Based upon his constant behavior, (along with his apparent obsession about the size of his hands) I can totally believe it.
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If it makes you feel any better, I’ve spent the good amount of my morning wondering various things from this cascade.
Does the President count the White House as a home office for tax purposes?
Is the White House classified as a residence for building code purposes?
Are sections of the White House actually coded as office and must meet energy code?
Is there someone on staff to be the human that fills in various bits where the code fails in order to meet code (like the fire marshal offstage when there’s a cigarette in a play)?
Is smoking allowed at all in the White House?
Is there laundry on the premises? Enough to do everything like the Lincoln Bedroom and everyone else? Is that daily, like at a hotel?
Who figures out if guests have allergies to various things in sheets? Or food? Where does private residence end and “representative of the United States” begin?
Seriously, this is going to keep me awake for a while.
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Seriously frightening stuff, and even more so when I divulge that I’m familiar with this image! Never thought I’d say this, but bring back Camacho’s crew!
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And the light switches were installed by Ben Franklin himself!
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If one good thing comes out of this mess, perhaps it will be that the “faculty wife” role gets questioned more thoroughly.
Other countries don’t have a First Lady role. In Canada the prime minister’s spouse gets some budget to hire people to deal with the inevitable charity and other requests to appear, but they don’t have an official designation and they don’t really have to show up. IIRC when the current PM’s dad was PM, his mum was sometimes too busy hanging out with the Rolling Stones to attend official functions. There was some tut-tutting, but Parliament worked as well as it ever does and Trudeau Senior got re-elected anyhow.
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Aid: “Mister President?”
Obama: “Yes?”
Aid: "The GSA . . . they forwarded a copy of this bill for plaster and paint for ‘last minute repairs’ on the West Wing. And another for installation of remote control light switches as part of last minute ‘modernization effort.’
Obama: “I’ll take those. Happy to pay them and do my bit to help reduce the deficit.”
Aid: "And this memo about missing remote controls for . . . "
Obama, smiling strangely: “Don’t know anything about that.”
Aid: “Thank you Mister President.”
Obama: “No problem.” {Waits for aid to leave.} {Pulls remote control from desk.} {Checks time, presses button.} {Smiles.}
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I don’t think anyone actually believes that he’s going to put America first though. Second at most.
You know, it may be better for everyone if there is no First Lady and if those events have to be cancelled. I do not want to think of the scandals that will be coming out about Trump during his time at the White House.
And most of them were men, who signed up based on a less credible promise of financial gain. If he tanks the economy they could lose their jobs and livelihoods. If America goes to war they could lose their kids. They have plenty of stake in this. Whether he is clueless or it’s all an act, it can’t be for their benefit and they willingly voted for him in full knowledge of how narcissistic and clueless he looks. Yesterday somebody told me to give him a chance and that I should love my enemies (and it’s not the first time I’ve been told that about Trump by any means). I said that I would feed and clothe him if he turned up destitute on my doorstep, but listing demonstrable facts about who he is and what he’s done with the chance people have given him is not showing hatred. Evangelicals who tell me that should read 2 Timothy 3 and then explain why they are not out on the streets proclaiming the apocalypse and warning everyone rather than voting for the guy.
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Non-sequitur? I was describing activities of people already present in the WH. It would be pretty dumb to look for WH lightswitches out on Pennsylvania Ave.
The fact of him being president is chilling, but the article actually lifted my spirits because it suggests that the “shock and awe” is behind us and that they’re starting to settle into a more languid incompetence. The last couple weeks have been exhausting.
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No, I’m saying nobody in the White House is there without being on the log. So if seven people all show up at the same time and one leaves an hour later, expect that they had a meeting.
The President’s calendar is also public record. And even off the record meetings are mentioned. Down to the minute.
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Calm down, everyone. Bannon found the switch:
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The best thing that could come of Melania not playing White Housewife as tradition demands is that responsibility for the unofficial “first lady” jobs might get transferred to the white house staff where it belongs.
It’s crazy that responsibility for seeing to the details of state dinners and the like is still to this day put on the head of the president’s spouse. It’s almost as if the American government is somehow still operating under the assumption that it’s the 1950’s. Oh wait…
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“Hey everyone, it’s a CYBERswitch, that’s why we had so many problems!”
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I hate Donald Trump because basically he has the lifestyle I was planning on having after the zombie apocalypse when me and the last few remnants of humanity I controlled by force of owning the only working uzi in existence holed up in the whitehouse.
Except there isn’t as much info on his porn habits and eating only oreo cookies, but otherwise basically the same lifestyle.
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Literally the next line of that quote is Homer not knowing what the other switch does.
(Turns on the Merry Christmas lights on the roof.)
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Pft. It’s called “ambiance”. Have you ever seen the Legion of Doom bright lit up?
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At my old job, the switch to turn off the lights when giving a presentation was hidden behind the projector screen. Good job, right there. To be fair, that room probably didn’t have a projector setup when it was first designed.
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It’s apparent you don’t understand my point. Among people already visiting the WH, some combination of them take a meeting behind the scenes. As behind the scenes as possible.
Of course this speculation wouldn’t speak to the general WH visitor log, but even so, you might want to update your understanding.
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I don’t understand how the Times can get so much information about so many details. What he wears in the official residence would only be known to a handful of people, all of whom would reasonably expect that they could be identified because of this, yet they’re still leaking? It’s hard to believe. On the other hand, it’s hard to believe the Times would just make stuff up. Baffling.
Also, the part about him fuming at not being briefed by Bannon about the Bannon-elevating executive order is very strange. Who knows that he’s more pissed off about that than about the travel ban controversy? Again, must be a small group. And one or more of the is talking to the hated New York Times? Really?
And, if it’s true, why doesn’t he punish Bannon? A narcissist like Trump finding out after the fact that one of his flunkies snuck an executive order through to benefit himself, that’s shedding unflattering light on Trump? And he doesn’t punish Bannon? That part makes me think the idea that someone has compromising material about Trump as blackmail is pretty plausible.
The whole situation is far more surreal than I ever would have thought possible in my lifetime.
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What in the actual fuck? I missed that when it came out.
What in the actual fuck?
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