Your morning TwitterTrump.
Last night he interrupted the flow of invective with a sportsball rejoicement. Rah.
Then today it was back to business.
Any negative polls are fake news, just like the CNN, ABC, NBC polls in the election. Sorry, people want border security and extreme vetting.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
Perfect, isn’t it? Any poll he dislikes is “fake news.” Trumpian epistemology in a nutshell.
And what does he think he means by “people want”? Of course some people approve of his ban, but others don’t. He can’t tell how the numbers fall just by looking out the window.
Plus the usual thing – we already have border security and extensive vetting.
I call my own shots, largely based on an accumulation of data, and everyone knows it. Some FAKE NEWS media, in order to marginalize, lies!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
The presidency is not about One Big Manly Man calling his own shots. It’s not a dictatorship, it’s not an absolute monarchy, it’s not being a general or an admiral. It’s not a matter of “calling shots” at all. Telling us how peremptory and autocratic he is is not the way to go. We already know he’s like that, and that it’s one of his biggest flaws.
Then of course there’s the fact that he actually doesn’t, really, not with Bannon in the room.
Then there’s the laughable claim about data. Hahahahahahaha no you don’t, dude.
Then there’s the “everyone knows it.” That’s that “they all love me” delusion again. The audience for his inauguration was HUGE. Everybody loves him. All those protests are just fake news.
Then there’s the actual misappropriation of the label “fake news,” yet again.
Then there’s the move to demonize the press, yet again.
All that in one tweet. He gets a lot of bullshit into one tweet, I’ll give him that.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/828641340313460736
He was on O’Reilly’s show yesterday, too. So he’s going to do O’Reilly every day, now? That’s going to be his response to “fake news” i.e. news that reports on his many crimes and blunders? Good plan. Very presidential.
And, to wrap up the morning’s blurts, yet another cock-wave at the Times.
The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 6, 2017
And with that the screaming toddler closed the Twitter and went to the office.
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21 responses to “The little fingers stab the keys”
…where he was informed that the Speaker of the House of Commons has effectively ruled out any chance of him making a “speech” within that august building during his state visit to the UK*.
I await with bated breath the tweets denouncing John Bercow as a “loser”.
*Assuming he’s still around at the time.
He thinks he can make something true just by wishing it. You think he read “The Secret”?
We are all in the shit, bigly. But there are many ways to avoid the consequences of Trump while awaiting the inevitable collapse of his gold-plated bullshit regime.
‘Make America Great Again!’
America did not cease being ‘great’ because of the demons Trump points to.
China, India and the rest just make stuff and sells it on the world market, just as America does. China has always been ‘great’ in that she has a very smart and creative population. If Trump thnks US ‘greatness’ will come back only in proportion to the depth to which China and India can be made to sink, then Trump has a problem.
Perhaps it is time he had a brain transplant.
After all, he is hell-bent on giving the whole country a lobotomy.
From the fake poll tweet, The non-thank-you states, (the F-you states?) where he lost the popular vote at the polls, are probably fake states with fake people in them.
This fake president is faking it for somebody.
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1435725636445893/?type=3&theater
And many of our smart, creative people are likely to leave, or be stomped under the jackboot of lowered funding, increased scrutiny, self- and other-censorship, and fear.
Having a massive brain drain is not the way to make America great again – unless your idea of great is a country where no one is smarter than you are. That is something I would hate.
Stewart – thank you, thank you, thank you for using bated breath correctly. I get so tired of “baited breath” as though people were sitting there with worms in their mouths.
iknklast:
I have to be even more careful after I did slip up the other day due to sleep deprivation and wrote “concensus” instead of “consensus” – took Vanina Slater’s wake-up call to alert me to rush out a corrected graphic. I haven’t been infected by most of the worst that goes around nowadays and usually bite my tongue when I get annoyed by what I see.
Aha! Baited breath! ;-)
He does have a profound problem with plurals. Not even conversant with the Royal We.
How long before some station starts a reality show about veterinarians in a pet emergency room and calls it “Extreme Vetting”? Like, asking for a friend, you know.
Cholula, you need to copyright that name so you can claim royalties.
Went there ages ago:
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1079149095436884/?type=3&theater
And now that we’ve restored “bated breath” to its rightful place, we all need to work on “giving free reign to”!
Ben, better be very very careful with the speling there, lest it reinds of that rainy sheet in Moscow.
I think that last sentence has a superfluous comma.
I know I’m not saying anything new by pointing this out, but it’s really easy to tell what kind of criticisms are getting under his skin; just look at what he accuses his opponents of being. He’s really project-y like that, and we (royal we) can use that to our advantage.
Right now, he’s really bothered by bad poll numbers, insinuations that he’s Bannon’s puppet, and the ‘alternative facts’ pushback (FAKE NEWS that lies to marginalize!). Use that!
Also we see from his reaction that the Times continues to do its job well.
I’m using it, I’m using it:
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1435749476443509/?type=3&theater
iknklast #7
*ahem*
#2
Yup, that ‘negotiable reality’ thing has been entrenched in Americans thinking for years. From Phineas Quimby to ‘The Law of Attraction’ etc. We have become a nation that really believes that ‘wishing makes it so.’
Since it’s been discussed above, please note correct use of “reins” here :)
https://www.facebook.com/144310995587370/photos/a.271728576178944.71555.144310995587370/1440502072634916/?type=3&theater