Jellystone Park is the biggest and most beautiful of national parks and their picnic baskets are the most patriotic. The Radical Far Left is threatening to destroy the 600 million dollar picnic baskets because they hate America. I will be signing an executive order to protect our picnic heritage and allowing our military to come in and dominate the Marxist Antifa picnic basket thieves.
Yeah but for tax purposes it is only $129 million. The $600 million is for Deutsche Bank to ‘loan’ him money.
And $900 million is what you tell your other investors it is worth
Hey, both of you! Get it right! It’s “pic-a-nic” basket!
Not a lot of people know this, but our great, American bears are the most average in regards to smartness and baskets of picnic.
I only made it to about seven minutes before my brain liquefied and ran out of my ears. The guy personifies “blithering idiot”. On the plus side, I just started Mary Trump’s book. It explains a lot.
I only saw clips, but there’s a scene where the camera zooms out to show Trump fumbling around trying to find his “charts.” It reminds me of those scenes you see in Crime TV documentaries in which an interrogator has mountains of evidence against the suspect but yet has to wait painfully to listen to the detainee try and bullshit his way out of it.
“Lower than the world?!” Bwahahahaaaaa!
Another one of his go-to tics prominently displayed in the interview is something I call the stretch, in which he quotes a number that is within range of the truth, then immediately adds or subtracts to bump the numbers in his favor:
And then there’s the old standby, “people are saying” (without ever really identifying the people):
Trump, re: Russian bounties on American soldiers in Afghanistan:
[Quote]Jonathan Swan: You had a phone call with Vladimir Putin on July 23rd. Did you bring up this issue?
President Donald J. Trump: No. That was a phone call to discuss other things. And frankly, that’s an issue that many people said was fake news.
Jonathan Swan: “Who said it was fake news?”
President Donald J. Trump: I think a lot of people. If you look at some of the wonderful folks from the Bush Administration, some of them, not any friends of mine, were saying that it’s a fake issue. But a lot of people said, it’s a fake issue."[/quote]
I’m not sure about that. I believe that the “residence” part of the White House is considered the President’s private home for these types of things and so he can conduct private or political business there.
And then there’s this similar gem of an exchange:
trump:
And there are those that say you can test too much. You do know that.
Jonathan Swan:
Who says that?
trump
Oh, just read the manuals, read the books.
Jonathan Swan:
(incredulously) Manuals?
trump:
Read the books. Read the books.
Jonathan Swan:
(more incredulously) What books?
I think it is unfair to characterize this as a missed opportunity. That isn’t the sort of lie you can call Turmp on in real time. Its unlikely that going into the interview Mr. Swan had any idea about the value of the federal building. Yes, he knows its probably less than $600 million but unless he’s absolutely sure about that its safer to just let it go, and concentrate on the lies he knows for sure are false, and leave it to the post hoc fact checkers.
There are collections of Jonathan Swan facial reactions that are priceless.
I think you’re right. I recall an episode of The West Wing, where President Bartlet schlepped from the Oval Office to the residence, to make a phone call – because he cared about the distinction between politics and government, and appearances are important.
Sigh.
ISTM that “inching” is the key word here, and may answer the question of why he doesn’t just declare himself President-for-Life right now.
“For all INTENTS AND PURPOSES.”
That is all.
oh fuck, we had best hope he does not deliver his convention speech on camera from the tweetingroom – there is not enough eye/brain bleach in existence to cope with a catastrophe of such global proportions
Too bad there weren’t also acacias, arborvitae, and baobabs in Yo-semite.
You missed the boat on this one. It’s already been done and then done some more.
Holy crap, that’s an awful photograph. It looks like a treehouse.