God stopped the rain for Donnie from Queens
The Post gives us a nice opening paragraph:
On his first full day in office, President Trump visited the Central Intelligence Agency’s headquarters to express his gratitude for the intelligence community, which he had repeatedly railed against and recently likened to Nazis.
“I’m so grateful to you, you Nazis.” Not entirely convincing, perhaps.
What Trump delivered Saturday was a campaign-style, stream-of-consciousness airing of grievances — at the Senate for delaying confirmation of his nominees; at critics for questioning whether he is smart and vigorous; and at journalists, whom he called “the most dishonest human beings on earth” and accused of lying about the size of his inauguration crowd.
Well at least we know we’re annoying him. That may be our only consolation for awhile, but then again, he may get so annoyed he flounces back to Trump Tower for good.
Trump claimed falsely that the crowd for his swearing-in stretched down the National Mall to the Washington Monument and totaled more than 1 million people. It did not. Trump accused television networks of showing “an empty field” and reporting that he drew just 250,000 people to witness Friday’s ceremony.
“It looked like a million, a million and a half people,” Trump said, falsely claiming that his crowd “went all the way back to the Washington Monument.”
He’s stupid, he’s prickly, and he’s a liar.
Trump also misrepresented what happened to the weather during his swearing in. He said he felt a few drops of rain as he started delivering his address, but then, “God looked down and, and he said we’re not going to let it rain on your speech.. . .The truth is it stopped immediately.”
Light rain continued to fall through the first few minutes of the speech — and VIP’s at the dais took out ponchos, including former president George W. Bush — and then quit. Trump said there was a downpour right after he finished, which did not occur.
Jezus what a goon he is.
Speaking from the lobby of CIA headquarters in Langley, before a wall of stars honoring intelligence officers who died in service, Trump declared, “I have a running war with the media. They are among the most dishonest human beings on earth, right?”
No. No, you piece of shit – you are.
His audience was three to four hundred CIA people who were there because they’d signed up for it, so probably fans of his.
But aspects of his appearance are likely to be unsettling to the broader workforce, including his suggestion that the agency has been losing in the battle against the Islamic State and other terror groups, and his decision to score political points unrelated to the CIA’s mission in front of its most sacred setting — a wall emblazoned with more than 100 carved stars to mark the deaths of agency operatives killed in the line of duty.
It’s what a narcissist does. Trump thinks everyone is as fascinated by him as he is.
“That was one of the more disconcerting speeches I’ve seen,” said a senior U.S. intelligence official who was not present for the Trump speech but watched it by video. “He could have kept it very simple and said, ‘I’m here to build some bridges.’ But he spent 10 seconds on that and the rest was on the crowd size,” the official said, referring to Trump’s repeated complaints that the media had undercounted the turnout for his inauguration.
Nothing about Alec Baldwin?
“There is nobody that feels stronger about the intelligence community and the CIA than Donald Trump,” Trump said. “There is nobody.”
He added, “I am so behind you. I know maybe sometimes you haven’t gotten the backing that you’ve wanted and you’re going to get so much backing. Maybe you’re going to say, ‘Please, don’t give us so much backing. Mr. President, please, we don’t need so much backing.’”
See what he did there? He said he’s going to be so generous that they’ll actually beg him to stop. Can he use the language or what.
He talked about Pompeo and Flynn for awhile but then he got back on topic.
From there, Trump delved into a series of personal grievances. He claimed to “know a lot about West Point” and said his uncle was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
“I’m a person that very strongly believes in academics,” Trump said. “They say, ‘Is Donald Trump an intellectual?’ Trust me. I’m, like, a smart person.”
Nah, they don’t. They say Trump is thick as two short planks. The fact that he’s not an intellectual is too obvious to discuss.
If he was an intellectual, his backers wouldn’t be backing him. They hate intellectuals. The same thing with Dubya – lots of claims about how ordinary he was, how much one of the little people, but when he was with a crowd of people who might actually be intelligent, he’d brag and boast about his Yale and Harvard degrees. A number of people I knew who were Dubya supporters, anti-intellectuals all of them, pointed out that Dubya had gone to Yale and Harvard, while Kerry only went to Boston College. Only Boston College…wow.
But who, who, who would give a speech as president and say “I’m, like, a smart person”? Obviously the answer is Donnie…but…no, anyone who is, like, a smart person doesn’t usually have to say that, because it shows. Which is why Clinton never went to a debate or a speech and announced that she was a smart person – it shows. Obama never went to a speech and claimed he was a smart person. He didn’t have to.
It’s like one tantrum/meltdown after another. Or maybe just one continuous one with pauses for breath.