The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

The BBQ Pit
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Kelly.

I think Kelly ordered the release to be written and the flags to be lowered and then informed Trump, shortly before it was released, because Kelly is an honestly scary person and Trump recognizes this in his saner moments.

I’m not certain where Mattis and Bolton fit in, if they asked Kelly or he pulled them in, but I bet Sanders wrote the release, because who else who write that “I [Trump] asked Vice President Mike Pence … General John Kelly, Secretary James Mattis, and Ambassador John Bolton …”, instead of the more simple, respectful, and less self-aggrandizing structure, “… Pence will offer an address …”

I loathe Kelly even more that I loathed McCain … actually, I’m not sure about that … but I believe both believe(d) in a code of decency, as morally abhorrent as I would find it.

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“…a horse and caisson transport for the service at the US Naval Academy…”

Oh, shit. What’s the over-under on whether McCain crashes the caisson?

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On CNN, ass-frother Santorum said that the Press is using McCain to beat up on Trump.
Just like a slug, he leaves a slimy trail wherever he goes.

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I rise to scold, sir, firm in my certainty that no one can prove I laughed.

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I don’t believe Donald Trump knows what a caisson is.

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I think someone had to tell him that white constipated old VFW types might actually wake up and see what a dickhead Trump is.

24591

So you are suggesting Trump doesn’t know the difference between a caisson and a Kardashian? :smiley:

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Trump would not care. He would dismiss them as losers.

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I bet I know which one he’d rather ride.

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I think he’s right. (And not just the press…all the Democrats rising to praise McCain). And I’m enjoying the hell out of it.

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Notice the bolded parts I bolded - yeah, it’s all about you Donald :rolleyes:

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The Daily Beast source article that that story links to is classically wry,

*All four White House officials the Beast did speak with about how Trump, the leader of the free world, ended up in a smiling photo op at the Resolute Desk with a prominent QAnon conspiracy theorist, pleaded ignorance about when this occurred, and why. [COLOR=“Black”]Two of these West Wing officials audibly could not contain their laughter.

“This president is a president for all Americans,” one joked, including conspiracy theorists.*[/COLOR]

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And “my administration”. Who says that?

Nasty little jab there, too, about respecting his service, not the man himself.

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A fragile, insecure, spoiled, pampered narcissist.

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I think Donald still hasn’t gotten over McCain’s vote not to destroy the ACA. Good Republicans lick Donald’s shoes and McCain wouldn’t do it.

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Early this morning, Trump apparently figured out how to Google himself. He didn’t like what he found, and might have to “do something”.

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His staff is right now on the phone with Google, asking them to come up with a special Dear Leader Google that only returns good news.

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Quit?

Anyway, in a quest for fact, and having a bit of time to waste, I did my own Google search for “Trump News”, and got this as the first page of results:

So: a) all the entries seem factual, so suck it up, Mr. Trump; b) the first two entries are from Fox News. which hardly seems to be one of the sources he would be complaining about; c) after that, most of the entries are about his own complaining about his press coverage, which makes it all a bit meta; d) I have no idea why two seemingly random entries from 2017 would make the first page, what with the rich panoply of Trump-related news items to choose from.

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That’s what he objects to. Factual, not fawning.

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If you don’t like the fact that all the news about you is bad, maybe you need to try and not suck so much.