Heh:
Senior administration officials have grown accustomed to learning about their boss’s whims in unorthodox ways but it doesn’t mean they like it or are prepared for the sudden swings of emotion. For instance, one official was having a conversation with a Daily Beast reporter on Friday morning when the reporter interrupted the official to inform them that Trump was on Twitter again.
After a brief pause to check Twitter, the senior Trump aide informed of the unfolding rant, responded, “Jesus.”
You could do the honorable thing and quit.
And remember, Republicans still claim they were embarrassed that Obama was President.
Baud
Jesus can’t help you know.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
I still think he doesn’t make it to 2018; midterms at the latest.
Also: Butthurt Bunker is butthurt that everyone hates it for hiring Stephens.
Mike in NC
USA Today polled people for their Top Ten words to describe Trump. The leading three were Idiot, Incompetent, and Lazy.
schrodingers_cat
@Mike in NC: Not sleazy?
JDM
And leave show business?!
Hunter Gathers
And they always will.
The mere existence of Black people is offensive to Movement Conservatives.
Gin & Tonic
@Mike in NC: Certainly would be in my top 10.
Это курам на смех
Porphyry will not work as an excuse.
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: I can’t believe the first two weren’t narciicist and sociopath.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat: I assume that’s somewhere lower down but still in the top ten.
Elie
I have no idea what will happen next and what time frame this is on, but the wobble of entropy for the Trump regime is getting much more obvious. Where is Jared? Where is Ivanka? Where is Bannon? Why is Reince Priebus so quiet? As Chief of Staff he should be leading their response… Sean Spicer is running around in the bushes. Seriously — I just hope someone is checking all the systems that this fool can impact for the rest of us… He surely has enough military hoohahs around him from McMaster to Mattis — but we haven’t heard a peep. His completely incompetent Secy of State, Rexie boy is also quiet, but he never has much to say anyway, even when speaking. A bunch of losers who will be in the toilet of history…. We just have to survive them…
hovercraft
@Mike in NC:
I call bullshit, what kind of people did they poll if crazy is not one of the top three descriptors?
amk
as long as honorable military types see it fit to serve this traitorous scum, why would/should these underlings quit?
p.a.
Remember early on there was talk that Himself could get frustrated by Washington politics and Palin outta there? Not looking that way; quitting = losing. He’s going to stay and bring the whole thing tumbling down into the mud. I just hope it’s the Rethug party and not the country as a whole he works his magic on. The collateral damage to the US is, and will be, considerable, but to crush that Party for a decade, generation, well, tradeoffs…
Also too, if it survived Noxin, it’ll survive Twitler. Stupid people reproduce too.
WaterGirl
@hovercraft:to answer your question… republicans?
father pussbucket
If Trump actually did shoot someone on Fifth Avenue, could he be arrested or would he have to be impeached first?
clay
Adam Silverman was speculating that we’d see more IC leaks today as has been the pattern. To the best of my knowledge, that hasn’t happened other than Comey loyalists pushing against Trump’s BS.
My speculation: they want their leaks to have maximum impact, and it would be hard for that to happen while Trump is repeated sitting on his own ballsack.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Hunter Gathers:
I suspect some of them are PISSED OFF that O did what Bush could not: locate and terminate Bin Laden.
Felanius Kootea
@Mike in NC: Similar thing on the Quinnipiac poll – idiot, incompetent and liar topped the list, narcissist was way down but it was there.
p.a.
@Elie: Will someone in The White House Councel Office down a bottle of scotch, stagger in, and tell him to shut the fuck up?? Glad they’re not, but it is their job. Unless everyone wants him out ?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@father pussbucket: State crime, he’d be prosecuted by the State of New York.
clay
@father pussbucket: Impeachment removes a president from office. But a president is not immune from the justice system. Ulysses Grant was once arrested for speeding!
hovercraft
@Elie:
The senior advisors were in on the Comey decision, and since nothing is ever their fault, they were all probably in the bushes with Spicey trying to avoid making eye contact so they wouldn’t be blamed for all the blowback. Just look at how he blamed his communications team for not having an effective strategy to fight back when they were the one group he left out of the loop about the shitstorm he was about to create up until an hour before he dropped the turd into their punchbowl. He blamed them for not being out there defending him, and is now supposedly considering making changes, and has apparently put out feelers to FOX to see if anyone there wants to join his communications team.
efgoldman
@schrodingers_cat:
He was the eighth dwarf; missed the cut by that much.
p.a.
@clay: also too: Friday.
Mnemosyne
I have to admit, I’m still kind of stuck on the story that Princess Manbaby gets 2 scoops of ice cream for dessert while everyone else only gets 1. It’s just so indicative of how petty and childish he is about everything. And he has the fucking nuclear codes.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@clay:
Adam was suggesting a post-sunset IC drop… maybe it’ll happen. FSM, I hope so.
clay
@p.a.: The pattern is that leaks have come on Friday.
efgoldman
@WaterGirl:
Reekwars sum smorts t’use them big werdz
TenguPhule
@father pussbucket:
Bystanders should return fire.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@clay:
Speeding? What, in a surrey?
Mnemosyne
@father pussbucket:
IANAL, but I’m pretty sure he could be arrested. There are congresscritters who were convicted of felonies and went to jail but still officially kept their seats because they didn’t get impeached.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Who gets one scoop? I don’t follow. Is he monitoring the dessert intake of his guests?
TenguPhule
@Mnemosyne:
And we don’t have a working federal government anymore.
Hard to say which is worse in the long term.
BBA
Reading the recent interviews, a scary thought came to me: what if we’re the crazy ones? What if the word salads of His Orangeness actually make sense to normal people, and something’s wrong with us for not understanding what a magnificent genius he is?
I mean, good god, there’d better be an explanation for whatever that was about steam on the aircraft carriers, and that’s all I’ve got.
Peale
@schrodingers_cat: trump ge s two scoops when ice cream is served. Guests are only allowed one. Seriously.
efgoldman
@father pussbucket:
He can only be removed by impeachment/25th amendment, but I don’t think there’s any reason he can’t be charged and tried in state court. Doesn’t say anywhere in the constitution that he can’t be.
mai naem mobile
I saw a story on google from Reuters that Treasury is going to share Dolt 45s financial records with the Senate Intel Committee in regards to Russian collusion. I just find it difficult to believe he’s sharing true complete records with the Senate Committee. Just too fishy for me. He would be fighting more not to share them if they are accurate records.
Gvg
I just read today that his Twitter rants are a group effort. He doesn’t type them himself, a bunch of his people sit around in a group and make jokes about it. I picture a frat party that never grew up. Have to find the article and post.
p.a.
@BBA: Kinda like, who was it, Hindrocket? telling us what a genius W was. Or Hewitt?
Jim Parish
@hovercraft:
they were all probably in the bushes with Spicey
No, no. Among the bushes. Very important distinction.
Amanda in the South Bay
@efgoldman:
I’m sure some enterprising, scholarly attorney could produce a Supremacy Clause-esque argument against that (paging burnspbesq).
Another Scott
@Mike in NC: Quninipac:
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
schrodingers_cat
@Peale: That’s fucking stupid and small minded.
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
Impeachment doesn’t apply to members of the house and senate. They can be expelled by majority vote. Per the constitution, each house makes it’s own rules. If the house, for instance, wants to make a rule that all the redheads over six feet tall get expelled, they can.
p.a.
Noxin: “If the President does it it’s not illegal.”
Twitler: “If the President does it it’s not insane.”
clay
@West of the Rockies (been a while): There’s a “in a surrey”/”in a hurry” joke in here somewhere, but:
http://mentalfloss.com/article/65855/cop-who-gave-ulysses-s-grant-speeding-ticket
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Peale:
Fine. I hope he crams mammoth bowls of ice cream down his pie-hole. The sooner he’ll stroke out and rid us of his stupidity.
father pussbucket
@p.a.:
Remember the West Wing counsel Oliver Babisch(?) who could tell the President exactly what the score was and the President listened? Makes me feel like crying.
hovercraft
@schrodingers_cat:
According to the story, he gets two, and everyone else was served one. Now I’m sure if they asked for more they’d get it but what the hell?
I’m reminded of my ex brother in law. We had invited guests for thanksgiving one year, and when we sat down at the table to eat, he carved the turkey and then proceeded to serve himself a drumstick and then told everyone to dig in. We were appalled, what kind of person serves themselves before their guests? Just a small window into why he;s my ex-bil.
clay
@Gvg: Seems likely. There’s definitely some words in his tweets that he would never use. Or spell correctly.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
He gets two nuclear codes. Everybody else just gets one..
thruppence
Mother Jones magazine is raising money to fund their own independent investigation of the possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia. If they get any traction, Trump will go berserk.
mai naem mobile
@schrodingers_cat: not just that. He gets a separate dish of thousand island dressing all for himself. Everybody else gets it on the salad or whatever.
I’m beginning to wonder if they’re going to slip him some potassium or whatever and he’ll keel over and nobody will be surprised because he looks like an MI waiting to happen. He’s beginning to resemble Steve Bannon.
efgoldman
@Amanda in the South Bay:
I’m sure they’d try, and with five RWNJs on SCOTUS, it might work. But once he’s out of office, however that happens….
And the precedents in the Watergate tapes and Paula Jones cases are against him.
Dave
@schrodingers_cat: What it is well it’s a beautiful example of his insecurities and narcissism play out at every level. It doesn’t matter how petty or grand it’s the same sad pattern. How anyone can tolerate the humiliation of being associated with this I will never understand but there you have it.
TenguPhule
@mai naem mobile:
Alas, the bastard has a food taster.
hovercraft
@BBA:
At least with the steam catapults he has the excuse of being a layman with no real knowlwdge of weapons systems or um science. His word salad about economics is from a person who supposedly has an economics degree from Wharton and is a “successful” businessman.
HumboldtBlue
Even FOX News is all “Jesus Christ”
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@clay:
Thanks for the link… interesting.
p.a.
@SiubhanDuinne:
?
lollipopguild
@amk: Military people swear an oath to protect and defend the Constitution. Presidents come and go.trump thinks he is running a private business that has a military and nukes.
SiubhanDuinne
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
He needed to get to his destination fast! He was in a BIG surrey!
mai naem mobile
@Another Scott: I am surprised grifter didn’t make it and I am surprised Conman isn’t further up. I wonder what the results of a similar poll question about Ivanka would be.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Alas, Secret Service will not let him be arrested.
SiubhanDuinne
@schrodingers_cat:
Would it surprise you? Seems completely in character.
germy
Watched some of “Washington Week In Review” tonight.
Pete Williams was talking about the Comey firing. He said “Both the Attorney General and the Deputy Attorney General agreed Comey had to go.”
Later in the show Williams said there was “no evidence” the Trump campaign conspired with the Russians, etc.
It jogged something in my memory, so I check his wikipedia page:
TenguPhule
@BBA:
Not enough brown acid in the world to make that happen.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gvg:
Somehow that strikes me as many orders of magnitude worse than if they were a solo act.
germy
@HumboldtBlue:
Are they slowly shifting into preferring President Pence? It’d certainly make their jobs easier, rather than having to defend the current maniac.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Can’t keep him from being charged/indicted.
Comes a point when even the dimmest bulb (and his family/most trusted advisors) realizes his position is untenable.
Citizen_X
@hovercraft:
“Hey! Who out there wants to help me with this live grenade? Anybody?”
clay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Heh. And there it is! (See #47 for context.)
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
It’s ridiculous, childish, and petty, but that’s the kind of person he is. He must get more than anyone else, at all times. It’s who he is.
Elie
@p.a.:
I suspect that has been tried — without success. I truly am surprised, however, that his queen bee, Ivanka and Jared are nowhere to be found. Some advisors! And what about his Chief of Staff? Has anyone even seen Priebus? God help us, what if there was a true national emergency? Would they just abandon us to the whims of this fool? Did you all hear that there has been another Ebola outbreak beginning in Africa. Can you imagine the panic this fool would illicit — the lack of any sane response? People take too much for granted that we can manage this crap somehow, but we are in peril — the risk is significant and we have literally, no one to turn to. The Congress is made up of his apologists and the ones who aren’t do not know where to even start…. I don’t know what will put this on an faster pace, but we can’t sustain this insanity and someone, some part of our system has to step up and quickly!
BBA
@efgoldman: Rob Ford never did. And he, more than anyone else, is Trump’s model.
schrodingers_cat
@SiubhanDuinne: Yes it did surprise me. I was brought up in a culture that believes in treating your guest as if they were God. You give them your share of food if need be. Did his parents teach him nothing?
अतिथि देवोभव
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: Custody of the prisoner is nine tenths of the law.
Spanky
@thruppence: Thanks for the link. Mrs. Spanky and I are in.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: Sacred Hospitality. Even to one’s worst enemies. If they eat your bread and salt, they are your guests.
schrodingers_cat
@mai naem mobile: I try to avoid his visage as far as possible.
TenguPhule
@Elie:
Do you even have to ask?
Of course they will.
jl
McMaster can’t quit, he’s following orders. Pretty sure he was ordered to take the damn job. Though, I wounder if the point will come where McMaster is faced with an unlawful order.
TenguPhule
@Elie:
Sorry Katie, none of them.
FlyingToaster
@TenguPhule: If there’s a warrant, he can be served and arrested. It’ll be ‘way fucking weird, mind you, but they’re all law-enforcement and so long as he isn’t being threatened, the SS has no interest in stopping it.
He won’t get hauled off to the pokey; he’ll get “appear before CoNY Superior Court on Monday at 8:00 am with your counsel,” but a president can absolutely be summonsed and supoenaed and every damn thing else. He just can’t be put in Rikers. Plus he’s hardly a flight risk.
El Caganer
@Mnemosyne: This one sticks with me, too. It’s such a small thing, which is why I’m surprised I’m so appalled by it. It is exactly what one would expect at a very spoiled toddler’s birthday party.
Mr Stagger Lee
What will be the over/under on the number of movies dealing about Zee Donald?
Peale
@FlyingToaster: he has access to Air Force One. How can he not be a flight risk?
TenguPhule
@FlyingToaster:
There is no way they’d let him be in an unsecured area. None. Nada.
No officer serving a warrant would get even close to him.
And he’d wipe his ass with any summons and declare immunity. He already has via his scumsucking lawyers for prior suits.
Gelfling 545
@WaterGirl: If it’s the same one I read about “a**hole” did figure in there, though.
TenguPhule
@Mr Stagger Lee: Comedy, Tragedy or Horror?
geg6
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes. Everyone but him gets one scoop of ice cream. He gets two. Dominance display. He gets extra sauce for his entree, too. Nobody else does.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: You can’t impeach a congressman or senator, they have to be expelled by their house.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodingers_cat:
Yes.
efgoldman
@Citizen_X:
Sure, right after I stand in front of this speeding 18-wheeler with no brakes. Won’t take but a minute.
rk
@Peale:
Maybe if things get too hot he can take Air force one to Russia and ask for asylum. And no one should tell me that this is impossible or too far fetched.
Viva BrisVegas
@jl:
You mean like murdering the families of suspected terrorists?
Wapiti
I’d agree with the OP that the entire lot deserve no sympathy. Mike Pence, however is the one guy who Trump can’t fire. He’s out there lying because he wants to, not because his job depends on it. The worst of the lot, in my opinion.
dmsilev
@schrodingers_cat:
He apparently learned his racism from his father, does that count?
schrodingers_cat
@Wapiti: God botherers are usually the worst hypocrites.
efgoldman
@BBA:
To sane people who know some history, maybe. Not to Tangerine Tumor, I don’t think; not consciously.
Viva BrisVegas
@Citizen_X:
Bill O’Reilly is available.
TenguPhule
@rk:
We’d have to saturate bomb the area to prevent the Russians from getting their hands on the technology.
schrodingers_cat
@dmsilev: He has siblings, right? How come I have never heard of them? They have some how managed to be low profile and some what normal.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Not politically.
TenguPhule
@schrodingers_cat: His sister the judge pretends he doesn’t exist, as I recall.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman: And if you think that a state indictment will get any more play then a quick “Hah Hah, look at those liberal idiots”, may I remind you that this tactic was already tried against Bush and no judge would sign off on it. Lack of Standing.
efgoldman
@Peale:
Can he fly it himself? Can any of his kids? Any of his hired goons?
germy
@schrodingers_cat:
I wouldn’t be surprised if he made them sign non-disclosure agreements. /s
Chet Murthy
@TenguPhule: And ISTR a brother who died a while back (alcoholism, cited for why he’s a teetotaler). Of course, he didn’t treat his brother’s kids with even a shred of decency when he had a chance. His sister is by all accounts both decent and skilled (sad that we gotta put it in that order, sigh). Y’know, sometimes the apple is just rotten. Got little to do with the tree.
[of course, the racism, that’s just Fred Trump on steroids, so -that’s- the tree.]
schrodingers_cat
@germy: I am not talking about right now. T has always been tabloid fodder since the 80s but at least I have never heard of his siblings.
rk
@TenguPhule:
On the plus side they’d get no intelligence.
Adria McDowell (formerly Lurker Extraordinaire
@jl: He could, at the very least, attempt to drop a retirement packet. Guarantee dude’s been in for longer than 20.
@rk: At this point, that might be an inevitability.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
Civil suits are not criminal indictments. And SCOTUS precedents (Paula Jones vs Clinton) already say he’s not immune – in a case won by his own counsel. Be interesting to see the lawyer turn himself into a pretzel to make the other argument.
TenguPhule
@efgoldman:
Remember the golden rule of the GOP.
IOIYAR.
The Five fuckers on the SC will reverse themselves so fast it will make your head spin.
NotoriousJRT
@schrodingers_cat:
Watch out soon he will demand that people must never raise there heads to be higher than his.
eclare
@TenguPhule: I’ll vote for polonium.
Mnemosyne
@TenguPhule:
Much as we all hated W, he was never suspected of breaking a specific state law. Trump is (allegedly) being investigated for money laundering charges under New York state’s law. Big difference.
Citizen Alan
@West of the Rockies (been a while):
I have said for years that most Republicans probably wept when they heard Osama Bin Laden was dead because they were heartbroken at the loss of their favorite Boogeyman.
Ruckus
@BBA:
We might be a lot of things and some of us may be on the crazy end of the scale but other than a couple of trolls we aren’t crazy. Mostly we can type in complete sentences and have reasonable ideas and values. That alone makes us far less than crazy.
No One You Know
@Jim Parish: I’ll say. “In the bushes with Spicy” sounds like something I’d see in the boys locker room during football season.
John Weiss
@BBA: We’re not the crazy ones. Don’t be a boob-ass.
jw
John Weiss
@schrodingers_cat: My Wife and I were struck by this story as well as you were. One of us was raised in Texas by Yankees. The other was raised in the Antebellum South. Neither one of us would have even thought about doing something like that to a guest! You’ve got to think that the Donald was raised by wolves.
jw
VeniceRiley
What was that old story I dimly recall of Waugh eating a ration banana with cream right in front of his children and sharing nothing?
And I clearly recall Chris Rock going on for ages about how, as the house provider, he deserves the biggest piece of chicken?
Is this some he-man guy thing?