Courtesy of Slate:President Trump forgets to sign executive order, walks out of ceremony. Pence remembers, grabs executive order from desk. @realDonaldTrump pic.twitter.com/h1kDBvwcP5— Vic Berger IV (@VicBergerIV) March 31, 2017
President Trump gathered the press on Friday to sign two new executive orders on trade. He spoke very positively about what he was going to sign. "Thank you everybody," he said from the podium. "You're going to be seeing some very, very strong results very, very quickly. Thank you very much."
The commander in chief immediately sought out the door, and seemingly couldn’t get out of the room fast enough. Never mind that he hadn’t actually signed anything.
Vice President Mike Pence seems to have noticed the president’s mistake and ran after him. Trump appears to gesture that he wants the orders to be brought to him so Pence then goes to the desk and picks up the orders so the commander in chief can sign them in another room. That’s not quite how things usually work, considering Trump likes to have the press take photos of him signing executive orders.
Did you notice Pence trying to get his boss to stay in the room only to be sent to fetch the document like the trained poodle that we know him to be?
What what made Trump cut and run like that?
That becomes clear when you watch this alternative tape of the event.
Did you hear that reporter asking about Michael Flynn?
THAT seems to be what triggered Trump's flight response, and it essentially proves that the whole Flynn debacle has him very on edge.
And who can blame him?
After all Michael Flynn "has a story to tell."
Well that was ... awkward.
ReplyDeleteHe just left, forgetting to sign them. THEN a reporter asked him a question and he said something -- pursed lips could have been "thank you" or "fuck you" with a thumb up.
DeleteWhen he goes off script, which he reads carefully like a fourth grader, he uses his few words over and over as usual ... very, very, and very, very in one sentence.
DeleteI'm not sure he heard the reporter. He is starting to show more signs of dementia and may very well get away with his crimes because of his declining mental faculties, just like Saint Ronnie was able to do.
ReplyDeleteSelective hearing
DeleteSelective reality.
DeleteMaybe it was close to sundown, the beginning of Sabbath Observance, when Ivanka and Jared are allegedly unavailable for conducting business, using electronica,etc until sundown on Saturday.
Delete"Time to Tweet!" -lil donnie
It was already clear that Ivanka has been brought in to be his nursemaid. The old dude is quite senile, mostly he doesn't have a clue what is going on around him, all he's capable of is ranting his same old rant ... just like that other old retard Sarah Palin.
ReplyDeleteHe even had to read off those few mundane words he uttered in that very short clip. Hiding Trump's dementia is no doubt making President Bannon's job harder every day.
From another clip I saw Bannon (standing outside the room) who looked kinda stricken: that Trump didn't sign them, or not this again, or ... it was a look, then he realized he was on camera. Did anybody else see that clip?
DeleteBingo!!! I suspected from the start Ivanka's role was nursemaid. I'll bet that's the way his companies are run -- Ivanka, Eric, and Jared watch his every move, let him rave, then quietly come in behind him and clean up.
DeleteDoes Trump realize that President Obama is the person who saved the auto industry in Detroit in 2009 when it was crashing because of the previous Republican president's failures?
ReplyDeleteI think he heard the question about Flynn. He had no intention of answering anyone's question. I'm sure that, once outside the room, he had an absolute fit about the nerve of the reporter to ask a question. Oh, my. What a slippery slope we're all on now.
Beaglemom
What a fu^King asshole. Really, what about the 800 caterpillar jobs lost today in Illinois? What about the many companies leaving the usa for mexico? That lying ass is such an embarrassment. He is disgusting. The worst fraud case in usa history.
ReplyDeleteOnce again Bernie is shooting his mouth off about what the Democratic party should do and how Trump supporters aren't really racist or sexist. He IS NOT a Democrat! Who does he think he is? He's as sexist snd racist as any Trump supporter. I cannot believe anyone was so stupid as to vote for this idiot.
ReplyDeleteUmm, you do realize that Bernie Sanders wasn't one of the choices on the ticket, right?
DeleteWe had to choose between Trump and Clinton.
The Vermont senator also said some Democrats believe the voters who backed President Donald Trump are racists, xenophobes and "deplorables," a word Clinton famously used.
Delete"I do not agree," he said.
"It wasn't that Donald Trump won the election, it was that the Democratic Party lost the election," Sanders added.
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/03/31/politics/bernie-sanders-elizabeth-warren-boston-rally/index.html
@3:42 - Bernie attempted to hijack the Dem party snd now that the election is over he continues to throw his weight around among Democrats while declaring himself an Independent. That is wrong!
DeleteThe old attention grabber is just upset because the intelligence community said that the "Bernie Bros" were Putin trolls.
Delete3:42 ,You do realize that people voted for him in the primaries?
DeleteDoes Sanders realize that at least some of his "Bernie Bros" were Russian plants? That should quiet him down a bit, I would think. And when Hillary Clinton used the word "deplorables," she was referring to the white supremacists and Ku Klux Klan types who were taking advantage of not very bright lower class white voters in largely rural areas. The media deliberately did not provide the context of her use of the word. Sanders knows that and should not continue to use it as a bludgeon to beat up Hillary Clinton or the Democratic Party. He's back to being an "I" in the Senate.
DeleteBeaglemom
God, give it a rest.
DeleteYour DNC should listen to his progressive policy ideas. They miiiight win a few seats back during the next mid-term. And a few voters back into the fold.
DeleteThe fact that racists support Trump does not logically translate into all Trump supporters are racist.
DeleteIf you insist that they are then you really are useless.
Putting every Trump supporter into one group is no different from saying that all blacks are lazy or all Mexicans are rapists.
You sound just like the man you hate and no, I'm not talking about Bernie.
Bernie is the only level headed one included in this conversation.
He appears to be melting before our eyes.
ReplyDeleteI wish he'd do it a bit faster, then.
DeleteHe is also getting a less-orange tan, or nothing at all. He looks pasty. He looks very tired and old now.
DeleteAgreed. He sounds brain dead in his delivery. The very very verys and the quickly quickly quicklys don't even resonate.
DeleteOh but look at that smug look on Trumps face, He could pay off the debt just by sitting in a dunk tank and letting people throw at the target that dunks him. I would pay good money for a chance and according to his popularity polls so would most of America.What would it be worth to see that fat asses comb over get ruined so his bald scalp is visible to all.Pretty soon they are going to have to install a huge bathtub in the White House just so his fat ass can sit in it! And you wonder why Melania always looks like she is squinting her eyes? It's not just a face lift gone wrong people what has once been seen cannot be unseen.
DeleteOh my gosh. What must putin think about his little pet today. He cant even look the people in the eyes and say NO I didn't do it. But old ugly putin can still lie right to his peoples face. He keeps them nice and drunk and high. But trump? he is so weak and guilty, he knows it, we know it, law enforcement knows it, the military knows it and he is done over and out!! Just waiting for the big fat ass to sing. I quit like sarah palin and I resign like sarah palin my pal and pizza friend from KGB school.
ReplyDeleteI watched the clip of Putin where someone had the courage to ask if they would find Russian interference in the 2016 election.The people in the audience made this gasping sound like they were afraid. Putin of course lied and even got the quote and Pres wrong. But it was alarming to see how frightened the audience (with good reason) were of Putin.
DeleteDonald Trump has been watching his replacement for the U.S. intelligence community again, Fox News.
ReplyDeleteIn another desperate attempt to draw attention away from his deepening RussiaGate scandal, Donald Trump cited a Fox News report about Trump associates being “unmasked.”
Watch the report that got Trump all in a lather, courtesy of Fox News:
...“Here’s what’s happening. Trump NSC staff cherry picks intel which appears to back up Trump and leaks it to Fox so Trump can retweet it.”
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/01/hypocrite-trump-attacked-anonymous-sources-february-citing-them.html
PROTEST!
ReplyDeleteThis week in Iowa the Republican-dominated legislature passed legislation nullifying any and all local minimum wage increases, no matter how long they’ve been in effect, and summarily banned any county, city or locality from ever setting wage and benefit standards again. According to Iowa Republicans, low-wage workers mired in abject poverty will stay in that condition into perpetuity and never earn a penny over the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour. As noted in the Huffington Post:
“It is the first time that a state has nullified local minimum wage ordinances that had already taken effect and forced [local] jurisdictions to [immediately] reduce minimum wage rates that had been previously raised.”
The Republicans in the state Senate passed the bill on a unanimous vote and Governor Terry Branstad’s signature means the voters elected a Republican majority in November to cruelly rob Iowa’s poverty-level workforce of whatever minimal pay raises they’ve earned over the past two years. It seems that Republicans agree with their corporate funders that it is an abomination for tens-of-thousands of Iowans in poverty to earn anything over the federal minimum wage. All wage earners who started receiving $8.20 an hour over the past two years will instantly have their wages cut back to $7.25 an hour. No doubt they would slash wages further, but until congressional Republicans abolish the federal minimum wage, low-wage Iowans will be permanently earning the federally-mandated slave wage.
The Iowa poverty workers, at least 100,000 of them, will not only continue suffering slave wages, $8.20 per hour is slave wage, they will face pay cuts of about a dollar an hour. The workers, eighty-four percent who are 20 years of age or older are predominately full-time employees. Over half are women and a third are working parents and are at least forty years old; the majority percentage work full-time.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/01/iowa-republicans-reverse-existing-minimum-wage-hikes-ban-future-increases.html
So, who you gonna vote for now, poverty workers? Or, ARE YOU GOING TO VOTE NOW?!?
DeleteAnd, you know, come the next election, the voters in Iowa will blame the Democrats for all the problems and re-elect the miserly, nasty Republicans.
DeleteBeaglemom
That's how the game is played, beaglemom.
DeleteThe donors buy 'strong' republicans and 'weak' democrats. Party labels mean less than nothing to the donor class. Party labels, that's for us little people.
Democrat Mayor of Baltimore shuts down the fight for 15 there.
DeleteHe did seem to have some difficulty reading his short text in a convincing way.
ReplyDeletePeople should ask him, whenever possible, why his products aren't made in the USA.
Or why American steel will not be used on the friggin pipeline?
DeleteOr why coal jobs aren't coming back?
Deletehttps://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/business/coal-jobs-trump-appalachia.html?mwrsm=Reddit
He reminds me of $arah - uninformed and blames everybody else for his ignorance.
GeorgiaPeach
These Teachers Voted For Trump. Here’s What They Think About His Proposed Education Cuts
ReplyDeleteTrump wants to cut over $9 billion from the Department of Education.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-teachers-education-cuts_us_58d41e4be4b0b22b0d1b066b?
The Anti-Trump Movement In North Carolina Has The Potential To Flip The South
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/north-carolina-donald-trump-protests_us_58daafdde4b0546370628f7b?
Don't tease me.
DeleteDonald Trump’s Team Escalates Freedom Caucus Feud
ReplyDeletehttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-dan-scavino-freedom-caucus-justin-amash_us_58dfe4bee4b0ba359595758b?1k733mng6tdio7ds4i&
Trump aide accused of Hatch Act violation after urging Amash primary challenge
A senior adviser to President Donald Trump on Saturday urged a primary challenge against a House Freedom Caucus member, prompting charges that he may have violated federal law against using his official position to sway an election campaign.
Dan Scavino Jr., director of social media and senior White House adviser, tweeted that Michigan Rep. Justin Amash is a "big liability" for the state and encouraged a GOP primary opponent to oust him in 2018.
".@realDonaldTrump is bringing auto plants & jobs back to Michigan. @justinamash is a big liability. #TrumpTrain, defeat him in primary," Scavino wrote.
But that tweet, sent from Scavino's personal Twitter account, immediately landed him in controversy as ethics lawyers called out Scavino for possibly violating the Hatch Act, a Depression-era law that regulates campaigning by government officials.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/dan-scavino-justin-amash-liability-trump-freedom-caucus-236780
Is there anybody in this regime that is ethical?
DeleteNope. They've all been bought off. $$$$$! $!
DeleteAgain? What was old Flynn fighting about a few years ago and removed from his position? He had bones to pick with several military people? What was that about? Him and a few other military personell are corrupt and tainted. Of course trump hires them. Its all about bribery, extortion and criminal conduct. And they all point crook fingers at each other. Anyone associated with this sewer swamp are involved and corrupt or just plain stupid.
ReplyDeleteImagine what a Palin presidency would have been. She supports this shit. Like I'm stuck in this weird dream except it's reality.
DeleteYeah I was waiting for the April Fools. He is not really the fraud president, Hillary won. April fools.
DeleteYeah but Sarah has a good heart and is selfless who raises independent strong kids with heart.
DeleteBWAHAAAHAHAHAHHAHAAAAA!
DeleteApril Fool!!!
Yeah sarah is so nice, laughing about someone sick and talking bad about someone....sp is fos
DeleteDonald Trump is a Goddamn Coward! He sure does surrender a lot.
ReplyDeleteTrumpers Look For Ways to Sideline Intel Community
ReplyDeleteThe White House's handling of intelligence reports on the Russia investigation has been labeled unorthodox and, to the Democrats, suspicious. But when it comes to Donald Trump's relationship with his spy agencies, that's par for the course.
Since taking office, Trump has challenged the integrity of intelligence officials, moved to exert more control over U.S. spying agencies and accused his predecessor of using government spycraft to monitor his presidential campaign.
This week, Trump's White House is facing allegations that it funneled secret intelligence reports to a top Republican investigating his campaign's possible ties to Russian officials as well as Moscow's interference in the 2016 election.
The approach appears to be based, at least in part, on the White House's anxiety over the Russia investigations, which threaten to seriously weaken his presidency. It also reflects a deep distrust of the intelligence community among his political advisers, including government newcomers who have never dealt with classified information or covert programs.
"It reveals a chasm of ignorance about how stuff is done," said Michael Hayden, the former head of the CIA and National Security Agency.
Trump, with the backing of political advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner, initially sought to put Wall Street billionaire Stephen Feinberg in charge of a review of the intelligence agencies. An early iteration of the review explored eliminating the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the umbrella agency created after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to streamline and coordinate intelligence.
Officials say they viewed the agency as an unnecessary and bloated bureaucracy that can manipulate or distort information.
But the review was recalibrated after Dan Coats — who was confirmed earlier this month as Trump's intelligence director — vigorously complained about being undermined in the midst of his confirmation hearings, according to U.S. officials. Coats is now leading the review, though it does not include potentially scrapping the office he now runs, according to the officials.
"This is going to be more on the 'trim and optimize' as opposed to 'dismantle,'" said L. Roger Mason Jr., an executive with the nonprofit Noblis and a member of the Trump transition team that focused on the national intelligence directorate.
Trump's White House has looked for other ways seize the reins.
Officials have expressed an interest in having more raw intelligence sent to the president for his daily briefings instead of an analysis of information compiled by the agencies, according to current and former U.S. officials. The change would have given his White House advisers more control about the assessments given to him and sidelined some of the conclusions made by intelligence professionals.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumpers-look-for-ways-to-sideline-intel-community
Wtf kushner in iraq?
DeleteA realtor.
Sh*t govt.
He was wandering before the press tossed him the question. Joke.
ReplyDeleteTrump looks sick, he's no longer tanning and he is showing his age and ill health.
ReplyDeleteHe's just a blowhard, big-butt-and-gut old guy in over his head in a job that is well above his pay grade.
I'd recommend retirement, but hey, he's basically doing that already; golfing for a majority of his time.
Well now ,you just described the perfect senile,bombastic ,superfluous Asshole criteria for a republican white house polititions position!
DeleteNot to mention lying pos!
I would recommend in patient care and re programming. The guy needs some serious mental health treatments. A rubber room for first month and strong meds.
DeleteA golfer? No. more like a hack and cheater. He even lies on the golf course. Nobody wants to play with a cheater and liar. Golf is a gentleman game not for cheaters and liars. Maybe mickleson will play with him since he likes to cheat and lie too. He just recently had big gambling debt and was arranged a big stock tip transfer to pay his huge gambling debt. What a bunch of crooks.
DeleteRun Comrade Traitor run.
ReplyDeleteSee Comrade Traitor run.
So now he'll shirk his basic duties like some petulant child. Fleeing the press by running from the room when Russia is mentioned is a new and entertaining turn with the Orange Agent. You can run,but you cant hide,little Donnie. More popcorn! :)
ReplyDeleteHe wanted a reality show, he has it in spades, and, no matter how he tries to get Jared and Ivanka to cover for him, he proves how inept he is daily.
DeleteIf it wasn't so horrifying for the sake of citizens in this country, I would laugh. Yeah, you're ALL that, donnie, and your flotus too. Geez.
His face is becoming increasingly distorted and has the far away look in his eyes. He looks constipated and lacking sleep.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if they're drugging him now.
DeleteYou're so right. He's just a mess. Psychotic as hell. Getting uglier with each passing moment. And, he's already plummeted past the point of ultimate ugly. We're heading into new territory.
DeleteI watched without the sound on. Old Donnie sure is dependent on reading his lines! Yes 5:47, Drumpf's eyes look very, very tired, his face looks mean and ugly and he walks (waddles) like a stoop shouldered old man much older than seventy.
DeleteIMO there has been a bigly decline in his "happiness"...YAY. Pence looks embarrassed and tries not to offend the orange oaf.
I am so enjoying this GOP debacle. Every day brings new revelations of lies and scandal.
Monty Python is appropriate here.
ReplyDeleteBrave Sir Robbin. lol. That's Trump.
I'd love to hear the take of cognitive, literacy and substance abuse experts on what was just witnessed here.
ReplyDeletePence is unfit to take over when trump resigns. He must be one odd turkey and immature guy. And the wife must be very jealous. He is afraid of temptation. And he serves under the pussy grabber and rapist. Oh that is rich? You can bet don will set him up with a real professional gotcha. According to him he will not attend an event where alcohol is served without the wife, he is afraid he might go mad dog and screw something. He is terribly honey and afraid he might fall for another pussy if left alone with one. Gee whiz what a poor shallow guy. And he wants to control and decide personal issues for women? What a nut case weak man.
ReplyDeletePence is probably a suppressed homosexual. I can't think of any other reason he seems to take such delight in torturing and punishing people. He's taken sadism way beyond Puritanism. He just delights in making people suffer. Typical fundamentalist Christian. Holier than than thinks he's so pure and everyone else is a dirty sinner that deserves to be treated to hell on earth.
DeleteI don't think dining with a woman who is not his wife is what Pence needs to be afraid of. It's being alone with some of those congressional pages. That seems to be the weakness of the Republican religious right.
Chuck Heath, Jr.:
ReplyDelete"I'm proud of Bristol. These kids have been pushed to the limit by sickos in the media and the haters that believe their crap. It's beyond shameful."
NO ONES been through more slander and come out stronger and with more heart. NONE of us know the extent of what theyve survived in 8 years.
Proud. And they had the best childhood.
Believe whose crap, Chuckie? What they peddle to them for attention? PLEASE. They're the ones that call the media, else no one would care. Your sister shoved them in for her own gain and you expect sympathy? Stop your damned whining and take care of your broom closet second family.
DeleteHow can we miss you if you won't go away. I am so sick of this bunch.
sure 7:49pm, whatever you say. Most of us that live up here have a much different view of that family, especially the folks that have been lied to, robbed, had their parties crashed, been unfairly accused of crimes and especially all the girls that Track has beaten up and knocked up.
DeleteGive it a rest, this family is nothing but stupid white trash. If they weren't they'd have been able to parlay all of their undeserved opportunities into lifelong political positions or employment of some type, instead, they are just the same ignorant people they were before they were given their chance at bettering themselves.
Of course Chuck Heath has to say nice things, they're family, and he was trying his best, with his dad to make some money off the Palin name, too bad they failed at that too.
Exactly. The Palins are wanted nowhere and despised everywhere. Karma.
DeleteAren't Chuckie Jr and wife#2 divorcing?
DeleteThat shows the world exactly what we cannot afford to have seen. A very WEAK US. dRUMPf is a pussy and scared of everything. Shitcan the whole bunch of them in OUR WH (especially the enablers)and start fresh.
ReplyDeleteGoodness. A uncles Love is a nice gift when down. We can hope it helps heal.
ReplyDeleteHe looks terrible-like he is trying very hard to figure out how he can get out of this without going to prison.
ReplyDeleteYes he does have that look. A very disturbed worry look. Unfortunately he is doomed. He will have to confess and pay the huge price. There is no way out and that is putins back up KGB school bully trick to his friend.
Deletemaybe he fled the signing because he's already resigned and they're trying to buy as much time....nah, but a guy can dream.
DeleteTrump looks
ReplyDelete...defeated.
I'm not sure but did trump attend KGB school?
Deletehahaha lmao
ReplyDeleteAWKWARD.
Yea a very awkward fake fraud of a prez. The globe is laughing at him.
Delete"That becomes clear when you watch this alternative tape of the event."
ReplyDeleteHardly. He was headed for the door before the question was asked. Maybe you should watch it a couple more times... and go pour out that bottle while you're at it.