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

Thanks woman.
The problem is with a Trump topic is that threads could become buried there due to lack of traffic.
Who Trump follows on twitter is indeed interesting- not exactly a diverse range of opinions there. I wonder with all this talk of voter echo chambers whether Trump is in his own very well sealed bubble of opinion. For example, he seems to get much of his information on British politics and the EU from Nigel Farage and Piers Morgan, which explains why he is so poorly informed. I saw the video clip from the Gove interview- awful, and really quite cringy:
"and now we're at the front of the queue?" "I think you're doing great!"
So, a no to being at the front of the queue then Govey.

"The problem is with a Trump topic is that threads could become buried there due to lack of traffic."

That can be an issue - the Trump twitter thread in politics is very quiet - I think because not many people go in politics. Plus threads there seem to have become rather 'difficult'.

I was kind of joking about being a whole topic. Just that there's a lot to talk about Trump. :)

AIBU sounds about right.

We should coin "ITBU?" - automatic answer "TIBU"

'I think you're doing great' is being re-interpreted as Britain will be offered a brilliant trade deal any minute now.

It's very weird.

TIBVVVU

BTW, I love this Urban Dictionary definition of trump:

trump

1. To compulsively lie, use deception, or take fraudulent action.
2. To be obsessively obscene or compulsively repugnant.
3. A fake or a fraud of depreciating value.
4. Hypocritical lacking of self control.

Definition added October 01, 2016

By the way I do understand some of the reservations about the women's marches among some feminists and others. For me personally, I feel that if I waited for a movement to come along which exactly represented all of my personal views, I would be waiting forever. So when feminist and liberal values are being attacked on many fronts, it's a matter of priorities - which poses the greatest threat?
I also understand that a march taking place in the UK in response to an American election seems pointless, but I worry about the direction our own government is heading in. Diplomacy is important and I am not too naive to realise that the UK will have to work with Trump, however unpleasant it is to observe.
But I am very worried by the way certain senior politicians, journalists and right wing donors want to burn all bridges with Europe in favour of sucking up to Trump. I suppose this is where the Trump issue starts to collide with the hard Brexit debate. I want those in charge of our country to realise that a large number of us are horrified by Trump and do not want to see liberal values and rights in this country rolled back.
If the loudest voices are the ones shouting for right wing populism, (especially if liberals are too busy arguing amongst themselves) they're the ones that will be heard and I want to play my small part in countering that.

The politics topic has been abandoned by the Trumpers recently though. Was expecting some of them to be back on the 20th.
Trump AIBU would be hilarious.
"A mean person said something nasty about me at one of my rallies. AIBU to shout at him and ask my supporters to beat him up?"
"AIBU to tell everyone that I find my daughter very sexually attractive?"

One showed up this morning. There may have been a small discussion about Kellyanne Conway.

Trumpwatch? Is that like Doomwatch?

Aah, I missed the batshit fun!

Is Gove a journalist or a sycophant?

Sparticus - just tasted a little sick in the back of my throat there. What a repulsive image

Trump likes thumbs up

he does indeed.... it just looks so bloody juvenile!

Just found this Merkel Twitter "account"

Angela Merkel ‏*@Queen*_Europe Jan 13
Hi @realDonaldTrump. If you're coordinating actions with Russia, would you let me know when they plan to start releasing my emails? Thx.

It looks like the real Merkel has had a press conference of her own and pointed out that Trump is not yet President.
www.dw.com/en/merkel-on-trump-the-eu-can-take-care-of-itself/a-37148057
""We Europeans have our fate in our own hands,""

Trump likes thumbs up

And pointing...

New thread! New thread! New thread!

New topic title needed I think. It's going to be a long 4 years...

Trump Is Set To Violate His D.C. Hotel Lease And The Agency Holding It Has No Plan

When explaining how he would (somewhat) extricate himself from his myriad conflicts of interest this week, President-elect Donald Trump and his tax lawyer completely ignored what would happen to the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. It looks like he also failed to discuss that with the government agency that holds the hotel lease.

Trump’s deal with the General Services Administration to operate a hotel in the Old Post Office building specifically states that the lease cannot be held by an elected official. And the clock is ticking down to Trump’s inauguration.

Yet the GSA released a statement on Wednesday, after the president-elect’s press conference, indicating that it was not aware of his plans for the Trump Organization until he announced them to the public.

www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-washington-dc-hotel-gsa_us_587947bfe4b0e58057fed977?section=politics

But Trump said he's above any conflict of interest!

Shame his hotel isn't called Trump International Towers...

Or Trump Wee International Towers.

Or Or Trump World United New Towers.

Trumps golden towers

Ah, my people have not let me down...

"Satirists and late-night comics have not spared President-elect Donald Trump -- and neither has a Scottish newspaper’s TV critic.

Sunday Herald reviewer Damien Love’s writeup for this Friday’s broadcast of the inauguration of the reality TV star as the 45th President of the United States characterized the proceedings as the return of “The Twilight Zone.”

The satirical TV review has since gone viral:

President Trump: The Inauguration
4pm, BBC One/STV

After a long absence, The Twilight Zone returns with one of the ambitious, expensive and controversial productions in broadcast history. Sci-fi writers have dabbled often with alternative history stories – among the most common is the “What if The Nazis Had Won The Second World War” setting – but this huge interactive virtual reality project, which will unfold on TV, in the press, and on Twitter over the next four years, sets out to build an ongoing alternative present.

The story begins in a nightmarish version of 2017 in which huge sections of the US electorate have somehow been duped into voting to make Donald Trump president. It sounds far-fetched, and it is, but as it goes on it becomes more and more chillingly plausible. Today’s feature-length opener concentrates on the gaudy inauguration of President Trump, and the stirrings of protest and despair surrounding the ceremony, while pundits speculate gravely on what lies ahead.

It’s a flawed piece, but a disturbing glimpse of the horrors we could stumble into, if we’re not careful.”

Twitter users praised the description as “brilliant,” and “genius,” and noted the paper’s “terrifying sense of humor.”

"A nightmarish version of 2017". Utterly brilliant preview from The Sunday Herald of The Twilight Zone v2 aka Trump's inauguration. t.co/M0elicoSUk"

amispartacus .... link to new thread if you can, don't want to miss anything, think we might need it!