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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWow. Still can't quite believe what I saw & heard from Pence, Trumpdump, & that audience at the CIA
First of all, I almost feel more pity than disgust for Mike Pence, with that nauseatingly obsequious intro for DT. I don't think we've ever had a VP who so clearly realized his actual title is Brown-noser-in-Chief. He's getting perilously close to building an altar to the Great Orange God and sacrificing his own family on it. He's certainly sacrificed any shred of credibility he ever had.
And Pence seems to be having some breathing problems now, similar to Trumpdump's.
Second of all, DT is if anything getting crazier by the day -- more rambling, more narcissistic, more delusional.
Third of all, and most disappointing -- who in the audience was doing all the slavish clapping and cheering? It's hard for me to believe real CIA employees would be sounding like the paid Trump staffers who made so much noise during the Orange One's last press conference. I did notice that the people standing between the camera and Trump weren't, apparently, among those making so much noise.
Phoenix61
(17,021 posts)The same ones that were at the news conference he gave.
kennetha
(3,666 posts)I think some Trump staffers were in the audience just like at his first "press conference" aka campaign rally.
I bet the CIA operatives in the room were flabbergasted by what they heard.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,894 posts)pkdu
(3,977 posts)anneboleyn
(5,611 posts)the CIA today (I have written posts about the significance of the stars which trump didn't even mention), and don't be fooled by the easy gimmick of planting a few loud pro-trump plants. He has already done this numerous times as in the recent press conference debacle. The CIA was not yelling and applauding for trump.
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)I saw the stars when I visited CIA HQ once, long ago. I was struck by that loss--and the fact that the names can't even be acknowledged. Trump standing before those stars, oblivious to them as he bragged about himself, was mind-blowing.
spanone
(135,898 posts)Initech
(100,107 posts)Nobody is more behind the intelligence community than I am. Because I am the greatest American alive. This is true. This is true, OK?
Shit, he talks like a 4 year old.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)With tweets abt his buying audiences....even at the CIA
Wounded Bear
(58,737 posts)so obviously, none of them have read his tweets, right? No way they know he dissed them.
mr_tyberious
(5 posts)Reminded me of the scene in the movie... alsso like when Pense aeemed to laugh aloud when he refernced how great DT is at strategic thinking.
[link:http://www.google.com/search?q=i+actually+feel+dumber+for+having+listened&client=ms-android-sprint-us&prmd=insv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiy9pinktTRAhVHyoMKHVfNC00Q_AUIBygB&biw=383&bih=616#imgrc=ABsCf0mzFTBf5M%3A|
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)"And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence
(Simon and Garfunkel)
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)making all the noise:
https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/822913519783911426
riversedge
(70,346 posts)a sack of shit coming from his mouth. Trump worships Gen Flynn, that is obvious.
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)hunter
(38,337 posts)You can almost smell it oozing out of his closet.
If he ever crosses them they will destroy him.
He'll be a well behaved puppet, just the way the Republican Party likes them.
Theirs is a party held together by dirty secrets and threats of mutual assured destruction.
highplainsdem
(49,044 posts)KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Old Vet
(2,001 posts)It was a very emotional intro...