A New List of Crazy Shit Trump Did, According to Fiona Hill

[babylonsister]

https://www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/2022/04/trump-fiona-hill-russia-ukraine-wind-turkish-prisons-secretary/


A New List of Crazy Shit Trump Did, According to Fiona Hill
Abigail Weinberg


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A few choice tidbits, all according to Hill:

Upon meeting Hill for the first time, she says Trump mistook her for a secretary (she was the senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council) and “became angry that she did not immediately agree to retype a news release for him.”

Trump informed Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan that most Americans’ idea of Turkey comes from the prisons in Midnight Express: “Bad image—you need to make a different film.”

Trump would ask to send magazine articles to the likes of Erdogan and French president Emmanuel Macron if the stories included flattering pictures of the leaders. Often, the text of the article was anything but. That didn’t matter: Trump wanted to make sure that his peers on the world stage knew when they were “looking strong.”

In a conversation with former German chancellor Angela Merkel, Trump referred to Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) as “Senator Pocahontas.” Merkel was aghast.

Trump did his shtick about hating windmills—to the prime minister of Norway.

Trump didn’t see why Crimea shouldn’t be a part of Russia. They speak Russian there, after all.

A lot of the wild things that happened during the Trump administration do not get much attention because many find the discussion of the Russia investigation, and connections with Russia, overplayed and boring. I get it. But sometimes that means you miss out on Trump telling a Turkish president to make a movie.

[mnmoderatedem]

1. trump actually thought Turkey made Midnight Express?

That was an American film. Oliver Stone directed. And Turkey was vehemently against the film at the time and was very angry over the portrayal of Turkish prisons.

And trump is still not over the windmill thing. Ever since Scotland would not let him build a golf course there in favor of a wind farm. Adn trump threw one of his famous tantrums. As though Scotland has no right to decide what they do on their own land in their own country.

[empedocles]

9. The hate the windmill thing really stuck with him over time. So bizzare.

[Beetwasher.]

22. It's Actually Incredibly Symbolic Too, I Mean "Tilting at Windmills" and all

If you wrote the screenplay they'd throw your ass out of Hollywood.

[Wild blueberry]

11. Flush's windmill obsession only about his Scottish golf course

The one for which he ruined world heritage dunes. He had a fit when Scotland put windmills off shore because he thought they wrecked the view. Watch "You've Been Trumped" a scathing documentary. You will cheer the local Scots who live next to the gold course.

[JudyM]

27. "Flush"

[Probatim]

19. Wait until he sees Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle - he's in for a surprise.

[magicarpet]

2. White Trash,... White Nationalist Fascist in the White House,....

.... what could possibly go wrong ?

A brain dead idiot with an over sized ego at the helm of our ship of state - driving into the shoals each and every chance he gets.

[MyOwnPeace]

20. And a 'crew' of 74 million

that voted for him to 'lead' for another 4 years!

[HuskyOffset]

3. Every time you think you have a handle on how dumb this guy is

he comes along & BAM, shows you three more levels below that.

[GoCubsGo]

4. When he says in his rallies that Biden has made America the world's laughingstock,

he is projecting. But, y'all knew that already. Yikes. I thought Dumbya was stupid, but he's a genius compared to this imbecile.

[smirkymonkey]

15. Every accusation is a confession!

With the GOP in general, but with him in particular.

[maxrandb]

5. My drunk Uncle said crazy shit at the VFW every day.

Half the people listening to him thought he was a genius.

That's the fucking problem.

A shit ton of Americans think calling a Senator a racial slur in front of other foreign leaders is A-OK, or even desirable.

We know Donnie Dipshit and his supporters are hateful, ignorant Asspickles.

The job is NOT to document their idiocy and hatred.

The job is to kick their asses at the ballot box so fucking hard their children and grandchildren will feel it.

[Fyrefox]

6. Gonna need a bigger library...

If all the incompetence, lying, stupidity, criminality, racism, and sexism of the Trump administration were written down, the world could scarcely contain the books!

[FailureToCommunicate]

7. We all know TFG is stupid, but, well...

[SergeStorms]

8. All form. Absolutely no substance.

Stupid as a box of hair, but as long as he looked "good" that's all that mattered.

That explains so many things in Trump's life. His ludicrous hairdo. His wives. His buildings. His children. His spray-on tan.

A Potemkin man if there ever was one.

[Chainfire]

10. You all better be careful about what you post.

When Trump becomes the final American President, he will have a lot of pent up frustration to vent. Think about a Donald Trump unburdened by the constraints applied to a President.

[NoMoreRepugs]

12. Too many here probably wonder where your sarcasm emoji is.

Some concur.

[Hotler]

17. Yes, he's a vengeful MFer but, Desantis is worse. If the fascist take power

they will come for us. Your repug neighbor can't wait to shoot you. Remember their moto, "the only good Democrat is a dead Democrat."

[LittleGirl]

13. I've seen this

That’s why I call him IQ45.

Dude.

[bullwinkle428]

14. AND YET - millions of Americans are ready to carry this muthafucka back

into the White House on their shoulders. Cuz gas prices, or something.

[Buns_of_Fire]

16. President Erdogan, I LOVE that candy you guys make!

(Invented 1912, Coney Island. And no, he didn't say that. But it wouldn't surprise me one bit if he did.)

[Farmer-Rick]

18. TFG is the personification of the oligarchs who rule the US

They picked him, they paid for him and they think he was/still could be a great president. He is their little monster.

The filthy rich don't notice his bigotry, racism, white supremisism, sexism, stupidity, crass materialism and narcism because they are just like him.

It doesn't take smarts or class to be filthy rich in a capitalist system. It only takes being born into the right family. Much like feudalism and slavery.

[Ferrets are Cool]

21. I honestly don't care about "crazy shit" as much as I do about "illegal shit".

[CanonRay]

23. He has the mind of a mean 12 year old boy.

[oldsoftie]

24. he also thought Finland was part of Russia nt

[Hekate]

32. If Putin has his way, they will be--another reason Vlad needs to be stopped & driven out of Ukraine

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

[Snackshack]

25. Wow...

This is another foray into rewriting history. “Crazy Shit Trump did”… as if the DT admin was no worse then a college frat house and all silly stuff that goes in one…

Someone should remind this writer that this man was the President of the United States and not only did he degrade the office and the position but his incompetence or more than likely criminal negligence cost America over 1 million of its citizens.

[AZ8theist]

26. FUCKING IMBECILE

[llashram]

28. our media

has and is letting us down. Free press my ass outside of a few that try to present the truth. Rachel, Ali, and Reid are those that immediately come to mind...

[moondust]

29. "mistook her for a secretary"?

Ha! I would wager that he knew exactly who she was, that she was not a big fan of Putin, and he did that to "put her in her place."

[LudwigPastorius]

30. I'm sure McCarthy and Cheney weren't the only Republicans discussing the 25th Amendment.

Pretty much any sane person who spends 2 minutes with Trump will realize that he is...not.

[Hekate]

31. The man was a planet-wide embarrassment to us all, & had a real penchant for insulting & demeaning

… women. I remember the Fiona Hill-is-a-secretary thing — Bella Abzug's trademark hats were her way of signaling that she was not the stenographer or secretary, but that was 2 generations ago! I remember that when TFG met President and Mrs Macron he went out of his way to let her husband know she was a real looker and in good shape for a woman her age.

[stopdiggin]

33. here's one reader that isn't even slightly surprised

the man was frighteningly incompetent and unerringly stupid during the entire course of his presidency. His only real talent lying in 'offense.' From nuking hurricanes and injecting bleach - to exchanging air kisses with the murderous North Korean dictator. There is virtually nothing left to surprise us with.

[calimary]

34. She was working for a certified IDIOT.