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Bastard....
Chris Cillizza's tweet about that report from the press pool (haven't seen anything else about it yet):
Link to tweet
Another tweet about it here:
Link to tweet
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Editing to add that I've seen a number of tweets this morning showing Trump with Aretha at the grand opening of one of his hotels in 1997, but I haven't been able to find anything about her performing there -- or at any other Trump property -- and even if she had, that wouldn't constitute "working for him."
It was a very demeaning thing to say about her. intended to remind people he thinks he's her superior.
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Editing again because Daniel Dale has a thread on this, starting here
Link to tweet
and according to later tweets in that thread, Aretha did give a private concert before the opening of a new Trump building in 1997, and also performed concerts at a couple of his casinos. But that does NOT qualify as "working for" him. And Trump's wording was especially demeaning today, of all days.
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)Unless she sang for an event for him but that is not working for him.
winstars
(4,220 posts)NOT FOR him.
The slave owner in chief sees this a bit differently, but of course he does.
This is I think what the fuck he is talking about but its difficult to understand a man with a single digit I.Q.
What a dick!
GemDigger
(4,305 posts)between working a gig and giving you a payroll check every week.
wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 16, 2018, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)
He can't tell her and Omarosa apart
Thanks for the spelling of her name. I never watched Apprentice.
boston bean
(36,221 posts)wryter2000
(46,051 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)Imagine a day going by where this WH creep didn't disgust all over again.
spanone
(135,841 posts)hlthe2b
(102,283 posts)Damn, you you racist pig. Aretha blessed us all. She no more worked for you than you have a single bit of honor in your history.
Damn this pisses me off.
spanone
(135,841 posts)fuck you trump
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)irisblue
(32,980 posts)highplainsdem
(48,993 posts)which I still haven't found any verification of, if he's talking about her performing at Trump properties. But no matter what, it's tacky for someone who owns a venue to describe a legendary artist performing there as "working for" them.
bdamomma
(63,868 posts)Aretha wouldn't lower herself to work for a thug. What an asshole he is.
a kennedy
(29,669 posts)maxrandb
(15,330 posts)the great achievement of "her" life is that she "worked" for "him".
Fucker sees that as the highest fucking compliment he can pay someone.
Fuck every last American to hell who had a hand in putting this orange shit-stain in the WH.
Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)for tRUMP was payment enough because it would bring him so much business.