The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[Peeps]

Objectively the greatest president.

i agree

the greatest president that is a total fucking disaster and will bring us closer to WWIII than ever

[McParadigm]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/02/opinion/republicans-investigation-fusion-gps.html?_r=0

This op ed is actually an intel dump.

So was DJT melting down because of the above, or the below?

[McParadigm]

"It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that. They’re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me" - Steve Bannon, confirming that the Matrix is broken.

[McParadigm]

"The chance that Don. Jr did not walk these Jumos up to his father's office on the 26th floor is zero" - SB

Every man for himself

[Fuzzy_Dunlop]

We don’t believe the Steele dossier was the trigger for the F.B.I.’s investigation into Russian meddling. As we told the Senate Judiciary Committee in August, our sources said the dossier was taken so seriously because it corroborated reports the bureau had received from other sources, including one inside the Trump camp.

Bannon?

[McParadigm]

He didn’t process information in any conventional sense. He didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semi-­literate.

Shortly after 8 p.m. on Election Night, when the unexpected trend—Trump might actually win—seemed confirmed, Don Jr. told a friend that his father, or DJT, as he calls him, looked as if he had seen a ghost. Melania was in tears—and not of joy

There was, in the space of little more than an hour, in Steve Bannon’s not unamused observation, a befuddled Trump morphing into a disbelieving Trump and then into a horrified Trump. But still to come was the final transformation: Suddenly, Donald Trump became a man who believed that he deserved to be, and was wholly capable of being, the president of the United States.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/20 ... =nym_press

[wease]

What a time to be alive.

[Bi_3]

That last one sounds like time right before the ceremony on my wedding day.

[McParadigm]

"He not only lost his job, he lost his mind."

[bune]

Holy Jesus.

[digster]

[McParadigm]

lol

So is Bannon both trying to save himself and also get a little credit for destroying Trump, in order to repair his reputation as king of the conservative outsiders? What exactly is happening here?

[bodysnatcher]

that first paragraph is fucking gold

[McParadigm]

This could really be something, if it continues. It's always been Trumpian madness against establishment rules-following or party-based game playing. Now it's just two mad dogs in a shrinking cage.

[McParadigm]

It's just like what I assume happens whenever Burt switches fantasies mid-stroke.

[McParadigm]

Oh.

[Strat]

I was hoping 2018 would be a little more calm.

Geezes, its even uglier.

[McParadigm]

I guess maybe everyone was just staying chill for the holidays?

[Strat]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/steve-bann ... -new-book/

Holy. Shit.

What a read.

[Strat]

Trump's "ignorance": "He was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul. Everybody in his rich-guy social circle knew about his wide-ranging ignorance," Wolff wrote. Campaign aide Sam Nunberg reportedly attempted to explain the Constitution to him and got as far as the Fourth Amendment before Mr. Trump became bored. Disgraced Fox News chief Roger Ailes told him he needed a "son of a b****" as chief of staff, rather than his first preference, Kushner. Conway told him, "You can't just hire your children." Ailes suggested former House Speaker John Boehner. "Who's that?" asked Mr. Trump.

After a phone conversation with the president-elect on visas for high-skilled workers, in which Mr. Trump allegedly claimed that Silicon Valley companies could use his help after the unfavorable Obama years, Wolff says media mogul Rupert Murdoch told him, "Donald, for eight years these guys had Obama in their pocket. They practically ran the administration. They don't need your help." Mr. Trump apparently replied that they "really need these H-1B visas." Murdoch, according to Wolff hung up the phone and said, "What a f****** idiot."