Trump supporters were OK with him mocking McCain for being a POW and going after a family of a fallen soldier, so I'm sure they won't need to spin too much to keep his existing supporters content. At this point it's hard to tell what could finally break their support of him.
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Trump claims Obama, other presidents never called families of fallen soldiers
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Trump supporters were OK with him mocking McCain for being a POW and going after a family of a fallen soldier, so I'm sure they won't need to spin too much to keep his existing supporters content. At this point it's hard to tell what could finally break their support of him.
Aaron Strife
Banned
You know, not a lot of presidents go to hell
There would be celebrations everywhere.
We are truly blessed to have him as our asshat-in-chief.
This tweet is legit nauseating. There has never been anyone so abhorrent, so lacking in decency or in any other redeeming quality in American public life as Trump.
Probably around the world, really.
SoulUnison
Banned
When are his supporters going to admit that constant dishonesty about obvious, easily verifiable facts is a sign of compulsive lying, if not a deeper mental illness?
DangerMouse
Member
Yup.
When his supporters stop being bad people
TAJ
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
He could start WW3 and most of his surviving supporters would blame it on someone else.
They are stupid, authoritarian scum.
Dubbedinenglish
Banned
Every day he defiles the office. He is so beneath the Presidency
Doctor West
Member
This creature needs to get the fuck out of the White House. When are his fucking supporters going to finally see him for what he is? A insecure, bloated orange toad of a man who is so deeply unintelligent that I feel bad comparing him to a toad. It's not fair to toads.
It doesn't matter if your quarterback is a sexual assaulting, racist, lying, con-artist if he's playing for your favorite team.
Do they even give a shit? They either purposefully lie as well or are incredibly and willfully ignorant or malicious.
I doubt he would call, probably will just golf
I cant believe how indecent and vile this country is. What a shameful display. This man shouldve never even been close to the presidency.
If you voted for Trump, I cant wait to piss on your grave too.
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Never, because Trump supporters share these traits with their President.
ebullientprism
Member
People defending Kelly, I wouldnt bother.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/16...ray-immigrants-as-criminals-to-justify-raids/
There arent any good guys left in the WH.
https://theintercept.com/2017/10/16...ray-immigrants-as-criminals-to-justify-raids/
There arent any good guys left in the WH.
sturgboski
Member
All this coming from the man who fought a Gold Star family during the campaign. I remember when that was supposed to sink him and look where the fuck we are. Fuck his supporters and fuck Republicans. You people are the fucking worst.
So never? Or for the others its blind idolatry.
Kelly is a spineless piece of shit. He can eat shit for all I care.
I feel that Trump is so easily to manipulate into doing or saying stuff by simply telling him that Obama didn't do it.
Hey Trump if you're reading this...Obama didn't give me $5 Billion.
Been seeing a lot of tweets from military folks, they aren't too happy with Trump either.
Hey Trump if you're reading this...Obama didn't give me $5 Billion.
Been seeing a lot of tweets from military folks, they aren't too happy with Trump either.
Trump is just like every shady lawyer out there.
When dealing with a witness, they will say something wrong and incriminating and then all of the sudden "withdrawn".
It does not matter if the judge tells the jury to disregard it, the jury heard it.
Trump knows his followers.
He says what he wants to, knowing that is what they hear.
When the reality comes to light , even if it is a few minutes later it is too late they heard what they needed to hear.
When dealing with a witness, they will say something wrong and incriminating and then all of the sudden "withdrawn".
It does not matter if the judge tells the jury to disregard it, the jury heard it.
Trump knows his followers.
He says what he wants to, knowing that is what they hear.
When the reality comes to light , even if it is a few minutes later it is too late they heard what they needed to hear.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
I've thought Bush was a monstrous individual for the Iraq war and I still do. But like even he had genuine respect for the military and their families, even though he started a war that got thousands of them needlessly killed. And even when being yelled at by said family over that, he still held them.
Trump is literally the worst human.
AuthenticM
Member
Continue pissing of military families, Trump. Keep digging your own grave. Fat fuck.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
It's hard for me to say Trump is a worse president than Bush, because he ultimately does not yet have anything on his plate as spectacularly bad as Iraq, but I think it would be fair to say that there is not a worse human being, relative to the moral standards of his time, that has been president. Maaaaaybe Jackson, but does anybody really think Trump wouldn't order something like a Trail of Tears, if it were sociopolitically acceptable and an option presented to him?
sturgboski
Member
It is interesting as I could swear a lot of them were for him. But then again, that was when he was pretending to be a dove and they bought it. Why they would think a man who is a bully can be given a bully pulpit and would not try to throw his weight around is beyond me. For fucks sake he attack McCain and a Gold Star family, if we are being specific to the military. He non-stop attacked anyone who besmirch his name, what did people think would happen when he actually had power to do something?
Look if it wasnt for the fact that the courts exist, he would do it now anyway. Look at the Muslim ban or his wall (fence? an extra border patrol agent? not sure where this stands) or the DACA thing or his empowerment of ICE. If it wasnt for the fact that the courts could shut some of this shit down he would have Mexicans and Muslims in interment camps faster than you can say "nuke rocket man."
brickarts295
Member
And yet no one (on his side) will bat an eye -_-
Isaac Otherworld
Member
Trump's word is law to them. They all now believe that Trump is the first president to call the families of fallen soldiers.
Sho_Nuff82
Member
Great analogy. Theres a reason Trump constantly brings up the election results at complete random times, the euphoria over we won must be regularly recharged.
Trumps gaffes are good as long as liberals think they are bad to the nihilism crowd.
Lord of Ostia
Member
Bush was inept and a bad president but by all accounts he was an actual human being, who had empathy and respect for other people. Honestly Trump's horrible presidency up to this point has given me a lot more respect for W. Still a bad president, but maybe more in over his head than a bad person.
Mark Andrew
Member
Youre right, but his side is, in fact, shrinking. The latest tracking poll has his HARD support at 19%. Most people thought it wouldnt fall below 25 for a long while.
Exactly no one that chooses to be involve is a good person
It's so bad because it's such an.... unnecessary statement. Like, there was no political weaving, no logical advantage in saying it at all. No one prompted him. He wasn't responding to anyone. He wasn't defending himself at all.
It's the mark of a completely and utterly compulsive liar who straight up can't help himself.
You can see it all ticking around in his head. "Oh shit I haven't called the families of the soldiers yet. Gotta make myself look good and get on the front foot. Hmm... I bet Obama took his sweet time as well. Hell, I bet Obama never called them period. Yeah, we'll go with that. No one can prove otherwise. What are they gonna do? I'm the president for god's sake..."
It's the mark of a completely and utterly compulsive liar who straight up can't help himself.
You can see it all ticking around in his head. "Oh shit I haven't called the families of the soldiers yet. Gotta make myself look good and get on the front foot. Hmm... I bet Obama took his sweet time as well. Hell, I bet Obama never called them period. Yeah, we'll go with that. No one can prove otherwise. What are they gonna do? I'm the president for god's sake..."
GarthVaderUK
Banned
Walking shit stain.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
I don't think Kelly is a particularly good person, but I think Kelly, Mattis, Tillerson, Mnuchin, and McMaster are pretty nobly sacrificing their reputations in order to keep the executive branch from collapsing into complete chaos. Given this evil government would be much MORE evil with pro-Trump yes-men in these posts, it is difficult for me to say they are in the wrong for staying and trying to salvage what few scraps of decency they can.
Isaac Otherworld
Member
If they were truly good people they would have already invoked the 25th amendment.
V
Vilix
Unconfirmed Member
You know you just described Homer Simpson's thought process, yeah?
Brawly Likes to Brawl
Member
Trump already cemented himself as the defacto worst after his reaction to the Charlottesville attack.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
I didn't say they were good people (though I think Mattis probably is), I said that throwing yourself on the dignity bonfire that is Donald Trump to keep the country from imploding is noble.
This is the logic that libertarians employed when they suggested doing nothing during the 2008 crisis. Staunching the bleeding and allowing rebuilding to happen from a higher level of functionality is pretty much always a better idea.
neurosisxeno
Member
Bush was a shitty President, but I don't think he was a bad person. He did a lot of terrible things, but that was out of fear and due to surrounding himself with really bad influences I feel. I never thought Bush was nefarious the way I think of Trump. He was closer to that than someone like Romney or McCain, but he definitely wasn't like, Supervillain status. I think GWB sincerely thought he was doing the right thing a lot of times, and had advisers telling him it was the right thing to do, but it ended up being terrible almost across the board.
This is how millions of people suffer.
hodayathink
Member
Doesn't the 25th require Pence to go along with it?
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