gimme the GOD drat candy posted:

give back his phone already, you jerks!

Applewhite posted:

Space T Rex posted:

I'm having trouble finding any articles which specify who exactly leaked Trump's shithole comment. Who brought it to the news?

Kumo posted:

this hasn't been mentioned yet:

It took the White House 22 minutes to figure out how to enable the "listening only" feature on a conference call on Thursday in which senior administration officials announced that President Trump would continue to waive nuclear program-related sanctions, keeping the deal intact.

"This White House can't even run a f*cking conference call," a reporter on an unmuted phone line angrily exclaimed to the entire call. "They don't know how to mute their line."

"It's the illegitimate media that doesn't know how to conduct themselves. They can't mute their f*cking phones," an unidentified official said. "Mute your phones."

Another White House official repeatedly attempted to quiet the noisy line "so the people in charge" could talk.

"I think if everyone had half a brain and common sense and muted their phones, this wouldn't be a problem," she yelled in an apparent fit of frustration.

"Hello? Hello?," one reporter interjected, some 15 minutes after the slated start of the call. "Has the call started?"

"This is Kim Jong Un calling for Donald Trump," another reporter joked as tensions flared.

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/JonLemire/status/951977365365764101

quote:

Undersecretary of State Steve Goldstein, in charge of U.S. public diplomacy, said Trump has the right to “make whatever remark he chooses,” calling it the benefit of being president. He said Trump’s comments notwithstanding, it was diplomats’ obligation to send the message to other countries that the United States cares “greatly about the people that are there.”

“Will they have to work extra hard to send it today? Yes, they will, but that’s OK,” Goldstein said. “That’s part of the responsibility that they have. It doesn’t change what we do.”

Space T Rex posted:

I'm having trouble finding any articles which specify who exactly leaked Trump's shithole comment. Who brought it to the news?

Loden Taylor posted:

"Just fuckin do your job and figure out how to let your host nation know the US government doesn't really mean that bit about the darkies and their shithole countries."

What's the over/under on number of shots of Jack Daniels US foreign service officers need to get through the day? I'm going with over 3.

My Rhythmic Crotch posted:

this past 48 hours has been insane:

- shithole countries thing happened, which surrogates rushed to defend as cool and good, then trump flipped and denied saying
- the administration allowed states to impose work requirements for Medicaid
- the House reauthorized FISA
- Trump tweeted opposition to FISA (probably due to watching a piece on fox and friends) and then flipped on it when the house passed it
- allegations that trump paid a porn star 130k
- the physical results are in and they are _excellent_
- oh yeah the iran thing got re-upped I think

what else am I forgetting??

Space T Rex posted:

"He wasn’t apologetic, the person said."

This is what I'm talking about. Who are these cowards? Come forward so this is actually credible. I mean I personally do believe Trump said this, he is a terrible person with no filter so it adds up as far as I'm concerned. But unless these people come forward the right is always just gonna cling to "says who? some anonymous nobody? pffft"

Telephones posted:

Trump is just such a bad person oh my god.

Skypie posted:

making GBS threads on anonymous sources is popular right now (and mostly because CNN is so goddamn retarded about it), but most government officials will only speak on condition of anonymity because otherwise they get fired and blacklisted.