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http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-complaint-white-house-guests-obama-watched-too-much-tv?cid=sm_fb_maddow&fbclid=IwAR0O10ziHNn5k-CzRHNAb3upHhJnXSP9wLy5ELPcw6p4q3vQe_AI-PehRgI
Trumps complaint to White House guests: Obama watched too much TV
01/28/19 02:15 PM
By Steve Benen
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This, however, stood out for me.
He just sat in here and watched basketball all day, Trump told a recent group, before saying he upgraded Obamas smaller TV to a sprawling, flat-screen one, the four people said.
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Whats more, given everything we know about Donald Trump and his attitudes on race, its hardly unreasonable to wonder about the not-so-subtle motivations behind him reportedly telling White House visitors that the nations first black president was lazy and sat around watching basketball all day.
And the idea that Trump has focused on comparable screen sizes, as if that were an important metric, is very much in keeping with everything weve come to expect from him.
But what I find especially interesting about the anecdote is the underlying point: Trump wants his visitors to think Barack Obama spent too much time in the White House watching television.
A staple of the Trump presidency is a tactic known as projection: he identifies his faults, and then projects them onto his perceived foes. As regular readers know, his I-know-you-are-but-what-am-I instincts, like an intemperate child, are finely tuned after extensive practice.
But for the love of all that is good in the world, does he really want to talk about which president spent more time in front of the tube?
dubyadiprecession
(5,720 posts)RainCaster
(10,912 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)sprinkleeninow
(20,254 posts)akraven
(1,975 posts)Michelle would NOT have let him! She'd have had his butt out shooting hoops. Barak is the best POTUS ever.
sTrump must be watching Loony Toons again. And not getting the jokes, as usual. I have to giggle as our TV hasn't even been turned on in over a week.
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)He's watching Fox and Friends.
akraven
(1,975 posts)My dad's favorites! I think he was secretly in love with Bugs!
crazycatlady
(4,492 posts)So much stuff just went over my head. Love me some Road Runner and Coyote.
akraven
(1,975 posts)I can't count the times I nearly peed myself laughing. From the time I was allowed TV (10) to now, remains a chance to internet it and still almost pee myself laughing!
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)madaboutharry
(40,219 posts)"He just sat in here and watched basketball all day, Trump told a recent group..."
You know the one about the "lazy black man" who sat around all day doing nothing.
Trump is rotten at the core. All that hate boiling over everyday.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)"city game" that is by extension a game dominated by blacks.
Also the idea that Obama busted a hole through the wall rather than have a TV set - I am guessing because he couldn't wait to watch a game.
We do know that Obama did play basketball frequently at lunch time, whereas Trump stuffs hi fat face with burgers.
OMGWTF
(3,972 posts)FirstLight
(13,362 posts)He's trying to imply that black men are abusive and animals... saying it was rough in here implies that a black man lives in squalor
....😡
sdfernando
(4,940 posts)What would come on? Im guessing porn.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)IronLionZion
(45,516 posts)since Obama had watched so much of the smaller one
kag
(4,079 posts)Sad.
Gothmog
(145,489 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,403 posts)I wouldn't set foot in there until the usurper is in prison and a Haz-Mat crew has gone over the place, twice.
KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)And bow and swear allegiance before entering.
..............
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)LakeArenal
(28,837 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)Dotard can't expect anyone but his unhinged base to believe that President Obama did any such thing!
Javaman
(62,533 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Except for the part where he played fewer rounds in 8 years than PINO did the 1st 10 months.
And, BHO didn't cheat at golf!
yellowdogintexas
(22,270 posts)instead of using the course at Andrews AFB... no wait.....
ProfessorGAC
(65,159 posts)Also...
Obama administration indictments: 0
PINO: 37
See Obama is lazy there too!
rickford66
(5,528 posts)It's sickening to know he has the run of the place. I can't wait for him to be evicted.
BadgerMom
(2,771 posts)Its always projection with this stooge. He watches tv all day, so he states without any facts, that Obama did. He is misusing his charity, so without evidence, he accuses the Clintons of perpetrating fraud.
TNNurse
(6,929 posts)the White House after he leaves. I want them to take photos first to show all the gaudy tacky crap. Then tent the place and fumigate;
IronLionZion
(45,516 posts)and his campaign staff all got indicted in FBI raids, and his staff kept quitting.
mountain grammy
(26,644 posts)IMPEACH THE MOTHER FUCKER.
SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)I am so over this Traitor.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)duforsure
(11,885 posts)To him accusing his opponents of his actions. The laziest and the biggest liar I think I've ever seen.
demigal
(15 posts)delusions of this freak.
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)OMGWTF
(3,972 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)There just aren't enough hours in the day for that to be true. Now, if he's talking about watching sports vs. watching FAUX Noise, well.... maybe. MAYBE!
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Jesus, what an insane stupid piece of shit!!!
Giant orange asshole stuck on a couch and watching Faux News all day. God, think of the smell in that room. All that shit composting...
Oh, and fuck you, Dump.
demtenjeep
(31,997 posts)he tours apparently include crude jokes Trump reportedly likes to point to the locations of sexual encounters between Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky and boasts about the ways in which he believes hes improved the White House since taking office. The portrait that emerges is that of a president who has very little actual work to do, and who enjoys showing off his temporary home as a trophy.
caraher
(6,279 posts)Funny how they don't care about the president golfing (and lining his own pockets in the process) anymore.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)Blue Owl
(50,490 posts)n/t