Trump: Impeach is the new Orange

[Gibby]

Trump: "I AM the Senate!"

Etc

I find it difficult to give a monkeys about Trump while our country is heading towards the cliff edge that is a No Deal Brexit.

[Stormbringer]

Trump: "I AM the Senate!"

[Drarok]

I find it difficult to give a monkeys about Trump while our country is heading towards the cliff edge that is a No Deal Brexit.

It's entertaining to watch him whilst we edge our way closer to utter doom.

[Strudel]

RE: Impeachment, the House instigates proceedings and just needs a majority to do so, and the Democrats are quite likely to take control in the midterms. If they did instigate impeachment proceedings then it would be pushed to the Senate, which would never do anything about it because to actually convict requires a two-thirds majority and there's no way the Dems will get close to that, even with the few Republicans who might join them.

So basically, it'll never happen.

[Pew-Pew]

I have to admit I kind of have 'Trump controversy fatigue'. It just seems like he will get endless amounts of shit slung at him, and none will stick for the rest of this term.

[Rossell]

Trump: "I AM the Senate!"

He's not the Senate, he's a very naughty boy.

[Jez]

Hehe

[Raid]

"GOOGLE IS FAILING TO SHOW ENOUGH GOOD STORIES AND COULD BE PROSECUTED FOR MAKING ME LOOK BAD"

The caps are from copying and pasting from the headline, but I feel it suitably represents his thought process.

[Sly Boots]

"GOOGLE IS FAILING TO SHOW ENOUGH GOOD STORIES AND COULD BE PROSECUTED FOR MAKING ME LOOK BAD"

The caps are from copying and pasting from the headline, but I feel it suitably represents his thought pattern.

[eny]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... 5985bd58e6


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/09/04/poli ... index.html

Woodward's 448-page book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," provides an unprecedented inside-the-room look through the eyes of the President's inner circle. From the Oval Office to the Situation Room to the White House residence, Woodward uses confidential background interviews to illustrate how some of the President's top advisers view him as a danger to national security and have sought to circumvent the commander in chief.

Many of the feuds and daily clashes have been well documented, but the picture painted by Trump's confidants, senior staff and Cabinet officials reveal that many of them see an even more alarming situation — worse than previously known or understood. Woodward offers a devastating portrait of a dysfunctional Trump White House, detailing how senior aides — both current and former Trump administration officials — grew exasperated with the President and increasingly worried about his erratic behavior, ignorance and penchant for lying.

Chief of staff John Kelly describes Trump as an "idiot" and "unhinged," Woodward reports. Defense Secretary James Mattis describes Trump as having the understanding of "a fifth or sixth grader." And Trump's former personal lawyer John Dowd describes the President as "a fucking liar," telling Trump he would end up in an "orange jump suit" if he testified to special counsel Robert Mueller.
Bob Woodward's bizarre phone call with Trump
Bob Woodward's bizarre phone call with Trump
"He's an idiot. It's pointless to try to convince him of anything. He's gone off the rails. We're in crazytown," Kelly is quoted as saying at a staff meeting in his office. "I don't even know why any of us are here. This is the worst job I've ever had."

[Sly Boots]

Trump's philosophy on diplomacy was personal. "This is all about leader versus leader. Man versus man. Me versus Kim," he said of North Korea.
His inner circle was worried about "The Big Problem," Woodward writes: Trump's lack of understanding that his crusade to impose tariffs could endanger global security.
But the meeting didn't go as planned.
Trump went off on his generals. "You should be killing guys. You don't need a strategy to kill people," Trump said of Afghanistan.
He questioned the wisdom of keeping US troops in South Korea.
"So Mr. President," Cohn said to Trump, "what would you need in the region to sleep well at night?"
"I wouldn't need a fucking thing," the President said. "And I'd sleep like a baby."
After Trump left the Tank, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared: "He's a fucking moron."

[Sly Boots]

Trump's tweets — and his infatuation with Twitter — are a theme throughout the book.
Woodward reveals that Trump ordered printouts of his tweets and studied them to find out which ones were most popular. "The most effective tweets were often the most shocking," Woodward writes.
Twitter was a source of great consternation for national security leaders, who feared — and warned Trump — "Twitter could get us into a war."
Appalled by some of his more outrageous posts, Trump's aides tried to form a Twitter "committee" to vet the President's tweets, but they failed to stop their boss.
Priebus, who was blindsided when Trump announced his firing on Twitter, referred to the presidential bedroom as "the devil's workshop" and called the early morning hours and Sunday night — a time of many news-breaking tweets — "the witching hour."
Trump, however, saw himself as a Twitter wordsmith.
"It's a good thing," Trump said when Twitter expanded its character count to 280, "but it's a bit of a shame because I was the Ernest Hemingway of 140 characters."

Oh dear lord

[eny]

In all my years, the world has never been in such a diabolical state as it is now....

[Raid]

And yet does anyone find any of that surprising? I mean at all? That's exactly how I imagined the Trump White House.

[Mantis]

I still think it's so tragic that we're at stage in our history that there are vast amounts of people who still admire this man. He is actually a complete disgrace for a human being.