When I saw the first tweet about this letter, I refused to believe that it was real. Never in my life had I seen such foolishness and clownery attached to the Presidency of the United States.
EXCLUSIVE: I have obtained a copy of @realDonaldTrump’s letter to #Erdogan. @POTUS warns him to not “be a tough guy! Don’t be a fool!” Says he could destroy Turkey’s economy if #Syria is not resolved in a humane way. Details tonight at 8pm #TrishRegan #FoxBusiness pic.twitter.com/9BoSGlbRyt
— Trish Regan (@trish_regan) October 16, 2019
No previous President had a staff that would release such idiocy for public consumption.
I have a phrase that I have been saying for awhile. It came about as I watched the MSM repeatedly talk about how THIS TIME Dolt45 had “become Presidential” .
By accomplishing the easiest task, they were in a hurry to elevate Dolt45.
My phrase?
” The curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL! ”
Dolt45 had turned the Presidency into a participation trophy.
If ANY Previous President had presented themselves like this….it would have been playing on an endless loop, with commentary about the obvious instability of the President.
Trump claims Obama conspired against him in 2016 and appears to blame Barack Obama for his impeachment in a rambling mess of self-pity word salad. pic.twitter.com/2ZhnxZitFr
— Sarah Reese Jones (@PoliticusSarah) October 16, 2019
This is what our luck running out looks like. The betrayal of the Kurds will forever be a stain on this country.
This is what he said about our allies, who have done the fighting and the capturing of numerous ISIS prisoners:
"It's not our problem," Trump says in Oval Office of Turkey's invasion into Syria. He adds that the Kurds are "not angels." Also, he says this: "They've got a lot of sand over there…. There's a lot of sand they can play with."
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) October 16, 2019
Kurdish commanders who worked with US troops are growing increasingly angry, frustrated, sad, as they watch US troops leaving…AND WORSE, listen to Trump being utterly dismissive as Kurds are being killed and driven from their homes by the thousands.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 16, 2019
Yes, The Turkish government has been trying to ethnically cleanse that area of Kurds for a long time and Trump helped them do it. https://t.co/JdU6HVaGoG
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 17, 2019
The President of the United States is now praising and supporting the ethnic cleansing of a minority population using terms that frame them like an infestation. This is the lowest point this nation has hit in my lifetime. Where are those “Christians” now? Disgusting. https://t.co/oNUskdBgMR
— Fred Wellman (@FPWellman) October 17, 2019
The kurds lost their homeland in Syria which they fought for with US forces in the battle agaist Isis, losing 11 thousand of their men and women. Tonight they were sold out by Trump who says he saved millions of lives. It will be remembered by the kurds as the greatest betrayal.
— Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) October 17, 2019
While that nightmare of failing National Security is happening in Syria…there is another example of this Administration’s inhumanity closer to home:
"Trump, it seems, thought he could convince the Dunns to meet the woman who killed their son, and would do so by opening a side door through which she would walk. The whole scene would be captured by a pool of photographers who had been summoned…" https://t.co/WxNCofR2RT
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) October 16, 2019
'It happens' says Trump defending diplomat's wife involved in car crash that killed British teenager.
…after he turns down UK request to waive diplomatic immunity.
Call this a ‘special relationship’? It’s appalling behaviour under any circumstances.
— Mike Galsworthy (@mikegalsworthy) October 10, 2019
He had a meeting with the Democratic Congressional Leadership and this happened😒😒😒
https://twitter.com/nick_ramsey/status/1184566600281788418
Pelosi is on offense… https://t.co/Ypy8ORQiZh
— Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈 (@Amy_Siskind) October 16, 2019
Steny Hoyer following his meeting with Trump about Syria: “I have served with six presidents. I have been in many, many, many meetings like this. Never have I seen a president treat so disrespectfully a coequal branch of the government of the United States.”Via CBS pic.twitter.com/4gzkYr3Quu— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 16, 2019
More:
.@SpeakerPelosi says Trump had a melt down in their face-to-face meeting and he was “shaken up” and “just not relating to the reality” of the congressional rebuke of his Syria withdrawal. pic.twitter.com/IEoBYuMZgw— Oliver Willis (@owillis) October 16, 2019
Previously in the day, THIS happened at the White House😠😠😠
Grieving Parents ‘Ambushed’ by Trump, Who Had Teen’s Killer Waiting at White House
The president had hoped to surprise the family of dead British teen Harry Dunn with a meeting with the woman who killed him. “And they weren’t ready for it,” he admitted.
Barbie Latza Nadeau
Correspondent-At-Large
You can almost imagine the reality-show excitement that surely went into the ill-considered plan to introduce Anne Sacoolas, the American diplomatic wife who killed 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn when she drove down the wrong side of an English lane in August, to Dunn’s grieving parents. Sacoolas left the U.K. in early September under diplomatic-immunity protections and has not been seen in public since.
The Dunn family, now in the United States to drum up support to send Sacoolas back to the U.K. to face justice, had accepted an “urgent” invitation by the White House from National Security Adviser Robert O’Brien, to visit Donald Trump in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday night.
President Trump said Wednesday that he had arranged the meeting at the request of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Speaking at a joint press conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella, he described the encounter as “beautiful in a certain way,” adding that he expressed condolences “on behalf of our country. ”
He then admitted that he tried to get the family to meet Sacoolas, who was waiting in an adjacent room. “I offered to bring the person in question in,” he said. “And they weren’t ready for it.”
Trump, it seems, thought he could convince the Dunns to meet the woman who killed their son, and would do so by opening a side door through which she would walk. The whole scene would be captured by a pool of photographers who had been summoned for the meeting, a family spokesman charged.
There is something so gross about this. Inhumane. Despicable. Disgusting. It just makes my blood boil, the utter callousness of this. The level of cruelty against this family. A fundamental dismissal of their pain and loss.
WHO DOES THIS?
IN WHAT WORLD IS THIS OK?
We have a piece of human garbage as President, and is surrounded by staff who are equally repugnant.
But, Nancy Smash gathered him all the way up.
Tell him, Nancy Smash 👏👏
” All roads with you lead to PUTIN”
Where is the lie?
Shade him, Chelsea.
Congresswoman @SpeakerPelosi looks neither nervous nor unhinged. You, Mr. President, on the other hand … https://t.co/ZQ4bpysCCb
— Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) October 16, 2019
You too, LarryO
"Fifty years from now, schoolchildren studying American history will come upon this photograph, and they will instantly know who was in charge in that room – the adult standing and pointing at that pained face across the table." – @Lawrence pic.twitter.com/KNyOUaMgi7
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 17, 2019
I can see why Trump is losing it. He stole the election from one woman only to have another run circles around him, catch him in a crime, and force his loyal soldiers to embarrass him.
— TPVArchived (@thepeoplesview) October 16, 2019
Any of you who've ever said that Nancy Pelosi should have been replaced as Speaker by anyone else admittedly weaker (because let's face it, all of them are) can now shut up and take a seat in the back row.
No one else alive in American politics could have done the same as this. https://t.co/DbHQzDdjYo
— 17 GOP-held Biden districts targeted to flip blue (@Needle_of_Arya) October 17, 2019
And , we ended the day with another broad violation of the Emoluments Clause….
The new site of the G-7 Summit — @realdonaldtrump's own Doral golf club — has a history of health-code violations, including "live, small flying insects" in the kitchen a few years ago.https://t.co/5pcb08SvqU
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 17, 2019
BREAKING: President @realDonaldTrump has awarded the massive G-7 Summit of world leaders to himself.
A bedrock promise of Trump's presidency — that he would not use his public power to benefit his private company — explodes.https://t.co/c2LNkzJIOZ
— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 17, 2019
I keep thinking of something @Fahrenthold said to me a few months ago. It’s *more dangerous* for the country if Trump’s business is struggling and desperate, because it means the president is maximally susceptible to bribery and/or leverage.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) October 17, 2019
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1185781906291474432?s=20
https://twitter.com/bubbaprog/status/1185776922325913600?s=20
Altuve closed the fkn door on them!
https://twitter.com/Lucky_Luciano_A/status/1185776298574204928?s=20
https://twitter.com/3ChicsPolitico/status/1185402221938257920?s=20
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https://twitter.com/AndrewGillum/status/1185310554438680576
https://twitter.com/MorganJerkins/status/1185169908667240448
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https://twitter.com/qsteph/status/1185188769932201984
https://twitter.com/seyiakiwowo/status/1185172832050913280
https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1185249950860562433
😪😪😪
https://twitter.com/ladyc10/status/1185255643441238021
https://twitter.com/The_BKC/status/1185244436801998848
You noticed that too🤔🤔
https://twitter.com/reesetheone1/status/1185303026208329729
https://twitter.com/AdamParkhomenko/status/1185281845652611075
https://twitter.com/MeritLaw/status/1185231522342854656
I enjoy fun posts like this. This would make a good Twitter debate too..LOL
I love how the comments were like…
Dude…you forgot Devon from Young and the Restless…who should have been #1.
He got $2.4 Billion when Mrs. Chancellor died…LOL
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Yesterday 5:00PM
They need to stop this FOOLISHNESS.
Trump to attend 2020 candidate forum at historically black South Carolina college
President Donald Trump has accepted an invitation to participate in a presidential candidate forum focused on improving the criminal justice system in the United States.
His participation will bring him to the historically black Benedict College in Columbia, South Carolina, where he will share billing with half a dozen Democrats vying to replace him in 2020.
The lead-up to Trump’s decision to join the program at Benedict the weekend of Oct. 25-27 was closely-guarded by organizers, who feared the president would either change his mind or alienate those who had already committed to attending or participating.
🤔🤔🤔
https://twitter.com/bykowicz/status/1185227969905745920
Never EVER BE FORGIVEN 😠 😠
https://twitter.com/girlsreallyrule/status/1185145591141224448
Trump helps Putin tick through Russia’s world affairs wish list
Rachel Maddow looks at the many ways that Russia’s objectives on the world stage have been served by Donald Trump as evidence in the impeachment inquiry continues to mount.
https://twitter.com/minhtngo/status/1185177296346308608
Same.
https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1184871375384629253
https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1184989463497334784
Listen to this…
https://twitter.com/GWANJEZ/status/1184728183628800001
https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1184951656108171274
https://twitter.com/JaneFerguson5/status/1185134088509952000
https://twitter.com/thepeoplesview/status/1184943212357570560
https://twitter.com/MalcolmNance/status/1184982247423795200
https://twitter.com/Deoliver47/status/1185118811059576832
https://twitter.com/RepRaskin/status/1184883232682237959
This is Trump’s “FVCK YOU” to all of us. He believes that in the end he will have gotten away with everything. I’m convinced he still believes that and I hope to God he isn’t right.
https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1184918472196837377
https://twitter.com/LemieuxLGM/status/1184511997473259520
https://twitter.com/gregpmiller/status/1184448765157134336
https://twitter.com/philipaklein/status/1184924803335118848
https://twitter.com/KFaulders/status/1184948795043467271
https://twitter.com/npfandos/status/1184894414377967616
https://twitter.com/darth/status/1184980568708009984
https://twitter.com/darth/status/1184976826830974976
https://twitter.com/matthewamiller/status/1184949060102508545
https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1184881929650409473
https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1184963831845535744
https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1184879214320914433
https://twitter.com/JulieZebrak/status/1185016077899784192
It would be funny if it wasn’t so ridiculously sad!
https://twitter.com/LaurenUnderwood/status/1184890444225794048
https://twitter.com/VABVOX/status/1185147049920086017
https://twitter.com/AFP/status/1185143021798592512
I had to do it. Had to break out the winter coat this morning.😪😪
https://twitter.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1185147913397080065
https://twitter.com/JohnJHarwood/status/1184884184080367621
As well they should 😒😒
Skeptical Brotha 🌈 (@skepticalbrotha) Tweeted:
Democrats don’t just plan on impeaching Trump, they plan on indicting the entire Republican Party in absentia for their complicity, duplicity, and corruption. https://twitter.com/skepticalbrotha/status/1185056094537674753?s=17
https://twitter.com/david_darmofal/status/1184904969452843008
https://twitter.com/david_darmofal/status/1184906781094400000
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1184891391337488384
Good Morning, Everyone 😄😄😄