Not new, of course, and perhaps not that important in the scheme of things, but here is the President of the United States abusing cable news personalities on Twitter:
I heard poorly rated @Morning_Joe speaks badly of me (don't watch anymore). Then how come low I.Q. Crazy Mika, along with Psycho Joe, came..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
…to Mar-a-Lago 3 nights in a row around New Year's Eve, and insisted on joining me. She was bleeding badly from a face-lift. I said no!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 29, 2017
So embarrassing. Remember when Republicans used to (hypocritically) scold President Obama for putting his feet up on the desk? Recall how they spoke in hushed tones about Ronald Reagan always wearing a suit jacket in the Oval Office because of the dignity of that space?
Yeah, those same people voted for this petty, boorish, incredibly small creature. And they can kindly shut the fuck up forever about the respect owed to that office.
Smiling Mortician
I am so tired of being ashamed on behalf of the shameless. It’s exhausting.
geg6
Far be it from me to defend Meeka and Morning Blow, but this is just vile. Just as I think he couldn’t disgust me more, he says “Hold my beer!”
Cermet
STFU about anything isn’t something the thugs will do even when they are making a blatantly hypocritical statement – they are low IQ mouth breathers that think Jesus is spelled M-O-N-E-Y.
japa21
Respect for the office only matters if a Dem is President, same as with deficits, taxes, etc. etc.
Although the next time a GOPer laments a Dem President not being respectful enough or dignified enough I may be tempted to raise my voice just a tiny little bit in anger.
MomSense
He is the president of the united states and he is issuing these statements? This is deeply disturbing. He’s in a very dark place right now and that is not good for us.
Scott
Makes you wonder what is the matter with him.
Bobby Thomson
CNN never said their story was inaccurate, just that standards hadn’t been followed.
Quinerly
As I said below…I’m to a point that I fully expect Trump to drop trou in front of a female reporter and jack off. Sean Hannity will somehow put a positive spin on it.
Big Ole Hound
This orange asshole is going to be declared mentally unfit for office and we will have to deal with Pence. Hang on folks.
Bobby Thomson
@Scott: he’s a dumbass and an asshole. SATSQ
Mike in NC
What a deranged, child-like imbecile. I’m heading out to find a replacement for my GPS unit, which is 10+ years old.
scav
The mirror held up to their morals, intellect, values and ambitions is not kind. So many look up to this man and family — how low must they themselves be? I’m personally split between incandescent anger and gales of laughter when faced with their pious self-preenings rolling of their lips and the sheer evidence of their incoherence and manifest hypocrisies.
LAO
Once again, Senator Murphy is correct:
Kay
This is the craziest yet. You can tell Trump never had a job outside working for his family.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@Bobby Thomson: And Vice retracted the Hall of Presidents story last night, same reason. Just who are these sources that they run stories without going through the full editorial process?
Kay
Also- the “bleeding” part is creepy. At the end of the day, he’s just weird.
Quinerly
@geg6:
Speaking of beer…and yes, I posted this below…73% Dems, 17% Repugs would completely give up all alcohol in exchange for Trump’s impeachment: http://crooksandliars.com/2017/06/most-americans-would-quit-drinking-impeach
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Weird, nuttier than a squirrel turd and has the keys to the planet’s most fearsome nuclear arsenal.
Quinerly
@Kay:
Trump wouldn’t last 5 minutes in the real world. Probably been that way since a child. He’s badly damaged…I know…I’m preaching to the choir but I still can’t believe he was elected.
seejanerun
He obviously is disgusted by women bleeding – I wonder if Melania has to stay in the menstrual hut every month?
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
On a more immediately serious subject, NotPetya isn’t a ransomware attack. Data encrypted by it is not recoverable. Merck has been hit; reports are that the employees were told to just go home.
LAO
@Kay: The bleeding part is weird, but call me crazy, it’s the characterization of her as (1) stupid and (2) crazy; that has me steaming. I may not like Mika or agree with her much — but it’s down right text book misogyny. Trump is such a shitheel.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I know it will be perceived as sexist and probably it is, but this BLEEDING thing with him is just fucking weird.
They’re really oddballs and misfits, that administration- all of them. From Bannon to Sarah Huckabee to Conway they;re just a very strange, angry group of people. You feel like none of them could work anywhere else.
Quinerly
@seejanerun:
Maybe Melania is a robot…like a “Stepford wife” and didn’t bleed when she had her plastic surgery. It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
nasruddin
@Kay: Is bleeding a “thing” with him?
Yoda Dog
@Big Ole Hound:
At this point, FSM help us all, just give me pence already. We have got to get rid of this fucking guy.
Alain the site fixer
@Kay: He has issues with bodily fluids. His use of the word disgusting in reference to them, his insistence that Melania had never pooped (Howard Stern appearance, years ago), etc. I think he would score very high on the disgust-o-meter or whatever it is called.
Kay
@nasruddin:
Sexist, sure, but in addition a really odd thing to say. Do you ever describe people as “bleeding”?
Alain the site fixer
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I have a post about that coming up in a few….
gene108
@Quinerly:
I’m not surprised he won the Republican primary. He pretty much gave a big fuck-you to the Republican economic platform, which appealed to more Republicans voters than his opponents, who here hemming and hawing about how great free trade and tax cuts are and how Social Security and Medicare need to be cut to pay for those tax cuts. Plus the outright racism of his campaign said loud and clear what most Republican voters believe in their hearts.
What surprised me is so many people in the general election decided he was the best possible choice.
What also disappointed me is the media, like with Bush, Jr., ignoring the mountain of dubious failed businesses and shady dealings that kept him afloat before his run for office. I mean there were one or two articles about it, but unless something gets blown up like Hillary’s e-mails, the Benghazi “scandal”, or Whitewater, the average American just isn’t going to register it.
The court records are public. He has deposition after deposition of bad business deals. But they were glossed over.
The sad part is the media is not going to admit how they failed the public in the 2016 election. Maybe because Republicans are more corrupt it will make the news more exciting, while a Republican is in the White House, so that is who they unconsciously back.
Frankensteinbeck
@scav:
I hope America is starting to understand: Trump’s voters WANTED a mean, petty, spiteful man.
The Moar You Know
Shitty worthless jackass boor insults shitty worthless useful idiots. More of this and less Obamacare repeal, please.
different-church-lady
@Frankensteinbeck: Ding ding ding Correct Answer.
gene108
@Yoda Dog:
Until Pence gets tarred and feathered in the Russia investigation, I do not want him in power. He’ll be given the Bush, Jr. treatment, as someone who is “restoring honor and integrity to the White House”, and the bar will be so low for him to the “Presidential” that as long as he doesn’t “drunk” Tweet at 3:00 am, he’ll be unassailable for the rest of his term.
The investigations into Russia hacking will be stopped. And Russia will gear up to do it again in 2018, and we’ll be lulled into a false sense of complacency because Trump (who is depicted as the sole beneficiary of the hacking) will not be around.
Steve in the ATL
@Mike in NC:
So…a cell phone
japa21
@Frankensteinbeck: Let’s put it this way; a very high percentage of Trump voters wanted a mean, petty, spiteful racist man. Some just voted for him because of the R after his name and some voted against Hilary (for pretty nonsensical reasons) rather than for him. Everybody who voted for him got what they wanted.
Quinerly
So who’s doing the daily press briefing today? Huckabee Sanders or Spicer? Will the press ask about this tweet? Who do we prefer to be the one who has to answer the question if asked?
Quinerly
MSNBC is reporting that the tweet is so vulgar that they won’t show it on air.
different-church-lady
@japa21: Except the coal miners.
MomSense
@Kay:
Not sure how many complaints for protection you have read but this kind of talk by trump has all of my warning lights flashing.
Yoda Dog
@gene108: No way, that’s all speculation. Trump needs to go. Full stop.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
I’m sure she kept herself isolated from him.
Ian G.
You know, I watched Jason Isbell (one of my favorite musicians out there) on The Daily Show last week and it just reinforced to me that “trailer trash” has nothing to do with wealth or where you were born, it’s entirely about state of mind and culture. Isbell was literally born in a trailer in Alabama, but he is a smart, funny, warm human being who is as far from trailer trash as it gets. Trump was born a gazillionaire in New York, and is the dictionary definition of trailer trash.
Quinerly
Did Joe and Mika’s segment on Tillerson prompt the bleeding tweet?: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/out-of-his-mind-msnbcs-mika-unloads-on-trump-and-his-lobotomized-staffers-over-tillerson-reports/
Chyron HR
@Quinerly:
Gee, it’s too bad they didn’t refuse to air Vulgar Donald last year.
zach
Trump is honestly the last person I’d expect to criticize someone for plastic surgery. Need to stop thinking that any hypocrisy is too far.
I mean, practically everyone in his family has had (really good) work done and re-done as trends have changed. He’s obviously cool with it and that’s fine with me.
Some people are sitting on ugly post-op photos of the Trumps. If there’s any overlap in the Venn diagram of that population and people Trump’s F’ed over, this could get even uglier fast.
MomSense
@Ian G.:
I’ve been listening to his music a lot lately. I really like him.
JPL
@LAO: This! I just returned after running errands, and was pleased to see republican senators disgusted with Trump’s tweet, but then had the same thought.
Ian G.
@MomSense:
Saw him at the Beacon Theater last Friday. Also saw him two summers ago in Prospect Park. His shows are fantastic.
Quinerly
@Chyron HR:
It was reported as “a vulgar tweet about our colleague, Mika.” The truly evil side of me chuckles….no one sucked Trump’s dick more than Mika and Joe did every morning. Related… I blame Trump for my vulgar language of late.
JPL
@Quinerly: There’s a lot of that going around. My adult son, mentioned he was surprised at my use of language recently.
Mike in DC
President Camacho would be a welcome respite from this ass clown at this point.
Brachiator
From a New York Times story on this Twitter attack:
Sad day? Isn’t this pretty much every freaking day? The new normal of Trump political discourse.
Kay
They’re putting back all the parts of Obamacare people like:
By the end this is will be just a massive cut to Medicaid. Trump’s contribution to healthcare will be destroying an existing health coverage program that works pretty well.
Kay
Trump’s just kind of dumb. His voters are dependent on Medicaid. He could have told Republicans to “repeal” Obamacare and leave Medicaid alone, but he let them cut 25%.
He can’t even serve his own base, let alone the majority of the country. He got nothing in this bill.
zach
FWIW everyone should report Trump’s tweet. Not the biggest protest in the world but it’s the kind of thing that’d get taken down if anyone else posted it.
Quinerly
@JPL:
My very politically active and alert Mom who died suddenly at age 92 in October, 2015 was dropping F bombs when speaking of Trump from the time of the escalator announcement in 6/2015 until right before her death.
different-church-lady
@Kay:
Do his voters even know that?
Shalimar
@Kay: The main reason the bill is so horrible is because they have to balance the budget implications after taking out a huge tax cut for the wealthy. Changing that completely changes the options they are working from and the bill that can result.
Corker is lying. He wants people to believe they took out all of the tax cuts for the wealthy, which is not the same as actually doing it. My bet is this is strictly about using that $200 billion room they left for maneuvering.
Kay
And Melania! Is she an idiot too? Of all the things to pick as First Lady she’s married to him and she chose cyber-bullying?
These are CHOICES these people make. They sit down and deliberately choose to be ridiculous and insane.
MJS
@Quinerly: Seriously? That’s some weapons-grade bullshit. It’s news. The people who watch MSNBC have a right to know about it. I’m guessing MSNBC’s strategy on this is that it is getting too personal between the sitting president and their on-air talent, which they fear will then be spun to “indict” all of their coverage of Trump. A bullshit excuse, but the only thing I can think of for the decision.
? Martin
@zach: Agreed. Twitter would earn a fair bit of goodwill back if they put him in time-out for a week over this.
Tazj
Trump is the victim according to Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
He is oppressed and must fight back.
Elizabelle
@Bobby Thomson: Yeah. I think the NY Times story will be borne out as true.
Elizabelle
I don’t have much sympathy for Mika. She and Schmoe normalized Trump. If he’s the scorpion and they’re the frog … cry me a river.
zhena gogolia
@Elizabelle:
I have zero sympathy for Mika, but the fact remains that this is appalling coming from the supposed POTUS.
Chyron HR
@Tazj:
He will overcovfefe.
Elizabelle
@Kay: Choices, or seat of their pants impulses? Hard to imagine a lot of thought with what we see from the crime family Trump.
Kathleen
@gene108: Also he is. a true believer. Very dangerous. But mainslimers will laud him for his steadiness and virtue. Impeaching Trump would stop investigations and let rest of Thgs skate They all need to be exposed.
bemused
@Quinerly:
I didn’t use the F bomb until GW was president. Worsened with GOP obstruction bs during Obama terms. Now with the psycho, I’m having a hard time not dropping F bombs every two minutes. That word upsets my 94 yr old mil and now have small grandchildren so I have to stifle.
schrodingers_cat
I have zero sympathy for Joe and his ho. She made her bed, she can lie it.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: Supposed POTUS. That’s the way I see him too. Illegitimate.
Kay
@Tazj:
Donald Trump needs a psych eval, stat. All these amateurs weighing in are just enabling him.
They really think this is acceptable? The President crazily lashes out when he’s criticized?
He’s unstable.
schrodingers_cat
@LAO: I agree. I have zero sympathy for coddled media bots who gave us T.
Quinerly
@MJS:
I have MSNBC on in background. That was the show that just finished. I’m curious how Mrs. Greenspan reports on it. Let’s see.
different-church-lady
@schrodingers_cat: WOULD YOU PLEASE FOCUS HERE?
Kay
@Elizabelle:
Well, she chose cyber-bullying. In spite of, I don’t know, the reality of her life. She didn’t ascertain any problem with that? Maybe they’re just really dumb. Out of 5000 possible First Lady issues she hit on the one her husband violates daily?
You’re supposed to EMBODY these things. That’s why Michelle Obama was always jumping rope with kids. Words mean something. She can’t defend the cyber-bully and be a national spokesperson against cyber-bullying. She’ll have to choose something else.
rikyrah
@Shalimar:
tell it over and over again.
THIS.IS.NOT.A.HEALTHCARE.BILL.
THIS.IS.A.TAX.CUT.BILL.
THAT is the entire purpose of the bill.
They don’t give two shyts about healthcare for anyone but themselves.
THEY.WANT.THE.TAX.CUTS.
schrodingers_cat
Zero impulse control and delusional. Excellent qualities to have in a President. Thanks, R voters, R elected officials, Vichy Times and media bots including Mika.
Elizabelle
@ Betty Cracker:
Nuttier than a squirrel turd.
Great turn of phrase.
Quinerly
Mrs. Greenspan is asking Sen Collins about the vulgar, personal insult directed at “my colleague.” Didn’t repeat it or put it up on the screen. Same as the last show.
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: I am way past focusing on the outrage of the day. Let’s not pretend to be shocked. 70 year olds seldom change, we have seen this behavior for over the past 2 years, at least.
germy
@Kay:
She probably thought that’d be the easiest thing. “Don’t cyberbully.” Done.
I mean, we can’t expect her to do jumping jacks with a bunch of… kids, right?
Or maybe it was a passive-aggressive slap at POTUS? I don’t know.
schrodingers_cat
@Quinerly: Andrea can take her concern trollery and go fuck herself. She knew what she was doing when she was focusing on emailz all the time.
different-church-lady
@schrodingers_cat: It’s not about getting him to change. It’s about finally getting enough people to abandon him so he can be shown the door.
different-church-lady
@Quinerly: Tribal defense of fellow villagers will always prevail over all other concerns. You can ruin a country, but don’t you dare attack someone in my business.
Kay
@Quinerly:
It really hurts all of them, which Trump knows. It pulls back the curtain and makes them into “insiders”- members of a club Trump is in. In a way he’s tattling on them- letting his fans know it’s all a game and he’s on the inside and the public is on the outside.
schrodingers_cat
@different-church-lady: Go for it, then. But don’t expect me to feel sorry for his enablers.
d58826
And totally off the news cycle
1. more news about Manafort and his Russian connections
2. changes to Trumpcare that may or may not make it worse
3. the latest Muslim ban that according to Bruce Fein, a Reagan era lawyer, may well be in violation of several of the provisions in the SCOTUS ruling earlier this week.
But (and I can’t find the Tweet), as one WH official said at least the Mika controversy means that the media isn’t talking about the GOP trying to killing millions of people. I think that is called damning with faint praise.
Elizabelle
@schrodingers_cat: Yep. Low tumbrel number for Mrs. Greenspan. She and Mika can tumbrel-pool.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
She’s such a phony with her “national security” concerns. While she was freaking out over whether terrorists got hold of Clinton’s yoga schedule Trump was basically planting Russian spies in the government.
Whoops! Missed a kinda big security breach there, Andrea!
smintheus
From the CNN report:
The irony is so rich, Mitch McConnell just gave it a retroactive tax break.
Amir Khalid
Presidents like Ronald Reagan and George Walker Bush figured that always wearing a suit and never putting their feet up on the desk was all the respect they owed the Oval Office. Presidents like Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama know that real respect for the Oval Office, or indeed any public office, is shown by conscientious service in it.
Kay
@smintheus:
It’s disturbing. The lack of awareness. Of her ..surroundings.
That’s what we tell the kids at school on cyberbullying, yes sir! If someone “attacks” you with words you must “punch back ten times harder”
She’s a dope too. They’re all just not-very-bright country club people who blurt out weird, dumb things.
Quinerly
@schrodingers_cat: @Kay: @different-church-lady:
I just find it fascinating that MSNBC seems to be taking the stance of not repeating Trump’s actual tweet. 3 shows now on MSNBC reporting it that way. That was my point by the second comment. Can’t stand Andrea Mitchell. They all have had a hand in creating the mess we are in.
smintheus
@Kay: Melania is worse than a dope. She’s an entitled hypocrite who thinks that her ends justify any means.
gene108
@Mike in DC:
President Camacho did the best he could with what he had and did worry about the nationwide crop failures. He just lacked the tools to understand what was causing it. He wanted to make things better for ordinary Americans.
Given the tools we have today, a President Camacho would be a marked improvement over Trump. He had a basic understand of right versus wrong.
Betty Cracker
@Kay:
I don’t know why, but that made me laugh so loud I startled the dogs. It’s true.
@Quinerly: That is weird. The tweets were crass, but it’s not like he said “pussy” or “fuck.” Hmm. How did they handle PussyGate?
SiubhanDuinne
@smintheus:
Thursday’s Internets Winner!!
ET
I will echo a chant at the women’s march in DC back in January:
I suspect that -sadly – we will need to use that again (and again and again) over the next 3.5 years.
Quinerly
@Betty Cracker:
Yes, it is weird. I guess letting their viewers know Mika had a facelift is a no-no. They are all describing the tweet as vulgar, insulting, sexist. It’s not like this is a new thing. I’ll be curious how the nighttime hosts like Matthews and Maddow cover it. He has certainly said more insulting things about other women.
Starfish
Here is Mika’s response.
Aleta
Changing the subject to bleeding women, ‘internet tax’ evasion and attacks on free press. Still working fairly well to reduce the time cable news spends on his policies and crimes.
HRA
@Aleta:
This!! I totally agree!
MCA1
@Frankensteinbeck: America in a nutshell. Well said. A substantial portion of our population is animated primarily by resentment, anti-establishment rage, anti-intellectualism, jealousy and spite. They LOVE that this pisses off elites and polite people and the educated suburbanites who feel comfortable in a rapidly changing, pluralist 21st century America that confuses them, with their shitty educations and lack of access and nagging feelings of being left behind. T acting out his unfiltered rage on twitter feels like a socially acceptable (because the guy’s the f’ing POTUS) way of lashing out in revenge on their behalf. He feeds them the vicarious satisfaction of carrying out the punching of elites they know they can’t undertake in real life. That’s what they mean by saying they love him because he’s politically incorrect. He’s raging at a system and a world that’s gotten increasingly complex and sophisticated and seemingly incoherent while they don’t have the tools or the drive to keep up with it. He doesn’t do it intentionally, of course. He loathes them just as he loathes everyone, and is driven solely by pathology. It’s nonetheless a symbiotic relationship. They hear us moaning about how Trump’s embarrassing us and they LOVE it, because they don’t give a fuck about America’s standing with Germany and China. A fat lot of good being global leader in everything did them in their minds, other than let them fall further and further behind the quick adapters and well-educated*. So any embarrassment or fatigue or anger we feel is, in their minds, turnabout and just rewards.
* Nevermind this was primarily facilitated by Republican politics and policy. They’ve been fed enough Fox bile over the last quarter century that they’re convinced Democrats, with their globalism and elitism, perfectly embodied in the Clintons, are just as much the root of their problems as the prevailing GOP economic policy that’s been skewed toward strip mining the American middle class since the Reagan years.
TenguPhule
@Mike in DC:
Camacho would be a fucking improvement. At least that guy had basic human decency and listened to smart people saying smart things.
hedgehog mobile
@gene108: Baud/Camacho 2020!
TenguPhule
@Kay:
And choices have consequences. In this case, really really bad ones.
d58826
Sort of off-topic but it does fall into the category of if we can’t find a solution for this how can we solve healthcare.
The neighbor of this 11 year old died in a hot car incident. He was so upset that he invented something to prevent it from happening again. Not sure if it will work but one of the car companies invited him and his dad in for a demo. Now I have a car that has the option to selection doz. of colors for the dashboard and will remember thousands of positions for the seat, how hard is it to do something so you don’t forget to leave your kid in the back seat. I know as a parent you should rememeber but then how hard is it to remember hpow you like the front seat positioned?
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/good-news/11-year-old-boys-invention-could-prevent-hot-car-deaths/ar-BBDqp0I?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=iehp
Quinerly
Bloody Bill Kristol has just tweeted back at POTUS “You are a pig.”
dww44
@Kay: Maybe she was sending the President a message? If so, I tip my hat to her or to whomever persuaded her to go with this issue.
Tom65
Gotta love the official WH response: “they started it!”
Joyce H
So much of the reaction to this has been that Trump should ‘stop tweeting’. The problem isn’t with what he tweets, the problem is with what he THINKS. If Twitter didn’t exist, Trump would still be erratic, impulsive, ignorant and vulgar – we just wouldn’t know about it. Or at least we wouldn’t be exposed to the truth of it every single day.
And to be honest, I’m rather perplexed by the outsized reaction to this latest affront. Yes, his tweet was insulting and vulgar. But come on, people, he publicly accused the previous president of a FELONY! Shouldn’t that be a worse offense? After all, an insult is just an insult, there are no potential repercussions to the insulted. But in a more normal world, with a president who had any credibility, the PRESIDENT accusing someone of a CRIME should have all sorts of ramifications – it could trigger investigations, it could ruin the reputation of the person he accused, it might cost the person their job or business opportunities. That’s pretty serious stuff, but it just got shrugged off as ‘Trump being Trump’. But man, talk about a woman and a facelift and the whole town goes berserk.
Quinerly
@Joyce H:
I’m repeating myself all over the place but I find it amazing that 4 MSNBC shows have covered it without actually repeating the tweet. They just keep saying that it is insulting, vulgar, sexist. It’s like there is a cover up about Mika’s face-lift.
Miss Bianca
@d58826: Wow, good for that kid! Would work for dogs, too – I have a friend who forgot her dog in a hot car and was beating herself up for years afterwards. We don’t like to think that shit happens – or that if shit does happen, we’re smart enough that it won’t happen to *us*, but…shit happens.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: I have a small Bluetooth tag on my little dog since she likes to wander, makes it really easy to find her.
psychobroad
@Chyron HR: LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
janelle
@schrodingers_cat: Joe and his “ho”?
You do realize you just afforded Scarborough, the male, the dignity of referring to him by his actual name, while reducing Brzezinski, the female, to a derogatory name for a sex worker, right?
How very brogressive of you.
I’m not a fan of the duo, either, but that was still a pretty douchey thing for you to say.
Tehanu
@Kay:
On “The President Show” [Comedy Central], a couple of weeks back, Deepak Chopra told “Trump” to get an MRI on his brain, as it would be “so reassuring if it came out as normal.” I laughed, but now….