White House staff told to stop showing the President fake news
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[url]http://www.politico.com/story/2017/05/15/donald-trump-fake-news-238379[/url]
[quote]White House chief of staff Reince Priebus issued a stern warning at a recent senior staff meeting: Quit trying to secretly slip stuff to President Trump.
Just days earlier, K.T. McFarland, the deputy national security adviser, had given Trump a printout of two Time magazine covers. One, supposedly from the 1970s, warned of a coming ice age; the other, from 2008, about surviving global warming, according to four White House officials familiar with the matter.
Trump quickly got lathered up about the media’s hypocrisy. But there was a problem. The 1970s cover was fake, part of an Internet hoax that’s circulated for years. Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it.
The episode illustrates the impossible mission of managing a White House led by an impetuous president who has resisted structure and strictures his entire adult life.[/quote]
So no more infowars?
Oh boy, the part about chasing down the truth and stopping Trump from tweeting about it literally reminds me of parents trying to stop their kid from eating everything it finds.
I wonder if they're actually taking it as a game and thinking "is he gonna fall for it?"
[QUOTE=Loadingue;52230856]I wonder if they're actually taking it as a game and thinking "is he gonna fall for it?"[/QUOTE]
I know I would.
Every day I am continually terrified.
FOX NEWS???
[QUOTE=Dom Pyroshark;52230833]Oh boy, the part about chasing down the truth and stopping Trump from tweeting about it literally reminds me of parents trying to stop their kid from eating everything it finds.[/QUOTE]
"b-but mom I want it!"
[quote]“It’s even more important with someone like this,” she said of Trump, [b]a president notoriously influenced by the last person he has spoken to,[/b] “but the challenge is he has to buy into it.”[/quote]
well if I wasn't ashamed of being American before I sure am now
[QUOTE=Zang-Pog;52230998]So if people keep showing Trump "fake news" about how everybody hates him and thinks he should resign, he's going to do it?[/QUOTE]
You want to pass off real news as fake news?
"There is universal agreement among Trump advisers on this: The best way to focus the president’s attention on any story is to tell him about it personally, even if it is in one of the papers he’s already thumbed through. But officials say it’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition because Trump’s frustrations at bad stories can easily boomerang against those delivering him the news."
What a strong leader.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52231029]"There is universal agreement among Trump advisers on this: The best way to focus the president’s attention on any story is to tell him about it personally, even if it is in one of the papers he’s already thumbed through. But officials say it’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition because Trump’s frustrations at bad stories can easily boomerang against those delivering him the news."[/QUOTE]
We've elected a Saturday morning cartoon villain as president.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52231029]"There is universal agreement among Trump advisers on this: The best way to focus the president’s attention on any story is to tell him about it personally, even if it is in one of the papers he’s already thumbed through. But officials say it’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition because Trump’s frustrations at bad stories can easily boomerang against those delivering him the news."
What a strong leader.[/QUOTE]
He has the best temperament, the best
It doesn't surprise me at all that Trump is so pompous, petty, and irrationally driven by his ego that he'd shoot the messenger. He's a spoiled eight-year-old in an overpriced suit and a fake tan.
[QUOTE=Lambeth;52231079]He has the best temperament, the best[/QUOTE]
The best temperament to get his arse sectioned, that is. With an attitude like his, he needs some serious, heavy duty treatments.
we've reached a point where the president is getting baited by internet memes and photoshops
what a time to be alive
Ohh, the poor baby in the white house cant take some criticism and shoots the messenger for giving him bad news. Not surprising considering he's declared before that 'his life was better before he became president.'
I hope someone gets him to tweet about the alien refugee crisis in South Africa
[QUOTE]Staff chased down the truth and intervened before Trump tweeted or talked publicly about it.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]“It’s even more important with someone like this,” she said of Trump, a president notoriously influenced by the last person he has spoken to, “but the challenge is he has to buy into it.”[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]"There is universal agreement among Trump advisers on this: The best way to focus the president’s attention on any story is to tell him about it personally, even if it is in one of the papers he’s already thumbed through. But officials say it’s a high-risk, high-reward proposition because Trump’s frustrations at bad stories can easily boomerang against those delivering him the news."[/QUOTE]
This is just hilarious as fuck, America what have you done to yourselves.
you could probably make trump into a socialist if you surrounded him with the right people. this is how bernie still wins boys
[QUOTE=TheHydra;52231495]you could probably make trump into a socialist if you surrounded him with the right people. this is how bernie still wins boys[/QUOTE]
That's probably what fucked us in the first place. The right wing, pro-russian, nationalist scum were the people who surrounded him first. Although, hindsight is 20/20 so we didn't know how easy he was to manipulate back then
It really seems like Trump is showing signs of senility.
Or maybe he's just fucking dumb, who knows.
[QUOTE=Dr.C;52231462]I hope someone gets him to tweet about the alien refugee crisis in South Africa[/QUOTE]
"Have you seen District 9? It's terrible, just terrible."
[QUOTE=_Axel;52231558]It really seems like Trump is showing signs of senility.
Or maybe he's just fucking dumb, who knows.[/QUOTE]
I've long thought that he has some kind of degenerative mental illness. He seems incapable of maintaining a train of thought long enough to even finish a sentence. His speeches are rambling, incoherent messes, and the only common trend is how great and smart and strong and powerful he is. Everything is secondary to his compulsion to be recognized and validated, so much so that everything else just becomes unintelligible background noise.
Here is one example, recorded from a speech he made:
[quote]Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you're a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my, like, credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.[/quote]
He's been nuts for a while, but now, under the stress of office, I think few mental faculties he had are starting to burn out in favor of his delusions and paranoia. He sees a world full of enemies waiting to get him, and is committing high crimes of office left and right attempting to get rid of them and make people finally see that he's powerful and smart and worthy. He rules on a whim, and viciously turns on everybody who doesn't humor him, damned be the consequences. The man's not only hungry for power, he's completely bonkers. He's a modern Caligula.
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52231664]I've long thought that he has some kind of degenerative mental illness. He seems incapable of maintaining a train of thought long enough to even finish a sentence. His speeches are rambling, incoherent messes.
This is one sentence:
Now, under the stress of office, I think he's just cashing out on what few mental chips he had left. He sees a world full of enemies waiting to get him, and is committing high crimes of office left and right attempting to get rid of them and make people finally see that he's powerful and smart and worthy. He rules on a whim, and turns on everybody who doesn't humor him. The man's not only hungry for power, he's completely bonkers. He's a modern Caligula.[/QUOTE]
Republicans have elected [I]two[/I] mentally incapacitated leaders, one of whom is revered as one of the single greatest Republican presidents of all time.
At some point, pushing back against elitism and voting for the casual, down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is guy goes too far, and a bunch of people with undiagnosed mental illnesses end up electing someone with undiagnosed mental illnesses so that he can cut their healthcare so that they don't have to admit that they have undiagnosed mental illnesses. Trump should be in a dementia ward. Reagan led our country for years in a similar state. The GOP fetishizes mental illness.
[t]http://puu.sh/vQW5u.png[/t]
"haha, I bet you 5 dollars he'll believe this one"
[QUOTE=.Isak.;52231689]Republicans have elected [I]two[/I] mentally incapacitated leaders, one of whom is revered as one of the single greatest Republican presidents of all time.
At some point, pushing back against elitism and voting for the casual, down-to-earth, tell-it-like-it-is guy goes too far, and a bunch of people with undiagnosed mental illnesses end up electing someone with undiagnosed mental illnesses so that he can cut their healthcare so that they don't have to admit that they have undiagnosed mental illnesses. Trump should be in a dementia ward. Reagan led our country for years in a similar state. The GOP fetishizes mental illness.[/QUOTE]
They fetishize simple mindedness. It just so happened that the mentally ill have that in abundance.
[QUOTE=Untouch;52231710][t]http://puu.sh/vQW5u.png[/t]
"haha, I bet you 5 dollars he'll believe this one"[/QUOTE]
You fucked up, you put it in 24 hr/military time instead of 2:14.
How's his tiny brain going to understand.
[QUOTE=purvisdavid1;52231723]You fucked up, you put it in 24 hr/military time instead of 2:14.
How's his tiny brain going to understand.[/QUOTE]
"Oh my Trump... North Korea [I]broke time![/I]"
[QUOTE=Big Dumb American;52231761]"Oh my Trump... North Korea [I]broke time![/I]"[/QUOTE]
This is- I saw, they brought this in, just now, they're very fast- they show me what the koreans- the north- they've done, and it's just- you know I've seen, seen some crazy big stuff, crazy big stuff- this is huge. Time, I mean- time is, it's a big thing- they've gone and, they've, you see what they've done. Nobody can believe it. Nobody can believe it. We've gotta do something, stop them from- you know, you hear it from, people call me on the the phone they say "we've gotta do something. We can't let them do this." Time's important, tremendously important. We gotta- you know, Andrew Jackson, he said, "You gotta protect time"- so we're gonna- We'll do something about it. Time, we're always going to be strong. Protect it, that's what we do, we protect.
Minutes later vietnam is mistakenly engulfed in nuclear fire. A White House statement is released apologizing to Russia for any potential fallout that might drift over their borders.
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