People don't believe him. All over twitter "He's lying."

[madaboutharry]

This is where we are. The President of The United States of America makes an announcement and the response it that he is a liar, made it up to detract from the Alabama craziness, made it up to make himself look important and presidential, and that there is no way it is true.

The American people have concluded that the words the president speaks can not be trusted.

How can we go on as a nation?

[Guilded Lilly]

1. Go on like this? We can't. That's why it must change. MUST. Waiting won't work.

[First Speaker]

2. Which lie is this...?

...there are so many...

[madaboutharry]

5. I know.

This particular lie is the one where he was going to have super secret meetings with "Major leader of the Taliban" and "The President of Afghanistan" at Camp David.

[salin]

23. Smacking my frickin' head. So Trump's magic sharpie created a secret meeting (Taliban/Afghanistan)..

and then hero (in Trumps Sharpie's world) became a hero by canceling it.

Of course twitter is afire calling out the bs scenario.

[captain queeg]

3. It's true, he lies like he breathes

I hope he keeps chasing Alabama, reminding everyone what a liar he is. Even if this secret Taliban meeting were true ( its not ) who or why would anyone believe it and why would he even discuss a meeting that secret?

[alterfurz]

33. as was once famously said of Henry Kissinger...

"He does not lie merely for advantage, but because it is part of his character."

[NoMoreRepugs]

4. Who gives a shit about Sharpiegate? The US military

being used to support his private businesses through hotel rooms and purchases of aviation fuel at the struggling airport near his Scottish hotel are beyond my comprehension. I simply cannot wait to hear what Moscow Mitch and Leningrad Lyndsey have to say when they are questioned about this. All our Democratic candidates need to start calling him out constantly for the outright lawlessness on display for all to see.

[madaboutharry]

7. Not Sharpiegate.

See post #5.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

30. Sharpiegate got even the dullards to pay attention

There are a lot more people who will notice the corruption because of the idiocy of Sharpiegate.

[Zoonart]

6. THIS

Resign. Resign. Resign. Resign. Resign......
This must be the drumbeat. Day and night from Every newspaper, network news, Democratic candidate for all and every office.

This is how we move the needle. I know he will not willingly resign, but when the drumbeat is loud enough the GOP will act...or the people will.

[HipChick]

8. Exactly...

If the shoe were on the other foot, GOP would be screaming from every rooftop..

[Dagstead Bumwood]

19. If the shoe were on the other foot

and Hillary had won the electoral college, there would have been Articles of Impeachment drawn and passed by, oh....let's say...Memorial Day 2017, at the latest, with a Senate trial concluding by about Halloween. Followed closely by a year of Rethugs screaming bloody murder about the "Treasonous Democrats" that wouldn't remove the "corrupt" President. The hypocrisy is blinding.

[Karadeniz]

9. I quit believing him during the campaign.

[UniteFightBack]

10. He's irrelevant. nt

[erronis]

21. His mouth noise is irrevelant. But his ability to cause destruction aren't. Who's controlling him?

I don't see anyone in the visible executive branch who has enough brain power to light a 40W bulb.

Somebody is directing this.

How. And why can't the US intelligence apparatus pick it up?

[KY_EnviroGuy]

24. My strong suspicion is....

a cabal of right-wing think tank officers who use a secretive communications setup to pass on talking points and policy directives that are coordinated with an office in the White House. Could be through a secure email system.

Heritage Foundation and American Enterprise Institute would be at the top of the list, along with Koch's Cato Institute and AFP. These think tanks are the brains of the Republican Party.

This is not a new idea. It was leaked during W's time that White House staff received directives via email every day from Heritage, and those talking points and policy ideas were almost like clockwork also parroted on right-wing talk radio and Faux News.

Don't know how they do it but it's almost a certainty. There's no way in hell Trump's staff comes up with all this madness and cruelty.

[Newest Reality]

11. Imagine...

Imagine if we were in a country, back in a time when there was a dictator or party in control and the only information was controlled media like radio and newspapers. The only subversive information available about what was true and false would have been clandestine pamphlets and word of mouth and maybe resistance movements.

If that were the case, this game the current American dictator is playing would have been a piece of cake. The only commentary and counterpoint to the party line would have been guerilla news sources functioning in great peril and subject to infiltration and cointel.

Now, there is the more direct Twitter feed that can be used to bypass traditional media and journalists inquires. However, on the other hand, there is also the gamut of information and the feedback that pushes back. Even with the overwhelming variety of sources, some questionable and others valid, there is still a means to verify information and provide factual reporting.

Well, at least for now. It seems that, with enough abuse of power in the Executive Branch, the means to oppose it could be a target and in jeopardy.

[Skittles]

12. no one is going to do anything about Donald Fucking Trump

he knows this so he will keep on with his atrocious behavior

[a kennedy]

13. and he comes after the most admired man for the last, what 11 years???

[Tennessee Hillbilly]

14. The reason Trump's lies are so obvious is ...

because he's too stupid to tell a lie that any half-intelligent person could believe.

[Thomas Hurt]

15. It never enters Dear Leader Sharpie's mind if what he is saying true or not.

He is completely amoral.

[kozar]

16. what I have been searching for,

on the interwebs, is why is he keeping the Alabama thing alive? Something is going on behind the scenes to cause this long of a distraction from needle dick, (apologies) I cannot find it,, if any can ,,please post,,surely it isn't about selling sharpies..


Koz

[erronis]

22. There is some pattern. Wall, Alabama, Rapists, Fine People, Big, ...

Yes - we should be able to connect the dots.

Although we may find that they are just random synapses firing because of drugs and diet and cruddy genetics.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

25. Could be the cumulative "real" bad news not in the headlines such as...

* Congressional impeachment committee activity,
* Epstein-related court activity,
* increasing bad news on the economy and blow-back from the trade war, and
* the dozens of active cases in court against him.

The stress of it all is showing and he's really acting like a cornered wild animal.........

[Vinca]

17. His fatal mistake was saying it was happening at Camp David.

If he can't turn a buck on this shindig, you can't believe it was ever anything other than another whopper pulled out of his lower intestinal track.

[gordianot]

18. Even after he is gone to whatever dark fate he will be discussed frequently.

There is no escape, this is one wound that will require a lot of time to heal if ever.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. Echoes of Laughing at Jeff Sessions

The best medicine

[vlyons]

26. Trump has become the boy, who cried wolf

Just wait until the Taliban denounces his claim. He's such an asshole.

[CentralMass]

27. The military is starting to look like it needs sone scrutiny as well.

[world wide wally]

28. Apparently, Republicans cannot understand that defending the orange idiot weakens us as a nation.

F'r instance...we have already fallen to Russia. Who's next?

[lunasun]

29. I used to know someone like this. Out of the blue unprompted would make up absurd nonsense

I guess to sound important . At first it was amusing and laughable Then it was just annoying like you gotta go . I’ll call you
Trumps gotta go

[myohmy2]

31. made it up...

...to detract from shitty job creation numbers?

...trump is a lying sack of shit who will fabricate ANYTHING to win...

...this is what out candidate is up against...this is why our candidate must a harden fighter...this is why our candidate must be perceived as honest and trustworthy...

"How can we go on as a nation?"

...it won't be easy, but as long as good people are elected to public office, over time things will improve...

...we must work hard to keep scum out of public office...

[MadDAsHell]

32. Because the next time he uses a sharpie we'll move on. The next time he tweets we'll move on.

Everyone wants to blame the media for being easily distracted, but we're their customers. The giving us what we're demanding.

The great majority of DU threads on the Greatest Page at any time are about Trump's latest tweet, latest ridiculous statement, etc. The top Greatest Page thread 2 days ago was a bunch of memes.

If we, presumably the more politically astute of the country, are more interested in memes of President Obama in sunglasses and Drumpf as an inflatable baby then the big picture of what he is ultimately doing to this country, then how can we expect the media to serve us anything different?

[real Cannabis calm]

34. K&R