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dalton99a

(81,455 posts)
Mon May 29, 2017, 11:49 PM May 2017

WH statement: "President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy"

“President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy, which is infectious to those around him,” Hope Hicks, a White House spokeswoman, said in a statement. “He has an unparalleled ability to communicate with people, whether he is speaking to a room of three or an arena of 30,000. He has built great relationships throughout his life and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor .?.?. and an amazing ability to make people feel special and aspire to be more than even they thought possible.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/snubs-and-slights-are-part-of-the-job-in-trumps-white-house/2017/05/29/f5c9d5c0-417a-11e7-9869-bac8b446820a_story.html

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WH statement: "President Trump has a magnetic personality and exudes positive energy" (Original Post) dalton99a May 2017 OP
She is one seriously deranged person. shraby May 2017 #1
POSITIVELY REVOLTING! putitinD May 2017 #2
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot gademocrat7 May 2017 #3
Hope - ing Scarsdale May 2017 #88
He's writing his own press releases C_U_L8R May 2017 #4
I don't think so -- some of those words are three and four syllables.... (eom) Samantha May 2017 #23
Words like Plucketeer May 2017 #71
Shit draws flies like a magnet. So I guess one could say shit has a magnetic personality, of sorts. Solly Mack May 2017 #5
I can't say for sure... tonedevil May 2017 #30
It's what I'm hearing. :) Solly Mack May 2017 #40
That must be why his wife is always by his side.... nini May 2017 #6
Sounds like satire. She forgot to add he has a seventeen inch johnson. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #7
I think you're right. forgotmylogin May 2017 #44
Does she know the difference between golden and orange? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2017 #120
Wow... No wonder he is so self confident. magicarpet May 2017 #103
Dear Leader eShirl May 2017 #8
Next time I look for a job, I want her to write my resume. TreasonousBastard May 2017 #9
Have her write you a recommendation, too. murielm99 May 2017 #13
AND HE HAS HUGE HANDS Warren DeMontague May 2017 #10
PEOPLE NEAR HIM FIND THAT DISEASES ARE CURED AND TUMORS REDUCE IN SIZE forgotmylogin May 2017 #45
Then why do I look away automatically whenever murielm99 May 2017 #11
He has that effect on me too. LisaM May 2017 #20
You must have a sickth sense. dchill May 2017 #38
It's not just you. smirkymonkey May 2017 #54
Me too. He simply disgusts me. And it has nothing to do with politics. Mister Ed May 2017 #56
I hear you...and have long felt the same. maddiemom Jun 2017 #119
Same here. Everything about him is repulsive. His mannerisms livetohike May 2017 #57
I can't listen to him either, he's infuriating liberalnarb May 2017 #76
With Joel Anchorton and Jill Newslady? mr_lebowski May 2017 #91
AND IT ISN'T A WIG! Scurrilous May 2017 #12
lol.. would anyone buy a wig that bad? rofl Cha May 2017 #32
...... trusty elf May 2017 #73
Nice! Scurrilous May 2017 #83
Describe Barack Obama, cross his name out, and substitute Donald's name in it's place. NBachers May 2017 #14
That's what I said.. Cha May 2017 #33
WTF??? Wawannabe May 2017 #15
Treats everyone with respect? PoindexterOglethorpe May 2017 #16
Magnetic in a sense - like shit draws flies, maybe. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #17
Can I puhlease! have some of what they're smoking/snorting/shooting? fantase56 May 2017 #18
He's a walking, talking turd. Still In Wisconsin May 2017 #19
Jeebus... they're reduced to plagiarizing No. Korean propaganda. nt procon May 2017 #21
I was just going to post something similiar! Ain't it like a dear leader proclamation? lunasun May 2017 #22
Sounds frighteningly like Kim Jung Un world wide wally May 2017 #24
I was thinking the same thing. Goodheart May 2017 #72
About to post the same thing hueymahl May 2017 #112
I've seen this somewhere ornotna May 2017 #25
GAG onetexan May 2017 #26
LMAO JHan May 2017 #27
So does my ass n/t Motownman78 May 2017 #28
Alternative.....universe. awesomerwb1 May 2017 #29
She's describing President Obama perfectly.. Cha May 2017 #31
For maggot SNAFU. onecaliberal May 2017 #34
She was handed that statement to read. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #35
!! orleans May 2017 #46
LOL! montana_hazeleyes May 2017 #48
It was written by John Barron NewJeffCT May 2017 #67
Here's the guy who wrote that (hint: he's the one holding the reins) ... Rollo May 2017 #36
OWWWWW!!! Eye Warning!!! The above post cannot be unseen!!! mr_lebowski May 2017 #94
"Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #37
Unless you count the time he sold dope disguised as a nun!!! mr_lebowski May 2017 #92
More likely the time Steve Bannon showed him the Queen of Diamonds card. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #93
Great reference. It fits! maddiemom Jun 2017 #121
That is one of the... 3catwoman3 May 2017 #39
Just going to drop this tweet here from Joy Reid.. Cha May 2017 #41
This is the amazing thing to me -- that professionals will take that kind of continuing LuckyLib May 2017 #97
Clearly, he dictated that letter and she cleaned it up. AgadorSparticus May 2017 #42
Hmmmm. She says this; Dyedinthewoolliberal May 2017 #43
Yes EXACTLY RIGHT...to the BRAINWASHED.... yuiyoshida May 2017 #47
Reminds me of Rita Moreno's soliloquy opposite Jack Nicholson Tanuki May 2017 #49
This message was self-deleted by its author trusty elf May 2017 #50
Shorter: "President Trump exudes, which is infectious to those around him" muriel_volestrangler May 2017 #51
"caught several things off Bannon" keithbvadu2 May 2017 #108
He exudes something alright and it's not energy, and it's not positive. airmid May 2017 #52
Possibly the oddest thing I've ever read. Trump has been out-done by a bigger liar. b/t Judi Lynn May 2017 #53
Hopeless. boston bean May 2017 #55
Hoping against Hope Tanuki May 2017 #58
Good grief... Hold on a minute and let me put these on... WePurrsevere May 2017 #59
It sounds better in its original Korean. Tommy_Carcetti May 2017 #60
He exudes something, but it usually comes out the back end of a bull. Vinca May 2017 #61
Huh???? lillypaddle May 2017 #62
and made seven holes in one the 1st time he ever played golf fishwax May 2017 #63
Well, he's definitely infectious. tanyev May 2017 #64
"Stray animals instinctively trust him. He can find missing chldren by meditating." hatrack May 2017 #65
FAKE NEWS! MoonRiver May 2017 #66
LOL Gothmog May 2017 #68
Sounds like a press release from North Korea.... NT Adrahil May 2017 #69
Straight out of The Manchurian Candidate. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2017 #95
Simple Response ProfessorGAC May 2017 #70
Dear Leader type stuff oberliner May 2017 #74
😂😂😂😂😂 nt helpisontheway May 2017 #75
"Exudes positive energy" MyOwnPeace May 2017 #77
Written as though they don't have long in office, trying to establish a record while they can. nt wiggs May 2017 #78
Imagine the good that could come from a person with those characteristics..... Mad-in-Mo May 2017 #79
BS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! heaven05 May 2017 #80
Hopeless Hicks Ligyron May 2017 #81
And shall from now on be referred to as "Dear Leader" Freethinker65 May 2017 #82
What ever you say Turbineguy May 2017 #84
What the hell is she drinking? sinkingfeeling May 2017 #85
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.....Great joke. My sides hurt from laughing so hard judesedit May 2017 #86
Bwahahahahahahahahahaha.....Great joke. My sides hurt from laughing judesedit May 2017 #87
What is this? His Match.com profile? Chiyo-chichi May 2017 #89
"I am NOT a bowl of spaghetti and meat balls!" Dorn May 2017 #90
No one should use the words GallopingGhost May 2017 #96
WTF???? ailsagirl May 2017 #98
Thats why all the Republicans trust him with their children and wives. /s /s Sunlei May 2017 #99
No mention of Bob Loblaw May 2017 #100
He is magnetic. Assholes are drawn to him and cling to him luvMIdog May 2017 #101
And he won with 100% of the vote!!1!11 louis-t May 2017 #102
And the papa bear said to the mama bear..... nt Honeycombe8 May 2017 #104
Thanks, DUers, for a good laugh. raccoon May 2017 #105
The White House forgot the "Sarcasm" tag Generic Brad May 2017 #106
You could fertilize your garden with that shit Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2017 #107
Another golden shower Greensix1 May 2017 #109
Ahem 47of74 May 2017 #110
Didn't Kim Jong Un already have this copyrighted?? Zambero May 2017 #111
"oh, and by the way, LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!" DFW May 2017 #113
Sounds like she is trying out for #4 Angry Dragon May 2017 #114
I hope she got a Scooby Snack for that one. Buns_of_Fire May 2017 #115
The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense. DefenseLawyer May 2017 #116
And here I thought drugs were still illegal relayerbob May 2017 #117
Ignore the fact that he is a psychopath with some issues that have gone undiagnosed Dem2 May 2017 #118
Holy shit........ SergeStorms Jun 2017 #122
Infectious - like the disease he is. nt El Mimbreno Jun 2017 #123
"Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being... maveric Jun 2017 #124

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
88. Hope - ing
Tue May 30, 2017, 12:35 PM
May 2017

to sugar coat a disgusting, perverted, ignorant, slob, must pay very well. I can not think of ONE good thing to say about this piss-poor excuse for a president who resides in the WH, with lots of help from Russia and the traitors in the gop. He is a disgrace to humanity. His offspring are just like him, greedy money grubbers, with a sense of entitlement. The tRump entire family are strange looking also.

Solly Mack

(90,762 posts)
5. Shit draws flies like a magnet. So I guess one could say shit has a magnetic personality, of sorts.
Mon May 29, 2017, 11:52 PM
May 2017

Shit has also been used to create energy, so.....

Disease can be found in/from shit, so I see where the infectious part comes in.

Basically, Hope Hicks is calling Trump a pile of shit.

 

tonedevil

(3,022 posts)
30. I can't say for sure...
Tue May 30, 2017, 12:48 AM
May 2017

about this Hicks person, but most of us are certainly calling donald a pile of shit.

forgotmylogin

(7,527 posts)
44. I think you're right.
Tue May 30, 2017, 02:13 AM
May 2017

And I'm not joking. This seriously sounds like the first Melissa McCarthy/Spicer skit "...everyone was SMILING...and HAPPY!"

I get the feeling there's a team of people snickering as they write it. "DONALD TRUMP EXUDES A GOLDEN GLOW THAT LIGHTS UP A ROOM...write that down, that's great! He'll love that!"

murielm99

(30,736 posts)
11. Then why do I look away automatically whenever
Mon May 29, 2017, 11:59 PM
May 2017

I see his face? I cannot look at him. I cannot listen to his voice. I have to tune out or leave the room. I know it is not just me!

This sounds like satire. It sounds like that good news segment that Colbert often runs where they do nothing but praise trump.

Everyone laughs.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
54. It's not just you.
Tue May 30, 2017, 04:44 AM
May 2017

I flinch when I see him. I find him that repulsive. I cannot stand the sound of his voice. It makes me want to throw things. Even hearing his name angers me to no end. The above statement by Hope Hicks is the biggest pile of BS I have ever read in my entire life. Not one word of it is even close to being true.

Mister Ed

(5,929 posts)
56. Me too. He simply disgusts me. And it has nothing to do with politics.
Tue May 30, 2017, 06:28 AM
May 2017

I've felt repulsed by him for the entire thirty-plus years that he's been in the public eye. And for most of those years, he was not involved in politics.

maddiemom

(5,106 posts)
119. I hear you...and have long felt the same.
Thu Jun 1, 2017, 05:22 PM
Jun 2017

I never once saw "The Apprentice" for that reason. Now I wish I had watched a time or two in order to see what about him appealed to some people. I don't imagine that it would have changed my opinion, however. I understood Hillary's concern abut the basket of "deplorables."

livetohike

(22,140 posts)
57. Same here. Everything about him is repulsive. His mannerisms
Tue May 30, 2017, 06:44 AM
May 2017

and gestures are like someone on acid pulling the strings on a marionette. The timbre and tone of his voice makes me want to vomit. I mute the tv and look away when he is being covered.

 

mr_lebowski

(33,643 posts)
91. With Joel Anchorton and Jill Newslady?
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:49 PM
May 2017

That one always cracks me up even though it's the same schtick every time ... they keep it short enough that it stays funny every time.

hueymahl

(2,495 posts)
112. About to post the same thing
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:27 AM
May 2017

It was my first thought - sounds like something straight out of North Korea.

Cha

(297,156 posts)
31. She's describing President Obama perfectly..
Tue May 30, 2017, 12:54 AM
May 2017

trump is the anti-Christ.

LOL@hopehicks.. I can't even..

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
35. She was handed that statement to read.
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:08 AM
May 2017

It had a sticky note on it that said they have her children chained up in the WH basement.

3catwoman3

(23,973 posts)
39. That is one of the...
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:16 AM
May 2017

...biggest piles of bullshit I have EVER read. Gawd Almighty!

What was the reason for this work of fiction?

LuckyLib

(6,819 posts)
97. This is the amazing thing to me -- that professionals will take that kind of continuing
Tue May 30, 2017, 02:17 PM
May 2017

abuse. Lust for influence and power makes people do strange things, and so many of these folks lack the self-respect to walk out the door. No amount of money or status in the world should make people take that BS. From anyone.

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
42. Clearly, he dictated that letter and she cleaned it up.
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:33 AM
May 2017

... And then she went home and poured the entire bucket of bleach on herself to get rid of the pervasive stink.

Dyedinthewoolliberal

(15,569 posts)
43. Hmmmm. She says this;
Tue May 30, 2017, 01:35 AM
May 2017

'and treats everyone with respect. He is brilliant with a great sense of humor.'
I would ask, have you watched him talk about political opponents? When has he ever said anything that's truly funny?

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
49. Reminds me of Rita Moreno's soliloquy opposite Jack Nicholson
Tue May 30, 2017, 03:03 AM
May 2017

in the closing scene of Carnal Knowledge.

http://www.filmsite.org/bestspeeches25.html

Screenwriter: Jules Knowledge (1971)
Screenwriter(s): Jules Feiffer

"It's Up, in the Air!"

Play clip (excerpt): Carnal Knowledge

The reassuring speech of paid prostitute Louise (Rita Moreno in a cameo) to massage dysfunctionally-impotent Jonathan's (Jack Nicholson) ego (and more) in the film's final scene. Obsessively, he had her recite a carefully-worded script while kneeling between his legs. (he yelled at her - "God-damn it! You're doing it all wrong" - when she deviated). After accepting payment of $100, and as he reclined back on a couch, she reassured him as she stroked his thighs: "I don't think we're gonna have any trouble tonight." She called him "a real man, a kind man" and then went on:

A real man, a kind man...I don't mean weak kind the way so many men are. I mean the kindness that comes from enormous strength, from an inner power so strong that every act, no matter what, is more proof of that power. That's what all women resent. That's why they try to cut ya down, because your knowledge of yourself and them is so right, so true, that it exposes the lies which they, every scheming one of them, live by. It takes a true woman to understand that the purest form of love is to love a man who denies himself to her - a man who inspires worship, because he has no need for any woman, because he has himself. And who is better, more beautiful, more powerful, more perfect... you're getting hard... more strong, more masculine, extraordinary, more... bust. It's rising, it's rising... more virile, domineering, more irresistible. It's up - in the air...

Response to dalton99a (Original post)

muriel_volestrangler

(101,309 posts)
51. Shorter: "President Trump exudes, which is infectious to those around him"
Tue May 30, 2017, 04:10 AM
May 2017

I think he's caught several things off Bannon.

hatrack

(59,584 posts)
65. "Stray animals instinctively trust him. He can find missing chldren by meditating."
Tue May 30, 2017, 08:17 AM
May 2017

"President Trump can cure goiter with his touch, and is concerned as never before with lifting up the hopes and dreams of all the people he will deport."

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,681 posts)
95. Straight out of The Manchurian Candidate.
Tue May 30, 2017, 02:01 PM
May 2017

"Donald Trump is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life."

MyOwnPeace

(16,925 posts)
77. "Exudes positive energy"
Tue May 30, 2017, 10:48 AM
May 2017

Yeah, just like an outhouse..............

Can't believe this is really happening in our country - it MUST be just a bad dream, right?

Mad-in-Mo

(229 posts)
79. Imagine the good that could come from a person with those characteristics.....
Tue May 30, 2017, 10:49 AM
May 2017

If he could only harness it and try to do something positive rather than tear everything down.

raccoon

(31,110 posts)
105. Thanks, DUers, for a good laugh.
Tue May 30, 2017, 08:59 PM
May 2017

This thread and the genius replies really are humorous

I needed that.

 

Greensix1

(67 posts)
109. Another golden shower
Wed May 31, 2017, 08:03 AM
May 2017

If Donny Peepee has such a magnetic personality, why does the White House have to tell people it is so? It sounds like he's completely demented and forcing his staff to make reports about his mental stability. Since nothing can be trusted that comes from the White House you have to assume the Opposite of what it proclaims. In other words, he has a personality that puts people off by being near him or even knowing him.

Zambero

(8,964 posts)
111. Didn't Kim Jong Un already have this copyrighted??
Wed May 31, 2017, 10:47 AM
May 2017

Or is it merely the absolute worst load of bullshit ever concocted?

DFW

(54,365 posts)
113. "oh, and by the way, LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!!!"
Wed May 31, 2017, 03:26 PM
May 2017

Just in case someone other than Hope Hicks was going to take that nonsense seriously.

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
114. Sounds like she is trying out for #4
Wed May 31, 2017, 04:32 PM
May 2017

It seems to me that Trump talks in a monotone .......... no inflection at all

Buns_of_Fire

(17,175 posts)
115. I hope she got a Scooby Snack for that one.
Wed May 31, 2017, 04:47 PM
May 2017

And I hope Comrade Fatass recovers from the massive butt-hickey he just received. (No, not really.)

 

DefenseLawyer

(11,101 posts)
116. The man's enlarged my mind. He's a poet warrior in the classic sense.
Wed May 31, 2017, 05:02 PM
May 2017

I mean sometimes he'll... uh... well, you'll say "hello" to him, right? And he'll just walk right by you. He won't even notice you. And suddenly he'll grab you, and he'll throw you in a corner, and he'll say, "Do you know that 'if' is the middle word in life? If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you"... I mean I'm... no, I can't... I'm a little man, I'm a little man, he's... he's a great man! I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across floors of silent seas...

Dem2

(8,168 posts)
118. Ignore the fact that he is a psychopath with some issues that have gone undiagnosed
Wed May 31, 2017, 11:11 PM
May 2017

Worship the stupid!

SergeStorms

(19,199 posts)
122. Holy shit........
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 03:42 AM
Jun 2017

and she didn't spontaneously combust, either in the middle of that statement or at the end?

That is, without a doubt, the most false, heinous piece of tripe ever written about a man we're all familiar with. If we'd never met the man, and knew nothing about his background, we'd all be looking forward to meeting this eloquent person. BUT WE ALREADY KNOW THIS BUMBLING MORON! He can't come up with a cogent thought on his own. Reading scripted material from his teleprompter (something he lambasted Obama about doing) is the only way he can communicate in any meaningful fashion, and sometimes.....not even then!

Hope Hicks. Please seek professional psychiatric help immediately. You're anchored in a separate reality. You've lost touch with not only accepted rational thought, but also your soul.

Can you imagine Ms. Hicks having to face her friends and relatives after writing that putrid garbage?

maveric

(16,445 posts)
124. "Raymond Shaw is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being...
Fri Jun 2, 2017, 10:49 AM
Jun 2017

I've ever known in my life".
Totally canned.

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