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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWell I hope this finally sinks in for EVERYONE.. you cannot be friendly to Donald Trump!!
You cannot help him, you cannot do anything to ease his way.. he is a brick short of a full load.. President Obama tried to help him and get him on the right path .. and this is the pay back he gets.. he does it to EVERYONE who tries to help him or signs on with him.. He is one sick son of a gun..
Warpy
(111,537 posts)They take hostages.
Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)Yup! You are so right .
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)A big part of recovering from living with ppl who are so malevolent is learning-- really learning-- that you can't make them better people.
Learn to draw boundaries and stick to ultimatums.
That's something we all could stand to learn.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,789 posts)How DARE he insult President Obama! He must have a guilty conscience or something. And that's only one of a long list of reasons.
Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)greatauntoftriplets
(175,789 posts)InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,129 posts)Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)We could get rid of the loathsome cabinet too.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,129 posts)BumRushDaShow
(130,418 posts)I don't think he did it in the manner that you are trying to imply. I believe he did his due diligence to "pass the torch" as it was passed on to him by Shrub and then let the chips fall where they may. I expect there is some manual or set of guidelines that Presidents have that they follow when making the transition.
Meanwhile he had already gathered and preserved evidence that was available against Drumpf's campaign and anything related to the Russian hacking, etc. - https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/01/us/politics/obama-trump-russia-election-hacking.html
Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)but President Obama is a decent man who tried to help a wad of spit!!.. and what did he get for his efforts.. remember when they offered to show their people around.. help them at least get a little settled and no one showed up...they are a bunch of rubes.. who now are running our country into the ground..
BumRushDaShow
(130,418 posts)The "show their people around" is most like (probably 99%) "by the book" (from an actual published set of guidelines).
When you work in the federal government (as I have for decades), there is usually an employee "handbook" of some kind. I expect that for something as sophisticated as the Office of the President, the same exists. It has to. The functions in there are so massive that this is why they have GSA work with a President-elect's transition team to lease and set up the "transition" office space well before the inauguration, and usually beginning the plans for the move-in process just post-election. so that all the nitty gritty details can be worked out.
There was a fascinating radio show on WTOP back in the fall of 2008 just after the election that described the process and interviewed someone from GSA to talk about it. In Drumpf's case, THAT is what Crispy Cream was in charge of until he was unceremoniously booted.
Eventually people "see" the more "formal" (somewhat staged) "showing around" bit when the media is invited in to film it. But I would not read anything into that.
Yes he and Michelle were "gracious" but I guarantee you that what they did was "by the book" and regardless of the ignorant response to that by his successor, I doubt that any of what they did was "personal" nor would they take any insults from him as "personal". If anything, they are probably laughing their asses off but they did try to make sure to dot the "i"s and cross the "t"s before they left.
Stuart G
(38,477 posts)excellent OP..but................I would say he is a entire shipment..short...say a thousand bricks short..a whole wall of bricks..(a wall, get it?)....you see one brick ain't enuf... so many bricks short, that they cannot make enuf bricks....so..the .."brick short"...has taken on ..Obama and Comey......now....
that ain't too smart....is it????...
don't ask me... ...I voted for the smart lady....
Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)and its only been 50 plus days..
Stuart G
(38,477 posts)why?... .....
because almost all of us, learn very early that there is indeed a time to.."shut up"...and it don't take much sense to figure that out.. yes. shut up, be quiet...you know what I am saying.. ...
but this one ...the Thump...is quite the ..."stupid"....cause he don't know when to..........
....SHUT UP!!!!!!...AND THE LAST FEW DAYS PROVE IT.......
Peacetrain
(22,893 posts)neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)For one thing, people who are "smart" - (intelligence comes in many forms; I just meant people with some knowledge/talent) - generally know their limits. Know what they don't know.
Trump was born into great wealth, so naturally he thinks he's good at everything.
Stuart G
(38,477 posts)..."generally know our limits" It is part of the growing up thing...
So I am a good writer, if I work at it enough, but I stink in math..Some complexities are way beyond me, and some I understand. Not only is Trump not good at everything...he is good at very little...and he doesn't have a clue about that..
neeksgeek
(1,214 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)murielm99
(30,805 posts)I am good at writing, raising funds, that sort of thing. I took math classes and did my best. I worked very hard to do well in math. It is not my strength.
I have worked hard to understand other things that are not my strengths. Presidents have to do much more than that! And for things they do not understand, they hire experts. They put them in the State Department, HUD, Homeland Security, and other places. That is why Presidents have advisors and cabinet departments.
uponit7771
(90,379 posts)Chellee
(2,106 posts)He says he's "like a smart guy."
Subconsciously, even he knows it's not true.
But I know what you mean; I can't even bear to listen to him talk. I've become master of the mute button when I watch news programs.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)mercuryblues
(14,577 posts)humbled_opinion
(4,423 posts)of a Psychopath. Sooner or later a serious discussion about applying the 25th amendment will have to happen.
SunSeeker
(51,902 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,402 posts)Can't happen soon enough. The entire cabinet has got to go.
Marcuse
(7,579 posts)Spicer said, "There will be no further comment from the White House until such oversight is conducted. "
Kaleva
(36,455 posts)ecstatic
(32,831 posts)to destroy the country. I think it helped a little, but now that tRumP has gone completely batshit, who knows what will happen?
How should Obama have dealt with a person like that? Especially when that person would have the nuke codes?
Kablooie
(18,658 posts)So they've happily sutured their lips to his buttocks.
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