He feels emboldened
For a time my Twitter feed was full of journalists, lawyers, ethics boffins, and former federal employees all exclaiming at how unhinged and incoherent Trump’s endless “speech” was turning out to be.
President Donald Trump emerged vindictive and angry at a rambling noontime event on Thursday meant to mark his impeachment acquittal.
“We’ve been going through this now for over three years. It was evil, it was corrupt, it was dirty cops, it was leakers and liars. And this should never, ever happen to another president, ever,” Trump told an East Room packed with conservative lawmakers, media pundits, and a number of Cabinet officials, who cheered as Trump meandered through a list of grievances and musings after the Senate declared him not guilty.
He called Comey “a dirty cop,” he called the Mueller investigation “bullshit.”
It was a stream-of-consciousness victory lap that even Trump acknowledged had no real format.
“It’s not a news conference, it’s not a speech, it’s not anything,” he said of the event, which stretched more than an hour.
It’s just boring rich right-wing guy who thinks he’s fascinating, going on and on and on and on, but doing it on national tv.
Trump has shown signs he feels emboldened by the acquittal. After the vote, he tweeted a video meme suggesting he could remain in office for decades to come, a joking affront to his rivals.
But not really joking. He hides behind that when he thinks he needs to, but he’s not really joking. There’s nothing he would stop at, nothing he would refuse to do because too wrong.
I really wish they’d stop saying he was acquitted. He wasn’t. There was effectively no trial. The law was evaded to keep him in place. The pubic was mugged.
He’s 74 (I think?), how long does he really expect to stay in office at that age? Especially considering his less than stellar health.
This is not to say he won’t try to overstay his “welcome” in office.
Acquittal or not, impeachment is a decisive defeat, and a permanent one in posterity. You lose Trump, go celebrate like an idiot. Go say how it’s those bad, bad Democrats fault.
This is the most cogent Freudian slip regarding this president. He has been mugging the pubic for many, many years, grabbing pussy, forcing unwanted attention on women, walking in unannounced on half dressed women, and in general mugging the pubic.
Thanks for this oh so appropriate typo!
Reached for comment afterwards, Susan Collins said, “I find the President’s comments somewhat disturbing. I really hope he thinks about what he said and learns his lesson. Unfortunately, there’s nothing I or anyone else can do about it, except act terribly concerned. See how I furrow my brow? Now please don’t send your minions after me, Mr. President. Romney’s the one you want.”
I meant mugged in this sense:
mug1
/məɡ/
verb
past tense: mugged; past participle: mugged
1.
attack and rob (someone) in a public place.
In this case by people in power perverting the law.
zubanel, I think that the slip referred to by iknklast was ‘pubic’ instead of ‘public’.
AoS, exactly. With Trump, truly, the pubic was mugged.
@zubanel #1
Not unlike how he claimed TOTAL EXONERATION when the Mueller Report basically admitted that the only reason they didn’t charge him is because they weren’t allowed to.