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this whole thingy is getting more weird as the days go by!
Jon Cooper?Verified account @joncoopertweets 3h3 hours ago
Ivanka Trump plans to review executive orders before they're signed: White House officials
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Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Kahuna7
(2,531 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Horse with no Name
(33,959 posts)that really is all that matters.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Crass complicit republican grifterette
riversedge
(70,464 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)That's exactly what she's doing, along with feeding her own inflated ego a bit. She's very much her father's daughter. They're more alike than many people realize, she's just not as unhinged as he is...yet.
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Even take maternity leave herself. He was unhinged.
True Dough
(17,392 posts)Botany
(70,657 posts)My guess is Ivanka doesn't want the daddy is batshit crazy meme to get more fuel.
BTW what are Ivanka's qualifications anyways?
******
This was a coup and we have treason.
Brother Buzz
(36,505 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)It feels like the American system of government as we knew it has already died and we're living in some sort of zombie alternate political universe and everyone's pretending that everything is normal.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Almost as though I am walking through a nightmare that I can't wake up from.
chia
(2,244 posts)and say "WAKE UP!!!!!"
It's like the Emperor's New Clothes. Everyone is gushing with praise over the Emperor's new clothes and you are the only one who can see that he's naked. You yell out to the crowd "He isn't wearing anything" but people still insist that his clothes are the finest they have ever seen and they convince both the Emperor and each other that his attire is truly exceptional.
You are just standing there, dumbfounded, because you can't believe that other people can't see what is so clear to you.
That is pretty much how I feel about Trump, but at least I have some reasonable people in my life who agree with me. But the fact that so many people cannot clearly see the horror that is Donald Trump makes me feel insane sometimes.
chia
(2,244 posts)Exactly, and that goes for public figures (in government, in media) and everyday encounters with regular citizens. If Hillary was doing the kinds of things that Trump et al. are doing, those same would be screaming from the rooftops.
Speaking of Hillary, she was slammed by Time Magazine's Tim Elliot in a quote that was twisted off its context like an unripe peach:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/05/02/this-one-clinton-quote-shows-why-her-supporters-hate-the-media/?utm_term=.5c43b666d3e0
Which reminds me again how complicit the press has been in the ascension of Trump. Why in the world should Trump and his minions be decrying the MSM when the MSM helped him get where he is?
I have to be so selective today about the media voices to whom I'll give any part of my trust.
dalton99a
(81,708 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)Thanks for that. I think.
we can do it
(12,222 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)She and Jared did challenge Bannon about the NSC, and got him out, and control to McMaster. They may not have been elected, but it I think they mitigate the damage at times.
Too bad they don't take his phone away. Don't get it. He says he doesn't email though, but still the unhinged tweets can do real damage.Remember when they took Obama"s Blackberry and he was a very cautious person.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)RedWedge
(618 posts)kacekwl
(7,028 posts)actually read some of his crap.
tanyev
(42,677 posts)you should have used your considerable influence to keep him from running. Complicit, indeed.
Raster
(20,998 posts)...If Jarvanka* are anywhere near as smart as they and others make them out to be, they BOTH SHOULD HAVE KNOWN that tRump* does not now have --and probably never did-- the mental acuity to serve as POTUS.
Freethinker65
(10,116 posts)We, as a family, went through this ourselves with my dad. Ivanka will need some respite soon. She cannot be the primary caregiver and de facto leader of this country.
Hekate
(91,042 posts)...for the two Enablers-in-Chief when they are in foreign lands or with the kids?
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Ilsa
(61,720 posts)Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)It's amazing that there's no pushback our outrage over this from the media yet. Just amazing....
PJMcK
(22,074 posts)Docreed2003
(16,905 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)PoorMonger
(844 posts)Then we can publicly blame and shame her for every terrible EO he puts out.
Should we start calling her president Ivanka yet?
2naSalit
(86,963 posts)or first wench? I despise the whole clan at this point and want them out of my White House and out of the country.
Czarina seems to think she's got some kind of intellect...
Hekate
(91,042 posts)Actually, I'm not sure where Bannon is these days, but he sure was potus in the beginning.
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)Deb
(3,742 posts)OUTTA OUR HOUSE THIEVES!!!
Xolodno
(6,412 posts)Looks like we got ourselves a second unofficial female President.
underpants
(183,043 posts)Trump doesn't understand that simply agreeeing and praising your boss/father doesn't make you smart.
hatrack
(59,606 posts)I do believe that in time Ill get to the right place, she said. In the short run Ill have missteps, and, in some cases, Ill take shots that I could have avoided if I had publicly said what I think.
Im really, really trying to learn, she added.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/us/politics/ivanka-trump.html?smid=tw-nytpolitics&smtyp=cur
Reassuring, isn't it? Butterfly Princess Grifty Sof-Tone (TM) is going to really, really try to advise Daddy President!
Ilsa
(61,720 posts)really really
How long before we're hearing very very, horrible horrible, etc?
FakeNoose
(32,917 posts)... which is to say ... no degree at all.
procon
(15,805 posts)Sculpin Beauregard
(1,046 posts)Think Ivana is up to raising grandkids?
irisblue
(33,059 posts)Hekate
(91,042 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,585 posts)irisblue
(33,059 posts)No f-ing right to do this.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Tanuki
(14,931 posts)and became incapable of carrying out the duties of his office:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Wilson
..."President Wilson suffered a severe stroke in October 1919. Edith Wilson began to screen all matters of state and decided which were important enough to bring to the bedridden president. In doing so, she de facto ran the executive branch of the government for the remainder of the president's second term, until March 1921.[1][2] She was the first First Lady to assume presidential functions."....
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)I guess it helped him with the Iran Contra testimony, as he really couldn't remember. Inadvertently, he taught future defendants the best way to answer.
samnsara
(17,665 posts)..they are afraid that since trump doesn't read them, someone will slip something in. Here sign this.....
JudyM
(29,294 posts)Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)I for one am glad she is doing this even though it's the most bizarre thing...
Solly Mack
(90,803 posts)Mr. Ected
(9,675 posts)Executive. Orders.
This guy delegates everything except his last name.
VOX
(22,976 posts)Terrific! You rock!
Ms. Toad
(34,130 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,258 posts)Wait, this isn't a joke?
blueinredohio
(6,797 posts)to make sure they make sense. Everyone knows he has dementia but when they are used by other people (all his kids, Pence, Bannon, and the rest of the republicans) who use him to further their own agendas isn't that elder abuse?
unblock
(52,503 posts)brush
(53,978 posts)Why would she have to review EOs?
That's just about an open admission that trump himself is unable to understand the orders himself.
He should be the one reviewing them, right?
3catwoman3
(24,133 posts)...Nancy was to Reagan.
Could she at least PLEASE get him to stop showing off his fucking signature every time he signs one? Like a 2 yr old with his finger painting from preschool - "Mommy, Mommy! Look what I did today."
(Or maybe more like the toddler who was left alone in his crib too long and has smeared poop all over the wall.)
erpowers
(9,350 posts)Is this another sign that Donald Trump is mentally unstable? Is she doing this because she knows he does not understand the executive orders he is signing?
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)To review executive orders you need a total knowledge of the body of related law.
Thrill
(19,178 posts)But it's real
Efilroft Sul
(3,586 posts)Equinox Moon
(6,344 posts)And how does one tweeted comment make this the definitive truth?
Demtexan
(1,588 posts)Her dad is to stupid to be president.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)and it's definitely not Ivanka.
I'm still mourning what we almost had, and lost.