A stunning moment
CNN found the press conference startling – which is perhaps to be expected, given how much of it was about or rather aimed at CNN.
President Donald Trump launched an extraordinary denunciation Thursday of his critics and media reports that his White House is in chaos, complaining he inherited a “mess” and slamming stories that his campaign was constantly in contact with Russia as “fake news.”
It will immediately go down as a stunning moment in modern American political history, as presidents have rarely betrayed such a sense of anger and grievance so graphically or so early in their administrations.
And they have never done it in such a flailing, barking, self-interrupting way. They have never looked like such redfaced button-eyed pooch-mouthed accordion-playing imbeciles.
Trump’s appearance betrayed apparent deep frustration not just with the media coverage of his White House and a desire to talk directly to the American people but also possibly dismay with aides charged with defending him.
“I don’t mind a bad story if it’s true,” Trump said, but complained much of what was reported about his administration was unfair.
Trump also accused holdovers from the Obama administration of leaking out information about his alleged contacts with Moscow to hammer his administration.
“I own nothing in Russia, I have no loans in Russia, I don’t have any deals in Russia,” Trump said.
“Russia is fake news.”
There is no Russia!
See, if Obama, or even George W, had said they had nothing to do with Russia I’d probably accept their word for now. Trump has just proven himself to be so untrustworthy that even he released his personal and company tax returns for the last 30 years I’d be inclined to think he was lying and I’d want to see the claim properly investigated.
What about the leaks that can be coming from nobody but his own staff?Some of this stuff has to be coming from people he has appointed and who work for him? I recall reading that he was takev aback when he learned that most White House staff was going to be leaving with the Obamas, that he was unprepared for this (along with much more). Maybe he should have chosen more carefully…
“I own nothing in Russia, I have no loans in Russia, I don’t have any deals in Russia,” Trump said.
Notice how specific this is and how it doesn’t address any of the allegations. I’d like to hear him say, “I co-own nothing with Russians, I have no loans from Russians, I don’t have any deals with Russians.”
He sounds brain damaged.
Hard to understand why people aren’t taking him more seriously.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-familys-elaborate-lifestyle-a-logistical-nightmare–at-taxpayer-expense/2017/02/16/763cce8e-f2ce-11e6-a9b0-ecee7ce475fc_story.html?utm_term=.3e37084b4275
Dear god.
So why not release his tax returns?
Russia is just a conspiracy of the cartographers.
Chris, that article is…stunning. There should be an upper limit set on what the president can expect to be paid for, with flexibility to account for unexpected junkets that are essential to running the country. No president should be getting this sort of money spent on maintaining a lavish lifestyle, while the people in the country are struggling to “put food on their family”.
As for the president working non-step while he is at Mar-a-Lago, I suspect he has a different definition of that than we do. Watching “the shows” is not working. Tweeting insults at people you are angry at is not working. I’m guessing that Trump has always had this sort of assumption if he is out of bed, he is working, because he has been petted and stroked so much his entire life about just how special he is.
And we have always been at war with China.
I try to console myself with the idea that Trump is too stupid to pull off the big lie. That after all requires at least a certain minimal consistency.
Which strangely, doesn’t seem to matter. His supporters will follow wherever he goes, and when he changes his story (we have always been at war with Eastasia), they follow right along with him, and will loudly berate anyone who insists otherwise.
We seem to be in the middle of a very large mass delusion.
That’s Ban On’s job. He’ll do what the men behind the curtain tell him to, via the light fixture.
My #11 was in response to #9.
@#10: Still he’s not the big brother is he? That one passed away iirc. Must have been too sensitive.