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nolabear

(41,984 posts)
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:18 AM Aug 2016

CNN is claiming Trump is touring flood-damaged LA as he stands there in an auditorium.

If that polo-shirted, Gucci loafered weasel puts one delicate foot down on that devastated landscape, where it stinks from waste and mold and muck, where people are struggling with the horrors that even breathing in that heat, where bodies are washing out of the graves, where people have lost everything but the shirts on their backs, where job sites are gone, where homes are gone, where the very sight of a FEMA trailer sets off a case of PTSD like you cannot imagine, I'll keel over from shock.

I want General Honore to go there and give him what for. I want him to fall on his face in the middle of somebody's destroyed living room and have that pristine white shirt covered in reality.

That man hasn't actually suffered a day in his life and I trust his interest in the people of Louisiana like I trust the wolf's interest in the heath of the herd.

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CNN is claiming Trump is touring flood-damaged LA as he stands there in an auditorium. (Original Post) nolabear Aug 2016 OP
The people who made the naked Trump statutes The Velveteen Ocelot Aug 2016 #1
They "INDECLINE" put one up in five cities turbinetree Aug 2016 #31
Disgusting. badhair77 Aug 2016 #2
Can you say photo op? I knew you could. Lint Head Aug 2016 #3
Perfect! NurseJackie Aug 2016 #13
. Lint Head Aug 2016 #14
You misspelled "Photoshop" Tiggeroshii Aug 2016 #17
? Lint Head Aug 2016 #19
Win geardaddy Aug 2016 #27
Reminds me of Bush's Katrina photo op, when he posed with all that equipment suffragette Aug 2016 #4
why the hell is HE there anyway? sailfla Aug 2016 #5
to boost his ego, and to prove that he "cares" more than PBO, who, listening to Gov. Edwards' niyad Aug 2016 #16
Waant some real horror? ChazInAz Aug 2016 #21
no, thank you. I already have a headache, and it is too early to start drinking. niyad Aug 2016 #23
Yip, 1) auditorium. 2) motorcade/disgusting. 3) MANAFORT sucking the oxygen. UTUSN Aug 2016 #6
He watched everything in Dumbya's Katrina video archive. lpbk2713 Aug 2016 #7
In the interest of being fair he is in a school now. I'm still not impressed. nolabear Aug 2016 #8
I bet he suffered every time he wrote an alimony check jpak Aug 2016 #9
Amen, Brother. n/t New Orleans Strong Aug 2016 #10
Sister, and thanks. Won't bow. Don't know how. nolabear Aug 2016 #25
Will he talk about the bad government getting involved? ksoze Aug 2016 #11
I wonder if he was firing off yuiyoshida Aug 2016 #12
The only time you see Trump without a suit and tie. He doesn't know what denim feels like. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #20
I have to LOL lpbk2713 Aug 2016 #28
Tailored? truebluegreen Aug 2016 #38
as I recall, gov. Edwards asked PBO to delay coming for several weeks, so that vitally niyad Aug 2016 #15
He's trying to look "presidential" while taking a swipe at the POTUS Fritz Walter Aug 2016 #18
Similar happened earlier this week left-of-center2012 Aug 2016 #22
Trump is the man who ,, Cryptoad Aug 2016 #24
"that pristine white shirt covered in reality" Well put. juxtaposed Aug 2016 #26
The media got their orders liberal N proud Aug 2016 #29
He's just trying to figure out he can make some money off it. n/t tetedur Aug 2016 #30
Trump knows campaign is toast. He's road-testing Trump-Breitbart TV, debuting Nov. 9. . nt Bernardo de La Paz Aug 2016 #33
Can anyone cut and paste hip waders and cat fish coming out of his pants turbinetree Aug 2016 #32
Take a picture of the Trump and caption it: Angry Dragon Aug 2016 #34
He'll probably see it as a money making opportunity. Just think of all that cheap real catbyte Aug 2016 #35
I just saw a clip of him on the news. He said "I'm just here to help". smirkymonkey Aug 2016 #36
I wouldn't doubt awoke_in_2003 Aug 2016 #37
good grief what a transprent gesture mnmoderatedem Aug 2016 #39

badhair77

(4,218 posts)
2. Disgusting.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:27 AM
Aug 2016

My house flooded during Lee in 2011. The last person I would want to see as I'm dragging wet belongings from my home is that camera hog strutting around.

suffragette

(12,232 posts)
4. Reminds me of Bush's Katrina photo op, when he posed with all that equipment
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 11:44 AM
Aug 2016

diverting it from where it was desparately needed. Also promised resources, which ended up being just one crane.

https://en.m.wikinews.org/wiki/Allegations_President_Bush_staged_photo-ops_in_aftermath_of_Hurricane_Katrina_tragedy

niyad

(113,333 posts)
16. to boost his ego, and to prove that he "cares" more than PBO, who, listening to Gov. Edwards'
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:10 PM
Aug 2016

request, will delay going there so as not to hinder relief efforts.

UTUSN

(70,706 posts)
6. Yip, 1) auditorium. 2) motorcade/disgusting. 3) MANAFORT sucking the oxygen.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:01 PM
Aug 2016

And those a-holes patting him on the back and taking pics.

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
7. He watched everything in Dumbya's Katrina video archive.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:11 PM
Aug 2016



"Hey, if they can elect that total waste of oxygen twice, maybe I have a shot."

nolabear

(41,984 posts)
8. In the interest of being fair he is in a school now. I'm still not impressed.
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:18 PM
Aug 2016

Apparently neither is the press since they gave him about 30 seconds coverage.

There is nothing that will convince me that bastard cares. He's worked all his life to convince me otherwise. Fool me once, etc.

ksoze

(2,068 posts)
11. Will he talk about the bad government getting involved?
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:45 PM
Aug 2016

Seems like the areas of the country that hate the government getting involved in their lives also need it the most at times.

yuiyoshida

(41,831 posts)
12. I wonder if he was firing off
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 12:49 PM
Aug 2016

golf balls at flooded houses trying to break windows, with his caddy along side!

niyad

(113,333 posts)
15. as I recall, gov. Edwards asked PBO to delay coming for several weeks, so that vitally
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:08 PM
Aug 2016

needed resources would NOT be diverted to security.

how much of a hindrance is der drumpfenfuhrer being--aside from contributing to the fetid, toxic atmosphere?

Fritz Walter

(4,291 posts)
18. He's trying to look "presidential" while taking a swipe at the POTUS
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:11 PM
Aug 2016

Repulicants and their minions are criticizing President Obama for staying the hell away from the disaster area, which would have to divert precious resources to support a president's visit. Some are even trying to compare the President's physical absence from the scene with W's flyover after Katrina. What they fail to take into account is the vast difference between FEMA' FUBAR then -- under "heck of a job, Brownie" -- and the timely, well-managed Federal response underway, led by an emergency management professional, Craig Fugate.

If Drumpf and his stooge Pence really want to show their concern and do some real good, they'd open their checkbooks. Oh, right ... Never gonna happen.

left-of-center2012

(34,195 posts)
22. Similar happened earlier this week
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:29 PM
Aug 2016

A couple days ago Trump gave his "Law and Order" speech to a white audience, in a mostly white city about 40 miles from Milwaukee, WI.
CNN said "Trump is showing a lot of courage to go to the midst of the riots in Milwaukee to give his law and order speech."

liberal N proud

(60,335 posts)
29. The media got their orders
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:45 PM
Aug 2016

Follow him, make him look good no matter how much he bashes the media or anyone else.

They will do whatever they can to make this a race again.

turbinetree

(24,703 posts)
32. Can anyone cut and paste hip waders and cat fish coming out of his pants
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 01:58 PM
Aug 2016

with him standing in a flat bottom air boat to show that he was in Louisiana, so that CNN can get that correct.
Or better yet, why not ask him if he is going to donate money to help the citizens out, lets see his response, from this hypocrite


Big difference in LA the city to LA the state and the zip code, and have a big old map with a arrow pointing to it,

Angry Dragon

(36,693 posts)
34. Take a picture of the Trump and caption it:
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 02:12 PM
Aug 2016

Just look at the waste and shit that has washed into Louisiana

catbyte

(34,402 posts)
35. He'll probably see it as a money making opportunity. Just think of all that cheap real
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 03:57 PM
Aug 2016

estate he could scoop up on the cheap. He could buy it off those desperate people for pennies on the dollar then rent it back to them. That's how asshole "businessmen" like Trump and Romney think.

 

smirkymonkey

(63,221 posts)
36. I just saw a clip of him on the news. He said "I'm just here to help".
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 05:46 PM
Aug 2016

I almost puked. God, he is just insufferable.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
37. I wouldn't doubt
Fri Aug 19, 2016, 10:54 PM
Aug 2016

that he is there to survey property that he can pick up on the cheap for future development

mnmoderatedem

(3,728 posts)
39. good grief what a transprent gesture
Sat Aug 20, 2016, 10:47 AM
Aug 2016

Hurricane Sandy happens in his own backyard. Does not life a finger. Never shown the slightest inclination to help out victims of any sort of natural disaster in the past.

Now that he's running for prez, all of a sudden he's mister "I care so much about everyone".
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