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

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

I know it's a cliché but can't we just get these two into a parking garage and force them to resolve this with a one-handed switchblade fight a la the 'Billie Jean' video?

that's the Beat It video! what has happened to our nation :(

Mmm, pretty sure it was 'Billie Jean'. Or possibly 'Heal the World'.

Why does Lindsey Graham like war so much?

Part of me thinks/hopes that Trump was just kind of following Graham's hints during that conversation.

i'd hope that graham was being open about it to try to discourage trump from going to war but who knows at this point tbrr

I always assume warmongers have the appetite but not the aptitude to commit to a life of serial murder so they settle for the next best thing.

No he loves this shit are you kidding

I don't think that's the case Old Lunch. I think he's just a moron who imagines he is taking "tough, principled" positions against evil.

Regardless, a war with North Korea would be a catastrophe on an unimaginable scale and it shouldn't even be seriously considered as an option, much less an "inevitability." Good God.

I think all Graham cares about is that it would be a catastrophe for someone else and not him.

Are there sweet libtears in North Korea?

He's not really motivated by blind hatred of liberals either though, at least not compared to his fellow Republican senators. He just always thinks war is the answer.

The mentality is straightforwardly 'NK and Iran will bomb America the moment they are physically capable of doing so and therefore must be completely eliminated first, irrespective of the cost to their neighbours.

He's in the pocket of the arms companies but i can't imagine even they would be particularly keen on a massive nuclear strike against NK. There wouldn't be much profit in it.

xpost Can you get more lib than Communists? Better dead than beta red!

Are there sweet libtears in North Korea?

united nations libtears inspectors haven't been allowed into north korea for a while now, only the use of military force will let find out for sure

At the end of Trump's statement criticizing the sanctions bill, he boasts about his company and chastises Congress: pic.twitter.com/mqZD5h4Wif

— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 2, 2017

full statement clearly not written by him

Signing statement accompanying the new sanctions bill pic.twitter.com/iygyaEZYgE

— Pwn All The Things (@pwnallthethings) August 2, 2017

I dunno, the typos sort of scream out "tiny fingers!"

Ha, Rick Perry being considered for Homeland Security. You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

Why does Lindsey Graham like war so much?

Because Huckleberry Butchmeup doesn't have to fight them?

even 'normal' presidents have writers u know

You know that dude wants out of Dept of Energy.

literally *everybody* in the top ranks at the DoE has a PhD, he has to be very frustrated that his smart-glasses are not working their magic

What must it be like, working under a total dummy who has no understanding of what you do. (remembers practically every job he's ever had) Oh, yeah...

I can only assume that Perry was v confused when he found out the DoE doesn't really do much with energy policy and instead spends most of it's time shuttling nuclear waste around the country

Wasn't that how it was reported? That he totally thought he'd be fighting against solar power and stuff but instead got stuck with nuclear waste management?