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The President Is a Few Bulbs Short of a Chandelier
Trump melts downand is cut off by the hosts ofFox & Friends.
BY CHARLES P. PIERCE
APR 26, 2018
...Brian Kilmeade is one of the co-hosts of the Fox News Channels morning show, Three Dolts on a Divan. The president* watches this show every day because what else does he have to do, right? It was one of the Fox shows that created him as a viable national political figure, and one of the few shows anywhere completely committed to sustaining him as such. On Thursday morning, he called in, and, over the next several minutes, had what can be gently called an episode.
In no particular order, he threatened to bring the Justice Department under his personal control; praised his magnificent performance in office; defended his nominee to run the VA even though said nominee already had pulled his name from consideration; threw Michael Cohen overboard; admitted he had spent that fateful night in Moscow at the Miss Universe pageant; ranted about the crimes of James Comey, the perfidy of Jon Tester, and the rank dishonesty of the media; and explained to the nation that Abraham Lincoln had been a Republican, which, people dont realize.
Has a president ever been cut off of an interview before? The president is not the author of a cookbook or a movie star pitching a movie. Interviews with the president end when the president wants them to. And what self-respecting newsman would bail out a president who so clearly was headed full speed off to the far suburbs of Crazytown?...
(By the way, one of the charges leveled against Dr. Ronny Jackson was that he dispensed various prescription meds as though they were M&Ms. One of these was modafinil, which Jackson allegedly doled out as a quick pick-me-up to various White House officials during long and exhausting overseas trips. Considering that the president* went about five minutes with the Fox morning crew before he came to a comma, Im wondering if Jackson left the key to the medicine cabinet behind. Im not saying, but Im just saying
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https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a20075774/trump-fox-and-friends-meltdown/
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)having little or no stamina. Wouldn't you assume he was comparing himself to Hillary? Wouldn't that mean he had lots of stamina? Mr. Get Up And Go kind of guy?
About the only thing we see going today is his mouth. Hmmm! Maybe he is on uppers. Don't they make you talk off the head a lot? Mr. Motor Mouth?
mr_lebowski
(33,643 posts)It's been called the 'real-life Limitless' drug, if you've seen that Bradley Cooper movie or TV series of same title.
obvs no drug could ever do what that fictional drug does but supposedly it does do a pretty good job getting the brain humming along.
Been wanting to try it actually
It's not a particularly highly controlled drug, though it's Rx only, it's in the same class as like anti-depressants. IOW, Jackson could pretty freely write Rx's for the stuff under the flimsiest of pretexts and the DEA wouldn't come down on him for doing so.
Frustratedlady
(16,254 posts)Good genes? B/S. But, either Jackson or Trump said that Jackson stopped by his office 3-4 times per day. Why would that be if he is in such great condition? I just found that strange, but then the POTUS seems to have a lot of private time...for whatever reason.
It will be interesting to see if there is a change in Trump now that Doc is gone.
iscooterliberally
(2,865 posts)Who knew?
CakeGrrl
(10,611 posts)malaise
(269,278 posts)Rec
eppur_se_muova
(36,317 posts)... perhaps the phrase "delusionally plausible" would have been more appropriate.
Blue Owl
(50,567 posts)n/t