Trump 26: A New Tweet

[Destiny]

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[formergothardite]

Trump's apology wasn't accepted by the Arianne Zucker and now he is trying to imply the audio was faked which makes it pretty clear his apology wasn't even a tiny bit sincere. He also called all the other women accusers liars. 

I'm guessing the families of the Navajo Code Talkers who are offended by what Trump did won't get an apology. I just realized that Trump was the one who stuck that picture of Jackson there and the decision was made to place the Navajo code talkers in front of it. How offensive can one be before people stop making excuses for him. 

[hoipolloi]

The Navajo Nation has issued a strong rebuke.

Guessing, though, that the Orange Fart Cloud won't acknowledge it & apologize. It's more likely he'll double down.

[laPapessaGiovanna]

13 minutes ago, formergothardite said:

Trump's apology wasn't accepted by the Arianne Zucker and now he is trying to imply the audio was faked which makes it pretty clear his apology wasn't even a tiny bit sincere. He also called all the other women accusers liars.

Not to mention how he said that he couldn't have assaulted a victim because she was old and ugly .

16 minutes ago, formergothardite said:

I'm guessing the families of the Navajo Code Talkers who are offended by what Trump did won't get an apology. I just realized that Trump was the one who stuck that picture of Jackson there and the decision was made to place the Navajo code talkers in front of it. How offensive can one be before people stop making excuses for him. 

I would love to hear him explain the Trail of Tears. No, I don't.

[GreyhoundFan]

13 minutes ago, laPapessaGiovanna said:

I would love to hear him explain the Trail of Tears. No, I don't.

He would probably say it was a line of women he turned down. After all, he is delusional and stupid.

[Audrey2]

6 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He would probably say it was a line of women he turned down. After all, he is delusional and stupid.

Or #FakeNews. It wasn't covered by Fox, Hannity never talked about it, so it didn't happen. Then, a week later, he'll say that most Americans don't know this, but there was a Trail of Tears, then he'll proceed to get all of the facts wrong and invoke the name of Pocahontas.

[AmazonGrace]

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Possibly. I just think some care about minority issues, but it is not a large priority to them? I have a Trump supporting friend I grew up with who is a business owner. He is also gay and Cuban. I know he cares about minority issues, but also feels strongly about immigration and business issues. 

Maybe your friend was in the category that paid absolutely no attention to what was going on? Anybody who cares about ethnic and racial minorities can't have thought that Trump's bigoted campaign was anything but bad news.  Pence is a huge anti gay bigot and so are Trump's judicial choices and the pedophiles he endorses for the Senate.  Lots of small business owners will be screwed by the tax bill.  

Everyone who voted for Trump decided that obvious racism and bigotry was not a dealbreaker. If he had had a competent agenda there might have been some other reason to vote for hi but as it was clear that he had absolutely no real knowledge of how anything worked there was hardly any other reason to vote for him, other than he hates all the same people they hated.  

Strictly JMOO. 
 

[47of74]

1 hour ago, hoipolloi said:

The Navajo Nation has issued a strong rebuke.

Guessing, though, that the Orange Fart Cloud won't acknowledge it & apologize. It's more likely he'll double down.

Orange Fart Cloud - LOL.  Gonna have to add that one to the rotation.  Along with Orange Fornicate Cloud.  

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

He would probably say it was a line of women he turned down. After all, he is delusional and stupid.

Yeah I have no interest in hearing said Orange Fart Cloud gracing us with his explanations of historical events either.  God, even George Bush didn't act so stupid.  

[OtterRuletheWorld]

I don't think my friend is unaware of what is going on. I am not suggesting that my personal experiences or the people in my life fully represent a large group of people. I am pointing out that all people of all backgrounds have differing ideas, hopes, dreams, etc. I didn't make a claim about what Trump's base wants for America. Someone else did. I made no claims one way or another. I do know I have had some experiences that contradict that, but I also realize I could just be around different types of people. Hence why I am not going off personal experience and making claims about an entire group of people based on that claim.

[Destiny]

Yeah I have no interest in hearing said Orange Fart Cloud gracing us with his explanations of historical events either.  God, even George Bush didn't act so stupid.  

Mister and I were talking about this yesterday. Remember when we were sad that our president was too stupid to say nuclear? Can we have those days back? Please? I miss them. We had no idea how good we had it back then.

[OtterRuletheWorld]

7 minutes ago, Destiny said:

Mister and I were talking about this yesterday. Remember when we were sad that our president was too stupid to say nuclear? Can we have those days back? Please? I miss them. We had no idea how good we had it back then.

Much of what comes with that era can be left in the past. :/

[Rachel333]

Trump apologized for just one incident, which was a hard one to deny since it was caught on video but apparently he's now trying to deny it anyway in private conversations. (If he honestly thinks the tape might have been fake I have legitimate questions about his grasp on reality.) He has not apologized for any of the other sexual assault or harassment incidents, either the ones he admits to (like walking in on naked teenage girls) or the ones he's been accused of. In fact, he continues to insist that all of the many women who have accused him of sexual misconduct are lying. His own press secretary said that the difference between Trump and Franken is that Franken has admitted guilt and Trump has not.

[AmazonGrace]

1 hour ago, OtterRuletheWorld said:

I don't think my friend is unaware of what is going on. I am not suggesting that my personal experiences or the people in my life fully represent a large group of people. I am pointing out that all people of all backgrounds have differing ideas, hopes, dreams, etc. I didn't make a claim about what Trump's base wants for America. Someone else did. I made no claims one way or another. I do know I have had some experiences that contradict that, but I also realize I could just be around different types of people. Hence why I am not going off personal experience and making claims about an entire group of people based on that claim.

Well if anyone is aware of things that are going on and knows that  Trump, Pence are huge bigots supported by huge bigots who will support other huge bigots with other hugely bigoted ideas, and voted for them anyway, then the only  conclusion I can draw is that  minority issues definitely aren't something that they care an awful lot about 

 

People who knowingly vote for bigots need to own the bigotry. JMO. 

If it's not something they're  comfortable owning then they need to rethink their voting choices. "Yeah but he's strong on crime" just won't cut it when he won't do anything about  guns. 

So he's not strong on crime.

"Yeah but he's strong on economy." No he's not, he doesn't have a clue. 

[formergothardite]

@OtterRuletheWorld, what evidence can you provide that Trump and his base care about Native Americans? There is plenty of signs that Trump doesn't and that doesn't seem to bother his base. You don't exactly see the Trump base standing up and saying the Red Skins should change their names or that we need to protect the Bears Ears National Monument or protesting that the wall would go through land owned by Native Americans, so what signs are there that they care? 

And in the end, if you vote for someone who has openly spouted racists/sexists things and whose running mate is strongly anti-LGBTQ, well at best you are ignorant and living in a bubble of privilege, at worst you are a racist homophobe. 

[OtterRuletheWorld]

4 minutes ago, formergothardite said:

@OtterRuletheWorld, what evidence can you provide that Trump and his base care about Native Americans? There is plenty of signs that Trump doesn't and that doesn't seem to bother his base. You don't exactly see the Trump base standing up and saying the Red Skins should change their names or that we need to protect the Bears Ears National Monument or protesting that the wall would go through land owned by Native Americans, so what signs are there that they care? 

And in the end, if you vote for someone who has openly spouted racists/sexists things and whose running mate is strongly anti-LGBTQ, well at best you are ignorant and living in a bubble of privilege, at worst you are a racist homophobe. 

I have never said that Trump's base cares about Native Americans. Why would I need to give any evidence of a claim I never made?

[formergothardite]

Well you seemed surprised at the idea that his base wouldn't, so I guess I'm wondering what gave you the impression that his base actually cared about Native Americans? If you didn't think that they cared, then why would you have asked when all signs point to Trump not caring and his base not caring that he doesn't?

Otter, what do you think of Trump honoring the Navajos in front of the picture of Andrew Jackson? An intentional slight? Ignorance? Do you think it was in very poor taste and he should apologize for doing that and for the whole Pocahontas thing? 

[AmazonGrace]

A play in one tweet: 

 

[onekidanddone]

Yup

[GreyhoundFan]

There are some weird titles included, but I have to say that I like the idea of a book tree: "The odd assortment of books that make up the White House Christmas book tree"

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The president who boasts of having no time to read books has found a way to make use of them (the green ones, anyway): turn them into a very large holiday decoration. Photos of the White House library decked out for the holidays show an unusual selection of (mostly green) books organized into the shape of a Christmas tree. Constructed beneath the chandelier once owned by James Fenimore Cooper, this literary Tannenbaum has lofty aspirations

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The books were purchased especially for their decorative value, “based on their varieties of green color tones,” according to Stephanie Grisham, director of communications for first lady Melania Trump. “The concept for the color of the room was red and green, hence the green books and red ribbons.” This palette is meant “to highlight FDR’s personal copy of ‘A Christmas Carol,’ which is bound in red leather and loaned from the FDR presidential library in Hyde Park, New York,” she added.

But you know what they say about choosing a book by its cover — or in this case, by the color of its cover.

The titles that make up President Trump’s holiday book tree are a perplexing assortment. “Holding Up the Earth” (2000) is a teen novel about five generations of women whose tales come together in a “story quilt.” “Sangoma” is a memoir of a former Eagle Scout from Illinois who moves to Swaziland to become a spiritual healer. “Developing Superior Work Teams” seems like a book the president might want to at least skim. “American Mourning,” an academic study of how public mourning shapes politics “and might be employed to shape our future outcomes,” seems an unusual choice, given the public mood.

Less odd, perhaps, are “World of Golf” and the thriller “Tainted Evidence.” Same goes for James Patterson’s “Cat & Mouse.”

Highlighting books in holiday decorations is a lovely tradition. But then again, so is reading them.

I can't believe the TT would allow anything owned by FDR in the WH, since they are basically polar opposites.

[GreyhoundFan]

Another good one from Jennifer Rubin: "Really, the GOP has no clue what to do about women?"

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Michelle Cottle writes about the GOP’s gender gap problem:

The situation, unsurprisingly, has many Republicans stressed out—even depressed. This is especially true among the women strategists, activists, and other leaders who’ve been laboring to address their party’s gender gap. In recent years, the GOP has struggled to combat its image as a pack of grumpy old white guys. Trump, to put it gently, has not been helpful in that regard. Worse still, the overheated, culture-warring nature of Trumpism has disrupted some of the most common avenues Republicans had been using to reach women. And worst of all: Not even the party players who focus on this issue seem to have any sense of where to go from here.

An unnamed GOP strategist addressing the GOP’s gender problem is quoted as saying, “I don’t know what to do. I’ve been wracking my brains.”(One can understand why the strategist wanted to be unnamed.)

C’mon, Republicans. It should not take a political genius to realize that a party defined by a president who was accused of sexually assaulting numerous women, who was caught on tape bragging about sexual assault, who insulted the appearance of GOP opponent Carly Fiorina and who reminds many women of their ex-husband and/or other abusive partners is going to turn off women by the droves. And if one understands the depth of women’s anger, it shouldn’t be hard to figure out that the GOP will have to de-Trumpify to have any hope of winning back women.

President Trump is most every woman’s nightmare — the obnoxious know-it-all who will lie to her face, deny reality, insult her and change the subject rather than be held accountable for his actions. Trump boasts that he never has to apologize because he cannot recall being wrong. Kind of explains the visceral hatred many women feel toward Trump, doesn’t it?

What’s worse, the rest of the party, like guys at a bar, keep patting Trump on the back, telling him what a swell guy he is and telling women (and everyone else) they shouldn’t be offended by his boorishness, bullying and bombast. That’s as galling to many woman as Trump’s own behavior. The question is not why so many women have checked out of the GOP or have been motivated to join Democrats as candidates and activists but why any woman would remain in the the GOP fold.

Trump and the movement he leads seeks to champion white working-class men who feel aggrieved, displaced and resentful that we are not living in the 1950s when a high school education got them a middle-class salary, a stay-at-home wife and a society in which the scales were always tipped their way.

Trump and his followers’ nostalgia for a time gone by sounds to many women like a call to get out of the workplace, get back in the kitchen and stop competing with men. It doesn’t help when conservative pundits such as Fox News pundit Brit Hume suggests that Vice President Pence is right to refuse to meet with women alone. (Ben Wittes retorted smartly, “I confess I practice something close to the polar opposite of the Pence Rule. My rule is this: meet with women alone all the time—up to and including in situations that might typically raise eyebrows—and conduct yourself in a manner so above reproach as to not raise eyebrows.”)

The Trump presidency is not only government for white men but government by white men. The Cabinet and his judicial appointments reflect the degree to which women are not even included in the realm of acceptable nominees. And the GOP rubber stamps appointment after appointment, no matter how unqualified or extreme the nominee. Talk about affirmative action.

Rather than inoculate her father from charges of misogyny, Ivanka Trump has become the poster child for the worshipful, passive, blind woman — and hence a further irritant to women. The gal who never had any barrier that her name and wealth could not remove serves to underscore the grotesque hypocrisy of her father’s party. “There’s a special place in hell for people who prey on children,” says the woman whose father endorses Roy Moore, used to speak of her in creepy, sexualized terms and barged in on teen beauty pageant contestants.

So let’s see, an abusive misogynist who surrounds himself with white men, wants to reverse decades of social progress, routinely insults women on the basis of their appearance and conducts himself like a low-class bully. What’s so hard to understand about the rise of the anti-Trump woman’s political awakening and why they aren’t coming back anytime soon? The GOP carries his taint so long as it excuses his conduct and stands by him. Telling women (and men) to ignore what he says and tweets is the equivalent of telling them they’re being hysterical.

The GOP might be beyond redemption for many women. If the GOP wants them back it will have to jettison Trump, his defenders, his ethos and his message. And an apology would help.  If they cannot or won’t do that, they’ve got little chance with women voters. Come to think of it, what does it say about the male voters who haven’t reacted with horror to the Trump phenomenon?

 

[GreyhoundFan]

Another article about the WH decorations: "Trump vowed to end the ‘war on Christmas.’ Here’s how the White House is decorated this season."  In the brief video, Melania actually looks happy while hugging the children. I'm not going to quote much, but there is just one part that made me laugh:

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There have, however, been a few hiccups in Trump’s attempt to make Christmas great again. The formal invitations to the series of White House parties hosted for friends, supporters, staff and the press corps went out this month with some messaging underneath the gold presidential seal that sent political media cackling. Rather than calling the event a White House “Christmas party” the invitation’s curly script reads, yes, “Holiday Reception.”

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Whoops.

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Melania actually looks happy while hugging the children.

I have seen that footage several times and all other things regarding her aside, she really did look happy hugging those kids. It actually makes me a little sad for her. I think she really loves children. She made a deal with the devil, to secure her future and probably thought she could convince him to have several children. All she got was Baron. I do appreciate that she first shakes hands with the kids and then, boy, she's all in. I thought those kids' parents were going to have to come in and re-claim them!

[47of74]

CNN has decided not to attend the Orange Fart Cloud's holiday party

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CNN will boycott this week’s White House Christmas party amid ongoing tensions between President Trump and the network.

“In light of the President’s continued attacks on freedom of the press and CNN, we do not feel it is appropriate to celebrate with him as invited guests," a spokesperson for the network told The Hill.

"We will send a White House reporting team to the event and report on it if news warrants,” the spokesperson added in a statement.

Of course Mike Fuckabee's spawn is all happy about this;

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White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders celebrated the news Tuesday, which was first reported by Politico, tweeting, “Christmas comes early! Finally, good news from @CNN."

 

[GrumpyGran]

11 minutes ago, 47of74 said:

Mike Fuckabee's spawn

Lol. Can we call her Spawn of the Living Dead?

[Destiny]

Every time I start to feel sorry for Sarah having to defend the indefensible, she opens her damn mouth and reminds me of what a terrible person she is and why I hate her.