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

[amispartacus]

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

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

Yup. Which is why rushing to remove him without absolute cast iron, copper bottomed evidence would be catastrophic.
Its also why putting all unsubstantiated stuff on Buzzfeed was such a stupid thing to do. It's played right into his hands.

The overlap between people drawn to Trump's behaviour before the election, and people likely to graciously admit they're wrong about anything, may not be large...

They need an out. Someone to blame who isn't themselves.

It's possible they'll find a way to blame Trump for "deceiving" them. Some token revelation may yet provide their excuse.

It's also possible Trump himself will propose one of the usual scapegoats - he's just an honest man reacting to the perfidy of, oh, Muslims, women, black people, etc. And divert the dismay and embarrassment of his erstwhile supporters into causing more chaos and division.

In many ways, this is the GOP's problem atm. They broke it they need to fix it. But one senses serious consideration of how it should be managed.
I wonder if his reliance on reality TV culture might be his undoing, he won't have the protection of staged appearances all the time, and the mask will slip.

Have you seen the Sunday Herald TV review of Trump's forthcoming inauguration?

Brilliant

Latest tweet: "For many years out country has been divided,angry and untrusting. many say it will never change, the hatred is too deep. IT WILL CHANGE!!!!"
After the campaign he ran he has the sheer nerve to say that?
Even his tweets calling for unity manage to sound vaguely threatening.

billmoyers.com/story/john-lewis-true-american-profile-courage/
John Lewis needn’t be worried about what Donald Trump thinks of him; he’s faced down bullies and bigots before, tough guys with billy clubs and water hoses in the streets instead of a wannabe tinpot of no class glowering from his penthouse lair and showering loutish insults at his betters below
There was a great Oprah Winfrey programme about the Freedom Riders, of which John Lewis was one.

Twitter is afire after his latest tweet saying this..

"For many years our country has been divided, angry and untrusting. Many say it will never change, the hatred is too deep. IT WILL CHANGE!!!!"

All those !!!!! were his and not mine this time!

Some of the tweets in reply are absolutely hilarious and such truth. People are incensed - everyone obviously saying he is the one who is divisive and some mentioning JLewis and linking photos of him marching with MLK. Everyone saying the hate is fuelled by DT, his rallies, his words, the insults and bullying etc etc

A couple of interesting ones...
"One result John Lewis achieved as an activist was the Fair Housing Act of 1968, targeting racist landlords. The one Trump was sued under"
and
"John "All Talk" Lewis was being beaten on the Selma bridge when you were working with your Dad to refuse black people apartments. You fuck"

There is a lot of anger out there. Very many congress people are pulling out of the Inaugaration to stand by Lewis.

Will he ever learn?

sorry squishy phone went whilst I was writing my post so I have repeated the tweet you posted.

Informal that is hilarious!

Gruesome squishy His type like to wind up and scare. He's enjoying( if he ever enjoys anything) giving the world the heeby jeebies. Best reaction would be no reaction, but to organise.

It's a set up, each time he sets up a twitter storm. He's using it as a weapon.

And how many times did Trump dodge the Vietnam draft?

But what does it achieve woman except to enrage people?

I can't see how it benefits him or his Presidency, he's going in with the lowest ever popularity percentage and it's getting worse.

Woman absolutely - journalists need to follow the (Russian) money.

Roussette , I think it's disempowering to the twittee or whatever the people on the receiving end are called. It's a shouty emperor screaming abuse.
Trump's dad was a racist landlord(!) remembered in a song by folk singer Woodie Guthrie
www.nytimes.com/politics/first-draft/2016/01/25/woody-guthrie-sang-of-his-contempt-for-his-landlord-donald-trumps-father/

Like father like son isn't it...

woman12345 Compared to the campaign, there are fewer supporters defending him BTL (all the bots have gone).

There were protests all over the US today about Obamacare being cancelled. One Repub Rep actually sneaked out a side door early, rather than deal with the hundreds of constituents who had turned up.

I didn't realise that besides the 20m formerly uninsured, there are also 100m with pre existing conditions who will also lose cover. There is also the provision that children can stay on their parents' insurance until they are 26. That's an awful lot of people to piss off. Obama's not wrong when he says it will be difficult to repeal.

Only 23 months to the midterms.

100m with pre existing conditions who will also lose cover. That's just cruel.
Good campaign underway to target the 5 republican senators who don't support him to preserve ACA and go in hard on the 8 states which would be good to target to preserve it too.
Approval ratings are historically low and dropping for DT now:
^Trump's approval rating came in at 44%, with 51% of respondents disapproving of the president-elect, the Gallup poll conducted two weeks before Inauguration Day found.

Those numbers represented a dip from his approval rating in mid-December when 48% of respondents approved of Trump while another 48% disapproved.

The approval ratings are significantly lower than those of the three other incoming presidents measured by Gallup: Barack Obama, George W. Bush, and Bill Clinton.

At this stage of the transition, Obama had a soaring 83% approval rating, with just 12% of respondents disapproving^

"I can use all the help I can get!"

He finally got something right. Funnily, it was meant in relation to Congressman Lewis, who is supposed to focus on "burning and crime infested inner-cities of the U.S."

And it seems not everybody has enjoyed SNL's Alec Baldwin.

(I wonder if the best Baldwin brother is going to the Inauguration).

More seriously, it looks like Trump may end up with huge demos and riots in his hands. Even if enough Republicans don't allow the repeal, it won't look good for them or him.

And now we finally have the SNL tweet. That's a bit of a delay - what else is going on that we need to be distracted from?

Buzzfeed's political editor on BBC News24 right now discussing Trump in The Papers.

Has Kayne been asked to sing at the inauguration? I thought he was on the Trump bandwagon!

Maybe that's why he went to Trump Tower, but he's just out from a mental breakdown, so maybe doctors advised against it.

FOX has tweeted that outgoing CIA chief says Trump doesn't understand Russia's threat. Ups.

"Couldn't do much worse - just look at Syria (red line), Crimea, Ukraine and the build-up of Russian nukes. Not good! Was this the leaker of Fake News?"

Why did he bring up those examples? Did he blame those on the CIA?