He'll double down today on his comments about President Obama

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Mark my words.

That's who he is. That's what he does.

[dalton99a]

1. Absolutely.

He is a goddamn psychopath

[Watchfoxheadexplodes]

2. Caught Hugh the ghoul Hewitt this morning

"Out of line for press to ask about trumps response on dead American soldiers"

Translation:

"I hate trump can't give honest answers"

[mcar]

3. And his followers will spread it all over social media

[Stuart G]

4. I don't think so..I think he will do the totally unexpected..He will apologize.

Everyone ..has told him to do this, and he will do this. If only to save his "brand" for his family. It will be strange, and forced. but that is what I believe he will do. And one way or another, we will know in the next few hours....

He may do nothing and say nothing for awhile. That also would be different.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Has he EVER apologized for anything?

I don't see it happening. He'll come up with some excuse or a way to blame it on someone else.

[Stuart G]

9. I am probably wrong, but he will apologize. Why? An apology will make him look good.

Hard to fathom that one. But that is what he is going to do. The apology will make him look good

[cyclonefence]

12. He will *never* apologize

He will say he just didn't know about what Obama did because no one told him. "Not my fault because how could I know?"

[Dave Starsky]

15. That's exactly right.

He will NEVER. APOLOGIZE. FOR ANYTHING. TO ANYONE. Under any circumstances. Least of all to Obama, whom he hates with a burning fury.

[Atman]

14. You're delusional. To Trump, an apology is a sign of weakness.

He will never, ever apologize for anything.

My guess is, he'll have his staff dig up one or two examples when Obama did not immediately call the family of a fallen soldier then say "See, I told you."

[madokie]

17. I think he'll just ignore it

and hope it goes away as so much of the other stupid shit he does does

[spiderpig]

5. Mika and Joe went nuts over this

He's crossed the line. But then he always crosses the line.

[karynnj]

6. More likely he will claim the end of the ISIS control of Raqqa - their last stronghold as something

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he could do that Obama could not. In fact, the military has, for the most part, continued the Obama/coalition plan, devised by the same military officers that now work for Trump, and though Trump spoke of getting many countries to join, the coalition is the same 67 or 68 countries pulled together under Obama by Kerry and Biden.

Last January, when asked the estimate was that the second half of Mosul would fall in about 3 months and that Raqqa would likely be retaken by the end of the year. This was said by Obama administration people and by the British and French.

I was surprised this morning on morning Joe when the fall of Raqqa was announced .. and Joe's response was that this all started under Obama, but just wait for Trump to take full credit for it. In fact, it is not outside the norm for a President to do that -- but it is not smart, because people will point out that fact. Instead, the best way to gain points is more Obama like than Trump like -- it would be to announce this as an important moment for the coalition that has painstakingly worked towards this for nearly three years. He could then credit our military, the local fighters - Kurds and Iraqis - who bore the brunt of this fight and mention that there was a big job remaining restoring governance and helping the Iraqis and Kurds deal with their dispute diplomatically. Note that if he did that - HE would get the lion's share of the credit as far as this country is concerned.

However, if he comes out with his typical I, Me, my rhetoric claiming he did this better than Obama -- the response will be that OBAMA built the coalition, Obama worked with Iraq to help them get their troops in order, Obama, Kerry, and his two Defense Secretaries,Chuck Hagel and Ash Carter worked with their coalition and to deconflict with Russia, Syria and Iran To get to the point where ISIS was clearly losing before the end of Obama's Presidency. Not to mention, he needs the same caution that Obama/Carter/Kerry always expressed that as ISIS loses land, it becomes a non state terrorist group - like Al Qaeda -- it does not magically disappear.

I suspect he goes with a grandiose claim - befitting someone who claimed in the election that he knew more than the generals. Note the bushback in Newsweek from when Sara Huckabee Sanders claimed Trump did more -- http://www.newsweek.com/trump-has-done-more-defeat-isis-obama-sarah-huckabee-sanders-681403

[Freethinker65]

7. He will blame it on the fake media nit picking his every word...

Something the unfair press has only done ever ever ever to him, and no other sitting presidents, in our Nations History. He will pull a KellyAnne deflection and say the people want work on tax cuts, and what a disaster Obamacare still is just like he said it was (and he was smart about it and no one believed him- being sure not to say he alone is responsible for sabotaging it), he will go after Hillary Clinton for something minor that has been beaten into the ground for years...like her personal servers and emails (which current WH staff are able to flaunt using themselves) or how long it took her to awknowledge Bengazi, and he will throw in something about NK and Iran and say how unstable they are because of the Democrats bad negotiating skills (when he has made things considerably worse in his brief tenure), and he will pull out BLM and the kneeling football players and insist that he loves his country more than them, more than everybody, ...and God Bless America and Trump

[Achilleaze]

10. I'm betting a crate of Dippin Dots that his double-down won't be military related

but that he'll double down on insulting and demeaning President Obama in some other arena.

He is such a complete disgraceful assclown in the military arena, what with Five Freaking republican-style Draft-Dodging Demerits (D), that he hates it when that comes bubbling to the top of the republican cesspool.

Look for the Double Down to GO EVEN LOWER than his standard republican "family-values role-model" lies.

[Phentex]

16. I think you are on to something

he will scream "Squirrel!" rather than stay on topic.

[tblue37]

11. Sarah Huckster Sanders already laid the groundwork for him, conflating the

situation in which a small number of individuals are killed in extraordinary circumstances with the thousands of troops killed during a war, since the families of those thousands just get letters, not personal phone calls.

[BSdetect]

13. It'll be about Iran, NK or anything to deflect attention.

[spanone]

18. BINGO he just doubled down on fox.......

m$nbc just played trump on fox (radio?) where he absolutely doubled-down

fuck this fucking fuck

[Tommy_Carcetti]

19. His narcissism is like clockwork. nt