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syringis

(5,101 posts)
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 05:51 AM Mar 2018

It's not your imagination. Trump is getting worse.

By Eugene Robinson

It’s not your imagination. Donald Trump’s occupancy of the White House is every bit as insane, corrupt and dangerous as you might fear. Witness this jaw-dropping message to the sitting president of the United States from the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency:

“When the full extent of your venality, moral turpitude, and political corruption becomes known, you will take your rightful place as a disgraced demagogue in the dustbin of history. You may scapegoat Andy McCabe, but you will not destroy America . . . America will triumph over you.”

I have met John Brennan, who headed the CIA for four years under President Barack Obama. To say he is not given to hysterics is a gross understatement. His picture ought to be next to the word “sober” in the dictionary. Yet there he was on Saturday morning, using Twitter to tear into the supposed leader of the free world with language normally reserved for the tinhorn dictators of obscure kleptocracies.


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It's not your imagination. Trump is getting worse. (Original Post) syringis Mar 2018 OP
Have you looked at Trump lately? True Blue American Mar 2018 #1
Has anyone even mentioned Melania's cyber-bullying speech? PA Democrat Mar 2018 #2
It was pitiful True Blue American Mar 2018 #6
First mention I heard is yours. Any substance in it? Or just platitudes? Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #7
Here it is on You Tube. frogmarch Mar 2018 #15
That was a CAMPAIGN speech. I skipped around in it & it was all about Donald Bernardo de La Paz Mar 2018 #16
Oops, yes, I noticed that after frogmarch Mar 2018 #20
Pence is Catholic, too. nt rsdsharp Mar 2018 #10
I think he is Pentecostal scarytomcat Mar 2018 #11
He was raised Catholic rsdsharp Mar 2018 #13
I've Delphinus Mar 2018 #19
The only way trump would look good is if joshdawg Mar 2018 #3
I fondly picture him in cuffs and a nice orange jumpsuit. PatrickforO Mar 2018 #5
That is one scary (thankfully, fake) Fox News Alert. .... JustABozoOnThisBus Mar 2018 #17
Kick dalton99a Mar 2018 #4
Brennan's fierce warning was literally interrupted Hortensis Mar 2018 #8
I think that was Barry McCaffrey, retired 4-star general Tatiana Mar 2018 #12
You're right. And it was O'Donnell. Hortensis Mar 2018 #14
It is well-known that Trump becomes more erratic under stress. Nitram Mar 2018 #9
Thank you, syringis, for a clear-eyed perspective from our friends overseas spiderpig Mar 2018 #18

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
1. Have you looked at Trump lately?
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 06:59 AM
Mar 2018

He is ready to explode. His face looks terrible. He spends his time on the phone ranting to people bored with him. His stage planned photo ops come off flat.

Putting Melania out there about cyber bullying is funny. Stories about him befriending Drug Dealers while he calls for death is so fake.

I have listened to Brennan for years. He is an honorable man. So is McCabe and all the others in the FBI.

What is the most galling is Mitch,Ryan and the Republicans in Congress. Pence is a sleazy pretend Evangelical. Ryan is a lying Catholic.

Such a sickening bunch.

True Blue American

(17,972 posts)
6. It was pitiful
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 07:49 AM
Mar 2018

She sounds like a wound up puppet.

I gave up after a couple of minutes. They are trying desperately to look normal. There is nothing normal about either one.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
7. First mention I heard is yours. Any substance in it? Or just platitudes?
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:21 AM
Mar 2018

I thought it was later in the week because there had been such silence about it.

Bernardo de La Paz

(48,773 posts)
16. That was a CAMPAIGN speech. I skipped around in it & it was all about Donald
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 02:46 PM
Mar 2018

I only could stand about 40 seconds total time but I did not hear anything of substance. Seems like there might be about three minutes near the end about cyberbullying being bad, but I think her plan is "vote for my husband because he is working for all Americans" or something like that.

That speech takes the prize as a nothing burger.

frogmarch

(12,144 posts)
20. Oops, yes, I noticed that after
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 04:26 PM
Mar 2018

I posted it. I listened for a bit longer than you did, but I didn't make it through the whole thing either. Ugh, nothing burger is right.

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
11. I think he is Pentecostal
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 12:10 PM
Mar 2018

(how ever it is spelled)
women are subservient not allowed to cut hair
a very strict cult

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
8. Brennan's fierce warning was literally interrupted
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:24 AM
Mar 2018

on the station I was watching by announcement of I believe McCabe's firing. Extremely unfortunate. We need the danger this president poses to America discussed intensively.

Hortensis

(58,785 posts)
14. You're right. And it was O'Donnell.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 12:35 PM
Mar 2018

I actually can't imagine crazier. More tragic with war, pestilence, etc., but for people everywhere you look acting crazy...

At least we know more about why now. As the WaPo's new motto has it, "Freedom dies in darkness," and some strong lights are coming on.

Nitram

(22,663 posts)
9. It is well-known that Trump becomes more erratic under stress.
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 08:34 AM
Mar 2018

He's under a lot of stress and more stress is coming his way.

spiderpig

(10,419 posts)
18. Thank you, syringis, for a clear-eyed perspective from our friends overseas
Tue Mar 20, 2018, 03:29 PM
Mar 2018

I'm not a mental health professional, but Trump is deranged/mentally ill/congenitally evil...I don't know except that he is currently the most dangerous person on the planet.

He was born into every possible advantage, and look what he is. An abomination.

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