Showing posts with label Dingell-John. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 15, 2020

Dickhead

President Trump raised some eyebrows during a campaign rally in Wisconsin on Tuesday night after he said the late President Lyndon B. Johnson was “probably looking down — or looking up” on America today.

  The Hill
That line got cheers from the MAGAheads when he used it against John Dingell, but it got him a lot of blowback from his own party. He wanted to use it again for the crowd adulation, but he had to find another victim. How in hell (if I may) did he come up with Lyndon Johnson?
The comment came while Trump was defending a phone call he shared with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last July that was the subject of the whistleblower complaint that helped spark the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

“This is based on a perfect phone call. Did anybody read the transcript? It’s a perfect call. In fact, if you go back and look at Lyndon Johnson, all of ‘em, you know, Lyndon Johnson was sort of a tough guy. Can you imagine his phone calls?” he said at the rally in Milwaukee.
As far as we know, Lyndon Johnson never bullied or bribed any foreign leaders for his own personal benefit.  The apt comparison would be Reagan, who made a secret deal with Iran to hold the hostages - those 52 hostages Trump wanted to use as a retaliatory number - until after the election that put him in office and drove Jimmy Carter out. 

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

Sunday, December 22, 2019

Cue Louie Gohmert on Fox News

He will be saying how he wasn't actually apologizing for the president.


Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) thanked House Republicans for their outpouring of support Thursday after President Trump’s suggestion during a campaign rally that her late husband, John Dingell, might be “looking up” from hell.

Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) thanked House Republicans for their outpouring of support Thursday after President Trump’s suggestion during a campaign rally that her late husband, John Dingell, might be “looking up” from hell.

The previous night, after the House’s tense debate to approve two articles of impeachment against Trump, the president lashed out at Dingell for her vote against him, especially after he gave military support for John Dingell’s memorial services.

[...]

Dingell appeared Thursday morning on CNN, and host Alisyn Camerota queued a clip of Trump’s incendiary remarks with Dingell on a split screen. The congresswoman’s face remained stoic as Trump mimicked her in a phone call he made to Dingell after her husband died.

But her eyes closed tightly for a moment when Trump arrived at the line she knew was coming.

[...]

“ ‘John would be so thrilled. He’s looking down,’ ” Dingell told him, according to Trump, who then said to the crowd: “Maybe he’s looking up, I don’t know.”

[...]

Despite an uproar from Democrats and some Republicans, Trump has not apologized.

  WaPo
Trump does not apologize. You'll die waiting for that day.
Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.), a close family friend who served as a eulogist at Dingell’s February funeral Mass in Georgetown, called on Trump to apologize. “I’ve always looked up to John Dingell,” Upton tweeted. “. . . There was no need to ‘dis’ him in a crass political way. Most unfortunate and an apology is due.”

[...]

“Merry Christmas Debbie, you deserve to be able to heal in peace. Those comments were totally unnecessary,” tweeted Rep. Dan Crenshaw, a Texas conservative and frequent Trump defender.
When will Upton and Crenshaw be announcing their retirement?
[Minority leader Kevin] McCarthy — who, at Dingell’s funeral, sat in the front pew with Pelosi and other congressional leaders — declined to address Trump’s comments Thursday at a news conference, describing the Dingells as “very good individuals.”
Bold stance, Kev.
Trump’s remarks Wednesday echo his unrelenting attacks against the late senator John McCain of Arizona even after his death, which have drawn criticism from Republicans. In the same way Trump attacked Dingell for voting to impeach him despite “A-plus treatment” for her deceased husband, he went after McCain’s loved ones for not sufficiently thanking him for McCain’s funeral.

“I gave him the kind of funeral he wanted, which as president I had to approve,” Trump inaccurately said in March, apparently referring to authorizing the military transport of McCain’s body. “I don’t care about this. I didn’t get a thank-you — that’s okay. We sent him on the way.”
It couldn't be more obvious that he does indeed care. 

America's petty, disgusting and dickless IMPOTUS.