Funny how the same Ford CEO said the same things in September… but I must have missed the Obama tweets taking credit then?
Daagar
3903
Problem being that it doesn’t matter. Trump said it, this is what people read, and now it is the ‘truth’. Just like when retractions get printed in the newspaper, no one reads them. Once the initial statement is made, it sticks.
Trump has no respect for the truth because he doesn’t even recognize it. The truth in his mind is whatever supports his view of reality. He doesn’t even realize he’s lying. When he said Clinton got more votes only because millions of illegal voters voted, he really believed it because that protected his ego. This guy seems like a classic case of someone with a personality disorder.
My point wasn’t “we’re all gonna die” (early days yet, though) but more that the total opacity of Trumpistas is an astonishment to behold.
ShivaX
3906
Don’t worry, Trump never dealt with the mob though, we have this on good authority from all his supporters.
Chuck
3907
Just watched 11.22.63, the miniseries based on King’s novel, and I have to believe a time traveler must have gone back and saved Obama from being assassinated early on in his first term, and this is the awful future that that meddling wrought.
Trump tweets calling out North Korea as basically impotent in regards to nukes (following NK’s announcement that ICBM tests are imminent), then chastising China for “not helping with North Korea” literally hours after China responded to the NK statements by leveling additional sanctions against the country. Then today he’s railing against his own intelligence departments for “rescheduling” a meeting that was always supposed to be right when they have it scheduled. All this on the heels of Trumps claims that there are lots of other players that could have hacked the Dems emails because “he knows stuff other people don’t know”. Seriously? What stuff is that? The stuff that is contained in the intelligence briefings that not only do you not attend, but can’t even get the dates correct for even if you felt like attending?
Taunting NK about their nuclear capability. Insulting China over something that could have been fact checked in 30 seconds or less, Claiming to “know stuff” without actually having attended a real security and intelligence briefing. This is our new President ladies and gentlemen, and he’s not even sworn in yet. Yeah, fears that this guy could start an escalation of conflict that leads to global catastrophe are totally unfounded. Complete over-reaction. It’s fine. IT’S FINE.
JFrazer
3909
The enemy here is Twitter. Without it, Trump would just be another President saying stupid stuff to a small group of people. Recordings of other presidents have shown them saying stupid things in multiple situations, while they were president…but this time it’s being said to the entire world instead of in some back-room where it doesn’t do any harm.
If you say “maybe we should just nuke them” in jest in a Cabinet meeting, no problem. Tweeting the same thing could start wars.
The rest of the U.S. political circle is totally unprepared for what a global, instant communication pipeline can do, both good and bad. They have no idea how to cope with these stupid Tweets that our god damn future president is sending out. They seem to think that it should be dealt with in the same way that a bad quote in a New York Times article is dealt with. That doesn’t work in a world of Tweets. You can’t deny and hope it blows over when the worlds are coming straight from the fingers of the head of our government.
Is there any chance that the rest of the world will agree that he’s a fuckwit with early onset dementia whose babbling should be given as much credit as a six-year old’s? I hope so. He’s certainly earned it.
I believe that’s already happened.
-xtien
Bernie Just Printed a Gigantic Trump Tweet and Brought It to the Senate Floor (Gizmodo)
The Senate is currently debating the repeal of Obamacare. And since Senators love their visual aids, it makes sense that Bernie Sanders brought one along with him to work today. But Bernie’s sign marks the dawn of a new era in a lot of ways. He literally just printed out a tweet from President-elect Donald Trump.
To help demonstrate his point that Donald Trump promised not to cut Medicare and Medicaid benefits, Bernie decided that perhaps his point could best be made with Trump’s own words. Or own characters, as it were.
The tweet dates from May of 2015 and proclaimed, “I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.”
If only Trump had said something bad about Ghostbusters 3, then Twitter might have done something about him, but since he hasn’t they don’t seem to have a problem facilitating nuclear armageddon.
antlers
3914
The US press are going to pay for their sins during the election by being doomed to be the last people on earth who will take Trump seriously.
It’s true, insofar as Trump’s policies are good for US businesses who primarily make money abroad. In the US, with an increasingly monetarily-strangled Middle Class, domestic business is going to be a challenge. However, trickle-down economics mean everyone benefits. Maids, shoe-shine boys, gardeners and dog-walkers. Everyone!
There aren’t enough eyerolls to properly cover this.
No, it isn’t. The enemy is Trump’s instability and incompetence. He will either fix that, or other countries will exploit it by mocking him when it makes him look weak or taking offense when it forces his apologists to concede something. But at least we don’t have that nasty woman as president.
This is the still image of Bernie Sanders using Trump’s own tweet on the floor of the senate.
Enjoy the photoshops that are already drowning twitter.
Quaro
3918
This is actually a point of some optimism, I guess, it really seems obvious he doesn’t know anything about anything and just lashes out like a toddler throwing a tantrum, so I truly expect foreign leaders to treat him appropriately.
I was debating both sides of this with a co-worker today. On the one hand, Trump’s tweets have bad, real world consequences. On the other hand, without them, we wouldn’t know exactly how crazy he is at any given moment which means he would be every bit as crazy but less detectable and everyone could pretend it’s all normal.
JFrazer
3920
Quick clarification. When I say “The enemy here is Twitter”, I don’t mean the company itself. I mean that without the medium, Trump’s insanity would be limited to the inner circle or press events that happened to be going on when the “can’t keep my mouth shut” syndrome grips him.
If his communication were to be kept local, no big deal. When he can call out the powder-keg man-child with nuclear weapons that is running North Korea at 3:00 in the morning, it becomes a much bigger problem. Twitter gives people a platform to shout “Fire!” at a crowded movie theater without consequences. I don’t feel it’s Twitter’s responsibility to shut up the President. It sure would be fun to see happen though.
Teiman
3921
Maybe he will forget the Twitter toy when he finds newer toys. Or he weight of the position steal him of the energy to do these twetting.
