Trump’s Tantrum

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Lots of stuff has happened in the past couple of weeks while I’ve been in blog bardo. Much of this is real significant stuff with lots of implications. But after all the stress of dealing with web host tech support, right now I’m not up to taking on anything more complicated than beer. Maybe tomorrow.

Right now I’m just going to snark a bit about an interview of the so-called president by the Associated Press last Friday.  A lot of it is unintelligible. Really.

The AP released part of the interview last week, but made a fuller transcript available late Sunday. You can read it in full here, but beware: It’s a doozy. The phrase “Donald Trump is unintelligible” was even a top trending topic on Twitter early Monday ― referring to the 16 instances where the AP marked parts of the transcript “unintelligible.” (Pace later told the Toronto Star that one of Trump’s aides was talking over him at those moments, and that the aide did not want their comments included in the transcript. The Star notes that “this is itself highly unusual.”)

I’m wondering who the aide was and what his or her function was.  But the interview is all Trump. He’s bragging about how he’s the most wonderful president who ever was, and he’s genuinely surprised the press isn’t nicer to him (see Josh Marshall, “Trump: They Were Supposed to Love Me“).

At Vanity Fair, Tina Nguyen points out some of the more jaw-dropping moments of the interview. Like this one.

They had a quote from me that NATO’s obsolete. But they didn’t say why it was obsolete. I was on Wolf Blitzer, very fair interview, the first time I was ever asked about NATO, because I wasn’t in government. People don’t go around asking about NATO if I’m building a building in Manhattan, right? So they asked me, Wolf . . . asked me about NATO, and I said two things. NATO’s obsolete—not knowing much about NATO, now I know a lot about NATO—NATO is obsolete, and I said, ‘And the reason it’s obsolete is because of the fact they don’t focus on terrorism.’ You know, back when they did NATO there was no such thing as terrorism.”

Terrifying, right? It’s the verbal equivalent of mangled, three-day-old road kill.

We also learn that Rep. Elijah Cummings, off all people, told Trump he would be the greatest president ever.  Somehow, I think Trump misheard.

Nguyeb also tells us that at one point, while Trump was off record, he discussed something he saw on CNN. Then later in the interview, he denied ever watching CNN. This stuff goes on and on; see also “Seven Baffling Moments From Donald Trump’s AP Interview” at HuffPo. See also the annotated transcript at Washington Post.

Please snark away. The comments are working now.

14 thoughts on “Trump’s Tantrum”

  1. We’ve never had a senile narcissist as president before. I’ve heard some reporters from Asian countries have already given up being polite in interpreting him, with retardo facial gestures being just a matter of time. My concern is some kind of military action being taken against these “fake” asian journalists.

    Still, all would be forgiven if he could bring back working/middle class jobs and pride.

  2. Bill, you forgot Reagan…

    [Why did my avatar change???]

    Am I the only one who remembers that Bush/Cheney gave North Korea the go-ahead to build a nuclear program??? Clinton, for all his faults, negotiated a deal with NK to mothball their reactors in exchange for aide and trade – Bush/Cheney came along and thought we should not be ‘supporting’ the NK regime and reneged on the deal, allowing NK access and means to restart their nuclear program. Welcome to 2017…

    Trump is now on schedule to do the exact same action with Iran… I’d chastize Trump but the ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY is behind him on this plan.

    The blissful Republican Party is leading us toward Deja Vu all over again.

    Not even Rachel Maddow is reporting on this.

  3. “I’m not up to taking on anything more complicated than beer”

    That’s been my issue for years, except I don’t have the sense to keep quiet! All of this Russia spy shit seems real to me, but our MSM has been reporting so much crap for so long it’s hard to tell what is real anymore? One thing is for sure, if the democrats keep quiet the righties will fuck themselves, so maybe just sit back and watch it happen, who knows? One thing is for sure Hillary needs to sail away forever!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECU0AliS_cU

  7. t-RUMPLE-Thin-SKKKIN’s not particularly intelligent, so how could he come across as anything but unintelligible!

    He knows what a grifter needed to know, and disregarded the rest…

  9. Welcome back ! Wondered when I got a “forbidden access” message when I checked in.

    If Trump was my parent or friend and he spoke like that, I’d be taking him to a doctor for an evaluation for a stroke, medical condition or dementia. There is something very, very wrong with him.
    Come on Congress, do your job, investigate this man

  10. There is something very, very wrong with him.

    I concur! Speaking solely as a lay person…I believe he’s crossed the threshold of normal understandable levels of narcissism into the domain of severe mental illness. I also believe he’s the product of parental indifference. Seems Fred and Mary Anne Trump just didn’t care enough for young Donny to see that he was grounded in reality. And rather than face the social stigma of having a boy who wasn’t right in the head they chose to ship him off to a “military” academy specializing in the warehousing of social misfits while denying him the opportunity of getting much needed psychiatric counseling when it could have made a difference.

  13. Blog Bardo happens when your Avatar transforms in a tiny sort of a bardo way, or, in a bigger way, when you have had to be involved in any software or hardware “upgrade”. According to the May issue of Lion’s Roar, “We actually experience bardos throughout the day. When you finish reading this article you will look up there will be a moment of bardo, a tiny gap following the ending of one activity and preceding the start of another. If you notice them, these bardos of everyday life are places of potential transformation.”

    My transformation is not as blue. I will drink wine and not whine.

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