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Former Trump employees have warned that as objectionable as the president may sound in public, hes even worse behind closed doors. Such was the case last Friday when Trump spoke to Republican National Committee donors at Mar-a-Lago. According to Axios, organizers were so concerned with Trumps private comments leaking that they made attendees seal their cell phones in magnetized pouches. Though the measure may have prevented the release of audio recordings of the presidents speech, a few donors gave Axios a run-down of proceedings. They were as strange as one might expect and, yes, race was involved.
During what one donor described as a bizarre tangent about his seclusion in the White House over the holidays, Trump allegedly joked that Secret Service agents were wearing blackface. The donor said that Trump described looking out the curtain of the White House and seeing the agents in the trees, on the lawn, and that they were wearing night-vision goggles. Theyre in blackface, Trump said, adding that maybe they have to take them away, because of it. The two sources who relayed the account to Axios said they assumed Trump was referencing the controversy surrounding Democratic Virginia governor Ralph Northam, who last month admitted he wore blackface in the 80s and which everyone seems to have forgotten about.
It didnt end there. Responding to recent comments from Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) that the GOP has been using to claim shes anti-Semitic, Trump reportedly went ahead and slapped the label on the entire party. The Democrats hate Jewish people, he reportedly said bluntly before going on about how much hes done for Israel since taking office. This of course is not true. After Trump said last week that the Democratic party has become anti-Jewish, the Washington Post dropped some statistics proving the claim has no bearing in reality. Not only are 32 of the 34 Jewish Americans in Congress Democrats, over 70 percent of Jewish Americans voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016, and a poll released in October 2018 found that 74 percent of Jewish-American voters planned to vote for Democratic candidates in the midterms.
Saying Democrats hate Jews may have been Trumps most irresponsible claim of the night, but it wasnt his most ridiculous lie. According to Axios, Trump tried to convince donors that he didnt actually call Apple CEO Tim Cook Tim Apple last week during a meeting with American Workforce Policy Advisory Board. Trump allegedly said that the stories about the gaffe were fake news and that he actually said Tim Cook Apple really fast, but no one heard the Cook. Working against the presidents contention here is that theres video showing that he clearly just said Tim Apple.
Link to tweet
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-tim-apple-806356/
Vinca
(50,322 posts)Siwsan
(26,311 posts)She hallucinated, messed up people's names and threw out some incredible accusations, at people. And, for a while, she could come up with an explanation for her behavior.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)It'll only get worse.
I'm terrified.
Traildogbob
(8,861 posts)Look on the bright side. Jr, Eric, Ivanka and Melanoma will be having to wipe his fat ass soon. Who else would do that? Convict them all, confiscate everything gained illegally, break them, Medicare cuts keep him out of assisted living and they get to wipe his ass. Hope he lives for many many more years.
kimbutgar
(21,237 posts)I remember my Mother in her beginning of Dementia and she accused me of awful things when I did nothing and then a little while later said I was the greatest daughter. Or she'd call me and then call me a half an hour later asking "why haven't I talked to her"? She wa angry, irrational and forgetful. Much like the orange maggot.
True Blue American
(17,995 posts)They accuse people of awful things, think they are stealing from them, become paranoid. Thrump has been that way, is getting worse as the walls cave in.
Staff members say he is really agitated over Manafort! It is getting closer to him.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)"My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Some times he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy,..."
I also see similarities between Trump's behavior and my mom's, and she suffered from dementia.
Rorey
(8,445 posts)He seems to be totally oblivious to the fact that everything is recorded these days.
It's downright dangerous to have someone in such a powerful position who is so willfully ignorant about technology.
Jim__
(14,092 posts)I was thinking the same thing myself.
matt819
(10,749 posts)After that display of, well, whatever you want to call it, are you still going to write checks to the RNC to support trump in his reelection campaign? If so, then - and this may be a shocker - you are equally complicit in his racism, anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and so much more. So, if you're not changing horses, we really don't give a fuck what you think - about anything.
LiberalBrooke
(527 posts)If the money stopped, he would be gone very soon.
Trenzalore
(2,331 posts)They would give donations to the reanimated corpse of Stalin if they thought it would win them an election.
rieger
(11 posts)Marilyn Lockheed
[link:https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-marillyn-lockheed-martin-ceo-hewson-2018-3|
Duppers
(28,130 posts)Hands down.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I thought I remember him doing something stupid there. I could be mistaken.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,178 posts)Any normal person with a healthy sense of self deprecating humour, would have laughed about it, and/or made a joke about it. And the press would have laughed along with them. And the story would be over. (I'm imagining Obama in the same position)