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Can you imagine Trump doing something like this? "On February 2, 2009, thirteen days into his presidency, Barack Obama wrapped up a meeting with Vermont Governor Jim Douglas in the Oval Office and the press photographers who had been brought in for the photo opportunity began filing out, and Obama looked around at the room and noticed that the White House valets had moved the sofas to accommodate the cameras, which meant the sofas were now in the wrong place, and he turned to Governor Douglas and said let's move the sofas back in place, the way any reasonable person would say that to another person standing in a room with furniture that needed moving. Governor Douglas did not quite know what to do. He had just spent a meeting with the forty-fourth President of the United States discussing the economic recovery package, a conversation that touched on hundreds of billions of dollars and the financial stability of the American economy, and now the president had his hands on one end of a sofa and was looking at him expectantly from across the room. Douglas picked up the other end. Pete Souza was standing there, as he almost always was, and he pressed the shutter, and the photograph he captured became one of the most circulated images of the early Obama presidency not because anything dramatic was happening in it but because of what it said about the man moving the furniture. The White House valets, who were responsible for moving the sofas back into place and whose job Obama had cheerfully and without apparent awareness done for them, later said they good-naturedly cringed every time they saw the photograph. The image sat alongside dozens of others from those first weeks in the Oval Office that Souza captured, the president trying out different desk chairs on January 30th to find the one that fit, aides gathered around the Resolute Desk in an impromptu meeting on February 4th, Sasha crawling behind a sofa on August 5th before jumping up to try to spook her father, each of them a small window into the texture of a presidency that operated, in its private moments, with considerably less ceremony than the building suggested. Obama moved the sofa. Douglas helped. The valets cringed. Souza clicked the shutter. That was the whole story and it was entirely enough."
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Has any average American that's living paycheck to paycheck ever been invited to meet with him, or take part in a press conference with him signing an EO? (Not counting that lady who conveniently has shown up as a door dasher delivering McDs, and appeared before Congress)
My opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.
skutfarcus reacted My opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.
Somebody here once said Trump would be revered for years to come. #msg1944389
Another meme from Facebook. Not sure if they're all true, but Donny-Boy's posts are out there.. forever, and can be checked. And people wonder why he looks sleepy sometimes during daytime meetings. Just another opinion of mine, and no one else.
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Eric Trump claims that his dad "literally" save Christianity.
I have not seen a single Christian act.
DennisinPeoria, CCubs and AverageSue + 1 more reacted I have not seen a single Christian act.
@sku @skutfarcus : I think I said this on PDC or perhaps elsewhere. Keep in mind I am NOT defending what he said, but notating it's being taken out of context:
""I don't think about Americans' financial situations. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon," he said." If Benji hadn't goaded or blackmailed (I'm starting to believe Israel had a hand in convincing him), and there was never a war, DJT would have never had an opportunity to say this.
OTOH, I don't think he EVER thought about most American's financial situations... except himself, his family, and his 1% wealthy friends/CEOs.
As long as Israel keeps attacking Lebanon, Iran will refuse to negotiate to reopen the Strait. And Donny will be fine with gas prices (and profits) staying over $4 a gallon for his Big Oil campaign $$$ for the GOP and his ballroom.
However, I don't think Iran will have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon for years to come.... unless Russia and Donny's other dictator friend Putin helps Iran out. With Donny looking the other way.
My opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.
Can ANYONE that still supports him explain why? #msg1944403
""I don't think about Americans' financial situations. I don't think about anybody. I think about one thing: We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon," he said."
OTOH, I don't think he EVER thought about most American's financial situations... except himself, his family, and his 1% wealthy friends/CEOs.
As long as Israel keeps attacking Lebanon, Iran will refuse to negotiate to reopen the Strait. And Donny will be fine with gas prices (and profits) staying over $4 a gallon for his Big Oil campaign $$$ for the GOP and his ballroom.
However, I don't think Iran will have the capability to produce a nuclear weapon for years to come.... unless Russia and Donny's other dictator friend Putin helps Iran out. With Donny looking the other way.
My opinion and mine alone and not my employer's.
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