White House: Trump was 'just riffing' about late Rep. John Dingell 'looking up' from hell
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/trump-dingell-looking-up-fr
The White House on Thursday said President Trump was just riffing when he suggested at a Michigan rally that Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingells late husband, Rep. John Dingell, was in hell, looking up.
It was a very, very supportive and wild crowd, White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said on ABCs Good Morning America. And he was just riffing on some of the things that had been happening the past few days.
Grisham described Trump as a counter-puncher. During his campaign and since taking office, Trump has made many inflammatory statements that he or his press secretaries explained away as jokes.
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At a rally in Battle Creek, Mich., on Wednesday night, Trump brought up the late congressman and his widow, who now holds his seat and voted, along with almost all the House Democrats, for impeachment.
Debbie Dingell, thats a real beauty, Trump said, noting he was watching her on television during the impeachment proceedings.
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Proud Liberal Dem
(24,437 posts)It wasn't funny and/or appropriate. It shouldn't have been said. Period.
42bambi
(1,753 posts)hibbing
(10,109 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)I like presidents who *don't'* riff.
The same defense as "I was joking!" Words mean things.
PatSeg
(47,586 posts)not U.S. presidents. What a load of crap.
Haggis for Breakfast
(6,831 posts)He wasn't playing the guitar here. He was, once again, behaving in a manner that NO other president would EVER had engaged. This trouser stain has no class, no grace, no manners. His complete lack of dignity or restraint for icons of America (and war heroes) stands out in stark contrast to EVERY other occupant of the Oval Office. John Dingell (and John McCain) had more integrity in their pinkies than this gutter trash could ever hope to possess.
He has all the impulse control of a grease fire.
yonder
(9,673 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)Usually it means going off the script in response to feeling what the audience responds to. Basically ad-libbing.
I45 is no standup comedian.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)I don't know how she can tie herself in such rhetorical knots and lie like that for Fat Nixon.
question everything
(47,534 posts)Sanders could only parrot what the others told her or just the safe "cannot comment."
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)ENOUGH! Period!
Botany
(70,581 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,154 posts)45s father is looking up at him beckoning for reunion.
JohnnyRingo
(18,641 posts)Exactly why he isn't fit for office.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,434 posts)consequences. All he has to do is say that hes joking, his victims be damned.
world wide wally
(21,754 posts)dalton99a
(81,570 posts)PatSeg
(47,586 posts)Shrike47
(6,913 posts)flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)I hope trump chokes on a drumstick and trips so his head gets stuck in his golden toilet bowl and he drowns.
Just riffing!
NOT
Wawannabe
(5,678 posts)Swear I will flush with all my might!
Will flush day and night!
😜
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Get Malignia to ban me.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)Ilsa
(61,698 posts)Offspring. You could even riff about how paranoid they are about anyone mentioning or referring to Barron.
onecaliberal
(32,894 posts)Pamela Karlan was just "riffing" and --really--using word play when she mentioned his son, Barron's, name. She said absolutely nothing about the boy's personality, looks, or geographic location via the afterlife.
yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)I must try to remember that one.
George II
(67,782 posts)uppityperson
(115,679 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,757 posts)What is "excuses to get Trump off the hook, Alex."
louis-t
(23,297 posts)His crowds are getting smaller. He'll be renting out the American Legion hall for his Nazi rallies pretty soon.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)winstars
(4,220 posts)Assholes who work for assholes who are then supported by, fucking assholes.
Botany
(70,581 posts)... is really OK because he is just a counter puncher. The mother fucker did this on the day he was
impeached too. When is enough, enough?
Olafjoy
(937 posts)Just keep digging er, I mean talking.
Stephanie Grisham 2 DUIs in Arizona
Fired from first job for stealing
Fired from second job for plagiarism
Third job-Trump campaign
Im just riffing
"Just keep digging er, I mean talking.
Stephanie Grisham 2 DUIs in Arizona
Fired from first job for stealing
Fired from second job for plagiarism
Third job-Trump campaign
Im just riffing"
Is all that for real?
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Different jobs. So yes, she a loyal Trumpie.
Botany
(70,581 posts)Trump likes crooks.
lark
(23,155 posts)It's what's inside of him, pure evil and hate for any and all progressives, moderates, minorities and women (except when he's being fluffed).
Sneederbunk
(14,300 posts)Iliyah
(25,111 posts)go far far away.
secondwind
(16,903 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Waiting for Melania to laugh about folks 'riffing' their son.
angrychair
(8,733 posts)Absolutely the worst "non-apology" apology I've ever heard.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)Here's some riffing for you.
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Botany
(70,581 posts)iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)Thanks!
Botany
(70,581 posts)But those that stayed danced, drank, and had a great time.
If you can find it the album "The Father Jumps is awesome."
iscooterliberally
(2,863 posts)I didn't like it when I was younger, but it wasn't the fault of the music. My dad would find these old AM radio stations that were just on the verge of being out of range and the static was just awful. I grew to appreciate it more once the fidelity was a little better.
Vinca
(50,303 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)and then to attack a person that is buried and he cannot defend himself and the spouse is still grieving on the loss .................
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)At least he's actually funny. And he's not a mentally ill moron.
truthisfreedom
(23,154 posts)Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)Marcuse
(7,506 posts)Tiggeroshii
(11,088 posts)There is no way dump wins MI now
pansypoo53219
(20,995 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)Then one can understand the vile and disgusting rants that he seems to think are okay to say. He has very little knowledge of appropriate behavior nor what the definition of civility is. He's a hoodlum and a bully. Not all the money in the world can change that.
raccoon
(31,119 posts)I thought riffing had to do with guitars. No, trump justWas acting like an asshole as he always does.
marble falls
(57,204 posts)counter-punch a corpse?
Gothmog
(145,553 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)I feel sorry for the generations to come that will have to suffer the generations of Trumps to come.