February 5, 2020

White House completely caught off guard by Romney's vote

https://twitter.com/MichaelCBender/status/1225138521364738053

White House was completely caught off guard by Romney's vote. And within minutes of Romney's speech, the White House closed a Trump-Guaido meeting in the Oval Office that reporters had been invited to attend.



The fact that the House impeachment was completely partisan was a vital WH talking point. Romney removing Trump's ability to say the same in the Senate is huge, and now very eager to see/read Trump's reaction.

February 5, 2020

Trump is freaking out.

He's retweeted 25 posts (so far) criticizing Pelosi and tweeted about her twice, giving her tons of exposure.

February 5, 2020

Trump's Speech Was a Bataan Death March of Bullsh*t - Rick Wilson

Donald’s Trump State of the Union speech Tuesday night was an example of the one thing he does better than anyone else in the political space: spectacle. The bizarre, wild show was full of reality TV tropes and moments, from surprise military families reuniting to Melania pinning the Presidential Medal of Freedom on cancer-stricken Rush Limbaugh. In many ways, the speech itself seemed to be rote filler for those moments, noise between the notes.


Those production values weren’t limited to Trump; his snub of the traditional handshake to Speaker Nancy Pelosi before the speech was bookended in its closing moments, when she literally tore the text of his remarks into shreds.Of course, this speech was, first and foremost, the usual Bataan death march for fact checkers; a slurry of lies, distorted statistics, and outrageous claims.

There was a rata-tat-tat laundry list of the biggest, greatest, longest, newest, brightest accomplishments. The usual condo-salesman braggadocio was there, with his claims of 4,000 percent economic growth, billions of new jobs, and the best economy in the universe, ever. He didn’t mention the $2 trillion unfunded tax cut, a trillion-plus in annual deficit spending, and the continued Fed borrow-and-pump injections that have an addicted Wall Street chasing the liquidity dragon. In Trump’s telling, the decade-long Obama-era boom was a radioactive hellscape where ragged children fought over scraps of rat meat by the guttering fires of the ruins of a lost American civilization.

Yes, comrades! In the glorious era of Trump, all the news is good! The beet harvest exceeds the five-year plan! We have accomplished record tractor production in the Wisconistan Oblast!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-state-of-the-union-was-half-american-carnage-half-morning-in-america

February 5, 2020

Polygraphing the State of the Union- Jimmy Kimmel

https://twitter.com/HoarseWisperer/status/1225045613768794112

February 5, 2020

How pathetic is this?

https://twitter.com/jwpetersNYT/status/1224897876129697792


Republican members of Congress came with Sharpie pens and stood near the aisle so they could ask Trump for autographs. And he obliged. Even signed a tie.




Trump staffers probably handed out the sharpies beforehand.

February 5, 2020

Morning Joe is fact checking Trump's SOTU

Rattner said job growth was higher under Carter, Clinton and Obama than under Trump.

February 5, 2020

BREAKING: Remember America? We do. #ImpeachmentDay Eleven Films

https://twitter.com/Eleven_Films/status/1224906560616316930

February 5, 2020

The Daily Show has a Trump sniff counter

He got up to 30 tonight, lol



https://twitter.com/TrumpSniffCount/status/1224894173192630274

February 5, 2020

Tim Ryan just walked out of the SOTU

https://twitter.com/NBCNews/status/1224892837000445954


Rep. Tim Ryan: "I just walked out of the #StateOfTheUnion. I’ve had enough. It’s like watching professional wrestling. It’s all fake."

February 5, 2020

Trump Had America's Top TV News Anchors Over for Lunch--and Ate Them Alive

Much to the disappointment of folks at CNN, nobody at the long table—who included NBC’s Lester Holt and Chuck Todd, ABC’s David Muir and George Stephanopoulos, and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell and Margaret Brennan—bothered to ask why the president had gone out of his way to exclude the cable network run by Trump’s former friend Jeff Zucker.


“MSDNC isn’t here as well,” Trump quipped—to polite chuckles but zero protests (not even by Meet the Press and MSNBC anchor Todd) from his captive audience, who were there ostensibly for a briefing on tonight’s State of the Union address but instead were treated to a lot of presidential boasting about his poll numbers and the “through-the-roof” stock market, and a lot of gloating about the “fiasco” of Iowa’s Democratic caucuses and the general disarray in the out-of-power party.

Trump made sure to criticize his Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for declining to lower interest rates further. Asked about the exploding trillion-dollar deficits his administration has created, the president claimed that lower interest rates will allow him to reduce the red ink in his second term.“He was chill,” said a lunch guest. “He wasn’t angry at all. He was friendly, outgoing, and relaxed. He was confident that he’ll be re-elected.”

Trump also was sanguine about his participation in the fall presidential debates, saying, ”Yeah, I’ll do it,” even though, he claimed, “the debate commission is filled with a bunch of Never Trumpers.” At one point Trump recalled that he had been an early donor to Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer’s first House race, and added: “AOC is gonna run against him in the primary and she’s gonna kick his ass,” a lunch guest quoted the president as predicting.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-had-americas-top-tv-news-anchors-over-for-lunch-and-ate-them-alive?via=twitter_page

Too bad they didn't have enough respect for their colleagues and refuse to attend.


https://twitter.com/maxwelltani/status/1224769777497001984

I reached out to several of these networks asking why they were still participating despite the CNN snub. No one would speak about it on the record.