What remains unsettling, however, is the thoroughly reasonable conviction that when the president delivers such homilies, he has no real connection to those words. At any moment, it’s plausible to expect that the id will drive the superego from the podium, and the explosion of grievance, self-pity and rage will erupt—dominating a day that has in recent times been free of political division.

THE COURT: ...

So I guess the reason I wanted to have this call, obviously, we had our call -- I guess it was yesterday; feels like a while ago, but I think it was yesterday -- and then this morning I saw a tweet that got my attention. I don't know how many federal judges have Twitter accounts, but I happen to be one of them, and I follow the President, and so I saw a tweet that directly contradicted the position that Mr. Gardner had shared with me yesterday.

I'll say in that regard I had felt somewhat bad about not just immediately accepting Mr. Gardner's representation and sort of taking some measures to try to pin it down.

I think I even indicated yesterday, and I'll indicate again today, that Mr. Gardner and every government attorney who has appeared in this case has been nothing but professional and candid with the Court. And so my attempts to pin him down yesterday were not sort of any reflection on him or what I think of his candor. But then the tweet that I saw, which I suspect we all know the tweet I'm referring to, then caused me to think I hadn't gone far enough in terms of pinning the Government down on where things stand.

Tero wrote:we will do our best (on twitter) to make Trumpfest a fiasco. But I am nearly 100% sure ha cannot stay on script and will promote himself in an inappropriate way. He will basically say ONLY HE can save the America he is presenting.

What remains unsettling, however, is the thoroughly reasonable conviction that when the president delivers such homilies, he has no real connection to those words. At any moment, it’s plausible to expect that the id will drive the superego from the podium, and the explosion of grievance, self-pity and rage will erupt—dominating a day that has in recent times been free of political division.

https://www.politico.com/magazine/story ... all-227263

Caper wrote:From a Youtube comment:

"Marmalade Mussolini"

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Caper wrote:From a Youtube comment:

"Marmalade Mussolini"

It is obvious he watches old Mussolini films to get the poses.

Tortured_Genius wrote:

Scot Dutchy wrote:

Caper wrote:From a Youtube comment:

"Marmalade Mussolini"

It is obvious he watches old Mussolini films to get the poses.

Bloody hell, Trump's hand gestures, like that way he gestures with his hand whilst making circle with his index finger and thumb for emphasis, exactly mimic Mussolini's.

I could never figure out why he used that gesture or where it came from.

Thanks Scot, now we know.

Rachel Bronwyn wrote:A friend of mine who is a deaf-blind interpreter says one of the hand movements Trump does when he talks means anus or asshole in ASL so whenever he does it all she hears is "buttholebuttholebuttholebuttholebuttholebutthole".

Alan B wrote:...and he's got tiny hands.

WASHINGTON — President Trump used extraordinarily harsh rhetoric to renew his call for stronger immigration laws Wednesday, calling undocumented immigrants "animals" and venting frustration at Mexican officials who he said "do nothing" to help the United States.

“We have people coming into the country or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are," Trump said.

"These aren't people. These are animals."

Animavore wrote:

WASHINGTON — President Trump used extraordinarily harsh rhetoric to renew his call for stronger immigration laws Wednesday, calling undocumented immigrants "animals" and venting frustration at Mexican officials who he said "do nothing" to help the United States.

“We have people coming into the country or trying to come in, we're stopping a lot of them, but we're taking people out of the country. You wouldn't believe how bad these people are," Trump said.

"These aren't people. These are animals."

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/poli ... 617252002/