5752

Is it just me or has the tweet since been deleted?

5753

There’s more pics:
http://www.gettyimages.com/photos/brendan-smialowski?excludenudity=true&sort=mostpopular&mediatype=photography&phrase=brendan%20smialowski

5754

Eh, there’s so many ways Trump is terrible and horrifying that I’m getting kind of annoyed when trivial things become really popular.

5755

Out of curiosity, how does one get into that seated position? Do you first stand upon the couch and then fall on your knees and then lean back? Or perhaps you sit on the couch normally and then slide your legs beneath you whilst propping yourself up on the armrest? I hope she’s not wearing heels.

5756

Comes up as a 404 now, not sure why.

5757

Pretty sure you levitate like that and an aide slides the couch into place.

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5759

I didn’t know it was possible for me to detest the piece of shit anymore than I do…and then he goes “bomp bomp.”

5760

Is he making the Law & Order sound?

5761

“see these are my black people”

Honestly, I’m of two minds. They need to show up to get a seat at the table & hope to discuss anything, but it just feels like a photo-op to show how Trump has so much black support and they’re going to walk away with nothing.

From Wash Post writeup:

“It is unprecedented,” said Johnny Taylor, president of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, which supports HBCUs. “It’s really, really bizarre, is the only thing I can say. It’s so counterintuitive you can’t make it up.”

Taylor said he has spent a lot of time on the phone in recent days, talking with presidents and chancellors who are skeptical of the motives. “People said, ‘What’s this about? Is it just a photo op? … Is this some sort of a planned effort to convert our campuses to support the Republican Party?’

From the article, I can’t find anything about what actually occurred.

5762

meanwhile

5763

Betsy DeVos is such a piece of shit. I have no doubt she considers herself inherently more worthy and superior to people that chose not to be rich, especially if they also chose to be non-white.

5764

Great meeting with CEOs of leading U.S. health insurance companies who provide great healthcare to the American people.

Psst, hey donnie, newsflash:
Health insurance companies don’t provide health care, you dolt.

5765

Dude, let it go. That’s the closest thing to the truth he’s said since he took office.

5766

Touche.

In the vein of “the world really is going to end soon:”

“I don’t like the racism and I don’t like the name-calling and I don’t like the people feeling alienated,” Bush, 70, tells PEOPLE in an interview for the new issue of the magazine on newsstands Friday.

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More about that event and those photos:

Among those invited to attend were Walter Kimbrough, president of Dillard University in New Orleans. He described the meeting in a post on Medium on Monday afternoon. He’d been anticipating being able to give remarks focused on the need to support the Pell grant program, a vital support system for his students. But, as he noted, he and other anticipated speakers saw the amount of time they were allotted to speak at the “listening session” decreased significantly.

“I’m still processing that entire experience” of being in the Oval Office, he wrote. “But needless to say that threw the day off and there was very little listening to HBCU presidents today — we were only given about 2 minutes each, and that was cut to one minute, so only about 7 of maybe 15 or so speakers were given an opportunity today.”

Meaning that, of that group in that photo at the top of the page, at the White House for a listening session, the total amount of time they spent talking was under 10 minutes. No wonder the secretary of education seems to be unclear on the genesis of the HBCU system.

It also means that one can safely question what the Trump administration hoped to get out of the event, and if, for a president consistently under fire for his fraught relationship with the black community, a key goal was simply to show Trump meeting those black leaders, a photo opportunity for the White House to show its outreach.

And the photo from that op that went viral? Conway.

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5769

You can’t make this shit up. Trump awards himself an A for achievement and an A+ for effort. (It’s hard work, going to a resort every weekend.)

But he only gives himself a C+ for messaging. Why doesn’t the rest of the world understand how awesome he is?

5770

The support he receives from the military despite shit like this is just insane.

5771

Which in a way makes him right. It is on them, because it is on him, and they voted him in.

So by Trumpian logic, what he said was true!