Trump plans personal touch for Oval Office wall

[brooklynite]

Source: Politico

President-elect Donald Trump is planning to make some artistic changes to the Oval Office that reflect his fascination with his own unexpected victory.

Trump has told friends he plans to hang in the Oval Office a personal letter written to him in 1987 by President Richard Nixon that predicted his eventual win.

The letter was sent to the developer after first lady Pat Nixon saw Trump interviewed on television and thought to herself, a political star is born.

“Dear Donald,” the bizarrely prescient correspondence from Nixon, dated Dec. 21, 1987, reads. “I did not see the program, but Mrs. Nixon told me that you were great on the Donahue Show. As you can imagine, she is an expert on politics and she predicts that whenever you decide to run for office you will be a winner!”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/12/richard-nixon-letter-oval-office-wall-232517

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...because someone's ego needs continual stroking.

[WhiteTara]

1. If we like predictions, here's one

Here are 13 predictions that Baba Vanga made for 2016 and the future
https://www.yahoo.com/news/heres-what-baba-vanga-predicted-for-2016-and-the-192833607.html?ref=gs

She is called the Nostradamus of the Balkans, and with good reason. Baba, Vanga, the blind Bulgarian clairvoyant, who died 20 years ago, is believed to have predicted the rise of the ISIS, the fall of the twin towers, the 2004 Tsunami, and the global warming, among a host of other events. “Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds.“ “The wolves will be howling in a bush and innocent blood will gush,” is, according to her followers, what she said about the fall of the twin towers.

Born as Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, in Strumica, Macedonia, Baba Vanga, mysteriously lost her eyesight when she was 12, during a massive storm. She went missing for a few days, and it is during one of these days, that she had her first vision. Baba Vanga rose to popularity as she started to make predictions, and developed a healing touch, during the World War II. Several dignitaries visited the mystic during the years that she was active, including the Bulgarian tsar, Boris III. Before she died in 1996 from breast cancer, she had said that her gift would be passed on to a 10 year old girl, living in France, who will then take on from her. Her house has since been converted into a museum.

Here are 13 predictions that the Blind Baba made for 2016 and beyond:

Barack Obama will be the last president of the US: Baba Vanga had predicted that the 44th US president would be an African American, but she had also added that he would be the last one. According to her, he would leave office at a time when the country would be in economic ruins, and there would be a huge divide between the northern and southern states – as was the case during the American Civil War.

[7962]

16. Well, obviously she's wrong about Pres Obama. We're not in "economic ruin"

And there will be a #45.
Kind of contradicts herself with Europe though, she says it will cease to exist by this year yet also says the muslims will invade it.
Although her prediction of the invasion of Europe seems to be in progress

[Pachamama]

2. Please, please....make it stop....

...I can't take much more of this narcissistic sociopath....

Please make this a really bad nightmare that is going to end soon and I will wake up and it will be sunny out and this will be over...and it was all just a bad dream....

[BeyondGeography]

3. A letter from the last President to be impeached, IOW

Last edited Mon Dec 12, 2016, 06:38 PM - Edit history (1)

Call the irony police.

On edit, forced out of office.

[rurallib]

5. from one corrupt MFer to another

thick as thieves I think the old saying is.

[alphafemale]

9. Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.

The last President to be impeached was Clinton.

And like the only other President to be impeached, Andrew Johnson, he survived it.

Nixon would have soundly lost in an impeachment hearing.

[alphafemale]

10. And I think Trump will be impeached within the first year.

And it will get ugly.

Because he will NOT go quietly.

[BeyondGeography]

13. Very ugly

And thanks for the clarification above. I was so excited when Nixon resigned. My father less so; our relationship never really recovered. R's know how to hold a grudge, I tell ya.

[JohnnyRingo]

19. I agree, and Republicans will pile on.

Let's face it, Trump is not the party's choice for president. As soon as Democrats introduce articles of impeachment, key Republicans will jump on board to ensure a Pence White House. If the impeachment is widely bipartisan, Trump will have no choice but to exit, quietly or not.

Mike Pence could never have won this election on his own, but as it was he was largely ignored while the human tweetstorm danced in the spotlight.

[yallerdawg]

4. Oprah in '88 - I don't know what to say...

[Angry Dragon]

6. and a Golden Throne

[MotorCityMan]

30. I was expecting one of the singing fish things on his wall

Next to a Playboy centerfold.

[They_Live]

31. And a football... and a live eagle...and a taco bowl....

yep.

[Angry Dragon]

32. I believe he married one of those!!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. Donald Trump, the son that Nixon never had . . . . . .

(same with Roy Cohn . . . )

[jmowreader]

8. He's also going to put the six-foot painting of himself in there

If he starts having the heads of the statues around DC replaced with his own, someone please arrest him and banish him to Supermax for all our good.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

24. And a bust of his BFF

[SticksnStones]

11. Please tell me this is fake news

He can't be that tone deaf!

SMH

[blue neen]

12. What? A hammer and sickle?

Perhaps a red star....

[neverforget]

17. Russian flag and a portrait of Putin his bestest bud

[blue neen]

23. Gigantic fur hats.

Oh wait, that's Donald's hair.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Here's Donald's desk chair.

[NastyRiffraff]

15. Is his golden throne going to be there too?

And that huge portrait of him that he bought with his foundation's donor money.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Yes, he's a chip off the Nixon block

If there's one thing Pat Nixon had, it was an eye for picking great American statesmen.

[Raine1967]

20. As much as I despised W, he at least had the ability to appear humble. That goes for every

President in my aware lifetime. I was born in 1967. My memory of Nixon is no memory at all. I was in the fifth grade asking for my classmates to vote for Carter.

The more I think about this, the more I realize that EVERY president in my lifetime showed humility at the awesome job that the people gave him. Agree or disagree with the politics -- they showed humility.

This guy?

Not so much.

This OP is proof positive of it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Nixon was a crook, but at least he usually behaved himself in public.

As unsavory a character as he was, Trump has him beat by many miles.

[Wabbajack_]

21. Is that letter real?

Ick...just....ick.

[AC_Mem]

22. gee hanging the endorsement

Of one of the most corrupt presidents of our lifetime... Good grief!

[tinrobot]

25. Of all the Presidents, he picks Nixon.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Yup, go figure.

Most GOPers prefer not to talk about Nixon, for good reason. But Trump is impressed only by the fact that Nixon said something positive about him, which is all that matters. All the sleaze that came out during the Watergate hearings isn't important; Nixon wrote a letter praising Trump so Nixon is good.

[Sunlei]

28. He hates the white house, its full of old museum furniture he can't throw away.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

29. Or spray-paint gold. His Baroque whorehouse style of interior decorating

will not be allowed by the agency that oversees the historical preservation of the White House. Of course, he could disband that agency, too, and hire whoever decorated Saddam Hussein's palace. Liberace's designer might be too conservative.

[lunatica]

33. I predict he won't leave Trump Tower, but he will

leave a big stinking pile of his own shit in the Oval Office.