asahi
October 20, 2019, 2:12pm
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Trump is learning from Putin and other strongmen. Everyone in the room knows what he’s saying is total bullshit - that’s not the point. The point is he’s telling his antagonists that truth doesn’t matter, that truth is whatever he says it is. He’s changing the political culture in this country with each new lie that he tells. We’re approaching a point at which the culture becomes so toxic and the damage to the institutions so extensive that it may be irreversible.
“We have secured the Oil. Bringing the soldiers home!”
The precious, precious oil will be pumped into five gallon cans and each soldier will be required to carry one in each hand as they return to the U.S.
Fiveyearlurker:
Donald Trump doesn’t know his Secretary of Defense’s name. (Bolding mine). Quoted because it will probably be deleted.
“Mark Esperanto , Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!”
It’s already been de-Trumpified. Maybe Mark Esperanto broke the news that the soldiers are “going home” to Iraq.
Ukulele_Ike:
“We have secured the Oil. Bringing the soldiers home!”
The precious, precious oil will be pumped into five gallon cans and each soldier will be required to carry one in each hand as they return to the U.S.
Second only to complaining about disposable straws and maybe complaining about the transgendered, stealing the oil in the Middle East under the guise of protecting them is my Trump supporting family’s most popular topic of conversation over the years.
simster
October 20, 2019, 5:51pm
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Fiveyearlurker:
Donald Trump doesn’t know his Secretary of Defense’s name. (Bolding mine). Quoted because it will probably be deleted.
“Mark Esperanto , Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!”
The tweet has been deleted - I didn’t think that they were supposed to allow deleting presidential records?
SteveG1
October 20, 2019, 5:58pm
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Rick_Kitchen:
Individual 1:
“Susan Rice, who was a disaster to President Obama as National Security Advisor, is now telling us her opinion on what to do in Syria. Remember RED LINE IN THE SAND? That was Obama. Millions killed! No thanks Susan, you were a disaster.”
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1185389914470473729
Millions?
Susan Rice, in response:
“Then why did you come up and hug me at 2015 WHCD when I’d never met you (which was totally gross) and whisper in my ear that I had been “very unfairly treated” over Benghazi and “was doing a great job for the country”?”
https://twitter.com/AmbassadorRice/status/1185394028612706304
Good for her. MORE people in the public eye need to directly call him on his bullshit.
SteveG1
October 20, 2019, 6:00pm
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Deleted, but I guarantee it isn’t GONE. The Internet keeps things like that.
jasg
October 20, 2019, 6:43pm
8069
Also, someone tweeted it out again after translating it to Esperanto.
Morgyn
October 20, 2019, 6:58pm
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Fiveyearlurker:
Donald Trump doesn’t know his Secretary of Defense’s name. (Bolding mine). Quoted because it will probably be deleted.
“Mark Esperanto , Secretary of Defense, “The ceasefire is holding up very nicely. There are some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly. New areas being resettled with the Kurds.” USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!”
Much as I hate to say this, but I think that even with his poor record on names, we might have to give him a pass on this.
I’m betting this is more of a “Damn you, Autocorrect”.
Right. I really doubt that Trump is aware of the existence of the language. He is barely aware of English.
enipla
October 20, 2019, 7:21pm
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Morgyn:
Much as I hate to say this, but I think that even with his poor record on names, we might have to give him a pass on this.
I’m betting this is more of a “Damn you, Autocorrect”.
Oh hell no. I make sure my emails to a casual friend are more accurate than that. Trump was ‘communicating’ to the entire freaking world.
Morgyn:
Much as I hate to say this, but I think that even with his poor record on names, we might have to give him a pass on this.
I’m betting this is more of a “Damn you, Autocorrect”.
Most likely a combination of Autocorrect and Trump not knowing the dude’s name.
Here are some of the people that live in the world as Trump knows it (that we know of):
“Mark Esperanto” (Mark Esper)
“Tim Apple” (Tim Cook, Apple)
“Mike Pounce” (Mike Pence)
“Steve McCarthy” (Kevin McCarthy)
“Mike Bolton” (John Bolton)
“Betanyahu” (Benjamin Netanyahu)
“Ron Ryan” (Paul Ryan)
“Marillyn Lockheed” (Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin)
“Mike Messer” (Luke Messer)
“Mark Goepper” (Nick Goepper)
“Ken” (Chuck Canterbury)
enipla
October 20, 2019, 9:44pm
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shantih:
You left one out:
“Melanie” (Melania)
Who? Oh, right, ‘Flight Risk’. She seems to be in hiding.
Walken_After_Midnight:
Here are some of the people that live in the world as Trump knows it (that we know of):
“Mark Esperanto” (Mark Esper)
“Tim Apple” (Tim Cook, Apple)
“Mike Pounce” (Mike Pence)
“Steve McCarthy” (Kevin McCarthy)
“Mike Bolton” (John Bolton)
“Betanyahu” (Benjamin Netanyahu)
“Ron Ryan” (Paul Ryan)
“Marillyn Lockheed” (Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin)
“Mike Messer” (Luke Messer)
“Mark Goepper” (Nick Goepper)
“Ken” (Chuck Canterbury)
And I still can’t find confirmation that he didn’t call Italian President Sergio Mattarella “Mozzarella”.
Walken_After_Midnight:
Here are some of the people that live in the world as Trump knows it (that we know of):
“Mark Esperanto” (Mark Esper)
“Tim Apple” (Tim Cook, Apple)
“Mike Pounce” (Mike Pence)
“Steve McCarthy” (Kevin McCarthy)
“Mike Bolton” (John Bolton)
“Betanyahu” (Benjamin Netanyahu)
“Ron Ryan” (Paul Ryan)
“Marillyn Lockheed” (Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin)
“Mike Messer” (Luke Messer)
“Mark Goepper” (Nick Goepper)
“Ken” (Chuck Canterbury)
But he got these right
John Barron" (or “John Baron”),
“John Miller” and “David Dennison”.
Maybe. But if my tweets were read by billions of people, I’d probably reread it once or twice before I sent it.