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demmiblue

(36,851 posts)
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:11 AM Jan 2017

Krauthammer: Trump honeymoon officially over

Source: The Hill

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"Normally, newly elected presidents enjoy a wave of goodwill that allows them to fly high at least through their first 100 days. Donald Trump has not been sworn in, and the honeymoon has already come and gone.”

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“(Trump’s) need to dominate every news cycle feeds an almost compulsive tweet habit,” he said. "It has placed him just about continuously at the center of the national conversation, and not always to his benefit.”

Krauthammer added Trump had not improved some of the flaws from his at times wild 2016 presidential bid.

“Nothing negative goes unanswered because, for Trump, an unanswered slight has the air of concession or surrender,” he said.

“Finally, it’s his chronic indiscipline, his jumping randomly from one subject to another without rhyme, reason or larger strategy.”


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/314142-krauthammer-trump-honeymoon-officially-over

Oh, my!
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Krauthammer: Trump honeymoon officially over (Original Post) demmiblue Jan 2017 OP
n/t JustAnotherGen Jan 2017 #1
Yeah, no shit, Chuckles - you just now figured this out? hatrack Jan 2017 #2
Yeah, WTF. All these Pubs having vapors after they did their best to get this Nay Jan 2017 #7
Krauthammer's been anti-Trump for a while now NewJeffCT Jan 2017 #21
And Krauthammer has an MD in psychiatry RobertDevereaux Jan 2017 #24
He really nails it right there. Too bad he used words at a reading level far above Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #36
Yeah, I was just appreciating his use of the word "indiscipline" eleny Jan 2017 #37
Me too! Dark n Stormy Knight Jan 2017 #38
I know, right.. now he owes Krauthammer a tweet or two Cha Jan 2017 #3
Thanks Krauth. How would we EVER know without you? pangaia Jan 2017 #4
Pretty remarkable. We got Trump fatigue even before the inauguration. Baitball Blogger Jan 2017 #5
Trump fatigue hit me back in April world wide wally Jan 2017 #9
Poll's show Americans approve of Pres. Obama and disapprove of Trump. Stellar Jan 2017 #6
Krauthammer doesn't like Trump, but the bitter old fuckwad ... 11 Bravo Jan 2017 #8
What honeymoon? sarisataka Jan 2017 #10
Oh that's perfect. I want to use that! nt stevenleser Jan 2017 #11
I waive all copyright claims sarisataka Jan 2017 #12
Thank you! See #16 below!!! stevenleser Jan 2017 #17
Oh please do 2naSalit Jan 2017 #13
It's up. See... stevenleser Jan 2017 #16
With luck sarisataka Jan 2017 #18
Thank You! 2naSalit Jan 2017 #20
That is great. Thank you. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #27
Perfect mountain grammy Jan 2017 #28
Krauthammer hasn't trusted/liked Trump for awhile now. Buckeye_Democrat Jan 2017 #14
Krauthammer is a conservative. An unelected ideological conservative. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #26
newly ELECTED presidents. It's under the shadow of a coup. Keyword elected. ffr Jan 2017 #15
Good - can we start divorce proceedings immediately? Metro135 Jan 2017 #19
Unlike the majority of Americans, and the majority of the world, Krauthammer deserves Trump. NNadir Jan 2017 #22
Any bets on who the next tweet is about? MatthewStLouis Jan 2017 #23
The best part is that is it because of Trumps own actions. NCTraveler Jan 2017 #25
You're a psycharist, Dr. Krauthammer.... Grins Jan 2017 #29
Another conservative chimes in with J_William_Ryan Jan 2017 #30
I despise Krauthammer. Nitram Jan 2017 #31
Remove the plastic sheets from the honeymoon suite Blue Owl Jan 2017 #32
I'm fucking SHOCKED he still has 44% who approve.. BigDemVoter Jan 2017 #33
Rapists don't get a honeymoon. Fozzledick Jan 2017 #34
"I still think our best President was Vlad the Impaler" struggle4progress Jan 2017 #35
Message auto-removed Name removed Jan 2017 #39

hatrack

(59,585 posts)
2. Yeah, no shit, Chuckles - you just now figured this out?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:15 AM
Jan 2017

Fucking turd weasel, never short on crap to fling at Obama or Clinton, but now he's all suddenly . . . concerned.

Whatever.

Nay

(12,051 posts)
7. Yeah, WTF. All these Pubs having vapors after they did their best to get this
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:37 AM
Jan 2017

dangerous idiot into office. They can go fuck themselves.

NewJeffCT

(56,828 posts)
21. Krauthammer's been anti-Trump for a while now
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:57 PM
Jan 2017

His politics may be terrible, but he's been right on Trump.

This is from August:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trump-and-the-fitness-threshold/2016/08/04/b06bae34-5a69-11e6-831d-0324760ca856_story.html?utm_term=.da7f259fea3e

This is beyond narcissism. I used to think Trump was an 11-year-old, an undeveloped schoolyard bully. I was off by about 10 years. His needs are more primitive, an infantile hunger for approval and praise, a craving that can never be satisfied. He lives in a cocoon of solipsism where the world outside himself has value — indeed exists — only insofar as it sustains and inflates him.


And, here is Trump calling Krauthammer a loser back in 2015 in response to some negative comments:
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2015/06/17/donald_trump_highly_overrated_pundit_charles_krauthammer_is_a_loser.html

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,760 posts)
36. He really nails it right there. Too bad he used words at a reading level far above
Sat Jan 14, 2017, 02:43 AM
Jan 2017

that of huge swaths of Drumpf Führer's supporters. If an idea can't be tweeted in angry idiot-speak they can't comprehend it.

pangaia

(24,324 posts)
4. Thanks Krauth. How would we EVER know without you?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:15 AM
Jan 2017

Maybe you should have thought of this 30-40 years ago or whenever it was you started writing your right wing stupid fucking columns.

11 Bravo

(23,926 posts)
8. Krauthammer doesn't like Trump, but the bitter old fuckwad ...
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 11:44 AM
Jan 2017
still managed to finish his column with a gratuitous swipe at President Obama.

sarisataka

(18,654 posts)
10. What honeymoon?
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:06 PM
Jan 2017

this was a drunken Vegas wedding followed by waking up in a cheap motel next to coyote ugly with morning breath...

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,853 posts)
14. Krauthammer hasn't trusted/liked Trump for awhile now.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 12:24 PM
Jan 2017

I don't care for Krauthammer's conservative positions, but at least he recognized Trump is dangerous.

He expressed distrust of Trump with the nuclear codes during this discussion with O'Reilly months ago (at about the 8-minute mark):

 

NCTraveler

(30,481 posts)
26. Krauthammer is a conservative. An unelected ideological conservative.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:18 PM
Jan 2017

We know where he will stand on almost every single position. Overall, he is pretty consistent.

NNadir

(33,518 posts)
22. Unlike the majority of Americans, and the majority of the world, Krauthammer deserves Trump.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 01:03 PM
Jan 2017

In fact, he is Trump.

Nitram

(22,800 posts)
31. I despise Krauthammer.
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 02:13 PM
Jan 2017

His mocking of Obama's farewell address in this column is beyond disgusting. Krauthammer is a partisan hack, in the same vein as George Will. Much like Will, every criticism of the GOP must be followed by an even harsher and irrelevant, attack on the Democratic Party.

BigDemVoter

(4,150 posts)
33. I'm fucking SHOCKED he still has 44% who approve..
Fri Jan 13, 2017, 03:25 PM
Jan 2017

And Krauthammer-- FUCK YOU. . . .
"Refusing to accept 'legitimacy' of Trump"???? That has GOT to be one of the stupidest fucking things I have EVER heard!

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