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* * * Trump "Returning to Work" Town Hall on FOX News Thread #1* * * (Original Post) GriffenRamsey May 2020 OP
Break out the... Newest Reality May 2020 #1
I'm smoking and mocking.... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #2
I saw the intro... Newest Reality May 2020 #4
I think it will reveal strategy. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #8
Me too.lll Newest Reality May 2020 #10
Gin and Tonic installed. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #6
Do all the women at Fox have to be blonde? n/t Yavin4 May 2020 #3
Yes. Crunchy Frog May 2020 #5
The hair color is optional, but they have to have desks with no front panel maxrandb May 2020 #7
Gov. Hogan who has his test kits under guard from Jarad's henchmen. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #9
Why is Trump late to his own show? n/t Yavin4 May 2020 #11
Are you suggesting we watch this? spinbaby May 2020 #12
I don't have enough Alacritous Crier May 2020 #13
You'll Newest Reality May 2020 #16
ha! GriffenRamsey May 2020 #18
Oh, why not have commercials? Newest Reality May 2020 #14
Sponsored by Leaf Filter Gutter Protection GreatCaesarsGhost May 2020 #15
And... Newest Reality May 2020 #17
Really bad optics Yavin4 May 2020 #19
I saw Abe throw up a little bit in his mouth jpak May 2020 #49
Total waste of time RainCaster May 2020 #20
African Americans are at risk. How about we protect those people? GriffenRamsey May 2020 #21
More help coming he says. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #22
That was sooooo helpful, huh? Newest Reality May 2020 #35
Implication... Newest Reality May 2020 #23
100,000 people new expectation... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #24
Yep. -- nt Alacritous Crier May 2020 #26
Ah... Newest Reality May 2020 #25
More nobody ever hyperbole... Newest Reality May 2020 #27
Testing.... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #28
It gets Newest Reality May 2020 #29
I'm reading Front Row at the Trump Show. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #30
Good image. Newest Reality May 2020 #32
We are the King of ventilators!!! Newest Reality May 2020 #31
Teachers, well first, we bankrupt cities so you are all fired... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #33
He is bankrupting states and cities. Teacher are about to get fired. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #34
Encouraging school in the fall... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #36
Blame dems now... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #37
Oh, no... Newest Reality May 2020 #38
PDB - Pivoted to the china closure. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #40
Well, Newest Reality May 2020 #39
astounding. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #42
Biden's apology? Newest Reality May 2020 #41
Never even heard about it before now. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #43
He pulls these things Newest Reality May 2020 #45
Blame those bad, Newest Reality May 2020 #44
Me me me me!!! jpak May 2020 #46
I would take a drink each time he lies... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #48
At this point... Newest Reality May 2020 #47
He knows it is divided... Newest Reality May 2020 #50
Just had... Newest Reality May 2020 #51
Remember, the question was how are you promoting unity. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #52
Is there a reason for broadcasting from the Lincoln Memorial? Totally Tunsie May 2020 #53
It's a tactic... Newest Reality May 2020 #56
The Party of Lincoln dontcha' know. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #62
Yeah. Newest Reality May 2020 #64
From the perspective of his handlers, damn right it was necessary lol... Volaris May 2020 #92
He struggles... Newest Reality May 2020 #54
He looks extra "tanned" GriffenRamsey May 2020 #55
"I call it the plaugue..." Newest Reality May 2020 #57
1917 Newest Reality May 2020 #58
Well, its just fluffed bullshit parfait... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #59
Commercial break... Newest Reality May 2020 #60
ha ha ha... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #61
Q-Tip and Munchkin up next... Newest Reality May 2020 #63
Are Putter people plants? GriffenRamsey May 2020 #65
Evading question... Newest Reality May 2020 #66
Airlines are far fro saved. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #67
Nope. Not watching. Squinch May 2020 #68
oooo. Newest Reality May 2020 #69
yep. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #70
What do you mean? LuvLoogie May 2020 #83
A lady reprimanded him, Newest Reality May 2020 #85
Trailing off now... Newest Reality May 2020 #71
He's in full-on rally lie mode now. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #73
Yup! Newest Reality May 2020 #77
Space Force! GriffenRamsey May 2020 #72
Well, Newest Reality May 2020 #74
He needs this. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #78
On Biden now... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #75
Letter lie... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #76
Lincoln's had enough... Alacritous Crier May 2020 #79
I wonder if those questions are live or canned? Newest Reality May 2020 #80
Trump blows off the first AA to ask a question tonight jpak May 2020 #81
$40-billion from Japan? Newest Reality May 2020 #82
America First? Newest Reality May 2020 #84
Break... Newest Reality May 2020 #86
May be preoccupied... Newest Reality May 2020 #88
Was I supposed to take Ernesto for the High Blood Potassium? GriffenRamsey May 2020 #89
payroll tax cut is still in his head... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #87
OK, it's totally fucked up to broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial. Totally. Fucked. Up. Alex4Martinez May 2020 #90
I'm done jpak May 2020 #91
I would only watch that shit if I knew for sure that Abe was going to get up off his chair, GoCubsGo May 2020 #93
yes... GriffenRamsey May 2020 #94

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
1. Break out the...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:00 PM
May 2020

Break out the hamberders, KFC and Diet Cokes. Give him a lounge chair and big screen TV, oh, and his cell phone and it's BACK TO WORK!

How can he stand the grueling job?

 

GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
2. I'm smoking and mocking....
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:02 PM
May 2020

...and maybe drinking.

They started with a Trump ad. Definitely drinking.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
4. I saw the intro...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:05 PM
May 2020

I don't know if I can continue, it's like watching Pravda. The propaganda reeks and is strong with these.

Oh, and we all know: You will do much better NOT taking any advice from a known liar looking to be re-elected.

Oh, well, I will try

Enjoy your drinks. At some point it might get funny or fuzzy.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
10. Me too.lll
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:09 PM
May 2020

I mean, of course, that is if you look to facts and experts.

I suggest an alternative title for this town hall: Putting Lipstick on a Pig: The President tells us why that's very pretty.

maxrandb

(17,428 posts)
7. The hair color is optional, but they have to have desks with no front panel
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:06 PM
May 2020

It helps to determine if they are natural blondes.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
16. You'll
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:15 PM
May 2020

You'll just miss thick, RW propaganda. Feel good, lalala! Oh, and all the companies that want to cash in big on it.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
14. Oh, why not have commercials?
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:13 PM
May 2020

Think of the dangers of cleaning your won gutters!!!

Yeah, that's a constant worry I have during a pandemic.

RainCaster

(13,717 posts)
20. Total waste of time
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:16 PM
May 2020

I waited through 5 minutes of adverts, then decided I had better things to do.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
35. That was sooooo helpful, huh?
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:34 PM
May 2020

A prophet!

More like, you will be lucky if you are not hungry and homeless because there maybe help coming, but we aren't going to give to you.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
23. Implication...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:20 PM
May 2020

We are going to do more, but he avoids saying what, how and when.

Talk about empty rhetoric. Everything is implied, if anything, even after the first question about a personal catastrophe.

Oh, and he sits there making the vagina/heart lap hands.

 

GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
28. Testing....
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:25 PM
May 2020

He is struggling to answer and maintain his dismissive demeanor with all these death statistics and body bags.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
29. It gets
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:25 PM
May 2020

It gets to the point where you already know what he is going to say and it is mostly fudging and equivocation as well as the German tactic: repeat the lies over and over and they will believe them.

No change. He is obviously feigning any concern.

 

GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
30. I'm reading Front Row at the Trump Show.
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:27 PM
May 2020

He kinda reminds me of that fortune-teller robot, Zoltar. He has a little tape-loop of phrases at any given time.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
31. We are the King of ventilators!!!
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:28 PM
May 2020

Sheesh. The King speaks in monarch terms.

He is also back to putting other's down and projecting what he has done/not done on them.

 

GriffenRamsey

(181 posts)
36. Encouraging school in the fall...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:35 PM
May 2020

Want to take a bet right now on what percentage of schools open up? 50% I'm thinking.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
45. He pulls these things
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:40 PM
May 2020

He pulls these things magically out of his butt.

Reality TV show. Some people just don't know how much practice he has had all his life.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
47. At this point...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:44 PM
May 2020

During the commercials...

He has really said little as far as being specific, so the gullible followers who only hear their Master's Voice will come away with a good President. It's just a confidence man gaslighting session. This happened, this didn't happen, blah!

Totally Tunsie

(11,853 posts)
53. Is there a reason for broadcasting from the Lincoln Memorial?
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:47 PM
May 2020

Was it this necessary for Chump to get his lardass out of the WH?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
56. It's a tactic...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:51 PM
May 2020

The gullible will see: Lincoln? Trump? Equivalence.

It is also a subliminal in a sense. Environment frames the conversation and subject.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
64. Yeah.
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:02 PM
May 2020

I don't think he considered having even tinier hands by comparison. The wide shots make them look microscopic now next to Lincoln.

Volaris

(11,705 posts)
92. From the perspective of his handlers, damn right it was necessary lol...
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:36 PM
May 2020

The last time he spent 2 weeks in the same building he went on national television n told his own citizens to INJECT LYSOL INTO THEMSELVES.

So yeah. from that very myopic point of view, this was ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY hahaha...

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
54. He struggles...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:48 PM
May 2020

He struggles for adjectives and descriptions, but only has a few words to repeat several times...just to make the point.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
60. Commercial break...
Sun May 3, 2020, 07:58 PM
May 2020

Basically, the wrap up so far: nothing very specific about what will be done was said and I would cite a Cuomo briefing as an a example of facts, reality and actions taken.

Oh, but we do know that climbing ladders to clean your gutters can be dangerous.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
66. Evading question...
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:06 PM
May 2020

No real answer to it. Alludes to helping them personally. Maybe there is something we can do?

Help? LOL!

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
69. oooo.
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:09 PM
May 2020

He just got reprimanded.

He thinks he likes that question.

Poor me. The hostility! Treated worse. Disgraceful reporters.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
85. A lady reprimanded him,
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:24 PM
May 2020

about his rude behavior, especially to the press and asked him if he was going to tone it down.

He said, poor me!

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
71. Trailing off now...
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:11 PM
May 2020

He can't control it. Killing time with rambling and what a hostile press.

It wasn't a question. She was telling him to knock off the attitude.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
77. Yup!
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:14 PM
May 2020

The same pattern.

It really is about: What was he talking about? What was the answer, again?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
74. Well,
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:13 PM
May 2020

He can't stay with a question and just wanders into his game show rhetoric to evade it. He leaves you lost and going, what?

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
82. $40-billion from Japan?
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:20 PM
May 2020

I can't find anything about that, just a reference to building plants here, not a payment.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
84. America First?
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:22 PM
May 2020

Talk to the multi-national companies that exploit cheap labor about that.

Pipe dream fantasy talk. Irrelevant on the global economic front. Those corporations have no flag.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
86. Break...
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:26 PM
May 2020

Well, personally, what I have gathered about going back to work or whatever is found in...

We must be very careful climbing ladders and call someone to clean our gutters, and there are drugs we should be taking for other reasons.

Everybody look at your ladders and gutters. Think twice and you may make it back to work someday.

Newest Reality

(12,712 posts)
88. May be preoccupied...
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:28 PM
May 2020

That was the gist of it and I expect more of the same from Q-tip and Munchkin.

Oh, payroll tax cut! Going for SS, etc., of course.

Alex4Martinez

(3,332 posts)
90. OK, it's totally fucked up to broadcast from the Lincoln Memorial. Totally. Fucked. Up.
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:29 PM
May 2020

There is nothing that he touches that doesn't come away with a stink.

And I hope everyone remembers four years ago when it was thought there was no way this fucktwit could be elect.

How dare he.




GoCubsGo

(34,915 posts)
93. I would only watch that shit if I knew for sure that Abe was going to get up off his chair,
Sun May 3, 2020, 08:38 PM
May 2020

step down, and squash those motherfuckers into the ground like a cigarette butt.

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