Charles Pierce: This press conference is going to live forever.....

[kpete]

All the hinges are gone now. The rails are far behind. The trolley is missing and presumed lost. The president* came down to the lobby of his Manhattan tower, ostensibly to sign an executive order on "infrastructure." He then took questions and we all went on a magic carpet ride through what he really thinks about the events in Charlottesville last weekend. For three days, whatever sensible people remain at Camp Runamuck have been trying to find some way to run damage control on the president*'s initial, ridiculous non-response to those events, whereupon, on Tuesday, the president* stepped up to the mic and blew all that work into tiny bits. Quite simply, the only president* we have lost his shit so badly on live TV that he'll never be able to find it again.

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He was tense. He was choleric. He looked like he might at any minute wade into the crowd of reporters swinging a five-iron. I kept waiting for geysers of blood and bile to erupt from his ears. This was not a presidential press conference. It was a glorified barroom argument that exposed quite clearly how angry he is that he had to come out and make that second statement in which somebody forced him to say how bad Nazis are. He'd clearly been stewing about that for at least 24 hours.

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And that's what takes Tuesday's explosion beyond the realm of simple mockery. There's an audience out there for every lunatic assertion the president* made. We saw it in full flower last Saturday. And he knows it's there, too. He knows that it's the one segment of the American population still guaranteed to give his fragile-if-monumental ego the constant boost that it needs. So he needed to salve all the fee-fees he wounded the other day when somebody dragged him out so he could say right out loud that being a Nazi is a bad thing. This was an angry, heartfelt appeal to his white nationalist base to stick with him, probably because that base is all he has left.

On Tuesday, shortly before the president* went bananas, Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan, joined the effort to remove from the state house grounds a statue of Roger Taney, the ghoulish Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who wrote the majority opinion—"A negro has no rights which the white man must respect"—against Dred Scott. As I mentioned once before, not far from the place out of which this shebeen operates, there is a monument to Benjamin Curtis, who served on the Supreme Court while Taney was Chief Justice and whose contrary opinion in Dred Scott is still considered one of the great dissents in the history of the Court. The monument is a plaque on a simple rock. You can miss it if you walk too quickly down the path by the river. But it stays there, as though deposited in antiquity as a rebuke in deathless stone to the sins of the following ages.




http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a57036/trump-charlottesville-press-conference/

[LisaM]

1. He's such a good writer.

I'm still "mad" at Esquire for taking away the Style Network from cable, but he's doing a lot to redeem them in my eyes!

[bagimin]

2. k&r

[TNNurse]

3. If only something would happen because of it.

I have seen posts for months saying this would end him.

Still waiting.

[MontanaMama]

4. Charlie is right.

And a batshit Nazi is still in the WH. I can't even...there's not enough wine in my house tonight.

[BigmanPigman]

10. There is not enough wine alcohol, weed, drugs, etc in the world

to help me deal with this flood of crazy for too, too long.

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. "Tapper, who looked very much like a man who had seen space aliens humping in his jacuzzi"

Oh man, I needed that laugh.

[Paladin]

6. K&R.

[Mr.Bill]

7. And the people who voted for him

loved every minute of it.

[Canoe52]

8. Wow, reading that just totally blew me away!

I confess I just smoked a bowl,

But still, wow!

[gademocrat7]

9. K&R

Impeach him!

[mtngirl47]

11. Wow--I just watched the press conference--

What a freaking train wreck!! This will never be forgotten!

OMG

[PatSeg]

12. You could really sense his tension

because he kept interrupting reporters with "Excuse me, excuse me" in his classic rude manner, only more than usual.

[BigmanPigman]

13. He is talking about this with Joy on MSNBC right now.

[apkhgp]

14. The End of 45 or Bottom of the Barrel...you pick the title

Another story in this God-Awful tenure of 45. Delusional, distrusting, and distorted beyond belief. We as a nation have no use for him anymore. As he fades away in to history, you can put him next to his friend Adolf Hitler.
Good bye and Good riddance.

[hibbing]

15. Where's Kellyanne?

See what kind of bullshit they start to try to spin this bag of poo as.


Peace

[longship]

16. What a wrap up!!!

Charles Pierce has an amazing hold on language.

He wraps it up like this:

On Tuesday, shortly before the president* went bananas, Maryland's Republican governor, Larry Hogan, joined the effort to remove from the state house grounds a statue of Roger Taney, the ghoulish Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court who wrote the majority opinion—"A negro has no rights which the white man must respect"—against Dred Scott. As I mentioned once before, not far from the place out of which this shebeen operates, there is a monument to Benjamin Curtis, who served on the Supreme Court while Taney was Chief Justice and whose contrary opinion in Dred Scott is still considered one of the great dissents in the history of the Court. The monument is a plaque on a simple rock. You can miss it if you walk too quickly down the path by the river. But it stays there, as though deposited in antiquity as a rebuke in deathless stone to the sins of the following ages.

This press conference is going to live forever.

Ba-da-Bing!

I don't see how Drumpf can survive this. I fear very much that he will.

[Paka]

17. K&R

Charles Pierce is a treasure.

[Blue Owl]

18. Press Conference Codename: White Bronco