Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

He told reporters on Tuesday that he was very optimistic.

I'd be too. McConnell doesn't lose this sort of thing.

Just everybody else does.

The forces of light need to keep screaming like a mother over the holiday to make the yes votes radioactive.

the bar code on that fake time cover is for karaoke dj software.

https://i.imgflip.com/1eekk5.jpg

Trump stunning Whiie House staff with his version of "Champagne Supernova."

*imagining* trump singing karaoke has completely ruined the phenomenon of sound for me

https://twitter.com/i/moments/879772869273759746

👆 Wrestling heel called "progressive liberal"

Sarah Huckabee Sanders called #TrumpRussia a "hoax" & guess what, she was called out for it. 🔥pic.twitter.com/0ukxUjDGQM

— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) June 27, 2017

she is horrible

Based on new statements out today:

Capito
Portman
Moran
Cruz
Lee
Paul
Collins
Murkowski
Heller

^ 7 of those 9 will have to be won over without any other senators backing out

— Allan Smith (@akarl_smith) June 27, 2017

Watch her facial expression go from slightly bemused to butthurt (right about the time the reporter uses the word "inflammatory.") xp

She is "Can I speak to your manager?" given human form and the power of speech.

Why he's fully all in!

WASHINGTON (AP) - Trump says Senate has chance to pass important health care bill; if it fails, he won't like it "and that's OK"

— Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) June 27, 2017

*imagining* trump singing karaoke has completely ruined the phenomenon of sound for me

― ToddBonzalez (BradNelson), Tuesday, June 27, 2017 4:23 PM

you never heard me sing "Open Your Heart."

if it fails, he won't like it "and that's OK"

lol he doesn't understand politics at all does he

clearly under the spell of Sen. Stuart Smalley (D-MN)

it's easy when you actually care about nothing

Well that's so nice!

Sen. Orrin Hatch promises tax reform won't be drafted in secret https://t.co/euxOg4Dguh pic.twitter.com/tRtAoVO89p

— Mike Walker (@New_Narrative) June 27, 2017

Senator Mike Lee, raving lefty

Sen. Mike Lee: “The first draft of the bill included hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts for the affluent…” https://t.co/bqjHUKZeg4

— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) June 27, 2017

Also, re Trump's "and that's OK" bit

To quote 20 diff Trump friends/advisers, that's just how he talks. Seriously. https://t.co/vgSV5Mj672

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 27, 2017

Which must be wonderfully reassuring.

and that's ok. and here's why

Nelson laugh, etc.

UPDATE: @time has asked the @realdonaldtrump's businesses to remove the phony magazine covers from their walls. https://t.co/beJXOTrevb

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) June 27, 2017

do i have to remove it from _my_ wall, i paid $45 for it #maga

if time succeeds they should try to remove the fake president too.

sarah huckabee is every terrible woman who went to the southern baptist church i attended growing up rolled into one. the kind that would come give a sunday school class of 6th graders a grave sermon on abortion but also make casually racist "jokes" during youth fellowship trips.

Word trickled down a bit.

BREAKING: Pro-Trump group to pull anti-Heller ads...Story TK

— Alex Isenstadt (@politicoalex) June 27, 2017

Most reassuring.

Overheard at the Pentagon: "We're not going to war tonight, right? Right?"

— Nancy Youssef, نانسى (@nancyayoussef) June 27, 2017

Ah, and much like Flynn finally did...

Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort files as foreign agent for Ukraine work https://t.co/It8Js7GPaP

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 27, 2017

I honestly don't understand how you can hide something like that and then file retroactively months later. how does that even work?

Roffle.

Heller brought up the ad himself in the GOP meeting with Trump, I'm told.

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) June 27, 2017

omg that's amazing

gonna celebrate only slightly less when heller is ousted next november

Meanwhile:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/us/politics/affordable-care-act-governors.html

A once-quiet effort by governors to block the full repeal of the Affordable Care Act reached its climax in Washington on Tuesday, as state executives from both parties — who have conspired privately for months — mounted an all-out attack on the Senate’s embattled health care legislation hours before Republicans postponed a vote.

At the center of the effort has been a pair of low-key moderates: Gov. John R. Kasich, Republican of Ohio, and Gov. John W. Hickenlooper, Democrat of Colorado, who on Tuesday morning called on the Senate to reject the Republican bill and to negotiate a bipartisan alternative.

low-key moderates be tryin to run for president in 2020

If low-key moderates can throw a monkey wrench into the slash-Medicaid-stuff-money-into-rich-people's-pockets process, let's thank them cordially. It's a long way to 2020. Let's fight 'em when it makes sense to fight 'em.

Deeply unsurprising.

Who’s afraid of Trump? Not enough Republicans — at least for now. My latest w/ @philiprucker & @ashleyrparker https://t.co/lZG023KBMK

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 27, 2017

murderers' row

My congressman (cited in Ned's story):

“The president remains an entity in and of itself, not a part of the traditional Republican Party,” said Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.), a moderate who represents a district Trump lost by 16 percentage points. “I handle the Trump administration the same way I handled the Obama administration. When I agree, I work with them. When I oppose, I don't."

Heller now gushing about expansion of Medicaid, crediting Sandoval, says NV went from 49th or 50th in uninsured to 24th. My goodness.

— Jon Ralston (@RalstonReports) June 28, 2017

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

Dirt, dirt and more dirt!

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/27/trump-senate-majority-2018-240028

Top GOP officials and senators say White House chaos and impulsiveness are crippling efforts to expand the Republican Senate majority in 2018, unraveling long-laid plans and needlessly jeopardizing incumbents.

There's a widespread sense of exasperation with the president, interviews with nearly two dozen senior Republicans reveal, and deep frustration with an administration they believe doesn’t fully grasp what it will take to preserve the narrow majority or add to it.

The best minds.

https://t.co/fgwFvWrFjg pic.twitter.com/rhITkZOsDj

— Philip Bump (@pbump) June 28, 2017

http://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/tillerson-and-mattis-cleaning-up-kushners-middle-east-mess/

A close associate of the secretary of state says that Tillerson was not only “blind-sided by the Trump statement,” but “absolutely enraged that the White House and State Department weren’t on the same page.” Tillerson’s aides, I was told, were convinced that the true author of Trump’s statement was U.A.E. ambassador Yousef Al Otaiba, a close friend of Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner. “Rex put two-and-two together,” his close associate says, “and concluded that this absolutely vacuous kid was running a second foreign policy out of the White House family quarters. Otaiba weighed in with Jared and Jared weighed in with Trump. What a mess.” The Trump statement was nearly the last straw for Tillerson, this close associate explains: “Rex is just exhausted. He can’t get any of his appointments approved and is running around the world cleaning up after a president whose primary foreign policy adviser is a 31-year-old amateur.”

Why, if only he had a support staff to help him.

I honestly don't understand how you can hide something like that and then file retroactively months later. how does that even work?

According to recent similar reports about Flynn, who did the same thing a few months ago, it usually means that the person is cooperating with investigators aka ratting out other people, because they require retrospective correction of previous obvious mishaps

Flynn's silence this whole damn time has really been telling.

From NYT:

A senator who supports the bill left the meeting at the White House with a sense that the president did not have a grasp of some basic elements of the Senate plan — and seemed especially confused when a moderate Republican complained that opponents of the bill would cast it as a massive tax break for the wealthy, according to an aide who received a detailed readout of the exchange.

Mr. Trump said he planned to tackle tax reform later, ignoring the repeal’s tax implications, the staff member added.

Just imagining the gears grinding. "...tax cut? tax cut comes AFTER health care. wait. what day is it?"

Yeah, that is amazing. Also because the story always is that he spends all day watching news, yet he hadn't heard that line before. What echo chamber is he in?