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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump's Texas Adventure...he looked overweight, frumpy, exhausted, disinterested and bored.
It was the equivalent of watching some obscure band from the 70s play their hit at the state fair. He got the words right (part of the time), but looked like he wanted to be somewhere else. Maybe Mar-a-Lago, but definitely not on the Texas / Mexico border.
Even his sprightly MAGA hat couldn't hide what was underneath...a 72 year old lifelong con man whose veneer has been stripped to reveal the perpetual failure hiding underneath.
A bearded Ted Cruz only further revealed that YES, America must protect itself...from people like Donald Trump and Ted Cruz.
The day was filled with an eager-to-sing Michael Cohen, revelations that Trump plans to plunder disaster relief funds to fulfill his campaign promise to the MAGAts, and inspirational photos of a beautiful, architecturally designed steel slat wall that had been breached by a trip to Home Depot. Oh, and Jim Acosta broadcasting from a tranquil RV park perched on the Rio Grande, where there were no drugged, raping Mexican caravans to be seen. Nothing but a delightful shuffleboard court.
Meanwhile, Mitch McConnell trembled in the darkness, and Lindsey Graham called for the declaration of a national emergency, adding "I hope it works."
Ain't that America, for you and me? No, it's not.
leftieNanner
(15,062 posts)trembled in the darkness."
Perfect.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)I like how you really cut through all the bullshit and told us what was really going on here. Also, thank you for the picture. Trump looks like they just rescued him from a lunch of institutional food at the senior center, and Ted Cruz looks like his next stop is an audition for title character in a bad Grizzly Adams reboot.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)...I figured someone had to.
BigmanPigman
(51,567 posts)Someone posted a clip and his chin is now a triple chin, actually more like a bull frog all puffed up.
LuckyLib
(6,817 posts)and just huffs and puffs about the Democrats.
Looks like the last five pounds he gained went straight to his chin!
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not that I like saying anything good about him, but I think he should stick with it.
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)That's kinda my point.
The beard does make him look less like a dick ... IMHO ... I'm not saying he's NOT still a dick, just ...
Docreed2003
(16,850 posts)mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)anymore, now that I have this beard ... Maybe ... I should stop acting like such a dick?"
I'm not counting any chickens here, but ... stranger things have happened ... just sayin'
Mr. Quackers
(443 posts)is a universe more cool than Ted Cruz could ever imagine being.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)He probably decided he needed a more manly look. He failed.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)But Trump, who knows how to use his hands in apower way, is standing like a lost kindergarten kid.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)PatSeg
(47,260 posts)Much worse than usual. Look at those trousers! Like a kid who hasn't grown into his pants yet. He's the president of the United States and he can't even find a pair of pants that fit? Or a tailor who could hem them?
I think he may have gained so much weight that he had go with a larger size, but they were too long. Overall, he looks like a chubby toddler in ill fitting clothes.
maddiemom
(5,106 posts)At least Cruz has showed his spinelessness clearly. Is his wife still sticking with him? She deserves him, then.
GoCubsGo
(32,074 posts)Can't even button this one over his gut. He's as bad as his boss. What a fucking clown.
yankeepants
(1,979 posts)GreatCaesarsGhost
(8,584 posts)C_U_L8R
(44,987 posts)Trumps like their not-so-subtle winks to their hatebase.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)True Blue American
(17,981 posts)I just finished a Jeffrey Archer book. Wondered if they were cousins.
What a book,14 short stores that made you read every one.
MaryMagdaline
(6,851 posts)breached by a trip to Home Depot
Going to savor that line.
highplainsdem
(48,910 posts)Obviously he hasn't been able to spend enough time partying and playing golf while he tries to destroy the country.
Poor overage toddler...
Generic Other
(28,979 posts)Trump really is the king of ballyhoo.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)When he goes to his rallies, he's all swagger and bluster as he soaks in the adoration.
Ever since that TV address, the swagger's gone, and even though he was asked a direct question about Cohen and shrugged it off, you know the news has got to be eating him alive.
This might be the part of Watergate 2019 where he simply slips into paranoia and never comes out.
spanone
(135,791 posts)bullwinkle428
(20,628 posts)the migrant children held in cages?
peggysue2
(10,823 posts)In other words, he looked as he always does because somewhere after the first month in office, he realized the job was not King of the World but President of the United States.
He looks like what he is: a tiresome, ignorant, overweight oaf who would do the country a world go good by . . .
Resigning!
keithbvadu2
(36,655 posts)Don't forget to mention that Cruz supports the taking of Texans' properties.
marmar
(77,053 posts)Gothmog
(144,919 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Overweight, repulsive, ugly sob. Remember when we had a president who ALWAYS looked fine, even when dressed casually? President Obama was always well put-together, neat and handsome. How did we go from that to this orange blob? Oh, yes Putin and all that Russian money going into the gop coffers.
Grasswire2
(13,565 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,741 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,955 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,238 posts)Khaki pants and white golf shirt, also known as the Charlottesville Klan uniform.
smb
(3,471 posts)Democrats: Yeah, sure, good luck with that, guy.
Trump: Give me taxpayer money to pay for it.
Democrats: No. Hey, wasn't Mexico--
Trump: I want a wall!
Democrats: What do we get?
Trump: Eff you, that's what!
Democrats: Then no.
Trump: I WANNA WALL!! GIMME A WALL!!!
Democrats: (*sigh*) How about we give you the wall in exchange for legalizing DACA recipients?
Trump: NO!
Democrats: Then no deal.
Trump: Then I'll shut down the government and blame myself for it!
Democrats: Weird. And ill-advised. But you do you, I guess.
Trump: THE SHUTDOWN IS ALL YOUR FAULT!!!
Democrats: WTF??
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,250 posts)Somebody should tell this to the broadcast networks.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)But generally when the president shows up, the folks he's visiting are crowding in, wanting to be in the picture with the president. Even bad presidents have their fans.
In this photo, the only persons anywhere near Trump are Sen. Cruz and the old fellow (I should know who it is, but I don't) behind him. the old fellow has all the joyful levity of the priest walking the condemned down death row to the gas chamber.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)watoos
(7,142 posts)Pluvious
(4,305 posts)This scene will be used to depict the last stunt before the end game was initiated (Mueller's report)
3catwoman3
(23,947 posts)...one of those on furlough. He looks like he went shopping at the local thrift store.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)He is the sloppiest, worst dressed public figure I've ever seen.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)Ilsa
(61,690 posts)at least 1.5 inches. I'm sure the back hem is dirty from dragging the ground with every step.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)He's so pathetic. And he has no idea as to what a loser he looks like.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,250 posts)Maybe Cheetolini will pick up a few bites. Too bad he didn't stand on a fire ant hill.
He looks miserably "frumpy" in that photo.
Wounded Bear
(58,598 posts)displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Someone needs to tell President Puffer Fish that even orange spray tan can't cover a freshly waxed upper lip. Waxing too close to showtime is always obvious, especially in high-def.
Grins
(7,195 posts)But he IS "overweight, frumpy, exhausted, disinterested and bored"! And worse! On a daily basis!
cilla4progress
(24,717 posts)that is all
Stellar
(5,644 posts)maddiemom
(5,106 posts)Vinca
(50,236 posts)Made him look he was out for a chaperoned walk at the home. LOL.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Two boss types there to kiss @$$. Cruz trying to butch it up and look a real rugged individualist rancher in his barn coat, Cornyn looking like a retired businessman who stopped to see what was up.
Then we have the centerpiece, Trump dressed in stuff to big for him, looking like a little old man who escaped the retirement home.
guss
(239 posts)Is he using Chris Christie as a body Double?
Hmmm
Liberal In Texas
(13,531 posts)If a real president had been there, say Barak Obama, there would have been cool.
He is so out of his element.
oldlibdem
(330 posts)That is the perfect assessment of Cheetolini!