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babylonsister

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Fri Apr 12, 2019, 03:53 PM Apr 2019

'He's Just Being a Freak' [View all]

https://politicalwire.com/2019/04/12/hes-just-being-a-freak/

‘He’s Just Being a Freak’
April 12, 2019 at 2:52 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard


Speaker Nancy Pelosi told Recode that the way President Trump uses Twitter has “cheapened the presidency.”

Said Pelosi: “He’s just being a freak, I mean, he’s just terrible. There’s more of a responsibility for a president to communicate his point of view, which we should respect, he’s the president of the United States, whether you agree with him or not, he has a point of view. But to use the office of the president as an attack vehicle … for his market, it seems to have worked.”

She also criticized the sometimes-obsessive coverage of Trump’s Twitter outbursts: “All they want to talk about is, how on Earth did he do 50 tweets in 48 hours? I think the press is an enabler of him… He makes assaults on them and they strengthen him by just talking about that and that’s what an authoritarian wants you to be talking about him.”
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'He's Just Being a Freak' [View all] babylonsister Apr 2019 OP
It's a one sided battle... PeeJ52 Apr 2019 #1
No, he expects everyone else to respect HIM. His office is less important. maddiemom Apr 2019 #9
How did we accept government by tweet as normal? BarbD Apr 2019 #2
Everyone here seems to agree that it's how communication works now. FiveGoodMen Apr 2019 #3
I don't. maxsolomon Apr 2019 #7
Republicans accept this as normal Kablooie Apr 2019 #4
Dear Madam Speaker... Grins Apr 2019 #5
Recite this poem, maybe FiveGoodMen Apr 2019 #8
Great poem! NastyRiffraff Apr 2019 #10
Yeah! Cool discovery for sure! calimary Apr 2019 #12
Freak isn't the word, Speaker Pelosi. maxsolomon Apr 2019 #6
Remember when Keith Olbermann had an almost nightly NastyRiffraff Apr 2019 #11
I miss Keith so much, but his demise was his insistence on Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #14
Truth tellers are banished. LibDemAlways Apr 2019 #22
Exactly!! Ferrets are Cool Apr 2019 #23
Freak is way to kind LW1977 Apr 2019 #13
Its true. With Trump there is no such thing as bad publicity. He contradicts himself by the ... marble falls Apr 2019 #15
I have seen that kind of lying and denial before loyalsister Apr 2019 #20
I've seen it in prisons and and mental hospitals, too. Psychopaths and sociopaths have a fluid ... marble falls Apr 2019 #24
Yes it's a common practice loyalsister Apr 2019 #26
He's just being himself. Mc Mike Apr 2019 #16
+++1 Tracyjo Apr 2019 #17
This response is a WINNER...... riversedge Apr 2019 #29
She also calls him authoritarian Kitchari Apr 2019 #18
So subpoena the freak already Nancy! nt DirtEdonE Apr 2019 #19
and i'm sorry I had to do a double take to the freak comment....... a kennedy Apr 2019 #21
He's a super freak! dustyscamp Apr 2019 #25
Yeah he's being a freak .....and not the good kind ! nt UniteFightBack Apr 2019 #27
PREACH IT @speakerPelosi riversedge Apr 2019 #28
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