Sound The TRUMPets! A Thread for Presidential Pondering 2016-2020(?)

[Todd]

From AmPo: Michele Bachmann tells televangelist [Jim Bakker!!] she might run for Al Franken's Senate seat

Just when you think things can't get more entertaining, they do.

[SimonNZ]

ISTM that most people focused on the President's behavior already have an opinion that can't be diminished or enhanced, they are just looking for that latest outrage either to virtue signal to others within their circle or use it as a club against those outside of it.  Letting Trump troll you every day does not seem like a good way to go through life

Okay, but this is The President were talking about. Have we really gotten to the point where we just roll with this? It's also propaganda and should be treated and responded to as such.

[Christo]

Trump personally kept the planes falling out of the sky, it seems
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367024-trump-takes-credit-for-air-travel-safety-record

Probably by keeping his golf balls low.

[milk]

From AmPo: Michele Bachmann tells televangelist [Jim Bakker!!] she might run for Al Franken's Senate seat

Just when you think things can't get more entertaining, they do.

Trump and those buckets of beans. Good for the apocalypse.

[kishnevi]

From AmPo: Michele Bachmann tells televangelist [Jim Bakker!!] she might run for Al Franken's Senate seat

Just when you think things can't get more entertaining, they do.

Footnote to the Senate campaign that was last year's entertainment
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moores-jewish-lawyer-voted-for-doug-jones-raised-money-for-his-campaign/article/2644738

[milk]

From AmPo: Michele Bachmann tells televangelist [Jim Bakker!!] she might run for Al Franken's Senate seat

Just when you think things can't get more entertaining, they do.

looks like a rerun to me
https://www.youtube.com/v/WnaSvvSqY-8

[milk]

Look away, it's only tweeting!

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! - Trump

[zamyrabyrd]

Trump personally kept the planes falling out of the sky, it seems
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/367024-trump-takes-credit-for-air-travel-safety-record

A real scandal are the military snafus mainly having to do with helicopters in Japan. They don't know what's going to fall out of the sky next in Okinawa:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42335091

The US military confirmed in a statement that the window of one of its helicopters fell onto the sports ground of an elementary school outside the US Marine Corps Air Station Futenma.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/22/world/asia/us-navy-japan.html

A United States Navy aircraft carrying 11 crew and passengers crashed Wednesday southeast of Okinawa, Japan, the fifth accident this year for the Seventh Fleet, the Navy's largest overseas fleet.

[Karl Henning]

ISTM that most people focused on the President's behavior already have an opinion that can't be diminished or enhanced, they are just looking for that latest outrage either to virtue signal to others within their circle or use it as a club against those outside of it.  Letting Trump troll you every day does not seem like a good way to go through life

Indeed.

To be sure, there is a distinction between focusing on the President's behavior, and finding it objectionable.

And if any here let President Clueless troll them every day, aye, I wonder they do not have better uses for their time and energies.

[Karl Henning]

Footnote to the Senate campaign that was last year's entertainment
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/roy-moores-jewish-lawyer-voted-for-doug-jones-raised-money-for-his-campaign/article/2644738

I saw that.

Dashed ungrateful, wot? 

[Karl Henning]

looks like a rerun to me

https://www.youtube.com/v/WnaSvvSqY-8

Aye.

Because Evangelicals will never tire of degrading Christianity in the eyes of the rest of the country, and of the rest of the world.

[Karl Henning]

If this is all you've got to explain why his irresponsible and embarrassing behaviour doesn't diminish your opinion of him then I can only read this as "head in sand".

Pretending that we do not all know that El Tupé is a superannuated 4-year-old who needs to be the center of attention, but that it is somehow a super-genius playing 4-D chess.

The sand must be quite cosy and warm.

[BasilValentine]

Look away, it's only tweeting!

North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the "Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times." Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! - Trump

Isn't (wasn't?) there a bipartisan move in the legislature to disconnect his button? What ever happened with that?

[Todd]

Isn't (wasn't?) there a bipartisan move in the legislature to disconnect his button? What ever happened with that?

There were hearings replete with grandstanding and showboating in November.  The PR value extracted, the issue faded away, though there could be a fresh opportunity for more grandstanding and showboating.  A Dem introduced legislation banning a nuclear first strike last January, but it went nowhere.  It's not clear any law passed by Congress would pass legal challenges, and besides, Congress hasn't done squat with respect to the use of force since the two AUMFs from Dubya's first term, and the entire post-war framework relies on presidential rather than congressional leadership when it comes to making war.

[Karl Henning]

Isn't (wasn't?) there a bipartisan move in the legislature to disconnect his button? What ever happened with that?

Oh, the Republicans have since circled the wagons.  They're all in with the narcissist!

[nodogen]

Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book

Coming soon to a bookstore near you...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff

[Karl Henning]

Arguably, El Tupé and Bannon are two peas in the same sleazy pod:  ready to do anything to advance their "brand."

[zamyrabyrd]

Pretending that we do not all know that El Tupé is a superannuated 4-year-old who needs to be the center of attention, but that it is somehow a super-genius playing 4-D chess.
The sand must be quite cosy and warm.

Billion dollar corporations are not sand boxes and not run by four year olds.

[Christo]

Billion dollar corporations are not sand boxes and not run by four year olds.

Who said he was ever 'running' his affairs? It's hard to imagine the child 'running' anything at all.

[arpeggio]

Billion dollar corporations are not sand boxes and not run by four year olds.

Really.  We can easily go through history and come up with and list of eminent leaders who assumed contral of a nation or empire and as a result of their incompetence or greed ran it into the ground.