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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)Their job consists of "dont pay that contractor, make them sue us"
or Ivanka and Jared "evict that poor family and maybe they can freeze to death and die"
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)CaptainTruth
(6,615 posts)WTF are they thinking? Trump has ripped off dozens (hundreds?) of contractors & put many out of business ... people JUST LIKE THEM ... but they support him?
"Yes, please! Rip me off! Don't pay me! Force me into bankruptcy so I lose my business! I'll vote for that!"
Trying to understand that level of stupid makes my head hurt.
Doodley
(9,163 posts)politicians, or whatever. He is their canvass to project their grievances onto, whatever they may be. But they didn't know that beyond being the grievance candidate, he has nothing to actually offer them and is too incompetent to turn his agenda into action.
machoneman
(4,016 posts)Unfortunately, it is all too true.
Upthevibe
(8,100 posts)haveahart
(905 posts)wagon with it? Of course, theirs was a dog whistle for "blacks are lazy." Wonder what they think about Trump. Is he just the one lazy white man?
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Last edited Thu Aug 3, 2017, 07:34 PM - Edit history (1)
and accurate... lol.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)I'm very used to Time mag zingers at Trump but not Newsweek. This is more harsh than I ever remember seeing from them before. Hopefully the tide really is turning since I think we're seeing even more conservative leaning media that's finally starting to wake up.
CaptainTruth
(6,615 posts)I'll bet whoever did it isn't a photographer. It doesn't look like they understand points of origin for light sources & the resulting shadows they produce. Makes it look kind of amateur for Newsweek.
Quanta
(195 posts)BUT...the only glitch I can actually see as far as lighting goes is on the bags. Everything else has upper left lighting, which is good. The chair looks a bit cut out as well, but the image is very powerful and fitting for current events, and I'm sure that was the intent.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Just to add to the irony..
madamesilverspurs
(15,814 posts)Tanuki
(14,926 posts)....."So he sits and stews, like Al Bundy, the shoe-selling protagonist ofMarried ... With Children, the sitcom of roiling white discontent that predicted Trump better than any political scientist or pundit. Unsatisfying job, ungrateful children, all around him a nation in decline. Bundy dreams of the days when he was a high school football star; Trump, of his election-night romp through the Upper Midwest.
But that was long ago. Reality is here, an unwelcome intrusion for the aging reality television star. That reality was fun. This one isnt. This one has special counsel Robert S. Mueller III rooting around like a bloodhound in his personal finances and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell droning on about budget reconciliation, whatever that is, and right-wing pundit Ann Coulter hectoring him on Twitter about illegal immigration. On the television, there is always California Representative Adam Schiff, talking about collusion with Russia and looking pissed.
Is it Friday yet?
Overwhelmed and Frustrated
Two days before the presidential inauguration, Trump tweeted a picture of himself seated at a desk, pen hovering above a stack of papers. On his face was the faraway look of a great man lost in deep thought: Pericles pondering the Athenian dead, Churchill surveying a blitzkrieged London. The accompanying text revealed that the president-elect was composing his inaugural address at the Mar-a-Lago resort, which hed already rebranded the Winter White House.
The tweet was supposed to show leadership at work, but it instead revealed the lengths to which Trump will go to foster the image of diligent leadership. It didnt take a team of CIA digital forensicists to figure out that the Spanish tile wall behind Trump in the photograph matched the one in the reception area at Mar-a-Lago. A photograph soon surfaced of a young woman at the very same desk, looking like she was ready to confirm your dinner reservation. Further scrutinythat is, clicking a magnifying glass icon to zoom inrevealed that the papers on the desk were seemingly blank, while the writing instrument in Trumps hand appeared to be a Sharpie, not especially useful for writing out a lengthy speech. Wanting to look like a head of state, Trump instead ended up looking like a concierge-in-training."....(more)
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)This is a must read... I am still absorbing it (and will likely reread it).
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)You're right, that's a very brutal cover and article.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)This is a keeper. "A concierge-in-training". I don't know if his ego will ever bounce back from that!
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)Trump should face articles like this everyday until he is booted out of office.
Warpy
(111,417 posts)It would be the first time in 25 years.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)I subscribed, along with my family, for over 30 years. I like my magazines to be in print form and had to switch to Time mag.
I was an illustrator (before computers took over) so maybe that is part of it... a tactile thing.
machoneman
(4,016 posts)Thanks for posting this wonderful article.
niyad
(113,771 posts)whose voice rises in support of this misogynistic, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, ignorant, lying, thieving, hate-mongering, narcissistic, self-admitted sexual predator and pervert.
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Brother Buzz
(36,490 posts)WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)Dang but I really need to get more sleep.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)No worries!
P.S. It isn't hard to think 'Time magazine' due to the amount of times he has bragged about being on the cover!
WePurrsevere
(24,259 posts)MUCH better comprehension skills.
MyOwnPeace
(16,949 posts)won't be going up in any of his lobbies!
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)Dirty, stained, half open bathrobe, wearing only one dirty sweat sock, day old stubble, crumbs everywhere, empty cans and crumbled bags all over. You know, making the place look like a dump.
SusanaMontana41
(3,233 posts)We might just get that.
Marthe48
(17,087 posts)television star is more accurate.' And 'old television hack' is most accurate of all.
Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)bdjhawk
(421 posts)with those tiny hands!
BumRushDaShow
(129,876 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,876 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)and how he clumps along when he walks, as if all gravity were pulling at him ever so hard.
he most likely is not aware of his body language ....
except his weekly rallies to get an adoration fix, and other posed pics for publicity, he looks almost desperately glum.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Gawd is telling us!! Lord OrangeSkidmark is a shlumpy cheeto!!
Quixote1818
(29,013 posts)Renew Deal
(81,893 posts)We'll done.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)I can't wait to see what he going to tweet about it. The whole "fake news" thing is getting to be like the "Boy who cried wolf". It's losing its effectiveness and nobody believes him anymore. As usual, he went too far.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Why can't this be true.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)But there it is, online at newsweek.com. Just in time for his vacay ....
This should be the cover:
obamanut2012
(26,180 posts)sandensea
(21,711 posts)Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't that nickname created right here on DU?
flibbitygiblets
(7,220 posts)Damn that's good...gonna go buy a copy!
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Now I can enjoy it even more. Excellent!
erronis
(15,428 posts)While those idiots "elected" the drumpf in hopes that his childlike antics would let them do incredible damage to the US and the world, I think we need to keep remembering that those idiots (the uglicans) and their handler$ are the root cause of this evil.
We won't solve our crisis in democracy and government until we get venality and self-serving moneyed interests out of politics. Democrats and uglicans. Of course, if I wanted to start somewhere, the uglican vermin would be the first to go!
The Blue Flower
(5,450 posts)Otherwise, I like it!
LovingA2andMI
(7,006 posts)GOLDEN!! Thanks, Newsweek!
JenniferJuniper
(4,515 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)agreed on the Cheetos
llmart
(15,565 posts)He's not that good looking in person and he's fatter. Other than that I agree with everything on the front cover.
Oh, this is going to sting
Stuart G
(38,454 posts)They include accusations of Obama tapping Trump Tower, juvenile taunts hurled at North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, warmed-over insinuations about the Clintons cribbed from Fox News, complaints about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, complaints about the Republicans and endless laments about fake news, many of them followed by assertions that are comically untrue. "
(darkened sentence my addition)
...."endless laments about "fake news"..many of them followed by assertions that are comically untrue."
And this is the jerk that Putin put in through thru one of the greatest espionage accomplishments of all time..
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)I don't know what's got into me but the idea of how it will make him feel gives me comfort.
The part that bothers me about that is I think his supporters are fueled by wanting us liberals to be humiliated. I hate to be like them but I can't help myself.
JDC
(10,144 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,737 posts)His agenda is dead in the GOP congress! Such a sad, sad man.
Julian Englis
(2,309 posts)DesertRat
(27,995 posts)SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)Welcome to the wonderful world of Trump "fake news", Newsweek! That's a badge of honor, and you should be very proud to join the club of Trump's other "fake news" sources.
trueblue2007
(17,243 posts)onetexan
(13,078 posts)PatrickforO
(14,602 posts)House. After this kind of strain, he'll have to go hit the links...
Binders Keepers
(369 posts)Reince said he was the hardest-working guy he'd ever been around!
lark
(23,182 posts)He's at least 40 lbs. heavier than they drew him, lol.
I do love the cover, though, minus that glaring oversight.
niyad
(113,771 posts)Hekate
(90,978 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,442 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Cernunnos_x
(16 posts)or perhaps a Barking Lounger?
Great cover!
LittleBlue
(10,362 posts)Looks like something you'd read in a Murdoch rag. There will be no disaster whatsoever as a result of the eclipse.
liberaldemocrat2024
(12 posts)America finds itself in a never ending nightmare. How the heck did we end up with Trump in the White House?
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Sugarcoated
(7,736 posts)Are we sure this is legit?
Sugarcoated
(7,736 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)dalton99a
(81,673 posts)NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)As a former office lackey, I know the feeling, but he's a so-called president of the United States, not an office lackey.
C Moon
(12,225 posts)When I first saw it, I looked it over and thought about how clever it was. But I really like it now.
MADem
(135,425 posts)tossed carelessly on the floor are a nice touch!