I have a feeling that being called *weak *is going to piss him off just as much as, maybe more than, being called a loser. Remember that he said recently that the thing that infuriated him the most about Melissa McCarthy’s parody of Sean Spicer was that being mocked and imitated by a woman made Sean seem weak.
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Ooooo, “flaccidity” – now **that **is hitting below the belt (as it were), or maybe below the Beltway.
I was coming in to post this. I heard that guy being interviewed on NPR this morning. I had never heard of him before, but I immediately pegged him as a hateful ass. Good to know I wasn’t wrong about that.
There are so many things wrong with this picture, one hardly knows where to begin. Our so-called President is always harping on national security, and to discuss this in a restaurant… well, no need to belabor. He crucified Hillary over using a private email server, and when the 30,000+ emails were examined there was NOTHING in them that threatened national security-- you know why? Because she has a brain in her head and decades of government experience, of which The Donald has neither.
You have to wonder what the Japanese Prime Minister thought of this. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when he and his wife discussed it later. BTW, Trump got Abe’s name wrong-- because no one on his staff researched the proper way to address an Asian person-- surname is often first.
But note this: Trump is all about APPEARANCES. The inauguration crowds, telling his people how to dress, turning down some Cabinet suggestions because the people didn’t “look the part.” And here he is in HIS own property showing off, grandstanding, letting all the patrons and waiters watching him acting and, more importantly, LOOKING all “presidential.” Christ on a cracker. :smack: Like he’s in some kind of movie or something. “Ha, let’s see them laugh at me now and say I don’t look like a President. I sure as fuck look like one now! Look at me- look at me- look at me, you losers!”
Sadly, we ARE the losers.
And Congress just ignores him… Ryan and McConnell, you two are pathetic. Your boy makes G.W. Bush look like a member of Mensa.
Trump seems to be treating The Distinguished Gentleman As a textbook. Sadly, Trump believes Dick Dodge is the protagonist. In reality, what Trump is doing is dicking Dodge and every other place in the USA.
Wait, did Trump call him “Prime Minister Shinzo” or did he try to speak with him familiarly and call him “Abe” instead of “Shinzo”? Because in Western reporting the names are written in the Western style (thus Shinzo Abe and not Abe Shinzo in the NY Times, for example), and I’ve never known anyone from a culture that does the family name first to insist that their name be kept in that order when in the US or get angry about it.
It’s not a matter of Abe getting angry or insisting on anything. Of course he wouldn’t. This is not about Abe at all.
It’s that the President’s staff is supposed to be on top of etiquette niceties when dealing with other heads of state when it comes to knowing and paying attention to the way they do things. We want to show respect and not look like a bunch of clueless, arrogant hicks. Oops-- too late.
Trump is having a hard time finding someone who wants to be National Security Advisor. What if he created a reality TV show and launched a nationwide search for the next candidate, similar to America’s Got Talent? He could just open it to candidates from all over the country and they would be winnowed down by a panel of experts from all walks of life, you know, a movie star, a chef, a sports figure, maybe a Wal-Mart greeter. They would come on every week and compete in feats of…well, National Security shit, whatever that is. And the audience, made up of Trumpniks, of course, would choose the winner by applause. I’ll bet it would beat Arnold’s ratings.
Well, maybe they hit it off and they’re on first name basis now :D. I would so love Japan to put out a punctiliously polite communiqué about their PM’s meeting with President Donald*.
*(Of course, then I’d wonder if Mr. Abe was talking about a visit to Disneyland or sommat, but that’s neither here nor there)
More likely Duck Soup. May the gods preserve us if he is searching Netflix for recent Marvel movies with “the funny looking British dude” and finds this instead.
No, King Ralph was a good hearted sort, who meant well. He knew he was in over his head and he tried to learn, tried to fix it. He also stepped down voluntarily and peacefully, in favor of the more qualified person.
And, Trump invents another incident. At a rally on Saturday, Trump said:
There was, of course, no incident of note in Sweden the previous night. It’s unclear what might have sparked Trump’s imagination this time. There was some speculation that Fox had run a story mentioning Sweden the night before, and somehow Trump thought there was an incident of some kind. Because, really, why talk about Sweden unless there was a terror attack there?
It’s only a matter of time until we get The Protocols of the Elders of Islam. It will, of course, be written in tweets.
