President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

When did he deny there was a meeting?

 

Sorry, he didn't say that. Other folks in the Trump orbit did. Difficult to keep up with which one of them met/vacationed/did business with the Russkies.

 

I should've used a smiley face, too.

 

Can we in the media please, for the love of Christ, stop using the term 'tweetstorm'? Tweeting three times in one night does not a storm make.

 

Wow. This hot take -- from a WaPo columnist, and not some twitter rando -- is spectacular.

 

... therefore Trump is qualified, ethical and doing a great job.

 

MSNBC: Senate Judiciary Committee issues subpoena for Manafort.

Silliness. He's meeting with Intelligence.

 

Maybe both?

 

Who needs to extoll good virtues, anyway?

For 80 years, American presidents have been speaking to the National Scout Jamboree, a gathering of tens of thousands of youngsters from around the world eager to absorb the ideas of service, citizenship and global diplomacy.

In keeping with the Scouts’ traditions, all eight presidents and surrogates who have represented them have stayed far, far away from partisan politics.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt used the occasion to talk about good citizenship. Harry S. Truman extolled fellowship: “When you work and live together, and exchange ideas around the campfire, you get to know what the other fellow is like,” he said.

President Dwight D. Eisenhower invoked the “bonds of common purpose and common ideals.” And President George H.W. Bush spoke of “serving others.”

For a brief moment at this year’s jamboree in West Virgina, President Donald Trump indicated that he would follow that tradition — sort of.

“Who the hell wants to speak about politics when I’m in front of the Boy Scouts?” he said.

Then, standing before all 40,000 of them, he bragged about the “record” crowd size, bashed President Barack Obama, criticized the “fake media” and trashed Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. In the lengthy 35-minute speech, the president threatened to fire his health and human services secretary if he couldn’t persuade members of Congress to vote for the Republican health-care bill.​

Trump’s Boy Scouts speech broke with 80 years of presidential tradition

 

Show me the posts where I supported that. Show me the posts where I have defended Trump.

The fact that you, of all posters, reflexively rushed to implicity defend a guy who uses the word c* nt as if it were a fundamental part of the English language says more than I ever could about putting politics above decency.

I could not ask for a more striking validation.

Let me know when you've found those posts.