This is how Donald Trump engineers applause.

[sarcasmo]

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Source: Washington Post



Snip< Authorities are also pushing back against the perception that the CIA workforce was cheering for the president. They say the first three rows in front of the president were largely made up of supporters of Mr. Trump’s campaign

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Rent a clappers, and there is one lead clapper.

[Vinca]

1. Hope the rent-a-clappers get cash up front.

[TrollBuster9090]

6. I wonder how they managed to get security clearences for two dozen actors from Central Casting?

Jared Kushner must have signed an Executive Order. (Kushner is now the official 'autopen' of the Trump Administration.)

[Jacob Boehme]

2. It's clap or die, Bitches!

[Blanks]

3. For now...

He'll get an applause track in the future.

Then it'll be just a guy dragging around an 'applause machine'. The machine itself will be manufactured in China or Mexico.

All those paid applauders will be out of work. Further contributing to the recession.

[TrollBuster9090]

4. On Saturday, Faux News claimed he was "given a standing ovation by CIA staff."

They actually said "President Trump may have had a very public spat with CIA Director John Brennan, but he was given a STANDING OVATION by CIA staff..."

Hopefully, in the future, only Faux News will headline it like that. Other news outlets should say "Trump was given a tepid welcome my CIA staffers, and a standing ovation by Trump supporters strategically positioned in the first two rows to make it look like he was greeted warmly by CIA staff."

[sarcasmo]

11. Faux news will always lie, no chance they change.

[TrollBuster9090]

13. Very true, but at least they should be mocked, mercilessly when they do. nt

[sarcasmo]

17. Exactly.

[aggiesal]

27. Standing ovation? ...

They were already standing!

[MissKat]

5. WE MUST FIND OUT WHO THESE ACTORS ARE

Encourage the press to find out who these people are.

We need to know--
1. Are they being paid?
2. What qualifications do they have?
3. How'd they get the job?
4. Do they speak Russian?

[TrollBuster9090]

7. Next Headline: "Tom Price Was Given A Standing Ovation by Doctors at HHS..."

[OilemFirchen]

8. Henceforth known as:

Don's Clap Trap.

[ailsagirl]

9. I think it's time to resurrect Backpfeifengesicht

This is one of those strange words that's uniquely German with no English equivalent. The word Backpfeife means "punch/slap" (on the cheek/face) and Gesicht means "face". The word Backpfeifengesicht therefore means something along the lines of "a face that's begging to be slapped" - or punched.

[Fred Sanders]

10. The blossoming American SS took careful note of who applauded and laughed the loudest for

future insertion into individual dossiers.

Meanwhile TrumpTV aka Fox aka Goebbelsvision declared it all a resounding success.

Wonder if Spicer will have another hissyfit over the mean media?

Pages and pages are being torn from the books of 1930´s Germany before our very eyes and ears.

Fascism is hard work.

[ancianita]

12. When asked, Spicer said in today's WH presser that the whole first row was strictly CIA.

[sarcasmo]

14. 2 days and 2 proven lies.

[Idoru]

15. He's lying

There were a only handful of senior CIA staff in the front. They weren't cheering.

Also, those "standing ovations"? Kinda hard not to give them when you aren't allowed to sit.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cia-ovations_us_58866825e4b0e3a7356b183f?blj3udfau96g30udi&

[ancianita]

20. I wonder why Spicer said something so easily fact checked. The press didn't challenge him.

I believe everyone here.

How often, and for what events Trump buys his audience, will make an interesting chronicle.

But I realized while I watched today's very long presser, that Americans at home today, watching Spicer, could have been convinced that what he said was sincere, if incorrect.

[Blue Idaho]

23. Total disrespect for the media...

They assume the Press is lazy and won't bother to dig for the facts. So far Spicer and company have been mostly right.

[underpants]

16. claque

Trump is actually reviving a very old tradition — the tradition of the claque. A claque is a group of people whose job is to generate applause. In the description of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica, a claque is:

an organized body of professional applauders in the French theatres. The hiring of persons to applaud dramatic performances was common in classical times, and the emperor Nero, when he acted, had his performance greeted by an encomium chanted by five thousand of his soldiers. … The recollection of this gave the 16th-century French poet, Jean Daurat, an idea which has developed into the modern claque. … There are commissaires, those who learn the piece by heart, and call the attention of their neighbours to its good points between the acts. The rieurs are those who laugh loudly at the jokes. The pleureurs, generally women, feign tears, by holding their handerkerchiefs to their eyes. The chatouilleurs keep the audience in in a good humour, while the bisseurs simply clap their hands and cry bis! bis! to secure encores.

[sarcasmo]

19. Doing it @ the CIA was a big mistake.

[Dave Starsky]

25. They won't do anything about it.

They wouldn't even have let him in the building with that clown section, if they could do anything about it.

The CIA is not going to save us.

[central scrutinizer]

21. Shill also works

Somebody who sets up the suckers to be fleeced by the snake oil salesman

[Mc Mike]

28. Thas a shyteload of esses, central s.

I'd like to add special snowflake, safespace seeking, schutzstaffel, sean spicer.

They all seem to go well together, for some reason.

[NurseJackie]

18. ...

[canetoad]

22. So his supporters game him the clap.

I wonder if DFT demands a giddy audience at his appearances or those close to him (KA Con, Bannon, even Uday & Qusay) arrange it to insulate him from the fact that people just hate his guts.

[benld74]

24. Cmon this isn't hard

2000 Florida protesters were GOP workers identified by their photos.
Someone knows how'd to do this!!!

Are they going to get away with this crap once more??

[cutroot]

26. Trumps entire game plan revolves around this as a strategy

It is an old quote by Mark Twain

A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes

His supporters hear what they want to hear and disregard the truth

[sarcasmo]

29. Wait until the Voice of America starts repeating Trump alt-facts.

[DonViejo]

30. Locking...

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