Anyone who thought Donald J. Trump would be ‘humble’ after beating the House charges like Bill Clinton was dreaming…
THAT is NOT showman Trump…
Trump also used an early morning tweet to attack Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), the only Republican to vote to convict him on an article of impeachment. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), who launched the impeachment proceedings, is also scheduled to appear before reporters on Thursday….
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White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham previewed Trump’s upcoming remarks, saying that there should be retribution for Democrats who pressed forward with Trump’s impeachment.
In an interview on Fox News, Grisham said Trump will speak about “how horribly he was treated, and maybe people should pay for that.”
“I don’t mean to be disrespectful, but they’re being sore losers,” she said of Democrats who have described Trump’s acquittal as having an “asterisk” next to it because no witnesses or documents were allowed during the Senate trial. “There’s no asterisk there.”….
Note…
The victory lap was done at where else?
Trump’s property in Washington D.C.
image….President Trump holds up a Washington Post with the headline that reads “Trump acquitted” during the 68th annual National Prayer Breakfast, at the Washington Hilton on Thursday. (Evan Vucci/AP)
Update….
Trump has a hour long media live covered diatribe against those investigated him , his government, Congress and the Democrats in particular ….
President Donald Trump on Thursday unloaded on his perceived political enemies, declaring that the investigations into him have been “all bullshit” in a sprawling and teleprompter-free address at the White House less than a day after senators acquitted him on two articles of impeachment.
Wednesday’s mostly party-line vote brought to a close House Democrats’ four-month effort to investigate and impeach Trump for allegedly withholding U.S. military aid from Ukraine to pressure its leaders to investigate Trump’s Democratic rivals.
But in declaring victory on Thursday, Trump started from the very beginning.
“You have to understand, we first went through ‘Russia, Russia, Russia,'” he told a packed and rowdy audience in the East Room of the White House, alluding to allegations his 2016 campaign coordinated with Russia to interfere in that year’s election.
“It was all bullshit. We then went through the Mueller report,” he continued, referring to special counsel Robert Mueller’s yearslong probe into those allegations, in addition to whether Trump obstructed justice in the investigation.
“This is really not a news conference, it’s not a speech. It’s not anything, it’s just — we are sort of — it’s a celebration,” Trump said of the day’s event….
He doesn’t own the Washington Hilton.
And, from what he did this morning, it’s far less a victory tour than a display of whining. Clearly he feels the damage inflicted upon him and deep down he knows he will never be half the man Mitt Romney is.
Donald Trump is now doing a “all hail the chief ‘ Victory Ceremony at the White House …
His entrance is greeted with applause…
He is venting against the Mueller investigation and House Impeachment …
He is trying to legitimize his actions …
Yes…
A fucked victory act….
Of the Democrats do NOT STOP the Bull Shit and get rid of this guy?
We’re in DEEPED SHIT…
Post to come ….
Sorry on the Hilton….
Yes….
I believe he has to sell his Hotel….
He’s laughing at the process to overlook his job….
I’m pissed….
This event should be the rally cry to get rid of this asshole….
How long is the guy gonna talk with his hair flying and his sun tan lotion looking stupid …
Laura F T
@LauraTripp57
I think he’s forgotten the cameras are on. He’s just rambling. I hope people are out there scratching their heads. And I hope the Rs who know he’s guilty have a pit in their stomachs right now.
Larry Sabato
@LarrySabato
No, he’s playing to the cameras. And Trump voters eat this up and will be back to vote for him again. Don’t fool yourself. Half of America is perfectly satisfied with him.
Chris Cillizza
@CillizzaCNN
Trump now asks members of the audience to say nice things about him. Mark Meadows obliges.
As to those goofy Meadows?
Tim Alberta in American Carnage quotes former House Speaker John Boehner as to how Meadows literally got on his knees and begged Boehners forgiveness over his trying to shut down the government during one of those debt limit fights in the Obama years.
Sabato has it right.
Whoever Laura T. Is?if she believes Republicans feel the least bit of remorse about this ?Shes living in a dream world .
All of which brings us to the reality no one wants to face……
Roughly half the people in this country are satisfied with Trump and what all of us perceive as abnormal,psychotic behavior?They find quite normal.
That might be far more disturbing than Trump himself for the future of this country.
Neither Hitler’s party (the NSDAP) nor Mussolini’s (the Partito Nazionale Fascista won a clear popular majority in an open election.
Instead they cobbled their quite-sizeable delegations together with traditional, (nominally) non-fascist, nationalist, conservative and reactionary factions (and in Italy’s case, the King) in order to form their first governments.
The defining “History will absolve me” moment for Mussolini came when he openly accepted responsibility
for his followers’ murder of the Socaialist leader Giacomo Mattotti, after Mattotti had denounced the fraud and violence accompanying parliamentary elections.
Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist politician. On 30 May 1924, he openly spoke in the Italian Parliament alleging the Fascists committed fraud in the recently held elections, and denounced the violence they used to gain votes. Eleven days later he was kidnapped and killed by Fascists…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Matteotti
Let’s hope to God that nothing like that (against e.g. the Whistleblower, Mitt Romney or Nancy Pelosi) comes from Trump’s unhinged fanatical followers
With the current language emanating from the President, I doubt that he would denounce such an act.
Especially if (as in 2016) he has a very sizeable 45-49% minority in the next election, I can just see (and unfortunately hear) how he would react [with a nod & a wink] and incite.
You’re Scarring me DSD with this history lesson…