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Trump: media makes me look

artappraiser — Thu, 26 Oct 2017 05:44:05 +0000

President Trump said Wednesday the media paints an inaccurate picture of him. "I went to an Ivy League college. I was a nice student. I did very well. I'm a very intelligent person," he said [.....]

@ Axios.com, 10 hrs. ago

So @RealDonaldTrump must be an impostor then?

What he just doesn't get is

ocean-kat — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 22:07:42 +0000

In reply to Yes it's disgusting. And more

What he just doesn't get is they don't like or respect him. They're treating him like a child with too much power.

Yes it's disgusting. And more

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:32:16 +0000

In reply to He says "multiple standing

Yes it's disgusting. And more evidence of not just narcissism but a need for self-deluding fantasizing. More and more I see this: the main target is not fans, but himself. The fans are not real beings to him, just there to act as mirrors.

He says "multiple standing

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 20:27:47 +0000

In reply to Ok, just like Sally Field

He says "multiple standing ovations" as if he's talking about multiple orgasms. Somehow I think he's got his G-spot in the wrong place. Ooh, everyone's just looking for a giant throbbing tax cut - talk dirty to me, Donnie. Make America Cum Again. What a pathetic schmuck.

@ Vanity Fair's The Hive:

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:14:14 +0000

In reply to Ok, just like Sally Field

@ Vanity Fair's The Hive: luncheon with senators was a "glorified photo op" where “Nobody called anyone an ignorant slut.”

Ok, just like Sally Field

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 19:07:55 +0000

In reply to Trump Attacks Corker Ahead of Policy Lunch With Senators

Ok, just like Sally Field with the Academy, he imagines they like him, they really really like him:

Trump punches back at Flake and Corker, claims a ‘love fest’ of support in Senate

@ WaPo

He tweeted this this morning

The meeting with Republican Senators yesterday, outside of Flake and Corker, was a love fest with standing ovations and great ideas for USA!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 25, 2017

after similar yesterday:

So nice being with Republican Senators today. Multiple standing ovations! Most are great people who want big Tax Cuts and success for U.S.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 24, 2017

Yeah, but Hillary didn't

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 15:26:13 +0000

In reply to So far, the first result of

Yeah, but Hillary didn't visit whites in the Heartland enough. That's more important than cutting into an already shrinking retirement fund. And did I mention uranium?

NYT opines with its headline

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:41:08 +0000

In reply to So far, the first result of

NYT opines with its headline that

Tax Cuts Are Glue Holding a Deeply Divided G.O.P. Together

By JIM TANKERSLEY 5:00 AM ET

Growing rifts between old-guard conservatives and President Trump’s new-wave populists are roiling the Republican party.
The prospect of a once-in-a-generation bill to cut taxes increasingly appears to be the last, best hope for a fractured Republican establishment.

So far, the first result of

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 14:39:02 +0000

In reply to Trump Attacks Corker Ahead of Policy Lunch With Senators

So far, the first result of yesterday is that conservatives going to do their own thing, feel quite freed to screw Trump if he is in the way?

House GOP tax leader threatens to break Trump’s promise not to change 401(k) rules

House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady suggested a tax bill he is preparing could lower the tax-free amount Americans can contribute to their retirement accounts, potentially bucking a pledge from President Trump that those accounts would be left alone.

By Damian Paletta
@ WaPo 35 minutes ago

good summary of all of Corker

artappraiser — Wed, 25 Oct 2017 02:43:58 +0000

In reply to Trump Attacks Corker Ahead of Policy Lunch With Senators

good summary of all of Corker's statements on Trump today, including the most important interview with CNN's Raju, and the chronology of them

Bob Corker’s Powerful Words About Donald Trump

By John Cassidy @ NewYorker.com, 6:18 pm

[....] there is also something serious and consequential going on here, something that goes beyond the daily Twitter wars. Corker, liberated by his decision not to seek reëlection in 2018, is breaking the vow of pettifogging that most Republican leaders have adhered to in talking about this rogue President [....]

On Tuesday morning, Corker made the rounds on the morning talk shows [...]

On NBC’s “Today” show, Savannah Guthrie put Corker on the spot, asking, “Left to his own devices, do you think the President is a threat to national security? Corker replied, “I think there are people around him who work in an effort to contain him.” After Guthrie pointed out that Corker seemed to be accepting the premise of her question, he once again referred to Tillerson’s diplomatic efforts, saying, “When you kneecap that effort, you really move our country into binary choice, which could lead to a world war.”

Corker also suggested that the President should stay out of the process of writing the tax-reform bill that Republicans are hoping to get through Congress soon. Evidently, Trump was watching. At 8:13 A.M., Trump said, in a pair of tweets [....]

At about nine-thirty, as he was walking the corridors on Capitol Hill, Corker gave another interview, to CNN’s Manu Raju, who began by asking about Trump’s tweets.

“Nothing that he said in his tweets today were truthful or accurate,” Corker said. “He knows it, and people around him know it. I would hope the staff over there would figure out ways of controlling him. . . . We grew up in our family not using the ‘L’ word. But they are provable untruths. Provable.” After pointing out the roles he has played on the Iran issue and tax reform, Corker went on. “Unfortunately, I think world leaders are aware that much of what he says is untrue. Certainly, people here are, because these things are provably untrue. They are just factually incorrect, and people know the difference. So I don’t know why he lowers himself to such a low, low standard, and debases our country in the way that he does, but he does. . . . It’s unfortunate that our nation finds itself in this place.”

The rest of the interview is best read in full [....]