Trump, May 2017: 100 days of [unintelligible]

xxpost It'll be print-outs of Google news stories about Trump, plus maybe some menus from his favorite delivery places. A couple volumes from the Truly Tasteless Jokes series, perhaps?

@ABCPolitics
.@NancyPelosi to @jonkarl: "I never thought I'd pray for the day" when George W. Bush was president again http://abcn.ws/2pxpbyq #ThisWeek

@adamjohnsonNYC
please stop doing this

yeah praying doesn't work

everyone knows that you have to save your prayers for the aftermath of mass shootings, in lieu of actually doing anything about gun control, so that your prayers will be heard more loudly by god, so god will do something.

It is impious to believe we can subvert God's apparent desire to eradicate our species without being too obvious about it.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/president-trump-ends-interview-president-obama-wiretapping-claims

When further pressed by Dickerson, Trump got up and left.

"I don't stand by anything," Trump argued. But he told Dickerson, "I have my own opinions. You can have your opinions."

"But I want to know your opinions. You're the president of the United States," Dickerson countered.

"Okay, it's enough. Thank you. Thank you very much," Trump said, ending the interview.

he is a five year old

What did five-year-olds ever do to you?

Become president.

I'm honestly shocked that he didn't shove a copy of the electoral college map into Dickerson's hand as he stormed out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C-wMTB2W0AAygWC.jpg:large

And then the camera pans down to Trump's hair.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TCR5oC5ZQs

Spaceballs might've been funnier if Mel Brooks had put Trump in it.

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@tinyrevolution
I'm not sure it's true that *everyone* in Tennessee loves Andrew Jackson, since some Tennesseans are descended from people Jackson owned

he thinks he's being treated so harshly, but when you act that stupidly in just about any other context, you get openly mocked and laughed out of the room

as someone observed on twitter: there was a time when spelling 'potato' wrong could get someone labeled as an imbecile and publicly lampooned forever

I'm honestly shocked that he didn't shove a copy of the electoral college map into Dickerson's hand as he stormed out.

― Lauren Schumer Donor (Phil D.), Monday, May 1, 2017 11:27 AM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Someone with access needs to swap out his electoral maps with this:

http://i.amz.mshcdn.com/SYUaVaEj4cDNEIYH_qxpnhnoYwk=/950x534/filters:quality(90)/2015%2F11%2F18%2F29%2Fcarsonameri.b206d.jpg

in a disturbingly similar alternative universe, ben carson rules that stretch of states between New Vermonticutt and Maine

"I love my people," he says. "They are the greatest people."

And with that, he reaches across the Resolute Desk for a sheet of paper showing a map of the United States. It illustrates the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map, and it is covered in a sea of red ink.

"That's the final map of the numbers — not bad, right?" he says. "The red is us, the blue is Hillary. There is a lot of red."...

He promises, as he did during the campaign, to get rid “of tremendous regulations,” to help American companies compete more easily in the world market and to put more of America’s citizens back to work.

That leads, naturally, to an assessment of his own work in his first 100 days, which is, predictably, that no president “has ever done what I have done” even though “the first-hundred-day standard is ridiculous.”

“Well, I think that the Supreme Court is very important,” he explains, “because every 5-to-4 decision is because of me. And that could go on for 40 years,” since his first appointment to the court, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch, “is a young man” at age 49.

“Don’t forget, I got him nominated and confirmed in those 100 days,” he adds, not willing to give up the 100-day argument quite yet.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-you-make-a-mistake-here-there-is-nothing-to-work-out/article/2621572

the map handouts totally remind me of a three year old's drawing. 'I MADE THIS LOOK I MADE THIS LOOK AT WHAT I DID I MADE THIS'

LOL

The White House began deploying the advisers throughout the bureaucracy in January, assigning them to report back on what was happening in their departments. But according to several sources, their meddling quickly began to irritate high-powered officials accustomed to running their own shops -- including Defense Secretary James Mattis and Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, both former generals; Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, a successful financier; and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao, who’s been a Cabinet secretary before.

Mnuchin assigned his minder to the Treasury basement, according to senior officials at the Treasury Department.

"Mmmm yeah, I'm gonna need you to move to the basement. Yeah, that'd be great."

down in the basement with bob "the eagle" bradley

need a moratorium on comparing this asshole to small children. small children are nowhere near as hateful or mendacious as this pouty potty mouth

https://twitter.com/cnbcnow/status/859088622544445441

BREAKING: Market drops after Trump says in Bloomberg interview that he is actively considering breaking up big banks cnbc.com/2017/05/01/sto…

xpost Also never met a kid with such a spiteful lack of curiosity about the world around them.

Trump administration ending Michelle Obama's girls education program

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/01/politics/trump-michelle-obama-girls-education/index.html

"The red is us, the blue is Hillary. There is a lot of red."...

Would someone plz explain to our president that New York has a much larger population and bigger economy than Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Utah and the Dakotas, even if NY looks smaller on a USA map.

Worth noting that the budget resolution currently before Congress constitutes a massive cave on Trump's part.

For all the talk about Trump shutting down the government to get Wall money, holding Obamacare subsidies hostage or generally bending history or at least Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to his will, Trump got close to nothing in the funding bill meant to fund the government for the rest of the fiscal year. He ended up crying unclear or “no mas” on virtually all his demands.

Let’s go down the list.

The EPA was slated for massive cuts – roughly 31%. It will retain 99% of its funding.

Trump demanded funding for his border wall. He didn’t get any.

Trump wanted to cut funding for the National Institutes of Health. It’s getting $2 billion of additional funding.

Funding is included for the Obamacare subsidies Trump has threatened not to pay.

There’s no provision for “defunding Planned Parenthood.”

There’s no language to defund “sanctuary cities.”

There are obviously many other things included in the bill. And it’s not like Trump got nothing. But at least on most of the hot button issues he’s pushed as part of his agenda he folded like a cheap suit.

Yes, that’s a cliche. But he folded so bad, it’s really okay. Trump’s first mini-budget is largely a continuation of Obama’s last budget.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/01/stocks-drop-after-trump-says-hes-actively-considering-breaking-up-big-banks.html

ok, where the *hell* did that come from? is he saying stuff randomly?

He's getting dragged over the Andrew Jackson/Civil War thing so he needed to say something to show how important and powerful he is. I'm sure Paul Ryan is on the phone with him right now.

But yes, he's like an internet comments section on shuffle, dispensing horrifying dipshit responses to questions no one ever asked.

Sort of amazed the budget got passed as is, with no battles. It's like after so many days of losing at trying to win they decided they would just rather accept a win by losing.

Continuing resolutions are powerful stuff.

I think the budget issue was being exclusively worked on by Congress. P sure they just started ignoring the white house entirely. I also think the discrepancy in the budget #s referenced above is comparing what passed with Trump's proposed budget, which was never going to pass and was basically a wish list.

This, from a New York magazine piece, made me laugh:

President Trump says his infrastructure plan is “largely completed” and will be introduced in two to three weeks. He also says that he is considering raising the gas tax and breaking up Wall Street’s biggest banks.

But then, the president says a lot of things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObsQ8_58V3Q

When he gets reelected it will be for claiming credit for all sorts of things that never happened just because they sound familiar to voters. They will praise him for successfully building a wall, cutting taxes for everyone, bringing back coal, making Mexico illegal, repealing giraffes, deregulating deep fat fryers.

Lotta white people in that video...

Repealing giraffes must be accomplished in tandem with providing universal hen fap.

David Blight, professor of American history at Yale University:

"He really said this about Jackson and the Civil War? All I can say to you is that from day one I have believed that Donald Trump's greatest threat to our society and to our democracy is not necessarily his authoritarianism, but his essential ignorance—of history, of policy, of political process, of the Constitution. Saying that if Jackson had been around we might not have had the Civil War is like saying that one strong, aggressive leader can shape, prevent, move history however they wish. This is simply a fifth-grade understanding of history or worse. And this comes from the president of the United States! Under normal circumstances if a real estate tycoon weighed in on the nature of American history from such ignorance and twisted understanding we would simply ignore or laugh at him. But since this man lives in the historic White House and wields the constitutional powers of the presidency and the commander in chief we have to pay attention. Trump's "learning" of American history must have stopped even before the fifth grade. I wish I could say this is funny and not deeply disturbing. My profession should petition the President to take a one- or two-month leave of absence, VP Pence steps in for that interim, and Trump goes on a retreat in one of his resorts for forced reeducation. It could be a new tradition called the presidential education leave. Or perhaps in New Deal tradition, an 'ignorance relief' period. This alone might gain the United States again some confidence and respect around the world. God help us."

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/hey-trump-this-is-why-the-civil-war-happened

"forced reeducation"

"god help us" is a pretty appropriate ending for nearly any public statement these days

trump & co have zero concept of history. if they did they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies and garbage 24/7.

when do they start

Corey Robin:

If Trump were serious about consolidating his power, he might start by, oh, I don’t know, consolidating his power. Because while Trump talks, this is what he’s doing, or not doing:

The Senate has confirmed 26 of Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other top posts. But for 530 other vacant senior-level jobs requiring Senate confirmation, the president has advanced just 37 nominees….

...And this failure to consolidate executive power isn’t just in the agencies and departments Trump wants to gut. This is also in agencies and departments Trump wants to expand and empower....

Whatever fantasies Trump may have about the presidency unbound, this man has almost no agenda for consolidating the power of the presidency. It’s a slogan, a rhetoric, a performance, but that’s it.

http://coreyrobin.com/2017/04/29/a-wise-psychoanalyst-once-told-me-sort-of-look-at-what-trump-does-not-what-he-says/

they'd realize there's consequences for spewing lies

dilbros know those actions are merely tactical and the consequence is WINNING.

man I just remembered that whole "imagine there is no such thing as objective reality" and "I achieved all my dreams by writing them on a piece of paper 15 times in a row" thing from The Dilbert Future and suddenly everything makes sense to me

she was banned from the presidency twice iirc

do we know what happens to deleted tweets? i doubt the text would disappear here

(i just tested and they don't)

which is why the tweet embeds are great!

oh wow, i just realized that if you have images on, the whole tweet embeds! that's kind of cool. FYI, w/ images off (the correct way to use ILX), the text of the tweet is pasted

as long as u use old.css u are using ilx correctly

Russia is seeking to return its diplomatic property in #US🇺🇸 asap.
Otherwise, we will have to take counter measures https://t.co/2MJ4PauEYt pic.twitter.com/kjC1iSQRrc

— Russia in USA 🇷🇺 (@RusEmbUSA) May 23, 2017

Funny how that worked (note the date)

From Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union, by Stephen Budiansky

A Soviet defector, Arkady Shevchenko, subsequently confirmed that other well-situated facilities used by Soviet diplomats in the United States—an eighteen-story residential complex in Riverdale in the Bronx, located on one of the highest spots in New York City; a Long Island mansion on thirty-seven acres in Glen Cove that served as a recreational retreat; and another recreational facility on the Eastern Shore of Maryland—were used to eavesdrop on microwave towers that served not only the major long-distance telephone links to Washington and New York, but also Andrews Air Force Base, where the president’s Air Force One was based, and Norfolk, Virginia, home of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet. “It is most unlikely that these sites were selected for any other reason than microwave interception,” an AT&T analysis concluded. The Soviets’ Washington-area intercepts of unencrypted phone calls by U.S. officials and defense contractors were, according to KGB defector Vasili Mitrokhin, Moscow’s “most important source of intelligence on the foreign and defense policies of the Ford and Carter administrations.”

At this rate Russia won't even need to spy on us.

i am glad other people have to regularly double check to make sure that was not kathy griffin on newsradio

sorry, vicki lewis!

wait, what? i always thought that was griffin!!! lol

I think KG got in the public eye just as Newsradio was ending and Vicki Lewis didn't get a next tv gig as high profile and the public mind got confused

Kathy Griffin was on Suddenly Susan (Brooke Shields sitcom), which was on NBC around the same time NewsRadio was.

I was about to say I thought she'd been in Just Shoot Me, but that isnt right either haha.

Further discussion of Vicki Lewis will be happening shortly over in the 90s Hot thread.

I never thought about it before, but how weird was it for NBC to have two competing female-led ensemble sitcoms about magazines (Just Shoot Me! and Suddenly Susan)? The '90s, man.

Throw all the magazine related shows to the wall and see what sticks, great strategy

There's one episode of Newsradio where Vicki Lewis does a quick Griffin impression after noting that every office has a spunky redhead

I often confuse Kathy Griffin with David Spade.

tbf they were both spunky

Newsradio > everything, especially the Trump admin, is my opinion

The Brooke Shields one was a decent sitcom vehicle for her career

jeez was Caroline in the City around this time, too? the 90s wasn't bad for woman-led shows

I loved Just Shoot Me but it has not aged well

paris accord decision at 3 this afternoon in the white house rose garden

seems like a perfectly idyllic location to announce we're condemning future generations to unimaginable hardship

news radio <3 <3 <3

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