Courtesy of Quartz:Trump held a mini campaign rally in Texas and forgot to mention #HurricaneHarvey victims https://t.co/hGrCRAo8Ck— Heather Timmons (@HeathaT) August 29, 2017
After the briefing, Trump did an impromptu rally type speech in front of a few hundred Trump supporters who somehow managed to know exactly where the president was doing the briefing.
He stood on a raised platform of some type. Couldn’t tell if it was a step ladder or not. But he was not on a truck. Spoke into a microphone.Trump to hurricane victims in Corpus Christi, TX: "Thank you everybody. What a crowd, what a turnout." (via Reuters) pic.twitter.com/kVe3f8NmTL— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) August 29, 2017
“I love you, you are special, we’re here to take care of you. It’s going well.”
“What a crowd, what a turnout.”
Reporters heard no mention of the dead, dying or displaced Texans and no expression of sympathy for them. The message was services are coming and Texans will be OK.
“Texas can handle anything,” POTUS said.
“We are going to get you back and operating immediately,” he told the crowd (this contradicts the “Long haul” Sen. John Cornyn has publicly discussed and the caveat from FEMA administrator long moments earlier that it’s going to be a slow process).
Trump did not meet with any of the flood victims, mention the deceased, nor offer anything of substance to those who are suffering.
But to be fair he did offer this tweet.
See? Everything's all better now.After witnessing first hand the horror & devastation caused by Hurricane Harvey,my heart goes out even more so to the great people of Texas!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017
Of course that tweet was immediately followed by this one.
Yeah, why won't these magazines just let Trump make America great again?After reading the false reporting and even ferocious anger in some dying magazines, it makes me wonder, WHY? All I want to do is #MAGA!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 30, 2017
Stupid magazines!
What more do these magazines want?
Stupid magazines!
"Donald Trump visits flood ravaged Texas and makes it all about him." Donald Trump is not about to change.
ReplyDeleteEric Trump has now said his father is depressed and his remedy is to not see anything negative. It is a serious depression because Donald Trump is suicidal. His medicine is to have people around him that are only positive.
Eric Trump has now said his father is depressed and his remedy is to not see anything negative
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Excuses, excuses, so he must have been depressed for years because it has always been about him.
Also if he is so depressed, then he should MAGA and resign.
I haven't read this and don't believe Eric said any such thing.
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If it is fake news, he will sue them. How could he tolerate someone saying his father is suicidal and depressed?
DeleteIf I was Eric, son of "depressed and suicidal Donald Trump" I'd make it my mission to push him over the edge, both saving America and getting my inheritance early.
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3:55 I detest Trump as much as anyone here but that's an incredibly deplorable sense of humor you've got there. Knock it off.
Delete1:23: http://oppositionreport.com/eric-trump-just-said-something-really-weird-about-his-dad-committing-suicide-details/
DeleteDepression and suicide are critical health care issues. People need to wake up and focus on healing and saving lives. The Trumps may only be about drama and attention but many others are in need of good care.
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Houston lost one of its finest, a thirty year veteran who was trying to get to work and got caught in the flood and drowned in his patrol car. The police chief was in tears because they had to wait to recover his body due to the danger. And this was known before trump got there, as was the fact that one family lost six people, mostly children, when their car was swept away. No mention of the tireless work down by ordinary people from all over texas who hooked up their boats and headed to help. No mention of businesses like HEB WHO sent huge mobile kitchens, or Buc res, who Fed and housed emergency responders, or Mac the Matress Guy, who is housing and feeding evacuees and National Guardsmen. This state, this country is coming together in spite of trump not because of him. And instead of being nice to Ted Cruz, he should have trolled him for voting against Sandy aid but now having his hand out, and I would be curious to know how those people managed to get to his "rally"
ReplyDeleteAnonymous 11:49 AM wrote: I would be curious to know how those people managed to get to his "rally"
DeleteThey couldn't get AWAY!
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DeleteTed - Ha! Thx.
Did they box them in or collect them from shelters lol.
DeleteI am joking because he still has supporters.
Listening to his rally today I wondered if Trump was also going to promise to send Dorothy back to Kansas.
tRump did not mention ONCE anything about any victims - neither of the victims from Hurricane Harvey, and also not about the ten sailors we lost last week in that collision of two ships (or the other, injured, sailors on that ship)!
DeleteDonnie was also thrilled he was going to MO, "one of his states".
DeleteBoth the Trumps are idiots! Self-indulgent assholes sporting their products for sale on their pointed little heads all in the name of a major American disaster in which there were deaths and Americans lost everything they owned!
ReplyDeleteWhat embarrassments the Trumps are to this country. And, I include his adult kids in this opinion too.
My family is nowhere near wealthy and yet we mailed off a check of $100 to help. How much did any of the really, really rich Trumps give?
DeleteAnon at 1:26 pm, The Trump Foundation (or some variant of it) will donate a token amount for publicity purposes and for the tax deduction.
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Anon at 1:26 pm, The Trump Foundation (or some variant of it) will donate a token amount for publicity purposes and for the tax deduction.
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Beaglemom: they (the tRumps) will donate it to one of their own foundations, so they can take the tax break AND get most of the money back into their own pockets!
DeleteThe trumps will ask for donations to their foundation on the pretense of sending the $$ to TX, instead they will use it for themselves as usual.
DeleteGryphen needs a Gofundme page to collect money to pay for overtime for Mueller's team.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it will get Donny out of office quicker.
Nice thought. I recently donated a small amount to Gryphen, I felt it was the least I could do after using his blog as therapy all these years. It won't help Mueller's efforts of course but it made me feel better.
DeleteMexico offered to pay for the impeachment cost.
DeleteSomeone who donates to Gryphen is just as stupid as someone donating to Joel Osteen.
DeleteI can't figure out why any of you donate money to anyone or anything, just sayin'.
Delete4:27 "I can't figure out why any of you donate money to anyone or anything, just sayin'."
DeleteOf course you can't (hint, it's because you are a selfcentered ass.)
2:42pm:
DeleteIn your feces flinging world there probably is some 'logic' to that conclusion.
There is nothing surprising about his behavior. This is a narcissistic personality. Everything is about his own emotional needs. He is incapable of empathy. It is a terrible thing so many are completely fooled by this person who has nothing to give. The world suffers the consequences. He says MAGA but all he is looking for is adoration. There is not an altruistic bone in his body.
ReplyDeleteHe is a monster. I am very surprised to hear he is suicidal. I think that is just Eric's flimflammery to get sympathy for him -- all those bad things the press is saying but him-- shame on them. A sick man who deserves no pity.
DeleteHe could be a manic depressive. His is not a light weight case. He really needs to be removed from office and take care of his health issues. That would be better for all.
DeleteI agree he is a malignant narcissist. They feed on envy and admiration as narcissistic supply. The supply is low given his daily major blunders and inability to bully and humiliate to get anything significant done. He boasts, steals credit, paints others black, lies pathologically but had no substantive plans. Narcissists portray an image of competency believing they are entitled others do all the work. What was his health care plan? He had none except sociopathic promises stated with self aggrandizing bravado that conned people.
DeleteI am certain Trump didn't want to get his
ReplyDeletehands dirty nor feet wet. He could of handed out some water, blankets or food. Zip nada for all you peasants.
Our house flooded but we have flood ins, first time since 1987 I have used it....make it more affordable for everyone. God Bless Texas!
Yeah, he did nothing. There was no reason, after all, for him to go. And he and Melanus looked like idiots trying to appear as if they stood along with the little people. They looked like they felt so out of place in what they had on and like they were dressed up for Halloween. Both of them had on brand new perfectly crisp white shirts, and Trump pulled his shirt cuffs below the cuffs of the windbreaker jacket he was wearing (he was first seen wearing that jacket when walking across the lawn with Mel in her stilettos) as if he were wearing his usual suit jacket, and Mel’s blouse was unbuttoned too far and she had her collar pulled up around her neck to make a fashion statement. Everything was tucked in perfectly. Mel’s hat with her ponytail pulled through the back of it looked glued into place, just like the perfectly rolled-up sleeves. It was funny, too, that Trump insisted on keeping his jacket on while Mel was in just a blouse with those rolled sleeves. Trump wasn’t about to let his fat show and take off his jacket and roll up his sleeves like Bill C, W, and Obama always did. Only a couple other people all during Trump’s time in hot and humid TX had light jackets on—everyone else around him had short sleeves going. Imagine Trump outside and passing out blankets and water in his windbreaker suit jacket.
DeleteNotice too, Anon at 1:36 pm, that Trump and the third wife kept their hats on during the emergency services meeting they sat in on - sort of. Both of them looked absolutely clueless. Given that the third wife's hobbies are pilates and fashion magazines, I guess we can excuse her blank stares in the face of a natural disaster of the scope of Hurricane/Tropical Storm Harvey. But Trump is now responsible for all of us. (God help us because Trump sure won't.)
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He did not even get CLOSE to any disaster area. He saw absolutely nothing of the devastation. Even local newspapers said that much and chided him on his fake tweets about it!
DeleteAN awesome Vanity Fair Article on Jared and Ivanka "Exiles on Pennsylvania Avenue" is on line. But who knows, s many magazines have made fun of him-across the world-he could be talking about anything.
ReplyDeleteThe response certainly seems to be to this Vanity Fair article but it was too succinct a tweet to be authored by he of the short, vulgarian fingers. Here, Vanka puxxy, you do it.
DeleteExiles on Pennsylvania Avenue: How Jared and Ivanka Were Repelled by Washington’s Elite
Delete“What is off-putting about them,” one political veteran told me, “is they do not grasp their essential irrelevance. They think they are special.”
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/08/jared-kushner-ivanka-trump-repelled-by-washington-elite
Pete Souza's brilliant Instagram does it again, reminding us of how a real President acts in a time of tragedy.
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I saw a clip of the moron waving the state flag of Texas and turned the channel.
ReplyDeleteAs for Melanomia, I guess she is so stupid they have to label her hat to remind her that she is first “lady”.
When are the vultures Donnie Jr and Eric going to arrive to “help” rebuild TX?
FLOTUS= FAKE Lady Of The US
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ReplyDelete"We won't say CONgratulation$ YET"? WTF?
I know! Why does he always say the most asinine things? Like talking about the crowd size, too, when he stood outside on the fire engine steps? Where his mind goes is just so selfish. Even if he doesn't know what to say at times--it can happen to anyone--and just grabs at things to say, his mind goes to what is shallow and insensitive and just plain weird sounding.
DeleteHe is who he is which means he will habitually say asinine things like water damage is bad after homes or 30-40% of the 4th largest city is devastated. He is a nightmare.
DeleteWho the hell holds a rally spending hundreds of thousands dollars just so he be filmed with cheers by his idiot supporters who are stupid believing his magical thinking promises? Who the fuck does that at this time? Hold a damn press conference but that would require substance.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/flot
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PROOF: Trump Tower Moscow Had Land And Plans — Trump's Lawyer Lied To Hide It
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Thanks for this. I'll go read it. After yesterday's news about Trump having been in contact w/ Russia re Trump Tower Moscow four months into his campaign, today I heard that in January of 2016 he was now trying to reboot it.
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DeleteIvanka Trump. The “first daughter” is so tight with Dasha Zhukova, the wife of Russian oligarch and Putin ally Roman Abramovich, that she reportedly invited Zhukova to attend her father’s inauguration. Ivanka has also helped her father pursue business deals in the former Soviet bloc. In 2006, Donald Trump asked formerly “Mafia-linked” businessman Felix Sater to “squire” Ivanka and her older brother, Don Jr., around Moscow, according to the Washington Post. And Ivanka was deeply involved with a failed effort to build a Trump Hotel in Azerbaijan, where the Trumps had joined forces with a family whom a government minister had accused of corruption and who had possible ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/06/russia-trump-putin-scandal-key-players-dossiers/
Best of friends
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7ZmXkYUwAA8nUW.jpg
Small circle of friends
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Ivanka's BFF
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Ivaka has been pimped out for years. Why do you think she was sent to Russia to build towers?
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/9e/f2/18/9ef218b1f5c586187cff55a1cdd1c5e5--most-beautiful-women-ivanka-trump.jpg
Trump’s past, just like the Baku hotel deal, will keep haunting him
https://blogs.tribune.com.pk/story/47431/trumps-past-just-like-the-baku-hotel-deal-will-keep-haunting-him/
Trump International Hotel and Tower Baku
https://cdn-blogs.tribune.com.pk/2017/03/47431-trumpp-1489134568-181-640x480.jpg
Republicans want to cut nearly $1 billion dollars from the disaster relief accounts to pay for Donald Trump’s wall.
ReplyDelete...Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.
The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess. The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/8/30/1694650/-WTF-Texas-is-underwater-and-GOP-eyeing-nearly-1B-disaster-funds-cut-to-help-build-Trump-s-wall
I had heard 11% of FEMA funds. I wonder how much that is.
DeleteCut the Payola aka 'Crap'ola
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/ivanka-trump-white-house-equal-pay_us_59a6c33be4b063ae34da471f?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
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Too late. The SS is already broke by having paid so much to tRump and his famdammily.
DeleteBesides, where does he suggest the SS stay when tRump goes to his weekly golf games?
Polls show Joe Biden is most popular politician in America.
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Love Joe. Hillary had every reason to run for pres, but if Biden had run and with Hillary as veep, the blowout on 11/8 would have made Hillary's 3 million more votes over Trump nothing. Oh, how I'd have loved to see Trump killed by many more millions of votes going to Biden/Clinton. Sadly, Joe lost his son, and running for office was not what was on his mind.
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DeleteLove her. It still makes me very angry thinking about how TD and Max Cleland, both war amputees (and caring and smart), were treated when they were running for election during the Bush years.
DeleteAnon at 2:47 pm. And don't forget the "swift boating" of John Kerry in 2004. It was simply shameless on the part of the GOP.
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1:36: Biden/Al Franken.
DeleteSomehow, I believe the US is NOT yet ready for a woman at the top (not even for a #2 position)!
Ann Coulter attacks Trump and questions the GOP gospel of tax cuts for the rich
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Is it a cold day in hell? Never thought Ann would talk off script.
DeleteWhite House Quietly Removes Sexual Assault Report From Website
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I heard they were taking of work place deaths also.
DeleteI would have never known who that was with Donald had she not been wearing a name tag. Melania Trump wears spectacular fashions and never looks like the clean up crew. Donald is long in the tooth and his eyes are not of the bright side these days. He needs all the help he can get to recognize the wife when she is not styled as the first lady we've come to know.
ReplyDeleteIf I'm interpreting you correctly, Melania Trump is a former escort with zero value to the people of the United States and not an ounce of grace. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.
DeleteToday Trump's trying to make up for his failures over the past few days to talk about the actual victims and to see any of them and show empathy and give a hug. And he's PO'd that he's been criticized, but that criticism is the only reason why now he's talking about the victims.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow he will have forgotten all about the people who are now homeless and possession-less in Texas. He's spent a little tweet time on them.
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Not even Play Doh this time?
ReplyDeleteHarvey rescue effort determined to avoid another Katrina
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Out-of-town responders use Bryan-College Station as staging ground for efforts farther south
http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/out-of-town-responders-use-bryan-college-station-as-staging/article_7fa64fdf-d2e8-58c2-ae82-650364747447.html
Here's How Harvey Is Impacting Military, Veteran Benefits
http://www.military.com/daily-news/2017/08/29/heres-how-hurricane-harvey-impacting-military-veteran-benefits.html
Harvey makes landfall again as death toll rises -- live updates
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/houston-flooding-weather-recovery-latest-hurricane-harvey-live-updates/
18 striking photos of the US military saving lives after Hurricane Harvey
http://www.businessinsider.com/photosus-military-saving-lives-after-hurricane-harvey-2017-8
OT? Watch this>
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Mattis mum on Trump's new Afghanistan war strategy
ReplyDeletehttps://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/08/20/new-afghanistan-war-strategy/584115001/
James Mattis contradicts Trump over North Korea comments: 'We're never out of diplomatic solutions'
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/north-korea-trump-mattis-talking-over-diplomacy-response-a7921121.html
Mattis vows US support for Ukraine against Russian
https://www.click2houston.com/news/politics/mattis-vows-us-support-for-ukraine-against-russian
Is a Mattis coup possible?
Delete#DefundTrumpWall. We don't need or can afford anything that will remind people Trump was POTUS like a 1954 mile memorial to him. That's all it will be, not about immigrants.
ReplyDeleteWTF? Melania wears a ball cap identifying herself as FLOTUS? Is that to remind her or us?
ReplyDeleteIt was so bad with the timing. The hat would be cheesy any day, but this is a woman who we never see in a hat and who was wearing a baseball cap perhaps for the first time in her life, and this was how she chose to do it? The message felt like she needed to make sure that we all still recognized her, and it was so arrogant and as if the cap was a crown. It also felt so belittling of what was happening to regular people. So bad.
DeleteShe wears the FLOTUS hat because Illegal alien with an anchor baby won't fit on the cap.
DeleteThe third wife always looks like a store mannequin, much like Mike Pence although he has more facial expression. She's always posing as if she's in her underwear and the photographers are there to take some soft porn shots. I feel sorry for the photojournalists who are trying to do their jobs.
DeleteAnd those too high heels on her shoes are absurd on a woman of her height! She looks like she'd dwarf a giraffe. Besides, the giraffe would have prettier eyes.
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Every time I see her, I dislike her more.
DeletePhoto op that's all!
DeleteSeriously disgusting when people are losing everything including lives.
No, I think it's to remind us we can buy one for $40 on POS's website. 😎
DeleteWell, the airplane was presidential.
ReplyDeleteWe paid for it.
DeleteRussel Honore says don't congratulate. Send in the big guns, days ago. Don't be Texas amateur hour command center.
ReplyDeleteThe only thing in Texas yesterday larger than the destruction done by Harvey, was the size of the crowd that Drumpf spokee to. Just ask him.
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ReplyDeleteAnd another loss for Trump and the Nazis.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.yahoo.com/news/judge-halts-parts-texas-law-punish-sanctuary-cities-010520286.html
"A U.S. judge on Wednesday blocked sections of a Texas law intended to punish so-called "sanctuary cities", regarded as soft on immigration, in a ruling handed down two days before the law was due to come into effect."
"The decision in Texas could have ramifications nationwide as other Republican-controlled states are looking at legislation targeting sanctuary cities, which they say illegally shield immigrants."
Spicey finally got to meet the Pope!
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Good for him.
Trump treated him like dirt and he didn't deserve that.
I think it's a cool hat.
ReplyDeleteOf course, the Fox News crowd would have gone NUTS if Michelle had worn one, but still - it's a pretty cool hat and Melania looks good wearing it.
When will the trump cancer be surgically removed from the heart of America through impeachment or resignation? He clearly knows what crimes he has committed. He is nothing more than a info commercial con man and lousy actor. Broke in reality.
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