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Showing Original Post only (View all)Presidential historian compares yesterday's flattery for Trump to "a scene out of The Godfather" [View all]
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/my-god-is-that-snl-don-lemon-scoffs-at-trumps-white-house-festival-of-flattery/CNNs Don Lemon brought on a pair of presidential historians Wednesday night to analyze the festival of flattery that he mockingly said went down on the White House lawn in celebration of the passage of the GOP tax bill.
After passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican party leaders from Paul Ryan to Mike Pence took to a podium set up on the White House lawn to issue effusive praise to President Donald Trump for his heroic work on the bill.
My god is that SNL? Lemon scoffed, after watching a montage of the White House ceremony. Is that real?
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Lemon then brought in presidential historians Timothy Natale and Douglas Brinkley, who he introduced as so handsome.
The three watched videos of lawmakers showering Trump in applause, and the historians were equally befuddled by the sycophancy of Republican lawmakers.
Brinkley described the passage of the tax bill as an historic victory, before noting that the exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, it almost seems like a scene out of The Godfather we just saw, not what you would expect from the president of a democracy.
I havent heard this kind of sycophancy since I listened to the Nixon tapes where Henry Kissinger is telling the president what a remarkable human being he is, Natale said.
After passing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, Republican party leaders from Paul Ryan to Mike Pence took to a podium set up on the White House lawn to issue effusive praise to President Donald Trump for his heroic work on the bill.
My god is that SNL? Lemon scoffed, after watching a montage of the White House ceremony. Is that real?
-snip-
Lemon then brought in presidential historians Timothy Natale and Douglas Brinkley, who he introduced as so handsome.
The three watched videos of lawmakers showering Trump in applause, and the historians were equally befuddled by the sycophancy of Republican lawmakers.
Brinkley described the passage of the tax bill as an historic victory, before noting that the exaggeration of having to kiss the ring of Donald Trump, it almost seems like a scene out of The Godfather we just saw, not what you would expect from the president of a democracy.
I havent heard this kind of sycophancy since I listened to the Nixon tapes where Henry Kissinger is telling the president what a remarkable human being he is, Natale said.
Video at the link.
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Presidential historian compares yesterday's flattery for Trump to "a scene out of The Godfather" [View all]
highplainsdem
Dec 2017
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Joe Scarborough just said that Hatch's remarks will forever be a stain on his legacy.
highplainsdem
Dec 2017
#4
This is WORSE than Nazi Germany...we have nukes and a madman...they one had 1 of those
Moostache
Dec 2017
#9
He's done it before. There was that ass-kissing cabinet meeting in June
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#17
Yes. And as I said, he's done it before, in June. Cartoons are from June as dates in them show . nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Dec 2017
#24
What did Trump DO exactly that helped get the tax bill passed anyway?
Proud Liberal Dem
Dec 2017
#19
Just reading about yesterday's Trump "kissyfest" and touchdown spiking over the tax bill
Proud Liberal Dem
Dec 2017
#29