Courtesy of WaPo:Trump says victims of Harvey are "really happy" & calls the storm "a wonderful thing for even the country to watch" pic.twitter.com/mG6Hs3hhF5— HawaiiDelilah (@HawaiiDelilah) September 2, 2017
President Trump swooped into this flood-ravaged city Saturday to meet with survivors of Hurricane Harvey in his second visit to Southeast Texas since the storm came ashore eight days ago.
After focusing exclusively on the government response to Harvey and staying out of the disaster zone during his first trip to the region Tuesday, Trump planned to highlight storm victims and shine the presidential spotlight on communities dramatically altered by Harvey’s enduring floodwaters.
Trump, who traveled here with first lady Melania Trump, met with residents affected by the storm at the NRG Center in Houston, stopping by a lunch line where volunteers were distributing hot dogs, chips and apple sauce.
The Trumps, escorted by Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R), stopped for hugs and posed for photos with storm survivors. In the children’s area of the center, the president got into a scrum with three boys, one with a fake sword, while the first lady sat on the floor with children and books.
“The message is that things are working out well. Really, I think people appreciate what’s been done. It’s been done very efficiently, very well, and that’s what we want,” the president said. “We’re very happy with the way everything is going. A lot of love. There’s a lot of love.”
Happy with the way everything is going?
He does realize that there is billions of dollars of damage to the state and people still trapped in their homes right?
Not to mention this.
Trump also participated in a number of photo ops where he pretended to load supplies onto a truck, and to do something helpful.BREAKING: AP Exclusive: Many Houston ultra-polluted Superfund sites are flooded, concerns about toxins spreading; EPA not on scene.— The Associated Press (@AP) September 2, 2017
Trump did a number of odd things during his visit, such as autographing a wall.
And bragging about the size of his hands.Trump signed his signature directly on the bare wall at the NRG center after meeting with storm victims (next to a "We Love Houston" poster) pic.twitter.com/KjdLw4U951— Toluse Olorunnipa (@ToluseO) September 2, 2017
You thought I made that last one up didn't you?As he puts on plastic gloves to serve food at NRG Stadium...President Trump turns to press and says: "My hands are too big!" pic.twitter.com/WIUTLOS4XD— Pat Ward (@WardDPatrick) September 2, 2017
Dolt45 out skanks Babs Bush and her horrid remarks during the Katrina evacuations. pResident photo op pant load takes clueless to a new level of insensitive jerk.
ReplyDeleteDonnie may or may not get out his checkbook. If he had any authenticity, he'd have his entire scam damn family and members of his maladministration write some hefty checks.
So his pledge is really for his million dollar appearance? Not for actual money.
Deletewhat a joke.
ReplyDeleteIt’s Become Obvious Trump Is Filming PR Video With Hurricane Shelter Visit (VIDEO)
http://addictinginfo.com/2017/09/02/its-become-obvious-trump-is-filming-pr-video-with-hurricane-shelter-visit-video/
http://addictinginfo.com/2017/09/02/trump-stops-praising-coast-guards-harvey-efforts-to-viciously-attack-the-media-video/
http://addictinginfo.com/2017/09/02/trump-brags-about-hand-size-while-at-hurricane-shelter-and-its-beyond-weird-video/
PR Video... yep, he the great. He is not going to miss this opportunity to film the wonderfulness.
DeleteHe actually said, "Have a good time" to a pickup truck driver after handing him a box of supplies.
Delete"Have a good time?!?"
People have died, more are likely to die...and this tonedeaf Mango Menace just...doesn't...get it. Not even on his SECOND visit.
He's a clinical narcissistic sociopath, at the very least.
I loved the way nobody paid any attention to his "My hands are too big." And that waited so long to see if anybody was paying attention (they weren't) before he said it.
DeleteHonestly, he looks like some old fart let out on a day pass. Wondering around -- unable to grasp he was irrelevant.
His visit only cements his complete lack of empathy, which the visit was suppose to highlight. BAAAAH !!!
There's a good comparison of him to Lenny Bruce in his late stage, drug-addled,suicidal, severely mentally disturbed performances (and no, we're not talking about the obscenity, but the self-absorbed narcissism which audiences found boring.)
DeleteSome dumbfucks on MSNBC were saying how well he did on this visit and how compassionate and "presidential" he was. They gave his visit a B+.WTF?????
DeleteDJT is still seething about the late, great SPY magazine calling him a "short-fingered vulgarian" repeatedly, starting in 1988 (h/t to Graydon Carter, now editor of Vanity Fair).
ReplyDeleteOddly, to my knowledge DJT never has objected to the "vulgarian" part of the description. Just the "short-fingered" part... and for nearly thirty years! Jeez Louise, with all due respect to those named Louise.
Quite possibly he vaguely recognizes "vulgarian" as Latin, and quite rightly associates it with Roman Emperors. You know, Caligula, Nero, Mussolini......
DeleteWild Tortoies
Good catch! Mrs. T.
DeleteThanks, Anon.! I still have stacks of yellowing SPY magazines in the basement of Casa Biscuitbarrel, and vividly remember the "short-fingered vulgarian" flap from its beginning.
DeleteRobert Mueller now has numerous members of Donald Trump’s senior staff nailed on felonies
ReplyDelete...In legal terms that’s referred to as “misprision of a felony” and it’s a felony in and of itself.
...He can now threaten to charge Trump’s advisers with misprision of a felony in order to get them to fess up about Trump’s obstruction of justice. Some of these current and former advisers are less loyal to Trump than others, and some will flip and cooperate, if they haven’t already.
http://www.palmerreport.com/opinion/senior-staff-mueller-nailed/4684/
Is that like "a murder of crows"?
DeleteLovin' it!
I just don't know if Trump realizes these people are in peril and most likely scared to death. My heart goes out to them. These people need money, transportation, housing, food, water and a working toilet. Gonna be a long road and many will be homeless for a long time. Seems a lot like a third world country begging for help,
ReplyDeleteNo, he doesn't. Psychopaths/sociopaths/narcissists have no empathy wiring. The don't think anybody else really does either.
DeleteShort fingers got no reason
ReplyDeleteShort fingers got no reason
Short fingers got no reason
He's got little hands
And little eyes
And he walks around
Tellin' great big lies
Don't need no short fingered vulgarians round here
Ha! ^
DeleteFabulous! Hooray for Randy Newman!
DeleteLOL -- !
DeleteWonder if Randy would do a reprise if you sent that to him? Newman supported President Obama and wrote a satire song about voting for white candidates.
DeleteGreat! I'm sure that Randy N. would approve of you using his song in this way.
DeleteSo DJT takes to the road with a dog and pony show. Sad that many will perceive him as actually doing something other than getting in the way of real help. Although, the more he exposes himself to the "true" media, the more he diminishes his brand. So perhaps in the long run, he is slitting his own throat. Small mercies on the path to his resignation. Still predicting February, although like DJT, that is subject to change.
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The "I will give a million dollars " President. He has cost us taxpayers a hell of a lot more than that ! And has made money from us off of us paying for him to play golf every weekend at his properties. He stated he will stay at the White House this weekend like it's a big sacrifice.
DeleteIt's his job! The dumb ass.
Not to mention he lambasts the press for not going into the storm where the Coast Guard did. a) the press was often on scene BEFORE the USCG and b) why would it be the press's job? and c) they were likely told NO GO BY the USCG. Just how stupid is the orange cretin?
DeleteTrump has nary a clue about anything in the world that surround him!
ReplyDeleteHmmm.....I'm not a McCain fan. Guess he no longer has anything to lose. Amazing how sometimes that can bring out the "better" in people. And God knows, he has much to redeem after $arah.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cnn.com/2017/09/02/politics/mccain-regular-order-oped/index.html
GeorgiaPeach
McCain's idea of "regular order" in the Senate is for the GOP to pass all of its hateful legislative agenda, making the very rich richer and doing the worst to the poor. And lots more money for the military. Remember he gave the world Sarah Palin.
DeleteBeaglemom
Too little, too late. But anything helps at this point.
DeleteKristofferson and Jolplin said it a long, long time ago - still the truth - Freedom's just another word, for nothin' left to lose.
DeletePLEASE make it stop.
ReplyDeleteIt is not stopping without more activists. More deadly than Malaria...
Deletehttps://pbs.twimg.com/media/DIw7viCXUAAMOl0.jpg
I won't say please it's too polite.
DeleteBlame a passive naive generation who could have voted and stayed home believing an anomaly like Trump would never happen.
Never again!If you want to do your kids a favor make them look at this mess we are in. Quit giving them free rides so they never have to want.
I see so much of this from helicopter parents who have money.
Yep, truly concerned about this iGEN (eration.) Most arrived on university campuses in late August. Even though mall have the iphone umbilical cord connecting them to mommy on a daily basis, they are still running home on this holiday weekend. That's right, 18 and 19 year olds who can't handle physically being away from home for even a month! Talk about fragile!
DeleteEveryone is involved and getting more and more peeps to pitch in. So much to do in Tx, La now. Don't lax, don't be a showman show.
ReplyDeleteTalk about humanity. The scene at @austinpetsalive this morning. Beautiful to see the community (and world) come together. #HurricaneHarvey
https://twitter.com/kelljokrause/status/904086351280312320
Dear God some people give me such hope: REPORTER: What are you going to do?
DeleteHERO: I'm gonna save some lives. https://twitter.com/Mikel_Jollett/status/901883917950631936
Is he going to give up his stupid wall money to help American citizens. Always about him, this idiot can never rise above himself and don't even start me on Melania, wearing her Texas hat complete with full makeup and a cute ponytail.I am so inspired! Snark. I bet they went back to the White House and scrubbed themselves to get rid of the smell. Although, our First Lady of soft porn should be used to bodily smells.
ReplyDeleteTrump could not help but make a stupid remark to the same press that is covering his shit show.He keeps giving them fodder and blames them.
Anyone who thinks this is a leader is either nuts or stupid. Anyone who thinks this former hooker so called First Lady really cares about anything but how she looks is blind.
We have a total spoiled egotistical maniac as President and a total sell out for money First Lady, she was an immigrant herself until she sold it for cash.
Pres. Twit and the First Twat had a do-over because of the flack they got over their first try? I suppose that photo op of Pence clearing debris didn't go over very well. Trump has to one-up him and serve some gruel to the homeless.
ReplyDeleteTag a wall while he's at it.
Did he kick and puppies or steal any candy while he was at it?
The money that ass president spent flying there twice could have gone to Texas. When has he ever done anything but tweet.
DeleteThis is a major catrastophe and he turns it into a photo op. He makes a snide remark to the press about his hands, Melania " Gives" it to the press by wearing high heels before she changes her shoes, well that is her sole job isen't it? What is her agenda besides looking good and propping up a fat, egotistical idiot with the kind of money to pay for her botox and personal trainers and her wardrobe and fake boobs.
And Breitfart calls that class. Melania Trump has sent women back to reality so thank her for that.
In this age of Kardashions we women know the score and the reality.
Remember Pheobe Snow's song At Seventeen. Nothing has changed.It's reallity.
This time they took many, many photos of Trump hugging people. It really was a do over. You are right, the money spent hauling them to Texas could have been better spent.
DeleteAll I can think is what a GREAT place that will be for kids and taggers in the future to use as background for Insta memes and protest art.
DeleteCuckoo-cuckoo!
ReplyDeleteGo away forever Donnie. We don't need your bs here now. Only idiots and fools want you around.
ReplyDeleteNot that Marla ever made any jokes about his small hands. Or his small anything else. I bet she never called his A$$ small though!
ReplyDeletehttp://deadspin.com/this-shitty-tennis-player-would-one-day-be-president-1796344200
Actually, I'm beginning to think Melania would be the better POTUS regardless of her past. Plus, she didn't run for FLOTUS and it feels shitty to me to tar her with the same brush. DJT's a dumb box of rocks. Melania's on a ride she didn't ask for. I'm not trashing her. We all make bad choices. JMO.
ReplyDeleteGeorgiaPeach
Don't be fooled. She seems comfortable sitting next to putin.
DeleteShe asked for it when she married him.
DeleteI give her no pass you either have principles or you don't . If you choose to have boob implants and nose jobs to marry money that was her choice. She asked for that ride hell,
her goal was to have that ride. She could have walked away don't tell me she did not do it for the money.
She likes the title as much as Trump does , she is just smarter than him. She had a choice she is no victim here. She accepted that ride.
She is not a victim here
She may not have specifically asked for it, but she married the asshole. If she didn't know what she was getting into with that, then tough. She can work for that green card and what money there might be left after he drains the U.S. taxpayer's coffers and pays off the Russian mobsters.
DeleteShe has no salable skills except arm candy.
Yes, everyone makes bad choices at times. MOST of us correct them by moving on, divorcing. Many women have no choice but to stay for the sake of the kids. This porn, naked "top model" is there ONLY for the $$$ and lifestyle. I have no respect for her, not for what she did as an immigrant, or what she is doing now. Does she EVER smile? I hope she really is as miserable as she looks, she deserves it, helping him try to fool people, defending the ass. Time for bigger boob implants, in one photo I thought she was Barron!!
DeleteShe's scared of him and it shows.
DeleteThen you're an idiot falling into the anti-feminist bandwagaon, Peachy. She's complicit and complacent about that. She could have opted out - she's shown us she can, just like she refused to move with her special needs kid into the White House because he's adjusted to hi school. Wonder what the payoff was? A hundred "won't bother you for even a blowjob" nights? or maybe she's paid in carats? Watch for a new set.
Delete51/ Emin was then married to the daughter of Azerbaijan's president. Trump had signed a big Azerbaijan deal in 2012.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/903708670739042304
Oh a photo op for the scrap book. I don't know but it may be too painful to listen and see that man while suffering the loss of my home and town. The ass has caused unspeakable suffering all ready.
ReplyDeleteYep, keep up the logic - ANY amount of money spent on the wall would be better spent on cleanup of the Gulf Coast. Down to the last penny.
DeleteHe will have footage for a Trump documentary. He loves everyone and all that.
ReplyDeleteSo far, oil companies have submitted 18 incident reports of air pollution caused by Harvey.
https://twitter.com/TexasMonthly/status/904093843557146625
What planet does Trump live on...people are happy as they walk around the shelters? Sure, they are alive and safe for now but I am certain very few are "happy." Trump lifted one or two styrofoam food boxes and distributed them (wow!) and Melania sat on the floor with a few children and read to them (really?)
ReplyDeleteThen Trump autographs a wall...he must always promote himself. And it's a good thing that he brought some of the people in his White House along because they are even better informed than Trump is. What a joke. Oh well, now he can completely forget these poor souls and get back to his viscous agenda.
He did work hard. He now has all the photos he'll ever need to prove how touchy feely he is loving everybody. He won't have to do that again. I bet his quacky doc shot him up with antibiotics. The Evangelists would have hands on prayers. It is amazing a germaphobe can give such a performance.
ReplyDelete'How Donald Trump and Elaine Chao Sold Off Flood-Control Policy to the Highest Bidders
In mid-August, the administration moved to gut a necessary initiative to guarantee the flood resilience of infrastructure.'
http://billmoyers.com/story/donald-trump-elaine-chao-sold-off-flood-control-policy-highest-bidders/
UH OH!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/chelsea-clinton-hammers-trump-over-harvey-comments/
Thousands of files containing personal information of military members left open to the public
ReplyDeletehttp://thehill.com/policy/cybersecurity/349018-recruiter-allegedly-left-military-contractor-resumes-online-unsecure
This is probably worse for Trump. He will ALWAYS be compared to Obama and be found wanting. This do-over and photo ops will just make it worse. It's killing him inside a little at a time. (And I think we'll pay for it when he explodes in one, big destructive tantrum)
ReplyDeleteHuffington Post has posted the letter that Obama left fro Trump on the Resolute desk. It's a great letter. And you can see how Trump is ignoring Obama's advice or doing the exact opposite. My personal feeling is he never read it nor had anyone read it to him. He either stuck it in a drawer, had it taken away or filed or he had it destroyed unread.
I'm sure Obama had a copy and that is what was released.
That will hurt Trump too since it's all to obvious he's ignored the letter, whether read or unread.
I'm surprised that there were no protest at his arrival to insult. That may have sent a message to him. NO THANKS. Its not his decision in relief funds. It is the people and their congress who will help financially. His BS about personally donating 1 million was just that BS. Donating other peoples money is not a personal donation, And the foundation is under investigation.
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