary terms:
All in all, it does seem like a good metaphor for how the year has started off so far:
See more in the video below:
Initial talks underway about the rich asshole interview in Mueller Russia probe
Three people were injured in a fire at the rich asshole Tower in Manhattan Monday morning, authorities said.
Fire Department of New York Chief Roger Sakowich told NBC New York that the fire started in a cooling unit that contains heaters for use during this time of year, and said flames came out a vent just before 7 a.m. on Monday. The fire was reported after Secret Service agents noticed smoke.
The president was not in the building when the fire erupted. The fire was reported under control as of 8:13 a.m., the FDNY said.
A police source had told NBC News that there were no initial reports of injuries or evacuations. Authorities later said there were three injuries: The fire chief later said there were two injuries: a firefighter who was hurt when debris fell on top of him, and an engineer who was injured but refused treatment. A civilian was also injured but details were not immediately available.
A fire broke out at the rich asshole Tower on Fifth Avenue in New York City on Jan. 8, 2018. @levi1994
More than 70 firefighters responded to the call, a standard number for a fire on the roof of a high rise, the NYPD told the Associated Press.
Smoke could be seen wafting off the roof of the rich asshole Tower, but the fire started dissipating within a half hour, witnesses posting photos on social media said.
The president's son, Eric the rich asshole, praised the FDNY on Twitter for their speedy response.
"There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of the rich asshole Tower. The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise!" he wrote.
The building is the rich asshole's crown jewel, which he purchased in 1979. The real estate mogul turned what was then an 11-story property into a 68-story, 663-foot gilded skyscraper. Located on Fifth Avenue between Gucci and Tiffany, the glitzy building contains offices, eateries, condos, and an atrium that's open to the public.
the rich asshole maintains a three-story penthouse residence there, which has earned the rich asshole Tower the nickname of "White House North."
the rich asshole Tower's history came under scrutiny during the presidential campaign when fellow Republican contender Marco Rubio attacked the rich asshole during a debate for using undocumented Polish workers to build it.
"He brings up something from 30 years ago," the rich asshole responded at the time. "It worked out very well. Everybody was happy."
Fire breaks out at the rich asshole Tower
Secret Service agents noticed smoke billowing from the building’s roof and called a fire safety official in the lobby who then located the flames, FDNY Assistant Chief Roger Sakowich said.
The blaze erupted when empty water storage units caught fire atop the 68-story building at 721 Fifth Ave. just before 7 a.m. The smoky blaze was placed under control at 8:13 a.m. There was no fire inside the building.
“We had one minor injury to a firefighter,” Sakowich told reporters Monday morning. “Some debris fell on him; he’s being treated — it’s a minor injury, and we had one engineer that got up there with a fire extinguisher and breathed in some of the smoke, but he’s refused medical attention. So he’s not being transported.”
There were no reported evacuations but tenants were advised to remain in place.
President the rich asshole, who was in Washington, DC, at the time of the blaze, maintains a penthouse unit in the skyscraper.
His son, Eric the rich asshole, took to Twitter to praise firefighters for their quick response.
“There was a small electrical fire in a cooling tower on the roof of the rich asshole Tower,” he posted. “The New York Fire Department was here within minutes and did an incredible job. The men and women of the #FDNY are true heroes and deserve our most sincere thanks and praise!”
A total of 84 firefighters responded to the blaze in 19-degree weather, Sakowich said.
FDNY Battalion Chief Thomas Dolan told The Post that the cost in damages to the building is “not very much at all.”
Video taken by Twitter user Andy Constan shows smoke billowing from the building, which houses businesses and residences.
The Washington Post
Washington Post Staff1 01-08-2018
The Trump administration has canceled the provisional residency permits of about 200,000 Salvadorans who have lived in the country since at least 2001, leaving them vulnerable to deportation, according a copy of a Department of Homeland Security announcement sent to lawmakers Monday.
The administration will notify the Salvadorans they have until Sept. 9, 2019, to leave the United States or find a new way to obtain legal residency.
The Salvadorans were granted what is known as Temporary Protected Status, or TPS, after a series of earthquakes devastated the country in 2001.
According to the DHS statement sent to lawmakers, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen determined that conditions in El Salvador have improved significantly since then, ending the original justification for the Salvadorans’ deportation protection.
“Only Congress can legislate a permanent solution addressing the lack of an enduring lawful immigration status of those currently protected by TPS who have lived and worked in the United States for many years,” the announcement states. “The 18-month delayed termination will allow Congress time to craft a potential legislative solution.”
Monday’s decision was not a surprise, and is part of the White House’s broader goal of reducing legal immigration to the United States and intensifying efforts to expel those who arrived illegally.
The El Salvador TPS decision was the most momentous for the administration to make, because of the sheer number of people affected. The 200,000 are the parents of an estimated 190,000 U.S.-born children, according to recent studies, and about one-third are homeowners.
But Trump officials have consistently signaled that they viewed the TPS program as an example of American immigration policy gone awry, noting that when Congress created the TPS designation in 1990 its purpose was to provide “temporary” protection from deportation.
In November, DHS ended TPS for 60,000 Haitians who arrived after a 2010 earthquake, and for 2,500 Nicaraguan migrants protected after Hurricane Mitch in 1998.
A six-month extension was recently granted to 57,000 Hondurans, a decision made prior to Nielsen’s arrival by then-Acting DHS Secretary Elaine Duke. That moved frustrated White House officials who wanted Duke to end the program.
“The fix has been in for these TPS decisions, regardless of the facts on the ground in these countries,” said Kevin Appleby of the New York-based Center for Migration Studies.
“The decision on El Salvador is particularly damaging,” he said. “It not only will uproot families and children who have lived here for years, it also will further destabilize an already violent country. It is incredibly short-sighted and undermines our interest in a stable Central America.”
There were new signs Monday that TPS could end up as a bargaining chip in a potential congressional immigration deal. A source familiar with the negotiations said Congress could step in to help the Salvadorans, Haitians and other groups whose temporary protected status is now set to expire in 2019.
Democrats and Republicans have been privately discussing the possibility of curbing the diversity visa lottery program — which grants about 55,000 green cards each year to immigrants from nations with low immigration rates to the United
Democrats and Republicans have been privately discussing the possibility of curbing the diversity visa lottery program — which grants about 55,000 green cards each year to immigrants from nations with low immigration rates to the United States — in exchange for extending TPS protections as part of the talks over the fate of younger immigrants known as “dreamers” who were brought to the country illegally as children.
Trump has railed against the diversity program, saying any deal to provide legal status to the dreamers must get rid of it.
Immigrant advocate groups had implored Nielsen to extend TPS for the Salvadorans, noting that the country is one of the world’s most violent. Money sent there by Salvadorans working in the United States is a pillar of the country’s economy.
DHS said in its announcement that it conducted extensive outreach to Salvadorans living in the United States, including “community forums on TPS, panel discussions with Salvadoran community organizers, stakeholder teleconferences, regular meetings with TPS beneficiaries, news releases to the Salvadoran community, meetings with Salvadoran government officials, meetings at local churches, and listening sessions.”
Secretary Nielsen met recently with the El Salvador’s Foreign Minister and Ambassador to the United States, and spoke with President Sánchez Cerén, according to the announcement sent to lawmakers.
Jaime Contreras, vice president of Local 32BJ, the largest property service local in the Service Employees International Union, called Monday’s decision “shameful.” In the Washington D.C., area, he said, TPS recipients clean Ronald Reagan National Airport, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund and “every major landmark you can think of.”
“They have families here. A lot of these people own homes,” said Contreras, whose union represents about 160,000 commercial office cleaners, security officers and others nationwide. “It’s time for Congress to do the right thing.”
Bannon apologizes, but Trump’s fury persists
The Washington Post
David Nakamura, Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey2 hrs ago
President Trump's former chief strategist offered a semi-apology Sunday after days of withering castigation from the White House over his scathing comments in a new book, praising Trump in a public statement that aimed to soften his earlier criticism.
Stephen K. Bannon's mea culpa came as Trump and his senior aides continued a barrage of public insults against him. The president's top policy adviser, Stephen Miller, on Sunday called Bannon an "angry, vindictive person" whose "grotesque comments are so out of touch with reality."
In a written statement, Bannon asserted that passages in "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House" by Michael Wolff in which he was quoted as being critical of Donald Trump Jr.'s contacts with a Russian lawyer — calling their meeting last year at Trump Tower "treasonous" and "unpatriotic" — were a mischaracterization.
Bannon insisted his criticism was aimed not at the president's eldest son but rather at former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, who was fired and is facing charges in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III's Russia investigation. Manafort, who also attended the meeting along with Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law, should have known "how the Russians operate," Bannon said.
"Donald Trump Jr. is both a patriot and a good man," Bannon said. "He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around."
Bannon was quoted in the book speculating that Trump Jr. told his father about the meeting shortly after it took place but offered no evidence. In Sunday's statement, however, Bannon emphasized that he believes there "was no collusion" between the campaign and Russian operatives, who have been accused by U.S. intelligence agencies of meddling in the presidential election.
"The investigation is a witch hunt," Bannon said. "I regret that my delay in responding to the inaccurate reporting regarding Don Jr. has diverted attention from the president's historical accomplishments."
But the White House did not appear eager to forgive Bannon or welcome him back into Trump's good graces. And Trump on Sunday continued to lambaste Wolff on Twitter, denouncing the "Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author."
Amid questions raised in the book about his mental fitness for office, Trump wrote in the tweet that "Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!"
On CNN's "State of the Union," Miller repeatedly slammed both Bannon and Wolff, calling the book a "betrayal of the president" that is "so contrary to the reality of those who work with him."
Miller added that "the book is best understood as a work of poorly written fiction. The author is a garbage author of a garbage book."
Wolff defended himself on NBC's "Meet the Press" and suggested the chaos and uncertainty in the White House is worse than his book described.
"If I left out anything, it was probably stuff even more damning. It's that bad," he said. "It's an extraordinary moment in time. The last several days focused on my book are proof of this. What happened here? What's going on here?"
Wolff went so far as to raise the specter of the 25th Amendment, which allows a president's Cabinet to remove him from office for being unable to perform his duties, although experts said that amendment was designed with the idea of a president being incapacitated by, for example, a coma.
"It is not an exaggeration or unreasonable to say this is 25th Amendment kind of stuff," Wolff said.
Bannon's statement came after Trump berated him in public and private, mocking the often disheveled Breitbart News chairman on Twitter as "Sloppy Steve" and belittling him as "poor" and "a liar" to Republican leaders during weekend meetings at Camp David, Md.
The ugly falling out between the two men — Bannon served as campaign chief executive after Manafort was dismissed and was widely credited with helping Trump defeat Democrat Hillary Clinton — has threatened to distract the White House from its policy agenda in an election year.
Although Bannon was forced out of the White House in August amid escalating feuds with Trump's family members and other senior aides, Trump remained close to him, speaking to him occasionally by phone over objections from advisers.
Bannon had planned to use his continuing clout with the president, along with the news pages at Breitbart, to advance his own nationalist agenda, including threatening to try to unseat Republican incumbents who did not support Bannon's hard-line immigration and anti-globalization positions.
Instead, Trump has sought to punish Bannon, and the former insider appears isolated, not only from the West Wing but also from his outside supporters, including financier Rebekah Mercer. Mercer, who had helped finance many Bannon initiatives, issued a rare public rebuke of him in which she said she would sever ties with him.
At Breitbart, company leaders have debated whether they could force Bannon from his top perch.
"Bannon's apology had nothing to do with repairing the relationship with Trump," said Christopher Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax and a Trump confidante. "It had everything to do with repairing his relationship with Trump supporters who read Breitbart and big donors he depends on."
Inside the West Wing, aides said Trump and his top advisers quickly issued an ultimatum: Allies had to choose sides — they either supported the president or they supported Bannon. There could be no middle ground
Bannon's statement, one person close to him said, was as much about stanching the tide of supporters and potential backers distancing themselves as it was appeasing the president. He continues to privately criticize Kushner and Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter, whom, according to the book, he referred to as "dumb as a brick."
Bannon also has continued to call Trump a "vessel," a Bannon ally said, while casting himself as something of a revolutionary in the conservative movement.
He has tried to convince allies in recent days that all will be fine — even texting one "onward!" — but he seems jolted and "even more manic than normal," in the words of one person who spoke to him. He has remained ensconced in his Capitol Hill townhouse, with a rope on the steps blocking people from approaching. "STOP!" a large red sign reads, urging visitors to check in downstairs.
"He knows he is at his lowest point," said one associate, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. "He won't tell you that, but he knows it."
In his statement, Bannon declared that his "support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda. . . . President Trump was the only candidate that could have taken on and defeated the Clinton apparatus. I am the only person to date to conduct a global effort to preach the message of Trump and Trumpism; and remain ready to stand in the breach for this president's efforts to make America great again."
Almost as soon as excerpts from Wolff's book leaked last week, many Bannon associates urged him to issue a statement defending himself. But before he could do so, the White House released a personal statement last week from Trump saying his former adviser had "lost his mind."
At first, Bannon did not want to apologize, people who spoke to him said. But after meeting with allies and advisers, he grew convinced that things would worsen unless he did. Those close to Bannon said that as the controversy unfolded, he seemed eager to find a way to try to repair his relationship with the president.
Bannon has told others that Trump will eventually come back around to him when the president needs him, and that he plans to use his Breitbart platform to wage battles with the Republican establishment over spending and immigration this spring.
But whether Bannon will have the clout — or any allies — to launch a fight remains unclear.
Miller and Bannon were once considered kindred spirits — both immigration hard-liners who sought to exploit Trump's populist rhetoric to advance a nationalist agenda. But as Bannon lost favor in the West Wing, Miller reportedly realigned himself with a faction led by Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
Asked on CNN whether the president knew about Trump Jr.'s meeting with the Russian lawyer when it occurred, Miller said Bannon was not present and therefore "is not even a remotely credible source on any of it."
Growing frustrated as Miller praised the president while evading questions and repeating his talking points, CNN host Jake Tapper cut him off early and went to a commercial. "I think I've wasted enough of my viewers' time," Tapper said as Miller attempted to keep talking.
"Welcome back to planet Earth," Tapper said to viewers after the show returned.
But Trump was eager for the last word.
In a tweet, the president wrote: "Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!"
White House adviser Stephen Miller was escorted off the set of CNN’s "State of the Union" on Sunday after a contentious interview with host Jake Tapper.
Two sources close to the situation told Business Insider that after the taping was done, Miller was asked to leave several times.
He ignored those requests and ultimately security was called and he was escorted out, the sources said.
The network addressed the incident in a statement later Sunday night.
"The segment was over and Mr. Miller was politely asked to leave the set multiple times — after refusing to leave, he was escorted out by security," the statement read.
Miller's appearance on the cable network quickly went off the rails when Tapper pressed him on explosive claims about President Donald Trump that appeared in the book "Fire & Fury: Inside The Trump White House" by Michael Wolff.
Miller repeatedly attempted to pivot the conversation toward criticism of CNN, a favorite target of Trump's. He then referred to Trump as a "political genius" and lamented his treatment during the interview, leading Tapper to reply that there was only "one viewer you care about right now."
"I think I've wasted enough of my viewers' time. Thank you, Stephen," Tapper said, bringing the interview to an abrupt end.
Shortly after the interview ended, Trump tweeted, "Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration."
The White House did not respond to Business Insider's request for comment.
Mark Abadi contributed to this report.
Jacqueline Thomsen 01-07-2018
President Some rich asshole on Sunday night shared a misquoted excerpt from a New York Post column praising him and his presidency.
The column by Michael Goodwin, who is reportedly friendly with Some rich asshole, is headlined "We're still better off with Some rich asshole than Clinton." The column notes Some rich asshole's "missteps" since taking office but states "there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president." The column also says of Some rich asshole: "His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency."
Some rich asshole tweeted out part of the column on Sunday night, leaving out the mention of his "missteps" and misquoting the word "consequential."
"His is turning out to be an enormously consensual presidency. So much so that...there has never been a day that I wished Hillary Clinton were President. Not one," Some rich asshole tweeted.
"Indeed, as Some rich asshole's accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of Clinton in the W.H., doubling down on Obama's...failed policies, washes away any doubts that America made the right choice. This was truly a change election, and the changes Some rich asshole is bringing are far-reaching and necessary."
Some rich asshole then thanked Goodwin and encouraged followers to "please read entire column" before placing Goodwin's email at the end of his tweet.
Some rich asshole later deleted those tweets and replaced them with tweets with the correct and full quotes, including the word "consequential" and the mention of the "missteps."
“His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency. So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of...
“His is turning out to be an enormously consequential presidency. So much so that, despite my own frustration over his missteps, there has never been a day when I wished Hillary Clinton were president. Not one. Indeed, as Trump’s accomplishments accumulate, the mere thought of...
...Clinton in the WH, doubling down on Barack Obama’s failed policies, washes away any doubts that America made the right choice. This was truly a change election — and the changes Trump is bringing are far-reaching & necessary.” Thank you Michael Goodwin! https://nypost.com/2018/01/06/were-still-better-off-with-trump-than-clinton/ …
Goodwin's column celebrates the end of "Bannonism" after Some rich asshole attacked former chief strategist Stephen Bannon for his comments in Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury: Inside the Some rich asshole White House."
The columnist goes on to imagine what Hillary Clinton's administration would have been like if she had become president, claiming she wouldn't have made some of Some rich asshole's most prominent policy moves like recognizing Jerusalem as the capital of Israel.
"These are just some of the many reasons why a Some rich asshole presidency, chaos and all, continues to be the course correction America needed. Here's hoping, then, that the latest predictions of his demise, like all those that came before, turn out to be premature," Goodwin writes.
Some rich asshole's presidency has faced intense resistance from Democrats and critics, with a majority of Democratic lawmakers opposing most of his legislative goals and policies.
Some rich asshole also came under fire during his presidential campaign after the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape emerged, during which he bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent.
- This story was updated at 10:33 P.M. EST.
Jan 7 at 6:42AM
Former White House and campaign strategist Steve Bannon has apologized to President some rich asshole and his family for remarks he made in journalist Michael Wolff’s explosive new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the rich asshole White House.
“some rich asshole Jr., is both a patriot and a good man,” the Breitbart chief said in a statement released exclusively to Axios on Sunday morning. “He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around.”
“My support is also unwavering for the president and his agenda,” Bannon continued, “as I have shown daily in my national radio broadcasts, on the pages of Breitbart News and in speeches and appearances from Tokyo and Hong Kong to Arizona and Alabama.”
Bannon went on to praise his former boss for having “defeated the Clinton apparatus”―a call-back that the rich asshole, notoriously fond of reliving his 2016 victory, might appreciate―and sung the praises of “the rich asshole and Trumpism.”
For Bannon, who (like the rich asshole himself) rarely allows himself to be seen chastened in the public eye, this amounts to a rare and major event. In short, he both rhetorically bowed to the rich asshole and lauded his first year in office, while distancing himself from his widely reported criticisms of the president’s eldest son.
some rich asshole Jr. was one of the participants in a meeting with a prominent Russian lawyer at the rich asshole Tower prior to election day that Bannon characterized as “treasonous” in Wolff’s new book. Bannon now says he was taking rhetorical aim at Paul Manafort, the campaign’s former chairman who was also in the meeting.
“My comments were aimed at Paul Manafort, a seasoned campaign professional with experience and knowledge of how the Russians operate. He should have known they are duplicitous, cunning and not our friends. To reiterate, those comments were not aimed at Don Jr.”
In the book, Bannon also remarked that “they’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV,” a comment he did not specifically address in his statement.
Bannon has apologized for his comments about Trump Jr and others in a statement provided to @mikeallen. Says his comments about the Trump Tower meeting being treasonous "were aimed at Paul Manafort"
Bannon concluded by characterizing the investigation of independent counsel Robert Mueller as a “witch hunt,” parroting the same phrase the rich asshole has used to attack the investigation for months and apologized that his responding to “inaccurate reporting” distracted from the rich asshole’s “historic achievements” in his first year as president.
the rich asshole, for his part, also turned on Bannon in very public and derogatory terms after his remarks in Fire and Fury became public, accusing him of having “lost his mind,” and referring to him as “Sloppy Steve. ”The statement came just days after Bannon was rebuked by the rich asshole and conservative billionaire Rebekah Mercer, an instrumental megadonor and power broker in right-wing media. Mercer reportedly decided earlier this week to cut Bannon off from her funding, in what was perceived as a devastating blow to his standing and influence on the right.
Wolff Revelations About President Ring True With the rich asshole Biographer
Lies, repetitive stories and slamming women all very recognizable, noted Michael D’Antonio.
Though some rich asshole has blasted Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury as a “fake book,” a rich asshole biographer wrote Sunday that many of the journalist’s stunning revelations ring “true to the man.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael D’Antonio spent hours interviewing the rich asshole and his family in preparation to write his 2015 book Never Enough: some rich asshole and the Pursuit of Success.
The biographer pointed out several similarities between Wolff’s findings and his own in a piece on CNN.
“Sadly,” D’Antonio noted, Wolff’s reporting on the “disparaging things the president says about women and his effort to understand the appeal of white supremacy also seem true to the man.”
As Wolff did, D’Antonio found that the rich asshole told and retold “anecdotes and stories that sound rehearsed” to avoid addressing issues at hand, he said. the rich asshole is also “bored by briefings and uninterested in details,” D’Antonio wrote, and believes that “expertise is overrated.” the rich asshole also demands ”extreme personal loyalty,” D’Antonio discovered.
His “squid-ink” strategy of lying, as D’Antonio put it, allowed the rich asshole to sell himself as a businessman. In “falsely claiming that various starlets pursued him for dates, or the British royals were eyeing the rich asshole real estate, he played a game with reality,” the journalist wrote.
In a “super salesman, this habit was amusing,” he added. “In a president, it is both frightening and dangerous.”
D’Antonio had some criticism for Fire and Fury, calling Wolff’s writing style “tabloidy.” He said Wolff’s portrayal of the president as an “idiot surrounded by clowns” is an “incomplete and unsatisfying sketch.” But the biographer also conceded that “distortions” by the rich asshole and frequently unreliable information from his team can make finding the “true” the rich asshole difficult.
The bombshell book, released ahead of schedule after the rich asshole’s lawyer attempted to stop publication, rattled the White House last week with its blasts against the president and his family. Among the most incendiary were revelations by the rich asshole’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon, who is quoted in the book calling the rich asshole Tower meeting involving some rich asshole Jr. and Russian operatives “treasonous.”
On Sunday, Bannon backpedaled on these comments (after D’Antonio’s review) in a statement to Axios.
Bannon said his “treasonous” comment was actually aimed at Paul Manafort for allowing the rich asshole Tower meeting with the Russians to go ahead. The former campaign aide has been charged as part of an investigation into possible collusion between the Russian government and members of the rich asshole’s team.
Bannon blamed the quote in the book about “Don Jr.” on “inaccurate reporting.”
Totally ‘Stable’ some rich asshole Loses His Sh*t At Jake Tapper Over Stephen Miller’s Crazy Interview
Just after White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller went off-the-rails in an interview with CNN’s Jake Tapper and was eventually shut down, some rich asshole, who considers himself to be a “very stable genius,” took to his Twitter account to yell about “fake news” and to call the host a “flunky.” Remember, though, that the rich asshole claims to not have time to watch much television.
“Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the rich asshole Administration,” the rich asshole tweeted. “Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!”
Miller became upset during the interview over Michael Wolff’s new book which has raised claims about the rich asshole’s mental stability.
the rich asshole, too, for that matter, has been yelling on Twitter about the new book.
“I’ve had to put up with the Fake News from the first day I announced that I would be running for President,” he tweeted. “Now I have to put up with a Fake Book, written by a totally discredited author. Ronald Reagan had the same problem and handled it well. So will I!”
Tapper told Twitter users to judge for themselves.
Here’s the interview; judge for yourself: 
Watch:
Miller tried to portray former chief strategist as some kind of low-level staffer or coffee boy, saying that his role was ‘greatly exaggerated.’ Miller refused to answer questions and the point of an interview is to answer questions. Because otherwise, as Tapper pointed out, it wastes his “viewers’ time.”
some rich asshole Is Incompetent? You Don’t Say.
No one needs Michael Wolff to tell them what they already know.
JAN 07, 2018, 6:01 PM
Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
Can you even imagine?
Among those deficient capacities: reading comprehension, taking in new information, paying attention to anything for more than a second—in short, baseline adult behavior. The book’s details, which include, for instance, that the rich asshole will repeat “word-for-word and expression-for-expression, the same three stories within 10 minutes,” have rekindled speculation that the president could be suffering from cognitive decline or the early stages of dementia. Or the behavior could be the result of a stubborn, insecure man acting out after finding himself in a stressful job for which he has no qualifications. Throw in other diagnoses if you’d like. All roads lead to the same conclusion: He’s nowhere near fit for the gig.
“My indelible impression of talking to” those surrounding and managing the rich asshole, Wolff wrote in a Hollywood Reporter column, “and observing them through much of the first year of his presidency, is that they all—100 percent—came to believe he was incapable of functioning in his job.”
The only really shocking thing about Wolff’s book is that this conclusion could be treated as revelatory. You don’t need Michael Wolff to show you that some rich asshole is the antithesis of a functional president of the United States. You just need eyes and ears.
Imagine having to work with the rich asshole—see him, hear him talk—all day, every day. Of course these people think he has no business being president.
Wolff, who shares his subject’s penchant for self-aggrandizement, believes the details in his book are of the kind that will bring about the end of the rich asshole’s presidency.
“I think one of the interesting effects of the book so far is a very clear emperor-has-no-clothes effect,” Wolff said in an interview. “Suddenly everywhere people are going ‘oh my God, it’s true, he has no clothes.’ That’s the background to the perception and the understanding that will finally end … this presidency.”
Just as when the rich asshole says that “everybody” is saying something, it’s unclear that very many people are suddenly learning from Wolff’s book that the rich asshole has no idea what he’s doing. It’s more that the most talked-about morsels from Wolff’s book are providing people with examples of what they already know—that the rich asshole completely lacks the personality, knowledge, and capacity to be a president—and showing how his incompetence plays out on a daily level. Fire and Fury seems not to contain news per se, but rather confirmation.
Take the book’s many anecdotes of the president’s own advisers, friends, and confidants shit-talking him.
“I wouldn’t give Donald too much to think about,” former Fox News chief Roger Ailes told former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon at a dinner in January 2017, when discussing the U.S possibly moving its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (The accuracy of many details in Wolff’s book have come under scrutiny, but this particular dinner was reportedly held at Wolff’s house.) Rupert Murdoch, Ailes’ boss, supposedly calls the rich asshole a “fucking idiot” on another occasion; former Chief of Staff Reince Priebus calls him the same minus the swearing adjective. Gary Cohn, the economic adviser, calls the president “dumb as shit.” Managing the president, as former Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh said, is “like trying to figure out what a child wants.” And then there’s Bannon, who said every possible nasty thing about the president, his staff, and his family.
In what way is it a revelation that these people might feel this way about the president and his abilities? the rich asshole has been a politician for roughly two and a half years. For most people who are open to the idea that the rich asshole might have no idea what he’s doing, they recognized that after watching about 10 to 15 seconds of his campaign launch event—and the ensuing millions of seconds have cemented the rock-solid accuracy of that recognition. Now imagine having to work with the rich asshole—see him, hear him talk—all day, every day. Of course these people think he has no business being president. some rich asshole is in their face all day.
The leaked details from Wolff’s book don’t reveal that some rich asshole’s incompetence is an open secret. It’s just open.
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE -
President the rich asshole on Sunday pushed back the date for his “Fake News Awards” to Jan. 17, as opposed to this coming Monday, citing high interest.
“The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday,” the rich asshole wrote on Twitter.
“The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!”
The Fake News Awards, those going to the most corrupt & biased of the Mainstream Media, will be presented to the losers on Wednesday, January 17th, rather than this coming Monday. The interest in, and importance of, these awards is far greater than anyone could have anticipated!
The president plans to travel to Tennessee and Georgia on Monday. It has been reported that the rich asshole plans to attend the college football national championship game in Atlanta.
the rich asshole announced last week that he would present “the most dishonest & corrupt media awards” on Monday to highlight what he calls "fake news."
Celebrity chef José Andrés offered a free lunch at any of his popular restaurants to winners, and the watchdog group American Oversight planned to hand out “Most Dishonest and Corrupt” awards to the rich asshole administration officials on Monday as a response to the rich asshole's plans.
The president’s announcement comes as the administration is playing defense against shocking allegations in a new book detailing the first year inside the rich asshole White House.
the rich asshole aide Stephen Miller sparred with CNN host Jake Tapper on Sunday in a contentious interview about the book, the president’s tweeting and CNN’s coverage of the rich asshole White House.
the rich asshole has repeatedly criticized multiple news outlets, including CNN and The New York Times, accusing them of inaccurate reporting and often invoking his signature “fake news” line.
BY MALLORY SHELBOURNE - 01/07/18 09:56 AM EST
CNN’s Jake Tapper on Sunday cut off a contentious interview with White House senior adviser Stephen Miller, as the two sparred about President the rich asshole and the news network.
“I get it. There’s one viewer that you care about right now and you're being obsequious and you’re being a factotum in order to please him, OK,” Tapper said on "State of the Union," appearing to reference the president.
“And I think I’ve wasted enough of my viewers’ time. Thank you, Stephen,” Tapper added as he ended the interview.
Miller earlier had defended the rich asshole during the appearance, which quickly degenerated as Miller criticized CNN for its coverage of the rich asshole White House.
“Not only do I think they help it, but I think in the toxic environment that you've created here and CNN and cable news, which is a real crisis of legitimacy for your network,” Miller said when asked about the president’s tweet claiming to be “a very stable genius.”
Miller slammed the network over a mistake it made last year in a report about the Russia investigation and accused CNN of not covering issues he said are important to Americans.
“You have 24 hours a day of anti-the rich asshole material and you're not going to give three minutes for the American people to hear the real experience of some rich asshole?” Miller asked.
After returning from a commercial break, Tapper appeared to chide Miller, telling viewers, “welcome back to 'State of the Union' and to planet Earth.”
In a tweet following the exchange, the rich asshole said Tapper was "destroyed" in the interview.
"Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the rich asshole Administration," he said. "Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!"
Jake Tapper of Fake News CNN just got destroyed in his interview with Stephen Miller of the Trump Administration. Watch the hatred and unfairness of this CNN flunky!
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