US Politics January 2018: "You All Just Got A Lot Richer"

it can also never be pointed out too often how truly stupid Steve Bannon is. only next to Trump is he anything more than a complete fucking mouthbreather. even in the Guardian excerpt he says "plain as a hair on your face" which is not the actual idiom, numbnuts.

Congratulations mr Wolff on your upcoming dishonesty in media award (2017-2018 season)

I've assumed for a long time that Ivanka will eventually run so that tidbit isn't even slightly surprising.

After Jared and Ivanka joined them for lunch, Trump continued to cast for positive impressions of his first week. Scarborough praised the president for having invited leaders of the steel unions to the White House. At which point Jared interjected that reaching out to unions, a Democratic constituency, was Bannon’s doing, that this was “the Bannon way.”

“Bannon?” said the president, jumping on his son-in-law. “That wasn’t Bannon’s idea. That was my idea. It’s the Trump way, not the Bannon way.”

Kushner, going concave, retreated from the discussion.

Trump, changing the topic, said to Scarborough and Brzezinski, “So what about you guys? What’s going on?” He was referencing their not-so-secret secret relationship. The couple said it was still complicated, but good.

“You guys should just get married,” prodded Trump.

“I can marry you! I’m an internet Unitarian minister,” Kushner, otherwise an Orthodox Jew, said suddenly.

“What?” said the president. “What are you talking about? Why would they want you to marry them when I could marry them? When they could be married by the president! At Mar-a-Lago!”

lmao @ "plain as a hair on your face"

On the one hand, this book is exactly the kind of deep expose of this clusterfuck that I've been hoping for and I really really really want to read it. On the other, I don't know that I need another thing that makes me feel like lying down in the street and waiting for the sweet release of death.

his hair is like #3,067 on my list of horrible things about that person, but w/ev

It's not as much about his hair as what it was said he did because of it (which, according to the article I posted, was rape Ivana) that's upsetting.

i'd like to preemptively cut off any killjoys who are no doubt about to pop into this thread to opine at the likelihood of some-to-much of this reporting being bullshit. i think after last night's button tweet we all deserve a little fanfic.

well, it's wolff so the quotes are bullshit

"plain as the pustules on my face"

'Look, it's as highly-contagious as the seething bacteria farm that comprises what's left of my face.'

As Nate Silver points out, the excerpt never establishes that Trump didn't want to win, and also plays fast and loose with polls - only outlier polls showed Trump down 12, the worst average was 6-7, and that was after the convention bounce. Basically, it sounds about as believable picture of the Trump campaign as Shattered was of the Clinton campaign.

I'm still definitely reading it, though :)

fwiw

for no reason whatsoever, just remembered this passage from michelle cottle's profile of wolff in 2004 https://t.co/9JMwBbuYqT pic.twitter.com/D5GQw60AYH

— brad plumer (@bradplumer) January 3, 2018

Yeah. But come on, you're reading it as well, Simon :)

However fictional Wolff's specifics may be, an accidental Trump win has always made much more sense to me on many many levels. Trump may have convinced himself after the fact that this is what he wanted, but I very much doubt this was how he was planning to spend the next 4-??? years prior to election night.

I honestly don't find the inner workings of the Trump White House all that fascinating xp

xpost

i was about to say, certain parts like

“I’ll call him,” said Ailes. “But Trump would jump through hoops for Rupert. Like for Putin. Sucks up and shits down. I just worry about who’s jerking whose chain.”

sound like something written by robert reich

Old Lunch otm. It's hardly believable Trump willingly chose the route of having to divert and divest his own business emporium (unless, as stated, he was clueless yet again and didn't even know this was required). Not that he's really divesting or letting go but ykwim

I find it entirely believable however that they just let Wolff in one day, and he became the hobo-lives-in-airport-for-a-year, where he became one of the 'gang' with no one even questioning it.

yeah, this is why the russia stuff makes way more sense to me as a bunch of career grifters looking to cash in however they can before their meal ticket gets his ass handed to him rather than putin's grand masterplan to undermine american democracy (xp to old lunch)

JUST IN: President Trump statement on Steve Bannon: "When he was fired, he not only lost his job, he lost his mind." pic.twitter.com/LxZoBI5Ng4

— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 3, 2018

putin's grand masterplan to undermine american democracy haha well he didn't have to exert much effort to do what he did , these guys were willing miscreants .

oh damn lol xp

Huh, didn't realize Bannon was responsible for making Sessions the AG, Mr. President.

What a bugfuck lunatic.

OK, so now we reverse engineer Trump's statement based on the "every word is an obvious lie and literally the opposite of the truth" theory that's served us so well the last 13 months and...

Can't wait to see how this low-rent Vader vs. Palpatine battle turns out. Hopefully very much like the original.

I'd put all of my worldly possessions in hock for front-row seats to watch Bannon throw Trump down a shaft just before croaking himself.

bannon already looks like vader when he takes his helmet off tbf

wowowow

Force-choke Trump with coke.

this white house had a lot of coffee boys didn't it?

i mean none of these people did anything , it was just Trump and his huge brain making it all happen

i'm still incredulous that there isn't anyone in the approval chain who just says "no"/gets fired over balls-out-bonkers statements like this one

whatever the truth, high five to Wolff for eliciting that response

Lol at that statement. Btw, they definitely called Trump for comments yesterday, and that's why he ranted even more than usual.

i wonder if anyone's still editing these statements? that last one seemed to be directly from trump.

bannon has openly speculated about running for office himself iirc.

xpost whoops big hoos made the same point! crazy.

that + whatever he knows makes him dangerous, but probably this is kabuki to drive breitbart page impressions and to feed trump's ego. he'll be back in with trump soon.

My god.

pic.twitter.com/683UJFlKL4

— Team Mitch (@Team_Mitch) January 3, 2018

Team McConnell so happy it is putting emojis in press releases pic.twitter.com/PMVcKUdDX9

— Brent Scher (@BrentScher) January 3, 2018

Breitbart commenter: "This is just two alpha-males, going at it."

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) January 3, 2018

Wow, Just looked at the comments section on Breitbart. Wow. When Bannon has lost Breitbart, he’s left with . . . umm, nothing.

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) January 3, 2018

haw haw

"This is just two alpha-males, going at it."

― mookieproof, Wednesday, January 3, 2018 11:18 AM (two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

brief description on an xtube video too iirc

where is the Mooch when we need him most ?

definitely not face-down in a giant pile of cocaine iirc

definitely not trying to suck his own cock

I said what I said in the Summer take out the expletives and pay closer attention. Btw, @realDonaldTrump is doing a great job.

— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) January 3, 2018

lol

the mooch abides

I'm absolutely certain this point has been made before, but Trump legitimately sees no difference between being POTUS and being a WWE heel, does he.