Trump 28: He's a "stable genius" with a "big & powerful button"

[JMarie]

Maybe they both forgot??

http://people.com/politics/melania-donald-trump-13th-wedding-anniversary-no-tweets/

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President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump marked their 13th wedding anniversary on Monday, but neither celebrated the occasion on social media.

Trump did fire off a few tweets that day, but only to slam Democrats on Capitol Hill over the deal to reopen the government following a brief shutdown. “Big win for Republicans as Democrats cave on Shutdown,” he wrote late Monday.

Mrs. Trump’s most recent tweet came on another commemorative day — the one-year anniversary of her husband’s inauguration. “This has been a year filled with many wonderful moments,” the first lady tweeted Saturday. “I’ve enjoyed the people I’ve been lucky enough to meet throughout our great country & the world!”

The first lady’s tweet included a photo of herself — notably not with her husband but with a military escort.

There's a picture of them dancing at the inauguration.  They were so not into each other, they might as well been photoshopped into the pic.

[47of74]

7 hours ago, Dandruff said:

Does this mean that Tony and Josh Duggar are A-OK now?

I saw former GOP head honcho Michael Steele was not down with this either;

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Former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele blasted Family Research Council president Tony Perkins for giving President Donald Trump a “mulligan” on paying hush money to former adult film star.

“I have very simple admonition: just shut the hell up and don’t preach to me about anything ever again,” Steele suggested.

“After telling me who to love, what to believe, what to do and what not to do and now you sit back and the prostitutes don’t matter, the grabbing the you-know-what doesn’t matter, the outright behavior and lies don’t matter, just shut up!” Steele blasted.

 

 

 

 

[47of74]

Fuck face has taken to twitter again

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President Donald Trump blasted Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's decision to pull a border wall from negotiations over the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, saying a wall is required as part of any potential deal.

"Cryin' Chuck Schumer fully understands, especially after his humiliating defeat, that if there is no Wall, there is no DACA. We must have safety and security, together with a strong Military, for our great people!" the President tweeted Tuesday night.

Ok fuck face.  You think that's going to get the Democrats to bargain with you?

[AnywhereButHere]

Chuck Schumer got a nickname? I guess he's made the big leagues now.

[AmazonGrace]

How come we have Lyin' Ted and Cryin' Chuck but AFAIK no senators have earned the rhymin' nicknames Flyin', Fryin' or Dyin' [firstname] yet?

[Howl]

Vincente Fox is going to be on Morning Joe. He's written a new book (Let's Move On), but the guy does not hold back on saying that Trump is an idiot and he can be a scream.  Not safe for work! 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[fraurosena]

Yeah.. uhm, no.

First, too little too late asshat. You're only tweeting this now because Sarah Slanders got confronted by your lacking interest during the presser today. 

Secondly, nobody wants your thoughts and prayers, thank you very much, cause we all know they're disgusting. Yuck.

[hoipolloi]

Meanwhile, on cue, the Christianist mega-turd, Franklin Graham, excuses tRump's immorality:

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"These alleged affairs—they're alleged with Trump—didn't happen while he was in office," Graham said.

CNN host Don Lemon asked the religious leader why evangelicals were eager to call out Bill Clinton's behavior during his presidency but not President Trump's.

“This [alleged affair with Stormy Daniels] happened 11, 12, 13, 14 years ago," Graham responded. "And so, I think there is a big difference and not that we give anybody a pass, but we have to look at the timeline and that was before he was in office.” 

Graham is the son of Billy Graham, one of the most well-known evangelical leaders, who enjoyed friendships with former presidents like George W. Bush. Franklin Graham went on to claim he is "more interested in who a person is today" than who that person was years ago, and he thinks President Trump has transformed since taking office.

"I believe that he's a changed person,” Graham continued. “And I've never seen anybody get attacked like he gets attacked," he said, referring to the president’s coverage by the media.

Graham maintained his stance that the alleged affair is not factual, claiming “there’s no evidence.”

 

 

[47of74]

1 hour ago, hoipolloi said:

Meanwhile, on cue, the Christianist mega-turd, Franklin Graham, excuses tRump's immorality:

Today Jesus Christ would be warning us about Franklin Graham and his groupies.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+23

Specially this part of Matthew 23

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Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.   And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’   So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.  Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started! (Matt 23: 29-32)

 

[onekidanddone]

He does know that obstruction of justice and collusion are two different things right? 

 

[Rachel333]

"You fight back, oh, it's obstruction."

He is really dumb.

[GrumpyGran]

1 hour ago, Rachel333 said:

"You fight back, oh, it's obstruction."

He is really dumb.

Yes, you dotard, if you "fight back" against an investigation it is obstruction. If I interfere in a police investigation it is obstruction of justice.

He truly is a mindless, entitled criminal.

[hoipolloi]

Just going to leave this here!

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GrumpyGran]

2 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

 

Uh-oh. There's no way this will actually go well for him. He'll either look like a boastful idiot, or he'll say something that he shouldn't, an insult or an admission. Even with Piers giving him the questions, which I'm sure he did, Dumpy's mouth will run, it's like a leaky faucet.

[AmazonGrace]

Speaking of Dumpy's mouth:

 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

From Jennifer Rubin: "Trump’s inability to understand ‘obstruction of justice’ may be his downfall"

Spoiler

President Trump is both ignorant as to the basic principles underlying our constitutional system (e.g., no one is above the law, not even the president) and invariably insistent upon putting his own needs and interests above all others. Again and again, he has tried to treat the Department of Justice and the FBI — which is charged with investigating an assault on American democracy — as his personal Praetorian guard. They should be loyal to him, shutting down the meanies investigating whether he received inappropriate, not to mention illegal, help from the Russians to win the 2016 election.

If it is established they gave him a leg up, he would not be able to see beyond the knock to his ego. He cannot bother to worry about securing the country against future attacks to our electoral system. The latter is of little concern; the former is his obsession.

With this in mind, one can see why Trump would try to obtain a loyalty oath from James B. Comey, the former FBI director, and why the president leaned on him to go easy on Michael T. Flynn, the fired national security adviser. It would also explain why he badgered his attorney general to overlook ethical conflicts and remain in charge of the Russia investigation. Trump insisted that Jeff Sessions was there to protect him, in the manner that Robert Kennedy protected his president brother, John F. Kennedy. This explains why Trump felt empowered to ask Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI director at the time, which candidate he backed during the 2016 election, and to excoriate him because his wife received Democratic contributions for her failed Virginia state Senate bid. Trump does not respect the necessary separation between himself and the DOJ, because he doesn’t recognize there should be anything akin to an apolitical administration of justice. It’s all about him, all the time.

In the context of an obstruction of justice claim, this is deadly. He’s not off the hook because he failed to comprehend that our constitutional system doesn’t accept that mentality. In fact, his oft-revealed mindset is what may sink him.

The normal problem in these cases is proving whether an accused obstructionist had “corrupt” intent. That is, did he interfere with an investigation to protect himself or further his own interests. Here, Trump is shouting his corrupt intent — though he has no idea it’s corrupt — from the rooftops. He’s not at all embarrassed to admit he tried to strong-arm the FBI and shut down Comey. In fact, he believes he was entitled to do these things.

This mindset came across loud and clear on Wednesday during an exchange with reporters. The Post reports:

The president suggested he could be investigated for obstruction of justice as part of the Russia investigation because he was “fighting back” and again reiterated there was “no collusion” between his campaign and Moscow.

“Oh well, ‘Did he fight back?’ ” Trump said, “You fight back, oh, it’s obstruction.”

There it all is — the self-pity; the inability to differentiate between responding to critics in a political context and illegally undermining the Justice Department in a legal context; and the misunderstanding that, because he did not think there was collusion, it was perfectly fine to submarine the investigation. Frankly, the last of these is an error many of the president’s defenders make when they declare Trump could not obstruct justice if he felt he was innocent. (Most subjects insist they are innocent, but that doesn’t entitle them to interfere with the FBI, the DOJ or the courts.)

By the way, Trump either doesn’t understand the term “collusion” or is intentionally muddying the waters. Collusion, as we have discussed, is not a crime and does not — at least to the dictionary definition — entail overt, detailed planning. The legal problem for Trump arises if he either solicited help from or aided a foreign power in intervening in our election on his behalf. He did this publicly when he called for Russia to hack Clinton’s emails. His son, Donald Trump Jr., did this explicitly when he leaped at the chance to get dirt on Hillary Clinton. And that’s just two instances that essentially have been publicly confirmed.

There may be more evidence of soliciting helping and aiding the Russians — whether it be coordination on the release of the WikiLeaks emails, or any synchrony between the Trump campaign and the Russian “active measures” effort to interfere with the election. Money that might have flowed into his pockets from Russians through shell companies might be part of this. Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel, will follow all of the evidence wherever it leads.

In the context of an interview under oath, one can imagine horrible (from the perspective of Trump’s lawyers) exchanges that might go like this:

Mueller: Did you want Comey out so the Russia hoax would end?

Trump: Damn right! This was just the Democrats up to take away my tremendous win — the biggest ever — and I wasn’t going to allow it. I let Comey stay. He owed it to me. I mean, if he wasn’t going to help, I’d have gotten my own guy. 

Mueller: When you asked Comey for his loyalty you were telling him he better look after you, protect you from this witch hunt?

Trump: You got it!

Gulp.

Trump of course might deny all this, only to be contradicted by other evidence and face questions of whether he lied under oath. And remember, if the president genuinely thought squelching the FBI was absolutely the right thing to do, wouldn’t he have told anyone who asked? Lots and lots of people would have heard such assertions coming from his mouth. Come to think of it, he did tell [NBC News anchor] Lester Holt that he had the Russia investigation in mind when he fired Comey. In essence, the entire country may have been witness to an admission of guilt, one any prosecutor would give his eye teeth to obtain.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

OMG, I laughed myself silly: "The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead."

Spoiler

The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.

Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the lovely 1888 Van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.

The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.

For a year, the Guggenheim had exhibited “America” — the creation of contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan — in a public restroom on the museum’s fifth floor for visitors to use.

But the exhibit was over and the toilet was available “should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House,” Spector wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post.

The artist “would like to offer it to the White House for a long-term loan,” wrote Spector, who has been critical of Trump. “It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care.”

Sarah Eaton, a Guggenheim spokeswoman, confirmed that Spector wrote the email Sept. 15 to Donna Hayashi Smith of the White House’s Office of the Curator. Spector, who has worked in various capacities at the museum for 29 years, was unavailable to talk about her offer, Eaton said.

The White House did not respond to inquiries about the matter.

Cattelan, reached by phone in New York, referred questions about the toilet to the Guggenheim, saying with a chuckle, “It’s a very delicate subject.” Asked to explain the meaning of his creation and why he offered it to the Trumps, he said, “What’s the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die and then it makes sense.”

He declined to reveal the cost of the gold it took to create “America,” though it has been estimated to have been more than $1 million.

“I don’t want to be rude, I have to go,” the artist said, before hanging up.

It is common for presidents and first ladies to borrow major works of art to decorate the Oval Office, the first family’s residence and various rooms at the White House. The Smithsonian loaned the Kennedys a Eugene Delacroix painting, “The Smoker.” The Obamas preferred abstract art, choosing works by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns.

On the face of it, President Trump might appreciate an artist’s rendering of a gilded toilet, given his well-documented history of installing gold-plated fixtures in his residences, properties and even his airplane. But the president is also a well-known germophobe, and it’s an open question whether he would accept a previously used toilet, 18-karat or otherwise.

Cattelan’s “America” caused something of a sensation after the Guggenheim unveiled it in 2016 and more than a few headlines.

“WE’RE NO. 1! (And No. 2)” was the New York Post’s front page offering, the huge lettering over a photograph of the toilet. The tabloid’s coverage included a reporter’s first-person account (“I Rode the Guggenheim’s Golden Throne”) and a photograph of that reporter seated on the toilet (reading his own newspaper, naturally).

The museum posted a uniformed security guard outside the bathroom to monitor the “more than 100,000 people” who waited “patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature,” Spector wrote in a Guggenheim blog post last year. Every 15 minutes or so, a crew would arrive with specially chosen wipes to clean the gold.

Cattelan, 57, is well-known in the art world for his satirical and provocative creations, including a sculpture depicting Pope John Paul II lying on the ground after being hit by a meteorite. Another was a child-size sculpture of an adult Hitler, kneeling. The artist’s works have sold for millions of dollars.

Cattelan has resisted interpreting his work, telling interviewers he would leave that to his audience. He conceived of the gold toilet before Trump’s candidacy, though he has acknowledged that he might have been influenced by the mogul’s almost unavoidable place in American culture.

“It was probably in the air,” he told a Guggenheim blogger in 2016 as “America” went on display.

Cattelan has also suggested that he had in mind the wealth that permeates aspects of society, describing the golden toilet “as 1 percent art for the 99 percent.” “Whatever you eat, a two-hundred-dollar lunch or a two-dollar hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he has said.

Cattelan is not the first artist to immortalize a bathroom fixture. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp, the French Dada-ist, unveiled “Fountain,” a porcelain urinal that was rejected when he initially submitted it for exhibition. A replica is owned by the Tate galleries in London.

At the Guggenheim, when Cattelan raised the notion of a gold toilet in mid-2015, Spector, the curator, embraced the idea and got approval from the museum’s director, Richard Armstrong. Asked if Armstrong supported the curator’s offer of the toilet to the White House, the Guggenheim’s spokeswoman replied, “We have nothing further to add.”

The curator, in blog posts and on social media, has made plain her political leanings.

“This must be the first day of our revolution to take back our beloved country from hatred, racism and intolerance,” Spector wrote on Instagram a day after Trump’s election in 2016. Her post was accompanied by a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of a frayed American flag.

“Don’t mourn, organize,” the curator wrote.

Last August, as Cattelan’s “America” was approaching its final weeks, Spector wrote on the Guggenheim blog that Trump had “resonated so loudly” during the sculpture’s time at the museum. She described his term as having been “marked by scandal and defined by the deliberate rollback of countless civil liberties, in addition to climate change denial that puts our planet in peril.”

A month later, the curator crafted her response to the White House’s request for Van Gogh’s “Landscape With Snow.” She explained that the painting — “prohibited from travel except for the rarest of occasions” — was on its way to be exhibited at the Guggenheim’s museum in Bilbao, Spain, and then it would return to New York “for the foreseeable future.”

“Fortuitously,” Spector wrote, Cattelan’s “America” was available after having been “installed in one of our public restrooms for all to use in a wonderful act of generosity.”

She included with the email a photograph of the toilet “for your reference.”

“We are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request,” the curator concluded, “but remain hopeful that this special offer may be of interest.”

There's a picture enclosed in the article.

[onekidanddone]

10 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

OMG, I laughed myself silly: "The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House. The Guggenheim offered an 18K gold toilet instead."

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The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.

Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the lovely 1888 Van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.

The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.

For a year, the Guggenheim had exhibited “America” — the creation of contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan — in a public restroom on the museum’s fifth floor for visitors to use.

But the exhibit was over and the toilet was available “should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House,” Spector wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post.

The artist “would like to offer it to the White House for a long-term loan,” wrote Spector, who has been critical of Trump. “It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care.”

Sarah Eaton, a Guggenheim spokeswoman, confirmed that Spector wrote the email Sept. 15 to Donna Hayashi Smith of the White House’s Office of the Curator. Spector, who has worked in various capacities at the museum for 29 years, was unavailable to talk about her offer, Eaton said.

The White House did not respond to inquiries about the matter.

Cattelan, reached by phone in New York, referred questions about the toilet to the Guggenheim, saying with a chuckle, “It’s a very delicate subject.” Asked to explain the meaning of his creation and why he offered it to the Trumps, he said, “What’s the point of our life? Everything seems absurd until we die and then it makes sense.”

He declined to reveal the cost of the gold it took to create “America,” though it has been estimated to have been more than $1 million.

“I don’t want to be rude, I have to go,” the artist said, before hanging up.

It is common for presidents and first ladies to borrow major works of art to decorate the Oval Office, the first family’s residence and various rooms at the White House. The Smithsonian loaned the Kennedys a Eugene Delacroix painting, “The Smoker.” The Obamas preferred abstract art, choosing works by Mark Rothko and Jasper Johns.

On the face of it, President Trump might appreciate an artist’s rendering of a gilded toilet, given his well-documented history of installing gold-plated fixtures in his residences, properties and even his airplane. But the president is also a well-known germophobe, and it’s an open question whether he would accept a previously used toilet, 18-karat or otherwise.

Cattelan’s “America” caused something of a sensation after the Guggenheim unveiled it in 2016 and more than a few headlines.

“WE’RE NO. 1! (And No. 2)” was the New York Post’s front page offering, the huge lettering over a photograph of the toilet. The tabloid’s coverage included a reporter’s first-person account (“I Rode the Guggenheim’s Golden Throne”) and a photograph of that reporter seated on the toilet (reading his own newspaper, naturally).

The museum posted a uniformed security guard outside the bathroom to monitor the “more than 100,000 people” who waited “patiently in line for the opportunity to commune with art and with nature,” Spector wrote in a Guggenheim blog post last year. Every 15 minutes or so, a crew would arrive with specially chosen wipes to clean the gold.

Cattelan, 57, is well-known in the art world for his satirical and provocative creations, including a sculpture depicting Pope John Paul II lying on the ground after being hit by a meteorite. Another was a child-size sculpture of an adult Hitler, kneeling. The artist’s works have sold for millions of dollars.

Cattelan has resisted interpreting his work, telling interviewers he would leave that to his audience. He conceived of the gold toilet before Trump’s candidacy, though he has acknowledged that he might have been influenced by the mogul’s almost unavoidable place in American culture.

“It was probably in the air,” he told a Guggenheim blogger in 2016 as “America” went on display.

Cattelan has also suggested that he had in mind the wealth that permeates aspects of society, describing the golden toilet “as 1 percent art for the 99 percent.” “Whatever you eat, a two-hundred-dollar lunch or a two-dollar hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he has said.

Cattelan is not the first artist to immortalize a bathroom fixture. In 1917, Marcel Duchamp, the French Dada-ist, unveiled “Fountain,” a porcelain urinal that was rejected when he initially submitted it for exhibition. A replica is owned by the Tate galleries in London.

At the Guggenheim, when Cattelan raised the notion of a gold toilet in mid-2015, Spector, the curator, embraced the idea and got approval from the museum’s director, Richard Armstrong. Asked if Armstrong supported the curator’s offer of the toilet to the White House, the Guggenheim’s spokeswoman replied, “We have nothing further to add.”

The curator, in blog posts and on social media, has made plain her political leanings.

“This must be the first day of our revolution to take back our beloved country from hatred, racism and intolerance,” Spector wrote on Instagram a day after Trump’s election in 2016. Her post was accompanied by a Robert Mapplethorpe photo of a frayed American flag.

“Don’t mourn, organize,” the curator wrote.

Last August, as Cattelan’s “America” was approaching its final weeks, Spector wrote on the Guggenheim blog that Trump had “resonated so loudly” during the sculpture’s time at the museum. She described his term as having been “marked by scandal and defined by the deliberate rollback of countless civil liberties, in addition to climate change denial that puts our planet in peril.”

A month later, the curator crafted her response to the White House’s request for Van Gogh’s “Landscape With Snow.” She explained that the painting — “prohibited from travel except for the rarest of occasions” — was on its way to be exhibited at the Guggenheim’s museum in Bilbao, Spain, and then it would return to New York “for the foreseeable future.”

“Fortuitously,” Spector wrote, Cattelan’s “America” was available after having been “installed in one of our public restrooms for all to use in a wonderful act of generosity.”

She included with the email a photograph of the toilet “for your reference.”

“We are sorry not to be able to accommodate your original request,” the curator concluded, “but remain hopeful that this special offer may be of interest.”

There's a picture enclosed in the article.

The article said he wouldn't want to use it because of his germ phobia. So does this mean he has to have his own private crapper every place he goes? Did they install new ones in the White House because he won't his disgusting orange ass where Obama sat? What does he do when he travels and stays in hotels? Am I  over thinking toiletgate?

[47of74]

Yeah I heard bout the golden shitter. Yeah common people have touched it with their asses so I doubt he would want to touch it.

 

As for the was Agent Orange on top Question Vicente Fox asked...that’s putting horrible mental images in my head.

 

Barf/Yikes

 

[GrumpyGran]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Speaking of Dumpy's mouth:

 

 

"and various other reasons." I guess somebody reminded him that his in-laws came into this country because his immigrant wife sponsored them. What are they contributing?

He seems to be in short-hand twitter mode. Words are missing. He's away from Kelly or Miller?

[AmazonGrace]

8 minutes ago, GrumpyGran said:

"and various other reasons." I guess somebody reminded him that his in-laws came into this country because his immigrant wife sponsored them. What are they contributing?

He seems to be in short-hand twitter mode. Words are missing. He's away from Kelly or Miller?

Kelly stayed in the White House to do more racism, sorry, immigration negotiations

[GrumpyGran]

39 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

The article said he wouldn't want to use it because of his germ phobia. So does this mean he has to have his own private crapper every place he goes? Did they install new ones in the White House because he won't his disgusting orange ass where Obama sat? What does he do when he travels and stays in hotels? Am I  over thinking toiletgate?

Need you ask?

[AmazonGrace]

He's so full of shit I don't believe he sits on toilets much