How Low Will Trump Go? The president is unabashed, unapologetic and out of control.

[Demovictory9]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/19/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-united-states.html

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The wonder of the Trump administration — the jaw-dropping, brain-exploding phantasmagoria of it — is that it doesn’t bury its rottenness under layers of counterfeit virtue or use a honeyed voice to mask the vinegar inside. The rottenness is out in the open. The sourness is right there on the surface for all to see.

It’s at the president’s rallies, where he plays a bigot for laughs, a bully for applause.

It’s in the ballrooms and beds at Mar-a-Loco, where he mingles official government business with free marketing for his gilded club.

It’s in the transcript of his phone call with the president of Ukraine, for whom the quid, the pro and the Biden-ravaging quo couldn’t have been clearer.

It’s at the microphone in the White House briefing room, where his acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, showed up on Thursday, announced that President Trump would host the next G7 meeting at one of his own golf resorts, and conceded that, yes, aid to Ukraine had been tied to that country’s indulgence of the president’s political obsessions.


“Get over it,” Mulvaney told the assembled journalists.

“Elections have consequences,” he also said.

Allow me to translate: American voters gave Trump the presidency, so it’s his to use and abuse as he wants.

[Joe941]

1. There is no limit.

[CatMor]

2. The horror of it all is ...

so many Americans still accept and love what he does.

[gordianot]

3. The lowest refuse to leave the White House and ignore Court decisions.

Murder and incarceration of political opponents are possible.

[doc03]

4. Trump's aragance and stupidity knows no bounds. nt

[smirkymonkey]

5. There is no bottom for Trump.

The sooner we get rid of him the better.