Steve Bannon predicts special counsel Robert Mueller will “crack Don Jr. like an eggâ€
Trump didn’t seem to know who former House Speaker John Bohener was
First Lady Melania Trump was horrified by Trump’s win
Former campaign aide tried to tutor Trump in governance by teaching him about the Constitution — and failed miserably.
Trump didn’t want former United Nations ambassador John Bolton to be secretary of state because of his mustache
Trump called former strategic director Hope Hicks "the best piece of tail [Lewandowski]’ll ever have"
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Morning
Totally understand, 2018 has started up like when you accidentally press too hard on the gas pedal when the light turns green
There was, after the abrupt Scaramucci meltdown, hardly any effort inside the West Wing to disguise the sense of ludicrousness and anger felt by every member of the senior staff toward Trump's family and Trump himself. It became almost a kind of competition to demystify Trump. For Rex Tillerson, he was a moron. For Gary Cohn, he was dumb as shit. For H.R. McMaster, he was a hopeless idiot. For Steve Bannon, he had lost his mind.
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Morning
Totally understand, 2018 has started up like when you accidentally press too hard on the gas pedal when the light turns green
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GLORIOUS.There was, after the abrupt Scaramucci meltdown, hardly any effort inside the West Wing to disguise the sense of ludicrousness and anger felt by every member of the senior staff toward Trump's family and Trump himself. It became almost a kind of competition to demystify Trump. For Rex Tillerson, he was a moron. For Gary Cohn, he was dumb as shit. For H.R. McMaster, he was a hopeless idiot. For Steve Bannon, he had lost his mind.
As the first year wound down, Trump finally got a bill to sign. The tax bill, his singular accomplishment, was, arguably, quite a reversal of his populist promises, and confirmation of what Mitch McConnell had seen early on as the silver Trump lining: "He'll sign anything we put in front of him."
Here’s another buzzy Wolff tidbit, printed Wednesday in a New York magazine excerpt of his book: that Trump told Roger Ailes in 2016 that he didn’t know who John Boehner was.
“You need a son of a bitch as your chief of staff,†[Ailes] told Trump. “And you need a son of a bitch who knows Washington. You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.†Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.
“Who’s that?†asked Trump.
But as my colleague Isaac Chotiner pointed out on Twitter, it’s been previously reported that Trump played golf with John Boehner in 2013, the same year that he discussed Boehner’s relationship with the Republican caucus in an interview with the National Review.
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Also, I am on the verge of unleashing a monster rant about the meteorological term "bombogenesis", which actually happens in nearly EVERY intensifying storm.
No lie, a local meteorologist said on the air, "bomb cyclone sounds cooler".
Yeah, well fuck you, panic-mongerer!!
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Here come the rain on the parade.Here’s another buzzy Wolff tidbit, printed Wednesday in a New York magazine excerpt of his book: that Trump told Roger Ailes in 2016 that he didn’t know who John Boehner was.
“You need a son of a bitch as your chief of staff,†[Ailes] told Trump. “And you need a son of a bitch who knows Washington. You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.†Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.
“Who’s that?†asked Trump.
But as my colleague Isaac Chotiner pointed out on Twitter, it’s been previously reported that Trump played golf with John Boehner in 2013, the same year that he discussed Boehner’s relationship with the Republican caucus in an interview with the National Review.
Trump's lawyers have issued a lengthy letter to Michael Wolff demanding he stop publication of book and issue an apology. Signed by Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought Gawker down.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 4, 2018
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Here come the rain on the parade.Here’s another buzzy Wolff tidbit, printed Wednesday in a New York magazine excerpt of his book: that Trump told Roger Ailes in 2016 that he didn’t know who John Boehner was.
“You need a son of a bitch as your chief of staff,†[Ailes] told Trump. “And you need a son of a bitch who knows Washington. You’ll want to be your own son of a bitch, but you don’t know Washington.†Ailes had a suggestion: John Boehner, who had stepped down as Speaker of the House only a year earlier.
“Who’s that?†asked Trump.
But as my colleague Isaac Chotiner pointed out on Twitter, it’s been previously reported that Trump played golf with John Boehner in 2013, the same year that he discussed Boehner’s relationship with the Republican caucus in an interview with the National Review.
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They stole our seat in Virginia. Yancy was picked.
Jacob Zuma – the President of South Africa. (2017) pic.twitter.com/hlJHWXOvqe
— World Leaders in Pictures (@wrong_leaders) January 4, 2018
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Jebus!Trump's lawyers have issued a lengthy letter to Michael Wolff demanding he stop publication of book and issue an apology. Signed by Charles Harder, the lawyer who brought Gawker down.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 4, 2018
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The Wolff book has completely outshined this little gem.
UPDATE: Kobach says left shouldn't celebrate demise of voter fraud commission. Why? ICE and its leaders are taking over the work. (Yes, @ICEgov) https://t.co/edhHFVpJ8j w/@MatthewNussbaum
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) January 4, 2018
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The Wolff book has completely outshined this little gem.
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The Wolff book has completely outshined this little gem.
I wonder if they found out things they didn't want to know.
and there is this :UPDATE: Kobach says left shouldn't celebrate demise of voter fraud commission. Why? ICE and its leaders are taking over the work. (Yes, @ICEgov) https://t.co/edhHFVpJ8j w/@MatthewNussbaum
— Josh Gerstein (@joshgerstein) January 4, 2018
And that went for Saturday Night Live, which might think it was very funny but was actually hurting everybody in the country. And while he understood that SNL was there to be mean to him, they were being very, very mean. It was “fake comedy.†He had reviewed the treatment of all other presidents in the media, and there was nothing like this ever, even of Nixon, who was treated very unfairly. “Kellyanne, who is very fair, has this all documented. You can look at it.â€
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I guess the only reason things haven't been fucked up yet is because of the Trump administration's utter incompetence.
Much has been made about how their rental made Javanka the neighbors of former president Barack Obama and his family, who occupy a home a few blocks away. But if the couple does wind up in Massachusetts Avenue Heights, they’ll be within sugar-borrowing distance of another of Ivanka’s father’s sworn enemies: Former presidential rival Hillary Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, own a home there.
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Tonight's Bruins game is postponed because of the snow.
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Home in one piece - we made it to noon at the store, with about 5 customers in total.
It's finally gotten gnarly out there, but not from the snow. We just had the "supermoon" and associated astronomical high tides.
Parts of downtown Boston are under 2-3 feet of water, including most of Seaport Boulevard and long stretches of Atlantic Avenue, including right in front of the New England Aquarium.
That's my "trolley stop", and if the water doesn't recede it's going to freeze solid overnight. It's going to be interesting tomorrow.
Oh, and BTW, there was no climate change, right? The President couldn't have been wrong about that.
Video shows waves coming over wall and flooding streets in Scituate, Massachusetts.
— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 4, 2018
(via Jonathan Choe / NBC Boston) pic.twitter.com/BeTiI1s5FP
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One of my coworkers posted a thing to our group chat about all the power outages in Nova Scotia. 242 reported outages with over 20,000 homes & businesses without power.
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Tonight's Bruins game is postponed because of the snow.
how are things on the Island?
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One of my coworkers posted a thing to our group chat about all the power outages in Nova Scotia. 242 reported outages with over 20,000 homes & businesses without power.
This storm is wicked. I just saw a video of Provincetown flooding.