I watched President Trump's press conference monologue and it was truly 'yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuge'! He went on and on and on and then on again and probably on ever longer but I switched off because I could feel the life forces draining from me! Yes, I know those, er, 'dirty rat Dems' tried to do him down but, hey, Mr. President, that's politics! If you don't like it go back to buying and selling office blocks.
In any activity you can usually spot the 'pros' from the 'ams' very quickly and today's effort showed Trump to be the absolute amateur that he is in politics. Perhaps all that 'cry-baby' stuff about the cruel, merciless Dems trying to take his new toy, the Presidency, away from him melted some hearts amongst older, lady voters but for the majority, especially Republicans, it must have been an excruciating embarrassment.
The fact is that so far, much to everyone's surprise, his has been a successful Presidency. The country is, by and large, in good shape and if there are tensions building beneath the surface then the fault lies with the agitating Left, not with him. So calm down, Mr. President, it seems to me from way 'over here' that you are a 'slam dunk' for election later this year provided, that is, you do not try to speak impromptu again and thereby send America into a deep slumber!
For an amateur, though, David, you have to admit he's doing oddly well. As you say: the country's suddenly in much better shape (aside from that pesky "cold civil war" we're enjoying), the professional politicians all round can't seem to lay a glove on him, and his popularity keeps rising.
It all seems awfully good for "beginner's luck". Maybe he's actually better at playing this game than you think!
Posted by: Malcolm Pollack | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 00:35
This plot against Trump began in the Obama adm and was done by weaponizing federal agencies against him before and after the election. This would never have been known if Felonia von Pantsuit had won. There's payback to be done to those who did it. This can't be the new normal. Cold civil wars can get hot fast.
This was not pols vs pols but agencies of government vs one pol to overthrow him.
Posted by: Whitewall | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 00:45
What freaks the other politicians truly out is that Trump is not acting like a politician.
Well... duh. He's a businessman who lies and obfuscates much less than any politician. And he's also very smart, very driven and very patriotic.
And wasn't it the previous administration that got away with saying, "We won, get over it!"?
So it's not okay for Trump to victory lap and troll his opponents but it was okay for the previous admin to lie, cheat, steal, harass, harry, investigate and just act like spoiled children?
Hmmmmm.
I, personally, was laughing and enjoyed the spectacle.
And am enjoying a president who actually is keeping his campaign promises, who is trying to improve the USA and who isn't getting rich off the backs of taxpayers, unlike the last two democratic presidents.
Posted by: Beans | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 06:42
Hear, hear Beans.
And on the subject of "quid pro quo", which is the essence of business deal-making and business folks' ethos, in contrast to the pol folks like the Dems for whom it is anathema and plain wrong, apparently, here's maybe another example ...
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/02/07/donald-trump-apoplectic-boris-johnson-huawei-decision/
Remember I was wondering why the Don hadn't skinned BoJo alive for middle fingering him on Hauewei? Well according to that link he did, but importantly, not publicly. So still, why not?!
The clue might be in the penultimate paragraph. "You give us the diplomat bitch who killed one of our boys, and we'll give you Hauewei". Some good ol' perfidious Albion "quid pro quo", maybe!?
But notice the Don's reaction: A hot under the collar telephone call yes, but also a grudging acknowledgement of what is a "quid pro quo" deal.
As BoJo said, "What's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander", and the Don is totally ok with that because he's spent a lifetime in business doing just that.
One wonders how much better and productive the world of politics would be if it were staffed with business folks, able, by their very nature and experience, to put together multifaceted deals, instead of the mono, linear, "I can't cope with anything more than one at a time or my brain hurts" type folks, like dems and labourites.
I've said once and oft that pols are weird and psychopathic: Who, with absolutely no track record of running so much as a whelkstall in a competitive market let alone having risen to the top and become a super-CEO like Branson, Sugar, Gates, or the Don, would be bonkers enough to say, "But nevertheless, I should still be in charge?"
Viva deal making! Viva deal makers! Quid pro quo rocks - even if it takes out your political oppos with corruption investigations but is at the same time in the public interest - that's my interest, btw!
It is no wonder really that the parties of business, Reps and Tories, do so much better economically and politically for their states.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 07:15
The clue might be in the penultimate paragraph. "You give us the diplomat bitch who killed one of our boys, and we'll give you Hauewei". Some good ol' perfidious Albion "quid pro quo", maybe!?
What's that all about SoD. Googling this was not my friend.
Posted by: AussieD | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 07:25
Anne Sacoolas.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 07:43
Here's the last two but one paras from the DT article ...
Washington has threatened to retaliate with tariffs on the British car industry, if the Government goes ahead with a planned tax on tech companies such as Google and Facebook.
The UK is also pressing for the extradition of the wife of an American intelligence official charged with causing the death of 19-year-old motorcyclist Harry Dunn.
Why'd the DT mention those in an article about Hauewei?
Coz we live in a Quid Pro Quo world, or we die.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 07:49
One of his best, and considering the unprecedented assault on him and his family he has been rather restrained, I hope and expect more.
Posted by: thud | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 08:54
So 'The Donald' does have a fan club - 'HOONOO'? Anyway, let me remind those of you whom I upset with my critique of his hour-long monologue that also I did write this:
"The fact is that so far, much to everyone's surprise, his has been a successful Presidency. The country is, by and large, in good shape and if there are tensions building beneath the surface then the fault lies with the agitating Left, not with him."
Even so and notwithstanding, his hour long 'mumble-rumble' was too long, too incoherent, too repetitive and too childish for the Leader of the Free World!
Get someone to write your speeches, Donald, and stop embarrassing yourself!
Posted by: David Duff | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 11:25
All these SOTU speeches are snore fests. Try not watching them and get the highlights from sites that do.
I watched this one all the way through hoping, just hoping, that there would be something controversial said but no such luck.
Posted by: Lord T | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 12:55
It's good the Don's plate is clear now.
A couple of rounds of golf this weekend and then he can get back to giving Rocketman, Ping-a-Ling, the Mad Mullahs, Assad and Vlad, the Hairies, the Euros, and last but not least, DomBo, the good solid arse rogering they're all deserved of and, indeed, are begging for.
SoD
Posted by: Loz | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 13:11
Something's gone seriously wrong.
These days I repeatedly find myself agreeing with SOD!
Posted by: Pat | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 13:59
You have to agree with SOD or he will impeach you.
Posted by: Glesga | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 14:21
Watch them on the telly. Whenever Trump speaks in front of professional Republicans they display obvious signs of terror and cringing submissiveness. That's exactly what the rank and file love about Trump. He's forcing the elites to share their grievances. If he has a reason for speaking the way he does besides natural temperament, that's it.
Posted by: Bob | Friday, 07 February 2020 at 14:58
He who hates President Donald Trump, (Whom may God save!)hates me. Felonia von Pantsuit called us the Deplorables. It's good to be hated by the hateful.
From over the waves, we see a grocer fined for selling cheese by the pound. We see Muslim grooming gangs getting away with rape and probably murder and the "government " lackeys are more concerned with protecting the perps than the little girls. If BoJo can't straighten it all out, how about Katie Hopkins for PM, or President? Y'all decide.
I've been busy with Saturday morning chores, and listening to British patriotic music. Hey! You lot, yes you, the Land of Hope and Glory, we learned all this freedom stuff and dignity of the common man from y'all. We just hope you haven't forgotten what you taught us.
Posted by: Michael F Adams | Saturday, 08 February 2020 at 14:24