An amazing moment in history: Donald Trump's press conference

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Trump is an empty suit


http://www.desmoinesregister.com/sto...suit/96720760/

Too bad for us we voted for an empty suit.

"We voted"?

Does the author of this hit piece really expect her readers to believe that she voted for Trump and now regrets it?

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Trump should just move on from bragging about his "big win" and crying over the stones that people toss at him........stop tweeting about it all the time, stop getting in front of the cameras and whining about it.

But, he can't.

You need to ask yourself why that is.

He's not preaching to his haters.

He's preaching to the choir, ie. his army of supporters.

And it's working.

Trump is more popular than ever among the people that voted for him.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

"We voted"?

Does the author of this hit piece really expect her readers to believe that she voted for Trump and now regrets it?

Now you are being intentionally obtuse, 'we' is used in a collective sense.
Even on this small forum of regulars, a small minority voted for Trump.

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by Rajoo

Now you are being intentionally obtuse, 'we' is used in a collective sense.
Even on this small forum of regulars, a small minority voted for Trump.

No, it is you that is being obtuse.

The author's use of the collective "we" was deliberate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakxwoVV7yM

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

No, it is you that is being obtuse.

The author's use of the collective "we" was deliberate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dakxwoVV7yM

So you don't think some of the independents who voted for Trump are not having buyer's remorse?

I will bet now that there will be no Trump revolution, just a lot of dysfunction and media frenzy. The GOP house members are already working on their own reelection and Trump's coat tails elegant as they look, have no substance. Why do you suppose his cabinet nominees are not gaining any traction?

[finnbow]

As for Trump's finely-tuned machine of an administration, here's an incomplete list of a bunch of the fine tuning.

• Trump spends the first few days of his presidency insisting against all evidence that his was the best-attended inauguration in history; no one on his staff seems to be able to stop him.
• In White House press secretary Sean Spicer’s first briefing, he berates reporters, lies to them, then stalks off without taking questions, a performance so bizarre that it becomes the topic of two separate “Saturday Night Live” skits. Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway later asserts that Spicer was not actually lying but deploying “alternative facts.”
• After Conway takes to cable news to endorse Ivanka Trump’s clothing line, the Office of Government Ethics urges the White House to open an investigation of her obvious violation of ethics rules.
• A torrent of leaks floods from the White House, many portraying the president as ignorant, impulsive and erratic.
• The first military action authorized by Trump, a raid on an al-Qaeda compound in Yemen, goes disastrously wrong, resulting in the death of a Navy SEAL, multiple civilians killed and the loss of a $70 million aircraft.
• In phone calls with foreign leaders, Trump regales them with tales of his spectacular election victory before turning hostile. Details of the calls are promptly leaked to the media.
• Trump signs an executive order placing his political adviser Steve Bannon on the “principals committee” of the National Security Council, an unprecedented move. Trump is apparently unaware that he had done so, later becoming angry at aides who had failed to explain it to him.
• Trump signs an executive order banning all refugees and nationals of seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the United States. The White House fails to consult the relevant agencies and legal advisers in writing the order. The result is chaos in airports across the country and hurried changes in the implementation of the order, and before long it is struck down by the courts.
• When the acting attorney general, Sally Yates, decides that the order cannot be defended in court, Trump fires her.
• Trump’s choice to be secretary of the Army, Vincent Viola, abruptly withdraws from consideration.
• Rex Tillerson’s choice to be his No. 2 at the State Department, Iran-contra figure and convicted criminal Elliott Abrams, is vetoed by Trump after he learns that Abrams said unkind things about him during the campaign.
• While dining at his Mar-a-Lago club with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, Trump is told that North Korea has just conducted a provocative missile launch. It doesn’t seem to occur to anyone to move to a secure and private location to discuss it, so Abe, Trump and his aides examine documents and strategize over their response in full view of club members snapping photos of the scene to put up on their social media pages.
• Trump’s national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is forced to resign after it is revealed that he misled members of the administration about his conversations with the Russian ambassador. A new report says that Flynn also misled the FBI when he was questioned about them.
• Trump’s choice to replace Flynn, retired vice admiral Robert Harward, turns down the job. According to CNN, “A friend of Harward’s said he was reluctant to take the job because the White House seems so chaotic. Harward called the offer a ‘s––– sandwich,’ the friend said.”
• The president’s choice for labor secretary withdraws at the last moment amid allegations of domestic abuse and the employment of an undocumented immigrant.
• Six White House aides are fired and escorted from the building after they fail FBI background checks.
• It takes nearly a month into Trump’s tenure before the White House finally finds a communications director willing to take the job.
• Of the 696 government positions that require Senate confirmation, Trump has nominated 34 people, 13 of whom have been confirmed, leaving 662 positions where no one has even been nominated.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...hats-not-true/

I wonder if he's tired of winning yet.

[bobabode]

Herr Trumpenfurher's Finely Tuned Machine

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

About the lies and the bias of the media?

He's absolutely telling the truth.

He would not recognize truth if it bit him on the arse.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

About the lies and the bias of the media?

He's absolutely telling the truth.

I agree that they're biased against a vain-glorious, narcissistic man-child trying to establish an authoritarian government based upon a torrent of lies. Thankfully.

[merrylander]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

Is that why you buy Trumps lies? Because you spend too much time voluntarily being spoon-fed by the conservative press?

Tyrants always start by convincing the masses that the media does nothing but lie and spread information about the tyrant..........then he sets up his own propaganda machine. It's been done time and time again, throughout history. "My enemies all lie. Only I tell the truth."

Are you really so THICK that you can't see that that's what's going on?

Perhaps he is too young to remember Herr Goebbels in the 1940s and Lord Haw-Haw.