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Will Trump's lows ever hit rock bottom?

A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes: Our view

THE EDITORIAL BOARD | USA TODAY

With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office.

Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.



White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday dismissed the president's smear as a misunderstanding because he used similar language about men.

Of course, words used about men and women are different.

When candidate Trump said a journalist was bleeding from her "wherever," he didn't mean her nose.

And as is the case with all of Trump's digital provocations, the president's words were deliberate.

He pours the gasoline of sexist language and lights the match gleefully knowing how it will burst into flame in a country reeling from the #MeToo moment.

RNC: Democrats’ response is laughable - By Ronna (Romney) McDaniel

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions.

Obama and Bush both failed in many ways.

They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful.

His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.

It should surprise no one how low he went with Gillibrand.

When accused during the campaign of sexually harassing or molesting women in the past, Trump’s response was to belittle the looks of his accusers.

Last October, Trump suggested that he never would have groped Jessica Leeds on an airplane decades ago: “Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you.”

Trump mocked another accuser, former People reporter Natasha Stoynoff, “Check out her Facebook, you’ll understand.”

Other celebrities and politicians have denied accusations, but none has stooped as low as suggesting that their accusers weren’t attractive enough to be honored with their gropes.

If recent history is any guide, the unique awfulness of the Trump era in U.S. politics is only going to get worse.

Trump’s utter lack of morality, ethics and simple humanity has been underscored during his 11 months in office.

Let us count the ways:

He is enthusiastically supporting Alabama's Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore, who has been accused of pursuing — and in one case molesting and in another assaulting — teenagers as young as 14 when Moore was a county prosecutor in his 30s.

On Tuesday, Trump summed up his willingness to support a man accused of criminal conduct: “Roy Moore will always vote with us.”

Trump apparently is going for some sort of record for lying while in office.

As of mid-November, he had made 1,628 misleading or false statements in 298 days in office.

That’s 5.5 false claims per day, according to a count kept by The Washington Post’s fact-checkers.

Trump takes advantage of any occasion — even Monday’s failed terrorist attack in New York — to stir racial, religious or ethnic strife.

Congress “must end chain migration,” he said Monday, because the terror suspect “entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security.”

So because one man — 27-year-old Akayed Ullah, a lawful permanent resident of the U.S. who came from Bangladesh on a family immigrant visa in 2011 — is accused of attacking America, all immigrants brought to this country by family are suspect?

Trump might have some credibility if his criticism of immigrants was solely about terrorists. It isn’t.

It makes no difference to him if an immigrant is a terrorist or a federal judge.

He once smeared an Indiana-born judge whose parents emigrated from Mexico.

It’s all the same to this president.

A man who clearly wants to put his stamp on the government, Trump hasn’t even done his job when it comes to filling key government positions that require Senate confirmation.

As of last week, Trump had failed to nominate anyone for 60% of 1,200 key positions he can fill to keep the government running smoothly.

Trump has shown contempt for ethical strictures that have bound every president in recent memory.

He has refused to release his tax returns, with the absurd excuse that it’s because he is under audit.

He has refused to put his multibillion dollar business interests in a blind trust and peddles the fiction that putting them in the hands of his sons does the same thing.

Not to mention calling white supremacists "very fine people," pardoning a lawless sheriff, firing a respected FBI director, and pushing the Justice Department to investigate his political foes.

It is a shock that only six Democratic senators are calling for our unstable president to resign.

The nation doesn’t seek nor expect perfect presidents, and some have certainly been deeply flawed.

But a president who shows such disrespect for the truth, for ethics, for the basic duties of the job and for decency toward others fails at the very essence of what has always made America great.

Misty » 13 Dec 2017 5:58 pm » wrote:Whoa!

Will Trump's lows ever hit rock bottom?
A president who'd all but call a senator a whore is unfit to clean toilets in Obama's presidential library or to shine George W. Bush's shoes: Our view
THE EDITORIAL BOARD | USA TODAY
With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office.
Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.

Misty » 13 Dec 2017 2:23 pm » wrote:This is why I love Joe Biden.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GocgqNLi-II

Misty » 13 Dec 2017 5:58 pm » wrote:Whoa!

Misty » 08 Dec 2017 7:10 pm » wrote: Before you joined Cult 45 you would never have called Steve Schmidt a Beltway hack.
WTF happened to you?

WORST COLUMN OF THE YEAR?
Over the years, I’ve probably learned as much, if not more, from George Will as from any columnist or political commentator. These days, his antipathy towards the U.S. president far exceeds mine, but I continue to learn from Will.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing to learn from Will’s latest contribution, in which he proclaims Trump the worst president in American history. The column is an embarrassment.


I can’t say it’s the worst of the year. Perhaps Eugene Robinson has served up worse. I can say that Will’s column is the worst I have read this year.

Will bases his claim that Trump is the worst president in American history on his endorsement of Roy Moore for the Senate. Will has nothing to say about any policy decision, legislative proposal, or presidential appointment Trump has made.

Read any competent historical analysis of a presidency, though, and you will find the focus squarely on policy, legislation and, to a lesser degree, appointments. Senatorial endorsements won’t even be a footnote.

Thus, Will’s column cannot be taken seriously.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... e-year.php

Misty » 15 Dec 2017 2:28 pm » wrote:He's filling the bench with nincompoops.

Misty » 12 Dec 2017 11:10 am » wrote: In less than a year in office, he has lied more than all 44 past presidents combined.

Misty » 15 Dec 2017 2:28 pm » wrote:He's filling the bench with nincompoops.

a great many lawyers have never argued a motion in court, and a majority, I am pretty sure, have never tried a case. Law is a specialized business.Litigators argue motions, take depositions and (sometimes) try cases. Non-litigators–a majority of the profession–don’t.

Matthew Petersen is not a litigator. He is a member of the Federal Election Commission and has expertise with respect to election law....

The lawyers who have the most thorough understanding of substantive areas of the law–real estate, taxes, corporate governance and so on–are generally not litigators. Do we really want to say that all of these non-litigators–the majority of lawyers–are unfit to be trial judges?....

I don’t know whether Matthew Petersen will make a good judge or not. But in my view, he doesn’t deserve to be ridiculed because his highly-successful law career has been conducted outside of the courtroom.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2 ... tified.php

Misty » 11 Dec 2017 1:53 pm » wrote: Shame on you Puss.
Stop lying.
You know you never said any such thing about Steve Schmidt.

Misty » 17 Dec 2017 6:55 pm » wrote:In 2016 President Obama signed a bill into law that said that the federal government will no longer use the terms "Negro" and "Oriental."
The bill said that the official terms will be African-American and Asian-American.
The measure H.R.4238, passed unanimously in the House of Representatives and the Senate.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/22/politics/ ... index.html

So of course if Obama did it, 45 has to undo it.

Misty » 18 Dec 2017 8:02 pm » wrote:A coup?
Really?

coup - a sudden, violent, and illegal seizure of power from a government.

coup or coup d’état an occasion when a group of people takes control of a country, usually by means of military force

https://www.macmillandictionary.com/us/ ... erican/cou

Misty » 15 Dec 2017 2:28 pm » wrote:He's filling the bench with nincompoops.

With single bill,
Republicans get wins on taxes, Obamacare mandate, oil drilling...
In one bill, Republicans said they were checking off three major parts of their agenda: The massive tax overhaul is coupled with a repeal of Obamacare’s individual mandate and authority to drill for oil in a remote Alaska refuge.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... -cut-plan/