President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I had hope for Sasse a few years ago. What a disappointment.
The hand gestures putting the health-care crisis and the economy far apart is the perfect representation of how Trump treated this disaster - never working to solve the health-care crisis to help the economy more quickly.
Beyond that, it's a totally tone-deaf speech. No empathy, no feel for the moment. Just snark. Nice job.

 

Having decided to support Trump no matter what very early on, Republicans like Sasse have been dragged further and further away from their actual pre-Trump selves. He has no chops anymore but weak Trump imitation. He can't remember thinking for himself.

 

Trump is like Global Thermonuclear War in War Games. The only winning move is not to play - will be interesting to see if Paul Ryan and Jeff Flake get back into the game post-Trump.

 

Yeah, but he’s a libruhl. And that means he doesn’t love Amurruca enough. (Never mind that self-styled conservatives now appear to love Russia more than they love the US.)

 

Here you go, Alma. Words have meaning, right?

 

It was Karl Rove in the kitchen with the dog-whistle.

 

It was. And also full of his usual euphemisms. He stands for everything and nothing. He stands for conviction - and also no true conviction at all. Voted for him twice and would rather have him charge right now, but the guy got increasingly disinterested with actually leading the nation - he had to roused by his own team into stepping up to Romney in debates - and he increasingly became the permissive, beleaguered dad, either clueless to the world shifting underneath his administration or disinterested in stopping it.

 

That’s so simplistic. It’s so easy to criticize. What would you have done differently? Especially when the Republican Party controlled the House? Did you forget about Boehner and Ryan and the Tea Party? And then Moscow Mitch?

As for dirt bag Rove? When the ass clown pres tweets as his primary speech, yes you give “political” commencement speeches. Anyway to get message out. Oh BTW remember commencement speeches from the past? That’s exactly what people did, gave their personal views on matters because that’s by definition what a speech is.

 

He did too much!

He did too little!

Obama!

 

That said, he disappointed lots of people. He governed as a centrist - as an early 70s Rockefeller Republican.

 

Did I miss something, or was Obama's commencement speech part of a program for students graduating high school, not historically black colleges and universities?

 

He did both.