Trump aides despondent over Buffalo protester tweet
Source: Axios
My phone blew up yesterday with texts from White House aides, current and former, who seemed at their wits' end over President Trump's tweet that the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was rushed to the hospital after being shoved by police last week "could be an ANTIFA provocateur."
Why it matters: They rarely register the president's tweets anymore let alone complain about them. This one felt different.
Here was Trump struggling in the polls, damaged with independents and women who hate his tone trafficking in a bizarre conspiracy that he had seen on the right-wing OANN cable network to excuse a blatant example of police misconduct.
All this on the morning of George Floyd's funeral.
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MSNBC reports that Trump Aides "tried to keep him busy" yesterday so he wouldn't say anything during the Floyd funeral.
Blues Heron
(5,939 posts)"lets keep him busy"
RESIGN FOOL
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)I wonder who will hire them after this gig? "Worked in tRump's administration" is hardly a glowing reference, is it? They talk about him as though he is an unruly toddler. Maybe dementia has set in, it certainly would seem so. Not to worry, Nazi sympathizer Stephen Miller is busy writing a speech for the man-child to read when he addresses the nation on race relations. That will be "must not watch TV" likely full of the usual warmth of any of his speeches. People are sick and tired of the phony, orange lunatic.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Guess ya gotta grab all the gusto you can, while you can.
Nobody can get conned as easily as another con man. Looks like Parscale is busy picking Trumps pockets - while he still can.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Take the fool for every dime.
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)The idiots can keep funding HIS campaign of making out like a bandit........
keithbvadu2
(36,876 posts)After watching the Trumps steal money from charities for the military and children, how could he not fit right in?
Donald probably gets a cut from Parscale's cut.
calimary
(81,440 posts)Somebody ought to put his face in the medical books alongside the definition of that term.
hadEnuf
(2,209 posts)The asshole is totally incompetent to be in his position.
machoneman
(4,007 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Fullduplexxx
(7,868 posts)Moostache
(9,897 posts)Everything about him makes me physically ill...
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)SallyHemmings
(1,822 posts)They arent that despondent. They continue to be complicit.
Traitors the whole lot of them.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,032 posts)usaf-vet
(6,196 posts)Quit and tell the world why.
Call out his true enablers. Is it Ivanka? is it Miller? Is it Barr? Is it Graham? WHO!
Who comes up with ideas like "let's call in the military and use tear gas to clear the streets so dumbo can have a photo-op"?
Your names will forever be tied to the lunatic.
It won't help to improve your job prospects if you wait until after the November election.
RAB910
(3,509 posts)However, to abuse the power and position of President to slander a 75-year-old America victim of police brutality, who dedicated his life to peace is truly a sick sick sick act
DemoTex
(25,400 posts)Why wasn't Trump's staff despondent over that insane public pronouncement?
MissMillie
(38,574 posts)"Did he say/do/tweet something stupid/mean/ugly/untrue?"
to
"What did he say/do/tweet today that was stupid/mean/ugly/untrue?" (And not long after that I added "illegal" to the mix.)
Botany
(70,567 posts)Besides they will all be out of job in Jan. '21.
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)Ambush the MF on 60 Minutes and whatever shows you can get on. I would love if one of these enablers gets on a live Fox show and goes to town (preferably one with Hannity if possible even though I think he keeps a tight rein on things).
Make the firing as public as possible. Run to the cameras as soon as you are let go. If you are a career federal employee, fight tooth and claw any termination.
Blue Owl
(50,487 posts)Lets finish coloring and then little Donny can have his milk break...
wolfie001
(2,264 posts)Love it!!!
yardwork
(61,698 posts)But they don't care about all the filthy racist things Trump tweets and says.
2naSalit
(86,765 posts)which turned out to not be so cushy anymore. But they also don't care because they have been promised special status so the entitlement is baked in, they're whining because they actually have to think to get their own asses out of the frying pan.
FM123
(10,054 posts)they "aide" and abet like accomplices in his crimes against our democracy
duforsure
(11,885 posts)Makes trump the one who shoved and hurt this elderly man causing him serious injury. Trump likes seeing people hurt by him. It makes him feel powerful doing that to others, and shows how sick he really is. Trump doesn't want good police , he wants the really bad ones willing to inflict pain onto others. The more brutal and violent they are against innocent peaceful people the better he likes it, and they fear him more. It's not about the law with trump , it's about his abuse of power to make people fear him if they won't offer him praise and support. Very very corrupt people are the ones that are like this, and trumps just doing what he does in business, corrupts it for himself then hurts others who resist. Another reason no one will work or give him loans any more, except people like Putin and the Prince. Trumps a crook.
Rhiannon12866
(205,841 posts)chowder66
(9,074 posts)not fooled
(5,801 posts)or so he tells us.
sop
(10,232 posts)tetedur
(820 posts)You haven't seen nothing yet.
louzke9
(296 posts)Trying to keep it a secret, that Trump is a senile, demented psychotic who should not be in office....should be in a mental institution instead. NEWSFLASH....TOO LATE! Trump keeps escaping from under the rock where he lives. Letting him out now to conduct his hate rallies. They must be TERRIFIED what gibberish this spit-drooling fool will say before the cameras.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)...'cause that idiot Cockwomble cannot sontrol his stupidity impulses. He's gonna do more damage to their fragile psyches before he's hauled out to meet his accusers.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)FakeNoose
(32,722 posts)"Let Trump be Trump!"
After all ... what have we got to lose? I think we all know the answer to that one.
Maeve
(42,287 posts)You lie down with a mangy dog...
LiberalFighter
(51,038 posts)I thought it is suppose to be the other way around.
mtngirl47
(990 posts)I have a mentally ill person in my life and that's what I do everyday---Keep him busy.
I never know what will set him off. Today the sandwich is fine....tomorrow it might get thrown across the room.
He gets something in his mind and obsesses for days and days.
I have to be careful about the tasks I set for him---if it is more than he can handle---then it's my fault and he turns the wrath on me.
Trump is the same.
niyad
(113,527 posts)problems or emotions.