Trump 47: The Covidiot's Traveling Circus Is Back On The Road

[GreyhoundFan]

Apparently several media outlets have gotten advance copies of Mary Trump's book, so I expect lots of interesting tidbits to come out over the next week or so:

 

[WiseGirl]

 

[Audrey2]

3 minutes ago, WiseGirl said:

 

Complete non sequitur, but I just love George Takei's profile picture with the Star Trek mask on! 

[Ozlsn]

8 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

To be sure, every president consumes information differently: Ronald Reagan read the PDB every morning but preferred movies — so the CIA created short film biopics of foreign leaders. Bill Clinton often skipped his oral briefing but devoured the PDB, scribbling questions in the margins. (He also read political thrillers and badgered his advisers about the real-world threats of bioterrorism and pandemics — which led to the establishment of the national PPE stockpile.) Barack Obama read the daily brief on his iPad and sent it back with detailed queries.

And now I am quite curious about how the two Bushes preferred their briefings (guessing oral presentations). Also... pick the lawyers who are used to having to consume a lot of written information and get to the points. 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Mary Trump somehow manages to make President Trump look even worse"

Spoiler

Mary Trump is going to have her say, and the president of the United States can’t stop her.

President Trump’s niece, daughter of his older brother, Fred Trump Jr. (who died in 1981), has penned a book about her uncle entitled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The president’s family sued to stop its publication, citing the fact that at the end of a family dispute about Fred Sr.’s fortune, Mary had signed a nondisclosure agreement in part about family secrets.

That lawsuit was a joke; as a New York court found, Mary Trump’s publisher is not a party to her contract with her family, and therefore it is free to publish her book. And there’s presumably a remedy in that NDA, in the form of Mary Trump paying a penalty if she violates it. Just like anyone who signs an NDA, she can choose to violate it, and then pay. That doesn’t mean the family can get the courts to shut her up.

But all that is of less concern to the rest of us than what she has to say. And now we know, because in advance of the publication date (already moved up to July 14, two weeks ahead of schedule), copies have been given to reporters at multiple news outlets, including The Post.

And while some tell-all books don’t deliver much that’s surprising, Mary Trump has some very interesting information to impart, boosted by the fact that as a clinical psychologist, she can offer insights into how President Trump got to be the person he is.

Here are some of the highlights:

• She claims Trump hired a smarter boy he knew to take the SAT for him; the high score helped get him into college.
• She describes Trump’s father, Fred, as not just domineering but a “sociopath.” He was verbally abusive to his children, especially Fred Jr., insisting that they become “killers” unhindered by emotion. “Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” she writes.
• Her father, Fred Jr., came in for particular contempt from Fred Sr. for being soft. “The lesson [President Trump] learned, at its simplest, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald.”
• When Fred Sr. died, Mary was told his estate was worth only around $30 million; the portion of that figure that became her inheritance was the subject of the dispute that led to a financial settlement and her NDA. She later gave Fred Sr.’s business records to the New York Times, which published a blockbuster story showing that the patriarch had transferred over $1 billion to his children (a scheme mostly carried out after Fred Jr.’s death), potentially defrauding the U.S. government of half a billion dollars in tax revenue.
• On a trip to Mar-a-Lago when she was 29, Mary came out in a bathing suit and shorts. “Holy s--t, Mary. You’re stacked,” her uncle said to her, with all the grace and sensitivity we’ve come to expect from him.
• For a time, Trump hired Mary to ghost-write his book “The Art of the Comeback.” At one point a Trump employee sent her some pages of material Trump wanted to include in the book. “It was an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest, and fattest slobs he’d ever met,” including Madonna and Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt.
• At a White House dinner in 2017, the president gestured toward his son Eric’s wife; the two at that point had been together for eight years. “I barely even knew who the f--- she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me,” Trump said.
• “Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, and Mitch McConnell, all of whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred,” Mary writes, “recognized … that Donald’s checkered personal history and his unique personality flaws make him extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men.”

Though Mary Trump’s book won’t be out for another week, it has already reached No. 4 on Amazon, behind John Bolton’s book and two books about racism. While we can’t rerun the history, there’s a strong chance that the Trump family’s attempt to suppress “Too Much and Never Enough” only brought it more attention; there’s nothing more intriguing than something someone doesn’t want you to see.

And while these details of President Trump’s life may not change anyone’s mind about whether they want to vote for him, they will be of significant historical interest. In the future, we’re going to ask not just how Trump got to be president but what could have produced such a man in the first place.

In Mary Trump’s account, if the future president ever possessed any virtues as a human being, they were eradicated by a cruel father who wanted to make his children just as ruthless as he was. She calls him the “monster” Fred Sr. created, someone who “would ultimately be rendered unlovable by the very nature of Fred’s preference for him."

“In the end, there would be no love for Donald at all, just his agonizing thirsting for it,” she writes.

Somehow, through a combination of timing, his party’s pathologies, and dumb luck, Trump became the most powerful person on earth. And every new thing we learn about him only increases the horror.

 

[47of74]

God what a fornicating idiot

 

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, 47of74 said:

God what a fornicating idiot

 

They might be thinking about this. Too late though... It was destroyed by lightning. It was a church just off of i-75 between Dayton and Cincinnati.

Edited July 8, 2020 by Audrey2

[AnywhereButHere]

MSNBC and Rachel Maddow is doing a segment on Mary Trump’s book, and they just put up this photo. Does it look like a promo picture for a new tv soap opera set in hell? Or is it just me...
 

[Cartmann99]

It's scheduled for this coming Saturday.

[Ozlsn]

7 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

"Mary Trump somehow manages to make President Trump look even worse"

  Reveal hidden contents

Mary Trump is going to have her say, and the president of the United States can’t stop her.

President Trump’s niece, daughter of his older brother, Fred Trump Jr. (who died in 1981), has penned a book about her uncle entitled “Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.” The president’s family sued to stop its publication, citing the fact that at the end of a family dispute about Fred Sr.’s fortune, Mary had signed a nondisclosure agreement in part about family secrets.

That lawsuit was a joke; as a New York court found, Mary Trump’s publisher is not a party to her contract with her family, and therefore it is free to publish her book. And there’s presumably a remedy in that NDA, in the form of Mary Trump paying a penalty if she violates it. Just like anyone who signs an NDA, she can choose to violate it, and then pay. That doesn’t mean the family can get the courts to shut her up.

But all that is of less concern to the rest of us than what she has to say. And now we know, because in advance of the publication date (already moved up to July 14, two weeks ahead of schedule), copies have been given to reporters at multiple news outlets, including The Post.

And while some tell-all books don’t deliver much that’s surprising, Mary Trump has some very interesting information to impart, boosted by the fact that as a clinical psychologist, she can offer insights into how President Trump got to be the person he is.

Here are some of the highlights:

• She claims Trump hired a smarter boy he knew to take the SAT for him; the high score helped get him into college.
• She describes Trump’s father, Fred, as not just domineering but a “sociopath.” He was verbally abusive to his children, especially Fred Jr., insisting that they become “killers” unhindered by emotion. “Fred perverted his son’s perception of the world and damaged his ability to live in it,” she writes.
• Her father, Fred Jr., came in for particular contempt from Fred Sr. for being soft. “The lesson [President Trump] learned, at its simplest, was that it was wrong to be like Freddy: Fred didn’t respect his oldest son, so neither would Donald.”
• When Fred Sr. died, Mary was told his estate was worth only around $30 million; the portion of that figure that became her inheritance was the subject of the dispute that led to a financial settlement and her NDA. She later gave Fred Sr.’s business records to the New York Times, which published a blockbuster story showing that the patriarch had transferred over $1 billion to his children (a scheme mostly carried out after Fred Jr.’s death), potentially defrauding the U.S. government of half a billion dollars in tax revenue.
• On a trip to Mar-a-Lago when she was 29, Mary came out in a bathing suit and shorts. “Holy s--t, Mary. You’re stacked,” her uncle said to her, with all the grace and sensitivity we’ve come to expect from him.
• For a time, Trump hired Mary to ghost-write his book “The Art of the Comeback.” At one point a Trump employee sent her some pages of material Trump wanted to include in the book. “It was an aggrieved compendium of women he had expected to date but who, having refused him, were suddenly the worst, ugliest, and fattest slobs he’d ever met,” including Madonna and Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt.
• At a White House dinner in 2017, the president gestured toward his son Eric’s wife; the two at that point had been together for eight years. “I barely even knew who the f--- she was, honestly, but then she gave a great speech during the campaign in Georgia supporting me,” Trump said.
• “Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong-Un, and Mitch McConnell, all of whom bear more than a passing psychological resemblance to Fred,” Mary writes, “recognized … that Donald’s checkered personal history and his unique personality flaws make him extremely vulnerable to manipulation by smarter, more powerful men.”

Though Mary Trump’s book won’t be out for another week, it has already reached No. 4 on Amazon, behind John Bolton’s book and two books about racism. While we can’t rerun the history, there’s a strong chance that the Trump family’s attempt to suppress “Too Much and Never Enough” only brought it more attention; there’s nothing more intriguing than something someone doesn’t want you to see.

And while these details of President Trump’s life may not change anyone’s mind about whether they want to vote for him, they will be of significant historical interest. In the future, we’re going to ask not just how Trump got to be president but what could have produced such a man in the first place.

In Mary Trump’s account, if the future president ever possessed any virtues as a human being, they were eradicated by a cruel father who wanted to make his children just as ruthless as he was. She calls him the “monster” Fred Sr. created, someone who “would ultimately be rendered unlovable by the very nature of Fred’s preference for him."

“In the end, there would be no love for Donald at all, just his agonizing thirsting for it,” she writes.

Somehow, through a combination of timing, his party’s pathologies, and dumb luck, Trump became the most powerful person on earth. And every new thing we learn about him only increases the horror.

 

Some of this just makes me so sad. No wonder he's so pathetic, he's still desperately trying to get approval from his long dead father. Doesn't mean I don't want him jailed for corruption, but can they try getting him some therapy while he's in there?

[fraurosena]

News reports in my country are saying Trump has officially pulled the US out of the WHO. 

[Ozlsn]

15 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

News reports in my country are saying Trump has officially pulled the US out of the WHO. 

Well that'll fix the pandemic.

[AnywhereButHere]

Oh my god. The man is an idiot. He pulls out of the WHO to what? Bitch slap China? Yeah. That’ll show them and lessen China’s influence. And immediately stop the pandemic from raging here. Right. Fucking moron. Luckily, his withdrawal won’t take effect until next July, so we can sort of fix this, although I hope the damage Fucknut’s words and intentions have already done are not insurmountable. We USians need to get our shit together in November. 

[Ali]

12 hours ago, Audrey2 said:

They might be thinking about this. Too late though... It was destroyed by lightning. It was a church just off of i-75 between Dayton and Cincinnati.

They built a new one. It is always a highlight of our trip when we go down south. It is also enjoyable is to see the Clown College exit and wonder how the Bateseses  are doing. (sarcasm font)

 

[Flossie]

8 hours ago, Ozlsn said:

Some of this just makes me so sad. No wonder he's so pathetic, he's still desperately trying to get approval from his long dead father. Doesn't mean I don't want him jailed for corruption, but can they try getting him some therapy while he's in there?

I'm more like 'whatever' on this.  He's damaged, and he's had a lifetime of being that way.  No way to know if he was born or became a sociopath, a malignant narcissist or a combination.  But I doubt that therapy will help him.  He'd have to agree that he needs help and work to fix the problem.  I think he'd be much more comfortable insisting to his last breath that some people are being mean to him and everyone else adores him.

However, if he were forced into therapy, he could provide invaluable information for psychologists.  Whole textbooks would be written about him.

Hey Donny, you got your wish!  You'll be forever remembered in the annals of time!  Not in the way you hoped, but you will be remembered, at least for a time.

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, Flossie said:

I'm more like 'whatever' on this.  He's damaged, and he's had a lifetime of being that way.  No way to know if he was born or became a sociopath, a malignant narcissist or a combination.  But I doubt that therapy will help him.  He'd have to agree that he needs help and work to fix the problem.  I think he'd be much more comfortable insisting to his last breath that some people are being mean to him and everyone else adores him.

However, if he were forced into therapy, he could provide invaluable information for psychologists.  Whole textbooks would be written about him.

Hey Donny, you got your wish!  You'll be forever remembered in the annals of time!  Not in the way you hoped, but you will be remembered, at least for a time.

Did anyone watch Unfit - The psychology of Donald Trump yet? If not, I highly recommend it. It's quite enlightening and frightening at the same time.

[fraurosena]

He's completely clueless.

 

[JenniferJuniper]

And now the Supreme Court is going to let Trump roll back the Obamacare employer insurance birth control mandate.   Reason number 4,832 why Americans should not be getting their health coverage from their friggin' employers.  

Oh, and May the Lord Open. 

 

[HerNameIsBuffy]

3 minutes ago, JenniferJuniper said:

Reason number 4,832 why Americans should not be getting their health coverage from their friggin' employers. 

Yes, why is this a thing?  My daughter had to turn down three jobs in the last few months because they either didn't offer benefits or they weren't adequate (and her current employer does offer good benefits.)

This system keeps people stuck in jobs they hate.  At least she is young and healthy and did find another job with benefits, but if you're sick or have pre-existing conditions people can be stuck forever in shitty jobs.

[Alisamer]

OMG.

We need someone with a functioning brain in the White House, please. 

[JenniferJuniper]

15 minutes ago, HerNameIsBuffy said:

This system keeps people stuck in jobs they hate.  At least she is young and healthy and did find another job with benefits, but if you're sick or have pre-existing conditions people can be stuck forever in shitty jobs.

And it also prevents people (raises hand) who would like to retire early but are stuck working until 65 just for affordable health insurance.

And when people stay working longer than they otherwise would, fewer good, higher paying jobs open up for younger people to move into them. 

The whole system is ridiculous. 

[clueliss]

Anyone else feel like we're being trolled?

 

[WiseGirl]

No kidding.  Anyone else worry about a Civil War after this election no matter who wins? Anyone?  Just me?

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/08/world/meanwhile-in-america-july-7-intl/index.html

 

10 minutes ago, JenniferJuniper said:

And it also prevents people (raises hand) who would like to retire early

Absolutely.  I like my job now, but I would be out at 62 if I had health care.

[Destiny]

Lack of universal healthcare keeps so many people trapped in situations they don't want or need to be in, just so they don't go bankrupt. The system is so broken in this country. Gods know I would rather my tax dollars go to healthcare than yet another bajillion dollar fucking tank or bomb.

[GreyhoundFan]

This is incredible: