Trump Maneuvers To Protect Robert E. Lee's Name In Secretly Recorded Phone Call

[Nevilledog]

https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/trump-inhofe-recorded-call-robert-e-lee-cancel-culture-bullshit-024450751.html

President Donald Trump dismissed the “bullshit” of the effects of cancel culture as he negotiated with a senator to preserve the name of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at military installations, according to a recording of a phone conversation given to The New York Times.

Sen. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) put Trump on speakerphone at an Italian restaurant in Washington, D.C., as the men talked politics Wednesday night. The conversation was overheard and recorded by “someone in the room,” the Times reported Thursday.

“All right, my friend,” said Trump. “Are you doing good? We’re going to keep the name of Robert E. Lee?”

Inhofe responded on the tape: “Just trust me. I’ll make it happen.”

Trump piped up: “I had about 95,000 positive retweets on that. That’s a lot.”

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[Fiendish Thingy]

1. Only delaying the inevitable by 6 months nt

[BGBD]

2. forming policy

by the number of Russian bots who liked your twitter post......

We have to beat this guy.

[RT Atlanta]

4. amen

the fact that his proverbial finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing are tweets is just fucked up....

[IllinoisBirdWatcher]

3. Hope someone posts the audio. n/t

[Maraya1969]

6. The audio is at the link but I don't know how to just get that.

[5X]

5. How stupid is it first off to be eating out in a restaraunt,

second: putting dotard on speakerphone in public (if you are on his side).

guess inhofe is stupider than I thought.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

10. Speakerphone at a restaurant is a whole 'nuther level of "rude".

Look at me.

Hey, look at me.

I'm talking with the president.

The president of the united states is talking to me.

Am I important, or what!

Look at me.

[Blue Owl]

7. 95,000 retweets -- what is that, like .0003 percent of the U.S. population?

Wow Donny, impressive math skills you have there...

[maxrandb]

8. It's quite substantially less once you deduct all the Russian GRU Bots

[Takket]

12. Most of his followers are Russian bots

They retweet him to expand his online presence.

So even 95k is really more like 40k of legit MAGAts

[dalton99a]

9. Traitor protects traitor

[GoCubsGo]

11. Traitors of a feather flock together.

Trump, Inhofe, the whole fucking lot of them...

[jcgoldie]

13. retweets are dictating policy

Well thats pretty solid.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

14. K&R