Due to a number of requests, for those who missed it, THIS is the WaPo article that pissed Trump off

[Miles Archer]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-lost-summer-aides-claim-victory-but-others-see-incompetence-and-intolerance/2019/09/01/f6f74f86-ca8a-11e9-be05-f76ac4ec618c_story.html

Trump’s lost summer: Aides claim victory, but others see incompetence and intolerance



By Philip Rucker and Ashley Parker September 1

When President Trump presided over the battle tanks and fighter jets, the fireworks and adoring fans on July 4, he couldn’t have known that the militaristic “Salute to America” — as well as to himself — would end up as the apparent pinnacle of the season.

What followed was what some Trump advisers and allies characterize as a lost summer defined by self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities. Trump leveled racist attacks against four congresswomen of color dubbed “the Squad.” He derided the majority-black city of Baltimore as “rat and rodent infested.” His anti-immigrant rhetoric was echoed in a missive that authorities believe a mass shooting suspect posted. His visits to Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso after the gun massacres in those cities served to divide rather than heal.

Trump’s economy also began to falter, with the markets ping-ponging based on the president’s erratic behavior. His trade war with China grew more acrimonious. His whipsaw diplomacy at the Group of Seven summit left allies uncertain about American leadership. The president returned from his visit to France in a sour mood, frustrated by what he felt was unfairly negative news coverage of his trip.

The two months between Independence Day and Labor Day offered a fresh and vivid portrait of the president as seen by Trump’s critics — incompetent, indecisive, intolerant and ineffective.

[hlthe2b]

1. I read it when it was published, but glad to re-read, imagining the Trump reaction..

[Miles Archer]

2. I'm getting random requests in replies, so I decided to re-post it in a stand-alone thread...

...but it is worth a fresh read in light of his extreme reaction to it.

[CatWoman]

10. lol

and look at the pic they used. maybe this pissed him off more

[hlthe2b]

13. Yes... I thought that too

[Hekate]

18. He looks like death warmed over in that pic. Good choice!

[MoonRiver]

40. LOL

[Miles Archer]

21. They're very careful not to get his spray-on tan too close to his comb-over

Nice raccoon eyes too. You have to wonder what this slob looks like in his "natural state."

[yortsed snacilbuper]

32. "wonder what this slob looks like in his "natural state.""

[LuckyLib]

24. I'm surprised he hasn't gone in for extensive reconstructive neck work. His posing

as Mussolini shows his attempts to minimize it. Surely Melania has some good plastic surgeons she can recommend.

[SergeStorms]

30. KIDNEY SURGEONS! KIDNEY SURGEONS!

Melanie's "kidneys" got larger and much perkier after her "kidney" ailments, for which she rested (somewhere out of the public eye) for several weeks. We have to get these "facts" straight in our reporting.

[malaise]

33. Perfect

[Mc Mike]

34. He does look a little old, fat, bald, ugly, funny colored, and greasy there.

Also looks a bit stupid, and truculent with the mussolini chin jut.

[elleng]

3. Thanks!

I really like Philip Rucker; not sure I've seen as much of Ashley Parker as of him.

[Wounded Bear]

4. I'm not uncertain about America's leadership. Under Trump we have none...

It is that simple. Trump cannot lead anything. At best he can bully someone into doing his will, but he can not lead.

He does not have any true leadership ability at all.

[Gothmog]

5. The Post is proud of these two writers

Link to tweet

[bucolic_frolic]

6. Too many syllables for MAGAtzi's

"incompetent, indecisive, intolerant and ineffective."

[dchill]

28. Dumb, namby-pamby, mean and useless.

[Grokenstein]

7. The recent Business Insider article should have him losing it as well

https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-aides-worried-about-mental-state-alabama-hurricane-dorian-2019-9

"He's deteriorating in plain sight," one Republican strategist who's in frequent contact with the White House told Insider on Friday.

Asked why the president was obsessed with Alabama instead of the states that would actually be affected by the storm, the strategist said, "you should ask a psychiatrist about that; I'm not sure I'm qualified to comment."

Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House communications director, also weighed in on Trump's state of mind on Friday.

"I think the president is in severe mental decline, and I'm not saying that now because I'm a political adversary or I disavowed him. I'm saying that objectively just looking at what's going on," Scaramucci said at the Toronto Global Forum.

Indeed, one person who was close to Trump's legal team during the Russia investigation told Insider his public statements were "nothing compared to what he's like behind closed doors."

"He's like a bull seeing red," this person added. "There's just no getting through to him, and you can kiss your plans for the day goodbye because you're basically stuck looking after a 4-year-old now."

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Amazed that stories about Trump's

lack of Anger Management and the lack there of,were never reported out even though there was evidence of and stories about his Bully behavior in his Business's. and personal life before he began running for office.

This lays at the feet of Corporate News Media,and as of today,we see only a hand full of negative Trump Stories when there should be a Press Tsunami after all the Stories that Rachel Maddow has broken.

[Mazeltov Cocktail]

14. Those stories were out there. . .

Basically, Mark Burnnet ( sp?) and that apprentice garbage rehabilitated his bullying image and, of course, his friend at the National Enquirer ( Pecker) planted good press and buried the stuff we hear now.

[Wellstone ruled]

16. That I do understand.

Yes,he had friends who knew there was a buck to be made if they suppressed his ugly behavior,now saying that,why has not the friggin Media at this sucker for lunch and still had time to bury him before dinner.

[Mc Mike]

35. He's always had zero impulse control, and ran proudly on it.

He's openly shown he has zero impulse control, his whole life. His fans love when he gives in to his worst impulses.

[Wellstone ruled]

36. Have to say,

the sucker sure did a ton of Image Shaping during the Apprentice Bull Crap. Allies,Lacky,and Zucker with the help of Burnett,helped with the fake smoke screen of protection.

Never wasted the time watching anything dealing with Reality TV once we saw a production of a Outdoor Series. Talk about a shit show.

[Mc Mike]

37. Yeah, that was a ton of free image shaping he got. He was packaged.

He even got paid for it, he needed the subsidy since he was a financial failure.

His trashiness was packaged as 'entertainment', (like Big brother survivor trash, like jersey shore real housewives trash, like kardashian trash) but the 'zero impulse control' characteristic of his was always an immutable characteristic of his outrageous 'entertaining' behavior.

He's always pushed that idea that he instantly reacts and makes a snap judgement, and his instincts are leadership genius. He should be in charge, and always be himself, always do the first thing that springs into mind, follow whatever instinctive motivation he has immediately. Success is sure to ensue, and he should get adulation for his decision and the success that follows.

[Wellstone ruled]

38. Harking back to what

O'Donnell said on his show years ago,Trump only income was a 3 million a year Apprentice pay check. Needless the Don of Stupid sued O'Donnell and lost . NBC created this POS and they are profiting from their Creation in so many bottom line ways.

As the spox for CBS said a few weeks back,he is good for our bottom line. And as long as that happens,we will stick with him.

[Mc Mike]

39. We're looking at Rockefeller and Mellon mass media interests backing that nazi.

O'Donnell is MSNBC, so Rockefeller interests are making money appealing to people who hate the nazi they backed. Can't blame Lawrence, Rachel, Joy, Ari, Chris, Katy for opposing him, but they're fighting him while management ties one of their hands behind their backs.

Shithead keeps using that ratings argument, too; how if he loses, the media's ratings will go way down. Who gives a fuck if their Nielson shares drop because that freak isn't performing outrages like usual? Only shitler and the top corporate media execs.

[Wellstone ruled]

41. Oh so right.

What has yet to happen is,Writers and Production Staff people who have left these so called Media Reality Productions have been way to quite. Best guess is,they might be fearing NDA's and or black balling within the Industry.

[MyOwnPeace]

8. Again from one of his "spokesmen"

why doesn't anybody ever call them out on that bullshit "he's done more than any other president in history?"

It is such BULLSHIT - I guess it is being stated so often that it proves to them that a lie repeated enough becomes truth to them.

[Karadeniz]

11. Thanks for copying the article. I can't get wapo!

[Botany]

12. 2 things:

1) If you look @ the picture of Trump next to Emmanuel Macron he look like death on a stick. He is not a well man

b) I know this article pisssed Trump off but I don't know if he read it because it is too long.

[Miles Archer]

19. I'm guessing someone did a picture book with the following:

"a lost summer defined by self-inflicted controversies and squandered opportunities"

and

"incompetent, indecisive, intolerant and ineffective"

[Auggie]

15. I suggest we pin this thread for a few weeks so EVERYONE is sure to see it

[Hekate]

17. Thank you Miles...

Incompetent, indecisive, intolerant, and ineffective about sums it up.

[Scurrilous]

20. K&R

[warmfeet]

22. Piss him off,

as much as possible.

Good things will result.

What a shallow, little narcissist, of a shadow snowflake man.

If shit-turd 45 survives this whole mess, unscathed, it is the death knell of this country. Please keep that in mind.

What comes next will make this current shit-hole look like Nirvana.

[lonely bird]

23. Blame the phucquing electorate

Enough of the lazy, bright shiny object electorate couldn’t be bothered to vote and among those that did bother enough of them were too stupid or lazy to do any minimal research into the social disease known as Donald Trump.

Yes, yes, Russian interference, Hillary runs a lackluster campaign, Comey, blah, blah, blah.

The bottom line lies with the electorate. Citizenship requires some effort. That would mean turning off the frigging reality TV which isn’t real and stopping with mindless social media crap.

Can’t have that though. Some D-list celebrity just did something stupid, OMG, we must tweet...

I give the country 50 years at best.

[BunnyMcGee]

25. Exactly

I can only name about 5 people who follow real news closely. Most repeat MSM talking points

[krispos42]

26. k&r

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. left out ignorant and ignominious - "incompetent, indecisive, intolerant and ineffective"

[Scarsdale]

31. Add "insane"

The gop should roast in hell after promoting this worthless lump of crap. Why do people bend over for him, such as backing the Alabama claim? He has made this country a worldwide laughing stock. By the way, Don Jr. is looking at a WH run in 2024, to continue the tRump dynasty. The entire family has the easiest money making gig they have ever had, and want it to continue.

[Niagara]

29. Thanks for posting