Worse than I realized...

[pat_k]

When Yamiche Alcindor asked why Trump had dissolved the NSC directorate for global health security and biodefense in 2018, I knew he denied it and lied, but I just read more of the answer in context.

Others are probably well aware of this, but in case not, here's an excerpt from The Guardian

Then Yamiche Alcindor of PBS asked why, in 2018, Trump had dissolved the White House’s National Security Council directorate for global health security and biodefense.

Like a schoolboy caught red-handed, he blustered:

“Well, I just think it’s a nasty question because what we’ve done is – and Tony has said numerous times that we’ve saved thousands of lives because of the quick closing. And when you say ‘me’, I didn’t do it. We have a group of people I could – ”

Alcindor followed up. Trump rambled:

“It’s the – it’s the administration. Perhaps they do that. You know, people let people go. You used to be with a different newspaper than you are now. You know, things like that happen.”

WTF?

"It's the administration"???

You mean, like, YOUR administration? Or just some unknown entity that does inexplicable "government-y stuff"?

"People let people go... things like that happen"???

Closing a critical directorate is akin to someone moving from one newspaper to another?? Closing a directorate is one of those things that just "happens"?

Jaw dropping. I know we shouldn't be surprised by anything that comes out of his mouth, but this is much worse than I realized.

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. This sounds like Impeachment#2. Lets start now.

Republicans can try to explain why it is all politics and your eyes deceive you.

[sprinkleeninow]

9. This. n/t

[malaise]

34. RFN!

He's a monster. I'm surprised he didn't just blame Bolton.

[pat_k]

39. The spluttering and blaming will reach new heights...

... as meaningful testing begins to reveal the actual scope of what we are up against.

[Evolve Dammit]

62. Agree, but who? Bolton you say? I can't recall a Bolton. Oh yeaaah. That guy with the book deal.

The guy who got superglue in his teeth instead of denture cream. Yeeah. That guy. Guess he just faded away? Or was told to STFU or "some bad things might happen"?

[malaise]

63. Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

That guy

[global1]

2. Where Does The Buck Stop Mr. Trump? ....nt

[lunatica]

12. It stops when it's in his pocket.

[burrowowl]

14. LOL!

[secondwind]

18. 😂😂😂😂😂

[pat_k]

29. Or the pocket of one of his cronies

Great response!

[stillcool]

52. perfect

[oasis]

3. Biden will nail Trump on this if, and when they meet in a debate. nt

[Wounded Bear]

4. It's never his fault...nt

[pat_k]

41. His absolute perfectness precludes fault of any kind...

Tragically for us all, he is a mentally ill man who has never (as far as we know) been diagnosed or treated.

And so, we have a psychopath in the WH.

DT is mentally ill: Antisocial Personality Disorder and Narcissistic Personality Disorder

[Bernardo de La Paz]

49. Donny Six Words. . . . nt

[mahina]

5. Nasty is the word he loves to use to put people on their back foot and shut them up

But it doesn’t work anymore. He’s just blowing smoke and hot air.

He’s just such a panty. Suck it up and be a man, chump.

The world would be so shocked if he said “ yes I did that and boy no I really wish I didn’t.”

There would be an earthquake from everybody’s jaws dropping around the world

[pat_k]

6. Seems to pop out when addressing (or talking about) women of color.

[mahina]

8. I noticed that too! You don't think he might be a

Whisper... RACIST?

Lol this just in.

What a perverse situation

[HipChick]

10. no whisper..He's a RACIST

[canetoad]

31. AND a sexist

Don't forget that.

[Wounded Bear]

43. Said it about Hillary, too, so not just WOC. Pretty much any woman...

who isn't subservient to him.

[pat_k]

60. How could I forget that infamous event!

Remember the "Nasty Woman" tee shirts that went viral for a bit after the debate? (May we all be as "nasty" as Hillary!)

Came across a good CNN article on the phenomenon.

[mahina]

67. Right???

Omg how could I have forgotten THAT. It’s a wall of shite from this babooze.

[SergeStorms]

19. "Suck it up and be a man".........

Trump has been a spineless worm his entire life. There's nothing that resembles a man beneath his makeup and fake hairdo with three cans of Extra-hold Aquanet applied. He's just a fat tub of goo with a dead animal on top of his head.

[mahina]

20. Nailed

[Hermit-The-Prog]

27. Someone needs to 'hack' Fox and have your paragraph run across the screen continuously.

[canetoad]

32. Ditto. Nailed

But let me add, a spineless, nasty, vengeful, ammoral grifter who would, had he not been the second son of a rich, old-school racist and con-man, have in all likelihood spent his life hovering on the outskirts of petty neighbourhood crime until his advancing age and lack of education exposed his innate weaknesses.

[malaise]

35. Nailed it

That's him

[canetoad]

36. Thank you

Ima have another J.

[Brainfodder]

22. All one reporter has to say back is: You would know!

This whole thing is childish and we know it and are better than this, it's embarrassing, all the dancing around the obvious day in and day out.

[pat_k]

24. Embarrassing, and exhausting. (nt)

[AwakeAtLast]

55. Especially women.

[Afromania]

7. He's never had to account for a thing he's done in his life and that ended this week.

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He's always had cheats, dodges and other dipshits he could throw under the bus. This time it's different. This time the buck stops with him, and by relation, the republicans. They cant, lie, cheat or cover this up. The virus was inevitable, but it could have been slowed and managed to a degree. That's over thanks to their, and his, fully incompetent responses built entirely upon naked greed and wilful rejection of logic, science and facts.

We are on the cusp of an emergency that will potentially overwhelm all of our systems. Yet they are spinning their wheels with stunt and meaningless twaddle instead of reasonable answers. They want to give tax cuts to businesses....... Are said businesses going to keep paying us when the shutdown we know is coming happens? Probably not, but lets give them tax cuts anyway and try to pass abortion nonsense. So, yea, this time the buck absolutely stops with him and the gop, and he/they are scared shitless.

They've played their stupid fucking games along with Trump and now we've ALL lost because of it. People are afriad, beginning to get panicky and the gop leaders offer no answers. When this is over, and it will be, I hope those of us who've gone unaffected will be ready to take all of those who facilitated, and supported this mess to task. Challenge them to be part of the solution or get right the duck out of our way. Ignorance and refusal to believe in reality cant be tolerated on any level. The bell has been rung and the time for stupid is done. They're naked and alone on stage for this one.

[pat_k]

38. "time for stupid is done"

"time for stupid is done" says it all!!!

They continue to block measures that must move forward. This is beyond "stupid."

For example, they must issues anther EUA that includes high-capacity testing protocols that, for reasons that are unclear, were excluded from the emergency use authorization of Feb 29.

[volstork]

47. This has been the thing that has been missing for 50 years:

"When this is over, and it will be, I hope those of us who've gone unaffected will be ready to take all of those who facilitated, and supported this mess to task."

These assholes starting with Nixon have gotten away with all of their crimes for far too long. They need to be taken to task once and for all, or this shit will NEVER end.

[pat_k]

56. We've gotta stop the "look forward, not back" shit.

If you don't hold people accountable, there is no real change.

We let the war criminals off the hook with "look forward, not back."

We let criminal mortgage brokers, "trustees," and foreclosure mills who forged mortgage assignments to unlawfully foreclose on millions off scot free.

We let five black-robbed traitors on the Supreme Court steal an election in plain sight without consequence. (Great Book: Bugliosi, None Dare Call It Treason),

We let Bush Sr. off the hook for obstruction with "look forward, not back."

I could keep going, but it is just too heartbreaking.

[volstork]

57. You are 100% correct

on every point.

They need to be made to pay for their crimes. I hope to god someone does it.

[BBG]

59. Truth and Reconciliation NOW

No waffling, no sugar coating, no go along to get along. This time there will be blood and treasure forfeited by these malevolent actors who act against the commons and society. It must be so.

Enough is enough.

[crickets]

11. K&R for visibility.

[pat_k]

42. Thanks!

[C_U_L8R]

13. Slippery and sleazy.

What a fuckhead.

[SCantiGOP]

15. Bullies are always cowards

When they are directly confronted.

[pat_k]

37. Beyond a bully -- personality disorders galore.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1846040

[SunSeeker]

16. K & R

[Leith]

17. This is what voting for a "businessman" gets you

Employees come and go, nobody cares where.

If you have a department that isn't turning a profit, delete it and cut the people loose. Their lives don't matter. What happens to them doesn't matter. Just get rid of them. If there's a need for some part of the work that the department did, find a warm body to fill that space and get'em for cheaper.

An MBA type businessman has no idea what it takes to run a government. They are all about profit and just-in-time resources. Nothing matters but this quarter's numbers to them. If things really go south, reorganize the business model, do some bankruptcy, and get those stock quotes back up.

Citizens are not customers. They aren't swayed by the latest flashy commercial. They - WE - need to know that our lives aren't going to be disrupted by economic and social ups and downs. We need stability, competence, and trust. That's all gone.

chumpy is a terrible businessman and a worse national leader. We here on DU saw this coming, but not to the extent we are experiencing now. Even some rethugs are waking up to this.

[pat_k]

21. "Even some rethugs are waking up to this."

I hope so. But I fear not. There have been many cases I've thought "they can't possibly keep propping him up after this {insert horror of your choice}," only to listen, dumbfounded, to the twisted statements of praise and support, or deafening silence, from the Republican caucus.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

23. Yep. Many business executives are mini-tyrants.

They may not even view themselves that way when it’s the reality. The people working under them usually don’t want to lose their paychecks, so they’ll kiss butts even if they think the bosses are morons.

Different story in the public sector, but it’s obvious that Trump still hasn’t adapted since he’s incredulous about any criticism directed at him.

[ZZenith]

26. Trump's final bankruptcy will be US.

[Beartracks]

30. Trump is not a businessman, he is a salesman.

Saw that on the sig line of DUer world wide wally. It explains so much, in addition to being really dam n obvious to anyone who can be honest with themselves.

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[Rebl2]

65. Exactly!

He’s like the men that went around trying to sell bogus cures in 1800’s and beyond. It’s still going on today. That joker trying to sell a cure on his “religious” show. Think his last name is Baker? He is being sued by the attorney general of Missouri.
.

[Brainfodder]

44. Plus look how many businesses fail!

He's an epic fail .

If he were on Survivor, he'd be a 1st week vote off.

Someone should make that video.

[volstork]

48. Great post.

Well said-- thank you!

[Beartracks]

25. Is Trump really even part of his own administration?

He kind of talks about it in third person here. He's quick to call it "my administration " when he's spinning something positive, but this almost smacks of, "The Administration? I hardly knew the guy."

Kind of makes me think Trump is simply a figurehead who is occasionally just given assignments to Go Here, Make a Speech, Say This. Makes me wonder who is really in charge... or if anyone really is.

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[pat_k]

28. Yes. That part kills me.

I have this image of the word "administration" bouncing around his brain with thoughts like:

"people keep talking about this 'administration' thing..."

"must be the stuff my 'administrative assistant' handles... wait, I don't have an administrative assistant... I'll ask Ivanka... or maybe the administrators are the people the chief of staff deals with?"

"there are always a lot of administrators in business -- I guess they are out there doing their thing here too."

"hmmm...."

"I'm fucking perfect tho... that administration stuff is moving along perfectly, too... those people, whoever they are, know what they are doing... they are 'my people'.. aren't they?.... maybe they aren't?... better talk to Ginni about investigating these people... I need a list of anybody in this 'branch' who has said anything against me"

"Why do they call it a branch? I'm the whole fucking tree..."

"people keep talking about this 'administration' thing..."

[canetoad]

33. Pat, I don't think he is even

that coherent in his thought processes.

He's a thug and a stand-over man. Lucky because he inherited money, so he could pay to have done, the things that he, personally was not capable of doing.

My mother was a similar personality type, so I know how their minds work. No reasoning, no compassion, no considering the wider picture. Just pure self interest and preservation. To the exclusion of everything else.

I like what you wrote, but tRump doesn't have that amount of insight.

[pat_k]

40. True. His personality disorders preclude that sort of thought...

It is all about stoking self-image and protecting his egg shell ego.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1846040

[raccoon]

45. What a colossal dipshit. nt

[pat_k]

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[ramen]

50. King numbnuts of asshole mountain. The guy

just defies reality at every turn. Dog help us

[onlyadream]

51. This should be Trump's Benghazi..they should not let this go. Nt

[pat_k]

53. Yes.

[pat_k]

54. Sherrod Brown video link

For two years, President Trump left us without the team that's supposed to manage pandemics.

There were about forty people at the White House, led by an admiral, whose and MD... We see the real time consquences - this is unilateral disarmament. We unilaterally disarmed against the world's infectous diseases...

We have a president and we have a Senate Majority Leader that simply -- they did all they could to dismantle the Centers for Disease Control an NIH. They left us unprepared when the president fired the global health security team. And now what? We have a global pandemic on our hands. President Trump needs to stop pretending he can lock out disease.

He needs to start making up for all the time he's wasted.

And so does Senator McConnell.

Link to tweet

[Grokenstein]

58. "Can I go? I just wanna go golf. Can I go nowwww?"

[warmfeet]

61. He is a criminal, he has always been a criminal.

He has never been held to account for any action he has ever taken. Do we, Democrats, think that we can be the first to hold him to account? I would really like to know the answer to that. Elizabeth Warren pledged to hold him to account if elected POTUS. I supported her in the primaries, I voted for her in the primaries. She has dropped out of the race due to lack of support. No candidate remaining has pledged to investigate, or hold to account, the heinous actions of this administration. Some fucking country.

[Native]

64. Did you also catch his dig at Obama's Obamacare website problems?

It was when he was talking about what a fantastic website they were putting together - you know, unlike the past administration's screwed up efforts (or something like that) - it was clear to me he was getting in another Obama dig. He just can't stop himself.

[pat_k]

66. Yes. He is completely incapable of curbing his basest inclinations...

... for more than about 5 minutes.

I don't think it matters how many admonishments to stick to a set or points (or simply read from the teleprompter), he's gotta "go off" on some self-promoting, enemy-bashing, nonsensical ramble (or rant, as the case may be).