What is Trump's first duty to his Trump Alliance ? Make Headlines

[bodysong]

What is Trump's first duty to his Trump Alliance ? Make Headlines

What is the Trump Alliance's first duty to Trump ? Make Headlines

What is the most effective way of watering down the impact of inconvenient truths? Make Headlines

There is no low, that is beneath any Trump minion or operative.

Nothing is too despicable, too disgusting, disgraceful, or just plain wrong.

The only requirement is that it attracts attention to Trump, directly or, indirectly.

A roulette wheel of issues, and a cast of characters that encompasses nearly the whole world!

 

[bodysong]

*tip of the hat, to stickygirl

Trump has installed Christian Evangelists, White Supremacists, outright racists, bigots,
into government offices. Next attempt, is giving conspiracy theorists legitimate standing
by appointing them to government positions.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...ris-johnson-face-coverings-mask-gove-cummings

Perhaps the standout example of comically toxic maskulinity came from some guy running
for Congress in Florida, who the other day posted a picture of Donald Trump in his mask
with the caption: “I don’t wear face masks, but POTUS is the only man who can pull it off
and still look intensely masculine.” A tragedy in 106 characters, there.

Everything’s bigger in That America, of course, but we have our own smaller
version in the likes of Michael Gove, who on Sunday cast himself as the sort
of frontierland gunslinger who insists masks should be a matter of choice.

The man cited in the link, is Florida Congressional candidate KW Miller

https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article244021727.html

Miller’s first post to garner more than 100 retweets came nearly 5 months after his
account was created and stated simply: “GLOBALISTS YOU ARE ON NOTICE!”

From that point on, Miller began frequently referencing the QAnon conspiracy theory
gaining an increasing number of likes, retweets, and followers in the process.

“The Dark Money Deep State doesn’t want money to be donated to my campaign.
They do not want me in office,” Miller tweeted. “They know that I will not hesitate
to expose the entire Deep State. We will WIN anyway!!”

https://www.dailydot.com/debug/kw-miller-qanon-florida-candidate/

 

[bodysong]

Very busy, theatrical day for Trump, his minions, his allies, his operatives.

bmaz@bmaz

The Governor of Georgia is a piece of garbage.

(pic)

26 minutes ago

16 July 2020

The Devil Went Down to Georgia

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp greets President Donald arrives at Hartsfield-Jackson
International Airport, Wednesday, July 15, 2020

Trump's election campaign speech in closed venue inside UPS Hapeville Airport Hub

Trump gets his compliant, obedient, non- confronting audience, for his propaganda photo-op.

Much of the crowd wore a mask, but not all. Trump did not wear a mask.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/busi...6bc3a0-c651-11ea-a825-8722004e4150_story.html

July 15, 2020

A White House official said the move will benefit the UPS hub by reducing congestion
and promoting economic development in the region.

Kym Hunter, a senior attorney at the Southern Environmental Law Center,
said in a phone interview that it was hard to argue that NEPA had delayed
Atlanta’s Interstate 75 expansion because state officials had only recently
prioritized the project, and the state auditor had raised questions over
whether its costs would outweigh its benefits.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/07/15/trump-nepa-climate-change/

Trump Overhauls Key Environmental Law To Speed Up Pipelines And Other Projects

July 15, 2020

President Trump is making major changes to a bedrock environmental law
that he says will help the economy. Critics say the move will sideline input
from communities affected by polluting projects.

NPR

Trump weakens environmental law to speed up infrastructure projects

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53425238

Washington Post reported late Tuesday that Postmaster General (PMG) Louis DeJoy,
who took charge last month, issued memos announcing "major operational changes"
to the USPS "that could slow down mail delivery, warning employees the agency
would not survive unless it made 'difficult' changes to cut costs."

According to the internal USPS memos (pdf) obtained by the Post, "DeJoy told employees
to leave mail behind at distribution centers if it delayed letter carriers from their routes,"
a change critics said could threaten access to absentee ballots at a time when vote-by-mail
is more important than ever.

"The deliberate delaying of Americans' mail delivery would be a stunning act of sabotage
against our Postal Service," Rep. Bill Pascrell, Jr. (D-N.J.) said in a statement. "If these
reports are accurate, Trump and his cronies are openly seeking to destroy the Post Office
during the worst public health crisis in a century."

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...trage-trump-crony-now-heading-usps-moves-slow

"It has been 59 days since the House passed $25 billion to keep USPS alive.
The Senate must pass it now. Democracy hangs in the balance."

Trump’s attempted murder of your post office is titanic scandal.

The post office is a public utility Americans rely on absolutely.

If trump and his stooges have their way you’ll be paying much more
to send and much slower.

— Bill Pascrell, Jr. (@BillPascrell) July 14, 2020

USPS at risk of completely running out of cash by the end of September.

March, Congress approved a $10 billion emergency USPS loan, but the Treasury
Department has yet to release the funds as the Trump administration attempts to
use the money as leverage to force changes to the agency's finances and operations.

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...trage-trump-crony-now-heading-usps-moves-slow

 

[bodysong]

Trump, speaking to his underlings-

"Get out there, and make some headlines!"

"The news is not going to Trump- Wash itself!"

Bean man joins Pillow man, in infamy. Little Ivanka helps her daddy, and helps herself.
(Speculating that Bean man was arm- twisted into a corrupt deal ? Extortion ?)

Brad Parscale is tossed into the re-cycle bin, in order that Trump be seen firing someone.
If there is nothing that Trump has absorbed, it is the theatrics of Vince McMahon's
wrestling world. Vince's storyline dragged his own family into it. Eventually Trump
joined in. Such drama!

2 July 2017

The US President has tweeted a short video clip of him wrestling a person
with the CNN logo for a head.

The clip is an altered version of Donald Trump's appearance at a WWE wrestling
event in 2007, in which he "attacked" franchise owner Vince McMahon in a
scripted appearance. The animation appears to have been posted to a pro-Trump
internet forum earlier in the week.

CNN later accused the president of inciting violence against the media.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40474118

Trump insists on everyone have the physical appearance that matches a stereotypical image.

Brad Parscale's appearance evokes the ideal image for Far Right Extremist West. The
Ultimate Libertarian, forty-something, 6-foot-8, an imposing figure on the campaign stage.
One of Trump's tech bros. The crazies that Sen.John McCaine warned us about, joined in.
They do not have to be won over. Just tossed a regular diet of "raw meat."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...257d58-dbb7-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

Trump is on to the next level- Bill Stepien has an altogether different image

The next stage of the campaign needs to convince Republican moderates of Trump's value to them.

Chris Christie's Bridge-gate Bill Stepien President Bush's minion, John McCain's campaign minion

Before Wednesday, Stepien, who served as White House political director, had been
deputy campaign manager under Parscale.

Stepien became involved in New Jersey politics before he graduated from Rutgers University in 2000.

He was New Hampshire political director for President George W. Bush’s 2004
reelection bid. Several years later, he was part of former New York mayor Rudolph
W. Giuliani’s presidential campaign before becoming national field director for the
GOP nominee, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), in 2008. In 2009, Stepien was tapped by
Christie to run his bid for governor. Stepien later joined Trump’s team, serving as his
national field director during the 2016 presidential campaign. He was named deputy
campaign manager of Trump’s 2020 campaign in May.

nj.com

Roger STONE, one of Trump’s original 2016 campaign, approves of his campaign moves.
In a message, he said, “Bill Stepien is a highly capable professional with extensive
experience. He is an excellent choice to run the president’s campaign. I am very
encouraged by this decision.”

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) July 16, 2020

“He’s an over-promoted troll,” Charlie Sykes, the author of How the Right Lost Its
Mind, told the Guardian in January.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/15/donald-trump-brad-parscale-replaced-campaign-shakeup

 

[bodysong]

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp making a splash by defying science, logic, and common sense.

Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed an executive order Wednesday night
explicitly banning cities from enacting their own mask mandates

Local officials who had issued mask mandates as hospitals filled up were outraged
Wednesday night as Kemp overrode their judgment. The order came on the same
day Georgia recorded its second-highest number of coronavirus cases since the start
of the pandemic, logging 3,871 cases and 37 deaths.

Like Kemp, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey (R) and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) previously
tried to block cities and counties from issuing their own mask orders — but both have
since relented.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/07/16/kemp-georgia-mask-mandates/

Latest Trump liar, with her pants on fire- White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany
makes her effort to provoke outrage

ABC News (@ABC)

McEnany: Pres. Trump wants schools to open, "and when he says open, he means open
and full, kids being able to attend each and every day."

"The science should not stand in the way of this," McEnany says, before adding,
"the science is on our side here."

July 16, 2020

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ld-trump-anthony-fauci-joe-biden-live-updates

Kayleigh McEnany is doing her best to attract attention-
but people are reading Larry Hogan's essay. It bit her
on the arse.

The first question to McEnany centered on the newly published op-ed
by Republican governor Larry Hogan, which criticized Trump for failing
to provide federal leadership amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Larry Hogan's Washington Post Essay: The Most Scathing Lines

New York Magazine

Fighting alone

I’m a GOP governor. Why didn’t Trump help my state with coronavirus testing?

- Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/16/larry-hogan-trump-coronavirus/?arc404=true

 

[bodysong]

Trump found himself another cold, heartless, killer bitch, just like Kirstjen M. Nielsen,
former Secretary of Homeland Security. Kayleigh McEnany has no fucks to give, for
dead children, or their dead parents, or dead grandparents-

In a news conference Monday, President Donald Trump was asked about Kimberly Lopez
Chavez Byrd, ... Trump responded by saying schools should reopen. Nothing to say about
a teacher that died from COVID-19. Trump wants the illusion of winning a battle against
coronavirus, that means forcing people to return to the workforce. ATM many are taking
care of their children at home-
Trump has been pushing for the children to return to schools, without considering the
adults that supervise and teach the children, and help the schools operate.


Kayleigh's follow up, after her shocker

The science is very clear on this — that, you know, for instance, you look at the JAMA
Pediatrics study of 46 pediatrics hospitals in North America that said the risk of critical
illness from COVID is far less for children than that of seasonal flu.

The science is on our side here, and we encourage for localities and states to just simply
follow the science. Open our schools. It’s very damaging to our children. There’s a lack
of reporting of abuse. There’s mental depressions that are not addressed, suicidal ideations
that are not addressed when students are not in school. Our schools are extremely important
They’re essential. And they must reopen.

Trump's message to the public, is that he does not care how many die.
It seems that Kayleigh does not care about dying Americans, either.


White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany stumbled into a gaffe
when she urged schools across the country reopen despite the ongoing
pandemic and said: “The science should not stand in the way of this.”

This sounded as though she thought schools should reopen
regardless of what the science says.

(Kayleigh applies a bandaid, after she shot off her own mouth.)

She seemed to be aware in the moment, though, that she might have put herself
in an indefensible position. So she added shortly after: “The science is very clear
on this. For instance, you look at the JAMA Pediatrics study of 46 pediatric hospitals
in North America that said the risk of critical illness from covid is far less for children
than that of seasonal flu. The science is on our side here.”

Pushback, Tweetback-

Case Study in Media Bias:

I said: “The science is very clear on this…the science is on our side here.
We encourage our localities & states to just simply follow the science.
Open our schools.”

But leave it to the media to deceptively suggest I was making the opposite point!

— Kayleigh McEnany (@PressSec) July 16, 2020

"...the United States has a much more severe and enduring outbreak of COVID-19
than almost anywhere else in the world. And the international picture on schooling
isn’t all rosy: Israel, in particular, is struggling after seeing the virus spread in schools.

As for the science, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention continues to advise
that the Trump administration’s priority of a complete return to classes as normal is the
“highest risk” approach to education.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/07/ka...ould-not-stand-in-the-way-of-school-openings/

McEnany didn’t address them because she says science supports the Republican position
that schools should open up because the kids will be alright. That’s entirely short-sighted
since it doesn’t take into account how the virus will spread among the adults in the building
Opening schools back up without taking all those problems into consideration could lead
to disaster if implemented.

Criticize her for all that instead of mocking her for something she didn’t mean to say.

- Hemant Mehta
July 16, 2020

https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com...nys-line-about-science-for-the-wrong-reasons/

 

[Just4AFriend]

Call the White House every day
Stop them from hearing anything but how SHITTY they are doing!
Make all the workers there hate their jobs!

 

[bodysong]

Pentagon bans Confederate flag in way to avoid Trump’s wrath

July 17, 2020

After weeks of wrangling, the Pentagon is banning displays of the Confederate flag
on military installations, in a carefully worded policy that doesn't mention the word
ban or that specific flag. The policy, laid out in a memo released Friday, was described
by officials as a creative way to bar the flag's display without openly contradicting or
angering President Donald Trump, who has defended people’s rights to display it.

https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article244299172.html

Pentagon Sidesteps Trump to Ban the Confederate Flag

The New York Times

A photo-op, and a Chevy truck ad combined, with the White House, as a backdrop.

Yesterday, I read about Trump's ridiculous trucks and tall crane ploy
on the Rose Garden lawn. The crane had Trump administration painted
on it, in block letters. Take that, BLM ! Trump blamesBlue Democrats,
but Nixon granted protections and measures.

(Trump removing accountability, for construction projects, removing safety measures.)

https://www.washingtonpost.com/clim...-name_hp-breaking-news:page/breaking-news-bar

President Trump on Wednesday unilaterally rolled back the 50-year-old
National Environmental Policy Act

https://www.democracynow.org/2020/7...onmental_law_to_speed_infrastructure_projects
Politics for the "Freedum" to pollute America

A red truck, and a blue truck, and a "yuge" crane.

GM Says It Wasn't In On The Chevy Truck Product Placement

“Actually, we weren’t aware of the event beforehand but looks like they chose a great truck.”

@ChevroletCanada 2021 Silverado

https://www.motorbiscuit.com/what-t...lverado-pickups-doing-at-a-white-house-event/

Trump's many minions and operatives, serving as megaphones of his message,
or voicing a thought that he, himself cannot voice to the general public.

 

[bodysong]

‘Thickheaded’ Republicans still don’t get what a pandemic is after 140,000 COVID-19 deaths

July 18, 2020

New York Times

Republicans Keep Flunking Microbe Economics

- Paul Krugman

Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida said something remarkably stupid the other day.
I know, I know: it’s probably harder to find a day on which DeSantis didn’t say
something stupid than a day on which he did. But this particular piece of thick-
headedness, I’d argue, helps us understand why America’s response to the
coronavirus has been so disastrous compared with other wealthy nations.

Florida has become a Covid-19 epicenter, soaring numbers,daily of new case totals
and deaths - exceeding that of the whole European Union!

Santis is dead wrong.

Healthy people do get sick.

(Even gym rats have family, relatives, friends, co-orkers, associates.)

5 months and almost 140000 deaths into this pandemic, Republicans
can't or won't grasp the fact (the point) that choices have consequences
beyond those to the individual who makes them.

Getting other people sick isn't an “individual choice.”

(Dr. Fauci is right. Why are Republicans ignoring him ?)

Econ 101

Policy matters!

NY Times

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been doing his darnedest to pretend that he and his
liege lord, Donald Trump, haven’t completely botched the handling of the American
/ public’s health during the growing COVID-19 pandemic. Since the ill-advised
reopening of Florida, COVID-19 cases have very predictably surged, and sadly
seem to have spread out of control.

Daily Kos

(Seems as if Dr. Debbie Birx wanted to gain influence, and painted a rosy picture
for Trump,when everyone that could help stop the pandemic from happening,
should have been shoved into action.)

For scientific affirmation, they turned to Dr. Deborah L. Birx, the sole public
health professional in the Meadows group. A highly regarded infectious diseases
expert, she was a constant source of upbeat news for the president and his aides,
walking the halls with charts emphasizing that outbreaks were gradually easing.

The country, she insisted, was likely to resemble Italy, where virus cases declined
steadily from frightening heights.

As late as April 11, Birx -
was telling Trump that the “nation was in good shape,”

(Mark) Meadows -was casting the handling the crisis in ideological terms,
as an issue that the states should handle, rather than the federal government.
Birx was also largely instrumental in developing a plan that shunted responsibility
for the pandemic away from the federal government and onto the cash-strapped states.
Not surprisingly, these were the exact types of messages guaranteed to please Trump
(who from Times investigation, was clearly too uninterested and self-absorbed to i
nterpret any data himself).

The results of this deliberate exercise in self-delusion manifested themselves in an
overall attempt to minimize the necessity of lockdowns and social distancing, with
the catastrophic results we are now witnessing today.

Importantly, the Times investigation makes clear that Trump’s policy was not simply
a matter of misjudgments, but “a deliberate strategy that he would stick doggedly to
as evidence mounted that, in the absence of strong leadership from the White House,
the virus would continue to infect and kill large numbers of Americans.”

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/20...sperate-to-shift-blame-for-a-crisis-it-caused

Daily Kos

'CATASTROPHIC'

Inside Trump's Failure: The Rush To Abandon Leadership Role On The Virus

The roots of the nation's current inability to control the pandemic can be traced
to mid-April, when the White House embraced overly rosy projections to proclaim
victory and move on.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/18/us/politics/trump-coronavirus-response-failure-leadership.html

 

[LincolnDuncan]

What is Trump's first duty to his Trump Alliance ? Make Headlines

What is the Trump Alliance's first duty to Trump ? Make Headlines

What is the most effective way of watering down the impact of inconvenient truths? Make Headlines

There is no low, that is beneath any Trump minion or operative.

Nothing is too despicable, too disgusting, disgraceful, or just plain wrong.

The only requirement is that it attracts attention to Trump, directly or, indirectly.

A roulette wheel of issues, and a cast of characters that encompasses nearly the whole world!

Defend the brand at all costs

Trump is the brand

 

[bodysong]

What is on brand, for Trump ? Evil.

Trump has claimed to not like FUX TV very much, yet there Trump is.

Slipping by the media...

Trump's license to skirt the law

July 19, 2020

-Alayna Treene,
-Stef W. Kight

President Trump and top White House officials are privately considering a
controversial strategy to act without legal authority to enact new federal policies —
starting with immigration, administration officials tell Axios.

Between the lines: The White House thinking is being heavily influenced by John Yoo,
the lawyer who wrote the Bush administration's justification for waterboarding after 9/11.

Trump Eyes Supreme Court ruling on DACA as License to Skirt the Law

Trump told Chris Wallace in an interview for "Fox News Sunday" that in addition
to replacing DACA with "something much better," he's also going to be unveiling
a health care plan within two weeks "that the Supreme Court decision on DACA
gave me the right to do.

The White House declined to comment for this story.

https://www.axios.com/trump-executi...aca-3d369f16-d9db-4e39-b8a0-946e670797b2.html

 

[bodysong]

Lara Trump, Eric Trump's wife, attracted the unwanted sort of headline, to the Trump brand

July 21, 2020

Maine brewery cancels Trump campaign event, saying it was misled over details

https://bangordailynews.com/2020/07...aign-event-saying-it-was-misled-over-details/

Bangor Daily News

Bangor Daily News ✓
Twitter › bangordailynews

BREAKING: Maine brewery cancels Trump campaign event, saying it was misled over details

10:06 AM - 21 Jul 2020

Portland Press Herald ✓
Twitter › PressHerald

A Freeport brewery cancels a Trump campaign tour stop there
because it didn't know the reservation was being made for a
political event. @thisdog reporting

(?) minutes ago

Stars and Stripes Brewing Company in Freeport was to be the first stop
on the Women for Trump tour in the two New England states on Wednesday.
Details of the event were included in an advisory distributed to the media on
Monday evening.

But in a post on the brewery’s Facebook page Tuesday afternoon, owners
Brad and Nancy Nadeau indicate they have backed out of hosting the event.
They said they were mislead and didn’t know their outdoor tasting area was
being reserved by a political campaign.

“Yes I was aware that some women who support Trump would be coming in
for a beer,” the post read.

"We here at the brewery do not support any political agendas therefor will not be holding
the event nor to elevate any protest or whatever else comes with political gatherings will
not be open.”

(Now, choice of beer has been politicized ? It's beer, FFS. You buy beer, and consume it.)

Trump campaign moved the event

An update from the Trump campaign later Tuesday showed the dinner event
has been moved to Jimmy the Greek’s restaurant in Old Orchard Beach.
The bus tour will later travel to New Hampshire.

https://www.pressherald.com/2020/07/21/freeport-brewery-cancels-trump-event-says-it-was-misled/

oh, hai! nice to met you. sorry for the short notice, we are staging a campaign dinner
in your brewery. hope you do not mind.

Stars and Stripes Brewery- "WTF ?"

- Trump lackey- "It's in all the papers, nationwide." Tuesday, July 21, 2020 at 5:00 PM

The Bangor Daily News reported that the representatives of Maine’s Republican Party
would also be on hand, (to speak at the rally ?)

According to a press release on the Trump’s campaign website-
the “Women for Trump Bus Tour” was scheduled to host a dinner featuring Lara Trump
the president’s daughter-in-law and senior campaign adviser — at the Stars & Stripes
Brewing Co. in Freeport on Wednesday.

“There was supposed to be a Trump support event here at our brewery though we were
never told about it,” the owners wrote. “Yes, I was aware that some women who support
Trump would be coming in for a beer. Now seeing from the media and the press release
it looks as if they were here for an agenda.”

The couple was also shocked to see the brewery — which bills its taproom as a place
to “honor, welcome and support veterans, military families, and a supportive local
community” — listed on the campaign’s events page, they said.

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07...hey-were-deceived-about-trump-campaign-event/

Women for Trump Bus Tour 2020, bus full of male Trump "advisors" ?

 

[bodysong]

Has Trump has ordered someone to play the clown, for a headline ?

At a time in the history of the United States, when members of minority communities
are urging the removal of symbols of slavery, one of the creatures that licks Trump's
boots, attempts to make a joke out of other's pain, and degrade one of the institutions
that supports their cause.

Louie Gohmert, R-Tyler, introduced his resolution Thursday

Louie Gohmert ✓
Twitter › replouiegohmert

Talking to Andrew Wilkow on @WilkowMajority today at 12:20pm CENTRAL. We'll discuss my resolution yesterday and more. Listen in on @SiriusXMPatriot. #CancelDemocrats

8 hours ago

Watch @newsmax TV this morning at 9:05AM CENTRAL. Will appear on "National Report" and discuss the budget fight on Capitol Hill and my resolution yesterday to #CancelDemocrats.

11 hours ago

From @realJeffreyLord: Texas Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert has taken Pelosi and her fellow Democrats at their word — and taken direct aim at the biggest Confederate relic of all: the Democratic Party #CancelDemocrats spectator.org/rep-louie-g…
12 hours ago

Tune in to “Mornings on the Mall” at 6:35AM CENTRAL. I’ll discuss my resolution that would ban the Democratic Party due to their history of having supported slavery. @wmalnews
13 hours ago

The time has come for Democrats to acknowledge their party’s loathsome and bigoted past, and consider changing their party name to something that isn’t so blatantly and offensively tied to slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination, and the KKK. #CancelDemocrats
1 day ago

 

[bodysong]

Trump golfs with football great Brett Favre at N.J. golf club, to forget about the hero, John Lewis

"In honors afforded to a select few, John Lewis will lie in state in two state capitals —
Montgomery and Atlanta — and the U.S. Capitol Rotunda in Washington, where
the nation has paid tribute to past presidents, lawmakers and other distinguished
citizens, including civil rights pioneer Rosa Parks in 2005.

On Sunday, Lewis’s casket will be part of a procession across the Edmund Pettus Bridge
in Selma. Lewis will be accompanied by a military honor guard on his final crossing of
the bridge.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/powe...5b273a-ce72-11ea-bc6a-6841b28d9093_story.html

Why are taxpayers stuck with paying for security and travel aboard Air Force One and
Marine One ? Is it because he is having a "press conference," or coronavirus briefing ?

Jul 25, 2020

(pic)

President Donald Trump waves as he walks to Marine One after stepping off Air Force One
at Morristown Airport on July 24, 2020 Seems like he does not want to take a drive in his
Cadillac limousine, with his motorcade trailing behind him. Closing the highway for Trump's
presidential entourage of 15 vehicles might give the appearance of a funeral proccession-
and reminding people that they cannot mourn their dead because of coronavirus surge may
alienate voters...

Trump is spending the weekend at his private property in Bedminster for the second time
this year. He has fundraising event.

(He only travels to N.J.to pick up money bags for his election campaign.)

https://www.nj.com/sports/2020/07/trump-golfs-with-football-great-brett-favre-at-nj-golf-club.html

 

[bodysong]

oh, heck! I hit edit, not quote

Oh, heck! Salvaged some of the original post.



New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

Last Thursday, Trump announced he would throw out the first pitch
at an August 15 Yankees game, to the reported surprise of the Yankees

2 hours ago

Trump now says he won’t throw first pitch at Aug. 15 Yankees game

July 26, 2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/26/trump-first-pitch-yankees-381848

Dr. Fauci tosses first pitch at Nationals opening game

July 24, 2020

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/24/sports/dr-fauci-tosses-first-pitch-nationals-opening-game/

July 23, 2020

Trump said that he will throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in August.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ll-throw-out-first-pitch-yankees-game-august/


July 26, 2020

There was no immediate word on whether the White House and the Yankees agreed on
a later date. MLB’s regular season is scheduled to end Sept. 27, with an expanded,
16-team postseason beginning Sept. 2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ch-yankees-game-says-hell-do-it-later-season/

 

[IceDemon]

Dr. Fauci tosses first pitch at Nationals opening game

July 24, 2020

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/24/sports/dr-fauci-tosses-first-pitch-nationals-opening-game/

I saw this and it was the lamest throw ever, went way over to the left...a bit like him.

 

[bodysong]

Did Trump's handlers hustle Trump out of DC for the weekend, so that he
would not open his big mouth, and step on his own "family jewels ?

July 27, 2020 He is back in DC

How will Trump disrupt a day of devoted to honoring the life of a devoted, committed, and honorable man ?

https://www.nj.com/politics/2020/07/trump-leaves-nj-for-washington-after-weekend-stay.html

Rep. John Lewis to get a hero's sendoff at the U.S. Capitol

July 27, 2020

The day after the late Rep. John Lewis crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge one last time,
his body in a horse-drawn carriage and the road strewn with red rose petals to evoke the
blood shed by Lewis and other protesters in the fight for civil rights, he will lie in state
in the U.S. Capitol. But before that, his funeral procession will go past civil rights sites
in Washington, D.C.

At the Capitol, an invitation-only group will attend a ceremony under the Capitol Rotunda
before Lewis’ casket is moved to the top of the steps of the East Front of the Capitol for
socially distanced public viewing. Among those traveling to D.C. to honor Lewis are
former Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden.

Daily Kos

Rep. John Lewis' body will lie in state in the US Capitol Rotunda where an
invitation-only arrival ceremony will take place at 1:30 p.m. ET on Monday

CNN

Joe Biden to pay respects to John Lewis on Monday in Washington

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...864a62-cfb4-11ea-8d32-1ebf4e9d8e0d_story.html

 

[bodysong]

Legitimate media are starting to agree that 150,000 Americans died of coronavirus-
a little light comic relief was needed, according to Trump's White House
publicity machine, borrowed from FOX TV.

Distract from the fact that newborn babies are dying from coronavirus, quickly!

Grandmothers and grandfathers dying of coronavirus, and drowning during a hurricane ?

Too horrible and depressing for Trump to mention, during a campaign speech.

Conspiracy theories are handy for sidetracking serious, dire issues. Lucky for Trump,
the Fauci rumors were fresh, and Dr. Fauci had enough recognition to be a scarecrow
in the ever revolving soap opera that takes place in America's current 2020 government.

Something harmless, and inconsequencial for Trump to lie about ?

Do the Yankees mind, if they are seen as Pro-Trump ?
Trump attracted attention to Yankees baseball game.

Headlines! “Randy Levine is a great friend on mine from the Yankees,” Trump said.
Trump did have a standing invitation to throw out a first pitch from Yankees President Randy Levine.

A little fib, a tiny untruth.

Another whirlpool in a teacup, created at the presidential podium.

Trump's tech bros from FUX TV really know how to harvest entertainment from nothing.

There is something very odd, about placing Dr. Fauci in competition with Trump, over opening day.



Dr. Fauci sticks to the script that Trump's tech bros give him, and keeps his job ?

July 28, 2020

New York Magazine ✓
Twitter › NYMag

Last Thursday, Trump announced he would throw out the first pitch
at an August 15 Yankees game, to the reported surprise of the Yankees

2 hours ago

Trump now says he won’t throw first pitch at Aug. 15 Yankees game

July 26, 2020

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/07/26/trump-first-pitch-yankees-381848

Dr. Fauci tosses first pitch at Nationals opening game

July 24, 2020

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/07/24/sports/dr-fauci-tosses-first-pitch-nationals-opening-game/

July 23, 2020

Trump said that he will throw out the first pitch at Yankee Stadium in August.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ll-throw-out-first-pitch-yankees-game-august/


July 26, 2020

There was no immediate word on whether the White House and the Yankees agreed on
a later date. MLB’s regular season is scheduled to end Sept. 27, with an expanded,
16-team postseason beginning Sept. 2

https://www.washingtonpost.com/spor...ch-yankees-game-says-hell-do-it-later-season/

 

[IceDemon]

Call the White House every day
Stop them from hearing anything but how SHITTY they are doing!
Make all the workers there hate their jobs!

Nah, I've got better things to do tbh.

 

[bodysong]

Did the political ghouls, vultures, and grave robbers, serving the Trump White House
warn Trump to leave Rep. John Lewis out of his election campaign ?

(Do not touch that subject, or you will be toast, electrocuted by a highly charged issue!)

On Monday, as Trump traveled again to the battleground state of North Carolina
for a factory tour, reporters asked whether he would pay respects to the late
congressman and civil rights leader John Lewis, who is lying in state at the
Capitol on Monday and Tuesday. “No,” Trump said. “I won’t be going, no."

It took 14 hours for Trump to tweet condolences after Lewis died on July 17, 2020.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...nts-is-part-pattern-snubbing-foes-even-death/

On the day of honoring Rep. John Lewis with high honors in DC, Trump continued his election campaign-

Closed venue, private property, employees forced to endure Trump, under orders from the company.

Why were the taxpayers of the USA forced to pay Trump's security and transportation aboard
Air Force One, this time ?

Trump’s Everything Is Fine Tour Comes to North Carolina

-Leigh Tauss

-Paul Blest

Jul. 27, 2020

Trump rambled to a gaggle of press at a facility working to manufacture a coronavirus vaccine.

Trump was chauffeured to Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies in Morrisville,
a pharmaceutical manufacturer in Research Triangle Park. Earlier this month,
the Trump administration awarded a $1.6 billion contract to Maryland-based
pharmaceutical company Novavax to manufacture 100 million doses of the
company’s coronavirus vaccine once it’s ready; last week, Novavax announced
an agreement with Fujifilm Diosynth Biotechnologies to manufacture the vaccine.

During his appearance on Monday, Trump announced a further $265 million to
Fujifilm to expand its vaccine manufacturing.

Trump's visit in the name of "science" drove a flock of about 300 MAGA-hat wearing
fanatics to rally on Davis Drive. "Few among the crowd wore masks,"
a News & Observer article noted.

https://indyweek.com/news/northcaro...skipped-john-lewis-s-service-monday-to-visit/

 

[bodysong]

Sen. John McCain said that Trump "fired up the crazies"

The crazy and the bored need a hobby, and conspiracy theories seem to keep them entertained.

Trump is a tabloid president, and there are tabloid style headlines-
Rupert Murdoch, Tabloid News Corpse of the Fox TV Empire,
knows what attracts attention. Click bait is more fun than facts,
research, and reality

Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait

All the President's Kooks

(link to Nwe York magazine- Intelligencer)
4 hours ago

Opinion Trump Is Filling the Government With an Army of Kooks

- Jonathan Chait

Late Monday night, President Trump and his son Donald Jr. retweeted video testimonials
about the alleged effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. The next day, the Daily Beast
reported that one of the doctors in the video, Stella Immanuel, has several other rather
unusual medical beliefs: that alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that scientists
are trying to create a vaccine to make people secular, and that demons are responsible
for a wide array of sexual and psychological ailments.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-filling-the-government-with-an-army-of-kooks.html

What Can We Really Learn from Trump’s “Demon Sperm” Doctor, Stella Immanuel?
- Vanity Fair

bodysong comment- After Trump sat his golf-playing backside down in
the Oval Office chair for the first time, I expected him to "be presidential"
on occaision. The major media networks went full zombie mode, this week,
and with one voice, pronounced that"president changed his tone," as if
Trump had not put his trained seal performance on display, before this.
As if, anything had changed. Some of the Trump staffers are leaking
out the fact that they are being discouraged or ridiculed for wearing masks.

It is an evil and malicious circus, and Trump is head clown.

 

[bodysong]

Ah, There it is. Trump is announcing that his second attempt at stealing the election
will be "the most corrupt election in the history of our country,"

It took a masive amount of corruption to get him elected the first time.

Not as much fun for him, as molesting and raping un-willing victims.

Then, again, he is ancient and he does not get stiff, since his alarming stroke.

He has not pawed at Ivanka in public, for a very long time.

Did they geld him ?

 

[bhurry]

Mc Cain

Sen. John McCain said that Trump "fired up the crazies"

The crazy and the bored need a hobby, and conspiracy theories seem to keep them entertained.

Trump is a tabloid president, and there are tabloid style headlines-
Rupert Murdoch, Tabloid News Corpse of the Fox TV Empire,
knows what attracts attention. Click bait is more fun than facts,
research, and reality

Jonathan Chait ✓
Twitter › jonathanchait

All the President's Kooks

(link to Nwe York magazine- Intelligencer)
4 hours ago

Opinion Trump Is Filling the Government With an Army of Kooks

- Jonathan Chait

Late Monday night, President Trump and his son Donald Jr. retweeted video testimonials
about the alleged effectiveness of hydroxychloroquine. The next day, the Daily Beast
reported that one of the doctors in the video, Stella Immanuel, has several other rather
unusual medical beliefs: that alien DNA is used in medical treatments, that scientists
are trying to create a vaccine to make people secular, and that demons are responsible
for a wide array of sexual and psychological ailments.

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/07/trump-is-filling-the-government-with-an-army-of-kooks.html

What Can We Really Learn from Trump’s “Demon Sperm” Doctor, Stella Immanuel?
- Vanity Fair

bodysong comment- After Trump sat his golf-playing backside down in
the Oval Office chair for the first time, I expected him to "be presidential"
on occaision. The major media networks went full zombie mode, this week,
and with one voice, pronounced that"president changed his tone," as if
Trump had not put his trained seal performance on display, before this.
As if, anything had changed. Some of the Trump staffers are leaking
out the fact that they are being discouraged or ridiculed for wearing masks.

It is an evil and malicious circus, and Trump is head clown.

Mc Cain was the right guy to talk about fire up. Yup

 

[bodysong]

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

(link to video)

Trump didn't say this, and right-wing Project Veritas didn't make the video.
The audio was taken from Trump-impersonating comedian's @JLCauvin podcast;
a parody account paired Cauvin jokes with real Trump footage; the combo was
then tweeted by others as a real Trump clip.

1 hour ago

graphic including 4 pics

pic1- actual pic of fencing, tiny crowd, and Trump's podium, Air Force One and Trump's armored car in background
"wideshot of actual crowd"
pic2 - badly photoshopped enlargement of Trump's crowd, tweeter jokes about Trump's crowd
(joke caption by tweeter- "White House released image of the event")
Pic3&4- Notations of the same people cut and pasted into image, to make
the crowd seem bigger #TrumpLies

Daniel Dale ✓
Twitter › ddale8

(link to 4 pics)

This altered image is NOT from the White House. What seems to have happened:
Another tweeter made a comically bad photoshop and joked it was the official
White House version; got 144 retweets. Then a second tweeter presented it as
the actual White House version; 20K retweets.

6 hours ago

The joke about Trump's altered and edited inauguration crowd photos never dies

 

[bodysong]

August 2, 2020

Trump enablers, supporters, human beings serving as Trump's message amplification and repeating system

are treating journalists and reporters like common ordinary voters

are suddenly silent

evading questions

will not answer with a simple yes or no

giving excuses and are running away

Be careful, press and media- Republicans are violent when cornered

Rep. Greg Gianforte of Montana 'body slammed' a Guardian reporter,
pounced on him, broke his glasses, and punched him, because the
journalist asked him the wrong question.