Come Heller high water …
- Legal disclaimer: This is an all-Trump, all the time column, so if that’s not your thing and you read it anyway and end up popping a forehead vein, that’s on you, bro. Don’t come screaming to me. And clean up that blood. (Caddyshack line.)
Now, holy cow, what was that guy smoking this past week? First he wondered aloud to a reporter “Why was there the Civil War? Why could that one not have been worked out?” History wasn’t my strong suit but even I know it had something to do with Joan of Arc’s pretty face inspiring some nut to shoot an Australian duke, which caused the Nazis to bomb Pearl Harbor.- Or it might have been that slavery thing I keep hearing about.
- By the way, one of my all-time favorite Trump quotes that is only tangentially pertinent but still fun: “Frederick Douglass is an example of somebody who’s done an amazing job and is getting recognized more and more, I notice.”
- Then he said, “I mean, had Andrew Jackson been a little later you wouldn’t have had the Civil War. He was a very tough person but he had a big heart. He was really angry that he saw with regard to the Civil War. He said ‘There’s no reason for this.'”
- Um, hey Donald, Jackson died 16 years before the Civil War. So if he said anything at all during the Civil War it certainly wasn’t “There’s no reason for this.” It was more likely “Hey, let me out here!”
- What else? Oh, yeah, then he said it was “too bad” he and President Obama haven’t spoken since the inauguration. I know, right? That Obama is so thin-skinned. Sure, The Donald accused him of a high crime and called him a “bad or sick guy.” But he didn’t have to get all huffy about it. Get over it, loser. And come by for tea.
- Then he praised North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un – the guy who is threatening to nuke San Francisco – as a “pretty smart cookie” and said he would be “honored” to meet him. That’s like Roosevelt having a beer with Hitler and calling him “a pretty good dude, all in all”?
- You know, if Roosevelt spoke like a 21st Century surfer.
- Then he invited Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte to the White House. If there were an international Mt. Rushmore of dictators , Duterte would be Thomas Jefferson to Kim Jong Un’s Teddy Roosevelt. He got “elected” on a promise to kill 100,000 drug dealers and do-nothings, which is probably why Trump likes him. He wishes he’d thought of it first.
- Then he called Putin. Must have been report card day.
- Then, in a Fox News interview, he said our constitutional system of checks and balances is “a very rough system. It’s an archaic system … It’s really a bad thing for the country.” Which is pretty much the same thing he says about Obamacare. What he means by “it’s archaic,” of course, is “it doesn’t let me do whatever I want.”
- Then he said the U.S. needs “a good shutdown” of the government this fall. Which, if that includes the executive branch, I’m all in favor of at this point.
- Finally, when pressed by CBS News reporter John Dickerson about whether he stood by his false claim that Obama wiretapped him, he said the words we all knew were true all along: “I don’t stand by anything.”
- And that, my friends, was the ultimate mic drop moment of his presidency.
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And Trump people still don’t get it .
Mind- boggling . 45 is unstable & unqualified at the very least.
That is right, but,the Republicans have to have him to move to move their agenda .
Andy, I’m sure the neo conservative, tea party, Trump loving zombies will say that you’re reporting fake news and are way too mean about the tDumpster.
Of course, you can’t reason with those fools. They don’t understand logic…
Hard to argue with direct quotes.
But they do….every single one of them!
The problem is that the “lamestream media” keep putting the things he says into context. This is grossly unfair. Is that right???
Darned media, reporting what he says.
It just boggles my mind that the idiots that voted for him still support him. But Republicans are never wrong. It’s hard to eat crow. This man is mentally ill!!!
Don, Don, the maniac,
Where did his conscience go,
It drooled out of his big fat mouth,
And that’s why he does’t eat crow.
Sorry, –doesn’t–
I am looking forward to hearing what the trump defenders have to say about all this.
You know–in retrospect Sarah Palin doesn’t look so dumb after all. She should thank DT for lowering the bar even further.
Right on!
I do not believe Trump actually knows what the word ARCHAIC means. He just heard it somewhere, and likes the sound of it, believes it makes him sound sophisticated.
And, is Trump the 45th President? Let’s call him .45! Git it? Point 45? That is how we designate calibers of bullets. .45 (Point 45) Caliber is a pretty big, pretty common, pretty deadly bullet.
Tommy Guns (no relation) shoot .45 bullets.
Trump probably does not even know how to pronounce ARCHAIC. (Ar – KAY – ik)
Big hearted Andrew Jackson is the one who sent thousands of native Americans on their death march from Georgia to Oklahoma — what a tender hearted guy —-
The man who was elected to act as president of the United States is a disgrace. I will stand by that!
Trumster is serving you comedic material on a silver platter.
I was always told “tis better to not speak and be thought stupid than to open your mouth and prove it.” 45 has proved himself stupid over and over and over and over again.
Nothing but crickets from the Trump supporters. You can’t defend the indefensible.
I think Heller really did it this time, their heads exploded.
Of course I will be delighted if they show up to prove me wrong.
FYI, an interesting article at foreignpolicy.com
“This Isn’t Realpolitik. This Is Amateur Hour.”
This article was written by Stephen M. Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard University.
Where to begin in reply to Andrew’s column.
Like a good liberal he has let his emotions dictate his opinion.
Along with Fred and the others who have posted here.
One can point out facts about what is really going on in America and the world, and they will just reply with slurs and other not so nice comments.
Am I in favor with everything that President Trump has done so far? NO!
I still believe that there were other republican president candidates that are better qualified than President Trump.
If a African-American had been the one chosen to be the POTUS, the liberal left would be tearing him apart. Their racist side would be coming to the surface real fast.
It was the republican party that had a varied lot running for the presidential
office. The democratic party just had less than 5 overall. Those that were vying for the democratic ticket were claiming to be for the common person.
As for President Trump commenting about Andrew Jackson, I put that comment at the same level as the former president saying that there are 57 states.
“If a African-American had been the one chosen to be the POTUS, the liberal left would be tearing him apart. Their racist side would be coming to the surface real fast.”
What?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
Forget it, he’s rolling. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI
He is rolling whatever trump rolled.
Now that’s funny, good one.
Jim-Bob Tres,
Of all those Republican presidential candidates you wrote of, the only one who even seemed remotely like a human being was the Ohio Governor, Mr. Kasich. And he lost big-time. What other Republican candidate do you believe would have been better than Trump? All blow-hard ninnies, with Trump leading in both categories.
Let’s just say that all of you are 100% correct in all of your comments and Andy’s column also is. So am I to believe that all of you think we would so much better off with Hillary as POTUS? God please help us all if even one of you thinks that! This man is not the buffoon you are making him out to be. He won! Remember?
I notice you didn’t offer any defense to anything from this column, that happens to be 100% true from trump himself.
Nobody is making trump out to be a buffoon. He is doing that all on his own, as you can see.
And Hillary would be OK?
I voted for Hillary. Anyone but trump was my thinking. That is how bad he is.
Now if you are done deflecting, its your turn.
That is the one thing my democrats overlooked —lots of folks didn’t want another
Bush or Clinton, no matter what —
Ernie!
Trump did not win. Hilary got between 2 million and 3 million more votes than Trump. Stick that in your Electoral College and smoke it.
And, Ernie,
We all would be MUCH better off with Hilary as President! Do you, Ernie, have any pre-existing conditions? I do. How about Trump’s pals in the House of Reps voting today to let you lose your health coverage?
Every American over the age of 35 probably has some pre-existing medical condition. Those Republican creeps apparently believe we all should just go ahead and die. Believing and supporting Trump’s lies well may be a pre-existing mental health condition. And now, you never will have any coverage for your own self, for that.
Let’s face it, in this last election we did not have any good choices–period. Even the “also rans” fell far short of what we needed. There is one person who seems to be (or should be) very happy with DJT–Sarah Palin. djt has lowered the bar so far that even she looks as if she might have been a better choice.
liberals prefer to shoot the messenger that brings news that they do not like or does not fit their view of the way things should be according to their pathology.
If a conservative speaker is scheduled to speak at a college, the liberals of that college or university start having fits and make death threats against anyone who does not believe whatever it is that liberals believe.
What Andrew, Fred and the other liberals do not understand they are what Lenin called useful idiots. Lenin used his useful idiots ( called white Russians). They were the primary bullet stoppers of the Russian revolution. As soon as Lenin had no more use for them, they were either murdered or sent to Siberia.
Hitler had his brown shirts who would go and threaten, beat up protest and caused many a disruption at any one gathered together to oppose hitler.
The brown shirts are of the same type on the campuses of colleges and universities today that will protest anyone who does not conform to their way of PC speech.
PC speech is definitely used to suppress free speech.
When hitler invaded Poland in 1938, there were no more brown shirts in Germany. They to had been either murdered or sent to concentration camps.
As much as today’s democrats want to deny it, in order to a member of the kkk you had to be a member of the democratic party.
Today’s liberals would be against George Washington and the other founders of this nation. They would try to rewrite history to have Abraham Lincoln as a democrat. Jefferson Davis as a republican.
I watched abc news this morning, some of the same talking points used by the republicans in 2009 to oppose obamma scam are now being used by the democrats that oppose the changes being made to ACA.
You are a very confused man. You believe things about liberals that are blatantly not true. You don’t seem to have a realistic view of history. Maybe that’s why you like 45 since he doesn’t know that Andrew Jackson died years before the Civil War or that Frederick Douglas is dead. I suggest you take some American History classes.
Well, I can certainly see why you find trump appealing.
Jim, wait, who was it that was helped by Russia again? And who is that wants to weaken NATO? And who is buddy’s with the woman running for the French presidency who is saying NATO needs to be weakened? And who’s cozying up to China? And who has major business dealings in communist countries? Oh, that’s right … it’s Trump.
” in order to a member of the kkk you had to be a member of the democratic party.”
Sorry, Jim III not true. My beloved maternal grandfather was at one time a high ranking member of the Klan. (in a state I will not mention.) And a LIFE LONG REPUBLICAN!! Late in life he changed completely. When I was young (8 or 9) we had a long talk and he told me that, “What we did was wrong.”
Why are republicans so afraid of women???
Well, actually, we’re all scared of women. You’re terrifying.