Who the Hell Talks Like That?
Today in DC, even among the Senate Invertebrates, backlash was swift and loud after Trump announced that he was unilaterally pulling out of Syria and handing it over to the Turks, Assad, and, of course, the Russians. Even Little Lindsey Graham found his voice.
Responding to the uproar, Trump tweets:
“In my great and unmatched wisdom…” Yes, he really said that. Who the hell talks like that. It’s bad enough that he unilaterally decides, against ALL advice, to hand Syria over to the bad guys, and bad enough that he threatens to “totally destroy and obliterate” the Turkish economy; but he actually used the words “great and unmatched wisdom”? It’s like he’s hired Kim Jong Un’s speech writer.
Hey, Moscow Mitch, are we DONE yet?
A point I have not heard is the complete and total immorality and cruelity of the thuglicans in continueing to use a conspiciously mentally ill/unstable individual in pursuit of political gains ( judges, tax cuts etc)
1If they are willing to continue to promote and support an individual so obviously mentally unstable as demented donnie where does their cruelity end?
Others have pointing out: that tweet was unlikely to have been written directly by Trump. (Mostly) correct grammar and spelling, and the first sentence has a clause correctly placed and set off with commas. And it has only one weird capitalization (Economy).
The “great and unmatched wisdom” sounds like someone tasked with cleaning up his bloviation, someone who knows the job requires major ego stroking if he/she wants to keep it.
[EJ, don’t think I’m defending the doofus by focusing on the English usage. The whole thing is bat-quano crazy, of course. Even Miss Lindsay has broken his lip-lock long enough to say it’s dumb to ditch the Kurds like this. ]
2We should see this for what it is–a distraction from his corrupt Ukraine involvement. We’ll be talking about Turkey all week while he patches up a defense of his “unmatched” attempts to subvert the next election. And he’ll probably get away with it.
3Stephen Miller talks like this and probably offered to tweet it for the idiot tweet baby in the WH.
But as he is a snake along with the rest of the gop he must have tweeted it with his
4tongue.
There is a medical term for it: Mania Grandiosa.
5Agree with the Surly Professor – obliterate? reiterate? tRump can’t spell these words – much less have a clue as to their meaning. He had Miller’s help with this.
6Ma said to say “The Wizard of Oz” in response to El Jefe’s question.
7The phrase “great and unmatched wisdom” is the phrase used by Turkey’s Erdogan to talk Trump into doing what Erdogan wants.
8Either Trump is a complete imbecile (which we already know), or someone handling the Twit’s account is a complete imbecile. Neither is a surprise except for one issue: whenever it looks like Con Man Don has hit rock bottom, he manages to dig a little deeper again and again.
9What matters is
1. Trump is delusional about his own intellectual abilities,
2. he threatened to destroy the economy of another country AND and thinks he has done it before.
This is the official Twitter account of the POTUS.
10He needs to be held accountable for this.
So someone refresh my memory. Cannot a resolution be brought before the Senate that’s basically a “oh, hell’s no” to stop trump? How many votes would they need so that the deranged one couldn’t override it?
11El Jefe every malignant narcissist I know talks exactly like that. Trump’s a textbook example of self centeredness and sadistic vengeance run wild and he wants you to always remember it was he, the Donald, that created god. Everyone says so, bigly!
12Having an IQ score of -12 would be unmatched wisdom, I guess.
13Aren’t there consequences for destroying the economy of another country, like a war?
As Diane @ 8 said, he needs to be held accountable for his words and actions.
This “Oh I was just kidding. I didn’t mean that…” Is going to get this country in deep trouble when someone believes him.
14Why hasn’t some progressive org. started making “Impeach Now” (or variation) Yard signs for people to post.
15All I know is that as soon as I read that, I was SCREAMING that he has to be out NOW. That is truly, scarily, whacked…
16GREAT AND UNMATCHED WISDOM
I bet that’s what it says on his Mensa trophy. The one a Ghost of Christmas past left under the tree.
17I bet we could suggest and get passed with ease through both houses something to remove Trump’s twitter communications. I mean, this continues to be the one point most Americans really agree on–even his supporters–he should stop tweeting so much.
Especially as he is using twitter to direct policy.
182/3 in each house of Congress, Sharon @ 11. 67 in the Senate, 290 in the House.
19“But on Sunday, the president abruptly announced that American troops would not stand in the way of a Turkish military offensive against the Kurds, despite earlier suggestions that the U.S. would look out for Kurdish interests.
As the world reacted to America’s sudden abandonment of its most trusted and effective local allies, a tweet from Trump’s daughter Ivanka resurfaced, detailing a relevant conflict of interest regarding relations with Turkey.
“Thank you Prime Minister Erdogan for joining us yesterday to celebrate the launch of #TrumpTowers Istanbul!” Ivanka wrote in April 2012. The construction—made up of two conjoined towers—is one of seven current Trump Towers locations.
Trump has promised to keep his business empire separate, handing over control of his commercial operations to sons Eric and Donald Jr. for the duration of his time in office. Trump has refused to fully divest from his empire, in what critics have said was a violation of the Constitution’s emoluments clause.”
https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-tweet-thanking-turkey-erdogan-attending-istanbul-trump-towers-launch-syria-controversy-1463536
20Miller
21Required reading for all those who worship the cult of the military, no matter the reality.
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/military-expert-warns-support-for-trump-in-the-us-armed-forces-is-downright-cult-like-and-creating-frightening-divisions-in-the-ranks/
Or is Digby a troll as well?
22People who are not in touch with reality talk like that. I think it is often called “Delusions of grandeur”. These are not the words of a rational person. Just more in a long line of things he has said that proves he is unfit for this or any other job.
23Well, he did say a while back “I alone can fix it”. He just didn’t tell us what the “fix” was or who was going to be whispering in his ear making suggestions on the specifics.
24Such a very stable genius.
25In answer to your question El Jeffe, the kind of guy who owes LOTS of money to the Russians and who has Towers in Turkey and golf courses in Saudi Arabia. The kind of guy who can loose money running a casino – a casino! The kind of guy who has failed so miserably, so consistently, so thoroughly that he blew the millions his dad gave him all whilst filing for bankruptcy more times than he filed for divorce, (which in his case is actually saying something), and still couldn’t pay even his smallest creditors. In short a narcissist with Daddy issues and delusions of grandeur who bends his knee to any tin pot dictator or visiting porn star. A guy who cares nothing for anyone but himself.
A guy who is prepping to Wag the Dog, with his own version of Iraq 2.0, much to the delight of Putin, whom he owes biggly!
This is, of course, insane.
26Yikes. “…the United States still stores almost 50 B-61 nuclear weapons in secure but not impregnable vaults at Incirlik Airbase in Turkey.”
https://twitter.com/NarangVipin/status/1181243757594923011
27For God’s sake; Twitter needs to CLOSE his account! They are being used by him to bully, intimidate and to spread poisonous garbage about those he perceives as his enemies. If some 15 year old kid was doing this and someone complained he’d be grounded on there very quickly.
Wouldn’t it bee great to watch him flail about without that platform? His head would explode.
28So who is paying him todo this, Turkey or Russia? turkey wants Kurds out and Russia want a warm water port in Syria. It’s a toss up!
29This is news that must be putting a cold chill up the spine of all our NATO allies.
30Trump. Jeez, EJ, as a hard one.
31Laughter or pity aside, however, giving the Turks a free hand to massacre our allies is a supremely terrible idea.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.
32Rachel Maddow needs secret service level protection.
What I want to know is what kind of precedents are being set, as we speak, of what a president can get away with
33Executive power, and the reorganization of the Constitution. In real time.
@Joe Hill: Trump telegraphs every stupid thing he’s thinking/planning through his Twitter account. I grant you, if it were anybody else, Twitter would have cut them off long ago; but I’d rather know what he’s up to before it happens than to learn about it after it does.
Still, Rachel Maddow is right: “Watch what he does, not what he says.” He often says wildly provocative things in an attempt to distract from what he’s really doing. He does that so often, though, that it’s no longer very effective–except with his base.
34This is no way to run a country.
Not that it is a matter of even minute interest to y’all but I just thought I would take this exceedingly rare opportunity to express my *general agreement* with your sentiments above.
America, like every other country in the world, ‘rats out’ its allies from time to time but usually it attempts to do it with guile and sophistication – not with a tweet in the middle of the night!
35Remember the wizard in the Wizard of Oz? Hidden behind a screen, uttering “great” etc. vocabulary to the world, trying to manipulate various bells and whistles, he tried to keep a cowardly lion, a tin man, a scarecrow and a little girl with a small dog from discovering him and his weaknesses,, the first being his scam identity. Take all of this as metaphors and apply to the Trump administration.
36Does whomever posted this know that iterate means to repeat, reiterate means to repeat for a second or more times?
This, of course, is way over the head of “the child”!
37Yesterday was Putin’s birthday.
I can’t wait to see what Donnie gives him for Christmas.
38He did get one thing right… he’s good at destroying and obliterating things.
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