Trump registered a complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One (not soft enough).

[Miles Archer]

“I’ve been in this town for 26 years. I have never seen anything like this,” said Eliot Cohen, a senior State Department official under President George W. Bush and a member of his National Security Council. “I genuinely do not think this is a mentally healthy president.”

There is the matter of Trump’s briefing materials, for example. The commander in chief doesn’t like to read long memos, a White House aide who asked to remain unnamed told The Huffington Post. So preferably they must be no more than a single page. They must have bullet points but not more than nine per page.

Small things can provide him great joy or generate intense irritation. Trump told The New York Times that he’s fascinated with the phone system inside the White House. At the same time, he’s registered a complaint about the hand towels aboard Air Force One, the White House aide said, because they are not soft enough.

He’s been particularly obsessed with the performance of his aides on cable television. Past presidents typically didn’t make time to watch their press secretary’s daily briefings with reporters, but Trump appears to have made it part of his routine. “Saturday Night Live’s” weekly skewering of his administration is similarly on his must-watch list ― with his reaction ranging from unamused to seething.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-leaks_us_589a45f1e4b04061313a1fbb?

[sunonmars]

1. What we are dealing with is a privileged child.......

Primarily this is Trump....

[Cosmocat]

17. Primarily this is the United States of America, 2017

As it pertains to the privileged child ...

[neeksgeek]

71. President Veruca! Very good.

[NightWatcher]

2. Won't someone get President Snowflake a soft towel and a binky too.

Keep up the attack, folks. There's a good chance we can break this guy by Independence Day!

[flygal]

11. I can protest every weekend if I have to!

I'm working on getting to DC for the science march!

[NightWatcher]

12. I think we'll break him. #LetsMakeTrumpCry or #TrumpHasASad

[DK504]

24. Ohhhh....

I love for that hashtag.

😍

[wordpix]

40. #TrumpHasASad is great!

[Doitnow]

36. Don't you know-----he really is thin-skinned.

[Laurian]

3. Scary.

[TheBlackAdder]

15. American cotton is too rough for him. He needs to import some of that Egyptian Pima cotton.

[tblue37]

4. Tiny hands are sooo delicate and sensitive! nt

[TheBlackAdder]

14. This coming from the man who is angry at Spicer, because he wants his administration to look tough?

[briv1016]

5. I was sure it was going to be "Too Large."

[Starry Messenger]

6. "But her emails"

[Cosmocat]

18. Yep

nm

[fescuerescue]

7. Reminds me of my Proctor & Gamble days

"The commander in chief doesn’t like to read long memos, a White House aide who asked to remain unnamed told The Huffington Post. So preferably they must be no more than a single page. They must have bullet points but not more than nine per page. "


Back when paper memos were the way of communicating, two page or longer memos were verboten by the corporate culture.

It was such a strong part of the culture, even though I've been gone from there for 25 years, that practice has stayed with me my entire career even though we've all moved to email long ago. Even today I keep my emails to one page, and target 3 paragraphs, 4 if absolutely necessary, but 3 is the optimal according to some communications expert mucky muck, if you want to get your message across.

[NurseJackie]

8. Bad Seed Trump

[madokie]

9. That looks like a cardiac arrest just waiting to happen

he won't live to see the day he's no longer pResident.

[Miles Archer]

10. "Trump's workout and diet routine is ill-advised"

Trump's workout and diet routine is ill-advised



Lots of fast food. Almost no sleep. And practically no exercise, aside from the occasional cart-supported round of golf.

This is a routine that a doctor wouldn't advise for a 20-year-old, yet it's the standard for the routine-loving President Donald Trump, according to Axios' "Trump 101" series, which notes that the 70-year-old is the oldest president to ever enter office.

On the campaign trail, the "three staples" of Trump's diet were Domino's, KFC, and McDonald's (Big Macs on silver platters), an aide told Axios, the new news website. That love for fast food is largely because of its consistency and the idea that fast-food companies maintain a standard of hygiene, according to an interview Trump conducted with Anderson Cooper that was cited in The New York Times.

Still, Axios reports that in the White House, Trump is more likely to favor well-done steaks, crab, and shrimp and the occasional side salad or vegetable to go along with that hunk of red meat (cooked until gray).

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-diet-unhealthy-2017-2

[JHan]

30. "well done steaks" .... yuck.

[meadowlander]

34. Says everything you need to know about him really.

[JHan]

35. LOL lol lol exactly

[PatrickforO]

51. Well, I do eat mostly chicken and turkey, but

when I eat steak on those rare occasions, I like it medium well. But, I don't object to well done, either.

[JHan]

79. well as long as it's not a Trump steak, you're forgiven :p

[IronLionZion]

31. Trump's voters should follow his diet and exercise plan

That love for fast food is largely because of its consistency and the idea that fast-food companies maintain a standard of hygiene

[Still In Wisconsin]

60. I truly hope he drops dead- of completely natural causes.

On his way out though I hope there is a LOT of intense pain.

[moonscape]

80. I don't wish him physical pain, but I do

wish him to suffer a =eureka= moment of realization of what a thoroughly despicable person he truly is - and for that moment never to pass.

[fleur-de-lisa]

70. The Dumpster believes that

fast food restaurants 'maintain a standard of hygiene'?



I guess he's never known anyone who works in fast food. Oh, wait, of course he doesn't.

No doubt some employee has spit on his Whopper a time or two, or worse . . . I hope he is fond of vanilla milkshakes!

[TheBlackAdder]

13. His tiny fingers keep getting caught in the terry cloth weave.

[irisblue]

45. LOL

[PA Democrat]

16. Such tiny delicate hands!

Does he think soft little hands will make his sexual assault on women any less revolting?

[Coventina]

20. "The Princess and the Pea" comes to mind....

Princess Donald is so delicate that everything must be perfect, or he'll suffer damage.

What a fragile snowflake!

[TexasTowelie]

43. Aack!

I played trumpet for the musical "Once Upon A Mattress" which is based upon the same story. Most of the songs were in the keys of B major and F#-major. I had severe brain damage dealing with 5 and 6 sharps in the key signature.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

52. I come from the land of the foggy foggy dew-ooo-ooo

Where walking through the meadow in the morning is like walking through glue.

I had a minor role in a performance of that in (I think) 10th grade.

[3catwoman3]

58. Anything written in more than 3 sharps or flats...

...makes my eyes cross and my brain melt.

C is my favorite key signature -

[TexasTowelie]

62. I played trumpet and we are more accustomed

to playing key signatures with flats rather than sharps. I've sightread some pretty difficult pieces in my time that involved changed from 13/8, 11/8 and 7/8 throughout the piece and other pieces with four flats, but I really had to work to learn the pieces within the four days that we went from rehearsal to actually putting on the production.

It's difficult enough to read sheet music in the low lighting of an orchestra pit, but reading the music, remembering the key and watching for the occasional accidentals was cruel and unusual punishment. I didn't really get to enjoy the play either.

To top it off, I volunteered to participate since with the exception of the one music major on scholarship who was a first-year student who played the first trumpet part, the rest of the other trumpet players had conflicts in their schedules. I wasn't on a music scholarship and managed to fit it into my schedule while taking organic chemistry, physics, abstract algebra and calculus III at the same time. Crazy me.

[3catwoman3]

64. I made the mistake of taking 2 semesters of organic chemistry...

...in 8 weeks of summer school. Damn near killed me. That was in the summer of 1973, and even now, I still have the occasional nightmare in which the course is almost over, I have done none of the labs or homework and I am desperately hoping that it is not too late to just drop the class without any sort of penalty.

Flute and piano here. The key of C is my friend. F, G and B flat are OK, too. Even E flat. I would much rather play flats than sharps, but I don't have a real good explanation for that.

When I was stationed in Japan with the Air force nurse corps, I got involved with the base amateur theater group. I did the choreography for Once Upon A Mattress. The group was very active, and our productions were generally quite well attended. We were puzzled when the ticket sales for Mattress were sluggish. Someone finally fgured out that the posters advertising it wee inadvertently misleading. It was described as a fairy tale for adults, and the base population was afraid it was X-rated. A different poster was hastily designed, and ticket sales picked right up.

[TexasTowelie]

67. Yikes,

sometimes it helps to receive a few opinions before releasing the posters. I imagine that some of the personnel at the base were scared that their spouses or officers ahead of them might take notice by attending the musical.

I also preferred the same keys as you did. Keys with sharps in them are supposed to be oriented for the strings sections for some reason although I don't completely understand why. After nearly 12 years of playing the trumpet I finally took the music theory course for non-music majors during my last semester of college. It was sort of amusing since I could usually finish my homework assignments in 15 to 30 minutes. I was the only student in the class that also had an extensive background in music, math and physics so I was able to understand concepts like dissonance and the cyclic patterns of keys and key signatures better than most of the class. The rest of the class wondered why I was there, but I needed 3 hours of classroom fine arts to go along with at 3 hours of performance fine arts so I saw the class as being the easiest chance to get a good grade.

[3catwoman3]

68. My husband and I have sonic toothbrushes that "hum" at different pitches and...

...it drives me crazy. Talk about dissonance. His hums at maybe a quarter tone lower that mine. I typically go into a different bathroom to eacape the disconcerting sound.

What career field did you end up i with that heavy science focus. I am one of those people with atypical interest combinations - biology and language arts (as it is called these days). I am a pediatric nurse practitioner, and I love sophisticated vocabulary and writing

[Mendocino]

19. Thanks Obama!

[spanone]

21. what an ass.

[Buns_of_Fire]

37. In that vein, does the toilet paper meet his lofty standards? nt

[Initech]

22. Like I said yesterday:

Trump and his goons couldn't be more thin skinned than a layer of seaweed on a sushi roll.

[dalton99a]

23. So precious

[ck4829]

25. Wow...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

26. And they're much too big.

I hope he was on his way to address some veterans at the time.

[Sanity Claws]

27. His hands are already tiny and delicate

If the towels are not soft, some skin might rub off his hands and make them smaller.

[MFM008]

28. Gross

Gross.

[underpants]

29. Noooothing better to focus on

I posted the same article in Eds & Other Articles - it's an alarming record of how completely nuts he is.

[mahannah]

32. Hints of Captain Queeg.

[lark]

33. He's such a sick fuck!

He really needs to go, unfortunately, we'd be left with Pence. Unless Pence can be proven to have collaborated with Russia and Drumpf in stealing the election, don't think he will go easily and he's as bad if not worse domestically than Drumpf. Now, he won't turn over the world to Russia or let Turkey kill all the Kurds and would probably not start a war with China. Iran, though, has long been at the top of the conservative hit list and I wouldn't put it past him to start a war there. Behind him is Ryan, and there's little to differentiate him from Pence. So, basically, there is no way out of this mess without taking back one of the chambers of congress. We can and should do everything to resist, boycott stores that carry their brand, boycott the states these asses come from, write letters, sign petitions, march, visit the reps. at their offices, but how much change will this really produce?

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. Tiny sensitive hands

[Grammy23]

39. Those of us who oppose this chunk of neediness are caught between a rock and a hard place.

tRump is obviously unfit for the job. He is completely self absorbed and has the temperment of a badly spoiled 3 year old who demands that he get his way and will stomp his feet and hold his breath until we give in to his demands and commands.

On the other hand, if we manage to send tRump packing, we are stuck with Pence. He is scary and inappropriate to be President for a variety of reasons. So it gives us plenty to consider when making a plan of how to deal with this entire situation.

I think the pushback against tRump should not let up. In fact, if anything, it should increase so that there is NO SAFE PLACE for him to escape protesters. No tweet should go unanswered. No speech given that isn't critiqued and parsed. EVERY.SINGLE.WORD.

I would like to see an investigation that goes as far as it needs to go to find the people involved in the Russian connection to our 2016 election. Name names, pull the scab off. It is scary to think how many may have been involved but for the good of our nation and its people we must know. The sooner the better. Do not be silenced.

[LudwigPastorius]

41. You think he's nuts now?

Just wait til those strawberries go missing from the White House pantry.

[Marie Marie]

42. OFFS - Another TantTrump over nothing.

[complain jane]

44. What was he doing with the towel

that it wasn't "soft" enough?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

53. In the lav, with a magazine?

[Mc Mike]

46. Lazy, stupid, DEMANDS to be pampered (WHILE pretending to be a tough guy).

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President Candy Ass needs a higher thread count on the hand towels. It's a national emergency.

[Locut0s]

47. Next he'll be requesting human skin towels. Nt.

[PatrickforO]

49. The horror is that I don't think you are joking.

Human skin lampshades went out in 1945. Let's hope the civilized world doesn't have to spend millions of lives to get rid of Trump and human skin towels.

[Locut0s]

66. Well it certainly was a deeply macabre joke...

And yes I was referencing Nazi era references to human lamp shades, and or Josef Mengele like experiments.

I don't necessarily think the US is headed there yet. But what terrifies me is that I never thought in my life I'd see the US on the same path that leads towards that terminus point. And you guys really have started down that path, even if it is early days. I still find myself in a state of shock when I think about what is transpiring in the US. We don't have concentration camps, there aren't mass killings. And I don't think there will be, hopefully. But this IS fascism. I never thought I'd truly see that in the US, as much as I have 1/2 joked about the possibility in the past.

[PatrickforO]

48. Americans reel in mindless horror as Trump lurches from

disastrous mistake to disastrous mistake.

[Rex]

50. He looks like an angry potato!

That somehow grew hair.

[lpbk2713]

54. He's not going to make it four years.

It's plain to see he's not living in a real world. And those one page memos? When the shit hits the fan the first thing he will say is "why didn't somebody tell me?" It's because of your short attention span asshole.

[longship]

55. How about the scratchy AF1 bun wad?

Let's here about that. I am sure Sean will be screeching about the Air Force One bun wad in no time!

I mean... how can Drumpf Sit and Tweet on AF1 with scratchy bun wad?

Ye gods!

[Docreed2003]

56. More proof that he views being president as being america's greatest celebrity...

A). He doesn't read what's put in front of him to sign. He merely sits at the seat of power and signs to photographers to show off his immense "power"

B). Rather than reading and educating himself or studying the mounds of briefs that the president regularly receives, this guy must have hours set aside in the day to watch TV and observe his subbordinates.

C). After a "lengthy day", he retires to his quarters by 6:30 to watch more TV!!! How many of us would love for our days to be done at 6:30? My wife sure would....she thinks me getting home before 6:30 is a blessing

D). Any critique is met with immediate Twitter storm...

[CajunBlazer]

57. Great read!

[3catwoman3]

59. If he is so tough and manly, shouldn't he...

...be drying his hands on sandpaper? Sweet Jesus!

[oldtime dfl_er]

61. .

[sarcasmo]

63. Talk about the east coast elite.

[pinboy3niner]

65. Not to mention, TOO BIG!

[trusty elf]

69. ....

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[mac56]

72. Snowflake.

[MojoWrkn]

73. Well, he does have "soft" LITTLE hands!

[calimary]

77. Welcome to DU, MojoWrkn!

Yes, he does, indeed. And such thin skin! How 'bout we just install more toilet paper rolls in there, little boy? Maybe if you spend most of your time clearing the little tissue crumbs off your hands, you won't have as much time to make trouble. Or sign those bogus "executive actions". Or grab pussy.

[George II]

74. They were too big for his dainty little hands?

[NNadir]

75. When those tiny wrists end up in handcuffs...and they will...they should line them...

...with felt.

[Freddie]

76. Business opportunity

There actually is a line of Donald J. Trump Towels, available at Macy's (and Overstock.com).

[pansypoo53219]

78. snowflake.