Donald Trump has been doing fewer press conferences lately, likely because Republicans told him that those press conferences were a big reason why his numbers were sinking. But it’s like an itch Trump has to scratch – he needs the attention, the same attention he used to get from the Nazi rallies thrown to honor him. So Trump waddled up to the podium in the Rose Garden yesterday evening for yet another unhinged press conference. This was after a weekend full of rage-tweeting, mostly about Barack Obama and “Obamagate,” which is the nebulous scandal the Trumpers desperately want to hype without ever defining. Perhaps the real Obamagate is the friends we made along the way. Maybe! Because Donald Trump can’t explain what Obamagate really is either:
I laughed to keep from crying. What crime has Obama committed? “Obamagate! It’s been going on for a long time.” I can only assume that Obamagate is – perhaps? – the crime of being a black president, in Trump’s pea-brain. “It’s been going on for a long time. It’s been going on from before I even got elected. And it’s a disgrace that it happened.” Yes, he’s totally talking about the crime of “being a black president,” right? When pressed further to name Obama’s exact crime, Trump said: “You know what the crime is. The crime is very obvious to everybody. All you have to do is read the newspapers, except yours.” Narrator’s voice: “The crime was presidenting while black.”
But that wasn’t all! Trump also said some sh-t about “go ask JY-NA” when an Asian-American reporter pressed him on all of the false, nonsensical claims he’s made about testing. When this woman asked him why, he called her nasty and then when pressed further by another female journalist (is that Erin Burnett?), he waddled off, abruptly ending the presser:
Idiot.
Meanwhile, remember how coronavirus cases keep popping up in the White House, joint chiefs and vice president’s office? So now the White House has ordered staff to wear masks everywhere inside the WH. The fact that this is being ordered in the same week that Trump is pushing states to reopen their economies… well…
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
https://twitter.com/sarahcpr/status/1260028573693272068
here is the explanation)) At this point this is the only way I can listen to his voice.
Same, she is amazing.
Just watched this, she’s amazing.
Bless her.
At least The Donald isn’t wearing a mask LOL
Is it wrong that I gleefully clap and giggle every time I see one of these f–kers without a mask? God, I hope they get it. All of them. Every last Republican. And this is NOT a matter of wishing death upon them. I actually want them to survive a particularly nasty case of the virus and have to live with the lifelong damage it’ll cause. They deserve to suffer for their negligence, selfishness, and downright lack of humanity.
See, you say stuff like this and the right latches onto it and goes, “Oh, SEE? This is the tolerant left. Wishing death on POTUS.” It makes me roll my eyes. They’re illiterate.
Indictments are coming from Barr. We’re in a lot of trouble. no, they won’t indict President Obama himself, at least not this term. But they’re going to indict some of his officials. I can’t believe I’m watching democracy just crumble right in front of my face. I am a bit upset over people not seeming to realize, yeah, he’s not just babbling. This is going to happen.
We’ve been watching the slow erosion of our institutions with this “administration” over the last four years. With it being unsafe to vote in person and the post office poised to go bankrupt, they will find a way to rig the election in their favor or indefinitely postpone them. Meanwhile, they will find a way to change the constitution so they can retain power.
I agree, and I’m terrified they’re going to start jailing political enemies. I don’t feel this is my country any more. Edit to add, I always thought trump wanted to literally lock Hillary up. I really did. And he was trying to get the justice dept to do it, they reopened investigations etc. But now he’s got Barr, and Barr will do anything Trump wants. So I believe this is coming, and soon. They will go after lower level officials in the OBama administration first. Not Obama himself. If that succeeds, then anything can happen.
@Darla, Covid-19 may wind up being their downfall or the Reichstag fire they needed for a power grab.
@Sean
I’ve been reading The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich and holy crap the parallels are terrifying
Where did you get that information and what would the reason for indictments?
@Allie, Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said on the Senate floor claimed Michael Flynn was “entrapped”, calling it a tyrannical move, demanded to know what the Obama Administration knew and for those “responsible” to be prosecuted.
https://twitter.com/StevenTDennis/status/1259972810216177670
And Moscow Mitch is making moves to expand Barr’s surveillance abilities.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/mitch-mcconnell-moves-to-expand-bill-barrs-surveillance-powers
The indictments may not be coming this week or even this month but the GOP will blow as much smoke as the can prior to the election.
Oh my, I read about them claiming Flynn was entrapped. So if that is what they want to blow up on… well. Why don’t they just let it rest? Their base does not care anyway because they will vote Trump no matter what. It’s getting more insane every day. I don’t know how this is even possible.
That’s pretty hard to prove since their boy Flynn pled guilty twice for this crimes. Usually the judge will ask him whether he is pleading on his own – not coerced. These fuckers need to meet karma sooner rather than later.
Darla, I agree with you. Barr is determined to go after Trump’s perceived “enemies” and turn the election tide in Trump’s favor. He is truly Trump’s Roy Cohn.
It’s all smoke and mirrors, nothing would stick. They’ll serve indictments before the election to try to smear Biden by association but everyone will see right through it.
Will they though? I still believe re-opening the email investigation cost Hillary the election
Trump & his lawyers are trying to argue before the Supreme Court that the president of the United States is above the law, whatever they do as president cannot be investigated, they cannot be held accountable because the president has absolute immunity from the law.
If that is Trump’s true position and the Supreme Court agrees, Obama’s lawyers will argue that Obama cannot be jailed or held accountable for anything during Obama’s term because the president (Obama) is above the law and has absolute immunity.
If Trump and his lawyers then argue that a president should be held accountable AFTER their term is over and therefore Obama must be locked up and Trump ends up losing the election*, then a Biden Justice Department can start their own round of investigations on Trump and lock HIM up.
*This all assumes we even have a fair election or an election at all. Little Jared has been making some noise about perhaps delaying the election until a “better” time, maybe, perhaps also too.
I’ve said this before but honestly, his ramblings remind me of stuff I used to write in middle or high school, when I hadn’t done the reading. “The reason Jane Eyre was unhappy was because Jane Eyre lived in a house of unhappiness, where no one could be happy, because the unhappiness was all around like a dark cloud.” Same thing here – “Obama committed a crime so heinous, everyone knew what it was, there was no need to even say it because of the nature of the crime.”
(Spoiler: he wore a tan suit.)
As for the reporters – he clearly thinks all non-white people are friends. Remember when he asked April Ryan if she was friends with the Congressional Black Caucus?
And then I think it was Kaitlyn Collins who tried to ask a question but he cut her off and tried to go Yamiche Alcindor, but she waved Kaitlyn on to keep asking her question, which clearly ticked Trump off, but good for her. I would like to see more reporters do that.
I’m an occasional substitute teacherr, My most recent job was teaching 6th grade English/literature, and yeah, his vocabulary and general way of speaking is uncannily similar to the book reports and research papers written by my laziest students. It’s PAINFUL to hear and read. I actually have to leave the room when my boyfriend is watching the news and Trump comes on, or else I’ll probably have an aneurism.
Definitely Kaitlyn, he’s terrified of her, I think. And I’m obsessed with these White House journalists looking like they’re finally starting to push back with follow-up questions.
It was Weijia Jang, Yamishe Alcindor, and Kaitlyn Collins. Weijia asked her question; Trump spewed crap about China and then called on Kaitlyn; Kaitlyn then deferred to Weijia to ask a follow up question about why he spewed racist crap about China at her; Trump responded with more racism and then called on Yamishe; Kaitlyn pointed out it was still her turn; but he responded that she gave her turn away and stormed off. If only Paula Reid had been there, it would have been a grand slam of women journalists he hates.
LOL I love that you used Jane Eyre as an example. 😀 And it’s true. He can never back anything up, and the minute he tries, he invites ridicule. It’s wild to me that he got as far as he did. He is incompetent and has absolutely zero redeeming qualities.
“Jane Eyre lived in a house of unhappiness” 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You’ve made my whole day.
“I can only assume that Obamagate is – perhaps? – the crime of being a black president, in Trump’s pea-brain”
I was going to make a similar comment but the author of this post beat me to it. For many of his supporters this was Obama’s great crime as well.
And of course Obama being black, he’s guilty of something, right????? 🙄🙄 Then all his idiot single digit IQ supporters will jump on the bandwagon because….black man.
I’m with Don Lemon “When is this going to be over??”
You know… THE CRIMES! I can’t stand to even look at this jackass. Everyday I grow more and more repulsed by his supporters. I live in a pretty nice neighborhood in Nashville and realize that a lot of my neighbors are probably Trump lovers. One neighbor has used his quarantine time to construct a 10’x40’ Trump 2020 sign in his front yard. Two psychiatrists live directly across from him and yesterday put a Trump dummy with his head in a literal toilet in their front yard. I have a feeling by the end of the week we will have quite the display of pro and anti Trump junk in people’s yards before the HOA gets involved. I’m off to brainstorm how to accurately display my Trump repulsion without getting myself arrested.
I love the psychiatrists, that’s fantastic.
Honestly I’d be less worried about the MAGA guy retaliating with more signs than with a rock through the doctors’ windows, or worse. These people are beyond unhinged at this point.
That was Kaitlyn Collins. He’s always particularly nasty to her and Jim Acosta, both from CNN. They’re the one’s always calling him out on his sh*t.
His racism is on full display on Twitter this morning, claiming that he, not Weija, speaks for Chinese Americans.
He is also attacking Pelosi, Obama, Biden, Joe Scarborough.
He retweeted a horrible cartoon image of his political opponents from an account that is calling for Hawaii to secede from the US.
He’s claiming to be the voice of #MeToo for Rose McGowan against Bill Maher.
And he wants popular governors to thank him because they wouldn’t be able to save their states from the virus without him. He stole supplies from Governor Baker and Massachusetts. He can rot in Hell.
He stole supplies from Reddest of Red Alabama, for good measure.
I have a real problem with McGowan and have for a long time. Now she’s sticking her performance art into the election, great.
oh and btw, I don’t care who likes it.
I feel very sorry for what Rose McGowan went through, but I had to laugh when she complained about going onto a TV show in the 90s called ‘Politically Incorrect’ and hearing a bad d*ck joke. Good grief, I remember the sort of jokes that ‘politically incorrect’ comedians were telling in the 80s and 90s and that is entry level school yard humour. Back then every work shop had pictures of naked women all over the walls and I sat at a desk in an office with a guy blowing cigar smoke in my face all day. Thank god things have changed, but if you are going to go back 20 years or more you really do have to pick your battles with some care..
I’m happy Weinstein is in prison for his crimes. He should be there, and it’s fine with me if he dies there. But McGowan is very mentally unstable, and I personally believe she was way before the rape. She is also the one who convinced Anthony Bourdain that “hillary knew”. And Bourdain made a tweet at the time stating that Hillary had to know. He did NOT make a tweet questioning how it was that Hillary knew, but President Obama, who let his daughter intern at Weinstein’s studio, didn’t know. (to be clear, I don’t believe either of them knew!)
I’m gonna tell you something; Rose McGowan hates women.
That she was raped doesn’t make that okay. I’m willing to bet she has always hated women. But whether she always has, or it was a result of her rape (??), she hates women. And she also is a performance artist, IMO.
The gaslighting is effing nuts. It’s traumatic. How is half the US supporting Trump? I have no answer.
Not half…………he has a lot of supporters but they do not represent 50% of the US population.
That’s not how our electoral system works
It’s propaganda, churned out 24/7. A guy I know from HS who’s a full on right wing nut posted an op-ed from The Federalist by Jim Jordan and proclaimed it “the best op ed ever written.” That was after his utterly predictable Plandemic post. I can’t. These people are going to kill us all.
Does he know that Gym Jordan stood by while sexual abuse was going on under his nose? Does he care?(Doubt it)
Jer, He’s actually a former wrestler who is part of some group going after the OSU victims and trying to discredit them. Sickening to say the least.
@Esmom. Jeez, 🤢🤮. I do not understand such vileness.
I question his mental health seriously.
Are you kidding? It’s time to bring out the straight jacket,
I’m afraid. Good grief! He is supposed to be the president but behaving like an unhinged toddler, rediculing Office on a daily basis. 🙈
I feel like that title… “Donal Trump tries and fails”… or “Donald Trump fails” could be the title for every DT story from now to infinity. I am starting to scare myself a little bit at how much I hate this man. The 80,000 + dead people and continued gaslighting are so disgusting. I love that Obama lives in his head rent free.
Wow! He cannot even make up a lie and he lies about everything!
I hope Obama just sues him for defamation.
And all this talk about being arrested; how many of Trump’s associates are in imprison now?
It’s all such a farce, I kinda wish that the WH press just stopped reporting on him and focused on more important matters. He makes no sense and just lies. I wish they just reported on what Obama has to say; that would enrage him, lol.
I don’t know that he would have grounds for suit based on the fact that Trump won’t come out and say exactly what Trump is accusing him of having done. Which may actually be why Trump won’t say it. At first I thought Trump’s comments were just a racist dog whistle. But when I thought about a defamation suit, I realized his vagueness could be twofold. It’s a racist dog whistle AND he’s being so vague in his comments that if suit was filed, he could argue that he never actually made specifically untrue comments.
His favorite thing to say is “I never said that,” so, yes.
That this man is president of the USA and is one, if not, the most powerful person in the world is mind-blowing.
He has no ethics, morality and wouldn’t even know what the truth is if it slapped him on the face. He is proud to display his full idiocy and racism to the world!
November 2020 can’t come here fast enough; Biden all the way!!!!!
My stomach is in knots after watching that, how can anyone support him at this point?!? It makes no logical sense, other than they just want their “team” to win, fkng idiots.
I get my update on Trump on this website otherwise I can’t take it. What alarms me is how dumb people are to believe him. I get it, the media are not perfect. Or maybe it’s just me, coming to the realization that people are not that bright on average?
I see the news in my country and people are just stupid, we’re are just one day after lockdown and parties and friends gathering are happening like lockdown was just a break. People don’t seem to understand that normal life will and should not come back, at least for a while.
I just can’t take it anymore, I just want to adopt several dogs and live a happy life away from dumb people.
Sorry for the rant –
Actually, I think people are not bright on an average and also have trouble to digest information. They don’t know how to evaluate sources. Share pics on FB are more easy to understand than reading an article or doing some google search that includes scientific resources. I am not from the US but we have the same issue in Germany. People just read some shared articles but do not check which website it originates from, who runs it and what purpose it has. There a so many pages that look like a news site but are privately run blogs by people who cannot count to three.
That’s just so worrying. I also saw in Germany you had protest from the far right (or leaning into it…) And theory complotist accusing the media and being against lockdown.
Same in France, people just rambling about how we are trying to take away their freedom. Give me a break, people are dying… I’m so fed up at this point
Yes, in Germany there is a relatively new Nazi party called AfD which abuses any topic they might think will help them gain popularity. They started as anti-Euro party run by professors but quickly became very racist, anti-refugee in 2015. Since refugee numbers have gone down and Germany did not turn muslim their new target became Greta Thunberg and climate change. Now we have Covid-19 and they suddenly want to defend our constitution. We have not been stripped off of our rights and have not been quarantined. Still, they make up lies about it all being a lie, Bill Gates wanting to chip everyone and all the other conspiracy theories that are emerging. The most worrying thing about all this is that it is not only those morons believing in it but also people from the far-left, anti-vaxxers, Christian fundamentalists and so on. They unite in their protests, not obeying to social distancing rules. Normal people who do not do their research and do not understand why government is setting up certain rules join them, too. They claim Corona does not exist because not enough people died yet. Guess what? They did not die because our government actually reacted in a timely manner. It is absurd.
I’m Canadian but the Trump lunacy is strong over here too. All the propaganda and YouTube videos have done a number on my family. They’re all crying Obamagate, even though they can’t articulate what it is and it’s not even our country! Trump has Christians everywhere believing he’s the only thing standing between a one world government and Bill Gates’ mark of the beast. COVID-19 is really amplifying they end of the world prophecy.
I’m not saying this to disparage Christians, because I am one too. But I don’t see anything remotely positive or Christian about Trump. If I was going to go down the prophecy route I would see Donald Trump as a completely different biblical figure (especially if he refuses to step down).
Really? Oh this is so disheartening. I’m sorry to hear this.
Yeah, it’s really gross. And going off about Trudeau, calling him a pedo (and they all have their own unique spelling of the word, lol) based on a single clip that they refuse to post the rest of, which would show him giving a benign message to kids about Mother’s Day. I’m not a fan of JT, but that was the fucking stupidest thing they ever tried to pin on him — even some of the ‘patriots’ were saying that posting such a blatant misrepresentation was wrong. And these are the ones who cry about MSM and media manipulation. Their own do it, too.
I read your comment, went over to facebook to look at a profile of a Canadian “friend” in Alberta who hates Trudeau and who I unfollowed because I needed a break from this BS and guess what I found. This clip. Enough internet for today.
Canadians who support orange anus are the worst. They would die without their healthcare. And the CERB payments being sent to those without jobs. Over here politicians of all parties have generally worked together across federal and provincial lines because its an emergency. I still don’t like Doug Ford but he’s not spending time attacking Trudeau. They are working together because partisan bs is not what we need right now.
same about Ford. For all of his faults, I think that he is actually what Trump and his supporters think he is: relatable. Like what he said yesterday about making cheesecake and eating too much of it, lol. I still don’t like him, but he’s not as much of a POS as I thought he was, at least not for the time being. I wonder if he’s learned a few things in this process.
He is q very bad man, to the core, a bad man who is a narcissist, with dementia.
His twitter feed is in full blown meltdown this morning. He just accused Joe Scarborough of murder. Not that I care about Scarborough, who along with MIKA! helped put trump in the WH, but this is the President of the United States. And he’s off his rocker. I honestly feel like he’s been in full blown meltdown since Obama criticized him. That’s days now. So, if Obama can do this with a couple of leaked sentences, can you imagine when he begins campaigning for Biden? Maybe we will get lucky and trump will end up in an institution?
How can he get away with this stuff? He’s slandering and libeling, making baseless accusations, inciting violence.
Joe has been directly addressing him the past few days (telling him to step back because he’s so incompetent; calling him out for acting like a spoiled child after yesterday’s walk-off, etc.). It’s obviously getting under the orange skin.
A few thoughts again this morning on Drumpf’s possible Vascular Dementia or Alzheimer’s. He lives and behaves in constant paranoia. Walking away from a press conference due to a question? Promulgating distractions to avoid reality, on and on.
As do his followers. Everything is coded, sent especially to them or the chosen few who can receive his divine message. I’m not a mental health professional and generally try to avoid armchair diagnosing, but so much of what I see looks like a form of mania. They post multiple times a day, obsessively, and speak in grandiose terms about themselves and those they believe share their divinity. They’re reckless and ruthless in their pursuit. It’s kind of scary. I used to engage with a lot of political posts, especially on twitter, but no more. All it takes is one person to come after you and you’ve got a mess on your hands.
@Valeria – Yes!!! It does remind me of a manic episode. My sister starting texting me walls and walls of anti-vaxx end of the world stuff and I actually called my mom and insisted she check on my sister. It came out of nowhere. Lots of stuff about “them” and the “big picture” that I can’t see because I’m a “sheep.”
It was either manic or reminded me of someone going door to door to save my soul.
@Emily – yeah, completely. I have a family member who experienced manic episodes and while they were never quite like that, there were a lot of similarities. All this stuff about signs and messages from the universe was my first tip off. What they do goes a little beyond cult-like behaviour, which they also engage in.
How is your sister doing, did your mom get to talk to her? I often wonder about these people’s relationships with their family. A lot of them talk about being cut off or shunned for their beliefs. I also think some are surrounded by those who think exact;y as they do, so they keep getting reinforced and the cycle continues. :\
Thanks for asking about my sister. By all accounts she’s fine and “just likes to argue.” She lives with my dad who ardently believes this stuff so they’re reinforcing each other.
@Emily – Oh, awful. I’m sorry. Tough spot to be in when it’s your family, even if you don’t live with them. <3 Hope you all stay safe.
“Walking away from a press conference due to a question? “
He didn’t walk away because he wanted to answer but couldn’t due to dementia.
He walked away because he’s an entitled, racist, woman hating, zero emotional IQ asshole who handles any real or perceived challenge to his authority by either yelling back insults or storming off or both.
I don’t care if his brain is looking like Swiss cheese because of some underlying medical condition. It doesn’t change the fact that his basic personality has always been that of a tyrant.
When I compare photos of him, next to my ex, they both have the same look in their eyes. My sons have noticed it too. My ex is full blown Bipolar and unmedicated for many years. That look just terrifies me because I know what it means.
Every time he mentions Obama, I just want to play that video of Don Lemon reading him for filth. He is so jealous and unhinged. And yes, Obama’s only “crimes” is being an educated black man who wore a tan suit one time and made fun of Donny boy and hurt his wittle feelings. Madness!
I knew he’d have a shitfit when Obama called him an absolute chaotic disaster.
The Definition of Obamagate.. “a greatness that overshadows anything Trump has achieved by a highly educated man of color”. It’s What feeds the vipers in the pit of Trump’s soul, his Twitter outbursts, and his Tyrades.
As much as I laugh at him for being mocked on such a grand scale, it scares me more every day. He’s a stupid man in power, and not that he knows what to do with it; he’s no mastermind, but he has the ability to fuck things up in a big way out of sheer incompetence. Like, it’s funny… But all it does is encourage his cult to ramp up their behaviour.
Instagram is exploding. This one guy I follow (but don’t know well) suddenly started, out of nowhere, posting all of this conspiracy theorist shit. I’m talking 20 posts in one day, all barely coherent and full of bluster. And he’s gonna do it again today, and the next, and the next. At the same time, he boasts about his mental health being better than anyone else’s and how soon we’ll all see what’s really going on.
Meanwhile, Repubs are dismissing cries for more stimulus money for average citizens, saying things like, “people in hell want ice water too.”- actual quote. Deplorable.
Wait, so (to Trump supporters) America is The Greatest… but also… somehow simultaneously … hell … ?
:: ponders, sighs ::
No logical inconsistency too small I guess…?
Keep spewing your lies so your delusional dumb AF supporters can continue to praise you!!!!!
Go ahead and attack our immensely popular former president, you ingrate. I think it’s a great campaign strategy. Keep helping us sweep the 2020 election!
do you guys deliberately look for photos of POTUS doing his most bestest impression of a duckface a$$pucker whenever he speaks? it’s just hilarious yet comforting to know that he will always be consistent on this one thing throughout his reign of confusion and contradiction.
❤️ “…he waddled off”
I hate him so much!
Me too. I absolutely loathe him. How anyone is stupid enough to support him is beyond me.
I think Obama just needs a contingency plan for when the Storm Troopers head out to arrest him. Quietly dig a tunnel to a Safe House and then head for the northern border. I’m sure Canada will happily grant him and his family asylum…
I’m not exactly joking, unfortunately. Things are getting weirder and weirder here.
Please push now for absentee ballots for all in the November election. Indiana is doing it for the June primary (postponed from May). If Indiana can do it, any state can. The system is already set up. Our applications just say at the top that nobody has to check off a reason from the list this year for the primary. The Democrats can send out the applications to everybody, they seem to do that already at least for people old enough to be automatically eligible to vote absentee. I just download the application from the government website myself.
So, question, because I am not in the US, but surely accusing someone of committing a crime publicly and without substantiation (and outside of law enforcement/courts) is defamation? Is Trumpty Dumpty protected because of the office he somewhat bewilderingly holds? And if so, does he really actually have free rein to say anything he wants regardless of impact or outcomes?
I have no doubt that Obama would turn the other cheek, but surely this could in theory be prosecuted, no?
The third still from the news clip so apt: turning his back on his country.