“You haven’t asked me one fucking positive question,” he said. “All of this. What about this? What about that? What about that? What about this? All negative.”

The president had been asked about whether Mitch McConnell should resign from the Senate because of his health issues. Trump responded by indicating that videos of McConnell struggling were a “disappointment to a lot of Republicans,” before noting that “Sleepy Joe gave pardons to everybody.” He then exploded, questioning why they were asking about the White House renovations so much, and griping that they hadn’t asked him about Venezuela. Time pointed out that they talked about Venezuela at length earlier in the interview.

“I don’t understand. I’m sitting here. I’ve done all this stuff,” Trump said. “I took the White House and made it beautiful again.”

Here’s a positive question about his deeds that a reporter should ask:

Mr. President, how good did it feel to rape children?

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      That’s not quite true… he did have the flags lowered to half mast for a week when Dolly Parton passed. Besides that one thing, yes… you are correct.

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        I highly doubt that was done on his order. More likely, everyone was going to do it anyway and he just took credit. Because that’s all he ever does. Fucking useless trash. JUST DIE ALREADY YOU OLD FUCK!

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        he was only doing that because of his own image and the negative press and backlash had he not done so.

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        I think he also passed an executive order that made abuse of an animal a felony. So like… 2 positive things and 100,000 negative things. Pretty much equal.

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          Once is a coincidence. Twice? Basically Gandhi.

          …he shares a few proclivities with Gandhi, in fact.

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        I’ve got a nice etrike. I haven’t tried to get it on the train yet, but if I can I will be able to access most of Northern California, instead of the 30 mile radius around me

        Honestly I only use the car like once a week, and it’s for a rehearsal I could probably take the train to

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          Just avoid taking that on during commute time. Those things don’t fit compactly into the bike rack, and they piss everyone off during commute hours.

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            The fact that I exist pisses a lot of people off so honestly if they can’t make that small an accommodation, it’s on them

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              I guess is depends on how busy your train system is. In my city we’re packed in like sardines during commute hours, and during those busy times those things create situations where people can’t get in and out and properly.

              Technically the train conductor and police are supposed to keep an eye out for that shit and make sure bikes don’t block aisles and doors, but they don’t and the wide and long bikes often block mobility when trains are packed.

              I commute with something pretty slim that easily tucks into the train racks.

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    I just want to see one of these reporters, or anyone really, break decorum and just go off on this motherfucker to his face. He’s just a big fucking coward when it comes down to it. He just never has to confront it, and that’s a shame.

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          I was actually pretty impressed at his reflexes, TBH. Not that the job really requires it (or it usually doesn’t), but he was pretty nimble there.

          I think donnie would take it full in the face and not even know what happened, since he’s about half-asleep all the time. Dozey donnie, they call him. Everyone’s saying.

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            Shoes, pretzels, parachuting to his own premature victory party… That man survived a lot of self-inflicted danger.

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        At least Bush was fast enough to dodge it. I’m pretty sure Trump would have a Amberjack logo pressed into his forehead.

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    Just fucking die already you Epstein class fucking rapist.

    America will have decades or more before the rest of the world trusts them ever again, if ever.

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      I have ONE.

      He’s been president for a total of 8 6 years, and there’s been ONE policy that I’ve seen him pass that

      1. Is actually a good thing, I think

      2. Isn’t something that I would expect someone to do just by virtue of having a brain. (e.g., Operation Warp Speed was good, but also I would expect any moderately intelligent person to do the same.)

      That one thing is establishing a sovereign wealth fund.

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        The only thing I think was good was pushing NATO to step up their spending. Look at us go now. Most members are meeting their commitments and we took it so seriously we’re starting to build our own industrial defence bases, with blackjack and hookers!

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        I can’t imagine any other result from a microblog that turned Publicly Traded Company.

        Think of the risk to the investors, putting out language like that!

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    One thing I learned growing up with an authoritarian father, you never challenge them, otherwise all hell breaks loose. I eventually learned that when dad’s voice got that distinctive tone and volume that indicated negative emotions, it was best to get up and leave and go to my room. This doesn’t work for a US President however, though it may work for a King.

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      Donnie seems to have all the traits of a narcissist.

      Ever try to get a narcissist to apologize in good faith (not the “I’m sorry if you took offense” non-apology, I mean) for something they did, and they know they should be ashamed of and that they know you know?

      Narcissists are great at putting on a big show, love-bombing people they just met in many instances, and people that are rather naive or unfamiliar with this sort of thing will be taken in by it, and could not possibly believe that person could ever be nasty or vicious.

      People that have to be around them a lot and try to nail them down on the veracity of something they are saying, or actions they took that they don’t want to own up to?

      You’ll see that narcissist act like a cornered animal. Everything will be turned around on the person speaking, and the person trying to nail them down? Lucky to get a word in edge-wise amidst the person talking/yelling over them, usually consisting of abusive language and even threats of violence.

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    “I took the White House and made it beautiful again.”

    As beautiful as a meth heads trailer.

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    Until recently, I wanted Trump to join Our Lord Jesus Christ as promptly as possible.

    Now… I kind of dig it. He is openly legally impaired, with sagging stroke face and hungry piggy eyes; everything he does is excruciatingly humiliating for all Americans.

    So, now, I want him to live out the rest of his term, and publicly rant and suffer and bloat and curse the world with screaming rages. I want everyone to watch.

    I want the whole world to see… THIS is why you limit the powers of a President. THIS is why you should remove your Nixon’s from office. LOOK AT THIS

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      People, especially Americans, are not going to learn a lesson from Trump embarrassing his country. Things will get a whole lot worse before they get better.

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      They dont fucking care bro they dont want the country to do well, they just want to hit it big on the next scam and retire to some third world country where they can get cheap prostitutes, that’s what trump voters want they don’t give a shit he’s ruining the country.

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      Now, now, let’s not be crazy.

      He did legalize hemp in his first term.

      That was nice

      (nothing since then womp womp)

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          It was a legal loophole created that basically just meant changing the labels slightly and now head shops nationwide (w/o specific state laws) could sell ‘THC-A’ flowers, since they didn’t have much actual decarboxylated THC it flew under the radar for some time.