Putin has a recording of the conversation in the Oval Office last week and, in possibly the most epic troll in history, is offering a transcript of it to Congress and the Senate.
“The WH staff is smoking crack if they think Trump can leave the country in his current mental state. International disaster in the making.”
Good point, that. We have a besieged, decompensating President with mental issues who is going on his first international trip, going to Saudi Arabia to give a speech on Islam.
Is somebody trying to get the man killed? Who thinks this is a good idea?
Of course, absent any transcript from the American press (who weren’t there), Putin could easily leave out any part of the conversation he desires in the transcript—like classified items.
You sort of answered your own question, there.
I’m a suscriber, too, to the Washington Post and the SDMB. It was probably momentary weirdness.
This story from Politico just gives me the warm fuzzies. Or a chill up my spine. I can’t even tell anymore these days.
Some highlights:
“If both survive the lirpa…”
An interesting read.
I doubt that there’s a single event that can destroy Trump – we’ve seen him recover from disaster before. But what has happened this week is remarkably similar to the occasions on which Trump has found himself on the edge. The pattern we’re seeing is that Trump encounters something or someone who gets under his skin and then rather than letting it go, ups the ante and makes a situation go from bad to DEFCON 5. That’s just who he is. This happened during his campaign and it’s happening now.
But I get the feeling that Trump’s not finished yet and he will handle this the way he always does: by going on offense – somehow. I just shudder to think about what that means.
Nitpick : DEFCON 5 is absolute peace and blue skies all around. Hot war is DEFCON 1.
Not just any speech, a speech drafted by Stephen Miller. That should make for interesting reading.
From the Guardian just now:
(bolding mine)
Really? Wasn’t the Russian news agency also in the room, presumably with recording devices? I’m probably not as smart as the average Guardian reporter but this does strike me as pretty feeble.
That’s pretty masterful trolling on Putin’s part, you gotta admit.
Sure, sure we have transcript. We also gave my little friend Donald a White House warming gift. It is elf on a shelf. We told him to just make sure he always faces you wherever you sit.
If we’re all lucky, this is actually a ruse and he’s going to fly to Moscow to ask for asylum. (I realize that word is funny because of the double entendre.)
A guy can dream.
The Russians have hacked the Oval Office taping system too?
Yeah, what go wrong? He did so well with the travel ban…
I thought they installed a new one last week - no hack needed.
More evidence that the emperor has no clothes:
I wrote ‘The Art of the Deal’ with Trump. His self-sabotage is rooted in his past.
Of course, in Trump’s feeble and flaccid mind, no one can disagree with him because he is never wrong about anything. Period.
Gotta drop this in somewhere, and this looks like as good a place as any:
Apparently Trump was going to give a speech at Masada, but due to heat concerns, it’s been moved to the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
He was going to give a speech at Masada?? My mind boggles. Although I guess it would have been appropriate, in a perverse way, for a man whose Presidency is already under siege.
I suppose he and his entourage could have, um, re-enacted the ending of the siege of Masada in order to avoid having to return to the shitshow at home. 