Don't consider you a "traitor" nor will I curse you out. But after you eliminate the obvious lies (and wow, have we sunk to the point that we accept that a President outright lies to the American people?), and eliminate the parts "cringeworthy" parts, and we eliminate the parts where he talks about himself, and we eliminate the parts he attacks the media, Obama, and Clinton... what is left? I am honestly interested in learning aout "the good parts". Because he will be President for at least four more years... and I'd hope his plan is to help all Americans, not just republicans.
Calling Michelle Obama Michael Obama isn't really funny. What purpose does it serve, other than to make you look like a petty little ass? I'm serious. Nobody with any kind of sense of humor on the right, left, middle etc. would ever think that's funny. You can try and make whatever incorrect point you think you're making, but you hurt your ability to make that point when you cloud it with petty unfunny insults.
To RussiasLegend's credit (wait, did I just type that?) it was probably just autocorrected from his horrible ESL spelling. They don't teach English as well in Moscow as they used to.
i watched the whole thing too and it was the most bizarre, incoherent presidential press conference i have ever seen. the rants and tirades, the constant harping on the election, he was combative with everyone, lied multiple times, went off on a rant about cnn and the bbc, asked a black reporter if she knew the congressional black caucaus and could set up a meeting, said he was "the least anti-semetic person you have ever met" and "the least racist person you have ever met". he came off to me like some unhinged 3rd world dictator. everyone is a liar except him. you can only trust him. curious what you thing was positive out of that 77 minute rant? i cant think of anything right now. it just reaffirms what should have been obvious since he first announced his candidacy, which is that he is totally unfit for this job.
It's funny (not really) to read about people turning down offers to replace Flynn after that wannabe-dictator press conference. Trump obviously thinks being a dictator or strongman or tyrant to be an aspirational goal. So the public needs to keep hanging this crazy around the necks of the GOP leaders who enable him. And keep asking questions about Russia. The more the media focuses on the story, the more unhinged Trump becomes.
I agree with most of your post but not this one sentence. I honestly don't sense that he thinks about a way to be, or models himself after anyone, or has a goal for his style. He wants to be liked, comfortable, and very powerful; he wants to be in control and he doesn't want to have to do anything by the book. I think those things would be consistent with his entire life and he doesn't know any other way to be. If he wanted to be a Teddy Roosevelt or a Lincoln or even an Eisenhower -- and I don't think he gives that any thought, really, as he's the opposite of a student of history -- he wouldn't know where to start. He is unmitigatedly himself, Trump, a self-absorbed person who thinks he deserves everything he's had in life and thinks he can bluster his way through anything regardless of the complexity.
The beginning part- reading out his agenda- I guess I've gotten used to his weird in-between comments. Yeah, the more I look at it, it really is kinda ****ed up. I'm probably trying too hard to give him credit in the spirit of fairness.
Well, you're probably just hoping for a productive way forward, if that's possible. And I think the media can be criticized. I want them just doing the reporting of his acts, his connections, his policies, etc, etc. I could be happy with a lot less reporting about his tweets and his media attacks, etc. I reporter from the WSJ suggested it was a little self-involved for the Beltway media teams to be so obsessed with Trump attacking them. (It was during an NPR interview yesterday). I agree with that. There's a lot of other things to report on.
They should be doing exactly that. To be fair, there is a ton of great investigative reporting going on, whether people want to read it or process it or believe it is another story.
