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Last edited Wed May 29, 2019, 10:40 PM - Edit history (2)
His tweet is apparently in response to the story from the Wall Street Journal that the White House requested before Trump's visit to Japan that the ship be "out of sight" during the visit:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212142451
Trump's tweet tonight:
Link to tweet
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Editing to add a tweet from Josh Dawsey, saying WH aides are now claiming Trump wasn't involved in the decision:
Link to tweet
FWIW, I don't believe Trump wasn't involved. But even if he hadn't been involved, it looks terrible for him that his aides would be so afraid of a temper tantrum that they felt the USS John McCain had to be out of Trump's sight.
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)Not wanting to deal with a child-like breakdown, extra diapers to clean, etc.
I could see his handlers taking it on themselves.
OTOH, FOR SURE I could see his handlers covering for him, if it were actually his idea, and now he's lying about it. They'd feel obliged to say 'yeah, we actually did that on our own!'.
Whole thing feels like yet another staged distraction, TBH.
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)dchill
(38,517 posts)forgotmylogin
(7,530 posts)They know he'll meltdown and not be able to function. I can believe Trump didn't know about this, but someone didn't want to chance him melting down overseas or noticing it and making an idiotic statement at the wrong time.
The president is mad and does not have the temperament for the office.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,829 posts)Or, his handlers decided they wanted to avoid another embarrassing tweeted hissy fit about McCain. Either way, it's ridiculous.
TheBlackAdder
(28,211 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)And it does not nearly explain why he named every ship in the fleet EXCEPT the McCain and its crew in his speech. What a fucker.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)He is such a pathetic person.
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)Not one single mention of the McCain and its crew.
https://factba.se/transcript/donald-trump-remarks-troops-uss-wasp-yokosuka-japan-may-28-2019
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)"So you're not in charge?"
GusBob
(7,286 posts)The WH staff cant do that can they?
Who gave the order?
LearnedHand
(3,393 posts)Nitram
(22,853 posts)Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)If it wasn't Trump, just the fact that his handlers thought it necessary says enough. They know what he is like off camera and behind the view of the public. As bad as he is in public, I can't even imagine what he must be like behind closed doors. Actually, I can and it isn't pretty.
tanyev
(42,600 posts)set off by merely seeing the name McCain. Sad and pathetic.
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)That petty.
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)Mendocino
(7,504 posts)Chief Petty Orficer
Beringia
(4,316 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)Leghorn21
(13,526 posts)If he doesnt want to see the USS John McCain, throw a tarp over Trump!
Ilsa
(61,697 posts)to cover both trump's ass and ego.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)afraid to be mocked by a ship.
keithbvadu2
(36,879 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)I don't believe anything Donald Trump says. If he said the sun rises in the east I'd have to double check.
highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)but the request was made to prevent a tantrum (my word for it; the journalist tweeted "any potential ire from POTUS" ).
IADEMO2004
(5,557 posts)How many people helped accomplished this task and thought it would not explode in their stupid stupid faces?
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)Guilt?
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Why? Ok I know his minions are just as stupid as he is but he probably mentioned this to them, nudge nudge . . . wink wink . . . .
Also, they all had to realize that this was going to come out, right.
Mendocino
(7,504 posts)of the new Trump steam catapult that belches molecules of freedom gas.
highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)madaboutharry
(40,218 posts)outbursts. It must be exhausting.
highplainsdem
(49,028 posts)the entire world.
lapfog_1
(29,219 posts)and seeing the John McCain might just cause the Donald to simply implode because deep down, he knows this is the case.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Takket
(21,616 posts)"we felt the need to do this so he would not have a temper tantrum" is basically meaningless.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Waiting
Blue Owl
(50,488 posts)The language used, the desperate appearance of trying to look innocent...
Go fuck yourself Donnie.
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)It actually makes me happy to think that he's seething now because he looks foolish for something that someone else did. Although we all know that if his staff did it, it was to forestall a tantrum.
He thinks that everything he does is right, so he doesn't feel bad when people don't react to his actions. But to be blamed for something that someone else did has to be INFURIATING.
moondust
(20,002 posts)this story is weird enough to be a Twilight Zone episode. Gotta wonder what Rod Serling would do with it. Perhaps we'd see Dump get dropped off on what turns out to be a haunted ghost ship with its name covered by a tarp. A PA system starts blasting McCain's voice reciting the names of dictators (as he apparently did at Dump's inauguration, per Sen. Klobuchar). Dump frantically tries calling for help with no answer. The ship slowly sinks with Dump on it going insane, the tarp finally falling off to reveal its name. Fade to black.
"Last Mission"
BKDem
(1,733 posts)Great title.
SouthernProgressive
(1,810 posts)That it might have been done to avoid a temper tantrum.