Other than the occasional self-incriminating comment, most of his babblings and tweets hold zero meaning, because he will contradict them or deny them the next day.
It always galls me when the media try to inject significance or meaning or some kind of evidence of intelligent strategy into his casual word farts. They should know by now that most of what he emits from any orifice is devoid of substance.
Looking thru the excerpts of the interview trump says “no collusion” at least every third sentence. Or it feels that way. Then he turns it around to lay the “collusion” thing on a “Pakistani guy and the democrats” as if that’s damning evidence.
That’s strange.
Then he acts as if what Mueller has is not something to be particularly worried about. *BUT THERE WAS NO COLLUSION"!!!12!!!2!!!4%!!
Yeah, I’m not about to bust a grape over the SS not protecting this asshole closely enough.
How about within the same interview?
Donny sets himself up as the victim. Quotes like these are invitations to join him in his insanity. Refuse to join = no loyality to the emperor = you’re fired.
Chris Ruddy ??
Rawstory writes this
While Trump spent his third day on the West Palm Beach golf course at Mar-a-Lago, Washington correspondent Michael Schmidt was wandering around the links himself.
“The unstaffed president of the United States, who likes to talk to reporters, bumped into the incomparable Michael Schmidt at one of his golf courses and did what he is always inclined to do — talk for a half-hour on record. No staff,” tweeted fellow Times reporter Maggie Haberman who once took Trump’s phone calls to tell his side of the story.
His babbling on China and the North Koreans was as incoherent as it was scary. And when he asked the reporter if what he said sounded good, the reporter agreed with him! The ramblings about health insurance damn near put me over the edge.
I cannot wait that long.
Now, now, no double standards !
It doesn’t. And he absolutely campaigned in FL, and his campaign was quite active in Texas as well.
And we shouldn’t forget that he often bragged that he was going to win NY, because everyone loved him there. (He spent 14 days there, compared to Hillary’s 21 days)
The reality was, there was nothing particuarly different about Trump’s campaigning vs. every other Presidential campaign. He visited the places he needed to, to raise money. He visited the places where he needed to to drive out votes. There was no grand strategy of winning just PA, WI and MI to win the EC.
The mistake there was that the Clinton campaign didn’t extrapolate what was happening in OH to rest of the rust belt. But OH was clearly the canary in the coal mine saying “WATCH THE F__K OUT!!”
The only arguably odd thing, is Trump had to spend time in places like UT, which normally are a given for republicans, so they don’t bother.
That too. For an experienced journalist, interviewing trump must be like an anthropologist going to the zoo to try to interpret the gruntings of a gorilla. I just wish they’d quit adding their own spin on top of it, always trying to imbue his incoherent rambling with insight and cohesion, rephrasing his brain farts with a semblance of intelligence.
Anybody know a link to the whole transcript of this interview? I can only find bits
Read the excerpts if you can. Ruddy -Newmax?- stopped by during the interview while Trump was riffing on China and North Korea.
do you have a link, please ?
“Gruntings of a gorilla”…
(hehehahah)
That’s good!
edit
I lectured to 1st year medical students and so got into the habit of thinking before blurting.
Thanks you beat me to it.
Yes, that’s the one I know, thanks, the Ruddy- Newmax reference evades me…OK, found it is Michael Schmidt from the NYT doing the reporting proper … Ruddy apparently just dropped by.
Mr. Trump gave the interview in the Grill Room at Trump International Golf Club after he ate lunch with his playing partners, including his son Eric and the pro golfer Jim Herman. No aides were present for the interview, and the president sat alone with a New York Times reporter at a large round table as club members chatted and ate lunch nearby. A few times, members and friends — including a longtime supporter, Christopher Ruddy, the president and chief executive of the conservative website and TV company Newsmax — came by to speak with Mr. Trump.
How is it that a reporter wanders trump’s golf course and “bump’s” into trump unattended (either of them)?