A year since they last met, President Donald Trump and his predecessor Barack Obama haven't spoken, the first time in decades two successive presidents have avoided communicating in the 12 months after handing off power.
Ties between presidents -- if not always friendly -- are usually at least existent. That Trump and Obama have avoided each other speaks to the unprecedented nature of the current White House, and the lingering animosity between two men who openly sparred during 2016's presidential campaign.
Trump hasn't shied away from blasting decisions Obama made during his tenure, and has steadily chipped away at key pieces of Obama's legacy like the Paris climate accord and the Affordable Care Act. He's also launched personal attacks, falsely claiming that Obama ordered the phones tapped at Trump Tower or that Obama failed to call family members of slain US servicemen.
Obama, meanwhile, has reserved his criticism of Trump for policy matters. On the rare occasions he's spoken publicly over the past year, he's made only veiled references to the current Oval Office occupant.
The last time they spoke, Trump and Obama were standing on the East Front of the US Capitol as an idling military helicopter stood nearby. Moments after Trump was inaugurated, Obama appeared loose and smiling, his post-presidency life about to begin.
Apparently Obama left the traditional note for his successor in the Oval Office, but when Trump tried to reach out to thank him Obama was unavailable, and that was his last attempt.
There is really nothing about this report that should necessarily surprise anyone, because seriously how could Obama engage in a productive manner with the guy who continues to vilify him even a year after the election, and who seems determined to wipe every one of his accomplishments out of the history books.
And by the way I do not think that Obama is the only former president from who Trump feels he does not need to seek advice.
I also doubt very seriously that he has ever reached out to George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, or Bill Clinton.
In Trump's opinion he does not need to rely on the advice from anyone, because he, and only HE, knows what should be done.
And that boys and girls is how America got all fucked up.
President Obama doesn't owe him jack shit. You're on your own, dotard, and have more than proven your unfitness, whiny cry baby.
ReplyDeleteThis will be called the #TrumpShutdown. There is no one who deserves the blame for the position we find ourselves in more than President Trump.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SenSchumer/status/954590994003087361
make this go viral.
#ShithioeShutdown
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Trump is jealous as can be of President Obama. I so dislike the fact he is trying to negate President Obama's two-term presidency!
ReplyDeletePresident Obama and VP Biden accomplished many things while serving and leading our country. Trump and Pence will never obtain the same regard as have their predecessors!
The only thing we know for sure is that President Obama is liked and respected throughout our country and around the world. Trump can't say the same thing and never will be able to. He's already disliked horribly everywhere and has horrible ratings (the worst recorded!) for having just completed his first year in office.
I'm proud I didn't cast my vote for Trump and doubt seriously he'll be elected to serve a second term should he even run.
He ran, never thinking he’d win, to make his name famous throughout the world. Instead, he became infamous.
Delete@ Anonymous7:28 AM, How ironic, is it not? His name means less then DOG SHIT to thinking compassionate smart people. To trumptards he is god king overlord trump. Goodthing trumptards are outnumbered. The day of reckoning is coming soon for them, i can't Fucking wait.
DeleteYou know trump is miserable
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/PrincessBravato/status/954740218145341442
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DT_o1sYU8AAbIPB.jpg
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/hes-too-illiterate-to-read-the-signs-trump-praised-himself-in-tweet-to-the-womens-march-and-then-got-pounded/
Delete'Honey, {BEAR}the march is against you.'
'All of the women marching hate you.'
'Another top pick for the Museum of Gaslighting and Propaganda. '
'Do my eyes deceive me, or is he trying to gaslight the entire #WomensMarch'
'Millions of strong women just grabbed you by'
YOUR tinywhitey dingleballs.
Folks, everything written about Trump that seems crazy is true: the Pee Pee tape, the eating habits, the Forbes spanking - it's all real. And there's a whole lot more.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/954142557587427328
"Hungarian Police Have A Warrant Out For Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka"
Deletehttps://www.buzzfeed.com/hayesbrown/hungarian-warrant-for-sebastian-gorka?utm_term=.sj7jMWRda#.vxRWBakeo
Can you imagine when the media gets to his family? Mother Melania, knowing her arranged marriage partner as she does, has another life. Ivanka is more than a good Jewish wife. Don Jr? Eric? Tiffany and Barron may be the most normal.
DeleteDon Jr & Eric are like
DeleteAndrew and Mark MadOFF
&
Uday and Qusay Hussain
combined! 'T'
45 been in office for 1yr. And he’s under criminal investigation, Germany is the world leader, he has no wall, Hilary isn’t in jail, the government is shut down, but he gave himself a big tax break. Those who voted for this idiot should be ashamed #TrumpShutdown #TrumpTrain
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/Cowboyfan3168/status/954748189634019328
https://twitter.com/search?q=%23TrumpShutdown
Of course, you do recall Trump telling us if we voted for Hillary, the President was be under FBI investigation and most of the President's assistants would be in jail.
DeleteHe was right.
I voted for Hillary, and sure enough, . . .
@ 1:25 HA HA you are right!!!
DeleteO.R. @1:25 Prophet for Profit!
DeleteCarter, too, who was a much better president than currently is given credit for.
ReplyDeleteSt Ronnie really helped screw Carter with the Iranian Condra stuff.
Delete" the Reagan Administration rewarded Iran for its participation in the plot by supplying Iran with weapons via Israel and by unblocking Iranian government monetary assets in US banks."
Delete"most notably former Iranian President Abulhassan Banisadr,[3] former naval intelligence officer and U.S. National Security Council member Gary Sick, and former Reagan/Bush campaign staffer and White House analyst Barbara Honegger—
have stood by the allegation."
"The issue of an "October Surprise" was brought up during an investigation by a House of Representatives Subcommittee into how the 1980 Reagan Campaign obtained debate briefing materials of then-President Carter. During the investigation (a.k.a. Debategate), the Subcommittee on Human Resources of the House Post Office and Civil Service Committee obtained access to Reagan Campaign documents and discovered numerous instances of documents and memorandum referencing a monitoring effort for any such October Surprise."
"The first printed instance of the October Surprise conspiracy theory has been attributed to a story in the December 2, 1980 issue of Executive Intelligence Review, a periodical published by followers of Lyndon LaRouche.[8] Written by Robert Dreyfuss,[9] the article cited information gleaned from "Iranian sources" in Paris as well as "Top level intelligence sources in Reagan's inner circle" as stating that Henry Kissinger met with representatives of Mohammad Beheshti during the week of November 12, 1980.[8] The story claimed that "pro-Reagan British intelligence circles and the Kissinger faction" meeting with the Iranians six to eight weeks prior had interfered with "President Carter's efforts to secure an arms-for-hostage deal with Teheran."[8] The LaRouche movement returned the story in the September 2, 1983 issue of New Solidarity stating "The deal...fell through when the hard-line mullahs boycotted the Majlis in late October.""
"January 20, 1981: Hostages are formally released into United States custody after spending 444 days in captivity. The release takes place just minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in as president." {37 Years ago TODAY}
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_Surprise_conspiracy_theory
"Sick, who had been a PhD student at Columbia University at the height of the Vietnam War, was a Carter White House staffer and admitted that "The story is tangled and murky, and it may never be fully unraveled.” He was unable to prove his claims, including that, in the days before the presidential election with daily press pools surrounding him and a public travel schedule, vice presidential candidate George H. W. Bush secretly left the country and met with Iranian officials in France to discuss the fate of the hostages." {FUCKUdickCHENEY}
Saint Ronnie was also our first divorced president. He opened the door for the current serial adulterer and sexual predator/abuser.
DeleteI have to disagree that being divorced leads to adultery and sexual abuse. besides you have to be married to commit adultery.
DeleteOP:maximalism
ReplyDelete"His seat-of-the-pants 2016 campaign taught him that lashing out impulsively at journalists and media figures—collectively and individually—rarely hurt him. To the contrary, it thrilled his base, enhanced his anti-establishment bona fides, and propelled his candidacy. Thin-skinned and bent on vanquishing all critics, unable to distinguish routine reporting from personal attacks, Trump is constitutionally incapable of ignoring the Fourth Estate. Even as he thrives on publicity and delights in the parade of big-league reporters who giddily bound after his every tweet, combat with the press corps has become the oxygen of his presidency."
" the name-calling, while unbefitting a president and perhaps intimidating to journalists plying their trade, is hardly the worst of it. It pales next to his drumbeat of accusations that reporters are inventing facts to hurt him. “Fake news” went from being a label for Daily Show-style satire to a name for bogus stories crafted for political or financial gain to an epithet that Trump bestows to seed doubt among his loyalists. Trump applies the term equally to stories that contain innocent mistakes and those that are completely true."
"For a half century, they have tried—and have now largely succeeded—in depicting the mainstream, aspirationally objective media as irredeemably biased. The roots lie in the ’60s, when Southerners seethed at the national media’s reporting on the civil rights movement—one of the first major stories in American public life that unfolded on the nightly news—and argued that a liberal slant distorted the news networks and pace-setting newspapers and magazines."
"By the ’90s and early 2000s, with the flourishing of openly right-wing broadcast media—first the talk-radio shows like Rush Limbaugh’s, then Fox News, and finally websites like Breitbart—it had become an article of faith that the aspirationally objective media were hopelessly biased. Over time, as the conservative broadcaster Charlie Sykes has explained, these outlets taught many followers to utterly disregard mainstream news, even basic factual information."
"Though American journalism has always boasted legions of heroic reporters and fair and able analysts, the business itself moved aggressively in the post-’60s era into the world of opinion, analysis, and context. Interpreting the news had always been crucial to journalism’s mission, but now what reporters made of the facts often eclipsed the facts that they reported."Twitter suits Trump because it lends itself to short unreflective outbursts, packed with anger and emotion, usually aimed at assailing somebody else in juvenile, mean-spirited terms. This denigrative approach has long been Trump’s modus operandi. Twitter provided a perfect outlet for it in a season of resentment and frustration."
" it’s unlikely to restore the relatively peaceable relations that, we can only now see, prevailed under Obama and others who came before. The conditions that corroded popular regard for the national news media remain firmly in place, and the methods that Trump devised, however impulsively or intuitively, will be there for the taking for the next angry demagogue to exploit."
https://www.thedailybeast.com/how-a-parasitic-president-trump-feasted-on-the-ailing-media?ref=home
"ONE COMMON DANGER"
ReplyDeleteThe “Arctic Drilling Experience National Disaster Park” has been shuttered during the #TrumpShutDown. The many attractions include hands on steam cleaning of oil soaked arctic beaches and tours of the sunken #ExxonValdez
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/smacktuna/status/954741893446823936
"Ex-RNC head Steele puts sole blame for government shutdown on ‘no-energy AWOL’ Donald Trump"
ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/ex-rnc-head-steele-puts-sole-blame-for-government-shutdown-on-no-energy-awol-donald-trump/
Michael Wolff — author of the book Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House — insinuated to Bill Maher that President Donald Trump is having an affair “right now” and that if readers know what to look for, the evidence is in the book.
ReplyDeleteThe “Real Time” host asked Wolff if there’s anything in the book that he wishes people would ask him about.
“There is, but I can’t tell you about it,” Wolff said coyly, according to The Daily Beast.
“Well, f*ck you, Mike,” Maher quipped.
There was one thing he wanted to put in, Wolff said, but told Maher, “I didn’t have the blue dress.”
“It’s about somebody’s he’s f*cking right now?” asked Maher asked.
“Yes,” Wolff said. “You just have to read between the lines.”
“Now that I’ve told you, when you hit that paragraph, you’ll say, ‘Bingo,’” he added.
Watch the video. embedded below:
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/watch-fire-and-fury-author-michael-wolff-tells-bill-maher-trump-is-having-an-affair-right-now/
Hope Hicks "steam cleaning" his pants?
Delete@8:48 "The only reason Wolff didn't put it in
Delete'Fire and Fury' is that he
“didn't have the blue dress.”"
"steam cleaning"
Hope Hicks was my guess as well. Access whenever and wherever he goes.
DeleteI am guessing it is the pants steamer that is on call 24/7. The others may be in and out when necessary.
DeleteThe prez has sex issues, like an addict. He can't be calling in various outside working girls. I don't think he is into OLD people for sex.
The White House blocked the House Intelligence Committee from interviewing Hope Hicks, a close aide to President Donald Trump, that had been set for Friday, according to the top Democrat on the panel—a move that again raises obstruction of justice concerns.
http://www.newsweek.com/hope-hicks-house-intelligence-interview-schiff-bannon-785588
Also Hicks was already stupid enough to date Lewandowski, a mini trump.
DeletePro-Trump GOP staffers wrote the ‘secret memo’ Republicans are trying to release: report
ReplyDelete...Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House intel committee, accused his colleagues of once again trying to “carry water” for White House.
“Rife with factual inaccuracies and referencing highly classified materials that most of Republican Intelligence Committee members were forced to acknowledge they had never read, this is meant only to give Republican House members a distorted view of the FBI,” Schiff said. “This may help carry White House water, but it is a deep disservice to our law enforcement professionals.”
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/gop-staffers-wrote-the-secret-memo-trump-backing-republicans-are-trying-to-release/
House GOPers Say A Secret Memo Could End The Trump-Russia Probe. Their Staff Wrote It.
#ReleaseTheMemo is the latest way Republicans on Capitol Hill are trying to undermine the Mueller probe.
House Republicans spent the end of the workweek telling everyone who would listen that the American people must be allowed to see a top-secret four-page document that could bring an end to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference with the 2016 elections.
One thing about that document: Republican staffers wrote it.
The memo Republican staffers compiled reveals information that is “absolutely shocking,” “sickening,” “jaw-dropping” and “worse than Watergate,” GOP members of Congress said Thursday and Friday. The document could send government officials to jail, one congressman said. “Is this happening in America or is this the KGB?” asked another.
Even the most plugged-in news consumer could be forgiven for thinking the classified memo is an executive branch document that exposes wrongdoing within the Justice Department and the FBI. It isn’t.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-russia-mueller-fbi-doj-house-gop_us_5a613a58e4b01d91b25446b5
President Obama will say something once don is through being a useful idiot. Since don is more than likely in bed watching the news, reading blogs and comments, he is witnessing millions of women marching against him, millions of tweets against him, millions of angry people all over the world protesting his illegal entry into our house. As he sits in our house he is circled by ghost of past, by flys on the wall, by bad evil spirits ready to take him where he belongs. Yep glad he has the time for reality today.
ReplyDeleteAnd WHO? Who actually goes to the McDonalds for his shithole food? Kelly Ann? Sarah Hucklenut, or the hick? or is it delivered?
I Too wonder about 'Who actually goes to the McDonalds for his shithole food? Kelly Ann? Sarah Hucklenut, or the hick? or is it delivered?'
DeleteWanna Bet ALL3 {4witH'O'} are in bed with tinydjt at the same time? feeding frenzy!
TRUMP LASHES OUT AS #TRUMPSHUTDOWN TRENDS WORLDWIDE ON INAUGURATION ANNIVERSARY
ReplyDeletehttps://shareblue.com/trump-lashes-trumpshutdown-trends-worldwide-inauguration-anniversary/
They need a new hashtag #youownthis.
Delete10:20 Like yes!
DeleteMake that either #trumpyouownthis, or #Trumpownsthis
DeleteNO. Trump owns this. Mitch McConnell owns this. Paul Ryan owns this. ALL of the Death Party owns this. Every fucking Deplorable that voted for Trump owns this.
DeleteSo #YouOwnThis covers them all.
http://www.pbs.org/video/i-am-not-your-negro-8mh6zo/
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Delete'"Mack The Knife" (Live) by Louis Armstrong (1959) —
Before Bobby Darin won a Grammy Award for Record of the Year for his #1 hit "Mack The Knife" which he first released in August 1959, Louis Armstrong had already introduced it to the US hit parade in 1956.
"Mack The Knife" or "The Ballad Of Mack The Knife," originally "Die Moritat Von Mackie Messer," was composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their opera "Die Dreigroschenoper," translated to English as "The Threepenny Opera," which premiered in Berlin in 1928. (I know, right?)
Bobby Darin Version: Dick Clark had advised Bobby Darin not to record the song because he didn't think that a song originating from an opera would appeal to a rock & roll audience. Years later, in hindsight of Bobby Darin's version reaching #1 on the Billboard Hot 100, #6 on the Black Singles chart, and winning the Grammy, Dick Clark recounted the story humorously. Frank Sinatra recorded the song in 1984, but called Bobby Darin's the "definitive" version. Billboard ranked Darin's version the #2 song for 1959 and #3 on their "All Time Top 100" chart. The Darin version was also ranked #251 on "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time" by Rolling Stone.
Simon Cowell (Judge on American Idol (2002-), between the years of 2002-2010, etc.) named "Mack The Knife" as the best song ever written.'
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Trump budget director caught admitting it’s “kind of cool” to shut down the government
ReplyDeletehttps://shareblue.com/trump-budget-director-mick-mulvaney-caught-admitting-its-kind-of-cool-to-shut-down-the-government/
Pres. Obama is a gentleman and would never directly say anything bad about trump. Since there is nothing good to say,he doesn't say anything.
ReplyDeleteAfter years of the birther crap,I'm sure Obama purposely said he wasn't available to take trump's call.
As for advice,trump doesn't listen to anyone,so why waste his time when he could be on the beach!
President Obama did get some licks in against Trump during his speech at the Correspondence Dinner, though. I'm betting Trump has never forgiven the President for making him look the fool.
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DeleteIt’s whyTrump ran, unfortunately
Shutdown Shitshow Draws Huge Ratings And Ruins Trump’s Plan To Party At Mar-a-lago
ReplyDeletehttps://wonkette.com/628582/shutdown-shitshow-draws-huge-ratings-and-ruins-trumps-party
Here’s how the government shutdown ends. Federal workers will go back to work eventually — but it might be a while before they get their paychecks.
ReplyDeleteThe United States federal government shut down at 12:01 am on Saturday as Republicans and Democrats remain in a standoff over the spending bill. But how it the shutdown end? Essentially, Congress has to reach a deal on a spending bill, which it hasn’t been able to do yet.
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/1/20/16913096/how-government-shutdown-ends
Meanwhile, the Dems tried to protect the military from the shutdown, but Mitch the Turtle had nothing of it!
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That’s because Bitch and McConnell are too busy placing the blame on Schumer and Democrats for refusing to bend the knee and submit to every fucking deplorable piece of shit the Republicans want.
DeleteSchumer and the Democrats better grow and pair and see this through. Give them a taste of their own arsenic and let them stew. Keep hammering that the Death Party OWNS the House, the Senate and the White House, It’s on them. All on them. They could easily have avoided this and could easily fix it, but they refuse unless they get their own way, all the way. Let them hold their breath until they turn blue and keep hammering this is all on Trump and the Republicans. Remind people over and over until November.
The problem is that not only do Republicans want their way all of the time with NO compromise when they’re in power, they also want it all when they’re in the minority. They are all fucking spoiled brats. It’s about time the suffered some consequences and were taught some discipline. Like shut up, grow up and learn to act like adults.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/20/trump-brags-shuts-government.html
ReplyDelete"“We are putting America first, making real change in Washington, and creating opportunities for all of our people,” Trump wrote. “From coast to coast, there is a renewed spirit. Our country is roaring back more quickly than anyone could have predicted. The American Dream is real again.”
The major focus of Trump’s op-ed was the economy, which he claims complete credit for, despite the fact that former President Barack Obama handed him the same strong economy a year ago today."
"Despite the steaming pile of garbage Trump penned on Saturday, there is one true accomplishment that he never mentioned: He’s the first modern president to oversee a government shutdown when his party is in complete control of Congress." <all bullshit
http://thehill.com/homenews/news/333782-report-obama-told-friends-trump-is-a-bulls-ter
Why would they talk to rump just will lie. Liar in chief.
ReplyDeleteGlad Mr. Obama has not talked to the demented one.
Sorry, but does anyone truly believe that Trump reached out to thank Obama for anything?
ReplyDeleteTrump thinks he knows it all and doesn’t need any help or advice from anyone.
I think we know how the former presidents feel too. Witness how many times they’ve come together to pick up the slack for the absence of the one that is supposed to be doing the job. The four got together more than once for charity and relief causes while Trump was off playing golf.
Unprecedented.
And unpresidented. Trump is the most unpresidential blob of meat to reside in the people’s house.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/20/chuck-schumer-right-3-ways-trump-just-like-jell-o.html
ReplyDelete1).Trump is soft (without viagra)
2). Like Jell-O, Trump is tasteless
3). Trump just like Jell-O is pointless at any gathering
"Jell-O is especially popular among members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church), often referred to as "Mormons". The Mormon Corridor region, which has the highest Mormon populations, was nicknamed the "Jell-O Belt"," referring to the 20th-century Mormon cultural stereotype that Mormons have an affinity for Jell-O In support of this image, Jell-O was designated as Utah's official state snack food in 2001. When drafting the resolution, the Utah Legislature gave many reasons to recognize Jell-O, including that Utah had had the highest per-capita consumption of Jell-O for many years, and how citizens of Utah had rallied to "Take Back the Title" after Des Moines, Iowa exceeded Utah in Jell-O consumption in 1999. The culture of Utah, petitions by Utahans, and campaigning by students of Brigham Young University were also mentioned as reasons for recognizing Jell-O.
BILL COSBY, longtime spokesperson for the Jell-O brand, appeared before the Utah Legislature in support of the bill. "He told the assembly that he believes the reason people in Utah love Jell-O is that the snack is perfect for families -- and the people of Utah are all about family."
Jell-O is often served with homemade cookies or cakes and water at L$D Church socials."
http://ew.com/tv/2018/01/20/trevor-noah-reggae-song-trump-tonight-show/
ReplyDeleteThat's not how America got fucked up. But it is a symptom of America being fucked up.
ReplyDeleteAmerica started getting really fucked up way back when Ronald Reagan was elected and the religious right got their noses in the door. But it was fucked up before that. Was fucked up when we got involved in Viet Nam, And probably when we bombed the shit out of North Korea during the Korean war.
We've been fucked up a long time. Trump is the result of us not dealing the our fucked-up-ness.
So, Trump hasn't reached out to former Presidents. Big deal.
ReplyDeleteHe's in constant contact with President Putin. What else does he need?
Is that picture photo shopped? I just noticed trump pointing his little finger at Obama
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