Trump, August 2017: A great day at the White House!

AMIRITE

idgi is amirite welsh for something

But I still think there are unpredictable dangers to having this Trump guy in office.

― Treeship, Tuesday, August 1, 2017 4:40 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

eh -- give him a chance.

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mellan Donalds frost och dun...

Trust me, that was hilarious

Wray confirmed 92-5 as FBI Director

don't give in to peer pressure, donnie :)

http://www.startribune.com/white-house-says-trump-has-yet-to-sign-russia-sanctions-bill/437923403/

Another amazing (as in, we're fucking doomed) interview transcript. This one was for the Wall Street Journal, but Politico got hold of it and published it.

glad to see they're already putting general chief of staff kelly in his proper place :)

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/gop-rep-ivanka-trump-doesnt-have-to-report-chief-of-staff

"to access her father" an unfortunate choice of words given his past behavior around her

I thought Wray had been outed as doing very underhand things in alliance with Chris christie involving the Bridge scandal since his initial confirmation so had assumed progress had stopped.
But thi si the Trump regime so what am i expecting some respect for ethics?

he was unanimously confirmed in committee after he explicitly said he would not pledge loyalty, stand for any obstruction etc.

Wray should tell Trump he's fired and see if he falls for it

was wray asked if he agrees with franks?

http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2017/08/01/trent-franks-arizona-robert-mueller-resignation/104188492/

love the stretch between "they know each other" to "they're BFFs and he cannot be trusted"

Sports Illustrated runs a piece on Trump the golfer

As for his game, Trump is surprisingly limber for a portly man of 6' 2", and his good eye-hand coordination shows through in all aspects of his play, but especially in his ability to hole putts, which he does with a wristy, old-fashioned stroke that is nothing like the method preferred by the best players today. On the backswing of his full shots, he takes the club inside and, impressively, gets his left shoulder well behind the ball. He then makes a lunging, down-the-line swing with his feet dancing through the finish. It's not pretty, but it repeats and it's a swing with rhythm and power. "He's a much better golfer than you think he'd be because he hits the ball a long way," says Phil Mickelson. "He has clubhead speed, and there's no substitute for that." Trump favors the latest in TaylorMade equipment, owing to a long-standing friendship with Mark King, the company's former CEO. But when Prime Minister Abe gave Trump a gold-colored Honma Beres S-05 driver, it went straight into the bag. (Retail price of the club: $3,755. The gift was made in November, and as President-elect, Trump was permitted to accept a gift that he would not have been allowed to take after the inauguration; Presidents are forbidden from accepting a present from a foreign government with a value that exceeds $390.)

At most other golf courses in America the TV is tuned to Golf Channel, on mute, but throughout last summer and fall, the television in Trump Bedminster's shop was on Fox News, with the sound blaring. As President, Trump has already made four visits to the club. He has his own cottage adjacent to the pool; it was recently given a secure perimeter by the Secret Service, leading to the inevitable joke that it's the only wall Trump has successfully built. Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent appearances: "That White House is a real dump."

Ha, doesn't Trump claim 6'3" in an effort to beat the obesity cutoff?

And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it’s pretty amazing how many people they have.

I guess you neither need nor need to know how to use Google when you're president.

It's a shame that 'That White House is a real dump' couldn't have dropped before a new thread title was chosen.

there is no way trump beats any kind of obesity cut off even at 6'3"

seriously - I'm considered "overweight" by BMI index at 6'0 and I weigh like, slightly less than 190.

he'd have to be under 240# to be overweight (not obese) at 6'3". not that it matters, but he's the one telling lies about it.

"He's a much better golfer than you think he'd be because he hits the ball a long way" sounds like Clickhole gibberish

he's a better baseball player than you think because he throws his bat at opposing players

Just wondering if Wray might be ablle to have a negative effect on the Russia investigation. I thought dodgy things about his affiliations were coming out recently.
Including him being the lawyer representing and aiding Christie through Bridgegate.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration is preparing to redirect resources of the Justice Department’s civil rights division toward investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants, according to a document obtained by The New York Times

Plz fire Sessions

staggering

Was going to say DJT and JBS are the absolute worst humans but I'm not even sure they qualify as human beings, tbh.

it's easy to run out of outrage these days, but that is just total WTF territory

gutting the State Department while he does that, and eliminates the environmental impact studies to get the wall built. We are not going to recover from this asshole.

https://foreignpolicy.com/2017/07/31/how-the-trump-administration-broke-the-state-department/

good to see kelly's impact on leaking has so far been nil btw

only kind of leaking the president likes is in his mouth, can i get a heyoo

fwiw his approval is now the lowest it's ever been on the 538 tracker

actual Trump quote

So I’ll call, like, major—major countries, and I’ll be dealing with the prime minister or the president. And I’ll say, how are you doing? Oh, don’t know, don’t know, not well, Mr. President, not well. I said, well, what’s the problem? Oh, GDP 9 percent, not well. And I’m saying to myself, here we are at like 1 percent, dying, and they’re at 9 percent and they’re unhappy. So, you know, and these are like countries, you know, fairly large, like 300 million people. You know, a lot of people say—they say, well, but the United States is large. And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it’s pretty amazing how many people they have. So China’s going to be at 7 or 8 percent, and they have a billion-five, right? So we should do really well.
But in order to do that – you know, it’s tax reform, but it’s a big tax cut. But it’s simplification, it’s reform, and it’s a big tax cut, 15 –

oh dear

He's crazy

What's up with the delay in signing the Russia sanctions?

not that he's sane, but that's merely stupidity xp

I feel like there is a kind of insanity in going on like that, believing that he knows what he is talking about.

But you're right, that passage didn't involve delusions.

thinking that GDP growth and population size are correlated is pretty fucking delusional

Yeah I mean the paranoid kind.

Dumb people believe wrong things all the time because they're dumb rather than crazy.

But

I think he's crazy anyway.

What's up with the delay in signing the Russia sanctions?

The bomb in his head explodes.

rexxon isn't a fan either :(

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/tillerson-comments-new-russia-sanctions

he does know if he doesn't sign it within 10 days, it automatically becomes law, right?

unless the idiot is trying to pocket veto, which I don't think would work (Senate is still convened after all)

"the white house is a real dump" is just good golf banter imo

unless the idiot is trying to pocket veto, which I don't think would work

Dude can barely Pocket Pool, much less Pocket Veto...

was this shared? I see that a quote from the interview is already upthread
http://washingtonjournal.com/2017/08/01/transcript-trumps-latest-interview-just-leaked-truly-unhinged/