Guys, I was all ready to accept Sally Yates's testimony today as true. I really was.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

But then, Trump tweeted the hashtag #FakeNews and it reminded me that, yeah, nothing that the media* ever reports on Donald Trump could ever possibly be true.

Because after all, he's Donald Trump. The Donald! And he's classy.

And if there's anything at all we know about classy people, it's that they won't lie to you. And anyone who says anything bad about them has to be lying by that logic, right?


*Fox News and Breitbart excluded, obvs

[chelsea0011]

1. We have a lunatic running the country

[still_one]

2. and a republican congress who enables him

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. And 60 million Americans who want a lunatic, who believe

a lunatic who gives them a tax cut equal to $300 a year is worth risking all life as we know it.

[Cosmocat]

17. THIS is the issue

three plus decades of republicans via their conservative propaganda machine so effectively head shrunk this country that made it possible to have this POS elected is the issue here.

AND, it isn't just the 1/3 so brainwashed they voted for him, it is the 1/3 that sat it out because "they are both the same" or some such disaffection.

[madokie]

18. A three year old one at that

We seen what a good man can do now we get to see what a man child will do

[Stellar]

19. And a bunch of lunatics that voted for him...

and they think he's doing well.

[FakeNoose]

4. Tommy you missed something

The hashtag Fake News means it's *his tweets* - they're the fake news.

The Donald hasn't been classy since about 1985.

[Lotusflower70]

7. Say what?

Has he ever been classy? I think you are giving him way too much credit. I love that gif though.

[FakeNoose]

8. OK well, I just made it up

I figured maybe he was OK before he got mixed up with the Russians.

[Lotusflower70]

10. Haha nice

Nope. He was still a douchebag saying dumb shit.

[Blindingly apparent]

14. 1990s television show "designing women" was giving trump hell way back then

Julia Sugarbaker in one scene was calling him out for being sexist and crude when they both met in a restaurant where they both happen to be eating

[yallerdawg]

5. I was watching C-SPAN broadcast a Congressional hearing.

How is there any FAKE NEWS attached to a camera watching former public servants and now citizens testify under oath?

A thing I assume we will one day see the FAKE PRECEDENT do!

Soon! Real soon!!!

[maxrandb]

6. Me too, until I saw Greta's show

Got to hand it to her. I've seen cats trying to bury their shit on a linoleum floor that didn't spin as much as she did

[The_Casual_Observer]

9. Watch trump send 50,000 troops to Afghanistan as a diversion now.

[FakeNoose]

11. Oh God don't say that!

I realize you said this in jest, but don't even give Cheeto 45 any ideas.

I'm from the Vietnam era, so I usually over-react to this kind of thing.

[The_Casual_Observer]

13. I'm not kidding. Something along those lines is coming.

[muriel_volestrangler]

15. Indeed - here it is (not those numbers, I suppose):

U.S. poised to expand military effort against Taliban in Afghanistan

[greymattermom]

20. Do they have that many extra troops?

The economy is doing well now. What I see and what will change things (again) is to reintroduce the draft. Cheeto eaters may not qualify, though.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. I don't think a draft will be introduced in a Western country

The countries that do have compulsory military service are moving away from it, and modern professional armies don't want to have to train loads of unwilling recruits. Sheer numbers of infantry are no longer seen as an important military tool. It's a leftover from the days of trench warfare, controlling empires, and cold war proxy fights.

[NCTraveler]

12. He tags the end of his tweets like that...

So they can't later be used against him in court.

[mnmoderatedem]

16. "Fox News and Breitbart excluded"

ironic since he got his fake Obama wiretapping story from Breitbart and his fake British intelligence involvement from Fox News.

Fake news indeed.