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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo of confused, grasping, senile man desperately trying to maintain cognitive cohesion:
This is a man who should not be asked what he wants for lunch today, let alone tackle the most difficult domestic problem of the largest free democracy in the world.
Notice the body language of everyone else: They've been here all year and have decided to keep prompting him in case they can get him to agree with them for a few seconds. But they know he can be steered around a moment later and will forget anything he's previously said.
This is a person who would not be allowed to run a mcDonalds franchise, let alone the free world.
blaze
(6,391 posts)Looks like it was just another op for everyone to fawn over t.
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Even breaks my heart that his children care more about money (they already have), than their father. Of course, it seems he is such a nasty SOB that they don't care, which puts us all in grave danger.
Funtatlaguy
(10,894 posts)The McRib sandwich is so delicious we may have it year round.
The McRib, some say, is terrible. We may drop it.
lindysalsagal
(20,792 posts)Has been popular in the past. People all agree our mcsalad can do the job of both, and since we are here to please everyone, I'll keep both options on the table and table whatever the group agrees to since I know America expects that of us and we can't go back on our promises and suchlike. Hilary Clinton is the worst president this country has ever seen. Something must be done for the sake of coal minors.
MyOwnPeace
(16,954 posts)I could really hear him saying all of that!
secondwind
(16,903 posts)A defensive posture which, to me anyway, also is a sign of just try and stop me. God, what an awful man we have put in the White House.
llmart
(15,567 posts)It's a posture my narcissistic/bully/immature former husband adopted when he was in over his head with someone (usually me) who was smarter and more self-assured than he was.
marble falls
(57,494 posts)Vinca
(50,328 posts)Democrats - and Republicans for that matter - were props on the set. I imagine the title on the script was "The President As a Stable Genius." The only surprise was no commercial breaks for Trump wine.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Clearly, they are all bad actors (some in more ways than one). And of course, the continuing motif of genuflecting and scraping to his highness.
But, yes, your instincts are absolutely dead center.
MyOwnPeace
(16,954 posts)I expected to see a video of IQ45 trying to sing the National Anthem (same title works for that video)!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,071 posts)She knew the RepubliCONs would correct him, but she got his own answer on the record.
It was a win-win moment for the Democrats and she seized it. Win for the way he answered and win for the way tRump got exposed for the demented man he is.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)it didn't work. He has no idea what a clean bill is.
He will sign anything they bring him.
He changed his views several times.
Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)n/t
duforsure
(11,885 posts)trying to make a delusional and confused man look stable , but failed miserably, again. It proves the opposite of what they were trying to do. He knows and understands nothing.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Starring a scripted (and probably cued by earpiece) Donald Behold My Stable Genius Trump, and a gaggle of sycophants too numerous to name. (Remember, Trump carries a Screen Actors Guild Card.)
As for the bipartisan bullshit, its an awful lot like a wooden horse (on wheels, yet!) stuffed on the sly with some scheming Greek warriors.
Please, do not drag that thing inside the gates. Its going to be, DACA for you, and a Wall and profiling and the Ghost of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for us. Deal or no deal?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,071 posts)Townhall.com:
Some in the media were duped by the theatrical aspect of having TV cameras present as if it were a "reality show-style look behind the scenes," (CNN's words) though beware this excerpt is Townhall's paraphrasing and spin:
Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg added that given the allegations in the book, Trump needed to meet with Democrats and an image improvement and this meeting satisfied those two goals.
Bashs CNN colleague John King said what we saw today was a very engaged president,
CNN's site has "analysis" saying "The uproar sowed by Michael Wolff's bestseller "Fire and Fury" left Donald Trump needing a counternarrative and to project an image of control, authority and an even temperament. On Tuesday, he largely pulled it off."
But it also has a story headlined: "Trump contradicts self repeatedly in immigration meeting".
Even the analysis piece admits it: "Yet the compelling back-and-forth also exposed some of the President's liabilities, notably a hazy command of policy details, a tendency to adopt multiple, contradicting positions on key issues at the same time as well as his habit of misrepresenting the facts in service of his political views."
In my book, that is not being "in command" or "engaged".
Of course the Trumpanzees were smitten:
5 posted on 1/9/2018, 10:17:03 PM by Newbomb Turk
Made Michael "Trump is Unfit for Office" Wolff looked like the idiot he is. Too bad he's going to get rich off his Fake Book sales.
30 posted on 1/9/2018, 11:36:18 PM by nutmeg (Trump/Pence 2020)
Skittles
(153,298 posts)HE IS SUCH A FUCKING MORON