Trump 39: The Return of the Wall

[PsyD2013]

Trump the Mango Asshole  took the Montreal Cognitive Test last year.  It is a 10 minute assessment used as a screening tool.  It is not an in-depth cognitive assessment.

 

[mamallama]

They lied about his weight what's the chance they'd tell the truth if he flunked a cognitive test?

 

[thoughtful]

1 hour ago, Destiny said:

If he didn’t idolize Andrew Jackson who orchestrated that mess, or make a Wounded Knee joke a few weeks ago, I would agree. He has, so I’m going with the knowingly racist option. 

Thanks - I didn't realize he had a clue who Andrew Jackson was or what he did. I tend to think of Trump as a narcissistic idiot who never bothered to learn anything.

 

[Destiny]

2 hours ago, thoughtful said:

Thanks - I didn't realize he had a clue who Andrew Jackson was or what he did. I tend to think of Trump as a narcissistic idiot who never bothered to learn anything.
 

Yeah. He did an Oval Office ceremony honoring the Navajo Code Talkers in front of a portrait of Jackson that he had placed there (and he made the “hilarious” Pocahontas joke at the same event in front of them). He has often talked about his like for Jackson and how similar he thinks the two of them are.

[fraurosena]

Huh, says the man who wouldn't go out to honor the fallen in France because he didn't want to get his hair wet.

 

[fraurosena]

Gotta love Amy's reply.

 

[Howl]

Trump is holding a rally in  El Paso this evening. 

Beto (who lives in El Paso) will be holding a rally nearby at the same time Trump is speaking. 

It would be beyond awesome if the Beto rally was much YUGE-er than the Trump lie fest. 

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6 hours ago, fraurosena said:

Huh, says the man who wouldn't go out to honor the fallen in France because he didn't want to get his hair wet.

 

That's an actual compliment to Amy, not an insult. Trump cannot even recognize that.

[GreyhoundFan]

Methinks Bakker has sampled too many doom buckets.

[thoughtful]

The Holy Spirit turns you orange? Who knew?

I'm glad I'm a non-believer. While I am sometimes frustrated by the pale and sallow hue my "good genes" gave me, I wouldn't want to be orange.

I like this, from https://www.patheos.com/blogs/nolongerquivering/2019/02/is-the-holy-spirit-orange-jim-bakker-and-donald-trump/

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So those glowing dead white circles around his eyes are what? Jesus touched him?  Holy Spirit missed spots???

 

[Alisamer]

Wait, is that why Tammy Faye wore so much makeup? She was filled with so much holy spirit that she looked like a tangerine, and troweled on the cosmetics to cover it up? Have we discovered the secret of JillRod's appearance? The holy spirit turns you orange and gives you giant silly hair. That would also explain Gwen Shamblin's hair and non-matching makeup.

It's so odd, if this is the case. Why is Jesus never portrayed as being the color of a basketball? He's almost always shown as white, even though he was a middle eastern Jewish carpenter. Angels, as well. Shouldn't they be the color of traffic cones? With hair like Vixen? Why are they portrayed so often as wan blondes?

And how do Goths fit into the equation? They have holy spirit big hair, usually, but are often super pale. 

I have my own explanation for Trump's skin tone. Obviously, at some point Putin invited him to come stay for a luxurious, very very private stay in Ukraine, just on the northern border. At Pripyat. To convince him to cooperate with Putin's desires. That's radiation tan he's got there.

[fraurosena]

Well, he is working hard at tweeting. Doesn't that count?

You know who really will have to work hard? The person that has to clean up the mess you and your GOP sycophants leave behind.

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[Alisamer]

"I work hard! So hard! All the time!" he rants on twitter while sitting watching TV during "Executive Time", before summoning a diet coke to be brought to him on a silver platter.

[AmazonGrace]

The tweet about working hard came minutes after Morning Joe said he's lazy. 

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Former White House aide Cliff Sims sues Trump after attack over tell-all book"

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A former White House aide who penned an insider account about President Trump is now suing the president after Trump’s lawyers filed an arbitration claim saying the book violated a nondisclosure agreement.

The former communications aide, Cliff Sims, filed the suit in District of Columbia court Monday after Trump’s lawyers began arbitration proceedings late last month and the president attacked Sims on Twitter as a low-level “gofer.”

Sims is suing Trump in his official capacity. Mark Zaid, a lawyer representing Sims, said the campaign is trying to use a nondisclosure agreement from the campaign to punish Sims for discussing his time in the White House.

Michael Glassner, who leads the Trump campaign, did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.

The lawsuit accuses Trump of having his campaign serve as “an illegitimate cutout and step into the shoes” of the government in an attempt to silence Sims, in violation of his First Amendment rights.

It claims that the U.S. government, “for the first time ever through the use of private surrogates, is seeking to unconstitutionally censor and punish a former federal employee for disclosing unclassified information outlining what he saw and observed during his time in the White House.”

In the 384-page book, “Team of Vipers,” which went on sale late last month, Sims paints a portrait of a White House in the grips of dysfunction and recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

In a tweet that came as the tell-all was hitting bookstores, Trump called Sims “a low level staffer that I hardly knew” and said his book was “based on made up stories and fiction.”

“He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer,” Trump said in the tweet. “He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!”

Less than 20 minutes later, Glassner tweeted that the Trump campaign was “preparing to file suit against Cliff Sims for violating our NDA.” In the following days, the Trump campaign announced that it had begun arbitration proceedings against Sims.

Sims’s lawsuit notes it does not seek to stop those proceedings, which it states will be handled separately.

Sims signed an NDA during his time working for the Trump campaign but does not know whether he signed an additional White House agreement regarding “confidential” information, according to the lawsuit, which states that Sims is operating under the assumption that he did sign such a document.

Trump has previously come under scrutiny for his use of NDAs to prevent current and former employees from speaking out against him. Most legal experts say such agreements are not enforceable for public employees; nonetheless, dozens of White House aides have signed NDAs in exchange for working with Trump.

Last year, former senior adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed in her own tell-all book that the Trump campaign had offered her a $15,000-a-month job in exchange for signing an NDA that would have barred her from disclosing details of her time at the White House.

 

[onekidanddone]

2 minutes ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Former White House aide Cliff Sims sues Trump after attack over tell-all book"

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A former White House aide who penned an insider account about President Trump is now suing the president after Trump’s lawyers filed an arbitration claim saying the book violated a nondisclosure agreement.

The former communications aide, Cliff Sims, filed the suit in District of Columbia court Monday after Trump’s lawyers began arbitration proceedings late last month and the president attacked Sims on Twitter as a low-level “gofer.”

Sims is suing Trump in his official capacity. Mark Zaid, a lawyer representing Sims, said the campaign is trying to use a nondisclosure agreement from the campaign to punish Sims for discussing his time in the White House.

Michael Glassner, who leads the Trump campaign, did not immediately respond to a phone call seeking comment.

The lawsuit accuses Trump of having his campaign serve as “an illegitimate cutout and step into the shoes” of the government in an attempt to silence Sims, in violation of his First Amendment rights.

It claims that the U.S. government, “for the first time ever through the use of private surrogates, is seeking to unconstitutionally censor and punish a former federal employee for disclosing unclassified information outlining what he saw and observed during his time in the White House.”

In the 384-page book, “Team of Vipers,” which went on sale late last month, Sims paints a portrait of a White House in the grips of dysfunction and recounts expletive-filled scenes of chaos and duplicity among the president, his family members and administration officials.

In a tweet that came as the tell-all was hitting bookstores, Trump called Sims “a low level staffer that I hardly knew” and said his book was “based on made up stories and fiction.”

“He pretended to be an insider when in fact he was nothing more than a gofer,” Trump said in the tweet. “He signed a non-disclosure agreement. He is a mess!”

Less than 20 minutes later, Glassner tweeted that the Trump campaign was “preparing to file suit against Cliff Sims for violating our NDA.” In the following days, the Trump campaign announced that it had begun arbitration proceedings against Sims.

Sims’s lawsuit notes it does not seek to stop those proceedings, which it states will be handled separately.

Sims signed an NDA during his time working for the Trump campaign but does not know whether he signed an additional White House agreement regarding “confidential” information, according to the lawsuit, which states that Sims is operating under the assumption that he did sign such a document.

Trump has previously come under scrutiny for his use of NDAs to prevent current and former employees from speaking out against him. Most legal experts say such agreements are not enforceable for public employees; nonetheless, dozens of White House aides have signed NDAs in exchange for working with Trump.

Last year, former senior adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claimed in her own tell-all book that the Trump campaign had offered her a $15,000-a-month job in exchange for signing an NDA that would have barred her from disclosing details of her time at the White House.

 

Note to self: Never sign a NDA when I go work for Trump.

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, onekidanddone said:

Note to self: Never sign a NDA when I go work for Trump.

Be warned, @onekidanddone that I will summarily disown you if you ever go work for that  

 

 

[onekidanddone]

14 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

Be warned, @onekidanddone that I will summarily disown you if you ever go work for that  

 

 

I should have followed up with....’said no person ever’. 

[fraurosena]

Deer Rufus, sweet and good. This makes me want to puke. He didn’t even pretend to hide his racism. The other guy is utterly appalled, calls him out on it, and that moron just ignores it and goes on the attack, accusing the other guy of being discriminatory.

 

[apple1]

Don't know if this belongs here - but it relates to the Trump/GOP tax bill.

I just did my tax return and filed my taxes. Can I just say - It sucks. Really sucks. Our kids are grown, so our tax liability is not affected by having kids. Additionally, we have very ordinary income, and are not in any way wealthy. I don't want to get too detailed our too personal, but suffice to say that it's a huge difference for us - and not in a good direction at all.

 

Aggravated.

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