Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

Surely the rest of his immediate family can't hate him too? Oh my.

it's the look of someone voluntarily giving themselves up for arrest at police headquarters

― alcohol aficionado zane lamprey (bizarro gazzara),

otm

I got in a FB argument two weeks ago when an acquaintance, in a fit of curdled cleverness, responded to a Mencken quote I posted with LOL QUOTING A RACIST ANTI-SEMITE.

Julius Caesar is opening in Central Park, and guess who Caesar looks like?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/06/12/trump-like-julius-caesar-assassinated-in-new-york-play-delta-bank-of-america-pull-funding/

looks more like ted levine in monk tbh

There was a version a few years ago where Caesar looked like Obama. This is apparently a favored "creative" option of and for idiots.

That video needs to be pored over like the Zapruder film. So much going on. I don't think Trump so much as acknowledged his son. And that weird freak thing he does where he starts to turn away from the military dude as he's saluting him. What a weird freak.

boy i wish we were poring over this exactly like the zapruder film

Yeah, Trump can't wait to be somewhere else. Must have been a pretty quiet copter ride.

It just scrambles my mind that anyone would look at this family and not think, woah, what a miserable, fucked up mess of a group of people, I want to be nothing like them or theirs. But I guess the same who admire the Trumps probably looked at the Obama family with scorn.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/dc-and-maryland-to-sue-president-trump-alleging-breach-of-constitutional-oath/2017/06/11/0059e1f0-4f19-11e7-91eb-9611861a988f_story.html

Attorneys general for the District of Columbia and the state of Maryland say they will sue President Trump on Monday, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution by accepting millions in payments and benefits from foreign governments since moving into the White House.

The lawsuit, the first of its kind brought by government entities, centers on the fact that Trump chose to retain ownership of his company when he became president. Trump said in January that he was shifting his business assets into a trust managed by his sons to eliminate potential conflicts of interests.

But D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine (D) and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) say Trump has broken many promises to keep separate his public duties and private business interests. For one, his son Eric Trump has said the president would continue to receive regular updates about his company’s financial health.

The lawsuit, a signed copy of which Racine and Frosh provided to The Washington Post on Sunday night, alleges “unprecedented constitutional violations” by Trump. The suit says Trump’s continued ownership of a global business empire has rendered the president “deeply enmeshed with a legion of foreign and domestic government actors” and has undermined the integrity of the U.S. political system.

I wouldn't say this in any public venue because he's just a kid but Barron sure walks weird. Maybe his foot was asleep or something. His shirt is pretty dope though.

Tell me how you feel about his shirt when he starts believing what it says ten years from now.

i have a lot of sympathy for barron tbh, he and his mum are basically sentenced to life in a goldfish bowl because daddy accidentally became president

I want to say "good mourning" but think that line is worn out. Help!

xpost Oh, I do, too. I just have to balance that with the recognition that the chances of his becoming a monster in adulthood are fairly high.

by the time barron hits college (that he doesn't have to pay for), daddy could very well be dead or at least incapacitated, and he has a long life as a trustfund grandee to look forward to

Meantime, an amusement re Jamie Gorelick, currently Kushner's lawyer

Enjoyable paragraph. https://t.co/6lVB1QudWy pic.twitter.com/Cujf7tl4cP

— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) June 12, 2017

classic

maybe barron spends lots of time online and knows exactly how despised his father and family are

I imagine it's very cathartic when he's playing games online and mercilessly slaughters everyone with a handle that's some variation of his dad's name.

I want to say "good mourning" but think that line is worn out. Help!

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, June 12, 2017 8:57 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I just thought you were teasing a Top 20 Megadeth songs blog post.

the extent to which reddit deifies barron is insane pic.twitter.com/K4CYNT0aIP

— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) June 12, 2017

imagine looking at donald trump, a windswept merkin drowning in a melting action figure, and thinking 'ALPHA GENES'

seeing Trump's offspring almost moves me with pity but then I think "nature is craul"

xp imagine thinking there is such a thing as "alpha genes"

The White House never tells the press if Trump is golfing, but I obtained a photo of the presidential golf cart. pic.twitter.com/eOmTVBfFcU

— Hunter Walker (@hunterw) June 11, 2017

xp imagine thinking there is such a thing as "alpha genes"

well yeah, but if we start down the rabbit-hole of r/the_donald's misguided thinking we'll never find our way out

http://www.tilegiant.co.uk/alpha-jeans.html

Did Barron just get a growth spurt? He's beginning to look a bit gangly.
Looks a bit break of adolescence anyway. Hate to go through that in a goldfish bowl.

Been seeing a lot of rumblings from conservatives that Trump should fire Mueller. This seems like it would be an extremely risky move, but, OTOH, I don't know exactly how it would be stopped or punished.

It's definitely starting to get some play, but yeah, would be extremely stupid too. (Thus, of course he'd do it.)

Yes, the innocent man with nothing to hide should totally continue to overreach and block every possible route towards clearing his name. I can think of nothing that would make him look more innocent.

we need to get Barron in an "i'm with stupid" shirt asap.

"The more you tighten your grip, Tarkin, the more star systems will slip through your fingers."

It would look super guilty and would be another instance of obstruction, I'm just not sure there would be any consequences.

xxp

Its like he is trying to Out-Nixon Nixon

Yeah, it's increasingly clear that if Congress is unwilling to hold his/her feet to the fire, the president can basically do whatever the fuck he/she wants.

Interesting read

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/06/yall-sent-me-to-washington-at-an-interesting-time/529944/

Even more interesting anecdote

The men paused under a poster of Bobby Knight, the firebrand former Hoosier basketball coach, who endorsed Trump before the Indiana primary and campaigned for him through November, when Trump took the state by nearly 20 percentage points. The picture reminded Banks of a slightly unflattering story about the president.

“When I met the president for the first time in the Oval Office, I had to get the obligatory photo behind the desk, and I asked if the vice president could be in the picture too,” Banks recalled. “The president asked me, ‘Did Bobby Knight or Mike Pence do me more good in Indiana?’ I said, ‘Definitely Bobby Knight.’

“I don’t know if Pence appreciated that. But the president looked at him and said, ‘See, I knew it!’”

But the president looked at him and said, ‘Mike, you're a real piece of shit!’”

um are we just glossing over maryland suing the president?? seems big?!

It seems like we are entering a new time period where what was once huge news is now not

trump will just settle out of court with maryland, everything will be fine

It seems like we are entering a new time period where what was once huge news is now not

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, June 12, 2017 9:10 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truth

we're definitely already there. the President shared highly sensitive counterintelligence information with diplomats from a country that unequivocally committed cyberterrorism to affect the outcome of our most recent election, and it's basically been 100% forgotten about.

Canada has never looked more inviting

It's like if every day you woke up and you were a different animal living on a different planet. The first couple dozen times it'd blow your mind but eventually you're just like, yep, guess today's the day I'm a penguin on Rigel-7, let's get it over with.

Yeah, it's increasingly clear that if Congress is unwilling to hold his/her feet to the fire, the president can basically do whatever the fuck he/she wants.

exactly, which is why I've stopped being outraged by Trump himself. his entire life philosophy has been "if you can get away with it, do it" and the people who are supposed to be running checks on him are letting him get away with literally everything. you don't put a plate of cookies in front of a 4-year old and get outraged when he devours them all and starts burrowing through the walls.

Congressional GOP is doing a lot of work for Trump to undermine the basic functioning of democracy and checks. They've been working at this for a long time, but we are quickly reaching a point where it cannot be repaired.

Really the most depressing thing is that not only did Trump win, Congress is also Republican controlled, AND Trump can nominate a supreme court justice to make sure social progress is reversed on all fronts. I don't think the founding fathers would be pleased.