The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[Strat]

Is Trump the president we needed?

[96583UP]

he is the all-night blackout drunk puking session that America needs to realize it must get its life back on track

[96583UP]

now we must stare at the faint silhouettes of our heads glimmering back at us from the toilet water below for 3.5 more years as we transition from wet-heaving to dry; thinking to ourselves that we will never do this to ourselves again

[96583UP]

but then next weekend is Cody's house party and if we don't go people will be like 'where is he' and so we just end up doing it all over again

[McParadigm]

Fuckin Cody, man.

[McParadigm]

Well when you put it like that...

The shake-up followed a week that saw the bombastic, with-me-or-against-me president defied as never before by Washington and its institutions, including Republicans in Congress, his own attorney general, the uniformed military leadership, police officers and even the Boy Scouts. No longer daunted by a president with a Twitter account that he uses like a Gatling gun, members of his own party made clear that they were increasingly willing to stand against him on issues like health care and Russia.

[McParadigm]

This is brutal:

http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... g-salesman

Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.

He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.” Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact.

[Strat]

This is brutal:

http://amp.nationalreview.com/article/4 ... g-salesman

Trump is the political version of a pickup artist, and Republicans — and America — went to bed with him convinced that he was something other than what he is. Trump inherited his fortune but describes himself as though he were a self-made man.

He has had a middling career in real estate and a poor one as a hotelier and casino operator but convinced people he is a titan of industry. He has never managed a large, complex corporate enterprise, but he did play an executive on a reality show. He presents himself as a confident ladies’ man but is so insecure that he invented an imaginary friend to lie to the New York press about his love life and is now married to a woman who is open and blasé about the fact that she married him for his money.

He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is “Woody Allen without the humor.” Peggy Noonan, to whom we owe that observation, has his number: He is soft, weak, whimpering, and petulant. He isn’t smart enough to do the job and isn’t man enough to own up to the fact.

Geezes. That was a fun one to read!

[The Argonaut]

McD's quoted is buried under a whole lot of literary criticism, though. I liked that, it was just surprising.

[Anders]

He wants to be John Wayne, but what he is is Woody Allen without the humor.

Exactly.

[McParadigm]

White House says it wants to "solve" NK and Iran by year's end, so it can go into 18 with natsec cred.

As absurd an idea as it is terrifying.

[Norah]

Mooch is out, lol.

[doug rr]

[Jorge]

Mooch is out, lol.

Amazing

[doug rr]

might have to watch today's press briefing

[Biff Pocoroba]

Honestly 99.9% of the real world would have been fired after that interview anyway.

[Simple Torture]

I feel like we all deserve an apology for having to learn his name for a week.

[Strat]

My gut's telling me that we almost need a dedicated Mooch thread.

I'm afraid he'll be fired by the time we reach page 5 and thus wasting precious bandwidth.

[dimejinky99]

Trump should just install ejector seats in all the offices at this point.

[Anders]