Holy crap. He just kept on digging. And digging. And digging.

[nolabear]

An MSNBC analyst called it an act of self immolation.

That riff on "will you want the statues of George Washington down next?" and the all sides are to blame garbage, the fake news, The you-don't-know-what-happened, the there-were-people-legitimately-protesting, the it's-about-jobs-not-racism...he just kept digging.

[haveahart]

1. Yep! Covered his hair piece.

[Angry Dragon]

2. he loves shovels

[0rganism]

3. maybe he believes there's buried treasure deep below the old dried-up racist well

did someone tell him his behavior is acceptable, or did he come to that conclusion all on his own?

[nolabear]

5. Oh I think that was aaaaaaall him.

McCain! He attacked McCain!

[0rganism]

8. points for originality i guess

+10 for something different and strange, even by "modern day presidential" standards
- several million for being a deranged racist kook

[malaise]

4. That was fucking unbelievable

He is a fucking racist lunatic

LOCK HIM UP

[nolabear]

7. Are you as eternally gobsmacked as I am? What will it take?

What will it take for people to realize how dangerous he is?

[malaise]

32. He's fucking crazy

and ignorant beyond believe.

[Miles Archer]

63. You probably don't want the answer to that

At this point, I would say "something catastrophic"...like maybe nuclear war with North Korea...and then he will entrench himself in the presidency and he won't be going anywhere.

The answer to your question is that what it will take for people to realize how dangerous he is:

It will take some form of danger that people will feel.

Someone on DU (I would give credit if I remembered who) posted actor Michael Ian Black's tweet:

Michael Ian Black ?Verified account
@michaelianblack

Metaphorically speaking, yesterday the President stood in the middle of 5th Ave and shot somebody. Her name was Heather Heyer.
6:43 AM - 13 Aug 2017

Link to tweet

And that IS the shocking truth. Heather Heyer died, and Trump is talking about how he needs more facts, he's posting pictures of freight trains running into CNN reporters, he's making up stories about the "alt-left" running down the street viciously attacking alt-righters with "clubs"...

What will it take?

Something bigger and more deadly than what happened this weekend. That's what it will take.

[warmfeet]

73. He is as despicable a person as anyone I can imagine.

I would love to lock him up. I am looking forward to it with great anticipation. It cannot happen soon enough.

[malaise]

74. Ditto

[leftstreet]

6. Trump live cam

Link to tweet

[tallahasseedem]

9. That was literally some of the craziest

shit I have ever seen.

He needs to be out!

[flygal]

10. omg he's going after McCain as the "guy who voted against Americans getting good healthcare"

and "I'm not finished fake news". this is sick. sick. sick.

[Maraya1969]

11. Is the ever a place for a non-journalist to attend a press conference? Because I

would like to yell some things at him. Like "YOU'RE A NAZI" and "LIAR"

[JonLP24]

12. Trump has had a VERY long time to think again about what the can say

Then completely blows it, I can't say I'm surprised. This President is truly stranger than fiction.

[Skittles]

13. LOL

he can't upset the white supremacists, because they are his base. He can't upset Russia because he is owned by the Russian mob. And this man is PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

If you made these House of Cards story lines, it would be hooted down as utterly fucking ridiculous.

[nolabear]

15. Apparently David Duke has tweeted his delight again.

If members of Congress don't condemn this they should go. In no uncertain terms.

[bora13]

64. lines were overloaded

when I called my rep and senators.

[WinkyDink]

51. As is said about Truth and Fiction,.....

[Solly Mack]

14. He was his own true self. Not him reading comments written by someone else.

This is Trump. This is what he is. What we have always known he is.

[malaise]

35. Precisely

Damn!

[Solly Mack]

37. I'm still waiting for his fellow republicans to comment.

Fuckers.

[shanny]

16. I guess I missed something...

Did Twitler open his pie hole again today?

[nolabear]

17. Oh man, did he. David Duke just thanked him for what he said.

You'll just have to watch. It's indescribable.

[shanny]

38. words fail....

always knew all that crap was in there but still, seeing it is surreal....

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. Holy crap, did he ever.

Turn on your TV to CNN or MSNBC if you can. He really stepped in it this time. It was just too weird and awful to describe; it has to be seen to be believed.

[shanny]

39. catching up now

worst thing is, it's all too believable...

[bora13]

67. chief of staff

didn't look to happy as the orange burnt weenie heiled and heiled and heiled.

[3catwoman3]

34. Does he ever...

...shut it for very long?

[KewlKat]

18. was there a presser or something.

[nolabear]

19. Nah. Nothing to see here. Move along.

It was impressive.

[George II]

20. On election night, when this guy "won", I was depressed and despondent, but I kept my composure.

Tonight, after hearing what that racist just said, I started crying. This is MY country, a great country, but tonight I'm ashamed.

[NastyRiffraff]

23. I thought I had cried all my tears in the days after Nov. 8

but I still have some left. WHY is this monster in OUR White House and HOW did he slither in there?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. He slithered in there by doing exactly what he just did.

With gerrymandering and voter suppression, there are enough Americans who admire all his most hateful, ignorant, violent characteristics to put him there.

I cannot find words to adequately express how thoroughly that fact depresses and angers me.

[Luciferous]

21. My 10 year old said, "when are the Republicans going to stop this?"

[FiveGoodMen]

31. When they're dead

and not a moment sooner.

[WinkyDink]

52. AFTER they get him to sign the Grand Tax Larceny Bill.

[TygrBright]

22. I kept waiting for his staff to bring out the long-sleeved jacket...

...or for some of the attendees to holler "Heil Trump!"

It was truly gobsmacking.

amazedly,
Bright

[OutaHere]

24. Anything Except Russia

Is the plan....

[bucolic_frolic]

25. He is getting roasted with picante sauce on Twitter right now

He should just quit. Keep up the pressure. RESIST until he is gone!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. He is obviously unfamiliar with the First Rule of Holes.

When you're in one, stop digging.

[WinkyDink]

53. Or when one IS one,....

[MyOwnPeace]

78. I see......

what you did there!

Good one - and TRUE!!!!

[Grammy23]

29. Yep, this was over the top---even for tRump.

Ordinarily, since the election, he reads statements and adds in comments off script. Today's debacle was PURE TRUMP unvarnished. He showed his true colors. If you want to know how he really thinks about all of this (if you can call it thinking), this was it on a gold plated brass platter.

He was THIS close to spitting and sputtering he was so riled up. And every golden moment caught for the ages and historical record. If anyone in the future wants to know why this fool was removed from office, just pull out this tape and show it. It's the smoking gun that he is not fit for the office.

[Saviolo]

30. Did anyone here catch this little gem?

Last edited Tue Aug 15, 2017, 06:52 PM - Edit history (1)

*** EDIT *** Apparently this has been corrected, and was not what he actually said.

Updated tweet from @anniekarni:

Link to tweet

Update. POLITICO appears to have fixed the transcript. It was "em" not us."

Link to tweet

…

** Original tweet below:

From White House reporter @anniekarni:
Just noticed the use of "us" in this transcript. "Okay, what about the alt-left that came charging at us."

[nolabear]

36. Oh really...

[YCHDT]

41. Yep ... "US"

[Duppers]

47. Found that was wrong.

She corrected her first tweet.

[Leghorn21]

49. Yes, please post this separately, Saviolo. WOW - says it ALL - thank you. nt

[WinkyDink]

54. Disappeared. :-(

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

55. And there it is.

[ATL Ebony]

60. POLITICO fixed "us" error

Update. POLITICO appears to have fixed the transcript. It was "em" not us."

Also, Annie Karni deleted her tweet of original POLITICO transcript that had POTUS saying alt-left "came charging at us."

[Duppers]

66. Thanks.

[Iggo]

69. Edit..."us" has been corrected. (n/t)

[DemoTex]

33. He is a rabid cur.

Foaming at the mouth. Snapping at anyone and everyone. Lurching from position to position. Barking at the moon.

The dog days of August are Trump's undoing. He is done.

I am near 70 years old, and it is the damnest thing I have ever seen. He needs to be removed immediately, before he uses the nukes in another of his far too frequent (and increasingly bizarre) tantrums.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

46. Rabies is incurable.

I just hope the disease takes its course soon, politically speaking, before something even worse happens. Richard Nixon looks like a paragon of rectitude and sanity in comparison; when he went nuts he just drank a lot and wandered around the White House talking to portraits.

[dhill926]

40. Wowjust logged on...seems like Two Scoops

Had some impulse control issues today. I'm sure the repubs will respond with outrage. Still waiting…

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

42. Somebody on his staff should have shot him with a tranquilizer dart

and hauled him off before he made everything a thousand times worse, as he did.

[dhill926]

44. Looks like Bannon is winning

[WinkyDink]

57. Okay, you know which word you could have stopped at. I'm JUST SAYIN'!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

65. Yeah, they should have just hauled him off before he said *anything*.

Too bad nobody had one of those canvas jackets with the leather straps ready to go in his size. He really lost the plot this time.

[heather blossom]

43. Sick Fuck

Invoke the 25th amendment now.

[C Moon]

45. The main stream media will call it "Trump tries to reunite the country."

I have no doubt.
I also think he did this to bury something else that is going on. It's a good time to look around and see what the GOP is trying to pull off right now.

[WinkyDink]

58. Nope, not happening. The MSM seem to be universally outraged. Well, except for FU, I mean FOX.

[nolabear]

75. I don't know if they've rallied but initially they were shocked speechless.

Oh damn. I just looked. They're interviewing Palin about abortion in Iceland.

[Beartracks]

79. Wtf, really???

==========

[WinkyDink]

50. Somebody needed to challenge Trump on "They came after people with clubs," because he meant the

COUNTER-protestors, aka, the non-racists.

[machoneman]

71. Kelly was looking at his shoes the whole time!

Just saw ABC and CBS 6 p.m. news (Chicago). Wow, they focused on the reporter gal (?) who asked the cogent questions he choked on. Choked btw as in "I told her the truth".

Wow, even I didn't think I'd EVER see Trump defend/find false equivalency/ promote/blame the left, the media, etc. as he did.

Good God, he undid all he said previously on the entire subject in about a a ten minute blast! No doubt he choked on the words his minions wanted him to say earlier. Now we see and heard the real Trump, a deep boned racist fuckin' Nazi of the first order.

Damn to hell that man!

[WinkyDink]

76. To me, Trump showed his complete indifference to Heather Heyer when he started talking about his

WINERY IN CHARLOTTESVILLE! Who talks and thinks like this??

Oh, wait.

[oasis]

56. Break out the grape jelly....

Trump is toast.

[mvd]

59. I called it

I knew he didn't mean his statement yesterday. It was eating at him having the alt-right mad at him, so he doubled down on the nuttery. Can't have David Duke condemning him! It's time for the Congress to put country over party and impeach this guy.

[WinkyDink]

61. He hated being told to make that statement, so today he wanted to do his own thing. And...WINE!!!!!!

[mvd]

62. True

Hopefully this is the end of his pResidency - no need to wait for the Russia probe to end. The 25th Amendment would be easier, but he picked terrible stooges for his cabinet.

[ananda]

68. I had the tv on at the time ...

45 started speaking about his new infrastructure lightbulb moment pretending to be a plan. Then -- as he was talking about American jobs, using American products, working fast without those pesky permit regs, and so on -- the press kept on well, pressing him, about Saturday, and off he went defending his original speech on Charlottesville, defending Steve Bannon, conflating the violence of the alt-left and alt-right, not actually calling the driver in Charlottesville a terrorist but rather a murderer, and abusing the press ... Now I know why I've been assiduously avoiding these speeches all these months.

[Perseus]

70. Unfortunately, he only digs into our souls

but it doesn't seem to be affecting his status as president, you would think that by now, at least from embarrassment, that the republicans would disavow him, but no...he keeps going, like the EverReady bunny, drumming away into our souls. DAMN!

[smirkymonkey]

72. I came home and turned on the local news and they were showing a clip of him doubling

down on his C-ville original stance. I couldn't believe my ears. I wanted to throw up.

Where the hell are Jared and Ivanka? Do they realize that he is defending people who hate them and their children and want them dead?

[WinkyDink]

77. I think they're hoping to salvage their "brand" by keeping mum now.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

80. They are on vacation in Vermont

One last vacation with the kids before they go to prison.

[smirkymonkey]

81. We can only hope!

Where in Vermont are they? They don't really seem like the Vermont-y type. Unless they are hiding out in a cabin in the woods somewhere.

[Books_Tea_Alone]

82. Agreed

Not sure just heard on MSNBC that's where they were. Obviously not on babysitting duty as Daddy's got himself in a boatload of trouble since they've been gone.

[SharonClark]

83. He' insane.

[nolabear]

84. HOURS later and I still can't believe what I saw.

We are witnessing history, and it is scary as FUCK.