Tag: trump

He’s a real DIY kind of guy

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President Donald Trump on Friday floated an alternative to his press secretary’s traditional daily press briefings: Himself.

 

During an interview with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro, to air on Saturday, Trump suggested he moves too quickly for his communications staff. One solution, he said, is “we don’t have press conferences.”

 

“You don’t mean that,” Pirro responded.

 

“Well, just don’t have them,” Trump said. “Unless I have them every two weeks and I do them myself, we don’t have them. I think it’s a good idea.”

 

Trump Suggests He Could Handle Press Briefings Instead Of Sean Spicer
The Huffington Post

 

He’s a real DIY kind of guy;
he alone gets things done by and by.
He can handle the press
and manage each mess
he creates without batting an eye.

Susan E. Eckenrode, 5/13/17

 

Sylvester came close to his cage

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If the president didn’t see that his precipitous firing of the man in charge of investigating the Trump campaign’s connections with the Russian regime might instead alienate some of his allies and outrage much of the public, that’s no anomaly. Rather, it’s an illustration of several of the president’s core character traits — a belief that the past doesn’t matter, a penchant to act swiftly and unilaterally, and a conviction that even the most unpopular actions can help build his brand.

 

Why Trump expected only applause when he told Comey, ‘You’re fired.’
The Washington Post

 

Sylvester came close to his cage –
that put Tweetybird in a rage.
He fired a volley
and felt very jolly!
That’s life when you’re on center stage.

Eric Linden, 5/10/17

Though the POTUS has tweeted a threat

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Democratic Reps. Elijah Cummings and John Conyers, the respective ranking members of the House oversight and judiciary committees, requested from White House counsel Donald McGahn copies of all recordings between Trump and Comey.

 

“It is a crime to intimidate or threaten any potential witness with the intent to influence, delay, or prevent their official testimony,” the two wrote in a letter. “The President’s actions this morning — as well as his admission yesterday on national television that he fired Director Comey because he was investigating Trump campaign officials and their connections to the Russian government — raise the specter of possible intimidation and obstruction of justice. The President’s actions also risk undermining the ongoing criminal and counter-intelligence investigations and the independence of federal law enforcement agencies.”

 

Trump threatens Comey in Twitter outburst
CNN

 

 

Though the POTUS has tweeted a threat
to intimidate Comey, don’t fret…
it’s another lame ruse
and another lit fuse
for a smoke bomb he’s gonna regret.

Susan Eckenrode, 5/12/17

 

Cover-up Stench

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On May 9, Donald Trump became the second United States president to fire the director of the FBI. Naturally, Americans wanted to know: Why?

 

The exact answer remained elusive over the course of three days following the announcement. Trump and his White House gave numerous, contradictory explanations for James B. Comey’s firing.

 

As a public service, we compiled a timeline of the shifting rhetoric by Trump and his staff. We will update this list as necessary.

 

All of the White House’s conflicting explanations for Comey’s firing: A timeline
The Washington Post

 

Yes the firing of Comey’s a cinch
to elicit a cover-up stench,
while the POTUS and crew
twist the facts all askew
and deny they gave Putin an inch.

Susan E. Eckenrode, 5/11/17

The media should be much nicer

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In Friday’s briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer denied that a tweet from President Trump threatening former FBI director James B. Comey was a threat, insisted that the president maintained a busy schedule and therefore it was hard to be accurate all the time, dodged a question about whether the president tapes White House meetings, boasted about how hard his people work, uttered the mantra “the tweet speaks for itself,” maintained that his shop didn’t, in fact, mislead the public about the rationale for Comey’s firing, even though it clearly did, and lamented how the media is obsessed with small things.

 

Another day at the office, in other words.

 

The Daily Spicer: ‘He’s a nice man’
Eric Wemple, Opinion, The Washington Post

 

 

The media should be much nicer
to me and to you, my dear Spicer.
Because you stayed hidden,
that isn’t forbidden!
Next time, just tell ‘em “Aye aye, sir.”

Eric Linden, 5/11/17

 

Fake news again! Really! How dare they?

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President Donald Trump unleashed a Twitter torrent Friday morning following days of punishing headlines over his decision to fire FBI Director James Comey.

 

Trump’s tweetstorm railed against the “fake media” and those who expect his surrogates to defend him with “perfect accuracy,” while giving a stern warning to Comey that he “better hope that there are no ‘tapes’ of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!”

 

AM ET President Trump Unleashes on Fired FBI Director James Comey and ‘Fake Media
NBC News

 

Fake news again! Really! How dare they?
That Comey was tossed out on Tuesday!
The fellow kept digging
straight into my wigging!
I booted him right out the doorway!

Eric Linden, 5/11/17

So when Comey was summoned one night

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“The conversation that night in January, Mr. Comey now believes, was a harbinger of his downfall this week as head of the F.B.I., according to two people who have heard his account of the dinner.

 

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“As described by the two people, the dinner offers a window into Mr. Trump’s approach to the presidency, through Mr. Comey’s eyes. A businessman and reality television star who never served in public office, Mr. Trump may not have understood that by tradition, F.B.I. directors are not supposed to be political loyalists, which is why Congress in the 1970s passed a law giving them 10-year terms to make them independent of the president.”

 

In a Private Dinner, Trump Demanded Loyalty. Comey Demurred.
The New York Times

 

 

So when Comey was summoned one night
to a one-on-one dinner delight
with his majesty trump,
he was played for a chump
by demands for a loyalty rite.

Susan E. Eckenrode, 5/11/17

We’re determined to duly resist

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“We just desperately hope you’ll be part of the way forward with the rest of us who see that the monster isn’t under the bed—it isn’t Muslim or gay or Democrat or Republican.

 

The real monster isn’t even one man with a great capacity for evil and an unprecedented power to wield it.

 

The real monster is hatred and the silence that feeds it.

 

And the monster must be stopped.”

 

John Pavlovitz

 

We’re determined to duly resist
being duped by a crazed narcissist;
Let us signal alarm
at incalculable harm
from the words that he wields like a fist.

Susan E. Eckenrode, 5/10/17

We need a diversion

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The shock sacking of FBI Director James Comey on Tuesday represents an attempt by the Republican administration to distract public attention from the damaging revelations contained in Sally Yates’s testimony before a Senate Judiciary subcommittee the previous day, former Senator and Governor (D-FL) Bob Graham told i24NEWS.

 

“We’re in a state of mutually assured destruction,” Graham said, referring to the partisan discord in Washington. “It seems as if both sides are trying to lob the biggest bomb they can at the other in order to get the public’s attention off the last bomb.”

 

“I think the timing is very suspect, that it would be done the day after this very damning testimony by Miss Yates relative to the President’s handling of information that indicated that his number one national security advisor compromised himself to the Russians,” Graham further added.

 

Comey sacking ‘a diversion from Yates testimony’: Bob Graham to i24NEWS
i24NEWS Americas

 

I’ll bet it was getting some hotter
for POTUS or maybe his dotter.
“We need a diversion
to stop this occursion!”
sez he, that precedent rotter.

Eric Linden, 5/10/17

Why Now?

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“The decision by a President whose campaign associates are under investigation by the FBI for collusion with Russia to fire the man overseeing that investigation, upon the recommendation of an Attorney General who has recused himself from that investigation, raises profound questions about whether the White House is brazenly interfering in a criminal matter,” Rep. Adam B. Schiff (Calif.), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said in a statement. The House committee is looking into Russian interference in the election.

 

Some Republicans were also concerned. “I am troubled by the timing and reasoning of Director Comey’s termination,” said Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is also examining Russian meddling. “I have found Director Comey to be a public servant of the highest order, and his dismissal further confuses an already difficult investigation by the Committee.”

 

President Trump fires FBI Director Comey
The Washington Post

 

 

Perhaps he deserved to be fired,
but the person who’s apt to be hired,
will likely rescind
and promptly upend
all the evidence agents acquired.

Susan E. Eckenrode, 5/9/17