Is there no one at the White House that can hem a pair of trousers?
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Be Best, right?
…Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height.
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…Kahn reminds me very much of our very dumb and incompetent Mayor of NYC, de Blasio, who has also done a terrible job - only half his height.
Sadiq Khan is just about the only adult left in UK politics, and he would be my choice as the person to replace Corbyn and heal the Labour party.
Meanwhile, I just saw one talking head on a UK news programme assuring another that “of course Trump must have been thoroughly briefed that he must absolutely positively not mention Brexit in the Queen’s presence.” As if that isn’t the best way to ensure that he does in fact mention it. Though perhaps everyone will get lucky and he’ll pronounce it “breakfast”; I don’t think HRH will be too upset if he says that breakfast is the best thing to happen in the UK in years.
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Yes, I know. Re-boing. And satire. But still… Give Phil the keys to the Land Rover back for one day, I say.
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Tariffs = Taxes
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Yeah, Rodrigo, we already knew. [ETA: To be clear, I’m not using “gay” as a pejorative, just noting that people who are aggressively anti-gay have a strong habit of being gay.]
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El Paso will be waiting a very long time if past is prologue.
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The bizarre spectacle of “nastygate” continues, even as Trump arrives in the UK, and continues to deny that he ever called the Duchess of Sussex “nasty”, despite his comments being on tape and easy for anyone to watch. (apparently his logic is that he was calling her policies ‘nasty’ when he said “I didn’t know that she was nasty”)
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The bar Trump is being asked to cross is so low it’s insane. The exchange before Trump said that was:
Are you sorry not to see her because she wasn’t so nice about you during the campaign. I don’t know if you saw that,” the interviewer can be heard asking Trump in the clip.
“I didn’t know that. No. I didn’t know that,” Trump responded. “No, I hope she’s OK.”
The interviewer noted that Markle “said she would move to Canada if you got elected.”
“A lot of people are moving here. So, what can I say? No, I didn’t know that she was nasty,” the president said.
(From newsweek)
So one one hand I think to myself, the clear implication of what Trump said was “I didn’t know she was nasty [to me during the campaign].” Saying someone said nasty things has a totally different implication than saying they are a nasty person.
But shouldn’t Trump’s answer have been: “No, I’m sorry the duchess wasn’t able to make it. Everyone is entitled to their opinion on politics, and I’m the president of all Americans. I think people would be rightly outraged if I held it against someone that they voted or campaigned against me.” In normal times a leader would be right to be a little offended by the question, and call out the implication of the question.
And then Trump’s team responds by saying it didn’t happen and putting out a tape of it happening, showing themselves to be incompetent. We just hold Trump and everyone who works for the white house to impossibly low standards.
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Well apparently we in the UK only know about these things because the only news we get from the US is CNN.
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She doesn’t have policies! she’s a non-political duchess!
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It’s so crazy to me that I can explain what Trump said and Trump’s communications people can’t. I’m sure it’s a mix of: 1) They are brutally incompetent; 2) Trump is an active source of disinformation even about things beneficial to Trump.
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I can’t imagine it’s an easy job, being his communications people.
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The original interview was with The Sun, and I first heard about this via the BBC, which makes it extra bizarre that he’s somehow blaming this on CNN.
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It’s a bit wider context:
Just arrived in the United Kingdom. The only problem is that @CNN is the primary source of news available from the U.S. After watching it for a short while, I turned it off. All negative & so much Fake News, very bad for U.S. Big ratings drop. Why doesn’t owner @ATT do something?
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Two of my go to sources for news about the US are the guardian and the BBC. British reporting about America is much more objective than America reporting about itself, and Trump would not like what it says.
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Absolutely, American news sources get mucked up in their own wonky granular detail and trying to please Trump (or piss him off on purpose, depending on the editors) but British news about the US is much more even handed. I miss Al Jazeera America, they were the best.
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