I’ve almost finished with the Trump-excoriation for now, but not quite.
Later Thursday, at a victory lap celebrating his impeachment acquittal, Trump said: “I had Nancy Pelosi sitting four seats away, and I’m saying things that a lot of people wouldn’t have said. But I meant everything. I meant every word of it.”
Beware of people who brag about saying things that a lot of people wouldn’t have said. Beware beware beware. Doing that is a sure sign of someone who is both an egomaniac and a rude bully. Turn around and walk swiftly away.
“I don’t need any lessons from anybody, especially the president of the United States, about dignity,” Pelosi said Thursday, adding she feels “liberated” now. “I feel that I’ve extended every possible courtesy, I’ve shown every level of respect.”
…And Pelosi said she and other Democrats thought that when Trump’s State of the Union speech veered into talking about a “special” and “beloved” man battling cancer that he was going to honor Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.), a civil rights icon who is battling advanced pancreatic cancer.
Instead, Trump meant Rush Limbaugh, a conservative radio host who has been accused of making racist, sexist and anti-LGBTQ remarks on his show. Trump awarded Limbaugh, who has advanced lung cancer, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom — the nation’s highest civilian honor — in the middle of his annual address.
Ouch. I didn’t know that part.
“Do it in your own office. We don’t come in your office and do congressional business. Why are you doing that here?” Pelosi said. “That was not a State of the Union, that was his state of mind.”
To rub our noses in it, probably.
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8 responses to “That a lot of people wouldn’t have said”
The Medal of Freedom to Rush – Trump truly is the shit Midas. He has systematically tainted everything.
He appears to have an approval rating of 36%.
Some of his supporters, maybe all, would follow him into an alligator-infested swamp. (I am sure Trump would not mind if some of them got eaten, as long as he was not one of them.)
The US has a real constitutional problem on its hands IMHO. It used to be a lighthouse to the world, but not any more. The modern Westminster system beats it by a country mile. Trump has seen to that.
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https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/26/politics/actual-trump-support/index.html
Omar, that’s an old poll. My husband was reading a Pew poll this morning that put his approval rating at 50%. If so, we really are a country that has gotten what we deserve (though I will admit, not all of us deserve it, but then, that’s true any time someone crappy gets elected in any country).
The 538 polling aggregate is ~43% which is about where it’s been for three years.
One of the books about the Lincoln administration is called Team of Rivals. My own suggestion for the title of a history of the Trump administration would be Gang of Scumbags.
Perhaps the US national motto should be changed: In Trump We Trust. It has good alliteration, and is easily remembered and repeated by simpler folks; always a good selling point.
Omar, I am sure to Trump In God We Trust is synonymous with In Trump we Trust. And from some of the spewings of some of his supporters, to many of them, too.
There is one (dis)advantage that Trump has over God – he palpably exists.