Glad he’s trying to get this clarified, Donnie has been way too ambiguous and unclear on his views on these subjects…
Chris is going to get his interview credentials rescinded …
Total lack of decorum and respect …
and more importantly, obsequiousness.
HOW did so many people find this creature an acceptable vote for Prexy? You’d think they didn’t care a whit about this country’s democratic traditions…I thought it would be all over when he declared, “I alone can fix it.”
“The President [doesn’t] get to decide what’s fair and what’s not!” Wallace protested at one point to Trump.
“I can tell what’s fair,” Trump responded.
President Donald Trump: I’m just telling you that you treated me much differently on the subject.
Lesley Stahl: I disagree, but I don’t wanna have that fight with you.
President Donald Trump: Hey, it’s okay–
Lesley Stahl: All right, I’ll get in another fight with you–
President Donald Trump: Lesley, it’s okay. In the meantime, I’m president–and you’re not.
“I can tell what’s fair,” Trump responded.
Chief Justice Roberts calls balls and strikes. Trump calls fair and foul. The country intones “Many a tear has to fall but it’s all in the game.”
I lasted until minute 7, a new record for me.
Some highlights-
Wouldn’t give Obama and the military commander (Hillary supporter! 3 interruptions) credit for taking out Bin Laden, even after Wallace urging.
Wouldn’t give Obama credit for going on Fox repeatedly; said Obama “didn’t talk about the news, didn’t talk about anything.”
You can almost see the worms eating at his brain.
“I can tell what’s fair,” Trump responded.
“L’etat, c’est moi!” said Louis XIV.
Brilliant.
I watched the entire clip. Potus displayed lots of controlled rage and it was a bit scary. He prefaces declarations with you know this better than me, And threw the Secret Service under the bus -again- due to his foul mood and was too busy to lay a wreath at Arlington. Regarding his tone -his response was I won because of my tone and my supporters love my tone. Wallace should’ve pressed much harder on his racist insinuations about Abby Phillips, April Ryan, and Yamiche Alcindor. Oh and he tries to flatter Wallace during his fake news response. This was once again a hot mess of an interview.
Something tells me that Trump doesn’t have worms of this type infesting his brain:
Fox is deeply worried Trump is setting a precedent for the next Democratic President…because they actually deliver nothing but fake news.
FACT: Objectively untrue things have been said in the media about every president and many other elected officials. Noticeable in Trump’s discussion of “fake news” was his complete disregard for (or ignorance of) this fact.
And I’m being overly generous when I leave ignorance in as an excuse: Trump can’t really be ignorant of this fact because his own lies about other people have appeared in the media for decades.
Nixon: if the president does it, it is not criminal.
Trump: if the president says it, it is not a lie.
Who says it is a new low?
Republicans have always been assholes and will always be so.
Like trying to nail jello to the wall.
And that’s by design. In the '80s and '90s, Americans were appalled to see unapologetic crooks escape punishment through the simple artifice of claiming to not remember events. (Well, rich, white crooks. I don’t think the courts ever let a black person off the hook on the strength of those magic words “I can’t recall.”)
Trump is just riffing on that same theme. He’s developed a rhetorical style where he makes lots of noises that sound like assertions, but that are importantly unprovable either way or are tautological. When mixed in with the avalanche of obvious, provable lies, it’s hard to pin him down.
The words were just slaw to me. I was looking at that pasty white skin with layers of orange makeup. Until I had to look away.
Trump evaluates himself!
I think I have to respectfully disagree.
For one thing, the Republican Party is the party of Lincoln, at a time when the Democratic party defended slavery. Of course, the Republican Party has evolved over the past 150 years.
I don’t know if they’ve always been committed to laissez-faire economic policies or socially conservative causes. I do think there really was a time when the jury was still out on ideas like supply-side economics or abstinence-only education. But those times are past: we now have a wealth of evidence which shows that “trickle-down” doesn’t, and that systematically lying to sexually mature but uninformed humans has zero effect in preventing bad outcomes, to take just two examples.
Upton Sinclair described the problem of the GOP pretty succinctly:
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
The Republican Party has, for a long time, charted an ideological course that necessarily flirted with corruption, and their leadership eventually succumbed. That moral rot opened the door for people like Charles Koch, and later, Vladimir Putin, to disguise their stealth attack on government in the clothes of a good-faith political party.
I don’t think the GOP has always been assholes, they evolved that way in modern times, and I don’t see how they could ever change back. I suspect a big chunk of Republican voters is not so far gone. They will need a political home some day, and I doubt they can join the Democrats. I don’t know where they go.