Cannot learn
Oh lord he’s done it again – tried to impress us with blank sheets of paper. Remember those action shots at Walter Reed of Trump signing the middle of a blank sheet of paper? And those boxes stacked on a table at the beginning of his “administration” that were supposed to convey how open he was being with his financial records? Except that the boxes were just boxes? He hasn’t learned.
Oopsie, they shouldn’t have let her open it.
Well, I mean, it’s not wrong
At last! A book Donnie could read all by himself.
Seriously, though, who thought that this stunt was a good idea*? The bookbinder did a good job considering it must have been a rush-job, unless it’s a prop as used by set decorators and superficial asshats to make a bookcase look impressive, but to hand it to an experienced journalist in front of so many cameras was an act of sheer incompetence.
I can imagine the conversation too well: Get one of those big fake books, stick a title on the front and hand it to her. Waddya mean, what title? ‘The Official Report Of The Many More Things Than Any Other President Has Ever Done That President Donald J. Trump Has Done For Healthcare‘, of course. What if she does what? Open it? Don’t be stoopid, of course she won’t open it. Oh, and make sure you get it back before she leaves, for Chrissakes.Somebody’s bound to ask what I’ve done for the blacks’ loser asses.
* rhetorical question, obvs.
What even is having a big book supposed to demonstrate?
The pictures are funny given Trump’s past adventures with blank paper, but it’s almost certainly government-printed regulations and she has it opened to the initial pages that are blank. I highly doubt the whole book is blank.
I hasten to add that he still deserves the mockery, because he’s the big orange dummy that shared the pictures of the blank pages as alleged proof of how much he’s done.
Skeletor, with any other president, I would buy that. This one? Remember, this is the guy who drew a new hurricane path on a map with a Sharpie. It is exactly the sort of thing he might do…or one of his handlers. Yeah, maybe there is something inside, but the book does look very new, and very well might have been dummied for the occasion…by a dummy.
It reminds me of an old lawyer’s trick (I think it was already discredited and hated by judges by the time I started practicing, so I’ve never seen it in action) where you get a witness (usually an expert) to identify all the material they reviewed, treatises they consulted, etc., and stack each one on the witness box, until you’ve got this huge tower of books/binders/transcripts, which the jury is supposed to think means that there’s a lot of literal weight on the side of your expert.
Of course, even when lawyers used to pull that dumb trick, they didn’t use empty books.
Isn’t it comically large? Like a stupid person’s idea of an impressive book.
Catwhisperer, I’m reminded of the old apocryphal tale about the wealthy man who goes into an antique bookshop and tells the bookseller that he’s just had new bookcases fitted in his library and is looking for some books to fill them. The seller asks what kind of books he’s looking for and the man thinks about it for a moment then says ‘Red ones”.
Ha. Picking books by colour would be silly – it’s the height and depth of the shelves in the bookcase that’s important!
People certainly do buy books by colour and by the yard to fill shelves. I did so once on behalf of my boss to decorate the pub I worked in at the time. The man at the company I ordered them from said he often sold yards of books to individuals who wanted to look learned.
I’m reminded of this library that catered to such requests.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-5358845/amp/Library-trolls-patrons-organizing-books-color.html