for it every time.

They are ridiculous.

They always seemed quite willing, and at least one tv exec gloated about how profitable it was.

and the lives of everyone around him fall apart.

was threatening to create another giant crisis for our democracy through enormous abuse of power, not only grounds for impeachment all by itself but potentially very dangerous to our nation. A national state of emergency would give the president 136 near-dictatorial statutory powers, at least until he was stopped.

The SOE and abuses would be immediately taken to court. But would this SCOTUS rule against him and would the Republican senate finally do its duty under the constitution to check him?

The network biggies know all about how he manages to use them and have been doing a lot to counter and limit it, but in this case they just didn't dare refuse to provide time. And their worst suspicions were proven true, not just last night but before that when Trump said all the wrong things to network anchors he met with. But it was already scheduled, with many millions expected to watch.

On the plus side, the authoritarian's right's "strong man" put on a piss-poor performance for them.

And if a state of emergency was declared they could easily have covered that without airing the pathetic scream for attention.

I'd be happy if they only covered him as often as they cover Democrats.

Grifter's gonna grift.

I tuned in just to see if he would go off the rails. Got me too.

announce they would broadcast,that was a clue it was nothing more than a gimme for Trump. Clue,Les Moonves.

... “He really hit it out of the park.”

If MF45 wanted to do it again next week, the media would all be slobbering at his feet once more. Embarrassing. Same shit different day.

I must give full credit to DU’s Sancho...who, I believe coined it. Used with full permission. It’s the little things that keep us going.

NOTHINGBURGER!

Agree...nothing new...nothing different... just the same old bullshit that everyone already knows.

But he did manage to con his idiot base into sending him some cash.

Controversial oval office address = huge ratings

Impeachment hearings will bring in some even better ratings too, I'm hoping

HIS tv time-waster lie fest was just a CAMPAIGN MONEY REQUEST !!!! and made no important announcement but merely wanted to give free campaign speech to his lovers.

his with anyone not completely with him already. I can't judge that because NOTHING he could have said would have convinced me ..and I assume that is true for all of us here. Time will tell if this entire show will actually make his position worse. It is my bet that it will, but as in Sleeper, when someone asleep for years is stunned that Ronald Reagan could be President, I would not have believed there was even an infinitesimal chance that the odious Donald Trump would be.

it just looks like complicity.

been true all of his pathetic life, hasn't changed a bit.

National emergency! Martial law! What will we do? What CAN we do?

The wailing and gnashing of teeth was really something.

They should learn from this , and not show him in a good light again, or repeat his propaganda putin has him repeating.

IIRC, he did it without warning. One minute, we could be watching "All in the Family," or "Laugh In," and the next, there was a special announcement. Then, after he yammered, the pundits would have to tell us what he said.

Someone called it government by pique.

Let's remember what happened to Nixon.

PS I haven't seen any "no collusion" tweets in days. Does this mean they're going to be conceding collusion ("but collusion isn't a crime&quot ? Or just a nice distraction for the Con to focus on something else for a while?