Gingrich says Trump is done with drain the swamp slogan

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Donald Trump fired up campaign crowds with a promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington corruption. But former House Speaker Newt Gingrich says the president-elect has soured on that populist rallying cry now that he has won the White House.

“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore,” Gingrich, one of Trump’s most high-profile boosters, told NPR in an interview broadcast on Wednesday.

“I’d written what I thought was a very cute tweet about ‘the alligators are complaining’… and somebody [from Trump’s team] wrote back and said they were tired of hearing this stuff,” said the former lawmaker, whose conduct in the late 1990s earned him a historic bipartisan reprimand.

Trump himself had alluded to mixed feelings about the slogan during a Dec. 8 rally in Des Moines, Iowa, part of his triumphant postelection “Thank You” tour.

“Funny how that term caught on, isn’t it?” he said. “I hated it. Somebody said ‘drain the swamp.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s so hokey. That is so terrible.’ I said, ‘All right, I’ll try it.’ So, like, a month ago I said, ‘Drain the swamp.’ The place went crazy. I said, ‘Whoa, watch this.’ Then I said again. Then I started saying it like I meant it, right? And then I said it, I started loving it.”

https://frontier.yahoo.com/news/gingrich-says-trump-is-done-with-drain-the-swamp-slogan-173426892.html

Backtracking already.

[physioex]

1. Duplicate of another thread. EOM

[putitinD]

2. yeah, he used up all the aligators and snakes for his cabinet!

[LonePirate]

3. Drain? He started pumping sewage into the swamp on November 9!

[muntrv]

4. I was done with Gingrich a looonnnnnng time ago.

[randr]

5. He turned the swamp into a cess pit.

[NastyRiffraff]

6. He talks like a six year old

without the cuteness.

“Funny how that term caught on, isn’t it?” he said. “I hated it. Somebody said ‘drain the swamp.’ I said, ‘Oh, that’s so hokey. That is so terrible.’ I said, ‘All right, I’ll try it.’ So, like, a month ago I said, ‘Drain the swamp.’ The place went crazy. I said, ‘Whoa, watch this.’ Then I said again. Then I started saying it like I meant it, right? And then I said it, I started loving it.”

Correction: like a bratty, spoiled six year old.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. At a level most of his followers can understand

[Cha]

7. is gingrich his mouthpiece.. can't dump tweet anymore? Do his

damn draintheswamp fans know it never started?

[oberliner]

9. He was never into it

I think it was a KellyAnne thing.