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[The Troll]

http://istrumpatmaralago.org

The above website was set up to tell you at a glance whether Trump is currently at Mar-a-Lago, as well as the mounting costs of his visits.  It also compares those costs against costs of government programs that Trump wants to cut. 

I'm not sure how precise their numbers are, because as far as I can tell, they don't come from the GAO, but you get the gist of what's being pointed out here. 

  There is one thing to be said, everything that Trump said while he was running for president was a LIE!  Old Flip Flop Man.         How many trips can we stand $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ that he takes to Floridaf every weekend.   

[me]

Patriots Call Out New York Times for Pushing Fake News Over White House Turnout
News Commentary
By Alexa | Contributor | April 20, 2017 3:47AM
How far is the New York Times willing to go to trash President Donald Trump with fake news? At least a football field.
The latest example of the media rushing to troll Trump only to fall flat on their faces and be exposed came out of the New England Patriots visit to the White House to commemorate their Super Bowl win this year.
President Trump hosted his friends Patriots Owner Bob Kraft and Head Coach Bill Belichick along with many other players, coaches and staff members. MVP Quarterback Tom Brady wasn't able to make the trip due to unspecified "personal family matters" (we do know his mom is battling cancer), but he sent a nice note thanking Trump for his support, "Thank you to the President for hosting this honorary celebration and for supporting our team for as long as I can remember."
Bizarrely, President Trump did not say Brady's name during his congratulatory speech. Brady also did not attend the White House ceremony Obama hosted when the Patriots won in 2015.
And it was that 2015 White House visit that tripped the New York Times up. They tweeted this picture comparing "Patriots' turnout" for Obama and Trump:
I can only imagine the glee that tweet was posted with, the NYT thinking they had embarrassed Trump with that picture comparison. You can also tell by the tens of thousands of likes and retweets that liberals loved it, too.
The only problem? The pictures aren't comparable!
The Patriots themselves had to go to Twitter to set the record straight:
The Obama picture was a posed photo op with the whole team contingent, while the Trump picture was taken when Trump was still speaking and many team staffers were still sitting in the audience listening.
Here's the posed team photo the New York Times (if they cared about integrity and not just smearing the president) should have compared the 2015 Obama photo to:
Interesting... looks like there were more people at this year's event than in 2015 – but that doesn't fit the narrative the NYT wanted to tell.
The Patriots say a better comparison would be with the last time they won two Super Bowls in three years, in 2004 under President George W. Bush. In 2015, it was the Patriots' first Super Bowl in 10 years so it was most players' first win and first opportunity to visit the White House.
Of course, by the time the truth was out there it was too late, the liberal mainstream media and alt left (who rooted against the Pats) had already run with the fake news, made it the big story to come out of the event, then moved on.
The good news is that the Patriots won the Super Bowl and Trump won the election and as much as the left hates it, no amount of fake news can change those facts.




http://thepoliticalinsider.com/patriots-white-house-call-out-new-york-times-pushing-fake-news/

[Palehorse]

Wonder where the Raging Cheeto is golfing at this weekend? 

[The Troll]

  Ever since Trump has been elected, I wake up every morning wondering what the asshole has pulled off or what war had he got us into.  Also how he has screwed the American Middle Class again.     

[Exterminator]

I can't wait until this fat fuck dies so I can piss on his grave. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trump-awards-purple-heart/2017/04/22/ff32f4fa-2796-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_video.html

[AbbyTC]

I can't wait until this fat fuck dies so I can piss on his grave. 
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/trump-awards-purple-heart/2017/04/22/ff32f4fa-2796-11e7-928e-3624539060e8_video.html

Congratulations?  For what? On losing your leg?  For possibly having PTSD?  What an ass.   

[Palehorse]

Congratulations?  For what? On losing your leg?  For possibly having PTSD?  What an ass.   

The world is becoming chock-full of asses. . . And this nation put one the biggest in the White House. . . 

Thank you for your courage and sacrifices would have been nice. To him and his family!

[Exterminator]

He never even shook his hand.

[libby]

 

He never even shook his hand.

What a jerk!

[Palehorse]

    What a jerk!

I recall traveling abroad some years ago, (pre-9/11 years), and having several conversations with people in various countries surrounding why there was a growing dislike of Americans in general. The prevailing response always took the position that Americans were perceived as brash, brazen, and downright rude. . . (These conversations took place in the homes of the subjects, where I was their invited guest, and were always predicated by commentary toward me stating I am not a typical American in their view. . .)

It would appear the Raging Cheeto is that perception personified. 

I'd love to go back to those locations and ask those same individuals what they feel about Americans today. . . But I'm afraid I would not survive to report back on the subject. 

The world is a dangerous place that America used to try to make safer for all. It is now a dangerous place that America desires to make worse. . .

[libby]

 Yesterday on  Morning Joe, host Joe  Scarborough "reacted to a statement by Doris Kearns that Trump lives in the moment."

"My mother lives in the moment, too. And I'm not saying that Donald Trump has dementia, but my mother has dementia. She lives in the moment. She forgets what she said a day ago, a week ago. We can't have presidents that do that and I'm not saying that he has dementia. I will leave that to his physician to figure that out."

Joe's co-host Mika said "something is wrong and to the point that you can't even have a bigger debate." She called him "nonsensical" and pointed out that Republican congressmen have to keep this in mind as they make decisions about what to support."

(Both Joe and Mika said they'd known Trump for a long time.)

[libby]

Here's more about our POTUS, by George Will, today's Washington Post.

(I like what Will does with the English language. Makes me stop and think. )

Trump has a dangerous disability

By George F. Will Opinion writer May 3 at 7:36 PM

It is urgent for Americans to think and speak clearly about President Trump's inability to do either. This seems to be not a mere disinclination but a disability. It is not merely the result of intellectual sloth but of an untrained mind bereft of information and married to stratospheric self-confidence.

In February, acknowledging Black History Month, Trump said that "Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who's done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice." Because Trump is syntactically challenged, it was possible and tempting to see this not as a historical howler about a man who died 122 years ago, but as just another of Trump's verbal fender benders, this one involving verb tenses.

Now, however, he has instructed us that Andrew Jackson was angry about the Civil War that began 16 years after Jackson's death. Having, let us fancifully imagine, considered and found unconvincing William Seward's 1858 judgment that the approaching Civil War was "an irrepressible conflict," Trump says:

"People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why? People don't ask that question, but why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?"
Library shelves groan beneath the weight of books asking questions about that war's origins, so who, one wonders, are these "people" who don't ask the questions that Trump evidently thinks have occurred to him uniquely? Presumably they are not the astute "lot of," or at least "some," people Trump referred to when speaking about his February address to a joint session of Congress: "A lot of people have said that, some people said it was the single best speech ever made in that chamber." Which demotes Winston Churchill, among many others.

What is most alarming (and mortifying to the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated) is not that Trump has entered his eighth decade unscathed by even elementary knowledge about the nation's history. As this column has said before, the problem isn't that he does not know this or that, or that he does not know that he does not know this or that. Rather, the dangerous thing is that he does not know what it is to know something.

The United States is rightly worried that a strange and callow leader controls North Korea's nuclear arsenal. North Korea should reciprocate this worry. Yes, a 70-year-old can be callow if he speaks as sophomorically as Trump did when explaining his solution to Middle Eastern terrorism: "I would bomb the s--- out of them. . . . I'd blow up the pipes, I'd blow up the refineries, I'd blow up every single inch, there would be nothing left."

As a candidate, Trump did not know what the nuclear triad is. Asked about it, he said: "We have to be extremely vigilant and extremely careful when it comes to nuclear. Nuclear changes the whole ballgame." Invited to elaborate, he said: "I think — I think, for me, nuclear is just the power, the devastation is very important to me." Someone Trump deemed fit to be a spokesman for him appeared on television to put a tasty dressing on her employer's word salad: "What good does it do to have a good nuclear triad if you're afraid to use it?" To which a retired Army colonel appearing on the same program replied with amazed asperity: "The point of the nuclear triad is to be afraid to use the damn thing."

[Trump has been sued. Here's why the Justice Department shouldn't represent him.]

As president-elect, Trump did not know the pedigree and importance of the one-China policy. About such things he can be, if he is willing to be, tutored. It is, however, too late to rectify this defect: He lacks what T.S. Eliot called a sense "not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence." His fathomless lack of interest in America's path to the present and his limitless gullibility leave him susceptible to being blown about by gusts of factoids that cling like lint to a disorderly mind.

Americans have placed vast military power at the discretion of this mind, a presidential discretion that is largely immune to restraint by the Madisonian system of institutional checks and balances. So, it is up to the public to quarantine this presidency by insistently communicating to its elected representatives a steady, rational fear of this man whose combination of impulsivity and credulity render him uniquely unfit to take the nation into a military conflict.

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George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.  Follow @georgewill

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[me]

 

[libby]

This isn't really about Trump, but

for those who didn't see it, tonight former President Barack Obama received the Profiles in Courage award. His acceptance speech was a bit long, but was a real class act compared to Donald Trump. Another class act: James Taylor playing and singing ...  way too short.

[libby]

Did anyone besides me watch the testimony of former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates and former DIA Director of National Intelligence General Clapper yesterday? I could not tear myself away.