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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 12:37 PM Jan 2020

Wonder why Trump is tweet-raging this am? Maybe because his predecessor is up for an Oscar?



Comfortably Numb @YGalanter

No wonder Trump is whining this whole morning 😂

Consequence of Sound ✔ @consequence

Replying to @consequence
.@BarackObama has landed his first-ever Oscar nomination for American Factory, an original documentary distributed by his Higher Ground Productions in partnership with Netflix: http://cos.lv/hmj150xTWgB #OscarNoms #Oscars #BarackObama


11:25 AM - Jan 13, 2020


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Wonder why Trump is tweet-raging this am? Maybe because his predecessor is up for an Oscar? (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2020 OP
Oh my! fleur-de-lisa Jan 2020 #1
Bwahahahahahaaaaa spanone Jan 2020 #2
Having a sad because he wasn't nominated for his performance The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2020 #3
They couldn't nominate him for that performance... SeattleVet Jan 2020 #29
Too bad they don't FrodosNewPet Jan 2020 #51
! Kali Jan 2020 #4
SourGrapes45 will soon slam the Oscars, just as he did the Emmys Tanuki Jan 2020 #5
Obama should launch a new TV show "The Professional", an adult version of "The Apprentice" Submariner Jan 2020 #6
A beautiful idea! RobertDevereaux Jan 2020 #9
I like it! Send him over the edge. The show might be good too. yonder Jan 2020 #18
If you're gonna do that... jmowreader Jan 2020 #20
I like it! Withywindle Jan 2020 #53
How about... jmowreader Jan 2020 #54
I'd watch that! Texin Jan 2020 #26
+10 nt reACTIONary Jan 2020 #36
Just do a real version of apprenticeship.... LisaM Jan 2020 #42
How about a version of "The Irishman" - a great "hit" film... erronis Jan 2020 #50
Oh, yeah, this will fry his... 3catwoman3 Jan 2020 #7
OMG! This must be totally enraging wnylib Jan 2020 #8
President Obama, proving once more Scarsdale Jan 2020 #58
Trump's insecurities are so transparently obvious wnylib Jan 2020 #61
Oh my oh my, Wellstone ruled Jan 2020 #10
Trump will be demanding he get a nomination for that cameo in the softcore porn thing he did. Thomas Hurt Jan 2020 #11
Euuuggghh Collimator Jan 2020 #14
The news stories I saw...it was a Playboy film of some kind. Thomas Hurt Jan 2020 #39
The Porn Donald Trump Doesn't Want You to See dalton99a Jan 2020 #17
On the golf course, they compliment him for his putts CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #22
BOOM! The line of the week! Maybe of the year! calimary Jan 2020 #31
Stormy gets the assist for her candor. Thanks for the accolades. CaptYossarian Jan 2020 #37
Or Home Alone True Blue American Jan 2020 #34
He's really scared, and now this on top! Hortensis Jan 2020 #12
Only real presidents get awards...... getagrip_already Jan 2020 #13
Are there any vacant Hollywood Walk of Fame spots next to the orange anus's star? Brother Buzz Jan 2020 #15
Our next crisis will be trump bombing Hollywood. Ilsa Jan 2020 #16
That was a great documentary Johnny2X2X Jan 2020 #19
Thanks for the summary ... reACTIONary Jan 2020 #38
You mean those "Fake Oscars"? Heartstrings Jan 2020 #21
from the Deep Hollywood conspiracists Thomas Hurt Jan 2020 #40
that's gotta be it. barbtries Jan 2020 #23
Iran, if you're listening... Moostache Jan 2020 #24
+1000s DinahMoeHum Jan 2020 #27
LOL! True Blue American Jan 2020 #35
DON JR! GET OUT THERE AND MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT ME!!! blakstoneranger Jan 2020 #25
He should resign and get back in show business and win one too scarytomcat Jan 2020 #28
Oh, Don't Y'all Know About "Paris Is Out"? DAngelo136 Jan 2020 #30
Trump tweet rages because it helps him with his bowel movements Martin Eden Jan 2020 #32
OMG - Trump could explode in a ball of flames over that. Vinca Jan 2020 #33
And the more it's publicized bluecollar2 Jan 2020 #41
If this isn't the absolute funniest thing ever - I don't know what is. lark Jan 2020 #43
I hope Obama wins the Oscar AND the Nobel Peace Prize FakeNoose Jan 2020 #44
Love it, love, love it! Joinfortmill Jan 2020 #45
What did I hear this weekend? QualTest Jan 2020 #46
LOL! AllyCat Jan 2020 #48
I love this in so many ways!! AllyCat Jan 2020 #47
"...has landed his first-ever Oscar nomination..." Wednesdays Jan 2020 #49
Go to ratings in Netflix. MAGAts have been hitting it with bad reviews. AllyCat Jan 2020 #52
Oh boy bdamomma Jan 2020 #55
Suck it, Diaper Donnie! Blue Owl Jan 2020 #56
Haterz gonna hate live love laugh Jan 2020 #57
Awwwww!!! Teee heee!!! BlancheSplanchnik Jan 2020 #59
Not to nit pick but...... Farmer-Rick Jan 2020 #60

SeattleVet

(5,477 posts)
29. They couldn't nominate him for that performance...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 02:01 PM
Jan 2020

the Academy has no category for "Smarmiest performance by a narcissistic asshole."

FrodosNewPet

(495 posts)
51. Too bad they don't
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 09:58 PM
Jan 2020

That would be a competitive category every year.

TV should have one as well. Tim Allen would be a favorite for the award every year.

Tanuki

(14,918 posts)
5. SourGrapes45 will soon slam the Oscars, just as he did the Emmys
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 12:51 PM
Jan 2020

when none of his tv shows ever won.


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2016/10/21/us/politics/trump-apprentice-emmy.amp.html

..."But after he embraced social media, Mr. Trump returned to the topic again and again in tweets and in YouTube videos posted many years after he lost. His fulminations over his Emmy snubs echo much of the language he has used to attack his political opponents during the presidential campaign.

“Certain shows — and I can name them and maybe at some point I will — just don’t get the acclaim that they should and other shows year after year after year keep being nominated and whether people watch them or not they shouldn’t be nominated and everyone knows it” he said in one YouTube video from 2011.


In a series of tweets posted between 2012 and 2014 he criticized the awards show that snubbed him as having “no credibility” and “low ratings.” The show that beat him was “a joke,” he said.".....(more)

Submariner

(12,504 posts)
6. Obama should launch a new TV show "The Professional", an adult version of "The Apprentice"
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 12:54 PM
Jan 2020

If cholesterol won't do the job, then maybe shock can do the trick. I can dream can't I?

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
20. If you're gonna do that...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jan 2020

The first episode shows President Obama interviewing however many people Trump embarrassed on his rotten excuse for a television show. Just a normal, non-humiliating interview process.

The next 12 episodes show the person who won Episode 1 going back to his or her hometown and starting a successful business that employs people and isn’t a store or restaurant, using money Obama raised from his network of donors.

Season 2 is the same thing, but a percentage of Season 1 Winner’s company’s profits also go into starting the Season 2 business.

Withywindle

(9,988 posts)
53. I like it!
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 10:54 PM
Jan 2020

And instead of bullying and humiliation and glorification of cutthroat capitalism and white-collar crime, it could be about mentoring, collaboration, sustainable businesses, lifting up marginalized people and underserved areas....

jmowreader

(50,559 posts)
54. How about...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 10:59 PM
Jan 2020

You win $1 million if you show 18 straight profitable months and double your employee count.

LisaM

(27,813 posts)
42. Just do a real version of apprenticeship....
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:22 PM
Jan 2020

Where you find someone with an aptitude for a profession, teach her or him how to do whatever the job is, training, educating, and nurturing their talents - then promote the apprentice to journeyman, and find another young person to mentor. No one gets booted off because that's not how apprenticing really works.

How they took a word like "Apprentice" and turned it into a synonym for a nerve-wracking competition is beyond me. Being an apprentice is supposed to be a stepping stone to accomplishing a craft or skill.

wnylib

(21,486 posts)
8. OMG! This must be totally enraging
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:05 PM
Jan 2020

to the fake president. From his perspective as a white supremacist, it must be humiliating, too.

I love it.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)
58. President Obama, proving once more
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 08:29 AM
Jan 2020

that the cream always rises to the top. tRump on the other hand, is the turd that does not float.

wnylib

(21,486 posts)
61. Trump's insecurities are so transparently obvious
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 01:26 PM
Jan 2020

that it would be sad and pitiful if he didn's do so much harm with his over compensations.

Collimator

(1,639 posts)
14. Euuuggghh
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:16 PM
Jan 2020

Please don't tell me he was in something like that. Sex is supposed to be delightful and life-affirming.

With him in news all the time, it's no surprise that fertility rates are falling. Just glancing at his face is enough to shut down ovaries everywhere.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
22. On the golf course, they compliment him for his putts
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:40 PM
Jan 2020

and as usual, he misunderstands.

You can't offer a mushroom to a meat lover.

Johnny2X2X

(19,066 posts)
19. That was a great documentary
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:28 PM
Jan 2020

It showed how American workers will never be able to compete with Chinese ones for reasons that are actually good. American workers value family too much to be competitive with workers who are willing to leave their families to work. We shouldn't try to complete, that's just a race to the bottom, we should try to adapt.

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
24. Iran, if you're listening...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:46 PM
Jan 2020

There is no need for violence or loss of life or anyone else innocent to be harmed to take massive revenge on Trump alone...

Simply start viral online threads to Twitter about how great Obama was for diplomacy and for the world as a respected leader. The dammage to the orange-tinted asshole in our White House would be infinitely more hurtful to him than any official, state-level attacks or actions.

This man is an infant in need of a spanking, and the easiest way to make him rage without end is to point out the numerous ways he cannot measure up to his predecessor in any meaningful comparison. There is the added benefit that doing so just MIGHT cause the son of a bitch to stroke out...

scarytomcat

(1,706 posts)
28. He should resign and get back in show business and win one too
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 01:59 PM
Jan 2020

oh wait he is still in show biz but not eligible

DAngelo136

(265 posts)
30. Oh, Don't Y'all Know About "Paris Is Out"?
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 02:09 PM
Jan 2020

Trump once tried his hand at being a producer...it didn't work out well. http://www.playbill.com/article/looking-back-on-donald-trumps-broadway-ventureand-his-playbill-bio

16 Previews and 96 performances. Needless to say, it didn't win a Tony.

Martin Eden

(12,870 posts)
32. Trump tweet rages because it helps him with his bowel movements
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 02:28 PM
Jan 2020

What drops into his golden throne is indistinguishable from what he tweets.

lark

(23,105 posts)
43. If this isn't the absolute funniest thing ever - I don't know what is.
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:29 PM
Jan 2020

The Irony it just drips. I can't stop LOL'ing. Beaten out by Obama at a game he was supposed to have mastered - beaten on his home turf. OMG, non wonder he's apoplectic, it's so awesome that this happened. It also goes further to proving Obamas genius - hmm, compared to pure idiocy and dementia - no wonder.

FakeNoose

(32,645 posts)
44. I hope Obama wins the Oscar AND the Nobel Peace Prize
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 03:40 PM
Jan 2020

... THIS year! Chump would absolutely blow a gasket if that happens.



 

QualTest

(84 posts)
46. What did I hear this weekend?
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 06:40 PM
Jan 2020

Obama should pay rent, for as much time as he spends in Trump's mind?

This will make the Orange Fudge Stick go completely ballistic! (No pun intended!)
Hollywood hates him, the NFL wouldn't have him.. His toddler brain must be exploding!

I saw the movie "Two Weeks Notice" over the weekend, and Trump made a cameo.
In the cameo Hugh Grant was waring a clown tie to his knees. I immediately thought,
"That's where Dumb Monkey got the idea that wearing ridiculously long ties was fashion"!
He saw Hugh do it in the movie and thought it was really what cool, handsome, men did!

IDIOT!

Waiting for the next tweet storm.....

Farmer-Rick

(10,185 posts)
60. Not to nit pick but......
Tue Jan 14, 2020, 09:46 AM
Jan 2020

Obama passed up the chance of a lifetime to hire my daughter. She interviewed for a position....behind the scenes....but didn't get it.

Just saying you are going to hear about her, and he missed his chance to say he gave her start.

Really she is very good. But she landed another job.

But the truth is the job wasn't quite what she was looking for.

Just a proud father wanting to brag.

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