It's the Gong Show. The Trump act is onstage. Mueller is waving the gong striker but Trump doesn't know it yet.
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Yes, it's a reality show. And a scary one. But, so many people have grown up with these shows - The Kardashians, Survivor, Housewives of Atlanta, etc. - that for them, it's reality. So to them, it's normal to act the way he does.
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Attempting for at least the 50th time to come up with the why, how, when of today's condition we find ourselves in is unbelievable. Unbelievable to think a person so devoid of what this country was founded on is president. Unbelievable to see what he has done already to this country. Unbelievable the congress sits back and lets him and his minions get away with it. And when others try to get to the truth, the lies, greed, collusion he is guilty of, they get in the way. Too cowardly and selfish to stand up and say"No more"
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Who knew? Bob Korker: King Maker / King Breaker
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Anyone who stoops to name calling is a four year old brat and bully. Trump fits that description perfectly with his verbal outbursts and Tweets.
Anyone who is paid at least $174,000.00 a year from the taxpayers of America should have the moral courage to speak up and be a leader. Unfortunately we have very few of those in our government at this time.
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What a sad state of affairs in America - the degradation of democracy by turning governing into one big bad reality TV show. I guess what else could we expect from a reality TV star turned President particularly when his character is a narcissistic volatile mix of immature, obsessive and impulsive traits.
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Our President has no knowledge of policy, no intellectual curiosity and appears to struggle to read and spell yet brags about his IQ.
Trump continues to embarrass himself and the U.S. on a daily basis with his infantile and petty tweets.
I often wonder, does anyone around him in the White House offer him Hi-5s after seeing the tweets? Someone around him certainly encourages him.
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The only reality Trump acknowledges is that of a 'Reality Show'. His narcissism and ignorance will not allow objective reality to intrude. So he is attempting to extend a 'Truman Show' theatrical aura to the White House where can be the impresario and find solace in his solipsism.
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Dear Republican Party,
If not now, then when?
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Minor point, and I am not even a grammarian, but since when did "stumble" become a transitive verb, as in "stumble US into war, "or words to that effect. Am reminded of Joan Didion's "Salvador" in which she noted that "disappear," thanks to Major Roberto d'Aubuisson--I interviewed his son who was at the time senator in National Assembly-- and his anti Communist Guardia Nacionale which left , grosso modo , 100,000 victims in its murderous anti communist crusade,became a transitive verb as in "to exterminate!" But Senator Corker, it is often overlooked , employed a Lee Atwater dirty trick, racist in nature, in his close senate fight with Harold Ford Jr., in 2006, and were it not for that ruse, Ford would have won, according to observers at the time. Mr. Clean he is not!His harsh criticism of the c-in-c is 1 more example to show that Republican Party has fragmented, and would be surprised if its members would support the President on tax reform or on any issue!
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Trump's reality show attitude is distressingly easy to understand. He's adopted the principles of the sleaziest, most disreputable Hollywood press agents: Any publicity is good publicity. As long as his name is in the news, this narcissist is happy as a pig in the mud. Attacks on others, deploying fake news, cliffhanger teasers, low golf scores, untruthful boasts, malicious nicknames for enemies .... it's all good to him because, in which world, the spotlight is shining on him.
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If Donald Trump were actually an actor in a TV "reality" show nobody would believe it. It is unbelievable that so many Americans actually voted for this adolescent clown. It still more unbelievable that more than 30% of Americans think he is doing a good job. What are they all smoking?
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Except the GOP and Trump's dwindling base, sponsors of this awful reality show, don't have the intelligence or guts to cancel it.
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"I guess we’ll have to compare I.Q. tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
Oh, I'm pretty sure we already know.
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While the media is focused on his insane tweets, Trump and his cabinet are disassembling the government from the inside.
According to the constitution our democracy gets things done through government. In a republic our representatives are supposed to make lives better for the people.
Trump and the Republican Party think government is the enemy and Trump is now attacking the government from the inside.
His wrecked tweets are designed to distract us while the real work hours on.
Don't fall for it.
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Reflecting on the results of the presidential election last fall, one Huffington Post commentator found five mutually reinforcing, contributory traits in the American electorate and contemporary society:
Celebrity Worship
Political Apathy
Unwillingness (or Inability) to Think Critically
Fixation on Nonsense over Substance
Self-Affirming Insularity
“We should be appalled” by the consequences, David Edward Burke suggested, “but we should not be surprised.”
Nor should we be astounded that Trump continues to stream his fatuous extravaganza as long as a segment of the viewing public remains sufficiently spellbound to unwittingly share in the spectacle. The Circus Maximus is here to stay … at least until the decadence becomes unbearable, the republic is overrun, or we finally wise up and find much better fare to begin to channel.
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Trump didn't call Corker "liddle", he called him "liddle'". Every misspelled word, grammatical or syntactical error, or unnecessary punctuation mark is likely some kind of dog-whistle to the so-called president's ignorant, seditious, bloodthirsty base. Covfefe, everyone, and try to stay calm.
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Neither height, nor the size of the dangly thing, is the measure of a man. Nor are bullying, cruelty, lack of self-control, or desperately lying to try to look manly. The "manly man" in the Oval Office has no idea what makes a real man.
Real men don't need to lie.
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We have a President who behaves in ways that we would not tolerate from any child. He is a small minded (name calling?), bullying lying narcissist and it is hard for me to understand why anyone would try to defend his behavior. Don't Sarah and Kellyanne have kids of their own? (I don't mean to focus only on women -- I'd have said the same thing about Sean before he left). How can they hope to teach proper, courteous behavior and the idea of respectful disagreement when their kids see them seeking to justify this classless, dishonest, boor? Don't they have any self respect at all? All of these sycophants are enabling him and our very security (not to mention our core values) can be at risk. If anyone created a character like this it would have to be considered farce -- and yet it's our reality and it is modeling behavior that is intolerable. How can it stop? Perhaps a starting point would be for people to call it out when it happens. When he lies, don't try to put words in his mouth that he didn't say (e.g., he didn't say the highest corporate taxed nation, he said the highest taxed nation -- and he said it repeatedly...that is false, it is a lie and it should not be spun or defended. It should be stopped)
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He is right, it is continuing at the expenses of this country. As he destroy this country. the media is helping him by 24 hour coverages of him.
Can you imagine that when someone is burning down a building and news crews are just filming and reporting the news but not helping to stop the fire.
Trump knows this and will continue to create controversy for his own reality show as this country is descending fast into avast commercial of Trump.
Saaaaaaaaad
NYT. where is that statistic of his lies ? I am sure the number is going up everyday since it was published a few months ago
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Disasters all over the country, loss of lives due to Hurricanes with major wind and flood damage, out of control fires destroying thousands of homes, deranged killers slaughtering people, and in the midst of it all something so bad, so rotten, so disgusting as to be unspeakable. Something that spends its days deriding and insulting everyone, especially those who can't defend themselves. Words cannot adequately describe it because there' aren't any bad descriptively bad enough so I won't try. Suffice it to say that if it isn't disposed of it, as a country we will regret it forever.
The only way to rid ourselves of it is to destroy what's holding it up and defending it. And that can be done. If all the Republicans who support this piece of you know what are voted out of office in the upcoming elections then Congress can do to what they did to Obama and that is block everything he comes up with. Let us all get together and promise now that's what we will do in in 2018 and 2020.
Looks like its time to shut this government down when the next debt ceiling vote comes. Who needs it.
Alas, Mr. President, have you no shame?
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America, you're watching your own slow motion self-destruction by the hand of a megalomaniacal reality TV clown. You ASKED for this. You IGNORED everything you KNEW about this guy and just look at you now. We're in an out of control downward slide put in motion by a self-entitled schoolyard bully - and no one DARES take Constitutional action!! If this were #44 behaving like THIS? America would have done WAY more by now. The ultimate epitaph will read: "America, self-blindfolded then, smothered (enthusiastically!) in white privilege.
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Tillerson calls Trump a moron, which is proven correct after Trump calls Corker a fool (wildly untrue) and considers Corker not qualified to be Sec. of State because of his height (heightism did not stop Napoleon; and weightism would have kept Trump himself out of the Oval Office). Then Corker in turn describes Trump as a child with temper tantrums as he plays in the nuclear sandbox, thus endangering the whole Earthly playground. All this seems fitting for the remedy offered -- not by impeachment -- but by the 25th Amend., Sec 4, which sidelines a president when he is unable to carry out the duties as well as the powers of his office (as sworn in his Oath of Office). VP Pence, who is neither tall nor short, neither overweight nor skinny, would become Acting President because... he is a Republican.
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The NYT only validates Trump's boorish and crass behavior by comparing it to a reality TV show, which many people will find an adequate justification for his behavior. The truth is, Trump is unstable and unfit for office, is a chronic liar, and behaves like a 3rd grade bully. This should be unacceptable to everyone.
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Audie Murphy was somewhere between 5'5"-5'8" tall. For those who are unfamiliar with that name, he was the most decorated US soldier in WWII, including the Medal of Honor. Trump isn't good enough to have cleaned CPT Murphy's toilet.
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" I don't believe in undercutting people" ?
Hahahahaha
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"He called out the offending senator for being short and ... his first wife and third wife waged a public war of words over who was really his first lady."
This is White House equivalent of Jerry Springer Show.
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Trump's lack of fitness to command or perform the duties of head of the federal government could not be clearer. Why is he still allowed any deference? Why hasn't he been removed? There are too many corrupt officials taking advantage of the situation for their own gain. Don't they realize they are going to suffer like the rest of us as our institutions crumble and our competitors thrive as we go backwards? DJT is not the only moron in office. Congress is lousy with selfish, ignorant and greedy members willing to see the country decay and fall in on itself. DJT is a symptom of something more sickening and lethal that has become an epidemic.
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The real problem here is not just a total moron as President of the United States; it's a Congress that's interested in only one thing: getting re-elected in their job for life. Until we the people change that gormless characters like Trump will continue to be a major threat.
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Grifter. Chancer. Unbridled bully. Unprincipled bigot. Uncaring con man. And of course..... a moron as well according to one of his most senior cabinet members. This isn't a reality show.... it's our national nightmare. Period. Has to stop. Now.
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It's so easy to play the Trump weasel ! Just state something that VERY easily embarrasses him & POP goes the weasel for days on end, or until something else ridiculous gets under his VERY thin skin for the manchild & more tantrums follow !
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Regardless whether Trump is a moron or not, he is definitely a guttersnipe!
This is the price the US must now pay for all of its ridiculous delusions - arrogance and hubris. We are a stupid stupid country.
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Is it too late? Can Devin Nunes be prosecuted for obstruction of justice? Impeach impeach impeach, we know the direction for this corruption is coming from the wh regime and the unelected putin-pretend pres.
Is it too late? Corker just said what any intelligent person knows who puts the constituents over party, dt lies and DC knows it. Where are the spines for the rampant corruption? Impeach and keep the focus on the moron the unpres. is. Shame on the GOP for not pushing the IQ-less moron out of office.
I turn the channel or cover the face of the moron when it's on and rely on the super truth-reporting press versus the illegitimately unelected moron from the blackhouse of criminals and corruption.
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The liberals do not like Donald Trump very much do they. They use every opportunity to discredit him and never write anything about his accomplishments. We keep reading these negative stories and listening to television reports that have nothing nice to say. He must be doing something right because he is getting under the progressives skin. If he was not succeeding, his detractors would just remain silent.
speak roughly to your little boy
and beat him when he sneezes;
he does it only to annoy
because he knows it teases.
Why are the living ex-Presidents silent on this deranged assault on democratic institutions? If ever our country needed elder statesmen with their wits about them, NOW is the moment for them to come forward and speak up in defense of democracy. Trump must be stopped NOW.
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I think a Trump IQ test would be very interesting, bearing in mind that the only thing an IQ test truly measures accurately is one's ability to take an IQ test.
I always found reality shows boring and uninteresting. Finding myself inside one of them has proven, at least to me, that I was right they are.
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It's a horror show. There is genuine despair out here.
Trump has got to go.
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No one would know who Trump was if Daddy didn't have money. He never even applied for a job until he ran for President & the Apprentice show is the only other thing he has ever succeeded at apart from his election. He is Celebrity Apprentice President because he doesn't know how to be anything else.
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Please, let us resist to stop the insanity before we have war with N. Korea. mr. Trump clearly wants to be a war hero--at great cost to our military, the future of the world, and the promise of democracy
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Thank You, New York Times! Thank You! For introducing us to Tom Streyer. Finally, a Democrat who understands the Republicans and their "base". Something so rare in today's politics. Thank You!
There are case studies regarding 45's personality; a mixture of narcissism and Alzheimer's seem to be the correct diagnosis. Time for the 25th amendment plus whatever Mueller finds.
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Am I the only liberal that misses Ronald Reagan? Disagree with his policies until the cows come home but at least he acted like an American president.
Reagan was an actor, after all. a great pretender, one might say. but at lesdt he didn't break chatacter.
Trump breaks everything, including the bank.
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" ... an unpredictable president whose tendency to personalize every issue creates risks for the GOP agenda ... " (Erica Werner, AP) Not to mention risks for the country. Mr. Trump has never been and will never be fit to be POTUS.
The man is over saturating his own method. There's too much absurdity to even bother separating the articles anymore. This entire piece is basically one weekend's exploits. He's got reporters working in shifts. I think we need to just back-page Trump and forget about him. Leave Trump news to the tabloid section where he belongs. Let me know when Mueller has an update. In the meantime, keep the spotlight on Congress. There's nothing Trump hates more than losing the spotlight. There's nothing Congress hates more than constant scrutiny. The deal is a win-win.
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Questions in the war between Pedestal Culture versus Gotcha Culture:
Do you want to see people do their best or do their worst?
Are you thrilled by the success of others or the failure of others?
Do you prefer to watch excellence in action or incompetence in action?
Does watching the humiliation of others revolt you or entertain you?
Would you rather lift yourself higher or watch others fall lower?
Do you lust for accomplishment or scandal?
Do you crave cooperation or conflict?
Reality TV or dramatic TV?
Wrestling or the arts?
Light or dark?
Psyche or Id?
"Better angels" or worse?
Trumpism is America’s current answer.
It is a long, long way from Lincoln
DJT is an absolute waste of time and taxpayer dollars. He accomplishes nothing positive. Rolling back a previous administration's hard earned accomplishments is NOT truly "doing" or accomplishing the hard work of governing. DJT actually believes that he is being "president". A sad statement on him and his base. Did his base expect that his presidency would simply be trips to his various golf courses/luxury hotels where the financial elite meet? Trump is an under performer in many ways. He appears to lack intellectual curiosity as well as a well developed vocabulary. In fact, even if he had a complex or profound thought, would he actually be able to find a sufficient vocabulary to describe the thought or concept? One has to wonder.
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except for the fact we are risking WWIII, it is the best reality show aired in television. nothing will be the same after the Donald J. Shows like Veep are doomed with the twitter-in-chief. it is unbelievable that we are reading comedy in a section of the NYT that used to be dedicated to serious issues.
"Mr. Trump’s West Wing has always seemed to be the crossroads between cutthroat politics and television drama, presided over by a seasoned showman who has made a career of keeping the audience engaged and coming back for more. Obsessed by ratings and always on the hunt for new story lines, Mr. Trump leaves the characters on edge, none of them ever really certain whether they might soon be voted off the island.
“Absolutely, I see those techniques playing out,” said Laurie Ouellette, a communications professor at the University of Minnesota who has studied reality television extensively. “Reality TV is known for its humiliation tactics and its aggressive showmanship and also the idea that either you’re in or you’re out, with momentum building to the final decision on who stays and who goes.”
These are key points. They enable Trump to be a 'great' campaigner in his own way. These skills have yet to prove valuable in governing though, in fact appearances have the whiff of a monumental failure in that department. Trump learned his craft in reality TV and the WWF. Democracy has this weakness, as has been pointed out repeatedly all the way back to Plato. If you want to solve the problem, you can't just get rid of Trump, you also have to get rid of the voters.
The always battling "Real Housewives" having nothing on the drama queen in the White House right now.
I'd love to see "Battle of the IQs" between The Donald and ANY member of his Cabinet, especially if it contained a vocabulary test. If Trump knows any more than about 100 words, he certainly doesn't show it.
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I think Harambe the Gorilla had a larger vocabulary and better use of syntax.
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So you think Trump is keeping the "audience" (aka the the American people and our neighbors around the world) at the edge of their seats?
Actually, we're at the ends of our ropes from his idiocy and incompetence. Make it - and him - stop!
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It is so painful to see the slow implosion of our republic. I fear for us and the rest of the world. Do any of these members of Congress have any fortitude to stop this? Sorry, Sen Corker, too little too late.....
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Every day Trump does something distracting and demeaning to someone. We need to spend less time commenting on his behavior and more time telling the Congress it's time to remove him.
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It's only a matter of time before Trump attempts to call Frederick Douglass to challenge him to an I.Q. test as well.
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Bob Corker is unconstrained and is now in a very powerful position because someone is finally speaking truth to power. What does that say about our leaders in Washington?
Trump's base is a cult of personality- he needs to be stopped at every attempt at bullying, ineptitude, and outright theft of the American taxpayer. How he has gotten away with this much lying, distracting, appalling (and potentially illegal) behavior is infuriating. Even with Mueller closing in nobody will do anything- what a black mark on our country, on our legacy as citizens of the USA.
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Trump's supporters are the real problem. They think he's being honest and real, saying what they think — on the dubious assumption that their brain activity passes for thinking. But their unwavering, mindless support only encourages the Peter Principle-in-chief to engage their attention as a psychotic sideshow, to the detriment of the majority of citizens, the exasperation of advisers and staff and the horror of the rest of the world. His supporters are simply too clueless to comprehend that chaos and disruption from a reality show freak is not governance in any legitimate manner.
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Eclectic Pragmatist — https://medium.com/eclectic-pragmatism
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It worked to get him elected. It did that by dominating the media, all Trump all the time.
So look at the media now. All Trump all the time.
It is not friendly coverage, but it wasn't during the election either. What matters to Trump is that nearly every story on nearly everything includes mention of Trump, even if it is just a way to bash him.
There is no escaping the subject of Trump in the news. THAT is what got him elected.
The media hasn't learned. They're still doing it.
If the coverage was instead of issues and events, then the steady stream of failure would matter much more.
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You are correct/media needs to devote their reporting to issues and ignore his tweets! MEDIA give this a try and see what happens! Please
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Seriously? Only now the press realizes that Trump treats the presidency as a reality TV show? Its been apparent to most people that his entire candidacy was built around a reality TV show called "The Presidency" starring Trump. His every action has been based on keeping him on the front page and generating high ratings. The press has played along because his antics produce readers.
How about the press starting to filter out Trump? It is time for the press to stop focusing on the activities of any reality TV show star and stop treating Trump as if he is a traditional President. He is not traditional by any measure.
It is also time for adult leadership to emerge from Congress, since it is not coming from the White House. If we could only get our congressional representatives and senators to move past partisan posturing, but that's another story all together.
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Unfortunately, one of the people he's saying "Nya Nya Nya" to has nuclear weapons.
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I graduated from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968, along with one Donald J. Trump. This website is an image of that year's commencement program. http://www.pennlive.com/news/2017/02/what_is_trumps_real_record_at.html
Donald J. Trump is indeed one of the graduates, but the right side of the page shows that he did not graduate with honors. Yours truly, Andrew M. Woods, did.
It appears that Trump used family connections to transfer into Wharton from another college. So, while he attended an elite Ivy League university, he was not an elite student.
Just as Trump will not disclose his taxes, he will not make public his academic transcript.
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Andrew, thanks for that. I've read that his 'degree' was in real estate or more particularly in 'Hotel and Resort Management',
Is that the case?
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Ah, another piece of the myth that is Trump...
Even junior high kids, getting into spats in their enthusiasm to outsmart one another, don't stoop to this level. When will Mr. Trump make an effort to grow up and to learn to conduct himself as the head of a coveted country, which is also the leader of the free world? It may be difficult for him to give up the crude ways he has practiced all his life. But it is worth trying.
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It's NO LONGER FUNNY! The joke is on us as people in Puerto Rico continue to languish with no electricity or water; as women are denied reproductive health care; as the Environmental Protection Agency continues to cease protecting the atmosphere and release more and more greenhouse gases that are already causing havoc with multiple, major hurricanes on the East coast and massive fires on the West coast; and as an unstable President continues to destabilize and terrorize members of his own White House staff and cabinet, senators and representatives, African-American professional football players, and North Korea by repeatedly threatening it with nuclear annihilation and starting "World War III." It's time to cancel this frightening true reality show before it's too late.
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We know that the Apprentice was edited and that outtakes will show a different Trump than the one we saw on air. According to Bob Pruitt, a producer, Trump made deplorable racist remarks. We also know that those outtakes were not released during the campaign and I, sadly, believe they would not have disturbed his base. Now we are all getting to see what an unedited Apprentice might look like. Shame on all of us and especially on those who have the power to speak up but remain silent.
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Let's hope it's not renewed.
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I've asked this same question on this site many times before ( and may have coined the term 'Apprentice- White House') :
When, please when does this show get cancelled?
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only when the ratings tank...
so speak up everyone!
Why, oh why, was this man ever treated as a legitimate candidate for the presidency? Why didn’t the media do their job almost two years ago and expose this man for the shameful, bombastic, immature poseur that he is?
Have we become that star-struck and infatuated with celebrity? Do we not see how that fascination leaves us open to threat, both from within and without? We are reaping what has been sown. Some of us saw it coming; others were too busy being entertained. And to quote the great man himself: Sad!
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The media did show us what he is and Americans still voted for him.
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Are you kidding? He was completely exposed as the world's worst person from the second he descended that escalator. He only managed to "win" because the rest of the GOP candidates were horrible, his supporters are more interested in hating the "other" than in the well being of their fellow americans and because he enlisted the help of Vladimir Putin in upending the election.
Trump is DANGEROUS!!!! At least one GOP Senator is standing up for his convictions!!! Where are the others??????????????????????????
The scary thing is that the millions of people who watch reality TV shows that actually believe they are real and not "shows" that are scripted and molded and edited. These people just take what they see and believe it. Those people are what got Trump elected. He knows they will just take what he says and believe it even though everything out of his mouth is a lie and can be proven to be a lie. It is as if the shows have brainwashed a large percentage of the populace to just take words and believe them and that is what Trump is banking on.
Thank you again Senator Corker for taking a stand against this huge, whiny, 3 year old who calls himself President. Trump is killing us, he is killing the country, I just pray that more people like Senator Corker wake up to Trump's moronic, dangerous actions!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Nero fiddled while Rome burned.
Trump tweets while the US burns, drowns and blows away.
Sad. Way way more than sad.
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If this Congress was in charge during revolutionary times, we'd be singing "God Save the Queen" at football games. Corker marched in step until he decided to not run again. Although he brought into the light the truth that we all knew was in the shadows, he, like Comey who played the game, has helped put us n the situation we are in.
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If the audience went away, the show would end.
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Sen. Bob Corker, never a friend to progressive considerations in the Senate, has told the nation, on tape, that everyone in the Senate agree with him about Trump's incompetence and dangerousness. And yet, despite the fact that the Republican-controlled Congress could get nearly everything in its agenda passed with a President Pence, they continue to remain silent. Why? They are now so afraid of Steve Bannon and his plans to turn the Congress over to Trumpian acolytes, they just can take the chance of angering that sliver of the American votes, Trump's base of support. Those are the people who wanted change without understanding how Trumpian change would damage their own lives.
But let's be mindful of another fact: this is the same Republican Party, in both chambers of the Congress, attempting to LEGALIZE SILENCERS for guns. Imagine how many more people would have died in Las Vegas if no one had heard the gunfire. The Republicans have given this insane bill a moniker about reducing hearing loss of gun owners when they use their guns for sport. Given that shooters at the range have been using ear plugs for that, this bill is simply a nod to the gun accessories lobby.
And there you have it. The Senate Republicans, invertibrates all, should be lining up for a spine transplant to remove Trump from office. Bills like the one to legalize silencers will then be killed on the Senate floor.
I wish Sen. Corker well.
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There are millions of Americans who see nothing wrong in Trump's behavior, and in fact, think he's funny. They can't wait to see what he'll tweet next. They appreciate his insults and think they're well-deserved. These people are so used to being overlooked and having their interests ignored that it doesn't bother them that Trump disregards them too. They flock to his rallies and he doesn't let them down--he entertains them and keeps them laughing, which is more than most politicians ever do for them.
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Given what "these people" have wrought by voting for our contemptible President, they deserve to be "overlooked" and to have "their interests ignored."
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I agree, Brad, but we're the ones that are stuck with him. By continuing to ignore them, we could find ourselves in an even worse situation. Trump supporters love authoritarian leaders. They could do much worse in the future. We ignore them at our peril.
Gee, Republican Senators Collins, Corker, McCain and Murkowski all seem much taller in my eyes than President Trump.
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Unfortunately, we can't turn the TV off on this one.
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The I Ching advises and I paraphrase that if you want to know a man's character look to what goes into and out of his mouth. With Trump, those two actions can be described by the same word, "trash", realistically and symbolically. He gobbles up everything from out of context news bites to conspiracy theories and expels boasts, insults, lies and jabberwocky.
Of all of the insults Trump spews, the denigration of others based on physical features is perhaps the best example of his decidedly pedestrian mind. According to his definition of ideal, the Founders would be dismissed as "Little" and the feisty heroines of the suffrage movement as suffering from mysterious maladies including "bloodletting".
What Corker lacks in height he makes up for in seriousness of purpose and obvious intelligence and I say that as someone who would have voted against him if I lived in his state due to his loyalty to his party. Despite Trump's lack of loyalty to his party or anyone outside of his family, I wouldn't vote for him for any position and his height does nothing to make up for his other glaring deficiencies.
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The morally bankrupt Republican party, their deplorable supporters and Putin are responsible for unleashing this monster upon our nation and the world. While the GOP remains largely mute in the face of this madman destroying the presidency and the institutions that USED to make america great, we teeter on the actual eve of destruction. God help us all.
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The whole thing would be highly amusing if it weren't for Kim Jong-un lurking in the background.
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Honestly the critics give Trump too much credit. He's a big flaying hot mess lurching from insult to insult with no ability to govern or understand policy. I am not on the edge of my seat. I have a hard time looking at this insanity. I cry for my country. He should resign.
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Great, our country is being run by a realty TV actor pretending to be a President.
I don't think Trump believes he is really President. He thinks it is a big gag and plays it as such, waiting for the host to come out and say 'Got-cha'.
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The saddest part is that his base is ignorant enough to still be enjoying the show as his Executive Producers (Bannon, FOX News) continue to promote it as Emmy award-worthy.
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"...believe me.”
Good God, why for heaven's sake?
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But he sure can fire up the base the Rs desperately need like no other can
And he'll label great and then sign ANY w dream the Rs can turn into legislation with nary a cogent honest thought
And even better he'll passionately and amorally - driven by his own brand of vitriol - do a lot of the Rs dirty work without them lifting a hand to rend asunder all things however on balance good the uppity former occupant of the WH did the last 8 years
And best of all he with ne'er a modern philosophical and scientifically moral broader consideration partner with them the Rs to turn back the hands of time to the oligarch plutocracy tinged with white male militaristic theocracy their narratives explicitly or implicitly glorify as the American ideal
He is the IDEAL R President and they LOVE that he sits where he sits. Sure they'd like a better orchestrated partner - indeed they personally may recoil from the reality that they must break bread with the likes of him - but overall he's the man for their dirt work and in their minds a gift from the gods.
We are sunk as a nation if we did vote the lot out and soon!
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With no inner life--trump lives in the media---the 2 dimensional fake world of his phony persona.
his tax bill will fail. as he alienates his "allies" in the senate---trump is his own worst enemy. what a sick joke of a man....
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"...mocks a Republican senator’s height, challenges his secretary of state to an I.Q. contest..."
Trump has degenerated to the lowest form of childishness. Children having a feud will toss out stupid remarks like these, just as children will say: "my father can beat up your father."
Unfortunately for us as Citizens, it will not help to tell, yell, scream at Trump to "Grow Up." It is only going to get worse coming from the so-called president.
5
Rather than an IQ test, administer the MMPI so we can get an accurate diagnosis of his psychopathy and get on with employing the 25th amendment.
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Trump. Impeachment or 25th amendment removal of a (mentally) disabled president eventually will be recognized as an act of national self-defense. Suspense: will that awakening arrive in time?
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Yes, Mr. Trump, please take an I.Q. test; and while you're at it, take a mental competency test as well.
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Americans need to get smarter. Why do we always vote for a name? Just because somebody is widely recognized doesn't mean they make a good president. Experience matters. Personality matters. Ability to get along with others matters. Policies matter. Each and every one of us needs to pay more attention to what is happening to our country and take this knowledge straight to the voting booth. Don't vote on a soundbite or campaign slogan. Pay attention!
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Speaking of whether Melania Trump is the bona fide First Lady, isn't the press continuing to overlook the open issue regarding her claim to citizenship? Last year it was clearly shown via a timeline that she worked in the U.S. while here on a tourist visa. That would have had to have been revealed on her application for citizenship, and it would have disqualified her. Also, omitting such material information on an application is grounds for revocation of U.S. citizenship.
So before we get into the squabble with Ivana Trump over whether Melania is the First Lady, we should first be asking whether Melania Trump is rightfully a U.S. citizen.
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I thought "beautiful, soft paper towels" was the worst of the week. I was wrong again.
8
Driving the other day I saw this on a car: "Please make the bad man go away"
I had to pull off to the side of the road I was laughing so hard.
I think it was had-made! Interneting provided no hits.
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I suppose we'd rather have him push the red button and act really presidential. This world takes itself far too seriously, considering how little we had to do with creating it.
No, we'd rather have him removed.
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I've been in perpetual fear since November 9, 2016. So many things cut to my soul, like the knowledge that so many fellow citizens think Trump as president is just fine. Possibly worse is the recent information, revealed by Bob Corker, that most Republicans in Washington feel the same way I do, but do not take action. Unless there are cautious, undercover plans afoot to remove Trump, this is the worst knowledge yet.
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Those that can, do; those that can't, blather. People who have a high IQ don't have to remind people, they prove it by their actions. If in fact Trump had a decent IQ he would he would be smart enough to know how to keep his mouth shut. As it is he brings all the dignity of sleep deprived five year old to the White House.
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"Will the REAL Mrs. Trump. . .. .
. . . ."PLEASE STAND UP!"
Shakespeare has a line: "Were this acted upon the stage right now, I would condemn it as improbable fiction."
Me too, Will! IS THIS HAPPENING? ARE WE DREAMING?
But I said the same thing long ago--after the Republican debate. The one where--you know--there arose a controversy about. . .um. . about the size of certain bodily. . . .er. . . .members. . . . .
I read about it in a New York Times op-ed piece. Seriously--I thought it was a spoof. Something The Onion might put out.
It dawned on me--this is real.
And the walls began turning round and round.
Now on the subject of humiliation. . . .
. . .this job must be a NIGHTMARE for Mr. Trump. As never before, he is obliged to sit there and TAKE humiliation. Let HIMSELF be mocked and denigrated--belittled--run down.
He who, through most of his long life, has mocked and denigrated OTHER PEOPLE.
No wonder he tweets nonstop. "I gotta be the guy in charge here. I gotta start DISHING IT OUT--not just sit here (in this fancy Oval Office) and let every no-good son of a ____________ dish it out to ME. No sir! No sir!"
But it don't work that way, Mr. President. To paraphrase an illustrious predecessor:
THE FLACK STOPS HERE.
Just learn to sit back and take it, sir. You'll feel a lot better.
So will we.
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The term "Reality Show" implies reality, not scripted Hollywood entertainment. It was a Game Show.
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I was never a big fan of the "Reality TV" in the first place. I saw them as a trade off of slightly weaker demographics for significantly lower production costs and evidence that many people watch TV just to have it "on". With Donald's election one can only imagine what the producers in the TV "industry" are asking themselves regarding election metrics. "How low can we go and still have a candidate. How inexperienced? Is there a minimum IQ? Do they really have to be born a citizen? Too bad about about Henry, I guess he'll be looking for a job now. We'll need someone for the next season." And we thought Being There was a comedy.
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The problem isn't that the man in the Oval Office is behaving as if he's in a reality TV show. The problem is that Americans knowingly elected a reality TV personality to occupy the Oval Office. Why on earth would anyone expect him to behave differently?
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When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became the president, I lowered it to a whole new level.......
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Hate to say it but you get the leaders you deserve.
If folks don't like it best plan to start hoofing up to NH to work the ground game next fall and start writing checks. .....
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Trump's Revenge...why
“Narcissistic Rage” (NR), is a term coined in 1972 by Heinz Kohut…one of the classic behaviors of the narcissist. Most narcissistic victims have experienced serious outbursts of NR which can include violent physical attacks, hysteria, screaming and verbal or emotional abuse.
NR covers a wide range of behaviors from aloofness or mild irritability to serious, physically violent attacks. A narcissist often makes unrealistic demands on those closest to them. The narcissist has a fragile ego that cannot stand to ever be wrong or viewed as imperfect, therefore the narcissist responds with feelings of rage and contempt toward the challenger. When challenged or slighted in the least, the narcissist perceives these as outright attacks on him and reacts with rage toward that person in order to regain feelings of superiority and assuage his self-esteem…They are explosive, volatile outbursts which may be verbal, physical, or both. NR can also be related to narcissists’ need for total control of their environment, including “the need for revenge, for righting a wrong, for undoing a hurt by whatever means”. The fuming rage impairs their cognition, therefore impairing their judgment. During the rage they are prone to shouting, fact distortion and making groundless accusations.
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Thank you for this enlightening outline. It clearly states the underlying nature of why Trump is unfit to hold the office of president. As all his world is inward facing and all his time is occupied with defending the fragile image that he alone holds of himself, it leaves no available time or space for the leveled and considered reasoning that is necessary to make decisions in the best interest of 330 million Americans.
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Trump is indeed starring his ultimate reality show, complete with insults, humiliation, intrigue, and almost daily cliff hangers. However, this time, it's up to us the viewers, to deliver the catch phrase by going to the polls and saying loud and clear "You're fired!".
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You lot prefer the posturing of the Bush administration, evidently. Trump's shenanigans are nothing compared to what resulted from you lot rolling over and playing dead while the Bush administration defenestrated our national reputation.
Admit it, you lap it up as much as his core supporters do.
1
Invoke the 25th amendment now and remove this incompetent, festering embarrassment from office.
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As to this reality show of this presidency, "You're fired!" refers to the nuclear missile codes being launched.
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How much longer?
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Will Melania and Ivana duke it out on "Maury" in a winner-take-all battle of the First Ladies? Stay tuned.
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A steel cage match, mano a mano! Catch ALL the action on FOX!
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“For Trump, the Reality Show Has Never Ended,” because a clown is always a clown. A clown can change his costume and stage but the nature of the clown remains intact.
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This is all such sick stuff, our country, culture, and society are being led into the abyss by some crazed cartoon character.
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Would the nonsense stop if the teal media stopped reporting his Tweets? I abhor the idea of Twitter - it is all noise - allowing a platform for the dissemination of lies and crude and rude behavior. First there was Trump and now it's his ex- wife making a mockery of the White House. This is plain Twitter trash - White House Twitter trash!with Congress cowering in the corner. At least there are s few people with moral convictions in Congress but too few.
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It's the news media's responsibility to report on the president.
Since Trump communicates through Twitter, it needs to be covered.
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Intelligent people don't fuss about their I.Q. scores. If they find that other people underestimate their intelligence, they keep a straight face and turn that underestimation to their advantage.
Donald Trump, in contrast, says, "I guess we'll have to compare I.Q. tests" and hastens to add, "I can tell you who is going to win." Pathetic.
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President Donald Trump bragged on Tuesday that he could beat Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on an IQ test and then... Mensa Offers To Give IQ Tests To Donald Trump And Rex Tillerson [HP]
In writing his response to Hillary Clinton’s IQ scores, Donald Trump was sitting at his desk and saw a bottle of hand sanitizer with the numbers of 99.99%...that is where he gleaned the numbers of his retort of answering 99.99% of the questions of the IQ test correctly. He states his IQ is 156. In comparison, Stephen Hawking – IQ 160.
Dr Amanda Potter, psychologist, British Psychological Society: “While having a sufficient cognitive ability or IQ is important for any individual to succeed, both emotional intelligence and social intelligence are also critical.”
She added all three types of intelligence were important for the success of an individual.
Emotional Intelligence: being aware of, control, and express one's emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically. "emotional intelligence is the key to both personal and professional success" (Daniel Goldman)
Social Intelligence: An aggregated measure of self/social-awareness, evolved social beliefs and attitudes, capacity to manage complex social change. Social intelligence defines humans.
So, in which of these areas of intelligence is Trump deficient?
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It's one thing to be a socially, emotionally and intellectually challenged person in a closely held company and with a pile of cash but not acceptable in the White House and not with that job.
2
With Trump, for 50 years, it has always been about the show. There have always been suckers willing to buy a ticket.
5
Enough already. Past time for impeachment.
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The beatings will continue until morale improves!
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This whole presidency has been, and will continue to be, a joke.
Apparently in it's desperation to avoid having a woman or a non Caucasian man lead, the GOP is willing to put a narcissistic, insecure clown in charge of the country.
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Trump is an overrated court jester and I'm bored with his act. The only thing that will keep me on the "edge of my seat" is his impeachment hearing.
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My dad was dying of cancer back in 1973 . The only thing that cheered him up was the committee chaired by Sam Ervin about Watergate. John Dean got a wide grin. I think the end of Donald Trump will elicit that and a sigh of relief.
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Trump is notoriously ignorant of history, but he has apparently picked up a factoid or two of late. He's heard that Theodore Roosevelt referred to the presidency as a "bully pulpit." So, he's misunderstood what TR meant. Not surprising. But give him credit for trying. In the case of North Korea he's turned TR's mantra on his head as he threatens, shouts, insults and struts like a schoolyard bully, while carrying a pathetically small stick in his tiny hands. And he's taken FDR's "all you have to fear is fear itself" in a new direction: making division and fear and xenophobia the very foundations of his presidency.
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One difference between Trump and Corker: nobody is making Trump sound like a fool; he comes by it naturally.
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Trump and Weinstein are cut from the same slimy cloth; both are bullying sexual predators, both think that they are above the rest of us. Weinstein has taken his fall. Trump is next. It can't happen soon enough.
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...says the man who sounds a fool every time he opens his mouth or his Twitter app.
5
Can't wait for season two of "The impeachment files"...
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Just remember Donald...To Belittle is to be “LIDDLE”
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The great blues singer, Jimmy Reed, nailed Trump perfectly in his hit song about a bully, "Big Bass Man." Jimmy, playing his guitar accompanied by harmonica sang to an an audience he could have foreseen: "You ain't so big, you just tall, that's all." Rock on America.
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I sure would like to see that IQ contest between Trump and Tillerson.
4
Trump is a very sick man traumatizing an enormous segment of this society with his vile and most despicable moral turpitude. A tweetard causing pain and harm on a daily basis.
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Even a sane person couldn't take being criticized 24/7. By any legal means possible we need to get him out of there by Halloween. He's about to blow.
4
In one way of considering intelligence, it is many-fold and one aspect of it is wisdom and empathic awareness to figure out the meaning of life and what one should do. He is a zero.
Typical IQ tests do not measure the character of an individual; Hitler might have been very smart too but that doe not mean we want him back as a leader!
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THIS IS A NATIONAL CRISIS RIGHT NOW!!!
How about WE come to the aid of our country! Were you all asleep in civics class? Any voter who hasn't called their Congressional representatives right now, has not been listening! Corker yesterday and Clapper earlier defined the problem: That the President is a clear and present danger, and is unfit for office. With not ONE thoughtful denial from ANY responsible member of Congress, the armed forces, or his own Cabinet members. They have acknowledged just that fact. Corker was begging for calls from ALL voters with the same concerns. They can't easily remove him from the office until they get that. They already have the facts, they need our voices. Trump's behaviors and actions have already provided the proof! CALL...I can just about guarantee it will be quick, and the Republicans can have the next three years with a sane voice carrying on their agenda...without the threat of annihilation or civil war! CALL NOW! Then cut and paste this message on every dammand Comment Section and Facebook Page you have access to and ask others with the same concern to do the same! Let's use the same tools that Bannon and Russia used to get this man into office to remove him from it! Then we can all get back to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness!
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And what else would you expect from a man who mocked, mimed and called a disabled reporter a liar?
Dry rot is never pretty.
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The terrifying thing is: Only Trump knows how his "show" will turn out. Nuclear holocaust? Mass firings of subordinates? Total disregard of the law? Anarchy? Oh wait, we know that's happening already.
1
Please God make it stop, make it stop.......
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While Trump is playing his reality presidency show North Korea is hacking into our war strategies, the Republican party is planning a windfall tax reduction for the rich and chopping at the bit to increase healthcare costs to the middle-class. Trump has made a mockery of our country and apparently doesn't care. If our Constitution and democratic process is to mean anything Trump must go and he must go now!
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Media need to give more attention to what Trump does and less attention to what he says. He's playing you and your eating it up.
4
Trump is the president.
It matters what he says.
That, and he doesn't do anything else except throw hissy fits.
4
Excuse me what exactly has he done?
Maybe we can call Senator Corker "Little Big Man," since he might be physically shorter than average, but he was big enough to stand up to Trump, which is bigger than his partners in the GOP.
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Let's make this worthwhile and have Trump and Tillerson face off on knowledge of the U.S. Constitution, the role of the president and national and world events.
7
They elect a reality show TV star and are surprised when the White House is run like a reality TV show.
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Remember, this is a man who said on national TV he could shoot someone on 5th Ave. in NYC and get away with. He meant it.
So far not a single voice has been raised by anyone at any level of law enforcement or government has contradicted him. Silence in response to his increasingly outrageous and deranged declarations is, in Trump's tiny mind, wholehearted approval.
Until he is met with a solid, loudly vocal wall, from the powerful in DC, from foreign capitals around the world and not just from traditional media, things can only get worse. There is no way they could get better.
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Presumably, reality TV works off a script. Trump makes it up as he goes. He demeans the office of president as he belittles others. But don't worry, we're on the right track now...
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The important thing in all of this is that the stock market is doing quite well.
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The stock market was doing really well just before the Wall Street crash of 1929 that caused the 12 year long Great Depression.
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There must be some aberration that makes a person crave attention and notoriety. That aberration afflicts Trump, Kim Jung Un and Steven Paddock, in different ways. For some leaders like Obama, the idea of accomplishing something is what he craves; for Trump it is the notoriety itself. He is happy to destroy things if he gets more air time in the media. We are all facilitating this behavior, constantly watching his show. Thus, our behavior is suspect as well.
For myself, I find this show depressing and dark and I don't want to watch anymore; what I want is serious political discussion; I want positive not negative direction. I also don't want any of the one sided, mean spirited, destructive policies that he and the Republicans have cooked up, to be unilaterally implemented without robust political discussion.
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Will someone please get a copy of his college transcript. Let's just see if he really measures up. Personally, I don't think he knows where Wharton is. Could daddy have made a large contribution just to get him accepted? Just saying.
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He started at Fordham, which has a strong tradition of teaching ethics and transferred to Wharton, which has a strong tradition of teaching ethics. Whether he attended any of the offered courses is unknown. He certainly didn't take the honesty module. He questioned Obama's educational bona files. I questions Trump's intellectual ones.
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Like father like daughter
People all wrapped up in defending Corker as a moderate grown up compared to Trump should remember the overtly racist ads run against Harold Ford, Jr- the Democrat who opposed him in the general election. The RNC paid for them and Corker did not stop them. they ran day and night non-stop on Tennessee TV stations.
Here is one of the ads that got Bob Corker elected:
https://youtu.be/24rM3--lIv8
From a NYT article about the ad:
John Geer, a professor at Vanderbilt University and a specialist in political advertising, said that it “is playing to a lot of fears” and “frankly makes the Willie Horton ad look like child’s play.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/us/politics/26tennessee.html
Corker was elected to the Senate playing racist ads from the Republican National Committee. Some Moderating influence.
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To those fellow readers who want the media to stop publishing Mr. Trump's awful tweets, that is akin on one level to the misguided parents of a badly behaved toddler thinking that if they just ignore him, he will stop. On another level, it's akin to the FBI declaring that they will stop wiretapping a terrorist on the verge of a killing spree because they are offended by his crude language.
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I keep thinking about the Russian meddling in the election. It brings back memories of Nikita Khrushchev stating : We do not have to invade the United States.
We will destroy you from within.
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If astronauts and elite special forces have to pass the most rigorous of physical fitness tests, then the most powerful person in the country should have to pass a routine psychological assessment. The absence of which leads us to stopgap legislation that Corker suggests. "Can be baited with a tweet...finger on the button..."
1
Trump brags about his IQ? What test did he take? Who administered it? I dare him to take one again, observed, and legitimately administered. I can just see him fumbling around with the blocks.
4
Trump's father had to donate a large sum of money (a bribe) and pull strings to get Trump into University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business as an undergraduate transfer student. This indicates that Trump had an inadequate SAT score (using the old SAT testing) for transferring to the University of Pennsylvania. There used to be correlation between SAT scores and IQ using the old SAT testing. An inadequate SAT score indicates he was significantly below the average SAT scores of other students attending the university at the same time.
Thus his IQ was below the average IQ of the other students at that university. This does not mean he had an IQ below 100 but probably means his IQ is below 120.
He claims he is a genius. When I listen to him talk, my impression is that there is no way he scored above 1000 (out of 1600) on the old SAT test. Either that, or he has developed dementia.
3
Trump's never ending attempts to publicly shame anyone who challenges him are significant problems and demonstrate his mental instability. I say "attempts" because Trump is the person who ends up looking bad.
3
Republicans in Congress and state gov't cannot simultaneously support his agenda and his tactics. Please know that no one...NO ONE will forget the unconditional support that you have given him. Ryan, McCarthy, Issa, Cornyn, King, McConnol,....all you guys are done because no one will forget that you unconditionally supported this guy and thought he would be a good leader of the free world. It is embarrassing at this point and you all know it and cannot undo your support for his agenda, tweets and tactics. Regardless of how much he plays to his base, we will not let the rest of America know that you thought this would go well. You have demonstrated your inability to make the right choices for America, and no one will forget this.
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It is disappointing that republicans expected anything different. This nay be a little worse than I expected but the traits trump is displaying are exactly what we saw on the apprentice and the campaign trail.
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We need to look in a mirror. “We” elected him and the members of both houses who then get to appoint and confirm the judiciary. The only thing broken is us. These people, now in power, represent us. Or at least those that voted and those that didn’t and gave these positions to them either directly or by default.
1
Before Trump, we Americans liked to celebrate our American form of liberal democracy as the greatest of all democracies in the world--the greatest, even, of all that have appeared in history. And now, in the presidency of one man, it's been destroyed.
Knowing Trump was temperamentally ill-equipped to be president, millions of "decent" Americans voted for him anyway. Then, knowing he was ethically horrible, hundreds if not thousands of people voluntarily signed up to "serve" in his administration. Finally, in fear of their political futures, our political representatives in the House and the Senate behave like craven cowards.
It turns out our liberal democracy was as fragile as all the others that have gone down before us.
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Emile: we the people should never have bought into American myths of "the best," " we're #1," "exceptionalism," john Wayne rugged individualism,etc. It gave us a collective hubris-- unwilling to adapt, unable to learn from others, denying challenges. only a people with a healthy skepticism toward the past and the present can grow. this national failure explains our slo-mo demise. desperately clinging to the myths is what led angry and obsolete people to vote for a TV guy with demagogic tendencies.
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People tend to retreat to what they know when faced with new situations. For Trump it is A) demeaning others, B) using others for his gain, both learned from his father, which fit right in with his other experience, C) reality TV. Those are his fall-back skill sets. Then again I am not sure what his "forward" skill sets are.
It is too bad that Trump wasn't in my leadership group where we learned that the skills that got you where you are aren't necessarily the skills you need for the next step.
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Indeed, I'm truly on the edge of my seat. Every morning I wake up early and check the news to see if WW III has started.
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It's like the entire U.S. is suffering PTSD, inflicted by our own 'president '.
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Please call Corker and thank him for his courage. Then call your representatives and tell them to stand up. Flood the phones of the Senate and the House with your outrage.
Unfortunately Trump's base revels in name-calling, insults, bravado, and even violence. They will not change, but there are more people who are not in his base and we must speak up.
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Thank you senator Corker for speaking!
You do not know how much this means for so many frustrated people around the world who follow with increasing fear the development of the US politics. We hope your fellow republican senators will foĺlow up and take action.
Chaos in the WH were our greatest fear after Obama.
THE ELECTION WAS RIGGED
What a clever campaign strategy!
It seems to be proven more right every day.
This president is not elected fairly and he must have been knowing all about it, because why risk campaigning on it?!
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You mean the “entertainment fantasy show” has never ended, and the reality show has not yet started.
4
This guy's tweeting at 3:30 am. Something seriously wrong ... aside from the sleep deprivation seemingly evidenced by this timing -- which could have catastrophic consequences ... WHO but the unstable or troubled is routinely tweeting, and vitriol at that, hours before dawn?
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In fairness, tweets can be scheduled very easily. Plus he wants people to wake up and have his name in the news cycle
Kissinger was at the White House right after Trump fired Comey too, why is he always popping up? As if things weren't bad enough already.
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I have been interested in how Trump has managed to achieve so many amazing successes. Middle schoolers we label "bullies" don't usually get that far. Con men can do better -- their bank accounts might e.g. fluff up -- but they usually aren't in the spotlight. This article suggests to me an answer to my question. It's that he's a unique combination of bully and con man. The name calling and rudeness on one side, the soft-voiced, smooth-talking assurances to his base that he totally gets their plight on the other. All that plus a little bit of the fool and occasional ability to disarm which isn't necessarily part of the con (does he really do his own hair?) may explain it all. Thank you!
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I’m not sure what you consider to be his “successes”, clearly everything that by some measure could possibly be seen that way is only just another scam when you look closely.
Money.
If you followed his so called "successful" business career you will see that the person who has the other party at some type of disadvantage wins. He has used his "reputation" to leverage position and if that doesn't work he declares bankruptcy.
So we should stop watching. Problem solved. (Although as Senator Corker (R, TN) pointed out, someone needs to oversee the adult daycare).
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Insulated by his millions or "billions" from truth, surrounded by family and sycophants that tell him exactly what he wants to hear, Trump has been far from reality for years. His "Apprentice" TV show bears little connection to real business activities in real companies. His real estate deals have been more fraud and fiction than profitable enterprises - for everyone but Trump. His ultimate con was getting elected president - and now that he actually has to perform, he's failing miserably. I would say that far from being a "reality" TV star, Trump is a flailing fraudster, a con man ripping everything he can from the country before the whole con collapses. Corker is merely the first Trump enabler to sour on this particularly odious pretender. I just hope the rest of Congress comes to realize that Trump will harm Republican's future more than he'll help it, and conclude they must help Trump out of the White House and out of the Republican's future. "Reality" TV star? More like un-reality's personification.
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Mueller, please hurry before nuclear war or an environmental catastrophe wipes us out. At this point, our former world standing and moral leadership is the very least of my concerns.
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It's becoming clear: the spectre of re-election is the achilles heel of a democracy. The best politicians are not the ones who are habitually re-elected, they are the ones who do the right thing for the country, and let the chips fall where they may.
If you know your representative is not willing to fall on his/her sword for the sake of the country right now, vote them out.
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This "reality show" consciousness has altered perception. Americans and all see sort of a split screen landscape. However the authentic, rational side screen becomes smaller and diminished and in the last few days has been burned away (California fires).Perhaps interpreting all this mayhem with metaphor helps us decipher. In Haight Ashbury of San Francisco Playwright Dr. Larry Myers was seen loading boxes of donated clothes for vineyard fire victims. This on site engagement of walk on waters Catholicism is the boots on the ground service which can topple the genuine terror of defaced democracy, Theater artist must compose at the speed of light in our accelerated culture. This "Fire Eaters in Napa Valley' by dramatist Myers--produced in a 48 hour playwriting jihad holds a poetic, prophetic mirror up to media mayhem.
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"A president would not poke a senator in the eye when he has a two-seat majority and a major legislative agenda needing to be accomplished,” said a former Republican US Rep. now a lobbyist said this.
Demolition jobs on a derelict mainstream conservative party or the larger indirect democracy of America never was a "major legislative agenda".
2
I don't know which is worse, the fact that we don't really have a president, or that Republicans tolerate him as long as they think they'll pass something, anything, that sends flowers and kisses to their donor base.
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Good research now indicates Trump won the presidency because Obama and Hillary misjudged the political winds on the immigration issue in many states.
One wonders whether the Democrats realize they need to trim their sails on immigration if they are not going to avoid similar disasters in 2018 and 2020?
You need to go do real research into what Obama and the democrats were actually doing about immigration. Fox News doesn't count.
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So what happens when he says that he won on immigration. What will be the next divisive issue that he will exploit. Can he win again on the backs of kneeling football players. Maybe but don't forget the next fall guy maybe our catholic neighbor, our jewish neighbor, our gay neighbor, our college educated neighbor, our NYTimes reading neighbor, our black, brown and yellow skinned neighbor. They are the ones holding us back from making america great again?! In the end he will come for you, he will come for me and that is the only way he knows.
2
Look at the bright side: aided by a couple of huge hurricanes, Mr. Trump had clawed upwards in the polls a few points after the Scaramucci farce, the North Korea ranting, and his sympathy for the white supremacists of Charlottesville had dragged him to new lows. A few days of tweeting and he's scraping at the bottom again. It's been only nine months, the damage to our country is considerable, but Mr. Trump is also slowly undoing himself and the GOP that give him to us.
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I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall and heard what a disciplined diplomat like Kissinger told him!
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I'm not on the edge of my seat. That's the media-dream, and Trump knows it.
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Trump challenges Tillerson to IQ test.
In previous tweets, he claims he is very smart with a very high IQ.
According to the student newspaper at Penn, Donald Trump's name never appeared on any list of students on the Dean's List. Donald Trump did not receive any special honors at graduation.
Donald Trump underperformed at Penn.
Donald Trump is underperforming in Washington.
As a country we cannot accept underperformance from the POTUS.
How long can we let this continue before we cut our losses?
It's quite obvious Trump is a poor fit for the job.
On a side note Mr. President, ESPN ratings were tanking long before Jemele Hill became an issue.
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One of the most infuriating aspects of the Trump Reality TV Show presidency is that I've become increasingly convinced that DT is not legitimate. He only won by cheating, whether he himself orchestrated it or others. It doesn't really matter. This is absolute madness. Meanwhile, the GOP, with the exception of only a few, choose to look the other way and ignore the serious damage he's doing to this country. Even if we were able to relieve DT of his duties, Pence, who's hardly any better, is waiting in the wings.
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I'm a liberal who can't stand Trump. But I don't see any purpose to this article other than venting in an echo chamber.
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Sometimes venting can be therapeutic.
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If it's a reality tv show, why can't we turn it off? The joke is over. I want a real president, not a reality show carnival barker.
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What are we waiting for? It's time to turn to Trump and say, "YOU'RE FIRED!"
We can do that if everyone who is opposed to Trump will actually get out and vote, or turn in absentee ballots.
We can do this in 2018 and we can repeat the action in 2020. Trump is running for re-election now. He figures we're all going to be lazy and not vote. He's counting on an NFL game the night before Election Day to keep people from voting.
Let's disappoint him and send him off to retirement.
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It is possible that the president considers any story that is not about Russia or his family business dealings a good story. What advantage does he get from halting the spectacle?
Is anyone else growing tired of watching the "alternative reality TV" of President Trump? The edited montage of "positive PR" in Puerto Rico is disgusting. We have real people who are suffering, and coming together with resilience to do the best they can without electricity for an extended period of time.
Senator Corker is merely voicing in public what many GOP members of Congress are thinking in private. But for the 2018 midterm elections (and the fear of getting "right-flanked"), I too would voice my disgust with President Trump. We have growing evidence of a sophisticated cyberwar campaign (from Russia with love) to manipulate various social media channels (Twitter, Facebook, etc.) and sow chaos and propaganda among voters in Michigan and Wisconsin during the 2016 elections. How much more damage to the U.S. will occur before 2020?
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I don't think it's so much a show at all, I think our 45th president is deliberate and serious in his contempt of this clique of professed politicians. I think he is that smart and he knows they stand without an alibi for their history of questionable omissions in their service to the country. It is not the Emperor that is without clothes here, the scrutiny is not on Trump who was elected to replace the establishment candidates, rather it is on the career body politics that have been caught in the open while parading without their clothes.
Never a dull moment with Mr. Trump. However, there is method in his madness. The liberals and the media eat whatever he says and their negative comments serve as publicity for Trump.
Most people don't take some of the stuff Trump says seriously. It is time for his opponents to lighten up too and focus on the real issues.
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Funny but the threat of nuclear war most folks take very seriously.
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Far from being time to "lighten up," it's past time to remove him from office by any means necessary.
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Biting insults are a blue collar phenomenon. In and out of bars, clever insults confer status. Blue collar blacks "signify", a practice that has been studied by academics. Whether it's "your mamma" or your manhood, it's game playing with words and requires subtle skills. The best insulting is embraced by those insulted because the real message is that you belong. Hostile insulting is a whole different thing and divides the "audience." Friendly insulting is not reality show stuff. It is clever communication that brings people together.
I grew up in a blue collar town and learned the art of constructive insults. My childhood friends, no matter how high they may have risen or how low they may have fallen, still know how to play the game. When meeting someone new, many blue collar people will throw out a statement that subtly reflects their humor as a test of whether their new acquaintance is part of their world. As I say, the right kind of insulting is good stuff. There are no humiliation tactics and there are no TV cameras. The insulting by Trump appears to be the bad kind. But understanding what's going on has nothing to do with reality shows. The people who fail the blue collar affinity test grew up in places like Greenwich, CT. If you've always bee upscale and want to understand the game, consult those of us with blue collar backgrounds and we'll tell you whether we think it's the good kind or the bad kind.
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The key word in all that Michjas was "clever". Not childish. Not churlish. There have been some clever barbs from the White House over the years. Trump has yet to deliver one. Even one anywhere near what Reagan could.
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I want to thank our MSmedia for entertaining me with the White House Reality TV show by putting our president's outrageousness out front. I am glad his lies aren't ignored, the hyperbole edited out, the foul mouthed behavior that disrespects the office censored, and the irrelevant tweets discarded, because then we would get back to the policy moves that this man and his team are implementing. He would rant all the more if the media ignored his antics. Hurting our president like that would be too cruel. And selfishly if his wild and crazy side was neglected, then I couldn't hide from Puerto Rico and its struggling millions, the fires in California, the recovery of Houston... and Las Vegas, the diminished access to birth control, the erosion of environmental protections, the plight of the DACA millions, the debacle of North Korea, as well as the Russian threat to our very democracy. Or is that the gerrymandering that is used to silence the majority at the expense of a dwindling minority... If I did stay focused on these (and the rest) I would only feel anxious and powerless (like the republican congress). So keep up the good work!
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Isn't this the logical conclusion of breathless reporting on the political thoughts, such as they are, of celebrities? Why does the media insist on treating singers, actors, and comedians as if they are thoughtful public policy experts?
This paper does it regularly.
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I never imagined watching our government operate as though it were a sit-com on network television. Now we have the rest of the world as our laugh track.
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He is unfit.
How much more evidence does the Republican Congress need?
Why won't they stop him before it's too late? For the love of all that is still good about our country, for the love of our children, Trump must be impeached. Now.
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We are now almost 11 months into this charade of an administration: nothing, but nothing of substance has been done, not even ambassadors to our key allies have been appointed, while we are treated to see paper towels thrown to hurricane victimes, insults to the NFL, silence to the fires in California and Charlotteville, and a toddler shouting match with North Korea, plenty of firing and hiring and firing again, and a deluge of tweets.
Please, cut this monstrosity show now, GOP.
We do not want to wait to the end of the first season in order to drop it, we have seen enough.
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I am concerned with how much time the media, all of it, spends on reporting trump antics, tweets, name calling... I do read m dial coverage of them, laughing and crying at the same time? Can't coverage of this type go in the comics and obituaries instead of the national news section?
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Our country isn't a reality show. If T wants a reality show then quit and get your own.
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All of those people who voted for Trump because he would listen to them and solve their problems. Now, it turns out that, for those voters, Making America Great Again means tuning in for the next installment of a grotesque un-reality show. Yes, there's a laugh a minute. And, in the meantime, nothing is being done to address the problems of those voters but a whole lot is being done to endanger the world. Just keep, laughing, folks.
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Every morning I wake up overjoyed that we haven't had a nuclear war, and glad that I do not own a TV or follow TWITTER.
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All of this, so very rich.
"Mr. Trump leaves the characters on edge, none of them ever really certain whether they might soon be voted off the island."
I'd give my life savings to get 'off this island'.
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I never watched the reality shows. I didn't find them entertaining. Now I'm being forced to.
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Trump supporters seem to think the presidency is the ultimate reality show, the cruder the better. On TV last night the pundits had a field day with all this nonsense about I.Q. and height. Gone are the days when the GOP valued ideals such as character, leadership and decency. Trump, Bannon and Miller have hijacked their party and the GOP is too embarrassed to admit it. One by one some brave souls step up and speak truth to power. Then POTUS gleefully thrashes them with snide and often false comments meant to humiliate.
The Republic will hopefully survive Trump. The much more dangerous question is: what will remain? If SCOTUS does not rectify gerrymandering, and gaming the Electoral College becomes digital sport, the educated moderates in this country will have our children's futures controlled by people who place no value in our standing in the world, who seek no foreign alliances unless there is a clear pipeline of profit for us, who only think of the here and now and cannot carry ideas forward to their obvious future consequences (global warming, walking away from Iran deal, taunting Kim Jong-un) and who blame immigrants, blacks, elites, non-Christians and liberals for their own difficulties achieving or sustaining middle class status while resisting opportunities to relocate or retrain when their industry dies out.
Bannon refers to these folks as "The Forgotten Man." I wish I understood how taking away healthcare and lowering taxes on the rich helps such a man.
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What happened to all the people noticing and speaking: "The emperor has no clothes"
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Almost one year gone and Trump still incites hysterical outrage on the left, emboldened cheers from his base.
And yet the left still continues to allow Trump full stage, just where he is most comfortable and effective.
We all have have sunk to new lows in meeting his demands.
And now chaos, ridicule and the ridiculous are becoming more the norm.
Perhaps if we start reporting and judging Trump as an adult, as the leader of the free world instead of pandering to his lowest common denominator we would also see Trump's base holding him to higher expectations and his campaign pledges instead of just gleefully watching him rile the liberal elites.
Right now it's just like a drunken bar fight between neighborhood bullies while the inebriated patrons all take respective sides because they've forgotten what started the brawl.
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The Trump Reality Show-- a never-ending train wreck of loutishness and shame.
I fear the image of the United States will never recover overseas unless Americans take action to shorten this accidental president's accession to power.
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Senator Corker:
Challenge Trump on BMI. It will drive him over the edge! Seriously sir, thank you for speaking out and telling the truth. There's not a lot of difference between "our" president and the leader of North Korea; two very sociopathic individuals who are threaten by any they perceive as being "better" or "stronger".
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The party of masculine, tough guys can't seem to find enough masculinity and toughness in themselves and in their party to remove this man from office.
I'm waiting for a real man to step up to the plate. Someone who plans to run again for office. Someone Republican.
25th amendment.
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The bottom has been found. Pence would be the lesser of two evils if he promises not to put us into a nuclear war.
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We are living in a reality show. Getting new drama every week to the point we can't ever remember last week's. Who will be "fired" or picked upon next. Yes the president wants ratings and he has them. He also wants to show he is the greatest so knows no bound in destroying Obama's heritage. Even his stand on North Korea could be a way to trying to get the Nobel prize if he somehow manages to start and end a war. His cabinet is a bunch of either incompetent yes-men or over-ambitious type. "The Apprentice: the US government edition". In the mean time the US literally burns, drowns, suffers and gets bullied by white supremacists. But the ratings are though the roof!
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The failures in the senate, are the establishment politicians who obstructing
the president from getting anything done. They should all step down immediately! Unlike a day care facility, there is no innocence in the senate,. Just corruption!
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Folks, if nothing else, we should all take this BIG MISTAKE (aka electing trump as President) as a hard earned lesson of the severe seriousness of this nations civic duty to vote. If you think your vote does not matter, if you think contacting your representatives is futile, well I beg you look no further than the front page of ANY newspaper on ANY given day since trump was placed in office to see the repercussions of such thought. Our system is designed for the citizens voice to be heard and even place an APE into the office if the numbers show. Yes, I know. trump lost the popular vote but was elected by the OUTMODED electoral college. We need to rid our nation of this antiquated system ASAP. We also need to talk with our friends and family and get them to the polls when the time comes around... that is, IF this nation even has another election before the APE starts WWIII.
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Bob Corker is not running again because he knows he would not win. His poll numbers are down and he does not want to be disgraced in defeat. He does not want to be seen as a loser. Funny how those who normally despise Republicans are praising Mr Corker as a hero. This is typical behavior for the liberals.
WMK—when extreme racists are now the voting base for the GOP—what can one expect. Sound familiar???? I’ll bet it does.
Attack strategy as old as the Bible. You get one person out on a limb and destroy. Trump trying to eliminate Corker as rogue individual. This way no one else targeted to their relief. Yea- don't bet on it. Republicans need to team up with Corker and circle the wagons. Because first Corker, then next, then next. It's War.
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The President continues to embarrass the Country. Now he is humiliating Staff by shaming them of their height, and intelligence. He is like someone I have in 9th grade detention. Did he go to college? He should be embarrassed by not passing any legislation on health care or Tax plans. All he has done is sign the name I cannot say reversing laws we need. I think he should take a look at himself, and resign! President, please stop spending our dollars to protect your family as your while you go gollfing--which seems all the time.
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One can only wonder how far the California fires will throw the President's budget "out of whack." Will it be considered a real catastrophe? If so, what are the criteria, the percent of brown people among the victims?
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So this is what now passes as governmental dialogue. Does the GOP and it's voters understand this is not normal? People, especially Democrats, need to wake up. We don't have a lot of time between now and the election in 2018. Everyday DT and the GOP Congress seem to do something, start yet another conflict somewhere with anyone, and do not govern. People, this is not normal. We need to start really pressuring Congress to do their job or we vote them out of office in 2018. Criticize DT all you want. But we put him and this Congress into office. We can get them out.
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The Democratic party is waiting for the Republican party to self destruct, they won't have to do anything...it's just not happening fast enough.
We should thank all Mr. Corker (regardless of our political differences) because he proved to be the moral giant right when our country needed one.
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He helped put this guy in power. We all knew how bad it would be.
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are you kidding!? Corker helped elect Trump.
It makes sense to me that few GOP legislators in the House or Senate have spoken out regarding their true feelings. After all, in this era they have already had to kowtow to all kinds of crazy to get elected and maintain their offices to begin with. Most of the GOP flew headlong over a cliff some time ago. Many GOP politicians are just along for the ride.
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The country will survive this. The majority of citizens, women and men, believe in our democracy and will work to repair this damage. Things may get worse, but our democracy will shine once again. Those who know better will have to set the proper example, and, most importantly VOTE.
Thank you New York Times for all of your great work.
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Reassured as I am that Trump still has confidence in his Secretary of State, I'd be a lot more reassured if there were a President a competent Cabinet Officer could have confidence in.
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There will come a time when Robert Mueller and his team need our support.
We must resolve, collectively, that we will give it.
Nothing else will do.
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I remember the good old days when Twitter did not exist and politicians behaved like adults (sort of). If the medium is the message, then the medium has got to go.
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People argue about whether Trump is this or Trump is that. Trump is distinguished by being, not just this or not just that, but all of the above and many not listed above. I would offer the notion that he is so many things because he is no-thing. The reality show does not show reality.
What is most intriguing is that Trump is unable to think of himself as anything; he has no sense of self, no sense of integrity, no sense of character. Not surprisingly, no one, not even Trump himself, knows who he will be or what he is going to do at any given moment. I am reminded of the old philosophical joke: to do is to be--Camus; to be is to do--Sartre; do be do be do be--Sinatra. And on that predictable unpredictability, the fate of millions depends.
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Of course this is a reality show. I've been calling this "The Presidential Apprentice" for months and I'm not the only commenter to refer to his reality show.
"Liddle" is not new with Trump. The article says that he called Marco Rubio "Little Marco." Actually, 45 specifically delineated that it was LIDDLE. He had a reason why he called him LIDDLE. I don't remember what it was, but it was specifically spelled that way on Twitter to demean the Florida Senator. So what he's doing to Corker is no different. Trump demeans. That's what he's done since at least the Rosie O'Donnell feud in late 2006.
This is the Presidential Apprentice and we are all watching his reality show. I was a big fan of the NBC version; not so much of this spinoff. I'm looking for the former host, Barack Obama, to return soon. If only in my dreams.
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Whenever I mention the name of Trump, the immediate reaction I get is what did he do now. It seems that White House indeed turned into an adult day care center. President Trump will be remembered along with Washington, Lincoln and Roosevelt, albeit for different reasons. About hundred years from now, historians will debate how 'we the people' voted and the morality and civility of our generation.
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It's about time that Trump took less time acting like the village idiot, and more time handling our nation's life and death issues.
If Trump spent any reasonable amount of time learning about them, at least he could pretend he has the intelligence and demeanor to be President.
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The Clown winning an IQ contest? The Clown can't even spell "IQ."
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There is no excusing this poorest example of a human being. And the fact that the vast majority of Republicans will not disavow the Clown is the best example of politics over country. What a bunch of cowards.
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I'm well past tired of this loud, foolish, absurd and grotesque president.
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You join millions in the US and around the world.
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I wonder what, exactly, will be considered disqualifying for candidates for President in 2020? Anything?
I am concerned some norms for presidential behaivor are permanently crumbling. He's breaking so many. Which will be restored?
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He's rending the fabric of our democracy. We have time to fight back. Democrats must make serious inroads into all levels of government if we're to have any hope of repairing the damage.
Here is your reality show:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/10/10/victory-trump-su...
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I don't believe in collective guilt and punishment -- more people voted against Trump than for him, after all -- but we Americans are going to pay a terrible price when all is said and done.
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Given his reality show mentality, we could (on tv of course) have Tyra Banks say to him and Pence, "I have two extremists, but only one seat in the Oval Office."
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Ever notice that trump has no sense of humor? He can't tell a joke. Best jokes are self deprecating, something trump's id can not abide.
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So, you're calling Sarah H S a lier?
What's ironic is that his handlers like Sanders and Conway frequently describe his idiotic comments as "jokes".
Our country is in such peril. I wonder if Socrates and Plato hit the nail on the head when they said all democracies slowly evolve in to tyrannies. I feel like I'm watching an on going, never ending nightmare of Real Housewives of the White House.
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It's hard to believe this is happening. Trump demeans the presidency, the government, and the country with his reality show antics. No one takes him seriously as a leader. The only question is, will we survive the Trump presidency.
I hope Republicans have a contingency plan to remove him from office before he starts another disastrous war.
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Maybe that's the way forward..
We all just agree it's a reality TV show and carry on.
I'm not sure there really IS A choice.
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Trump mocks those among the American People who are civilized, not just his lackeys in Congress. And the American People allow themselves to be mocked and dragged thorugh the dirt. Shameful.
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Has anyone made a list of Trump's verbal tics? Among them are: "believe me," "like the world has never seen" and several others. Everything (even paper towels!) is the best. He has one of the most limited vocabularies of any President in my lifetime. One can always tell if he is reading from a prepared speech. He uses words longer than one syllable. I truly think that if he were to compare IQs with Corker, Corker would definitely be the winner.
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Trump makes W. seem urbane and articulate.
Remember when we laughed at George Bush for mispronouncing "nuclear"? Ah, the good old days ...
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Senators , Congressman, solve this problem before it's too late.
IQ. test really and engaging in name calling
Again and Again
This guy has got to go.
Fire him!
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Bullies bully others because it's fun.
The best way to make them stop is to take the fun out of it.
He doesn't feel shame, guilt or remorse. Nobody yet has figured out what might make him feel pain.
Our best hope is Mueller
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At least when The Apprentice was on TV, viewers had the option to change the channel. This is more like being forced to watch it endlessly with your eyelids held open by toothpicks.
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Especially true when McConnell and Ryan are Republicans first and Americans second.
I didn't turn it on. Never had to change channels.
The Republican Leadership will not act on behalf of integrity, truth and intellectual integrity. Why? They fear the Bannon Machine and the “Bully” Trump will make it their mission to see that they are not re-elected. They are simply “unscrupulous opportunists.”
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More accurately, they're cowards.
And while we, rightfully, bemoan Trump and all that he stands for....where is the person that is going to make this moron a one term occupier of the White House???? Where? And puh-lease don't say Hillary.
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Why not?
If Trump was anything but a malfunctioning narcissist, he would be trying to do something about the many important challenges facing this country and world.
Trumps attention to this demonstrates yet again he is a "counter puncher", but also a child and unqualified to be a leader of any complex venture. Most of his actions simply demonstrate he doesn't understand or care about the complex problems that need to be solved, he just cares about the most recent TV impression.
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Senator Corker does not get any credit for saying something that was obvious two years ago. He doesn't not deserve a pat on the back. He worked to get the Donald into office and has gone along with this con game as the rest of our republican senators has. Now that he has nothing to gain and now nothing to lose he says the obvious. Thanks.
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I suggest Trump's taking a Rorschach would be far more informative than an "IQ Test".
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So if President Bully thinks it's OK politically to taunt an opponent's height, should we concentrate on blubbery President Bully's paunch, his over-long ties and extra large suit jackets, all designed to hide his immense and growing girth?
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How will the future look on those who voted Trump into the White House? That is, assuming there will be a future where such a question actually matters.
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In your wildest imagination did you ever think that this could of happened in our country?
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I just wish we had an adult man in the Whitehouse. Not this sniveling name calling spoiled child. How he isn't embarrassed by himself is a wonder.
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I did. As soon as he began to creep toward running. Why? Because I didn't underestimate the sheer stupidity and racism of many of the people in this country, sad to say. And don't think he doesn't have a chance of winning again, for the same reasons.
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I didn't want to - but when I spoke with old white males [and some old white females] I got a chill. The other side just didn't vote; it didn't matter so much in Ca or NY, but certainly did in three other states. AND a lot of the fault does rest with DebbieWS for sabotaging Sanders.
Nothing compares to this Presidency, at least not in a good way.
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Actually, most things compare quite favorably.
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Seriously, the majority of Republican Senators according to Corker know that Trump is suffering from a mental disability, yet do nothing?
Further, those Republicans know there is a very strong suspicion that he is compromised by America's enemy Putin and his oligarchs, yet do nothing?
Further, those Republicans know he is violating many conflict of interest and self-dealing laws for a public official, yet do nothing?
How bad does it have to get for Republicans to do something to remove this national disgrace from the White House?
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Apparently they have forgotten they work for the American people, not Trump. If they actually remembered that they would call him out and not be in fear of 'losing their jobs' (as they should if they don't).
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Since they won't remove Trump, they must be removed. Vote against them at every level in every election, from dogcatcher on up, starting with this November.
In regard to your final question, the answer was given up near the beginning of this entire string.... canabalism.
I am at once gleeful and bewildered by Cheetolini's willingness to provide us with further and overwhelming evidence of his own paltry endowment.
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Mr. Trump on Tuesday rejected the suggestion that he was risking a nuclear war. “We were on the wrong path before,” he said, presumably referring to North Korea.
Of course POTUS, you need to understand Eastern culture better. First, perception is reality. Repeat your threats enough, it become reality in N Korea's mind and Kim will become trigger happy at the slightest evidence of US plan to preempt or assassinate him. That is why he install his sister to be in charge of the nuclear arsenal. If Kim is taken out by US, Trump can be sure nukes will fly towards CONUS, Okinawa and Guam.
In Asia, life is cheap and disposable when dealing with dictators like Kim. Trump should not think Kim behave like Western thinkers. He will cause millions of death to defend himself and his dynasty.
Essentially Trump is the one inducing war, not Kim. Even if NK plan to test another missile, that is not a basis to threaten war on Kim. It is fine to try to shoot down his ICBM over international air space, but never ever target it inside NK air space which is sovereign territory as this will definitely trigger a war.
And BTW, Senator Corker and others should remind Trump he is just a titular Commander In Chief, not a genuine one, especially with five deferments, he have very little credibility to order a war on N Korea.
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This is becoming fascinating to watch Republicans find ways not to deal with Trump's antics. The question now is just what would he have to do to make them speak out against him? Is there anything they wouldn't tolerate?
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This article mentions that Trump can I'll afford to anger any senators lest they vote against his legislation. IF a senator votes against or for legislation simply because they hate Trump, what does that say about the process?
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Oh the process has already been compromised. Trump became President didn't he. Can't get more compromised than that.
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They for things they know are bad just to keep their seats or aid rich donors all the time. How is this any worse?
Trump has a "special" ability to sabotage himself.
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Trump is fat, ugly and stupid but the important point here is that he has no self-control and Corker and others in his party need to keep pointing out what a terrible risk he is to all of us. After that they need to impeach him before he manages to get us all into a pointless war with someone who is just as nuts as he is, but much smarter!
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As US citizens and taxpayers, we are paying the salary for a President that wastes time, attention and energy on drama and reality show antics. In the mean time, there are serious national and international issues that are not being prioritized for attention and action..
His leadership is not making us great. We were great before this President took office. Rather, his consistent behavior models hate.
He has not demonstrated the leadership or self proclaimed deal making ability to advance his agenda.
So, he’s now taken out a demo permit rather than a building. So much easier to demo than to create, design, finance, market and operate to achieve progress. Other than get a SC appointment, his “progress” to date has only consisted of demolishing the legislative work of predecessors.
The Predident is supposed to be a leader of our country, not just his “base”.
We are paying for a world class national leader. We got a reality tv show personality that can’t learn the the essential duties and responsibilities of his new job.
His probation period is up. I think it’s time we tell Mr. Trump “Your Fired”.
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Because Donald Trump is mentally unwell and unfit to serve in the office of the presidency his staff and influential members of his family must indeed "contain" him. Those in government who are sworn to protect our nation must find legal and appropriate means to relieve him of duty and to provide him with the psychological care he needs and deserves.
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Drop in popularity, etc Even if Trump & his ilk are voted out of office much damage is already happening. Like a mother bird Trump draws attention away from the nest. The eggs of radical conservatism are already hatching while we stay glued to the mother bird's crazy flapping.
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At the age of 72, I sit stunned at Trump's behavior. How can this disaster be happening to my beloved country with no patriot brave enough to save us? I walk around among my fellow citizens, looking at others and cannot help wondering "Are you one of Trump's supporters? How can you live with what you have brought upon this nation?" I wonder if I will live to see this awful error undone or if I will die not knowing whether it will ever be reversed.
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How many USA citizens that are 5’7” or shorter voted for this tall, bully-man-child?
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At least Corker can button his suit. He doesn’t have a combover or dye his hair orange. He doesn’t avoid a diagnosis of obesity by claiming to have gained an inch in height. He doesn’t let his tie dangle half a foot below his belt to make himself feel slimmer.
Back to what matters, it would appear that Senator Corker knows the issues, cares about governing and fears our president’s lack of curiosity and lack of knowledge.
We’ve stopped so low that it’s probably time to call this fat, racist leaning, sensitive narcissist what he is: the least qualified person to have ever held this office.
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If after nearly 12 months in the job you can't handle a Q & A on a wide range of issues that pertain to your position, you are not qualified to do the job and should be replaced.
At least that's the way it works in the real world that you and I inhabit.
It seems that Senator Corker was correct when he referred to President Trump as unstable, juvenile and presiding over a playpen of dysfunction.
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Senator Corker, please take some time to think long and hard about this so-called tax plan. I don't think you're the kind of person who would write such a thing on your own or who in his heart would support it.
Trump is becoming an irrelevancy. His proposals should fail, for the benefit of the American people. His childish insults are irrelevancies.
Vote against the tax plan. That's the real issue here. Please.
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This is not a tax plan. It is a one page outline for fiscal disaster for everyone except the top 1% of the 1%. Bob Corker is not a hero, to me he's a Johnny come lately. But at least he came. Now it's time to do the real work, to stop any Trump initiatives that would continue to weaken America, which is to say, all of them.
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I think the look on Corker's face says it all, "Oh my God, what have I enabled?"
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I'm starting to think that Trump gets away this stuff because people are acutely aware of his intellectual and emotional shortcomings, yet fascinated by what comes out of his mouth, no matter how absurd. As if he were a talking dog...,the content is beside the point.
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And yet, I venture to suggest, the majority of his supporters see him as an intellectual giant.
But then I suppose all things are relevant.
Trump craves attention - any attention. I challenge the NYT and other main stream media organizations to stop reporting on Trump's tweets unless they really have a specific and profound policy statement included in them. By repeating these kinds of stupid comments, you are playing right into his hands. The more you report these things, the more he will do it. Take the cure and just stop. I don't read Twitter, I've never been on Twitter, and I have no desire to get my news from Twitter.
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I'm not going to bother to read the comments.
No one here personally knows Bob Corker.
If you did, you would not praise him for anything.
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It's not a question of praising Corker but rather one of accepting that his comments are worthy of careful consideration.
is there anything good about trump? clinton answered his children, well we know that they are no good!
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Trump mistakenly applies his Miss Universe experience when picking his cabinet members. Surprise!!
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And yet again it is Trump who comes up short.
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So this is how Trump amuses himself...
Why did he even run for office?
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Because it was there.
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He’s looking for legitimacy; always has been. This is one big FAILURE to add to his collection.
Jeff Sessions must really love working for this man.
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Are we ready to accept a benevolent dictator yet? Whom do the plutocrats have lined up for that job?
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All these years I thought the minimum age for a president was 35. Now I find out it's 12. Of course, this guy isn't really a president; he's Lord of the Flies.
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I cannot understand why other well meaning Christian people put up with this kind of yeah talk. where is love the neighbor like thyself. here is a ride, mean spirited person who happens to be President. did his mother never easy his mouth out with soap. I did to my children when they talked like this. it is time for ministers to speak out.
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People keep wondering why no one confronted Harvey Weinstein and the reason is the same that no one confronts Trump. They're afraid for their jobs and livelihoods.
Only these are people who are in late stages of their careers. They do have other options.
Gents, ladies. Don't just take it. Stand up to the bum!
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Where are the brave in this country? There are plenty of pseudo-brave (Pence, etc). Disgusting. We must keep their evil deeds alive so all the world remembers.
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Mr. Corker hot the nail on the head, this is a reality show that is dealing with real life issues; can you say nuclear war? This spoiled rotten (thinks he is) rich kid wants it his way or he will pick up the pieces to the game and leave. From Senator Corker's comments about his colleagues (and why he has waited to call out The Dolt), is that they all want to be re-elected otherwise, they would all need to look for lobbing jobs, er I meant real jobs! Those GOP cowards are afraid of the chump; oh brother! What have we come to?
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This writer is not a fan of Bob Corker. But compared to POTUS, he has the insight comparable to Alexis de Tocqueville.
My question is whether you are part of the myopic one percent, or the rest of us, why would we collectively allow a man with the impulsive mindset of a maladjusted ten year old run a super power when we would never give power to said ten year old to drive a Lamborghini?
I just hope the military stick to their promise to never follow any illegal orders that may come from this child!
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When I was kid in San Francisco around 1970, I saw radicals hawking newspapers with the headline "NIxon Must Die!" Is history going to come full circle?
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It seems no one has noted that Trump quite possibly believes the correct spelling of "little" is "liddle"
Such a little mind
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"Was made to sound a fool, and that's what I am." That's probably where he should've ended. I would've agreed with that one hundred percent. Trump us a belligerent man-child and we would all do well to have him out of the Office.
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[[The Failing @nytimes set Liddle' Bob Corker up by recording his conversation.]]
I bought subscriptions to the NYT and the Washington Post because of Trump's attacks on the press.
So, in this one area, I say keep up the good work, Donald!
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If you want to know who is short, I will tell you. It is all the other Republicans in the Congress who are short on the courage to stand up to Trump, who are short of critical analytical skills to look at the data on climate change and make informed decisions, who are short on standing by why they preach (abortion is a sin unless it is my mistress who is pregnant or the deficit is bad until a Republican is in power, etc.).
You Republicans made a Faustian bargain in supporting Trump. While I disagree with a lot of what Corker represents, I do respect that he has faced the facts that he bet on the wrong horse and needs to try to remediate the consequences of that bad decision. When will the rest of the timid Republican mice stand up as tall as Mr. Corker and deal with the moron ?
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This story is so stupid, bizarre, and incredible that I wouldn't lend it any credence except for the fact that Trump is involved. So, yes, just another day in the life of the world's most powerful leader. Guess I need a sense of humor, as Mrs. Sanders suggests. Or maybe a stiff drink. Hey, Pete, whadda we drinkin'?
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These are sad times. A president that acts like a five year old throwing a tantrum.
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Shame on the Republican "leadership" for not speaking out against Trump. Perhaps they should all agree to not run for reelection so that they can finally summon the courage to denounce this disgrace to the office of president.
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Really fed up with the whole identity politics and politics in general..no side is ever happy!!
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The only way to restore a semblance of normalcy to Washington is to turn out the vote in massive numbers starting in 2018 to overcome the calculated Republican schemes to suppress democracy. If you hate the ignorant vulgar Trump you have to hate the GOP just as much..they created him.
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I've got a toddler who'd make a way better president than this clown. While she only matches Trump in reading and math skills, I think she surpasses him with regard to self control and empathy. As an added bonus, she's too young to use Twitter!
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Isn't Melania still supposed to be heading an Anti-Bullying initiative?
Wonder how that's going...
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Corker was clearly on to something when he suggested our so-called president wasn't getting enough supervision from the day-care staff. These childish insults really obligate his keepers to wash his mouth out with soap.
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Now I see why President Trump elected not to accept a salary during his tenure. So he could dawdle away his time in office while the country falls to pieces....
What a waste.
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While his base is lauding him for not taking a salary, he is, with the 'power of the pen', re-writing the tax code to his (massive) advantage.
Bob Corker may be short, but I'd rather be "liddle" in stature as opposed to being a "moreon".
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Clearly the Republican leadership, and party, don't have the integrity to do anything about this dumpster fire that is the Trump presidency. Party before country. Shameful.
C'mon Mr. Mueller, your country needs you.
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I believe that Trump has now checked all the boxes regarding prejudice.
Race, religion, sex, means, etc. Now he's hating on short people?
I'm just so ashamed that this country could have chosen such an obviously inept and unsound leader.
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Trump taking down Trump as only he can. He has a HUGE problem, himself. Can we build a wall around him, please? Tiny hands, tiny IQ, tiny self control. Pathetic.
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Hey Donald, how's that POTUS thing working out for you? Betcha never realized you wouldn't be able to fire US Senators and muzzle a free press, did ya? How's that Trump brand enhancement coming along for you now that your name is a by-word for incompetent, immature, and moronic? How's it feel to have your entire corrupt, Russian money-laundering past now the subject of a federal investigation? Life was simple before when it was just links, ladies and lots of lucre. You made this nightmare for yourself. Enjoy it!
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Senators McCain and Corker: Please become the Heroes of the 21st Century. Invoke the 25th Amendment ASAP! This Trump scoundrel is making many of us very sick!!!
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Only the cabinet can invoke the 25th, iirc.
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They are no heroes as Senators.
The 25th Amendment is useless if no one planning to remain in the political arena is willing to invoke its provisions: departing members have no sway.
Congress has no impetus to remove the president at the moment. Last week, even Rep. Al Green, who had introduced an impeachment resolution in July, asked that it be shelved in light of Houston, Puerto Rico, and Mandalay Bay.
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Send Trump back to third grade, where he belongs.
"I'm rubber, you're glue... neener, neener, neener!"
God help us.
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Will someone please help our President? Please do something. I don’t care if it’s Low Energy Jeb, Lyin Ted, Pochontas, Little Marco, Crooked Hillary or Crying Chuck. This is not funny anymore. Our President is 71 years old and we can no longer think his behavior is acceptable. Something is wrong! 1 and 38 where is your party?
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People like Corker need to go further and tell it like it is: Trump is a malignant narcissist, a temperamental middle school bully with no worthwhile education, no knowledge of the world, no moral compass, and a few other nasty qualities.
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Mr trump is an embarrassment to every last US citizen, regardless if they realize it or not. As for Sen Corker, trump is a product that he himself endorsed. A dumpy mistake that we must all figure out a way around.
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is ouour president in the 6th grade??
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Trump's saber rattling, "nuclear threats," need to be considered in the backdrop of Corker and Puerto Rico. Success in diplomacy depends upon relationships with allies. If Trump cannot get along with Corker, his Republican "ally," how in the world does he think our foreign allies will be thrilled to follow Trump's lead. Additionally, if the US invades N. Korea or must rebuild parts of the world after a nuclear exchange, why should we believe Trump if his administation cannot mobilize military resources in friendly Puerto Rico? And if we cannot rebuild in Puerto Rico after hurricanes, how helpless will our people be after a nuclear exchange?
I don't want our children practicing nuclear survival drills in school the way I did in the 1960's.
Tillerson is right that Trump is a "moron" for not thinking these things through. Only a moron could fail to understand how alienating friends with tweets is counterproductive.
I don't need to see the results of an IQ test.
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why hasn't trump released his iq test? he probably thinks the scoring is like golf.
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Can we hold our collective political breath for 3+ more years while infantile, bullying behavior smothers the oval office and the nation at large? How long will it take to repair all the damage this wrecking ball administration inflicts till 2020? And, what of a generation of American children growing up in a country that tolerates a deranged narcissist's daily abusive behavior? Trump is an festering embarrassment beyond all bounds.
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He just really bad at being a human being.
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With Donald Trump every day is a reenactment of junior high school repartee; every day we are subjected to the refined wit and suasive arguments of the dumbest, most oafish class bully, holding forth during eighth grade recess. Who could have imagined that the Office of the President could be demeaned by a 72 year old brat. Are there no grown-ups, or hall monitors, in Congress to intervene and teach President Trump acceptable decorum. Under Mr Trump’s juvenile rule the United States is fast losing our stature among nations. We are now a laughing stock, a reflection of our president who shows himself everyday to be nothing more than a blustering, incompetent fool.
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I just pray that Kelly and Mattis, don't let him near the guy with the briefcase.
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lol I guess Trump showed Henry Kissinger he's a force not be messed with, huh?
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Luckily the world is obsessed with statistics and little and moronic are easily measurable. Publish ereryone’s height, weight and IQ and the matter will be completely be put to rest. It’s outstanding that we’re finally having a rational and quantifiable discussion here. It’s about time they got serious in Washington.
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So what? Corker still has bigger hands than Trump.
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The name calling by Trump just confirms he has the maturity of a 5th grader with no self control.
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re: border security - exiling the Dreamers?
Turning away children fleeing Central America?
Unacceptable?
That should be considered an understatement. A heartless, cold, cruel, callous understatement. These proposals are lacking in any sense of charity or humanity whatsoever and are so wrongheaded that its difficult to understand the mentality of a person who could suggest such a thing.
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I'm strangely preternatural when it comes to numbers and I think Trump is about to tank to about a 34 per cent approval/and to 61 per cent disapproval in pollings of American people. He is the most disliked President since polling began. This is because he is behaving too incompetently, and too crazily on too many fronts. He is crazier than Nixon during Nixon's crazy times.
I believe Bob Corker is right on the money about Trump's recklessness and that we are beholden to the former generals who surround him now and to Rex Tillerson. I never thought I would feel fondness for the CEO of Exxon, but I rather do.
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Does anyone even understand what is going on!!! Trump is acting like an adolescent and everyone is just fine with that, even willing to play his game. This is all just so far beneath the United States of America. Trump works for us though he would never acknowledge that. The Senators are not there to do Trumps biding without questioning. At least they were elected by a majority vote of their citizens.
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Bob Corker made President Trump angry and he fought back by attacking him verbally. This is typical Mr. Trump and it is who he is. He did this during the presidential debates to just about all the candidates. He was especially insulting to Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz and Jeb Bush. It can be comical at times and hurtful at others. Most of the time he is just being funny as he does have a sense of humor even though some might not appreciate his style.
Mr. Corker isn't exactly innocent in all this and said some things that were out of line to the president. He was not showing respect to the commander in chief and criticized him publicly. This is not a wise thing to do to President Trump as you know he will respond and it will not not have a happy outcome. He likes to win when there is confrontation.
The two men must have a truce so that important legislation can be passed such as tax reform. They must put aside any differences they may have for the sake of the country. If they continue this bickering, it will hurt Americans and the future of our nation.
Trump has done nothing to earn anyone's respect. And, for the good of our country, let's hope they can't agree on the Trump tax plan which do nothing but increase the deficit and make Trump and his cronies richer.
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There is no urgency in passing any legislation, ESPECIALLY, a tax cut for the rich disguised as "tax reform." What's urgent is to to neuter Trump one way or the other to minimize the harm he can do and the harm Republicans can do.
They don’t have a plan for tax reform that will benefit most of us. You must be a 1%er if you’re leaning toward that.
MOST Americans don’t believe people should work with an insane person. It’s pat time for trump to go.
The more you know, the more you know you don't know. Trump thinks he knows all, so that pretty much explains his problems.
I have worked with a lot of very intelligent people and never heard them speak of their IQ. On the other hand, I have seen many insecure people try to deflect attention from their inadequacies by attacking others in the very areas they are deficient.
Sad.
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There is something seriously wrong with this man, and something must be done to remove him from any serious role in American political life. I call upon both Republicans and Democrats to join hands and do what is right to protect this nation.
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On The Five, a FOX political "discussion" show, Jessie Waters, the host, in answer to a question as to why Trump would want to alienate a key Republican he needs to rely on to vote for his bills, simply stated that Corker will be loyal to his party over following his own principles. He might as well have said that's true with the vast majority of Republicans. How far the Grand Old Party has fallen.
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This is like the numerous employees of the Weinstein Company and Miramax who stood by while Weinstein abused young women decade after decade and did nothing. As bad as that is/was, it's nowhere near as bad as staying silent while Trump ruins the country in the hopes that you won't lose an election or fail to get a bill passed. Cowards, all of them.
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This is getting steadily worse. Maybe Trump has a brain tumor? Since we have no medical info on him other than he is quite overweight based on photos and film, hard to know what might be the cause.
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Senator Bob Corker's declaration about Trump comes shortly after hearing the Secretary of State's description of the president, and many U.S. citizens have the same concerns. Is he suffering from some condition that he cannot speak extemporaneously without sounding like a child? Is every event or situation that happens an assault on his character that requires him to respond with such extreme rancor?
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We all know NYT is left biased media as Breitbart is right..I like to watch both sides its fairly entertaining. I will be the first to defend and condemn the President. I dislike name calling period whether you are left right or neither..We must unite as a nation no matter who is in charge. The President is not God and will change all the time back and forth parties.It is our job as citizens to unite together.
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Generally speaking name calling is the refuge of those who have the weaker argument or an inability to argue logically from facts. Trump has been a leader in name calling, not only since the beginning of his campaign, but throughout his whole life. He has a striking intellectual laziness. This doesn't necessarily mean that he's stupid, but it does mean that he doesn't like to think or reason.
We have no duty as citizens to "unite." We have a duty to educate ourselves on the issues, learn the FACTS, and use reason to come to a conclusion as to which side has the stronger argument.
This being the case, anyone who supports Trump is derelict in his or her duty, as is anyone such as yourself who refuses to take sides.
The NYTimes publishes news and commentary. Breitbart publishes disinformation, distortion, and slander. No matter how they "lean", one is legitimate journalism and the other is right-wing propaganda.
Short people. #4,851 on the list of demographic groups Trump has insulted.
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Senator Corker would have to stoop very low to get down to Trump's level.
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Although Corker's shorter than Trump, he has greater stature because he's respected.
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I so hate Trump.
Why is it so hard for Congress to step up!
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The measure of a real man is his integrity, his honor, his willingness to do right when no one is watching. In those metrics, Trump compares to a couple of wrinkled dry peas and one short limp green bean.
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There's nobody smaller than Trump.
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... in other words ... psychopathic spinout?
Puerto Rico is rubble. The south remains under water from Nate. Florida still has not recovered. Las Vegas is still washing away blood stains. North Korea is begging for WWIII.
... and this genius obsesses and goes with height jokes ... he is not of sound mind. The GOP needs to step up.
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Perhaps we should just eliminate the office of president, in reality we have not had one since January. Maybe we could barrow the Queen.
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At this point, the best option might be to allow NYC to amicably secede from the union. Then Trump would no longer be a natural born citizen and ineligible for POTUS. It's a win-win. The US gets rid of Trump and NYC can stop being a target for anti-American terrorists. I'm just sayin'...
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Can citizens begin impeachment procedings?
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I have to admit, i have wondered the same thing. Is there a legal avenue the populace can take?
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write your congressman
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This is disgusting and scary. Our country is being destroyed because Russia figured out how to press the buttons of the 30% absolute dumbest people in America. Trump is the result. A man so depraved, self centered, greedy and stupid that he gleefully embraces hostile foreign governments like Russia. He should they helped put him in the oval office. They knew the worst weapon against us would be Donald J Trump riding the dumbest people in this country.
We need to put the fear in our gutless GOP politicians to doing their job and serving this country. They need to remember they swore an oath to the people in this country. Not Donald Trump. Not Steve Bannon. Not the republican party. Republicans if you think history will be kinder to you after this incompetent pig of a man you put in the Whitehouse manages to trigger a war with a tweet. Think again.
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That's hysterical. Mr Tiny Hands calling someone out for being short. Hitting back 10 times as hard as he's hit. Melania's hero in action.
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California's on fire, Las Vegas is a massacre, Puerto Rico is destroyed, Florida and Texas digging out of a disaster and this is what "our president" thinks is really important! While people were burning to death in California, Trump sends the empty suit Mike Pence to Indianapolis to put on a demonstration of indignation at members of a California team taking a knee over the sanctioned murder of black citizens. Putin must be chortling in sheer glee!
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You may be asking too much.
He's pretty good at Gotchalast, but other tasks elude him.
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Can we take the nuclear codes out of Trump’s lidless hands, please?
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I cannot understand why well meaning Christian
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Just in case *anyone* still doubted that trump judges people's intellectual ability based on their appearance. ("straight out of central casting", etc.)
Tillerson got it right. The man really is a moron.
God help us all.
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How many times can we say it? What a disgrace!
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Trump is so proud of his IQ. It's 100 - a perfect score! What else could you ask for?
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His bestie, Vlad Putin is only 5 feet 7. Vlad, are you listening?
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funny coming from someone so ugly that he should be wearing a bag over his head
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Rex Tillerson is right--Donald is an insert salty adjective moron. Bob Corker is right--the White House has become the adult day care center. We have a senescent bullying imbecile tweeting like a man possessed. Reading that Trump is "lashing out" at one person or another is a practically daily occurrence. Judging by his ongoing behavior, he needs 24/7 supervision and maybe sedation. If he were in a locked psych ward, which is where he may actually belong, he would lose his phone privileges. His fellow Republicans, who are responsible for his presidency--he ran as a Republican last time I checked, need to work up their courage to force him out of office and off the stage. They are only 2 years late in making that happen; they should have lowered the boom when he started raving about Mexican rapists.
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How did this imbecile became our leader? The crazy thing is that he never once even tried to hide his idiotic character. That we elected him says something terrible about us, or more precisely, about the state of our democracy
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No, you were right the first time. It's about us.
Pogo said that 50+ years ago.
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The President is a scumbag. He needs to go.
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Does anyone actually think the objects of big fatty's "insults" are actually humiliated in some way? The only one who looks ridiculous is the moron whose vocabulary is so limited he can only come up with childish nicknames.
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This business about height -- 5'7" too short for Secretary of State? -- is reminiscent of how the SS operated under Himmler. A member of the Waffen SS had to be over 5'10". If you were only 5'8", you could join the concentration camp guard division but that was it. Scary to see the White House aping policies set by Himmler.
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I don't find it surprising considering who is in the White House.
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I agree with you in principle, but that example isn't the best. We had height requirements for our own air force at the time.
I could be wrong, but I think Air Force height limits applied to those TOO TALL to fit into a cockpit.
My guess is this buffoon acts the way he does is simply because he never got the beat up as a kid or young man. Trump is the type of kid that used to stand in his backyard with the seven or eight foot fence and call everyone names. My guess is that when other kids (boys and girls ) threatened to climb the fence and kick his butt he would run inside yelling "mommy mommy, bad boys want to beat me up" save me mommy". I would further guess that Mrs. Trump would go stand on the porch and yell out, "leave Donald along he is suchhhhhhhh a good boy." What this boob really needs is a good spanking to teach him a lesson. Oh, Hillary!
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Mr. Tillerson should call the Donald on his insult: ain't no way little big man will reveal HIS I.Q. Or, perhaps just after he releases his tax return, as promised.
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Trump probably reads his IQ as 99 and believes that 100 is the top and perfect.
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Thank God Senator Corker spoke up! DJT will continue to Tweet-shock and bully-brand as it is his ammo. What the NYT and other media outlets need to get even better at is NOT falling into the traps DJT sets to get you to further react to his irrationality and immorality. He has conditioned media to still jump every time he blows his nauseating whistle. (Do you really want to be Pavlov's dog?) Please continue to catch DJT in every lie and his every intent to undo democracy; hold him and his corrupt team of players, accountable. Be like Tom Petty and "don't back down". Write about the real issues that go on behind the Tweet smoke screens and how the planet and the American people are being put in harms way on a day-to-day basis. Expose the Trump Organization's financial profiteering at our expense (major conflicts of interest re 'Trump' licensing going on here) and what we can concretely do about it as US citizens, consumers, voters and tax payers.
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Mr. Trump never really wanted to be President, and the evidence is accumulating in spades, it seems. He appears for all the world on a political suicide mission -- doubtless fueled by an awareness that his election will forever be tainted by the dirty stain of Russian interference. A dubious distinction, that.
Perhaps he seeks to go down in flames. One thing is for certain -- he will be enshrined by history as perhaps the weirdest aberration in American political life.
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I'd say the worst president ever as well, but I don't think actually qualifies as a president. Just someone who won an election, nothing more.
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@Frank Haydn: Trump is making Aaron Burr look like an upright, respectable, honest man.
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Trump's governing style: when a colleague or an opponent offers criticism call him/her names then back it up with bluster and lies. Only 3 years and 3 months to go. Come on Mueller !!
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Napoleon had nothing on trump as an authoritarian and tyrant except, of course, that he was short.
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Napoleon was a pretty standard height for the time.
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We are reaching a point where people will just ignore him. He is acting like a child.
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except that he is president of the united states. if we were some small inconsequential country? it would probably be ok..... but we aren't. even when we are horrible and stupid? which has happened quite often since reagan. we still matter and we will always matter because, to everyone else chagrin? we warp time and space.
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The open hostility and comments made by mainstream media liberals and pols about Russia have created more hostility and chance of world war than anything President Trump has ever said. Russia and China are capable of starting a world war, not North Korea. Trump's comments have been friendly towards both nations, much to the discern of liberals and RINOs.
Very irresponsible, and unfair, of Corker to say that Trump's comments are putting us on the path to WW III. Corker is the actor, playing on stage provided by the NYT. "Recording the call" comment - pure stagecraft.
Not.
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A new twist from Trumpland. Never say anything bad about Russia or China. Remember the Cold War? We managed to survive that which included pkenty of spying and sabotage.
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Never said "Never say anything bad about Russia or China>" Just sayin' that when you do, you may more provocative than Trump, and with the players that really do have the capability to start a world war.
Senator Corker is a far better man than Donald Trump could ever hope to be.
How long will Congressional Republicans allow this unstable man to be our Commander and Chief with the power to obliterate most of the world?
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I once stood beside Donald Trump and when I glanced at his ear I could see daylight the other side.
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It seems Trumo's ghostwriter left something out of the Art of The Deal: it ought to have a chapter about height and leveraging it to intimidate and profit.
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Corker better stay in there and fight, because he and his GOP colleagues bear full responsibility for this mess. They created, exploited and pandered to anti-government hysteria, and threw in a mix of sexism, homophobia, racism, xenophobia, and plain old fashioned greedy exploitation. They fueled the fires of the right wing radicalism that created this horror. What does its say about Corker's character that he couldn't predict, or at least listen to those who predicted that we would be here? I'm glad he's shocked and horrified now. Join the club.
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Let's not forget anti-Semitism.
TRUMP SHOWS US That he's the infantile bully in the sandbox when he ridicules people in government. Trump debases and degrades the dignity of the office of President--a title he may well hold, but the duties of whose office he is grossly incapable of performing. Talk about coming up short! Trump's intellectual limitations and malfunctioning are breathtakingly grave. He exhibits severe deficiencies in language, memory and executive functions of the brain. The mere fact that Trump has been involved in 3,500 law suits should have disqualified him automatically for to be a presidential candidate, as he shows none of the ethical, moral or mental capacities required to tackle the most difficult job in the world. Bob Corker's not going to come up short when he goes to the military members of the Cabinet to persuade them to inform the Cabinet members that Trump is medically impaired, presents a high level, chronic, clear and present danger to homeland securty and must be removed immediately due to the irreversible neurological condition of dementia. No--Bob Corker is going to stand tall and proud while he acts to save the US and the world from WW III.
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Bob Corker has been one of the most partisan hacks in the Senate, throughout his time in office. That's how he got to be head of a powerful committee under Mitch McConnell. I refuse to feel sorry for Liddle Bob, and I encourage you to not feel sorry for him either. The one, the only, upside to the Trump presidency has been the humiliation and comeuppance of numerous corrupt and offensive partisan hacks. If Trump wants to bully people like Chris Christie, Jeff Sessions, Lyin' Ted Cruz, Little Marco Rubio, and now Liddle Bob, that's OK with me. The fact that he is destroying the Republican agenda in the process is also OK with me. As long as he is stopped before destroying the entire nation...
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could be you are making a deal with the devil. it will not turn out well. don't think for a second that trump isn't counting on you to look past your own interests for the thrill of seeing the bob corkers of the world humiliated.
I don't know much about Bob Corker but his remarks show a considerable degree of insight and thoughtfulness. He is careful with his words. He may have other faults, but those traits compel some respect.
I wonder what a professional statesman like Kissinger really thinks of Trump's sniping, and undercutting Tillerson
9ton name just two).
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Donald the all knowing must have a short memory. He forgets that he is not the perfect, all knowing man. Nor is his body anywhere close to being anything other than that of a fat, old, man who has lost some of his brain functions. He also conveniently forgets that he has many things to be ashamed of, including the fact, secretly revealed, that he has abused many women and bragged about it on TV. Most importantly, he has never manned up to the fact that he cowardly avoided the draft during the Vietnam era by having his dad's doctor write a letter to the draft board saying that he had a bad heel. Another young man - braver than Donnie - went in his place.
He has no right to ridicule ANYONE else in this world - friend or foe. Our country must find a way to rid us of this cancer eating away at our democracy.
v
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Where to move....Switzerland, Portugal, Ecuador? Suggestions anyone?
Afraid America will only become more violent, angry, unfair and embarrassing.
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Corker is too thin skinned like others in the party that have been the target of President Trumps' barbs. He should respond appropriately, there is no reason to go way over the top like Corker is doing.
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Donald J Trump's grotesque and abysmal failure in the office of President is no surprise at all to me. It was foretold the day he descended from his marble manse like a rococo prince to announce his candidacy. What has been absolutely stunning to me is that this seemingly powerful nation has allowed it to go on so long.
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Guess this is how Trump measures his options for Sec of State.
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His public statement give new meaning to the term "bully pulpit."
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This administration was never republican so why should they care to get along? More then anything else Trump is simply anti liberal.
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Trump should remember the bigger they are, the harder they fall. It is obvious that Trump is on a path of self destruction. I just don't want the country to self destruct.
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The human animal goes with the tribe and not the truth. This is little different than the Harvey Weinstein issue or the Bill Cosby one, as powerful, famous, and rich people can make life miserable for those who have little of any of it, especially women. That is at the essence of why things don't work, people suffer, is that people can't stand alone for and with the truth. If you stand for the truth, you have to expect that bullies, who are narcissistic sociopaths or worse, will attack one with the full force of their personalities, and those in the inner circle of the bully, wife, family, staff, will refuse to call out the boss, as they will suffer the same wrath. If just one of them would call out the boss publicly, it would be all over, as the bully would be sent to a psychiatrist's office immediately.
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I imagine I'm not the first to state this, but it's a small man who mocks someone's height!
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I dare any Republican in Congress prove to me that Donald Trump, isn't insane.
Trump is like Captain Queeg, all he needs is to have John Kelly start a search for the strawberries.
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Please, Mr. President, do not challenge Secretary of State Tillerson to a dual of IQ tests. You will humiliate yourself and more importantly, the nation. As someone who ordered IQ tests for hundreds of patients, I used to play a little game. After interviewing the patient for an hour or so, I would estimate his/her IQ before the tester sent me the results of the test. My guesstimate was often very close to the actual result. My guess is that you would score between 80 and 109 (low average to average) on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults (WISC). So, Mr. Prsident, I beg you not to embarrass us all by revealing your IQ.
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BKNY, below, notes that Audie Murphy, the most decorated soldier on US history was 5'5".
James Madison, the primary architect of the Constitution, was 5'4".
But maybe mine is s bad example: it assumes that a man who wants to destroy the 1st Amendment free speech protection by using tax policy to punish kneeling football players cares about or respect the Constitution.
I wonder what taunts "Donald Dump" (oops, typing on my iPhone) would've reserved for James Madison. "Hey, look guys, it's TINY JIM writing a constitution! I heard of Tiny Tim, very cute in the Scrooge thing... But it's TINY JIM, TINY JIM, writing our constitution! Nice Constitution TINY JIM!!!" Tiny Jim, Tiny Jim!"
I'm sure glad Trump wasn't around at the Constitutional Convention: we might not have had any laws. Instead we have the president today who just won't respect them.
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It is obviously part of Trump's personality. He apparently cant help himself. Not a great way to make friends.
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For his base every utterance from Trump is the truth...so in 2020 when he loses and tweets to his base that the election was a fraud...be afraid, be very, very afraid.
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On one hand is lovely to see Conservatives going at each other's throats, on the other hand this so-called "president" constitutes a clear and present danger to America and to the world and he needs to be removed from power by any available means.
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Recall that Deng Xiaoping was no more than 5 feet. Gandhi was 5’1. Queen Victoria was 4’11, Madison and Adams were about 5’4, and Napoleon no more than 5’6. All of these people have greatly impacted vast numbers of people, and Trump would never dare call any of them ‘Liddle.’ Shame on him for resorting to schoolyard taunts from the highest bully pulpit in the free world.
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I wonder if Trump realizes how short Putin is? Barely 5'7". Putin might do America a favor and cash his chips in on Trump by turning over the Steel tapes. One can only hope.
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Wearing elevator shoes or stilts, on a good day.
Mr. President,
standing tall doesn't have ANYTHING to do with a man or woman's physical height, and everything with his or her moral compass and the courage to speak out and stand up for what you believe is right.
If you would have realized this, your administration wouldn't have been so incompetent in the first place.
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On another topic:How many African-American NFL players need to say that the protest is about systemic racism and injustice and NOT about disrespecting the American Flag or the U.S. military or the National Anthem?
Does the lie from a certified liar who happens to be the current POTUS carry more accepted "truth" than more than 20 American-American NFL players?
I've always wanted to know who was in Trump's base of support. Jerry Jones and Roger Goodell.
The owners should take positive actions to correct systemic racism and injustice rather than paper over the situation. Football just got interesting!
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On managing POTUS: Graham takes him golfing and reports how well Mr. T. played. Ok. This may have calmed him for a few hours or, perhaps, kept him from some insane act. Rather than thank Senator Graham for taking time out of his schedule to golf, I would prefer that Graham led a move to have Trump declared incompetent.
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This is exactly the behavior we saw during the primaries. No one should be surprised, shocked, or dismayed at this point, least of all Republican Congressmen like Corker WHO SUPPORTED this man-child.
And BTW, all this interest in comparing height, IQ, ratings, etc. is just a stand-in for the ULTIMATE COMPARISON this man-child is obsessed with -- and it ain't about the "liddle" head.
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Really, Mr. Corker -- you think the President risks taking us into World War III?
I happen to agree with you. But only one of us is in a position to do something to prevent Armageddon, sir.
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Corker publicly stated that he believes Donald Trump being president is an existential threat to the very existence of the United States, the human race and life on earth. He also said that almost every one of his fellow Republican senators agrees with that assessment. I for one am taking him at his word for it.
Alright then. He should be organizing his fellow members of congress to constitutionally quickly remove Trump from office instead of wasting precious time by sinking to Trump's emotionally stunted and unstable level by engaging in twitter fights with him. Enough of this madness already.
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In comparing Trump with Corker, the one with diminished stature is Trump.
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We have to know, folks, it is past time to enact the 25th amendment.
Where are ANY people of courage in the congress or the cabinet that are not
so afraid of this really unfit and unstable person to gather together and step up to the plate.
Are you ALL so self interested your are not concerned about our country?
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Have we won so much now that we're tired of winning? Just curious.
5
Call his bluff and and oblige Trump's insistence on taking an IQ Test. Only instead, slip in a psychological evaluation. It's actually the test he SHOULD take, and he's so inept, he won't even know the difference.
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" I guess we’ll have to compare I.Q. tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
As with everything, the Don's response is
"Mine is bigger than yours. Mine is huge "
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Come on, Melania, step up and outline that anti-bullying campaign that is near and dear to your heart, and get on with it. Your husband is a sad drain on the country's resources; far worse, he is a menace to the world at large. Self-restraint, respect for others as individuals, and a robust appreciation of the dignity and solemn responsibilities of his office would be welcome.
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Real leaders don't sit idly by while the "Emperor" flaunts nakedly.
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More distraction by Trump to keep us forgetting that Mueller is investigating his cronies and possibly him for treasonous Collusion with the Russians. Corker is finally speaking out after supporting Trump despite Trump's unfitness for office. Cocker lacked the courage to condemn Trump's behavior and now that he is not running anymore it does not matter what Cocker thinks. I doubt that Cocker will buck the tax plan. He votes the party line always. So much for courage
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As a Tennessean I've heard Senator Corker speak many times, including recently when he said his hopes for the President were aspirational. He's a strong, very intelligent, servant for the people....to hear T denigrating him is maddening. I'm concerned that he is truly unstable - can't people of intelligence get him out of office before he kills us all?
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Not the first time.
won't be the last.
all because he's so perfect.
11/25/15
Trump mocks reporter with disability - YouTube
Video for trump mocking a disabled reporter▶ 0:46
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PX9reO3QnUA
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Donald Trump suggests that NFL players kneeling show a lack of respect for this country, while he regularly and consistently degrades and brings shame to our highest office in the land.
Our deceased past presidents must be turning in their graves. Why our living past presidents have not made a visit en mass to the White House to talk to Trump about his behavior is a small mystery.
This just cannot go on.
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Making fun of things that people can't change is the worst kind of shaming. Even if he weren't president, with a million other extremely serious things to worry about, it would be deplorable.
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INDEED, AND
AT LEAST CORKER CAN
BUTTON HIS JACKET !!
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It's currently under audit.
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John Quincy Adams, who was the Secretary of State to President James Monroe during his two terms as President, and is considered by many historians to be the Best Secretary of State ever, was 5' 7 1/2" tall. More recently, Henry Kissinger is considered to be the best of the Secretaries of State in the past 1/2 century is 5' 9." So why couldn't Bob Corker be a good Secretary of State at 5' 8." Oh yes, James Madison, the father of the Constitution was 5' 4".
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Ahem. Mr. Trump, a couple of things that may well have been mentioned already. 1. Most people outgrow mocking other people's physical size (as in someone's height, which is beyond their control) by the time they're out of high school. 2. If you insist on mocking other people's physical appearance, have you not seen photos of yourself in your golf clothes? Good grief, being a little on the short side would be infinitely more preferable than your beached whale look when you're on the golf course. Which is very, very often, by the way.
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Trump was not elected to get along with anyone
He was elected as a change agent - to return America to the traditional values of racism, sexism, isolationism, and a muscular non-intellectual view of the world
This is what he sold in the election and what a majority of male and female white voters embraced - and continue to embrace and will vote for in 2020.
He is not a Republican. He is Trump.
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"He is not a Republican"
Fully knowing what a deplorable, immature, uninformed, lying bully Trump is, the Republican Electors chose to put party over country and install Trump in the White House, ignoring the clearly expressed will of the majority of American voters.
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He claims no political party?
or
No political party will claim him?
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Go back and watch Mike Pence during the VP debates....Pick your poison carefully. With Pence, we may already have had 20 million without healthcare and Sheldon Adelson's tax cut would already be done. All that may still happen, but the saving "grace" of the Donald is his absolute ability to muck pretty much anything and everything up. Sadly, yet pragmatically, that may be the best we can hope for.
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The emperor has no clothes, period. Yet, every day, white house officials insist otherwise. Hearing Bob Corker calling out Trump on his grade school tantrums was so cathartic to a public, exhausted by the reality-twisting statements emanating from this bizzaro white house. The senator does us (and himself) great service. Hope we come out of the rabbit hole quickly.
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There is a little light in all this darkness. As the apotheosis of bad behavior, Trump serves as a touchstone for how not to speak or act. He is proof of human and institutional failure masquerading as success. Now when little Johnny says a bad word, mom can just tell him "Stop talking like the President or you will never know how anything actually works or what a real friend is."
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To Schumer, Pelosi, McConnell, Ryan, Mattis, Tillerson, Kelly and Pence: for the sake of the country, put away your partisan bickering and prejudices, forget about "the Base", think about the future of the entire US for a change, and start the proceedings NOW to remove him under the 25th Amendment.
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If Congress doesn't seem to be impeaching Trump and remove him from office anytime soon then can't we as voters demand a recall election of Trump?
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For years the Republicans howled with outrage about how Bill Clinton had degraded the office of the Presidency. When Barack Obama was photographed in the Oval Office without a tie and with his shirtsleeves rolled up, the Republicans expressed outrage at how it undercut the dignity of the office. Now we have an occupant who is focused solely on lobbing grade school insults at his own cabinet members and members of his own party. Where is the outrage?
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We should address directly the strategy Trump employs, ad hominem attacks. He has employed this strategy successfully since the start of his presidential campaign, attacking the person rather than the argument. When he does it, for example "liddle Bob Corker" our immediate response should be back to the topic. Instead, we bite and focus on the ridiculous personal attack. Trump may not be good at many things but he is a master illusionist, directing us all to what he wants us to see.
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If the vast majority of their caucus understand what they are dealing with, why don't they remove him from office?
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Trump is losing any sanity he supposedly had, yet my senators, Scott and Graham are unconcerned. The headline in our newspaper says "Scott calls colleague's fear about WWIII 'hyperbole'" while another article says "Graham, Trump play golf amid immigration debate". Trump is unhinged, but my senators are totally okay with what is going on in Trump's world. One is the classic politician who will do anything to advance his influence and wealth by playing a role, the other, who some liberals in this state were hoping had some morals and ethics has abandoned all for--what? I dread to look at the news any more. Who is okay with all the corruption that is going on? Republican voters!!
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Having won over the scattered partisan media where unscrupulous outlets are desperate for any new juicy story and political plot twist that they can find, Mr. Trump the name-calling, erstwhile reality-tv-styled nabob, now, improbably, the leader of the free world, observes that Bob Corker, a fine Republican and a sensible Senator is not tall enough, and says "I can work with that." Shame on you, Mr. President, we know you can do better. Please, just watch better tv shows!
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So if you find Trump pathetic then ensure you vote next time around and do what you can to get others to vote, especially millennials. Reality is we (collectively defined as relatively sane voters who might disagree but have basic deductive reasoning skills and don't act like kindergartners) will be up against the bunch who elected Trump in the first place for decades. That group fortunately will be become smaller due to demographics and age. 2018 is first time a strong message can be sent.
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"LIttle Hands" Trump going after the body?
Bad strategy, Mr. LIttle Hands.
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Trump doesn't want to govern, or do real work. Hr clearly has no aspirations to be a statesman. He doesn't give a whit about running an administration. He wants a contract for a four year national series with The U.S. as a mainly unwilling captive audience. "A Grotesque Presidency"
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Children are losing health care. Environmental regulations are falling like dominoes. Fires are ravaging the west and floods have demolished the infrastructure of cities, states, and territories. Net neutrality is dying. Social security and medicare teeter on on abyss and women's right to birth control is faces the same opposition it did in 1960. War with both North Korea and Iran is a plausible scenario. Viable trade agreements are in peril. White supremacy is rejuvenated, thanks to the Executive Branch and the Department of Justice. 800,000 dreamers face a nightmare.
I could go on.
And what dominates the news?
The bullying behavior of the (so-called) president of the United States while his ex-wife and wife feud in the background leaving his staff and bobbleheaded vice-president to prevaricate like four-year olds caught telling lies.
Poor America. And there doesn't seem to be a way out in the near future.
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When Trump mocked disable reporter Serge Kovalseki, back in August of 2016, I knew immediately he lacked the qualities of dignity, compassion,calm temperament, maturity, experience, education and class that I feel it takes to be president. I am no longer surprised but dismayed and saddened to follow his presidency in the news. I wish Michelle Obama would run in our next election. (Matt's wife)
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What if, just for a day or a week, the NYT reported on Trump-related news only if it was the kind of story one might have expected from a regular president?
He's not my president--thank goodness--but I'm embarrassed by him anyway. And his die-hard supporters are worse: they're those kids who enjoy watching and cheering as a bully beats on people.
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Wow, a one in a million good decision by a GOP politician? Should I be impressed or depressed?
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And by attacking Senator Corker's height, Trump unwittingly (as always) underscored Corker's characterization of the Whitehouse as "Adult Daycare."
We have managed to elect (not by popular vote mind you) a half-wit, unstable, man-child. It is less than comforting to know this l'enfant terrible is in charge of our nuclear arsenal is being taunted by his North Korean equivalent.
What would normally get resolved with wrestling on the playgrounds of the world could now be resolved with weapons of mass destruction.
Utter madness.
And yet only one Republican Senator (freed by a decision not to re-election) is willing to state the obvious?
More bizarre, we have Senator Cotton of Arkansas, an accomplished man who should know better, is actually defending Trump and telling Tillerson and Matis to resign if they can't do what the President wants. Clearly Senator Cotton's ambition to take over as a cabinet secretary has blinded him to the danger such support puts his fellow Americans in. Shameless.
We may suvive to impeach Trump and that is hardly an overly dramatic characterization of the situation.
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Trump did a better job at running his gambling joints that he has as president. We know how that worked out.
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We are watching, in real time, the events that will inform the final chapter of "The Rise and Fall of the American Republic: From George Washington to Donald Trump." It will be listed under the genre of "Tragedy."
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Meeting with Henry? Possible mentoring for war criminality, though I doubt Trump needs any. Still, to his credit, one thing Henry was good at was knowing when to keep his mouth shut. Good luck explaining that to Trump.
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I admit I plunged at this article to catch up on the full extent of Trump's latest rants with the same excitement and curiosity with which one might flip first to a gossip column. Trump certainly knows how to appeal to the worst in people, including myself.
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So very proud of the maturity and decency of the President of the United States. NOT! Puerile name-calling and ridicule of physical traits is what third-grade bullies do in trying to intimidate the playground. The sad thing is that Trump no doubt thinks he has "punched back," as if an infantile Tweet is defense against legions' believing that Sen. Corker is correct.
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I would enjoy this Republican infighting if it ended up in a dual. The idea has NRA support.
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My fellow "dog park" attendees have a bet going about when Trump will leave office. My bet - he won't - because remaining President is not solely up to him. It is up to a LEGION of elected officials whose lips are sealed when Trump behaves like a mean little boy who must "win" every disagreement, every proposal, every critique, every anything. Having a mean little boy is a danger to us all. Can we REALLY wait for the next Presidential election?
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Just earlier today, Mr. Trump said, "I didn't undercut anybody. I don't believe in undercutting people." I guess this proves, once again, that his ACTIONS speak louder than his lies.
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It's so easy to make a myriad of snarky jokes about Trump and his ridiculous behavior choices, but we are completely past laughing at this childish president who proves daily that he's unfit to hold office. I would love a postcard/ letter/email/phone call blitz to descend upon Congress demanding them to speak up and act before something really terrible happens to this nation. At this time, they seem to be the only ones who can try to fix this situation.
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Yes, and do more of what they understand. Make it clear to the Republicans who are enabling Trump, cowering in fear of his deplorable enablers, that they are about to be swept out of office.
We don't have to wait until 2018 to shake them up to send the message that their unpatriotic cowardice will not be excused.
We can send a clear wake up by supporting Democrats running in the upcoming elections in Virginia and Alabama.
https://ballotpedia.org/Virginia_elections,_2017
https://dougjonesforsenate.com
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/doug-jones-roy-moore-joe-biden_us_5...
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Many of us, even low-middle income people, are much more concerned about how our tax dollars are used than about lowering tax rates. To pay millions for security for the Trump children's business and personal trips all over the world? That is abuse. To pay millions for security st all the president's luxury hotels where he likes to spend so much time? That is abuse. This president is a very sick man, with a warped understanding of American values and the American people. He agitates and appeals to the worst of human nature with no consciousness of consequences. And we all pay for his game.
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There is a lesson to be learned here, Mr. Trump: never, EVER, ridicule a person of small stature about their height. It has disastrous consequences.
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Trump insults Corker instead of trying to make peace with him. Similarly,
is it any wonder that instead of trying to calm things, this president would rather inflame them. He could have simply invited NFL player protesters to the White House to air their grievances, listen and understand, and possibly offer solutions. I wonder what he'll do when some members of our armed forces "take a knee" as well as our athletes and what will he do when other senators come to Sen Corker's defense? It's difficult to believe that Trump's base still supports his behavior. Trump acts like a child playing with matches. Someone has to take his matches away!
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Optimistically, Trump is fracturing party unity and, in an effort to stand up to the loudmouth bully on the playground, Congressmen and Congresswomen will form alliances that produce actual palatable legislation. Trump claims credit for getting Congress to operate along sane political and philosophical lines, aiming for compromise that benefits the citizens and guests of our country. We discover that, all along, we have been part of a reality show, after all.
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Trump has reminded me of little marco's comment about "little hands". We can never forget this and thank little marco for making it an issue and question.
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Sen. Corker, an early and avid Trump supporter who helped legitimize Trump in the eyes of many genuine conservatives, appears to be trying to play the role the role of Gaius Petronius Arbiter to Trump's Nero.
The problem is that it didn't end well for Petronius and it probably won't end well for Corker either because Republicans today will be no more courageous than the sycophants who surrounded Nero just under two millennia ago. Rather than rally to protect one of their leading lights, they will try to stay out of the fray and watch passively as Trump moves to discredit and marginalize Corker. Once Corker has been dispatched, others may voice their concerns but each rational voice may be doomed to fade amid a sea of timidity.
It is sad to watch history repeat itself, but unless the Republican Party can rise above the combination of baseless hope for advancing its agenda and its abject fear of alienating Trump’s base, we may have to wait for something akin to the burning of Rome before Trump is held to account.
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Let's hope the mocking moves Corker to oppose POTUS' regressive tax proposal. Trump said, "The people of this country want tax cuts. They want lower taxes.” But as Marcus Ryu so clearly put it in his NYT op-ed piece of 10/9, "Well-run companies don’t just spend recklessly with no plan or intention to stop if revenues don’t come in as hoped. But this is exactly what the tax-cut proposal does by wishing away huge tax-revenue shortfalls with stupendous growth projections." Exactly. The effects of the tax proposal are obvious. Now let's hope Trump has undercut any support he might once have had to get it passed.
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"Mr. Trump runs his presidency like a reality show." Yeah, well put. I think I'd rather his presidency actually was a TV program, though. You can turn those off.
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Founding fathers James Madison was 5 ft. 4 in. tall and John Adams was 5 ft. 7 in. tall. Ulysses S. Grant was 5 ft. 8 in. tall.
What difference does it make? Or is this going back to his liddle hands? And Trump usually surrounds himself with shorter men. I suspect Trump's actual weight would be interesting to know since it might predict his physical health. Senator Corker is now confirmed to be accurate about Trump's mental health impairments.
Fine with me though. Insults and mockery of respected senior senators critically needed for votes for the Trump agenda will ensure that he continues his record of losses. More thumbs downs on their way.
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That record of losses include every Congressional election since Nov. 7?
Yeah, I thought so.
Corker and his establishment losers are done.
Americans - middle America - will deliver a more compliant Senate and House in 2018.
Don't we have enough material yet to invoke the 25th Amendment? Do we really have to wait until after it's too late and he has started a war??
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There is a wonderful comedy (movie) - Idiocracy. It takes place 200 years in the future. Pure fiction. But amazingly we really have arrived in the same circumstances as the fiction in the movie.
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I'm shocked people haven't caught up with the true nature of the Trump presidency. People are talking about necessary number of votes for this or that legislation; about legislative agendas.
And they are perplexed at seeing Trump's bullying behavior, thinking that he's shooting himself on the foot by antagonizing Congress.
To me, what Trump is doing is very rational, if one understands it as the acts of an authoritarian "strongman."
He's undermining whatever is left of our democratic facade, because he knows that at the end, Congress is too weak (and corrupt) to mount any type of credible check on his power.
Even if his legislative agenda doesn't advance, he wins, because that generates anger among his base, and this sets the stage for something more ominous (which I think is where we're heading).
Even in the case that Congress decides to start impeachment proceedings against him, the stage has been set for the intimidation of members of the institution, to the point that it will be very hard to get the votes needed.
And even if the votes were there, I think Trump would prevail in the aftermath of a constitutional crisis, where certain segments of the military and security apparatus are likely to back him.
Yes, I'm talking about a potential coup. That's where we are as a country. Eventually, people will come to that realization.
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Corker is 10 times the man Trump will ever be. I'm not one of your constituents Bob, but thanks for your service to our country. I hope whoever the people of your state vote to replace you when you retire is able to fill your shoes with the same level of sober, rational thought.
And if the emperor still has no clothes on at that time, I hope they also point it out.
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Although their ranks are exaggerated, even more frightening is that there are a group of people in this country that actually find this interplay exhilarating. They just don't seem top realize that this isn't a show and that it has real consequences for them and their families. If you don't like how the country is run, elect someone who mirrors your ideas and has the intellect to implement them, not an unbridled id pouring sand in the nation's gas tank.
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It is very important to show up and vote for the right party in every coming election, friends. Either that, or get very used to this kind of thing.
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How much does it take before the Republicans decide enough is enough? They have the super majority. They can impeach Trump at any time. What are they waiting for?
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I believe that Napoléon Bonaparte was also known to be rather short in stature. No one questioned his ability on the international stage.
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The Washington Post Editorial Board has concluded that Trump is "unfit to serve as president," but it doesn't have the will to call for his impeachment, at least not now. My question is: if not now, when? After he fires Tillerson and then Mueller? After he starts a war on the Korean peninsula, in which millions would be killed, including 28,000 American soldiers, their dependents, and about 200,000 American civilians working there?
There is strength in unity. I wish the Times's Editors and the Washington Post's Editors would in concert call for Trump's impeachment now.
It would be a bold step, and so would be better done quickly and decisively.
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This latest insult by Trump for whom I voted crosses the line--at least for myself: name-calling-bullying Mr. Corker. Till now I've been defending the President but now its getting scary. As a chaplain & mental health provider in various venues, I see danger and tragedy in the making: Trump Towers tumbling down. Consult the DSM-V for symptoms now florid in those guiding our ship of state. Let's not just complain but work hard together as though Our Life depended on it.
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Once untethered to elective politics and fund-raising, Senator Corker was able to tell the truth in specific terms. Not many others have the political skill or courage to do so. Too bad. America needs a hero--even one who can distinguish himself or herself by merely telling it 'like it is'
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I don't blame any Republican, who doesn't agree with Mr. Trump, if they choose to get out of politics. I just talked to a Trump supporter that thinks going to war with North Korea is a good idea and that we need someone like Trump to do it. That we should have gone before now. If you were in politics and these folks were voting for your party - you'd probably be thinking seriously about getting out.
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The evidence is in, folks. Do the voters of the United States and its elected Congress members have the good sense to deal with Trump's arrested growth development?
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Are you sure?
"Man has built in himself images as a fence of security -- religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking, his relationships and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems, for they divide man from man." J.K
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After skimming through these comments it's obvious most of us are mortified at another in a too long series of embarrassments. We want action. Action to muzzle, stifle, end this behavior. We saw it unfolding in the primaries. We've shouted to our government officials. We've protested and marched. What surprises me is how many others in power, be it senator or representative, governor or vice-president, who witnessed it too, have chosen to be silent. Where is their conscience? Their morality? I, for one, could not stand behind that man, let alone beside him. There is so much real work to be done, both at home and around the world. Instead we have name-calling and mudslinging.
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Martin Luther King, Jr. 5'7", Winston Churchill 5'7", Mahatma Gandhi 5'4", James Madison 5'4", Andrew Carnegie 5'2", Pablo Picasso 5'4", Voltaire 5'3", Ludwig von Beethoven 5'3", Yogi Berra 5'7", T.E. Lawrence 5'5", Aristotle 5'5", Alexander the Great 5'6", Isaac Newton, 5'6" - I could go on...
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Psychologist Alfred Adler developed the concept of the "inferiority complex" to explain an obsessive need to compensate for insecurities by striving for superiority over others -- such that the only way to make yourself feel bigger is to make others feel smaller. In literally everything he has said, everything he has tweeted, and in every one of his actions over the last two years, Trump has demonstrated a deeply ingrained and extremely dangerous inferiority complex. In my 61 years I have never known anyone or known of anyone with a more extensive set of insecurities. It pervades everything he thinks does and says, and without exception. I am convinced that his inability to control his inner demons will lead to a conflagration.
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This doesn't sound like the kind of issue that concerns Senator Corker. Not a matter of substance. Has the president nothing better to say? As Mr Tillerson would say, petty, in all senses.
This administration, this president, is bringing us so low. He introduces a new level of indecency, cruelty, pettiness, aggression, dishonesty, and alienation into every single day. It's getting harder and harder to imagine the length of time it will take to repair this country after him/his movement. Literally everything I hold dear is being dragged through the mud on a daily basis.
My hope is that Sen. Corker has decided not to run for reelection because he knows he'll need his full attention to the removal of this 'president' from office.
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And yet 32% of Americans STILL approve of Trump. That means there are a lot of insecure people in our country who revel in watching people get punched for no good reason. His behavior will only stop when the percentage who approve drops to the single digits. Then more Republican congressmen and senators will be willing to admit vocally and publicly what Corker has been willing to say publicly. That's when we'll know there is hope again for America.
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On the bright side, Trump's lack of character is out there for the whole world to see. His financial dealings have been difficult to uncover, but that sparkling personality, available to everyone.
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IQ is not telling everything about a persons capabilities, but it is certainly one of the parameters. In a way, most of our politicians are just holograms, an image that speak words that might or might not be true. We know nothing about who and what they really are. Take Mitch McConnell for instance, to an outside viewer he looks like a man without heart, without soul, without empathy. What makes him suitable as a leader? Is he smart? So many of the leading politicians are just there, they show no signs of actually being good leaders at all. Instead they look like they are there for themselves only.
So, for transparency and understanding, and for draining the swamp, there should really be some kind of tests that leads up to a kind of certificate that proves you are suitable to be a political leader in a democratic country. The certificate, or diploma, would need to be renewed every fourth year and the results of the tests should be public.
Of course, this is only a fantasy, the tests would be bought Trump would have a staggering IQ of 577 on his certificate.
But still, in most other areas, the ability of a leader is tested.
But in the most important area of all we allow fools to be our leaders.
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Tillerson, unlike 45, was a very successful business exec prior to becoming Secretary of State. In an IQ faceoff, there's no doubt in my mind who will emerge as the high scorer.
Hint: it won't be the 6-time bankrupt who somehow managed to lose money running casinos.
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Sen. Corker, if you are reading this, please don't respond to Trump's latest tweets today ... you have made your points honestly and succinctly and dare I say, we are all impressed. This is part of the change we've all been waiting for. Please pay attention to the tax reform bill and study those numbers. Not a dime over the budget! And please, please keep the lines of communication with all those at the WH day care center.
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Thank you, Ladies and Gentlemen of the US on behalf of the rest of the world.
When worn down with serious global issues or personal crises and looking for relief we don't need to search for fantasy films or comedy. We just have to switch on the news and watch American politics.
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Senator Bob Corker has shown himself to be a real man of extraordinary character, conscience and courage for putting our nation's safety ahead of his own position and should be held high as an example of what a Congressman should be. Trump is a real danger to our lives and those of the world. Corker did what was right in any honest man's mind.
Trump's fixation with "height" and "size" really tells you everything you need to know about his deepest insecurities. Trump knows he doesn't "measure up" in any meaningful way.
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Frankly, I'm sick of the news media's obsession with Trump's tweets. The news media should not publish anymore tweets by Trump or refer to them in articles. Force the child to address the nation and news media face to face so that Trump can be challenged on the spot for spewing lies or sponsoring legislation that screws us and gives lots of candy to the wealthy and corporations.
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Trump has tweeted about: The NFL, Bob Corker's height, a contest with Tillertson about IQs. What he hasn't tweeted about: 4 soldiers killed in Niger; wildfires in California that have claimed at least 15 lives; the ongoing crisis in Puerto Rico; the opioid crisis; the attacks on women by Harvey Weinstein. Why is he my President?
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Excuse me, but Don Trump is the fool here; Bob Corker is the real Republican leader now!
" I guess we’ll have to compare I.Q. tests."
So is Trump asking U Penn to release his record, along with any SATs--- and his grade school release his IQ tests?
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IQ tends to decline with age. You can tell that at 71 Trump has a limited vocabulary, is a fairly slow thinker, because he repeats himself a lot, and his paragraphs, such as they are, don't have a logical structure. He thus has an IQ not much above 100, which is average.
I don't mind him talking fast, I do mind when he talks faster than he can think.
@Lynn
So, you are admitting that Trump graduated from the best Ivy League business school in America?
I'll compare Trump's transcripts to Obama's any day.
Deal?
Trump was an indifferent student. C at best. Obama was an outstanding student at Harvard Law School and was president of the Harvard Law Review. IQ doesn't mean much, if you don't take advantage of it and work hard.
The drama out of the Dump House is comic and tragic, and embarrassing.
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I don’t find it comic, personally
It has been shown over and over again: Trump "mocks" much better than he contributes facts..........does Sen. Corker's HEIGHT have anything to do with the subject under discussion? The answer is too obvious, even for the "Awful Office"........
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"We’re on the right path right now, BELIEVE ME.” (emphasis mine)
There's a scary "tell" here - whenever trump says "believe me"
he's lying.
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Well, at least Corker has normal-sized hands...
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Senator Grassley admonished Corker to “cool it!”.
So Grassley prefers to keep the threat of WW III to whispers behind republican closed doors. Shame on you, sir.
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I vote we give Trump and Tillerson IQ tests, with the winner firing the loser.
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I wonder if perhaps some of the people who support name-calling and bullying from Mr. Trump
really might be deplorable
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Yes, and the fact that you have to wonder is itself a shame.
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This is just surreal.
Are we really at a point where the President of the United States is sending kindergarten insults to a senator, with all that is going on in this world?
Why in the world don't those with elected power in our government call this man out for what he is, and put our nation above their partisan interests?
I don't normally engage in name calling, but I feel inspired-
Craven Cowards.
God Help U.S.
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How long until the GOP decides their president is an embarrassment to the country and decides it's time to impeach him or use the "unfit" amendment to dump him? The problem then, of course, is that we will have Pence, who has already demonstrated he has no spine. What a tangle we are all in thanks to the Republican party and their greed.
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They won’t because they are deathly afraid of “The Base”. DT’s armed right wing sycophants are capable of extreme violence and they vote. To watch his rallies and witness the glee on their faces is sickening to watch. His tweets and missives are of a child bully and they don’t care...in fact they encourage it.
I do think it’s time we break up as a nation. I am not being seditious in any way, but quite frankly enough is enough. From rampant Gerrymandering to the fact that a sparsely populated state has two senators which have the same power as ones from NY, FL or CA is ludicrous. I have nothing, zero, zip nada in common with DT voters and the states they inhabit. They would be better off on their own and vice versa. Like a bad marriage, divorce is the only logical and good remedy. Europe is made up of several nations upon a smaller land mass. No reason why that can’t or shouldn’t happen here.
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Fat Donald Trump. Balding Donald Trump. Indeterminate skin tone Donald Trump. I guess there are more physical characteristics we could use to diminish the man, but he can't really help his appearance - right, Mr Corker? - so the politically correct measure of the man, the overwhelming insult to Donald Trump is, Failing Donald Trump. Corker said, "The President has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability nor some of the competence that he needs to demonstrate in order to be successful." He went on, "We should hope that (Trump) aspires that he does some self-reflection, that he does what is necessary to demonstrate stability, to demonstrate competence, to demonstrate that he understands the character of our nation and works daily to bring out the best of the people in our nation."
So, like all bullies, he talks and talks but does nothing - no demonstration of competence, seemingly de-stabilized every time someone does not treat him "nice", and has no history of EVER trying to bring out the best in the people of our nation. Scary, his idea of the best is to all be patriotic, and to adore him because he is the best.
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I hope Tom Brenner's photo of Senator Bob Corker receives a Pulitzer award.
It epitomizes this whole crazy, chaotic, period of Trump.
Corker, one man with conscience, soul, and character gazing into a Trumpian abyss bewildered by the question:
How could we have sunk so low?
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It is clear what we're dealing with here: a spoiled child. Why grow up when you inherit Daddy's millions and get to treat the planet as your private playground?
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...and dumping ground!
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Where is the GOP congress? Fiddling while Rome burns. Remember this in 2018, and no matter how cold, how rainy, how long the lines, VOTE!
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Anderson Cooper played a clip with Kellyanne Conway, who called Corker's comments "irresponsible"? I guess she hasn't done a Google search for "Trump tweets" - that will show her the height of irresponsible and might enlighten her to her own dizzying level of hypocrisy.
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I bet none of these grown men realized they were going back to kindergarten, complete with bullies and nicknames, when Trump took office.
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Well, many of the greatest leaders in human history as well as American history were short of stature, it's character and mind that matter. Trump's middle school, school yard behavior is music to the ears of his supporters but like Trump their minds are undisciplined and adolescent, so what would you expect. The world survives it's worst and may over look it's best, but doing the right thing and using one's mind with consideration for what's important matter. Trump is as dangerous as a drunk handling dynamite and detonators because he is so mindless and self absorbed. As a President he has achieved what most would have thought impossible, to be the worst we have had and are every likely to have.
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Fellow Americans, you've elected the seventh-grade bully as President. I'm hoping that we'll get through this somehow, but please don't do this again.
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Well keep in mind that in the reality show that Trump is turning the presidency into, appearance counts! For how many months have we all been saying this couldn't get any worse. And then it does! The irony is that everything Trump says and tweets simply validates what Corker has said about him. Do the amoral Republicans still think that it's worth standing by this lunatic and that doing so will help get their agenda passed?
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I would like to read news about things that happened, and, if relevant, Donald Trump's strictly relevant policy decisions. These outbursts are not news, and they're generally uninteresting because they don't mean anything. He's just a dumb man who has been given a platform and he says whatever pops into his head. Take his platform away. Cover his job performance, and only his job performance. The man is out of his depth in the most important job in the country, and all I get from the newspapers is twitter. Bob Corker is going to vote like a GOP senator next week. This is all just fluff, and I fear that it is causing me, and everyone else, to miss something.
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This is just profoundly disturbing. Has the POTUS no shame? No sense of decorum?
Do the Republicans chortle and smirk and think this is acceptable?
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Trump still thinks he is in the midst of the presidential campaign. He is president, but cannot adjust. He is simply mentally unfit for president. I believe that even Trump knows this. He does not know the background needed for the job and is unwilling to learn. Of course, Pence may be even worse, but at least he is quieter.
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“I don’t believe in undercutting people.” Unless this is another lie from "fake news", it's another lie from Trump. I'm assuming the latter.
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Maybe to Trump an undercut is something different from a back stab
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I knew Trump would be a horrific president, but I didn't think he'd be so immature. Trump seems to think he's the drama queen in a reality TV show.
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I knew he would be a horrific and it was obvious how immature he was. I was surprised at the speed that he managed to take down whatever good will or respect we commanded in the world. In 2008 a new President Obama visited Germany and spoke before 200,000 in Berlin. Donald J Trump by contrast isn't even welcome to visit our closest allies. The British public actually got over a million signatures to meet Donny out of their country.
It's astounding that people couldn't see what a fraud Donald J Trump a mile away. There's just no excuse.
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This phase of the presidency reminds me of the end of the „Caine mutiny“ when the captain destroys himself in front of the military court !
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For Pete's sake, between this and daring challenging Tillerson to an IQ standoff, things are getting beyond ridiculous (at least more so than they already are). Trump should just take a picture of his manhood next to a ruler, post it on Twitter, and have done with it. Maybe then we can talk about actual news.
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That "Trump pivot" that we were promised during the campaign should be coming along any day now...
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Every day Trump is building the pedestal for Obama, a president with real class and integrity, a little higher.
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What must the rest of the world think of the United States?
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We can not believe you have allowed this to happen to you.......and to the rest of us. Please make this right as soon as you can!
It's embarrassing.
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I am not surprised by Trump. We already knew enough about him before he was elected.
I am however, surprised he was elected. Think about what that says!???
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Unbelievable, tweets not befitting the office of the president or a 70 year old. Somebody ought to start a contest for the best nickname to call Trump. I'd suggest, Triple Bogey Trump, Tweety Bird Trump, Donald the Dummy, Sir Elton Trump, President Pinocchio.
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I feel like I'm trapped in an Austin Powers movie.
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We have sunk to this. A fool of a president insulting anyone who disagrees with him. What a pathetic situation we are in. And the worst part is that this imbecile (Trump) has the capability and temperament to start a nuclear war. Scared. You bet!
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If I had to choose between short and stupid, I would take short.
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This president is a failure - and he will blame anybody but himself for it. 3.5 more years of this - time is passing sooo sloooowly.
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You’re a pessimist. It’s only 3.3 years
Or (perish the thought) you’re an optimist and it is 7.3 years
So typical of this man-child POTUS of ours. When ever he's confronted with an intelligent alternative opinion of him or of his leadership, he regresses with seventh grade name calling and deeply hurtful personal verbal attacks. Never seen anything like it, other than on Jerry Springer, or on the playground of any gang infested public playground.
It's bad enough when you have to reprimand a ten-year old bully. We used to call them little Dictators. But our POTUS?
I fear for our children.
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Trump probably doesn't know who the hero was in the David & Goliath story.
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