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Dr David Romei ?@DavidRomeiPHD
#MerylStreep is an American National Arts Treasure. She is a diamond in our cultural crown. #Trump is too primitive to understand or care.
2:43 AM - 9 Jan 2017
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Josh Earnest~Press Sec
ABC News Politics
✔ ?@ABCPolitics
@PressSec: Meryl Streep delivered "thoughtful, carefully considered message," a "fairly straightforward exercise" of First Amendment rights
9:34 AM - 9 Jan 2017
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Meryl Streep
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)Mahalo, In_The_Wind!
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)there is no skin thickness requirement to be President of the United States.
Cha
(297,275 posts)Thank you, tonedevil
Cha
(297,275 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)(or anyone else, for that matter) would have good reason to mock Trump.
Hahahaha. Love that binkie shot of Trump, Cha!
Cha
(297,275 posts)I like it too.. been calling him out on that..
Gothmog
(145,291 posts)Thanks Cha for posting
Cha
(297,275 posts)Thank you, Goth!
Cha
(297,275 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)He just says whatever seems to work at that moment for him, no matter what he may have said yesterday, an hour or a minute earlier.
Example: A mother comes into the room to see the the dog, Fido, has chunks of fur cut out of his coat.
She asks her little boy: "Did you cut Fido's fur?"
Her son says: "No!"
Mother: "Did you cut Fido's fur?"
Son says: "No. I didn't do it!"
Mother: "Are you sure, you're the only one in here, who else could have done it?"
Son: ".....Fido??"
He's a spoiled rich kid. He's never grown up and never will.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)Yes you did!
Great OP Cha, thank you.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Disabilities, show remorse but he does not have the ability to admit his wrong. It was ugly when he did this and his efforts to say he did not mock the reporter is more ugly. Trump is a mean nasty person who will never improve because he does not have the ability to acknowledge his wrongs. This will not stop. Thanks cha for keeping this going.
sheshe2
(83,785 posts)lpbk2713
(42,759 posts)When he mocked Michael J Fox. He denied it too.
Until he was shown the video of it.
Cha
(297,275 posts)to himself.. evidently hates himself.. won't own up to who he is.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Which is better? Hmmmm....
Thanks, Cha! Love the pic with the pacifier. As for the one with him on the toilet you posted elsewhere...hilarious but really really disgusting!
Cha
(297,275 posts)about Meryl Streep's calling him out at the Golden Globes and not even using his name once.. so glad he stepped into right before he's set to be inaugurated!
I've been accusing dump of needing a pacifier.. in fact suggested, after a twitter tantrum, once we send him a truckload.. so this pic made me appreciate that I'm not the only one.. you too!
You're , Riff..
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)It's not a matter of opinion!
Cha
(297,275 posts)showing him do it.
he knows his dumbass fans don't give a shite.. "trumpcare!" But, in the mean time he's making a world spectacle of himself.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)He is such a fucking simpleton. He has zero self control. Zero. National fucking embarrassment.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)when the facts are slapping him in the face? I have just never...
The man is a detriment to himself, as well as the rest of us.
God help us...
Cha
(297,275 posts)himself.. not just the world.
Yes.. "The man is a detriment to himself, as well as the rest of us."
Thank you!
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)on pins and needles, because he is sooo unpredictable and impulsive. Not to mention extremely hypersensitive to criticism.
I hate feeling like this...
Cha
(297,275 posts)JHB
(37,160 posts)...no matter how many hundred times you lie about it.
Blue_Roses
(12,894 posts)nt
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)cstanleytech
(26,293 posts)mcar
(42,334 posts)Thank you, mcar!
Jacob Boehme
(789 posts)"I am not a crook."
(Richard M. Nixon, former White House embarrassment)
Jim Beard
(2,535 posts)wasn't what I was looking for. After I posted it, I went back to find a better one and I watched some through that were labeled Trump Makes fun of disabled reporters and all I was finding were those labeled as such but then saying it wasn't true.
I had heard about this fake news but this is the first time the search engine flooded with what I wasn't asking for.
Forced Fake news on current news. Like an operation run out of Nigeria.
Cha
(297,275 posts)in facts, Jim.
Have you seen this?
Trump, Trapped in His Lies, Keeps Lying. Sad!
He hasnt taken office yet, but Donald Trump is lost, wandering in a labyrinth of lies and trying to drag the country in with him.
Witness his reaction to being called out on Sunday by Meryl Streep. Speaking at the Golden Globes, she said she had been stunned and heartbroken to see him mock a reporter with a physical disability.
It happened at a speech in 2015 in South Carolina. Mr. Trumps target was Serge Kovaleski, of The Times, who has arthrogryposis, a condition that leaves his right arm and hand bent and rigid. You ought to see this guy, Mr. Trump told his audience, flailing his own right arm and hand in the air, making spastic movements, disgracing himself. The act was contemptible, and in a way unbelievable: a future president showing the maturity and schoolyard viciousness of an 8-year-old.
I still cant get it out of my head, Ms. Streep said, because it wasnt in a movie. It was real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when its modeled by someone in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into everybodys life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others, we all lose.
snip//
Just more lies upon lies. It all goes back to Mr. Trumps baseless claim that he saw Muslims dancing in the streets by the thousands after the towers fell on 9/11. Challenged over this, Mr. Trump seized on a 2001 article in The Washington Post, written by Mr. Kovaleski when he was a reporter there, that he said backed up his story. But the article did not do that. It merely reported that the authorities had questioned a number of people who were allegedly seen celebrating the attack. Nothing has ever come of that allegedly there has never been any evidence to substantiate Mr. Trumps claim, not then, not now. Mr. Kovaleski did not change his story not totally, not at all. And he did not grovel.
Much more @ link.. takes on his "mouthpiece" too..
http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/09/opinion/trump-trapped-in-his-lies-keeps-lying-sad.html?_r=1
con-way is left with pleading us to disregard what he tweets and look into where there should be "a heart".
McCamy Taylor
(19,240 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)What a cretin.
Cha
(297,275 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,760 posts)Cha
(297,275 posts)a profit.
What a weasel to add to his other shortcomings.
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)From his curled hand gestures to his affectation of speech to his word choice, Trump was mocking the reporter.
For him to say his actions "showed him groveling" (to show - to illustrate, to imitate, to depict, to copy, to simulate, to demonstrate - all equal mocking when done in the pejorative ) with the word use of "groveling" proving it was indeed meant as a pejorative, meant it to be an insult, meant to disparage. No one says groveling in a flattering manner.
The word usage, the amplified manner of speaking, and the hand gestures combine to prove Trump was mocking the man through the use of exaggerating the man's disability.
Bottom line: Trump was mocking the man by using his disabilities against him.
That's what was in Trump's heart and mind at the time - to make fun of the reporter through the exaggerated imitation of the man's disability.
Fuck Trump and fuck anyone defending his cruelty.
Cha
(297,275 posts)to ask someone to explain it to me.
But, I see from your post that it was in reference to the reporter who was allegedly "groveling" that he mocked.
Couldn't handle getting a bad review even though it's true.
I'd like to see con-way lie that he didn't do it.. ol gish gallop herself.
Then he calls Meryl Streep(a national treasure), a "flunky of Hillary's" because she so eloquently called him out on mocking the reporter.. and steps into serious shite hitting the fan.
that's trumphuck.
Even fox business called him on it..
Fox turns on Trump for attacking Meryl Streep: How does name calling make American great again?
Trump responded on Monday with a series of tweets calling Streep one of the most over-rated actresses in Hollywood.
Trumps defense, however, was a bridge too far for Fox Business host Stuart Varney and his Monday morning panel of guests.
How does name calling make American great again? business journalist Elizabeth MacDonald asked. Doesnt that undercut Mr. Trumps agenda by responding in ways like this?
I mean, he demeans himself, she added. You cannot expect people to climb on board with agenda when your judgement is so poor in making attacks like that.
I got it and I think youre right, Varney agreed.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/fox-turns-on-trump-for-attacking-meryl-streep-how-does-name-calling-make-american-great-again/
Thank you, Solly
Solly Mack
(90,769 posts)From the way he only wants certain photos of him to be used, to how he wants photos taken - of a certain side.
To how he enters a room - or stage.
All about presentation of his brand.
For an actual star to attack him? Eats away at him.
For actual celebrities to decline his inauguration?
Eats away at him.
If it wasn't so sad for the country, it would be hilarious.
Cha
(297,275 posts)that since the m$m didn't and won't do anything to stop him.. only busy trying to normalize him.. That the Biggest Names in show biz aren't going to normalize him(what a thing to come into our vocab).. want nothing to do with him.. they were all Hillary supporters.
Why the hell would they entertain @ his inaugural.. they pay attention. they are not Low Information voters.
It would be hysterical if it weren't real.. like say in a novel.
trump did mention in a tweet that Rupert Murdoch likes him better now that he's rigged in.. like a gd 6 year old.