Trump’s worthless progeny have run into some inconvenient media peasants during the last 24 hours. First, Ivanka got snippy with a Cosmo interviewer when asked about details of the circa-1960s maternity leave plan and NannyBucks proposal she and her slimy father rolled out a couple of days ago:
Donald Trump’s famously composed eldest daughter, Ivanka, accused a Cosmopolitan reporter of going “negative” and trying to “editorialize” by asking for specifics on her father’s newly announced maternity leave policy before abruptly ending a Wednesday phone interview…
Trump became testier when asked what made her father evolve on the issue of maternity leave, given that he said in a 2004 NBC interview that pregnancy was an “inconvenience for employers.”
“I think that you have a lot of negativity in these questions, and I think my father has put forth a very comprehensive and really revolutionary plan to deal with a lot of issues,” Trump replied, criticizing Gupta for making a “comment like that” and arguing that her father has employed women at all levels of his company for “decades.”
Gupta said she didn’t mean to ask “negative” questions, but argued it was “relevant” to ask questions about past statements made by presidential candidates.
“You said he made those comments. I don’t know that he said those comments,” Trump said.
Gupta clarified that she was quoting directly from the NBC interview.
Trump reiterated that her father should be “celebrated” for his “really incredibly plan” before saying she had to “jump off” the phone.
She probably really did expect her creepy sexist father to be celebrated. What an unpleasant surprise.
Next, Trump Jr. let slip the real reason his scumbag father won’t release his tax returns: because then people would be able to see what’s in them:
Donald Trump Jr. said that one reason his father has yet to release his tax returns, in a break from four decades of precedent for presidential candidates, was that the complicated documents would provoke too many questions.
“He’s got a 12,000-page tax return that would create … financial auditors out of every person in the country asking questions that would detract from [his father’s] main message,” Trump Jr. said in a Wednesday interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
I think it’s time for Democrats to just assert the worst assumptions about what’s in Trump’s tax returns as if they were factual and put the onus on Trump to prove otherwise:
“How can a man like Donald Trump, who uses loopholes to pay no taxes, propose another huge tax cut to benefit rich freeloaders like himself?”
“Why does Trump keep lying about giving tens of millions to charity?”
“If Trump is such a savvy businessman, why is he in hock up to his eyeballs to Russian oligarchs and mobsters?”
Etc. Later, Trump Jr. (or an aide) stole a page from his sister’s playbook and fled an interview that wasn’t going his way:
An aide abruptly shut down a local TV reporter’s Thursday interview with Donald Trump Jr. when the real estate scion was asked about a six-foot-tall portrait of his father reportedly bought with money from the family’s charitable foundation.
“You’re a director of the Trump Foundation charity,” a reporter from Pittsburgh TV station WTAE asked in video flagged by BuzzFeed News. “Did you sign off on charity money for a portrait?”
“No, I don’t know anything about that,” Trump Jr. replied.
“So how come you didn’t know about it?” the reporter pressed.
“All right, that’s it,” a person off-camera interrupted, speaking over Trump Jr. “We have to move on. We have to move on to the next one.”
“I’m not worried—I’m not involved in it,” Trump Jr. added.
“I’m not worried”? Hmm. That sounds like a tell — kinda like “believe me.”
What a trio of despicable, entitled brats Ivanka, Uday and Qusay are. Mitt’s five Mittlets were kind of annoying and comical, but these Trump people are scum. Please FSM, let us be rid of the whole vile bunch forever come November 9.
ETA: By popular demand, here’s an account of another unbelievable comment by Trump Jr. today:
“The media has been her number one surrogate in this,” the younger Trump told radio host Chris Stigall on 1210 WPHT radio in Philadelphia. “Without the media, this wouldn’t even be a contest, but the media has built her up. They’ve let her slide on every in-discrepancy, on every lie, on every DNC game trying to get Bernie Sanders out of this thing.
“If Republicans were doing that, they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now.”
Lie down with neo-Nazis, wake up with Holocaust jokes and white nationalist memes, I guess. 54 more days.
Trentrunner
Betty: What about Trump Jr.’s “gas chamber” remark today? Seems to fit…
Trentrunner
When asked for further comment, Trump Jr. said that 6 million just happened to be his favorite number and that “all the best solutions are final.”*
*This sentence may or may not be my snark.
ruemara
Hey don’t forget Jr’s gas chamber joke.
SiubhanDuinne
@Trentrunner (also ruemara on edit):
It was a JOKE. It was SARCASM. Don’t you people have any sense of humor??
The Other Chuck
I’m convinced Trump is running as a Hail Mary play to keep himself out of federal prison.
BR
Time to pound the pavement and send these rich brats packing back to one of their gaudy hotels that no longer get any business. Sign up.
piratedan
I’m not worried — I’m not involved in it
then pray tell, who is?
Trentrunner
Video: youtu.be/CoxRmwaLBOQ
Mai.naem.mobile
If Trumpy was Pinnochio his nose wouldn’t fit in his yuuuge jet plane.
Major Major Major Major
We need a nickname for Ivanka.
SiubhanDuinne
Department of Useful Neologisms, GOP Portmanteau Division:
Say what you will about their policies and fitness for office, Republicans manage to come up with some pretty interesting new words from time to time.
George W. Bush gave us “misunderestimate.”
Sarah Palin offered “refudiate.”
And now, from Donald Trump Jr., we have “indiscrepancy.”
Doug R
@ruemara: Since when do you “warm up” a gas chamber? I guess mentioning ovens goes past the dog whistle.
The Dangerman
The Trump Family is all fucked in the head (though, if they don’t win, perhaps they all star in a kind of a reboot called “Keeping Up WIth The Trumps”; surely a ratings winner).
SiubhanDuinne
@Major Major Major Major:
Goneril?
Michael Bersin
So, today in Missouri’s U.S. Senate race Jason Kander (D) released a not so subtle response to campaign gun trash talk from Roy Blunt (r-lobbyist):
Jason Kander (D): “Background Checks” ad
comrade scott's agenda of rage
“How do we not know if Trump has donated to the KKK?”
“How do we not know if Trump has invested heavily in mobbed up companies?”
And so on and so on.
It would irresponsible not to speculate. The key is to get a hack like Mrs Greenspan to start parroting that stuff. Oh right, who am I kidding, it’ll never happen.
the Conster, la Citoyenne
None of it matters. Trump has hacked the national media. He has said so many things that would have – should have – been disqualifying, this crap from his asshole kids is just another data point to throw on a huge and growing pile. Bloggers and local reporters are doing their jobs, but it just won’t get the kind of traction that only the national media provides, because they’ve all failed.
rikyrah
BettyC:
From the moment you called them Uday and Qusay…
that just STUCK.
rachel
@The Other Chuck: l think running has increased the odds of him going to prison in the longer run because of the added scrutiny it has sent his way.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@The Other Chuck:
We’re either going to get vindicated in a huge way and Trump will lose everything, or we’re going to wind up with Trumpolini and reckless conflict and economic destruction up until the orange shitweasel has a coronary screaming at some recalcitrant underling and we wind up with mediocre God humper Mike Pence as president.
I can only hope that if there is a Pence Administration after the chaos of a Trump Administration, Chuck Todd gets to hear his skin crackle and pop when some righteously aggrieved brown person sets off some smallish nuclear device in his vicinity.
rikyrah
@Major Major Major Major:
Little Eva?
Epicurus
From your keyboard to His Noodly Appendage. The thought of that man sitting in the Oval Office frightens and disgusts me. No comment necessary regarding his demon spawn; they are not running for anything. (I hope!)
Major Major Major Major
the onion has a good Gary Johnson summary.
Trentrunner
@Major Major Major Major: Idontvanka
JPL
@Michael Bersin: It was a good ad.
SiubhanDuinne
@piratedan:
Supposedly it was the Elusive Melania who “bought” the portrait.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@rikyrah:
I was thinking Daddy’s Little Fuckpuppet, but different strokes and all….
Splitting Image
I remain very confident that this will be the case. I had a few nervous moments last year when it looked like Stephen Harper might keep his job, and that demonizing women who wear the niqab might actually work. The polls didn’t move decisively towards the Liberals until the last week, and never accurately counted the new voters who turned up. (4 million of ’em!)
Trump is not leading New Mexico by 10 points, no matter what Ipsos says. If pollsters are counting on a racial demographic similar to 2004 they are going to be sorely disappointed. Democrats should campaign as though they are 2 points behind, but Clinton should still win with states to spare.
I’m more worried about the Senate, frankly. Trump may be too flawed a candidate to challenge Clinton, but taking over the Senate means defeating some incumbents, which might be a genuinely difficult task if they are able to separate themselves from Trump.
The Dangerman
@Major Major Major Major:
Ivan-ca-ca?
piratedan
@Major Major Major Major: poison ivy?
pacem appellant
@rikyrah: I don’t get Uday and Qusay. Is that a Saddam Hussein’s sons reference?
Trentrunner
Hillary speaking at rally in NC right now!
jacy
@Major Major Major Major:
I would say “Ilsa, She-Wolf of the SS” but that’s already taken by Ann Coulter.
chopper
oh man, donnie rotten is gonna go nuclear. the press gave a slightly hard time to his most fuckable child! he’ll never let them live this down.
Waynski
@rikyrah: @rikyrah: I would like to place Pugsley for Don Jr., Wednesday for Ivanka, and Lurch for Eric into nomination.
Felonius Monk
@Michael Bersin: Best comment over at TPM on the Jason Kander ad was this:
Corner Stone
I wish HRC had come out on stage to “Drop it like it’s hot” and then actually dropped it a few times.
Gravenstone
@rikyrah: Keep it in the proper language – Evita.
catclub
@rachel:
I go back and forth on that. It could be that by becoming a major politician, it turns any prosecution into ‘criminalizing political activity’,
which worked to keep Obama from going after people who authorized torture.
Or your view is that many more State AG’s will look at his record more closely.
Trentrunner
Whoever here said Hillary should use her illness downtime to champion sick leave and general safety nets–
YOU WIN. She is. Perfect!
Michael Bersin
@JPL:
There’s some subtlety to it. It’s a brilliant ad in the context of current Missouri politics. The republican nominee for governor, Eric Greitens, is also veteran and during the campaign has run ads of 1) himself firing a minigun and 2) shooting at a target which explodes. Then, yesterday, the Missouri General Assembly overrode the governor’s veto of a gun bill which allows for permitless concealed carry and implements a stand your ground law in the state. In that context Jason Kander’s (D) ad presents his service and training. Note the austere industrial setting, the lighting, and the subtlety of not pulling the trigger and needlessly expending ammunition. Training and discipline, such novel concepts! We all know individuals who can’t be trusted to safely handle a plastic spork, let alone a firearm.
The ad was placed perfectly in time and content.
Gravenstone
@catclub: Can’t claim someone is having their “political activity” criminalized if what they’re being prosecuted for occurred long before they entered politics.
Michael Bersin
@Felonius Monk:
For the Internets win!
? Martin
Yesterday was another example of where Trump cannot be direct with people in the same room and only speaks out when they aren’t able to defend themselves. This guy would tell a foreign leader one thing and then something completely different on TV. That just can’t happen. That’s what causes wars. The guy is a fucking coward.
raven
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: Come on man, that is some stupid shit to be writing.
Splitting Image
@catclub:
Unless Trump wins, he won’t have many friends willing to stick their necks out for him. If the Republican establishment offers him as a sacrificial lamb for a corruption inquiry, the news bobbleheads will have a bipartisanship orgasm and elevate whichever “real, true conservatives” are denouncing him into candidates for 2020.
Betty Cracker
@Trentrunner: She sounds and looks good.
Corner Stone
I hope HRC pulls a Springsteen and does a four hour event at NC.
gogol's wife
Nice to know there are a few journalists left in the country. I wonder why the New York Times can’t employ any of them.
Iowa Old Lady
@chopper: They didn’t do their homework on Cosmo. Here’s wikipedia:
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@jacy:
No, Ilse, the She Wolf of the SS name goes solely to Mika Brzezinski in honor of some of her more severe leather looks in the fall and early winter that I find disturbingly appealing, and wish she’d show up at least once with a riding crop.
That look tends to leave me a bit breathless.
gogol's wife
@SiubhanDuinne:
Again, it’s kind of a Freudian slip. If “in-” can be a negative prefix, as in “indefinable,” then I guess an “indiscrepancy” is a non-discrepancy. So I agree that there are lots of indiscrepancies in the Clinton campaign.
BR
@Betty Cracker:
She does — her voice sounds way better.
Trentrunner
@Betty Cracker: I know we all think this, but damn: I can’t believe she isn’t ahead of Trump by 20+ points in every poll.
But, America. Bloody, beautiful America.
Wapiti
@The Other Chuck: Well, being able to pardon himself would be handy. Having the Secret Service around to protect him from Russian loan enforcers is handy, too.
burnspbesq
If Trump’s return is actually 12,000 pages, i have a pretty good idea of one of the things he’s doing to reduce his tax liabilities. It’s legal if you do it right, but I’m willing to bet that Trump (a) was wicked aggressive and (b) cut a lot of corners.
cost segregation
JPL
@Trentrunner: I’m watching CBSN, does anyone know if Hillary’s speech is being covered on the other 24/7 news stations.
Major Major Major Major
@Gravenstone: you bet you can. All you have to do is say it out loud and 40% of the country minimum will believe you.
Betty Cracker
I like this speech. HRC is letting her Leslie Knope flag fly!
schrodinger's cat
Ivanka is as awful as the rest of the Trumps, but she has gotten glowing coverage so far. So good for Prachi Gupta. I am waiting for a Trumplosion about south Asians sometime soon. First Khizr and Ghazala Khan and now Gupta have shown that the Emperor and his Princess have no clothes.
burnspbesq
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
There are entire chapters in the DSM devoted to your issues.
Trentrunner
@JPL: CNN, MSNBC.
BR
I really think that gay rights is something Clinton could hammer on that’s very big to young people. Pence is maybe the most homophobic governor in the country.
Corner Stone
“But no one has accused me of quitting.”
Boom. Drop.
Turgidson
Well sure, but Hillary wrote some emails and got sick so both sidesderp derp derp.
SiubhanDuinne
@gogol’s wife:
Actually, you’re quite right, there is such a word as “indiscrepancy,” but it is, as you say, merely a negation of “discrepancy.”
But I’m counting it as a Trumpian neologism because, in context, the words Don Jr. clearly had in mind were “discrepancy” and “indiscretion,” and he managed to muddle them together into this glorious addition to our language.
David Hunt
His tax return is 12,000 pages long?!! *Deep Breathes* Okay, I’m just going to assume that this is a massive exaggeration like how Trump talks about how much money he’s got. That’s over 2 cases of paper. IIRC, Mitt Romney’s one released tax return including the related entities that fed into it didn’t even total a tenth of that number. I prepare taxes for a living and I can’t even imagine how convoluted such a document would be. If that’s close to accurate, I can see why Trump’s keeps getting audited. The IRS would ask for backup of the thing almost as a matter of course..
Corner Stone
This speech is really very Obama-esque. The pattern, cadence and gestures.
Mike E
@Corner Stone: I hope Trump, Lovie, the Professor and Maryann go on a 3 hour tour.
sublime33
If Donald Trump wins, I predict he will nominate Eric Trump to fill the Scalia vacancy on the Supreme court. Donald Jr., Ivanka and Barron will fill the next vacancies after Scalia.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
I’ve seen the sort of coverage Ivanka Trump is used to getting from women’s-interest magazines. It’s carefully curated by a highly-paid PR agent doing their dead-level best to produce an agreeable, flattering, soft-focused picture of darling Ivanka as a beautiful, well-dressed, well-educated woman of culture and positive attainments who can hold her head up amongst the other members of the circles to which she aspires. Not only are certain questions understood as off-limits to begin with (without a word said by anyone), there will never be any distressful follow-up on potentially self-sabotaging answers.
“Tongue-bath” might be one way to put it.
I’m sure the folks at Cosmo were happy to be able to take off the kid gloves for a change. Not that they replaced them with brass knuckles or a spiked cestus, but apparently even bare knuckles are too much for Daddy’s Little Monster.
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: Win!
Corner Stone
And she cartwheels, round-off, tuck back flips off the fucking stage!
I have never seen such vigor combined with the stamina!
Bobby Thomson
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: best case scenario for a Trump presidency is a Marshall Plan for North America after old Europe conquers us.
Turgidson
@? Martin:
In fairness, Trump insulted the “deep bench” of “qualified” GOP candidates to their faces at the GOP debates.
It was one instance where Trump knew something the political chatterers didn’t: The “deep bench” was made up of a bunch of charlatans, know-nothings, mental midgets, insufferable assholes, and clowns. Most of them were some combination of those things.
Corner Stone
People are fucking stupid. We are the fucking worst.
Ryan
Don’t forget, I forget which it was, Uday or Qusay, but he added Holocaust references!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-jr-holocaust_us_57dabc4fe4b0071a6e05aee8
http://wonkette.com/606623/donald-trump-jr-making-silly-lol-holocaust-jokes-as-one-does
JPL
@Trentrunner: Than You. It was a great speech.
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Major Major Major Major: How about the slogan from Harley Quinn’s t-shirt?
If that’s not legible: DADDY’s LIL MONSTER
schrodinger's cat
@Corner Stone: Why do you say that?
Brachiator
Wait a minute. How could this be?
It’s supposed to be Hillary who hides from reporters.
Golly gee, turns out that journalists just have to do a little bit of, you know, actual journalism, to make Trumpers scurry like rats.
Mai.naem.mobile
@David Hunt: I do not believe he’s being audited. Kelly Anne Conway went off the rails the other day when a CNN host asked if Trumpy would provide proof of him being audited. Proof of being audited should not be a big deal. Just present the IRS letter and redact the obvious personal info.
jacy
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class:
Don’t make me see things I can’t unsee!
Turgidson
To paraphrase my comment above. Hillary wrote some emails, so both sidederpderpderp.
Kay
Negative questions! My stars. What nerve.
This is just the kids. Imagine if someone hit the giant windbag with an actual question. He’d deflate like a balloon.
It’s so gross that they believe Dad’s jobs come with automatic positions for the grown children. What has happened to our upper classes? Why are they such ridiculous weaklings?
Feudalism Now!
Incestka, Uday and Qusay are having a tough time with the press lately. The press should be behaving like Reality TV producers and keep the with the crafted narrative and treat the stars with deference.
jacy
@Corner Stone:
Really can’t argue with you there.
There are times when I wish for people to get exactly what they want. It rarely turns out well at all.
Kay
I love how these people just foist their unemployable children on the public. We don’t want them. Keep them in the family business. No one really needs long, vapid, ill-informed policy musings. We have the internet for that, and millions of volunteers who are better at it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Kay: They aren’t upper class; they are merely rich.
Kay
It’s also really weird that Ivanka Trump thinks fathers don’t care for children. Is she some kind of throwback? Why is she doing this “women and children are victims” thing? Yeah, that’s all employers need- one more reason not to hire young women.
Is this because she’s never had an actual job that her dad didn’t give her?
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne: @Omnes Omnibus: Indeed!
burnspbesq
@David Hunt:
Imagine the depreciation schedules for a developer who owns dozens of buildings and goes whole hog on cost seg. He may also have a shitload of 5471s/8865s/8858s for non-US ventures.
Kay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Read that Cosmo interview. It’s about on the level of “beginner internet commentor”. Any one of millions of people could have done better. Their celebrity is completely unearned.
Bobby Thomson
As for Junior’s Godwinning the interview, when all you are is a Nazi, everyone looks like an untermenschen.
Iowa Old Lady
In this article, there’s a picture of Trump signing his tax return, which towers beside him. Does that look like 12K pages? I can’t tell.
burnspbesq
@Iowa Old Lady:
I don’t fucking believe that asshole.
You know what he’s signing in that photo?
THE E-FILING AUTHORIZATION.
Corner Stone
Ooooo….HRC doesn’t trust her running mate Tim Kaine!
Corner Stone
Fuck you, Andrea Mitchell. Garbage time.
Corner Stone
Kaine-Gate! WHAT DID TIM KNOW AND WHEN DID HE KNOW IT?!!
This is ridiculous. Fucking fuck.
Iowa Old Lady
@burnspbesq: With Trump, you always have to wonder if he just sent someone to Staples for 24 reams of paper and stacked it on the table.
Corner Stone
That’s four fucking questions in a row about her puh-neumonia scandal.
bemused
@Corner Stone:
What the hell is going on now?
Corner Stone
Hey, MSM, do you think you could ever ask Trump four fucking questions in a row about releasing his taxes? About his birtherism? About any fucking thing under the sun?
David Hunt
@burnspbesq:
Yeah,. I thought about things that woudl add to page count, given repetition of moderately simple things and even tried to add it to my original post and didn’t get it written in time.
Ben Cisco
Leave it to Black Hole Sun to go there. On the other hand, there’s something to be said for truth in projection – sounds like he’s itching to do some really fucked up cosplay.
geg6
@Mike E:
Lovey wants nothing to do with the Vulgar Talking Yam. How could you think such a thing!
Turgidson
@Corner Stone:
Like I said in the earlier thread, on the topic of Andrea Mitchell. She would love to have an interview with one of the Trump progeny, or Short Fingers himself, exclusively about Hillary’s emails. She’s just the fucking worst.*
* Except Chris Cillizza and Mark Halperin.
Cacti
@1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet):
I wouldn’t even call them bare knuckles.
They were just serious questions, all related directly to the proposed policy. And she fell to pieces. It’s almost like that was the first interview where she was ever treated like an adult.
Mnemosyne
@Kay:
That’s the saddest thing about this election — Cosmo asked a couple of basic follow-up questions and suddenly they’re Woodward and Bernstein-level investigative reporters. That’s how low the bar is for journalists right now!
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Bobby Thomson:
For New York, they’ll do a multiple power governance set up like Shanghai in 1930.
rikyrah
@pacem appellant:
Yep.
Cacti
@Mnemosyne:
This.
NBC’s highest paid employee has been put to shame by Cosmopolitan magazine.
Pathetic.
Miss Bianca
@Cacti: @Mnemosyne: Yup. And I was impressed by what I read about Cosmo’s new feminist/political consciousness in their editorial stance too. I may have to start reading them again.
Cosmo: come for the righteous politics, stay for the sex tips!
1,000 Flouncing Lurkers (was fidelioscabinet)
@Cacti: It was. All her other encounters have been carefully mediated by her PR staff.
Barbara
@Kay: I am not sure it would even be legal at this point to limit unemployment for newborn care to women.
Barbara
@Iowa Old Lady: Probably not. If I recall correctly, a “banker’s box” holds around 2000 pages. 12,000 pages would be six boxes — nearly as tall as Trump. Besides which, people who know about tax returns will look for very specific schedules and forms. It wouldn’t be nearly as difficult as he suggests, especially if two or three experts plan an organized review.
PPCLI
Trump in a speech just said “the people Hillary calls deplorable are the most admirable people I know”.
In my dreams I see the headline “Trump says the supporter who clocked a 69-year old with an oxygen tank is one of “the most admirable people I know.” “
Just One More Canuck
@Major Major Major Major: Lucretia?
Brachiator
@Omnes Omnibus:
And the upper class are not really classy. They are merely upper.
bk
@burnspbesq: But he doesn’t own dozens of buildings.
Roger Moore
@Kay:
As a first guess, she’s working from personal experience.
Chris
@BR: Thanks to you I am volunteering in my little podunk town in NC saturday am. (Maybe I will meet some nice lefties too?)
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
I’m gonna go with “no”. They know damn well that he’d refuse to answer any more questions long before they got to the fourth repetition.
bystander
Trump announced plans today to turn the Whie House into Tobacco Road.
President Jeeter Lester!
NotoriousJRT
@David Hunt:
Lots of K-1s, I’m guessing.
Mister Forkbeard
@Iowa Old Lady: This was what I immediately assumed happened. Most of that probably isn’t real.
Mister Forkbeard
@Corner Stone: If they just wanted to know a little bit more about it, it’s completely reasonable to ask questions like “Why didn’t you tell the press when you were notified you had pneumonia?”
The problem is that there’s a very simple, good answer to this and which Hillary has already given. But the press doesn’t want to accept it and they’ll keep pounding the “how do we know you’re not really sick and why are you hiding things from us!” antics.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@BR: Signed up for a voter registration drive. Thanks for the reminders.
NoraLenderbee
@Iowa Old Lady:
for the first time ever, I am considering a subscription to Cosmo.
I could donate every issue to the library the day it arrived.
Princess
It was a sheriff’s gas chamber.
Betty Cracker
@Princess: Literal LOL!
gogol's wife
@bystander:
If only he looked like Robert Ryan, I might not have to move to Croatia in 2017.
sukabi
@piratedan: do you really think drumpf is going to allow his kids to control the actual grifting apparatus? Lend their names as figureheads, sure. But not actual control of the $$$.
Or so some people say.
Kenneth Kohl
@bystander:
I bet he does…
Sandia Blanca
@SiubhanDuinne: I second (or third) Goneril–brilliant!
bluefish
The ease with which this young dolt says “they’d be warming up the gas chamber right now” is chilling. Just trips off his tongue. Makes a body wonder if this was a frequent topic of convo around the Trumpian dinner table. Winning!
Chuck Todd seemed giddy with happiness this afternoon. The looks he’s gotten from Matt Bai this week are priceless.
Ivanka and her offerings make me want to binge on Battlestar Galactica all over again. These folks are some straight up creeps.
Enhanced Voting Techinques
His childern need to be more postive and talk about when Trump lead the passanger revolt on United 93 on 911 and other such Trump Truths(tm).
Tokyokie
@jacy: Late to the thread, but in (dis)honor of Ilse Koch, how about “Trollop of Trumpenwald?”
tones
@pacem appellant: yes, the ones we murdered because we didn’t like their father anymore.
Snarki, child of Loki
“I think it’s time for Democrats to just assert the worst assumptions about what’s in Trump’s tax returns as if they were factual and put the onus on Trump to prove otherwise”
Income from the Mustang Ranch, Goat Annex.
Exit 135
My wife & I have donated about $300.00 to a cancer center over the last 5 years. I am sure we donated $300.00 more in charity than trump or his repulsive kids. The trump family are white trash living in a high rise.