Trump gives himself an A-plus on presidency: 'Can I go higher than that?'

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill


BY AVERY ANAPOL - 11/18/18 09:42 AM EST

President Trump on Sunday gave himself an “A-plus” on his presidency, but questioned whether he could get an even higher rating.

“Look, I hate to do it, but I will do it, I would give myself an A-plus,” he told Fox News’s Chris Wallace. “Is that enough? Can I go higher than that?”

Trump has repeatedly given himself high marks on his presidency. In April, he also gave himself an A-plus, and last year, rated himself a “10” on his handling of the 2017 hurricanes in Puerto Rico.

Trump’s interview with Wallace aired Sunday, the day after Trump visited California amid several major wildfires and after a deadly shooting at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks.



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Trump says he doesn't want to hear audio of Khashoggi killing 'because it's a suffering tape'

BY BRETT SAMUELS - 11/18/18 09:40 AM EST

President Trump said Sunday he doesn't want to listen to an audio recording that purportedly depicts the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi because it's "a suffering tape."

"We have the tape. I don’t want to hear the tape. No reason for me to hear the tape," Trump said in an interview with "Fox News Sunday."

Asked why, Trump said "because it’s a suffering tape."

"It’s a terrible tape," he added. "I’ve been fully briefed on it. There’s no reason for me to hear it."

The president said he knows everything about the tape because of briefings, and described it as "very violent, very vicious and terrible."

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[NRaleighLiberal]

1. we've had corrupt presidents - have we had stupid presidents? Certainly not a two-fer!

Tops in corruption, tops in a toxic blend of ignorance and stupidity....

I would give trump an A+++++ on ensuring that he will go down in history as absolutely the worst president of all time, worst that is even remotely possible. He gets his A+ on performance only in Seinfeld's Bizarro world!

[Cartoonist]

2. Seinfeld doesn't credit

Bizarro World originated in Superman comics.

[sandensea]

33. There was Dubya

Who, besides being as useless as tits on a boar, started the Iraq War as basically a business venture for his family, friends, and hangers-on.

But Cheeto's nipping at his heels on the worst president department, no doubt about that.

[hostalover]

43. I was slightly horrified last night on Brian Williams' show. He had some expert

on (don't remember his name) to talk about how presidents can grow in the job and become more empathetic, feel the sorrow of the country, etc. Trump, of course, is incapable of this, but the guest used George W and his response to 9-11 to show how one becomes the president. He actually said, "This is the moment when Bush became our president." In particular he meant the moment when Bush was standing on the rubble with a bullhorn. Blah, blah. I've probably explained this poorly, but I hope you get the idea. Turned me off big time!

[sandensea]

45. I hear you. That 911/Bush-as-the-redeemer fairy tale is practically a media regulation.

To this day that subject, as you know, cannot be touched in any way that doesn't practically deify Bush.

In much the same way the Reichstag fire was used to deify another despot from the past - until Germany learned that he and his toadies had set it to begin with. As anyone minimally observant could have told them.

[agingdem]

3. Oh yes, Donald..

I agree with you ...A+ for the number of lies in a single sentence...A+ for spewing Nazi inspired bile..A+ for turning our allies against us...A+ for being the most blatantly corrupt White House occupant ever...

[Scarsdale]

26. If the "A" means

ASSHOLE, then YES. He definitely deserves it. He gets uglier with each day that passes. Disgrace to the office of president. The WH must be carefully fumigated once this vile clan gets the HELL out, preferably to prison.

[no_hypocrisy]

4. Since Trump was a child, his family belonged to Norman Vincent Peale's church,

(Marble Collegiate). NVP preached the "power of positive thinking". Trump attended services for nearly 50 years.

It appears to me that he overshot the message and embraced a religion of superiority and Dunning Kruger Effect.

[marylandblue]

8. Peale is an antidepressant for people with low self-esteem

But for narcissists, it's cocaine.

[WePurrsevere]

20. Well said! nt

[Aristus]

11. Who was the politician who said:

"I find the Apostle Paul appealing and the Apostle Peale appalling"?

[NYC Liberal]

13. Adlai Stevenson. Who also gave us...

"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."

[Aristus]

17. Yeah, it sounded like him.

Thanks!

[LakeSuperiorView]

5. I don't think one needs any more proof than this for the 25th ammedment to be invoked.

Can you say Dunning Kruger?

[tanyev]

6. Doubleplusgood.

[SWBTATTReg]

7. pathetic isn't he? nt

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. Watching tape of Fox interview. Two realizations

1. He is 100% closed to any thoughts other than his own. He will not accept or be swayed by facts, criticism, or persuasion in any way shape or form. Crystal clear now that he must be impossible to deal with.

2. I have often thought that Trump's sham press conferences by the helicopters were designed to help him say whatever he wanted to say because we, the public, can not hear the question. Today, when talking about Acosta...he said he could minimize him by not turning the camera on him, cutting out his airtime. Now I am convinced that his helicopter conferences are designed. Why the press doesn't set up a mic is a total mystery to me.

[FakeNoose]

23. That plus one other thing

Cheeto thinks that by constantly spouting bullshit lies, he can make us forget the truth and believe his lies. That will NEVER HAPPEN but he can't conceive of this.

He'll never stop the bullshit lies, even though he KNOWS they are lies.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

36. Very good. But it's a truly odd pathology. I call in sick. I know that's a pure and simple

Lie. I may feel guilt. He is a different animal completely. He is completely driven
By delusion and self. It’s like he doesn’t even know what a lie is. He deludes himself into thinking what he says is true and nothing else is.

I like how you are keeping up with it....but he seems to be playing the media like a violin and they haven’t yet been able to keep up or to counteract.

[FakeNoose]

37. I agree - he has no conscience or sense of guilt

[Racerdog1]

10. If A stands for asshole

Then yes.

[BlueStater]

12. Because sane people talk like this.

Seriously, if we can't impeach THIS guy, then why does the process of impeachment even exist? It should be removed from the Constitution because it's completely worthless if it can't even be used to get rid of someone as phenomenally awful as this.

[dalton99a]

14. +1

[llmart]

25. +2

[Scarsdale]

29. Could we get either Kellyanne

or Sarah Sanders to give him a blowjob, THEN impeach him? We can bring up all the other crimes at the hearing.

[TexasBushwhacker]

40. We cannot impeach for 2 reasons

1. We would not be able to get 67 Senators to agree to convict.

2. Impeaching Trump would put Pence in the White House, and I'm not sure that is better.

[BlueStater]

42. He's should be impeached because it's warranted.

He's an unqualified lunatic who has absolutely no business being president. People like him are exactly why impeachment was put in the Constitution in the first place.

[Danascot]

15. Sure

If A is for Asshole

[sinkingfeeling]

16. Can you image this idiot in the war room during a serious international crisis like the

Obama administration during raid to get Osama bin Laden?

He'd be under the table.

[denvine]

18. He's back!

After one day of saying nice things about Democrats he's back to his narcissistic, bombastic, offensive, insensitive, lying ways. A+, my god he lives in an alternate universe.

[The Liberal Lion]

19. The level of humility this man displays is just amazing

(folks, I'm here all week)

[dalton99a]

22. .

[edbermac]

21. I'd give him a Z-minus.

Can I go any lower than that?

[Julian Englis]

24. He has gone higher: High Crimes and Misdemeanors

I imagine there are some who look forward to your being hoisted even higher should you ever be tried & found guilty for your crimes and betrayal of our United States.

[dawg day]

27. i will never understand why so many Americans--

listen to these bragging and arrogant pronouncements and still approve of him. 44%! Do they really like it when he talks only about himself, and as if he's some kind of god?

I am trying to imagine someone like Michael Jordan (who really was A+) saying something like that. He wouldn't, because the real route to greatness goes through self-awareness.

[BobTheSubgenius]

28. Why would anyone even ask that question?

A fortune teller at a county fair could predict the answer.

[Doodley]

30. I would think a score of 10 is about right

out of 100. That includes 5 points for not launching any nuclear missiles and 5 for keeping his hair dry.

[LakeSuperiorView]

31. Makes me wish for a system where the President is choosen from qualified people randomly,

where the number one qualification is not wanting to be President.

[jcgoldie]

32. Pretty much says it all

If you ask anyone in the world to rate their own performance on just about anything and they give themselves an "A-plus"... pretty sure its highly likely they are a narcissistic douchebag.

[Jedi Guy]

39. Not necessarily.

My job involves having a set amount of work completed by a certain date. I've never, ever missed a deadline, even if it meant working (unpaid) overtime. That being the case, I'd rate myself A+ on making my deadlines. I don't think that would make me a narcissistic douchebag.

In Trump's case, though, he's definitely a narcissist and a douchebag. His time in office has been objectively awful by any metric.

[Firestorm49]

34. An A+ in bullshit?

[Firestorm49]

35. Ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego, ego

[irisblue]

38. What.An.Idiot

[czarjak]

41. "I hate to do it but I will do it"...

Liar, you don’t hate to do it.

[Nitram]

44. "Don't worry, if there was something higher than 'A', I'd give it to myself."

"As for Kashoggi, Total Loser. Just another Enemy of the People spreading Fake News. I like the Saudis and I know they don't do stuff like that. Now I gotta get back to the Quarter-Pounder I was eating before you interupted me."