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NightWatcher

(39,376 posts)
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:27 AM May 2017

11:26 CNN "He sounded so presidential"

Then the guy admits that he accomplished this by reading and not tweeting crazy shit. "He didn't sound like the guy at the end of the bar".

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bmpbmp

(310 posts)
2. Bob Schaeffer is better than that.
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:30 AM
May 2017

I'm sick of that normalization narrative.

"Wow! When Trump talks like a President, he sounds like a President!"

Problem is he doesn't talk like a President, nor act like one, ALL the time.

He'll always be a lying turdball idiot to me.

PatSeg

(52,938 posts)
8. Whenever Trump
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:38 AM
May 2017

speaks in complete sentences (usually reading a teleprompter) and doesn't say something offensive, some in the media declare him "presidential". They such a low bar for future presidents. They should all be ashamed of themselves.

Trump is the same petty, vulgar narcissist he's always been and he is only getting worse by the day.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(130,098 posts)
3. Trump has set the bar for presidentialness about as low as it can go.
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:31 AM
May 2017

If he manages to read an entire speech from a script without ad-libbing insults or bragging about his yuugest inaugural audience ever he's called "presidential."

"Not sounding like the guy at the end of the bar" is what passes for presidential these days, I guess.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
7. Yes, the bar is now that low. Because he didn't drool and make
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:36 AM
May 2017

farting noises with his armpits, he is "presidential". What an effing joke!

JHB

(38,120 posts)
9. "Didn't sound like the guy at the end of the bar"? Well, THAT bar is so low...
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:42 AM
May 2017

...you need an archeologist to find it.

blogslut

(39,132 posts)
14. Les unpack that.
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:56 AM
May 2017

BLOTUS is being complemented for occasionally doing what a president is supposed to do.

CrispyQ

(40,874 posts)
15. Hello, McFly! You guys fell for this once before, remember?
Sun May 21, 2017, 10:59 AM
May 2017

And before the week was even out, he was back to twitler Trump again.

Tanuki

(16,397 posts)
16. Donald's moronic fans also thought Melania sounded like a devout Christian when
Sun May 21, 2017, 11:01 AM
May 2017

she intoned, "Let us pray," and proceeded to read the Lord's Prayer from a cheat sheet at one of his post-election pep rallies. MAVA---Make America Vomit Again.

 

triron

(22,240 posts)
19. MSM has been long complicit in promoting this monster.
Sun May 21, 2017, 11:29 AM
May 2017

It is they who now have sunk to his level.

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