The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

Note that the video in that tweet was produced by someone unrelated to the campaign, although the president mentioned it in tweet.

Sorry for yelling, BUT WE ARE FINDING OUT THE PRESIDENT, A HARD-CORE TWITTER USER, IS TAKING PICTURES OF TOP-SECRET DOCUMENTS WITH HIS CELL PHONE ON THE VERY SAME DAY THE CEO OF TWITTER, JACK DORSEY, HAD HIS <checks notes> CELL PHONE HACKED!

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Putin, you magnificient bastard.

You can see the flash and Trump’s shadow on the picture.

But what about her emails?!?!?!??!?!

All the 2019 reports I’m seeing indicate that Cuomo’s attracting fewer than half the viewers his MSNBC time-slot competitor Rachel Maddow is attracting.*

You’d think he might take the hint and ditch the 'gladiatorial combat between a hapless Democrat and a right-wing propaganda MAGAphone’ approach.

*Rachel Maddow Stuck In 5th Place As Fox News Marks 212th Consecutive Monthly Win

I hadn’t bothered to look closely at the picture, but now that you mention it, the flash and shadow are pretty clear. Jesus.

ISTR stories in 2009 about the elaborate security precautions taken with Obama’s phone (“BlackBerry One”). Now Trump takes pics of the screen like a kid in a freshman Biology lecture, and shares them with the world from his fucking toilet.

Good work, Republicans. Good work.

Cue Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham, Kevin McCarthy, and the rest of the big GOP names to say, when asked, that this is the first they’re hearing about this, and they’ll get back to reporters after they’ve had a chance to look into it.

But every Republican up for re-election has to be asked about this—often.

Granted, this is some seriously effed up presidential bullshit. But how would you be able to see both the flash and the shadow? Unless the flash was completely unnecessary, I don’t think that’s how light works.

Look at the image: on the right side, you can see the reflection of his arm holding the phone (landscape orientation).

Or, to be more precise, “whoosh”.

I called it a shadow but it’s obviously his reflection. Sorry, my grasp of pedantry is slipping as I get older. :stuck_out_tongue:

I’m seeing something on the left side that maybe, maybe looks like an arm. But I’m not convinced. And the “whoosh” is super confusing–eschereal, are you saying that the whole shadow/reflection thing is just a joke?

I’m not sure what the confusion is here. Have we never seen a camera crew caught in a badly placed reflection?

It’s not confusion, and I’m not saying it’s impossible, I’m just saying that I’m not seeing an unambiguous reflection.

Tiffany doesn’t fall far from the Orange Cheeto. Here she is bragging about the portrait made of her out of Swarovsky crystals.

I am saying that. It appears that he posted classified information on twitter. How he got it is of no consequence. Mostly what I see, other than the satellite image, is a bunch of pareidolia.

I see a flash. I don’t see a black and white Orangeman in the background. I hope I’m missing it. I hope the metadata proves it came from his phone and he will blame liberal phone makers who love China behind the whole thing…

It won’t matter at all. Supporters will call it having balls. Pence will call it god-given insight. Phony sellouts at campaign speeches will commence. On and on. Fuck this.

No, not as such. I pulled the image right off of twitter. The only metadata I see is the size and colorspace. If his phone is 1280 x 686 in landscape, that might be evidence, but sites like twitter and FB have a habit of downsampling and stripping most of the EXIF from uploaded images (stripping EXIF is a typical side-effect of modifying the image and may not be deliberate). There may be more elaborate forensics, but the file is not going to tell you right out.

Trump has already addressed this issue by saying “I released it which I have the absolute right to do”. And when he says has the absolute right to do something, you know he did something wrong.

Why would anyone make a stick-on paint by numbers of a face that is so Cheeto like?

And the very same people who condemned Obama for tyranny whenever he issued an executive order just lap it up from this guy.