What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Syt]

Donald J. Trump‏
@realDonaldTrump

A great day at the White House!
3:19 PM - 31 Jul 2017

[The Larch]

Mooch beat the record by one day.

Previous holder.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Koehler

In 1987, Koehler, who was friends with Ronald Reagan, became the White House Communications Director.[1] However, Koehler resigned after just one week in the White House after it became public that he had been a member of the Deutsches Jungvolk, a Nazi government youth division, when he was just ten years old.

Apparently he was not yet even officially on the post, since he was not scheduled to join the WH staff until the 15th of August. Spicer was meant to stay until then.

[FunkMonk]

Donald J. Trump‏
@realDonaldTrump

A great day at the White House!
3:19 PM - 31 Jul 2017

That is sincerely one of my favorite Trump tweets. It is right up there with the Trump Tower taco bowl tweet.

[Liep]

[Grey Fox]

Yes, fingers up because we are spinning.

[Savonarola]

But I was really aiming my comment at the 'he'll become presidential and be moderated by the establishment' crowd here.

Well, I don't think I ever said that, but looking at the criteria I posted at his inauguration, (for him to be a mediocre president rather than the awful one I expected), I can see my concerns were either continuation of the issues with the Obama presidency (out of control deficits, foreign policy blunders, humanitarian crises) or public corruption.  I never considered that he'd send out a series of mean tweets about the attorney general or that the communication director would call the chief of staff "Schizophrenic."

I've never watched The Apprentice, though; maybe I should have.

[garbon]

I feel like watching The Apprentince wouldn't have helped. Then you would have just seen the prequel.

[viper37]

One weird, explosive lawsuit

NPR's David Folkenflik reported Tuesday morning on a lawsuit filed by a man named Rod Wheeler that makes a remarkable claim: The Trump White House — or President Trump personally — may have been aware of or involved in a discredited Fox News story about the killing of a Democratic National Committee staffer last July.

[CountDeMoney]

Yeah, they'v been Benghazing the fuck out of that guy's corpse.  Hannity insisted on driving it into the ground, well after everything to contrary had be proven otherwise.

[The Minsky Moment]

It's even more sinister - the Russians picked up the story from the darkest dregs of the net, then pushed it through their usual channels (Russia Today, Sputnik, and even the official Twitter feed of the Russian Embassy in London) as an influence operation.  Sure enough, the useful idiots at Fox picked up and ran, validating yet another Russian fake news influence op. 

[CountDeMoney]

If Hillary Clinton could have Vince Foster murdered, then who is safe?  Hmmmm?

[jimmy olsen]

Too bad this won't embed here
http://i.imgur.com/yRXBaRA.gifv

The sequel! 

https://i.imgur.com/dQuhtES.mp4

[Liep]

Too bad this won't embed here
http://i.imgur.com/yRXBaRA.gifv

The sequel! 

https://i.imgur.com/dQuhtES.mp4

[CountDeMoney]

Yes, that's right:  another interview and why not.

The Best Quotes From Trump's Embarrassing Unpublished WSJ Interview
By Adam K. Raymond

Last week, President Trump sat down in the Oval Office with editors and reporters from The Wall Street Journal for a 45-minute interview that produced a few bits of news, including Trump saying "tax the rich people" and declaring months in advance that Iran will be noncompliant with its nuclear deal.

The WSJ published excerpts from the interview, but kept the full transcript under wraps — until now. Tuesday, Politico stepped in and published the transcript, which it says "has circulated around the Journal newsroom as well as among others in New York and Washington."

It's not hard to see why. The interview is full of embarrassing exchanges and the bizarre turns of phrase Trump has made part of the American political lexicon (get ready for a sequel to "no puppet").

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-best-quotes-from-trumps-embarrassing-wsj-interview.html

On calling the U.K. Britain: "I mean, you don't hear the word Britain anymore. It's very interesting. It's like, nope."

On the future of the British Open if Scotland leaves the U.K.: "One little thing, what would they do with the British Open if they ever got out? They'd no longer have the British Open."

On his astonishment upon learning about the large populations of other countries: "And then you call places like Malaysia, Indonesia, and you say, you know, how many people do you have? And it's pretty amazing how many people they have."

Full transcript of terror here

[garbon]

God, he is full of gibberish.