You didn't look too hard...
We men know what ostentatious and gaudy things are used for...
Hole getting deeper..."not guilty your honor, I wasn't trying to be racist, I was just trying to be sexist"...
Hole getting deeper..."not guilty your honor, I wasn't trying to be racist, I was just trying to be sexist".(Is that working for anybody else?)
Fortunately, the 1st amendment still stands.
UPDATED with video: Last week in “Donald Trump” was so nuts that John Oliver was forced to devote virtually all of Last Week Tonight to talking about it.“The last seven days have been absolutely insane – so much so that, by Friday night, it may have broken Anderson Cooper,” Oliver acknowledged.He’s of course referring to Cooper’s Friday show, during which the host interrupted Trump surrogate Jeffrey Lord as he defended yet another indefensible Trump statement, saying, “If [Trump] took a dump on his desk you would defend him.”“And, more importantly, Jeffrey Lord did not immediately answer, ‘No,'” Oliver laughed.
...However, ignorant, racist or sexist hate speach (or any of a host of hate based topics) is not free to stand uncommented on when spewed forth....
Here's a new U.S. export: President Donald Trump's exaggerations about his record.In his speech in Saudi Arabia on Sunday during his first foreign trip as president, Trump claimed to have accomplished record spending on the armed forces, even though Congress has yet to pass a budget that reflects his plans and promises. Trump releases a detailed budget proposal Tuesday after having come up only with an outline before, and nothing is achieved until and unless Congress passes something.Trump often takes credit for accomplishments that have yet to be realized or that were the work of his predecessor, as he did last week when boasting about a Coast Guard icebreaker that the Obama administration started. But it was his first opportunity to do so abroad.Trump's foreign trip came as something of a break from the storm over the investigation into his 2016 campaign's relationship with Russia. That episode prompted a number of questionable statements by the president and his aides. Here's a review of claims on various matters over the past week:
The Trump administration wants to take an ax to the safety net in order to balance the budget.The Trump administration is billing its budget as a plan to “reform the welfare system” and replace “dependency with dignity of work,” while saving $274 billion over 10 years, according to a 4 page memo obtained by POLITICO.The White House budget, to be released Tuesday, will suggest taking an ax to safety net programs like food stamps and popular family benefits like the child tax credit, in order to achieve the ambitious goal of balancing the federal budget over a decade.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, invoked his constitutional right against self-incrimination on Monday and declined to hand over documents sought under subpoena by a Senate panel investigating Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election.In a letter to the Senate intelligence committee , Flynn’s attorneys justified the decision by citing an “escalating public frenzy against him” and saying the Justice Department’s recent appointment of a special counsel has created a legally dangerous environment for him to cooperate with the panel’s investigation.“The context in which the committee has called for General Flynn’s testimonial production of documents makes clear that he has more than a reasonable apprehension that any testimony he provides could be used against him,” the attorneys wrote in the letter, which was obtained by the AP.
A picture of Donald Trump, Saudi Arabia’s King Salman and Egyptian President Abdel Fatah al-Sissi with their hands on a glowing orb has the internet confused—prompting comparisons with Lord of the Rings, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace and other films.In reality, the widely shared photograph depicts Trump, King Salman and al-Sissi at the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Riyadh.During the center’s opening ceremony, the leaders placed their hands on the globe in a gesture of solidarity to launch the center.
If only it were a “Saturday Night Live” sketch. The Associated Press reports:President Donald Trump says he never “mentioned the word or the name Israel” during a recent conversation with top Russian diplomats.Speaking alongside Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Trump was referencing revelations that he divulged classified information about an Islamic State threat in a recent meeting with Russia’s foreign minister and ambassador.U.S. officials said the information originated from Israel.Trump says, “I never mentioned the word or the name Israel in that conversation.” But it was never alleged that Trump told the Russians that Israel was the source of the intelligence, just that he shared the information with the Russians.Moreover, by conveying his message in Israel, he obviously confirmed that the information came from Israel.Former CIA director Michael Hayden reacted to this forehead-slapping blunder via email:Choice one. Say nothing.Choice two. If FORCED to comment, say no specific sources were mentioned.Choice three. Don’t use choice two standing next to the Israeli prime minister.Was Trump “exhausted,” as a briefer claimed yesterday in explaining why he muffed the phrase “Islamic extremism” in his speech in Saudi Arabia? If so, we are reminded that a 70-year-old obese man with a horrible diet and refusal to exercise (except for a weekend of golf) may not have the wherewithal to make it through the rigors of the presidency. He was only a couple of days into the trip when, apparently, he couldn’t spit out his lines correctly. The alternative explanation is that he is not, as he famously said, “I'm like a smart person” That realization should petrify both Americans and our allies and entice our enemies, who are probably convinced they can fool the hapless president again and again.Trump’s error is so laughably horrible it left many observers shaking their heads. “I can’t imagine why the President would be commenting on this in a public setting on camera,” said former ambassador Eric S. Edelman. “To the extent that information was unintentionally shared in the conversations with the Russians, he will now be seen to be confirming the origin. It is just further evidence of his total lack of understanding of the uses and abuses of classified information.”
A senior White House official said Trump's Islamist/Islamic slip-up was due to him being "exhausted"The White House wants you to believe that President Donald Trump didn’t mean to offend Muslim audiences when he referred to Islamist extremism as “Islamic extremism.”He was just an “exhausted guy.”That’s what an unnamed senior White House official told CNN on Monday, claiming that Trump intended to say “Islamist extremism” but said “Islamic extremism” because he was “just an exhausted guy” by the time he delivered the speech. The prepared remarks do indeed show Trump saying “Islamist extremism,” which is the correct term when referring to the political movements that attempt to create governments based around Islamic theological precepts.
President Trump is receiving generally high marks, even from some of his usual critics, for the speech he delivered Sunday in Saudi Arabia at the Arab Islamic American Summit – especially for his conciliatory comments toward Islam, which he called “one of the world’s great faiths.”Of course, the Twittersphere had a field day contrasting the tone and careful language of the speech with Trump’s previous pronouncements, including his claim in 2016 that “I think Islam hates us…. There’s a tremendous hatred there.”And while it’s an exaggeration to say that Barack Obama could have given the speech, it’s notable that Trump never used the term he excoriated his predecessor -- and Hillary Clinton -- for eschewing.“These are radical Islamic terrorists and [Clinton] won't even mention the word, and nor will President Obama,” Trump said at an Oct. 9 debate with his Democratic rival.
Oh, come on! It was the American press who outed Israel a week or so ago.
