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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:21 AM Sep 2018

UN Laughs After Trump Claims His Admin Has Done More Than 'Almost Any' Other

Source: Talking Points Memo



By Matt Shuham

September 25, 2018 11:03 am

President Donald Trump was laughed at Tuesday during his address to the United Nations General Assembly, after he asserted that his administration “has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.”

“Didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay,” Trump said.




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UN Laughs After Trump Claims His Admin Has Done More Than 'Almost Any' Other (Original Post) DonViejo Sep 2018 OP
We're laughing too, there, you fucking fraud. truthisfreedom Sep 2018 #1
Not me... TommyCelt Sep 2018 #10
I am laughing and mortified at the same time.... Pachamama Sep 2018 #27
MSM Should Play This Video 24/7 Until The Election. And Morph McConnell Into It. TheMastersNemesis Sep 2018 #2
Oh, great - now he will want revenge against the world. dhol82 Sep 2018 #3
ROTFLMAO... BlueJac Sep 2018 #4
People WAY TOO POLITE cilla4progress Sep 2018 #5
Way too polite indeed. skypilot Sep 2018 #8
They thought he was the comedian opening the show. louis-t Sep 2018 #18
Then simply laughing at him... skypilot Sep 2018 #21
Senile ffr Sep 2018 #6
He is a total embarassment to our nation. olegramps Sep 2018 #7
He is the second moron to occupy the office. LibDemAlways Sep 2018 #15
Agree. Dr. Jack Daniel's therapy helps. SkipG Sep 2018 #45
Mencken's "booboisie" has spoken... Harker Sep 2018 #20
You never miss the mark when you predict low points in human behavior. BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2018 #28
Evidently not... Harker Sep 2018 #43
Seriously, he "Didn't expect that reaction" ??? procon Sep 2018 #9
I was up and out early this AM. Got home, turned on the news, and there it was - speechifying. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #11
👏🏾 BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2018 #29
It was very stressful. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #31
I can't imagine! BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2018 #32
Sure, brag. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #34
That does have an elitist ring to it, doesn't it? BlancheSplanchnik Sep 2018 #39
Nah. Sounds smart. Solly Mack Sep 2018 #40
I could not hear the reponse onethatcares Sep 2018 #12
They're not laughing with you asshole! Floyd R. Turbo Sep 2018 #13
Great! Maxheader Sep 2018 #23
that's it! Hermit-The-Prog Sep 2018 #14
Ummm ... so now, we are okay with having a laughingstock? UpInArms Sep 2018 #16
Wow... There truly is a perfect tweet for everything. Nt blugbox Sep 2018 #42
We need to throw this back into his face via twitter repeatedly. Again and again and again...nt SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #48
Did his campaign staff try to clear the room? TomCADem Sep 2018 #17
:D C Moon Sep 2018 #26
The real joke is that he didn't expect it. JohnnyRingo Sep 2018 #19
Be interesting to hear.. Maxheader Sep 2018 #22
Fox News abruptly cuts off clip of Trump talking about accomplishments, right before the laughter. mahatmakanejeeves Sep 2018 #24
Brilliant! C Moon Sep 2018 #25
Colbert's opening monologue should be interesting. dameatball Sep 2018 #30
Trump shames all of us. C_U_L8R Sep 2018 #33
Accomplished more tweets tymorial Sep 2018 #35
At the U.N., Trump finds the world literally laughing at him Gothmog Sep 2018 #36
That's not your base, Donny. moondust Sep 2018 #37
Utterly humiliating. flibbitygiblets Sep 2018 #50
This is what happens when you actually start to believe your own BS. colorado_ufo Sep 2018 #38
Yeah, that FDR was a slacker. Yavin4 Sep 2018 #41
Someone do the laughter track on repeat like his cocaine stiffles. ffr Sep 2018 #44
This is great! I love the nose...perfectly describes his sniffling all of the time...disgusting. NT SWBTATTReg Sep 2018 #49
The warm and caring Stephan Miller wrote the speech. BigmanPigman Sep 2018 #46
Excellent idea, saidsimplesimon Sep 2018 #51
All the world knows that #dontheCon is a laughing stock! riversedge Sep 2018 #47

skypilot

(8,854 posts)
8. Way too polite indeed.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:34 AM
Sep 2018

It would have been better if they hadn't ended up applauding right after they laughed at him.

skypilot

(8,854 posts)
21. Then simply laughing at him...
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:42 PM
Sep 2018

...would have done the trick. Applauding as well makes it seem as though they enjoyed the performance. Also, everyone knows how much Trump enjoys cheers and applause. They should have denied him this. The delusional fucker probably took it as some kind of praise.

olegramps

(8,200 posts)
7. He is a total embarassment to our nation.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:33 AM
Sep 2018

In 1920, the inimitably scathing H.L. Mencken peered into the country’s future and offered this pungent prediction concerning the Presidency: “As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.”


Thanks to the Republican Party this has become a reality within our time. How wonderful. We should all rejoice. "Morans" prevailed disputed the odds. Or maybe more correctly, in keeping with the odds since such a large percentage don't even get off their ass to vote allowing a minority to dictate their destiny.

LibDemAlways

(15,139 posts)
15. He is the second moron to occupy the office.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:57 AM
Sep 2018

Bush 43 was the first, although he was installed by SCOTUS, not the "plain folks of the land." Come to think of it, Trump is stinking up the White House only because the gullible plain folks in a handful of states handed him an Electoral College majority. We seriously need to do something about a failed system in which the minority of not very bright voters can elect a moron to the Presidency.

Harker

(14,026 posts)
20. Mencken's "booboisie" has spoken...
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:40 PM
Sep 2018

and continue to reveal their ignorance and gullibility at every opportunity.

Much of Mencken seems prescient.

procon

(15,805 posts)
9. Seriously, he "Didn't expect that reaction" ???
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:34 AM
Sep 2018

Did someone tell him that was a great line, the perfect opening gambit to dazzle all them foreigners at the UN? Oops! They weren't supposed to know that he was lying! Trump seemed genuinely surprised that the UN members didn't behave like American audiences and just quietly accept his lies as the new normal.

Solly Mack

(90,775 posts)
11. I was up and out early this AM. Got home, turned on the news, and there it was - speechifying.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:44 AM
Sep 2018

Shouldn't such things come with a warning? Really. Some sort of warning to not turn on the TV because the orange blob is bloviating again?

It was awful. The few seconds I could hear it speaking because I foolishly turned on the TV and then walked away to get some coffee. I should have waited a moment or two for the just in case of life. I should have known better. I should have...

Oh, the agony of those 90 seconds. I was reduced to chanting LALALALALALALALA while I stirred the creamer. LALALALALA all the way back to the remote. Remote. What a lovely word. A remote memory. A remote island.

The orange blob exiled to a remote island on its way to being a remote memory.

But about that warning - we need one. We really need one.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
23. Great!
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 01:07 PM
Sep 2018

There was some muted laughter.

“So true,” Trump said. “I didn’t expect that reaction, but that’s okay,” he said, prompting louder laughter and some applause.


I got nothing..

Hermit-The-Prog

(33,356 posts)
14. that's it!
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:55 AM
Sep 2018

The solution to our national disgrace -- have canned laughter piped throughout the White House, 24/7.

It should have the same effect as water on the Wicked Witch of the West, except in super slow-mo, with profanity and slobbering.

That's my hypothesis and I'm sticking to it.

TomCADem

(17,390 posts)
17. Did his campaign staff try to clear the room?
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 11:58 AM
Sep 2018

He must be wondering where are his campaign thugs to remove anyone who does not agree with him.

Maxheader

(4,373 posts)
22. Be interesting to hear..
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 12:48 PM
Sep 2018

in privacy, what the leaders think of cheetox....

I'm sure it gets no points for making them live
through this 'trade war'...

Maybe even more interesting why roughly 30%
of the voters here, think the traitor walks on water....

mahatmakanejeeves

(57,513 posts)
24. Fox News abruptly cuts off clip of Trump talking about accomplishments, right before the laughter.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 01:46 PM
Sep 2018
SupersedingHat Retweeted:

Fox News abruptly cuts off this clip of Trump talking about his accomplishments, right before the audience laughs.


C_U_L8R

(45,003 posts)
33. Trump shames all of us.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 02:19 PM
Sep 2018

But really makes rightwingers look like total idiots. Keep leading them off the cliff, Donnie.

Gothmog

(145,345 posts)
36. At the U.N., Trump finds the world literally laughing at him
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 02:21 PM
Sep 2018

The world is laughing at trump http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/the-un-trump-finds-the-world-literally-laughing-him

As we discussed at the time, it’s been a point of near-obsession for Trump for decades. In his mind, being laughed at appears to be the single worst reaction a person or a country can experience, and so he seems to evaluate decisions based less on merit and more on whether they’ll generate laughter from others.

In the Reagan era, Trump insisted that “bad guys” were “laughing at” the United States. In 2011, The Atlantic ran a piece noting Trump making the same argument about international laughter, at Americans’ expense, during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama eras.

“Everyone is always pointing and laughing at America, in Trump’s view,” The Atlantic piece noted. “A psychologist might have a field day with this.”

Stop by the Trump Twitter Archive and search for example of the president writing missives about people laughing at us. It’s not a short list.

Traditionally, this has made Trump appear vaguely paranoid about ridicule that didn’t really exist, responding to laughter that only he could hear. This morning, however, was an altogether different dynamic: at the United Nations, the world laughed at Trump.

moondust

(19,993 posts)
37. That's not your base, Donny.
Tue Sep 25, 2018, 02:24 PM
Sep 2018

All he knows is juvenile boasting to his brainwashed base who swallow whatever he says hook, line, and sinker. What's worse than embarrassing?

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
50. Utterly humiliating.
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 04:32 PM
Sep 2018

Remember during the primaries when Donnie was saying "They're LAUGHING at us!" about supposedly how other nations were having a group chuckle at the great deal they were getting at the US' expense.

I guess in one way he has accomplished more than any other administration in history: They ARE laughing at us now.

Thanks, Anuslips McMushroomdick.

SWBTATTReg

(22,144 posts)
49. This is great! I love the nose...perfectly describes his sniffling all of the time...disgusting. NT
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 11:45 AM
Sep 2018

saidsimplesimon

(7,888 posts)
51. Excellent idea,
Wed Sep 26, 2018, 04:43 PM
Sep 2018

President Obama's take down is obviously more important than setting an example of diplomacy and rational behaviour.

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