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It's official. There has never been a POTUS as --vile-- unpopular as Trump. Sad! Trump cont.

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MicrowaveSpy · 14/08/2017 20:58

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badbadhusky · 15/08/2017 21:43

OMG found him on youtube live. He's fucking nuts.

CupFullOfSpiders · 15/08/2017 21:46

Trump live press conference now.
The man is a tool.
"Is it terrorism? Is it murder? Who can say?"
You can, you epic fucking tool. YOU CAN

Just to clarify, my previous quote was his response to a reporter asking him if James Fields driving into a crowd and murdering Heather Hayer. Spineless, shameless fool. Angry

badbadhusky · 15/08/2017 21:46

He's promoting his fucking winery in Charlottesville. The brass neck of the man!!!

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 15/08/2017 21:46

Interesting body language from Kelly during the press conference.

mobile.twitter.com/kristindonnelly/status/897551033743921152/photo/1

AcrossthePond55 · 15/08/2017 21:47

Didn't know about today's press conference or whatever the hell it was. I think I'm glad I didn't. Probably would have lobbed a shoe through the TV screen.

OTOH, he does just keep digging himself that hole, doesn't he? He's probably never faced such public disapprobation before in his life. He's not so completely surrounded by 'yes men' now, is he? He can't avoid hearing the voices raised against him. And it's killing him.

Oh, news special break in........

Random Scrotus soundbites from the presser

Why are CEOs leaving your council? "Because they don't know their jobs. They're leaving out of embarrassment because their products are not made in the US. I've been lecturing them about that"

Why did you wait so long to make a statement "I didn't wait too long to make a statement. My statement was a fine statement. I was waiting for the facts. You don't know the facts. . Everybody said my statement was beautiful. Frankly, most people don't know all the facts. The second statement was made with great knowledge"

"If the press wasn't fake they would have said what I said was very nice."

"Blah blah propaganda, jobs up, economy up."

Is it murder or terrorism? "That's legal semantics"

"Mr Bannon is a good person"

"You mean Sen McCain who voted against Obamacare?"

"The alt left came swinging clubs. They were very, very violent"

"I'm not finished, 'fake news'." (referring to a reporter when shushing him)

"Those people were also there because they wanted to protest, they weren't all white supremacists"

"They want to take down statues. R E Lee today, Stonewall Jackson tomorrow. What's next Washington or Jefferson?"

I.can't.stand this. I'm going to get a drink.*

*That last was me by the way.

CupFullOfSpiders · 15/08/2017 21:48

Arse. Too cross to make sense. Angry Was his response to a reporter asking him if James Fields driving into a crowd and murdering Heather Heyer was terrorism. Also, bold fail, sorry. Hope it makes sense despite that.

orlantina · 15/08/2017 21:48

That was an awful press conference. His body language, tone, defensiveness - you don't need to be an expert to read that.

And he can fuck off with saying he waits till he gets all the facts to make a statement. This is the guy who retweets Fox news - which then has to draw back on its lies.

Fekko · 15/08/2017 21:49

How did the journalist ( fake news) not yell back 'aye, any you're just a fake president'?

MetalMidget · 15/08/2017 21:50

What. The. Actual. Fuck.

PricklyBall · 15/08/2017 21:50

Cup, I have just forced myself to watch it (it is on the WashPo site). You are not being hysterical, it is every bit as bad as you think it is. Yes, the guy has just defended neo-Nazis (he may claim to be making a distinction between the small minority of real neo Nazis at the parade and the majority of honest God-fearing Robert E Lee worshippers - I paraphrase - but to any sane person, there is no distinction. )

Now I need to go and bleach my brain.

blueskyinmarch · 15/08/2017 21:51

I hope there is a transcript of this presser soon. I actually cannot bear to listen to voice of the orange buffoon.

CupFullOfSpiders · 15/08/2017 21:52

No idea Fekko It must be so hard not to! How did any of the journalists hold it together enough not call him a brainless fucking toad? Good on them for giving him a relatively hard run though. They must have been " Shock WTF!" the whole way through.

badbadhusky · 15/08/2017 21:53

The woman holding the 2 year infrastructure chart looks like she wants to curl up & die. (Not even sure if I'm even watching the same press conference - Trump Tower, poor Chinese woman in blue suit with eyes signalling mute horror...)

lionheart · 15/08/2017 21:57

I can't effing watch it--seeing the twitter reports is bad enough.

lionheart · 15/08/2017 21:59

For those who just ... can't.

transcript

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 15/08/2017 21:59

David Duke has just thanked Trump.

I'll not link but Kyle Griffin tweeting.

orlantina · 15/08/2017 21:59

Former head of the KKK

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David Duke Retweeted NBC News
Thank you President Trump for your honesty & courage to tell the truth about #Charlottesville & condemn the leftist terrorists in BLM/Antifa

Trump's just dog whistled and repeated the words of white supremacists and the 'but what aboutery"...

TheNorthWestPawsage · 15/08/2017 22:07

Trump said the 'alt-left' were the ones wearing black riot gear and helmets in Charlottesville and that they went straight in and attacked the alt-right 'protestors'. Is that correct? I thought the ones dressed like that were part of the fascist groups.
He just kept repeating the same stuff over and over - "excuse me, excuse me. I've looked very carefully at the footage. Much more carefully than any of you. I wait until I have all the facts before I make a statement. Not like the fake newspapers"
He really isn't used to not getting his own way.
It was sort of gratifying to see how upset he was - presidential he was not!

MsHooliesCardigan · 15/08/2017 22:08

I really can't take much more of this. How is this happening? I don't want him to be assassinated because he would then acquire martyr status for the alt right. My hope is for a non fatal heart attack which allows him to retire on health grounds. I know Pence is a misogynistic homophobe but I can't see him posing the threat to world peace that 45 does.
It's terrifying how quickly the world can change.

orlantina · 15/08/2017 22:13

Funny how he didn't mention the militia and the fact that the police didn't move in because of open carry assault weapons...

Must have slipped his mind...

SetPhasersTaeMalkie · 15/08/2017 22:15

The panel on CNN is freaking out.

'A defining moment of the presidency'.

Don Lemon almost seems lost for words at first.

orlantina · 15/08/2017 22:17

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We need more Trump press conferences like this. Americans have a right to know who their president really is, sans handlers.

OnTheDarkSideOfTheSpoon · 15/08/2017 22:19

Am at the proms waiting for it to begin and have just had a sneaky scan of this thread. I'm glad I didn't see it live because fucking hell. Has he really blamed the left for fucking nazis committing an act of terrorism and murdering a woman? And then used the woman's mother as a character reference?

Just unbelievable that this is the president.

AcrossthePond55 · 15/08/2017 22:22

MsHoolie I'm OK with him being a 'martyr'. Just like I'm OK with McVeigh, Koresh, and the Ruby Ridge gang being 'martyrs'. Martyrs are dead. That's all that matters.

Roussette · 15/08/2017 22:23

I've never seen anything like it. He was shouting, shushing, silencing, rambling and he was firmly nailed his colours to the wall. We've always known but this press proved it. Then to be thanked by David Duke.

I think he was forced and pressured to do the second press briefing condemning KKK etc but he's kicked out and the true Trump was this. Not yesterday. That was read out and scripted and not what he thinks.

Where the hell is Kelly? I thought he was going to bring some order to all of this?

CNN are saying that this will be a defining moment of his presidency