You can just imagine the instructions she was getting on her earplug.
“How many of you give much credibility to the woman who walks around with a rhinestone cowboy hat that looks like it came from Dolly Parton’s costume closet?”
“MAGA caps, Laura! Walk it back!”
“I mean, I’m all for colorful dressing”
Where is this “not saying it” he’s claiming? She’s appearing all over TV this morning repeating her claims.
It’s definitely Coulter.
Ingraham is arguing that Trump isn’t crazy. Coulter is arguing that Trump isn’t crazy enough.
Well at least he called, unlike that Bad Obama!
He’s feebly trying to make it sound as though she has backed off, which she has not done.
I found a reference to his repetition of the “make her statement again” line. It reads like a weird “I dare you” ritual.
Uh hyuk! He’s doin’ zactly whut we elected him fer. As long as he’s pissin’ them fake news people off, he’s doin’ his job, juss like Jesus! We gonna go out and decorate the bridge and holed up traffic agin next fer the uhlection! Uh hyuk!
I think Leon Panetta said it well: Trump’s comments just continue to show that he values absolutely nobody but himself. Nothing is sacred with this guy.
When someone has that sort of pathological narcissism, and insult the honor of war dead by lying like a reptile, what is keeping this guy from sending tens or hundreds of thousands more to their deaths recklessly over a flashpoint like North Korea? He would not hesitate for a moment to do so and then turnaround and try to maximize his ability to exploit that cause for his own benefit. What’s worse is that there are apparently millions of white evangelical nationalists who would support him all the way.
They knew what they signed up for.
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They knew what they signed up for too.
The Trump supporters I work with are monumentally uninformed. Some of them are actually tuning out of NFL games thanks to Trump and his moronic and simplistic assesment of the protest, and I’d bet a paycheck that none of them know that his latest travel ban has been blocked. They just simply feel like he is delivering on his MAGA master plan.
Probably shouldn’t have made that comment about the other Presidents, I think.
Holy Crap! You’ve just given me an insane idea (‘soooo crazy, it just might work!’)
Dolly Parton for president 2020.
Seriously:
“knew what he signed up for”
Sheessssss. All Trump had to do to recover was to say “It was my way of saying he was brave. He volunteered.” Shit. That’s what he may have meant. My god, KNOWBODY in his administration put that on the table? Instead, as usual, Trump doubles down.
For Christ sake, they are supposed to have people that are communication specialists.
And, no I’m not surprised.
If it were trump vs congress critter, I’d say toss-up. I’d side with Wilson, but not too strongly. I don’t really know her. By going after her, he’s just going to piss of some democrats, more a feature than a but in this administration.
But he starts going after the families, calling them out as liars, there may actually be some of his supporters that are offended.
Of course, the only way to offend his 30% base would be to start being a decent person and an effective president.
HA! Best laugh I had all day.
^This is all of a piece with Trump’s “he knew what he signed up for” remark to Sergeant Johnson’s widow. Both demonstrate one of Trump’s most abiding passions: to avoid taking any personal responsibility for anything.
With Obamacare: Trump very badly wants to kill it. It has Obama’s name on it! But it’s gotten through even to Trump that killing it will mean massive health and financial crises for millions of Americans.
And he doesn’t want to be blamed for that.
So he makes statements on all different sides of the issue. When the ACA actually does crash and burn, Trump can point to whichever of his statements indicate that he really, really wanted to save it—and thereby escape all responsibility for the program’s demise.
With the call to Sergeant Johnson’s widow, Myeshia: Trump used a phrase that’s so commonly-used as to be an idiom in American English: “he knew what he signed up for.”
This idiom is used to convey ‘it’s not my fault–it’s the fault of the guy who signed up.’ It reflects Trump’s anxiety that someone—particularly the widow—might lay blame at Trump’s own feet for the action in Niger that resulted in the death of her husband.
And that, Trump cannot abide. So he told the widow that it simply wasn’t on him (Trump)—Johnson’s death was on Johnson. Not Trump’s fault!
Trump really wanted her to know that. For him, it was the reason for making the call.
Who wants to bet he shows up with a giant cardboard check tomorrow and is all like “I didn’t want to make a big deal of this, I’m very humble when it comes to charity, no president has ever given as much as I have”?
With trump, I think it’d be made of rubber.
Trumpie’s nighty-night story time is gonna be awkward this evening.