WH: Trump Hires Aides He Later Dumps On Because He Wants ‘Team Of Rivals’ | Talking Points Memo

Or the Commendatore in Don Giovanni.

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Comparing trump to Lincoln.

On Juneteenth.

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“Asked why President Trump keeps hiring officials he later fires, insults and demeans, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany said Friday…”

“I never thought he’d dump and trash ME,” sobs woman hired by Guy Who Dumps and Trashes People.

(She really has no clue what lies ahead, does she?)

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Donnie, you’re short one inch, one beard, one big hat, and a soul.

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I keep waiting to hear that Harvard Law called McEnany and wants its degree back. it’s not even the politics that’s objectionable, it’s the complete ignorance. The Team of Rivals were people who didn’t necessarily agree with Lincoln and provided other view points. In this case there is no policy difference and not even the difference of i’m smart but they’re stupid since he’s even more stupid than them.

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Yes, she does know what’s coming. The sick part is she’s lying to herself that she’ll be the exception and not routine.

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Somehow she had that answer saved for any question no matter how irrelevant.

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I just want to point out that TPM is doing a very good job today of framing Republican talking points. They aren’t simply repeating them verbatim – they are providing context, criticism, and correction.

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If she’s lucky, what I saw in West Germany growing up. Rejection of villain-worship and entrance into the world of adults.

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McEnany isn’t a press secretary, she’s a comedian.

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My favorite line from a Lincoln speech was “With malice toward none, with charity for all, except for those people who I like until they criticize me so I fire them, and then call them dumb as a rock, overrated, way over their heads, whacko and incompetent”.

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Would it be because:

  • he doesn’t want to hire anyone who is smarter than he is
  • he doesn’t want to hire anyone he can’t control through bullying
  • he doesn’t want to hire anyone who might have ‘ideas’ or ‘ambition’
  • he wants to hire cheap (not because he cares about the money - it;s not his - but just to reinforce a sense of inferiority on his staffers)
  • all of the above
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"He likes the model . . . "

McEnany should have stopped there, because that’s the only part of the statement I believe.

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Kayleigh McEnany makes me glad I am an old married man and no longer playing the field. I mean can you imagine going out for a night on the town, having a great time but waking up the next morning next to Kayleigh McEnany?

I’d be sick for a month.

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It’s just one howler after another with this freak. It’s like a parlor trick, how she can take some incredible, unheard-of example of incompetence, disgusting behavior, what have you, and explain it away in absurd terms she expects you to take seriously. But we’ve seen it before, if you recall:

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“The president makes hiring decisions based on the fact that he likes to have countervailing viewpoints,” McEnany said.

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Oh c’mon. THis is SUCH complete BS. He ‘hires’ people to enable him. If they don’t, they are out…with smears, insults and lies. Period. Kayleigh is a complete MORON who has had health problems and yet chooses ‘not to wear a mask’ because she is ‘tested regularly’. Yeah OK…right up until you GET it ‘barbie’. FFS.

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Nah, you would never wake up. She would feast on your entrails before sunrise.

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It would be a coyote night–where you chew your arm off rather than wake her up.

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Has anyone checked on Doris Kearns Goodwin since Malibu Barbie opened her maw today? In a cage match between the two, my money would certainly be on Goodwin.

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