"That was the biggest fucking mistake I've made" and the "worst speech I've ever given," according

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

to Woodward’s account.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.adcb69170aef

A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions was a “traitor” for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

At a dinner with Mattis and Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr., the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others, Trump lashed out at a vocal critic, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.). He falsely suggested that the former Navy pilot had been a coward for taking early release from a prisoner-of-war camp in Vietnam because of his father’s military rank and leaving others behind.


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Trump was sharply criticized for initially saying that “both sides” were to blame. At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis, but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward’s account.

[SweetieD]

1. This should go over well in the south.

[dalton99a]

2. Hey all you dumb Southerners

[Cracklin Charlie]

14. From a dumb former Southerner with an accent.

It’s never a good idea to underestimate someone because of how they talk.

This could be a huge and long running mistake on Trump’s part.

[bullwinkle428]

3. Will Confederate MAGAts now burn their red hats in the same bonfire

that's currently roasting all of their Nike gear?

[onenote]

5. No, because Trump will deny having said it and they'll believe him over Woodward 10 times out of 10.

[PatSeg]

18. Yeah

He'll put it down to more "fake news". If he said such things out loud in front of them, he would still find a way to deny it.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. Apparently Trump thinks it was his evil twin

who nominated Sessions for AG. Given his loud and ongoing complaints about the man, it is astounding he hasn't fired him. Maybe there are cooler heads around him who've made it clear that if he does so he'd be impeached and removed from office inside of a week.

[murielm99]

16. His evil twin John Barron?

[SDJay]

6. Only Two Words Are Needed:

"FAKE NEWS!" With that, his southern base returns to worshiping the guy who's robbing them blind.

That's assuming that any of them will even hear about this, as many probably won't.

[UTUSN]

7. Ya beat me to it, so I'll just R Big #5 & K!1

[SWBTATTReg]

8. Racist bigot...that's all rump is, a racist bigot with a big mouth...

I got family in the South (and in Alabama too) and they are certainly not happy w/ rump remarks...

A near-constant subject of withering presidential attacks was Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump told Porter that Sessions was a “traitor” for recusing himself from overseeing the Russia investigation, Woodward writes. Mocking Sessions’s accent, Trump added, “This guy is mentally retarded. He’s this dumb Southerner. … He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama.”

Maybe someone in Alabama will wash rump's mouth out w/ soap...

[lame54]

13. And Trump only hires the best people

[BeyondGeography]

9. Let's see exactly how big Southerners are on loyalty

Sessions was the only Senator to stick his neck out and support Trump. He did it because they’re both bigots and they both cater to bigots. His reward is humiliation. Will it matter to all those “dumb Southerners”? Or does bigotry, you know, trump loyalty? I think I know the answer.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

11. Let me guess....."FAKE NEWS!!!" Then they go back to metaphorically tossing his salad. nt

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. Cohn's daughter found a swastika on her college dorm room

Cohn, who is Jewish, was especially shaken when one of his daughters found a swastika on her college dorm room.
…
When Cohn met with Trump to deliver his resignation letter after Charlottesville, the president told him, “This is treason,” and persuaded his economic adviser to stay on. Kelly then confided to Cohn that he shared Cohn’s horror at Trump’s handling of the tragedy — and shared Cohn’s fury with Trump.

“I would have taken that resignation letter and shoved it up his ass six different times,” Kelly told Cohn, according to Woodward. Kelly himself has threatened to quit several times, but has not done so.

I don't blame Cohn for being shaken by that - that's a threat directed at his daughter. I do blame him for not going through with the resignation then (and for not schooling Trump on what 'treason' actually is, for fuck's sake - it's clear Trump defines it as "insufficient loyalty to Donald Trump" ). And Kelly, for not resigning when his conscience clearly tells him to.

[lame54]

12. Worst speech? - that's a tough one

[world wide wally]

15. Don't worry, Donnie.

Every time you give a speech, it is worse than the last one.

[Astraea]

17. I'm surprised

Worst speech ever? Based on his past behavior, I did not know he was capable of self-criticism.

I thought in his mind it was always the best speech ever made.

[left-of-center2012]

19. long article ... well worth reading

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-woodwards-new-book-reveals-a-nervous-breakdown-of-trumps-presidency/2018/09/04/b27a389e-ac60-11e8-a8d7-0f63ab8b1370_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.adcb69170aef