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demmiblue

(36,875 posts) Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:05 PM Oct 2017

Katy Tur tweet: I've got to see this tape-- (From the WH pool reporter w POTUS)

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A perfect response that really encapsulates it all:

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Katy Tur tweet: I've got to see this tape-- (From the WH pool reporter w POTUS) (Original Post) demmiblue Oct 2017 OP

And how many of those in that crowd lapfog_1 Oct 2017 #1

Or FEMA staffers. Wellstone ruled Oct 2017 #2

I was looking at one picture that was all "white" faces in the foreground as he threw rolls Hortensis Oct 2017 #14

Didn't they have any Play-Doh for him to hand out this time? I hear he's really good at that. Arkansas Granny Oct 2017 #3

Probably required him to get too close to them. Throwing paper towels: much better. Hortensis Oct 2017 #16

But... but... C_U_L8R Oct 2017 #4

T-shirt cannon underpants Oct 2017 #5

Well, you have to have a good time! demmiblue Oct 2017 #13

I believe he said the same thing to Hurricane evacuees in Texas. Grammy23 Oct 2017 #19

Ugh, I remember that. demmiblue Oct 2017 #21

How clean and well dressed were the people. Demtexan Oct 2017 #6

THEBANALITYOFEVIL Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #7

Yes. And it continues in the Fox viewers who will smile comfortably Hortensis Oct 2017 #8

OMFG! These people are like in a different dimension. Is this how Rome fell? Madam45for2923 Oct 2017 #9

We are going to live the answer to whether we fell or not. Hortensis Oct 2017 #12

Let me guess.... Tommy_Carcetti Oct 2017 #10

This totally reminds me of this (Trump as "Principal for a Day"): demmiblue Oct 2017 #11

oh I just hate him bdamomma Oct 2017 #15

Here's a bit from that footage. M0rpheus Oct 2017 #17

Holy shite. demmiblue Oct 2017 #18

Those people are not Puerto Rican SummerSnow Oct 2017 #20

I can't speak to who was in the room at the time... M0rpheus Oct 2017 #22

lapfog_1

(29,219 posts)

1. And how many of those in that crowd

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:08 PM

Oct 2017

were staffers and people from the Trump organization or simply people PAID to cheer when pResident Twitler handed out bullshit supplies.

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)

2. Or FEMA staffers.

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:13 PM

Oct 2017

Everything Donnie does has to be staged for his Ego. His advance team has to set the Stage for mega effects,and again,it is all about Donnie and the Optics. The Guy could give a shit less about anyone else.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

14. I was looking at one picture that was all "white" faces in the foreground as he threw rolls

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #1)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:06 PM

Oct 2017

of paper towels out. Absolutely staged to fill the scene with cheering happy faces.

Arkansas Granny

(31,525 posts)

3. Didn't they have any Play-Doh for him to hand out this time? I hear he's really good at that.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:17 PM

Oct 2017

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

16. Probably required him to get too close to them. Throwing paper towels: much better.

Reply to Arkansas Granny (Reply #3)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:09 PM

Oct 2017

C_U_L8R

(45,018 posts)

4. But... but...

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:19 PM

Oct 2017

did he bring the Golf Trophy ??

underpants

(182,868 posts)

5. T-shirt cannon

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Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:20 PM

Oct 2017

demmiblue

(36,875 posts)

13. Well, you have to have a good time!

Reply to underpants (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:01 PM

Oct 2017

Link to tweet

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)

19. I believe he said the same thing to Hurricane evacuees in Texas.

Reply to demmiblue (Reply #13)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:18 PM

Oct 2017

They were in a shelter for god's sake! He acted like they were there for a kid's birthday party. Have a good time, my sweet ass. Has he had so little contact with REAL life to not know they are having anything but a good time? They have been through a terrible, frightening event that traumatizes you. You NEVER forget how the wind blew, the sheets of rain, the constant roar, the creaks and groans of the building as you cower, hoping it all holds together. The thought crosses your mind that you might die. (Ask me how I know this.) And he is soooo lacking in imagination that he can't figure out what to say that is not lame---totally inadequate to the situation.

For the love of god or dog or whoever, could someone give him a few stock phrases to say at times like these? Could Ivanka tell him that "have a good time" is the LAST thing he should say to people who are hurting and traumatized?

demmiblue

(36,875 posts)

21. Ugh, I remember that.

Reply to Grammy23 (Reply #19)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 03:29 PM

Oct 2017

I also remember him autographing the wall of the shelter.

No one can tell him anything (even his precious), as he lives in the reality of his own making. He will never, ever be able have any true empathetic thoughts or feelings toward others. He is severely mentally ill.

Demtexan

(1,588 posts)

6. How clean and well dressed were the people.

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:24 PM

Oct 2017

That would be a clue.

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)

7. THEBANALITYOFEVIL

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Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:27 PM

Oct 2017

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

8. Yes. And it continues in the Fox viewers who will smile comfortably

Reply to Madam45for2923 (Reply #7)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:30 PM

Oct 2017

and carefully avoid other channels. We can't even pass on our National Geographics to our near neighbors any more. Full of liberal lies.

Madam45for2923

(7,178 posts)

9. OMFG! These people are like in a different dimension. Is this how Rome fell?

Reply to Hortensis (Reply #8)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:33 PM

Oct 2017

Where they just going crazy together watching people get devoured by lions as a spectator sport?

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)

12. We are going to live the answer to whether we fell or not.

Reply to Madam45for2923 (Reply #9)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:50 PM

Oct 2017

I no longer expect most conservatives to "wake up," as I did for decades. Same for the anti-Democrat left; they are what they are.

America's fate hangs us and a few -- a few conservatives who when it came to it wouldn't literally choose Hitler over us (the others would insist his identity was just liberal lies), and a few of those who don't normally bother to pay attention but managed to get soaked in anti-Democrat Kool-Aid anyway.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,191 posts)

10. Let me guess....

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:36 PM

Oct 2017

....they played Van Halen's "Jump" while all of this went down.

demmiblue

(36,875 posts)

11. This totally reminds me of this (Trump as "Principal for a Day"):

Reply to demmiblue (Original post)

Tue Oct 3, 2017, 02:40 PM

Oct 2017

...

That year, the school’s chess team was scraping together money to go to the national championship. It still needed several thousand dollars at the time of Trump’s visit, according the New York Daily News. But Trump focused on something else. He held a drawing in which 15 lucky students could win coupons for Nike sneakers—but there was something of a catch. The shoes had to be picked up at the Niketown store at Trump Tower. “He said we were going to have to go on a bus to get them,” Eugenio Tavares Jr., a P.S. 70 student, told the Daily News.

The Nike lottery caused “frenzied excitement” among the students, the New York Times reported, but one kid questioned Trump about it. “Why did you offer us sneakers if you could give us scholarships?” asked Andres Rodriguez, a fifth-grader whose father had died and whose mother couldn’t work because of a bad leg, according to the Times.

“I asked because school is more important than sneakers, but he didn’t really answer,” Rodriguez told the Daily News.

Trump’s generosity didn’t end with the 15 pairs of sneakers. He decided he could hand out additional sneaker coupons to disappointed kids who didn’t win the drawing, and he distributed what the Times called “beautiful, psychedelic Trump Tower hats for every child.” As he departed the school, he donated a fake $1 million at the bake sale raising money for the chess team. He also contributed 200 real dollars, and reports of his visit did prompt others to call up and donate the thousands more needed for the chess-playing students.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/06/trump-files-principal-for-a-day/