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https://www.politicususa.com/2019/06/04/what-does-he-think-he-is-chris-matthews-destroys-trump-for-bringing-his-sleazy-kids-to-london.htmlPosted on Tue, Jun 4th, 2019 by Sean Colarossi
What Does He Think He Is?: Chris Matthews Destroys Trump For Bringing His Sleazy Kids To London
MSNBCs Chris Matthews obliterated Donald Trump on Tuesday for bringing his children to London even Tiffany and forcing world leaders to kiss the butt of his family members.
Matthews openly wondered when members of the Republican Party are going to defend the republic from a man who is acting like an aspiring authoritarian leader.
When is someone going to raise their hand and say, Im not going to kiss the butt again of one of your family members? Im not going to do it.'
Link to tweet
Matthews said:
Trump is a walking emoluments clause violation
As Jason Johnson, politics editor for The Root, told Chris Matthews on Tuesday, Donald Trump is a walking emoluments clause violation.
The presidents decision to bring his family along with him on his trip to London doesnt just demonstrate again how Trump views himself and his children as American royalty, but its also the latest example of how he is using his political power to enrich himself and his family members.
After all, as Jill Colvin of the Associated Press pointed out on MSNBC, its particularly inappropriate that Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump were rubbing elbows with world leaders in London while simultaneously continuing to run the presidents business.
Ultimately, Trump might see himself and his family as royalty, but what the world has again seen during his visit to London is that hes nothing but a royal embarrassment.
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Maybe you should start asking them why when they appear on your show.
watoos
(7,142 posts)caught my eye. It is appropriate to call Trump a "what" IMO, since he isn't the definition of a person.
forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)onetexan
(13,058 posts)the majority of Americans know that. They're only royalty to the 30% RW conservatives with their head down in the Koolaid.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)how is Trump 'destroyed' by this?
He's been "destroyed" by similar issues nearly every day for the past four years, but he's still going and doesn't seem to be in any serious jeopardy.
llmart
(15,552 posts)If we're really brutally honest with ourselves, this whole family is laughing all the way to the bank, whether it's a bank in Switzerland or anywhere else. They keep on grifting and we the taxpayers are footing the bill. They're stashing their money somewhere offshore, not paying taxes on any of it, and are still scott free.
This whole coverage of the trip to London has made me more depressed about the situation we find ourselves in. The media is once again giving them all the air time they want while we poke fun on the internet and get our laughs, but we're still stuck with all of them. Nothing seems to touch them.
Lonestarblue
(10,063 posts)He sees them as receiving constant adulation, being ultra rich, and with largely ceremonial duties that allows them to do mostly whatever they want (like his frequent golf trips and executive time). Plus, theyre royals for lifejust as Trump wants to be president for life and then hand the presidency to Ivanka, his favorite incompetent offspring.
In addition to the inappropriateness of his children traveling with him, how about the number of administration people who were there? Why were Kellyanne Conway and Sarah Sanders there? And Mnuchin? Trump was meeting with a prime minister with no power to craft deals at a time when the whole country cant negotiate deals because they dont know whether theyll still be in the EU.
This was all an utter waste of taxpayer money just so Trump could show that he is able to rub elbows with royalty. What a disgusting piece of trash he is.
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)I don't think she'll be handling too many press conferences on this trip. Not that she does it in Washington either. This is Trump's way to pay back his loyal butt-kissers, the people who will lie and cover up his crimes for him. All on the taxpayers' dime.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)about them. If water off a duck's back destroys it, then you might have something there.
Texin
(2,597 posts)They want to be wined, dined, travel in style and be feted by royalty just like the tRumps, and all of it on the public's dime. They've been doing this since the Gilded Age, all the while bleating deliriously about welfare moms and chain migration. They're all fucking phonies and grifters.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)Wtf is that on Erics? Looks like dirt.
Grow a pair, and cut the hair. I'll be glad when this fad passes.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)thanks to MSM giving him more than double the airtime they gave Clinton.
procon
(15,805 posts)Like a family of grifters, the Trumps are reminiscent of the Beverly Hillbillies.
Queen Elizabeth II formally invited just President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump to travel to London for an official State Banquet at Buckingham Palace. But the event became more of an extended family affair, with Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and his wife Lara, and Tiffany Trump all joining the exclusive party.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/04/politics/trump-family-royal-family-status/index.html
Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)invite a decent tailor. What about Barron?
I would be way too humiliated to show my face if my dad had just put out the "nasty tweet" and trashed the mayor the day before we got there. And normal people are averse to going places uninvited.
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)tRump show. tRump is destroying all respect the USA has ever had worldwide. The fact that he is a know-nothing blowhard makes it that much worse. He makes Americans look like losers, who would elect a stupid, wanna-be dictator into the highest office in the country. The US reputation as a world leader is going down the sewer daily, with this total disaster of a president in office. Putin knew it would happen, in fact MADE it happen. The gop should all be voted out for helping destroy this country, instead of doing the jobs they were elected to do. I am beyond disgusted. There are people in this country who believe having an incompetent, failure of a white man in the WH beats having a classy, highly intelligent, highly respected worldwide black man in the WH. Just how bloody stupid ARE the republican voters?
SamuelTwain
(28 posts)What a family.
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Upon his throne, the crapper, he pushes out his every shitty thought. Everything he touches turns to shit. A retinue of shit follows behind him wherever he goes.
His family crest is a pile of shit with the word Stultum appearing three times across the top. (Making it Stupid, Stupid, Stupid (pile of shit)
JudyM
(29,274 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)warmfeet
(3,321 posts)to lose it. We had better find it PDQ, before it's all gone.
PatrickforO
(14,587 posts)to snubbing someone, and in terms of total snobbery NO ONE CAN EVER beat the Royal Family. And I'm not saying that in a pejorative way, either. That's just how they are because that is how the society is constructed.
What was so amusing to me is that pic of Ivanka looking out that window after getting locked out of the throne room. See what I mean? This was absolutely elegant on the part of the Royals. They managed to make their displeasure with Trump known in a subtle, but quite embarrassing way.
Nitram
(22,877 posts)They aren't intelligent or socialized enough to be embarrassed.
yuiyoshida
(41,861 posts)He is a Royal Pain in the ass.
Chin music
(23,002 posts)cojoel
(957 posts)but if I were in charge of things, I would have found it hilariously funny to set up a separate table in a side room for the Trump children and their spouses.
Being relegated to the "kiddie table" is a very old American Thanksgiving Holiday tradition. They would have known it and watching Americans would have known it, even if it wasn't apparent to the British people. And if it was, so much the better!
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)Why would they give a crap about a trip to London.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)I want someone to say "you are not welcome here".
no_hypocrisy
(46,182 posts)In his deluded mind, just being in the same room as royalty vicariously makes him an aristocrat. Same with his white trash kids.
DinahMoeHum
(21,809 posts)a sit-in under "The Beast" limousine:
Photobombing the POTUS and the PM:
https://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/ny-cat-president-trump-limo-london-20190604-bggj5f4mxba2tfw2y5s3mbcoxy-story.html
plimsoll
(1,670 posts)Who knew.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)for his entourage and family. That is outrageous!
My guess is...he's trying to start a dynasty like the Bushes. Some relative, he is hoping, will be a President. Can you imagine a Trump Dynasty? The horror. Is he hoping it to be a grandchild? Or Barron? Ivanka?
I think I saw Mnuchin, the Treasury Sec'y, there, in one pic. And his wife.
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)I seem to recall rethuglicans whining about Michelle Obama's mother being included on an overseas trip. And Mrs Obama informed the press, they paid for her mother's expenses.