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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHoly crap. He just kept on digging. And digging. And digging.
An MSNBC analyst called it an act of self immolation.
That riff on "will you want the statues of George Washington down next?" and the all sides are to blame garbage, the fake news, The you-don't-know-what-happened, the there-were-people-legitimately-protesting, the it's-about-jobs-not-racism...he just kept digging.
haveahart
(905 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)0rganism
(23,970 posts)did someone tell him his behavior is acceptable, or did he come to that conclusion all on his own?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)McCain! He attacked McCain!
0rganism
(23,970 posts)+10 for something different and strange, even by "modern day presidential" standards
- several million for being a deranged racist kook
malaise
(269,157 posts)He is a fucking racist lunatic
LOCK HIM UP
nolabear
(41,991 posts)What will it take for people to realize how dangerous he is?
malaise
(269,157 posts)and ignorant beyond believe.
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)At this point, I would say "something catastrophic"...like maybe nuclear war with North Korea...and then he will entrench himself in the presidency and he won't be going anywhere.
The answer to your question is that what it will take for people to realize how dangerous he is:
It will take some form of danger that people will feel.
Someone on DU (I would give credit if I remembered who) posted actor Michael Ian Black's tweet:
@michaelianblack
Metaphorically speaking, yesterday the President stood in the middle of 5th Ave and shot somebody. Her name was Heather Heyer.
6:43 AM - 13 Aug 2017
Link to tweet
And that IS the shocking truth. Heather Heyer died, and Trump is talking about how he needs more facts, he's posting pictures of freight trains running into CNN reporters, he's making up stories about the "alt-left" running down the street viciously attacking alt-righters with "clubs"...
What will it take?
Something bigger and more deadly than what happened this weekend. That's what it will take.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)I would love to lock him up. I am looking forward to it with great anticipation. It cannot happen soon enough.
leftstreet
(36,112 posts)tallahasseedem
(6,716 posts)shit I have ever seen.
He needs to be out!
flygal
(3,231 posts)and "I'm not finished fake news". this is sick. sick. sick.
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)would like to yell some things at him. Like "YOU'RE A NAZI" and "LIAR"
JonLP24
(29,322 posts)Then completely blows it, I can't say I'm surprised. This President is truly stranger than fiction.
Skittles
(153,193 posts)he can't upset the white supremacists, because they are his base. He can't upset Russia because he is owned by the Russian mob. And this man is PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
If you made these House of Cards story lines, it would be hooted down as utterly fucking ridiculous.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)If members of Congress don't condemn this they should go. In no uncertain terms.
bora13
(860 posts)when I called my rep and senators.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)This is Trump. This is what he is. What we have always known he is.
malaise
(269,157 posts)Damn!
Solly Mack
(90,785 posts)Fuckers.
shanny
(6,709 posts)Did Twitler open his pie hole again today?
nolabear
(41,991 posts)You'll just have to watch. It's indescribable.
shanny
(6,709 posts)always knew all that crap was in there but still, seeing it is surreal....
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Turn on your TV to CNN or MSNBC if you can. He really stepped in it this time. It was just too weird and awful to describe; it has to be seen to be believed.
shanny
(6,709 posts)worst thing is, it's all too believable...
bora13
(860 posts)didn't look to happy as the orange burnt weenie heiled and heiled and heiled.
3catwoman3
(24,041 posts)...shut it for very long?
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)It was impressive.
George II
(67,782 posts)Tonight, after hearing what that racist just said, I started crying. This is MY country, a great country, but tonight I'm ashamed.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)but I still have some left. WHY is this monster in OUR White House and HOW did he slither in there?
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)With gerrymandering and voter suppression, there are enough Americans who admire all his most hateful, ignorant, violent characteristics to put him there.
I cannot find words to adequately express how thoroughly that fact depresses and angers me.
Luciferous
(6,085 posts)FiveGoodMen
(20,018 posts)and not a moment sooner.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)TygrBright
(20,763 posts)...or for some of the attendees to holler "Heil Trump!"
It was truly gobsmacking.
amazedly,
Bright
OutaHere
(53 posts)Is the plan....
bucolic_frolic
(43,281 posts)He should just quit. Keep up the pressure. RESIST until he is gone!
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)When you're in one, stop digging.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,937 posts)what you did there!
Good one - and TRUE!!!!
Grammy23
(5,813 posts)Ordinarily, since the election, he reads statements and adds in comments off script. Today's debacle was PURE TRUMP unvarnished. He showed his true colors. If you want to know how he really thinks about all of this (if you can call it thinking), this was it on a gold plated brass platter.
He was THIS close to spitting and sputtering he was so riled up. And every golden moment caught for the ages and historical record. If anyone in the future wants to know why this fool was removed from office, just pull out this tape and show it. It's the smoking gun that he is not fit for the office.
Saviolo
(3,283 posts)Last edited Tue Aug 15, 2017, 06:52 PM - Edit history (1)
*** EDIT *** Apparently this has been corrected, and was not what he actually said.
Updated tweet from @anniekarni:
Link to tweet
Update. POLITICO appears to have fixed the transcript. It was "em" not us."
Link to tweet
** Original tweet below:
From White House reporter @anniekarni:
Just noticed the use of "us" in this transcript. "Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at us."
nolabear
(41,991 posts)Duppers
(28,127 posts)She corrected her first tweet.
Response to Saviolo (Reply #30)
Duppers This message was self-deleted by its author.
Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)ATL Ebony
(1,097 posts)Update. POLITICO appears to have fixed the transcript. It was "em" not us."
Also, Annie Karni deleted her tweet of original POLITICO transcript that had POTUS saying alt-left "came charging at us."
Duppers
(28,127 posts)Iggo
(47,565 posts)DemoTex
(25,403 posts)Foaming at the mouth. Snapping at anyone and everyone. Lurching from position to position. Barking at the moon.
The dog days of August are Trump's undoing. He is done.
I am near 70 years old, and it is the damnest thing I have ever seen. He needs to be removed immediately, before he uses the nukes in another of his far too frequent (and increasingly bizarre) tantrums.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)I just hope the disease takes its course soon, politically speaking, before something even worse happens. Richard Nixon looks like a paragon of rectitude and sanity in comparison; when he went nuts he just drank a lot and wandered around the White House talking to portraits.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)Had some impulse control issues today. I'm sure the repubs will respond with outrage. Still waiting
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)and hauled him off before he made everything a thousand times worse, as he did.
dhill926
(16,355 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,836 posts)Too bad nobody had one of those canvas jackets with the leather straps ready to go in his size. He really lost the plot this time.
heather blossom
(174 posts)Invoke the 25th amendment now.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)I have no doubt.
I also think he did this to bury something else that is going on. It's a good time to look around and see what the GOP is trying to pull off right now.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)Oh damn. I just looked. They're interviewing Palin about abortion in Iceland.
Beartracks
(12,821 posts)==========
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)COUNTER-protestors, aka, the non-racists.
machoneman
(4,010 posts)Just saw ABC and CBS 6 p.m. news (Chicago). Wow, they focused on the reporter gal (?) who asked the cogent questions he choked on. Choked btw as in "I told her the truth".
Wow, even I didn't think I'd EVER see Trump defend/find false equivalency/ promote/blame the left, the media, etc. as he did.
Good God, he undid all he said previously on the entire subject in about a a ten minute blast! No doubt he choked on the words his minions wanted him to say earlier. Now we see and heard the real Trump, a deep boned racist fuckin' Nazi of the first order.
Damn to hell that man!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WINERY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE! Who talks and thinks like this??
Oh, wait.
oasis
(49,407 posts)Trump is toast.
mvd
(65,180 posts)I knew he didn't mean his statement yesterday. It was eating at him having the alt-right mad at him, so he doubled down on the nuttery. Can't have David Duke condemning him! It's time for the Congress to put country over party and impeach this guy.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Hopefully this is the end of his pResidency - no need to wait for the Russia probe to end. The 25th Amendment would be easier, but he picked terrible stooges for his cabinet.
ananda
(28,876 posts)45 started speaking about his new infrastructure lightbulb moment pretending to be a plan. Then -- as he was talking about American jobs, using American products, working fast without those pesky permit regs, and so on -- the press kept on well, pressing him, about Saturday, and off he went defending his original speech on Charlottesville, defending Steve Bannon, conflating the violence of the alt-left and alt-right, not actually calling the driver in Charlottesville a terrorist but rather a murderer, and abusing the press ... Now I know why I've been assiduously avoiding these speeches all these months.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)but it doesn't seem to be affecting his status as president, you would think that by now, at least from embarrassment, that the republicans would disavow him, but no...he keeps going, like the EverReady bunny, drumming away into our souls. DAMN!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)down on his C-ville original stance. I couldn't believe my ears. I wanted to throw up.
Where the hell are Jared and Ivanka? Do they realize that he is defending people who hate them and their children and want them dead?
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Books_Tea_Alone
(253 posts)One last vacation with the kids before they go to prison.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Where in Vermont are they? They don't really seem like the Vermont-y type. Unless they are hiding out in a cabin in the woods somewhere.
Books_Tea_Alone
(253 posts)Not sure just heard on MSNBC that's where they were. Obviously not on babysitting duty as Daddy's got himself in a boatload of trouble since they've been gone.
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)nolabear
(41,991 posts)We are witnessing history, and it is scary as FUCK.