The 47 most outrageous lines in Donald Trump's New York Times interview

[spanone]

1. "I thought it was a terrible thing he did. [Inaudible.] I thought it was certainly unnecessary. I thought it was a terrible thing."

Is this Trump talking about some longtime political opponent, you ask? Nope. It's actually Trump talking about his own attorney general, Jeff Sessions, and the decision by Sessions to recuse himself from the Russia investigation! And that, by the way, was a terrible thing.


2. "Frankly, there is absolutely no collusion. That's been proven by every Democrat is saying it."

So. The fact that Democrats say the possibility of collusion exists is evidence that collusion doesn't actually exist. If so, wow.


45 more pearls of wisdom...

http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/29/politics/donald-trump-new-york-times/index.html

[dalton99a]

1. "Virtually every Democrat has said there is no collusion"

He's using that quite a bit nowadays

[spanone]

2. in his virtual reality

[NewJeffCT]

22. I'm struggling to come up with one Democrat

saying there was no collusion. Anybody?

[GusBob]

3. I'm curious, did the intervewer challenger the dotard at all, or just let him spew?

[dalton99a]

5. They have not released the transcript

[FSogol]

4. LOL, he said "no collusion" 16 times!

Somebody's nervous.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

14. No, he's not nervous.

He honestly believes everything he says, at least while he's saying it. So I'm quite confident he not only believes there was no collusion, but that most Democrats agree there was none, and he's honestly annoyed that Mueller hasn't yet folded his tent and crept away.

Think of it this way: wouldn't you start getting annoyed if one of your co-workers accused you of taking the last donut in the office break room when you know perfectly well there were still two left when you took yours. And that co-worker won't shut up about it. To Trump is exactly the same. There's nothing there and he can't understand why people won't shut up about it. However, in my example you really did not take the last donut, and we are pretty certain the Trump campaign did collude with the Russians. Mueller is simply trying to nail down everything.

[FSogol]

15. No, I can't buy that. There is too much projection in everything he says.

He knows a reckoning is coming.

Pathological liars don't remember all the fabrications they make, they make up news ones at a moments notice.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

19. Absolutely right about pathological liars.

It's my opinion that he is such a narcissist that he cannot possibly fathom any sort of reckoning. Keep in mind that his entire life he's gotten away with everything. Why should it be different now?

Of course, I could be wrong and you could be right, and he is trying to engineer some sort of exit for himself. Even if he is doing that, I'd suggest that he'd postpone his exit (resignation) until too late, because again I think he can't really imagine going down.

Obviously we will see.

[smirkymonkey]

6. World's GREATEST asshole!

No contest.

[Virtual Burlesque]

11. World's most brainless asshole.

Can't even elevate his deliberations to deserving the encomium "shit for brains" because his intellect in more akin to using Agent Orange as a crop fertilizer.

[Lucinda]

7. ...

[spanone]

8. 😎

[mainer]

9. Did Trump actually admit that Hillary did win the popular vote?

In the interview he keeps talking about how how he won't the electoral college votes, but Hillary mistakenly went after the popular vote.

[rainin]

10. He didn't win. He cheated. She won. You can't deny access to voting for the other side

and claim a victory.


WRONG!!
6. "I won because I was a better candidate by a lot. I won because I campaigned properly and she didn't."
Agree! Actually, I think Trump won because he better understood the political climate and the frustration and anger that people had toward politics as usual. And, to his credit, he did campaign in places -- like Pennsylvania -- where Republicans had a very thin track record of success.

WRONG!!
7. "She campaigned for the popular vote. I campaigned for the Electoral College."
There's very little evidence -- and by that, I mean no evidence -- this is true. Hillary Clinton didn't campaign in a handful of states -- like Wisconsin -- in the final weeks of the race not because she wasn't trying to win the Electoral College but because she didn't believe she was in danger of losing them.

He should not be called President. He should be called Inmate # *******.

[jmbar2]

12. Turn off the DOTUS!

Pay no attention to the man spewing inanities. He is a distraction. He is allowed to suck the world's attention while saboteurs destroy the government, implementing the Koch agenda:

- Dismantle public education
- Privatize social security, medicare/medicaid
- Abolish food stamps and other safety nets
- Gut the EPA - sell America's lands to the highest bidding polluter
- Stack the judiciary with patsies who will do the Koch's bidding
- Eliminate labor protections
- Eliminate safety regulations
etc.

They are working the Koch Agenda to a T - google it.

Keep your eyes on what is really going on. The path of destruction will take years to undo. It was deliberately planned to be irreversible. This is the battle to focus on.

[cynical_idealist]

17. exactly

msnbc should spend hours every week explaining this

[jmbar2]

13. Link to the Koch Agenda

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029124895

Courtesy of CousinIT

[The Wielding Truth]

18. Yep, this is who we are really fighting.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/01/charles-koch-political-ascent-jane-mayer-213541


"Charles began planning his ambitious remaking of American politics 40 years ago, transitioning from libertarian ideologue to conservative power broker. For his new movement, which aimed to empower ultraconservatives like himself and radically change the way the U.S. government worked, he analyzed and then copied what he saw as the strengths of the John Birch Society, the extreme, right-wing anti-communist group to which he, his brother David and their father, Fred Koch, had belonged."

[LiberalLovinLug]

16. There is a shade of truth in these statements at the end:

46. "Another reason that I'm going to win another four years is because newspapers, television, all forms of media will tank if I'm not there because without me, their ratings are going down the tubes."
The cynicism here is towering. And it reveals Trump's basic belief that everything and everyone is solely motivated by profit.

47. "So they basically have to let me win."
Well, that about does it for me. Happy (almost) New Year!


The first statement is true in that since 2015 TV news networks knew when they had a cash cow. Trump TV all the time. If they just let other networks play Trump TV, everyone would switch to other stations. So its been years now of Trump TV every day, all day. Now there is no choice because he's the President, but before that they had a real choice in how to present him, and how much. Do they actually do some journalism and highlight Trump University, or his past racism including his KKK father, his black tenant discrimination, his many bankruptcies, and the trickling of news even back then about his Russian connections? Of course not.

The second statement is true in essence, if not completely. They didn't really have an end goal to let him win. But they did have an ongoing goal to keep the race tight, again for ratings. And that included showing every Trump rally highlights, the most outrageous the better, then spend hours discussing how outrageous it was. Then they'd almost have to pry their little faces away from Trump for a few minutes to talk about how "some people" are saying that Hillary greatly endangered the nation with her private email use......Now back to Trump!

[FSogol]

20. The media may have built him up, but they'll have a lot of fun tearing

Him down.

[NastyRiffraff]

21. I like this one:

12. "I can only tell you that there is absolutely no collusion. Everybody knows it. And you know who knows it better than anybody? The Democrats. They walk around blinking at each other."

I spent a lot of time with this line. Does Trump mean "winking" at each other? If he does mean "blinking," then what does Democrats blinking tell us about their belief in collusion (or not)? Has blinking been the universal sign of disbelief all this time and no one told me?

I wondered about that too when I read the excerpt. Blinking? WTF?