Trump explaining to several club members why he frequently visits Bedminster: "That White House is a real dump." https://t.co/f3VYWxGMl5 pic.twitter.com/mL39uugMOE
— Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) August 1, 2017
Quote’s from a long Sports Illustrated article, which doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know. Difference now is Trump’s non-stop granular pettiness and narcissism are being shared with an audience that probably doesn’t approve of #Resistance.
Is he…is he bragging about being able to get in touch with other countries' leaders? https://t.co/AG6qbE3L0R
— Kate Cronin-Furman (@kcroninfurman) August 1, 2017
Yes, but not just *any* countries – major, major countries.
— Robert Rosenthal (@PCC_Car) August 1, 2017
no chaos no chaos
you're the chaos— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 31, 2017
(Note date below– the Trump Time-Travel Curse strikes again)…
If you read my last number of tweets, only one opinion can be formed – that our President, and therefore "leader," is grossly incompetent!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2014
Aimai
I said it below but it bears repeating:Kelley will not be able to prevent Trump from seeing whoever he wants or making phone calls to putin or buckling down to work in the ivsl office. Trump can not be alone with the gaping narcissistic void at his core. If kelly needs to “approve” visitors Trump will need Kelly to suck up to him full time. Or he will flee the white house permanently.
OzarkHillbilly
Insomnia really blows.
sukabi
@Aimai: yep. And neither one of those scenarios will work for either Kelly or Drumpf.
Villago Delenda Est
Whatever it is that Donald tweets tomorrow…someone will find the anti-tweet from the past.
OzarkHillbilly
jl
Contra the extract, I don’t think Trump is ‘at his most unguarded’ with the chumps, sad sacks and bozos with excess funds who pay to be in his exclusive clubs. I think he says whatever comes into his head that he thinks will impress them. So, calling the WH a dump and implying that he is too good for the place fits. Even if he thinks the WH is a low class dive, I think he said it to impress his cronies.
The link says that Trump is such a lazy slob that he drives his golf cart onto the greens and the tees. Man, his precious battery must really need conserving. I don’t like anything about golf, except the genteel atmosphere, which I think is a hoot, but that is a serious disgrace to the sport, even if it is a silly one. Silly sports need some self-respect too.
I do like golf courses, even if I don’t like golf. When I was a boy scout, for a while we held our meetings at the club house of a broken down old public course that was closing down soon. We’d play capture the flag on the golf course. That was fun, and the night games were great. All golf courses should be put to good uses like that. Real golfers should be thankful for the fun new hazards that are created thereby.
Betty Cracker
Watching an old Julia Child and Jacques Pepin program, and they are scrambling an ostrich egg. One egg is enough to feed six people! On the inside, it looks just like a giant chicken egg.
jl
@Betty Cracker:
” On the inside, it looks just like a giant chicken egg. ”
Whew, that’s a relief. It damn well better look like that if anyone is going to eat it.
SWMBO
@Betty Cracker: One of my favorite shows was called “Dinner for the Boss”. It was a huge beef roast and sides. She was drinking what looked like iced tea. Then she got to dessert. Chocolate Bourbon Balls. I remember her melting chocolate and butter and heavy cream in a double boiler. Then she slowly added the bourbon from the bottle. Then she topped off her glass. By the end of the show her kitchen was spinning and she had to hang on to counter to keep it still. One of my favorite shows.
sukabi
@Villago Delenda Est: someone should figure out a way to insert his ‘vintage’ tweets into his current timeline. Especially the ones like above.
Betty Cracker
@SWMBO: I’m gonna have to look that one up! One thing I like about these old shows is that they’re not overly edited. They fuck up and spill stuff — just like real people!
jl
@sukabi: Scientists should study the weird phenom of Trump tweetanglment, where tweets from years in the past create perfectly matched anti-tweets now. It is very spooky.
OzarkHillbilly
@SWMBO: Julia was known for missing the wagon.
MomSense
@SWMBO:
I loved her show. I just read the other day that Queen Elizabeth enjoys four cocktails every day. She drinks her first at lunch. Now we know why she always has that sweet, little smirk.
sukabi
@jl: maybe the Russian meddling ripped a hole in the space – time continuum…
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: Agree, has affected me lately, getting older sucks, so sorry.
Betty Cracker
@MomSense: Allegedly, her mother drank like a fish and directed servants to hide bottles of gin in hatboxes for road trips. She once said, “I’d never get through all my engagements without a little something.” Lived to be 101.
eclare
@Betty Cracker: Yes, we would all be good to get along as well as the Queen Mum did til she was 101. And Queen Elizabeth still rides horses, last I saw.
Betty Cracker
Speaking of old people, I was driving my very elderly gran somewhere this weekend, in the same car I’ve chauffeured her in for several years now, and out of the blue, she says: “I like this car! What kind is it? A Packard?”
My auntie in the backseat and I laughed our heads off!
eclare
@Betty Cracker: A Packard? What the hell do you drive? Laughing…..
TriassicSands
@jl:
I don’t know if this is included in your reference to a “genteel atmosphere,” but professional golf probably has the highest standard of honesty of any sport. If a player accidentally steps near his (or her) ball and it moves a millimeter (and no one else sees it) the golfer will almost certainly report the infraction and take the penalty even though there was no intentional act and no advantage realized. That makes it ironic that golf is Trump’s chosen pastime. I have no doubt he cheats constantly. It’s who he is.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: My old man, in his Alzheimered state, said some of the funniest shit I ever heard. Sad, but oh so knee slapping funny.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Republicans think of life as a zero sum affair; from me to do well, means someone else must do poorly.
ETA: Trump’s whole aversion to exercise is the application of the same principle.
Brachiator
@jl:
There’s something else at play here. Trump loves an audience. He needs an audience. And we’ve had a few modern presidents from wealthy families whose private homes may have been superior to the White House. But they still treated the White House as a special, sacred place. The people’s house. Trump treats it as though it was a tacky acquisition, a fixer upper that might look a little better if it were painted gold.
And he does this not just to impress the chumps, but to aggrandize himself. And he is totally unaware of the insecurity and the pettiness at the heart of his remarks.
opiejeanne
@Brachiator: I think of all the crap I’ve heard today from Trump, this comment about the WH being a dump makes me the most angry. I know that’s irrational but for some reason that’s the worst thing in my mind, for today, and I’m plenty angry about other things like the proposed investigation of Affirmative Action.
sm*t cl*de
@OzarkHillbilly:
That is a polite way of saying “POTUS’ word is worthless and if his facehole is open then lies are falling out of it”. One seldom encounters Australians displaying such diplomacy.
NotMax
@eclare
As opposed to Catherine the Great, who (it is said) had horses ride her.
sm*t cl*de
@TriassicSands:
It’s not “cheating” to keep hitting balls until one goes vaguely in the direction you want. That’s just “club-owner’s privilege”.
Amir Khalid
@opiejeanne:
Trump doesn’t realise that, as long as he is President, the nation he’s supposed to be serving is not just his boss but also his landlord. Also too, no self-respecting nation would make a dump its presidential palace. To insult the White House, whose domestic staff work hard to make it a very nice place for him to live and entertain the nation’s guests, is to insult America. You are quite right to be angry.
p.a.
Sure am glad the WH residential staff will never hear him call their place a dump.
NotMax
@opiejeanne
Not enough escalators.
Or applause machines.
Joyce Harmon
@opiejeanne:
Me too! Like, how DARE he! Tacky tacky man with awful tacky taste. But I think I’ve identified why he felt it necessary to say such a thing. (Besides him having awful gangsterish taste, I mean.) As it turns out, the Vanity Fair review of the Trump International Hotel (that’s the one on PA Ave in DC that used to be the Old Post Office, and he’s hideously proud of it) called it a ‘frightful dump’. “No dump, no dump, YOU’RE the dump!” – right? Oh, and Luxury Travel Intelligence called the decor ‘garish’ and concluded “This place is not for the true discerning luxury traveller.” Ouch.
Lurking Canadian
I suspect Trump’s view that the White House is a “dump” owes as much to the fact that a Black family used to live there and nobody will let him bring in Russian hookers to pee everywhere.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Lurking Canadian: It’s public housing, ‘those people’ live in public housing.
Quinerly
@OzarkHillbilly:
Thanks for this post and link.
Quinerly
@opiejeanne:
I’m with you on being angry. The comment hit a nerve that hasn’t been hit or that I didn’t even know I had. I’m furious.
bemused
No wonder Trump golfs so much. It’s his comfort zone being among the “special people, his real group”. Reminded me of GW Bush joking at Al Smith Dinner in 2000. Bush said the audience was an impressive crowd, “the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elite. I call you my base.”
Granted, being “humorous” at the dinner is a tradition but I remember that “joke” rubbed me the wrong way and has stuck in my mind.
When people tell you who they are, believe them, especially Republicans.
TriassicSands
@Joyce Harmon:
There is no peak Trump, though trough Trump is probably more accurate. Peak sounds too much like it might be associated with something positive, and it is impossible for me to associate Trump with anything positive. The soiling of the office continues without rest.
Kristine
@NotMax: My comment over on Twitter was ‘not enough gold leaf.’
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
That’s fantastic. I always did like the Queen Mum.
misterpuff
Well, its government housing and ya know, the previous occupant…/subtext
Westyny
@NotMax: in Russia, horse ride you!
psychobroad
@Betty Cracker: My grandmother learned to drive in a Packard, around 1915 or so.