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deminks

(11,014 posts)
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:20 AM Dec 2016

and another orange lie just to get elected

Gingrich Says Trump's No Longer Interested In 'Drain The Swamp'

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/newt-gingrich-trump-not-using-drain-the-swamp?utm_content=buffer6de0a&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer

Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that Donald Trump’s “drain the swamp” catch phrase was “cute” but that the President-elect now disclaims it.

During an interview with NPR’s “Morning Edition” Wednesday, host Rachel Martin asked if the former House speaker had been “working in the swamp, to use Donald Trump’s language.”

“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore,” Gingrich said, referring to the phrase. “I'd written what I thought was a very cute tweet about ‘the alligators are complaining,’ and somebody wrote back and said they were tired of hearing this stuff.”

Later, Gingrich added: “I personally, as a sense of humor, like the alligator and swamp language, and I think it vividly illustrates the problem, because all the people in this city who are the alligators are going to hate the swamp being drained. And there's going to be constant fighting over it. But, you know, he is my leader and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator I will drop the swamp and the alligator.”

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Do you feel used yet, GrOPers? You're gonna real soon.

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Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
2. Trump, the Liar-in-Chief, I don't know if he could ever lose his title of the worst liar ever
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:30 AM
Dec 2016

elected as president. His lies are unacceptable, Trump is not even truthful to himself.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
3. How do human beings become like this man?
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:36 AM
Dec 2016

What happened to them as children?
Are they born that way?


mopinko

(70,113 posts)
7. daddy issues.
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 01:08 PM
Dec 2016

read up on authoritarian followers. the research was based on trying to figure out what happened to the "good germans".
i believe there is evidence that harsh parenting, beatings and such, leads to these broken people. if i had a magic wand, i would end domestic violence, as i think it is at the root of what is wrong w the world.
violence, like charity, begins at home.

stopbush

(24,396 posts)
4. Do you get the feeling that whenever Gingrich uses a word like "alligator"
Wed Dec 21, 2016, 11:59 AM
Dec 2016

he starts thinking about how many ways one could prepare an alligator for human consumption?

Any recipe would have to include bacon and butter. Lots of both.

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