Trump aides despondent over Buffalo protester tweet

[brooklynite]

Source: Axios

My phone blew up yesterday with texts from White House aides, current and former, who seemed at their wits' end over President Trump's tweet that the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was rushed to the hospital after being shoved by police last week "could be an ANTIFA provocateur."

Why it matters: They rarely register the president's tweets anymore — let alone complain about them. This one felt different.

Here was Trump — struggling in the polls, damaged with independents and women who hate his tone — trafficking in a bizarre conspiracy that he had seen on the right-wing OANN cable network to excuse a blatant example of police misconduct.

All this on the morning of George Floyd's funeral.


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MSNBC reports that Trump Aides "tried to keep him busy" yesterday so he wouldn't say anything during the Floyd funeral.

[Blues Heron]

1. not a patriot among the lot of them

"lets keep him busy"

RESIGN FOOL

[Scarsdale]

5. They are in it for the $$$.

I wonder who will hire them after this gig? "Worked in tRump's administration" is hardly a glowing reference, is it? They talk about him as though he is an unruly toddler. Maybe dementia has set in, it certainly would seem so. Not to worry, Nazi sympathizer Stephen Miller is busy writing a speech for the man-child to read when he addresses the nation on race relations. That will be "must not watch TV" likely full of the usual warmth of any of his speeches. People are sick and tired of the phony, orange lunatic.

[calimary]

9. And Brad Parscale is busy looting the joint.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7375719/amp/Brad-Parscale-fortune-companies-cut-Trumps-campaign-contributions.html

Guess ya gotta grab all the gusto you can, while you can.

Nobody can get conned as easily as another con man. Looks like Parscale is busy picking Trump’s pockets - while he still can.

[exboyfil]

23. Less dollars to spend on campaigning

Take the fool for every dime.

[Bengus81]

28. Yup...Brad knows it's a sinking ship,might as well get another mansion and another Ferrari.....

The idiots can keep funding HIS campaign of making out like a bandit........

[keithbvadu2]

33. After watching the Trumps steal money from charities for the military and children,

After watching the Trumps steal money from charities for the military and children, how could he not fit right in?

Donald probably gets a cut from Parscale's cut.

[calimary]

45. In medical terms, I think this is what you'd call "an opportunistic infection."

Somebody ought to put his face in the medical books alongside the definition of that term.

[hadEnuf]

29. They are trying to keep him occupied like a deranged relative at a holiday party.

The asshole is totally incompetent to be in his position.

[machoneman]

44. Trump is the new potted plant in the corner of the front room!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. The "theory" (evil plant) came from Russian at ONAN who works for Russian propaganda machine Sputnik

[lagomorph777]

16. damn ONANists

[Fullduplexxx]

3. "Keep him busy" what patroits ... what did they do ? Give him extra coloring books.

[Moostache]

36. Extra juice boxes! 2 Scoops is now also 2 Boxes!!!

Everything about him makes me physically ill...

[Bernardo de La Paz]

4. Leaders do not need to be managed by their Aides. Leaders manage their Aides. . . . nt

[SallyHemmings]

6. When will the child care aides finally leave?

They aren’t that despondent. They continue to be complicit.


Traitors the whole lot of them.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Enablers and puppet masters. tRump is McCONnell's puppet and it seems Putin's puppet. . . . nt

[usaf-vet]

14. They are more worried about their nice pay checks than the damage this lunatic is doing to the world

Quit and tell the world why.

Call out his true enablers. Is it Ivanka? is it Miller? Is it Barr? Is it Graham? WHO!

Who comes up with ideas like "let's call in the military and use tear gas to clear the streets so dumbo can have a photo-op"?

Your names will forever be tied to the lunatic.

It won't help to improve your job prospects if you wait until after the November election.

[RAB910]

7. We are all somewhat numb to this monster's never ending stream of autrocities

However, to abuse the power and position of President to slander a 75-year-old America victim of police brutality, who dedicated his life to peace is truly a sick sick sick act

[DemoTex]

12. Indeed. Last week it was the "This is a great day for George Floyd" comments.

Why wasn't Trump's staff despondent over that insane public pronouncement?

[MissMillie]

43. It took me about a week to go from

"Did he say/do/tweet something stupid/mean/ugly/untrue?"

to

"What did he say/do/tweet today that was stupid/mean/ugly/untrue?" (And not long after that I added "illegal" to the mix.)

[Botany]

10. They can quit. And go public why they quit.

Besides they will all be out of job in Jan. '21.

[exboyfil]

27. Go public before you quit actually

Ambush the MF on 60 Minutes and whatever shows you can get on. I would love if one of these enablers gets on a live Fox show and goes to town (preferably one with Hannity if possible even though I think he keeps a tight rein on things).

Make the firing as public as possible. Run to the cameras as soon as you are let go. If you are a career federal employee, fight tooth and claw any termination.

[Blue Owl]

11. Donny Daycare

“Let’s finish coloring and then little Donny can have his milk break...”

[wolfie001]

41. Ha ha!

Love it!!!

[yardwork]

13. So they're upset that he slandered a white man?

But they don't care about all the filthy racist things Trump tweets and says.

[2naSalit]

38. They want to keep their cushy jobs...

which turned out to not be so cushy anymore. But they also don't care because they have been promised special status so the entitlement is baked in, they're whining because they actually have to think to get their own asses out of the frying pan.

[FM123]

15. "trump aide" barely describes what they do

they "aide" and abet like accomplices in his crimes against our democracy

[duforsure]

17. Trump inciting police

Makes trump the one who shoved and hurt this elderly man causing him serious injury. Trump likes seeing people hurt by him. It makes him feel powerful doing that to others, and shows how sick he really is. Trump doesn't want good police , he wants the really bad ones willing to inflict pain onto others. The more brutal and violent they are against innocent peaceful people the better he likes it, and they fear him more. It's not about the law with trump , it's about his abuse of power to make people fear him if they won't offer him praise and support. Very very corrupt people are the ones that are like this, and trumps just doing what he does in business, corrupts it for himself then hurts others who resist. Another reason no one will work or give him loans any more, except people like Putin and the Prince. Trumps a crook.

[Rhiannon12866]

25. The injured senior citizen is barely older than Trump - who turns 74 this week

[chowder66]

32. He only cares about himself. He doesn't see himself in others. No empathy.

[not fooled]

42. But red don has great genes

or so he tells us.

[sop]

18. The aides want to be around to the bitter end to complete the last chapters of their tell-all books.

[tetedur]

19. Yeah? "hold his beer"

You haven't seen nothing yet.

[louzke9]

20. TRYING TO KEEP HIM BUSY....

Trying to keep it a secret, that Trump is a senile, demented psychotic who should not be in office....should be in a mental institution instead. NEWSFLASH....TOO LATE! Trump keeps escaping from under the rock where he lives. Letting him out now to conduct his hate rallies. They must be TERRIFIED what gibberish this spit-drooling fool will say before the cameras.

[lastlib]

21. Better put 'em all on suicide watch....

...'cause that idiot Cockwomble cannot sontrol his stupidity impulses. He's gonna do more damage to their fragile psyches before he's hauled out to meet his accusers.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. Oh, guys, you're knocker-kneed? You should just let Trump be Trump! It was your highest aspiration

[FakeNoose]

24. LOL! That's what Steve Bannon ('memba him?) used to say

"Let Trump be Trump!"

After all ... what have we got to lose? I think we all know the answer to that one.

[Maeve]

26. Poor babies!

You lie down with a mangy dog...

[LiberalFighter]

30. They were trying to keep him busy?

I thought it is suppose to be the other way around.

[mtngirl47]

31. Keep him busy.....

I have a mentally ill person in my life and that's what I do everyday---Keep him busy.

I never know what will set him off. Today the sandwich is fine....tomorrow it might get thrown across the room.

He gets something in his mind and obsesses for days and days.

I have to be careful about the tasks I set for him---if it is more than he can handle---then it's my fault and he turns the wrath on me.

Trump is the same.

[niyad]

34. They knowingly, willingly, work for the liar in chief. I have ZERO sympathy for any of their

problems or emotions.

[NRaleighLiberal]

35. concerned, even, a la Ms. Concerned of Maine herself??

[Paladin]

37. Fuck trump and his enablers. Repeatedly. (nt)

[Nitram]

39. BLOTUS has lost it, fallen off his rocker, gone stark raving, shoe-biting mad.

[Evolve Dammit]

40. I really hope the nuclear codes are not easily accessible, but that's probably wishful thinking

[uppityperson]

46. Thoughts and prayers