A Tweet Too Far?

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By now you’ve heard about the infamous Bleeding Mika tweets —

The so-called president has tweeted a lot of outrageous stuff, but this seems to have set a lot of the Beltway types over the edge. Maybe it’s because Joe and Mika are people they know.

If you watch Ana Navarro’s epic rant, be sure to not miss Wolf Blitzer’s face as he tries to maintain composure.

I’ve read one commentary after another today quoting people on Capitol Hill — including some Republicans — saying these tweets were out of bounds. I honestly think we’re seeing a turning point here. Trump is proving even to Republicans that he is utterly worthless as a president. If he were just incompetent but could put on a good act of being presidential that’s one thing, but he can’t even manage that.

Paul Waldman wrote today,

Republicans knew exactly who he was when they all lined up behind him in 2016, even if many harbored the naive hope that he would be changed by the office. But they also assumed that with total control of the government, they would pass a boatload of bills, he’d sign them, and his personal weaknesses wouldn’t much matter. It turns out, however, that it isn’t so simple. As we’re seeing in the health-care debacle currently underway, when you’re trying to accomplish something complex and politically perilous, you need the president. You need him to be a persuasive public advocate for your policy, and you need him to help resolve internal differences and forge consensus.

But Trump fails on both both counts. He can’t be a persuasive advocate because he doesn’t understand the policies he advocates for, and he has focused so relentlessly on telling his base what they want to hear that people outside that base just don’t believe him. When he gives an interview or makes a speech about what Republicans are trying to do, he’s likely to say something that contradicts or undermines their case. And internally, he’s rapidly losing whatever respect he had from Republicans.

I’m going to be really surprised if he finishes his term …

23 thoughts on “A Tweet Too Far?”

  2. “Trump is proving even to Republicans that he is utterly worthless as a president”
    Me thinks as long as they get their tax cuts and make Wall Street Robbery legal again the republicans will be just fine with Trump. These are republicans we are talking about they couldn’t care less as long as their donors get what they paid for.

  3. I’m sure that all the republicans will be agast as they write those campaign checks to him.
    Tisk tisk tisk…

  4. By this time tomorrow, the offended Republicans will have forgiven and forgotten and will say that this is old news and time to move on to implement the president’s agenda. Critics will be told to get over it.

    If he pulls a stunt like this with a ticklish foreign power and there are international consequences which end up hitting the Trumpsters in their pocketbooks (China deciding to dump some of its T-bills, for example), then the story might last two or more news cycles.

  5. Good for Ana! How much longer can this go on? I said a few months ago he wouldn’t last six months. That time is getting close but it looks like those that can do something about him don’t have the guts. If he doesn’t suffer any consequences from his behavior, it will continue and get worse. How can Melania stand him?

  6. Rule #1  If riding and your horse dies.  Dismount.
    Even non Polo families know and obey this rule.

    The horse was not a router, and really not much of a sprinter, but now they must try to put the broken legged one down.  It is not going to be a good holiday for the endowed elitists.  It is their mess and they must learn to clean up after themselves.

  7. I hope that the WH kitchen staff spits and puts other bodily fluids in his meals and beverages.
    I know I would!

    The Republicans need go tell him to STOP TWEETING!
    if he asks what they’d do if he doesn’t, they need to bring him down to the WH basement’s tool shed, and demonstrate how effectively and quickly a bandsaw can go thfough a package of frozen hot dogs!
    “Any questions,……………………… Sir?”

  8. Well… he’s said worse; but this is a good a thing to get mad at as any.

    Bernie: it is their mess, but these are careless and sloppy people; they leave cleanup to others.

  9. As Joy put it today, The Republican party, the venal club, will make noises decrying this and then go back to knocking 22 million off health care.
    True , Trump is the weapon to use on the 35-40% venal party believers that are being screwed and told by Donald that this shit sandwich is really great wonderful and golden . while in a closet somewhere Ryan and McConnell are planning out the legislation to destroy the entire new deal . They knew on day one what he was and are fine with it.

  10. Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for Melania Trump, said the first lady — who has made opposition to cyberbullying a signature issue — stands by the president.

    “As [she] has stated publicly in the past, when her husband gets attacked, he will punch back 10 times harder,” Grisham said.

    There you have it…Melania’s confession that she a beaten down woman. Not that that comes as any surprise because when she plagiarized Michelle Obama’s speech saying she believed in the values that her parents raised her to believe that a man’s word is his bond it was obvious that she couldn’t be true to her claimed belief and be in a relationship with a man like Trump. A man whose word is worth shit.
    So either she’s complicit in Trump’s bullying tactics and lies or she is the victim of his bullying nature and doesn’t have the moral fibre left to stand against his disgusting bullying behaviour.
    Also I’d like to add for the benefit of those who haven’t made the observation themselves that Trump is a big bag of shit. You know the type.. ” I’ll pay you when my hunchback brother straightens out.”

    • “Melania’s confession that she a beaten down woman.” I pity her. I sincerely do. There’s a before/after photo makings the rounds on social media

      Young Melania

      Her face now looks so cold and hard, like she’s wrapped herself in armor. Granted she’s had plastic surgery done.

  11. Swami,

    My guess is it’s “she doesn’t have the moral fibre left to stand against his disgusting bullying behavior”. After all she knows what happened to the last two wives, if she steps out of line Donald will load her into that gold plated shipping cart and she’ll be off to the gulag!

  12. “I’m going to be really surprised if he finishes his term …”

    Do you expect him to quit? The GOP won’t impeach him and if they try to drop him from the ticket for 2020 he will smash their china shop very willingly, guaranteeing a loss in November.

    And they care about party more than anything else.

  13. The GOP will stick with Trump as long as he’s polling above 30%. That number proves the rank and file GOP voter is sucking up his vomit with a straw. Professional politicians of both parties (and that’s not really a compliment) are appalled by the sheer stupidity (doing dumb stuff) and ignorance (doesn’t know stuff) of the man.

    The political problem is this – if they marry their re-election to a man who is despised by 60% of voters, can they maintain a majority? The democrat establishment will do everything they can to help the GOP establishment by putting up wimpy, ‘moderate’, sold-out candidates who reek of Wall Street money.

    Politics has become the domain of crass, greedy people. Can voters overcome this?

  14. Wow, it’s a shame that Melania butchered her face with plastic surgery. She looked so much softer and sweeter in her natural state. But regardless of her external appearance any beauty she has as a person is lost when it doesn’t show through in her personality and countenance. If she can defend and coexist with a cruel and vicious lying sexist bully than she’s either got zero self esteem— no sense of self worth— or she’s comfortable in her own skin.. Leona Helmsley with a pretty face?
    I don’t get the stand by your man thing if you’re in a position that you don’t have to accept it… a measure of a woman’s beauty is a woman’s strength of character and is a women who won’t surrender her dignity and values to any man. Melania seems to be failing on that front if her words and her actions are true.
    Not to come off as the ultimate arbiter of marital relationships. But when Melania signed on to a marriage with a prenup she entered into a relationship with a barrier to prevent the marriage ever coming to fullness of what a marriage can be. The girl in the gilded cage?

  15. “The democrat establishment will do everything they can to help the GOP establishment by putting up wimpy, ‘moderate’, sold-out candidates who reek of Wall Street money.”

    You would think that, with the GOP’s problems, a functioning political party would beat them nine ways to Sunday.

    I still marvel at the fact that the dems allowed themselves to be beat by a racist, sexist, barely sentient ignoramus openly embraced and lauded by David Duke, neo-Nazis and white supremacists. And yet they managed to find a way to essentially snatch defeat from what should have been the jaws of victory by nominating a candidate so despised and mistrusted, fairly or not, and then trotting that candidate out with policies so far out of touch of the mood of the electorate. Not to mention the candidate being the worst campaigner in their stable at the time.

    It almost begs the question, did they even want to win?

  16. csm: I think that all the major politicians have figured out that the Presidency is a curse. I think that it should be a draft office; a civic obligation imposed at random, then heavily vetted, like jury duty.

    I can’t help but wonder; you can bleed from a facelift? What, on the scalp? Mind you, Mr. Trump is a fine one to criticize someone else’s cosmetic body-work.

  17. “The democrat establishment”

    Is that the same as the democratic party establishment, cause it sounds like a FAUX news swipe?

  18. I think that if Melania were to leave Trump, she would lose her Barron, which I think is something that would be too difficult for her. Donald Trump is human excrement.

    • “I think that if Melania were to leave Trump, she would lose her Barron.” I dunno, I doubt Trump has any interest in Barron. He never sought custody of any of his other children when he divorced their mothers.

  19. I’ve been through the child custody thing when dealing with a psychopathic father(my ex son in law) and I can assure you that the child has no value other than to used as a weapon to destroy and inflict pain on the mother. When you’re sick in the head like Trump is inflicting pain and hardship on anybody who goes against your will is a given. I’m certain that both Ivana and Marla understood that even though they managed to escape the relationship with Trump he still retained financial control over them and could destroy them financially if he so desired.
    They both would probably lose any money granted in the settlement if they violated Trump’s gag/ silencing order or disobey and be faced with the cost of financially unsustainable legal battle if they step out of line.
    Take it from me..When you’re dealing with a psychopath you have to know that the only person in their life who has any value to them is themselves. Anybody else is expendable.
    And take it from me again..Trump is a psychopath.

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