Discussion: Trump Is So Sensitive About McCain That The WH Ordered A Ship Be Hidden From View

The Navy should rename it’s garbage scows the Trump Class of Naval Vessels.
Put his name on every one of them.

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What does Princess Meghan have to say about it? Is she OK with it because it was done by rethugs?

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/30/out-of-sight-white-house-reportedly-steers-uss-john-mccain-away-from-trump

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48456742

The New York Times also reported that the warship’s crew members, who have “USS John S McCain” on their caps, were sent home for the long weekend, along with the crew from another ship.
When some of them turned up to watch the speech anyway, the paper added, they were turned away.
But Acting US Defence Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters that he had been unaware of the incident, adding: “When I read about it this morning, it was the first I heard about it.”
The Navy has said there was nothing untoward in giving the crew time off.

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Meghan McCain, Mr McCain’s daughter, tweeted in response to the reports: “Trump is a child who will always be deeply threatened by the greatness of my dad’s incredible life.”
She added: “There is a lot of criticism of how much I speak about my dad, but nine months since he passed, Trump won’t let him RIP. So I have to stand up for him. It makes my grief unbearable.”

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It’s this crap that is draining the GOP base daily. They’ll die by a million cuts.

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This morning, John Meacham likened this story of hiding the USS John S McCain (and her crew) from Trump’s view to “baby-proofing the Presidency”.

He reiterated that it is clear that the Presidency did not change Trump, but that he fears that Trump has changed the Presidency.

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Was this before or after Trump wished the Japanese troops a Happy Memorial Day?

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Yeah like a bunch of drunken fratboy joyriding ‘changes’ your brand new Ferrari…

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OT, but it just struck my funny bone.

Trump just tweeted “Russia, Russia, Russia!..”, and all I could think of is poor Jan Brady lamenting “Marcia, Marcia, Marcia!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134061454250975232

ETA - He must be really freaking out this morning. He’s stuttering on twitter, and just reposted his last two tweets.

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A fine use of some new fangled stealth technology?

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This is hardly the only time we’ve read about the administration making an effort to hide things from Trump that would upset or infuriate that pathologically infantile mind. The strongest, most damning testimony to his profound unfitness comes from the people who know him best.

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And very often, from his own uncontrollable mouth… Trump tattles on himself all the time, his third person exposes his first person compulsively, if it gets a laugh from the crazy cult members in the crowd.
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Yes. It was a specially designed $14 million tactical tarp, that conceals the identity of the ship from the enemy and keeps them scratching their heads until BOOM it’s too late. Obviously its first operational use was an unqualified success.

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Trump would have wanted the navy ship renamed for that great veteran of the battle of the Hollywood backlot John Wayne.

Speaking of vessels; Trump once owned a yacht. He had to sell it to the Saudi royal family when he was bankrupt and in debt.

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And after the garbage scows, start renaming all the nuclear waste facilities and toxic superfund projects after the orange destroyer.

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Russia. Russia? Are you listening? I didn’t do anything to help you help me, did I? Pure coincidence I tried to get the sanctions lifted.

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And the laffs keep coming in his subsequent tweet where he rails on about the “horrendous false acquisition” leveled against him:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134061455702142976

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The silence was deafening when Rump wished the former Axis power “Happy Memorial Day,” but I already knew the Facebook Memorial Day Scolds were Rump lovers, one and all.

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[quote=“kelaine, post:9, topic:88423”]
And now Russia has disappeared because I had nothing to do with Russia helping me to get elected.
[/quote]So, he’s saying Russia helped him get elected, just that he had nothing to do with that.

I also like the 2nd part of the tweet:

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1134061455702142976

“… false acquisition”?

Fucking moron.

And, thanks for making what Mueller actually said the news of today, too … in case anyone missed it yesterday.

And the thing about the USS John S. McCain - whether you knew about it or not doesn’t change the fact that your staff knows you have to be protected from this kind of, what to most people would be a minor distraction. They know how incomparably calm you might get seeing something that reminds you of your own inferiority.

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His first tweet (“Official Presidential Statement”) this morning -

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