Donald Trump held a Cabinet meeting yesterday, even though the Trump Shutdown is still happening. It’s felt really low-key hasn’t it? I remember the government shutdowns in the ‘90s, and they felt like much bigger deals. But the Trump Shutdown came in the middle of the holiday season, and I truly believe that many people gave themselves the Christmas gift of Not Paying Attention To Trump For A Solid Week. Thus, it doesn’t seem like people were too worked up about the shutdown. But now that we’re in January and the new Congress is in town, people are like “wait, the Trump shutdown is still happening?” Yes. It is. And the orange madman isn’t doing anything about it but demanding billions of dollars for a wall – the same wall he claimed Mexico would pay for.
Anyway, this Cabinet meeting was apparently ridiculous for a million different reasons. I didn’t watch it, but I saw the headlines and tweets. Trump was ignorant of history and unhinged in about ten different ways. But the dumbest thing might have been this: the stupid fake-meme poster that Trump had made, which was laid out on the Cabinet table for some reason.
Note the poster on the table in the Cabinet Room. pic.twitter.com/iHc9e5LIg1
— Jeff Mason (@jeffmason1) January 2, 2019
If you’d like a better look, Trump tweeted the image back in November:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 2, 2018
And it didn’t really take back then either. HBO was pissy about it too:
How do you say trademark misuse in Dothraki?
— HBO (@HBO) November 2, 2018
So, was this the craziest thing that happened in Trumpworld yesterday? Probably not. But it’s just a reminder of our shifting standards for CRAY in Trump’s America. Donald Trump literally tried to make a stupid meme happen, and even when it didn’t take, he still had the posters made and then he PUT THE POSTER ON THE TABLE for his unhinged Cabinet meeting. And all of it was probably supposed to district from the government shutdown. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
‘Was Donald Trump’s Game of Thrones poster the dumbest thing of the week?’
We still have Friday, Saturday and Sunday Kaiser.
sometimes I wish we had a like or hahah button below comments. This made me laugh; oh happy facepalming times ahead
I’d like an ‘anxious & tired’ button, as well. Orange mad man just wears me out.
LOL, This ^^^^
Yep @Tiffany – very perceptive…
I’ll see you his stupid meme poster and raise you a:
“I had a meeting at the Pentagon with lots of generals. They were like from a movie. Better looking than Tom Cruise, & stronger. And I had more generals than I’ve ever seen, & we were at the bottom of this incredible room. I said, ‘this is greatest room I’ve ever seen! They had more computer boards than… I think they make today.'”
😐
@Nana. That paragraph was unbelievable. He only cares about how things look, image nothing else. And Tom Cruise? No. Computer boards? What the hell are those. Still can’t beli the U.S. has a POTUS that can’t speak.
@Sankay: So true.
It’s unfathomable. Yet his base/bots remain unquestioning…
So, he’s pushing for his wall for “security”…but he’s also promoting a show where a wall clearly didn’t work.
I highly doubt that trump would be able to watch six or seven seasons of a Show that doesn’t involve him and actually know what it is happening.
There is literally no way he could follow the different families and kingdoms straight. Mentally, he’s just not capable of it.
Of course he doesn’t watch. He probably doesn’t even know what GOT is. But whoever made that poster for him should know.
Oh, I don’t know. I think he can relate to the Bolton’s, the Lannister’s and the Frey’s.
No. Because the Bolton’s, Lannister’s and Frey’s were smart and calculating.
Mind blown Jenns. That is perfect irony.
In Trump’s 1st call with the President of Mexico, he stated that the wall is not an important policy in regards to border security. He plainly stated that the wall wasn’t important, but it was *politically* important. He said that Mexico didn’t have to pay for the wall, he just wanted them to stop *saying* they wouldn’t pay for the wall. He said they could both play like they were negotiating, and it would “come out in the wash”.
He said in a recorded phone call that the wall is not important. We need to tie him to his own words and remind voters how willing he is to waste taxpayer funds on frivolous things.
But you know the press will not do that. They will not hound Huckabee-Sanders and you know they will not hound Congress on this either. The press has allowed this man from the beginning to away with issues like this, they aren’t going to start now.
Sad but true, M.A.F. At the same time, I think if the people didn’t let it go the press would be forced to address it. I wish I was better at coming up with quirky hashtags or something. (insert sad laugh here).
I didn’t put that together till you, but that is the funniest thing ever. I just saw copyright infringement. I wish someone would put out a new poster saying you know the wall didn’t work right?
I actually know someone who entered the USA on 12/30 and told me there were no customs officials at the gates, so…
That surprises me as I would have thought that they would have to work despite not being paid. So much for border security!
People don’t realize the impact of this partial shutdown. Orange Anus is having a hissy fit about a stupid wall touting “border security” and yet the people charged with guarding our borders are being forced to work without pay. This Trump shutdown affects Homeland Security and the Customs and Border Control employees. And no one is even talking about the impact on the IRS. It’s freaking tax season and the agency has no funding to operate. And these f-ing idiot politicians will be screaming and demanding answers when folks run into problems with the IRS and can’t get their taxes filed or income tax refunds on time.
I worked as a federal employee (thank God I’m retired) and the cost and loss of productivity during these shutdowns was ridiculous. Feds live paycheck to paycheck just like everyone else and this crap has never been right or fair.
In addition, I saw a story not too long ago that trump may deny back pay.
Special acknowledgement to this administration for suggesting federal employees should make themselves indentured servants to “pay rent” until the government is back up again. 10/10 on the inhumanity scale right there.
If this person is an American and entered via an airport, it’s pretty common not to see customs agents.
Really? I’m American and I’ve always had to go through customs when flying back into the US. Maybe it depends on the airport or how you fill out your disclosures form but I thought a quick check through was the norm.
Customs is the checkpoint you pass through after passport control. Entirely different functions.
I really hope HBO sues him for copyright infringement.
I think they’ve already complained and asked them to stop – they can send a cease and desist for copyright infringement as it clearly is, its the exact same font.
After HBO’s complaint in November, several cast members, including Maisie Williams and Sophie Turner, also pushed back. Williams’ response was one of Arya’s lines from both the book and show “Not Today”.
I was just going to say this.
There have been a lot of GOT themed posters having to do with Trump over the last year, especially from his adversaries. We all know Emperor Babyfists Fanta is a horribly thin skinned tangerine would be dictator so this is him just being petty AF and failing miserably, as he does with everything else.
The other stupid thing about that poster – well one of the many stupid things about it – is that it says November 6 on it, so the midterms. Except the midterms didn’t go so well for Trump so I don’t think I would use that date as the date that Trump gets to….do whatever he wants.
It does crack me up though that someone had to think of that poster, design it, Trump probably picked the picture of himself where he thought he looked toughest, and then tweeted it out probably thinking people were going to be like “man, he is one bad ass president!!”
Instead everyone laughed at him.
(It actually lists 11/5, fwiw. He can’t think through anything.)
The poster on the table says November 4, the one in the tweet says November 5, the actual election was November 6. Typical.
His golf caddy/webmaster (not kidding look it up) Brad Pascale came up with it. It was all over Twitter. He hires the “best people.”
Oh, and I think part of the reason that the shutdown has felt so low key is that many agencies (like mine) are still operating; we are already funded so the shutdown does not affect us.
I read on one of the news sites that the shutdown is felt more in some states than others due to number/kind of federal services used, number of federal agencies & contractors & etc.
States with large chunks of public land managed by the feds— e.g. National Forests, National Parks, DoD, BLM— really feel the shutdown. Not only are the federal employees out of work, but so are their contractors because nobody’s there to oversee their work.
Someone should tell him what happened to the wall last season.
And about all the Wildlings that made their way over anyway.
I’d love if a reporter said “Following your Game of Thrones theme here, didn’t it prove last season that walls don’t work?”
Or HBO should tweet something to that effect and I bet he’d drop that stupid poster like a hot potato.
A study of history wouldn’t hurt either: the Maginot Line, the Great Wall Of China, the Berlin Wall….
Tormund climbed over “half a hundred times,” according to Ygritte.
The poster is another example of how film/tv culture and cults of celebrity have been used to appeal to the lowest common denominator–that is, Trump’s base. It’s been very effective. He’s very good at making people want to vote for Biff instead of Mr. Rogers. This is what we’re up against in 2020.
P.S. Writers like those at Celebitchy are actually great candidates to join Dem campaigns, because they can see these kind of cheesy appeals to the populace coming a mile away. Most policy wonks don’t take these things seriously enough, and thus are unprepared to fight GOP circus ringmasters and court jesters (see: 2016 campaign).
I doubt those inbred MAGAT supporters watch GOT. It’s probably too foreign for them (the accents you know!).
But violence and bewbs….
I get that he loooooove how tough he looks in that poster, but it says November 5th and talks about sanctions coming. The meeting yesterday wasn’t really even ABOUT sanctions, and that week in November wasn’t exactly a red letter day for him or his party. (Although he got so rambling, who knows what was on the original agenda.)
The comms people aren’t busy doing anything else right now, so get one of them to at least update the dumb thing if he’s going to make it a centerpiece of a televised meeting.
“The wall is coming- January 2019”, “Protection is coming- January 2019”, something. If this whole tantrum is about the stupid wall, at least have a consistent wall message!
He first tweeted it like a month after the Saudis killed Khashoggi, and when I saw it I thought “Oh my God, he’s actually punishing them, I can’t believe it!”
Nope.
Of course, he wasn’t. He was railing against Iran again 🙄
No, the poster wasn’t the dumbest thing of the week, Donald Trump himself was the dumbest thing of the week.
He said a lot of weird stuff while that poster was in front of him, surprised they never mentioned that here. “Sand and death”, the line about Afghanistan and the Soviet Union. That poster pales in comparison to the dumb sh!t coming out of his mouth
And the acting AG shamelessly kissing Trump’s a$$ was the icing on that sh$tshow cake.
I just want to ask Matt Whitaker what Trump’s shoes taste like just once.
Or if he really thinks the majority of us are stupid enough to believe that the sitting POTUS sticking around for a holiday during a shutdown is a major sacrifice (like there aren’t plenty of us in professions that require it all the time) or that Trump actually cares about spending time with his family.
How anyone in that room kept a straight face is beyond me. They must truly be completely full of shit. Professional bullshitters and sycophants.
Wait, doesn’t everybody walk into a business/government meeting with a rediculoud poster of themselves? Snort in “normal times” I would assume this would be the stupidest thing of the week, but as others have pointed out it is only Thursday and this is the “tiny hands tyrant” we are talking about.
I like how he proudly sits behind it with his favorite tough guy toddler pose. Arms crossed, eyebrows furrowed, lips pursed. God, he’s repulsive.
It’s basically a bigger version of all the fake TIME magazine covers he wasn’t on that he proudly displays at all his properties. His hole of need will never be filled.
Who is getting sanctions? Did Trump even issue sanctions to anyone in November? That poster is just weird.
Dumbest thing of the week was him comparing his wall to the Vatican’s. You know, the nation with completely open borders you can walk into.
He did in November. Not sure why it’s back out now.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/11/02/iran-sanctions-trump-administration-oil-secretary-state-mike-pompeo-treasury-steven-mnuchin/1854001002/
Somehow, amid the shutdown, they found the funds to reopen the Old Post Office Tower at the trump hotel in DC. Wouldn’t want the shutdown impinging on grifters’ profits, would we?
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/old-post-office-tower-at-trump-hotel-to-reopen-with-federal-funds-amid-shutdown/ar-BBRK3wv?ocid=st
You want dumb? Here’s noted non-reader Dumbass-in-Chief mocking India for funding library in Afghanistan.
https://twitter.com/tolonews/status/1080664939210162181?s=21
Sooo many Indians in the US support him, I am indian and many of my friends think he is the best President ever. Don’t get why he would alienate his base, especially since Bollywood has used his Taj in Atlantic City many times for awards.
He’s just a stupid, hateful man. He opens his anus shaped mouth and a veritable diarrhea of word salad spews out.
“ It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.” Shakespeare had his number.
Maybe I am naive… but I couldn’t figure out why no reporter asked him about it?!
It is his stupid rambling for 95 minutes that drove me nuts. He doesn’t understand a thing so def. he doesn’t understand the irony Re GoT’s wall collapsing or that it was a meme to highlight this. Again and again it clearly demonstrates his unfit and incapability to hold this position and office + his ppl. Kissing up for their own self interest + GOP enablers – all of it documented daily! We have many evidence to prove he’s unfit. While at the same time people are suffering as a direct result of their policies and political schemes. It is really nerve wrecking and super scary to see still continue.
It feels low-key because it’s the THIRD SHUTDOWN TO OCCUR UNDER HIM. Which should actually be disturbing because the government has really only shut down about 9-10 times in history, and this is the only time it’s ever shut down under one party control. Just unbelievable incompetence. The only people I feel sorry for in all of this are the government workers whose lives are being derailed by this idiot.
My dad is an idiotic Trump supporter who is now 100% comfortable airing his racism and stupidity in public thanks to Trump.
When I asked him about the shutdown, he called me irrational (bonus: he’s sexist, too!) because the Democrats are 50% to blame for the shutdown because they refuse to fund the wall.
I said, “what happened to Mexico paying for the wall?” No response, really. Just rambling.
“So Dad, why are you willing to pay $5b for a wall Trump said Mexico would pay for?”
“Well, $5 billion isn’t that much money. It’s a dent in that budget, really.”
Wow! So now $5b is just a dent to the fiscally conservative GOP.
Then I asked about the kids dying at the border. Didn’t you know? DHS has no responsibility, it was the parents’ fault for not knowing how to take care of their children.
This is on top of his recent fondness for using racial epithets he NEVER used when I was growing up. In fact, he USED to say things like, “Oh John, he uses the n-word, it’s so embarrassing.” Well, guess who suddenly had a change of heart once Trump was in office?
I ended the conversation by telling him he’s a racist idiot, I have few regrets, and no desire to speak with him anymore. Trump helped my dad show his true colors to the world. They come in shades of brown and smell like sh*t.
It’s the only thing you can do – give their actions consequences. I just cut out my aunt’s side of the family because of their Trump fanaticism. Let them be with their fellow garbage human beings. They’re a waste of your time to convince otherwise.
(Your father is also an idiot because the government wasn’t split 50/50 and frankly still isn’t. Only the House has a Democratic majority. Republicans had majority control of the entire administrative infrastructure for the past two years and still couldn’t function. That’s how incompetent they are.)
Man I’ve been there with a couple (former) friends but thankfully, not my dad who hates Trump. You did the right thing but I can imagine how hard this is for you. The only thing I will tell you–and I hope this brings some comfort–is that I have ZERO regrets about dropping two close friends over their Trumpism. I don’t miss seeing their racist, misogynistic sh*t on my FB timeline. I don’t miss the endless discussions that never went anywhere; never resulted in any progress, understanding or resolutions. It’s better for my sanity to not have toxic people like that in my life. And yes, at this point if you are supporting a toxic monster like Trump you are TOXIC, straight-up. Anyway, I’m sorry this has strained an important relationship in your life but maybe this will shake some sense into him?
Also, you should have told your father that in the end the border wall would cost us upwards of $35B. The $5B is just to start but by most experts’ estimation, the wall construction would take 5-10 years to complete. Some experts even guess 16 years so…yeah. It would be costly AF.
“Oh, it’s just $35b! Just a small…hole in the budget!” – My dad, probably
Trump has truly shed light on the darkest among us. I remembered my dad saying things like, “girls aren’t good at math” growing up, but I REALLY began to look at him differently when he supported Trump after the “grab em by the ____” thing.
And I slowly realized that yes, he is an extremely toxic man. He’s one of those men who call women irrational, fat, hags, etc. He now calls black people the n-word any time one displeases him. I began to see how he gaslighted and emotionally abused my mother, then turned around and played victim for the world to see. Toxic describes him perfectly.
Veronica, you are dead on when you say, “Let them be with their fellow garbage human beings.” Seriously, who needs the toxicity, the negativity, or the stress?
I now see being a Trump supporter as a red flag, indicative of a narcissistic personality, and character disorder at the very least.
Thank you all for the words of encouragement and empathy. I had this conversation with him a few days ago and am STILL reeling. It’s good to know I’m not alone in feeling this upset.
I still think we should be following the money. I’ve seen estimates as high as $75 billion for the stupid wall. Who will be constructing it and how will Trump profit under the table?
To Katie Keen
It seems the orange menace is not only destroying families outside the borders but also within the borders. Your last line perfectly sums up the cult of EZ very well. We have your back.
Oh, Katie Keen, I thought I was the only one with this happening. My mother started using the n-word more than once when Obama was elected. I should never have overlooked it, but I did, and I am terribly ashamed now. I told myself she didnt really mean it. Now, she is a ride or die Trump supporter. I havent spoken to her or any of my siblings for about 16 mos. I was talking to my dad (they are long divorced) until November. Rarely, but talking sometimes. In Nov I called him out on some racial micro-aggresive comments he had made. He said “I am going to complain about Mexicans and n- – – ers. I am not going to stop, so you have to get over it.” My husband and children are Latino. Even if they were not this would have shocked me to my core. When I got very angry, my dad tried to twist it back on me. It was a nightmare. I knew he had some bigotry, but I never heard him say anything so ugly. It will be a cold day in hell before I ever speak with him again. Both my parents are 72, so the next time I see them them could be in their casket, if then. What do we do, Katie? I honestly think about this every day and feel so hurt and shocked. I never want to see anyone in my family ever again. Am I a terrible person? Sorry to be so emotional about this.
Don’t be sorry about being emotional about this! If anything in this world is deserving of our emotions, watching our family members show bigotry as they isolate themselves is certainly one of them.
You are not a terrible person. Your goodness is shown by your willingness to stand up to hate when you see it, even if it comes from your own family.
Sending big hugs to you.
Might help to cast it in a different context. What if you discovered your father was a rapist? Or had abused your sister all through childhood and adolescence? Or had routinely killed your pets and claimed they had run away?
That’s really what you are dealing with – you are finding out something about them that is highly disturbing to you and changes the entire way you think about them and your relationship. If it’s disturbing enough, it’s not surprising that you may decide to break off all contact. Family or not, this can be the healthiest approach to such a situation.
Thank you very much Tiffany and jwoolman for your understanding and good will. I simply cannot say how devestating the past 2 1/2 years have been. People I thought I knew, thought I could trust with my life, my children and grandchildren’s lives, have shown such ugliness. It’s not just family, but lifelong friends, coworkers, and people with whom I attend church. I feel so afraid and alone. I look at people differently now, and wonder “Who are you REALLY?” My husband always told me such hate and racism existed around me, but I never saw it. Maybe I didn’t want to, but now I can’t un-see it.
Maybe reporters had the same thought as us in that the poster is dumb. So they thought it was best to ignore it because if they’d brought it up he’d rant about Iran, Hilary, Obama, But Her Emails, Lock Her Up, Russian Witch Hunt, China, Build the (see-through, beautiful, Mexico is gonna pay for it but the American people will pay for it, no longer concrete but now steel slats) Wall, etc. There’s only so much rubbish that the average human can tolerate in a conversation.
I’m convinced this man has tertiary syphilis.
Double post.
It’s probably a misappropriation of funds to get that crap printed. I doubt the in house printer can churn that out.
His stupid rants and that poster aren’t the worse things. Watching the illegitimate AG Matt Whittaker doing major suck up was. House of Rep get Mr. Clean out of that position.
He has no idea what Game of Thongs is. I mean Thrones. He doesn’t know if you play, you win or die. He has no idea the wall was built to keep out the dead and not the living. He has no idea that all the dictator rulers are dying like insects and the children, both foreign and domestic, are rising to rule the world. And he has no idea that all the worker bees are dropping their drudgery to kill the masters. He’s royally screwed.
Winter is, indeed, coming Trump.
Here’s hoping your orange catastrophic face turns white in prison.
“You know nothing, Trump Slow”
Trump says “EVERYONE wants the wall”
LOL.
I want a wall that separates Trump from EVERYONE else.