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The Trump Years- Every day something more shocking than the last! (14 Viewers)

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squistion said:
Wait, Trump said about Romney the he "would do anything for a campaign contribution"?

I would like to see a link to that, but assuming he actually said that, you do see that there is a difference if that response is directed to a woman, rather than another man? I don't believe that making an identical statement about Romney would carry the same sexual innuendo.
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He said he would do anything for his endorsement. If you do t have google try carrier pigeon 

 
HellToupee said:
He said he would do anything for his endorsement. If you do t have google try carrier pigeon 
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No, he didn't say that.

He did however say:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/03/politics/donald-trump-mitt-romney-would-have-dropped-to-his-knees-for-my-endorsement/index.html

Washington (CNN)Donald Trump struck back at 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney Thursday, blasting the former Massachusetts governor for "begging" for his endorsement four years ago only to sharply criticize him now.

"I don't know what happened to him," Trump said during a rally in Portland, Maine. "You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees."

Trump himself said this was Romney begging for his endorsement, not willing to do anything and obviously not suggesting that Romney would be willing to perform oral sex on him.

 
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HellToupee said:
squistion said:
I would like to see a link to that, but assuming he actually said that, you do see that there is a difference if that response is directed to a woman, rather than another man? I don't believe that making an identical statement about Romney would carry the same sexual innuendo.
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He said he would do anything for his endorsement. If you do t have google try carrier pigeon 
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Here you go: ""I don't know what happened to him," Trump said during a rally in Portland, Maine. "You can see how loyal he is. He was begging for my endorsement. I could have said, 'Mitt, drop to your knees.' He would have dropped to his knees."

Also, pretty clear Gillibrand and Warren love the platform/attention. It is like a badge of honor to be a GOP target. Notice that Liz is still using #Neverthelessshepersisted. (courtesy of McConnell, not Trump)
 (ETA_ Ah, I see you already found it.)

 
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HellToupee said:
There is nothing sexual in the tweet 
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Please. It is what is known as innuendo (an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one).

And not everyone agrees there is nothing sexual about the tweet. 

Scott Dworkin‏  @funder 7h

Trump insinuating Senator Kirsten Gillibrand would perform sexual favors for campaign contributions is a form of verbal sexual assault. No one can condone this sort of talk from a public official, especially the president of the United States. He must resign for this. He must.

Richard W. Painter‏ @RWPUSA 2h2 hours ago

So it's now considered presidential to call U.S. senators whores and other nasty names? And you now do all this under a Twitter banner that says "Merry Christmas"? Great way to get into the holiday spirit!

 
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squistion said:
Please. It is what is known as innuendo (an allusive or oblique remark or hint, typically a suggestive or disparaging one).

And not everyone agrees there is nothing sexual about the tweet. 

Scott Dworkin‏  @funder 7h

Trump insinuating Senator Kirsten Gillibrand would perform sexual favors for campaign contributions is a form of verbal sexual assault. No one can condone this sort of talk from a public official, especially the president of the United States. He must resign for this. He must.

Richard W. Painter‏ @RWPUSA 2h2 hours ago

So it's now considered presidential to call U.S. senators whores and other nasty names? And you now do all this under a Twitter banner that says "Merry Christmas"? Great way to get into the holiday spirit!
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Maybe what Donald Trump should do to stop beginning misunderstood. Is actually speak to the people instead of tweeting it out while he takes a ####.

 
Mile High said:
Maybe what Donald Trump should do to stop beginning misunderstood. Is actually speak to the people instead of tweeting it out while he takes a ####.
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Donald Trump is a school yard bully.

Unfortunately a significant segment of our population likes the traits in a school yard bully.

Eventually someone will have to deal with Trump, and his supporters, the same way you deal with all bullies - you stand up to him/them, and punch them in the proverbial nose.

 
Norman Paperman said:
Donald Trump is a school yard bully.

Unfortunately a significant segment of our population likes the traits in a school yard bully.

Eventually someone will have to deal with Trump, and his supporters, the same way you deal with all bullies - you stand up to him/them, and punch them in the proverbial nose.
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Bullies operating at the level Trump is usually don't get off so easy

 
Norman Paperman said:
Donald Trump is a school yard bully.

Unfortunately a significant segment of our population likes the traits in a school yard bully.

Eventually someone will have to deal with Trump, and his supporters, the same way you deal with all bullies - you stand up to him/them, and punch them in the proverbial nose.
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Maybe Lightweight Melania will redirect her anti-bullying campaign to her husband.

 
Norman Paperman said:
Donald Trump is a school yard bully.

Unfortunately a significant segment of our population likes the traits in a school yard bully.

Eventually someone will have to deal with Trump, and his supporters, the same way you deal with all bullies - you stand up to him/them, and punch them in the proverbial nose.
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I think we're pretty much living in the New Era of the Bully. The insane reaction against "political correctness" is mostly anger at not being able to be discourteous to those outside the norms. But, hey, for a little while, at least, it's ok to mock the disabled, the poor, the racial minorities and the sexual non-conformers, so there's that.

 
Long Ball Larry said:
does nobody realize that the points of the star behind his profile picture kind of look like devil horns?  or is it just me...
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I do not see the horns. Sorry. 

But if you click the profile pic, you'll see in the larger pic that he has a microphone clipped to his American flag lapel pin. Why does he hate America?

 
I'll be all around in the dark - I'll be everywhere. Wherever you can look - wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever there's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad. I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry and they know supper's ready, and when the people are eatin' the stuff they raise and livin' in the houses they build - I'll be there, too.

 
Hilts said:
I see no chance Jones wins, but it would be a spectacular implosion to see Trump react to backing back to back losing candidates in that state, and it would cause Republicans everywhere to panic and rush to distance themselves from the POTUS.
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Well,  I'll eat crow. Huge blow to team Bannon, but Trump is due for a melt down over this, as is the GOP.

 
USA Today Editorial is spitting hot fire at Trump.

With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.

Donald J. Trump✔@realDonaldTrump

Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!
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White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday dismissed the president's smear as a misunderstanding because he used similar language about men. Of course, words used about men and women are different. When candidate Trump said a journalist was bleeding from her "wherever," he didn't mean her nose.  

And as is the case with all of Trump's digital provocations, the president's words were deliberate. He pours the gasoline of sexist language and lights the match gleefully knowing how it will burst into flame in a country reeling from the #MeToo moment.  

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.  

This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.  

Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.

It should surprise no one how low he went with Gillibrand. When accused during the campaign of sexually harassing or molesting women in the past, Trump’s response was to belittle the looks of his accusers. Last October, Trump suggested that he never would have groped Jessica Leeds on an airplane decades ago: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.” Trump mocked another accuser, former People reporter Natasha Stoynoff, “Check out her Facebook, you’ll understand.”  Other celebrities and politicians have denied accusations, but none has stooped as low as suggesting that their accusers weren’t attractive enough to be honored with their gropes.

If recent history is any guide, the unique awfulness of the Trump era in U.S. politics is only going to get worse. Trump’s utter lack of morality, ethics and simple humanity has been underscored during his 11 months in office. Let us count the ways:

  • He is enthusiastically supporting Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of pursuing — and in one case molesting and in another assaulting — teenagers as young as 14 when Moore was a county prosecutor in his 30s. On Tuesday, Trump summed up his willingness to support a man accused of criminal conduct: “Roy Moore will always vote with us.”  
  • Trump apparently is going for some sort of record for lying while in office. As of mid-November, he had made 1,628 misleading or false statements in 298 days in office. That’s 5.5 false claims per day, according to a count kept by The Washington Post’s fact-checkers.
  • Trump takes advantage of any occasion — even Monday’s failed terrorist attack in New York — to stir racial, religious or ethnic strife. Congress “must end chain migration,” he said Monday, because the terror suspect “entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security.” So because one man — 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. who came from Bangladesh on a family immigrant visa in 2011 —  is accused of attacking America, all immigrants brought to this country by family are suspect? Trump might have some credibility if his criticism of immigrants was solely about terrorists. It isn’t.  It makes no difference to him if an immigrant is a terrorist or a federal judge. He once smeared an Indiana-born judge whose parents emigrated from Mexico. It’s all the same to this president.
  • A man who clearly wants to put his stamp on the government, Trump hasn’t even done his job when it comes to filling key government positions that require Senate confirmation. As of last week, Trump had failed to nominate anyone for 60% of 1,200 key positions he can fill to keep the government running smoothly.  
  • Trump has shown contempt for ethical strictures that have bound every president in recent memory.  He has refused to release his tax returns, with the absurd excuse that it’s because he is under audit.  He has refused to put his multibillion dollar business interests in a blind trust and peddles the fiction that putting them in the hands of his sons does the same thing. 
Not to mention calling white supremacists "very fine people," pardoning a lawless sheriff, firing a respected FBI director, and pushing the Justice Department to investigate his political foes.

It is a shock that only six Democratic senators are calling for our unstable president to resign.

The nation doesn’t seek nor expect perfect presidents, and some have certainly been deeply flawed. But a president who shows such disrespect for the truth, for ethics, for the basic duties of the job and for decency toward others fails at the very essence of what has always made America great.
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Pence better stay close to the white courtesy phone. He’s going to break a lot of ties. Even this one change could moderate the Senate quite a bit. Any two republicans effectively have veto power. 

 
AAABatteries said:
This isn't a phenomenon - typically Presidents poll better when the economy is doing well and people out of work is low.  That's been an easy cop-out of sorts over the years and honestly one that I got and understood.  Just imagine how low his numbers would be if we go in to a recession.
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yeah, like 31% or so

 
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