“And if relations ever become strained, let’s meet for tea in London”.
Wow - who explained all those big words to Pepe?
We may not have Trump’s income tax returns, but somewhere somebody does - and there are definitely people who know how much of a stake Russian oligarchs have in his finances. The simple fact that Trump can take essentially unilateral action and we are not allowed to know this information stupifies me - what country am I living in again?
Is this ever done?
Oh, gag me with a nuclear warhead!
What Trump read and understood:
“Dear Mr. Trump, Please accept my warmest Christmas and New Year greetings.”
Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Please accept my sincere wishes to your success and all the best.
HIS EXCELLENCY
DONALD TRUMP"
It’s just a shame the a large number of Americans have no idea what is about to hit them upside the head.
OT: Rachel Maddow interviewed KAC last night, Rachel was awesome. KAC pretty much held her own with deflection, change the subject, campaign blah blah but Rachel was something to behold keeping her from getting away with it.
Michael Moore was on Lawrence for promoting his MM in Trumpland. Showed a clip of some old guy in Ohio I think it was, who said, “Hillary was handed everything by her family, trump wasn’t.” This is what we’re dealing with. Minds like this will never be changed until the shit from the fan splatters all over their faces. And sickening enough as it is, MM advises that we not shame them. And he has a point there…we’re going to need to hand them a towel to wipe the shit off their faces and help with the fight that is to come.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. And if you’re just joining us, my guest is Michael Crowley. He’s the chief foreign affairs correspondent for Politico, and he’s been writing a lot about Donald Trump and Russia.
You’ve gone back and investigated some of his business deals. My understanding is that Donald Trump has been interested in having real estate deals in Russia, but hasn’t had any real estate deals there. But he has had other things. One of the things we’ve heard him talk about with pride is the Miss Universe pageant, which was held in Russia in 2013. Does he still own the Miss Universe pageant?
CROWLEY: He sold the Miss Universe pageant, I think, in 2014. But at the time he took it to Moscow, he was the owner and seemed quite delighted to be bringing it to Russia.
GROSS: And I think he cited this as part of the foundation of how he knows so much about Russia.
CROWLEY: Yeah, he did. I think it was during the primary campaign. And he had started talking a fair amount about Putin and Russia and he was asked what his basis for understanding Russia was and he cited this trip he took to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant in 2013. And, you know, I thought that was amazing and I wanted to know more about this trip so I wrote a story where I dove in and learned everything I could about it. And it’s still a little murky. I mean, we know that he took business meetings there. He seems to have been exploring real estate deals when he was there, but hasn’t fully disclosed everyone he talked to everything, he was trying to do.
My favorite part of this - and this goes back, Terry, to what I was saying a couple of minutes ago about the dark matter and the mysterious attraction to Putin - when he was headed over there, he started tweeting about Vladimir Putin and essentially inviting Putin to attend the pageant via Twitter. And in one kind of remarkable tweet that was almost written in the voice of, like, a teenage boy he said something to the effect of, you know, really excited for the Miss Universe pageant in Moscow tomorrow night or whenever it was. Do you think Vladimir Putin will come, and will he be my best friend?
GROSS: (Laughter).
"His Excellency’?
At the bottom of the letter.
Great.
The Donald, I’m sure, much prefers that to Mr. President.
“His Excellency” ??? WTF? Trumpushkin will be inspired to abandon all other titles after this.
“I know Russia well. I had a major event in Russia two or three years ago, Miss Universe contest, which was a big, big, incredible event. An incredible success.”
Well, Putin is a savvy bastard. We should learn from his ability to compliment you on the one hand while stabbing you in the back with the other.
late edit: I just wonder…as with all trump’s relationships, they hit the shitter eventually, and this one will too. What will happen then?
“… across a crowded room…”
I couldn’t bear to watch it. KAC straight up lying in that sweet, calm voice for an entire hour!?!
I just couldn’t do it.
And I totally agree with you about the shit/fan/towel thing.
Oh, ralph, we are clearly of an age when songs like this still matter to us. I could sing at the least the opening few lines.
@valgalky23 This is right up there with the stats about ACA enrollment. From NYT Clearly they don’t believe he’d repeal it just as they didn’t believe he’d really build a wall.
The five states with the most people enrolling for [ACA] coverage on the site through Monday were Florida, with 1.3 million plan selections, Texas (776,000), North Carolina (369,000), Georgia (352,000) and Pennsylvania (291,000). Trump carried all these states.
Donald continues to suckle at Vlad’s teat.
I can still sing the entire song! These were the verses my mother crooned while ironing and, for some reason, they stayed with me.
Recommended. “Conway” gives “trump” a list of the performers she lined up for Inauguration entertainment, he looks at it, says “I love both of them.”
Pooty-Poot: We will raise our level of collaboration on the international scene.
Translation from the Russian: We will plunder the world together, Donnie.