Video of confused, grasping, senile man desperately trying to maintain cognitive cohesion:

[lindysalsagal]

This is a man who should not be asked what he wants for lunch today, let alone tackle the most difficult domestic problem of the largest free democracy in the world.

Notice the body language of everyone else: They've been here all year and have decided to keep prompting him in case they can get him to agree with them for a few seconds. But they know he can be steered around a moment later and will forget anything he's previously said.

This is a person who would not be allowed to run a mcDonalds franchise, let alone the free world.

[blaze]

1. I tried to watch. I really did.

Looks like it was just another op for everyone to fawn over t.

[dewsgirl]

2. As much as I may despise them all, it infuriates me and

Even breaks my heart that his children care more about money (they already have), than their father. Of course, it seems he is such a nasty SOB that they don't care, which puts us all in grave danger.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. McDonalds decision would be tough

The McRib sandwich is so delicious we may have it year round.
The McRib, some say, is terrible. We may drop it.

[lindysalsagal]

6. Yes. We decided against the mcrib, although the mcchicken

Has been popular in the past. People all agree our mcsalad can do the job of both, and since we are here to please everyone, I'll keep both options on the table and table whatever the group agrees to since I know America expects that of us and we can't go back on our promises and suchlike. Hilary Clinton is the worst president this country has ever seen. Something must be done for the sake of coal minors.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Crazy thing is.......

I could really hear him saying all of that!

[secondwind]

4. His arms were crossed throughout.

A defensive posture which, to me anyway, also is a sign of “just try and stop me”. God, what an awful man we have put in the White House.

[llmart]

14. I picked up on that also...

It's a posture my narcissistic/bully/immature former husband adopted when he was in over his head with someone (usually me) who was smarter and more self-assured than he was.

[marble falls]

5. He does an awful lot of repeating of incomplete sentences and thoughts.

[Vinca]

7. This was so clearly a semi-scripted episode of the reality show "Trump In the White House."

Democrats - and Republicans for that matter - were props on the set. I imagine the title on the script was "The President As a Stable Genius." The only surprise was no commercial breaks for Trump wine.

[VOX]

16. Perfect observation! You can sense the falseness of the gestures and words.

Clearly, they are all bad actors (some in more ways than one). And of course, the continuing motif of genuflecting and scraping to his highness.

But, yes, your instincts are absolutely dead center.

[MyOwnPeace]

9. After reading the title......

I expected to see a video of IQ45 trying to sing the National Anthem (same title works for that video)!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Feinstein was very smart to ask him a direct question he could agree with.

She knew the RepubliCONs would correct him, but she got his own answer on the record.

It was a win-win moment for the Democrats and she seized it. Win for the way he answered and win for the way tRump got exposed for the demented man he is.

[Motley13]

11. They showed that to prove the moron has all of his marbles

it didn't work. He has no idea what a clean bill is.
He will sign anything they bring him.
He changed his views several times.

[Liberalagogo]

12. I wouldn't trust RUMP with a burnt-out match.

n/t

[duforsure]

13. Just another failed PR event

trying to make a delusional and confused man look stable , but failed miserably, again. It proves the opposite of what they were trying to do. He knows and understands nothing.

[VOX]

15. Its like...no, it *IS* a VERY BAD industrial film.

Starring a scripted (and probably cued by earpiece) Donald “Behold My Stable Genius” Trump, and a gaggle of sycophants too numerous to name. (Remember, Trump carries a Screen Actor’s Guild Card.)

As for the “bipartisan” bullshit, it’s an awful lot like a wooden horse (on wheels, yet!) stuffed on the sly with some scheming Greek warriors.

Please, do not drag that thing inside the gates. It’s going to be, “DACA for you, and a Wall and profiling and the Ghost of Sheriff Joe Arpaio for us. Deal or no deal?”

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. RW media has a 180 opposite take on it:

Townhall.com:

President Donald Trump has been besieged by allegations, rather ludicrous ones, that he’s somehow unstable and mentally unfit to be president. Michael Wolff’s new book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White, has been a public relations nightmare, despite multiple media figures and officials calling out its inaccuracies. Well, what happened today dispelled all of that.

Some in the media were duped by the theatrical aspect of having TV cameras present as if it were a "reality show-style look behind the scenes," (CNN's words) though beware this excerpt is Townhall's paraphrasing and spin:

Even CNN praised the extended pool spray, with Dana Bash {...} added that this is what people who voted for Trump hoped his presidency would look like, The Donald “in command.”

Shannon Pettypiece of Bloomberg added that given the allegations in the book, Trump needed to meet with Democrats and an image improvement and this meeting satisfied those two goals.

Bash’s CNN colleague John King said what we saw today was a very engaged president,

CNN's site has "analysis" saying "The uproar sowed by Michael Wolff's bestseller "Fire and Fury" left Donald Trump needing a counternarrative and to project an image of control, authority and an even temperament. On Tuesday, he largely pulled it off."

But it also has a story headlined: "Trump contradicts self repeatedly in immigration meeting".

Even the analysis piece admits it: "Yet the compelling back-and-forth also exposed some of the President's liabilities, notably a hazy command of policy details, a tendency to adopt multiple, contradicting positions on key issues at the same time as well as his habit of misrepresenting the facts in service of his political views."

In my book, that is not being "in command" or "engaged".

Of course the Trumpanzees were smitten:

I love my President ! He just proved his genius tweet in one move or less.

5 posted on 1/9/2018, 10:17:03 PM by Newbomb Turk

I absolutely loved it... more Winning!

Made Michael "Trump is Unfit for Office" Wolff looked like the idiot he is. Too bad he's going to get rich off his Fake Book sales.
30 posted on 1/9/2018, 11:36:18 PM by nutmeg (Trump/Pence 2020)

[Skittles]

18. it has to be excruciating for people to have to pretend he knows what he is talking about

HE IS SUCH A FUCKING MORON