Trump Walks Out on Democrats After 3 Minutes

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/22/us/politics/trump-pelosi-schumer.html
Trump Walks Out on Democrats After 3 Minutes
By Peter Baker and Katie Rogers
May 22, 2019

WASHINGTON — President Trump abruptly blew up a scheduled meeting with Democratic congressional leaders on Wednesday, lashing out at Speaker Nancy Pelosi for accusing him of a cover-up and declaring that he could not work with them until they stopped investigating him.

He then marched out into the Rose Garden, where reporters had been gathered, and delivered a statement bristling with anger as he demanded that Democrats “get these phony investigations over with.” He said they could not legislate and investigate at the same time. “We’re going to go down one track at a time,” he said.

The confrontation came on a day when pressure over a possible impeachment effort raised temperatures on both sides of the aisle. Ms. Pelosi arrived at the White House for a session with the president set to talk about infrastructure shortly after meeting with restive House Democrats to talk about impeachment. She emerged from that meeting with Democrats accusing Mr. Trump of a “cover-up.”

When she and Senator Chuck Schumer arrived at the White House, Mr. Trump was loaded for bear. He walked into the Cabinet Room, did not shake anyone’s hand or sit in his seat, according to a Democrat informed about the meeting. He said he wanted to advance legislation on infrastructure, trade and other matters, but that “Speaker Pelosi said something terrible today and accused me of a cover-up,” according to the Democrat.

After just three minutes, he left the room before anyone else could speak, the Democrat said.

[Va Lefty]

1. This is, of course, insane.

[sop]

73. When he starts rambling about missing strawberries and rolling steel balls in his hand

we'll know he's gone completely off the rails and it's time for the mutiny.

[NewDayOranges]

79. Lol! Caine Mutiny reference...

[Dave Starsky]

82. Trump has gone way past that.

Even Captain Queeg tried to maintain an air of calm professionalism and competence, while at the same time he was becoming completely unglued and dangerous. Trump can't even do that. He can't even try!

[CrispyQ]

2. What a baby.

I'm so sick of this POS.

[SWBTATTReg]

3. Irresponsible Coward and jerk. Proving constantly how unfit for duty. NT

[pandr32]

9. Agreed 100%

[Chin music]

23. Dereliction of duty as CIC.

How long would a guard at sentry point be allowed to be in dereliction? Bc that's the guy who's asleep on point, letting the reds continue to attack us. No hurry on impeachment though. And PS...Mueller was a MARINE, so...... there's that. His motives are untouchable. ugh.
340 million Americans, go to work, and pay those taxes. We here at the capitol are doing fine and have no worries bc, money in abundance.
Aren't you guys at work yet? Chop chop.

[Botany]

4. Trump: "I don't do cover-ups."

Touched a nerve did she Donny?

https://themoscowproject.org/explainers/trumps-russia-cover-up-by-the-numbers-70-contacts-with-russia-linked-operatives/

[PJMcK]

11. Trump: "I don't do cover-ups."

Oh, really?

Let's talk with Stormy Daniels or Karen McDougall, shall we?

[Botany]

35. Trump: "I don't do cover-ups."

The Russia Meeting at Trump Tower was to discuss adoption.

[TheBlackAdder]

17. Thursday, April 5, 2018 (re: Knowledge of Daniels Payment): "No" "You'll have to ask Michael Cohen."

[WyattKansas]

29. Trump: "I don't do cover-ups." Is the very same as Nixon's "I'm not a crook."

Trump knows his end has come and his base will scatter like the roaches they are.

His enabler republicans better seriously think about how to remove him before he forces the whole country to end up in his sulfur pit with him.

[LW1977]

76. That was just Lemonade poured on a Russian hotel bed.

[unblock]

5. guess what? this is yet another impeachable offense.

using the powers of office to shut down an investigation into himself is obviously obstruction and an abuse of office.

[ginnyinWI]

16. there's a new one every day when you are a criminal. nt

[Me.]

6. Marched Out Into The Rose Garden

bristling with anger, lashing out at speaker Pelosi, loaded for bear, did not shake anyone's hand..........

Speaker Pelosi's strategy is working

[unblock]

10. but they couldn't quite find the obvious word: "tantrum"....

[Me.]

39. Quite

Furious, irrational, maniacal, enraged, frenzied, demented, raging, desperate, infuriated, stormy, turbulent and so on and so forth...

[tblue37]

50. Or hissy fit. nt

[LakeArenal]

77. Snit?

[MyOwnPeace]

70. Does he really think......

he's operating from a position of strength?

And what's with that BULLSHIT sign about "money for the investigation?" Hell, we made all of that back just on the assets of Manafort!
And how did it "just so happen" that that sign was there for that "sudden news conference?"

Was this yet another "staged" event?

WHAT A HORSE'S ASS he is!

[bedazzled]

75. We've spent more than that on his golf outings

Probably near that on his cockroaches .... er kids

[Me.]

84. Of Course It Was Planned & Staged Beforehand

He met with them for 3 min and then went out to a waiting presser complete with displays that certainly had to be prepared beforehand. Perhaps he didn't think we'd notice.

AS for the money in just 2 years we've spent 100,000,000 on his golf trips alone

[honest.abe]

7. He is terrified of the possibility of impeachment proceedings.

He knows the news will follow it day and night all the relentless negative press will drive him crazy.

[Siwsan]

8. He will never accept that the job of being POTUS is not 'all about him'.

He never wanted the job, in the first place. All he wanted was the power.

[Blue Owl]

20. He takes the "TU" out of "POTUS"

All that's left is POS...

[sop]

74. POSOTUS

(or BLOTUS, biggest liar of the United States)

[Backseat Driver]

37. Umm...the power to have lifetime bodyguards

for himself and family that would not cost him or them a single dime.

[Siwsan]

40. I'm hoping the financial and legal impact of their crimes will make that unnecessary

There are other kinds of 'bodyguards' in prisons.

[docgee]

69. I think for national security the will need to put him in solitary.

[tblue37]

51. And the crown he thought it included. nt

[dhill926]

12. aw....another tantrum....

infantile piece of shit...

[StarfishSaver]

13. There's a joke in there somewhere

But it would be unladylike of me to tell it.

[FakeNoose]

14. Chump is grateful that we staged a tantrum-throwing setup for him

[Timmygoat]

15. Does anyone else think as I do

That Trump has some kind of mental problem. I am surprised he does not lie on the floor kicking like a baby till he gets his way.

[ginnyinWI]

19. probably several mental problems.

narcissist is just the beginning.

[OMGWTF]

44. They're going to name a new mental illness after Trump.

[FakeNoose]

27. Reminds me of Mike Pence at the NFL game

He got up and walked out when a couple of the players knelt during the national anthem.
Tell me THAT wasn't staged. Most likely Chump told him to do it.

[caraher]

64. It was

And there's plenty of evidence. The press following him were told not to bother leaving the van because "there may be an early departure from the game." He picked a 49ers game so they'd know there'd be kneeling to whine about. Pence's schedule had him in California for a fundraiser he could only make if he skipped the game. And of course Trump tweeted that he'd asked Pence to leave if any players took a knee during the anthem.

[SoCalNative]

18. 3 minutes longer

than he normally lasts

[oldsoftie]

59. Oh, HELL!!!

[Blue Owl]

21. He learned that move from Mike Pence

n/t

[Freethinker65]

28. Yep. From Pence and Trump's stint on scripted, edited, and staged "reality" TV

[lunasun]

43. Don't forget his time with WWE . Fake confrontations are a cake walk to him he is so lazy

https://m.

I just watched this again
I think I will post it @ In the video group

[JohnnyRingo]

55. Never saw that

Certainly reminds me of how Trump tries to conduct himself today. Unfortunately, not everyone reads from the same script now, and a rowdy gullible WWE wrestling crowd is a snapshot of his base. Of course Vince McMahan never sold WWE to Trump or anyone else. Many were holding signs following the script, something they wouldn't know before the show.

What a cartoon world we live in. Thanx for posting.

[sop]

78. You elect a clown, you get a circus

n/t

[Achilleaze]

22. It was a planned republican HISSY

Guess the republicans should never have pissed on America and on the teachings of Christ. You know, the one about telling the truth.

Sad.

[underpants]

24. Damn. I thought THIS infrastructure week was the one

Darn the luck.

[procon]

25. So this was another scripted Trump stage show?

He must have planned his little media stunt well in advance. Someone needed time to create his graphic display, send it over to the shop to get it printed and mounted, then freighted back to the WH in time to be used as a prop in the Rose Garden.

[dalton99a]

30. +1. The outburst was likely prearranged

just like his pro wrestling stunts

[Freethinker65]

31. Yep. And it is getting tiring.

I am currently in a hospital outpatient waiting room in a suburb of Chicago and people actually were laughing at Trump from the clip they played on the news.

[procon]

45. That's reassuring, glad I wasn't the only one laughing.

These little stunts, while shocking, only serve to show the public how deranged Trump really is. Hard to reconcile the image of Trump as a pouty, angst ridden, whiney school girl, with that of the 'most powerful man in the world' .

[misanthrope]

63. Bingo

More BS from the bloviator-in-chief.

[mokawanis]

26. Pelosi really got under his thin skin

poor little stupid crybaby.

[struggle4progress]

32. "I always find some drama a handy distraction from the issues of the day"

[BSdetect]

33. Denial after denial just like someone who is completely innocent. What a prat.

[smirkymonkey]

34. Sounds like Nancy owned him YET AGAIN.

Bwaahaahaahaahaha!

[MFGsunny]

36. Every day, 100 times a day .... go, Nancy, go!

Dumpster Fire Toddler in Chief is done and waaaaaaaaaaaaaay past his mental capacity.

He is bereft of ANY emotional intelligence (to be charitable) and we can expect
more and more intense breakdowns from this POtuS.

Take heart. Only the strong survive, and he ain't it.

Well played, Nancy, well played.

[lunasun]

38. Let him do his WWF stunt but Dems should call a press conference so the media will have a story

The people who come home to nightly news and listen for 10 mins need to hear he is creating theater that’s against their benefit
Not just the press but social media that he has told everyone to ignore supeonas re : the cover up yet the Dems were willing to go ahead and work on infrastructure and trade with trump at the same time as the investigation is ongoing but first of all it’s delayed by the WH not cooperating and second, the Dems see this as 2 separate reasons to meet with the WH but trump has used this as an excuse to call off all talks regarding infrastructure and trade
More presssers to call out his clownery

[librechik]

41. So does this mean we can finally use amendment 25?

..

[Martin Eden]

42. He's holding government business HOSTAGE ...

… and the RANSOM to be paid is stopping the investigations.

It's the desperate ploy of a guilty manbaby.

[yaesu]

46. I think he's rehearsing for his new NBC reality show after he gets the boot. nt

[Dave Starsky]

85. His TV career is finished.

Seventy percent of this country will never want to look at his ugly orange mug or hear his grating voice ever again.

[DFW]

47. Can't legislate and investigate at the same time?

There are over 200 Democrats in the House. I think they can manage it.

[GETPLANING]

48. It wasn't "abrupt."

It was a staged scene, complete with prepared signs waiting outside, along with a prepared speech.
Playing to the base as always, the most divisive, politically calculating president in our history.

[Texin]

49. I'll tell you what, the Joint Chiefs will likely bag his ass if he keeps it up.

[Nasruddin]

61. no

[11 Bravo]

52. He's been working hard to improve his attention span.

Baby steps.

[lapfog_1]

53. to be fair

trump doesn't cover-ups because they are so stupid they don't stay covered up for very long.

meeting about russian baby adoptions... really...LOL

[Doodley]

54. Trump had rehearsed his infantile temper tantrum

many times in advance, to ensure he didn't appear immature. It was a big FAIL

[safeinOhio]

56. Resign

That’ll teach em.

[Ferrets are Cool]

57. Is ANYONE surprised?

If you are, you should not be. This is THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. A petulant child that has the ability to fire nuclear missiles.

[LiberalLovinLug]

58. So will Pelosi finally see the light? See that its impossible to "negotiate" out of an impeachment?

[kentuck]

60. "Subpoenas! You can stick your subpoenas where the sun doesn't shine!"

"But you have to stop investigating me!"

[SunSeeker]

62. LOL. He is losing his shit!

[misanthrope]

65. Trump knows who stole the strawberries

[edbermac]

66. What did Nancy expect?

Link to tweet

[47of74]

67. Jesus what a fucking man baby

He can go fuck himself.

[left-of-center2012]

68. He pulled this stunt before, I think before the shutdown

At the time, news folks said it was a negotiating tactic he had used many times over the years.
His opponents would then shudder in fear and beg him to return.

It didn't work on the Dems last time and I doubt it will this time.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

71. The truth hurts

[Kablooie]

72. Trumpanzees will be proud as hell that their leader did something like this.

It will only increase their admiration for him.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

80. What a POS... add ANOTHER count of obstruction to the list!!

Just impeach MF45 already!!


Bernie & Elizabeth 2020!!!
Welcome to the revolution!!

[Dave Starsky]

83. The "Art of the Deal". n/t