Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

still holding out hope for someone to sell Trump on a plan for an invisible wall that only real Americans can see

Trump started off by saying the base was stronger than ever now

I think this is probably true. They've been quickly shedding anyone with sanity or sense so the ideology of his base is as pure and as fucked as it's ever been. These are the ones who would unquestioningly die for their lord and master!

What he should propose is a big wall, a giant wall, covered with solar panels, enough beautiful panels to generate enough power to pay for the *real* wall, the even bigger, more beautiful wall on the border.

With all the savings and job generating and Mexican-stopping, they'd have enough resources to finally blow up the moon and build that giant magnifying glass weapon.

These are the ones who would unquestioningly die for their lord and master!

Time for the "President Trump wants you to pour antifreeze on your breakfast cereal" email campaign.

as has been noted the un-walled part of the border is largely in unreachable and/or private territory - how would that be connected to a power grid in a way that actually made construction of such a boneheadedly stupid and already expensive project actually *more* cost-effective? as noted vertical structures are terrible for PV and construction costs would actually be *increased* by the inclusion of panels, and then the US gov't would be stuck with an inefficient, expensive, poorly designed power generating source with nowhere for the power to go. GENIUS

yeah, but you're imagining a wall that's 14 or 15 feet high, right? this is going to be a 40 to 50 ft tall wall, changes everything

Sessions wishes it was as simple as resigning at this point.

what no one knows is that trump is simultaneously planning a very long and thin community that will run along the border solar wall. that's where the power will go, so no need to worry about transmission. 1900 miles long, and a block wide.

He should build a giant swimming pool along much of the Texas/Mexico border, that way he could keep out Mexicans but also charge people to go swimming in the world's biggest swimming pool. The Saudi would be so jealous. Then with all the money from the solar wall he could freeze it in the winter and make it a giant skating ribbon.

And then he can get around to blowing up that goddam moon.

what no one knows is that trump is simultaneously planning a very long and thin community that will run along the border solar wall. that's where the power will go, so no need to worry about transmission. 1900 miles long, and a block wide.

Ah right.

https://33hpwq10j9luq8gl43e62q4e-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/0iNm1k0OxlODyaim7.jpg

As plausible an inspiration as anything rattling around in his head.

I know Trump-is-done stories have circulated since 2015, but if Trump loses Sessions I don't see how he keeps the confidence of the GOP caucus, even in the House.

It would be fascinating to see Sessions go from being an asshole Senate lifer to unemployed via a very strange route.

would prefer a Justice Dept without an Attorney General to one w Sessions tbh

cuz I would expect the post to be vacant for quite a long time at this point, no one wants the FBI job either for ex.

The last person to lose Trump's confidence was Daddy Long Arms.

Hmmm

USA Today FLAG: Sen. Mark Warner says Russian election attacks were 'much broader' than NSA document shows https://t.co/PKIQScjnbY

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 6, 2017

Sessions resigning would be hilarious.

optimism after looking at job listings, no real resume yet, urgency to make fat bank soon

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/06/michelle-lee-patent-office-resigns-239200

All in the phrasing here

Confirmed that Sessions at one point told the president, amid tensions NYT reported last night, that he needed room to do his job and 1/

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 6, 2017

...did not need to remain it if the president didn't want him there. Trump declined to accept. 2/2

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 6, 2017

Fun fun

REPORT: In testimony, James Comey will dispute Trump’s blanket claim that he was told he wasn’t under investigation. https://t.co/h6BXBnyeGz

— Evan Rosenfeld (@Evan_Rosenfeld) June 6, 2017

my guess is that Comey's primary concern (as always) is preserving his own reputation, and stopping short of accusing the President of obstruction fits right in with that.

My Comey testimony expectations are subdued, but like always with that guy he'll probably say things that beg to be parsed for clarification at a later date.

xpost Completely. Also, why bother delivering a coup de grace. It's already clear he's cleared whatever he had to say with Mueller, and things will go from there.

Wittes is having fun again.

Now please don't read anything into this, but

tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick tick pic.twitter.com/fc0By0CWqK

— Benjamin Wittes (@benjaminwittes) June 6, 2017

Wasn't his last bombshell mostly pretty eh, by the standards of the day?

even dan fielding wouldn't take a job in this administration

Wasn't his last bombshell mostly pretty eh, by the standards of the day?

One of them was (the 'hide in the curtains' one), the rest were legit big.

whats he doing in the barren wastes of agoura hills thats what I want to know

And all the fiscal conservatives wail...

SCOOP: Trump backs Mnuchin, who wants clean debt limit, over Mulvaney, who doesn't. With @BresPolitico @burgessev https://t.co/wsmniCBdjc

— Ben White (@morningmoneyben) June 6, 2017

NYT: Comey Told Sessions: Don’t Leave Me Alone With Trump

Chris Hayes just used "vouchsafes" in a sentence, so the developments are serious.

I feel like a city a thousand miles long and one block wide would be a pretty entertaining setting for an SF novel or five

I somehow feel J.G. Ballard already wrote a dystopia about that.

the subway map design competitions would be amazing

a tram seems the best option

Sanpaku, are you thinking of "Concentration City?" Same thing occurred to me

Between that and High Rise and Concrete Island yes.

xp: Sci-fi. We can have moving sidewalks. Indeed, many, so one can step sideways incrementally from walking speed to 100 km/h.

WAPO: DNI chief Coates told associates Trump asked him to intervene with Comey on FRI probe.

some people pack for a day and ride the people mover from one end to the other

i love the people mover!!!

when i was 13 i used it to listen to my headphones and look at girls

were you disappointed when it became a gimmick band from LA

xp: Sci-fi. We can have moving sidewalks. Indeed, many, so one can step sideways incrementally from walking speed to 100 km/h.

this made me lol so hard for some reason

And I really needed that, thanks

That Coates story is something else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/top-intelligence-official-told-associates-trump-asked-him-if-he-could-intervene-with-comey-to-get-fbi-to-back-off-flynn/2017/06/06/cc879f14-4ace-11e7-9669-250d0b15f83b_story.html?pushid=593743cd2e12651d0000003c&sw_bypass=true&tid=notifi_push_breaking-news&utm_term=.6d65b5f6c2df

The nation’s top intelligence official told associates in March that President Trump asked him if he could intervene with then-FBI Director James B. Comey to get the bureau to back off its focus on former national security adviser Michael Flynn in its Russia probe, according to officials.

On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.

The president then started complaining about the FBI investigation and Comey’s handling of it, said officials familiar with the account Coats gave to associates. Two days earlier, Comey had confirmed in a congressional hearing that the bureau was probing whether Trump’s campaign coordinated with Russia during the 2016 race.

After the encounter, Coats discussed the conversation with other officials and decided that intervening with Comey as Trump had suggested would be inappropriate, according to officials who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal matters.

"don't leave me alone with Trump" - I guess Comey is not the first to beg this of someone

Oh Thursday will be fun.

Trump won't let Comey "smear him without punching him as hard as he can.” My latest w/ @philiprucker @ashleyrparker https://t.co/yD2dDBwIMa

— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 7, 2017

Alone in the White House in recent days, President Trump — frustrated and defiant — has been spoiling for a fight, according to his confidants and associates.

Glued even more than usual to the cable news shows that blare from the televisions in his private living quarters, or from the 60-inch flat screen he had installed in his cramped study off the Oval Office, he has fumed about “fake news.” Trump has seethed as his agenda has stalled in Congress and the courts. He has chafed against the pleas for caution from his lawyers and political advisers, tweeting whatever he wants, whenever he wants.

I want to know more about this 60 inch TV Trump is hunched in front of.

And I'm sure this isn't helping:

The West Wing, meanwhile, has taken on an atmosphere of legal uncertainty. White House counsel Donald F. McGahn has told staff to hold onto emails, documents and phone records, officials said, a move of caution designed to prepare the staff for future legal requests, should they come. McGahn has specifically advised staffers to avoid what are known as the “burn bags” in the executive branch that are often used to discard papers.

POTUS thinks sick burns via twitter is going to save his ass? What a time to be alive..

The Republican National Committee has lined up a roster of surrogates to appear on conservative news stations nationwide to defend Trump. But a list the RNC distributed on Tuesday could hardly be described as star-studded: The names include Bob Paduchik, an RNC co-chair who worked on Trump’s Ohio campaign; Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R); and Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge (R).