If you haven’t seen ABC’s horrifyngly Spinal-Tappish interview with That Man in the White House yet, you need to go watch it.
At the very least, watch the final segment (embedded in the Tweet below), or even just the final minute of the final segment, in which Trump basically tries to explain that his inauguration crowd goes to eleven. (He also calls the crowd “the sea of love.”)
This is just astounding, straight out of Spinal Tap if Spinal Tap were real and our president https://t.co/d7dyfELOP6
— David Futrelle (@DavidFutrelle) January 26, 2017
I’m not the first, or probably even the ten-thousandth, person to make the Spinal Tap comparison. In fact, one person has helpfully combined relevant bits of the interview with audio from Spinal Tap.
Spinal Tap audio under Trump is 😂👌🏼 pic.twitter.com/zXgKNMxWbd
— Jesse McLaren (@McJesse) January 26, 2017
Here’s the whole thing, which manages to be scarier than any horror film I’ve seen in years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaZx6ByA8to
If you need me, I’ll just be curled up in a fetal position on the floor.
I cannot watch that man. I just can’t. He makes my stomach hurt.
The less I see or hear of Donald of Orange, the better.
@kupo
My understanding is that it’s standard for these officials to offer a resignation to each new administration, but it’s usually a formality. It’s not clear to me if Cheeto Hitler accepted the resignations or if they decided they meant it this time.
Laughter at Bigots, I used to call Boehner “John of Orange”, lol.
Man, I’d take him over Eddie Munster right about now…
*Slowly eats ice cream with an expression of bemused horror*
I just want you to know that if this bozo does end up blowing us sky high, that I love each and every one of you.
…Okay, not the trolls. But everybody else.
@kupo and Dalillama,
Based on the reporting I’ve seen, it was a leave or be fired situation. What makes this one unusual is the number and seniority of the resignations.
@kupo and Dalillama,
Based on the reporting I’ve seen, it was a leave or be fired situation. What makes this one unusual is the number and seniority of the resignations.
This is disappointing but not too surprising given what we’ve seen from the administration so far. The real question is, assuming Tillerson is confirmed, who will he get to replace them? All of the departing officials are highly experienced career foreign service officers. If the new Secretary of State tries to bring in outsiders and takes some sort of “let’s make the State Department run like a business” position, it’ll be a big red flag.
I’m sure Trump’s pal Vlad Putin will be able to help him find replacements.
I tried to tell people what a catastrophe Trump would be, it’s just happening much faster than I expected. It’s too bad that Hillary wasn’t flawless.
@ Scildfreja Unnýðnes
He’s a shoggoth. Some of them can take human form. All that “bigly” and “hugely” is his true nature bubbling just beneath the surface. We’ll hear the dread cry soon: Tekeli-li! Tekeli-li!
Huh.
Speaking as part of that State department workforce…good fucking luck to him?
@ MillenniumCrow
It’s already a big red flag.
Okaaaaay. We got to the point just before moving to health care …
… and I said No. I just can’t watch this.
So mrmagnificent is making us both a cup of tea and finding us some biccies (= US cookies) to munch. We’ll see if we’re up to it once we have some sustenance to fuel us.
(Who ever would have believed that it could be as bad or worse than we thought it would be before the election. One moment I think it’s an audition for a year 9 Drama class – all that portentous, pompous heavy breathing and ‘wise’ nodding and exaggerated pauses between phrases – and in the next moment I realise that this peculiar man is older than I am and has the most powerful job in the world.)
David will have plenty of shivering, thumb-sucking, quietly weeping company down there on the floor.
Can’t wait for him to get lost in the White house
@ weird eddie et al
I’ve just seen a headline decrying the media’s ‘fake news’ and stating that “‘Mass Resignation’ Officials Actually Fired”
And that’s from trusted news source Breitbart so you can take it to the bank.
One of the things I noticed when he was talking is that he has the same patter as Joe Pesci playing Leo Getz in Lethal Weapon 3.
Could be worse: he could be like Joe Pesci in Goodfellas. Though I’d like to see someone tell him to go home and get his fucking shinebox.
Dalillama:
The TrumpPence campaign logo could have been a big GOP-red flag. Just take the old USSR flag, replace hammer and sickle with a golden T and P respectively.
Today’s favourite news headline: voters who read little news think Trump had a great first week
I haven’t watched Spinal Tap, I’ve only read about it (I might have heard the “goes to 11” bit), but I saw a few seconds of the oval office conversation and had Spinal Tap in my head.
@Dalillama:
Maybe, but from http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/the-entire-senior-level-of-state-department-management-just-resigned-to-avoid-working-for-trump-report/
Offering a resignation may be common (and it’s pretty much a guarantee for more political appointments) but in this case some of these people have been around for a long time, under multiple presidents. According to Wikipedia, Patrick Kennedy started working in the State Department in 1975, and has held relatively high-ranking positions like ‘Assistant Secretary of State for Administration’ and ‘Under Secretary of State for Management’ since 1993.
Hmm, apparently Kennedy chaired an investigation into Blackwater during the Iraq war, so maybe proposed Education Secretary DeVos insisted he leave out of family loyalty.
Personally I see one of two scenarios as being most likely. Either the senior staff quit, likely because they could sense the impending shit-show. Or, they submitted their resignations which is customary and is usually just a formality, and Trump took it as some kind of personal attack or insult and as a face-saving exercise declared that he told them to quit or be fired.
In any case the State Dept. is completely borked now. I wonder how many other gov’t departments are going to share a similar fate.
P.S
Sorry for being more of a drive-by cut n’ paster than an actual commenter, things are not going well and if I can’t either find some kind of equilibrium or access some good therapy, things won’t be going at all.
Jesalin, I’m sorry things are not going well – I hope that this changes for the better (and that this place serves at least as a crumb of comfort in knowing that you, like us, are not alone).
<3 Jesalin. I hope that you can find what you need. It ain't easy. Don't be afraid to talk to us here if you need to and feel comfortable with it.
@Jesalin
*hugs* or other gestures of support, and all my sympathy.
Apparently showing off that photo by the helicopter has revealed that he actually had that image photshopped to make his hands look bigger.
Hilarious.
The rest of it is pretty terrifying.