The New York Times is soliciting our opinions on Trump

[Generic Other]

The president's flaws are well known to readers of many mainstream outlets. Our purpose with this feature, which will appear regularly in Sunday Review, is to present things the president has said or done that are praiseworthy. Any suggestions? Tell us at

[e-mail]



OK, I'll start: He hasn't bombed Canada yet.

[BSdetect]

1. He has not appeared in public with a KKK hood, yet.

[Generic Other]

2. OMG!!

You are right! Send that in for sure. We need to bury them in such backhanded small fingered vulgarian compliments.

[athena]

3. They are so biased.

Just look at the wording of their question. Would they have asked the same question if Hillary Clinton were president? Seriously, we're supposed to praise Trump? Who are they kidding?

This is one of the major reasons I no longer subscribe to the NYT. They are extremely biased in their editing of comments. They will allow the worst kinds of misogyny and right-wing propaganda, but they will refuse to publish anything that points out the hypocrisy of such propaganda.

[Generic Other]

5. Make it backfire on them

That's the best approach.

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. I just sent this -

You must be kidding!

How can anything positive be said about a lifetime ignorant narcissist who was "installed" illegally as our so-called president - he who is a racist, bigot, misogynist, racist - he whose main goal is to disassemble anything good about our country and take it back to a time that exists only in the twisted right wing's mind?

Well - the only good thing I can think of is that some day (hopefully very soon) he won't be our president any longer.

[athena]

6. They will never publish that.

They will consider it too incendiary. They allow all kinds of misogyny and bigotry in their comments, but when you call someone a misogynist or a bigot, they consider that a personal attack.

[NRaleighLiberal]

9. address doesn't work - mail got bounced back to me anyway

could care less if it is published - the message needs to be sent to THEM

[athena]

15. I agree.

I wasn't trying to discourage you. I'm just angry about all the thoughtful things I wrote in response to misogynistic and bigoted comments that went unpublished.

[athena]

21. It may be [e-mail] ?

I'm basing it on this:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/29/opinion/sunday/the-upside-to-the-presidential-twitter-feed.html

[pangaia]

31. You're right. That's the correct address...

[Generic Other]

10. Then we make them bag the stupid idea

because the comments scorch their denials.

[Generic Other]

7. Yay!

"Well - the only good thing I can think of is that some day (hopefully very soon) he won't be our president any longer."

That's the spirit!! DU activists to the rescue. Saving our country from itself.

[GP6971]

8. I subscribe to the times

but I'll pass on this one. Just stupid.

[Generic Other]

14. Of course it's stupid

The point is to cleverly undermine their crap.

[pangaia]

11. My comment:

My comment:

Is this a joke or something?
OK, I'll bite.

While he figuratively jerks off in public every day, he hasn't LITERALLY jerked off in public.......yet

[pangaia]

16. OK the email bounced back, LOL!!!

[Generic Other]

20. They already decided this was a mistake?

Oh my!

[hlthe2b]

12. His eating patterns are a blessing to the fast food industry (and the funeral industry) n/t

[MineralMan]

13. I'm afraid my opinion would be unprintable.

[Generic Other]

18. Creative Writing!

E-bomb the NYTimes.

[Achilleaze]

17. The Times is jumping the freaking republican shark with this shit

deplorable

[Generic Other]

19. BWAHAHAHAHA

Their servers should go down on this one!!

[Proud Liberal Dem]

22. I heard about this on my Twitter feed

Absolutely ridiculous. That they would have to use their readers to solicit "positive" things to say about Donald Trump should remind all of us how truly awful he is and how much he sucks at being President. Why should anybody be desperate to find nice things to say about him anyway. The media dug HARD during the Presidential election to find nice things to say about Donald Trump while smearing Hillary Clinton and when they couldn't find something good and reported something negative, they just created false equivalencies between things that he was accused of and things Hillary was accused and made them seem pretty much the same. Whoever is running this operation at the NYT really needs to go find something else to do. I have nothing nice to say about Donald Trump being President and never will.

[athena]

23. Here is what I sent:

BTW, I think it's [e-mail], not [e-mail].

Hello,

The nicest thing I can say about President Trump is that his presidency
may finally show conservatives how they've been played by the Republican
Party. People may finally realize that they've been lied to, and that the
party that really looks out for them is the Democratic Party.

Incidentally, you should ask yourselves whether you would ever have
published anything nice about Hillary Clinton had she been elected
president. An invitation to send positive comments about the president is
the sort of thing I would expect to read in the state-owned newspaper of a
dictatorship, not in the New York Times. Your job is to criticize those
in elected office to get them to do their jobs better, not to look for
ways to praise them.

I stopped being a subscriber a few months ago because I was annoyed by
your amazing bias in choosing which readers' comments to publish.
Anything that attacks women or liberals gets published. Any response
pointing out the hypocrisy of such an attack gets weeded out for being too
incendiary. Clearly, you think that it's more important to woo right-wing
extremists than to hold on to the women and liberals who have been loyal
to you for years. You will not get me back until you learn: (a) that misogyny is
not acceptable, in articles or in comments, and (b) that you are not the
propaganda branch of a dictatorship.

Sincerely,

athena

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

24. He doesn't own a dog or cat

that he could put on top of his airplane.

[wryter2000]

25. I told them

He was incompetent enough that he hasn't entirely ruined the country yet. Plus, he's really nice to Vladimir Putin.

[Solly Mack]

26. I offered them this...

Trump has not started a nuclear war with his steady stream of insulting tweets - yet.

Trump has not grabbed anyone by the pussy while in office - that we know of anyway.

Frito-Lay is pleased with the free advertising Trump brings to them through his use of crushed up Cheetos to color his face.

Trump has made American ignorance all the more acceptable.

Trump brings happiness to racist white people.

Trump has given men with abnormally tiny hands a reason to aspire to mediocrity.

Trump's hair is the next great breakthrough in personal body armor. Nothing penetrates it. Neither knowledge nor wisdom.

Trump's bulbous backside is matched only by his triple chins. With both, he has no equals.

Trump has made serial monogamy through adultery a "traditional family value". To be fair, Newt Gingrich did this first - but Trump has caused right-wing Christians to feel more comfortable in embracing this lifestyle choice by no longer being hobbled by the hypocrisy of it all.

Trump's dangerous disregard for the truth and facts has inspired the creation of "Say Something Nice" (about the third-rate circus barker in the WH) - a move that Fox News would describe as "fair and balanced". Kudos to the NYTimes for proving Trump right about being #FakeNews.

If there is anything nice to say about Trump it will be listed in his obituary - where the truth about a political figure is buried along with the body.

[SamKnause]

27. He doesn't have a single positive attribute as a human being or as president.

[MFM008]

28. I can't repeat

What I just sent them.
Except at the end when I said....
Now you know why I dropped you guys.

[demmiblue]

29. Heh... good luck with that!

[demmiblue]

30. A few from Twitter:

[mountain grammy]

32. Fuck trump..

nicest thing I can think of.

[BlueStater]

33. I like that he'll die someday.

That's all I got.

[TheBlackAdder]

34. He's got a commodity that his customers and supporters want.

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[Madam45for2923]

35. He is busy golfing and therefore not Presidenting most weekends!

Good.