Da fuq? I can't even with this asshole.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

Link to tweet

Kevin Whitelaw? @KevinWhitelaw1 · 14m14 minutes ago

Trump said he saw Vindman’s actions as “very insubordinate” and claimed that when Vindman was removed from the White House “many people in the building started applauding.”

12:22 PM - 13 Feb 2020

Sure, Donnie.

And after that, everyone came up one by one and pledged his or her undying fidelity to Comrade Stali--err, I mean Trump.

[Heartstrings]

1. I've always wondered

who all these “people” he speaks of are?? Voices in is head....imaginary friends? 🤷🏻?♀️

[hibbing]

3. The same ones that call him sir and start crying n/t

[spanone]

2. That's because trump has filled the White House with certified Assholes.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Yep, I heard it all myself......

they formed a line and went up to him, one by one, knelt and kissed his "ring" and said, "Sir, thank you, thank you, thank you!"

[Hermit-The-Prog]

16. reminds me of Saddam ...

Your description reminds me of a news clip I saw during Gulf War 1: An Iraqi soldier genuflected in front of Saddam Hussein, then kissed his hand (or might have been a ring).

Same shit, different setting.

trumPutin and his flunkies need to be in prison.

[chowder66]

5. I'm pretty sure they would have been applauding his courage for speaking out. nt

[CaptYossarian]

6. Here are the many people:

Pence, Ivanka and Jared, Eric and liddle Donnie Jr.

Nobody else mattered.

[CatMor]

7. According to trump....

people working in the White House seem to spend most of their time applauding and cheering trump for his actions. I like to imagine what they do when his substantial back is turned is say goddamn what an asshole he is.

[CaptYossarian]

8. Watch the Nazi officers on Hogan's Heroes when Adolf is mentioned.

It is a true cult.

"No other Gods"? That's one of the Ten Commandments.

But he's violated 9 out of 10--He does honor his mother and KKK father.

Absolutely sick. Right, Franklin Graham and Jerry Jr.?

[CatMor]

9. I think he violated all ten commandments ...

he dishonored his mother and father by being born. That was the biggest sin of all.

[JHB]

10. Mandatory enthusiam displays have become standard staff practice?

Or just his reflexive BS?

Normally I'd say the latter, but at this point...

[k2qb3]

11. "Lots of people" means Trump himself.

That's the code. That's populism according to Trump.

"Lots of people don't know that" = I just learned that five minutes ago.

"Lots of people think" = I just heard this on FOX and it fits my biases.

etc.

[Celerity]

15. This

[smirkymonkey]

12. I honestly think that he lives in his own little fantasy world most of the time.

I wonder if the long term drug use are capable of causing a psychotic break where he imagines things that aren't there, but perceives it as reality. I'm serious. See article below. It's actually a thing. There are a number of articles on the topic.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/some-adhd-meds-may-increase-risk-of-psychosis-study-finds/

Not only that, but the guy has pretty much been able to manufacture his own reality his entire life, with or without drugs. The problem is that he so effective at convincing such a large segment of the population that his psychotic reality is the only truth there is. His sickness is become a societal mental illness.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Donald Trump: L'Etat, C'est Moi

From nearly 3 years ago:

Yet a consistent idea manages to poke through the delirious rambling. Trump repeatedly affirmed his conviction that the entire federal government ought to be operated for his personal benefit.

Trump expressed this idea by returning several times to the phrase “conflict of interest.” Trump himself is of course the most personally conflicted president in modern American history. He has maintained a vast, undisclosed business empire and openly used his powers in office to enrich himself. But he does not mention this conflict of interest. Instead he applies the phrase to any law-enforcement official who might potentially get in his way.

The headline of the story was Trump’s anger that Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from an investigation into the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. The cause of the recusal flows self-evidently from basic legal principles. Sessions played a key role in the Trump campaign, so obviously he can’t conduct an investigation into it. In Trump’s mind, though, it is obvious that managing the investigation into the Trump campaign is the very thing his handpicked Attorney General ought to do:

Jeff Sessions takes the job, gets into the job, recuses himself. I then have — which, frankly, I think is very unfair to the president. How do you take a job and then recuse yourself? If he would have recused himself before the job, I would have said, “Thanks, Jeff, but I can’t, you know, I’m not going to take you.”

...
Six months into his presidency, foundational republican concepts remain as foreign as ever to Trump. He believes the entire federal government owes its personal loyalty to him, and that the office of the presidency is properly a vehicle for personal and familial enrichment. If the rule of law survives this era intact, it will only be because the president is too inept to undermine it.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/07/donald-trump-ltat-cest-moi.html

[tblue37]

14. Big strong men, calling Trump "sir," with tears running down their eyes. nt