Almost seems like he doesn’t think anyone’s gonna buy the bit about the Secret Service nixing his idea of driving…
I suspect that it’s more than a toddler temper tantrum – if his age and bad habits have caught up to him to the point where he’d be in obvious physical distress if he had to walk any significant distance or stand unsupported for more than a few minutes at a time, he’s have to blow off events where he couldn’t finesse the setting to avoid those issues.
When was the last time he golfed?
Of course, there he can use his golf cart. (Is it a regular golf cart, or did the Secret Service insist on upgrading it into an armored DopeMobile?)
Yeah, but can he swing a club without falling over these days?
Also, in my experience vehicles referred to as DopeMobiles generally have kickin’ stereos and need body work, and are owned by someone calling himself Johnny Kush or some such.
I suspect this is quite literally the case: little Donnie learned early that no one ever said ‘no’ to him, and that if they were hesitating to do what he wanted, a bit of a toddler sulk would bring them right around–eager to do whatever it took to make him smile.
So he may well have believed that all those European leaders, seeing him grumpy and disinclined to join in, would fall all over themselves trying to please him.
And it’s just to much for him. And no fun. His parents probably got the same response from him when he didn’t want to go visit grandma.
That link has a pic of the Baby Blimp in Paris. We should send it to Afghanistan to visit the troops.
“They made me do it!”
At last, a grown-up.
Macron’s Response to Trump: ‘I Do Not Do Policy or Diplomacy by Tweets’
If only every other official, civil servant, politician, and reporter would adopt the same stance. Ignore his fucking tweets! Treat it like trolling and don’t feed the troll-in-chief. The fact that we have come to accept and expect thump to communicate “policy” by means of Twitter is one of THE most absurd features of this thoroughly absurd administration. We’re used to it now so we no longer see that it’s NUTS!
Let the general public crap all over his Twitter feed, but don’t conduct government business that way!
Disgusting but hardly surprising.
a) If you did not foster an atmosphere in which your aides were afraid to approach you with any information, any at all, that has the slightest chance of annoying you, then mabe they would tell you.
and
b) If you are the type of person who has to be told skipping the 100th anniversary of the end of WWI would be a PR nightmare, then that is yet more proof you do not and never have deserved to be president.
The strange “b” word bipartisan has been a thing lately with the First Step Act, proposing surprisingly progressive reforms like ending the “three strikes” policy mandating life in prison for third-time drug offenders and adds incentives for low-risk inmates..
Whenever I see the name Koch my :dubious:-meter goes up, and the act’s name, “First Step”, (well to me, anyway) has ominous overtones of future steps that might not be as reasonable as this one. Hopefully those suspicions will eventually be proven wrong.
Then again, it’ll be another thing to get the FSA past the Senate and Turtley McTurtleface, who apparently feels there’s bigger priorities.
Could have been worse; imagine if he’d been president forty years ago during the Bicentennial celebration.
Oh, I think he would have loved that. All those big, huge parades with millions of people cheering and smiling and service people dressed up marching and tanks and fireworks!
Of course he would have thought it was for him and not the birth of our country.
Now that you mention it: there was a Koch spokesman on PBS NewsHour last night discussing the bill…and I kept waiting for Judy Woodruff to ask “what the hell do the Koch’s care?” but she dropped the ball.
So, what is the Koch’s interest in criminal justice reform?
Imagine if he’d been there when Columbia burned up on re-entry, talking about how the pieces fell across “three of the states I carried”…
Bolding mine. Seriously. This is just more proof of what a dumb fuck he is.
“Eh, Mr. President, no stomping on kittens and strangling puppies might garner you some support of a… fringe element, but overall, it will look pretty bad”.
Before the debris even hit the ground, we’d probably be seeing a Tweet something like this:
here at 1:10…(it wouldn’t let me do an edited link)
Hope I’m way off base in speculating that the “Second Step” will have something to do with some kind of large-scale for-profit re-structuring.