Andrea Mitchell was not the only journalist to express shock at Trump's lack of knowledge concerning world affairs, here is how Eugene Robinson responded to that Washington Post interview:
Donald Trump’s ignorance of government policy, both foreign and domestic, is breathtaking. The Republican Party is likely to nominate for president a man who appears to know next to nothing about the issues that would confront him in the job.
Here is the transcript of the interview, just in case you think these journalists are exaggerating. But I warn you, some of your brain cells may not survive the experience.
Andrea Mitchell just noticed Trump is a problem. Golly, quick on the uptake there, Andrea.
ReplyDeleteAndrea Mitchell. She married her second husband, former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, twenty years her senior, on April 6, 1997. HE WAS A PRODIGIOUS PART OF THE PROBLEM WE HAVE NOW! Fuck that MSM BITCH!
Delete"Fuck that MSM bitch", "Fuck the Palins", "Fuck ____".
DeleteYou are the 'January8' from c4p equalivant on IM. You don't offer any real insight or information.
So what? So was George W. Bush, a previous "CEO" President...oh, wait!
ReplyDeleteGood one, 2:39!
DeleteI dunno, she just looked to me like blood was coming out of her wherever/s
ReplyDeleteNot only is he uneducated but like his soul mate, Palin, I suspect that he is also uneducable because of his ego and narcissism in spite of him having a "very good brain."
ReplyDeleteSomeone must have been paying off his teachers to give him passing grades when he was in school that continued on through his college education (if it's true he obtained a degree?).
DeleteKind of reminds me of Sarah Palin - we've never seen her degree from Idaho even though it was asked for many times!
Because she never graduated, that's why. It got them publicity; all they cared about.
DeleteFunny how their most (in)famous "alumnus" has never been invited back to speak at commencement, isn't it?
"Here's your sign."
He doesn't have to. He can bide his time. And if you aren't nice to him, he will wish you into the corn field.
ReplyDeleteAndrea Mitchell had zero problem with Palin and got a lot of airtime interviewing her out in Bristol Bay, and somehow ignored how ignorant Palin was/is?
ReplyDeleteSuck it Andrea Mitchell, you are a bad judge of character so why should we trust you now, hmmmmm?
I think Andrea has gotten older and wiser through the years and is much more able to see through The Donald.
DeleteAnd, I'm quite sure she doesn't think Sarah Palin to be a smart, honest individual anymore.
More details to make Trump even harder to listen to: He repeats the last part of his sentence: says it twice. Then follows it with "Trust me," or something similar.
ReplyDeleteDo you think any Repub learned ANYTHING re a totally uneducated candidate? If the 2012 is any indicator, I say NO.
I cannot fathom suffering a SOTU speech from this blathering buffoon.
Delete@3:19 Thanks. A new nightmare to add to my growing list.
DeleteI wonder if in the next debate with Trump someone could bring a squirt gun labelled "menstrual blood" and give Trump a few shots of it. (I'll pay their legal fees.)
ReplyDeleteTrump is right up there with Palin on much he does not know. He who does not know history is bound to repeat it.
ReplyDeleteI read the transcript of his interview with sheer horror. Like Sarah, Trump doesn't even know what he doesn't know. A 10th grader taking basic world history knows more than these two.
Perhaps they should bring back "Are You Smarter Than A Fifth Grader?" and you're only allowed to run if you win.
DeleteI too have thought this from the start: Trump has never been interested in the POTUS job -- it's an ego thing. PLUS I have suspected that his financial condition is actually dire: if it implodes, he is toast. It is all so very leveraged. So I always thought he was trying to bolster his brand, to avoid the imminent implosion. Think how Madoff might have kept going awhile longer with a better stock market and better PR.
DeleteTest questions:
ReplyDelete-- Is Africa a continent or a country?
-- What is your opinion on East Korea and West Korea?--- Can you see Russia from here?
What do you read?"
DeleteFrom the very beginning I thought this might be what was up with Trump. Kind of terrifying but totally believable:
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-trump-insider-donald-doesn%E2%80%99t-want-to-be-president/ar-BBr2kwt?ocid=spartanntp
My family has told me I was wrong about Trump not wanting to win the job of President, but it has always seemed to me that he's playing a game, and that he sincerely, sincerely does NOT want to be President. Really, really, I mean, really
DeleteThese are the same ASSHOLES that gave Palin a free pass!
ReplyDeleteCorrect!
DeleteMaybe Trump will show off his foreign policy credit by reminding all of us dummies that Canada is just over the border from NY state. He could see Canada from Buffalo, what more could we ask for?
ReplyDeleteJust like with Palin, the slavering media lapped up her idiocy because it made money for them that didn't look like it was going to dry up any time soon. Meanwhile, the rest of us are shocked and confused by the popularity of rude, crude idiots spewing hate to slavish worshippers. On the day Turnip's WP interview was published, so was our President's speech from Cuba, and the comparison of the two was clear as day. Turnip is an idiot, and now the media is making money writing about how bad he is. Too late, Andrea. Way too late.
ReplyDelete"He's just like us!"
Delete(only with money)
Sound familiar?
Of course Palin attached her lips to his nethers!
C4p referred to him as a "blue collar billionaire" today. Seriously....
DeleteMedia Lie Obliterated As Poll Finds Hillary Clinton Supporters Extremely Enthusiastic
ReplyDeletehttp://www.politicususa.com/2016/03/28/bust-beltway-narrative-clinton-supporters-extremely-enthusiastic.html
My dear 95 year old mother was practically foaming at the mouth today about that angry old man from up north who's badmouthing Hillary. Couldn't quite remember his name, wished he'd just go away.
DeleteWho takes any notice of Andrea Mitchell? Who is she to call anyone else less than smart? It's people like her who created the Trump problem, she and her co-conspirators elevated this buffoon to the status he now enjoys.
ReplyDeleteYep
DeleteExactly!
DeleteThey're all getting rattled. Not fun anymore, but here they are, stuck with this shithead monster yam-faced Trump.
DeleteI read it and the ignorance, shallowness, and "it's all about me!!!" is Palin level. That anyone thinks he's qualified to handle the job is as delusional as John McCain.
ReplyDeleteIf McCain didn't vet his VP choice, who vets a President? -- the media? oops, too late, too money-grubbing. Real journalists don't work for the MSM.
DeleteYes, yes, yes. I thought the level of the word salad was Palinesque, also, too. That level of disordered speaking reflects a highly disordered mind.
DeleteWithout Sarah Palin, there would be no Donald Trump. The media fell down on the job for BOTH of them.
FUCKING IDIOTS!
ReplyDelete...“Ingeniously designed to resemble a smartphone, yet with one click of the safety it opens and is ready to fire,” the company says on its website.
“Smartphones are everywhere, so your new pistol will easily blend in with today’s environment,” it adds. “In its locked position it will be virtually undetectable because it hides in plain sight.”
The gun is a double-barrelled .380 caliber folding pistol that will sell for $395, the company says.
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/03/minnesota-company-set-to-release-gun-ingeniously-designed-to-look-like-a-smartphone/
This is such a BAD idea in so many ways. Imagine airport security? Imagine people shot by law enforcement for pulling out their smart phone. Imagine...
Why oh WHY can't there be a stop put to this?
DeleteJust when we think America can't get any stupider.... you make us embarrassed for the human race.
DeleteImagine airport security? Imagine people shot by law enforcement for pulling out their smart phone. Imagine...
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Imagine children or family members. Imagine if you lose your"phone", the poor person finding it.
Mildred
White Supremacist Party Releases Proposed Trump Cabinet
ReplyDeleteChief of Staff - Sarah Palin?
http://www.mediaite.com/online/white-supremacist-party-releases-proposed-trump-cabinet-and-its-predictably-bonkers/
Read this. What has happened to our country?
DeleteChief of Staff... In trailer park lingo that's a pole dancer
DeleteThe Chief of Staff has to read more before 8:00 AM every morning than Sarah has read her whole life.
DeleteEx-Trump Insider: Donald Doesn’t Want to Be President
ReplyDeletehttp://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/ex-trump-insider-donald-doesn%e2%80%99t-want-to-be-president/ar-BBr2kwt?li=BBnb7Kz
JUST IN: Trump Campaign Strategist Defiantly Resigns And Releases Damaging Inside Information
DeleteA former Trump strategist penned a scathing open letter blasting the GOP front-runner, while addressing the hotel magnate’s supporters, too.
“I don’t think even Trump thought he would get this far,” Stephanie Cegielski wrote in a post which was published on XOJane. “And I don’t even know that he wanted to, which is perhaps the scariest prospect of all.”
‘Trump never intended to be the candidate, but his pride is too out of control to stop him now,” she writes.....
http://aattp.org/just-in-trump-campaign-strategist-defiantly-resigns-and-releases-damaging-inside-information/
It is like a bad nightmare with a twisted mental case running for USA President. And that small minded few that vote for such? Whew!
ReplyDeleteThose who are supporting him are the white supremacist, ignorant element.
DeletePer red state.com, trump as a candidate will have access to intelligence that he can use regardless of whether he wins the presidency.
ReplyDeleteI know that Hillary will win but this is a golden parachute for the loser. Amazing that palin never took advantage of this.
Just because Trump has a better vocabulary than S. Palin and occasionally reads a newspaper doesn't eliminate the ignorant bullying aspect of both their personalities. Both are psychologically incapable of focusing on anything other than themselves for longer than 15 seconds and as one poster put it, all a foreign gov't would have to do is make fun of Trump's hands and welcome to WW III.
ReplyDeleteCan't believe Trump admitted it but he as much as said to the W.P. editorial board that he'll say or do anything to get elected and then as President, he'll be a different person. That may be but who and what is the "real" person he plans on being as President?
His speeches are written at a 5th grade level, so much for better vocabulary.
DeleteI don't know that his vocabulary is better than Palin's. She misuses and mispronounces 'fancy' words, but he avoids them altogether.
DeleteAnon 5:08, I think 5th grade level IS better than any Palin's vocabulary.
Deletethe average dyslexic has a 5th grade reading level
DeleteSee red state.com. trump created that picture of his wife for use in a campaign.
ReplyDeleteRambling on and on about his new DC hotel before the WP asks him a policy question. Then, it's the same old stump speech, we already know about his "unpredictable" foreign policy - and avoiding answers by reminding us once again of his late uncle at MIT. He's all over the place, "a complete disaster," and I'm glad the GOP is stuck with him.
ReplyDeleteI read the article. As ignorant as Trump is on policy, he inserts just enough "magical wordage" to keep his followers satisfied. Things about China having an unfair advantage in trade, etc. His explanation of how he would solve inner city blight (spoiler alert-it involves cheerleading and spirit) or his take on negotiating with Iran (pretty much his Mexican wall plan-tell them to do it and they do it) were hilarious and scary as hell, at the same time. But, the nearest answer to everything is the one I am hoping he uses when debating the Democratic nominee-I can't tell you my plan, otherwise our enemies will know it, too! Fucking brilliant!
ReplyDeleteGood to know that if nothing else, Trump will finally revise our libel laws!
ReplyDeleteYay, all my worries are over!
"Happy days are here again", c'mon everybody sing with me!
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Well isn't that special !!!!
ReplyDeleteIf the "journalists" were doing their job instead of treating Trump as entertainment, they would have figured this out months ago.
None of his speeches have any substance, all slogans and marketing of the Trump brand. It wasn't too hard to figure out how shallow he is.
I think it's more that the Republicans (Trump and Palin) just don't think they have to know anything. That's what 'aides' are for.
ReplyDeleteThink about it. WE know more than they do. It is NOT normal for intelligent people to be so clueless.
DeleteTrump did tweet about Chuck Todd but not Andrea Mitchell. Maybe he realizes she's above any kind of criticism from people like himself, and he'd just look even more foolish.
ReplyDeleteHe's busy restructuring his staff, he just hired four of Carson's folks who know big words, but he's got to nudge them to keep them awake. He's GOT to go after Adrea Mitchell, he's asleep at the keyboard while Melania draws him a bath.
ReplyDeleteI can't wait to see his head explode when he picks up and runs as an independent because the RNC won't change the rules for him.
We all know Palin just spews word salad. I read the transcript of the interview and I would charactize Trump's speaking style as a giant bowl of limp spaghetti noodles topped with a giant heap of malodorous & runny bovine excrement.
ReplyDeleteSeriously, I believe I am more prepared to be the leader of the free world than dRUMPf. That I know more about real world affairs than he does. And I am absolutely NOT prepared.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I am not a billionaire who has declared bankruptcy 4 times and screwed other people out of their money.
I'm shocked he still hasn't tweeted about Ivanka's baby. He'd been using the pregnancy for months now, but now that the baby's here, nothing.
ReplyDeleteI have always been an ardent defender of a free and open press; these days I have to qualify my defense. I am only a defender of a responsible, investigative press. What passes for journalism these days is armchair journalism conducted in front of a monitor or political entertainment.
ReplyDeleteMitchell is so late this party she should be embarrassed. Since the beginning of the Trump campaign, ordinary individuals have been saying what she and so many others have apparently just arrived at--Trump is an empty suit.
Trump speaks in glittering generalties, never specifics, never nuts and bolts, never policy.
Would you hire a mechanic who told you he loved cars, that he can fix things when others can't, that you'll be so satisfied with his work without actually telling you what the problem is, what it will take to fix it, and how much it will cost? That's the bill of goods Trump has sold the media and a significant number of Americans. Because who better to take on terrorists and solve all other problems than a lifelong real estate developer?
"What Do You Read?" is relevant to ask of a presidential candidate. I believe Donald Trump has dyslexia which explains a lot about why he is so clueless.
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