Trump Inauguration

That's the point.

Even if you deny what's right in front of your eyes and give him the benefit of the doubt, the problem is that our POTUS has less maturity on the world stage than my little brother who is a sophomore in high school.

 
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The spin is unbelievable.

So the main defenses of Trump are

1. Relax it was just a joke

2. Other people do that too

3. He lied about what he said and didn't actually mean it

4. If my parents shouldn't do it why should the President?

5. That's just rumors

 
ZRod said:
Today was a great day!!! Also found this quite interesting

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I can't explain Mike Rowes reasoning for the video, only he can do that so here is his response (I changed the Facebook users name to yours)
In no way, Zod, have I compared Trump to Lincoln. What Ive done, is compare the conditions that existed in the country today, with those that existed in the wake of another contentious presidential election a century and a half ago. Those conditions strike me as interesting: Two Republicans, each of whom believed they were going to lose the election, wound up winning. Each candidate was viscerally hated by half the county, each vowed to transform the border, each treated the press with contempt, and each was considered by many to be a tyrant. One hundred and fifty years ago, a lot of Americans were absolutely convinced that Abraham Lincoln was an illegitimate president. Many today feel the same about Trump.

Does that mean the same thing will happen with Donald Trump? No. Does it mean that Trump and Lincoln share any personality traits, or that history will remember Trump as fondly as Lincoln? Of course not. It simply means that the certainty you feel today regarding Trump being the next Hitler is no different than the certainty felt by millions of Lincolns detractors back then. Its the feelings Im comparing, Jason not the candidates. Listen to the story again, and Ill bet you agree.

Mike

 
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Landlord of Memorial Stadium said:
The spin is unbelievable.

So the main defenses of Trump are

1. Relax it was just a joke

2. Other people do that too

3. He lied about what he said and didn't actually mean it

4. If my parents shouldn't do it why should the President?

5. That's just rumors
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Truly unbelievable. The mental gymnastics involved are staggering. But hey, anything for someone that had an R next to their name on the ballot.

 
This topic doesn't matter but the precedent is scary as hell.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/sean-spicer-press-secretary-statement/index.html

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, contradicting all available data.
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Spicer, at times almost yelling while reading a prepared statement, took no questions. CNNMoney called his cell phone a few minutes later; he did not answer.

Some longtime White House correspondents were stunned by the tirade.
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Hypothetically if Trump loses the electoral vote in 2020, will it even be a challenge for Trump to say the media is lying about election numbers? And will the Republicans go along with it and let him stay in office?

 
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Moiraine said:
This topic doesn't matter but the precedent is scary as hell.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/01/21/media/sean-spicer-press-secretary-statement/index.html

"This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period," Spicer said, contradicting all available data.
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Spicer, at times almost yelling while reading a prepared statement, took no questions. CNNMoney called his cell phone a few minutes later; he did not answer.

Some longtime White House correspondents were stunned by the tirade.
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Hypothetically if Trump loses the electoral vote in 2020, will it even be a challenge for Trump to say the media is lying about election numbers? And will the Republicans go along with it and let him stay in office?
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somewhere Baghdad Bob is smiling

 
To add on to these last few posts:

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/21/14347952/trump-spicer-press-conference-crowd-size-inauguration

The Trump administration is creating a baseline expectation among its loyalists that they can’t trust anything said by the media. The spat over crowd size is a low-stakes, semi-comic dispute, but the groundwork is being laid for much more consequential debates over what is, and isn’t, true.

Delegitimizing the institutions that might report inconvenient or damaging facts about the president is strategic for an administration that has made a slew of impossible promises and takes office amid a cloud of ethics concerns and potential scandals.
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