Newt Gingrich - Trump doesn't want to use "drain the swamp" anymore

[underpants]

"I'm told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn't want to use it anymore," Gingrich, who informally advises Trump, said Wednesday on NPR's "Morning Edition."

During his campaign, Trump repeatedly vowed to "drain the swamp" -- leading chants of the phrase at his rallies -- part of an anti-establishment, anti-Washington message that was predicated on rooting out corruption and bringing an outsider's perspective to government.

"I personally have a sense of humor, like the alligator and swamp language," Gingrich said. "I think it vividly illustrates the problem, because all the people in this city who are alligators are going to hate the swamp being drained. And there's going to be constant fighting over it."

Still, Gingrich -- a DC fixture himself -- sounded ready to drop the phrase as well. "You know, he is my leader, and if he decides to drop the swamp and the alligator, I will drop the swamp and the alligator."

http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/21/politics/newt-gingrich-trump-drain-the-swamp/

[Tommy_Carcetti]

1. Alligators are magnificent creatures that have been around for millions of years.

[potone]

2. Could somebody please explain to me...

why we are still having to see this repulsive man's face and hear his voice? He hasn't been Speaker of the House for many years, and his own congressional district voted him out of office. Why why why does the media continue to give him attention?

[C_U_L8R]

3. "I personally have a sense of humor"

No Newt, you don't.

[unblock]

5. actually, he does! first, in the sense that he's always been a big joke.

second, just how many times did he say "drain the swamp", "swamp", and "alligators" while saying if my leader tells me to stop saying it, i'll stop saying it?

[underpants]

6. That's a nod to "liberals are sad"

Big talking point on the right. Libs are sad solemn shoe gazers etc.

That's how I took that comment.

[gratuitous]

4. Well, we'll get right on that, Newtie

Since The Great Pretender doesn't want us to say "drain the swamp" anymore, we'll be sure not to say "drain the swamp," unless it's really necessary to say "drain the swamp" and remind Trump's voters that he was saying all through his campaign.

Did these people stop maturing when they hit 7, or what?

[JudyM]

7. Gee, I can't imagine why they're retiring the phrase now.

Con artists.

[Solly Mack]

8. Grasping and obsequious.

Arms flailing; hands pawing at the memory of what might have been.

A broken-down lickspittle trying desperately to avoid oblivion by attaching the paltry remains of his impoverished self-respect to the damaged psyche of a human specter going to his grave craving the love of a man who saw in his son all the failings of a father who could not bear to touch the mirror he created.