Saturday, March 3, 2018

Perhaps it's CNN that has their priorities wrong?

Don Lemon apologizes, sort of

So Don Lemon was rambling on during a CNN segment, where he attacked Fox News for not covering the news that Hope Hicks stepped down from her White House role. Of course Fox News had covered it, just apparently not with the enthusiasm that Lemon believed that they should.

The problem here is that Don Lemon is completely void of the idea that perhaps CNN spends too much time on things that really are not that important to the broader public (and perhaps that is why they suck as a network).  Who really knows (or cares) about Hope Hicks?

I would only guess that it falls below the Russian Collusion story which ranked as a cool #17 in a recent survey of American priorities.

 Does CNN stand for Collusion News Network?

DON LEMON: I said something last night that was an attempt to make a broader point about FOX News and how they downplay bad news about the administration. I think you understood it. Most people understood it.


I was saying that I think it was a bad example about Hope Hicks but there was a broader context if you watched the entire show about how FOX hadn't covered -I didn't mean that they hadn't covered it at all, but how they broadly downplay big stories and important news for this White House...

It wasn't particularly this, but they had covered it, though. So that was a bad example and so apologies for that.

96 comments:

Commonsense said...

People are noticing and leaving. Even the anti-Trump liberals are bailing for MSNBC.

Commonsense said...

Despite the media bashing Trump is still holding at 49% approval.

commie said...

Strange how far out Rasmussen is compared to the rest except of right direction wrong....how can he have a 49% approval with such a low right direction???? I'm sure our cramps will be able to explain....like his ,6% growth....lOLOLOL

Direction of Country Rasmussen Reports Right Direction 37, Wrong Track 56

President Trump Job Approval Economist/YouGov Approve 44, Disapprove 53 Disapprove +9
President Trump Job Approval Reuters/Ipsos Approve 40, Disapprove 56 Disapprove +16

President Trump Job Approval Gallup Approve 39, Disapprove 56 Disapprove +17

Anonymous said...

HB really, you would think after 12 plus years of you being wrong on the Economy and your own failures in your personal life you would stop attempting to post on all things. But yet you have no knowledge or self control so you post the stupidest things.

"Despite what the racist denial of the President issuing his tarrif's when he was in a Nixonian rage, his decision endangers the world economy and could trigger inflation we haven't seen sine the 1980s. "

Obama did it. Crickets from you.

Inflation in the 80'S = 5.82 Average

Inflation. In the 70"s = 7.26 Average.

HB, You are the blogs retard. So inflation was so bad because during Reagan that it dropped from Carter Years.

Commonsense said...

Strange how far out Rasmussen is compared to the rest except of right direction wrong..

Rasmussen polls likely voters. The rest are either all adults or register voters.

As for the right track/wrong track number, I chalk it up to the ongoing media hysteria people are bombarded with.

The reason is consumer confidence is high and people's feeling about economy and their personal financial situation is also high.

Needless to say that contradict the right track/wrong track number.

Commonsense said...

In another interesting editorial decision, the only news network to give the Billy Graham funeral wall to wall coverages was Fox News.

CNN, and MSNBC barely mention it. The ratings book for yesterday's noon hour will be interesting.

commie said...


Obama did it.

Did what? Eliminate 18000 or so tariffs?????

Yer an idiot....

commie said...

Rasmussen polls likely voters.

So......And your conclusion of hysteria should also puke over to the trump approval numbers.....doncha think...????? I didn't mention consumer confidence.....and that has no roll over to right track wrong track in rasmussen.....asshole...Your desperation is rather amusing...

commie said...

RCP average 2/16 - 3/1 -- 41.2 55.2 -14.0


I like the average......that should correct any bias you think is involved.....-14 really sucks no matter how much lipstick you put on Chuckleberry's lips....

commie said...

cramps of menstral....

the only news network to give the Billy Graham funeral wall to wall coverages was Fox News.

Another huge yawn, scotty....There was plenty of coverage for me on all networks.....

Great article, James said...

N. Korea calls her a 'poisonous mushroom.' She takes that as a compliment.
NBC News
Richard Engel and Kennett Werner
8 hrs ago

James said...

Speaking of priorities,
I bet Fox News didn't report on this.
_________
Days before the election, Stormy Daniels threatened to cancel deal to keep alleged affair with Trump secret
The Washington Post
Beth Reinhard, Frances Stead Sellers, Emma Brown
12 hrs ago
______
And if Obama had been involved in anything remotely resembling this,
what would Fox and Sean Hannity have done?

Loretta said...

Sowing seeds of discontent and division again.

commie said...

Sowing seeds of discontent and division again

You mean trump is still tweeting lies and BS????? When is he going to dump Jared and his WH financing????? Said a long time ago the punk would be trumps headache....and he sure has turned into one not knowing how to act ..

James said...

politicalwire.com:
A Week of Surprises Leaves GOP Confused

Trump bounces around like a ball on issues.

wphamilton said...

With 75% of the public taking the investigation seriously or very seriously in the poll that you featured, I'd say that CNN's priorities are in the right place by covering it.

Loretta said...

I still think there should be an award going to anyone who can decipher opie's comments, lol.

James said...

True, Trump IS sowing seeds of discontent and division.

James said Brennan said...

“When I hear what Vladimir Putin was saying just yesterday about the nuclear capabilities he has, the President of the United States is tweeting about Alec Baldwin this morning, I mean, where is your sense of priorities? I think a lot of Americans are looking at what’s happening with a sense of — this is surreal. And I’m hoping that those in Congress as well as the 30 percent of Americans out there who still believe in what Mr. Trump is saying, will look past that and say, are we really doing what we need to do as a country to protect ourselves and ensure our children and grandchildren are going to be remain safe, secure and prosperous in the future? And I have my serious, serious doubts. And the longer this goes on, the worse it’s going to get.”
— Former CIA Director John Brennan, in an interview with MSNBC.

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

Not A Single CNN Show Is In The Top 20 For Cable News

How low can they go? I guess as low as their "reporting". Kind of like the lying, spamming "pastor" and his sidekick. What a "pear", keeping it in CNN lingo.

ROFLMFAO !!!

https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/969304121328185344/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fdailycaller.com%2F2018%2F03%2F01%2Fcnn-ratings-falling%2F

commie said...

Let him eat cake....another place you can burn your money to support a pedophie...

Politics
Roy Moore issues grievance-laden plea for money: 'My resources have been depleted'
Orlando Sentinel 16 hours ago

Embattled former Senate candidate Roy Moore is making a public plea for help paying the legal fees he faces defending himself from a lawsuit brought by the Alabama woman who says he touched her sexually when she was 14 years old. In a statement posted on his Senate campaign's Facebook page, the Republican former judge made the ask in a grievance-filled note, saying that he faced a "vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D.C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me." "My resources have been depleted and I have struggled to make ends meet," Moore wrote, saying that his legal fees could exceed $100,000. "I have had ...

commie said...

ot A Single CNN Show Is In The Top 20 For Cable News


Who other than fucking daddy gives a rats ass?????? LOLOL at you again...Do you own stock??? Maybe trump can tell you how big his dick is....I'm sure it is massive...

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

commie said - pedophie... I think you must mean pedopie

What a pair

ROFLMFAO !!!

Anonymous said...

Did what?, " stupid oPie

President Obama slapped a stiff 35% tariff on Chinese tires in 2009 after American companies complained about unfair competition. They said China was flooding America with tires at low prices making it tough for U.S. companies to compete. The tire tariff gradually waned, and finally ended in 2012.".

The left knows nothing.

Oh dear, James said...


Trump Confidant Dumped Steel-Related Stock

“Billionaire investor and longtime Trump confidant Carl Icahn dumped $31.3 million of stock in a company heavily dependent on steel last week, just days before Trump announced plans to impose steep tariffs on steel imports,” ThinkProgress reports.

Oh dear, dear, dear James said...

Trump Was ‘Unglued’ When He Started a Trade War

NBC News: “According to two officials, Trump’s decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.”
“On Wednesday evening, the president became ‘unglued,’ in the words of one official familiar with the president’s state of mind.

“A trifecta of events had set him off on in a way that two officials said they had not seen before: Hope Hicks’ testimony to lawmakers investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, conduct by his embattled attorney general and the treatment of his son-in-law by his chief of staff.”

Anonymous said...

Pedopie,

Anonymous said...

Pedopie, unglued pimp obimbo the monkey did it.

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

Maybe opie should look at what he's posting on which is :

"Perhaps it's CNN that has their priorities wrong?"

and why are you concerned about Trumps dick?

very strange and creepy, like the spamming lying "pastor"

what a pair

ROFLMFAO !!!

Oh dear, dear, dear, dear, dear dear, James said...

Mueller’s Net Is Tightening Around Trump’s Inner Circle

Randall Eliason: “Special counsel Robert Mueller “is significantly turning up the heat on President Trump. While the president once again attacks his own attorney general and declares himself the victim of a ‘witch hunt,’ he faces increasingly ominous signs that Mueller has the president’s innermost circle — and Trump himself — in his sights.”
“Mueller remains unlikely to indict the president, but any findings that Trump was involved in criminal activity could lead to calls for impeachment. And the constraints around indicting a sitting president do not apply to those closest to him, including members of his family who were deeply involved in his campaign. This week has brought the clearest signs yet that Mueller’s net is tightening around the White House — and maybe the president himself.”

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

Any more lies about the Rev Billy Graham "pastor" ?

Or are you too busy spamming ?

Never mind... Well, who's your daddy?

EOFLMFAO !!!


Loretta said...

"very strange and creepy, like the spamming lying "pastor"

what a pair"

lol

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

OOOPPPSSS

*ROFLMFAO !!!

commie said...

loretta the lonesome loser posits...

I still think there should be an award going to anyone who can decipher pie's comments, lol.

So original loser...continue the slurping....LOL

commie said...

Fucking idiot daddy posted...
Maybe opie should look at what he's posting on which is :

"Perhaps it's CNN that has their priorities wrong?"

Maybe you should call someone who gives a shit...like loretta the loser....LOLOLOLO

Funny how little thought you provide in any of your stupid posts....idiot...whoever the fuck you are...asshole

Loretta said...

SO....

We have a fraud who sows seeds of discontent and division, yet claims to be a Christian...

And, a commie who can't string together two coherent sentences.

JFD is right...

What a pair.

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...

pedopie said Funny how little thought you provide in any of your stupid posts....idiot...whoever the fuck you are...asshole"

Just speaking to the level of my audience, thanks for the thoughtful response.

ROFLMFAO !!!

commie said...

int and division, yet claims to be a Christian...

While the lonesome loser loretta claims to be a human....BWAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!! Dayum funny how she is a perfect asshole....!!!

Loretta said...

Poor thing.

commie said...

Just speaking to the level of my audience, thanks for the thoughtful response.

Wow, you must really be an idiot if you find an audience with likes of loretta and menstral cramps as your peers.... Birds of a feather they say.....Dayum you are funny hiding behind your fucking daddy who ever that is....LOLOLOLOLOL!!!

Anonymous said...

Queer said

"little thought you provide in any of your stupid posts....idiot...whoever the fuck you are...asshole"

Anonymous said...

CA is the worst State to live in.
According to US News and World Report.

commie said...

The asshole sterile heifer fucker posted

Queer said

Thank goodness you have a sterile heifer...would hate to see idiocy like yours continue in the gene pool...dumb fuck....You want queer. loretta the loathsome loser and rats boys are the place to look...LOLOLOLOLO

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

You have become a Conspiracy theory nut case

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is a conspiracy too.
In regards to the impulsive tarrif President.

The odds of such an outcome now appear to be rising, prompting congressional Republicans to push Mr. Trump in public and in private to reconsider. “If the president goes through with this, it will kill American jobs — that’s what every trade war ultimately does,” Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, said on Friday. “So much losing.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CH has declared that it's all a conspiracy to sink Trump.

He's lost it.

Anonymous said...

Pres pimp obimbo " impulsive "tarrif's

Anonymous said...

HB really, you would think after 12 plus years of you being wrong on the Economy and your own failures in your personal life you would stop attempting to post on all things. But yet you have no knowledge or self control so you post the stupidest things.

"Despite what the racist denial of the President issuing his tarrif's when he was in a Nixonian rage, his decision endangers the world economy and could trigger inflation we haven't seen sine the 1980s. "

Obama did it. Crickets from you.

Inflation in the 80'S = 5.82 Average

Inflation. In the 70"s = 7.26 Average.

HB, You are the blogs retard. So inflation was so bad because during Reagan that it dropped from Carter Years.

Anonymous said...

Roger Amick said...

CH has declared that it's all a conspiracy to sink Trump.

He's lost it.



so says the assclown who is driven completely mad by a single trump tweet.


Anonymous said...

Everything HomelessBaked posts is a lie, a flat lie or has ass easy to disprove lie.

Trade wars are never won. Trade wars are lost by both sides," he said in a statement Friday. "Make no mistake: If the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs -- that's what every trade war ultimately does. So much losing."

JAMES'S FUCKING DADDY said...


pedopie said Funny how little thought you provide in any of your stupid posts....idiot...whoever the fuck you are...asshole"

I said "Just speaking to the level of my audience, thanks for the thoughtful response.

commie said... "Wow, you must really be an idiot if you find an audience with likes of loretta and menstral cramps as your peers...."

_________________________________________

No, you see opie or commie or pedopie or whatever YOU are calling yourself I was addressing YOU, not anyone else. And You responded. GET IT? YOU are the audience. very sad that you cannot even grasp something so simple.

ROFLMFAO !!!

Anonymous said...

HomelessBaked, Why did you edit so cowardly?

Anonymous said...

Blogger KD said...

Everything HomelessBaked posts is a lie, a flat lie or has ass easy to disprove lie.



what the alky knows about economics you could fit on a matchbook cover.

Anonymous said...

Him and "Pedopie".

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

This is what The Wall Street Journal thinks of your Fuehrer.

Donald Trump doubled down Friday on his plan for steel and aluminum tariffs, telling his advisers he won’t exempt any countries from the new blunderbuss border taxes, and issuing on Twitter one of the greatest displays of economic nonsense in presidential history.

“When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy!,” Mr. Trump tweeted Friday morning.

Let’s parse that one, to the extent it is humanly possible. Mr. Trump believes that trade is a zero-sum game, with winning defined as having a national trade surplus. But trade consists of millions of acts of buying and selling by individuals and companies that are presumably for mutual benefit. Otherwise why would they do it? No one forces anyone to buy or sell across borders. The entire point of trading goods or services is that someone wants to buy the car or pay for the engineering design.

Then there’s Mr. Trump’s remedy, which is “don’t trade anymore-we win big.” So if the U.S. has a $100 billion deficit with Country X, simply stop trading with that country. Voila, problem solved.

But that $100 billion deficit represents an enormous amount of commercial activity, which creates jobs for millions of Americans. Someone in the U.S. has to sell that car made in Japan, or create an ad campaign to sell it. Mr. Trump’s trade-deficit remedy is to stop that trade cold and assume that somehow the production will magically arise in the U.S. Even if that were true, and it isn’t, he’s advocating what economists call autarky, or economic self-sufficiency that would result in a depression as commerce and investment crashed.

Some of our more sanguine friends see the tariffs and tweets as Mr. Trump’s familiar negotiating bluster, but we wouldn’t be too sure. Protectionism may be his only real policy conviction, and his tweet confirms he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This is what the equity markets are saying as they discount trade-dependent companies.

Appeared in the March 3, 2018, print edition.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Protectionism may be his only real policy conviction, and his tweet confirms he doesn’t know what he’s talking about. This is what the equity markets are saying as they discount trade-dependent companies.

James said the Dallas Morning News said...

Democratic Early Turnout Has Doubled In Texas

“With one day of early voting to go, turnout in the Democratic primary had nearly doubled since the last midterm election in 2014,” the Dallas Morning News reports.

In contrast, early voting for the Republican primary is up just 18%.

“Political experts attribute much of Texas’ increased voter turnout as a reaction to the election of President Trump in 2016, as well as the state’s eight open congressional seats.”

IOW, Something’s Going On In Texas

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

I think there's something going on that nobody's catching in the polls . I think it's the female suburban voters are going to turn out in big numbers and they're not going to vote for the sexual harassment jerk, Trump. Even if it's a special election for the state legislatures. Democrats are going to have to have more than hate for Donald Trump. But we shall see.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Trade wars are never won. Trade wars are lost by both sides," he said in a statement Friday. "Make no mistake: If the President goes through with this, it will kill American jobs -- that's what every trade war ultimately does. So much losing."

Senator Sasse R

K'putz should shut up and quit making a fool of himself.

Even though Ben Sasse and President Donald Trump are both Republicans, the Nebraska senator has been very clear he doesn't agree with many of the decisions the President has made this week.

C.H. Truth said...

Roger...

Reality check: We've been in a trade war for years, and we have been losing it. Badly. I guess that's what happens when one side fights while the other side just sits back takes the punishment.

Commonsense said...

I think it's the female suburban voters are going to turn out in big numbers and they're not going to vote for the sexual harassment jerk, Trump.

That may hold true if Trump was on the ballot.

But he's not.

And if they don't like him personally they like the policies and where the economy is heading.

It's really the exact opposite of Obama. They liked him personally but they hated his policies.

Therefore he got shellacked in the midterms when he wasn't on the ballot.

James said...

Florida shooting survivor: 'Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children'
The Hill
Luis Sanchez

The students used their appearance on the HBO show to advertise the "March for Our Lives" rally against gun violence planned for March 24 in Washington, D.C.

"With the march we want Americans to stop being afraid of demanding our politicians to take action. They work for us, we don't work for them," Kasky said. "The march is us coming out and saying to our employees, 'You guys suck at your job.'"

Hogg criticized the Florida legislature for not discussing an assault weapons ban, even though during the same period they discussed porn as a public health emergency.

The students brushed off criticisms they have received in the past weeks, including claims that they are actors and that they have a disrespectful tone.

"We don't respect you just because we have to. We don't respect you just because you have 'senator' in front of your name," Kasky said.

The students said that they are not targeting people's guns or "trying to tear apart the Second Amendment," instead they just want to prevent more shootings.

"We are just kids begging for our lives, getting murdered in our classrooms," Kasky said.

Anonymous said...

Go to a Catholic Private School like I went to and sent my kids to, no shooting at Catholic Schools.

Anonymous said...

" Pedopie"
Does your church have a private faith based school system?

You support faith based schools, right?

Teresa Dulyea-Parker said...

"Does your church have a private faith based school system?"

Are you talking to the pedophile named James?

Myballs said...

Trump's tariffs are getting high praise from the labor unions.

You won't see that reported on the trump hating networks.

Commonsense said...

Florida shooting survivor: 'Trump needs to listen to the screams of the children'

So if these children do not have the maturity and judgement to own a firearm, then presumenly they don't have maturity and judgement to vote.

But they now have the the maturity and judgement to speak about gun policy and we should listen?

Does not compute.

Commonsense said...

Yes they are. Disgusting doesn't even begin to describe it.

The Kids Are Pawns, Democrats Use Parkland Students To Get Out The Vote

Anonymous said...

MyBalls, That Union Vote, as Trump secures more of it at the expense of Democrats.

commie said...

KD said...
Pres pimp obimbo " impulsive "tariff's

Asshokle....obama got rid of 18,000 or so tariffs....so what the fuck are you puking about???? More stupidity from the troll of kansas with the sterile heifer wife....sad....

The Kids Are Pawns, Democrats Use Parkland Students To Get Out The Vote

Typical cramp post, full of shit from hotair,,,,,I guess cramps thinks only R's should vote and kids should stay home, just like his wife.....idiot Hot airs claims are as baseless as your .6% growth,.,,,and you just slurp it up like the loathsome loser loretta...

commie said...

Trump's tariffs are getting high praise from the labor unions.

You won't see that reported on the trump hating networks

The steel workers union was the only one I saw....funny how your attitude has changed concerning unions when they support something you like....other times they are nothing but scum sucking parasites.....LOL

Anonymous said...

Did what?, " stupid oPie

President Obama slapped a stiff 35% tariff on Chinese tires in 2009 after American companies complained about unfair competition. They said China was flooding America with tires at low prices making it tough for U.S. companies to compete. The tire tariff gradually waned, and finally ended in 2012.".

The left knows nothing.

Anonymous said...

May 12th, 2014.
Obama drops the Tarrif Hammer on China Solar Panels.


The Left knows nothing.

Anonymous said...

Obama got rid of 18,000 or so tariffs*" Pedopie

commie said...

And tell me KD....do you have a problem with the fact obama dropped all those tariffs and you pick up on 1 whole item that was deleted? Your stupidity and desperation to be correct is most amusing and funny considering trump put tariffs on them this year!!! Are you really this stupid?????? Why would trump add a tariff onto something obama did as you claim....This really is fun, heifer fucker.....LOLOLOLOLCan't wait to see how you will try to twist your way out of being an asshole...

http://money.cnn.com/2018/01/22/news/economy/us-tariff-washing-machines-solar-cells/index.html

Myballs said...

Richard Trumpka president of afl-cio is praising it as well.

We don't call him dopie for nothing

commie said...

Richard Trumpka president of afl-cio is praising it as well.

Gee, he's got the steel workers under him....wow...you are so fucking smart for a sycophant......

President Trump’s announcement that he planned to impose steep tariffs on imported steel and aluminum delighted some blue-collar industries he had championed. “Enthusiastic and gratified are probably understatements,” said Michael A. Bless, the president of Century Aluminum.

Behemoth steel buyers like Boeing and General Motors weren’t as pleased. Their shares fell on the news, and the most obvious aluminum dependents — the brewing giants Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors — warned about the risk of job losses.


But it is people like H. O. Woltz III who feel most vulnerable.

Mr. Woltz is the chairman and chief executive of Insteel Industries, which operates 10 plants from Arizona to Pennsylvania producing steel wire products for concrete reinforcing. He has about 1,000 workers, most without college degrees.

“The jobs that we have are good jobs,” Mr. Woltz said. “Our guys make a lot of money.”

Now his business calculus is being upended. A tariff on imports also allows domestic steel and aluminum producers to charge higher prices, affecting manufacturers across the United States.

As industrial America sorts out the tariffs’ prospective impact, one thing is clear: The divide between the metal producers and their customers slices directly through Mr. Trump’s blue-collar constituency.

I guess you think jobs loss is a good thing....ballzless my asshole....lOLOLOLOL

Myballs said...

You're dismissing the nation's largest union. Don't be so damn stupid.

Anonymous said...

Richard Trumpka president of afl-cio is praising it as well.

We don't call him dopie for nothing"

Yep.

Anonymous said...

Pedopie, you are always angry. Why?

James said...

Speaking of having wrong priorities,

WOULD BE DICTATOR TRUMP PRAISES CHINESE PRESIDENT FOR EXTENDING TENURE "FOR LIFE"

Maybe we should try something like that Trump said in closed door meeting with cheering supporters.

"He's now president for life, president for life. And he's great," Trump said, according to audio of excerpts of Trump's remarks at a closed-door fundraiser in Florida aired by CNN. "And look, he was able to do that. I think it's great. Maybe we'll have to give that a shot someday," Trump said to cheers and applause from supporters.

THIS MAN MUST BE STOPPED.
THAT REMARK ALONE IS REASON FOR IMPEACHMENT.

Indy Voter said...

Eh. Xi is NOT actually "president for life". China has repealed its equivalent of the 22nd Amendment, limiting the number of terms their president can serve.

James said...

MORE REASON FOR CONCERNS
Could Trump Handle a Crisis?

Politico: “Chaos here, backlash there, shock everywhere. And in Washington and around the globe another gasping chorus of WTF commentary: reckless, not normal, reality show run amok. And so on, et cetera, et cetera, for the one-hundredth-and-can’t-remember time of the Trump Era.”

“But there is something different about this week’s spasm of sudden policy lurches, graceless personal insults, oozing scandal news, and ceaseless West Wing knife fights. It is the starkest example to date of President Donald Trump’s executive style looking untenable not merely from the outside — from the perspective of establishment politicians and media analysts — but from the inside, too.”

James said...

EVEN HIS FRIENDS ARE FRIGHTENED

‘We Haven’t Bottomed Out’

“Inside the White House, aides over the past week have described an air of anxiety and volatility — with an uncontrollable commander in chief at its center,” the Washington Post reports.

“These are the darkest days in at least half a year, they say, and they worry just how much farther President Trump and his administration may plunge into unrest and malaise before they start to recover. As one official put it: ‘We haven’t bottomed out.’”

“Trump is now a president in transition, at times angry and increasingly isolated. He fumes in private that just about every time he looks up at a television screen, the cable news headlines are trumpeting yet another scandal. He voices frustration that son-in-law Jared Kushner has few on-air defenders. He revives old grudges. And he confides to friends that he is uncertain about whom to trust.”

“Trump’s friends are increasingly concerned about his well-being, worried that the president’s obsession with cable commentary and perceived slights is taking a toll on the 71-year-old. “Pure madness,” lamented one exasperated ally.”

James said...

The question is, how far off his rocker will he be allowed to get before an intervention takes place.

Indy Voter said...

Repealing the 22nd Amendment is unlikely to occur, especially while someone as polarizing as Trump is in office. It requires a 2/3 majority in each chamber just to send an amendment to voters, and 3/4 of the states to then ratify the amendment. Not gonna happen.

Indy Voter said...

Do you REALLY think that "legal" measures would be employed to remove Trump from office if there was a consensus among the "establishment" that he was "off his rocker" and needed to go, but Trump wouldn't resign? I don't. Fantasies of removal via the 25th Amendment are just that - fantasies.

If Trump gets so bad that the "establishment" feels he needs to be removed, he will be, and quickly. Maybe with a stroke or other medical event, or maybe with something more permanent. They won't want to dick around with legal niceties that might allow him to return to the Oval Office.

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

President Trump will face an obstruction of justice charge from special counsel Robert Mueller, former Attorney General Eric Holder predicted.

“You technically have an obstruction of justice case that already exists,” Holder, who served under then-President Obama, said on HBO’s "Real Time with Bill Maher." "I've known Bob Mueller for 20, 30 years; my guess is he's just trying to make the case as good as he possibly can. So, I think that we have to be patient in that regard.”

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

Indy, they won't be able to declare that he's not mentally stable anonymously. If it gets that bad, we will need a Goldwater moment. Pence probably wouldn't be one of them. It could be seen as a conflict of interest. But McConnell, Ryan and maybe Graham will if it becomes more irrational will put country first.

This last week was crazier than I have ever seen. We don't want this to be regular.

Commonsense said...

Lighten up Francis!!!

Coldheartedtruth Teller said...

CS it's not just political. If we face a major international crisis, on the level the Cuban missile crisis, and we have a President who knows little, and refuses to to read the daily intelligence report, even you should be afraid.

Commonsense said...

CS it's not just political

Certainly not in your case. It's an obsessive mental illness. Get help.

Loretta said...

"This last week was crazier than I have ever seen."

LOL, as IF you don't say that every damn week.

Unstable drama queen.

wphamilton said...

Blogger Roger Amick said...
CS it's not just political. If we face a major international crisis, on the level the Cuban missile crisis, and we have a President who knows little, and refuses to to read the daily intelligence report, even you should be afraid.


I's got to be obvious even to them that Trump is not equipped to handle a crisis requiring detailed knowledge and complex thought, so presumably they imagine that Trump has capable advisers to guide them through it. The President as CEO role. Which is ironic given the President's criteria in filling top positions.

wphamilton said...

Roger Amick said...
Indy, they won't be able to declare that he's not mentally stable anonymously. If it gets that bad, we will need a Goldwater moment.


I think Indy is right, in that you're not going to see any attempt to remove Trump on the grounds of unfit for office. Several reasons we can go into, but there will never even be an attempt, unless Trump's condition (if any) deteriorates drastically. Indy is suggesting that the Republican establishment would stage a covert coup before it gets to that point; that's not happening either in my opinion.

Regarding Eric Holder's evaluation of Mueller, he's dead on about that. I don't know what case Mueller has or will make, but when you look at Mueller's history in his prior investigations and prosecutorial conduct, even if it requires a long reach and creative application of statutes he is always inclined to make some sort of case. If the GOP powers are at the point of considering extra-legal methods of removing Trump (and again I don't see that), that would be enough to do it within the boundaries of legal precedent instead.

wphamilton said...

Since no one likes the idea, why is it cute or funny for Trump to say "Maybe we should try that ourselves?" More specifically, why do you NOT think that it was a literally stupid thing to say, joking or otherwise?