More than being lampooned as a press secretary who makes up facts, it was Spicer’s portrayal by a woman that was most problematic in the president’s eyes, according to sources close to him. And the unflattering send-up by a female comedian was not considered helpful for Spicer’s longevity in the grueling, high-profile job, where he has struggled to strike the right balance between representing an administration that considers the media the “opposition party,” and developing a functional relationship with the press.
“Trump doesn’t like his people to look weak,” added a top Trump donor.
Trump’s uncharacteristic Twitter silence over the weekend about the “Saturday Night Live” sketch was seen internally as a sign of how uncomfortable it made the White House feel. Sources said the caricature of Spicer by McCarthy struck a nerve and was upsetting to the press secretary and to his allies, who immediately saw how damaging it could be in Trumpworld.
Ha ha, you fucking Low T neo-Nazis.
Sarah in Brooklyn
Please replace him with Kellyanne. Please please please.
schrodingers_cat
Fat, paunchy and balding is the new tall, dark and handsome? Do these folks not possess a mirror?
Hunter Gathers
After women take down Trump, the Brogressives are going to be in rare form.
schrodingers_cat
MM was fantastic, Sookie of GG has come a long way!
lamh36
YASSS…Calling Rosie O’Donnell or Meryl Streep
Trentrunner
Since Alec Baldwin is hosting this week’s SNL, I predict a BUNCH of Trumps, including Trumps played by Rosie O’Donnell and Meryl Streep.
It should be sublime.
Trentrunner
@lamh36: Great fucking minds…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I remember when Linda Tripp said she enjoyed John Goodman’s portrayal of her, even though she thought it went a little too far. Goodman showed up the next Saturday and turned it up a couple of notches. I wonder if McCarthy could turn up that Spicer at all, but I’d bet that she’ll be back.
amk
Has he taken a look at hisself? or president bannon? or his press handling bumbler?
debg
I just hope Glenn Thrush enjoyed that sketch half as much as I did.
Zinsky
Spicer is an obnoxious little chihuahua who needs to be kicked to the curb.
Doug!
@lamh36:
I’d like to see Margaret Cho take a shot at it.
seaboogie
@lamh36: someone tweeted to digby to get Rosie O’Donnell to play Bannon – and Streep has already impersonated Donald Trump…
Trentrunner
@Doug!: Still pissed at Cho about the Tilda Swinton thing.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: I call for a Trump off!
Before they brought Baldwin, Darrell Hammond played Trump in IIRC a sketch about the GOP debates. Standing perfectly still, he imitated Trump’s posture and sneer so perfectly I quite literally laughed out loud.
lamh36
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: yeah…I read the article on EW where Spicer tried to “save face” and all he could come up with was use less gum…yuck yuck…
So you can tell it stung…
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Didn’t Streep play him at some private Clinton event during the campaign?
Manyakitty
@schrodingers_cat: Ha! I said that at work today.
lollipopguild
Nothing quite like announcing your weak/soft spots to the general public. Football Coach=Do not run up the middle on our defence we are very weak there.
zhena gogolia
We just watched the McCarthy bit again. It’s hilarious! I love when she picks up the podium and rushes the WSJ reporter with it.
lamh36
@zhena gogolia: ah…yup!
Meryl Streep as Donald Trump
Meryl Streep as Donald Trump 2
SiubhanDuinne
@seaboogie:
Ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz ohplz oh plz ohplz ohplz
satby
Not even three weeks and their shamblastic administration is being mocked worldwide. Deservedly mocked, and it’s killing them.
More, please!
lamh36
@zhena gogolia: lol..yes…that may be the costume for Halloween if she comes back and it goes even more viral.
aimai
@lamh36: My god she played him in orange face.
Major Major Major Major
Nothing says weak like being a woman, after all!
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: that would be so fantastic… If only a White House mole would release tapes of Trump’s face during that skit.
lamh36
@aimai: yes she did…and I bet she had his voice and inflections DOWN!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: I hope there was Scotch tape on that long red tie
Mike in NC
@lamh36: Love the second picture of Meryl Streep.
amk
@satby: Yup. I can imagine the anti-american forces gleefully licking their lips at the sheer incompetence and the every day blunders of the supposedly world’s only superpower.
Renie
rosie just tweeted she is willing to go on SNL and play either trump or bannon. OMG he will flip out
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I hope Reince Preibus becomes famous enough to be nationally mocked for his adenoidal sniveling
Thoughtful David
@amk:
You can bet they are. The leadership in China is not at all stupid, and you can bet they’re moving fast and hard to take advantage of this.
p.a.
but a woman playing tRump on network tv is problematic: he should be played topless in diapers, a rattle in one hand, a pacifier in the other.
amk
Any info on how the ‘appeal’ is going at the 9th circuit court?
Mike in NC
@Renie: So far Trump has managed to Make SNL Great Again.
amk
@Mike in NC: LOL. Indeed.
laura
Can’t wait for the midnight “I SHALL NOT BE MOCKED” Scrotus tweet.
Then let the mocking begin and turn it up to 11!
lamh36
@Renie: Alec as Trump, Melissa as Spicer, Rosie as Bannon, Kate McK as KellyAnne… Cheeto Prez might just explode with rage!
@Rosie 28m28 minutes ago
@calvininsf – i am here to serve – alec has trump – melissa has spice – i would need a few days to prepare – so if called – i will be ready
Princess
If SNL really wants to get under Trump’s skin, they should get an African American woman to play him.
amk
cheer up, aussies have their own maga now.
the white butthurt, despite all the privileges, pelf and power, is universal.
Trentrunner
@Princess: Leslie Fucking Jones.
lamh36
@alexweprin
Bill O’Reilly’s interview with President Trump before the Super Bowl averaged 12.2M viewers. Obama in 2009: 21.9M.
Lord…Trump is so obsessed with Obama, how much would this stick in his craw?
jl
The GOP will trudge ahead. They are nuts, murderous nuts.
rump’s Obamacare replacement may come long after Congress pulls the plug on it
Ethan Wolff-Mann
” While Trump may now be on the side of slower, more deliberate legislation (probably not by choice), Speaker Paul Ryan has said Congress is still poised to go ahead with the reconciliation bill that will defund the ACA, sending Obamacare into a death spiral, as the Kaiser Family Foundation’s Larry Levitt and others have noted. ”
..
[ Even Tom ‘The Roseville Racer’ McClintock can figure out this is a bad idea: ]
“We’d better be sure that we’re prepared to live with the market we’ve created,” said Rep. Tom McClintock (R-CA.). “That’s going to be called Trumpcare. Republicans will own that lock, stock and barrel, and we’ll be judged in the election less than two years away.”
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/trumps-obamacare-replacement-may-come-long-after-congress-pulls-the-plug-on-it-211808398.html
Emphases added.
I like the ring of ‘Trumpcare’.
Anne Laurie
amk
Renie
@Mike in NC: LOL Yes he has and he is probably outraged about it.
Shana
@amk: Hearing tomorrow in the 9th Circuit.
amk
amk
@Shana: Thank you.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s just a WI accent.
trollhattan
In these dark days I weep for our loss of Phil Hartman.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
I really hope nobody is so thoughtless as to tweet this information out. It would be rude and hurtful to the President. I’m not on Twitter myself, but I know many of you are, so I implore you as a kind and loving human being, for the love of God do NOT tweet-share these statistics.
amk
new nato – north atlantic trump opposition
Jim, Foolish Literalist
It’s called, like, I understand.
Shana
@amk: Posted this in the last post just as it was dying: March 15th – send postcards to Trump at the White House telling him why you object to his policies. #TheIdesofTrump. Even if only a million people do it, it makes it harder for him to say it’s not an organic movement.
Princess
@Trentrunner: She would be perfect.
SiubhanDuinne
@amk:
Get used to it, cupcake.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
debbie
@Trentrunner:
Leslie should be Bannon, just to spite his little dog, Milo.
BruceFromOhio
‘Keep Banging’ kinda cuts both ways.
Mnemosyne
@Princess:
Leslie Jones as Milo Y!
Trentrunner
If SNL & NBC play their cards right this week, SNL could have +25M viewers.
JordanRules
Hamiltrump with all POC.
Aleta
Don’t stop… Sessions. Mnuchin. Zinke. Perdue. Ross. Puzder. Price.
efgoldman
@jl:
Was he the coward who was just chased out of his own town hall by opponents?
Nothing scares incumbents in DC as much as losing primaries and/or general elections. Some of the RWNJs are smart enough to recognize a real threat when it’s screaming in their faces. Apparently nobody in Janesville Wisconsin gives a shit. but one of the things that was scariest in ’93 was when Tom Foley, the speaker of the house, lost his bid for re-election, on top of the Newtniks taking over the house.
ArchPundit
@Princess:
Gay man.
lamh36
@SiubhanDuinne: this would be me imagining Trump reading those stats –>
http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/09/dying-dying.gif
jl
@Anne Laurie: Atrios isn’t joking.
White House rattled by McCarthy’s spoof of Spicer
Politico link
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/melissa-mccarthy-sean-spicer-234715
I don;’t why I should be surpirse. Atrios said he wasn’t joking. But stil…
What a sad and dangerous raft of infantile fools in the WH now.
But, that reminds me to go watch the Spicer sketch again.
And, they are gone now, but I think Zero Mostel or Jonathan Winters would have done wonderful Trumps. Trump really missed his time. Sad.
efgoldman
@amk:
Oh, poor woodgie-boo….
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Noted without comment. ;-)
ArchPundit
What’s great is Spicer is totally suffering from Stochholm Syndrome. Anyone not would be looking for a way out of the fucking asylum, but he’s so stuck in it, he thinks being fired by Trump would be a bad thing. In reality, it’s the only hope Spicer has any chance of having any dignity later in life..
PhoenixRising
@efgoldman:
No, he was chased to his car by a very floofy golden retriever who wanted to lick everyone. He was surrounded by his constituents, who came to tell him they like being able to go to the doctor. The video was…revealing.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
Correction — he was chased out of a townhall by his own constituents.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@ArchPundit: add Nathan Lane to the Great SNL Trump Off of 2017
jl
@efgoldman: From what I read, that only mob that actually chased McClintock was what an eye witness termed an ‘older lady’ and her poodle.
Politicking is dangerous. Maybe the Roseville Rampage will make the list of suppressed terrorist attacks.
ArchPundit
@efgoldman:
This is essential. Call all of his properties and make reservations and then cancel them in time not to be charged. They make staffing decisions a week out and you can cancel reservations within a few days so they’ll be staffed up for nothing and have fewer rooms to sell. We know he is overleveraged so destroy his business and make him open his books in bankruptcy. Also, it will drive him even crazier. He thinks being President is going to make him money and probably help get him out of heavy debt. Our job is to make sure that doesn’t happen.
ArchPundit
@jl:
Dan Rostenkowski with the old woman on the hood of his Caddy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TboXsOuMQGU
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne: FWIW a co-worker recently asked me where I was from because I didn’t sound like I was from here.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
That’s what I meant – can’t you tell?
Although I got the clear impression that they were both – constituents and opponents.
jl
@Mnemosyne: I dunno. Strictly speaking, is a poodle a constituent? Some say views differ.
PhoenixRising
I am actually a bit concerned by this. This White House is full of whiny, spoiled children with thin skins who don’t understand what a lie is. And that doesn’t reflect well on Trump’s judgment. But having actual power in the hands of someone who’s as ignorant, easily led and deeply prejudiced as Donald is…the vulnerabilities are staggering to contemplate.
efgoldman
@ArchPundit:
That’s the only problem – aren’t they likely to be minimum wage, and as often as not, immigrants?
Sometimes collateral damage matters.
PhoenixRising
@efgoldman: they were both but that was no poodle. Fake news.
jl
@PhoenixRising: ” I am actually a bit concerned by this. ”
Just ‘a bit’? I am very worried. Those nitwits could start a war and get a lot people blown up, including us.
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
As alluded to above, as far as anyone can tell, the terrifying mob that chased him to his car consisted of an old woman and her poodle.
Brave, brave Sir Tom of Roseville.
Aleta
In three weeks, Tr has birthed over a million new trolls.
Come to think of it, a good sketch of Tr giving birth, to anything, would bother him no end.
amk
how many kicks to their collective teeth will it take for the new yawk times for them to stop kissing this ass’s ugly ass and his ‘family’s’?
Viva BrisVegas
It’s a question that must be asked:
Does Trump have man boobs?
Singing Truth to Power
@amk: The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing arguments on Tuesday –
Omnes Omnibus
@jl: Tony Blair had a constituency. If that helps.
lamh36
ok…we might have DeVos on the ropes…so now no Dem votes for AG Sessions…right…right…
ETA: Don’t worry, I’ll wait…
jl
@PhoenixRising: Most poodles are black. Black Bloc. Trump opposition is all violent thugs, all of them. QED.
ArchPundit
@efgoldman: Some, but if they have scheduled folks to work, they either have to pay them or start to lose them to other resorts that don’t cut their hours. Any boycott hits the workers too. In this case, it’s worth it to me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta:
Even the concept of that bothers the fuck out of me.
Mnemosyne
Here’s the deal, my fellow Californians:
According to Wikipedia, there are currently 14 Republicans representing us in the House. What say we start working now to make that number zero for 2018?
PhoenixRising
@jl: the dog was buff-colored and had fur, not curly hair. Not a violent thug, a paid protestor sent by Soros. See also: Chemtrails. Jet fuel can’t melt steel.
Anne Laurie
@jl:
Trump’s entire campaign was a resentful old white dude’s 1980s reimagination of the 1950s. The farce to Reagan’s tragedy!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I wonder if Spicer’s just not good at his job, or if he was told to say that Trump owns no bathrobe
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Those options are not mutually exclusive.
BruceFromOhio
It’s high time to draw the line, put an end to this game, before it’s too late
Head games, it’s you and me, baby
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
So Trump is wandering the White House in the nude, then?
Yeah, that’s way better, Sean, ya gobshite.
ArchPundit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
They released the list of terrorist attacks that didn’t get any attention. They included the nightclub attack in Orlando and the Paris attack. Yep, no coverage on either of those like the network anchors going to report on location.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Viva BrisVegas:
If it’s the last thing I ever do, I’m going to get you for planting that thought in my head…
Mnemosyne
@ArchPundit:
And San Bernardino. Because SB wasn’t all over the fucking news for months, or the center of a much-publicized FBI lawsuit against Apple.
amk
in re the wh dim bulbs
laura
@PhoenixRising: The video was truly a thing of beauty as Tom McClintock was called to task by both Dems and Reps -but mostly Dems and was not up to the task.
He’s odious and insolent unless your a donor.
Like Brave Sir Robin, he ran, he ran so far away. The video shows a beady-eyed rodent scuttling behind a police officer making for the exits. Poor rodent faced a larger crowd who couldn’t get inside.
McClintock’s whole reason for being is to privatize everything. Everything. Can’t eliminate the Commons fast enough, yet does not care to be called out and to account on it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thru the Looking Glass…: There’s worse coming.
GregB
The 10 yer old child in me always sees the name as Pudzer.
lamh36
@PhoenixRising: oh concern is warranted…cause this is SNL comedic parody…but then you see reports like this…
How does this thin-skinned mofo feel being mocked by someone like this…smh…
Chet Murthy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Empathy’s a big word, in addition to being beyond him.
GregB
@Mnemosyne:
It’s a yuuuge golden Snuggie.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh please Lord… NO!!!!
Make it STOP…
PhoenixRising
@lamh36: my point exactly. I’m scared the First Peach is about to glass Mogadishu because his feelings are hurt.
efgoldman
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Notice how badly his jackets fit? And that he never turns his back? He’s hiding the ventriloquist controls.
amk
@lamh36: Isn’t it time that ‘org’ changed its stupid name?
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Because Spicer and Bannonazi apparently sleep in their suits and ties, maybe he thinks that Mango Malignancy does, too.
Chet Murthy
@ArchPundit: Whoa, while I -completely- approve of the sentiment, lemme just note (what others have said elsewhere): do you REALLY want to give your credit-card #s to a company run by a KNOWN GRIFTER? Only bad things can come of this. I mean …. sure, maybe you watch your CC bills for a few months, and then he stuffs in a charge later?
I’m sorry, I -so- wanna do this, but if I were to do so, I’d make SURE to use a single-use credit-card #.
hilts
Maybe, if SNL and others can maintain this intense level of mockery, it will push Trump into nervous breakdown territory and ratfuckers Ryan and McConnell will have to force the Orange Menace to step down.
efgoldman
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
I get first crack. Privileges of age.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne:
Very Baud-like.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Weak = effeminite
The guy is in another age.
ArchPundit
@Chet Murthy:
Strongly endorse using single use. Also Prince Albert in a Can jokes.
efgoldman
@PhoenixRising:
He’d have to find it on a map, and know where and what it is, first.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@efgoldman: Okay… but I’m next…
Cacti
Spicer’s only real responsibility is to make shit up on the fly.
He seems sufficiently unethical that it shouldn’t bother his mental health.
lamh36
@amk: right i have them in FB though so not sure if they’ve changed them and elsewhere or not
Yarrow
@Viva BrisVegas:
Don’t know about Trump, but Pence sure does.
seaboogie
@Anne Laurie: Second tweet I’ve seen (including digby’s) for Margo Martindale as Bannon. She’s an amazing actress – I’ll watch whatever she is in. Rosie would get under Trump’s skin in so many ways, but Margo could probably stick the shiv in better, if it’s well written.
The Lodger
@Yarrow: Aren’t man boobs a side effect of whatever antiandrogen “Low” T. is taking to slow down hair loss?
Mart
Kinks “Lola” playing on XM radio right now, just saying
Juju
@Mnemosyne: No robe. Footie pajamas.
Applejinx
Jesus Christ, I’ve lived to see it.
Snark and mockery became legitimate tools of the revolution. I was so sure it was just useless blogwankery.
Arise, flying monkeys! Arise and do battle, the most powerful man in the world might have to face… sarcasm!
(dinsdaaaaale!)
Spaniel
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This discussion bothers me. Here is a bully who likes to bad mouth folks, to the public no less, and then think the person getting pummeled likes it. Trump’s Might is Right seems to put a blind spot in his thinking.
LAC
@Applejinx: and what is your tried and true method? Trot out the old time tested ” here’s my oh so liberal resume and now let me tell you how you will fail unless you allow the brogressives to show you the way: angry blogging at Starbucks!!”
Thanks….
J R in WV
@amk:
Phone operator: “Hello, Trump Mar-a-Lago, how may I help you?”
Caller: “Yes, is Mr Donald John Trump still there today?”
Po: “I’m so sorry, I can neither confirm nor deny anything like that…”
C: “Oh, no offense taken, I understand perfectly. Could you please take a message for him in either case?”
Po: “Of course, this IS the Trump Mar-a-Lago, after all”
Caller: “Well, Iam calling on behalf of the Russian Imperial Security Service, and we want to thank Mr Trump for the wonderful job he is doing for the Russian Empire. On behalf of Tsar-er, Prime, uh, er, President Vladimir Vladimirovitch Putin, tell Premier Trump – uh, President Trump that “You are doing a fine job so far! Keep up the good work and you will go down in Russian History as a Hero of the Russian Soviet Union!”
Phone operator: “Well, I’ll be sure to get the message to him as soon as we can! Thanks for calling the Trump Mar-a-Lago Resort! Can I book you a suite for a stay at our wonderful club?”
Caller: “No thanks, the air fare from here would break my budget!”