Trump, September 2017: Walmart Knockoff Hats and Other Indignities

It's called compartmentalizing.

Out of all the "re-evaluations of past Republicans" going around, giving an inch of ground to Albright is the hardest for me. Even W has more of my sympathy.

Albright was a Dem?

the US forever warriors know no party

Yeah, I buy this, sure.

NEW: Trump's legislative director Marc Short says Trump agreed to shorter debt ceiling deal in order to "clear the decks" for tax reform.

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 6, 2017

looking forward to a lot of hot takes about TRUMP THE UNITER and how he doesn't play by washington's rules from people who still can't believe he's this dumb/need clicks

"I MEANT to do that"

xp

https://files.catbox.moe/ebnor1.jpg

surely Trump would insist on playing white

appropriate that none of those chess pieces have moved anywhere i guess

game has to keep restarting cos he keeps trying to play w/ checkers rules and throwing the board in disgust when corrected

Trump should move one step back.

It would quickly become clear to someone playing chess with Trump that a) he's unaware that chess is a different game than checkers and b) he was never able to quite wrap his head around the intricacies of playing checkers.

"let them come to us - we are in a position of strength"
"sir we are required to make a move. we have to take turns."
"we are always 4 moves ahead"
"yes sir"

In the Trump cult universe he is always much more fit and handsome. Subtle but suggests how thoroughly the cultish mindset skews perceptions.

In the Trump cult universe he is always much more fit and handsome. Subtle but suggests how thoroughly the cultish mindset skews perceptions.

Present-day hair, 1980s body.

the dude is an athlete

https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--JrV_uOaD--/c_scale,f_auto,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/av2unne3kzihcphkcab4.jpg

Ben Garrison's Trump looks like Fabio or something

https://media.wired.com/photos/59446c633cf71b16ba5b9e23/master/pass/BenGarrison-Art.jpg

Donnie just wants to make everyone happy! Why is that so hard to understand?

President Donald Trump on Wednesday denied that he was sending mixed signals on the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and said he simply wants Congress to come up with a solution "where everybody is happy."

...

Trump said Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and “even very conservative members of Congress” want to take care of so-called Dreamers.

“Chuck and Nancy would like to see something happen, and so do I,” the president said. “And I said if we can get something to happen, we’re going to sign it and we’re going to make a lot of happy people.”

...

“I’d like to see something where we have good border security, and we have a great DACA transaction where everybody is happy and now they don’t have to worry about it anymore,” Trump said. “I’d like to see a permanent deal, and I think it’s going to happen. I think we’re going to have great support from both sides of Congress, and I really believe that Congress is going to work very hard on the DACA agreement and come up with something.”

just checked in on resident cosmic brain dildo Scott Adams and wouldn't you know it, he's currently praising Trump for his "strategic ambiguity" regarding DACA.

Oh dear.

"[Ivanka] wanted to make the trip. She said, 'Dad, can I go with you?' She said actually, 'Daddy, can I go with you?' I like that, right?" pic.twitter.com/fN2I8VPodZ

— David Mack (@davidmackau) September 6, 2017

Trump: "I speak to leaders all the time. Lots of them. I spoke to a leader of a major, major country recently, a really big one." pic.twitter.com/09lb5tgUWE

— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) September 6, 2017

this fucking moron

Well, yes. Wait, what?

Trump: Drought-stricken Dakotans "better off" than Harvey flood victims https://t.co/PD2X7SEZYf pic.twitter.com/CELh2cmgFw

— The Hill (@thehill) September 6, 2017

'if only we could get some of that water up here'

i'm just guessing, tell me if i'm right

lol morbs

More sad trombones!

BREAKING: Trump unlikely to nominate Gary Cohn to become Fed Chair; chances dropped after Charlottesville - DJ https://t.co/jn8limUSe7

— CNBC Now (@CNBCnow) September 6, 2017

Trump on taxes: “We’re going to get into great detail over the next two weeks.”
The "two weeks."

— Richard Rubin (@RichardRubinDC) September 6, 2017

Oh HERE we go.

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/09/michael-cohen-interview-donald-trump

I mean, it's not surprising that Mr. Sez Who is a pathetic toady like all the other pathetic toadies but Jesus H. Christ, this guy.

Cohen’s actual family has suffered because of his support of the Trump family. He said some students at his daughter’s college and his son’s school in New York City say things about him that “decorum would say they probably shouldn’t have.” His mother checks in every day to see how he is doing. He says that he routinely receives death threats on social media for associating with Trump. Sometimes people on the street will say “really nasty, negative stuff,” which he sometimes responds to by asking them to step two or three feet closer and “see what happens. I tell them to come say it right to my face, not from across the street. Come shake my hand.”

The way his family has been treated weighs on him. “It was my decision to go and work for Trump,” he said. “Not my brother’s. Not his wife’s. Not my nephews’—13 and 11. They’re like me, casualties of war that nobody cares about as long as they can defame and damage president Trump and the Republican Party.”

Of course, Cohen can walk away at any point. “I’d never walk away,” he responded, over and over, when I raised the point. Even at the expense of his family? “I’d never walk away.” When I point out that it’s a tremendous amount of loyalty for the president, he tells me that the president deserves it.

casualties of war

what, did they get a venereal disease?

A friend posted this photo on Facebook - apparently Donnie just wanders around, unprotected, at times...

https://scontent.fewr1-3.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/21371014_10154945807923595_397190149510774436_n.jpg?oh=4ed433202538dbea327d61ae32dc26c0&oe=5A211C83

I weep for them so.

House GOP aide:"Members are super [angry] & many who backed Cruz & railed against Trump as not conservative R pulling 'I told U so' routine"

— David M. Drucker (@DavidMDrucker) September 6, 2017

how many people is that, 10? 12?

CruzTrumpphonebank.gif

Every time I hear DACA I think of Wire:

drill drill drill
DACA DACA DACA
drill drill drill
DACA DACA DACA

how many people is that, 10? 12?

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, September 6, 2017

they can't even include Cruz's wife and kids b/c they hate him too

lol

looking forward to a lot of hot takes about TRUMP THE UNITER and how he doesn't play by washington's rules from people who still can't believe he's this dumb/need clicks

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses),

a FOX commentator from that toiler paper thing The Federalist said as much

GOP congressional caucus (with some exceptions in the Senate) are whipped dogs - they will endure any and all abuse and have boxed themselves into a corner with their voting base, they can't turn on Trump even if they wanted to (and most of them don't, tbh). All their private grousing amounts to is "thank you sir, may I have another".

More fun!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-just-undercut-his-own-party-on-the-debt-ceiling-it-was-deliberate

Multiple West Wing sources told The Daily Beast how the president was looking to strike a quick and easy deal—and that his speed reaching this specific arrangement was in part ensured by his resentment towards Republican leaders, who Trump views as hostile, insufficiently loyal, and impotent. It was well-known within the White House that President Trump, going into the meeting, was “not looking to do [Ryan and McConnell] any favors,” as one White House official put it.
Simply put, the president made a “deliberate decision not to care about Ryan’s feelings” and did what he wanted, another White House adviser said.
“I think it was calculated, in his unique way. Republicans can’t get anything done, so maybe the other side will,” a senior Trump administration official said of the deal, which will forestall a government shutdown until mid-December and allow the government to continue borrowing money until around the same time. “At the very least,” the administration official added, “it says, ‘don’t take me for granted.’”

"Maybe the other side, who are in the minority, can help the president pass items that are loathed by his party, the majority."

Fabulous strategy.

what could possibly go wrong

oh my god the pecs on that cartoon trump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjSCzC4R6gk

A friend posted this photo on Facebook - apparently Donnie just wanders around, unprotected, at times...

lol that's not trump, that's some guy with a shaggy haircut and a suit walking down the washington avenue bridge on the university of minnesota campus

The Bill Mitchells of the world are convinced it's all genius, thus

Mitch McConnell had refused to meet with Trump for weeks, now GOP cries because Trump retaliated on debt ceiling. Welcome to hard ball.

— Mike Cernovich 🇺🇸 (@Cernovich) September 6, 2017

“A three-month debt ceiling? Why not do a daily debt ceiling?” cracked Rep. Mike Simpson (R-Idaho). “He’s the best deal-maker ever. Don’t you know? I mean, he’s got a book out!”

lol, I hope that one gets back to him.

If behaving like a petulant, spite-fueled baby makes you a genius, I believe the MacArthur Foundation owes me a grant.

If behaving like a petulant, spite-fueled baby makes you a genius, I believe the MacArthur Foundation owes me a grant.

The line forms right behind Morbius.

give us a kiss