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to think you should ignore people having a go at you if you are the President Elect of the USA

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amispartacus · 09/01/2017 21:56

Rather than having a go at them on Twitter and describing them as second rate actresses. Hmm

Otherwise some people might just think you're a bit sensitive.

If that's how he's going to react when people call him out on things, he's going to have a very long 4 years in the White House

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PacificDogwod · 11/01/2017 19:01

The man cannot string a coherent sentence together Shock

PacificDogwod · 11/01/2017 19:02

Donald, not the Candyman, I mean

no way on this earth will I ever watch that movie

Lweji · 11/01/2017 19:03

God help us all if he ever has to deal with a major crisis.

At least we know he'll be awake. And he'll tweet the world all about it.

bumbleymummy · 11/01/2017 19:25

Well that was... interesting. Hmm

ARumWithAView · 11/01/2017 19:44

The whole thing showed he has no gear to move up to, beyond election campaigning. Still the same big promises with no practical plans, negative comments about his detractors (from some of his comments, you'd think he was still running against Hillary Clinton), and self-promotion.

For all the million other things wrong with Trump, it was just so pathetically unprofessional. So much rambling; he seemed entirely out of his depth.

The only time he seemed on firm ground was when he was denouncing something as 'disastrous' or lauding someone/thing as 'very, very special', or 'very, very elegant', 'very, very strong', 'very, very well', 'very, very very amazing', 'very, very substantial', 'very, very proud', 'very, very strong', 'very, very big' and... fucking hell. I'm using the transcript, and I'm not even a third through.

It was so desperately repetitive and unconvincing. I get the impression he's either going to be a loudmouthed egotistical nightmare who make incredibly uninformed and impulsive decisions, or an eminently steerable figurehead who is the big circus-tent distraction while other right-wingers quietly work. Both grim prospects, when you look at the people he has around him.

FarAwayHills · 11/01/2017 20:29

Apparently they are going to surround him with 'soft sensuality' rather than A listers at his inauguration ceremony. Soft sensuality and Trump should never be used in the same sentence.

CommunionHelp · 11/01/2017 20:31

I get the impression he's either going to be a loudmouthed egotistical nightmare who make incredibly uninformed and impulsive decisions, or an eminently steerable figurehead who is the big circus-tent distraction while other right-wingers quietly work. Both grim prospects, when you look at the people he has around him

I think that nails my thoughts beautifully, thanks Rum.

He always seems to be on the verge of spluttering, incoherent anger. And he's a bully. His election moves the goalposts of 'that could never happen' to a whole new stratosphere.

With DT as president, literally anything could happen now, even with his political constraints, such as they are. I no longer believe that reason will somehow prevail.

Lweji · 11/01/2017 20:34

soft sensuality?

Isn't he going to have a number of military bands?

Lweji · 11/01/2017 20:39

The Telegraph is running a doomsday clock:

Time left until Donald Trump officially becomes president
The new president will be sworn in on January 20, 2017
08 : 20 : 20 :

birdybirdywoofwoof · 11/01/2017 20:41

Some people will be doing a minutes silence...

Lweji · 11/01/2017 20:43

I fear it will be a daily event. Sad

Lweji · 11/01/2017 20:46

Just came across this in The Guardian, about those reports that have been published.

FarAwayHills · 11/01/2017 20:47

Yes soft sensuality- that's what they are planning
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38578885

amispartacus · 11/01/2017 20:53

It seems like he has it in for China - and Mexico. It's going to be an interesting 4 years.

I wonder how he will handle Russia. China. North Korea. ISIS. The Middle East. Climate change. NATO, Russian expansionism. LGBT rights, Abortion rights, The Supreme Court. Europe, UK relations. Mexico.

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Lweji · 11/01/2017 20:55

I was looking for these tweets earlier.

It looks like Buzzfeed just followed The Donald's example on unverified documents. I'm surprised no journalist mentioned (even though they hardly had time for any questions)

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The dishonest media likes saying that I am in Agreement with Julian Assange - wrong. I simply state what he states, it is for the people....
1:25 PM - 5 Jan 2017

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
to make up their own minds as to the truth. The media lies to make it look like I am against "Intelligence" when in fact I am a big fan!
1:45 PM - 5 Jan 2017

I bet he will start wanting more intelligence briefings.

amispartacus · 11/01/2017 21:03

Unverified news is great when it says things you want it to say and you use it in your campaigns.

But it's fake news and disgraceful when journalists use it if it says things you don't want it to say.

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missfiftyseven · 11/01/2017 21:03

Interested in the tone of media coverage of his speech. Very disrespectful and disparaging. Not that I disagree with the assessment, just that it is clear that if Trump "goes low" most of the media will take that as licence to go low too.
Sigh, its all going to be sooooo unedifying. I want to climb into a cardboard box until someone says it's safe to come out. Actually, better make it a nuke (sic) nuclear proof box.

amispartacus · 11/01/2017 21:05

Aren't the press supposed to stand up and be respectful to the President once he is in charge?

That will be interesting.

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derxa · 11/01/2017 21:06

I don't believe any of this prostitute stuff. It's just too convenient. Truth is stranger than fiction.

Lweji · 11/01/2017 21:08

Aren't the press supposed to stand up and be respectful to the President once he is in charge?

Are they?
They clearly respect the office. In the press conference they called him Mr President Elect.
But they won't be sycophantic. They never were and never will with any President. They will ask difficult questions, and if the President doesn't have good answers, then the questions will keep coming.

But I bet even the tone of the coverage is about 10% of what most journalists feel like saying. Except for Breitbart.

Lweji · 11/01/2017 21:12

Derxa, what's more interesting about these accusations is how he reacts to them. He's left himself wide open to being accused of being in cahoots with Russia through all his statements so far.
Only today has he distanced himself. It's probably a condition of getting his phone back. :)

And, btw, it wouldn't surprise me one bit that he has used prostitutes (paid either by him or other people) throughout his life. Whether Russia could blackmail him over something like that is what I found most doubtful. If they were going to blackmail him, it would be something more devastating, I think.

amispartacus · 11/01/2017 21:14

Does he have a CJ?

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derxa · 11/01/2017 21:18

Honestly I don't know. You only have to look at JFK and Clinton to know that politicians don't need to be squeaky clean.
I'm glad we've gotTheresa may tbh.

PacificDogwod · 11/01/2017 21:19

No CJ worth her salt would lower herself to be his mouthpiece!

What a suggestion! Shock