But do they push back and say, no, sir, you’re wrong? That’s the part I’m having the problem with.
They accept what he says without any argument.
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I think Kansas doesn’t need help from trump. And Missouri is fine as well.
I get where you’re coming from, but it’s not just snark. This is yet another reminder that this person has faked and/or purchased his education his entire life. And a reminder that protocol, fact checking, basic checks are missing from the most important jobs in the country.
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Trump didn’t know the names of the two teams in the Super Bowl either.
Is any of this a shock to the world? Republicans have been trying to stop the teaching of civics, science and history for decades now in their red states. Now geography is on the line apparently. Nobody can be better educated than Donald.
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Often. They push back often. Other times it goes flying past so quickly there isn’t time (look up “Gish Gallop”) or he presents it as opinion or some other factor militates against it. And yes, there are times, too many, when they just let it go. To a great extent the whole society has or he’d never have been elected in the first place. But show me an institution or other entity that pushes back and calls him wrong more than the media. Take your time.
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You could be dead and still be more coherent than this dumb motherfucker. FIFY
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Thank you for that.
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Show me the headline in any mainstream media story that starts with ‘Trump lies about…[topic] again’.
I’ll wait.
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It is worth noting that Kansas City is not Bangladesh
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Excellent point. The White House used to be a pretty sophisticated communications outlet. You didn’t see mistakes, typos, sloppiness, childish name calling etc. Everything was first rate. Today it’s disgraceful. Any school district PR office is far more professional.
Really? I didn’t hear that. Wow. For a huge sports fan that’s a definite “I’m worried about Dad” deal.
Both the Washington Post and CNN regularly vet Trump appearances and chronicle his lies. There was a tendency not to use the actual word in the beginning because you have to know for a fact that a person lied, and be able to prove it, if you don’t want to set yourself up for a libel suit. So they’d say he “falsely” or “baselessly” said a thing. But Daniel Dale, among other people, calls them lies. Anyway here you go, since you asked for it, and don’t worry, it didn’t take any time at all:
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I hear what you’re sayin, but the press has a duty to report what POTUS says and does. It serves as yet another reminder to the entire country just how completely unfit this man is to be our leader.
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Stupid or senile. Pick any two.
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If someone had made a Super Bowl commercial fictionalizing something along these lines, the Trumpers would have been livid,
But I laughed my ass off at this, easily the best laugh of the day. Because it happens so often. The man is a gaffe machine. Yet he acts the know it all. Now, let’s add in Pompeo’s pomposity with the Cambridge educated reporter, and the comedy gets amped up to 11.
Cut him so slack? The man holds the nuclear football. If you cannot do the job, don’t run for the job.
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Focusing only on the child separation, racism, etc., for me at least, leads to despondency. This is a Trump fuck-up that’s easy to laugh at and be snarky about. At least no one is harmed by this bout of his ignorance . . . I think
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I don’t think he could find NY or Florida on an unlabeled map!
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It is because the tweet itself was such a pander – a completely hollow and cynical attempt to attach himself to a winning sports team and raise his approval – that it is so wonderful to see himself fall on his face. Small thing, but entertaining in the way seeing someone step on a rake is entertaining.
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For a minute there, Missouri dodged a bullet, but Trump ultimately touched it and thus it must die.
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Not sure that means that he is aware of the mistake. Whoever on his twitter cleanup crew was on duty was aware and changed it.
Dollars to donuts, if confronted, he will deny that he ever made that error, because, you know, it’s clean and perfect now.
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Buford Butthead, a life long citizen of Kansas City, Missouri, died of shock this morning when he learned from DJT that he actually lived in Kansas.
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Normally, you leave such stuff for the late night talk shows or SNL to joke about.
But this is emblematic of the man’s brutal ignorance. The ad he ran is symbolic of his cruelty. The danger we all feel is fascism around the corner. Vote and vote wisely people.
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