Discussion: Paul Ryan Sees Trump 'As More Of A Chairman'

system1 · February 28, 2017, 5:11pm

Paul Ryan Sees Trump 'As More Of A Chairman' Back to article

jcblues · February 28, 2017, 5:15pm

you mean like Chairman Mao except less intelligent and with fewer dedicated followers?

valgalky23 · February 28, 2017, 5:20pm

“More of a Chairman”
Frank Sinatra he’s not.

dr_coyote · February 28, 2017, 5:23pm

I’ll bet you do, you soulless grandma-starving fuck.

the_loan_arranger · February 28, 2017, 5:23pm

Can’t wait for the publication of “The Sayings of Chairman Trump”.

clunkertruck · February 28, 2017, 5:23pm

More of a chairman = = = " rubber stamper " –

mike_in_houston · February 28, 2017, 5:24pm

So who in the hell are his Board of Directors?

vertone · February 28, 2017, 5:25pm

“Chairman”?
He’s supposed to be president. You know, there’s that thing called the U.S. Constitution that spells it all out. Also, you took an oath to support it. Idiots.

bluinmaine · February 28, 2017, 5:25pm

Ryan said. "I see him as more of a chairman, as a president where he gets people around him who are detail people who can execute those plans.”

Thanks ryan for finally telling a little tiny bit of the truth. You left out the most important detail of them all.
The “detail” people around the chairman don’t have a goddamn clue what to do except to execute themselves every time they open their mouths and the crap falls out.

mondfledermaus · February 28, 2017, 5:25pm

What you mean, freaking Trumpetes, all they are missing is the red book, and down in neck of the woods their are in as thick as fleas in a dog’s back!!

spencersmom · February 28, 2017, 5:26pm

PeePee is more chair than man

rickjones · February 28, 2017, 5:26pm

“And by ‘Chairman’ I mean an empty vessel with a signing pen, but with a certain adolescent, thin-skinned, vindictive, mean-spirited glaze.”

pshah · February 28, 2017, 5:29pm

Chairman…or more like Clint Eastwood’s empty chair??

dannysgrandma · February 28, 2017, 5:29pm

He does like his Little Red Hat.

dont · February 28, 2017, 5:30pm

they will be bigly popular. The most popular ever. The best.

coprophagoussmile · February 28, 2017, 5:31pm

The latest reporting suggests Ryan is cozying up to Bannon for support of his dead-in-the-water border tax. I guess this bizarre title is an indication he’s moved his Rand tomes to storage to make room for some literature on ‘economic nationalism’.

@the_loan_arranger The Little Golden Book

@brooklyndweller Wasn’t it Norquist who said the quality of the president didn’t matter so long as they got someone with an R after his name in the Oval Office? Just any old sack of crap who can sign his name on whatever legislation needs passing.

brooklyndweller · February 28, 2017, 5:31pm

Yep. Ryan is basically saying that Rump holds a position that’s more titular than functioning. Doesn’t make any actual decisions and even if he did, no one there would take them seriously. Of course, Rump is WAY too stupid to realize he’s been insulted.

Ryan even considered President Obama a true President.

mattinpa · February 28, 2017, 5:39pm

Yep yep right right right Trump’s the big-ideas guy with the 35,000-foot view. Meantime he’s solved the problem of the hundreds of remaining unfilled roles requiring Senate approval by simply deciding he maybe just won’t fill them at all. Those big ideas will be realized and made into policy by some sort of undefined magical process. Easy peasy!

coprophagoussmile · February 28, 2017, 5:41pm

Edit: “The most stark mental image of this administration remains a phone ringing forever in an empty office.”

sandyh · February 28, 2017, 5:41pm

Chairman of a corporation that went bankrupt like seven times.