Marine One arrives to pick up POTUS pic.twitter.com/2OSdq3lmJ0
— joe johns (@joejohnscnn) January 20, 2021
Trump’s White House departure has been delayed by about half an hour. He’s still expected to speak at Joint Base Andrews — notably without a teleprompter.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 20, 2021
Typically Trump is late for departure. No truth to the rumor that they’re having to pry him from the bedpost pic.twitter.com/QAY2BBvRtI
— Brian J. Karem (@BrianKarem) January 20, 2021
The scene at JBA pic.twitter.com/y7p8bpajwT
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 20, 2021
Donald Trump has left the White House pic.twitter.com/qm8hA1Mqdu
— Tom Namako (@TomNamako) January 20, 2021
rikyrah
Just phucking leave already ??
rikyrah
MattF
…and… Donald Fucking Trump has left the White House.
rikyrah
Classless to the end?
Baud
Lift off!
zhena gogolia
HOORAYYYY!
Baud
We did it, jackals!
Dorothy A. Winsor
And he had to throw a sad party for himself.
As someone on twitter said, “Dude, people danced in the streets when you lost. Church bells rang all over the world. Get over yourself.”
CorgiMum
Wanna see a door hitting each one of them in the ass on the way out.
lamh36
I went to sleep late, but even with less than 5 hrs of sleep, I’m up early just to see this orange fuq’er and melanoma…GET THE FUQ OUT of the peoples house!!
BYE….MOTHER….
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: The helicopter crashed????????????????????
Baud
Let the fumigation of the White House begin!
Mousebumples
I’m working and on call this week, but I’m hoping to sneak a video view of inauguration. So if someone gets video front paged for streaming, I’d appreciate it. ?
And to borrow from a Tweet i saw last night – i love that my daughter (almost 17mo) will never remember a time when there wasn’t a female Vice President! ???
SFAW
Any truth to the rumor* that Vladi Vladimirovich sent special envoy Ivan Korshunov** to keep the Traitor-in-Chief company on the trip to Mar-a-Lardo?
* A rumor started by me, that is.
** who will be more successful, this time, because Shitgibbon is no Harrison Ford.
Cameron
I hope there’s no coverage for his speech at Andrews. It’s not like he would say anything worth hearing.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
If that happened, people would say it’s just Trump trying to distract from Biden’s inauguration.
lamh36
Gonna be singing “ding dong, trump is gone” all day…woowoop
Betty Cracker
Bye, mofo!
Double-bird salute from Florida!
Ohio Mom
There is a Jewish blessing for reaching a happy occasion, such as (but not limited to) milestone lifecycle events, the Shehecheyanu: Blessed are you, Eternal our God, Ruler of the Universe, who has kept us alive, sustained us and enabled us to reach this season.
Hooray!
Immanentize
Leave now and never come back!
Martin
This is how the youngs reacted to Trump’s loss.
Literal dancing in the streets.
Mustang Bobby
It reminds me of the story told about the funeral of Harry Cohn, the much-hated president of Columbia Pictures. A lot of people attended the service, and when one guest remarked that they were surprised at the turnout, Tony Randall said, “Well, it’s like they say in Hollywood: give the people what they want, they’ll show up.”
Cheryl Rofer
I knew we could depend on Stephen Schwartz for this. He has photos, I think, of the football carrier for every time Trump has traveled.
The codes will be changed at 12 noon. Trump’s will become inactive, and Biden’s will be activated. There are multiple footballs, so there will be a football carrier for Biden at the inauguration. The vice presidents also have footballs, and the same changeover will take place.
Geminid
@lamh36: he’s going where the goblins go, BELOW! Below below YOHO!
NotMax
“We checked every available source and there’s no rule the 21 guns must be cannons. So we’ll be using SuperSoakers.”
//
lamh36
trump is gone and things ALREADY looking up!
Pfizer vaccine seems to work against the UK strain of COVID!!!
https://twitter.com/CNBC/status/1351882269628235776?s=20
cintibud
Sh a na na na, sa na na na…
BruceFromOhio
Count the silverware. And the paintings.
Ella in New Mexico
HIs Ugliness looking forlornly out the window of Marine One right now, angry that there’s such a tiny, tiny crowd…
Melania dressed all in black like she’s practicing for the funeral…
Thanks to living in Mountain Standard time, I get to see this jackass and his entourage leave and the Inauguration happen 2 hours earlier than most.
Come on 10:01!!!!
germy
OzarkHillbilly
lamh36
They spending at least $100k to deep clean the WH after the orange menace vacates to get it ready for Joe and Dr. Jill!
germy
Well, my local sinclair station gets creative sometimes.
NotMax
Jared and Ivanka at Andrews, unmasked. The kid they dragged along with them is wearing one.
Sure Lurkalot
@Betty Cracker: I think I’ll join you on that double bird salute from Colorado!
germy
Up to and including Mark Burnett.
SFAW
@Betty Cracker:
Um, he’s going to be your neighbor (so to speak).
My condolences.
lamh36
I ain’t never listened to a speech by Chump LIVE and I ain’t planning to now. let me know when it’s over. FUQ Chump and FUQ Melanoma!
America welcome back!
NotMax
“Melania’s outfit today designed by the House of Ilsa the She-wolf.”
germy
I can imagine.
Nicole
I normally eschew cable news, but I’ve got CNN on ALL MORNING BABY.
For the first time in 4 years, I can bear to listen to the stupid Tangerine blathering because I know he’s gone in less than 4 hours.
debbie
Typical asshole final remarks.
Soprano2
And of course his sendoff speech is a combination of whining and boasting, just like every other speech he’s ever given. I told my husband that the Trumps are a true demonstration of how money cannot buy you class, and that a hick in a trailer park has more class than the Trumps do.
Suzanne
I am actually listening this is lunatic give this speech and it might be the last time.
HOT DAMN.
NotMax
@lamh36
Actual line spoken (not making this up):
“We were not a regular administration.”
germy
trnc
“Thank you for your love,” Melania said, before adding, “But, more importantly, thank you for your hate.”
Suzanne
He just said that COVID numbers are going to “skyrocket downward”.
Feels like the last four years.
JWR
Wonder if Journey gave him permission to use that song. /Kidding!
Oh. and that 21 gun salute! Pew pew pew! And now he’s going over all of his “accomplishments.” And God, what a voice.
Suzanne
Skyrocketing downward = rotating tag
NotMax
Still hasn’t said “Biden” or “Harris.”
trnc
Well, they probably will now that his worthless ass is out of the way.
germy
Here he is (a few moments ago) taking credit for any future financial recovery in the Biden administration:
Steeplejack
Trump is going out as he came in—spewing a stream of complete bullshit. Kimberly Guilfoyle is crying, reason to be determined. Loss of grift? Impending indictment? ?
I haven’t seen a shot of the crowd yet.
ETA: Trump finished. Camera pulled back a bit, but showing only the first six-eight rows of the no doubt huge crowd.
debbie
@Suzanne:
Seconded.
Ella in New Mexico
@rikyrah: She was too busy trying to memorize the incredibly dull 30 second goodby speech she just gave
She sounded like she was in the question round at the Miss Universe contest and Donald was the MC
Suzanne
@trnc: what the fuck is “skyrocketing downward”? He speaks like Tom Friedman writes.
trnc
@NotMax: And never will. Just another cue his supporters won’t realize he took from Obama, who generally referred to DT as “her opponent.” I don’t like typing his name, either. He’s like Voldemort, only worse AND stupider.
Ella in New Mexico
@Steeplejack: She’s a really bad actress but totally high so she’s throwing her whole heart into it
MattF
…and departs Andrews to the tune of ‘YMCA’. Yes, actually.
lamh36
TOODLE LOO BISH!!
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/30a3fb7e95116104f1403d90ff643545717667cbc63ba96bced1d36e55bb63e6.gif
hells littlest angel
And we’ll have recovered from it in a mere 50-100 years.
PST
Trump’s speech was far from his worst. I didn’t hear all of it. It was full of whining, boasting, and lying, of course, but at least he didn’t repeat the Big Lie (that I heard anyway). He could have done a lot of good by disclaiming the Big Lie, but no one expects that ever. He wished the new administration well. I guess what I mean is that for once, he seems to have skipped an opportunity to make things worse.
mrmoshpotato
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
3 hours, 10 minutes until another cheer goes up.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@NotMax:
Do not disparage a great movie by comparison…
Martin
@lamh36: I think it’s ‘bing bong, Trump is gone’
RobertDSC-Mac Mini
Time to send the UV light-emitting robots into the White House for an extended period of time.
trnc
@Suzanne: Oh, snap!
ETA: He ad-libbed. I’m surprised we got actual words, even if he doesn’t know how to put them together.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: Classic how, at the door of the copter at the WH, he waved in a semicircle to include the imaginary people on his right.
NotMax
Th-th-th-that’s all, folks.
Just One More Canuck
@JWR: Trump’s just a small town girl living in a lonely world
OzarkHillbilly
Sean Spicer, Trump’s ex-media chief, applies to join White House press corps
Posted w/o comment.
NeenerNeener
Melania looked a lot happier on the way out than she did 4 years ago on the way in. One of the gossip web sites says she plans on divorcing him within the year.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ella in New Mexico:
I was mocking her, and middle daughter scolded me by saying “she’s fluent in five languages, dad.”
My response? “Being able to order an Aperol Spritz or Prosecco in five languages doesn’t count as fluency”.
lamh36
President-Elect Joe Biden being driven around in the BEAST!!! Since Chump nem ain’t do any traditional send off, POTUS Biden get access to the beast early!
rikyrah
The latter ??
Bruuuuce
@Baud: Literally, because of the pandemic. But they would have had to do it anyway to clear the air and clean up after those sacks of trash who just left.
NotMax
When he went to the lined up members of his family and their companions, they each leaned in to be kissed on the cheek. And each received one, except Jared.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
The BEAST ????
Just One More Canuck
@Ella in New Mexico: reminds me of the line from Taxi, where Louis DePalma says “If I knew you were coming I’d have baked a ham”
OldDave
I’ve been texted exactly that along with the helicopter liftoff to friends and family.
SiubhanDuinne
AF1 is taxiing for takeoff at
AJBJBA.EDITED for stupidity.
Matt McIrvin
@lamh36: There’s usually that iconic photo of the old and new Presidents riding to the inauguration together in the limo, generally smiling and waving and having a cordial grand old time.
I suppose this is just that, but… without Trump.
Danielx
@Suzanne:
o yes
seconded.
Punchy
So no Marshall Law or Ensure Erection Act on his way out? I’m impressed by that level of control!
Martin
@Suzanne: Skyrocketing downward is the Trump version of ‘if this end is pointing toward space, you have a bad problem and you will not go to space today.’
mali muso
I’ve never listened to or watched a speech by the orange monstrosity, and I don’t intend to break that record now. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
Now to start the day drinking. First up…Irish coffee. lol
Steeplejack
@Suzanne:
So many laugh lines . . .
germy
lamh36
fuq’er had prepared remarks where he at the very least mentioned and congratualated Biden and Harris by name, but the fuq’er didn’t read them and instead STILl didn’t mention their names.
FUQ him and FUQ Melanoma.
Glad he’s gone…now on to better and more comforting things.
SiubhanDuinne
And … airborne!!
mrmoshpotato
@Steeplejack:
The best is yet to ?!!!!!
Bruuuuce
Song’s gonna need new video of today’s departure.
dmsilev
@Suzanne:
In rocketry, there’s the ironic term “lithobraking”, which means “come to a stop via a violent encounter with the ground”. It’s generally held to be a bad thing.
3 hours.
Ken
Three hours…
aliasofwestgate
@Soprano2: I grew up in a trailer park and have more class than Trump. Egads that man is tacky.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I went long on sage futures. ?
mrmoshpotato
“dozens of people attended his farewell ceremony” -Classical MPR news
Pandemic or not – “dozens” ???
p.a.
Never too early for a celebratory shot. Of whisky ?
Danielx
Departing as he arrived, in a cloud of bullshit.
The Dangerman
Is it asking for too much to want Trump and one or more of his Spawn arrested before the sun goes down tonight? I’m not asking for too much am I?
They need to be made examples for the next Family of crooks that want to defraud the Country with one of them being President,
Fuck em.
different-church-lady
Three hours…
germy
This photo:
lamh36
Rev Warnock and Jon Ossoff both get sworn in today!!! Can’t wait.
Martin
@aliasofwestgate: Trump grew up in New York and couldn’t figure out how to be a passable New Yorker.
M31
what a miserable sack of shit
fuck the fucking fuckers who put him in power
lamh36
so a Chump “left a note” for Biden. who wants to bet an aide wrote it.
Spanky
AF1 just passed overhead, down the Patuxent, heading south.
AMF!
mrmoshpotato
@Martin: Or ‘You’ve fucked off, now die, you traitorous orange Soviet shitpile mobster conman!’
I really hope Biden denies Dump intelligence briefings.
Ken
@The Dangerman: Supposedly some indictments will be unsealed in New York, but I doubt that would translate into a perp walk today.
MattF
@The Dangerman: I would not be surprised if NY indictments are unsealed at 12:01.
Frankensteinbeck
@MattF:
What is up with him playing YMCA so often? He really never figured out the song is about embracing homosexuality?
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
I believe they are both going to be sworn in by VICE PRESIDENT KAMALA HARRIS!!
The Fat White Duchess
@Ohio Mom: YES. Thank you for the reminder.
MattF
@Frankensteinbeck: The best explanation I’ve seen is that it’s a glitch in the simulation.
NotMax
Long shot will confirm it but from what’s been shown thus far it appears the 400 memorial lights lining the reflecting pool have been removed.
caphilldcne
I managed to go walk out and flip off trump’s helicopter as it flew past the Capitol. So life is good. It felt really petty, juvenile and yet fulfilling. Good riddance to bad rubbish!
different-church-lady
@Suzanne:
A concise description of his entire presidency?
Suzanne
@lamh36: “Left a note”?! Fingerpainting with the contents of his Depends doesn’t count as a note.
dmsilev
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep. This afternoon, along with Alex Padilla (Harris’s successor to the CA seat).
Barbara
@Steeplejack:
No preemptive pardon?
dmsilev
@lamh36: Let me guess: written (so to speak) in Sharpie?
Aleta
Melania offers perpetual thoughts and prayers to the losers they’re about to desert. Cut to Ivanka, body tilted forward by fake smile, naked desire. “I should be up there.”
different-church-lady
Two hours, forty six minutes…
Elizabelle
Good to see wheels up. Trump flies down to Florida and ignominy.
Come on Letitia James! Today might be a great day to unload a charge or two on this MAGAt. His cage may be gilded, but rattle it. Keep him off balance. Don’t let him escape the country or justice.
trnc
List of yesterday’s pardons.
https://www.justice.gov/file/1357121/download
Broidy may have some interesting things to say before a House committee. I assume the family pardons are coming at 11:55am.
NotMax
@lamh36
Full text: “I’m taking ALL the Sharpies.”
Albatrossity
Where’s Barron?
Frankensteinbeck
@Punchy:
One of the biggest Martial Law myths was that Trump would wait until the inauguration or maaaybe a day or two after, because by taking office Biden and others finalize their guilt in election related crimes. If you’re wondering how Trump can do that when not president, they take as gospel that the military is fanatically loyal to him. Oh, and the full Storm myth includes that the US military is already positioned to seize control of every country on Earth.
rp
@MattF: My guess is that those are songs he heard in NYC clubs in the late 70s and early 80s. And because he has no interest in listening to music on his own, they’re the only songs he knows.
Another Scott
@germy: I saw that a few days ago. Kinda touching, isn’t it??
Cheers,
Scott.
germy
Martin
@lamh36: It just reads “No, you’re the loser!”
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
That’s just perfect. Love it!
NotMax
@Albatrossity
Grandma’s house in Maryland, most probably. It’s a school day and that’s close by the one he attends.
Martin
@germy: Chapter isn’t closed until there’s justice for 1/6.
Frankensteinbeck
@Aleta:
Given the subtext was that Scarlet would abandon her pride and sleep with any man necessary to be rich, that works out pretty well.
danielx
@lamh36:
Does that translate to “took a dump on top of the Resolute desk”?
Barbara
@rikyrah: Seriously, they are crying because as privileged and coddled as their lives have been, it doesn’t take long to get seduced by the opportunity to wield power, and the last four years will prove to be the apex of their power and influence. They know it. In their bones they know it. Trump’s shine might be plated rather than solid gold, but all they have ever had is the reflected glory that came with it. Now he is old and disgraced and probably unwell. They might actually try to have their own political careers, but almost certainly, the path will be downward unless they work a whole lot harder than they ever had to in the past.
dmsilev
@Frankensteinbeck: I saw one thing, which I’m still not sure if it was a real loon or a joke, that claimed that “top secret technology” had been used to graft Joe Biden’s face onto Donald Trump and vice versa, so that today will “really” be Trump being sworn in for his triumphant second term and soon Biden (wearing Trump’s face) will be indicted. And yes, there was a reference to the film Face/Off.
I _think_ it was a joke, but Poe’s Law is harsh.
trnc
As with all good wingnut BS, like Lindell waiting until he’s in court to release the Dominion evidence, it’s all about waiting until the right time.
germy
this thread provides a nice overview:
Aleta
@The Dangerman: They’re probably pressuring DeSantis as we speak to display a non-extradition executive order for the cameras.
zhena gogolia
@lamh36: I shouted it out the bathroom window.
frosty
We’re on the Georgia coast. I saw that AF1 has taken off. I don’t know the flight plan but just in case he flies above us I gave him a salute, if you know what I mean and I think you do. ?
Punchy
Fiz’icked
danielx
@germy:
My personal fave:
Hungry Joe
One of his administration’s great accomplishments, he noted on this great day, was the creation of the Space Force. Space Force! Hilarious. Space Force! It still kills me. Biden will junk it, or maybe just provide $0.00 in funding. But I’d kind of like to see it stick around, if only on paper and with some tacky uniforms and cereal-box badges. Space Force!
Yeah, I’m in kind of a good mood. A little giddy/ditsy, even. Space Force!
Bye Don.
lee
I made a meme for today. I’ll share it here first.
Damage Report
lamh36
video congratulating Kamala from Golden State Warriors!
https://twitter.com/warriors/status/1351891982558375936
mali muso
Kiddo and I were listening to a real 90s throwback song on the way to daycare this morning. Whoomp, there it is! I may be laughing like a loon.
NotMax
McCaskill and Williams tasked to yatter on MSNBC.
Tweedleblech and Tweedleblecher.
artem1s
Is it weird that I’m nervous for Joe and Kamala?
Spanky
150 minutes
(Edited twice! for time speeding up
(ETA2 – and I still was late)
Cheryl Rofer
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Glad Ozark has a worthy substitute this morning. Wishing him well in his procedure today.
Frankensteinbeck
@dmsilev:
Think of it as onion layers. The crazier the myth, the fewer people believe it. There is someone insane enough to believe anything, but in a few days all but the tiniest core will know their last Trump-related hopes are dashed.
There’s a big problem where you can’t poll this stuff, because one of the core Republican sentiments Trump ran on and validated was “Fuck you, libs. I will never acknowledge I am wrong and you are right about anything.”
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: OMG! Ewwwww!!!!!!
Nelle
Asking for some help. Trying to email Water Girl about the Zoom meeting but each time I click on her name, I get sent in another direction.
Suzanne
@Barbara:
You might say that their futures are skyrocketing downward.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Suzanne:It means Trump is trying to preemptively take credit for the Biden administration getting the pandemic under control. In other words Trump always knew if he got off his fatt, useless, orange ass and did some work the situation would be manageable.
Subsole
@rikyrah: God willing and the American people be up for it…
mrmoshpotato
@Barbara:
From… prison?
Cheryl Rofer
@Nelle: WaterGirl at balloon-juice.com
Matt McIrvin
@frosty: I was wondering if AF1 had taken off late enough that it would cease being AF1 in flight, like when Nixon left. But I think it took off early enough that it’ll be on the ground by noon.
Frankensteinbeck
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
I thought it was his previous claim that COVID numbers were a hoax used to make him look bad, and once they couldn’t be used to smear his name, the real numbers would be used and those are tiny. I think he has dropped that one, so you’re probably right.
Princess
@rikyrah: Is there any evidence that Melania is capable of writing in English?
Cheryl Rofer
You can follow Trump’s progress here.
Tazj
@NotMax: About the only thing I’ll give Melania credit for is keeping Barron out of the spotlight.
So Trump left Biden a note. Please, there’s nothing meaningful he could say at this point.
Elizabelle
@artem1s: No. Do you mean for today, or for the coming months?
mrmoshpotato
@Punchy: Paw Patrol is something Dump would never watch – it’s too sophisticated.
Subsole
@Martin: I’m dead, now. Thanks for sharing!
Cheryl Rofer
Elizabelle
@Cheryl Rofer: Thank you. That’s cool.
NotMax
@Nelle
Her e-mail is figure out-able at this comment she made yesterday.
Ken
Unless another air-traffic center gets shut down because of COVID, and his plane has to be diverted. Say, to New York.
Subsole
@aliasofwestgate: There is no white trash quite so godawful as white trash born into money…
Immanentize
@Frankensteinbeck: It seems to me that Trump well understands what a 1980’s gay bar was like:
Gif link
Ramalama
@p.a.:
That’s ………… a good idea possibly. But for me, it might be whisky sirop d’erable (maple whisky in Canada). I don’t think I’ve ever done any day drinking but why not.
Matt McIrvin
@Cheryl Rofer: Huh. He’s using one of the C-32s (the Air Force Two planes)? I guess a lot of airports can’t handle the 747s.
Lyrebird
@Ohio Mom:
and again we say AHMEN!
@lamh36: I can’t wait until people start putting the video of him leaving with the “about to lose your job” song…
mrmoshpotato
@mali muso: Now I’m laughing like a loon!
narya
I did, in fact, haul my sorry ass out of bed and run the Inauguration Mall Loop. And I’m wearing my pearls. I remember when Obama was sworn in the first time, a lot of staff (many of whom were african american) gathered around a little TV in the conference room. It may well be the first inauguration I actually watched, and I was just so moved. (Plus: Aretha’s hat. Because she’s Aretha and she can.) I expect today will be the same–I’ll be here alone, but I know millions of others will be virtually with me, including all you jackals.
Thanks to all of you for helping me get through the past four years.
Steeplejack
@NeenerNeener:
Melania wants to go back to New York.
MoCA Ace
The bitter tears of pardons not given, and summons yet to come!
Amir Khalid
@Princess:
Melania is probably better than Donald at writing in English.
The Dangerman
@mrmoshpotato:
Cell block President.
Gotta feel for Donald. Unless he’s completely fucking out of his mind (yeah, I know), he must know Ivanka will never be the first woman President. His second biggest dream involving his daughter (let’s not discuss the biggest one) was she would win that honor some day.
NotMax
@Frankensteinbeck
You mean it didn’t disappear the day after the election and we’d never hear about the virus again like he promised?
//
jonas
Just like Ghislaine Maxwell, eh?
Subsole
@Frankensteinbeck: I may have to pop on over to CopingMaga on twitter. This…this is going to be emotional…
Enhanced Voting Techniques
and the whole time live tweeting it while whining about what the evil liberals made him do.
Elizabelle
@Matt McIrvin: It looked like the 747 when it was taxiing out.
mali muso
@mrmoshpotato: hehe, you’re welcome! Sometimes the cheesiest tunes are the best ones. lol
Cheryl Rofer
@Matt McIrvin: It is Air Force One as long as POTUS is on it. If it is still in the air at noon, the call sign will change.
Matt McIrvin
@Elizabelle: Maybe that’s a different plane, or maybe there’s intentional obfuscation happening?
Subsole
@dmsilev: If it came from 4chan, odds are at least 2:1 it’s a troll.
mali muso
@narya: Way to go! Starting the day off right. :) And now we party!
Gin & Tonic
@Cheryl Rofer: What’s the overlap with the group that refused to acknowledge the EC count?
Matt McIrvin
@Cheryl Rofer: Yeah, I know those planes function as Air Force One pretty frequently, as needed.
They’re modified Boeing 757s. Aviation geeks love them because they’re so overpowered (just by virtue of being 757s). One of them was in the news recently for taking a bird in the engine at Manchester, NH while Mike Pence was onboard.
Kristine
@dmsilev: the thing that gets me about those face-grafters is that they don’t take body size/weight/appearance into account. I know, don’t expect logic. But still. If you’re going to go all SFnal, at least make an effort. It’s embarrassing.
jonas
So he touches down at JBA to…Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean” blaring over the pa system?
Later there was a reprise of what he apparently considers to be his personal theme song, CCR’s “Fortunate Son.”
A tactless, tasteless — and clueless — clown to the bitter end. So happy to finally see the last traces of this human skidmark wash down the drain.
Wanderer
Glad the slag heap has left the building… Disinfect it like crazy and inventory everything.
VOR
@Matt McIrvin: That was the entire plan. Trump wanted it to be AF1 for the entire trip.
Cheryl Rofer
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: I was afraid it was going to be a road to hell, when I clicked on.
Subsole
@Princess: As long as she has someone else’s work to copy, yes.
Cheryl Rofer
@Gin & Tonic: I don’t have any more than just that tweet.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Immanentize:Wasn’t Trump’s glory days Studio 54 back in the 70s?
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer:
And shade:
narya
@Cheryl Rofer: Okay, FINE. Someone finally made it dusty in here, and it’s not even 9 am, so thanks for THAT. ;-)
Gin & Tonic
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yes.
NotMax
Touch down in Florida by noon leaves enough time to get in a round of golf.
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Elizabelle
Fucker just cleared Virginia airspace. He’s in NC now.
Fun to watch that tracker. That jet moves.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
My question exactly!
Sloane Ranger
@MattF: They were actually playing “My Way ” as the plane taxied and took off. Anderson Cooper and the other CNN anchors were openly sniggering.
mrmoshpotato
@The Dangerman:
Fixed. No charge on this day.
Baud
@Elizabelle: I’m a little surprised they allow tracking of AF1.
Tazj
@MattF: I heard television reporters saying they decided to use his campaign playlist. One said “How can we forget this, it’s seared into our memory.” Even Chuck Todd made a comment about the song being inappropriate.
Mike in NC
Many of us first viewed Donald Trump on TV about 40 years ago and instinctively knew that he was a sleazy megalomaniac. Only much later did we realize he was also a Russian-owned stooge and illiterate, racist piece of shit. Good riddance indeed!
Matt McIrvin
Elizabelle is right, the video I’ve seen shows one of the 747s taking off, but the plane on the tracker is identified as one of the 757s that (most of the time) the Vice-President uses. I wonder if they did a little shell game for security–I wouldn’t be surprised. I think Pence is actually attending the inauguration.
zhena gogolia
Did anybody post James Corden’s “One Day More” yesterday? It’s brilliant. They finesse the “Q-adjacent” problem by having insurrectionists in the mix, played by (I think) Shuler Hensley and Patti LuPone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=E4aTjeCP0Lo
NotMax
@Elizabelle
“Why are we heading out to sea?”
“He ordered the pilot to not fly over Georgia.”
LurkerNoLonger
To quote Dr. Loomis from the 1978 movie Halloween: “He’s gone! The evil has gone from here!”
Punchy
@Cheryl Rofer: I see 17 House freshman with primary challengers by 2:24 EST today.
Gin & Tonic
@Cheryl Rofer: I wish Twitter had a way of crediting photos. I suspect this is a Pete Souza, but it would be nice to be able to know for sure.
C Stars
Oh thank the Lord. I remember the night he won and I honestly didn’t think we’d ever recover our democracy. So glad we made it to this day.
Chief Oshkosh
@Cheryl Rofer: He’s taking a 757?
mrmoshpotato
@mali muso: I was going to post the original but then I saw Madagascar – I Like To Move It.
Ken
Q cultists will see this as further proof that it’s not Trump on the plane, and that he’ll be triumphantly sworn in at noon.
Patricia Kayden
germy
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
The Fall of Saigon
mali muso
@mrmoshpotato: YAS! I may have to queue that one up for the 4 year old when she gets home tonight.
Immanentize
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Yes (and early 80’s before the AIDS plague really took off.) But whenever I se him dance like that to YMCA, I just think he is demonstrating muscle memory from days spent in the bath houses of New York.
p.a.
@Hungry Joe: How bout amnesty for all tRumpturds who successfully complete SpaceForce training (signing x on application) for first Earth-to-Sun Expeditionary Force.
Ksmiami
@germy: to which I say, we must destroy the GOP once and for all
Elizabelle
@NotMax: LOL. To see
I love that Georgia went William Tecumseh Sherman on GQP’s ass.
mali muso
@zhena gogolia: Not sure if it was posted here, but I saw it on FB this morning. Just perfection. lol. Gonna be saving that one.
Brachiator
I am just waking up here in Southern California and was going to ask if Trump was gone yet.
So glad to see him go. If there’s video somewhere of crying MAGAs, I don’t want to see it.
Gotta work but will take a peek at the inauguration.
Feels better already.
mrmoshpotato
@Tazj: ?Our bankrupt mobster asses will have to stay at a YMCA before we all go to prison you say-eh?
germy
Spanky
@p.a.: “No problem! We’ll land at night.”
Steeplejack
@Martin:
Possibly my all-time favorite Jon Stewart clip!
Elizabelle
Fucker’s over South Carolina now. The state “too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum.”
Now with a cosmetically enhanced traitor to the US miles above it.
Spanky
@germy: Remind me never to cross Greta.
mrmoshpotato
@Ken:
Less than 2 hours until the batshit crazy hits the fan then.
bluefoot
@lamh36: That is excellent. I lived in Oakland through the 90s so this made me tear up.
Elizabelle
Did all his family get on the plane to freeload one last time on the taxpayers?
And it’s possible Barron and grandparents are on board as well. Good on Melania if she spared him the crowds and ordeal.
mrmoshpotato
@Patricia Kayden: Tradition, Oliver. Tradition.
NeenerNeener
@Steeplejack: I wonder if the boyfriend was willing to wait 4 years for her. She was supposedly dating the head of security at Tiffany & Co back in 2016.
p.a.
@C Stars: Sam Gamgee, The Scouring of The Shire chapt: “I shan’t call it the end, till we’ve cleared up the mess.”
p.a.
@Spanky: ???????
mrmoshpotato
@mali muso: At your discretion. I just looked up the lyrics, and the second half isn’t as light hearted ridiculousness.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@lee: Stolen. BWAHAAHAA
mali muso
@mrmoshpotato: Will have to see about a kiddo version then. ;-)
Matt McIrvin
@Chief Oshkosh: The plane shown on the tracker is one of the 757s that is normally Air Force Two, but can be Air Force One as the occasion demands.
But! As Elizabelle said, the news footage I can see all shows him getting into one of the 747s. So either that’s file footage, or maybe there’s a little security-motivated misdirection going on and the real Air Force One isn’t on the public tracker. I imagine they wouldn’t use the other 747 because they’d want it ready for Biden if need be.
C Stars
@germy: LO fucking L. I hadn’t seen that. Thanks for posting.
C Stars
@p.a.: So true of Mr. Gamgee. Still, today’s a good day to start.
Ruckus
@mrmoshpotato:
Why? He’s been getting them for 4 yrs now and has only gotten dumber. Except he’s always been pretty much at rock bottom stupid to begin with. Which is why it won’t make any difference if he gets them or not. Except he’d probably sell them to the highest bidder. I imagine it’s not the first time he’s done that. Mostly it’s a waste of the risk, paper and manpower to produce.
Suzanne
Watching the festivities. One woman who I don’t recognize was wearing gloves but a very deep V-neck dress. Her boobs must be chilly.
Central Planning
@mrmoshpotato: I hope they continue the intelligence briefings but put false information in there to see if he is leaking it.
karen marie
@Ella in New Mexico: Not just a small crowd but made up entirely of nobodies.
I would like to know who, if anyone, from the House or Senate showed up. Investigate them for participation in the insurrection.
montanareddog
I wish we could post screenshots because the flight tracker is showing the plane still heading south at the tip of Florida. Could he be heading for Havana?
And I see it passed just to the east of Tampa. Does this mean he got an eyeful of the Cracker buttocks?
montanareddog
@montanareddog: Rats! It has just done a 180. He is not running to a non-extradition country.
Ascap_scab
@SFAW: That sounds like a P-anon conspiracy.
Miss Bianca
@Kristine: Well, if you really want to blow wingnut minds, you could, say, point them in the direction of the Twitter photo Cheryl posted of PBO and JB from the back. “Both slender, tall, and fit…hmm…they could more credibly do the “Face/Off” exchange than JB and Trump. MAYBE THEY HAVE!!”
MWAH HA HA!!
WaterGirl
@Nelle: I just sent you an email message.
WaterGirl
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