Trump is a MASTER manipulator

[MANative]

He has successfully diverted our attention from Manafort and Cohen with his disgraceful treatment of Senator McCain.

[Dem2]

1. If rule by chaos is manipulation

Then yes

[guillaumeb]

2. Robert Mueller will not be diverted.

Trump can divert a corporate media with the attention span of a fruit fly, but Mueller continues his work.

[MANative]

8. Of course he is! Mueller will not be deterred.

But the media certainly has stopped talking about it, and thus, it's out of the public consciousness.

[LanternWaste]

18. What exactly leads you to believe that?

"But the media certainly has stopped talking about it..."

As it's simply an inaccurate premise.

[Volaris]

23. Yep trump played the media again today by acting a dick.

But 'Robert Mueller, with no expression on his face, reached across the table for another document.'

That's what Robert Mueller did today.

If I were the one who got to write the book on this man, it's title would be 'Expressionless'. Because find me a picture of the man recently that doesn't look like he's just watching the crimes get comitted, and taking it all in.
Yep thought so.

[bigtree]

3. they'll keep

...while we spotlight the deplorable in the WH.

[unblock]

4. "i am not a crook! i'm just an incredible sh*thead!"

[Justice]

5. yes and no. I don't like the 4 million stories speculating on who will be indicated next.

So until there is actual news from Mueller or other prosecutor, I am okay with talking about something else.

That said, I am very upset that the something else is McCain's death and Trump's disrespect of McCain.

[C_U_L8R]

6. Justice marches forward

A silly person like Trump is no distraction at all. In fact, he’s a target. Keep flapping your vile lips orange lips Trumpface.

[dem4decades]

7. I would agree but Republicans refuse to do their job.

[rockfordfile]

15. Trump is a Republican. Everything he does they would do the same.

[JI7]

9. no he isn't. attention is on mccain becsuse he died

that would be the case regardless.

and trump's shitty treatment of mccain does not help trump.

[FreepFryer]

22. +1 (n/t)

[HipChick]

10. Manafort and Cohen are still being reported on....

[A-Schwarzenegger]

11. When he drools bile, shits his pants, and lights his hair on fire

some people will say he's a master manipulator.

[MineralMan]

12. Trump is a master Baiter and a simpering wanker.

He's also a cowardly, sniveling bully. He has had his comeuppance now, and has been forced to lower the flag to half staff.

[oegthe]

13. No, he's not

Trump is an idiot and not a "master" anything.

Blame the media that always follows his lead.

And as another commenter said, McCain just died. Of course his name leads the news.

[spanone]

14. naw, he's proven he's a petty, pathetic asshole.

[Skidmore]

16. His hatred of McCain

was visceral. McCain made him less without effort. It was hard for Trump to be shown up by a man he deemed to be a loser.

[LanternWaste]

17. He's no more a master manipulator than a monkey is an artist by throwing paint at a wall.

Sure, some half-wit will purchase the painting, but the bonobo still ain't an artist, and still can't dress himself.



But I gotta admit... watching people subscribe machinations of genius-level mastery to him is pretty damned funny.

[Totally Tunsie]

19. Master Baiter.

[Paladin]

20. Your qualifications for a "master mainipulator" are a lot lower than mine.

Face it: trump is just a human being without a shred of decency in his entire makeup. He's no more a "master manipulator" than he is the master of "the art of the deal."

[hatrack]

21. No, he's not - he just pissed off millions of veterans, THEN lowered the flag again

And that for, what, six hours' worth of partial attention deflection?

He may have briefly jogged the camera, but at the cost of proving to anyone capable of fogging a mirror that he's even more of a petty, petulant, vindictive asshole than anyone had thought possible.

The chimp threw some shit, and it got tossed right back at him.