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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAaron Rupar: The Oval Office photo op / mini presser today
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Aaron Rupar ✔ @atrupar
At his White House prayer event, Trump laments that students are prevented from praying on the football field (what?), and then criticizes the "growing totalitarian impulse on the far left" that he claims wants to "prohibit religious expression."
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Trump, like a big baby, has a map of the regions that voted for him in 2016 splayed out on his desk during the prayer event
Trump jokes about shredding the Constitution and serving more than 2 terms during the White House prayer event: "So while I'm president -- which will be hopefully for 5 years and I dunno, maybe we'll work with the media on a major extension of that."
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Awkward -- Betsy DeVos forgets a kid's name, gets immediately corrected by him
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Here's Trump claiming he doesn't know Lev Parnas, who he posed for numerous photos with, thirteen (13) different times in a video clip that ends with him shushing a reporter
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REPORTER: What's your message to the millions of Catholics in the United States? Why should they vote for you?
TRUMP: "Well I have a great relationship with Catholics. I've done so much for Catholics. You take a look at the abortion issue."
That's it. Entirely transactional.
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Asked directly if he authorized Giuliani to send President Zelensky a letter seeking a meeting, Trump says "I don't know anything about the letter" & then slathers praise on Giuliani.
"He's a very legitimate guy... if he wrote a letter it wouldn't have been a big deal," he adds
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Trump pushes big lies
1) "You have a fake whistleblower that wrote a report that bore no relationship to what was said"- the report was accurate
2) "I released [transcript] after they had done these fraudulent acts"- it was released before the Schiff paraphrasing he's mad about
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Get a load of this woman SCREAMING at reporters to leave as soon as Trump's prayer event ended
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5:12 PM - Jan 16, 2020
It's just another day at 1600 Penn...
lunatica
(53,410 posts)How did she get past the racists in the Oval Office?
Liberal In Texas
(13,556 posts)Maybe an actress? They pay people for the rallies after all.
saidsimplesimon
(7,888 posts)Yee gads, I thought those sycophants, with the Constitution in their pocket, had actually read it.
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Like this:
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)Docreed2003
(16,862 posts)That's bizarre and unnatural...almost serpentine.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)I have to remind myself that not all people have all the symptoms, or at the same time line of their dementia.
His hisssssing tongue thing has been photo'd more often in the past year, tho.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)I have obtained the original picture before it was doctored with Photoshop, (darn good job, BTW):
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Thanks for the reply tweets!
Rhiannon12866
(205,467 posts)I'm waiting for the day when he claims he doesn't know Jared... "he was just the coffee boy."
tblue37
(65,403 posts)around 9 or 10 seconds in.
That's the first time I've seen the tongue thing in motion, usually it's a still shot. So it happens when he's saying thank you? It's like he is forcing himself to say it!
He turns my stomach.
tblue37
(65,403 posts)explain his slurring.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)The brain-muscle pathway becomes affected.
This time, tho he did it more often and it seemed to last longer than in the past vids I have seen.
tblue37
(65,403 posts)SWBTATTReg
(22,133 posts)suspect that they are unwilling victims to his charade.
Mossfern
(2,513 posts)They probably get paid a good penny.
Liberal In Texas
(13,556 posts)"So while I'm president -- which will be hopefully for 5 years and I dunno, maybe we'll work with the media on a major extension of that."
He thinks he can get a 3rd term by working with the media? Like this is a reality show that he wants renewed. He really is on a different planet.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I just can't believe anyone in their right mind can watch this and think it is even remotely normal or acceptable.
displacedtexan
(15,696 posts)Thus endothelial today's lesson. Go forth among the deplorable and repeat it.