I don’t want to oversell this, but this Time Magazine cover story is literally one of the most insane things I’ve ever read. It easily jumps into a Top-Five position. Time went to the White House to basically spend an evening with Emperor Bigly. It was Bigly: After Dark. Barf, right? What Time gets right is that they document every single thing, even the smallest detail, like how many scoops of ice cream the Emperor is served by White House staff. You can read the full piece here at People Magazine (Time’s sister publication), and I would absolutely recommend it. It will BLOW YOUR MIND how f–king unhinged, petty, stupid and corrupt this man is. Also: this went down on Monday evening, the night before Bigly fired James Comey.
Various details about his work habits: He likes to work surrounded by a crowd (or audience). He signs official papers with a Sharpie. He invites anyone and everyone into the Oval, unlike Obama who usually only allowed elite visitors and senior staff into the Oval. Time says that Trump treats the Oval “as something like a royal court or meeting hall, with open doors that senior aides and distinguished visitors flock through when he is in the building.” Trump references Obama, saying: “Never had people.” As in, never had people in the room. Trump says,“I use the room. I use it a lot. I had the biggest people in the country here.”
His taste in artwork & interior design: The modern art favored by the Obama family is mostly gone, replaced with classic oils, including portraits of Trump’s favorite predecessors, like Andrew Jackson and Teddy Roosevelt. Gold curtains have replaced the maroon ones in the Oval Office… But few rooms have changed so much so fast as his dining room, where he often eats his lunch amid stacks of newspapers and briefing sheets. A few weeks back, the President ordered a gutting of the room. “We found gold behind the walls, which I always knew. Renovations are grand,” he says, boasting that contractors from the General Services Administration resurfaced the walls and redid the moldings in two days. “Remember how hard they worked? They wanted to make me happy.” Trump says he used his own money to pay for the enormous crystal chandelier that now hangs from the ceiling. “I made a contribution to the White House,” he jokes. But the thing he wants to show is on the opposite wall, above the fireplace, a new 60-plus-inch flat-screen television that he has cued up with clips from the day’s Senate hearing on Russia. Since at least as far back as Richard Nixon, Presidents have kept televisions in this room, usually small ones, no larger than a bread box, tucked away on a sideboard shelf. That’s not the Trump way.
He always thinks he’s being vindicated. He forces the Time reporters to watch the testimonies of Clapper & Yates as he does commentary about how they both “choked.” He seems to believe that their testimony proved that Obama surveilled him.
How he treats the White House residence: He invites “staff up regularly for meetings; hosting dinners for old friends, staff and supporters; giving tours; calling foreign leaders from Lincoln’s old desk in the Treaty Room, where he will also stay late into the night doing work with his longtime personal aide and bodyguard Keith Schiller. “The phone system is so amazing here,” Trump confides as he enters the space. “This one phone, it splits the words”—a reference to scrambling technology meant to disrupt eavesdropping.
His eating habits: The waiters know well Trump’s personal preferences. As he settles down, they bring him a Diet Coke, while the rest of us are served water, with the Vice President sitting at one end of the table. With the salad course, Trump is served what appears to be Thousand Island dressing instead of the creamy vinaigrette for his guests. When the chicken arrives, he is the only one given an extra dish of sauce. At the dessert course, he gets two scoops of vanilla ice cream with his chocolate cream pie, instead of the single scoop for everyone else. The tastes of Pence are also tended to. Instead of the pie, he gets a fruit plate.
On Colbert: “You see a no-talent guy like Colbert. There’s nothing funny about what he says. And what he says is filthy. And you have kids watching. And it only builds up my base. It only helps me, people like him. The guy was dying. By the way they were going to take him off television, then he started attacking me and he started doing better. But his show was dying. I’ve done his show. But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever had.”
Throughout the piece, Mike Pence trails around behind Trump like a bad shadow, wordless and compliant, like Trump’s full-time nurse’s aid. Pence is treated like he’s the guy who has to handle all of Trump’s poopy diapers and so no one wants to make eye contact with him. As for the rest of it… the two scoops of ice cream, the Diet Coke, the Colbert diss, the absolutely insane part when he cues up the footage of Sally Yates’ testimony. It’s all so… disgusting. It’s not that he’s just wrong, it’s not that he’s trying to be manipulative. It’s that he’s really too f–king stupid to EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT’S HAPPENING.
Photos courtesy of Getty, cover courtesy of Time Magazine.
I read it yesterday and delighted in the little details. Sixpence has to take the stairs because they cannot ride the same lift. Orange likes showing off the private quarters, so I guess the spies get to jump on Abe’s bed.
The writers visited on Monday, the day before Comey. One of them was interviewed last night, and said orange was a good host, but also seemed hostile at times. I think that hostility is unleashed this morning via his tweets.
baby fists is completely bonkers and incredibly moronic. The leaks from the WH and intelligence community are coming out fast and furious. All paint baby fists as insane and out of control.
Sounds like he’s in over his head (obviously), isolated and distrustful. And obsessive, apparently.
The writers said he wants praise from the media, so maybe he thought the firing would do that? He even hunted down a Rosie tweet yesterday, as he seems shocked that people aren’t cheering.
Meh, I don’t see anything outrageous. I was hoping for a full-on meltdown.
The president is being treated like a toddler, because he acts like a toddler.
This article just seems semi-normal for Trump. Because that’s where we are now.
Why stop at an extra scoop of ice cream? Why not give him the entire half gallon. And why serve sauce with the chicken when it can be drowning in sausage gravy?
Lol Megan
This makes me wonder how badly his medical report would have been if we were allowed access to it. I’m sure with that diet and no exercise his body is in a terrible state
I read the one talking about how he spends hiss off hours. There was this other article and he sounds like such a bitter, vile, vindictive individual. So casual in his hateful comments.
http://time.com/4775633/donald-trump-stephen-colbert-cnn-msnbc-chris-cuomo/
“Off hours”? Does he work?
Yeah I agree, this was incredibly underwhelming considering the language used to describe it?
“I was hoping for a full-on meltdown.” I think the following: “It was high highest rating” is the aftermath of a meltdown. Nobody sane speaks, or worse, thinks like that. Nobody.
A diet Coke to go with the 10,000 calories of fat and cholesterol he’s scarfing up.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Keep it up, please.#Massivecoronary #Dropdeadsoon
Moronic Piece of sh*t.
Seriously, that’s all I kept thinking. Please let him switch to regular coke and get this bloody farce over with…
Well, diet coke containes aspartam instead of sugar, which is linked to causing some forms of cancer. So let him drink gallons of it!
It would still take too long. It reminds me of Sharon Stone in a movie. Someone was annoyed at her blowing smoke in their face and mentioned smoking kills. She said, “yes, but not reliably.” I kind of liked her after that.
+1.
It’s like those people who walk into McDonalds and order the Big Mac meal with extra fries and a Diet Coke. WTF???
Not disagreeing…but i really do prefer the taste of diet coke to coke.
My father in law eats like Trump and drinks only Diet Coke. He prefers the flavor; it’s nothing to do with calories.
@Alyse, me too. A regular soda is too sweet for my tastes. But I also see the irony in all of it.
Same as Alyse- I prefer the flavor. Nothing to do with calories.
I’m not going to hate on someone for splurging and recognising they can save some calories without the sugar in pop. Or because they like it.
I don’t understand this statement and I hear it all the time.
That said, I’d like to feed 45 pure corn syrup in his sleep, if it gets him out of power.
Every now and then I crave a Big Mac and yes, I get a Diet Coke with it. I don’t drink much soda in general but I do prefer Diet Coke over regular. Or I get a water – not for health reasons, just don’t like soda that much.
Both are terribly unhealthy from a diabetes perspective so I’m just glad he’s drinking that stuff instead of water or tea.
I do that. Still saves calories. Only eating a 1000 instead of 1200, lol. I know it makes no sense, but i do it
Depending on the size of the Coke, it could easily have more calories than the Big Mac.
I don’t eat fast food much, but when I do, I get a Coke Zero, as I don’t like the regular stuff. For me, Zero is better and nicer-tasting than Diet Coke, too. Otherwise, I drink water or tea. They should give tRump a platter of fried chicken, a bucketful of Diet Coke, three slices of pie and four scoops of ice cream. I’m sure he could easily put it away. He already looks off, so I’m all for anything that sends him on his way a bit quicker. He’s a vile, utterly deluded, power-hungry narcissist and a complete moron. I really feel for America.
Perhaps I should be ashamed, but 20 years ago, I drank a six pack of diet Pepsi or Coke, every day. Now I put 4 bags of green tea in 2 quarts of hot water, and it refreshes me, all day long. Three to four cups of green tea a day is very healthy for a woman.
So no one else saw this part?…..”The tastes of Pence are also tended to. Instead of the pie, he gets a fruit plate”
That crafty bastard Mike Pence is just bidding his time for the orange baby to have a coronary while he slyly munches on his fruit salads and water.
Didn’t see your comment and just posted the same below! GMTA
The sugar in fruit can do just as much damage as the sugar in a regular soda, so hopefully Pence and Trump go at the same time.
Pence isn’t allowed to drink alcohol if his wife isn’t present. I guess that applies to everyone else in the room as well.
Megan – Trump doesn’t seem to drink alcohol either. Dunno if that means no alcohol at such lunches or dinners, probably the other people can order something alcoholic if they want.
But Pence is eating the fruit salad. He’s probably waiting for Trump to keel over so he can take over by stealth. I bet he’s serving him those extra scoops and sauces…
“I never saw a thin person drinking diet Coke. It’s true!” – Donald J. Trump
Yes WH cooks, keep feeding that pig a high cholesterol high sugared diet. Diabetes and heart disease. Which one will come for him first?
One of the Rogue accounts on twitter said that he has gained 63 pounds since November. He is a glutton, in every single way. I hope he keeps getting extra ice cream and extra dollops of sauce. Cause the Republicans aren’t going to remove this man.
63 pounds sounds more realistic than the 30 pounds often quoted. He really is so much bigger now. Was the cover photoshopped to make him look leaner? Even from the back, he usually looks wider and more lumbering. He used to be in decent shape when he was younger.
I wonder if this is due to stress eating? Or boredom?
Have to laugh at the claim that he lunches with stacks of newspapers and briefings. We know he hardly reads. Likewise for the claim that he works late at night. He knocks off at 6pm and watches tv obsessively. Maybe he thinks that’s work.
“He signs official papers with a Sharpie. He invites anyone and everyone into the Oval, unlike Obama who usually only allowed elite visitors and senior staff into the Oval. ”
A Sharpie is probably the only thing he can see without wearing glasses and Trump is too immature and stupid to admit he has bad eyes.
And it is not surprising that Trump invites everyone into his office, he doesn’t know how to do real work. Obama was working during his presidency.
He probably just want to show off the Resolute desk without a single scrap of paper on it.
It’s probably so he can readily pick up the document and have his signature be visible onscreen. Ugh.
Stacy, I think you’re right.
He’s not allowed to sign in crayon anymore.
LMAO!!!!!
You win!
I seem to recall presidents signing things was a row of pens on the desk. I forgot what the significance of that was but I do remember those pens. What? He can’t splurge on a red sharpie, a green sharpie and a black sharpie?
They would use all the pens to sign a letter or two, then hand the pens out as souvenirs.
You got me curious, because I remember that also. Here is what I found when I googled it:
It is a Washington tradition to use many pens when signing a historical document, because the pens themselves become a historical artifact. Then whoever the person that signed that bill be it the President of the United States or a Governor can than give these pens to people who may have contributed in some way to this document.
Keep eating extra scoops of ice cream, on extra slices of chocolate cream pie! Slather your salad in Thousand Island dressing! Extra sauce on everything! Keep jacking up your triglycerides, and soon our long national nightmare will be over . . . 🤞🏻
To quote Patton Oswalt, “Here comes the gravy pipe!”
You know how he breathes and snorts and makes all sorts of unattractive face sounds when he speaks? That is what I imagine he sounds like when he eats, but with additional moist chewing sounds and weird little slurps.
I’m sorry. It’s like if you took the facial structure of a sucker fish, attached it to a larval body and covered it in loose orange skin-like leather that occasionally flakes off onto the damask dining chairs… it would be like sharing a dinner table with that. The thought of it gives me the shudders. I don’t know how people stand to be around him, on a personal OR physical level.
When people ask me why I’m so “triggered” by Trump, this is the image that comes into my mind whenever I watch him speak or imagine him eating. It’s truly horrifying and I can’t help it.
omg I just threw up in my mouth a little.
Watch his eyes from day to day. Notice sometime the bags under his eyes are very large while other times they aren’t. I’m not an MD, but I’d bet that Trumps sleep habits are negative.y affecting his personality…or he’s on drugs.
Megan2 – a perfect description. However, like Fred, it is his eyes that get to me.
Trump is threatening Comey on twitter.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/863007411132649473
Donald J. TrumpVerified account
@realDonaldTrump
James Comey better hope that there are no “tapes” of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!
Did he just admit that Putin is bugging his phone?
And keep attacking Comey’s integrity, Orange Turd, that’s not going to go well for you.
Junior is tweeting this AM as well. “It’s sad that the left today would rather see America suffer and fail than to see it succeed with (Daddy) at the helm. #maga”
Are you sure Barron didn’t write that? Why do they (Jr. and Daddy) write like they are middle school dropouts ?
Money buys a tremendous vocabulary, doesn’t it? The best words.
How old is Ivanka’s youngest child? I think someone in pre-k wrote that tweet.
So he is basically saying he is incapable of staying on message, and he throws his surrogates under the bus when he goes off the rails.
And then blames the media.
Good lord love a duck, he is absolutely crazy.
But hidden in there is something alarming- cancel press briefings and issue written statements 🙁
I don’t really see the point of the press briefings TBF. They lie continuously in them anyway. Most of the best journalism is coming from leaks and investigative reporting these days. You seriously can’t trust anything that this administration says.
@Horsforth
But we need to see the liars lying on tv so the FBI can use it as evidence in their trials.
I also like seeing reporters’ faces when they are obviously lied to. Some of them, like April Ryan, give great WTF faces.
Batshiit crazy to be exact!
Of course Bigly doesn’t want Comey to have a taped recording. Then his “I
asked him three times if i was under investigation” (a totally moronic question) would be proven a lie. Ugh. Who even says that, in an official WH document?
Keep pissing off the FBI, Angry Yam.
I mean, what is the worst they could do? Find sh*t about you and Russia…
I know. What I got from the deputy director very clearly was that they are not happy about Comey and they will be coming for you, you orange moron!
@Homeslice
I dont know about this. (I might side track abit here). The Deputy Director spoke well of him but that could have been to soothe Comeys camp in the ranks. Rachel Maddow reminded us yesterday that the Deputy Director has had a meteoric rise in the last few years. This is a man with ambition. Furthermore, it was this guy who pulled Reince Preibus aside in January to deny the NYT report that Foreign Intelligence Agencies had warned the US about Trump associates meeting with Russian agents in European capitals as far back as last Summer. Preibus then disseminated this denial to the public, dispatching every one including Chaffetz to tell the world that NYT was lying. Turns our they werent lying. Other news orgs confirmed it and in hearings this week, the National Intelligence Chief confirmed it too. So basically the Deputy Director of the FBI gave the White House backing to spread propaganda about his own case. This guy is not to be trusted!!
He also claimed at the hearing yesterday that the FBI doesnt need additional resources in the case…….even though his boss was fired just as he had began to make it known that he would formally request for additional resources to expand the case. This guy is not to be trusted!!!!
It sure looked like the FBI Was team Trump during the campaign. I don’t trust them, but I do think the CIA is coming for him. You do not stand in front of a monument to fallen agents and act like an ass.
Cherise – consider the source of that claim. How likely is it that this is a truthful account of any conversation? Unless the other party confirms it, I would be skeptical.
@Cherise, I’m really beginning to think that this was a strategically planted lie, what in the spy business is called a false flag. There is no way that a seasoned agent of the FBI, let alone a deputy director, would reveal things about an ongoing investigation to the people who are being investigated. In any case McCabe knew at the time that the NYT story was not BS because the FBI had been investigating this admin since July.
No. This was a clever maneuver and it has had a domino effect. Plus McCabe, while not popular, is respected for his character as being upstanding.
Eh he’s unhinged but this is nothing new. We all knew this. There’s a child in the WH
And the child is the spawn of Satan.
Satan is called the “father of lies”. That is true evil, in my opinion: Trump certainly does a lot of it.
We should teach our country about propaganda, beginning in Jr. High.
Today he’s threatening Comey not to “leak to the media”…He’s obsessed with his twisted vision of everyone being personally loyal to him, like the damn Godfather or something. Can’t take much more of this, hope the FBI and NY AG nail him to the wall soon.
Yesterday he has spies alone in the Oval Office, today he flat out threatens an American citizen and again no one does anything.
“No one does anything…” I wonder if part of the equation is how destabilizing DT’s responsibility/weirdness would be for the world who would hold him accountable. However, that’s the only path that there will ever be. The pushback tells us to bury it all, and live in the present – and move forward – which is good advice in certain circumstances, but the credibility of the US will not be restored, unless we carry through with the ideals that created our strength.
Lady D, one additional thought. Donald is destroying the planet for $$$ – and there seems nothing we can do about it. So I offer up this hope – the next election!
Still, remember to walk and exist in the quiet beauty and awesome vastness and power of Earth. It is here, just for Us!
He’s killing the environment and he just passed a law making it legal to shoot bears and wolves in their dens in winters. He makes my heart hurt. I plant flowers, I rescue cats, I go to the river bank and scatter 100’s of sunflower seeds along the banks to feed the birds and grow a few flowers for the environment. Everywhere I have lived my whole life, I’ve planted berry bushes for the birds and bees. Donald Trump is a threat to all of this. I hate him.
Lady D, please continue to create and foster beauty. it is all any of us can do. I do my part by cleaning up the beaches and parks every day as I hike with my dogs. I, too, and heartbroken by the avarice of the sub-human in the White House. Whomever comes after him has a lot of cleaning up to do, but let us lend our hands along the way.
Children are watching Colbert! Because children always watch late night talk shows that start at 11:30 PM on school nights! Oh, the Children! Oh, the Humanity!
This^^^
Colbert’s reply is awesome. Worth checking out!
I find Tiny Fists’ invoking the image of poor, unsullied, “think of the innocent children!” particularly entertaining. And by entertaining, I mean it inspires me to run screaming for the nearest exit before I succumb to the urge to punch and/or stab something.
Did you see in the Time interview that Trump had the gall to raise the fact that rumours had been spread that the children killed in the Syria chemical attack had been ‘hired actors’ – he said this was a disgusting lie. Um….and this is the guy who supports Alex Jones, who regularly lies about Sandy Hook??!?! The hypocrisy is unbelievable. He has NO shame.
Those children got to hear their future president brag about molesting women in primetime, though.
The hypocrisy.
Children definitely heard him say “I grab ’em by the p*ssy,” though!
Yes, that one puzzled me, too. Children watching the Late Night show? They’re either asleep or bored out of their little minds.
Yeah, Colbert’s filthy, and children are watching his LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW, yet the president is free to hurl insults left and right at everyone and everything and face no repercussions. He doesn’t think children are watching him?
Children are literally grabbing each other’s genitals and chanting “build the wall” at their classmates, and using this man’s example to justify it. But yeah, someone should protect them from a late-night monologue that aired long after bedtime and was bleeped/blurred into being PG-13.
My son told me kids in his class we’re yelling something about building the wall to an Hispanic man they didn’t like who was working at his school. Seriously, what are they learning at home?
“But when I did his show, which by the way was very highly rated. It was high highest rating. The highest rating he’s ever had”. I can’t with this. It’s nothing new, but can you even imagine Obama speaking like this? If you have republican views, ok, but you can’t honestly look/listen to this man without laughing/crying. I’m still in shock that he is the PRESIDENT OF THE UNTIED STATES.
http://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/863004679407640576
Obama couldn’t even use a binder clip without conservatives freaking out (https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2011/09/13/doocy-mocks-obama-for-using-binder-clip-to-hold/180985) but yet they tolerate this.
Colbert’s response last night was kind of genius. Obviously, it WASN’T the highest rated episode… that was the premiere episode, when Jeb Bush was a guest. So Colbert told 🚽 that Jeb Bush actually gave him higher ratings than 🚽.
Every single day, usually before lunchtime, I scream this phrase. If I’m at work or amongst others, it’s an internal scream, but every once in a while, I’m in the car by myself when it happens and I get to really scream it, at the top of my lungs. The shock and horror has not diminished; will not ever diminish. Our highest office is occupied by a sentient pile of garbage. It is surreal.
It’s worse than that, actually. A sentient pile of garbage might have some redeeming qualities, we don’t know.
But a grifting traitor back up by the traitor party? DREADFUL.
UNTIED STATES is starting to feel accurate. Can we have a new blanket response to every update about this guy–“That is NOT how the Presidency/Executive Branch works. That is NOT how ANY OF THIS WORKS!”
I am starting to see a real pattern here. This article is very similar to the Vox article I read yesterday via the Economist where people from the administration follow (in the piece above Pence, in the other interview Steven Mnuchin) him around almost like Trump lives in an old folks home and everyone in his administration is his caretaker. This man cannot be trusted on his own to give a straight forward interview, so they keep a close eye on everything he says and does and correct him when he goes off course. If he rambles too long, they try to interpret and rationalize the incoherent ramblings or outright lies he spews or they feed him lines that he either parrots or completely disagrees with. They are not doing it to protect him really, they are doing it to protect the lie and their asses from treason or RICO charges.
Both interviews are more than unnerving because it goes to that theory that this man is easily manipulated and is facilely being manipulated by the people around him. I really want to believe he is just a racist, lazy, ignorant trash instead of a man who could possibly be suffering from a mental disorder and being manipulated by racist, ignorant, lazy, treasonous trash. That would make Dump a victim and not a villain in this whole thing.
Also, Obama probably did not invite many in the Oval office because of security reasons and he respected the room as a respectable office and not a party room.
They are all using him to achieve their goals. Once they have what they want, Trump’s toast.
but what goals? So far, he hasn’t achieved anything – well, apart from shoving Gorsuch’s nomination down people’s throat.
Tangerita–tax cuts for the rich is mainly what they are after. Getting rid of the ACA was to be the first strike in killing as many social programs as possible, thereby lowering the 1%’s taxes. Trump was hoping to build momentum on that. However, Trump’s incompetence (and moderate Republican resistance. And voter fury) is making it take longer than it was supposed to.
Dr Dena Grayson, Propane Jane, and Dr Brenda Ji are all physicians and have all been very clear on twitter that he is literally mentally with Narcissistic Personality Disorder and is now suffering from fronto temporal dementia.
Great post.
“this man is easily manipulated”
It is so obvious, and it is such a large weakness. He always seems to parrot the last time someone told him about a subject, whether it is about Andrew Jackson or from the head of China regarding North Korea. His opinions aren’t rooted in fact, they are rooted in other people’s opinions.
The indignity of it all.
What a creepy, vindictive little man.
I have never felt such loathing as I do for Trump. I hear or see his name and my stomach twists in knots. I will send him the medical bill for my ulcers.
Seeing his face and reading his name nauseated me, too, so I finally opted out. Now I see kittens and toilet emojis instead.
I highly recommend the “Make America Kittens Again” and “President Toilet” browser extensions.
Honestly, at this point, I think my loathing is stronger for every single GOPer in Congress. They are going to allow this to continue because they care more about retaining their power than they do about preserving their democracy.
Polite, lowkey Bob Schieffer just tore him a new one on CBS Morning Show.
Besides the Diet Coke, his meals sound like they’re straight off the HoJo’s Kid’s Menu. Appropriate for an overgrown toddler.
I’m a pretty picky eater, but can you imagine the caliber of chef the White House has? Who wouldn’t eat that amazing food?
I know! Though I wonder if the chefs are still there or split after making yet another Sloppy Joe.
I hope they make him a Help pie.
I thought his photos with chicken and taco bowls were all a campaign ploy to make him seem more relatable. Yet articles suggest he really does eat like an unsupervised kid (ketchup on steak, extra ice cream, etc.).
Every PR person ever just shudders at the thought of allowing Time reporters to spend an ENTIRE EVENING with the boss. Every day I don’t think I can be surprised and every day he brings out some fresh new horrible.
It makes me sad to think of how he uses this historical and hallowed place. I mean, all the changes and gaudy renovations and gauche crap he is putting everywhere, not to mention completely lacking the respect it takes to keep things (Lincoln’s desk, for example) in good condition. He is decimating the respect people should have for someplace like the White House.
That makes me sick to my stomach.
It enrages me.
I just watched a special on Cult Leader Jim Jones (Jonestown) .He had a lot in common with #45 delusional,narcissistic,etc… I believe this country is being run by a mentally ill man.Hopefully there are enough checks and balances that people’s lives aren’t in danger because of #45.
I love the part when Bigly “found gold”:
“A few weeks back, the President ordered a gutting of the room. “We found gold behind the walls, which I always knew. Renovations are grand,”
Soon, everything in the WH will be gold – gold curtains, gold walls, gold faucets, gold toilets etc. Plus animal prints. Typical “dictator style” decorating.
https://www.amazon.com/Dictator-Style-Lifestyles-Colorful-Despots/dp/0811853144
This is probably why the Chief Usher was fired. She probably objected to the addition of that tacky chandelier as not historically accurate and too heavy for the ceiling
Trump uses the Oval Office, people. He is using it! He had the biggest people in the country in there… uhm… Sarah Palin, Kid Rock and Ted Nugent. The biggest people! Trump is still waiting for the biggest person of all time to come – Scott Baio. But he will be there one glorious day!
Obama didn’t use the room to show it off, he just used it… you know to work. Because Sarah and Ted and Kid and Scott would never come to play with Obama. Never!
And Trump really acts like a toddler, right. With every course of the meal he has to have an extra. Coke instead of water, different dressing, more gravy, more icecream. He wants to be the special snowflake. He would probably implode if anyone else asks for a coke!
I thought the same! He has to get more, “better” options than the people below him. Got to keep them in check! No coke for you! Only thousand island for ME! I get extras and you are lucky to get anything!
Exactly.
“Wait what? He is having two icecream scoops as weill? I WANT SPRINKLES ON MINE! That will show him. I’m the bigliest boy here.” He is so pathetic.
Everything for him has to be the biggest and the best.
Trump is a single, sick and demented old man,,, BUT all of his republican party enablers and his various rape & pillage appointees are the real destroyers, merrily aiding and abetting this train wreck. They’re more than willing to destroy this country for their own personal power and gain.
These are the ramblings of a paranoid, delusional narcissist. Pathetic and almost sad really, until you consider he’s the freaking President of the United States.
Even if — and despite all logic it still is a big IF — we manage to rid ourselves of Trump, it will take generations, at least, to unravel all the damage he’s already wrought. Sessions may go down with him — he’s just so complicit — but the rest of the admin will likely remain and Tillerson, Pruitt, DeVos, et al are just as grossly incompetent and nakedly malevolent in their intent as our Commander in Chief.
The families torn apart by cruel immigration laws, the sickening crackdown on non-violent crimes by people of color to benefit the for-profit prison industry and further weaken ‘non-white’ communities, the expansion of Draconian voter suppression, the inhumane policies that target poor people in every conceivable way to give the already fabulously further tax cuts. All will echo through generations of American lives.
The environmental damage, the societal distrust sown and the racial hatred emboldened. All have already damaged our country, and the world at large, to such a degree I can see my grandkids, and even their grandkids, still dealing with the fallout from this disgusting pustule of a president.
Well, we’re still unraveling the messes of previous presidents, so at least there’s precedent. The Drug War brutalized entire generations, and continues to do so. The misguided Iraq invasion spawned ISIS, and so on. A long legacy of destruction is not new for us. Let’s just hope his influence ends very soon.
More scoops for him, better dressing for him, TVs within his sight at all times, people scurrying and walking on eggshells all around him, laughing nervously at his violent jokes about people he doesn’t like…
everything about this article is like a description of growing up in the same house as an abusive father.
How long before Putin stays in the Lincoln bedroom. I’m so disgusted right now I have no adequate words.
This is SO CLEARLY a man suffering from the early stages of dementia. If you read/watch interviews with him when he was younger, it is incredibly obvious. He’s always been a mean-spirited narcissist, but this goes beyond that.
i don’t envy the reporter. spending a night following Trump around when i could be at home in a bubble bath and a bubbly? yech. not paid nearly enough.
hope the journalist gets a pay hike to cover all the therapy to unsee everything.
When he’s finally out of the WH they need to burn everything and start over.
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Every time I see his face I get angry at white people. Yes, all white people.
We’re sorry…
1) Not all white people voted for this treasonous asshole 2) More than just white people voted for this treasonous asshole.
Your comment is still killing me. I have some brown/black people in my life who proudly voted for trump. They wanted to shake things up so they voted for trump. They looked at me and laughed the day after the monster won. So I need you to back up with your white people comment. Yeah, white people have a lot of blame to take on but so do people like you who throw out blanket statements about a certain segment of the population
Hey Tate, I feel ya, I know there are idjits of all colours- I have heard that some people of colour voted for the moron in chief. I can’t speak for Jessica, but I am going to assume she is just rage typing, as are most of us. I am choosing to assume she knows that most White people are normal human beings and when calm readily admits it.
As a Black woman, I, too, am very often triggered by some White people, as they are most vocal in their defence of the indefensible. I was baited just his morning by one such contrary troll. I had to take a deep breath, get outside and hike, and reestablish my grip on reality, that intelligent and thoughtful White people are not the problem.
So, we shouldn’t get ragey with each other when we are on the same side. May I offer you a hug?
And Jessica, maybe you can offer one too? 😀
Not only is he the most corrupt, the most ignorant man to ever occupy the oval office he is also the most God-Awful Ugly. No wonder Melania stays in New York. Can you imagine one of those beefy short little fingers touching you or those flubber lips kissing you? Ewwww.
All the yucks, for all of the reasons!! He is truly hideous, but no one would say that if he was kind, intelligent, loving, and attempting to put his best foot forward for the good of all. NO ONE would even notice how grossly ugly he is, how his skin is like old bumpy poorly tanned leather, his lips look like an anus, his hair is the worst possible monstrosity, he is soft and blubbery, his clothes don’t fit at all, he has doll hands, rodent eyes, a doughy nose…. but other than that…
It’s the Red House now. 😞
So while her father has been using twitter to threaten Comey and Sally Yates, Ivanka was busy working with Time Mag to normalize her father.
I am so delighted by this piece. Might be one of my favorite CB pieces of all time!
Did I read this correctly? Trump put a 60 inch TV set up in his now gold colored dining room? I know that’s the least of it.
It isn’t easy to get president impeached. Could take years and during those years nothing gets done. Government comes to standstill, which it pretty much is.
One of the writers was just on TV, and he reiterated that orange installed the TV in the dining room. He watches DVR clips of news shows from that day and gives play by play commentary. I’m imagine him chewing and talking the whole time.
And all this takes place under the new, gaudy chandelier that Bigly installed. Lovely.
This so called president of ours is really a lonely old man. I continue to pray he’s forced to take an early retirement and end his days in prison.
That’s what I think, too. He’s lonely and craves constant attention — and control. This why he is probably seeking dinner guests each evening.
Our best hope is that he just dies.
The Time cover gives an impression of the chandelier as a crown. I wonder how intentional this is. (Remember the devil horns when he was named Time’s “Person of the Year”?)
It’s exactly how I imagined he would behave.. he isn’t senile, he is just behaving like Trump, the difference is , this time, there are consequences for all of us.
I have no patience for Melania-pity, she choose the jerk and got compensated for it… I didn’t and won’t.