Pierce: There's a Reason Our Barking St. Bernard of a President* Doesn't Do These Interviews Often

[mcar]

There's a Reason Our Barking St. Bernard of a President* Doesn't Do These Interviews Often
I just, y'know, I think I...but...yeah, I got nothing.

BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
NOV 28, 2018

“I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed. They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

The president* said this to Philip Rucker and Josh Dawsey of The Washington Post. Why neither man responded by leaping out a window, draining his bank account, selling off his investments, and moving permanently to Lapland, is a testimony to their professional durability, if not their instinct for self-preservation. The president* doesn't often give these kind of interviews. There is a reason for this. The reason is that, in these settings, the president* generally sounds like someone who should be confiding his opinions on world affairs to you after midnight in a bus station in Idaho...

There was plenty of clean water to put out those fires in California, wasn't there? Also, it rains. Also, my feet have tiny golden wings. And, not to terrify you utterly, but here is the answer in full given by the Leader of the Free World to that question, courtesy of the WaPo 's official transcript of the conversation.

TRUMP: You look at our air and our water and it’s right now at a record clean. But when you look at China and you look at parts of Asia and when you look at South America, and when you look at many other places in this world, including Russia, including – just many other places — the air is incredibly dirty. And when you’re talking about an atmosphere, oceans are very small. And it blows over and it sails over. I mean, we take thousands of tons of garbage off our beaches all the time that comes over from Asia. It just flows right down the Pacific, it flows, and we say where does this come from. And it takes many people to start off with.

...

I think he's looking for the word "definitively" here. But it's a slippery little devil and he can't quite grab it. (Let us pause here to recognize National Security Adviser John Bolton's Tuesday contribution to the discussion of this ghastly crime. He dropped in on Sarah Huckabee Sanders's suddenly irregularly scheduled Decept-O-Fest and he was asked if he'd heard the audiotape of Khashoggi's horrifying last moments. Bolton said he didn't want to listen to it because, hey, Khashoggi's death screams were in a language he doesn't understand, so they don't count:

"Unless you speak Arabic, what are you going to get from it?

...

Also, apparently, he thinks Janet Yellen is too short to be Fed chair. Maybe he thinks they work at elevated desks, the way they do at Gringott's, or did at Scrooge and Marley. At this point, he could bark his answers like a St. Bernard and it wouldn't surprise a soul.

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a25331590/donald-trump-washington-post-interview/

[LisaM]

1. "Other places have denser leaders, too, but I can't think of one offhand."

[nolabear]

2. Heeeey...St. Bernards are lovely. Warthog maybe.

[dchill]

21. In a word, hyena.

[GoCubsGo]

3. That's an insult to St. Bernards, Charlie.

Otherwise, it's spot-on, as usual.

[smirkymonkey]

8. Honestly, please don't insult the noble St. Bernard by comparing the breed to

this mongrel. He will never measure up.

[AdamGG]

10. Apologies for the comparison to all St. Bernards, dogs, mammals, homonids & carbon based life forms

[pnwmom]

16. Glad everyone's having the same reaction I did. n/t

[Hermit-The-Prog]

18. we all cut Charlie some slack

He's been immersed in this shit from the beginning. It's gotta be damaging some brain cells, and yet he keeps giving us relief by expressing what many of us wish we could.

[MyOwnPeace]

4. This guy...........

is a National Treasure!

We need to protect him and keep him out there to show the underside of this mis-administration.

[mcar]

5. Esquire just started charging for access to his columns

I happily paid the annual fee - a whole $17!

[not fooled]

14. Best $ I ever spent.

This generation's Mark Twain.


I'm bitter, though, because although I tried to subscribe ASAP, I didn't get one of the Pierce tote bags.

[MyOwnPeace]

15. LOL!

Now that I think of it - I didn't either!!!

[tblue37]

17. So did I. nt

[Hekate]

6. Barking mad. Full blown dementia. Can't string a sentence or thought together. Gaaaaaaaaah

[mcar]

9. But he's solo intelligent

[babylonsister]

7. At this point, he could bark his answers like a St. Bernard and

it wouldn't surprise a soul.

That's just about right.

[Rural_Progressive]

11. Well there is one item in this article I will agree with Donnie O on

He does have a gut, you can't argue with him about that, the man does have a gut.

[yonder]

12. The 3 Stooges said it better:

b-a-bay, b-e-bee, b-i-bicky-bi, b-o-bo, bicky-bi-bo-bu, bicky-bi-bo-bu.

[D_Master81]

13. What the bloody hell was the question he was answering?

If you just read his answer you have no idea what the question is that he is responding to. Goes from record clean air, to different places in the world to talking about oceans being small and stuff just sails right over it to trash on the beaches and people wondering where its coming from. Its like all his answers when he's caught off guard, he rambles and strings together things in his brain that he remembers on the topic but cant actually be coherent if anyone actually called him on his BS.

[ginnyinWI]

19. He's very ignorant for a President.

He's just fine if you only want an old coot yelling at the TV from his recliner. Put one of those coots in the Presidency and you've got a Trump. Very confident in his ignorance on many subjects.

Who every thought money equals smarts? And no, he's not even a smart business man. Just good at the con game.

[RainCaster]

20. St. Bernard's drool. A lot.

Makes sense to compare DFT to a large drooling dog.