Sure, but the article doesn’t say we paid it. Seems like he just signed whatever in order to get the kid, without any intention of actually paying it.
Now, if it turns out we actually sent $2M to North Korea, that would be extremely bad.
Toxgoddess:
It says we agreed to pay it, on instructions from Trump. True, it’s possible the money didn’t actually change hands, but I’d like to think a rational president would have tossed the bill directly into the shredder.
If NK had built Trump a cupboard, he would have.
When’s the last time Trump actually paid a bill? I think that two million is safe.
Toxgoddess:
It says we agreed to pay it, on instructions from Trump. True, it’s possible the money didn’t actually change hands, but I’d like to think a rational president would have tossed the bill directly into the shredder.
Trump stiffs everyone else when they invoice him. Why would this be any different?
Though I can see him actually paying this just to get back on NK’s good side. Idiot.
It’s not his money in this case.
Monty
April 25, 2019, 11:50pm
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Plus he’s in love with Kim. He even said so.
You know, this is well within the range of possibility given the lengths the WH conspirator-babysitters will go to contain him while they enact the right-wing agenda.
Demented Donnie proclaims :
President Donald Trump on Friday called himself “a young, vibrant man,” taking a dig at Democratic presidential candidates Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders, who eclipse him in age by a few years.
“I think that I just feel like a young man,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. “I’m so young. I can’t believe it, I’m the youngest person.”…
You just know he was about to say “I’m the youngest person EVER,” but somehow his tiny brain realized just in time how stupid that would sound. For once.
Smapti
April 27, 2019, 2:01am
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Don’t Alzheimer’s patients often find themselves believing they’re younger than they are?
ShitGibbon does not have Alzheimer’s. He has persistent chronic dementia, exacerbated by other things, like peter pan syndrome and whatever the word is for inability to feel empathy (I know what the word is), made worse by affluenza. It appears that he has been like this for four decades at least. Maybe a lot longer. It is not some kind of affliction, it is who he is.
eschereal the seriously twisted:
ShitGibbon does not have Alzheimer’s. He has persistent chronic dementia, exacerbated by other things, like peter pan syndrome and whatever the word is for inability to feel empathy (I know what the word is) , made worse by affluenza. It appears that he has been like this for four decades at least. Maybe a lot longer. It is not some kind of affliction, it is who he is.
The word that springs to mind is ‘sociopath.’
Seems like there is a closely related term/condition that might be more fitting to apply to a guy who said that he could walk out onto 5th Avenue and shoot someone dead in full view of everyone without losing supporters.
I could picture Trump joking that he’s the youth candidate compared to Biden and Sanders but presenting in a way that seems clever would strain his limited wit resources.
Newsweek is reporting that Trump calls Ivanka “baby” during official meetings.
Well, he has claimed the presidency as his own, hasn’t he, to do with as he likes? Maybe in his second term thump will start receiving visitors in his bedroom as some kings of old have done.
Actually, his habit of early morning tweets from the Executive Bathroom (as many have speculated) is not without historical precedent.
It Was Once Someone’s Job to Chat With the King While He Used the Toilet
In the 1500s, the King of England’s toilet was luxurious: a velvet-cushioned, portable seat called a close-stool, below which sat a pewter chamber pot enclosed in a wooden box. Even the king had one duty that needed attending to every day, of course, but you can bet he wasn’t going to do it on his own. From the 1500s into the 1700s, British kings appointed lucky nobles the strangely prestigious chance to perform the king’s most private task of the day, as the Groom of the Stool.
This is not the glamorous job you normally would imagine in a palace, but being Groom of the Stool—named for the close stool, the king’s 16th-century toilet—was actually a highly coveted position in the royal house. Every day, as the king sat on his padded, velvet-covered close stool, he revealed secrets. He asked for counsel, and could even hear of the personal and political woes of his personal groom, and offer to help.
Yes… <peering into the future > I can see Cabinet meetings held in the toidy during the latter years of his [del]reign[/del] administration.
Might improve the quality of his tweets.
It’s not like it would be “unpresidented”.
FACT CHECK: DID LBJ CONDUCT WHITE HOUSE MEETINGS ON THE TOILET?
Sensational anecdotes and interview excerpts from author Michael Wolff’s new book, “Fire And Fury,” have fueled speculation by Democrats and some in the media that Trump is unfit for office. Wolff has claimed that “100 percent” of the people in Trump’s orbit question his intelligence and fitness.
Trump has called the book “phony,” and many of his allies, including Caputo, appeared on the Sunday news shows to defend the President.
“This makes me want to holler. I mean, it really does. Don’t forget that LBJ used to do White House meetings on the toilet, alright?” Caputo said on “State of the Union.” “The idea that this president is somehow, you know, unfit for office is spin. It’s designed to be the new Russia investigation for 2018.”
Biographical accounts indeed reveal that Johnson often conducted meetings with aides while sitting on the toilet.
Of course, as insecure as Trump is, he might not want to expose his shortcomings.