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demmiblue

(36,823 posts)
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 09:50 AM Jun 2017

Ex-Twitter CEO: Meeting with Trump is like drinking a bottle of gin and then waterboarding yourself

Source: Raw Story



Writing on Twitter, the ex-CEO of the social media platform took a shot at President Donald Trump on Friday night, saying that meeting with the president is like voluntarily “waterboarding yourself.”

Dick Costolo was responding to news reported by Buzzfeed that Trump will meet once again with entrepreneurs and venture capitalists on emerging technology.

According to Buzzfeed, the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is organizing the event, scheduled for June 22, and invitees include Apple CEO Tim Cook, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Oracle co-CEO Safra Catzn among others.

Noting the meeting, Costolo quipped, “If you don’t get invited to this meeting and want to know what it was like, just drink a bottle of gin and then waterboard yourself.”




http://www.rawstory.com/2017/06/ex-twitter-ceo-meeting-with-trump-is-like-drinking-a-bottle-of-gin-and-then-waterboarding-yourself/

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Ex-Twitter CEO: Meeting with Trump is like drinking a bottle of gin and then waterboarding yourself (Original Post) demmiblue Jun 2017 OP
Good. Maybe Trump will quit Twitter now C_U_L8R Jun 2017 #1
No, No, No - Let 45 have all the rope he needs. /nt bitterross Jun 2017 #4
We don't want him to quit. zentrum Jun 2017 #6
I know I can't tolerate his speeches and pressers, so, off camera, it's got to be worse. lindysalsagal Jun 2017 #2
that day that Twitter shut down I thought twitter was actually considering shutting down because of luvMIdog Jun 2017 #3
Everyone in NYC real estate and finance all know what kind of beachbum bob Jun 2017 #5
Anyone having to watch the Chessy-Puff DK504 Jun 2017 #7
HA-HA! K&R! Mountain Mule Jun 2017 #8
Good God, are these CEOs going to play along with Trump's photo op stunt? SunSeeker Jun 2017 #9

lindysalsagal

(20,584 posts)
2. I know I can't tolerate his speeches and pressers, so, off camera, it's got to be worse.
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 10:27 AM
Jun 2017

Glad I'll never cross paths with the sociopath.

luvMIdog

(2,533 posts)
3. that day that Twitter shut down I thought twitter was actually considering shutting down because of
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 10:56 AM
Jun 2017

him

 

beachbum bob

(10,437 posts)
5. Everyone in NYC real estate and finance all know what kind of
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 11:36 AM
Jun 2017

Disaster trump is...We all had plenty of warning....but supporting the lesser of 2 evils was too much for many to do so they gave us real evil and most likely whining the most about trump

DK504

(3,847 posts)
7. Anyone having to watch the Chessy-Puff
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 11:41 AM
Jun 2017

having a tantrum wants to drink a bottle of gin and waterboard themselves. We fell your pain brother. More than you do.

Mountain Mule

(1,002 posts)
8. HA-HA! K&R!
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 12:01 PM
Jun 2017

Imagine how Comey felt - it sounded like he was meeting with the mafioso in his transcript - "So you like your job? Wanna keep your job? Well, I expect LOYALTY. No treating me like you did Hillary!"

Jesus Christ! Like being waterboarded, indeed!

SunSeeker

(51,513 posts)
9. Good God, are these CEOs going to play along with Trump's photo op stunt?
Sat Jun 10, 2017, 12:25 PM
Jun 2017

If they do go, they better excoriate him for dumbing down education with deVoss and pulling out of the Paris climate change accord. Then they need to do a presser after telling all of us all the dumb shit Trump said at the meeting and how he wasted their time for a photo op stunt to distract from the Russia investigation.

I'm talking to YOU, Tim Cook, Jeff Bezos and Safra Catzn.

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