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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHaberman has a theory regarding why Trump was more of a dick than usual in Montana.
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@maggieNYT
Trumps presentation at the MT rally was steeped in grievance. People close to him believe he was angry about having to fire Pruitt and lashed out publicly at almost everyone else (except Putin) in his remarks.
7:40 AM - 6 Jul 2018
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dalton99a
(81,068 posts)Right, Maggie?
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)He also had this:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/ny-pol-trump-property-tax-20180705-story.html
But I just think he feels "empowered" at those frigging rallies. That's it. No "cause" for the behavior.
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,539 posts)And like an addict, it takes a greater and greater hit to achieve a high, so he keeps adding to his repertoire of bullshit, and the crowd bathes him in waves of adulation.
PatSeg
(46,804 posts)I believe you summed it up perfectly. When he needs a "fix", he holds a rally. I think eventually, like most addicts, he'll crash and burn.
vlyons
(10,252 posts)but a sore loser! LOSER LOSER LOSER
no_hypocrisy
(45,774 posts)Sounds plausible.
Cha
(295,921 posts)That is one awesome tweet, Cha.
Thanks for sharing~
Cha
(295,921 posts)I was hoping someone would and it's you!
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Cha
(295,921 posts)That's the Unhinged Twit with there.
I think those are going to be flying high when the Fraud goes to London.
Different Drummer
(7,532 posts)Bill Press was just talking about that very thing this morning on Free Speech TV.
RestoreAmerica2020
(3,433 posts)something of which will have to be updated once Muellar files more indictments, perhaps today?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Does anyone know if someone is selling mini versions? I don't think the county will let me fly the big blimp.
Cha
(295,921 posts)are made in England. And, they're planning to float them with their Protests.
I could be wrong, Riff.. we'll have to see.. I wish them all the luck in finding the Fraud.
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Someone should yell "Look up, Donald!"
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Nice pictures. Glad dt told everyone hes doing the Downton Abbey style tour. I'm sure the protestors can adjust. We aren't idiots like your kids Don.
Cha
(295,921 posts)why can't the Protesters find trump?.. take their Protest to him.
Find the chickenshit and Protest!
Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)Face what he's done to our allies. Perfect reason why he shouldn't have been invited. He's not royalty, and he can afford himself and his family to do the Downton Tours. We will pay a big bill. Fuckin coward. Gets all smart ass in front of a small gyms full of traveling supporters, but, can't find his stones to face the music in England of all places.
4 people seriously wounded by Russian Novichok(?) and he runs like a scared child to the palaces of the English Hinterlands. He has blood on his hands all over the world.
Why hasn't he sent help to Thailand? Must be the countries leader isn't a street murdering thug like Duterte, and Putin and Kim.
Louis1895
(768 posts)He was not a Trump appointee.
Renew Deal
(81,802 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,110 posts)duforsure
(11,882 posts)Because pruitt had a deep pockets donor who put lots of money into campaign funds for the GOP and pruitt and trump I suspect, and by firing him he may lose that now. That was probably why pruitt lasted so long after all the corruption , not because of trump , but his donor behind pruitt.
FakeNoose
(32,351 posts)That needs to be investigated along with his other misdeeds. It's surely the reason why Cheeto was so "attached" to Pruitt, since he never even met the man before his 2015-16 presidential campaign.
We can probably assume that anybody that Cheeto praises and shows loyalty to, has bought their way into his affections with very large untraceable campaign donations.
robbedvoter
(28,290 posts)you do know that Maggie's mother does PR for Kushner and did for 🍊 too, right?
http://www.citjourno.org/maggie3
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)He is an impulsive, immature, tantrum-prone outsider, not a leader.
We know that he does not do much, real longterm thinking or planning because if he did, he would correct the problems, the misunderstandings and shortcomings, with those he appoints, with his staff, and they would not just either leave abruptly or get fired.
Who knows? Maybe he could even appoint more competent people if he weren't so impulsive. Thanks to his failed personality, his White House lacks continuity in terms of staff and policy.
His speeches are self-indulgent to a point that it is already a tiresome joke. He doesn't really have anything to say in terms of positive policy. It's his jibes and insults that get all the attention and may even be most of what he says. He can't seem to keep staff long enough to really implement any random good idea that might just fall into his brain or appeal to him at some unpredictable time.
He can whip up a crowd if made up of "his kind" of people, but really he would be better as a warm-up act than as the main show because when it comes down to working for the American people, he does more to separate us than to bring us together, more to fragment and therefore weaken us than to unite and strengthen us as a nation. Remember: Divided we fall, united we stand. Trump seems to think it works the other way.
His presidency is a mess.
The good news is that so far his blunders and mishaps have not caused any major incidents. I suspect that most of the world is just laughing at our plight. Because of our system and the political power of the frustrated, rural minority in our country that elected Trump, we are stuck with him.
The next two years look pretty dismal in my view. Sorry to be so depressing.
We have to win this Fall. That needs to be our one and only focus. Winning as much as we can in the House and Senate.
It is up to us to leave the bickering behind, focus on uniting at least ourselves and win, win, win this Fall. Anybody with me?
Rorey
(8,445 posts)I'm with you, Sophia.
still_one
(91,963 posts)for him with hopes that it will get you more access
Orsino
(37,428 posts)The decades-long record of Trump's public utterances is steeped in grievances. His entire campaign for the presidency was a lashing out at everyone who disdained him or threatened to expose his fraudulent image. His every documented act amounts to the settling of some old score or another. He is always angry about not getting his way.
Why the fuck is Haberman acting surprised in the year 2018?
SamKnause
(13,043 posts)kimbutgar
(20,882 posts)With Russia and they changed the votes to help him. He will blurt it out because he is in the throes of psychotic demementia.
yonder
(9,631 posts)Wouldn't that be great? Then watching tRumps gang try spinning the damage. "It was a joke" or "I never said that" or "fake news" or blah, blah, blah.
Endless clips of dRump spouting something like this:
One can only wish.
aggiesal
(8,864 posts)Grammy23
(5,808 posts)But every now and then (like 3-4 times a day) something irritates the living sh*t out of him. He has to vent his anger and frustrations or he blows up. That's Why his face is so bloated and red he is about to blow like Vesuvius. So his staff has learned it is best to just let him rant. And create opportunities for him to do his thing. Hence, the need for rallies that are like mothers milk to Baby tRump.
The thing he does at most rallies will wear thin eventually. There will be a core (a hard core like the center of a boil) that will go to the mat for him. But the rest will drift away. May that happen sooner, rather than later.
yonder
(9,631 posts)I keep hoping for his schtick to start falling flat. How many times can his supporters watch the same bad old movie?
C_U_L8R
(44,896 posts)But a spittle-filled nonsense rage going on about Elton John and who knows what???
That's just nuts.
SamKnause
(13,043 posts)He has a 61% turnover rate in his White House.
He only cares about Pruitt ???
Bullshit.
He is an EVIL LYING asshole and he shows it every time he gets a chance.
bucolic_frolic
(42,676 posts)he's totally out of sync with America
NRaleighLiberal
(59,940 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,246 posts)instead.