As more and more of the trump backstory is revealed it becomes obvious that it was not some silvery-tongued wordsmithing wizard from whom trump supporters purchased his snake oil but a cretinous snake whose tongue was so obviously forked as to make Hillary the the princess of categorizing prescience!
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If Trump is associated with the Nationsl Enquirer through several nexuses does that mean it is not a purveyor of fake news? All of those UFO and Elvis sightings in the headlines are actually real? Must I now grudgingly give the paper respect while I wait in the supermarket checkout line?
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The only thing shocking is the behavior of Brzezinski and Scarborough. Two nutcases on TV trying to make a living. We care about Trump and not the tv talking heads.
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Rachel Maddow NAILED it last night. Trump wins by distracting when very important news stories are about to break: Voter Info Requests, 32M (not 23) new COB # of people who will lose health care, Peter Smith and Flynn Colluding! As Rachel said, Trump doesn't respect the presidency, American Values, Our Place in the world, other leaders. He has nothing to lose by being disgusting!!! Keep focused on the REAL News Stories behind the scenes that aren't getting the press/TV coverage due to his disgusting rants. He's playing YOU
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I have never watched Mika and Joe, but now perhaps I shall. And- facelifts may bruise, but they don't bleed. Mr. Trump should know.
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The fact we have a POTUS that reads a supermarket scandal sheet like the National Enquirer is pathetic.
Too bad he doesn't read up on the long term benefits of single payer policy, the mandate of separation of powers, or historical figures who made gains uniting a divided world
Truly pathetic
Too bad he doesn't read up on the long term benefits of single payer policy, the mandate of separation of powers, or historical figures who made gains uniting a divided world
Truly pathetic
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Donald Trump has some weird obsession with Woman and Blood, kind of creepy!
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Why are we "shocked" about this latest outburst by this "man?" He wasn't stopped in his tracks when he said over a hot microphone that he could grab a woman by the...and get away with it because he was rich. He wasn't stopped when he congratulated audience members for assaulting others in the audience. He wasn't stopped when he made fun of a disabled reporter. And those were just a few of the times he showed us what he is: a bullying jerk with the mentality of a ninth grader (with apologies to ninth graders around the country). What will it take to stop him? Maybe his declaring that Canada should be invaded because Trudeau didn't kiss his ring? His presence in the White House is an insult. His presence on the world stage as the face of the U.S. is even more so. Enough.
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Where is Larry Flynt when we need him?
3
This ridiculous behavior is tempting clickbait, and it's reinforced by coverage in the MSM.
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So Dick Morris, the country's most famous toe-sucker, now writes for the "National Enquirer!" He first served the revolting Bill Clinton, selling out the Democratic congress and core principles of the Democratic Party. Then he went on to Fox News, the propaganda arm of the Far Right. Rejoice that he has finally found his real home!
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I am embarrassed by this president.
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The Quest to Survive the Fog of Trump.
Don't breathe the noxious fumes rising from the swamp and don't eat of the fruit of the trumpkin tree. I guess Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't get the memo like so many other Republicans before her. Her fog addled mind now conflates nasty bully with self-defense, and her eating of the fruit of the swampy trumpkin tree has turned her into a nasty, self-righteous bully. Well, an epic poem would be kind enough to lay the blame on fog and fruit.
Don't breathe the noxious fumes rising from the swamp and don't eat of the fruit of the trumpkin tree. I guess Sarah Huckabee Sanders didn't get the memo like so many other Republicans before her. Her fog addled mind now conflates nasty bully with self-defense, and her eating of the fruit of the swampy trumpkin tree has turned her into a nasty, self-righteous bully. Well, an epic poem would be kind enough to lay the blame on fog and fruit.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present to you, the President of the United States of America.
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If anyone wants to know where Trump's mind is, he suggested giving the National Enquirer Pulitzer Prizes for various stories, a real scholar.
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The thin-skinned Nixon had his "plumbers" carry out illegal acts to find dirt on people. We know Trump has Russia, Fox News, National Enquirer to spin the media; however what else is in Trump's arsenal? The horror indeed.
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Trump the big baby. I would not let any child act this way - why are we allowing the President of the United States?
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How do you deal with a bully? Punch him in the mouth. Hit him where it hurts. And nothing hurts Trump more than exposing his massive insecurities about ratings. Specifically, his abysmally low ratings, the size of his inaugural crowd, his loss of the popular vote by almost 3 million votes, his presidential "illegitimacy" due to his campaign's collusion with Russia.
So from now on, whenever we refer to the word "Trump" in print, let's precede it with the words, "failing and low-rated." We can try it now. "The failing and low-rated Donald Trump is [fill in the blank]."
I feel better already, don't you?
So from now on, whenever we refer to the word "Trump" in print, let's precede it with the words, "failing and low-rated." We can try it now. "The failing and low-rated Donald Trump is [fill in the blank]."
I feel better already, don't you?
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The National Enquirer and American Media Inc. has under its owner, David Pecke, long pursued a police that is hardly distinguished from a RICO operation. They blackmail celebrities and extort their participation in permitting their images to be used in other American Media publications, in return for 'quashing' defamatory or embarrassing stories involving their indiscretions. A recent example illustrating this technique was detailed in the July 3 issue of the New Yorker which describes how Tiger Woods came to consent to have his visage used on a cover of American Media's "Men's Health."
What Mika and Joe are describing involves Jared Kushner, son of a convicted blackmailer, acting as an agent of his Don father in Law, Donald Trump, as a 'go-between' attempting to negotiate the fealty of Joe Scarborough in return for his 'agreeing' not to be critical of Donald Trump. In return they offered to 'quash' an uncomplimentary profile of the National Enquirer they said was about to be approved for release by Trump's good friend, and apparent co-conspirator, David Pecker. This negotiation ostensibly took place after Trump took the Presidential Oath and occupied the highest state office in our land.
This story is entirely consistent with Trump's brags, tweets, and interviews given over the years to the likes of Howard Stern and his method was early outlined in the Tony Schwartz co-written "Art of the Deal." Trump engages in Blackmail and Extortion. This is impeachable.
What Mika and Joe are describing involves Jared Kushner, son of a convicted blackmailer, acting as an agent of his Don father in Law, Donald Trump, as a 'go-between' attempting to negotiate the fealty of Joe Scarborough in return for his 'agreeing' not to be critical of Donald Trump. In return they offered to 'quash' an uncomplimentary profile of the National Enquirer they said was about to be approved for release by Trump's good friend, and apparent co-conspirator, David Pecker. This negotiation ostensibly took place after Trump took the Presidential Oath and occupied the highest state office in our land.
This story is entirely consistent with Trump's brags, tweets, and interviews given over the years to the likes of Howard Stern and his method was early outlined in the Tony Schwartz co-written "Art of the Deal." Trump engages in Blackmail and Extortion. This is impeachable.
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I was listening to Bob Dylan's song "Idiot Wind" yesterday. The song was written decades ago. It was like Bob was prescient and knew that a guy like Trump would be in our future.
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Every time Trump tweets, Obama’s stature increases.
Every. Single. Time.
Every. Single. Time.
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Having achieved more than any...oops...I mean most Presidents have in such
a short time as Trump says he has, I guess the President doesn't have any better things to do than attack these media hosts...
It's good to know that the President has so much spare time to watch the TV, Play Golf and use Twitter to attack people that America must be virtually i
a short time as Trump says he has, I guess the President doesn't have any better things to do than attack these media hosts...
It's good to know that the President has so much spare time to watch the TV, Play Golf and use Twitter to attack people that America must be virtually i
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The reason behind Trump's animosity against Joe Scarborough, is that Joe has nicer hair-do.
Just the basics, please.
Just the basics, please.
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Chump is using this feud with Mika and Joe as another distraction from the fact that he is a completely incompetent president. He knows nothing about the important issues facing our country such as North Korea, healthcare, Syria, tax reform, Russia's involvement in our elections or anything else. This is just a giant ego trip for a man who never grew up and who never takes responsibility for anything he does or doesn't do. What a sorry story of terrible leadership for the greatest country in the world.
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"In Friday’s installment, Mr. Scarborough told his viewers that the White House had urged him to seek Mr. Trump’s forgiveness for critical coverage, lest The Enquirer, which is controlled by a Trump ally, run a story detailing his involvement with Ms. Brzezinski, who is now his fiancée."
Is this saying that Trump was involved with Ms. Brzezinski? Not in the habit of reading the gossip columns, I have trouble following this stuff.
Is this saying that Trump was involved with Ms. Brzezinski? Not in the habit of reading the gossip columns, I have trouble following this stuff.
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Having achieved more than any...oops...I mean most Presidents have in such
a short time as Trump says he has, I guess the President doesn't have any better things to do than attack these media hosts...
It's good to know that the President has so much spare time to watch the TV, Play Golf and use Twitter to attack people because it indicates that America must be virtually issue and problem free and not need as much work, effort and time from this President as shown by many others.
I guess he is just really good at the job and America is well on its way to becoming great again!
a short time as Trump says he has, I guess the President doesn't have any better things to do than attack these media hosts...
It's good to know that the President has so much spare time to watch the TV, Play Golf and use Twitter to attack people because it indicates that America must be virtually issue and problem free and not need as much work, effort and time from this President as shown by many others.
I guess he is just really good at the job and America is well on its way to becoming great again!
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The best way to stop this madness is for all the media to reach an agreement among themselves that absolutely none of them will publish or air any tweet from Trump--or people's responses--or any reference to his tweets. Don't even mention the words "twitter" or "tweets" in any report about him. Leave him twisting in the wind of no twitter coverage. Just cover his paltry impact on meaningful issues like healthcare, immigration, tax reform, international affairs, etc. Report on who is truly responsible for issues that move the country forward--congress, the courts, government departments, appointees who seem to know what they are doing, etc. Shroud "him" with serious blandness. He may complete his determination to self-destruct when issues are covered and he can no longer goad the media into making 9 out of 10 stories about "The Donald". Narcissism is best handled by turning a deaf ear.
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What an alternative universe we are experiencing. Are we down the rabbit hole or in the twilight zone? Dick Morris says that the criticism of the president is a
sign of "the media itself becoming Donald Trump's political opponent." He must have a convenient memory to have forgotten all about his angry books and writings aimed at President Obama.
sign of "the media itself becoming Donald Trump's political opponent." He must have a convenient memory to have forgotten all about his angry books and writings aimed at President Obama.
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By becoming President, Trump is now able to get his revenge on Obama by taking away, rescinding or repealing any and all of Obama's achievements, legacy and accomplishments as President so nobody will remember his impact and the difference he made for his country.
Or:
By becoming President, Trump has been able to ensure that most Americans and the World will never forget how much better, smarter, more intelligent and dedicated Obama was in and to the office of President and of the man himself. Thanks to Trump being the man he is and continues to show himself to be, Obama will never be forgotten and will be missed all the more because of Trump.
However, many, maybe most people are wishing they could forget about Trump if they had the choice today...that not enough of them didn't make last November.
But Trump is here to stay so he can continue to make America GRATE again...and again and again.
Or:
By becoming President, Trump has been able to ensure that most Americans and the World will never forget how much better, smarter, more intelligent and dedicated Obama was in and to the office of President and of the man himself. Thanks to Trump being the man he is and continues to show himself to be, Obama will never be forgotten and will be missed all the more because of Trump.
However, many, maybe most people are wishing they could forget about Trump if they had the choice today...that not enough of them didn't make last November.
But Trump is here to stay so he can continue to make America GRATE again...and again and again.
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It's terrifying to consider that the disturbed mind/brain/ego which spontaneously and uncontrollably regurgitates toxic rhetoric, behavior, and tweets is the exact same mind that will be making serious life/death; war/peace decisions. The only medicine that can treat this dis-ease, is the 25th Amendment. But, due to his party holding all the power, we won't hold our breath.
3
The Times seems a bit condescending to Joe and Mika, covering this as a "feud" among TV performers, which Mr. Trump would do well to rise above. To this viewer (and daily Times reader), their stress at finding the President was attempting to extort them, aided by harassing calls from various sycophants, was leavened by some humor at the low theatrics involved. But they are seriously worried by Trump's constant lying, his preoccupation with his "image" as a "winner," and his ignorance of real and serious issues. Joe and Mika think these qualities would have made him receptive to a shadowy deal with Mr. Putin, to whom he always refers with admiration (and zero knowledge of historical realities). The case awaits further proof, but for me, Trump's entire history as a con-man, cheat and manipulator, make it a strong possibility.
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Several years ago I downgraded my cable service, so I no longer get CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, etc. and couldn't watch "Joe and Mika" even if I wanted to. Whether it's "Joe and Mika" , "Fox and Friends" Don Imus or Howard Stern, or even "The Today Show" in its current incarnation, I do have trouble understanding why people spend valuable time watching this stuff, much less getting worked up about it.
2
Hey, New York Times! Health care bill, remember? FOCUS! This is Trump's game, and you're playing it by his rules. What if the President tweeted and the headline was "President Tweets to Take Our Eyes Off Inhumane Health Care Bill"?
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Quelle Surprise? But then, how many eyes are on the Russia connection now?
4
Dear Melania, here is some helpful info. regarding your First Lady project against cyber bullying: it is illegal in DC; and in all the states where the Trump retreats are located -- including NY, also the cable HQ of Mika and Joe -- cyber bullying carries criminal sanctions. Thank you. cc: Donald Trump
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Trump still at it this Saturday Morning. No NYT he is not melting. Quit giving false hope to all. Examine his inner circle for magical levitation because at this point he's totally propped up with no light at the end of the tunnel.
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Trump is showing how unfit he is to be sitting in the Whitehouse every time he tweets out these crass and vile attacks on woman.
Who would have ever dreamed that a 71 year old man with an ever growing posterior, who is so thin-skinned and insecure, would be waddling around the Whitehouse at night in his boxer shorts tweeting incessantly like a teenager cyber bullying a woman television pundit.
It's funny for somewhat like Donald Trump, who has shown himself, to not be that bright, that despite what he says about "Morning Joe", it is obvious he is a big fan and watches it every morning.
I hope Trump watched the first hour yesterday of "Morning Joe", when Donny Deutsch unleashed the perfect assessment of Donald Trump's physical and psychological attributes as a man or should I say someone who wishes he were a man.
Who would have ever dreamed that a 71 year old man with an ever growing posterior, who is so thin-skinned and insecure, would be waddling around the Whitehouse at night in his boxer shorts tweeting incessantly like a teenager cyber bullying a woman television pundit.
It's funny for somewhat like Donald Trump, who has shown himself, to not be that bright, that despite what he says about "Morning Joe", it is obvious he is a big fan and watches it every morning.
I hope Trump watched the first hour yesterday of "Morning Joe", when Donny Deutsch unleashed the perfect assessment of Donald Trump's physical and psychological attributes as a man or should I say someone who wishes he were a man.
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Oh Molly Ivins, we miss you!
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Conservative talk show personalities savaged Barack Obama for eight years. Limbaugh even savaged Michael J. Fox--an Obama supporter--suggesting that he faked his Parkinson's. Obama remained above it. Yet these same conservatives now believe that 45 should be off limits to commentators, unless it is to extol his "accomplishments." What rank hypocrisy.
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Trump is unfit for the office of President - he should be impeached on the basis of his unfitness.
12
Just as Trump tagged his opponents with nicknames, I will henceforth be calling the GOP "The Cowardly Republicans."
As a party and as a group of people, they have become both craven and cowardly...they birthed two "movements," over which they have lost control and have lost too the courage to reign in....1) the anti-government, anti-tax, evangelical politics movement of the Reagan era that has brought us gridlock and 2) the Tea Party, ignorance-is-bliss, ideological rigidity, Trumpian era that is bringing us to the brink of insanity...
Cowardly Republicans are like characters in a B-grade horror movie....'Don't go in the basement....!' But they simply can't help themselves....
As a party and as a group of people, they have become both craven and cowardly...they birthed two "movements," over which they have lost control and have lost too the courage to reign in....1) the anti-government, anti-tax, evangelical politics movement of the Reagan era that has brought us gridlock and 2) the Tea Party, ignorance-is-bliss, ideological rigidity, Trumpian era that is bringing us to the brink of insanity...
Cowardly Republicans are like characters in a B-grade horror movie....'Don't go in the basement....!' But they simply can't help themselves....
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The horror show that is Trump just never ends. And what's worse is his defenders trying to explain the incoherent, justify cruelty, and normalize Trump's psychotic behavior. Trump is a 71 year old spoiled child. Has not everyone figured that out yet? And yet, millions voted for him. Sad.
Who among his supporters did not know from the day Trump descended his faux gold escalator in his Tower of Babel how positively nuts this guy was? Of course we native New Yorkers, who have know this braggadocio for decades, laughed our be-hinds off. It was a joke, or at least started out that way. We awaited the response from the people, rank and file Republicans. We expected that folks in Flyover Country, who think we berate them, would see this snake oil city slicker for what he is: a con man come to slip his oleaginous fingers in your pockets, taking your money, your votes, and your dignity from you. We did not believe even the most poorly educated, the dumbest of the dumb, would be fooled by the obvious, that Trump was selling you a bill of goods, that he knew little about business, leading all three of his AC casinos into bankruptcy, and that he knew even less about governing. Surely that would become apparent to the most naive voter. Obviously not.
So what's there to be surprised about? For we New Yorkers, a sense of "We told you so" could be used but that would be too crass, too impolite, too much like Trump. We won't stoop that low.
DD
Manhattan
Who among his supporters did not know from the day Trump descended his faux gold escalator in his Tower of Babel how positively nuts this guy was? Of course we native New Yorkers, who have know this braggadocio for decades, laughed our be-hinds off. It was a joke, or at least started out that way. We awaited the response from the people, rank and file Republicans. We expected that folks in Flyover Country, who think we berate them, would see this snake oil city slicker for what he is: a con man come to slip his oleaginous fingers in your pockets, taking your money, your votes, and your dignity from you. We did not believe even the most poorly educated, the dumbest of the dumb, would be fooled by the obvious, that Trump was selling you a bill of goods, that he knew little about business, leading all three of his AC casinos into bankruptcy, and that he knew even less about governing. Surely that would become apparent to the most naive voter. Obviously not.
So what's there to be surprised about? For we New Yorkers, a sense of "We told you so" could be used but that would be too crass, too impolite, too much like Trump. We won't stoop that low.
DD
Manhattan
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Let's make this a disaster for the National Enquirer. Bringing this rag into the limelight and exposing it for what it is cannot possibly be good for it in the long term.
5
Donald J. Trump has proven time and again that he's a reprehensible sociopath. He has managed to destroy all of our cherished beliefs regarding the exceptionalism and majesty of the United States. We can no longer cling to our hopes and myths that this country has always been led by highly reputable, honest, and extremely moral presidents. Our first president, George Washington, had such high integrity that it was exemplified by his admission to chopping down a cherry tree. Our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, was so impeccably honest that he was reported to have walked a mile to return a penny. And our 33rd president Harry Truman never wavered from his heavy responsibility as commander-in-chief when he famously proclaimed: "The Buck stops here." Donald Trump, on the other hand, never accepts responsibility for anything. And unlike his predecessors, he's an amoral thug that's totally devoid of any integrity, honesty, humility and empathy. Far from being a world leader admired both near and far, Trump is universally scorned and laughed at due to his infantile temper tantrums, self absorbed narcissism, pathological lying, and bullying persona.
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Joe and Mika were instrumental in feeding the Trump hype machine. They are paying the price for their role in his ascent. Karma.
5
How mean can people get? Calling Trump's hands "teensy" in a squeaky, high voice is mean.
2
Once again Trump displays how incompetent and mentally unfit he is.
The electoral college was warned many times about his dangerous mental state.
The republicans in the EC appointed him to the oval office against the Will of the people in yet another "Party over County" betrayal of the American people. This has not only plunged our Nation into serious danger, but our Mother Earth as well.
Get rid of him.
The electoral college was warned many times about his dangerous mental state.
The republicans in the EC appointed him to the oval office against the Will of the people in yet another "Party over County" betrayal of the American people. This has not only plunged our Nation into serious danger, but our Mother Earth as well.
Get rid of him.
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The 45th must learn from the 44th on how to act with civility. How low can you go President Trump?
5
I can't wait to see "Frost/Trump". But who will be our Frost?
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I am repulsed when I have to stand face to face with enquirer at my grocery check out. I will tell my store that this hateful, deceitful magazine has no place in the check out line and should be removed from all stores. This is what I will do and you should too. Today...not tomorrow.
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Firstly, I am no fan of Donald Trump's and never have been. However, Joe Scarborough's wrath against the National Enquirer is ludicrous. I just read what the National Enquirer wrote about adulterers Joe and Mika, and it all lines up with exactly with what we already knew about these two-timing schemers cheating on their spouses. But, what Joe takes issue with, bellowing on national tv, is that someone said that Joe bought some beer at a store near Mika's condo!! Really, this is what Joe is upset about?! Good grief!
1
Trump's modus operandi has not changed in 40 years. Plant false media stories, whether favorable to him or damning to his opponents, and tout them until they become "truth." Now look at what he did to Hillary Clinton during the Presidential campaign -- exactly the same. The only difference is that he either sought out, or was offered, Russian assistance and took it. He said as much publicly and the evidence of it is everywhere.
4
It's a shock to the system to go from a distinguished, intelligent and diplomatic president to this foul-mouthed baboon. I ask myself daily how we got to this point. And why isn't someone doing something about him?
8
Every time Donald Trump emits a tweet from his personal Twitter account, I cringe. But after this week I find I'm terrified at the prospect of allowing him to attend the G20 conference next week, surrounded by world leaders whose most recent experience with the president has left them baffled at how to view his bizarre behavior. Questions abound: How does someone of the stature of Merkel or Macron deal with an immature, vulgar, bullying child who has no concept of the grave responsibilities attendant upon the office he holds? What will his minders do when Putin cajoles him into taking a walk and sharing little intimate secrets? Who will make sure that he does not insult our strongest allies while bragging about his ability, and his alone, to make the best deals for America? Has anyone managed to hold his attention long enough to educate him on what this critically important meeting is intended to accomplish? I'm afraid that I wouldn't like the answers.
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Donald Trump is a standout. He is the first president in American history that displays the developmental level of a four-year-old child. For example four-year-old children:
-have moods swings that change rapidly and unpredictably; throws tantrums over minor frustrations, sulks over being left out.
- Boasts, exaggerates, and "bends" the truth with made-up stories or claims of boldness; tests the limits with "bathroom" talk.
- Shows pride in accomplishments; seeks frequent adult approval.
- Often appears selfish; not always able to take turns or to understand taking turns under some conditions; tattles on other children.
- Insists on trying to do things independently, but may get so frustrated as to verge on tantrums when problems arise: paint that drips, paper airplane that will not fold right.
- Enjoys role-playing and make-believe activities.
- Relies (most of the time) on verbal rather than physical aggression; may yell angrily rather than hit to make a point; threatens: "You can't come to my birthday party."
- Name-calling and taunting are often used as ways of excluding other children.
- Can be bossy at times, telling their parents to stop talking, or telling their friends to "Come here right now."
- Establishes close relationships with playmates; beginning to have "best" friends.
In essence we have a needy 4-year-old occupying the most powerful office in the world. We need to demand a time out!
-have moods swings that change rapidly and unpredictably; throws tantrums over minor frustrations, sulks over being left out.
- Boasts, exaggerates, and "bends" the truth with made-up stories or claims of boldness; tests the limits with "bathroom" talk.
- Shows pride in accomplishments; seeks frequent adult approval.
- Often appears selfish; not always able to take turns or to understand taking turns under some conditions; tattles on other children.
- Insists on trying to do things independently, but may get so frustrated as to verge on tantrums when problems arise: paint that drips, paper airplane that will not fold right.
- Enjoys role-playing and make-believe activities.
- Relies (most of the time) on verbal rather than physical aggression; may yell angrily rather than hit to make a point; threatens: "You can't come to my birthday party."
- Name-calling and taunting are often used as ways of excluding other children.
- Can be bossy at times, telling their parents to stop talking, or telling their friends to "Come here right now."
- Establishes close relationships with playmates; beginning to have "best" friends.
In essence we have a needy 4-year-old occupying the most powerful office in the world. We need to demand a time out!
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Having a celebrity as your chief executive, as we have learned from past examples such as The Terminator in CA, and The Wrestler in Minn., you are likely to drift into these salacious conundrums. Those who thought it would be nifty to shake things up and vote for a celebrity instead of the usual boring political insiders may be wondering as to how we can now get out of this mess. But alas, some of them [36%] are congratulating themselves on the wisdom of their choice.
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I do not understand why our Republican congressmen haven't publicly rebuked the ridiculous public behavior of Trump. I believe this disassociation from his public behavior will morph into a Democratic landslide in the coming elections. As a Republican, I will vote Democratic even if Minney Mouse runs.
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One bright light in the midst of this darkness is that newspapers and magazines have revived the ancient art of satire all but lost to the US. Now we have more than the Onion and Andy Borowitz, Alexandra Petri does good too. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/compost/wp/2017/06/30/after-the-pre...
Meanwhile here in Canada our bright caring and compassionate PM Trudeau has just spoken from Canada Day Celebrations in Ottawa, celebrating Canada's diversity and welcome to everyone to come and share in the future no matter what colour, creed, sexual orientation or culture you are welcome in Canada. Could not be prouder to be a Canadian today!
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Simply the most ignorant, most incompetent, most psychologically compromised president in our country's history. I have two degrees in history, and Trump is an utterly unpresidential failure still supported by those who cannot comprehend how and why his angry narcissism is so dangerous for the country's well-being, and theirs.
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DT's motto- "I am a habitual liar and look how far have I come to be elected by half of population who acts talks just like me" and "I am a wily huckster and look how much have I accumulated". It is not all about Trump, it is something wrong with this society which allows him to be what he is today.
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Our President, the Self-Sinking Ship.
At that job, at least he's competent.
At that job, at least he's competent.
What Brzezinski and Scarborough describe appears to meet the legal definition of extortion. If Trump played any role in inducing it, he is guilty of suborning extortion. Gentlemen, start your impeachment engines.
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Please NY Times stop obsessing with Trump. Please hold the DNC to task with coming up with a unifying message for 2018 and 2020. If you continue to pursue this divisive man in hopes of making profit, he will win again in 2020. Just look to all these special elections to see this is serious business. Even with all the money and celebrity endorsements, the republicans have not lost. Please stop selling out to the money men. You have a powerful pulpit, focus on a real agenda going forward that centers on economics and security and trust, not fear. Please before it is too late. All decent Americans cannot stand much more of this reality show.
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Whether he was legally elected or not, whether he colluded with the Russians or not, whether one supports his policies or not, this is a man unfit and unprepared for the presidency of the United States. here in Europe he is a laughing stock and is is discrediting the country. Europeans cannot understand how the country that used to lead the free world is in the hands of such a clearly and obviously deranged individual. He needs to be removed via the 25th Amendment of the Constitution before he completely destroys the credibility and standing of the United States in the world.
7
The fanatical campaign of personal hatred by our media for our President is damaging to America.
But so is a President that insists on launching public personal attacks on those who criticize him. EVERY President dislikes and finds unfair the fact that their policies do not get universal praise from the Press.
Both the media and our President -- SIT DOWN and SHUT UP. We elected a government to represent us -- let them do it instead of making campaign hay out of targeted attacks in both directions.
But so is a President that insists on launching public personal attacks on those who criticize him. EVERY President dislikes and finds unfair the fact that their policies do not get universal praise from the Press.
Both the media and our President -- SIT DOWN and SHUT UP. We elected a government to represent us -- let them do it instead of making campaign hay out of targeted attacks in both directions.
I'd say a good deal of the criticism of Trump is warranted, and you will see it coming from both sides of the aisle. The man, whatever you think of his background, policies, or style of governing, is at this point detrimental to the interests of the country and its citizens. He cannot be trusted, is vile and mean, has no self-control and does not exercise self-criticism. This is a disaster for the country and it shows not in via how the world is reacting to it, but by the fact that it is destroying all the good will that has been built up over decades. Destroying alliances will only hurt us in trade and defence and will definitely have repercussions for our economy.
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how does Mr. Trump find the time to watch and listen to so much tv and radio? Can't picture any other modern President managing that. They all looked so harried 6 months into Office.
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Congratulations to the happy couple. Maybe it's true that love conquers all. Does this mean the morning show's title will have to expand beyond just Joe?
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Trump is not THE problem, but the fact he was elected and that so many people (still) support him is a symptom of a much deeper one.
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Regarding Trump's latest tweets, could this be an effort on his part to distract news coverage away from focusing on the failures related to getting his health care legislation through Congress, or the Russia investigation? No matter, what he has accomplished with this latest display is to show foreign powers, who are not among America's allies where his personal vulnerabilities lie, and therefore what America's enemies may try to hone in on to bait him into what could easily escalate into catastrophic consequences.
Does Trump ever consider how bizarre it is to demand absolute loyalty from people when he constantly demonstrates that he is incapable of it?
I don't think he knows what the word actually means. Bribing family members to like you isn't the same thing, it's more like prostitution. Does he know the difference?
I don't think he knows what the word actually means. Bribing family members to like you isn't the same thing, it's more like prostitution. Does he know the difference?
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Don't forget, aside from all of the really classy things we know about Donald Trump, his son in law comes from a family where it's normal to get convicted for hiring prostitutes to sleep with your brother in law, so you can send the video to your own sister in an attempt to influence a witness, and then go to prison for two years. Of course that was all just in furtherance of an effort to cover up the originally underlying crimes of illegal campaign contributions and tax evasion.
So, yea. Nice crowd of folks our republican friends elected to high office, and I'm sure that young Jared is a totally above board and ethical kind of guy, like his dad and father in law are.
These Trump women really know how to pick guys, that's for sure.
So, yea. Nice crowd of folks our republican friends elected to high office, and I'm sure that young Jared is a totally above board and ethical kind of guy, like his dad and father in law are.
These Trump women really know how to pick guys, that's for sure.
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I don't watch the Mika & Joe show; there's far more substantiative offerings on the media landscape.
And I--as well as millions of others--could care less about sleezy affairs.
Trump. Mika and Joe deserve each other.
The brouhaha, however, don't deserve to occupy prime real estate in the NYT unless real--not 'instant' analysis--accompanies.
And I--as well as millions of others--could care less about sleezy affairs.
Trump. Mika and Joe deserve each other.
The brouhaha, however, don't deserve to occupy prime real estate in the NYT unless real--not 'instant' analysis--accompanies.
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No surprise that Trump would have as a close friend the publisher of a sleazy tabloid, The National Enquirer. However, on further reflection, it seems appropriate that one would embrace the other and vice versa.
Amazing, the more on learns of Institutions, Companies, Foundations, Government, Banks, the more one sees how the wild west attitude of anything goes pervades everything, it's merely tied with paper and bright ribbons of law and ethics. Once the paper and ribbons come off, it is a crazy, obscene mess.
Of course none of this is thought out and is all knee jerk but it is the perfect strategy for Trump
A large number of his voters do not themselves read, are ignorant of facts and are ill served by Fox News (e.g. many do not know ACA is Obamacare)
They love him and the entertainment he brings, and Trump's "views":
- his tacit if not explicit racism,
- his xenophobia,
- his misogyny (which is evident but accepted by the majority of white women who voted for him)
- his playing the victim card (as they view themselves),
- his ahistorical views (America First in a global economy, and coal with 21st century energy solutions and environmental concerns)
- his expressed but not practiced religious views (such as charity, and turning the other cheek)
- his support for the NRA (regardless if his past views, the can't see he is an unprincipled opportunist)
- his views against abortion (same as NRA, not based on principles, but purely opportunist)
And his voters are easily distracted so they don't remember and can't focus on real issues, but can relate and accept someone like Trump who essentially gets into the same petty squabbles they have.
He is beloved as one if them and these days incidents reenforce this making the bond tighter.
Any fool could do this, if all he cares about is himself, not his country, his neighbors or his beliefs.
A large number of his voters do not themselves read, are ignorant of facts and are ill served by Fox News (e.g. many do not know ACA is Obamacare)
They love him and the entertainment he brings, and Trump's "views":
- his tacit if not explicit racism,
- his xenophobia,
- his misogyny (which is evident but accepted by the majority of white women who voted for him)
- his playing the victim card (as they view themselves),
- his ahistorical views (America First in a global economy, and coal with 21st century energy solutions and environmental concerns)
- his expressed but not practiced religious views (such as charity, and turning the other cheek)
- his support for the NRA (regardless if his past views, the can't see he is an unprincipled opportunist)
- his views against abortion (same as NRA, not based on principles, but purely opportunist)
And his voters are easily distracted so they don't remember and can't focus on real issues, but can relate and accept someone like Trump who essentially gets into the same petty squabbles they have.
He is beloved as one if them and these days incidents reenforce this making the bond tighter.
Any fool could do this, if all he cares about is himself, not his country, his neighbors or his beliefs.
Unfortunately, Trump cannot stop tweeting and 'taking the bait'. Isn't there a single grown-up advising him?!?
But, CLEARLY, the attention-seeking narcissistic and unhinged Mika is turning this into a national soap opera for nothing more than ratings and 'fame'. She's utterly pathetic.
Why would anyone in their right mind watch Morning Joe? Joe & Mika started all of this and will continue as long as there are millions of fools who tune in (sadly, there are apparently no shortage of those...)
But, CLEARLY, the attention-seeking narcissistic and unhinged Mika is turning this into a national soap opera for nothing more than ratings and 'fame'. She's utterly pathetic.
Why would anyone in their right mind watch Morning Joe? Joe & Mika started all of this and will continue as long as there are millions of fools who tune in (sadly, there are apparently no shortage of those...)
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People like to say trump is a master at deflecting the important failures and threats to his administration by tweeting outrageous comments that shock and disgust the rest of us. But every time he tweets his childish, boorish accusations and lies he opens himself and those who operate with him to ever more investigation.
Let him keep the dice while the pot against him grows. He'll think he's in control and the special counsel will be there for the inevitable snake eyes.
Happy birthday, America.
Let him keep the dice while the pot against him grows. He'll think he's in control and the special counsel will be there for the inevitable snake eyes.
Happy birthday, America.
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Trump broke the HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996) is United States legislation that provides data privacy and security provisions for safeguarding medical information of its citizens. I think He broke the law talking about Mika's medical condition, publically. Just a thought.
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Don the Con is continues to remove the mask of his unfitness for the job of president. His skill set really never rose above TV show host in the first place. His efforts of trying to act the part he now has to play fail miserably every time he opens his mouth or shakes a hand. He is gauging the US Treasury with his multiple off sight homes he visits where security is complicated. He is a bully with no patience to read legislation or daily security briefings at his disposal. The country is in danger from Putin lead cyber attacks yet he turns a blind eye to NSA reports. His criminal and corrupt behavior of collusion, extortion and obstruction of justice keep piling up. Congress has a duty to defend the Constitution and the Presidency by impeachment of this inept and sour man who now only hopes for the demise of this country as his final pushback for thinking that exposing his behavior was disloyal to him. He does not get it and never will.
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While we would like the President to do the job he was elected to do, I fear it is beyond his capability and temperament. He is a child in a man's body, appears to be an egomaniac with a persecution complex, is totally lacking in the skills necessary to lead America, and has surrounded himself with bobble-headed sock puppets who main job is to stroke the emperor. He totally devoid of sincere human compassion, empathy and lacks the communication and diplomatic skills to effectively represent us in the world. His constant adolescent tweets coupled with the spineless response by the GOP Senators and Representative have set this country on a course for disaster. It will take years to repair the damage already inflicted on this country by the embarrassment in the White House.
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As humans we are inveterate limits testers. Trump's quest, is to find the lowest level of competence that the American Presidency can accommodate without imploding.
Look no further than his conduct while campaigning. Why is anyone surprised at his conduct in office?
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We must all in our heart of hearts find this is quite distressing. The leader, 70 years old, of a most powerful nation, in an ugly little cat fight with a light morning TV show from his home town and an extremely lowbrow tabloid. Are we all OK with this? Are republicans OK with this?
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Kudos to Mika and Joe for how they handled the ongoing feud with the Donald. This started with them being accused of being too cozy with Donald during the campaign. He obviously tried to entrap them by making them show up to his New years eve gala only for them to be dressed inappropriately and insist on a private interview and not be seen socializing.That must have really irked the wannabe tyrant.
Now Mika exposed and ridiculed Donald for manufacturing fake Time magazine cover and copyright infringement to suit our esteemed president's vanity. This newsworthy tidbit by a highly respected journalist hurt his poor feelings which any other president would have shrugged off. Not the Donald, who cannot stand strong opinionated women. This gets even better with the Enquirer threat used by Donald to attempt to influence the opinions and statements of this couple on the air. Kudos to them for once again not bowing to the whims of the petty President. And then there are Mikas comments about small hands. Guess what Donald - those statements are protected by the Constitution.
Now Mika exposed and ridiculed Donald for manufacturing fake Time magazine cover and copyright infringement to suit our esteemed president's vanity. This newsworthy tidbit by a highly respected journalist hurt his poor feelings which any other president would have shrugged off. Not the Donald, who cannot stand strong opinionated women. This gets even better with the Enquirer threat used by Donald to attempt to influence the opinions and statements of this couple on the air. Kudos to them for once again not bowing to the whims of the petty President. And then there are Mikas comments about small hands. Guess what Donald - those statements are protected by the Constitution.
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To quote the blogger, Digby, "Trump is not doing the job of president. He's a celebrity managing his personal PR. He doesn't seem to know that this is not the job of president."
Quit giving the toddler in chief's Twitter tantrums attention. Trump is like a child screaming for attention. He doesn't deserve it for this kind of activity; if he doesn't get media attention, he'll stop what he's doing. Although there is the alternative that he'll do something worse like start a war to get attention.
Who is really interested in this story? Trump supporters love his crassness perhaps reflecting their own behavior. It is all nonsense for those of us who are more concerned with earning a living. Trump is making a killing off the sale of his supermarket goods and Made in China clothing. His supporters line his pockets by buying his "stuff". The joke is on them.
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Not "childlike" - which implies innocence and naivete - but CHILDISH _ which implies all the brattiness that the worst little monster-kids can summon. We have watch Morning Joe for years - through times when we disagreed, and times when we agreed. Mornings with the TV on the the kitchen more than once resulted in spit-takes of our coffee! But THIS whole scenario is beyond party, news affiliation, or even human decency. Somewhere out there is the person who wanted to have lunch with The Donald - and the even was cancelled while The Donald was recovering form his extensive *flap* hair restoration surgery. The refuge of the coward - the double standard.
If the National Enquirer publishes anything that is true, it is accidental. It's low-quality entertainment, not news.
Trump never ever learned any manners or had any restraints on him. He clearly manifests the collapse of morality and ethics in a significant number of Americans. Sadly, if he has not learned by age 70, it is unlikely he will ever learn, but I suppose there is some hope that he may learn at least a little humility.
Trump never ever learned any manners or had any restraints on him. He clearly manifests the collapse of morality and ethics in a significant number of Americans. Sadly, if he has not learned by age 70, it is unlikely he will ever learn, but I suppose there is some hope that he may learn at least a little humility.
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"Mr. Trump fired back on Twitter that it had been Mr. Scarborough who asked him to quash the story. “I said no!” the president wrote."
Well Trump is lying about Scarborough asking him to quash it. Obviously Scarborough refused to pledge loyalty being he was pestered by the White House to call and apologize. The fact that Trump admits he won't quash it is a powerful statement. That shows he has a lot of leverage with the National Enquirer to kill or create stories. And that should be very troubling even for those who support him.
Well Trump is lying about Scarborough asking him to quash it. Obviously Scarborough refused to pledge loyalty being he was pestered by the White House to call and apologize. The fact that Trump admits he won't quash it is a powerful statement. That shows he has a lot of leverage with the National Enquirer to kill or create stories. And that should be very troubling even for those who support him.
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M & J deserve a world of credit for being able to gull a small minded portion of the television audience into thinking they are relevant.
There ill always be ramoras in the sea as long as sharks ply the waters. Now that we have some sharks in Washington instead of a morass of leaches change is inevitable.
There ill always be ramoras in the sea as long as sharks ply the waters. Now that we have some sharks in Washington instead of a morass of leaches change is inevitable.
The national divide is not political any more. It is a moral divide. We've moved way past liberalism versus conservatism. This is now about right versus wrong.
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While this is making headlines, Pence and the committee on elections is asking all states to deliver voter roles including party affiliations and social security numbers. Whenever Trump does something outrageous, it provides cover for pushing through unpopular legislation and committing dangerous actions such as this. Pence's request should be the headline news. Trump's antics that provide a diversion should be reported, but not as headlines above dangerous and unfavorable policies.
Of course, he did not issue an ultimatum to Scarborough. Of course, he did not ask Comey to lay off Flynn. Of course, he did not say that Cruz' father was involved in the Kennedy assassination.The newspapers said so. Of course, he did not say that he had tapes. Of course, he did not suggest that Second Amendment people deal with Clinton. How many "non occurrences" or "he was just joking" remarks can his followers be willing to swallow?
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A lot, it's fun to watch him play you.
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What is a rhetorical question. US Constitution for $500, Alex.
Of course, Clinton won a plurality of the popular votes. When will you NEVER TRUMPERS face reality?
I used to watch MSNBC a lot, including Joe and Mika. I have stopped. It just became too many hand wringing talking/shouting heads warning of imminent disaster. Instead, if I am home during the day, I have CNBC on. If there is something newsworthy going on, they will carry it, free of hysterics.
And, I get to see why my IRA is rising or falling.
And, I get to see why my IRA is rising or falling.
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My knowledge of history is limited, but I believe the Jackson administration was similarly steeped in vulgarity. Nevertheless, Andrew Jackson was been called the Lion of America. With his mane, President Trump might be called the Weasel of America.
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In further response to Sam from Canada , Just to clarify the brain damage you referred to , is probably those who believe anything DT says , I will reiterate , you and others seem so preoccupied with fake news , fake teeth , fake everything it's so very boring , think it's been quoted so often you actually believe what you're saying , and don't think Mika and Joe are the type to be affiliated with the Enquirer but we all know who's buddy buddy with whoever runs that rag.
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He's the classic bully -- he can dish it but he can't take it.
His latest twitter spat with Morning Joe shows him to be the "Real Housewife of the White House" -- once again -- a cheap, fake TV show participant devoid of talent, common sense, class or a scintilla of dignity.
His latest twitter spat with Morning Joe shows him to be the "Real Housewife of the White House" -- once again -- a cheap, fake TV show participant devoid of talent, common sense, class or a scintilla of dignity.
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I wouldn't finish this article. After the sentence "...has drawn blanket coverage..." I realized that by giving articles like this my time, while I'm about to lose Health Insurance, I was part of the problem.
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Smartest thing I've heard all day.
George Carlin would be in heaven if he were here now.
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There, there Mr President, we have a nice room for you to play in. Everything is going to be alright. Come along now.
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This is still 1,000 times better then if Hillary was in office, she's not thank goodness
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Keep on trying to convince yourself of that sitting in the Maine woods , far away from reality and the only plus to this joke of an administration is , we get to laugh at their feeble attempts to run the country. Wish Stephen King would get on his word processor and do a novel about this horror show.
Keep telling yourself that when health insurance goes away, the environment goes down the tubes and he starts a war.
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You are correct. She is not thank goodness. She is Hillary Clinton.
Cyber bullying! Where's Melania?
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Trump's Mika obsession. Trump's been trolling Mika for a long time with always Mika getting the worse of Mika/Joe putdowns. Is he jealous or can't he stand having a woman criticizing him or both?
Trump Joe/Mika tweets:
Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns! 7:29 AM - 22 Aug 2016
I don't watch or do @Morning_Joe anymore. Small audience, low ratings! I hear Mika has gone wild with hate. Joe is Joe. They lost their way! 9:05 AM - 3 Jun 2016
Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess! 7:21 AM - 22 Aug 2016
Wonderful @pastormarkburns was attacked viciously and unfairly on @MSNBC by crazy @morningmika on low ratings @Morning_Joe. Apologize! 10:50 AM - 26 Aug 2016
Just heard that crazy and very dumb @morningmika had a mental breakdown while talking about me on the low ratings @Morning_Joe. Joe a mess! 8:28 AM - 2 Sep 2016
Trump Joe/Mika tweets:
Some day, when things calm down, I'll tell the real story of @JoeNBC and his very insecure long-time girlfriend, @morningmika. Two clowns! 7:29 AM - 22 Aug 2016
I don't watch or do @Morning_Joe anymore. Small audience, low ratings! I hear Mika has gone wild with hate. Joe is Joe. They lost their way! 9:05 AM - 3 Jun 2016
Tried watching low-rated @Morning_Joe this morning, unwatchable! @morningmika is off the wall, a neurotic and not very bright mess! 7:21 AM - 22 Aug 2016
Wonderful @pastormarkburns was attacked viciously and unfairly on @MSNBC by crazy @morningmika on low ratings @Morning_Joe. Apologize! 10:50 AM - 26 Aug 2016
Just heard that crazy and very dumb @morningmika had a mental breakdown while talking about me on the low ratings @Morning_Joe. Joe a mess! 8:28 AM - 2 Sep 2016
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It's such a shame that the National Enquirer "journalists" will not print a word against Donald Trump. With Trump, their "trolling" headlines for the feeble-minded at the supermarket checkout would practically write themselves. Telling us that "Hilary Adopts Alien Baby" might produce guffaws, but "POTUS Trump Revealed as From an Alternate Universe" could actually seem believable.
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David Pecker is a good friend of President Trump? No surprise there!
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America is now GREAT. A grate big joke. LOL
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Donny did this to distract the base and the press form the real news - failure to repeal and replace, Russia/election investigation, general failure of his administration to get anything done in anyway, etc.
Forget about it.
Forget about it.
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"...Trump still kibitzes with television stars, keeps close tabs on his news coverage, and is unafraid to lash out in public against journalists he deems disloyal."
"He'll become presidential" says you...Not in God's lifetime says I.
"He'll become presidential" says you...Not in God's lifetime says I.
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You can't make stuff like this up. You can't.
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Yet they did! CNN, that is.
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Small hands even smaller mind
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You don't like our uncouth choice then, don't run a crooked cheater for president. I'm proud of my vulgar president who is ready, willing and able to stick it right back in the faces of those enemies of my land, the media.
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Joe Goldstein: I am truly sorry you feel this way. That you feel the desire and need to smash your fellow citizens by electing such an indecent human being SIMPLY because you do not agree with them.
This has nothing to do with politics. It's about the President's lack of human decency while in control of one of the most powerful states in the world.
This mindset represents, "The Lost Cause", of the 21st century, just as the Confederacy represented the "Lost Cause" of the 19th century.
President Lincoln was gracious enough to try and include and bring those who fought in the Lost Cause back into The Union. This time I fear there is no way to do this.
My opinion is we should stop trying to bring people with such an anachronistic mindset along. They want anarchy and destruction of their fellow citizens. Let them be. They can never be brought along.
What needs to be done is to gather the support of all those who didn't vote the last time, or who squandered their vote on other candidates. THESE are the ones that need to be included and brought along in order to vote against this destructive mindset, and try to save this Democratic-Republic before it's too late.
This has nothing to do with politics. It's about the President's lack of human decency while in control of one of the most powerful states in the world.
This mindset represents, "The Lost Cause", of the 21st century, just as the Confederacy represented the "Lost Cause" of the 19th century.
President Lincoln was gracious enough to try and include and bring those who fought in the Lost Cause back into The Union. This time I fear there is no way to do this.
My opinion is we should stop trying to bring people with such an anachronistic mindset along. They want anarchy and destruction of their fellow citizens. Let them be. They can never be brought along.
What needs to be done is to gather the support of all those who didn't vote the last time, or who squandered their vote on other candidates. THESE are the ones that need to be included and brought along in order to vote against this destructive mindset, and try to save this Democratic-Republic before it's too late.
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“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.”
- - Thomas Jefferson
- - Thomas Jefferson
A media that opposes the current government is essential in a Democracy. And last I checked, presidents generally are expected to be proper and you know..... Not act like he's a five year old.
This insanity is one of the reasons I tell everyone in Europe to avoid traveling to the USA.
But what is even more disturbing is that most European politicians still think that their future is tied to the United States. What they can't get their head around is the fact that America is a sinking ship. And if you're still tied to that ship when it goes down, you are sure to be pulled down to the bottom too.
Europe: disengage NOW! While you still have time. Otherwise, you'll find yourself tethered to the next disastrous war in a place like North Korea.
But what is even more disturbing is that most European politicians still think that their future is tied to the United States. What they can't get their head around is the fact that America is a sinking ship. And if you're still tied to that ship when it goes down, you are sure to be pulled down to the bottom too.
Europe: disengage NOW! While you still have time. Otherwise, you'll find yourself tethered to the next disastrous war in a place like North Korea.
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so trump said no? (self reported) and we have to worry about everything else?
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Interesting point that if this kind of harassment both by the pundits and the POTUS occurred in a work place, both parties would be warned and could be fired. One has to remember that Joe and Mika gain viewers by attacking Trump. It is their modus operandi. One has to remember how often Obama was attacked by people like Trump. Obama, it seems, was mature and wise in not responding to the likes of Trump. Pence assiduously avoids being baited by negative press. This brouhaha illustrates two things: the malignity of some in the press and the unfitness of the POTUS.
I think it is the maligning by the press, which is not held in high regard by Trump supporters, that keeps him in place and makes Republicans in Congress unwilling to impeach him. Decent but negative press on Trump, it seems, energizes the Mika/Joe crowd, the CNN and the MSNBC talking heads to get too aggressive. There is a tribal drumbeat, now, which leads to excesses against Trump. I have only seen similarly vicious press coverage on a sustained basis since Nixon. This whole process is a tribal war dance intending to drum Trump out.
I think it is the maligning by the press, which is not held in high regard by Trump supporters, that keeps him in place and makes Republicans in Congress unwilling to impeach him. Decent but negative press on Trump, it seems, energizes the Mika/Joe crowd, the CNN and the MSNBC talking heads to get too aggressive. There is a tribal drumbeat, now, which leads to excesses against Trump. I have only seen similarly vicious press coverage on a sustained basis since Nixon. This whole process is a tribal war dance intending to drum Trump out.
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I'll start reading the National Enquirer now as an antidote to the non-stop venom of Trump's enemies who still can't get over the election.
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Last I checked, there really aren't that many stories about the election anymore. We've all moved on, to new scandals and shames.
Will more Americans take an interest in politics; now that its become a sitcom?
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As the Soap Opera continues. Where are the advertisers?
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@ Christine MCMORROW:If one quotes a leftist radio talk show host or hostess as an authority on the allegedly "deranged" state of mind of the President , that to me indicates his or her depth of thought or lack thereof.Suggest that if one lives in proximity of major universities, one should take advantage of their libraries, and read up on the works of our great political scientists and journalists, James McGregor Burns, Walter Lippmann, Thedore White, Westbrook Pegler, just some examples, but Rachel Maddow? No denying her impressive academic credentials, Stanford, Rhodes Scholarship winner, but she's a talk show host,nothing more. You want "deranged," Ms, Mcmorrow? Let me tell you what deranged is: Roy Roy Demeo, Mafia killer who, when he wasn't knocking off his rivals, served as a Teamsters official whom Trump had to deal with to get his properties developed, Anthony Provenzano, Tony Pro,pushed a rival down an elevator shaft, also from the Teamsters and w/o whose approval Trump could not succeed as a builder. Believe I understand frustration of millions of septuagenarians for whom a Clinton victory would have served as a vindication for their lives, but HRC did not work hard enough, did not incarnate a mission like The Donald, to make America great again.I Give him benefit of doubt.Late father, who never earned more thn $12,000 a year as a seagoing butler on private yachts,if he were alive today, would be supporting the President Elect.
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As usual the Trumpster decided to go to the "dumpster" AGAIN! Shame on Trump you would think running the country and policy would be a much more important issue than beratting TV hosts who call him out. Good for Mika and Joe to defend themselves against this "so called" president who is a very "little tiny little boy with little hands".
Why doesn't this "so called" president step down so someone can competently run the country. TRUMPSTER your FIRED!
Why doesn't this "so called" president step down so someone can competently run the country. TRUMPSTER your FIRED!
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The NY Times coverage of this story has reminded me repeatedly of a National Enquirer story. For days and days you have blanketed your front page with it, like some tawdry gossip sheet. Yesterday, as the president's administration launched a truly breathtaking offensive against voters' rights and privacy you were still blaring the Morning Joe story. The voting story was (rightly) front page news at the Washington Post and NPR and even in our local right wing rag, but it couldn't displace a twitter rant in the vaunted NY Times. Not since Trump's election have I been so stunned by the downfall of a great American institution.
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Each time I check out my groceries at Publix, there the Enquirer looms with yet another cover story about his fabulousness, the President - and I wonder, "what gives"? Why all this Trump-love? Does the man pay for it?
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Oh...just the change of administrations in Washington.
Only a few months ago, all the magazines at the checkout stands to the supermarket had cover stories about the "fabulousness" of then-President Obama, his wife Michelle and what she was wearing, and their daughters.
Much, much more than we see now for Trump. I hope the Obamas did't have to pay for that extravagant coverage! No one could have afforded that!
Only a few months ago, all the magazines at the checkout stands to the supermarket had cover stories about the "fabulousness" of then-President Obama, his wife Michelle and what she was wearing, and their daughters.
Much, much more than we see now for Trump. I hope the Obamas did't have to pay for that extravagant coverage! No one could have afforded that!
Oh what short memories the "left" has. Does Lyndon Johnson bring back anything about crass and unusual comments and behaviors?
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AND he hoisted a pup by its ears.
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Not even close to this.
It figures that Trump would bring the National Enquirer in to his current crisis
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What kind of action will Trump take if Vladimir Putin ever publicly insults him? Scary thought.
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This inexcusable tweet took attention away from...
1. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about a GOP operative Peter Smith trying to get Clinton emails via hackers; Flynn was among the group working on it. The reporter contacted the White House which had no comment. But the WH was alerted to this story. The next morning was the tweet-bomb.
2. The CBO declared that the health care bill would take 32 million people off of health care insurance, more than previously thought. NYTimes ran a piece on this.
3. WaPo ran a story about what Europe is doing to help prevent Russia from meddling in their elections and swaying voters including a Swedish school program to teach children how to identify propaganda.
4. The House defunded the entire $4 million budget of the Election Assistance Commission which makes sure election machines are not hacked.
5. The travel ban was implemented, declaring grandmothers, grandfathers, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, and cousins are not family and therefore may not travel here as a relative from the majority Muslim countries, overstepping what was approved by the Supreme Court. Also covered by NYTimes.
Source for all of the above? MSNBC. No wonder he and his diehard supporters hate the media.
Keep shining the light!
1. The Wall Street Journal ran a piece about a GOP operative Peter Smith trying to get Clinton emails via hackers; Flynn was among the group working on it. The reporter contacted the White House which had no comment. But the WH was alerted to this story. The next morning was the tweet-bomb.
2. The CBO declared that the health care bill would take 32 million people off of health care insurance, more than previously thought. NYTimes ran a piece on this.
3. WaPo ran a story about what Europe is doing to help prevent Russia from meddling in their elections and swaying voters including a Swedish school program to teach children how to identify propaganda.
4. The House defunded the entire $4 million budget of the Election Assistance Commission which makes sure election machines are not hacked.
5. The travel ban was implemented, declaring grandmothers, grandfathers, grandchildren, aunts, uncles, and cousins are not family and therefore may not travel here as a relative from the majority Muslim countries, overstepping what was approved by the Supreme Court. Also covered by NYTimes.
Source for all of the above? MSNBC. No wonder he and his diehard supporters hate the media.
Keep shining the light!
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Absolutely correct. We pay attention to Trump's three-ring circus, while the Republicans dismantle democracy and find new ways to improve benefits for the wealthy and the corporations. The poor are being disenfranchised at an alarming rate. No wonder the Republicans love the Donald--he is the smokescreen and the distraction for their nefarious policies!
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The President needs to be given a mental health examination. In his position, he is putting the nation (and the world) at risk.
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Perhaps this explains why so many republicans are afraid of him, how many others has he blackmailed by threatening to post unflattering stories about them in the Enquirer?
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Funny how he tweets this after suffering another big blow on his healthcare policy--whatever that is. Is it to create diversion?
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Tattle about fourth rate commentators should not be made into front page news.
If Trump is capable of pushing real news off of the front page, his re-election in 2020 is a certainty. He is successfully manipulating the very same journalists who accuse him of being stupid.
Please stop turning your job into a "play withing a play", and report actual news. Nobody wants to hear the "fly on the wall" talk about flies.
If Trump is capable of pushing real news off of the front page, his re-election in 2020 is a certainty. He is successfully manipulating the very same journalists who accuse him of being stupid.
Please stop turning your job into a "play withing a play", and report actual news. Nobody wants to hear the "fly on the wall" talk about flies.
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How many times can the Republican party sell their own souls to the devil protecting this president? Trump's behavior is no surprise. The Republicans willingness to let Trump endlessly debase our highest office, to make a mockery of the Republican party and our entire nation is deeply disappointing. Republicans better not dare take the moral high ground ever again.
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Why do we continue to let a man who is clearly suffering from the onset of dementia dominate our thoughts and our lives? I observed signs of dementia if not Alzheimer's during the primary as well as the actual race to the presidency. Why are none of the national media, or other politicians, talking about this? Donald Trump needs to see a top notch neurologist and be tested for dementia. His children need to put the good of the nation, as well as their dad's ultimate well-being, above their fear of being disinherited if they anger him.
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The mainstream media and Donald Trump share responsibility for the destruction of this nation. There is neither who is blameless in this ridiculous mutual obsession. What Trump points out in clear relief is not how shallow he is but how shallow we are.
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The trump presidency, warts and all, makes you wonder if this derangement will
become the norm for future presidencies. Historically, we have had standards
for our presidents, they were people our children were to emulate and rise to
imitate those ideals. We now hide from the news of this man who sits in our
white house, turn away and discard what he says and does. He is eroding our
ideals and turning us into a seamy, sordid land without decency or values. My
hope is that when he departs, we will revert to better things and the anomaly
of Trump will disappear into a dark period of our history. And those in the White
House who defend and support his behavior will also disappear into that dark
history, never to be seen again -the Sara H's, Bannons, Kushners, et al. a sad
group of miscreants who hitched their wagons to a deranged leader. beyond sad.
become the norm for future presidencies. Historically, we have had standards
for our presidents, they were people our children were to emulate and rise to
imitate those ideals. We now hide from the news of this man who sits in our
white house, turn away and discard what he says and does. He is eroding our
ideals and turning us into a seamy, sordid land without decency or values. My
hope is that when he departs, we will revert to better things and the anomaly
of Trump will disappear into a dark period of our history. And those in the White
House who defend and support his behavior will also disappear into that dark
history, never to be seen again -the Sara H's, Bannons, Kushners, et al. a sad
group of miscreants who hitched their wagons to a deranged leader. beyond sad.
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When the NY Times says this "has little precedent in recent political history," this is exactly what we've gotten over and over again since Trump announced his campaign. We are now in "par for the course" territory. This includes a collective shrug of the shoulders of any other elected Republican on the actions of the leader of their party.
I suppose it also includes the collective gnashing of teeth by the main stream media, the NYTimes included.
I'm not sure this even qualifies as news anymore, or if it is just everyday in America now.
I suppose it also includes the collective gnashing of teeth by the main stream media, the NYTimes included.
I'm not sure this even qualifies as news anymore, or if it is just everyday in America now.
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Unkindness has flourished in society whilst we have blindly pursued the unachievable goal of learning to love our neighbours.
The bar was set far too high for us in the first place (or something important was lost in translation)
I can not guarantee that I will learn to love you (however much I might want that) but I can manage and take responsibility for my words and my acts of unkindness towards you. And, surely, today, this would be sufficient...
Unkindness unbridled breeds distrust, anxiety, competition, disrespect, destruction, even annihilation. . .
Unkindness prevails when good men (and women) do nothing.
Since my first trip to the states in '76, I see that the tolerance of unkindness has grown. And now, it seems, to presidential proportions.
But, before we cast our stones, consider that Trump's twitterings are just a high profile manifestation of a cycle in which we all have a micro-part to play.
We can all learn to recognise the impact of unkindness in our selves, our homes, schools in society and deal with it as adults.
The bar was set far too high for us in the first place (or something important was lost in translation)
I can not guarantee that I will learn to love you (however much I might want that) but I can manage and take responsibility for my words and my acts of unkindness towards you. And, surely, today, this would be sufficient...
Unkindness unbridled breeds distrust, anxiety, competition, disrespect, destruction, even annihilation. . .
Unkindness prevails when good men (and women) do nothing.
Since my first trip to the states in '76, I see that the tolerance of unkindness has grown. And now, it seems, to presidential proportions.
But, before we cast our stones, consider that Trump's twitterings are just a high profile manifestation of a cycle in which we all have a micro-part to play.
We can all learn to recognise the impact of unkindness in our selves, our homes, schools in society and deal with it as adults.
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The 2018 elections are becoming more and more important as we see that the Republicans of the Senate and the House are not the least bit concerned about Trump's behavior. Let''s see his bravado when the Democratic Party takes over the majority in both houses. We can only hope.
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Trump has always thrived as a victim. He will veer the conversation that way rather than actually do something. He has no accomplishments to show for his time in office.
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As we approach anniversary of America's birth, we need to reflect upon why, Trump, and his 40% of supporters, dominate and seemingly lack fear of the remaining 60%?
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I do believe a lot of what Trump does is to distract us with what he is really doing while we are not looking Rachel Maddow is correct. He is always throwing something shiny in our faces. This whole thing with our voter registration roles has got to be stopped. There is simply no way this Administration has the right to have all that information on every single American voter. Believe me they are up to no good with that idea. We need the investigation into Trump and Kushner and all of their Associates to continue forward. Trump is slowly killing our democracy from the inside out one department at a time. This is why he understaffed every single department and why he continues to appoint people that have no clue what they're doing. I believe patience of the American people is getting very thin where Trump is concerned. If the Republicans on the hill do not see that they are in for an eye Awakening moment in 2018
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If Trump has a history of this kind of intimidation and extortion, and has bragged about it repeatedly, any decent investigator will be able to document same, and any decent prosecutor will be able to act on it. The courts have already established that the braggadocio of this gas bag is relevant in establishing his intent.
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Imagine Obama behaving this way. I'm sure republicans in congress would be fine with it.
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Mr. Trump is a caracatue of a man who was one featured on such fine programming as WWE, where he had a "fake" fight with the WWE owner . This is our President? Congratulations Trump supporters. Well done.
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There ought to be a timeline showing Trump's Twitter-bombs against each legislative failure, executive order, and administration initiative. These feuds, vendettas and skirmishes seem to erupt as a diversion.
Either they are by design--or our President is mentally incompetent. If Congress weren't filled with cynical sycophants who merely mouth the minimum of the most mild and anodyne objections --and only when they are cornered by the press to do so--they would pass a Motion of Censure strongly criticizing our President for conduct and behavior insulting to the office.
Either they are by design--or our President is mentally incompetent. If Congress weren't filled with cynical sycophants who merely mouth the minimum of the most mild and anodyne objections --and only when they are cornered by the press to do so--they would pass a Motion of Censure strongly criticizing our President for conduct and behavior insulting to the office.
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So who telling the truth ! Trump said NO to quash the story . But Trump made Tapes over Comey to use them has a threat. Now Trump claim he did not made tapes . But than on the other hand Trump has issues over leaks and promises , one over releasing his Tax Return. But a signal tax return was drop deliver. Sorry Trump you have lost your credibility over tell the truth.
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I would really like Mika and Joe to share these texts. Preferably with Robert Mueller. This is certainly the way Trump deals with anyone who challenges him, and it demonstrates that his friendly "request" to James Comey regarding General Flynn was probably an order and a threat. Just like those casually mentioned "tapes." I find it loathsome that people think this is ok - simply because he is on their political side.
And the Trump WH is dysfunctional, on the level of an abused family. If your friend was in such a circumstance where they jumped in fear and threatened people on "Daddy's" behalf, you'd tell them to go to therapy, or a battered women's shelter.
And the Trump WH is dysfunctional, on the level of an abused family. If your friend was in such a circumstance where they jumped in fear and threatened people on "Daddy's" behalf, you'd tell them to go to therapy, or a battered women's shelter.
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What a small, small man this Trump fellow is.
Surely, we all deserve much better than this.
I would feel embarrassed for him, except for the fact that he has no decency. So, instead...I feel ashamed for my country, for putting this profane vulgarian into such a sacred office.
Surely, we all deserve much better than this.
I would feel embarrassed for him, except for the fact that he has no decency. So, instead...I feel ashamed for my country, for putting this profane vulgarian into such a sacred office.
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In a followup on Friday, Mika Brzezinski alleged that her then teenage daughters were being followed by operatives from the Enquirer, and that her home had been staked out by the same group.
Joe Scarborough alleged that he received phone calls and texts from people in the White House urging him to "apologize" to President Trump, in exchange for which Trump would spike the hit piece he had already been informed it was planning to run. Implicit in this is the fact that someone claimed, on behalf of the President, that he had the power to get a hit piece published.
The involved parties live in New York. The Enquirer is based in Florida. This makes the alleged activity interstate, and something the FBI properly should investigate. Although no money changed hands, and Scarborough claims to have told the president's men to get stuffed, the fact remains that this was an attempt at extortion. Extortion is a felony.
While it is true that the President cannot be arrested and charged, his representatives, and the publisher of the Enquirer enjoy no such immunity.
Scarborough says he got texts. Texts are an electronic thing, and most likely recoverable if they exist.
Pro Tip: Lordy, President Trump better pray there are no texts. And the president's men better lawyer up.
Joe Scarborough alleged that he received phone calls and texts from people in the White House urging him to "apologize" to President Trump, in exchange for which Trump would spike the hit piece he had already been informed it was planning to run. Implicit in this is the fact that someone claimed, on behalf of the President, that he had the power to get a hit piece published.
The involved parties live in New York. The Enquirer is based in Florida. This makes the alleged activity interstate, and something the FBI properly should investigate. Although no money changed hands, and Scarborough claims to have told the president's men to get stuffed, the fact remains that this was an attempt at extortion. Extortion is a felony.
While it is true that the President cannot be arrested and charged, his representatives, and the publisher of the Enquirer enjoy no such immunity.
Scarborough says he got texts. Texts are an electronic thing, and most likely recoverable if they exist.
Pro Tip: Lordy, President Trump better pray there are no texts. And the president's men better lawyer up.
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Cavett comment priceless. Miss his talk show.
4
Like most American men, I have always thought I could do a better job of being President than whoever was in the White House at any given time. Of course, I knew that I really couldn't - until now.
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I find it amazing how much Talking Heads on TV are paid in our society. This money make them actually think they are smarter than the rest of the population.
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This is all going to end very badly.....for the country.
Personally, I don't care what happens to President Slime; he will crawl back into the hold he came from.
Don't particularly care about Mika or Joe; watch their show, but he talks about himself too much; she let's him get away with it. Sound familiar?
Where is the outrage about the commission to investigate voter fraud, which is going to try to abolish the concept of "one person, one vote" as well as the privacy of the voting booth?
Personally, I don't care what happens to President Slime; he will crawl back into the hold he came from.
Don't particularly care about Mika or Joe; watch their show, but he talks about himself too much; she let's him get away with it. Sound familiar?
Where is the outrage about the commission to investigate voter fraud, which is going to try to abolish the concept of "one person, one vote" as well as the privacy of the voting booth?
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Trump is like a toddler throwing tantrums for attention. It's time to start ignoring his tweets. The press does no service by publicize them endlessly. He uses them as a distraction from his administration failures like its failure to enact health insurance legislstion.
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President Trump's remarks were beyond the pale. I guess this is what we can expect for the next four years. But given the amount of space devoted to this story, I can't help but wonder if it isn't a publicity stunt for Morning Joe and the National Enquirer. The mainstream media helped create the Trumpet; when can it stop feeding oxygen to the fire?
2
Trump is our truest advocate for "There is NO bad publicity."
2
What if all this brouhaha were simply the ultimate diversion of Donald Trump to the many issues plaguing his administration: the healthcare mess; an unprecedented request for all state voter registration data by a Kansas voter ID zealot hired by Trump to head a commission on "voting fraud"; and the continued investigations into team Trump collusion with the Russians?
This was the theory of Rachel Maddow last night who warned that we allowed our peril a deranged but devious manipulator to dominate news coverage and undermine the norms of the presidency.
It is a fascinating theory, in that the basis for this extortion scandal lies in the selfish tactics of a narcissist who somehow got elected and is in way over his head.
We the public and the media are bowing to the wishes of a man who cares nothing about the presidency or America but only about his self serving personal goals.
The challenge for US citizens who really care about the future of this country is to avoid the temptation to express our outrage. All of us must stand back, assess what the Trump administration is doing and how its actions can do serious damage to our body politic and the rule of law.
Trumpian tweets and fights are not the problem: it's his policies, authoritarian instincts, and behind the scenes actions which are seriously undermining The future of our country.
This was the theory of Rachel Maddow last night who warned that we allowed our peril a deranged but devious manipulator to dominate news coverage and undermine the norms of the presidency.
It is a fascinating theory, in that the basis for this extortion scandal lies in the selfish tactics of a narcissist who somehow got elected and is in way over his head.
We the public and the media are bowing to the wishes of a man who cares nothing about the presidency or America but only about his self serving personal goals.
The challenge for US citizens who really care about the future of this country is to avoid the temptation to express our outrage. All of us must stand back, assess what the Trump administration is doing and how its actions can do serious damage to our body politic and the rule of law.
Trumpian tweets and fights are not the problem: it's his policies, authoritarian instincts, and behind the scenes actions which are seriously undermining The future of our country.
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Dear Special Counsel Mueller:
This seems a clear case of felony blackmail. Please include in your investigation of criminal activities by the President and his son-in-law.
A Voter
This seems a clear case of felony blackmail. Please include in your investigation of criminal activities by the President and his son-in-law.
A Voter
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Clearly Trump is senile or demented or simply very emotionally disturbed. This isn't anything to mock or make fun of. It's not fun. It's frightening.
Normal Republicans had better distance themselves from this stuff and repudiate Trump's actions in no uncertain terms. It's hard to imagine what they think is to be gained by allying themselves with craziness like this.
I don't even know who Mika and Joe are, nor do I particularly care. They aren't being paid by our taxes, they don't represent us to the world, they don't hold official power. Only a disturbed person would get himself into the kind of mess Trump has.
An no, we haven't forgotten about the health care plan, the wall with Mexico, the tax plan, unnecessary arguments with North Korea and China, dropping out of the Paris accord, quitting the TPP, etc, etc. I say this just in case Trump thinks a madcap distraction like this Mika-Joe disturbance will cause real events to disappear.
Normal Republicans had better distance themselves from this stuff and repudiate Trump's actions in no uncertain terms. It's hard to imagine what they think is to be gained by allying themselves with craziness like this.
I don't even know who Mika and Joe are, nor do I particularly care. They aren't being paid by our taxes, they don't represent us to the world, they don't hold official power. Only a disturbed person would get himself into the kind of mess Trump has.
An no, we haven't forgotten about the health care plan, the wall with Mexico, the tax plan, unnecessary arguments with North Korea and China, dropping out of the Paris accord, quitting the TPP, etc, etc. I say this just in case Trump thinks a madcap distraction like this Mika-Joe disturbance will cause real events to disappear.
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In TrumpWorld, Jerry Sandusky is another 'victim' of very very unfair press.
Face it DONALD . You walk like a duck and talk like a duck.
Face it DONALD . You walk like a duck and talk like a duck.
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Squabbles in the middle school lunchroom... Should the press ignore the childish behavior? I don't think so, not when one of the children is the president...a person who represents our country to the outside world. Just wait till he announces Angela Merkle is bleeding from somewhere...
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I think we can savely assume that Angela Merkel is past her menopause.
Having said that, it is indeed a sad fact that to the outside world Trump is the face of the US, no matter how many intelligent and honest people live there still.
Every day he is in office it hurts the reputation of all US citizens (and no, when in Europe you cannot try to pass as Canadians, we know the difference in speech)
Having said that, it is indeed a sad fact that to the outside world Trump is the face of the US, no matter how many intelligent and honest people live there still.
Every day he is in office it hurts the reputation of all US citizens (and no, when in Europe you cannot try to pass as Canadians, we know the difference in speech)
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It is nice to be an intelligent adult human being until the unintelligent adult human beings threaten your existence. At that point, it becomes hard to, say, read a nice short story calmly in your home. You have one eye on the text and one eye on the front door. That's no way to read. And if that's the result of politics, that's no way to govern. If you're part of an oppressive dictatorship, you probably deserve the fear and the distraction from your book. If you're a decent person who believes in universal fair treatment, you should be able to enjoy your literature and the values of the country in which you live.
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Sounds like his typical extortion to me. Were I these reporters, I'd file charges.
A threat, to be credible, must make reasonable person believe the person has the means to carry it out and will. This lowlife blackmailer has often bragged about revenge he has taken, people he "destroyed. He has ties to the paper in question and he's the president.
I fail to understand why they don't press charges. Perhaps they feel they don't need to do it, but they need to do it for other reporters who don't enjoy their prestige and security.
The press must hang together or will surely hang separately.
It would be great news.
A threat, to be credible, must make reasonable person believe the person has the means to carry it out and will. This lowlife blackmailer has often bragged about revenge he has taken, people he "destroyed. He has ties to the paper in question and he's the president.
I fail to understand why they don't press charges. Perhaps they feel they don't need to do it, but they need to do it for other reporters who don't enjoy their prestige and security.
The press must hang together or will surely hang separately.
It would be great news.
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A diss-grace!
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Trump Twitter frenzy: bread and circuses to keep the masses busy, meanwhile Trump and his henchman Jeff Sessions are plotting to disenfranchise swaths of the voting rolls in key states -- they are now asking for voting info of every registered voter in the US, under the guise of investigating voter fraud?
Why is the media playing along with Trump's distraction game, while he moves to gut our democracy? Pay attention whenever he starts tweeting, to what else is going on at the same time...
Why is the media playing along with Trump's distraction game, while he moves to gut our democracy? Pay attention whenever he starts tweeting, to what else is going on at the same time...
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The cheesy tabs are one of my guilty pleasures. It has been abundantly clear for the last year, that the Enquirer was sitting on any stories critical of Mr.Trump.They seemed to be the major conduit for the russian fake news stories. Hillary was near death, corrupt for taking speaking fees on the lecture tour, in a romance with her top aide, running a combo pizza and human trafficking ring, etc. None of it was true,all of it was promoted with the most unflattering pictures of HRC .With the perennially Hillary-bashing Dick Morris was hired as the NE's political reporter, there was no doubt what was happening. Similarly, years ago when Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of my state, and there was much to write about, you never saw an NE article critical of him. At the time, he owned a chunk of American Media, the NE's parent company.
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Money can't buy class..or basic human decency.
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Like Ford Nation in Toronto a while ago, the Trump Nation has lost faith in the System that favors the Newcomer. The TN is hell bent on emasculating every cherished American institution it blames for her failure.
Before Trump's 4-8 years are done, nothing American - the dream, the Executive, the Judiciary, the Legislature, the Health, Education and Welfare, the Military, the Media ... will remain the same. They will either be gone, or emasulated to a shadow of their ere self.
Our friends fret and watch helplessly, our foes gloat and rejoice. Pity, this is a self-inflicted wound. Our military can save us from enemies, but who can save us from ourself?
The Newcomers have skills and education, TN does not for TN has neglected it over its past 2 generations. TN can still catch up, but will they? Yes, they can, with help of Newcomers, and the latter must help, for their own sake.
Before Trump's 4-8 years are done, nothing American - the dream, the Executive, the Judiciary, the Legislature, the Health, Education and Welfare, the Military, the Media ... will remain the same. They will either be gone, or emasulated to a shadow of their ere self.
Our friends fret and watch helplessly, our foes gloat and rejoice. Pity, this is a self-inflicted wound. Our military can save us from enemies, but who can save us from ourself?
The Newcomers have skills and education, TN does not for TN has neglected it over its past 2 generations. TN can still catch up, but will they? Yes, they can, with help of Newcomers, and the latter must help, for their own sake.
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8?!, please don't say 8 ... I don't think we could stand it.
First of all I just want to say that Mika is an inspiration to me. I watch a few times a week and the way she puts over her perspective is measured but honest. Morning Joe is an opinion show. I feel that there is an effort to have an overall moderate feel. The fact that a lot of concern about our current president is expressed doea not mean that his degradation of women is ok. I am concerned about his ability to manage situations beyond expressions of concern by the liberal media. Imagine how he is managing relationships with our friends and enemies! I also worry about how he is managing our domestic affairs. I hope he is realizing how hard this job is and starts trying to fill key advisory and cabinet positions with people who can offer varied perspectives and be heard. I dont always agree with our Presidents but this is the most embarrassing situation the US has been in for a long time. btw I am a left of center moderate who didn't understand the distraught my friends across the political spectrum felt when Trump was first elected. I hope we have learned our lesson.
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So a guy who rails against fake news, befriends the editor of The National Enquirer, and says "help me undermine the faith the public holds for the fifth estate". And the editor of The National Enquirer says "you've come to the right place".
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On one hand, this is all very depressing. On the other hand hand, watching American billionaires,, media personalities, Washington politicians– the influential bigwigs– is fascinating. American culture (and that's means all of us) made these people successful. Our present predicament has exposed many’s true intentions, dividing those who are self-serving from those who are truly working for a common good (for lack of a better expression.) I hope that the shock of incompetent leadership will teach Americans to make informed and responsible choices in the future.
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And hopefully before the Republicans give them a massive tax break.
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How annoying is it that a couple of talking heads have been elevated to media heroes by a low intelligence nincompoop. Making Americans Gag Again...
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Wake up, folks. Trump is playing the media – and anyone else who will fall for it. This is a convenient, trumped up and ultimately meaningless distraction from real news – the health care debacle; the G20 meeting with Putin; possibly the first hard evidence of collusion between Flynn, the Trump campaign, and Russian actors, etc, etc. The media needs to be focused on and not distracted from what really matters.
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I agree that much of what's going on in the GOP's domain is a distraction from critical issues that impact us all, and it gives the impression of total dysfunction within the ranks. However, the media is not blameless; in efforts to draw in readers by any means necessary. It's especially disconcerting when major news rags publish their political views and/or opinions which always seems to favor the thinking of the hard-leaning liberal left. Journalists are supposed to be objective, detached from personal politics or opinions and just give us the facts.
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Brannon is advising Mr. Trump very poorly. For a guy that claims to be exceptionally gifted and well educated, no policy rollout, no meeting with an ally, and now most of Mr. Trumps utterances, do anything but demonstrate contempt and disrespect causing such great embarrassment.
But maybe Trump is following Bannon's dictums to the letter. So this is intentional, and the effort to stop the so-called deep state means the dismantling of our system of government and the civility of our culture. Bannon has outlined as much as his definition of purpose. Yet it is all informed by specious research that supports conclusions that have no supporting, objectively verifiable evidence. And as Rome burns, Trump's rhetoric is all music to the brain-washed sycophants whose misplaced outrage obscures the damage being done by the Whitehouse.
But maybe Trump is following Bannon's dictums to the letter. So this is intentional, and the effort to stop the so-called deep state means the dismantling of our system of government and the civility of our culture. Bannon has outlined as much as his definition of purpose. Yet it is all informed by specious research that supports conclusions that have no supporting, objectively verifiable evidence. And as Rome burns, Trump's rhetoric is all music to the brain-washed sycophants whose misplaced outrage obscures the damage being done by the Whitehouse.
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To Darre
Stephen Bannon's sinister role in the travesty which characterizes the Trump regime is not sufficiently noted in the press. He qualifies himself as an admirer for Lenin seeking nothing less than the systematic destruction of the federal government. The important question which needs to be answered -- to whose benefit? I fear that the vacancy at the head of state may be exploited by foreign powers whose malign goals far exceed those of the Kremlin. We cannot exclude the 'unknown unknowns'-- a black swan calamity akin to the emergence of Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s.
Stephen Bannon's sinister role in the travesty which characterizes the Trump regime is not sufficiently noted in the press. He qualifies himself as an admirer for Lenin seeking nothing less than the systematic destruction of the federal government. The important question which needs to be answered -- to whose benefit? I fear that the vacancy at the head of state may be exploited by foreign powers whose malign goals far exceed those of the Kremlin. We cannot exclude the 'unknown unknowns'-- a black swan calamity akin to the emergence of Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s.
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"....demonstrate contempt and disrespect causing such great embarrassment."
SO MANY OF US WISH MERE EMBARRASSMENT
WERE THE WORST OF IT !
SO MANY OF US WISH MERE EMBARRASSMENT
WERE THE WORST OF IT !
How does all this play out? An unstable president. Tawdry tabloidism besmirching the White House. Presidential assault on the news media. Alienated, insulted foreign allies. Hypocrisy run amok. Congress in a near stupor. Far from America's finest hour. Is four years of this insanity even conceivable?
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To all of the reputable conservative publications such as the National Review and The Weekly Standard, how proud you must be to have the National Enquirer as a fellow conservative stalwart publication peer.
Next National Enquirer headline: Barron Trump is an alien hybrid who will rule the world.
Winning. At what, I have no idea.
Next National Enquirer headline: Barron Trump is an alien hybrid who will rule the world.
Winning. At what, I have no idea.
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How RICO.
Jared Kushner delivered the threat and tried to negotiate the extortion to Joe? All in the family, as in Giotti. This is not a trivial matter if that's the case.
Donald Trump has been bragging for decades that David Pecker his his tool to assault any who cross him by printing nasty stories about them in the publications he controls through his American Media empire, which leads with the National Enquirer. Remembering Salma Hayak's account of her encounter and Trump ordeal?
Most recently Trump bragged about slamming Mica and John Scarborough in the National Enquirer.
Mueller should really be looking at prosecuting this pattern under the RICO Act.
As Trump occupies the office of President and took the oath of office this past January, he is in complete violation and should be impeached. This isn't a matter for "intervention" or "a babysitter." This is the POTUS who is supposed to represent our country and its values. Ask yourself that question. Trump must go, yesterday!!
Jared Kushner delivered the threat and tried to negotiate the extortion to Joe? All in the family, as in Giotti. This is not a trivial matter if that's the case.
Donald Trump has been bragging for decades that David Pecker his his tool to assault any who cross him by printing nasty stories about them in the publications he controls through his American Media empire, which leads with the National Enquirer. Remembering Salma Hayak's account of her encounter and Trump ordeal?
Most recently Trump bragged about slamming Mica and John Scarborough in the National Enquirer.
Mueller should really be looking at prosecuting this pattern under the RICO Act.
As Trump occupies the office of President and took the oath of office this past January, he is in complete violation and should be impeached. This isn't a matter for "intervention" or "a babysitter." This is the POTUS who is supposed to represent our country and its values. Ask yourself that question. Trump must go, yesterday!!
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Just who doesn't have an elderly parent or grandparent, sitting on the sofa, tuned to FOX. Usually slightly drooling and often ranting. It's just wallpaper when you're visiting, something to roll your eyes about.
This, however, is different. Just WHO is doing the actual JOB???
Who is in charge??? Are we just a twitter meltdown from military action??? We need a responsible adult in charge. Not this.
This, however, is different. Just WHO is doing the actual JOB???
Who is in charge??? Are we just a twitter meltdown from military action??? We need a responsible adult in charge. Not this.
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One becomes speechless, blank minded when attempting to react to this imbecile of a man.
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Trump literally doesn't know where he is. He thinks he is still back in NY as a real estate bad boy pushing around the tabloid newspapers and threatening mayors, zoning officials, contractors and anyone else who dared to get in his way.
The presidency is an all encompassing job, but no one says that an elected president has to, you know, actually do the job. Like members of Congress who now are in Washington, DC, only two half days and one full day per week, a president can decide whatever he wants to do, except in a national emergency, is the most important. To Trump, feuding with people and trying to push them around is the most important thing in his life. He thinks it will lead to him "winning" instead of looking like a pathetic loser.
Ever so gradually, even most Trump supporters will come to the conclusion that this crazy stuff is too much to take.
The presidency is an all encompassing job, but no one says that an elected president has to, you know, actually do the job. Like members of Congress who now are in Washington, DC, only two half days and one full day per week, a president can decide whatever he wants to do, except in a national emergency, is the most important. To Trump, feuding with people and trying to push them around is the most important thing in his life. He thinks it will lead to him "winning" instead of looking like a pathetic loser.
Ever so gradually, even most Trump supporters will come to the conclusion that this crazy stuff is too much to take.
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The American citizens keep harping on Trump's behavior, that has not been any different for decades. That will not accomplish much. However, I suggest looking at his past business dealings with Russia, including his Miss Universe contest there. I guarantee that the Special Prosecutor will find that he has violated various laws, including the FCPA for starters. International cash flows seem suspect. My guess is that, sooner and later, the Special Prosecutor will expand his discovery, pore over details on the international deals, etc. With such hard evidence, Trump will have a hard time to hide behind his controversial games.
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Fellow Americans and Twitter users world wide, let's boycott Twitter until it cancels Trump's account. As long as Twitter doesn't, it makes them complicit in his insanity and hatred.
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Consequences are precisely what we have groomed our government to protect us from; safe spaces, safety nets, safe zones free from contrary view and absent blowback. We pull fire alarms and do bad things because there is no enforcement of laws against it. Higher standard? It takes a generation of consequence to learn and the fortitude to accept delayed gratification.
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What safe spaces, precisely, has 'our government" created?
Consequences is what our legislators are about to find out about in the midterms. Blowback is right.
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Is there no one in Trump's inner circle that sees something is seriously wrong with him and, most importantly, has the backbone to do something that will save this country from him and save him from himself? If they truly care about the US and if they truly care for him, doing nothing is not only shameful and cowardly, the negative implications for the US and the world may be beyond comprehension.
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Putin must be laughing his you-know-what off.
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If the White House told Brzezinski and Scarborough that the tabloid would "smear them unless they laid off" Trump, it would be a violation of the anti-extortion statute. Trump committed a crime. Ala mafia... extortion.
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I will gladly take the arch-conservative with whom I disagree, Mike Pence, over Donald Trump. Pence will be more adept at actually accomplishing things I oppose. Some of his positions are reprehensible.
But he's not mentally ill. He's stable, at least. It's a low bar, but it's one we've set for ourselves by electing as president an unfit man with psychological problems.
Please Rs, get your guy Pence in. Trump is a danger to the Republic.
But he's not mentally ill. He's stable, at least. It's a low bar, but it's one we've set for ourselves by electing as president an unfit man with psychological problems.
Please Rs, get your guy Pence in. Trump is a danger to the Republic.
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The President is a vulgar cad and bully--for sure. His tweets are beneath the dignity of the office, debase the office, and we'll have to live with the example he sets in our body politic for a long time--for sure.
But I'm writing to say that the hosts of Morning Joe and the network that puts them in the air are crying all the way to the bank with their increased ratings (heck, I wouldn't mind a few dispicable comments about my facelift if I made millions); and the President and his advisers are probably delighted that everyone is talking about his tweets, again, and not his possible connections to Putin and Russia, Russii's attempt to influence the American election, obstruction of justice, or the failed or faling Republican effort to eliminate health care for 22 million Americans--even though they contol all 3 branches and it was the party's mission for 7 years.
This is what American politics has become: a tabloid circus.
But I'm writing to say that the hosts of Morning Joe and the network that puts them in the air are crying all the way to the bank with their increased ratings (heck, I wouldn't mind a few dispicable comments about my facelift if I made millions); and the President and his advisers are probably delighted that everyone is talking about his tweets, again, and not his possible connections to Putin and Russia, Russii's attempt to influence the American election, obstruction of justice, or the failed or faling Republican effort to eliminate health care for 22 million Americans--even though they contol all 3 branches and it was the party's mission for 7 years.
This is what American politics has become: a tabloid circus.
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45, the Distractor in Chief, didn't want to talk about the Senate health care failure or his one-on-one meeting with Putin. So what does he do? Create some "fake" news by attacking some journalists. Sad.
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That's why the press needs to start ignoring Trump's tweets. He does them for attention and distraction. He shouldn't be given publicity.
1
What's next? Nude jello wrestling in the White House Rose Garden?
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Seriously?
This is what the President of the United States of America worries about?
A gossip rag best suited to line garbage bins?
this is how far low we have sunk.
And we are supposed to be the greatest nation on earth?
This is what the President of the United States of America worries about?
A gossip rag best suited to line garbage bins?
this is how far low we have sunk.
And we are supposed to be the greatest nation on earth?
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I've read that Trump watches over 5 hours of TV a day. He must know more than the TV Guide.
5
California might have had an earthquake but they are checking to see if it was just Ronald Reagan spinning in his grave.
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I think it may be time for another women's day of action. There are too many men beguiled by Trump's abhorrent behaviour - women can take this President down. How about a day where no woman goes to work (even those who work in the West Wing). Women who don't work professionally should refuse to do housework, make meals, etc. And also a march right to the White House, thousands strong, demanding Trump's resignation.
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what's he trying to side-track us from now?
He should be sued.
Why is he not being censored on Twitter? Why are his not comments not flagged as inappropriate? What's going on?
He is trying to redefine how America views the media and what constitutes reality.
He should be sued.
Why is he not being censored on Twitter? Why are his not comments not flagged as inappropriate? What's going on?
He is trying to redefine how America views the media and what constitutes reality.
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The so-called President's "close friend" is aptly named, no matter how you look at it.
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Donald Trump, you're fired!!
We need constitutional change to terminate executive branch officials for causes other than high crimes. Incompetence, for one.
We need constitutional change to terminate executive branch officials for causes other than high crimes. Incompetence, for one.
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It's a little too late for lap dogs and publicity seekers, Mika and Joe, to be America's heroes. In reality, they're all meant for each other, and they have all proven that countless times.
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Tawdry, unseemly, disgraceful behavior for the President of the United States.
How will this President react when there is some REAL crisis in the world?
How will this President react when there is some REAL crisis in the world?
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How far we have sunk when the National Enquirer is part of the national dialogue and debate. The tabloid that brought us such wonderful headlines as "I Cut Out Her Heart and Stomped On It" and tales of Elvis Presley sightings, alien abductions, and the fakest of fake news for decades! You cannot make this stuff up...
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Dont be fooled by the arsonist posing as the Fire Chief. We are all busy watching his lastest little bonfire while he systematically disbands the whole fire department so he can burn the whole place down and then save us all by rebuilding it in his image. Sadly, and despicably, Mika became his bright shiny object for the week. We are all disgusted and distracted while the WH moves towards a national voter database, voter suppression, demolition of our social safety nets and the installation of Russian style authoritarian oligarchy (also know as the Cabinet and his family) in place of our constitutional government and free democratic society. Stay awake people.
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This man has nothing better to do with his time???
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President Harry Truman said that if you can't take the heat you should get out of the kitchen. Trump clearly can't take the heat. What else can't take the heat? Snow. Conclusion: Trump is a snowflake.
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Oh, I think he is quite subtly deflecting to heat to all his detractors. Kudos, Mr. President!
Is there any way to substitute, as a "designated diplomat", Barack Obama for our disgrace of a President at the G20 meeting in Germany next week. No embarrassments, no puerile drama, no coziness with Putin and, at least for several days, a return to a sense of normalcy and dignity. Oh, how I miss the good old days!
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Has anyone noticed how unAmerican 45 is?
Thinking process, socially, freedom, and on and on.
That led to a person who doesn't know, or cares to know, of how an American president should behave.
Better sign off before I hear from the WH.
Thinking process, socially, freedom, and on and on.
That led to a person who doesn't know, or cares to know, of how an American president should behave.
Better sign off before I hear from the WH.
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You don't show that someone is saying something that is biased by insulting them and calling them names. You point out what you think is biased and what would be an unbiased account of what's at issue.
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Stop reporting on this squabble. Stop rewarding bad behavior. It's so irrelevant
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Yet it could be criminal behavior. The White House threats to Mika and her daughters, asking for her and Joe to apologize for their coverage of him is extortion.
Um, the National Inquirer thing between WH aides and JoeMika, why isn't that being covered as a prett straight up case of extortion ? To me, the original Tweet, the responses, the Sarah HUCKABEE Saunders arm-waving are just side-notes to the most alarming part which IS the Natl Enqr / WH angle to this story.
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All this media hysteria because Trump got elected and their gone girl Clinton did not.
Social media has allowed the worst to come out of everybody. Poporn is selling out. Mainstream media is cracking hissy fits and mainstream America is just laughing watching the show. CNN only do it for the ratings not for the news. Does CNN or Mika or Psycho Joe actually do real news? I guess not
Social media has allowed the worst to come out of everybody. Poporn is selling out. Mainstream media is cracking hissy fits and mainstream America is just laughing watching the show. CNN only do it for the ratings not for the news. Does CNN or Mika or Psycho Joe actually do real news? I guess not
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Taiwan, or as it is known in China, next.
Is this the same National Enquirer that my grandmother used to buy for entertainment purposes?
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I am ashamed that this impetuous child is occupying the White House. He is not my president in any sense of the word.
Where have you gone, Barak Obama--a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
Where have you gone, Barak Obama--a nation turns its lonely eyes to you.
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High crimes and misdemeanors?
Dereliction of duty?
Treason?
.... are we there yet ?
Dereliction of duty?
Treason?
.... are we there yet ?
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Very dangerous times the world is living through to have a president who can be distracted by comments that may be offensive to his childlike behavior while processing criticism.
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I have a relative who has suggested that a new White House position needs to be created titled something like, Chief Apologist for the President. The main duty would be to regularly visit every embassy in Washington and apologize in the name of Americans in general for the latest rude, crude, heartless, insulting, ignorant, racist, bigoted misogynistic or just plain inane comment the president has made. She is very upset by the image of Americans Trump is creating abroad and is interested in applying for the position.
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There may be more truth to Trump's words than we may think. The president has no authority over the National Enquirer. He cannot order the Enquirer to write or not write a story about the messy love lives of what seems to be two scatterbrained co-hosts. The POTUS cannot stop the publication of an Enquirer story any more than President Nixon could stop the publication of Pentagon Papers. Mika did acknowledge the facial surgery but said it wasn't a face lift. Was she bleeding at Trump's party? That's not been answered.
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Please. Get real. He can't "order" anyone to publish or not publish anything. But in his good ole boys network, no one "orders" anyone to do anything - a wink, a nod, a suggestion - and it's all understood. Just one good old boy "doing a favor" for another good old boy. "Orders" are too - well, too easy to use as EVIDENCE. And God forbid there should be any more evidence - he's going down for the third time as it is.
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So, they say that claiming she had a facelift is a lie, then say she had “little skin under her chin tweaked,”. They also go on about the Presidents "small hands", which is in itself a lie. By he way, anyone actually watch these two loons?
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Trump is crazy alright... like a FOX! Nothing this guy does is random, that tweet is so loaded with info if you merely look into the specifically chosen words used... http://inkletter.com/2017/06/29/trump-makes-morning-joke-morning-joe/
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John Lennon put it best; "But you know you can't hide/ when you're crippled inside".
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Reading this on an iPad. What is the point of the graphic with tweets disappearing before they can be read?
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What is wrong with him? That is an interesting question. The answer could keep a graduate school abnormal psychology class busy for an entire semester, there would be so much reading to do. The better question is what is wrong with us, how did we become this perversion of that for which so many fought and sacrificed? How did someone so venal, so shallow, so utterly devoid of basic human decency and critical thnking skills somehow ooze his way into the office of POTUS. The answer does not reflect kindly on us nor our susceptibility to manipulation by media and the corporate oligarchy. Sadly, I think we may have gotten what we deserve.
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I was away on vacation and this entire thing makes no sense. We have an insane person as president.
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Trump's behavior has been called impulsive, brash, combative. I call it Episodes of Spontaneous Lithium Deficiency.
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Since David Pecker, the National Enquirer's publisher, is a Trump pal of long standing and has absolutely no problem in asserting his bias with fervent glee on the cover of his trash tabloid, once again it seems the credibility war is won by ... wait for it, Mr. Scarborough. Anyone who doubts the credibility of the Pecker-Trump alliance should see the July 3, 2017, article by Jeffrey Toobin in the New Yorker magazine, entitled "Feeding the Beast."
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In the future maybe you could find another way of presenting the endlessy jumping graphics which are incredibly obnoxious and detract from being able to read the comments. I get what you're after, but please, think of the online reader. It's not a great choice. Thanks
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Trump makes me ashamed to be an American.
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This is hands down the worst president ever.
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If you're going to do something, do it all the way.
No surprise here. Mr. Trump has shown even worse behavior before the election and yet we elected this street thug to be our President. We may re-elect him in four years, We are reaping what we sowed.
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President Trump has put his finger on, voter fraud, an issue of fundamental importance to our democracy. His “unsubstantiated” estimates of 3-5 million fraudulent votes in the last election may be somewhat overstated but we know that voter fraud exists and should be thoroughly investigated along with other concerns of the President such as claims that Mars a Lago has been overrun by alien extraterrestrials.
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Well, as long as those alien extraterrestrials can pony up the $200k membership fee.
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What is wrong with Trump? I'll put my money on this guy being a psychopath. And I'm not reacting and using that word lightly. I study human behavior. You know why I study behavior? Because I fell into this trap myself, and spent decades off center and confused just like you all are feeling now.
Hanging out and being a target of a sadistic person is no fun. Two faced: some suffer, others align.
You are falling for his con, being too agreeable, or benefitting from his callousness.
He's gonna keep pushing at every boundary he encounters. He can't plan or have foresight, because he doesn't even have enough of a neural network to fire up that part of the brain.
His joy comes from others suffering. He's getting away with it, because you all are so thrown (Heidegger) and sensitive (Jung on Evil), do not know how to think critically or recognize a valid argument.
This guy is nothing but trouble. He's so low affect, that it is easy for him to be bold, because unlike you, he doesn't care what you think and he has no trouble defending his lies, inappropriateness, confidently, which makes them fade, then he comes along and pushes at more boundaries. Seriously, what do you think is going to happen next? Watch - nothing.
And it isn't any one persons fault, it is everyones. The only way to stop this guy is to just stop. Stop everything that you are doing that contributes to the base that supports him. Just stop. Not resistance, that works for him. Play Dead. It's what he would do.
Hanging out and being a target of a sadistic person is no fun. Two faced: some suffer, others align.
You are falling for his con, being too agreeable, or benefitting from his callousness.
He's gonna keep pushing at every boundary he encounters. He can't plan or have foresight, because he doesn't even have enough of a neural network to fire up that part of the brain.
His joy comes from others suffering. He's getting away with it, because you all are so thrown (Heidegger) and sensitive (Jung on Evil), do not know how to think critically or recognize a valid argument.
This guy is nothing but trouble. He's so low affect, that it is easy for him to be bold, because unlike you, he doesn't care what you think and he has no trouble defending his lies, inappropriateness, confidently, which makes them fade, then he comes along and pushes at more boundaries. Seriously, what do you think is going to happen next? Watch - nothing.
And it isn't any one persons fault, it is everyones. The only way to stop this guy is to just stop. Stop everything that you are doing that contributes to the base that supports him. Just stop. Not resistance, that works for him. Play Dead. It's what he would do.
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It is very rare to see tea being spilled at such a high level. In this type of fight, you have to go hard, throw shade (if you are good at it), or say nothing. Times have changed. In a world where TMZ is considered news, many people are outraged over a Kylie and Kendall Jenner tee shirt and big sister Kim's "blackface" makeup line, and a couple thinks a book can stop a bullet, it is no wonder someone like Trump was elected.
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OK Media, AKA New York Times, practice your noble profession of "real " journalism and stop detailing Trumps tweets. Remember; "When you argue with a fool, you end up looking like a fool".
This guy has lied so much all his life, he can't distinguish truth from fantasy. He has zero credibility in anything and everything. This man is as mentally unfit as they come...totally demented.
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It is painfully apparent that the resident of our White House is seriously mentally ill. The congress, whose duty is to safeguard the the citizenry, should be openly and immediately seeking his removal.
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What is wrong with him? What is right about him?
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Bothering Mika's children for the National Enquirer and having Jared Kushner calling up Joe to demand an apology or the article would run is getting close to illegal activities.
All of this is beyond ugly. Any executive in a company would be fired for tweets like Trump just did.
Sensitivity training would do no good for the grotesque president, and he is far beyond etiquette lessons. He has gotten away with threats for years.
Only the Russian investigation or a panel of psychologists can stop this person. He is unfit for the presidency.
All of this is beyond ugly. Any executive in a company would be fired for tweets like Trump just did.
Sensitivity training would do no good for the grotesque president, and he is far beyond etiquette lessons. He has gotten away with threats for years.
Only the Russian investigation or a panel of psychologists can stop this person. He is unfit for the presidency.
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Don't forget his Rosie O'Donell comments during the Republican debates. Mika Brzezinski is right. Our Groper-in-Chief is seriously mentally disturbed. There have been articles by mental health professionals pointing out the recognizable symptoms he exhibits. Trump needs to be removed form office before he does something really catastrophic.
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"Nice little business you got here...be a real shame if anything happened to it..."
3
Nonsense on the part of both parties. The contentious and now combative relationship with the press is at a new low point; but do not both parties share the blame. President Trump is to blame for his non-sensical and un-presidential tweets; the press with their negativity and constant conspiratorial proclivities have left this most unorthodox president resorting to unconventional means of communications. It was sad to see the co hosts, Joe and Mika, both of whom I love to watch, made an appearance and offered a blow by blow account. If he is unhinged, thin skinned and easily goaded, then the constant, unbiased, harangue is designed to provoke the president. The tweets and the lambasting of this president have left both supporters and detractors of Trump jaded as their opinion of political institutions sink negatively lower. News outlets have become biased and some caught prefabricating stories lend credence in Trump's mind there is fake news. He is a president under siege! He reminds me of a bull that has been gored many times by the media; but this bull(Trump) is relentless and becomes more dangerous with each of his counter- attacks. It is apparent this president will not allow external forces to destroy his presidency; if the mission is to trip, harrass and derail this presidency into the pit of failure, it shows how guttural we have become concerning once sanguine institutions! God help us all!!!
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"...top White House aides had contacted them to say that they could prevent The National Enquirer from publishing a negative article about them if..."
Can you say "protection racket"?
I knew you could.
Can you say "protection racket"?
I knew you could.
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Resist is so yesterday.
Revolt.
Revolt.
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Oh my!! This is our President?!!! A spoiled rude old man! And just how does he think he's going to "make America great again"? I think he needs to get medical attention. This is not normal. This man has big issues. Scares me to think he's in the position he's in and obviously has no sane judgement. Very frightening!!!
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No just resist
It should be clear to anyone connecting the dots that this is how the Presidunce operates. Threats, coercion, blackmail, demanding pledges of loyalty, retribution, revenge ... same scenario played out with Comey and undoubtedly countless others. "Not with me? Then I come after you."
It really is incredible, what we are witnessing, which is the slow, burning disintegration of our country and national pride. And to think not too long ago we could look at a country like North Korea and wonder how they could have such a crazy, off the rails leader. Who knew it was just foreshadowing?
It really is incredible, what we are witnessing, which is the slow, burning disintegration of our country and national pride. And to think not too long ago we could look at a country like North Korea and wonder how they could have such a crazy, off the rails leader. Who knew it was just foreshadowing?
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if i was seriously connecting the dots i would wonder why Trump's twitter account still exists since it seems to violate their ethics policies. Wow, is Twitter's ethics more important than our Constitution?
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As I say elsewhere, Donald Trump, his spokespersons, and his surrogates should be required to communicate through official channels. And shut down their Twitter accounts.
White House staffers and highly placed presidential appointees need to act with the circumspection and discretion that their visibility and status require. A sense of decorum and self-discipline are implicitly the first requirements in their job descriptions. Candor, probity, and an absolute loyalty to the Constitution are also indispensable requirements. Anything less than that is conclusively disqualifying.
The President and his principal advisors have repeatedly ignored and disparaged those normative standards, with the President in flagrant disregard, and he knows it. He simply knows that the low level of media reporting will follow the histrionics and name calling that serves only to take national attention away from Trump's far more serious derelictions of duty.
Taking away the President's Twitter account certainly will not save his presidency, but that would enable the rest of us focus on the real dangers that our country faces.
It's akin to telling a homeowner to turn off the TV and call the fire department and evacuate the house because the garage is on fire.
White House staffers and highly placed presidential appointees need to act with the circumspection and discretion that their visibility and status require. A sense of decorum and self-discipline are implicitly the first requirements in their job descriptions. Candor, probity, and an absolute loyalty to the Constitution are also indispensable requirements. Anything less than that is conclusively disqualifying.
The President and his principal advisors have repeatedly ignored and disparaged those normative standards, with the President in flagrant disregard, and he knows it. He simply knows that the low level of media reporting will follow the histrionics and name calling that serves only to take national attention away from Trump's far more serious derelictions of duty.
Taking away the President's Twitter account certainly will not save his presidency, but that would enable the rest of us focus on the real dangers that our country faces.
It's akin to telling a homeowner to turn off the TV and call the fire department and evacuate the house because the garage is on fire.
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The level of embarrassment to our country created by this man-child in the White House is disgraceful. Obviously, he missed kindergarten, which is where one learns that this kind of garbage is stuff one learns not to do. He obviously never got over missing that lesson - or the one on concentrating on a subject long enough to have a basic idea of it, or thinking before acting, etc. Between this aged child and our Republican-conquered congress, I fear for our democratic republic.
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Who cares really outside the Washington Beltway and NYC? All this news space should have been devoted to the drought in East Africa, US Policy regarding sanctions on the Sudan, and an endless war in Afghanistan. Perhaps you NYT elites have forgotten our no victory, no surrender strategy there.
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He's the President of the United States, unfortunately. We can't just read about his "triumphs."
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He is not mentally fit to lead the United States. The Republicans should get him examined, then replaced by Pence or any other voodoo economics apparatchik. The world can endure a phony Republican hypocrite (see W. Bush), but cannot survive this puny little man.
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1 Peter 2:17 "Give due honor to everyone." 45's dishonorable and deplorable rants on Twitter raised against American citizens disgraces the office of POTUS. And he brings dishonor to himself and his family. (What is Baron thinking?)
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craig80st
the dishonor belongs with the liberals who are verbally attacking the president of the united states.
the dishonor belongs with the liberals who are verbally attacking the president of the united states.
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How much more officially does he have to make it.
He is not fit for the job. He is not mentally capable. He has no attention span. And HE KNOWS IT!
This is a cry for help. What else does he have o do to get fired! What?
He is not fit for the job. He is not mentally capable. He has no attention span. And HE KNOWS IT!
This is a cry for help. What else does he have o do to get fired! What?
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I was told today by a highly reliable source from an impeccable newspaper (The National Enquirer) that both Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan voted for Hillary in the 2016 election.
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Why not? Don Jr. and Ivanka could not even vote for their father in the NYS last summer primaries because they had been registered Democrats and did not change parties in time.
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As my grandfather used to say, "A pox on both their houses". What we are witnessing in this vulgar sideshow of our nation's corroding political life is a confrontation between narcissistic lightweights battling for control of a message that means very little to anyone other than themselves. On one side is a President wholly unfit - in every way - for the demands of the job and on the other is a pair of corporate controlled television personalities who spent the 2016 Presidential campaign sucking up to the man who has so publicly smeared them. What did Mika and Joe think would be the end result of their unctuous genuflecting before the King down in Palm Beach? Joe claimed today that Trump is not the same man he was just two years when they were the best of friends. Bring in the psychoanalysts for this one...but they do say that narcissism is an incurable disease. Unfortunately, the powers that be today are filled with them.
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Putin achieved his goal of inflicting great harm to the United States and its democratic institutions by helping to elect a total megalomaniacal ignoramus and pathological liar with no regard for truth as president of the United States. How better to make a mockery of U.S. democracy? The rest of the civilized world rightfully looks on in disbelief and horror.
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As to discussion between the White House + Joe + Mika-- Joe Scarborough says he has proof of the threats from the white house:
“I have texts from your top aides and phone records.”
Legal eagles believe this could be an impeachable offense on the part of the president.
Worth your review:
http://lawnewz.com/uncategorized/impeachable-offense-the-major-legal-con...
“I have texts from your top aides and phone records.”
Legal eagles believe this could be an impeachable offense on the part of the president.
Worth your review:
http://lawnewz.com/uncategorized/impeachable-offense-the-major-legal-con...
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"And though it is no one’s business, the president’s petulant personal attack against yet another woman’s looks compels us to report that Mika has never had a face-lift. If she had, it would be evident to anyone watching ‘Morning Joe’ on their high-definition TV."
Yeah, right, and Hillary claimed she never had one, either. But, then, you can tell she's had a couple, like Pelosi, so, perhaps, HD does make the difference--well, for bad jobs, anyway.
Yeah, right, and Hillary claimed she never had one, either. But, then, you can tell she's had a couple, like Pelosi, so, perhaps, HD does make the difference--well, for bad jobs, anyway.
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Doesn't 45 have anything better to do in the White House? can't he have Kellyanne or Reince send out his nasty little tweets? What is wrong with him?
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I have little sympathy for the corporate news media. it was them that gave us don trump-president. they awaited breathlessly for every word uttered by this fool. they also overtly backed hillary clinton in the primaries, ignoring or demonizing sanders. They devoted so much time to don trump and failed to cover sanders. they laughed and dismissed sanders. one time there was an empty podium on cNN for (I kid you not) 15 minutes with the sign below 'waiting for trump to make speech'. meanwhile sanders was giving a speech, he had just won a primary. I blame the media and the misled who voted for trump. There have been no surprises yet from this bully mafia type guy don trump, we know who he was and he is being consistent to the spoiled rich bully predator that he did not hide in the primaries.
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It's called ratings followed by money
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Last I checked, what is being described about the National Enquirer incident is called extortion.
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Trump is trumping us all by keeping the focus on his tweets and petty personality fights.
Everyone reading this nonsense (me too) should stop and ask ourselves, what are we doing to help end gerrymandering? What are we doing to fight vote suppression and ensure equal easy access to the ballot for all (such as by all-mail voting)?
These - and carefully casting our own votes - are the only actions that, in 2018 and 2020, can free the nation from the tyranny of Trump titillation.
Everyone reading this nonsense (me too) should stop and ask ourselves, what are we doing to help end gerrymandering? What are we doing to fight vote suppression and ensure equal easy access to the ballot for all (such as by all-mail voting)?
These - and carefully casting our own votes - are the only actions that, in 2018 and 2020, can free the nation from the tyranny of Trump titillation.
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Yes, Trump is destroying your reputation and your essential relationships with the rest of the world, but why would that matter to him when his supporters seem not to recognise the existence of a world beyond your borders?
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So true, IM. Indeed his supporters don't even recognize cities in their own states.
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Basically he watches TV and tweets. Oh he golfs sometimes too.
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The National Enquirer said they didn't threaten the children. But they called them. Reprehensible. We have a President who feels bullied by morning talk show hosts. So he supports a tabloid badgering their children, because his feelings are hurt.
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Trump is a national disgrace.
In fact, he is a disgrace to humanity.
In fact, he is a disgrace to humanity.
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Mika and Joe, Please release the tapes, emails or memos that show that White House officials tried to use the National Enquirer article to pressure you. If you have the goods on them, they should be fired.
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Here's a new slogan for Trump Resorts.
"What happens in Mar-a-Lago, may be tweeted."
Mean, tremendously mean. Hospitality? No! Really, is this an act of a smart businessman?
"What happens in Mar-a-Lago, may be tweeted."
Mean, tremendously mean. Hospitality? No! Really, is this an act of a smart businessman?
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Trump was right to attack those vapid TV hosts.
They started the feud, and they know Trump always hits back harder.
They started the feud, and they know Trump always hits back harder.
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The decorum bar is set higher for the President of the United States than for 'vapid' TV hosts. Plus, he has all of Fox 'News' at his disposal.
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Obama was attacked relentlessly for eight years. He never stooped to his attackers' level. Ditto Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Carter, Ford, Nixon, Johnson, Kennedy, Eisenhower... you see a pattern here? Trump has been in office for five months and has accomplished none of his "day one" initiatives. Instead he spends a schoolgirl's amount of time on a juvenile app to spew personal diatribes on people he doesn't like, while using the mechanism of campaign and governing like his personal ATM. Shaking things up is one thing. Dismantling the office of the president (and the depts of state, energy, education, environmental protection, small business, interior, health and human services...) is quite another.
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The president does NOT have my support. It is time for some serious pushback against the conservative agenda of death.
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The legitimate mainstream media needs to continue to find new ways to cover this vulgar, disgraceful, incompetent and dangerous man -- Trump. My suggestions are
1) Do not feature a picture of him in any more articles. We all know what he looks like and would like to avoid him at all costs. Use pictures of other people, maps, etc.
2) Discontinue covering him live on TV or on audio. We all know what he says is a pack of lies and often insulting and/or uncivil. Better for the news media to sort it all out and give us a summary. We can also follow him on Twitter if we want the real Donald Trump. When summarizing, tell us up front when a lie is coming so we don't have to say "What, that's not true" all the time. We have to stop looking and listening to this person.
3) Put your best resources on the investigative part of the news and leave the coverage of Trump to the newbies. That is the only way we will get at the facts and truth.
1) Do not feature a picture of him in any more articles. We all know what he looks like and would like to avoid him at all costs. Use pictures of other people, maps, etc.
2) Discontinue covering him live on TV or on audio. We all know what he says is a pack of lies and often insulting and/or uncivil. Better for the news media to sort it all out and give us a summary. We can also follow him on Twitter if we want the real Donald Trump. When summarizing, tell us up front when a lie is coming so we don't have to say "What, that's not true" all the time. We have to stop looking and listening to this person.
3) Put your best resources on the investigative part of the news and leave the coverage of Trump to the newbies. That is the only way we will get at the facts and truth.
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I think the MSM should cover all of his rallies, but only with sketch artists, and no audio. Would that they could.
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Donald Trump making American nerves grate again!
Thanks for the birthday present Donald, fantastic way to celebrate our democracy!
Thanks for the birthday present Donald, fantastic way to celebrate our democracy!
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How can Sara Huckabee stand up there and actually say that the president is a fighter and he will fight back when pushed and the American people wanted that when they elected a fighter -- a fighter -- I don't think any Americans (I'm proudly not one of them) who voted for him wanted him to fight with TV personalities, they wanted him to fight for jobs for them and health care -- no he's fighting and lying about face lifts and IQ's -- he's a disgrace and the absolute worst president that this country has ever seen. Every day I still wake up and say -- Is it over yet? And sadly, it just seems to get worse.
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Once again, Trump throws red meat to the press to distract them from covering thoughtfully the disastrous energy policies that he is launching.
I attended a lobbying meeting on capital hill with a elected GOP Senator as the invited guest. His message was, don't pay attention to the distractions launched by the White House. We are working quietly behind the scenes to dismantle as many regulations as we can while no one is paying attention.
Yes, the comments made by Trump about Ms. Brzezinski were disgusting, but nothing worse than all the others before. Nothing new, we already know he is a misogynistic creep. The real news is what he and Bannon are working on while everyone is bleating about the latest outrageous Tweet.
I attended a lobbying meeting on capital hill with a elected GOP Senator as the invited guest. His message was, don't pay attention to the distractions launched by the White House. We are working quietly behind the scenes to dismantle as many regulations as we can while no one is paying attention.
Yes, the comments made by Trump about Ms. Brzezinski were disgusting, but nothing worse than all the others before. Nothing new, we already know he is a misogynistic creep. The real news is what he and Bannon are working on while everyone is bleating about the latest outrageous Tweet.
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The Republicans are trying to take away health care. The Chinese are upset over a gigantic arms sale to Taiwan. The courts are getting close to blocking the Muslim ban. The Russia investigation continues. What do these things have in common? They're complicated and boring. Watching TV and thinking up insults in 140 characters is fun.
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This will stop when Republicans in the House and Senate decide to assess a real price to Trump for his irresponsible embarrassing behavior. Until then, the small hands will keep typing.
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Imagine... He will most likely tweet forever, even if removed from office. We will never be rid of his 180 character rants. Mind boggling.
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We prayed that we had seen Trump at his worst. Clearly, he is capable of much worse that we had imagined. This country is in serious trouble, and a toddler is leading us down the path of destruction.
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Of the people (the electoral college), by the people (the 1% oligarchy plus a billionaire president), for the people (20 million will lose health coverage).
Might as well add total inexperience, brazen lies, and personal insults.
Might as well add total inexperience, brazen lies, and personal insults.
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I read this article and it transported me 20 plus years back to middle school. It is great for me to feel that nostalgia of bullies, a focus on looks and a lot of back and forth "you said this, no you said that".
However that was back when I was 13 or so. At that same time I was taking US History and Government and thinking how amazing our country is. Now I realize it is how amazing our country was.
The Trump presidency is all about Make America Titillate Again. I feel like I am living in a low IQ Presidency supported by an empathy lacking GOP majority Congress. If I dwell on it to long it is depressing.
However that was back when I was 13 or so. At that same time I was taking US History and Government and thinking how amazing our country is. Now I realize it is how amazing our country was.
The Trump presidency is all about Make America Titillate Again. I feel like I am living in a low IQ Presidency supported by an empathy lacking GOP majority Congress. If I dwell on it to long it is depressing.
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This is a two wrongs don't make a right story. Joe and Mika are not victims; they are awful people who have debased our culture with their shallow parade of insults against not only Trump but plenty of others. Trump should not have responded as he did. He should let others deal with 2-bit MSNBC hacks. I can understand Trump's frustration, however, as he's been treated horribly by the MSM. The presidency, however, requires sacrifices. Trump needs to stay focused. The U.S. and the world need an engaged and calm U.S. president.
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Shallow parade of insults? Really? I must be watching a different program.
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Yes, you must be.
It's a sad day in America when teachers have to use the President's own words as a teaching tool to young people citing what NOT to do and how NOT to act . But that is the next logical step because children and teenagers will pick up on this and it will seep into the moral fabric of our society resulting in a serious degradation of our social mores .
It has always been up to teachers and parents to guide young people on how to treat others . If our president's behavior contradicts what we are trying to teach our children , then these statements MUST be pointed out . If not , I'm afraid that we will be cultivating a whole new group of abusers , bullies and men disrespectful of women .
It's amazing to think our president is our teachers' worst enemy when it comes to character building .
It has always been up to teachers and parents to guide young people on how to treat others . If our president's behavior contradicts what we are trying to teach our children , then these statements MUST be pointed out . If not , I'm afraid that we will be cultivating a whole new group of abusers , bullies and men disrespectful of women .
It's amazing to think our president is our teachers' worst enemy when it comes to character building .
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It's been painfully obvious for months that Trump is mentally ill and in need of residential care. It is equally clear that those around him will never acknowledge this, nor invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Meanwhile, the entire country continues to suffer. Every initiative from the WH since January has been clearly rooted in Trump's narcissism and pathological inferiority. He needs to be removed from office before he is able to do irreversible harm.
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Trump voters like to say there was NO choice between Trump and Clinton. Then you look into the primary round and see that among 12+ Republican candidates they voted for HIM, of all people. This mess is all on Trump's voters. What is wrong with these people supporting such a tyrannical person? HE should be excepted from releasing his tax returns? Makes no sense.
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Mr. Trump still has (and will continue to have) at least 35% (hard) approval rate and some 55% disapproval. This is fine for him: 80% out of the 35% go voting and some 50% out of the 55% do. 35 x 0.8 = 28 and 55 x 0.5 = 27.5. He will be reelected...
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What is really disturbing about this imbroglio is the underlying message contained in Trump's tweets implying his authority over the content of at least some part of the media in what is, ostensibly, a country with a free press. If it is our president's goal to stifle any criticism his administration, one would wish that he would adopt the high road of impeccable conduct and sterling service rather than than emulating Machiavellian dictators and middle school bullies.
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If a person became a US president by deceiving the public with lies about his abilities and accomplishments, shouldn't there be an outrage to this? Especially when the result shows us a man who has contempt for being civilized and showing integrity? I have to believe that those continuing to support him are people of weak moral character, celebrating the chaos, the "finger in the eye" to American politics. They cannot represent the majority. Something must be done to correct this injustice to our country.
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Republican leaders are too busy kicking tens of millions of people off of health care coverage and designing tax reform that maximizes benefits to the wealthy to care about Trump's tweets. Let's hope the Smithsonian is collecting these missives so that our children and grandchildren can learn about the demands of the office of the presidency.
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Because the Oval Office has no corners, Melania can't put Trump in the corner for "time out" when he tweets out his juvenile insults. To save our democracy, Oval Office needs renovation to add "time-out" corners. Either that, or break his fingers.
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The American Democracy died this past January, and is not coming back. It is time to start coming to terms with this horrific fact.
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No violence necessary, take the child's phone away. That or Twitter should shut down his account.
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No dessert for trump after dinner, KenP! No two scoops of ice cream, much less one scoop!
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This man we "Call" president is no longer a private citizen. He gave up his right to talk from his asse when he ran for office. He is president and with that title there is a way in which one needs to conduct himself. Besides the painfully obvious lack of competence from Trump he also continually shows us that he just seems like a miserable human being. He has no clue what decorum or dignity, graciousness or humility is and so why would he treat others with these qualities when he himself does not practice them. Why is this OK with the politicans around him, his family and his voters WHY?
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Excellent questions.
The craven politicians who pretend to leadership on Capitol Hill and in many governor's offices have no principles, no standards, no bedrock beliefs. They aren't even patriots because anyone running with red American blood would put the country first before this cheap imitation of a president. Republicans generally are afraid of those who support Trump and they acted that way throughout 2016. No one had the courage to call him down and now they believe it is too late.
Many of his supporters signed up, lock, stock and barrel, because of his opening statement when he entered to campaign and because they are confused by their thankfulness to have a small bore celebrity as their president. They jumped into the pool with Trump before they knew the facts of who and what he is and, when details came out, they wrote them off to politics as usual. They weren't going to be dissuaded by anything. They closed themselves off to information and reasoning and dearly want to stay that way, no matter what.
The vast majority of citizens, seeing how this would be president conducts himself, would toss him out on his ear if they could, if they had full knowledge of his actions and his insult to the office of president. As for his family, they are something like hostages to him. He owns them. He is daddy money and daddy future and daddy president. Bullies often take their families hostage and Trump's money allowed him to do that more completely than others.
The craven politicians who pretend to leadership on Capitol Hill and in many governor's offices have no principles, no standards, no bedrock beliefs. They aren't even patriots because anyone running with red American blood would put the country first before this cheap imitation of a president. Republicans generally are afraid of those who support Trump and they acted that way throughout 2016. No one had the courage to call him down and now they believe it is too late.
Many of his supporters signed up, lock, stock and barrel, because of his opening statement when he entered to campaign and because they are confused by their thankfulness to have a small bore celebrity as their president. They jumped into the pool with Trump before they knew the facts of who and what he is and, when details came out, they wrote them off to politics as usual. They weren't going to be dissuaded by anything. They closed themselves off to information and reasoning and dearly want to stay that way, no matter what.
The vast majority of citizens, seeing how this would be president conducts himself, would toss him out on his ear if they could, if they had full knowledge of his actions and his insult to the office of president. As for his family, they are something like hostages to him. He owns them. He is daddy money and daddy future and daddy president. Bullies often take their families hostage and Trump's money allowed him to do that more completely than others.
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Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough have made some pretty vicious and mean-spirited remarks about Donald Trump. What he said to Ms. Brzezinski was uncalled for and should never have been mentioned but he has had to endure their ranting day after day. He had probably had enough of their daily nasty rants and fought back by saying unkind things about her person. It was wrong but this is human nature. Of course, he is the president and should be held to a higher standard. Of course, if any one of us was experiencing this constantly maybe we would have reacted in the same manner. Who knows.
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Barack Obama never did it!
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What Mika and Joe say about Trump is based on facts. Moreover they have a First Amendment right to say it and Trump is obviously trying to intimidate them into silence. If Trump can't take the ire of two morning talk show hosts he has no business being president.
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I freely condemn Donald Trump for the cowardly bully that he is, and can't wait for the day he leaves office and immediately faces an endless barrage of civil suits that force him to use his own resources to defend himself, until he runs out of money.
But for all that Barack Obama endured, which was more than a President should ever have to, it was never like this for him. Yet I firmly believe that President Obama would have borne his frustration and anger with dignity and respect for the office of the President.
But for all that Barack Obama endured, which was more than a President should ever have to, it was never like this for him. Yet I firmly believe that President Obama would have borne his frustration and anger with dignity and respect for the office of the President.
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Trump is running his Office and the WH like it is a t.v. show. Given all the free press and news media coverage, and people reading and watching the news, look at all the free ego-advertising he's getting. But is his show lowering his Party's channel-viewers?
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The fist lady have no shame or class. For her to say that Trump will hit back 10 times harder when he is attacked, shameful. Don't she care about the examples she is setting for her son.
Never mind the country it is obvious they are not patriotic.
Never mind the country it is obvious they are not patriotic.
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The example to her son was to make sure he never permits someone to walk on him and make derogatory comments. Excellent example!
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Since our national debate has devolve into tabloid psychological warfare, here is something I wish never occurred to me: what was the deal with this guy’s (Trump’s) mother? There’s been plenty of material published about dear old dad in additional to cultural references (Woody Guthrie’s “I Ain’t Go No Home/Old Man Trump”). But what about mom? What kind of a mother/son relationship would result in this misogynistic attitude towards women, their only value as an attractive bauble? Not to mention his bloodlust for conflict and revenge; did this guy even have a mother?
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It's also telling that he has been unable to hold on to a woman over long periods of time.
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Maybe his father treated his mother terribly...and he learned to be like he is because of that. His father could have bullied his mom, spoken to her in a disrespectful manner. Since no one has reported on this, we don't know, but you have to imagine why a boy would grow up to be such a crude man. You have to learn this type of behavior and language from someone.
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Mom sent Donald packning - at 13, he was too difficult to handle.
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The latest tweets denigrating women will never diminish his core supporters. Indeed, they probably think he's being too nice.
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Agreed, sadly. But doesn't his base even notice with all these incredibly immature tweets, rants and insult-slinging, he's not getting ANYTHING done of substance to help them, our country, or our place in the world?
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When will one Republican stand up to Trump and call him out? As a parent what example does President Trump set for children? Time to use the 25th Amendment to remove him from office before people die. He is mentally unfit to serve.
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Here's the most troubling part of the Trump train wreck. Nearly 63 million Americans voted for Trump and according to most recent poll, 93% of them still support him. That's over 60 million Americans who are willing to put up with the most divisive, narcissistic and embarrassing person to every occupy the White House. This does not bode well for our country.
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That's what the polls show the Eurpoeans are concerned with. Not Trump, but America's voters, and the future (elections).
I'm sad for the country, and sad for the poor, misguided people who voted for Trump. Anyone from NYC knew he is a petulant, off-center, ill-informed and possibly crooked showman/developer. Nothing more, and maybe actually, much less. Too bad he is our president. The real winners here are Putin and other dictators who can do what they want without a US leader to stand up for democracy.
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You nailed it. Born and raised in NY, I always knew exactly who this guy was. An ignorant, not very smart, thin skinned bully in love with himself.
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There is a difference between "fighting fire with fire," and lying, name-calling, and acting like a five-year-old, who has not been taught any manners.
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It's curious. I watched some criticism of Trump's tweets on foxnews.com. The one thing they NEVER cop to is that the tweets are full of lies. Tucker Carlson even said Trump could "call people out on their facelifts" (although he didn't think it was a very smart move).
I guess even they can't stomach actually saying it's okay to just make stuff up when attacking your perceived opponents.
I guess even they can't stomach actually saying it's okay to just make stuff up when attacking your perceived opponents.
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The problem is just thinking of these as "tweets". They are official statements from the White House. He is the president of the United States. He can't have a public persona apart from that. He can be private with his thoughts, but anything he says out loud on a public stage, using a public platform are official statements and because he is president, that means that he is the face of this country. That's why we should be outraged, and that's why he should stop.
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Mitch and Paul and Mike love your tweets, Mr. President. Best of all, Vladimir said it is okay for you to keep right on tweeting.
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Trump is a national disgrace. His behavior is unacceptable and has been since before the election.
When are the republicans going to take responsibility for their party leader: "Have you no decency sir?"
When are the republicans going to take responsibility for their party leader: "Have you no decency sir?"
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This Trump phenomenon, specifically the total lack of courage on the part of Republican leaders [fans self: "oh mercy me this is NOT helpful! Okay that feels better. Let's kick some elderly people out of nursing homes"], is the best evidence yet that our government does not work for us. Our representatives are not ours at all, but those of large donors and corporations.
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Trump coninues to evidence the opposite of that virtue that Hemingway cited as "grace under pressure". Trump decompensates under presssure revealing the shallow and pathological defenses he employs against his fundamental lack of self worth. He also displays marked cognitive decline in comparison to videotapes of him In the eighties. He appears to be functioning at the level of a narcicisstic twelve year old. The current tragedy is the inaction of majority party is evidence of their loyalty party over country. Trumpmshould be removed from the office he is currently destroying along with this nation.
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Let's be clear. This isn't about Scarborough, Brzezinski, "Morning Joe," MSNBC, or anyone's particular political opinions. This is about the President of the United States, the "leader of the free world," who constantly takes to social media to harrass, insult, and defame. It is about the President of the United States, who appears to have a very serious issue with women, strong and successful women in particular. It is about the President of the United States, who is apparently so thin-skinned he can't let grudges go and doubles down and gets personal at any hint of criticism. It is about the President of the United States, who is more concerned about his Twitter feed than leading. It is about the President of the United States, who is more of a child than a man.
It is about a man who in no way, shape, or form is qualified to be the President of the United States.
It is about a man who in no way, shape, or form is qualified to be the President of the United States.
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Yes and it's also about the president of the US trying to intimidate his foes into silence
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For years they were the only cable "news" show I liked b/c it had the most balance. I don't think that much different about Trump than they do, but they went over the top, becoming not that much different than Olbermann, for whom they had contempt. I stopped watching, but I still see clips. They are still being personally insulting and then affronted that he takes it personally. They did not apply the same level of criticism or lack of consideration for Obama or candidate Clinton. Yes, Trump's often childish and gets what he deserves. But at some point Morning Mika (well, isn't it?) became part of the "resistance," many of whom act as if we live in Vichy France. Resisters, some of whom are friends of mine, range from hysterical to dangerous (those are not friends). I couldn't possibly vote for Trump but I do think they are helping him towards victory in 2020. If you think that's impossible, do you remember how sure you felt on the Election Day, 2016?
And, no Mr. Todd, Trump calling out the media is not an assault on the truth. He may not be truthful himself, but neither is the media which has lost all credibility except for those who have gone all Mulder over it - wanting to believe. It may take years to regain it. He's childish, but so are they. He's dishonest, but so are they. I don't blame him for fighting back, though he does it the only way he knows how, like a 12 year old.
And if Mike knows her value, she will get over it. Bunch of nonsense. Is there no real news?
And, no Mr. Todd, Trump calling out the media is not an assault on the truth. He may not be truthful himself, but neither is the media which has lost all credibility except for those who have gone all Mulder over it - wanting to believe. It may take years to regain it. He's childish, but so are they. He's dishonest, but so are they. I don't blame him for fighting back, though he does it the only way he knows how, like a 12 year old.
And if Mike knows her value, she will get over it. Bunch of nonsense. Is there no real news?
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The media is rightfully calling out the many lies and deceptions of Trump, which are many. To equate the media to what Trump is doing, is not only erroneous but laughable. Moreover make no mistake that what what Trump is attempting is intimidating his critics such as Comey and the anchors of Morning Joe to stay silent. This is still America and Trump will eventually pay for it.
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So you're saying it's okay for the president to act like a twelve year old? Because that's what you just said. A twelve year old! The President of the United States.
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All right, you win, Mr. President, you, the greatest President this country has ever seen. Now, can we get moving on the business of the people? There's healthcare improvements, tax reform, the budget, repeal of the war authorization, infrastructure improvements, Russian interference in the election, foreign computer hacking attacks, monuments review, immigration, DACA, the fall of Mosul, Canadian oil, Cuban diplomacy, Brexit, battle over the budget in Illinois, FARC disarmament in Colombia with election to follow, election in PNG. Where would you like to start?
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The WH surrogates keep defending Trump's reactions with the justification that "When he is hit, he hits back ten times harder." When, in our culture, has it been acceptable for a man to hit a woman back ten times harder? If Trump were attacked by a child, would it be acceptable to Trump surrogates for him to hit the child back ten times harder? Where is the moral decency in all of this? How has our national discourse and political interchange devolved to this level?
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What sane Senator or Congressman would keep supporting this delusional man called Donald Trump. When so-called "Great Leaders" fell in the past, their close supporters also fell with them, and sometimes much harder. It is time for a new leader in our country, one who has wisdom, who is truly educated, who people sane trust, and who is a true leader, not a tabloid character.
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Maybe their plan is to give him enough rope, so Pence can step in, and they can get back to their agenda?
While we fixate on our national buffoon's latest buffoonery, the legislators whose party put him in power are rolling back the minimal social requirements that make this a civilized country rather than a brutish free economic zone. Let's not be so easily distracted.
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I read this in a column a few years ago and can't remember the author. It made a big impression on me. "We can be kind to each other and offer friends and strangers alike support for the challenges we all face, or we can make ourselves feel superior by being cruel and demeaning. In the end, our choice shapes our character and we receive what we give, so we must choose wisely." President Trump, please choose wisely.
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Every battle has rules of engagement. Modern armies have agreed to the Geneva convention. The courts in the Hague routinely charge leaders with genocide. Trump fake-bombed a Syrian base after evidence of chemical warfare against children.
That's why Sarah Sanders' response makes no sense! It offers no Christian charity or virtue, no suggestion or instruction by god enters into the secular fray initiated by her boss, as she uses the time-worn, eighth grad excuse: they did it first.
Deconstructing her response, fwhat the President posted on twitter was not a defense! Not a thought or sentence in his post “defends” anything! His post is a personal attack; it is out of bounds, insulting and belittling. It is beneath the dignity of the highest office in America. The bar-room brawl of words Sanders defends spits on the office she serves. She reaches for a a new level of low!
Trump ignores all the valued traditions of American greatness, esp. rationale behavior, a sense of broad, load-bearing shoulders, a focus on tasks not tantrums. Trump breaks the rules but not to find higher ground. The rules don't apply to him—but his job is to follow and guide the country by rules and practices, not vicious whim.
Finally, no one “bleeds” from face lifts! Out-of-touch with science, Trump abandoned America's leadership of the global Paris accord, killing jobs and innovation; his insults also get medicine wrong—when he himself looks like a failed abortion!
That's why Sarah Sanders' response makes no sense! It offers no Christian charity or virtue, no suggestion or instruction by god enters into the secular fray initiated by her boss, as she uses the time-worn, eighth grad excuse: they did it first.
Deconstructing her response, fwhat the President posted on twitter was not a defense! Not a thought or sentence in his post “defends” anything! His post is a personal attack; it is out of bounds, insulting and belittling. It is beneath the dignity of the highest office in America. The bar-room brawl of words Sanders defends spits on the office she serves. She reaches for a a new level of low!
Trump ignores all the valued traditions of American greatness, esp. rationale behavior, a sense of broad, load-bearing shoulders, a focus on tasks not tantrums. Trump breaks the rules but not to find higher ground. The rules don't apply to him—but his job is to follow and guide the country by rules and practices, not vicious whim.
Finally, no one “bleeds” from face lifts! Out-of-touch with science, Trump abandoned America's leadership of the global Paris accord, killing jobs and innovation; his insults also get medicine wrong—when he himself looks like a failed abortion!
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Carl Bernstein once described it as America's "idiot culture." James Wolcott called it "our moronic inferno." Trump vs. Scarborough/Brzezinski in the Battle of the Narcissistic Titans is Exhibit A for why sane observers of the political-media dysfunction in our society are so often forced to say a pox on both your houses.
They're supposed to be serving us, but it's always about them.
They're supposed to be serving us, but it's always about them.
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You may be right about Mika And Joe but they are just TV hosts. Mr Trump is the President and has to be held to a higher standard, and he should conduct himself in a way that sets an example. He is failing in that very important role, and we will all be the worse for it.
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Wow!
Our president is a 14 year old schoolyard bully!
Our president is a 14 year old schoolyard bully!
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When will this nightmare end! Trump and all of this is making us less safe. The world thinks we have a crazy president, and he confirms it daily. Pretty soon our enemies are going to take advantage of this weakness and strike us.....if they haven't already. America was once great because our leaders took the moral high ground. This president will never do that! It's disgusting!
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more like a 10 year old.... and that's giving 10 year olds a bed name.
Well at least you admit he is our President.
Even a Mafia Don has more integrity and smarts than to make a false threat like our Don.
The National Enquirer knew nothing about the article Trump said they had written and only he could stop publication. After Joe went public, Trump claimed that Joe made it up and called him when he had had his staff call Joe with the threat and he had no record of Joe calling him
What a destructive person we call our President.
The National Enquirer knew nothing about the article Trump said they had written and only he could stop publication. After Joe went public, Trump claimed that Joe made it up and called him when he had had his staff call Joe with the threat and he had no record of Joe calling him
What a destructive person we call our President.
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Saying that the Morning Joe hosts "injected an element of supermarket tabloid intrigue" with their allegations regarding the White House threatening them with a unflattering National Enquirer story in an effort to get them to lay off their harsh criticism is just bad New York Times news writing. It's a too cute mischaracterization that paints the extraordinary charge in less-than deadly serious hues. It's like the newspaper has been caught off guard as to how egregious and potentially illegal an action this might be and so has chosen to publish a view of the charge that's reads more like amusement instead of a uneditorialized reporting of the facts.
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Of course Trump is throwing noise into the airways. Otherwise he has to answer the charge of treason; and, the charge of obstructing justice. And there is no answer. The 18 days of spy Flynn staying in the White House and participating in all intelligence briefings is only explained by the fact that everyone in the White House knew he was a spy conspiring with Russians for the benefit of Trump; and earlier, the Trump campaign. They knew because they are all involved in either the spying themselves or the cover-up of the spying. Comey knew this. Trump et al know this. The Special Prosecutor knows this. The only question is how do we structure the new election after the 2016 election is found null and void. I'm for a completely new election, primaries and all.
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Perhaps, but if Hillary Clinton won the election (I would prefer Bernie Sanders) why not give her the presidency that she actually won? I wonder if she would even accept it at this point?
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She shouldn't be appointed president. Nobody should. She didn't win. She can go through the process just like anybody else. Free and open election, no Russia, China, or Canadian interference. Not even Trump interference with his insanity as a "new trick".
Trump honed his viciousness and retaliatory smear tactics from the teat of Roy Cohn. The man is truly a vile human being. He lies constantly and unabashedly. I realize the Republicans are using him to forward their agenda and see him as a useful idiot, but come on. At some point there has to come a collective "Have you no shame" moment from them. I've waited and waited. Trump's behavior is predictable given his history, but the response, or rather the lack there of, from the Republicans is disheartening.
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"Have you no shame?" used to be a sobering question that demanded a person examine the error of his or her ways. However, Trump has no shame and would probably say so freely.
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I actually hope that Trump continues to tweet, because it will prevent us from pretending that we have a normal, functional, and "presidential" man occupying the White House. That would be incredibly dangerous. We need to look at what is underneath that rock to know just how unhinged, self-serving, uninterested in governing, and predatory he really is, and how that is affecting his behavior in office. Donald, tweet away!!
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Trump is exactly the type of leader Putin, Kim and Isis want in the White House: a distracted, pompous, erratic president unable to concentrate on solving problems or maintaining leadership in the world.
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Who was it who famously said, 'When they go low, we go high'. Oh yeah, none other than Michelle Obama. I was fiction then and fiction now.
Where was the outrage in the MSM over Kathy Griffin's distasteful photo with the likeness of Trump's head on it, a la ISIS, our mortal enemy, and the distasteful assassination comment made by Johnny Deep? But the distasteful tweet by Trump gets all the oxygen in the room. And wasn't Joe's and Mika's relentless and continual baiting of Trump also distasteful to begin with, again, where is the outrage on that by the MSM? The MSM cherry picks their outrage. People complain about Fox News, but they did nothing, nothing like this, at this low level, to Bill or Hillary Clinton, or Obama. But heaven forbid Trump defends himself and the attack dogs are out in full force.
Where was the outrage in the MSM over Kathy Griffin's distasteful photo with the likeness of Trump's head on it, a la ISIS, our mortal enemy, and the distasteful assassination comment made by Johnny Deep? But the distasteful tweet by Trump gets all the oxygen in the room. And wasn't Joe's and Mika's relentless and continual baiting of Trump also distasteful to begin with, again, where is the outrage on that by the MSM? The MSM cherry picks their outrage. People complain about Fox News, but they did nothing, nothing like this, at this low level, to Bill or Hillary Clinton, or Obama. But heaven forbid Trump defends himself and the attack dogs are out in full force.
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Yes, let's equate actions of President Trump with Kathy Griffin and Johnny Depp. Griifin was fired and Depp publically apologized. Either move concerning President Trump would be okay with me.
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What do you call the racist birther campaign by Trump. Talk about cherry picking.
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While some of your comments are of interest, they are all beside the point. This president's behavior is unlike any other in the annals of American history. One should be ashamed of any attempt to normalize it or even claim that in any way it is justified. He is the President of the United States and his behavior is beyond the pale. It makes no difference if you think other behaviors are/were unseemly; his behaviors would have to improve to get back to disgraceful. And, btw, the reason no news station treated former Presidents Clinton and Obama this way is because none of their behaviors, including the Lewinsky sordid affair, were anywhere near debasing the office as the current occupants.
Trump keeps trolling the fake news MSNBC and CNN and all of america loves him for it. Noting like winning every day america.
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Uh, not ALL of America. Speak for y0urself.
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The media are acting like school yard kids they are. Trump said this I'm squealing to Momma. Nobody cares we just sit back with a can of coke and a bucket of popcorn waiting for the nest sessions of exploding liberal heads.
The media and the left decided to humiliate Trump at the white house correspondence dinner. Even POTUS OBama decided to make video's mocking Trump. But Trump is smarter than them all, he had research done and knew he could become POTUS. The media mocked him when he announced his intention to run, the DNC and GOP decided he would not get any votes. Then on election night the liberals were claiming Clinton would get 330 or more electoral votes. What they got was 2500 counties voting for Trump and the victory was his in states Clinton was too arrogant to even visit.
Trump is showing he knows how to troll these media crybabies. He is leading them on a journey of hysteria. CNN and other media publish so many fake stories all the time.
The media and the left decided to humiliate Trump at the white house correspondence dinner. Even POTUS OBama decided to make video's mocking Trump. But Trump is smarter than them all, he had research done and knew he could become POTUS. The media mocked him when he announced his intention to run, the DNC and GOP decided he would not get any votes. Then on election night the liberals were claiming Clinton would get 330 or more electoral votes. What they got was 2500 counties voting for Trump and the victory was his in states Clinton was too arrogant to even visit.
Trump is showing he knows how to troll these media crybabies. He is leading them on a journey of hysteria. CNN and other media publish so many fake stories all the time.
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and nothing like whining every day.
As an American,I feel that Donald Trump is humiliating our entire nation.
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IT's not Trump humiliating the nation, it's your media and their stalking of the man who become POTUS. They just could not accept that Trump was smarter than they were and won the election against "crooked Hillary" Now the FBI and DOJ are really going to look into the previous administration and it's already not looking pretty.
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What is wrong with you, indeed....I can't believe the Times editors led the paper with this. On second thought, anything to slam Trump in a big way.
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When the media stops covering the appalling behavior or a President we are all in trouble. The fact that he had attacked many people this way and that he does it often does not make it any less appalling.
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Trump has a taste for blood - bullfights, captives in the lion's pen - he lives for the adrenaline rush as he baits the bear.
He feels bored and inadequate when faced with the deliberative nature of governance. He seeks a thrill to relieve the sense of inadequacy. As the job grows more overwhelming, he ratchets up the drama by going into forbidden territory.
This is not going to get better. The country needs to prepare because Trump is quickly rising to code red. He may not be able to resist the thrill of real panic.
He feels bored and inadequate when faced with the deliberative nature of governance. He seeks a thrill to relieve the sense of inadequacy. As the job grows more overwhelming, he ratchets up the drama by going into forbidden territory.
This is not going to get better. The country needs to prepare because Trump is quickly rising to code red. He may not be able to resist the thrill of real panic.
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Late night tweets consisting of cheap insults mixed with ricocheted Executive Branch policy statements. Obviously this guy doesn't know whether hes Caligula of Krusty the Clown.
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The constant turbulence Trump creates is unhealthy. Weekend deletion of the twitter app helps but isolation from his abuse is short lived and infrequent. He's everywhere. If he continues at this pace... I don't know. Perhaps his twitter account gets hacked and that buys us a few days. I like most of my world but not with him in it.
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If it walks like a duck, talks like a duck and lies like a duck, it's Donald Duck.
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Doesn't he even realize that he's elevated Morning Joe to the status of must-see TV? I never watch cable news channels, and I watched this morning and probably will keep watching.
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Pschyo Joe and low I.Q. Mika spends the entire morning trashing Trump. He is just returning the favor.
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Except that he is leader of the free world and should be setting an example, the light, for America, our children and the world. This is not a schoolyard. Turn the other cheek said a wise man.
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Donald Trump has been bragging for decades that David Pecker his his tool to assault any who cross him by printing nasty stories about them in the publications he controls through his American Media empire, which leads with the National Enquirer. Most recently Trump bragged about slamming Mica and John Scarborough in the National Enquirer. Mueller should really be looking at prosecuting this pattern under the RICO Act. I recall how Trump gave Rudy Giuliani similarly disgusting advice in how to attack his former wife Donna Hannover when Rudy was busy publicly humiliating her. Now that this corrupt and repellant policy has brought infamy to our highest democratic institutions, shouldn't it be prosecuted for the protection racket that it is?
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Trump has to take free speech from the Media, but the Media cannot take free speech from Trump??? The liberal Media has a double standard now? Please explain this hypocritically political correctness, you liberals?
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He is the president. He is expected to act like a grown up. Also, one's civil liberties concerning free speech are violated when a government entity punishes a person for using protected speech or they physically prevent a person from speaking without reason or other options available. So, why don't you describe to us, specifically, how Trump's rights were violated.
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it's not very hard to understand, and certainly not hypocritical. President Trump's behaviors are beyond the pale; they are not just a variation on free speech that the "liberal" media is choosing to react to. It is unfathomable that anyone would view his ranting's as anything other than signs of mental illness, and therefore, worthy of very close reporting. We are talking about the behaviors of our most important citizen. No double standard.
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Yes. The President is the leader of the country and should set an example. If he has issue with coverage he should refute it with facts.
Also the press is protected from the Gov't by the First Amendment and attacks like the ones Mr Trump launches are clearly intended to intimidate journos and make them pay a price for speaking out against him and one could reasonably argue he is in fact violating the freedom of the press.
It's like saying - I am not depriving you of liberty by holding you here - you can leave anytime- but I will beat you if you do.
Also the press is protected from the Gov't by the First Amendment and attacks like the ones Mr Trump launches are clearly intended to intimidate journos and make them pay a price for speaking out against him and one could reasonably argue he is in fact violating the freedom of the press.
It's like saying - I am not depriving you of liberty by holding you here - you can leave anytime- but I will beat you if you do.
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Again, throw Trump out of office. This exchange shows definitively that he is unfit for office and that is in the context of way, way too many gaffes on his part that show he is unfit. Come on, Congress! Do your job and throw this man out.
Media, you gotta find a way to show Trump's supporters how unfit this man is so that they, too, decide now is the time to be rid of this man. Send him packing to whichever of his properties he wishes....just get him out of office by impeachment.
Media, you gotta find a way to show Trump's supporters how unfit this man is so that they, too, decide now is the time to be rid of this man. Send him packing to whichever of his properties he wishes....just get him out of office by impeachment.
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Read the comments by Trump supporters on this comment board. They have no sense of reality. They think this kind of behavior from the President of the United States is justified. Anyone in the workplace would be fired for this kind of harassment. This is not a private citizen shouting in a demented way on a street corner or someone drunk in a bar. Trump supporters don't know the difference.
Trump's behavior is absolutely despicable.
Trump's behavior is absolutely despicable.
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If Sarah Huckibee believes that Mr. Trump's erratic and uncontrollable behavior is justified, then she is as pathetic and demented as Mr. Trump. His swamp keeps getting deeper and smells more like a cesspool.
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President Trump should change his name to President Trumpeter. That is his skill set.
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News Alert: We have a crazy man in The White House! Unfortunately it is our POTUS.
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"What is wrong with you" should be a new rallying cry.
Years ago, it was "Have you no shame." That works too.
Years ago, it was "Have you no shame." That works too.
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I find Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski more believable in this matter than Trump. However, I strongly disagree with the obvious Times position that this public exchange of accusations and insults is a bad thing.
I believe that all presidents sometimes abuse their power and effort to cause harm to citizens with whom they are angry. But presidents do that dirty work in private, in secret and if the powerless citizen victim publicly complains, he will generally not be believed. But when, as here, the president has gotten into public nasty argument with a citizen, if he subsequently abuses his power to bring harm, the citizen victim will be believed if he publicly complains of the unfair treatment.
I would prefer that our presidents were saints. Unfortunately, they are human beings and never will be able to fully resist being corrupted by power. Therefore, I would rather they be as revealing of themselves to the public as possible instead of operating in stealth and putting on a show of insincere civility and congeniality. It is the latter that we are so used to which makes Trumps behavior seem so shocking. What he actually says may sometimes be a little crude, but we all often hear far worse often from persons who are not in positions of great power.
I believe that all presidents sometimes abuse their power and effort to cause harm to citizens with whom they are angry. But presidents do that dirty work in private, in secret and if the powerless citizen victim publicly complains, he will generally not be believed. But when, as here, the president has gotten into public nasty argument with a citizen, if he subsequently abuses his power to bring harm, the citizen victim will be believed if he publicly complains of the unfair treatment.
I would prefer that our presidents were saints. Unfortunately, they are human beings and never will be able to fully resist being corrupted by power. Therefore, I would rather they be as revealing of themselves to the public as possible instead of operating in stealth and putting on a show of insincere civility and congeniality. It is the latter that we are so used to which makes Trumps behavior seem so shocking. What he actually says may sometimes be a little crude, but we all often hear far worse often from persons who are not in positions of great power.
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Horrible intolerable president. No other republican or democrat has used the presidency to personally attack journalists and other Americans. I can't understand though why she doesn't sue him for libel and NOT take a settlement.
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Who is she? Mika? She's already admitted that her denial of a face-lift was a lie. There is no way Trump would offer her a settlement and he would gleefully air every bit of her medical/surgical history in court. She would be insane to sue him.
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America fiddles while America burns.
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while everyone is focused on Trump's extremely deliberate and very smart (for him) craziness, there is a 1-inch column in the print version of the newspaper and some obscure link in the depths of the website which are saying that military action against North Korea is now on the table. Fresh war, on a totalitarian country of 20+ million brainwashed people led by another crazy dude. With tens of thousands of mobile artillery on the border with Seoul in their cross hairs. A country who is a Chinese vassal state.
Carry on talking about Joe and Mika though, it is certainly a more fun topic.
Carry on talking about Joe and Mika though, it is certainly a more fun topic.
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S,
There is nothing "smart" in anything Trump does.
We are all quite aware of what Trump said about "strategic patience." That is not new. For Trump the military option was never off the table. What is noteworthy is a US President conducting personal, very public, attacks. His actions demonstrate his lack of fitness for the office. It is newsworthy. It is also important BECAUSE he has the power to get us into a war. If he can't handle the media how can he be expected to handle international crises.
There is nothing "smart" in anything Trump does.
We are all quite aware of what Trump said about "strategic patience." That is not new. For Trump the military option was never off the table. What is noteworthy is a US President conducting personal, very public, attacks. His actions demonstrate his lack of fitness for the office. It is newsworthy. It is also important BECAUSE he has the power to get us into a war. If he can't handle the media how can he be expected to handle international crises.
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The thought of military action against N. Korea is more frightening than any tweet. Hope the S. Korean Pres. Moon talks some sense into trump.
Well, trump has abdicated his authority to the military.
A final world war would take care of global warming! And put the Russian hacking inquiry to rest!
Well, trump has abdicated his authority to the military.
A final world war would take care of global warming! And put the Russian hacking inquiry to rest!
I am stunned that people are stunned and outraged by Trump's actions. How many people can cite clear examples of persons in the later stages of life that dramatically change their behaviour? In fact, most psychological reading, and I am by no means an expert, that I have read indicates that a person's behavior becomes more rigid, and less to subject to change the more reinforcement (for themselves, not for others) they receive by using boorish behavior. His entire existence as a person is littered with examples of this type of behavior, yet he won the highest political office in the world, and everyone thinks he is going to change? How pathetic that everyone thinks that the "office of the Presidency" would change him. The Americna people voted him in by the rules established. So live with it because it is not going to change unless the Amercian people vote in such a way to send him a different signal that his behavior is unacceptable. This episode will be forgotten and on to the next, and next and so on...
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Well of course they defended themselves. Unseemly personal insults began with Trump and his campaign where he never hesitated to castigate, tell lies and criticize the body parts of other candidates. Not surprising that the worms have turned against him is it?
To be a president is to set an honorable example for the populace and even kids. But Trump has not done that. Instead he has set out to instruct his base carefully in unruly and nasty behavior and he encourages that--violence too. As a result he has not won our respect but our loathing. To win respect you must behave respectfully- expedient in president. He won't learn without psychiatric help and it may be too late even for that since he seems on the edge of dementia. Impeach him and save our democracy.
To be a president is to set an honorable example for the populace and even kids. But Trump has not done that. Instead he has set out to instruct his base carefully in unruly and nasty behavior and he encourages that--violence too. As a result he has not won our respect but our loathing. To win respect you must behave respectfully- expedient in president. He won't learn without psychiatric help and it may be too late even for that since he seems on the edge of dementia. Impeach him and save our democracy.
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Therapy would be pointless because he doesn't think there is anything wrong with him .
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Trump seems to have a lot of time on his hands. Maybe he needs to chill with his buddy Putin for a few months -- even a few years.
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If he has a lot of time on his hands, if I were him, I would start READING BOOKS...on politics, government, history, psychology, morality, and perhaps even etiquette.
Stupid, crazy, pathological liar, bully, etc...
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Please remember this: The president is not king. Trump does not hold the office and the honors and responsibilities unless we, the people, allow him to do so. We are not limited by the strict time table of the Constitution. We are not subjects of the state, the state is subject to us.
There are many things that can be done. One, holding a national day of NO CONFIDENCE in which citizens throughout the land, including especially the states that supported Trump, gather on street corners across the nation holding signs that say NO CONFIDENCE. Time to get involved.
The powers granted to presidents are given freely by the people. They can be withdrawn at any time and Trump would become PINO, President In Name Only. Only the military has to obey his orders. The rest of us are free citizens charged with the duty, as citizen-voters, to protect our country.
Don't complain, organize. We have wonderful tools on the internet, tools that were harnessed by Trump to win sufficient Electoral votes to take power, but tools that we must now use on behalf of the nation.
Step by step, power will be withdrawn from Trump. He has thrown away virtually all of the power he had on Capitol Hill, save the those of fear and intimidation. His ramshackle plans beyond that are just a bunch of random complaints.
Trump has destroyed whatever moral authority he had. It doesn't matter if 20% or so of the population sees him as their savior. We, the people, must take his powers away as patriotic citizens.
There are many things that can be done. One, holding a national day of NO CONFIDENCE in which citizens throughout the land, including especially the states that supported Trump, gather on street corners across the nation holding signs that say NO CONFIDENCE. Time to get involved.
The powers granted to presidents are given freely by the people. They can be withdrawn at any time and Trump would become PINO, President In Name Only. Only the military has to obey his orders. The rest of us are free citizens charged with the duty, as citizen-voters, to protect our country.
Don't complain, organize. We have wonderful tools on the internet, tools that were harnessed by Trump to win sufficient Electoral votes to take power, but tools that we must now use on behalf of the nation.
Step by step, power will be withdrawn from Trump. He has thrown away virtually all of the power he had on Capitol Hill, save the those of fear and intimidation. His ramshackle plans beyond that are just a bunch of random complaints.
Trump has destroyed whatever moral authority he had. It doesn't matter if 20% or so of the population sees him as their savior. We, the people, must take his powers away as patriotic citizens.
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Thank you for this useful and insightful post. Most empowering.
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Another one sided article brought to you by the liberal left NY Times.
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Here's the sides, George: on one we have normal people who think the President of the United States using Twitter to spew his insecurities onto the world makes him crazy, us unsafe and both an embarrassment, and on the other we have Trump and his sycophants and fans.
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Did the events described in the article not occur? Did the article not quote the defense offered by the WH spokesperson? There is no opinion offered in the article. Please quote the offending passages.
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Not to worry, Fox will provide plenty of coverage full of alternate facts, fascist spin, lies, and gratuitous anti-Hillary propaganda.
Perhaps some of Mr. Trumps campaign promises had merit. I see why people supported him as he was an outsider and I see Clinton's flaws. However, it has to be very clear to even those closest to him something is very very wrong with Trump's mental capacity. Perhaps it's stress, perhaps it's inability to work in a job where he does not "own" the organization and can't do anything he pleases, perhaps it is also illness. The man is 71 and does not appear to be in the best health.
We can't, as a nation, endure 3 1/2 more years of this and Republicans can see they can't get any of their agenda passed due to Russia and his distracting from it endlessly. As much as I hate to say it, Ryan, McCain, McConnell and others have to know President Pence is their only escape route. They won't say it on camera... but this somehow has to come to a close quickly. They can't get through the mid-terms with Trump driving them off a cliff and no accomplishments.
He'll NEVER resign unless he is shown they have enough to impeach him. They have to be looking at the 35th Amendment. If Rex Tillerson's thrown down is any indication of how Trump's cabinet feels about his leadership behind closed doors. It will take their signatures along with Pence's in a letter to Congress to strip Trump of power due to mental incapacitation and he won't win it back. They won't allow it.
We can't, as a nation, endure 3 1/2 more years of this and Republicans can see they can't get any of their agenda passed due to Russia and his distracting from it endlessly. As much as I hate to say it, Ryan, McCain, McConnell and others have to know President Pence is their only escape route. They won't say it on camera... but this somehow has to come to a close quickly. They can't get through the mid-terms with Trump driving them off a cliff and no accomplishments.
He'll NEVER resign unless he is shown they have enough to impeach him. They have to be looking at the 35th Amendment. If Rex Tillerson's thrown down is any indication of how Trump's cabinet feels about his leadership behind closed doors. It will take their signatures along with Pence's in a letter to Congress to strip Trump of power due to mental incapacitation and he won't win it back. They won't allow it.
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With Nixon's nasty material, you could delete the expletives. This is far worse. There is some sort of preoccupation with women and blood. There is blatant stupidity. There is taunting and harassment. There are threats and lies and lies and lies. You can't bleep out the material that is offensive. It's ALL offensive. And his sainted wife apparently wouldn't know bullying if it bit her in her nether regions. Trump is not a well person, as has become quite obvious. He is incapable of managing the military side of things. He is unable to work with Congress. He is unable to manage his staff. He is unable to hire sufficient staff to do the work of the White House. This man should be working, not tweeting. But he can't.
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I haven't read many of the comments, but those I have, as well as the reports on national television, both cable and network, fail to mention that Mika lost her father about a month ago, which makes Mr. President Trump's comments all the more insensitive. Ms. Brzezinski, I for one, am sorry for your loss. You deserve compassion as you grieve, not this. In case no one has made the connection, Mika's father was President Jimmy Carter's National Security Advisor. For Mr. Trump's enablers, no comment.
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The presidency and criticism are at an all time low. Unbelievable.
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Asking with all sincerity, does Twitter serve an intrinsic public good?
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Funny, I used to ask myself the same question. I was appalled that a stupid app could be a platform for fake news and a bullying would be president, now president. However, I've begun to follow many quality journalists, pundits and politicians that I respect along with some random citizens who are known for their great insight into any given story. My newsfeed on twitter is now filled with breaking news and interesting threads. I am shocked to find that it has actually enlarged my scope of information gathering and has actually felt at times 100 times faster than traditional news outlets. There is of course the danger of misinformation, which does happen, but if you follow reputable contributors, it can be an interesting information source. (I swear I don't work for twitter! lol) Just my 2 cents. Good luck.
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It's been used to spread news and was a part of the Arab Spring revolutions. It has been used to put a halt to corrupt police attacking protesters by letting others know what was going on where. It's just like any other communication method - whether it's good or bad depends on it's use.
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I just continue to be amazed at the nonsense of this President. I do think it is time the responsible media spend more time analyzing the lack of coherent foreign policy and domestic policy that current exists and not focus on his idiotic and demeaning tweets.
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David, I know it is awful and demoralizing to focus on the idiocy that this president is spewing on a daily basis, but it is also important--VERY IMPORTANT--to keep focusing on it, no matter how much it upsets us. Once you ignore it, it becomes just "the new normal," and you do not want to normalize cruelty, immorality, corruption, idiocy, and mendacity. You want to showcase it, because in order to disable it, it has to be in your face...until you can no longer bear it. The lack of coherent policy is an outgrowth of the president's nonsense, and as long as he continues with the same nonsense, it is going to get worse. And everyone should be aware of why it is going to get worse. Thus it should continue to be pointed out, and he should be excoriated over it, and never be allowed to push his bad behavior under the rug, or get away with it.
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They are ... there are dozens of analyses if you take the time to look ... The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, The Nation, Bloomberg Business Week, The Economist, Dissent, Foreign Policy ... turn off the TV and read.
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You're joking, right?!
I don't recognize the world we live in anymore....the USA,...it's people.
How did we come to this?
Republicans, Ryan, McConnell, you all have no shame, for letting this happen !
I don't recognize the world we live in anymore....the USA,...it's people.
How did we come to this?
Republicans, Ryan, McConnell, you all have no shame, for letting this happen !
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If the media is going to abuse the President, then the President should abuse the media.
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Please describe the "abuse" Trump has suffered at the hands of the media. Be specific. Provide links. Also, you may not provide any instances where what was said about Trump is true.
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All presidents have been "abused" by the media (which is a stretch). No other president responds back on a personal level. It's just insecurity. I feel sad/pity for these kinds of actions.
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The President needs to rise above the rabble. If every little thing is going to get under his skin, then he shouldn't be president.
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How much longer will this Mika and Joe and the President saga continue? Granted, it is important to report on Trump's insane and inappropriate twitter outbursts as President. But now the story has descended into an utterly pedestrian 'he said-she said' drama. What is the purpose of this exercise? Readers know Trump is a serial liar.
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I think, Patricia, that the more that trump lies, and the more those lies can be proven, the greater the impetus to remove him. (By a normal mind, anyway.) Yes, we know that trump is a serial liar, but when do we stop ACCEPTING that, and instead making the move to remove him? Should we have a serial liar as president, and is there A PURPOSE to having a serial, pathological liar, narcissist, uncouth, immoral, explosive, impulsive, unintellectual, nasty, immature, idiotic individual in the office of president. (I am sure that republicans and the GOP think there is a purpose) And if there is a NOBLE purpose in retaining such a person as leader of the free world, I would love to know what it would be. I know that it is good for the rich, and good for the GOP, and good for trump's family, but beyond that, it is nightmare for everyone else. And I don't think that we ALL deserve this nightmare. And I don't find this a "he-said-she-said" drama, if as Joe Scarborough points out, he has records of these phone calls and contacts, and can PROVE the president's lies. trump is a corrosive individual in every sense of the word. And the GOP is foisting him and his dangerous, unruly behavior upon us, and they will not deal with him, because his behavior serves their agenda, and they are equally as corrosive.
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Yes they do, but now it's causing the Republicans to pay attention to this nightmare they helped bring into office. His infantile behavior is on full display, and now everyone can see it, and it's harder and harder to defend. The sooner he's fully unmasked as the incompetent fool that he is, the sooner he'll be removed from office. And it's not as if they're really doing anything over the top. It doesn't take much to get under his very thin skin. He can he out of his own [expletive deleted!] way.
The National Enquirer, now there's a newspaper of record, after all, they got the scoop on "Batboy" a few years ago (boy with bat ears and facial features, retouched? you be the judge), and often monthly proof of visiting space aliens.
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Were they the ones who printed the picture of the space alien walking with the Queen of England? That was quite startling.
Despite being on the political right, I find Trump's latest Tweets to be the last straw. Trump either needs to resign or be forced out by the few, sane members of his cabinet.
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I would like to have Twitter declared to be a public nuisance, like high decibel sound trucks in residential neighborhoods. Twitter represents a culture where everything and anything goes, but little or nothing gets passed. If Donald Trump lacks the requisite maturity and self-discipline to conform his public pronouncements to the high level of discourse that high office he was elected to occupy, there needs to be some form of discipline imposed on Trump by society at large that will prevent him from furthering the poisonous atmosphere he and his ilk have created. The First Amendment allows people to express themselves in innumerable ways, many of which may be offensive to many, even a majority of the people. On the other hand, the holder of the highest office in the country should,and may be, held to a higher standard of behavior than ordinary citizens who have little or no power to influence governmental affairs and policies.
The President's Oath of Office imposes an implicit duty of civility and restraint as our nation's Chief Executive and Commander in Chief.
When our Constitutipn was being debated, Alexander Hamilton argued in the Federalist that the President would have fewer powers than the King of England. And yet the singlemost power exercised by that monarch today would be her duty to hold her tongue because her Prime Minister will not allow her to do otherwise.
If we cannot easily rid ourselves of Trump, we can shut at least down his Twitter account.
The President's Oath of Office imposes an implicit duty of civility and restraint as our nation's Chief Executive and Commander in Chief.
When our Constitutipn was being debated, Alexander Hamilton argued in the Federalist that the President would have fewer powers than the King of England. And yet the singlemost power exercised by that monarch today would be her duty to hold her tongue because her Prime Minister will not allow her to do otherwise.
If we cannot easily rid ourselves of Trump, we can shut at least down his Twitter account.
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Twitter isn't the problem, Trump is.
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Don't blame the medium. It's the messenger who's the public nuisance.
Trump is reactive and has a fragile ego, but in this case he's crazy like a Fox, because everyone is talking about this instead of about the Wall Street Journal article about republican operative Peter W. Smith trying to get Secretary Clinton's emails from Russian hackers... And saying he was working directly with Michael Flynn on it. The bigger the Trump distraction, the bigger the elephant in the room.
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The next time I turn on Morning Joe, on my ultra HD TV, will I be focussed on their world view or will I be scrutinizing Mika's face for surgical lines? I suspect the ratings bump, like an unwanted pimple will be temporary... I also suspect both sides are laughing about this. Trump continues to be the politically incorrect President his base loves and Mika and Joe get a nice rating bump.
Unlike health care, North Korea, immigration, taxes, environmental policy, this is Fake News.
Unlike health care, North Korea, immigration, taxes, environmental policy, this is Fake News.
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Actually, it's as real as it gets. This is the real Trump, fully unmasked. The ugly truth.
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When the history is written, it may excuse Trump based on his limited mental/emotional capacity.
I don't think history will be as kind to his supporters.
I don't think history will be as kind to his supporters.
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Trumps actions are beyond shameful - he is actively pushing to destroy the free press which is a pillar of democracy. That is a dangerous and very real threat.
But where these two are concerned, they played a part in Trump's early rise. Now, they are experiencing first-hand the behavior that many of us could anticipate from the beginning. Who is really surprised by this?
Cable media is entertainment television, not serious journalism. And the nation suffers because of their incessant need to feed the ratings beast.
But where these two are concerned, they played a part in Trump's early rise. Now, they are experiencing first-hand the behavior that many of us could anticipate from the beginning. Who is really surprised by this?
Cable media is entertainment television, not serious journalism. And the nation suffers because of their incessant need to feed the ratings beast.
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Trump primarily tweets about media. In the bubble, the media is consumed by his tweets. Outside the bubble, Americans see him meeting with all kinds of groups, signing Executive Orders, meeting with world leaders, trying to fix the VA, etc.
A growing gap exists between what consumes the media inside the bubble and what is of interest to Americans outside the bubble. The reason his tweets don't bother most Americans is the media's ongoing spat with Trump just isn't all that important to them.
A growing gap exists between what consumes the media inside the bubble and what is of interest to Americans outside the bubble. The reason his tweets don't bother most Americans is the media's ongoing spat with Trump just isn't all that important to them.
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Speaking of bubbles, Trump lost the election and has historically bad job approval numbers, but yeah. Of course. The people, they just love Trump.
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The president's unhinged behavior should be of interest to all Americans. Why would you consider it a good thing that people outside your made-up bubble (am I in the bubble? I'm a middle-aged Midwesterner) don't care about the things he does that clearly demonstrate his character? How the president comports himself when criticized or met with resistance is of utmost importance, how can you not see that?
"...meeting with all kinds of groups, signing EOs, [etc.]..." means so little when these actions don't amount to anything. What exactly has he accomplished that would cause you to ignore his obvious temperamental problems?
Do you consider any media worthwhile? Do you accept that the press is enshrined in our Constitution and that we would not have a functioning democracy without it? WHat media do you prefer? Stenographers? Do you think the WH should televise its briefings? Who should be covering them?
"...meeting with all kinds of groups, signing EOs, [etc.]..." means so little when these actions don't amount to anything. What exactly has he accomplished that would cause you to ignore his obvious temperamental problems?
Do you consider any media worthwhile? Do you accept that the press is enshrined in our Constitution and that we would not have a functioning democracy without it? WHat media do you prefer? Stenographers? Do you think the WH should televise its briefings? Who should be covering them?
This guy was elected AFTER admitting sexual assault. Why does anyone think this will hurt him?
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A person running for President has to expect criticism. It comes with the job. A person who takes normal criticism as a personal attack requiring a counter-attack is not fit for public office.
Trump makes it worse. He constantly engages in unprovoked attacks on individuals, groups and institutions. He chooses to treat large segments of the nation he is supposed to serve as if they are enemies. Sometimes he even calls people doing their Constitutionally-protected jobs "enemies of the people".
Trump reportedly told his autobiographer that he loves to get into a fight. That's obvious now: he has picked fights with a vast array of targets inside and outside the US. But a person who picks fights shouldn't complain when he meets opposition.
Trump makes it worse. He constantly engages in unprovoked attacks on individuals, groups and institutions. He chooses to treat large segments of the nation he is supposed to serve as if they are enemies. Sometimes he even calls people doing their Constitutionally-protected jobs "enemies of the people".
Trump reportedly told his autobiographer that he loves to get into a fight. That's obvious now: he has picked fights with a vast array of targets inside and outside the US. But a person who picks fights shouldn't complain when he meets opposition.
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It has been clear for several years, if not longer, that Trump is a lowlife (the Kenya birthplace accusations re President Obama are a good chronological starting point) and a liar, and possibly does have mental and psychological problems. Yet "Morning Joe" was friendly with him until recently. It's nice to see they've finally come around to what most Americans saw from the beginning, but it did take a long time, Mika and Joe. And during that "long time" your show probably helped get Trump elected, rather than hurt its chances.
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Yes, it would be interesting to hear some introspection on what it was like to be so friendly with him, and what changed their attitude. I don't think he changed in any important way - but it would be interesting to hear how they saw it.
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When are the msm going to acknowledge the elephant in the room?
This man is UNHINGED. Everybody knows it but pretends it is not so. He is mentally ill. He should be instituted. He is dangerous. He is unstable. He needs help.
God help us.
This man is UNHINGED. Everybody knows it but pretends it is not so. He is mentally ill. He should be instituted. He is dangerous. He is unstable. He needs help.
God help us.
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That's why he was elected. He is firmly ensconced in a government institution.
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The Washington Post published an entirely one-sided op-ed by folks directly involved in a conflict. Who's shocked?
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The Post publishes op-eds by all kinds of people, including views diametrically opposed to one another. I guarantee that, if Mr. Trump could produce a column-length account of his perspective on the matter, they would run it.
What is there to be shocked about? That's what op-eds are: opinion pieces, often by people involved in a conflict. Everybody knows that.
Why would anyone be shocked? It's called an op-ed for a reason.
I'm still waiting for Trump to be held accountable for something. Anything. Any one of the dozens-upon-dozens of words or actions that would have ended anyone else's political career.
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Isn't wonderful to have a tabloid tweeting clown in the White House? I will answer for you. It's a stain on our country and those who still support him because "he's tough " and "talks like me" have completly different morals than I do. You shame us all.
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This is just a planned distraction to keep us from talking about the Muslim ban or Trumpcare. Don't let Trump take the focus away from more important issues.
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In my, and many other's opinion, Trump is mentally deranged.
There can be no other explanation for his actions.
He has the intellect of a three year old.
There can be no other explanation for his actions.
He has the intellect of a three year old.
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A group of prestigous mental health professionals have suggested that President Trump suffers from a mental disorder, patholigic narcissim. I suggest readers look up this diagnosis on reliable internet sites.
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Our President needs psychiatric help.
The popular voters say how about an "intervention".
The popular voters say how about an "intervention".
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Trump is brilliant at marketing
These Tweets are exactly what his voters wanted and why they love him, more than they love their neighbors, their country or their desire to protect their children's future
The white people of Kentucky and other former Confederate states must be loving this as well as the people of Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
These Tweets are exactly what his voters wanted and why they love him, more than they love their neighbors, their country or their desire to protect their children's future
The white people of Kentucky and other former Confederate states must be loving this as well as the people of Ohio, Florida, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
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The president should have his phone taken away and sent to bed without dinner like the preteen he is
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And THIS is what the U.S. Presidency has come to?? Reality banter and tawdry lies, the NATIONAL ENQUIRER?? The Highest Office in the world and its Administration is a joke the world over. Despicable and pathetic.
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I'm sorry but haven't we, as a society, reached the point where we can recognize that Trump has a severe mental instability. One that makes him incapable of performing his job and is a direct threat to the country as a whole if allowed to maintain his position of President.
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Narcissistic personality disorder
By Mayo Clinic Staff
Narcissistic personality disorder is a mental disorder in which people have an inflated sense of their own importance, a deep need for admiration and a lack of empathy for others.
A narcissistic personality disorder causes problems in many areas of life, such as relationships, work, school or financial affairs. You may be generally unhappy and disappointed when you're not given the special favors or admiration you believe you deserve. Others may not enjoy being around you, and you may find your relationships unfulfilling.
At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection.
Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerating your achievements and talents
Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
Requiring constant admiration
Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations
Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
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Mika and Joe have never been so happy. Big ratings now for their pathetic hatefest of a show. They are due big $$$. Hate pays. That's real news.
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If Joe Scarborough has evidence that Trump was trying to blackmail himself and Mika Brzezinski into apologizing to him, now is the time to release it. This country needs evidence that the Trump administration is abusing its power, and we need it NOW.
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The media spends 11 months trashing Mr. Trump and his family and friends in the most vile and disgusting ways possible and they get upset when he punches back?
Media, heal thyself.
Because, I got news for you, 63 million Americans don't care and more than that will vote for Trump in 2020.
Media, heal thyself.
Because, I got news for you, 63 million Americans don't care and more than that will vote for Trump in 2020.
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If they vote for this clown again, they're stupider than we thought. They tried and it didn't work. There's such a thing as evidence from an experiment.
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I believed Trump could get elected while this newspaper had his chances down in the single digits. In the closing weeks of the campaign, with Trump within the margin of error in the swing states, I predicted he would win and I was right. I don't believe that Trump will win a second term after how this has gone so far.
He would have to practically run the table for the next three years in being an effective and stable leader of the free world who accomplishes many of the things he was elected by the people to accomplish. That's simply not going to happen. Believe the present because this is it.
So the idea that he'll get even the same popular vote number as he did which were second place in 2018 is beyond belief. As is the idea of him winning these swing states that gave him an electoral college victory. Not after how ineffective he has been and will likely continue to be.
And we're not even mentioning his abandoning so many of the campaign promises about health care and protecting the forgotten. They're forgotten now for certain.
He would have to practically run the table for the next three years in being an effective and stable leader of the free world who accomplishes many of the things he was elected by the people to accomplish. That's simply not going to happen. Believe the present because this is it.
So the idea that he'll get even the same popular vote number as he did which were second place in 2018 is beyond belief. As is the idea of him winning these swing states that gave him an electoral college victory. Not after how ineffective he has been and will likely continue to be.
And we're not even mentioning his abandoning so many of the campaign promises about health care and protecting the forgotten. They're forgotten now for certain.
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And of the 63 million misguided souls who will for for him in 2020, if he's not impeached or resigns first, 22 million will be without medical insurance. Be careful what you ask for; you may just get it.
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Oh lawdy
I hope there are tapes........
I hope there are tapes........
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As much as he disparages women he behaves , like a woman scorned , vindictive , and vengeful ! Think that is the sum total of his makeup could add more but it's all been said before . His minions and anything they have to say is irrelevant , unfortunately he was elected by many mistakes and now has us in his thrall , those who voted for him because he appeals to their human perversity and those who didn't because they controlled their perversity and common sense prevailed . The inquirer story does not surprise , it is the base action of a blackmailer .
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And what is. It about women who bleed? Fear of our power? It's crazy how we argues about women bleeding from their eyes, their everywhere, their face lifts. How crazy does he have to be, to continue out in public?
Anyone who believe that the president Donald Trump called joe and Mika with an offer to squash the national inquirer story is brain damaged or must think regular people are stupid for sure , on the other hand joe calling Kushner and his response makes perfect sense if it was blackmail MSNBC would've ran headlines after headlines if for no other reason then for ratings and sympathy , Sorry not buying this fake news .
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Maybe they are , brain damaged , and how can you tell someone has fake teeth? Seem like an obsession with the word fake.
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The man who is incapable of restraining himself when feeling disrespected by TV personalities is also the man who has the power to single-handedly start a nuclear war. God help us all.
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I feel like I'm watching the longest episode of The Twilight Zone that was ever made. I'm waiting for Rod Serling to walk in front of the WH and say. ."For your consideration.....the man in the house behind me is the President of the United States....you have just entered the twilight zone...."
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Trump is the clown in this GOP circus, the buffoon sent to deflect and distract attention from the meanness of his Administration and his party.
Not comic relief - not funny - just clownish, and evilly so.
Oh, how far have we sunk since the departure of the dignity, intelligent grace, and positive energy of Barack Obama!
I am sad for our country.
Not comic relief - not funny - just clownish, and evilly so.
Oh, how far have we sunk since the departure of the dignity, intelligent grace, and positive energy of Barack Obama!
I am sad for our country.
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Awesome: our president can't hold his own in a debate with talk show hosts. No wonder Putin has him in his pocket. Trump better not hope there are tapes!
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The king of distractions has struck again! Think about this, look how in just 6 short months this (so called) president has brought our country down to new lows on many levels. We are clearly in much worse shape since he took office - how will much worse will things be at the end of the year if he is left to his devices? I never thought one administration could undo years of policies, institutions, diplomacy, etc... is such a short amount of time. America, our national nightmare will continue until he is out office. The only power we have as a nation is to vote the republicans in power out of office in 2018. Trump doesn't work alone, not really.
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He's nuts.
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Mika has about 50 IQ points on our factually challenged president. When will this circus of incompetence, venality, and narcissism finally leave town? This president is an embarrassment to the United States like no other.
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Note to the NY Times: The President is a troll. You do not feed a troll. It will only get worse and no telling what the outcome will be.
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(Fake President Infinite Narcissism) x Zero Accountability = Real Danger
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The NYT should offer Mr. Scarborough the front page to print the text messages he received from Trump's staff.
Put them out there for the whole world to see.
I am so tired of the non-stop flow of lies out of the mouths of every single person in the Trump White House.
Isn't bad enough yet for Republicans to act?
Looking at you - Paul Ryan & Mitch McConnell.
Put them out there for the whole world to see.
I am so tired of the non-stop flow of lies out of the mouths of every single person in the Trump White House.
Isn't bad enough yet for Republicans to act?
Looking at you - Paul Ryan & Mitch McConnell.
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And may we also look at the self-righteous Sarah Huckabee Sanders as well?
Trump is a great role model for our young males. We will have such a great country when they grow up and put into practice all they learn from Trump.
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The media gives things like this too much attention. He is attacking a civil society and that means we need to raise the bar and move on with what our country is all about...and it is not, unfortunately, Trump's behavior. I read this article on the front page about Trump's tweet which was near the article German Parliament Approves Same-Sex Marriage and I thought...while Trump is distracting us..others will step in to lead.
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It's their job to be insolent and nasty?
Is this blackmail? Has POTUS violated yet another law? NY Atty Gen'l, are you listening??
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It's far worse than simple blackmail. It's conspiracy to extort and use fabricated stories as well as partial misrepresented facts in a disturbing pattern designed to coerce and degrade.
Donald Trump has been bragging for decades that David Pecker his his tool to assault any who cross him by printing nasty stories about them in the publications he controls through his American Media empire, which leads with the National Enquirer. Most recently Trump bragged about slamming Mica and John Scarborough in the National Enquirer. Mueller should really be looking at prosecuting this pattern under the RICO Act. I recall how Trump gave Rudy Giuliani similarly disgusting advice in how to attack his former wife Donna Hannover when Rudy was busy publicly humiliating her. Now that this corrupt and repellant policy has brought infamy to our highest democratic institutions, shouldn't it be prosecuted for the protection racket that it is?
Donald Trump has been bragging for decades that David Pecker his his tool to assault any who cross him by printing nasty stories about them in the publications he controls through his American Media empire, which leads with the National Enquirer. Most recently Trump bragged about slamming Mica and John Scarborough in the National Enquirer. Mueller should really be looking at prosecuting this pattern under the RICO Act. I recall how Trump gave Rudy Giuliani similarly disgusting advice in how to attack his former wife Donna Hannover when Rudy was busy publicly humiliating her. Now that this corrupt and repellant policy has brought infamy to our highest democratic institutions, shouldn't it be prosecuted for the protection racket that it is?
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And if Sessions isn't listening, why not? (Oh, yeah - he can't recall....)
Is this any reasonable American's model of an adult, rational, serious president?
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"What is wrong with you?" Well, I guess his many problems each has its own DMS code but they can probably all be summarized as "guys totally nuts!"
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why would kushner call joe and mika to squash the story ? I think the opposite is true and the love birds are lying through their fake teeth
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You meant DSM code. (Diagnostic Statistical Manual #5--the official diagnoses used by all docs for various psychiatric conditions)
My village can't be alone. Back in November, we started talking about how giant of a disaster Trump would be, because of how deranged he was. I'd submit that discussion has taken place all over this nation. And despite the voting outcome, we are most definitely the majority. And this GOP Congress remains mum on a President whose actions would get every boss fired and every schoolkid in trouble, and this GOP Congress listens to not a whit of their constituents observations, fears, or prescience.
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He hasn't grown into the job; the weight of the responsibility has sobered him not the slightest. If we had picked a random playground, identified the school bully and put him in the Oval Office, we could not have done worse. In fact, I'd roll the dice on the child rather than this.
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Well in another way he's grown into the job, have you noticed the man's girth? It's only been six months!! Maybe that's why he keeps wearing his necktie 6 inches lower than his belt? He's aiming for a slimming, verticalizing effect...
I am weary of seeing that ridiculous red tie... however, what else should I expect from someone who would poof their hair ( for decades!!) in the nutty way that he does & then actually go out in public! There must be a hole in the ozone layer right above Trump Tower from the truckloads of hairspray he's used over the years...
I am weary of seeing that ridiculous red tie... however, what else should I expect from someone who would poof their hair ( for decades!!) in the nutty way that he does & then actually go out in public! There must be a hole in the ozone layer right above Trump Tower from the truckloads of hairspray he's used over the years...
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New York times keeps misspelling Morning Joke its not Joe its Joke Morning Joke. I can understand because no one watches it anyway . It probably needs to be renamed Morning Narcissus.
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Thanks, Donald
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Apparently Mr. Trumps watches the show ...
Apparently the President watches--but maybe you're right, he is a nobody.
Trumps comments are obscene. If one had received his tweets instead as regular postal mail, they would be regarded as threats and as obscenities, to be investigated by the USPS inpsectors.
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Trump's threats to 'slut shame' non-responsive objects of his assaults goes back decades. He has also used his defamatory resources to attempt to harm and disrupt the relationships of others when he was frustrated in copping a free sample. One would be hard pressed to find a more disgusting example of a so-called human being.
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Just keep on tweeting, Mr. Snowflake.
Just keep on tweeting.
Just keep on tweeting.
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I think it is high time to remove Trump from the presidency and replace him with a real, solid, gutter snipe.
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"Trump is an unsuccessful person's idea of a successful person," Fran Leibowitzy
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Yes, and a poor persons' idea of a rich man. There is no way to underestimate this President. Speaking of anger towards Presidents, have you heard that the Kennedy men were killed? And Lincoln? And the ways you abased yourself, criticizing Obama? Worst racist remarks, over 8 years! Now you were very mean!
This story has me wondering how many times this administration has threatened and successfully silenced its critics, and then gotten away with it. I bet there are 100 instances we've never heard about. This one happened to go viral because Joe and Mika refuse to acquiesce. Trump and his surrogates are thugs. Plain and simple.
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Ask Preet B and Comey
Failed to be cowed, to show loyalty
Shown the door afterwards
This has all the makings of a all-lying one-family dictatorship.
Failed to be cowed, to show loyalty
Shown the door afterwards
This has all the makings of a all-lying one-family dictatorship.
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By doing stupid things (like making fake Time covers to try to make himself look better than he is) Trump invites ridicule. After all he occupies the most powerful position in the world and you expect the President of the US to be intelligent, confident and secure. He shouldn't need to lie and make a fool of himself. Again, he brings negative criticism on himself by his stupid, crazy actions. Mika and Joe might have gotten carried away with it but the criticism was justified.
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"What is wrong with you?" Really? Scarborough had to ask?
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Why are we calling it a feud? That makes this trump created obscenity in some ways legitimate, and all because the attacked defended themselves. STOP EQUATING WHEN TRUMPS BEHAVIOR IS BEYOND THE NORM!
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I never have watched Morning Joe. (I rely on NYT, WaPost, BBC, PBS News Hour, The Economist, Charlie Rose, and a few others for news and analysis.). But you can bet that after this, I will tune in occasionally.
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1) If Tantrum Trump takes national security as seriously as he claims to, then how is that he appears not to give not one wit for the health and wellness of millions of his fellow Americans?
2) If he does give one wit for the health and wellness of all Americans, then why doesn't he announce a plan to protect us from the unhinged actions of a tanTrum(p)ic president?
2) If he does give one wit for the health and wellness of all Americans, then why doesn't he announce a plan to protect us from the unhinged actions of a tanTrum(p)ic president?
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Turns out that having a tremendous amount of money and asset worth most assuredly does not translate into having core value internal worth. In fact in this most obvious case, it's worthless.
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Apparently, someone's mother did not teach her son, "say something nice or nothing at all." His degradation of women is not a "habit," it is a "behavior." I want decent, affordable health care (!!) but Richie Rich (aided/abetted by his band of brown-nosers) is more interested in pulling girls' pigtails and playing tiddley winks. Yet another episode of Rome burns while Nero fiddles. Someone is not getting their allowance this week...
Yeah, as metric the only thing that having a lot of money measures is that...well, one has a lot of money. That's about it.
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back in the 1930's if newscasters acted like this they would ether been put in a concentration camp or executed for treason
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Well I'm a Republican and certainly not a "liberal" but I'm embarrassed by a President who has no self-control and responds like a petulant 8 year old to any criticism.
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Aren't we glad this is 2017?
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Hardly. There's always been mud-slinging in American politics.
The main street media can dish out criticism bordering on hate speech about Donald Trump and his family but when it is returned the elite talking heads are outraged. The thing that Trump critics fail to realize is that President Trump is a street fighter and that there are no rules governing that game. You hit a street fighter and you will get it returned 10 fold.
He was elected to the Presidency to shake-up Washington and that is what he is doing. The left can't stand it and his supporters love him for it. The Washington elite and establishment worship the status quo and reap the personal benefits from it. Along comes Donald Trump and threatens their comfort zone and so they will try to unseat him for his entire term in office.
The media goes into a frenzy at every tweet and conveys out rage about the office of the Presidency and professionalism. In the long run no else cares a wit about it. Its more about the economy and jobs. Europeans have their own problems and want the US as an ally period, end of story.
So folks take a deep breath and look forward to the next election. It will be hear soon enough. Enjoy the 4th..it is still a great country.
He was elected to the Presidency to shake-up Washington and that is what he is doing. The left can't stand it and his supporters love him for it. The Washington elite and establishment worship the status quo and reap the personal benefits from it. Along comes Donald Trump and threatens their comfort zone and so they will try to unseat him for his entire term in office.
The media goes into a frenzy at every tweet and conveys out rage about the office of the Presidency and professionalism. In the long run no else cares a wit about it. Its more about the economy and jobs. Europeans have their own problems and want the US as an ally period, end of story.
So folks take a deep breath and look forward to the next election. It will be hear soon enough. Enjoy the 4th..it is still a great country.
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Civility is non partisan. Don't mistake crudeness for strength - it's quite the opposite.
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Wait - this has nothing to do with comfort zones or street fighting or all the rest of the rhetoric you just cited above. It's about this - Donald Trump does or says something stupid, whether on a micro or macro level, and it gets reported on, period. That's how journalism in America has always worked and will continue to work long after Trump has left the stage. In countries that don't have a free press, the government does something dangerous or stupid and the populace finds out about it way after it's too late. Sound familiar? Shall we count up all the things that have gone wrong in the Trump administration and the number of times that administration has reported on it to the public? You can't hide behind the autocratic skirt forever in this country, the facts will surface. It's all in the 1st Ammendment, read it.
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What nonsense. There are probably 1000 responses the president could have made that would have sufficed for hitting back that would be professional, but Trump always chooses the sleaziest, most deranged approach.
Hitting back 10-fold would be appropriate for something Putin did, or maybe ISIS. Not this.
And Trump is no "street fighter". He wouldn't last 5 seconds on the street without his own body guards. What a joke.
Hitting back 10-fold would be appropriate for something Putin did, or maybe ISIS. Not this.
And Trump is no "street fighter". He wouldn't last 5 seconds on the street without his own body guards. What a joke.
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The White House should be renamed the Soap Opera House. We are in serious trouble. A state wthout a head.
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Ms Huckebee Sanders behavior is almost as disgraceful as that which she seeks to defend. Since she cited Christian values in her stance I must object. Christianity is not about hitting back harder and then justifying the action. In The Sermon on the Mount Jesus calls us to love, compassion, and mercy, to treat others as we would like to be treated. We can all benefit from that message.
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Excellent point. Arguably the least Christian president in the history of the United States. Surely in modern memory. Let's bring back some Golden Rule in our politics, please.
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While I take your points, I cringe when moral and righteous behavior is referred to as Christian behavior as though Christianity had a monopoly on it. There are more and righteous people of all faiths; it is not "copyrighted" by Christianity. And, by the way, moral and righteous people of all faiths are as disgusted by the occupier of the Oval Office as Christians. That said, since Ms. HS hides behind a veil of Christianity, she can certainly be rebutted as you have done here.
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How did someone morally and politically unqualified to be or even become president get elected? Some preliminary answers were sketched in a Times op-ed piece the other day by Professor Moshik Temkin of Harvard: our bedazzlement with celebrity, voter suppression, the devastation of foreign wars, gender, racial, and economic inequality, xenophobia, and a political system that does not reflect the diversity or policy preferences of the American people.
We are responsible for putting this incompetent person in office. We need to carefully reflect on and fix the flaws in our political culture and institutions so we can improve the quality of the people we nominate and elect to office.
We don't need an Albert Einstein, an Abraham Lincoln, or an Albert Schweitzer: just someone with an modicum of intelligence, integrity, and an ability to work with other people.
We are responsible for putting this incompetent person in office. We need to carefully reflect on and fix the flaws in our political culture and institutions so we can improve the quality of the people we nominate and elect to office.
We don't need an Albert Einstein, an Abraham Lincoln, or an Albert Schweitzer: just someone with an modicum of intelligence, integrity, and an ability to work with other people.
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Its close association with Donald Trump lowered my opinion of the National Enquirer --- something I had previously considered impossible.
It appears that Trump and the Enquirer run a protection racket, blackmailing those who don't want their reputations smeared into compliance with neurotic-conservative demands. It is no wonder that people with talent and a sterling reputation --- such as Colin Powell --- refuse to run for the office.
It appears that Trump and the Enquirer run a protection racket, blackmailing those who don't want their reputations smeared into compliance with neurotic-conservative demands. It is no wonder that people with talent and a sterling reputation --- such as Colin Powell --- refuse to run for the office.
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“Fighting back” would be answering criticisms with a well-thought-out rebuttal of those criticisms; reasonable justifications for acts that seem, to many, childish.
The tweeter-in-chief, however, responds with personal attacks because he seemingly lacks the ability to reason. There is no justification for a President of the United States to behave like a schoolyard bully. DT is clearly unfit for office.
The tweeter-in-chief, however, responds with personal attacks because he seemingly lacks the ability to reason. There is no justification for a President of the United States to behave like a schoolyard bully. DT is clearly unfit for office.
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How about living up to your motto of "All the news that's fit to print" by including exactly what Mika and Joe said about the president? You are notably silent about what was said by the tv hosts that set Mr Trump off. His response may have been inappropriate and disproportionate but how are your readers to judge when you only give a biased and partial story.
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They were talking about the fake Time magazine cover in Trump's golf clubs when I tuned in. Hardly something that would send a normal adult into an emotional tailspin
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Hey genius, I've read exactly what it was that was said that set Trump off in several other articles. You can find it anywhere.
Joe and Mika have speculated, based on Trump's own words and behavior and previous meetings with him, that something may be seriously wrong with Trump. They have questioned his sanity, but they also backed themselves up with several examples that do INDEED leave any normal person wondering the same thing.
Trump, of course, responded with incoherent insults and boldfaced lies. He didn't back up his claims in the slightest. I mean, how could he? Mika has a high IQ, this is a thing you can measure. If she didn't have a facelift, then she didn't. And if she did, who cares???? For that matter, it takes a lot of nerve to look like Trump does and go forth criticizing ANYONE'S appearance.
All Trump has done is lend credence to the speculation about his own sanity.
As usual, all of his problems are of his own making, and when he "defends himself" he only makes his problems worse. He looks crazier, and Morning Joe's ratings go through the roof.
This is not a "strategist" I want for the leader of the free world. What happens if a REAL problem emerges? Trump can't even handle his own Twitter finger.
Joe and Mika have speculated, based on Trump's own words and behavior and previous meetings with him, that something may be seriously wrong with Trump. They have questioned his sanity, but they also backed themselves up with several examples that do INDEED leave any normal person wondering the same thing.
Trump, of course, responded with incoherent insults and boldfaced lies. He didn't back up his claims in the slightest. I mean, how could he? Mika has a high IQ, this is a thing you can measure. If she didn't have a facelift, then she didn't. And if she did, who cares???? For that matter, it takes a lot of nerve to look like Trump does and go forth criticizing ANYONE'S appearance.
All Trump has done is lend credence to the speculation about his own sanity.
As usual, all of his problems are of his own making, and when he "defends himself" he only makes his problems worse. He looks crazier, and Morning Joe's ratings go through the roof.
This is not a "strategist" I want for the leader of the free world. What happens if a REAL problem emerges? Trump can't even handle his own Twitter finger.
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He asked for it by his stupid egotistical actions
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Hey Putin,
Could you please hack Donald Trump's TWIT account so we can all have a moments peace!
Thanks Vlad!
Could you please hack Donald Trump's TWIT account so we can all have a moments peace!
Thanks Vlad!
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Lots of delicious publicity for all involved.
Meanwhile, the GOP continues to dismantle our country.
Meanwhile, the GOP continues to dismantle our country.
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Do not forget that it was Scarborough who gave Trump free air time on his show on an almost daily basis when the Trump campaign was just up and running. I don't know if it was just a ratings grab or if Scarborough was friends with Trump or thought he was an entertaining yet unlikely contender for the nomination. Probably all three. Nevertheless, it was that sort of attitude of all the media that allowed Trump to get a footing in his campaign, be entertaining without divulging a single bit of policy and also took great fun in watching Trump denigrate his competition. It was funny until it was not. And now everybody cries monster. This man should have never had the GOP nomination let alone the Presidency.
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OK, Trump has just said in the Rose Garden that it's time for a "determined response" against North Korea. He did not answer any questions from reporters and then went off to Bedminster to golf. Yet, the Times, as of 5:26 p.m. EDT, has no mention of this, while now running TWO long articles on P. 1 about the Donny and Mika/Joe Twitter war and how Donny Trump Jr. emulates his father's Twitter habits. AND THE NY TIMES REGARDS THIS AS WORTHY OF BEING FRONT-PAGE NEWS??? It's time to bring back the public editor.
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Doctor Hannity, your creature has escaped.
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Did the President say he would not stop a story in The Enquirer? Does he have the authority to do so if he wanted?
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i never watch Morning Joe, but i did today. They should be thanking Trump for the ratings boost!
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Dear Mike and Joe, You can save the country. How? Just keep this war between you and Trump going for the next 3.5 years or until Trump is gone. Your attacks on him will most assuredly result in him attacking back. Don't you see? Keep him Tweeting at you constantly 24/7. It will distract him from destroying our country. Do your duty as patriots. Your ratings will soar and we might survive his presidency. You can be our saviors. Nothing else seems to be able to stop this guy.
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Makes me almost fond of the kinder, gentler days when Richard Nixon lied, and our young went off to war to die...
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No. That was Bill Clinton you are thinking about. And Bill Cosby. Donald never touched a woman.
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hmmm, dozens of women say otherwise
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Agreed but his statements are damaging as POTUS - to us and the world. Can't someone just take his phone away from him?
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Mental schmental! This is a crime. It's called extortion, and people go to jail for it all the time.
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Now let me think- who do I believe: Trump or Morning Joe?
No question- hands down- I would believe Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski
Never in my lifetime ( I am 59 years old) would I ever consider calling our president a liar- but he is. He is also mentally and intellectually incompetent to hold this office ( or that of a CEO of any company).
No question- hands down- I would believe Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski
Never in my lifetime ( I am 59 years old) would I ever consider calling our president a liar- but he is. He is also mentally and intellectually incompetent to hold this office ( or that of a CEO of any company).
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If the occupant of the oval office is involved, you can depend on the Enquirer to be involved. Birds of a Feather, as the old saying goes.....
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I'm pretty sure that if Joe and Mika are telling the truth, which I'll bet they are, it's *Trump* and the *Enquirer* that brought THEM into the feud, not the other way round... I've never been a fan of the show but when it comes to Trump, they've got their heads on straighter than a lot of cable hosts, especially those on the right.
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So now we add a blackmail charge to Trump's rap sheet. S & B are playing this thing very well, lay it all out there over the long holiday for Trump and associates to stew over. He, his son in law and the Enquier have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar - harassing Brzezinski's teenage children, threatening B and S with a scandalous story that will go away if they knuckle under to Trump, who could make this stuff up!? And all overlapping with the 1st Ammendment and freedom of the press. If nothing comes of this then I'll know that it was all just a bad dream...
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Shouldn't trump be busy with being the president and not the local school yard thug? How does trump find time to start and sustain all this tit-for-tat high school level chatter?
This man is legitimizing the behavior of leveling public verbal assaults without being held accountable - he is role modeling the behavior that he believes in and is giving others permission to do the same. This one little man is tearing into shreds the fabric of socially acceptable behaviors.
Why does the GOP believe this behavior in a president is acceptable?
This man is legitimizing the behavior of leveling public verbal assaults without being held accountable - he is role modeling the behavior that he believes in and is giving others permission to do the same. This one little man is tearing into shreds the fabric of socially acceptable behaviors.
Why does the GOP believe this behavior in a president is acceptable?
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Maybe his idea of doing his job is different than the job description he was given. Gotta talk to the folks who hired him.
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Has Joe tapes and memos? How can anyone watch them? This is the state of journalism? It's pathetic.
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It all sounds like Trump is having a nervous breakdown in slow motion.
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Ohh that wacky President of ours, he does insist on keeping us entertained. Hint to Donald: It's the summer and everybody is on vacation and not paying attention to anything so save the good stuff for September.
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Unfortunately, our President is a very sick and disturbed person. The sooner he is out of office, the better.
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Mr. Trump is a public servant. He has an obligation to respect and defend all US citizens. This Aline should dissuade such behavior.
That said , it doesn't seem either party is rising to the occasion.
That said , it doesn't seem either party is rising to the occasion.
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This has been a pathetic excuse for Republicans … "Both parties do it."
We are talking about the GOP President of the United States, not some anonymous blogger in his mom's basement.
We are talking about the GOP President of the United States, not some anonymous blogger in his mom's basement.
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You misunderstood. I meant either of the two parties in this Twitter battle. Not democrats and republicans.
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Blackmail or extortion? Time to
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lawyer up (again).
I have never watched Ms. Brzezinski and Mr. Scarborough. But man, I'm lovin' watching them dish it out to Trump!
"Yet another lie. Why do you keep lyong about things that are so easily disproven?
"What is wrong with you?"
These are the most truthful and trenchantly insightful comments uttered within our national political discourse over the past two years!
Thank you for saying what has needed to be said.
And thank you for saying it in exactly the same way that Trump himself would say it; what a brilliant strategy!
Who cares if it's disrespectful; who cares if it's unprofessional; who cares if it's crass? Trump speaks all of those things; therefore, he doesn't deserve anything more.
Who cares if it's stooping to his level, or fighting dirty? The media, the Democrats, and many thoughtful Americans have been taking the high road and acting like mature, rational adults throughout the 8 years of RepubliCants' obstructionism, FauxNews' alternative facts, and the Rightwing's hate-laden dehumanization of Pres Obama; it's time for us to turn the tables and give them a taste of what they've been spewing.
It also clearly exposes for the world to see what a thin-skinned and hypocritical crybaby he is!
Plus, it exposes all the craven hypocrisy and greediness of all the RepubliCant supporters, enablers, and coconspirators. They're all complicit, and deserve nothing more than our disdain.
So, dear Mika and Joe:
Bravissimo!
Well-played, chaps!
You go gurl!
Bring it on!
"Yet another lie. Why do you keep lyong about things that are so easily disproven?
"What is wrong with you?"
These are the most truthful and trenchantly insightful comments uttered within our national political discourse over the past two years!
Thank you for saying what has needed to be said.
And thank you for saying it in exactly the same way that Trump himself would say it; what a brilliant strategy!
Who cares if it's disrespectful; who cares if it's unprofessional; who cares if it's crass? Trump speaks all of those things; therefore, he doesn't deserve anything more.
Who cares if it's stooping to his level, or fighting dirty? The media, the Democrats, and many thoughtful Americans have been taking the high road and acting like mature, rational adults throughout the 8 years of RepubliCants' obstructionism, FauxNews' alternative facts, and the Rightwing's hate-laden dehumanization of Pres Obama; it's time for us to turn the tables and give them a taste of what they've been spewing.
It also clearly exposes for the world to see what a thin-skinned and hypocritical crybaby he is!
Plus, it exposes all the craven hypocrisy and greediness of all the RepubliCant supporters, enablers, and coconspirators. They're all complicit, and deserve nothing more than our disdain.
So, dear Mika and Joe:
Bravissimo!
Well-played, chaps!
You go gurl!
Bring it on!
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Obviously, he DOES watch them. Obsessively.
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I have never watched Scarborough (I read the NYT for my news). I don't know much about what he does for a living. But he asks a question that calls for a comment: Why does Trump keep "keep lying about things that are so easily disproven? What is wrong with you?"
Part the answer must be that Trump is consistently aggressive when checked, but he has written that this is a tactic, not - or not just - a pathology. If you try to refute his lie, you can't win, he will tell another.
He is a liar all the way down. What is the point of trying to disprove an ever growing list? His grotesque, deformed soul swells up from any kind of attention. Call him a liar, and if you believe in hell and Judgement, call him a damned liar. Then go about your own business. In your own small way, starve the beast.
Part the answer must be that Trump is consistently aggressive when checked, but he has written that this is a tactic, not - or not just - a pathology. If you try to refute his lie, you can't win, he will tell another.
He is a liar all the way down. What is the point of trying to disprove an ever growing list? His grotesque, deformed soul swells up from any kind of attention. Call him a liar, and if you believe in hell and Judgement, call him a damned liar. Then go about your own business. In your own small way, starve the beast.
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I think perhaps the best way to handle this is to simply ignore Trump. The media should simply not talk about his tweets or his spoken comments. Pretend he is not there and continue on doing what they are doing. It is clear he is not doing anything anyway as President, and responding is feeding his bottomless ego (there is no such thing as bad publicity in his mind). States are starting to enact their own policies to circumvent the craziness coming out of the White House on the Paris Climate Accord and the treatment of refugees; the media should follow their example.
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I agree. But the burden falls partly on us too, the readers. We need to start ignoring articles like this. The fewer "clicks" they get the sooner the editors will change their approach. It's all about money in the end. If we click, that's additional add revenue for the Times.
Trump and his cronies won't be happy until the entire media treats him the way the media in Russia treats Putin. This is what a cult of personality looks like. This is not the way a democracy looks like. Democrats have to find a way to put aside their differences and get organized, or we'll be faced with eight years of this would-be tyrant.
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Doesn't the White House have a house physician who can make one house call to see why Trump's brain is on recall?
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It is getting very weary and distracting - time to ignore Trump's and Trump Jr's tweets - these are just meant to stir up the pot and create angst and anger - we all don't need to be drag down to this bottom level - the press need to help in this. Can the NYTimes please stop reporting on Trump's tweets - especially these insane ones that he actually wrote?
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Mika and Joe.....PLEASE keep reporting what a lunatic this man is. It is not normal, it is not okay. How anyone of sound mind can defend him is unbelievable. It makes me think the golden shower video is out there somewhere. He is that debase.
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How mean can we get?!?! God help us.
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He is POTUS material like I am brain surgeon material. He has got to go.
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Trump is a better tabloid editor than fumbling behind the oval office desk. Most men or women definitely would do a better job. Make America better again? Get out of town, Trump.
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I am Canadian and have lived in the USA.
My definition of middle class is British not American. My family is defined as British middle class and live mostly in the USA. They are the top 20% of income earner sitting between the top 1% of the truly wealthy and the second 20% of well off working class. We know the ratings of all the top colleges and universities and our doctors studied at Johns Hopkins, Chicago McGill or UCSF.
Our children were introduced to a psychiatrist or psychologist sometime during preschool and we read all the books about what to look for to determine deviant behaviour.
There is nothing to see here. We knew Trump should never be allowed access to the oval office. Americans need to stop talking and start fixing the problem.
Fox and hate radio may be great entertainment but we control the revenue streams and we are the ones with the most to lose and only we can stop the flow of money.
My definition of middle class is British not American. My family is defined as British middle class and live mostly in the USA. They are the top 20% of income earner sitting between the top 1% of the truly wealthy and the second 20% of well off working class. We know the ratings of all the top colleges and universities and our doctors studied at Johns Hopkins, Chicago McGill or UCSF.
Our children were introduced to a psychiatrist or psychologist sometime during preschool and we read all the books about what to look for to determine deviant behaviour.
There is nothing to see here. We knew Trump should never be allowed access to the oval office. Americans need to stop talking and start fixing the problem.
Fox and hate radio may be great entertainment but we control the revenue streams and we are the ones with the most to lose and only we can stop the flow of money.
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What's really scary is that Trump appears to be rattling his war saber to take our minds off his petty rhetoric and his utterly disastrous presidency. "Wag the Dog II" is not the movie I want to see anytime soon.
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"All men are created equal." To Don that means that women are not equal and he can do anything he wants to women like grabbing them by the p#### or commenting on the dirty blood that runs through them. Is not this escalating sickness enough for impeachment?
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He serves most of the Republican party quite well. But they really should find something for him to do that brings him a bit closer to being a president: Maybe pardoning potholes. Promoting newly designating one way streets (You know, it's going to be really GREAT, going that way.'). Public Safety Announcements regarding thinking and driving. etc..
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Most people in this country have never heard of or watched The Morning Joe--you have to have cable to do that, for one thing, and lots of folks are cutting cords. I consider myself well-informed--I read a lot of newspapers--and I've never heard of these people. I was completely in the dark during a recent SNL sketch that I now finally get--sort of--thanks to recent developments.
Why is NYT obsessing over this tit-for-tat Twitter war between Trump and these cable clowns who are, obviously, milking this for every ratings point they can get? We've long known Trump is a sexist pig. The news here is that NYT has debased itself with breathless coverage that belongs in the pages of, well, The National Enquirer.
Why is NYT obsessing over this tit-for-tat Twitter war between Trump and these cable clowns who are, obviously, milking this for every ratings point they can get? We've long known Trump is a sexist pig. The news here is that NYT has debased itself with breathless coverage that belongs in the pages of, well, The National Enquirer.
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No, the New York Times reports what is goign on, at a "higher " level and at this level too. One is not exclusive of the other. When the NYT reports tweets, remarks etc of the President, it does its job of informing us of what is going on. If it is trashy, it is because the President is trashy and they should not forgo it beccause it has bad taste.
The advice that one can give a friend facing a Trump-like buffon in cicil life to let it go and take the high road cannot apply when it regards the President of the supposely bigger democracy in the world.
The advice that one can give a friend facing a Trump-like buffon in cicil life to let it go and take the high road cannot apply when it regards the President of the supposely bigger democracy in the world.
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Why is NYT obsessing over this tit-for-tat Twitter war ..? Online clicks = money
When is this buffoon going to get thrown out? Shame on the United States for keeping him where he is.
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I don't know if it's proper to quote a columnist for a Times competitor to which I also subscribe, but Alexandra Petri nailed it. Speaking as the voice of Republican members of Congress, she wrote:
"I join my voice with the voices of my colleagues to say this “isn’t normal,” is “beneath the dignity of the office,” is “inappropriate,” is “unhinged” and “unpresidential.” Also, it is a distraction from the legislation we are now working on to force the elderly to fight each other with tridents in order to obtain prescription medication."
"I join my voice with the voices of my colleagues to say this “isn’t normal,” is “beneath the dignity of the office,” is “inappropriate,” is “unhinged” and “unpresidential.” Also, it is a distraction from the legislation we are now working on to force the elderly to fight each other with tridents in order to obtain prescription medication."
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As soon as we all realize that trump is an empty shell of a man who's only claim to fame was that he inherited riches. He is not deserving of any respect which is source of his anger. His only motivation in life is his desire to undo Present Obama's legacy. SAD!
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If Trump is wrong and Scarborough can prove it with phone records and email, the president committed a federal crime if he was the source to pressure Scarborough to call and beg him to stop the Enquirer article.
Time for another investigation.
Time for another investigation.
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What bothers me the most is Trump's preoccupation with these trivial issues. He apparently spends most of his time on Twitter or Fox news or other TV news programs. He admitted he did not understand health care. Should he not be reading the health care bill before congress so he could make informed decisions on this legislation which is vital to so many Americans? The only thing I have ever heard him say was that his replacement for Obamacare would be cheaper and provide better coverage and cover more Americans. He has a lot of work to do to come even close to these promises.
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It's about time the adults in the room we call Washington stand up to this bully.
For starters, a group of about eight to ten Republican Senators should go to their local town halls on July 3 and change their registration to Independent. They should then announce their intention to caucus with the Senate Democrats for the foreseeable future. This might have the intended consequence of having the Senate work in a bipartisan manner and Trump and McConnell and Schumer would have to start talking and acting. I can think of several R Senators who should have the guts and the political capital to do this: McCain, Heller, Collins, Murkowski, Caputo, Portman, Cotton, Toomey, Sasse, Rubio, Graham all come to mind and there should be others.
Next, Paul Ryan needs to show some gumption and say out loud to Trump that the country comes first, not the party, not Trump. And that legislation the president wants will need to be acceptable a working coalition of mainstream D and R members and forget being cowed by the Tea Party.
Then we need to see Ryan, McConnell, Tillerson and a few others start to read Amendment XXV to the U. S. Constitution, and hire some lawyers and staff to ensure its use for as smooth and as timely an exit for Trump as possible. Clearly Trump is unfit for office. The man does not know right from wrong. He is a menace to the country and life on our planet.
For starters, a group of about eight to ten Republican Senators should go to their local town halls on July 3 and change their registration to Independent. They should then announce their intention to caucus with the Senate Democrats for the foreseeable future. This might have the intended consequence of having the Senate work in a bipartisan manner and Trump and McConnell and Schumer would have to start talking and acting. I can think of several R Senators who should have the guts and the political capital to do this: McCain, Heller, Collins, Murkowski, Caputo, Portman, Cotton, Toomey, Sasse, Rubio, Graham all come to mind and there should be others.
Next, Paul Ryan needs to show some gumption and say out loud to Trump that the country comes first, not the party, not Trump. And that legislation the president wants will need to be acceptable a working coalition of mainstream D and R members and forget being cowed by the Tea Party.
Then we need to see Ryan, McConnell, Tillerson and a few others start to read Amendment XXV to the U. S. Constitution, and hire some lawyers and staff to ensure its use for as smooth and as timely an exit for Trump as possible. Clearly Trump is unfit for office. The man does not know right from wrong. He is a menace to the country and life on our planet.
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And we all thought there was only one real news source, FOX. Now we come to find out there are two, we can now add the National Enquirer to the list. Come on NYTs, pick up your game.
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Watching Sarah Huckabee Sanders justifying Trump's childish rants gives a clear demonstration of the genetic heritability of stupidity ... as well as obesity.
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Nice job at sinking to their level.
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So you condemn Trump's attack on a woman's look and ability by attacking those of another one?
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Come on now.
To call her stupid is one thing, because she clearly is. But to imply that she is obese also?
That is stooping to Trump's level of personal attacks and is mean and unnecessary.
To call her stupid is one thing, because she clearly is. But to imply that she is obese also?
That is stooping to Trump's level of personal attacks and is mean and unnecessary.
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The bull is in the china closet and we are entertained as it destroys our precious belongings. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing at us.
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DSS,
The laughter you hear is from nerves, not amusement.
The laughter you hear is from nerves, not amusement.
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I was just thinking what it says about us that we are so entertained, and addicted to this man's bad behavior? The papers are filled daily with his obnoxious statements and tweets, and every day we seem to delight in the return of insult for insult. I'd love to hear a mental health professional dissect this behavior for us.
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We're not laughing, believe me.
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Each day, we get an even bigger story of Trump's childish tirade. The only legacy Trump will left behind in his wake is being the most obnoxious egocentric president in our history. The Obama administration legacy doesn't come even close to the level of drama Trump displayed in the White House.
Trump is a baby and he needs his diapers changed.
Trump is a baby and he needs his diapers changed.
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I can remember a day when the office of the President of the United States was so respected -- regardless of the inhabitant -- that no one would dare to say to the Commander in Chief in public, "What's wrong with you?" Those days are over.
As one humorist has proclaimed, the bar has officially hit bottom. Or has it? Results of the Russia probe are yet to come. Stay tuned.
As one humorist has proclaimed, the bar has officially hit bottom. Or has it? Results of the Russia probe are yet to come. Stay tuned.
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it seems that the only viable solution to this grotesque and frightening situation is getting people to vote in upcoming ellections. 40% of americans condoning this debacle is a large proportion, but still a minority. america, you can do it, much of the rest of the world is counting on you.
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Trump is at the stage of his reign where whatever he says or tweets is either rude, crude and vulgar, a lie, or self aggrandizement. The Constitution has incompetence covered in the 25th amendment, but that requires a competent Congress. We are doomed folks.
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TrumPutin is the master deflector. With these superficial stories, I can't help but wonder what I should be worrying about. TrumpCare up to more sneakiness or what? What?
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"a spokeswoman said the president was entitled to fight back against those in the media who he felt attacked him" The entire country remembers the attacks on President Obama who never responded to those attacks, apparently feeling that only the mentally deranged felt they were entitled to respond in such a megalomaniacal fashion.. The country is in trouble and there's no one in the House of Representative with enough of a spinal column to put a stop to this.
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Trump: Three stooges in one.
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I'm 80 years old. I demonstrated for civil rights and also coincidentally for women's rights. Have we lost so much ground in women's rights that we women are back to being treated as targets with slurs about are physiques, apparel and appearances?
It saddens me. Planned Parenthood is being defunding. The elderly, a majority of whom are women (and whose social security tends to be less for working less and living longer) are having benefits threatened.
Trump is a sexist and can't even understand that concept, nor could O'Reilly. Nor Fox News.
We women aren't people to them.
It saddens me. Planned Parenthood is being defunding. The elderly, a majority of whom are women (and whose social security tends to be less for working less and living longer) are having benefits threatened.
Trump is a sexist and can't even understand that concept, nor could O'Reilly. Nor Fox News.
We women aren't people to them.
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If Trump was trying to blackmail a news outlet that was aggressively reporting the "Russia" story, shouldn't that be a legitimate matter for inquiry by the special counsel?
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Or should we call him a counterfeit President? I like the implied "fraudulence" of his Presidency that comers with it.
Yet, too, I regret we must consider the possibility that we have been snookered by a fraud.
However, I'm coming down on the matter thusly: He is mentally ill. That this out to have been apparent to many who viewed his campaign behaviors and attitudes, that this "cluelessness" demonstrates/reveals just how few Americans understand what mental illness truly is, how it presents itself through behaviors and speech. It also is a warning to all: that there may be far more cases of mental illness out there which are missed or dismissed by husbands and wives and children. This could very well be something that needs to be addressed by a caring, tolerant nation, but it ought not be something that the most powerful nation in the world -- with all the responsibilities and tools it has at hand to deal with such -- should not be letting "slip by".
Yet, too, I regret we must consider the possibility that we have been snookered by a fraud.
However, I'm coming down on the matter thusly: He is mentally ill. That this out to have been apparent to many who viewed his campaign behaviors and attitudes, that this "cluelessness" demonstrates/reveals just how few Americans understand what mental illness truly is, how it presents itself through behaviors and speech. It also is a warning to all: that there may be far more cases of mental illness out there which are missed or dismissed by husbands and wives and children. This could very well be something that needs to be addressed by a caring, tolerant nation, but it ought not be something that the most powerful nation in the world -- with all the responsibilities and tools it has at hand to deal with such -- should not be letting "slip by".
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Joe wants it both ways. He can't have it. Joe was friendly with 45 for years. All of sudden Joe wants to tell us DJT has had a character change? Tell it to the Marines Joe....
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People change--at least some do.
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Quite amazing that Trump has time on his hands to watch any media, let alone comment on it. Unless of course all this is designed to divert attention...
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This is great. trump gets what he wants again. To be the president and the star of the highest rated reality media show. trump may actually be a genius. The real president of the United States. SAD.
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Trump responds to reflections on his outrageous behavior with more outrageous behavior. This is not the response of a 'fighter'.
I just want to know why DJT so worried about where and why women bleed from, maybe the question to his wife should be where does she bleed from?
A good question to Sarah H Sanders too
A good question to Sarah H Sanders too
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"Mr. Trump’s invective threatened to further erode his support among Republican women and independents [...]"
Dear NYT, please live up to your reputation and share the data that lead you to think so. If it's just wishful thinking, I'm sorry, I am not interested.
Dear NYT, please live up to your reputation and share the data that lead you to think so. If it's just wishful thinking, I'm sorry, I am not interested.
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??? No words.
What an effective strategy. This past week's news stories have been dominated by what shaped up to be a failed legislative priority and what it means for the Republican leadership in the Senate. With a simple series of tweets, Trump has changed the conversation to something no one will be talking about in 2020 and drawn attention away from an issue that actually does affect millions and millions of people.
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When are we going to impeach Trump? After he hits the nuclear button because his hissy fits got the best of him? I am scared. We are only six months into his presidency. Please stop this nightmare!
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I've seen this movie before. Spoiler Alert!!
The sole surviving couple rides their horse up the beach, when they suddenly stop and the man proclaims “You blew it up! Ah, darn you! Gosh darn you all to heck!"
Sorry.
The sole surviving couple rides their horse up the beach, when they suddenly stop and the man proclaims “You blew it up! Ah, darn you! Gosh darn you all to heck!"
Sorry.
This is all being reported as a bad thing.
But this is exactly the president Trump voters seem to want!
But this is exactly the president Trump voters seem to want!
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I swear I'm not kidding--if we didn't have grandkids here in the bay area, we would move to Canada to get away from this pathetic, sociopathic, unbalanced man who is the MOST POWERFUL MAN ON EARTH.
Look what the voters who wanted to "make America great again" have wrought on all of us!
Look what the voters who wanted to "make America great again" have wrought on all of us!
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As usual, multiple headlines in the Times today about Trump, his superficial tweets, and the ongoing distractions they cause. Now I'll turn to DemocracyNow.org to learn what horrible executive orders were signed today while all eyes were on Twitter.
Please NYT, you must kick your addiction to these distractions, which are allowing Trump and his clever team to successfully and rapidly dismantle our government while we're looking the other way. One morning in the near future we will awaken to find nothing left, and we'll wonder how we got there.
The solution? IGNORE THE DISTRACTING TWEETS and focus specifically on Trump's actions and their repercussions. Put more energy into analyzing those repercussions in the long-term and zero energy (fruitless, to date) into trying to comprehend Trump's personality. He's a psychopath and motivated by personal profit, plain and simple. Now let's move on.
I challenge the Times to shift its focus for one week, starting by simply ignoring his tweets.
Please NYT, you must kick your addiction to these distractions, which are allowing Trump and his clever team to successfully and rapidly dismantle our government while we're looking the other way. One morning in the near future we will awaken to find nothing left, and we'll wonder how we got there.
The solution? IGNORE THE DISTRACTING TWEETS and focus specifically on Trump's actions and their repercussions. Put more energy into analyzing those repercussions in the long-term and zero energy (fruitless, to date) into trying to comprehend Trump's personality. He's a psychopath and motivated by personal profit, plain and simple. Now let's move on.
I challenge the Times to shift its focus for one week, starting by simply ignoring his tweets.
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I think I'm pregnant with an alien's baby. He said he was from Mars, but I'm thinking it seemed more like Jupiter.
I am willing to be interviewed with my exclusive story. Photos extra.
I am willing to be interviewed with my exclusive story. Photos extra.
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Someone please call a plumber the oval office is overflowing...
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Not to mention his election, but your tolerance of this unspeakable fool has ended America's role as a leader in the world. Absolutely shocking what America has become.
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Trumps latest comments are so far beyond the pale that he should resign immediately, for the country's sake. I am embarrassed as an American to have a leader such as Trump, I cannot call him president. When will McConnell and Ryan and Pence grow a pair and put Trump in his placement. We need to get President Chump out of office ASAP before he does real damage to the country.
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Donald Trump is reportedly friendly with National Enquirer CEO David Pecker.
And there were rumors that the National Enquirer targeted other Republicans during the primary to help Trump
And there were rumors that the National Enquirer targeted other Republicans during the primary to help Trump
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One of the best comment on Trump's tweet was offered by Ana Navarro, CNN political commentator and GOP strategist, who said, "Listen, you crazy, lunatic 70-year-old man-baby, stop it. You are now the president of the United States, the commander in chief, and you need to stop acting like a mean girl, because we just won’t take it.”
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It is genuinely frightening that this president is obsessing on morning television pundits. We already know he watches excessively. Secondly, it is believable this president would use the National Enquirer as a way to convince them to do his bidding.
His tweets are so vile. It is not enough for Republicans to continue to say, wow--that was inappropriate but life goes on.
Countless times after guests and pundits discussed a finding, Trump would be tweeting that very information minutes later as if it was his own revelation.
And seriously, what's this fixation with Trump, female pundits and blood?
He said the same bizarre remarks about Megyn Kelly.
The horror series apprentice president reality television?
P.S. great job on this article with the splashes of Trump tweets with his photo.
His tweets are so vile. It is not enough for Republicans to continue to say, wow--that was inappropriate but life goes on.
Countless times after guests and pundits discussed a finding, Trump would be tweeting that very information minutes later as if it was his own revelation.
And seriously, what's this fixation with Trump, female pundits and blood?
He said the same bizarre remarks about Megyn Kelly.
The horror series apprentice president reality television?
P.S. great job on this article with the splashes of Trump tweets with his photo.
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Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill. He must be removed from office.
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So the President is using extortion to try to stop the press from exercising the First Amendment rights.
The Congress needs to make a motion and exercise the seldom -used Censor of President for Behavior.
Pronto.
The Congress needs to make a motion and exercise the seldom -used Censor of President for Behavior.
Pronto.
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Isn't blackmail is illegal? Hope they taped some of those calls...
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This whole thing beats Saturday Night Live. When is this joke going to end?
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This is an clear abuse of power by Trump and should be added to the growing list of criminal activity in the White House to be investigated by Robert Mueller.
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One of the most disturbing facts of this article is that smearing someone in the National Enquirer is actually now a "threat." Are there really that many incredibly stupid people out there that believe what lies in those pages? Apparently so...
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If true, this is a huge story.
We have a thug as President of the US.