Trump rips NYT for 'total fiction' report on president's bumbling White House life

[DonViejo]

Source: RawStory


TRAVIS GETTYS
06 FEB 2017 AT 12:38 ET

President Donald Trump again attacked the New York Times, this time for a devastating report that shed light on his administration’s bumbling inner workings.

The president dismissed the report late Monday morning as “total fiction” and accused reporters Maggie Haberman and Glenn Thrush of making up sources.

Donald J. Trump ✔
@realDonaldTrump

The failing @nytimes writes total fiction concerning me. They have gotten it wrong for two years, and now are making up stories & sources!

11:32 AM - 6 Feb 2017
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The report claims Trump clocks out at 6:30 p.m. and spends the rest of the evening watching TV alone, often wearing a bathrobe and marking up newspaper stories with a Sharpie.

His aides then meet in darkened offices, the report claims, because they haven’t figured out how to operate the light switches yet.

Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-rips-nyt-for-total-fiction-report-on-presidents-bumbling-white-house-life/

[sakabatou]

1. They haven't figured out the light switches?

If they don't know where they are, that's one thing, but not knowing how they work...

[mnhtnbb]

9. Makes me wonder if there's a little passive/aggressive pushback coming from the usher staff

not wanting to work for these racist a$$holes after having the Obamas as occupants for 8 years.
Maybe a little slow to answer the call? Maybe pretend not to know answers and will have to go get
someone else and the Trumpers say "never mind, we'll figure it out".

Think there's more to it.

[Hekate]

11. I wonder if DTs minimal entourage of 6 has been rude, dismissive, contemptuous in any way...

....of the permanent staff. DT and his nearest advisors had no idea how the White House works, they didn't know they would have to hire all the worker bees in the West Wing themselves -- what they did not know about how government itself works speaks volumes, and this is just part of it.

I am quit sure the permanent staff of cooks, cleaners, ushers, and maintenance people have all been perfectly professional in their behavior and in the quality of the jobs they are tasked with.

But if all the Trumpites from the boss on down have treated them with disrespect -- did I mention that they are all or nearly all African American? -- where is the incentive to volunteer information about the little idiosyncrasies that come with any home or office, like how the thermostat works and which curtain the light switch is behind?

[niyad]

2. those are not "hilarious"--they are bizarre and scary.

[ananda]

3. Geezus, do they also need toilet training?

LOL

[central scrutinizer]

17. Imagine the horror of cleaning the bathroom

After the deadbeat diva has used it! Couldn't pay me enough

[Else You Are Mad]

4. I HATE to say this...

But, I don't buy this the story that they don't know how to work the lights or open the right doors. After over two weeks, someone would have asked the White House maintenance if they could not find the light switches. That said, I do believe the stories that he watches TV at 6:30 etc.

I don't say this because I am defending Trump, but because we need to stop promoting the bullshit Trump stories that distract us from what awful things the administration is really doing.

[unblock]

5. they're having clandestine meetings in the dark for cover.

and they claim to not know about the light switches as an excuse when caught.

[KittyWampus]

6. it was just part of the story and doesn't mean that's still an issue.

[herding cats]

8. I believe the light switches part was early on.

And, the article stated it was visitors to the WH who were wandering about after meetings trying to find an exit. Which I believe was said previously by one such unescorted visitor.

The NYT wove all the various leaks and statements into the article to impress how chaotic the atmosphere in the WH actually is currently.

[TranssexualKaren]

13. If your trying to manage a slow moving train wreck.....

You don't stop to worry about the light switches.

Clearly these people are out of their depth and Letting mundane issues slip by the wayside.

[Historic NY]

7. There is no one there because they haven't hired many people....

funny he and his son-in-law thought all the people working there came with the White House. Only the professional staff - housekeeping - etc remain.

[Paladin]

10. Confirmation that it's all true. (nt)

[TeamPooka]

12. The Truth hurts Donny Little Hands. nt

[Jopin Klobe]

14. "...aides ... havent figured out how to operate the light switches yet ..." ...

... it's not that they haven't figured it out ...

... the reason is that cockroaches don't like the light ...

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

15. Nobody told them all the lights use The Clapper?

[TranssexualKaren]

16. Remember the late great Satchel Paige...

Anyone who sits around dwelling on what others say about them should remember the Satchel Paige quote...."don't look back, something might be gaining on you".

[ffr]

18. If he cared at all about this country, he'd catch on and RESIGN!

Resign tRump before more people get killed.

Okay, you won't. Then I suppose all our necks are on the line. Except so is yours, you a$$hole! It's called MAD for a reason.

[left-of-center2012]

19. Can't find the light switches?

Guess they don't want to ask the working class to show them?

[Cha]

20. perfect trump 'toon for this thread..

Lots of leaks.. I love it. blotus likes leaks so much

[truthisfreedom]

21. Aw, c'mon guys, let's just give this guy and his team a chance. These things take time.

kidding... bwahahahahahahahaaaaaaaa he's such a nitwitler.