Trump Praises Scalise | Talking Points Memo

While talking up his Senate impeachment acquittal in the White House Thursday, President Trump went on an extended tangent about Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA) that was ostensibly supposed to be a compliment. It took several strange turns.


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Off. His. Fucking. Rocker.

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“A lot of wives wouldn’t give a damn. A lot of wives would’ve said, ‘how is he doing?’ She couldn’t even talk, she was inconsolable,” Trump said. “Most wives would say, ‘not good, listen I’m going home now’."

“And by ‘a lot of wives’, I mean all of mine.”

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“whacked” - he can’t help it with the mob talk, can he?

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I’ll bet Toadglans would look better after he was “whacked,” too. Of course, that’s probably just me.

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“A lot of wives wouldn’t give a damn. A lot of wives would’ve said, how is he doing? She couldn’t even talk, she was inconsolable,” Trump said.

Trump went on, “A lot of my ex-wives wouldn’t give a damn . . .”

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Is he in his Manic stage?

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Well if impeachment didnt work, I know article 25 wont.

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When the tongue tells more than the brain can process…

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If he thinks getting shot is some kind of cosmetic therapy, he’s nucking futs.

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I’ve heard him say this about the wife before and it was astonishing. Normal human emotions strike him as something remarkable, I think; they just seem to confound him. You add that pathology to his unbelievably lame Fifties-style lounge comic schtick, with the wives and mothers-in-law and airplane food, and it’s just this funhouse full of ideas that don’t describe reality for normal people. The bogus story about Bush the Elder and the scanner here becomes a real story of a man so out of it he’s surprised and finds it exceptional that a wife would be distraught over her husband’s near-fatal shooting. Words fail, they really do.

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The projection is strong with this one.

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Trump is the looney tune that everyone knows to stay away from in real life.

I keep circling back to what Michelle Obama said about the presidency revealing who people are more than shaping them. Trump is revealing himself in sickening detail nonstop now. Would be almost funny if it wasn’t so scary and pathetic.

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“A lot of wives wouldn’t give a damn. A lot of wives would’ve said, how is he doing? "

Like all those servicemen’s wives, and the wives of gunshot victims all across the country. Selfish hussies, the lot of them.

This is our president. On the other hand, since we have McConnell to thank for this, it is slightly comforting to know that the quote is an exact prediction of how Chao would react.

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‘record for blood loss’? WTF?

You’re just jealous because you haven’t lost a record-setting amount of blood.

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I’d bet good money he’d also look a hell of a lot better afterwards, too.

Video clips of this sort of thing are perfect fodder for Dem ads. Add the one of him mocking the disabled guy…a 17 second clip that takes the cake:

I’m just a simple person who doesn’t need to lose massive amounts of blood to feel worthwhile.

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