https://www.mediaite.com/news/watch-a-wh-reporter-on-hot-mic-sum-up-pompeo-mnuchin-presser-god-almighty-that-was-a-shtshow/

Watch a WH Reporter On Hot Mic Sum Up Pompeo-Mnuchin Presser: ‘God Almighty, That Was a Sh*tshow!’

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One reporter summed up a press conference following the dismissal/resignation of President Donald Trump’s national security adviser John Bolton by exclaiming “God almighty, that was a shitshow!”

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Tanuki

(14,910 posts)

3. That will be a perfect epitaph for this entire administration.

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 02:35 PM

Sep 2019

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)

6. But they'd cut off a favorite body part before publishing that

Reply to tblue37 (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 03:51 PM

Sep 2019

Okay, maybe a reputable news outlet wouldn't use the term "shitshow," but it would enhance their credibility substantially to explain to their audience that a White House press availability wasn't exactly Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.

Off topic, but thank you Mediaite, for the 30 second commercial you ran ahead of the 12 second clip. I realize advertising pays the bills, but damn, at least match the running time of the commercial with the running time of the clip.

wiggs

(7,806 posts)

5. Does courting the taliban fall into the overall picture painted by Trump that sunni

Reply to tblue37 (Original post)

Tue Sep 10, 2019, 03:39 PM

Sep 2019

middle eastern countries are our new best friends (taliban is sunni, as are UAE, Qatar, SA, Egypt)...and that the west, nato are not? At every turn, Trump seems to be trending toward a new world order in which he supports them and they support him. With Russia thrown in as the power broker in Syria (mostly sunni) and Iran (shia).

I imagine Seth Abramson will put the bolton firing in the context of his grand bargain/new world order observations....maybe Bolton wasn't as down with selling out to UAE and SA and Russia as Trump, Pence, Pompeo, and McConnell are