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Trump knows something is about to break. (Original Post) bearsfootball516 Aug 2018 OP
Wow. Lester Holt edited the tapes? We're in crazy territory now. dem4decades Aug 2018 #1
Sadly, we have been stuck on crazy SallyHemmings Aug 2018 #2
He just wants everyone to watch fox! FloridaBlues Aug 2018 #4
fox? joshdawg Aug 2018 #26
Sounds like that admission is hurting him with his base so he hands him their excuse to believe him uponit7771 Aug 2018 #7
and crazy has the wheel..... getagrip_already Aug 2018 #31
OMG that's a new one. lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #58
I guess that's the only way he can squirm out of the things he has said on tape. Chemisse Aug 2018 #88
He does sound unhinged, but it is Thursday. babylonsister Aug 2018 #3
Who is little Jeff Z ??? SamKnause Aug 2018 #5
Jeff Zeleny, Senior White House Correspondent for CNN Pacifist Patriot Aug 2018 #9
Thank you. SamKnause Aug 2018 #10
My pleasure. You too! Pacifist Patriot Aug 2018 #11
Just read another post. SamKnause Aug 2018 #12
Oh that could be too. That would make sense. Pacifist Patriot Aug 2018 #16
Exactly. SamKnause Aug 2018 #18
Psychopath having a psychotic break. Truly horrific combo. Pacifist Patriot Aug 2018 #19
Jeff Zucker, head of CNN BadgerMom Aug 2018 #42
"Little" is his favorite insult NewJeffCT Aug 2018 #44
If Trump could drive, he'd drive one of these: lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #62
And look at his supporters justgamma Aug 2018 #82
Jeff Zucker, the head of CNN. nt Maven Aug 2018 #69
Now he just sounds like a raving lunatic. A very desperate raving lunatic. SammyWinstonJack Aug 2018 #6
Seems Like All His Tweets Are To Create Reasonable Doubt.... global1 Aug 2018 #8
To the rest of us, he is a "whiny little man"! dubyadiprecession Aug 2018 #17
These are the talking points for those unable to think for themselves, Ilsa Aug 2018 #45
+1. You're 100% correct. ok_cpu Aug 2018 #61
New book coming out? Cracklin Charlie Aug 2018 #13
Bob Woodward's I imagine. watoos Aug 2018 #23
Call the medics now. This insane fucker needs Thorazine, a straight jacket and a gurney. PearliePoo2 Aug 2018 #14
It seems I say PatSeg Aug 2018 #39
Why is the Russiapublican party complicit? #NRAROUBLES lagomorph777 Aug 2018 #63
I feel like we are living in some PatSeg Aug 2018 #89
Is he a fucking moron? (Rhetorical question) docgee Aug 2018 #15
++++++IKR and internet search for it surges online WTH. ..moron supreme lunasun Aug 2018 #53
Unfortunately, he wouldn't know the "truth" from a pile of horseshit... kentuck Aug 2018 #20
Fake Books??? bucolic_frolic Aug 2018 #21
Love you post except pazzyanne Aug 2018 #49
I have several books about Spanky. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #78
Yep, according to Ghouliani Mad-in-Mo Aug 2018 #84
Hang in there Prez, way too early to call Pence in from the bullpen. oasis Aug 2018 #22
+1000 n/t MBS Aug 2018 #64
My Ford! watoos Aug 2018 #24
Soma time! peekaloo Aug 2018 #29
The GOP absolutely supports these dangerous lies to Americans Achilleaze Aug 2018 #25
Hopefully a few blood vessels. peekaloo Aug 2018 #27
This Kook has the nuclear football njhoneybadger Aug 2018 #28
Funny, how everything's fake except him. sinkingfeeling Aug 2018 #30
So he is projecting again PatSeg Aug 2018 #38
He is addressing his audience that is everyone. gordianot Aug 2018 #32
Insanely fearful & trying to get in front of the story. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2018 #33
The stench of desperation True Blue American Aug 2018 #34
Heading to work today jayschool2013 Aug 2018 #35
Even though Trump does not know you take comfort Trump hates your guts. gordianot Aug 2018 #36
Yep jayschool2013 Aug 2018 #55
Nice Joe Stalin talk by Trump ..... "(the) Enemy of the People." Botany Aug 2018 #37
He didnt write those. honest.abe Aug 2018 #40
The President is insane world wide wally Aug 2018 #41
When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly! Fullduplexxx Aug 2018 #43
I wonder if indictments are imminent and one is Donnie Jr nt maryellen99 Aug 2018 #46
Stop with the hate and stand up a be a man for a change! pazzyanne Aug 2018 #47
Exactly watoos Aug 2018 #50
The Upcoming Manafort Trial and the Crimes it Will Reveal is Sending Trump Over the Edge dlk Aug 2018 #48
He was never in his life held accountable for anything. watoos Aug 2018 #56
I don't think he wrote these dflprincess Aug 2018 #51
Who else would be insane enough to send out tweets like this unless smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #71
Melania? dflprincess Aug 2018 #87
Dear Mr Mueller mainstreetonce Aug 2018 #52
The only way watoos Aug 2018 #59
He's decompensating. This is part of a narcissist's unraveling process. Texin Aug 2018 #54
What goes around, comes around. Remember Obama, Mr. Dennison? He could handle it like a man. Firestorm49 Aug 2018 #57
How would he know? SHRED Aug 2018 #60
From the Hoarse Whisperer Gothmog Aug 2018 #65
Lol he displays all nine practically on a daily basis. bearsfootball516 Aug 2018 #66
Agreed Gothmog Aug 2018 #67
This is what happens when duforsure Aug 2018 #68
Every snake has a head, Trump is the (a) head of the snake. gordianot Aug 2018 #70
Trump continues to descend down down down in the quicksand. lpbk2713 Aug 2018 #72
Is there nobody in his orbit who will tell him that the more he tweets like this, smirkymonkey Aug 2018 #73
I think Trump is regretting his presidency Catherine Vincent Aug 2018 #74
I don't think he ever wanted it. bearsfootball516 Aug 2018 #76
Exactly... Zoonart Aug 2018 #79
Great point and totally plausible Catherine Vincent Aug 2018 #90
tRump at this stage reminds me of those tall, skinny things Grammy23 Aug 2018 #75
They're called air dancers, and they do come in orange. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #80
I couldn't remember the correct term for those things. Grammy23 Aug 2018 #86
He's decompensating more and more every day. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #77
...says a jackass who pulls stories out of his ass. louis-t Aug 2018 #81
making a case of medical insanity for himself, inability to stand trial AlexSFCA Aug 2018 #83
He's just sane enough to make an insanity defense unlikely. The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2018 #85

uponit7771

(90,335 posts)
7. Sounds like that admission is hurting him with his base so he hands him their excuse to believe him
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:41 AM
Aug 2018

... I've observed during his KKKlan rallies that mentions of Putin have not been taken well also.

Looks like Red Don's ties to Putin or his obstruction of the Mueller investigation on what Putin green lighted during the election is Red Don's weak underbelly with his base.

Wish we had some coordinated message on that precise point.

Chemisse

(30,811 posts)
88. I guess that's the only way he can squirm out of the things he has said on tape.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 01:00 PM
Aug 2018

It's pretty feeble, however. Only Trumpites would believe it.

Pacifist Patriot

(24,653 posts)
16. Oh that could be too. That would make sense.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:57 AM
Aug 2018

Or maybe he is referring to both. Or thinks they are the same person. Who knows with that dotard.

global1

(25,242 posts)
8. Seems Like All His Tweets Are To Create Reasonable Doubt....
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:41 AM
Aug 2018

in the minds of his supporters/deplorables. They believe all his lies and these lies about the MSM - in his mind - helps his case.

There's a job for Trump after he's impeached, incarcerated or otherwise deposed from the presidency. He can always write fictional political novels with his devious conspritorial mind.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
45. These are the talking points for those unable to think for themselves,
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:16 AM
Aug 2018

apply critical thinking skills, and who live in an alternate reality where everything good was because of IQ45.

ok_cpu

(2,050 posts)
61. +1. You're 100% correct.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:55 AM
Aug 2018

Truth doesn't matter, it just needs to be easy to remember and repeat.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
14. Call the medics now. This insane fucker needs Thorazine, a straight jacket and a gurney.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:55 AM
Aug 2018

JFC, when you think he can't possibly get more off the rails, he does. Every day is worse.

We're in extreme danger.

PatSeg

(47,419 posts)
39. It seems I say
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:09 AM
Aug 2018

that every day now. Is there truly no bottom?

Meanwhile, how can republicans in congress still sit back and not do anything? They can see what we're seeing. Obviously they are more corrupt and compromised than I could have imagined.

PatSeg

(47,419 posts)
89. I feel like we are living in some
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 01:12 PM
Aug 2018

wacky B movie with characters that are too off-the-wall to be taken seriously. It makes Dr. Strangelove look like a documentary.

docgee

(870 posts)
15. Is he a fucking moron? (Rhetorical question)
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 07:56 AM
Aug 2018

Now every news org is going to be playing that incriminating interview over and over all day.

kentuck

(111,089 posts)
20. Unfortunately, he wouldn't know the "truth" from a pile of horseshit...
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:03 AM
Aug 2018

"Truth doesn't matter to them"

Sad.

bucolic_frolic

(43,146 posts)
21. Fake Books???
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:05 AM
Aug 2018

A book can be debated as to truth, sources, logic, speciousness, agenda, facts, lies, fronts or whatever ... but FAKE???

His head is turning to sugary icing. There's just no reasoning power and not much logic left in there.

pazzyanne

(6,551 posts)
49. Love you post except
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:27 AM
Aug 2018

his head is not turning to sugary icing, it is turning to sh*t, gloppy run down your face diarrhea!

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,683 posts)
78. I have several books about Spanky.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:59 AM
Aug 2018

Am I to understand that, being fake, these books are not books at all, but instead are pot holders, Pop-Tarts, or optical illusions? But they're full of words! Where did all those words come from? Personally, I think they're books.

oasis

(49,381 posts)
22. Hang in there Prez, way too early to call Pence in from the bullpen.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:06 AM
Aug 2018

Keep pitching until your numbers fall below 30. The voters will get rid of all of you rotten bastards in one fell swoop when 2020 arrives.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
25. The GOP absolutely supports these dangerous lies to Americans
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:12 AM
Aug 2018

by remaining silent, letting truth and democracy slip into the cesspool of KGOP republican falsehood and treason.

Screw the GOP and their wholehearted embrace of lies and cheating by their ignoble and dangerous Draft Dodger-in-Chief.

PatSeg

(47,419 posts)
38. So he is projecting again
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:06 AM
Aug 2018

He knows he is none of the things he claims. He is the fake, the fraud, so he accuses his enemies of the same.

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
32. He is addressing his audience that is everyone.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:51 AM
Aug 2018

If you hate him, love him, believe him, or understand his lies; you are his audience. Whatever problems you have financial, family, health, employment; Donald Trump should be first on your mind (in his world view). Thanks to modern technology everyone is front row to his epic collapse. Whether we survive this or not we will know what he was thinking even if we do not understand his ravings. There is no escape from Trump who at this stage appears to have one goal pay attention to him. The next and final stage “punishment” is coming it will not matter who you are you will be punished. The paranoia is astounding even Google and Lester Holt is against him.

jayschool2013

(2,312 posts)
35. Heading to work today
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 08:59 AM
Aug 2018

as an "enemy of the people," both teaching and committing acts of journalism.

Wish me luck!

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
36. Even though Trump does not know you take comfort Trump hates your guts.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:05 AM
Aug 2018

There is a distinct possibility he hates himself even more.

Fullduplexxx

(7,860 posts)
43. When Lester Holt got caught fudging my tape on Russia, they were hurt badly!
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:13 AM
Aug 2018

Wtf. Now he saying je didnt say that on holt's show ....

pazzyanne

(6,551 posts)
47. Stop with the hate and stand up a be a man for a change!
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:19 AM
Aug 2018

You have brought more damage and sorrow to this nation in 18 months than any president in the history of our nation. When you point a finger at the press, there are 3 fingers pointing back at you. If you were a real man you would be looking at those fingers and trying to figure out why Americans, other than your base, hate you with a passion. You are a despicable human being and there is no hope for you. The most that I can hope for is that you will spend time in prison thinking about why you are there.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
50. Exactly
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:31 AM
Aug 2018

He isn't a man, he's a wimp. He certainly isn't some tough guy, that's his TV personality. He can't even fire people face to face.

When Democrats get subpoena power and his traitorous Congressional Republicans can't cover for him, he will have a nervous breakdown.

He never wanted to win the presidency, he only wanted the notoriety to go into Trump cable TV. Once he got involved in the race Putin took over and he is stuck in way over his head. He is lucky that the Republican party chose party over country, chose to not defend the Constitution and the rule of law, or he would have been gone long ago.

Vote like our democracy depends on it, because it does.

dlk

(11,561 posts)
48. The Upcoming Manafort Trial and the Crimes it Will Reveal is Sending Trump Over the Edge
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:21 AM
Aug 2018

Even in his delusional state, he can see the writing on the wall.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
56. He was never in his life held accountable for anything.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:47 AM
Aug 2018

It isn't just the Manafort trial, it's everything combined. The M$M gave him 24/7 free coverage during the primary and the election, but now the media is slowly turning on him, and I do mean slowly, it could do a lot more in reporting the truth.

I believe that he believes he is protected, that he is above the law. He is being told that his kids are in trouble and he doesn't know what to do about it. He thought that if his friends got into trouble that all he had to do was pardon them, but he is being told that would be a mistake, hence the firing of McGahn.

Bottom line; Trump is playing a reality TV star but he is learning that he can't control the script. Also, he is a very stupid person constantly making the wrong decisions, or should I say, listening to the wrong people. You have to be pretty stupid to waive attorney/client privilege between himself and McGahn and allow Bob Mueller to question McGahn for 30 hours so that all of that information that Mueller got from McGahn is now not privileged.

Vote.

dflprincess

(28,075 posts)
51. I don't think he wrote these
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:33 AM
Aug 2018

Words are spelled correctly & punctuation & capitalization are mostly correct. While the content is still nuts they still appear almost coherent for a Trump tweet.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
71. Who else would be insane enough to send out tweets like this unless
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:37 AM
Aug 2018

they were intentionally trying to destroy him. They certainly wouldn't be helping matters any.

mainstreetonce

(4,178 posts)
52. Dear Mr Mueller
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:34 AM
Aug 2018

Please put a very authentic copy of your original birth certificate in a very secure place.

He's coming for you.

 

watoos

(7,142 posts)
59. The only way
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:52 AM
Aug 2018

that Trump would come after Mueller would be behind a keyboard or pay someone else to do it. Trump is a puny, weak, bigoted coward.

Texin

(2,596 posts)
54. He's decompensating. This is part of a narcissist's unraveling process.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 09:45 AM
Aug 2018

He has always been a danger, but at this moment, he is extremely volatile and very, very, very much a threat to the United States. Above all, he will have self-preservation as his only aim and he will lash out at anyone and everyone he perceives as a threat to him, and that includes being a physical threat to the life and well-being of others.

duforsure

(11,885 posts)
68. This is what happens when
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 10:30 AM
Aug 2018

A guilty corrupt treasonous criminal who works with the russian mafia and putin does , and who runs a crime family does when he knows justice is coming for them all, he gets very unstable, and lashing out from being exposed, finally, for what he and his family are. They're con artists and organized crime members working to scam the American people out of more money , and for more power to do as they please. Conspiring with putin and the russia mafia, (protecting putin and the mafia boss by republicans in Congress) to undermine Democracy. Its about time someone is making him and his crime family accountable for all they illegally done . HE's desperate, but it'll never work for him , and make it worse until he resigns, which we'll probably find out soon he's been talking to others about a deal, which will be laughed at, and he'll be forced out anyway , and end up where he and others belong , in prison.

gordianot

(15,237 posts)
70. Every snake has a head, Trump is the (a) head of the snake.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:29 AM
Aug 2018

Trump’s mental condition is responsible for his snakedom. Putin is an institutional snake common from the time of the Czars, Communist phase, and now a Russian Federation.

lpbk2713

(42,757 posts)
72. Trump continues to descend down down down in the quicksand.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:42 AM
Aug 2018



It's a situation of his own making. And I love watching the consequences of his actions.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
73. Is there nobody in his orbit who will tell him that the more he tweets like this,
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:45 AM
Aug 2018

the guiltier and more insane he looks? If he ever seemed powerful to anyone, these incessant, incoherent paranoid tweets have made him look weak, stupid, irrational and unable to control himself. Doesn't he realize that he is exposing all his own fears and weaknesses by doing this?

Someone needs to slap a straitjacket on him. He's about to blow.

bearsfootball516

(6,377 posts)
76. I don't think he ever wanted it.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:52 AM
Aug 2018

He ran in order to create an image and to make money. There are lots of stories from legitimate sources on election night that were at the Trump watch party, saying when it started becoming clear that Trump might win, he was shell-shocked, Melania was crying.

It's why he reportedly doesn't start his work until 11 a.m. and wraps them up early, why his daily schedules that are released to the public often have "Meeting at noon" and then blank for the rest of the day. He doesn't schedule anything, because he doesn't want to do anything, because he never wanted the job in the first place.

Zoonart

(11,860 posts)
79. Exactly...
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 12:01 PM
Aug 2018

He wanted to fame and the prestige and the notoriety, but never the JOB. He's a lazy, spiteful SOS who has done nothing in his life but point and yell at lackeys. The only "pleasure" I get from any of this is knowing how much he absolutely HATES THIS JOB.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
75. tRump at this stage reminds me of those tall, skinny things
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 11:51 AM
Aug 2018

used for advertising. They are powered by a fan at the base that blasts air into the tube at intervals, causing the tube to flail about crazily, thus drawing attention to it by the side of the road. That is tRump. Flailing and writhing, back and forth as his mental state gets increasingly agitated and disturbed. He senses that things are not going well for him AND he knows what he did that Mueller has uncovered so that just adds to his crazy behavior, tweets and nonsensical blabbering to the press. He does know somewhere deep inside his lizard-brain that he is not headed where he wants to go but he has no idea how to get things going in a better direction. So he does the only thing he knows— denigrate, lie and flail about making a spectacle of himself.

He will be exposed as a liar, cheat and likely as a traitor. They have the goods on him and all those people he thought would cover for him are running for shelter and their lives. Nothing like the thought of a prison cell, a hard cot and cell mates to focus the mind. So his options are running out. He is left to deal with this by himself because who wants to listen to people who aren’t licking your boots and who ARE telling you the truth??

At some point someone will turn off that fan that is causing the tRump tube to toss and flail about.
Maybe a massive stroke or just a complete shut down of his mental processes. But expect more of the flailing until he just can’t do it any more. It is his stock and trade and it worked for a very long time, until he just went too far. The world will witness the greatest fall from the throne in real time. I am pretty sure there will be many DUers who will celebrate that day.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
86. I couldn't remember the correct term for those things.
Thu Aug 30, 2018, 12:31 PM
Aug 2018

AND was too lazy to look it up. But that is exactly what I think of when tRump goes on a Twitter binge. Thanks for supplying the correct name of it.
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