Trump-Pence 2016: For old white guys who don’t want to share
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 17, 2016
Ask yourself how many '12 Obama voters were convinced tonight to vote Trump or stay home. Unless the answer is a lot, it was a wasted night
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 19, 2016
The RNC tonight:
Immigrants will kill you.
Blacks will kill you.
Muslims will kill you.Trump loves Hispanics, blacks, & Muslims!
— Jamelle Bouie (@jbouie) July 19, 2016
When night one's theme is, "jail my opponent" pretty sure night four will be, "kill the intellectuals."
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) July 19, 2016
Maybe I’m wrong, but that looks like an especially empty hall considering it’s prime time
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) July 19, 2016
they couldn't manage the schedule, Ernst is falling out of primetime, empty seats etc. Total amateur hour https://t.co/4Oo0r7oyW1
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 19, 2016
From a planning and timing perspective, the first night of this convention has been an absolute disaster
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) July 19, 2016
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Apparently Melania Trump cribbed a 30 second passage from Michelle Obama‘s speech.
Absolute dumpster fire.
Deecarda
They began the convention with rebellion & ended the night with plagiarism, wow what a cluster. And they expect the key to the White House.
Trentrunner
“Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!”
– Melania Trump
Dog Dawg Damn
This is blowing up. The video is damning. Looks like an inside job, but she told Matt Lauer she wrote it herself.
What a disaster.
NotMax
Three more nights of Rs playing Can You
TopBottom This?bluehill
I think I have a lot better understanding why Trump has filed for bankruptcy so often.
Trentrunner
Someone pointed out: Imagine what would happen if Michelle Obama had plagiarized a Laura Bush speech.
Yeah. Everyone’s defending Melanoma. She said–twice–that she wrote the speech. She’s accountable.
(Btw, I’m sure she didn’t write it. But she SAID she did.)
Mike in NC
Drumpf can wrap this shindig up with a massive book burning, so long as they don’t include any of his ghostwritten crap.
Dog Dawg Damn
And just to note–they didn’t plagiarize anyone’s speech. They plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech. The optics are terrible. She is a plastic clone version of a real person. And not even Laura Bush. But the dreaded black FLOTUS.
OH THE GNASHING OF TEETH.
Trentrunner
“I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.”
– Melania Trump
LaterThanYouThink
This should give you a god idea of what the first 90 days of a Drumpf presidency would look like, complete clusterf. . . !
amk
And it’s just day one.
Trentrunner
@Dog Dawg Damn: White America stealing black culture without compensation or credit.
As American as apple pie.
Kropadope
He’s right, they timed it for after the Republicans chose to nominate Trump.
Trentrunner
“A house divided against itself cannot stand.”
– Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@Trentrunner: “Friends, Romans, Countrymen! Lend me your ears!” – Melina Trump
Mike J
WaPo hed says “Melania Trump’s speech appears to have cribbed from Michelle Obama’s in 2008”.
“Cribbed.” Sounds more like a memory aid from junior high than “stolen” does, and is probably more ems wide in the hed.
trollhattan
@Trentrunner:
“Four twenties and seven more of them, my husband’s hair brought forth gales of laughter. Today, we are engaged in laughing still.”
PhoenixRising
Be fair y’all: the whole campaign is a batshit knockoff of Goldwater’s.
In your gut, you know they’re nuts.
Villago Delenda Est
@Trentrunner: “Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country!” — Melina Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@Trentrunner: “A day that will live in infamy!” – Melina Trump
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Trentrunner: ::applause::
inventor
“Where’s the beef?”
-Melania Trump
bluehill
@Dog Dawg Damn: Unfortunately, Trump’s base doesn’t care about her speech writing. If it hasn’t already been done, I’m expecting some lewd comparisons between Melania and Dem first ladies.
Trentrunner
I wonder if Trump himself orchestrated this so he could gallantly bow out to shield his wife from the hostile press…possible?
Mike J
Gif at this tweet is needed.
NotMax
Shorter first night:
Make America Hate Again.
Adam L Silverman
I put the below in a comment in the previous thread. I think it is appropriate for this one too:
Trentrunner
CNN has the split screen. Damning.
gf120581
“I was born a poor black child…”
“Uh, Mrs. Trump, I’ve got Steve Martin on line one…”
Roger Moore
@Trentrunner:
“Ich bin ein Berliner” –Melania Trump
“With malice toward all, with charity for none…” –Donald Trump
Mike J
Here’s the link to “I wrote it, with as little help as possible” video.
amk
@bluehill: who cares if his vile base cares or not? he is not in primaries any more. the racism to the plagiarism, the msm is covering his ugly ass. the others are doing their fucking job.
Trentrunner
@Adam L Silverman: This is smart, and of course Manafort currently works for a client who has similar trouble with democratic norms.
trollhattan
“Life is like a box of truffles. Not chocolate truffles–as if!–but real truffles from Italy, shaved over angelhair pasta. Speaking of angelhair….”
-Melania Trump
Lizzy L
Not the ending I expected. But I’ll take it…
It’s been a long day. I’m going to bed. G’night Gracie.
MoeLarryAndJesus
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” – Melania Trump
PhoenixRising
@Mike J: right but was the help she admits to from Steve Martin?
Jesus. Manafort really does think he can just have Josh Marshall jailed. This is a frightening degree of contempt for competence.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
“I am a donut.”
-Melania Trump
patroclus
“Four score and seven years ago, our forefathers brought forth to this land a new nation.”
“We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds.”
“THIS was their finest hour.”
“Let the word go forth to friend and foe alike.”
Melania Trump
pseudonymous in nc
It had a fucking Rickroll in it.
2016 everything is trolling.
This isn’t just a comments section turned into a presidential campaign, this is a 4chan /pol/ thread turned into a presidential campaign.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
???
What’s going on?
Adam L Silverman
@gf120581: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NeS4ueaU6w
bluehill
@Mike J: She definitely learned how to qualify her statements from her husband.
Dog Dawg Damn
Drudge & Fox are completely ignoring this. Absolutely ridiculous.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Okay, I’ll play:
“I’d like to be queen of people’s hearts!”
-Melania Trump
PhoenixRising
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Adam had it, above. This campaign is being run by a fixer for dictators…and it shows.
trollhattan
“Free at last, free at last, god almighty, I’m free at last!*”
–Melania Trump
*Depending on the prenup, may actually be true.
Adam L Silverman
@Trentrunner: Thanks. As I replied to someone else below, I don’t know how we’d prove it, but it seems to make sense. Especially given every interview I’ve seen with/of Manafort who basically puts forward that things will be done the way they will be done and none should gainsay it.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
NYT headline is Melania Trump Echoes a Michelle Obama Speech and goes on to note that the speech “came under scrutiny when similarities were discovered between her remarks and those delivered by Mrs. Obama at the Democratic convention in 2008.”
Echoes.
Similarities were discovered.
The Dangerman
Melania: “The only thing we have to beer … is beer, itself! How do you like it, Donald?”
Donald: “Sounds great”.
Actually, I feel bad for the woman; she didn’t sign up for this shit show.
ETA: That said, if Michelle had cribbed off of Laura Bush, there would be hell to pay; welcome to the Big Leagues, Melania.
Mike J
@PhoenixRising: Interesting phrase, “with as little help as possible.” The smallest amount of help possible was lifting two grafs from Michelle Obama.
BruceFromOhio
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
– Melania Trump
BR
@trollhattan:
I bet if you all were to create a hashtag and get these quotes onto twitter, it would go viral. And Trump would blow a gasket.
Roger Moore
“Let them eat cake” –Melania Trump
patroclus
“To be or not to be.”
“Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo”
-Melania Trump
Mike J
@SiubhanDuinne:
At least WAPo had an active verb.
NotMax
@trollhattan
“Thunderbirds are GO!”
– M. Trump
SiubhanDuinne
@Trentrunner:
Honestly, that thought passed (briefly) through my mind, too.
pseudonymous in nc
@SiubhanDuinne:
A discovery was alleged of similitudes.
for the sake of fuck.
Roger Moore
@BR:
Yep. I think we should go for a #MelaniaQuotes hashtag.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
speaking of Josh Marshall
BR
All of you, not just trollhattan…
Not sure what a good hashtag would be…not something I’m good at.
SiubhanDuinne
@Mike J:
But passive voice in the body of the piece.
trollhattan
@SiubhanDuinne:
Takes an expensive education to wield passive voice like a fine scalpel of non-commitance.
BruceFromOhio
“You can’t *handle* the truth!”
– Melania Trump
Mike J
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
“I’m the man behind the thing, and I’m determined to get the jargon of this German bourbon blurb in!”
— Melania Trump
NotMax
@BR
#Melaniacs
patroclus
“I have a Dream, that one day, we will judge people not by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
-Melania Trump
rikyrah
@Trentrunner:
What did Jesse Williams say about appropriation just a few weeks ago?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
half your right-wing uncles, brothers-in-law, neighbors and co-workers already believe deep in their bones that Michelle Obama stole a speech from that nice Mrs Trump.
trollhattan
@BR:
#MelaniaSoMichelle
BR
@Roger Moore:
Yeah, that’s probably the best hashtag…simple.
Brachiator
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
Here’s how America works. White conservatives will praise Melania’s speech, and even hold her up as an example of grace and intelligence, while deriding Michelle Obama as a whitey hating harpy who could never match Mrs Trump, let alone deliver a speech as original as Mrs Trump.
amk
@SiubhanDuinne: gud gawd. not only the gop, the 4th estate has also a rock bottom in 2016.
smintheus
So are we sick and tired of immigrants coming here and taking our speeches?
BruceFromOhio
“Nuke the site from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
– Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
And Tweety just hit the Biden plagiarism thing.
Prescott Cactus
“When the German’s bombed Pearl Harbor”
Melania Trump
patroclus
“Did you order the Code Red???!!!!”
-Melania Trump
trollhattan
“I’m the one who knocks.”
–Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: And that Manafort vetted it. I think the real takeaway is that his source is positioning Manafort to take the fall. I bet the source’s name begins with an L and ends with a ski.
smintheus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Marshall plagiarizes with the best of them.
SiubhanDuinne
@PhoenixRising:
Say whut now?
BruceFromOhio
“No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!”
– Melania Trump
pseudonymous in nc
@Adam L Silverman: THBT. HTH. HAND.
amk
@The Dangerman: But, she did sign up for it.
patroclus
“Tattaglia’s a pimp. But I did not know until this day that it was Barzini all along.”
-Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@NotMax: “I understood that reference!” – Melina Trump
NotMax
“We don’t pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes”
– M. Trump
trollhattan
“I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night. Yay, Republicans!”
–Melana Trump
Baud
@BruceFromOhio:
“Where the white women at?”
– Melania Trump
BruceFromOhio
“You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means.”
– Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: Oh, now that would be highly amusing if it turns out to be the case.
So, the question becomes who exactly are the Hydra agents in the Drumpf Campaign?
The Dangerman
#FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes is a hastag in wide use.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“I can see Russia from my house!”
-Melania Trump
patroclus
“As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly.”
-Melania Trump
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman:
Monica?
?BillinGlendaleCA
“My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.”
-Melania Trump
Oldgold
Melania Trump – 2016 RNC convention:
From a young age, my parents impressed on me the values that you work hard for what you want in life, that your word is your bond and you do what you say and keep your promise, that you treat people with respect,” Melania Trump said in her speech. “They taught and showed me morals in their daily life. That is the lesson that I continue to pass along to our son. And we need to pass those lessons on to many generations to follow because we want our children in this nation to know that the only limit to your achievements is the strength of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
Michelle Obama – 2008 DNC convention:
“… Barack and I were raised with so many of the same values: that you work hard for what you want in life; that your word is your bond and you do what you say you’re going to do; that you treat people with dignity and respect, even if you don’t know them, and even if you don’t agree with them,” Obama said, according to a transcript. “And Barack and I set out to build lives guided by these values, and pass them on to the next generation. Because we want our children — and all children in this nation — to know that the only limit to the height of your achievements is the reach of your dreams and your willingness to work for them.”
trollhattan
“You tell Rafael that I ain’t taking no jive from no Western Union messenger. You tell that asshole if he got something to tell me to get his ass down here himself.”
–Melana Trump
patroclus
” By Grabthar’s Hammer, by the Suns of Warvan, What a Savings!”
-Melania Trump
BruceFromOhio
Gaia save me, I am laughing like a maniac and keeping kinder, smarter people awake who are trying to sleep. /Offline
NotMax
“I got a bad feeling about this.”
– M. Trump
@Adam L. Silverman
The Big Lebowski?
;)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Former Senator from Florida (Lemieux?) saying the speeches are kind of similar, the kind of things parents say to their kids.
Already has Laura Bush speech from 2004 arguing she said the same sort of thing.
Tweety having fucking none of it.
Prescott Cactus
” Seventeen *days*? ? ? We’re not gonna last 17 hours”
-Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“From Hell’s Heart, I stab at thee”
— Melina Trump
Jim, Foolish Literalist
“Shut the fuck up, Donnie”
-Melania Trump?
Villago Delenda Est
“I have a bad feeling about this…”
— Melina Trump
Baud
“July 19, 2016. A date which will live in infamy.”
-Melania Trump
?BillinGlendaleCA
“It’s just a flesh wound”
-Melania Trump
eclare
@patroclus: Hahaha
trollhattan
“We choose to go to
the moonBarbados and these other things, not because they are easy but because they are hard. Speaking of hard, Donald told me to assure you….”–Melana Trump
patroclus
“Use the Force Luke!”
-Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: Apparently it was leaked today that Manafort is very concerned, which I took to be Manafort at least approved the leak, that Lewandowski is still, despite being fired, advising Trump. He’s worried Lewandowski will encourage him to be himself and do at the convention what he did during the primaries. These guys clearly don’t like each other and would rather hurt each other than support the guy they claim to be loyal to.
Trentrunner
Josh Marshall reminds us that we should not expect Trump & Co to react as any other conventional campaign would.
I’m starting to think they’ll pushback, say that it’s a media creation, that great American ideas don’t have a single author, blah blah blah.
khead
“I picked the wrong day to quit amphetamines.”
– Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“I’ve made a big mistake”
— Melina Trump
“There’s money in the banana stand!”
— Melina Trump
SgrAstar
“Give me liberty or give me death!”
Melania Trump.
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: The other one that starts with an L and ends with a ski.
maya
Mistakes were made.
Melania Trump
?BillinGlendaleCA
“Houston, we have a problem.”
-Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@patroclus: I wish I’d come up with that.
/shakefist
Brachiator
“You don’t want the truth because deep down in places you don’t talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall.”
— M Trump
The Dangerman
@amk:
I don’t agree; she signed up for “better or worse”, true, but Trump running for President as the biggest asshole around? No, I don’t think she signed up for THAT.
Prescott Cactus
I got her phone number, how do you like those apples ?
D. Trump
?BillinGlendaleCA
@trollhattan: ROTFLMAO.
inventor
“We’re going to need a bigger boat”
-Melania Trump
Mike J
(Favreau is a former Obama scribe)
jacy
Tweety just said Guliani’s speech had an “urban edge” to it. LOL. This whole evening must be what it’s like to take acid.
Bailey
“That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”
– Melania Trump
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Four hours after Rudi’s speech, sounds like Tweety needs to contact his physician
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I would pay good money to see the Clinton campaign use the clip from the movie in ads. Or for her to use it in a debate.
father pussbucket
“We’re going to need a bigger boat.”
– Melania Trump
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Heh.
MaryRC
“Say hello to my lil friend!”
Melania Trump
Dog Dawg Damn
“It was de best of times. It was de worz of times.” –Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“Fasten your seatbelts. It’s going to be a bumpy night”
— Melina Trump
trollhattan
“The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan’s advantage. ”
–MelanaTrump
fuckwit
Keep fucking that chicken.
NotMax
“Let there be light.”
– M. Trump
Dog Dawg Damn
“You wan de Trump? YOU CANT HANDLE DE TRUMP”. –melania trump
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m in a space frame of mind, saw Endeavour this afternoon.
Endeavour.
BruceFromOhio
“Maybe you haven’t been keeping up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked!”
– Melania Trump
patroclus
“When logic and proportion
have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
and the Red Queen’s off with her head
Remember what the dormouse said
Feed your head
Feed your head”
-Melania Trump
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: The day Lewandowski was fired, someone mentioned they saw him on one of the Cable networks and his demeanor was not that of someone who had just been fired.
Timurid
“Mein Fuhrer, I CAN WALK!”
-Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lg7MAacSPNM
“There is no Dana, only Zuul.”
— Zuul
trollhattan
“Rarely is the question asked, is our children learning?”
#TrumpSoFresh
Dog Dawg Damn
“@MaryRC: this ones my favorite.
How about. “An now, say hello to my little handed friend!” –Melania Trump
khead
“Blessed is he who, in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon the with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers.”
– Melania Trump
SiubhanDuinne
“Do you like movies about gladiators, Joey?” — Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: It was reported at the end of last week that he’s still being paid by the Trump campaign:
https://www.rawstory.com/2016/07/revealed-cnn-contributor-corey-lewandowski-is-still-on-donald-trumps-payroll/
BruceFromOhio
“Now watch this drive.”
-Melania Trump
scav
Oh tut tut, how can all you people doubt the nice white lady? Didn’t Steve King explicitly include Eastern Europe in his definition of the all-important western white sub-groups that created all the important stuff in civilization? So clearly, the nice white eastern European lady created all that is important in this very civilized speech. It all hangs together.
NotMax
“We know where the enemy are. They’re in the area around Washington and east, west, south, and north somewhat.”
– M. Trump
Brachiator
“Never Give a Sucker an Even Break”
— M Trump, quoting D Trump
patroclus
“With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounding determination of our people, we shall gain the inevitable triumph, so help us God!!”
–Melania Trump
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@BR: Already happening. #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
Koalaholik
And I would have gotten away with it if it wasn’t for you meddling kids
– Melania Trump
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
“There are FOUR LIGHTS!”
khead
“Fredo, you’re my older brother and I love you. But don’t ever take sides with anyone against the family again.”
– Melania Trump
patroclus
“We The People of the United States of America, in order to form a more perfect union…”
-Melania Trump
SiubhanDuinne
@Villago Delenda Est:
I remember commenting something to that effect, although I’m sure I wasn’t the only one (and in my case, I had audio only).
I did see a blurb earlier today that CNN has finally acknowledged that Lewandowski is being paid by Trump.
Clusterfuck is an inadequate word for this entire … thing.
patroclus
“I still believe in a Place called Hope.”
-Melania Trump
Brachiator
“It takes a village…”
— M Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“That man is playing Galaga! He thought we wouldn’t notice, but we did.”
— Melina Trump
Anne Laurie
@Dog Dawg Damn:
Well, from Melania’s point of view… the longer her Trophy Husband continues this farce, the worse it will be for the family’s fortunes (such as they are) and her own young kid’s future (unlike the other Trumpspawn, he isn’t old enough to have finished an expensive education, much less started his own ‘business’ to siphon money out of the family coffers). And it’s not like she wants to be First Lady, I suspect — she hasn’t even done much of the rich-lady hobby-work like setting up a foundation to pay for throwing ‘charity balls’, or pretending to design knockoff jewelry from Chinese sweatshops under her own ‘brand’.
Melania’s got herself a full-time job being the Rich Man’s Wife. It’s no sinecure — in some ways it’s a lot like being a sports professional — but since her chosen Rich Man isn’t really in the top ranks or trying to get there, she hasn’t had to compete as strenuously as she would if she were married to a really powerful man that other younger would-be Rich Men’s Wives might want to entice.
She was happy being the equivalent of the baron’s lady, and now her dumb husband has let a bunch of scheming courtiers talk him into attempting a run at the king’s throne. Sooner this crap is smothered… along, preferably, with some of those courtiers… the sooner she can get back to her own life!
Roger Moore
“Show me the money!” –Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
Why is the white lady on CNN explaining racism to the two black men?
patroclus
“All the leaves are brown
and the sky is gray
I’ve been for a walk
on a winter’s day
I’d be safe and warm
if I was in L.A.
California Dreaming
on such a winter’s day!”
-Melania Trump
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
“Shut the fuck up, Donny!”
M. Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“Who’s ‘scruffy looking’?”
— Melina Trump
Villago Delenda Est
“Frankly my dear I don’t give a damn.”
–Melina Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): I’d find this one more believable if I didn’t think that he wouldn’t simply smack her for saying it.
patroclus
“In the beginning, God created heaven and earth.”
-Melania Trump
Cat48
Maybe she thought it was ok to do this. Trump has said twice he’s going to give Richard Nixon’s Law & Order speech for his acceptance speech. Nixon also used it as his acceptance speech.
Anne Laurie
@Trentrunner:
Nah, Melania’s graciously taking the hit so her poor, addled, elderly husband will no longer be abused as a catspaw for his scheming older kids & self-interested courtiers. She’s like Cordelia to King Lear! (/snark)
Trentrunner
Trump & Co responds.
Thoughts?
Anne Laurie
@Adam L Silverman:
Nothing in Trump’s World would disabuse him of this notion, would it?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie:
Isn’t Melinia married to John Barron(or is it John Miller)?
Trentrunner
They don’t even mention Michelle.
Pretty fucking arrogant. So it was just coincidence?
hovercraft
@Anne Laurie:
Adam L Silverman
@Anne Laurie: No, no it wouldn’t.
Roger Moore
@patroclus:
Thou shalt not steal –Melania Trump
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Adam L Silverman: Point taken.
patroclus
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights.”
-Melania Trump
Adam L Silverman
@Trentrunner: Its nice given the time of night. The real issue is what happens when Trump starts tweeting in another hour or so.
Trentrunner
Melania’s plagiarism leads our local 11pm news.
:)
Trentrunner
Will be interesting to see what HRC & the Dems do with this.
I’m guessing stand back and let Trump fuck his own cluster?
patroclus
“My only regret is that I have just one life to give for my country”
-Melania Trump
Anne Laurie
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Melania’s only son is named Barron.
Barron Trump! Ya can’t make this stuff up, folks!
Anne Laurie
@hovercraft: oops!
Roger Moore
@Trentrunner:
I think the correct response is for the Democrats to say they want to respond to the horrible substance of the rest of the night. If the press wants to go crazy about plagarismghazi, that’s fine, but combating the Republicans toxic ideology has to be job #1.
Roger Moore
“My hovercraft is full of eels” –Melania Trump
Carl W
Jordan Brown @JBrownGatsby 9m9 minutes ago
“Barack Obama is still the same man I fell in love with all those years ago” #FamousMelaniaTrumpQuotes
hovercraft
@Anne Laurie:
Wasn’t sure if you were snarking, I only know because her business acumen is used to show how accomplished she is in her own right, not a trophy wife.
Trentrunner
@Roger Moore: Agreed.
Though I also like Josh Barro’s take, which is those who are calling the Melania scandal small potatoes miss that it’s about wondering what the Trumps WON’T lie about.
And it looks like Josh Marshall (again) predicted correctly: Trump doubled down, said the speech was great, didn’t admit anything was wrong.
Interesting. Next week Bill Clinton should just read Melania’s speech, verbatim in its entirety. For the lulz.
sukabi
@Trentrunner: good god, can you imagine the shitshow that would cause? You’d have all the usual suspects lining up to start investigations, the Clinton hating press would be breathlessly pumping out new whitewater rehashes….
There’s already enough stupid shit for the media to focus on, don’t give them back their favorite chew toy.
Gerald
@J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:
Haaaaaaahhhhaaaaa ….imitation IS the highest form of flattery!
Her husband wants to be POTUS Obama and she wants to be FLOTUS Mrs Michelle Obama!
Orange wants to be the new Black!
Oh sweet baby Jesus …you can’t make this shit up!!!!
M. Bouffant
@Anne Laurie: Probably named after Barron Hilton.
Shalimar
@Trentrunner:
Pre-planning it as an exit strategy would involve Donald Trump realizing that plagiarism is a bad thing that his wife will be attacked for.
gogol's wife
@The Dangerman:
I don’t feel sorry for her one damn bit.
Did they play Beethoven’s Seventh as she was speaking (Colin Firth reference)?
gogol's wife
WHY ARE YOU GUYS MAKING IT SO I CAN’T DO ANYTHING BUT READ BALLOON JUICE 24/7?
Uncle Cosmo
@Anne Laurie:
Miss Bianca
@gogol’s wife: “All the news that’s fit to print” – M. Trump
Paul in KY
‘Today, Germany. Tomorrow, the World!!!’ – Melania Trump.
Gavin
I wrote “The Art of the Deal,” and I feel great about it!
-M. Trump