Watching Trump dramatically kiss the helmet of the slain former fire chief made me cringe. It epitomized Trump, who used him as a cheap prop after failing to call his family. How can anyone support this grotesque, twisted human?
Watching Trump dramatically kiss the helmet of the slain former fire chief made me cringe. It epitomized Trump, who used him as a cheap prop after failing to call his family. How can anyone support this grotesque, twisted human?
And he kissed the helmet with the same stagey affect he used when he infamously ambled across a platform to hug an American flag. His unemotional, performance, obviously manipulative, was such an insult to a life lost that one might wonder if it was the act of a psychopath.
Well yeah, there have been many, some of whom offered professional observations from a distance. I was using it to make a connection between two events to demonstrate his purely manipulative nature.
It is truly chilling to see his sycophants kowtowing to his every word and act! When will the media get on his case like they are doing to Biden. The real sick-o is the orange menace not Biden!
In late January, 2017, Trump sent a seal team into Yemen to kill some ISIS leaders. It was a disaster as CNN points out in this CNN reporting of how the whole thing went down. Many civilians were killed in the raid as well as a Seal. It was reported elsewhere that convicted felon Donald Trump did not monitor his first military event from the WH situation room, but rather from a swanky DC restaurant.
To my knowledge, this is the first time CFDT violated the 5th commandment - Thou Shalt Not Kill. It was a botched operation that should never have taken place.
This was a harbinger of what kind of commander in chief CFDT would be. How many times did the 5 time draft dodger put "losers and suckers" in harms way?
And then he invited the parents of the murdered Seal to his first speech to Congress labeling them a "gold star" family.
Interesting. The failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran pretty much cost Jimmy Carter his second term. That event was never mentioned in the 2020 campaign, was it?
Thank you for the reminder! There were so many horrible episodes during 45's administration! It is hard to keep track of it all. The COVID-19 debacle overshadowed everything else. He took incompetence to a whole new level!
I find the way he grabs the flag with that goofy grin and nearly dry-humps it to be absolutely disgusting. I told my husband that when Trump does that, there is a thunder-clap of vaginas around the nation slamming shut.
As a kid, I saw Gorgeous George "wrestle" with nonstop obvious cheating and baffled looking referees who never seemed to be looking at him when he did. They could never find the items he "hid" so obviously for the crowd to see. It was all part of the show, the more outrageous, the more people showed up expecting him to be caught.
A 5th grade classmate's dad was a circus escape artist and taught us some tricks. From him, I knew what "Hey Rube!" meant as a code for all circus hands to come to the aid, and that Rubes were outsiders. I hadnтАЩt heard of тАЬkayfabeтАЭ since we didnтАЩt really watch wrestling other than a few live matches, though my dad did like boxing, though, and took us to more in service boxing events as part of the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation programs in Hawaii (great with the mix of services and many great athletes in the service during the Korean War then going on. When I was in basic training, I learned the rough of тАЬHey Rube!тАЭ was тАЬTen Men!тАЭ Other code words in wrestling were not so hard to figure out such as тАЬFaceтАЭ and тАЬHeelтАЭ (as in Gorgeous George being the very profitable Heel, and inspiration for a 15 year old Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali). Then there were the тАЬmarks,тАЭ all those not in on the gag, the audience especially.
Which brings me to a lesson related to many Trump followers and Gorgeous GeorgeтАЩs, to me, most astonishing gag with his golden Georgie Pins he handed out.
тАЬтАжGeorge's hair, which was long, curly and yellow, was kept in place by gold-plated bobby pins which he called "Georgie pins" and passed out by the handful to adoring fans.
The first batch cost him $85 for half a pound. When he found out how fast he was handing them out, he had to switch to cheaper onesтАФgold only in color. But the need to economize didn't faze George. He once appeared on a radio show being taped for the armed forces overseas, and the beribboned, high-ranking officers present decided they had better get some souvenir Georgie pins or their wives would never forgive them. George ordered them to line up like so many recruits, then ordered his valet to spray their hands with scent. After that he made them repeat after him the customary oath: "I solemnly swear and promise I will never confuse this gold Georgie pin with a common, ordinary bobby pin, so help me Gorgeous George..."
Does it seem to anyone else but me that Gorgeous George could have ghostwritten the gag of the GOP convention?
тАЬтАжI remember the guy who would bring our jackets back to the dressing room. Every time he did, someone would yell "Kayfabe." ... Then one night, the guy decided to stand up for himself and told the whole dressing room: "I don't mind the yelling, but I want to let you know that my name is not Kayfabe. It's Mark." ... What he didn't know is that wrestlers called people outside of the business "marks"тАФthat's why we were yelling kayfabe in the first place.
тАФтАКPat Patterson, describing his interaction with a ring attendant in the Pacific Northwest Wrestling territory during the early 1960sтАжтАЭ
Actually Trump did call his family and spoke with them on Tuesday. Biden also tried to call and his call was refused. Please donтАЩt spread lies, that only makes the Democrats look worse.
Watching Trump dramatically kiss the helmet of the slain former fire chief made me cringe. It epitomized Trump, who used him as a cheap prop after failing to call his family. How can anyone support this grotesque, twisted human?
And he kissed the helmet with the same stagey affect he used when he infamously ambled across a platform to hug an American flag. His unemotional, performance, obviously manipulative, was such an insult to a life lost that one might wonder if it was the act of a psychopath.
Who wonders, I diagnosed him long ago
Well yeah, there have been many, some of whom offered professional observations from a distance. I was using it to make a connection between two events to demonstrate his purely manipulative nature.
Manipulation, his only skill
And what's astonishing, or simply disturbing тАФ depending on one's point of view тАФ are the millions susceptible to it.
It is truly chilling to see his sycophants kowtowing to his every word and act! When will the media get on his case like they are doing to Biden. The real sick-o is the orange menace not Biden!
seems so, all humans have an Achilles Heel maybe
truly!
yeah saw the flag wrap too, god
Creepy to act out affection.
I wanted to look away from the insincere glare.
And holding an upside down Bible on Lafeyette Square! DC
In late January, 2017, Trump sent a seal team into Yemen to kill some ISIS leaders. It was a disaster as CNN points out in this CNN reporting of how the whole thing went down. Many civilians were killed in the raid as well as a Seal. It was reported elsewhere that convicted felon Donald Trump did not monitor his first military event from the WH situation room, but rather from a swanky DC restaurant.
https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/03/politics/yemen-raid-trump-obama/index.html
To my knowledge, this is the first time CFDT violated the 5th commandment - Thou Shalt Not Kill. It was a botched operation that should never have taken place.
This was a harbinger of what kind of commander in chief CFDT would be. How many times did the 5 time draft dodger put "losers and suckers" in harms way?
And then he invited the parents of the murdered Seal to his first speech to Congress labeling them a "gold star" family.
Keep reminding people
Competence over chaos.
Good language
Interesting. The failed attempt to rescue the hostages in Iran pretty much cost Jimmy Carter his second term. That event was never mentioned in the 2020 campaign, was it?
Funny, that. <sarcasm font>
Thank you for the reminder! There were so many horrible episodes during 45's administration! It is hard to keep track of it all. The COVID-19 debacle overshadowed everything else. He took incompetence to a whole new level!
His life's greatest success was as a reality TV star. He can no more stop those kinds of staged moves than he can fly to the moon.
It is his excuse for a core
and he did not even do that. Credit Mark Burnet.
Mark Burnet had a boardroom stage built. Because 45's actual boardroom was shabby. So much for the REALITY in The Apprentice.
Dr. Frankenstein
I wonder how much longer he'll wear his badge of honor on his ear?
It was nauseating. Truly.
It was pure performance art - it disgusted me too. It was like when he hugged and kissed the flag - only worse.
(Pardon my verbiage to those easily offended.)
I find the way he grabs the flag with that goofy grin and nearly dry-humps it to be absolutely disgusting. I told my husband that when Trump does that, there is a thunder-clap of vaginas around the nation slamming shut.
Miselle, no offense taken!!! I am rolling on the floor with laughter! Oh how I needed that!
Hugging the American flag just totally creeps me out.
Same.
Actually, for me it's his smile when he does it.
me too on the cringe, that was something else. Trump is a prop con. Look at the cheap souvenir shops, they wouldn't be there if there weren't buyers!
As a kid, I saw Gorgeous George "wrestle" with nonstop obvious cheating and baffled looking referees who never seemed to be looking at him when he did. They could never find the items he "hid" so obviously for the crowd to see. It was all part of the show, the more outrageous, the more people showed up expecting him to be caught.
A 5th grade classmate's dad was a circus escape artist and taught us some tricks. From him, I knew what "Hey Rube!" meant as a code for all circus hands to come to the aid, and that Rubes were outsiders. I hadnтАЩt heard of тАЬkayfabeтАЭ since we didnтАЩt really watch wrestling other than a few live matches, though my dad did like boxing, though, and took us to more in service boxing events as part of the Morale, Welfare, and Recreation programs in Hawaii (great with the mix of services and many great athletes in the service during the Korean War then going on. When I was in basic training, I learned the rough of тАЬHey Rube!тАЭ was тАЬTen Men!тАЭ Other code words in wrestling were not so hard to figure out such as тАЬFaceтАЭ and тАЬHeelтАЭ (as in Gorgeous George being the very profitable Heel, and inspiration for a 15 year old Cassius Clay/Mohammed Ali). Then there were the тАЬmarks,тАЭ all those not in on the gag, the audience especially.
Which brings me to a lesson related to many Trump followers and Gorgeous GeorgeтАЩs, to me, most astonishing gag with his golden Georgie Pins he handed out.
See https://vault.si.com/vault/1969/03/17/george-was-villainous-gutsy-and-gorgeous
тАЬтАжGeorge's hair, which was long, curly and yellow, was kept in place by gold-plated bobby pins which he called "Georgie pins" and passed out by the handful to adoring fans.
The first batch cost him $85 for half a pound. When he found out how fast he was handing them out, he had to switch to cheaper onesтАФgold only in color. But the need to economize didn't faze George. He once appeared on a radio show being taped for the armed forces overseas, and the beribboned, high-ranking officers present decided they had better get some souvenir Georgie pins or their wives would never forgive them. George ordered them to line up like so many recruits, then ordered his valet to spray their hands with scent. After that he made them repeat after him the customary oath: "I solemnly swear and promise I will never confuse this gold Georgie pin with a common, ordinary bobby pin, so help me Gorgeous George..."
Does it seem to anyone else but me that Gorgeous George could have ghostwritten the gag of the GOP convention?
Even Better? Try this from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe
тАЬтАжI remember the guy who would bring our jackets back to the dressing room. Every time he did, someone would yell "Kayfabe." ... Then one night, the guy decided to stand up for himself and told the whole dressing room: "I don't mind the yelling, but I want to let you know that my name is not Kayfabe. It's Mark." ... What he didn't know is that wrestlers called people outside of the business "marks"тАФthat's why we were yelling kayfabe in the first place.
тАФтАКPat Patterson, describing his interaction with a ring attendant in the Pacific Northwest Wrestling territory during the early 1960sтАжтАЭ
Despicable
Utterly disgusting and disrespectful.
Actually Trump did call his family and spoke with them on Tuesday. Biden also tried to call and his call was refused. Please donтАЩt spread lies, that only makes the Democrats look worse.
Biden called on Monday. Trump on Tuesday. Setting the facts straight.
I stand corrected. Biden called on Monday and the family refused to take his call. Trump called on Tuesday and spoke with the family then.
Happy?
Trump called it became an issue that made him look bad.
IMHO I think it spoke volumes that the family refused to take BidenтАЩs call.
They had been at Trump's rally, after all.
Step back and thing about it тАФ extraordinarily disrespectful, not to mention impolite. Of course it's on brand for MAGAs.
he's a showman...not a human being
Are you kidding?