Trump today: "I have nothing to do with Maggie Haberman." Renato Mariotti:

[highplainsdem]

"You mean this person?"

Link to tweet

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[PatSeg]

1. Damn, I hate that stupid thumb

What an annoying gesture.

[Bob Loblaw]

3. President The Fonz

nt

[NewJeffCT]

6. The Fonz was the epitome of cool, though

and I'm pretty sure Henry Winkler is politically liberal.

[Ilsa]

4. What is really frustrating to many liberal Texas Aggies,

is that the thumb, not exactly as he presents it, is a "Gig'em" sign for the school. It is a greeting from afar. Fortunately, it is not the only hand sign used by students.

And I have a different one for him besides this one:

[PatSeg]

5. Yeah

I use that gesture often when watching the news.

[dalton99a]

7. It's the longest finger he's got

[PatSeg]

8. Yeah, that's probably true

Looks like he's trying to make it look bigger!

[smirkymonkey]

11. Arghhhh!

Everything about him is annoying, but that has to be one of the most annoying things he does.

Take your short, fat, stubby little thumb and shove it up your rectum.

[PatSeg]

17. That and the constant pointing

Apparently no one taught Donald as a child that it is rude to point.

I also can't stand the way he holds a microphone. Somehow it looks really creepy. He should just keep his hands out of sight or learn how to use them properly.

[smirkymonkey]

19. And the gesture where he makes a circle with his thumb and index finger!

That drives me insane!! All his hand gestures drive me insane. You would think with such small, stubby little hands he would want to keep his fingers out of sight, but no, not him.

[PatSeg]

22. I know

He has a habit of drawing attention to all his shortcomings, often inviting ridicule.

[Chalco]

14. But...it's the only thing on his body that works!

[Wounded Bear]

2. Trump, Google is your enemy...

[TalenaGor]

9. the point, mr. Trump, is that cohen shouldn't have anything to flip about

But thank you for confirming that he does

[SammyWinstonJack]

15. Ha! He's a moron.

[FakeNoose]

10. That's really funny because I read Katy Tur's book "Unbelievable"

Katy Tur spent about 17 months travelling with Trump's presidential campaign. She has lots of tidbits and gossip, backgrond stories which are to be expected of that type of a book. Anyway Tur writes that Maggie Haberman was Trump's go-to reporter for any interview or a hot story, Maggie usually got there first. I believe Michael Wolff wrote the same thing about Haberman in his book "Fire and Fury" about the first year in the Trump White House. So it appears that for at least 2 - 1/2 years, Haberman had been Trump's #1 go-to newspaper reporter.

[babylonsister]

24. Thanks for that info; and he's busted again. nt

[frogmarch]

12. I first heard of her through Wonkette.

Just now I googled Maggie Haberman Wonkette and found a whole gob of Wonkette articles about her. Wonkette isn't fond of Maggie. Here's one piece about her:

Hi Maggie Haberman, it is yr loyal Wonkette! HI HI HI!

We assume you are doing swell today and, as it’s mid-afternoon right now, we imagine you had a very successful morning of blocking people on Twitter and being kind of so-so at journalism. Last time we visited with each other, we were gently constructively criticizing one of your #HotTakes on Twitter, right before Tom Price was quit-fired as HHS Secretary for all his grifting. You said if there’s one thing Donald Trump doesn’t like, it’s waste or the appearance of waste. Wonkette said, “Oh boy, how much does the Trump regime pay you to tweet bullshit like that? Or is that just the price you pay for access? Boy howdy, we reckon you are full of shit!” It was a good conversation we had that day!

We just wanted to check in and make sure you had gotten a copy of the New York Times‘s new social media guidelines, because they seem to be directed at you, just a little bit maybe. Oh wait, you did! The memo actually says you signed off on these guidelines! Anyway, we wanted to highlight two parts, in case your colleagues slipped them in when you weren’t paying attention.

FIRST THING:

Cont'd: https://wonkette.com/624241/hi-maggie-haberman-new-nyt-social-media-guidelines-did-you-read-them-maggie-haberman-did-you

[BobTheSubgenius]

13. I wonder how often he changes feet.

They spend so much time in his mouth, they must get soggy and wrinkled.

[spooky3]

16. If you are innocent, flipping isnt possible.

[PatrickforO]

18. You know, one of the things I notice with these twitter wars is that Trump

still has higher number of retweets and likes than most of the ones that stop him in his tracks.

No judgment, just noticing. Pay attention to the numbers, because 1,414 people isn't many. I mean, it's good and certainly this is Trump's umphteen millionth lie he's been caught in, but...

[highplainsdem]

20. A lot of his retweets are from bots and the near-bots that are deplorables in the pro-Trump private

Twitter rooms:

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029434422

[MoonRiver]

21. Wow, just keep tweeting yourself into impeachment and maybe prison.

[blogslut]

23. Haberman and BLOTUS go way, way back

Her mother's PR firm used to represent the Donald:

...Nancy Haberman, Maggie’s mother, works for the PR firm, Rubenstein, which was founded by Howard Rubenstein — a PR legend, who was once called “the dean of damage control” by Rudy Giuliani.

At Rubenstein, Nancy Haberman is no coffee girl. Her bio lists her as Executive Vice President, and gives her history as “Rubenstein, Home with kids for six years, Harper and Row Publishers, New York Post.” Later in her bio, it states, “Has a family of journalists. And the kids she was home with now have kids of their own.” Nancy’s area of expertise: “Traditional media, i.e. print, radio, and broadcast. Big emphasis on New York media. General interest stories, medical, breaking news, nonprofits, education… Lends media support to other people’s clients with her relationships established over 30 years.”

Although Nancy claims she’s never “met” Donald Trump, she has admitted to doing PR for him (because, it would be impossible to deny).

As for her PR firm’s history with Trump? Well, that’s a deeper dive.

Howard Rubenstein’s work history with the Trump family began early with Fred Trump. Then in 1990, when Donald and Ivana were going through their divorce, Rubenstein took on Donald’s personal PR — doing the dirty work of spinning that nasty mess into something that wouldn’t tarnish Donald’s name and brand irreparably. Because that’s the real nature of PR, isn’t it? The Brand...

http://www.citjourno.org/maggie3

[Cha]

25. Rigged in LIAR.. What's that look on

Maggie's face?