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

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/

the search is on for Mr Elegant

surely there's some system to quietly make the Prez step down when he's clearly out of his mind?

like, if he was the captain of a ship or something

Maybe somebody will throw his palm tree overboard.

Good morning!

The Trump administration is directing the Justice Department to explore whether it can sue institutions of higher education over affirmative action policies that the White House deems discriminatory against white applicants, The New York Times is reporting.

The Times based its report on a document that it obtained.

The internal announcement to the Justice Department's civil rights division puts out a call for lawyers interested in working on a new project focused on "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions," the Times reported.

It's almost as if installing a racist in the Justice Department increases the chances of the enactment of racist policies.

Supporters and detractors of the project told the Times that the project was clearly going after programs that benefit black and Latino students and other groups

Trump is such a golf fan he doesn't know there's no such tournament as the British Open. Still, good to see him keeping on top of the issues that matter.

xp If he was playing 3D chess he could just be trying to make the head of teh DOJ exponentially more unpopular until everybody wanted him gone and he could install somebody more sympathetic to his plight.

This is the kind of evil, racist shit that's right up Sessions's alley.

Perhaps Omarosa is behind this new Trump push to woo voters of color with common-sense policies that help everyone.

And it's a breadfruit tree ffs

President Donald Trump told the Wall Street Journal that after his controversial speech at the Boy Scouts National Jamboree in West Virginia, the head of the Boy Scouts called him and told him it was "the greatest speech that was ever made to them." But the organization told TIME they are unaware of any call from national leadership placed to the White House.

Would it be fun or scary to be the guy whose job it is to call Trump and pretend to be various people full of praise?

I could see that as a real thing alongside having to insert Trump's name and praise for him into every thing that needs to be read by him. But surely nobody would be employed to stoop so low to intermittently ring him up and put on a convincing false voice to praise him. I mean surely even he would recognise the same voice ringing him all the time wouldn't he?

so reminiscent of that Twilight Zone It's A Good life.

I mean surely even he would recognise the same voice ringing him all the time wouldn't he?

honestly i don't know if he would

especially if it's saying nice soothing things to him

"Hi, it's the Pope here!"

Would it be fun or scary to be the guy whose job it is to call Trump and pretend to be various people full of praise?

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, August 2, 2017 7:22 AM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll say scary because you wouldn't exist outside of the diseased brain of one Donald J. Trump. At least you'd have some company, existing alongside the tribe of the Many People who provide the president with the rest of his anecdotal information.

A lot of people dictated that last post to me, it's true.

i've heard that - i'm not sure where i heard it exactly but [garbled]

Has any interviewer ever asked Trump about John Barron? Because that really needs to happen. I think his reaction to questions about an alter ego he may or may not be aware of would be an important thing to get on record.

This is an entire page unto itself, apparently: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_pseudonyms

from last year:

Donald Trump admitted to using aliases in the past during an interview on Wednesday with late-night talkshow host Jimmy Kimmel.

Less than two weeks after denying that he ever pretended to be a publicist named John Miller or John Barron in promoting his business affairs with reporters, Trump admitted on Wednesday that “over the years I have used aliases”. He added “I used the name Barron” and explained that was the inspiration for the name of his youngest son, Barron Trump.

imagine living with the knowledge that your dad picked your name because it used to be his pseudonym for when he'd call journalists with stories about his own sexual performance

And that's above and beyond the fact that your dad is Donald Trump.

speaking of making shit up . this mother fucker is wacked

Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto is calling into question President Trump's most recent claims that the leader called him to praise his administration's work on the U.S.-Mexico border.

As Mr. Trump welcomed his new Chief of Staff John Kelly to the Cabinet table on Monday, Mr. Trump took time to applaud the work Kelly had done during his time leading the Department of Homeland Security.

"At Homeland, what he has done has been nothing short of miraculous," Mr. Trump said of Kelly.

He went on, saying, "As you know, the border was a tremendous problem and they're close to 80 percent stoppage. And even the president of Mexico called me -- they said their southern border, very few people are coming because they know they're not going to get through our border, which is the ultimate compliment."

But Nieto denies that ever happened.

In a statement released by the Mexican Foreign Ministry, Nieto "has not recently spoken to President Donald Trump over the telephone."

If we charitably accept the possibility that he's not completely out of his fucking mind, this could literally just be people pranking him after figuring out his cell phone number.

Is there a tally of how many times one needs to do something that might trigger the 25th amendment before it automatically triggers.
Or a certain thresh-hold of related fumbles that will add up rto it taking hold?
Can America hold its collective head up high and announce that it is proud that it has an incompetent idiot as President

Only like 26% of America.

all 99% o f republicans in office

republicans have their own collective head. it doesn't see color.

Makes sense, as white isn't technically a color.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=25th%20Amendment

Lol 😭

If we survive having an incompetent idiot as President, it will be good for our future modesty (maybe)

"Let's just do it and be legends"

https://www.vox.com/world/2017/8/1/16075198/trump-lindsey-graham-north-korea-war

I don't think this even counts as sabre rattling because I don't believe Kim Jong-un really GAF. It's such a beautiful thing that the capacity to wipe out life on earth is held by such unstable nihilists.

with such terrible hair

Not good