when Q shows up in the Oval Office to tell you it’s time to put humanity on trial pic.twitter.com/2L5zMMkgwA
— Sopan Deb (@SopanDeb) August 27, 2018
… At least, it’s not only dumber than I ever imagined, it’s dumber than I could have imagined. And I’m supposed to have a pretty good imagination!
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I’ll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when cameras stops filming him like a toddler. https://t.co/TI9xEJ4L6t
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) August 27, 2018
A defining feature of the Trump presidency is how he turns little things we never used to think about – condolence statements! flag-lowering decisions! stakeholder roundtables! – into controversies and brawls. Everything has to be something.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) August 27, 2018
Trump could have the mainstream press proclaiming him presidential at last with the smallest of concessions to normal human civility and he just can't or won't. It's amazing.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) August 28, 2018
At this point nobody with any sense expects Trump to BE a decent human being, but it’s downright bizarre how fervently he resists even *going through the motions of pretending*, even when it’s both obviously in his interests and essentially costless to do so.
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 27, 2018
He’s somehow both insanely obsessed with optics and seemingly unable to foresee hilariously obvious scenarios like “If you behave like a petulant prick toward a dead veteran, you will look terrible and ultimately be shamed into making a grudging show of respect anyway.”
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) August 27, 2018
I tell people that the 3 hardest things to do in a foreign language are be smart, be funny, and be polite. He behaves like someone not operating in his native language.
— Adrienne Lynne (@49Henle) August 28, 2018
Of course, when its “Dear Leader” is that dumb-stubborn, the Base is going to double down…
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