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A Timeline Of Trump’s Relationship With The Press. President Trump routinely insists that he is treated unfairly by the press, while many in the news industry have openly expressed how difficult it can be to report on him in today’s chaotic media environment. Here is a timeline of the major events that have shaped this relationship. Rebecca Solnit · From Lying to Leering: Penis Power · LRB 19 January 2017. Women told me they had flashbacks to hideous episodes in their past after the second presidential debate on 9 October, or couldn’t sleep, or had nightmares. The words in that debate mattered, as did their delivery. Donald Trump interrupted Hillary Clinton 18 times (compared to 51 interruptions in the first debate). His reply to the moderator Anderson Cooper’s question about his videotaped boasts of grabbing women by the pussy, which had been released a few days earlier, was: ‘But it’s locker room talk, and it’s one of those things.

I will knock the hell out of Isis … And we should get on to much more important things and much bigger things.’ Then he promised to ‘make America safe again’ – but not from him. That week, women and Isis were informally paired as things Trump promised to assault. But words were secondary to actions. Misogyny was everywhere. The very existence of Clinton seemed to infuriate a lot of people, as it has since at least 1992. 'Daily Show' And Rosie O'Donnell Reveal Donald Trump's 'Very Very Incredible Deal'

Donald Trump Makes His Case in Pittsburgh. PITTSBURGH—“Running for president is a very important endeavor,” Donald Trump said. “What is more important, right?” He leaned forward on his chair, separated by a heavy black curtain in a makeshift green room from the crowd waiting to hear him speak at the Shale Insight Conference. “I am running because, number one, I think I will do a very good job. Number two, it’s really about making American great again.” “I mean that; I really do want to make America great again,” he said. The 70-year-old Republican nominee took his time walking from the green room toward the stage. “I am blown away!” Just before he takes the stage, I ask whether there’s one question that reporters never ask but that he wishes they would.

Then he stops in his tracks before pulling back the curtain and answers, so quietly that is almost a whisper: “You know, I consider myself to be a nice person. On stage, Trump began by addressing the unrest in Charlotte. It’s a claim that drives fact-checkers to distraction. Here is everything that Trump has called ‘overrated’ Beneath Trump’s Mockery of a Reporter, a Cascade of Lies Leading Back to 9/11. Donald Trump, the serial liar who will be sworn in as President of the United States next week, lied once again on Monday, rejecting the actress Meryl Streep’s condemnation of him for impersonating a reporter’s physical disability on the campaign trail last year by insisting that he had done no such thing.

“For the 100th time,” Trump wrote on Twitter, “I never ‘mocked’ a disabled reporter (would never do that) but simply showed him… ‘groveling’ when he totally changed a 16 year old story that he had written in order to make me look bad.” Trump’s Twitter spats and false claims are by now so routine that it can seem pointless to even report them, but this one is worth unpacking, because it reveals a cascade of lies leading back to a false claim that helped him win: the fantasy that Arab-Americans in New Jersey had openly celebrated the September 11, 2001 attack on the World Trade Center as it took place. Photo by Neilson Barnard/Getty Images. A short (fingered) history of Donald Trump’s feud with Graydon Carter. Journalist Graydon Carter described Donald Trump's hands as “small” in the May 1984 issue of GQ.

(Don Emmert/AFP/Getty Images) Donald Trump has a busy Friday. He has a big briefing with “intelligence” officials, he has “Apprentice” ratings to tweet about, and he has a deliciously intriguing meeting with journalist Graydon Carter. You might not recognize Carter's name, but you are surely familiar with his work — or, at least, the result of it. Carter is (indirectly) the reason Trump felt compelled to tell the world during a Republican primary debate that there is “no problem” with the size of a certain appendage. You see, Carter is the one who — more than three decades ago — started this whole thing about Trump having tiny hands. Trump couldn't resist the urge to respond to Rubio's wisecrack at a debate three days later: “He referred to my hands. In the May 1984 issue of GQ, Carter profiled Trump and offered the following physical description of his subject: Meet Donald Trump. Politics true. Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half.

I don’t normally post about politics (I’m not particularly savvy about polling, which is where data science has had the largest impact on politics). But this weekend I saw a hypothesis about Donald Trump’s twitter account that simply begged to be investigated with data: Every non-hyperbolic tweet is from iPhone (his staff). Every hyperbolic tweet is from Android (from him). pic.twitter.com/GWr6D8h5ed— Todd Vaziri (@tvaziri) August 6, 2016 When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone.

Others have explored Trump’s timeline and noticed this tends to hold up- and Trump himself does indeed tweet from a Samsung Galaxy. My analysis, shown below, concludes that the Android and iPhone tweets are clearly from different people, posting during different times of day and using hashtags, links, and retweets in distinct ways. The dataset First we’ll retrieve the content of Donald Trump’s timeline using the userTimeline function in the twitteR package: Comparison of words. Donald Trump biographer says President-elect kicked him off his Florida golf course | The Independent. It is has been 24 years since since the writer Harry Hurt III published a biography of Donald Trump.

The book, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J Trump, was not entirely flattering. Indeed, Mr Hurt’s account contained detail of a sworn divorce deposition, in which the tycoon’s former wife said her had once raped her in a fit of rage. (Ivana Trump has since said she did not mean it literally.) But it appears that three decades has not been sufficient to cool Mr Trump’s ire. “I said, ‘Congratulations, sir,’ and shook his hand,” Mr Hurt wrote on Facebook. Mr Hurt said he looked the tycoon in the eye, and said, ‘It’s all true’, to which Mr Trump replied, ‘Not in the way you wrote it’.”

The 1993 book did not paint a flattering picture of Mr Trump Mr Hurt, who lives in Sag Harbor, New York, said he was Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach late last week with a group of friends. Trump's advisor suggests Obama's sanctions against Russia are to 'box in' the incoming President. Donald Trump’s War Against Facts. By the time Donald Trump becomes president in a few, desperately shortening weeks, he will already have made falsehood a U.S. goal. Trump does not lie to cover up the truth; he lies to deny the possibility that such a thing even exists. His feints and reversals are the essence of his belief system; he espouses a philosophy of bullshit.

Until now, those habitual falsehoods have been the idiosyncrasies of a private citizen with no real responsibility toward anyone but himself. Once he takes the oath, his style becomes policy. We will have to get used to a president who dismisses the intelligence apparatus he commands, who denies events that took place on live television, who does not care whether he is caught in an obvious contradiction. We will have to learn to read a leader who treats truth as one option among many. When he issues a howler from the Oval Office, and his minions faithfully repeat it, that won’t be propaganda, but showbiz. Donald Trump: This run-on sentence from a speech in Sun City, South Carolina, is in desperate need of diagramming.

Log In. That is the way business has been done at the Trump Organization, a relatively small company with a big reach and a bigger self-image that has come under intense scrutiny as its chief prepares to become president of the United States. With extensive entanglements around the world, many packaged in a network of licensing agreements and limited liability companies, the Trump Organization poses a raft of potential conflicts of interest for a president-elect who has long exerted such control over his company that, as he told The New York Times in a recent interview, he is the one who signs the checks. “I like to sign checks so I know what is going on,” he explained. Mr. Trump — owner of all but the smallest sliver of the privately held company — has said that, while the law does not require it, he is formulating plans to remove himself and his older daughter, Ivanka, from the company’s operations.

But in recent weeks, amid rising pressure, Mr. In an interview last spring with The Times, Mr. Mitt Romney and Donald Trump Battle for Handshake Supremacy. It’s well known that Donald Trump, a germaphobe, doesn’t like shaking hands. Less well known is that when forced to shake hands, Trump has a very specific technique, one that various handshake websites refer to as “the pull in.”

Once Trump latches onto your hand, he will vigorously — here’s where the name comes in — pull you in close to his body, as if your arm is the rope in a game of tug-of-war. Presumably some type of power-executive move Trump uses to demonstrate dominance over his handshaking partners, the pull-in is Trump’s go-to handshake, regardless of whose hand he’s shaking.

Here’s Trump using it on Donny Deutsch: And here’s Trump trying the pull-in on original Apprentice winner Bill Rancic: You can see that the pull-in turns into a brief, jerky arm-wrestle if the person on the other end decides to offer resistance. The photo at the top of this post was taken just after Trump endorsed Romney and introduced him to the podium. Someone Keeps Face Swapping Donald Trump With The British Queen | The Huffington Post. Donald Trump's Recount Tweetstorm and Corruption in Politics. While the shebeen was closed for the holidays, there was no lack of frenzied insanity among the staffers of Camp Runamuck down in Manhattan. For example, with our Thanksgiving leftovers, we had to digest the notion that the Secret Service may have to pay rent to the president for the privilege of guarding the president and the First Family in the president's own building.

I covered the Massachusetts Legislature for almost five years and I can tell you that none of the gombeen men elected thereto ever tried to pull so obvious a scam. I don't think it's asking too much to let the guys who will take a bullet for your sorry ass live rent-free in your building. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below Members of the family, including Betsy and Dick DeVos, have spent heavily in opposition to same-sex-marriage laws in several states. Sorry, Heather. Jesus says you have to give up one mommy. But the real outbreak in the Chronic ward of the camp infirmary didn't happen until the weekend. Getty. Mexican Company to Help Trump Secure the Border. Owner of a Mexican cement company expressed his desire to provide cement for the US President-elect’s effort to secure the border between the two countries from the onslaught of rife organized crime.

Kristian Rouz – “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words,” US President-elect Donald Trump used to reiterate night after night when on his electoral campaigning trail during the past several months. His pledge appears to be coming true somewhat: a Mexican-based cement producer has announced its plans to assist the next US President in his effort to secure the southern border of the United States from the trafficking of drugs, humans and weapons, currently rampant in the entire border region, from San Diego in California, to Corpus Christi in Texas. Enrique Escalante, CEO and the owner of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC), has expressed his willingness to participate in Trump’s endeavour to build the border wall.

Source. Jared Kushner's Role in Donald Trump's Presidential Campaign - What Will Jared Kushner's White House Role Be? Trump stood up to speak after Charles, and he floundered miserably. According to one guest, he "gave the most pathetic, lame, embarrassing speech I've heard in a long time. " People often talk about the Kushner brothers using similar adjectives: handsome, humble, diligent, polite, intelligent, and so forth. For Josh, however, unlike for Jared, there is no "but" hanging in the air, no comma before a caveat describing a barely perceptible undercurrent. Part of the reason is almost certainly the luck of age: When his father went to prison, Josh was a freshman at Harvard, where the scandal scarcely registered. While Josh was still an undergraduate, his friend Daniel Kafie introduced him to Mario Schlosser, a German-born engineer who was studying at Harvard Business School.

Schlosser had written code for a social network, and the three students decided to take it to market. Vostu's success meant that Josh never had to seriously consider joining his brother in the family real estate firm. Can Trump’s Hair Survive Inauguration Day? The biggest crisis facing the president-elect on Day 1: how to keep that combover under control during his swearing-in.

A whirlwind of questions surround the future theoretical Donald Trump administration. But the first one they’ll have to address is how Donald Trump’s mop of hair will handle the wind on Capitol Hill on Inauguration Day. Trump’s locks are art meets disarray, like a drunk Bridget Riley painting, like a performance of Swan Lake if half of the dancers started doing Fosse choreography in the middle of the second act.

It zooms in all directions like a follicular spaghetti junction. Penn Jillet described it as “cotton candy made of piss.” In recent years, Donald Trump’s hair has become the subject of widespread speculation and fascination. On the campaign trail, Trump kept a crimson Make America Great Again cap plopped on his noggin, thus maximizing his audience’s exposure to his campaign’s catchphrase. The only real solution here is prayer. Donald Trump reveals he will ditch his infamous hair style if elected president.

Donald Trump said if elected president he will ditch his current hair style Trump told a crowd in Iowa that his carefully combed-over hair simply takes too long to do every dayFor his new look, Trump says he would just comb his hair back By Chris Spargo For Dailymail.com Published: 17:11 GMT, 29 June 2015 | Updated: 19:42 GMT, 29 June 2015 Donald Trump may be standing firm in his political convictions as he attempts to secure the Republican nomination for president, but there is one thing he has revealed he will be changing if elected - his hair. Trump appeared at a dinner in Iowa on Saturday night and told those in attendance that his carefully crafted coif would be no more if he lands in the White House.

His reasoning for the big change is that the look simply takes too long. Scroll down for video Malfunction: Trump had some problems with his hair last year after the wind got the best of him while in Scotland (above) 'Thin but real': Woman validates Trump's hair in June Loaded: 0% Progress: 0% Photo catches Trump double-checking Melania’s ballot — and the internet erupts with laughter. 5 Brilliant Burns From Architecture Critics On The Trumpian Aesthetic | Huffington Post. Trump goes off on Alec Baldwin’s take of him: ‘He’s portraying someone who’s very mean and nasty’ Donald Trump knows nothing about science: The GOP nominee’s views are shockingly ignorant. Eric Trump argues he’s not ‘in a bubble’: ‘You can’t drive 500 yards without seeing a Trump sign’ Trump Uses Major Policy Speech To Threaten To Sue Sexual Assault Accusers | Huffington Post.

Pence rallies Trump supporters in ABQ | The NM Political Report. WATCH: Colleen Marshall’s 1-on-1 interview with Donald Trump. Is Donald Trump a Problem Child? CNN anchor blasts Kellyanne Conway: Stop blaming the media for Trump’s self-inflicted problems. What Is Up With Trump's Ill-Fitting Suits? A World-Famous London Bespoke Tailor Explains. President Donald Trump’s Team of Terribles Would Bring Bridgegate to Oval Office. The internet unleashes its wrath on Ivanka Trump after she releases this nauseatingly retro campaign ad. Watch Mike Pence throw Trump under the bus on CNN: ‘I haven’t known him that long at all’ Theconversation. Trump surrogate claims foreign leaders will never insult Trump — and CNN host laughs in his face.

Top Trump ally: Tax return leak may have come from Trump’s own ‘in-fighting’ campaign staff. 9 Times Donald Trump Complained About Taxes. Ivanka Trump, Before and After - Beautyeditor. Donald Trump Definitely Wants to Be President. Right? - Rolling Stone. Maher scalds Trump over debate performance: Stop being a ‘whiny little b*tch’ — you lost.

Linda Tripp Is Back with a Monica Lewinsky Conspiracy Theory. ​How Did Trump Lose $800 Million Dollars Last Year?​ Donald Trump Says He Doesn't Read Leases, Legal Documents in Deposition. Howard Stern Is Now Denying Trump's Iraq War Story, Too. ‘It’s bull!’: The View hosts give Trump manager Kellyanne Conway an epic grilling over tax returns. Donald Trump Now Thinks The Presidential Debate Was A 'Rigged Deal' | Huffington Post. Trump vs. the Generals. Trump: Clinton "duped and used" by former Miss Universe. The Race to Smear Miss Universe Alicia Machado as a Bloodthirsty, Drug Lord-Loving Porn Star. ‘The Daily Show’ Digs Up Creepy Clip of Trump Defending a Statutory Rape.

Donald Trump Tells Non-Christians At Rally To Identify Themselves | Huffington Post. Old Video Of Trump Body-Shaming Kim Kardashian Proves His Offensive Antics Are Nothing New | Huffington Post. Employees at Trump's California golf course say he wanted to fire women who weren't pretty enough - Los Angeles Times. Trump Relaxes After Debate By Slipping Back Into Nice, Warm Personal Reality. Here’s Why Zach Galifianakis Won't Have Trump On 'Between Two Ferns' | Huffington Post. Kellyanne Conway Says Trump Didn't Lie About Lester Holt Because He Didn't Know His Party Affiliation. John Oliver Is Back, And He Wants You To Get 'F**king Outraged' Over Donald Trump's Scandals | Huffington Post. A Week of Whoppers From Donald Trump. WATCH: Jimmy Kimmel proves Trump fans will ignore even his most atrocious sins by sharing fake tax returns.

Trump: 'I Never Said' Muslims Should Be Profiled | Huffington Post. Seth Meyers Tears Donald Trump To Shreds Over Birther Issue | Huffington Post. Trump Jr.'s Poisoned Skittles Tweet Goes Horrifically -- And Hilariously -- Awry | Huffington Post. Trump's Plan for Dealing with Latest Terror Attack. Roaches, expired veal stock and deadly mousse: Trump restaurants are infamous for ‘dirty dining’ Bill Maher Goes Toe-To-Toe With Trump's Campaign Manager | Huffington Post. Trump's Behavior Similar To Male Chimpanzee, Says Jane Goodall | Huffington Post. Donald Trump's Appearance on Jimmy Fallon Is an Insult to American Taxpayers. Donald Trump Does Have Ideas—and We’d Better Pay Attention to Them. Trump trashes black pastor who shamed him in Flint church: ‘She was a nervous mess’

Trump Won’t Name Any of the ‘Hundreds of Friends’ He Says Died on 9/11. Here's the Thing About Donald Trump's 'Presidential Look' Is Trump’s $650 million in business debt out of the ordinary? 15 Years of Donald Trump’s 9/11 Lies, Insults, and Slights. Trump says intelligence officials’ ‘body language’ showed they were unhappy with Obama. The 9 Best Reactions to That Creepy Photo of Trump's Kids. Pro-Donald Trump Fundraiser Ads are Popping up on Pornhub | The Daily Dot. Donald Trump Shocked Black Church Knew Famous Bible Verse: UPDATED. Seeking Support and Invoking Faith, Donald Trump Visits a Black Church for the First Time. Trump’s liar-in-chief: Since joining his staff, Kellyanne Conway has been living in a world of make believe. THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 8/24/16 Rachel Interview With Trump campaign manager Kellyanne Conway. Donald Trump's Latest Hire Shows He's No Different Than His Old Republican Foes.

Twitter Users Hilariously Troll Donald Trump's Kids Over 'Outsider' Tweet. Should Clinton Try To Portray Trump As A Choke Artist And A Coward? The Trump Files: Donald and Melania's Creepy, Sex-Filled Interview With Howard Stern. Theconversation. Donald Trump to Visit Mexico After More Than a Year of Mocking It. Katrina Pierson completely missed that Chrissy Teigen was mocking her with those smackdown tweets. Trump's Doctor Has An Amazing Explanation For That Bizarre Medical Report. 16 Donald Trump Hair Memes So Funny You’ll Actually Be Grateful He’s Running For President.

Understanding Trump. Linguist George Lakoff: Pay close attention — Trump means exactly what he says. 7 Revelations: The Real Inside Scoop on Jared Kushner, aka Mr. Ivanka Trump. CNN’s Sanjay Gupta casts serious doubts on Trump doctor’s ‘absurd’ boasts about his health. Seth Meyers mocks dismal Trump camp: The 12-year-old is the only one ‘who’s got his sh*t together’ The racy photos and troubling questions about Donald Trump's wife Melania. Opportunistic Predator and Living Symbol of America Attacked by Bald Eagle. WATCH: Gawker Exclusive! Donald Trump Is Bald. Is Donald Trump’s Hair a $60,000 Weave? A Gawker Investigation [Updated] Tweeters Give Hilarious History Lesson To Donald Trump's Spokeswoman.

WATCH: Eric Trump blames Syrian refugees for 15 years of wage stagnation.