I turned on my TV this morning and was appalled at all the praise for Trump's

[Atticus]

"great speech" at the 75th anniversary of D-Day. I give him credit for NOTHING!

He lies as often as he breathes. Why would anyone credit his remarks---OBVIOUSLY not written by him---with the slightest bit of sincerity? How can anything that spews from this creature's foul mouth be deemed genuine?

He didn't call anyone a "motherfucker" and he did not grope Mrs. Macron in public so, by his standards, he "done good". But, please---spare me the "great speech" bullshit!

[katmondoo]

1. Same for me, I turned on MSNBC and was appalled and disgusted.

[lagomorph777]

11. I turned it off again pretty quickly.

[olegramps]

20. Take about Fake News. He monotones through a prepared speech; now he is a patriot.

I turned that lying bastard off and refuse to listen to his lies. The Republican politicians are the scum of the earth. There is not one worth a tinker's damn. They are supporting an outright traitor, liar, sexual predator and racist low life.

[Left-over]

28. What do you expect? The news media is owned by corporate republians. NOT REPORTERS!

[gilligan]

48. Well said.

[Polly Hennessey]

31. Do not watch MSNBC

in the morning. Ali and Stephanie are okay. Avoid Craig Melvin, Hallie Jackson, Chris Jansing, Kasie Hunt, Andrea Mitchell, Kristin Welker, Kelly O’Donnell, Todd Whathisface at all costs. They are useless. I am missing Katie Tur. Will be happy when she returns.

[Loge23]

38. You forgot Brokaw...

...who croaked his way through canonizing the Con, as if Brokaw is some high moral authority.
It was disgusting to see these so-called journalists bending over for the Con.

[kentuck]

2. Maybe he will stop throwing spitballs and putting bubblegum in their hair??

If only he had written the speech, it would have given more comfort. He can barely read it.

[lunatica]

53. In the little I heard before muting the sound

he pauses in all the wrong places as if there were commas there. I think he just reads one line and pauses before reading the next line. The result is I never hear the speech. I only hear his inappropriate pauses.

[HAB911]

3. Sickening

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. once again, I am thankful for having turned it all off 10 years ago.

heading out to kayak on a local lake. view herons and osprey.

no need for the toxic normalization that is largely today's media.

[SharonClark]

7. How odd

that you found time to comment about media coverage you didn't see.

[NRaleighLiberal]

42. Really! You the boss here?

[MFM008]

44. You dont have to see it

To know what it sounds like.

[Blecht]

62. It's not "odd" in any way

What is odd is that people think they will see anything other than this kind of infuriating garbage on cable news. They are high on the list of those responsible for getting the fuckface in chief elected, and watching them only enables them to continue.

[imanamerican63]

5. I thought he did the speech in a 5th grade level way.

Always slow and not fluent! Which is the way they are when he has to read from a prompter, because he can't read from a rolling screen. And he is suppose to be a brilliant man! Pathetic!

[SharonClark]

8. Agree 100%

[Scarsdale]

10. Once again,

the "stable genius" proves beyond a doubt that he is merely "a horse's ass". He did a terrible job of reading the words, and even misread at least one. He is a total disaster on the world stage. Now he is no longer our secret. The entire world has seen him and his "kids" exactly as they are. Grifters with no shame whatsoever.

[klook]

46. Trump can barely read.

His reading comprehension is that of a third grader.

[ecstatic]

6. Thanks for the warning. Today will be 100% DVR

and roku. It's stunning to me that people are still hoping and pretending that dump can be "presidential." Wake up!

[Doitnow]

49. Almost like thinking he can say a single sentence of his own without lying. I can't stand looking

or listening to him. The tv goes mute and I turn my head away.

[pazzyanne]

9. My feelings about the reporting on tRump's deportment.

He read from his script and stayed on message. Whoopie ding! I tried to watch but gave up when my stomach roiled and I wanted to

[lpbk2713]

12. Did any of them refer to him as "Dearest Leader" ?

Just checking.

[RoadMan]

13. "Cool Story Bro" anecdote

Talked to a couple at the bar yesterday afternoon.

Didn't take much for the old git to start talking about "The Mexicans."

We started talking about Texas (RFD tv was on) and he once lived in El Paso a long time ago. Next words: "But it CHANGED." Ominous emphasis on CHANGED.

Praises Latinos but says people have to do it LEGALLY. I told him they are refugees seeking asylum, escaping a humanitarian crisis the US has been working on since the Monroe Doctrine.

Lets me know that Obama apologized too much. I told him Obama didn't apologize enough. That America has much to be ashamed of that's worthy of criticism, that America has yet to make amends.

Get to talking more and it switches to Trump and he lets me know that the "Fake News" doesn't talk about all the good things Trump has done.

I asked him: "Name one specific good thing Trump has done?"

It got louder, but I kept repeating the question.

The geezer huffed and puffed and switched chairs to the other side of his wife and sat with his back turned to me.

They slurped their beer down and left.

Asshole.

[Traildogbob]

14. Disgusting pig

I would like SOMEONE in the media to mention why those thousands of soldiers died on that beach. What they sacrificed their lives for. Freakin NAZIS!!! They are some of trump's biggest supporters. Right here. Very fine people. Tell me why we allow that shit to exist here, after so many died to end them. For him to give a speech about Normandy................kiss my veteran ass.

[lpbk2713]

16. Mutters to wife ...

"Where is Hannity when you need him?"

[BigDemVoter]

15. EXACTLY

If we wait long enough, there will be some who will compare that orange pussy grabber to Churchill.

[thegoose]

17. They're giving fuckface a reset

Even on Facebook my brother-in-law, who hates Dump, said "Well done, sir."

[llmart]

18. First thing I saw when I turned on the TV this morning too.

I quickly switched it off and said to myself, "Here we go again. They're trying to normalize him as President. If he doesn't piss his pants on TV, then they act like he's a real President."

Sickens the hell out of me, and I expect to see even more of this in the run up to the election.

[SlogginThroughIt]

19. He gets accolades for the bare minimum.

I mean being able to read a speech written by someone else isn’t a great accomplishment. And his delivery is that of a failing second grader giving a book report.

[MrModerate]

21. This overpraising now gives the media cover . . .

To say "Well, we praise Trump when he deserves it, like at Normandy…"

Such chances — when Trump makes it all the way through a prepared speech without veering off into nasty ad libs — don't come along often.

[PA Democrat]

22. Andrea Mitchell just called him "eloquent."

He read a speech that he did not write and which contained sentiments with which he obviously does not agree.

Shame on the MSM for giving him praise for meeting an incredibly LOW bar for appropriate behavior.

[thegoose]

35. I just heard a couple of minutes

And it was his usual glum, bored monotone. Andrea Mitchell is such a toadie.

[BlueIdaho]

23. The bar is so low

That as long as he doesn’t shit his pants at the podium it’s a rousing success. This is what we’ve come to.

[Horse with no Name]

24. Me too

Listened on the way to work and found myself enjoying 70’s on 7 instead.
I’m tired of the passes he gets. He sounds like an uneducated 3rd grader.

[Bettie]

25. He didn't soil himself visibly

so he's "presidential".

[Marcuse]

26. The Barr is very low.

[jalan48]

27. Our local newspaper had a big photo of Trump and Malaria looking very sincere at at WWII

commemoration. The MSM is working very hard to make him look Presidential as we get closer to the election. No word about her semi-naked soft porn photos or his paying off prostitutes these days.

[procon]

29. Was I listening to the same speech?

I heard nothing but blood and guts, war and carnage, death and destruction, the dead and dying. It was every bit as steeped in the same doom and gloom, apocalyptic prose as Trump's innauguration speech, American Carnage.

He relied on teleprompters so the only thing that could be said is that he managed to read the script without straying into self congratulatory lists of how great he is.

[johnnyfins]

30. from the beginning of a cnn article

President Donald Trump met the moment, perfectly, with words that summoned poetry from their simplicity.
Turning from a crowd gathered among graves of Americans cut down in Normandy, he gazed into aged faces of their peers who lived and who never forgot the horror of the beaches below. He led a standing ovation to men, many of whom can no longer stand themselves, who had again crossed the ocean -- as they did three-quarters of a century ago on a mission to save liberty.

[lark]

32. I turned on Morning Joe, listened to the total BS and turned it off.

I won't watch again until Nicole Wallace's show, I can usually count on her for the truth and no fevered bullshit about him rising to the moment. He didn't. BFD - he managed to rehearse enough that he could read his speech without slurring, stumbling or going off topic about himself. OH, his speech writers wrote a nice sentence - OMG that anyone should even remark on this just shows what a shitgibbon he truly is. He defecated al over himself, our country, Britain and the monarchy for 2 days and now he acts 1/2 way human and they're impressed - what fucking low standards and what utter stinking garbage!!!!

[LibDemAlways]

33. Oh please. The network suits enjoying their

tax cuts from the ocean view of their vacation homes must think the public is entirely made up of rubes who eagerly down whatever shit is fed them. Other than the ignorant cadre of FAUX "News" addicts, Americans are well aware that Trump is an embarrassing boob who can barely read whatever script is handed to him. He has the audacity to drag his entire grifting clan to meet the queen on the taxpayer dime, then manages not to insult Bette Midler in front of elderly WWII vets (though he was sorely tempted), and that is somehow praiseworthy? Even for the corporate whores, who deserve every bit of ridicule, this is a new low. "Eloquent?" Andrea Mitchell has nothing on Pinocchio.

[kacekwl]

34. Great speech if you're a 12 year old

reading a report you stole from your older sister. I give it a D- just because he didn't puke while reading it.

[UniteFightBack]

36. Would you prefer the news did it the way you wrote it. People need to get a grip. The comments

here about the media mirror those that I read at the Daily Caller.

[Atticus]

52. "Would you prefer the news did it the way you wroteit"(?) Since you asked, yes.

And, if your equating comments on DU to those on The Daily Caller was not so transparently silly, some would find it insulting.

[kairos12]

37. M$M actually roots for him because he's good for their ratings.

Makes me sick.

[Fla Dem]

39. The bar has been set so low for him, anytime he doesn't screw up is considered "great".

[Loge23]

40. This is how this country elected a con man

The media shamelessly praises a drug-addled bigot reading a statement as if the Con is Churchill reincarnate.
Forget about the grabbing, forget about the children in cages, forget about the destructive tariffs, and mostly, forget about the fact that the Con is really a foreign agent of a hostile country, wittingly or not - the very embodiment of the evil that the troops on WW2 fought to overcome.
Today was a disgraceful day for the media.

[marybourg]

41. Heard the same thing from a guest

on The Brian Lehrer Show on NPR this morning, but to be fair, guests can say what they want.

[Totally Tunsie]

43. He's the original meaning of the word "drone". The reading of his speech was horrid.

BTW, did I really hear on CNN that drumpf was late to the services today because he was giving an interview to Faux News before the scheduled events? Really??? Then, later, when the drumpfs and the Macrons were waiting for the flyovers, the announcer commented that timing was a bit off because of drumpf's lateness. Thank heavens there was no aerial confusion.

[tblue37]

45. He didn't pee on the queen's shoes. What a brilliant diplomat! nt

[eppur_se_muova]

47. He gets the Ted Baxter Trophy for "Most Obvious Reading Without Thinking" performance. nt

[humbled_opinion]

50. This is what happens

when the bar is set so low it sits on the floor.

[Hekate]

54. I tuned in for NicolleWallace's program and it was stunningly good. Recommended. No mercy at all.

[Timmygoat]

55. We all know

The story of the bone spurs, but lest we forget, his own grandpa was kicked out of his country for cowardice in refusing to go into the armed forces for his country, we do not speak about that very much!

[RandiFan1290]

56. I'll never understand why so many democrats

watch the right wing media that helps to elect and protect these thugs.

[zackymilly]

57. Or comment on their websites which makes money for those sites.

[Chemisse]

58. It was a well-written speech; he did a passable job of reading it, and he didn't veer off.

I am very happy he did not fuck this up and humiliate us yet again, and I don't care how much praise he gets for it.

Everything he has done up to this point has been a disaster (including the interview that made the D-Day speeches start late!) and everything he will do beyond this point will be a disaster.

I have no problems patting him on the head and saying "thank-you, you didn't piss your pants at daycare one of the times you could have today."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

59. That hypnotic drone voice is seriously criminal all in itself

[bhikkhu]

60. I couldn't get past the sniffing myself

Apparently coming down from another Aderall blaster, after he spent the morning on a rant with Ingraham. The whole thing turns my stomach.

[Blecht]

61. The start of your subject line reveals your mistake

I turned on my TV this morning ...

Resist doing that and your day will be much better.