Trump on video screens behind Sarah Huckleberry during press conference

[MrPurple]

Did anyone just see this? The press conference opened with a word from President Trump and while Huckabee stood at the podium, the Dotard spoke on two large screens on either side of the podium about how great his tax cut was and that he's making America Great again more quickly than anyone could have expected.

This seemed pretty 1984'ish. The press conference is in the White House - Trump is in the White House today But, they have him spewing his we're winning talking points on tv screens instead of just walking into the next room to the podium. I'm sure they'd rather not have him in front of the press, likely giving answers about Steve Bannon and the quotes from the new book that will pour more gasoline on the fire. But, this is ridiculous.

[guillaumeb]

1. Soon he will be on every channel, all of the time.

And there will be no "off" button, no "mute" button, no channel button.

[Wellstone ruled]

11. Sounds like that is about to happen.

Mercer and Friends are planning such a thing.

[underpants]

29. Sounds like the campaign n/t

[bitterross]

41. You dare to question the great and powerful Oz?

Kinda what it reminds me of.

[guillaumeb]

42. And behind the orange curtain,

is a small and insecure con man attempting to show his father that he is a success.

[onecaliberal]

2. They should have all walked out. Honestly when they sit there and listen it gives credence to what

is going on, instead of treating it like theater of the absurd and not entertaining it, they sit there.

[bettyellen]

26. Jay Rosen was right, they should send the interns there- and have the real reporters work- and show

us that work - to win back the trust of the people. Being his stenographer doesn’t help.

[madamesilverspurs]

3. That was just plain weird.

[C_U_L8R]

4. Trump fancies himself such a toughguy

but clearly he's in hiding.
He wouldn't dare face a real press conference.

[lisa58]

5. Creeped me out

[zipplewrath]

6. More suggestion of creeping dementia

Hate to beat this horse, but if they are trying to cover up his increasingly inability to speak coherently, you would pull these kinds of tricks. He could be working from prepared texts, or teleprompter, or merely allowing him multiple "takes" to put something out without exposing his diminished capacity.

[AJT]

15. The State of the Union Address should be interesting.

[zipplewrath]

20. Teleprompter

As the late Glen Campbell demonstrated, a good teleprompter can cover alot. I will watch not so much for what he says, but how he says it, and more importantly, for how long. If it is short, you can bet they are covering something.

[exboyfil]

28. Try to knock him off his game

Shout something during the state of the union to engender a response. We have at least one shout out You Lie coming.

[AJT]

35. He seems to have issues just reading.

I wouldn't be suprised if he went off script.

[zipplewrath]

36. Yup

He's done it before when given scripts. Their worst nightmare will be if he gets just "lost" enough to not be able to work with the teleprompter and so tries to "cover" by ad-libbing. It could get ugly.

[womanofthehills]

45. Agreed on the dementia - did you notice the cut when they cut to side views

that way they can keep doing retakes until he gets it right.

[onlyadream]

7. He seemed to have trouble reading his talking points

His eyes were more squinty than usual. The whole thing was strange.

[RockaFowler]

8. Plus he had a problem reading the tele-prompter

I saw one tweet where people asked if he was afraid of the press?? I mean he does live in that building. It's not like he had to go so far to get to the press room.

Such an ass

Oh and did you hear Huckleberry saying that they will be there for the next 7 years. Yeah OK Sarah

[unblock]

9. again, imagine the reaction if obama had done this. or hillary.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. John Gill, Star Trek, "Patterns of Force"

Patterns of Force (Star Trek: The Original Series)

[gratuitous]

14. Exactly what suggested itself to me

Death to Zayon!

[longship]

44. Perfect! Absolutely perfect!

R&K for this response alone.

[Buns_of_Fire]

12. Attention Disney employees: Check the Hall of Presidents.

Is your Audioanimatronic guy still there?

Of maybe it was Max Headroom. He's a trickster, he is.

[MrPurple]

17. I'd pay a lot of money if hackers could have replaced Trump with

Max Headroom, repeatedly saying, "my button is bigger". Something like that would be spectacular.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

30. LOL! That would be epic!

[nolabear]

13. Yes. I posted about it too. Its like theyre trying to go full Orwell.

Daring us to stop him.

[Orangeutan]

16. "I AM THE GREAT AND POWERFUL OZ!!!"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

[lunatica]

18. Absolutely everything in Trumpaganda is staged

From the moment he picked Melania’s peekaboob cropped outfit so people would try to look up at her breasts when he announced he was running to the ubiquitous flags neatly lined up behind him in every single tv appearance Trumpaganda is on full display.

[RockaFowler]

19. Funny Tweet

Link to tweet

When you are President and want to address the press but don't want to have to put pants on

[TheCowsCameHome]

23. It looks like an ISIS beheading video...

...with SHS doing the deed.

Is that tacky, or what?

[underpants]

33. WTF?!?? Okay that's just weird

[TheCowsCameHome]

21. Maybe he was eyeballing Sarah

Melania must keeping her distance in the royal chamber.

[dewsgirl]

22. 1984 indeed.

[dgibby]

24. Maybe they're

afraid he'll start repeating himself. I think the last thing they want is for him to be anywhere near the press.

[RockaFowler]

25. Samantha Bee has a contest going

Link to tweet

Ok, send us your "Why Trump appeared on video in the WH press room instead of just walking down the hallway" conspiracy theories! We're going with "both hands stuck in Oval Office vending machine." #PeopleAreSaying

[underpants]

32. He's locked in his room with McD's and a KFC bucket

[applegrove]

27. I said the GOP had captured him. Now he exists only in the digital world.

[LonePirate]

34. Was there anything to indicate if his message was live or recorded? Mid-afternoon is prime nap time.

[zipplewrath]

37. I heard it described as "recorded"

Dunno how anyone would know.

[lindysalsagal]

38. I just predicted this hours ago: I didn't think it would happen today! Pay no attention to the man b

behind the curtain:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=10056757

[dixiegrrrrl]

39. I heard he kept his right eye closed most of the time

and sounded dull and disinterested.

[TeamPooka]

40. Trump's a coward.

[Poiuyt]

43. Big Brother