What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[celedhring]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

[Admiral Yi]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

To play the Dakota role here, it's possible to know the Congressional Black Caucus but not recognize the acronym.

[Grey Fox]

I am not sure it's because the journalist is black.

It's because everyone works for him now. You do as you are told!

[celedhring]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

To play the Dakota role here, it's possible to know the Congressional Black Caucus but not recognize the acronym.

Fair enough. I'm still certain he knew fuck all about them when he said "they're great", though.

[The Larch]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

It's his default mannerism, at this point, I don't think that anyone belives him at all when he starts saying that something is great, fabulous, fantastic or whatsoever, he just starts latching the words to anything that comes across him that he thinks he has to pump up.

His must grating mannerism to me are the "believe me" he always says after claiming that he'll do something in particular. Has nobody told him that if you have to insist on asking for the other's belief in you continuously it means you're not trustworthy, that you're asking them to rely on blind faith rather than solid facts or background?

[garbon]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

To play the Dakota role here, it's possible to know the Congressional Black Caucus but not recognize the acronym.

Fair enough. I'm still certain he knew fuck all about them when he said "they're great", though.

Yeah fine not knowing them as CBC but his great comments give the truth.

[Syt]

Glossing over how he asks the reporter to set up the meeting because, you know, he's black () I love how he seamlessly goes from not knowing what the Black Caucus is to saying they're great.

It's his default mannerism, at this point, I don't think that anyone belives him at all when he starts saying that something is great, fabulous, fantastic or whatsoever, he just starts latching the words to anything that comes across him that he thinks he has to pump up.

His must grating mannerism to me are the "believe me" he always says after claiming that he'll do something in particular. Has nobody told him that if you have to insist on asking for the other's belief in you continuously it means you're not trustworthy, that you're asking them to rely on blind faith rather than solid facts or background?

I find his constant use of superlatives really tiring. "I'm the least racist!", "It's the best/greatest/worst/most dishonest [insert something] here!" etc.

[LaCroix]

it's just a speech style. people are taking things a bit too literally

[Syt]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/16/us/politics/donald-trump-media.html

[...]

For days, a frustrated and simmering president fumed inside the West Wing residence about what aides said he saw as his staff's inadequate defense and the ineffectiveness of his own tweets.

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[Admiral Yi]

The one thing mitigating this ridiculous presidency is the volume of leaks.

[LaCroix]

the problem with relying on leaks is that the things said can be exaggerated. and then journalists can exaggerate the leaks. so you can easily have a game of telephone going

[Admiral Yi]

the problem with relying on leaks is that the things said can be exaggerated. and then journalists can exaggerate the leaks. so you can easily have a game of telephone going

And then you ask Trump or Spicer or the hag to confirm or deny it, and they spazz out and you get some yucks. 

[viper37]

So...about Trump's new labor nominee 

this is a good example of hating on anything loosely connected to trump

the guy was a federal prosecutor. he made deals when necessary. do you think a conservative federal prosecutor is going to go easy on child molesters just cuz?

Certainly not just cuz, no.  Only if he was black or latino.

[LaCroix]

people are forgetting that trump is a person like any of us. some so desperately want to characterize him as an Evil Man using some black and white morality system that doesn't exist except in star wars (rip kotor2). he's also the president, and he's going to need be energized throughout his presidency to do an effective job.

he's going to need his victories and periods of venting like the rest of us. getting constantly shit on day in, day out, doesn't help him, which means it doesn't help us. it's a constant media cycle of Let's Hate Trump, and he doesn't really have that many vocally public supporters, in part because people don't post on social media without getting labeled racist or losing friends. this is demoralizing.

"good, I hope trump is demoralized" is terrible because (1) he's our president, and because few here care about that (2) it makes it easier for people around trump to put things before him to rubberstamp. so, let him hold his rallies in front of the press, and stop criticizing the whole fake news thing. the media really isn't helping anyone this time around, because it's so obsessed with hating on trump. it's hurting its own credibility, and it's negatively impacting the executive branch.

[LaCroix]

Certainly not just cuz, no.  Only if he was black or latino.

acosta is cuban