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US PRESIDENT DONALD Trump has dismissed an upcoming book on his campaign and administration as “full of lies” and invented sources, after unsuccessfully attempting to block its release.
“I authorized Zero access to White House (actually turned him down many times) for author of phony book! I never spoke to him for book. Full of lies, misrepresentations and sources that don’t exist,” Trump tweeted in reference to Michael Wolff’s “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.”
“Look at this guy’s past and watch what happens to him and Sloppy Steve!” Trump wrote.
It was unclear to whom Trump was referring, with possibilities including Steve Bannon, his former chief strategist, and Steve Rubin, the president of Henry Holt and Company, which is publishing Wolff’s book.
The book quotes key Trump aides, including Bannon, expressing serious doubt about his fitness for office.
Trump has been enraged by the betrayal by Bannon — a man who engineered the New York real estate mogul’s link to the nationalist far right and helped create a pro-Trump media ecosystem.
After Trump instructed his lawyers to try to block the release of the book, the publishers responded by moving the release date up by four days to today.
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- “I never spoke to him for book.”
I did not have textual relations with that man.
@Mick Tobin: oooohhhh that’s good!!
I hear the train a comin’; it’s rollin’ round the bend…
@Darren Hughes: wha….
@Darren Hughes: And I ain’t seen the sunshine since I don’t know when.
@Darren Hughes: Trump is going to prison. And he’ll bring his sons along.
@Paul O’Connor: orange is the new black!
Sarah Huckabee should get a life times free supply of anti-psychotics for coming out with this gem :”The president believes in making sure that information is accurate before pushing it out as fact…”
@Havana na na na:
The whole Trump bubble is an alternative reality!
@Havana na na na: just crazy crazy stuff over there
@Havana na na na: We all know what he is pushing out……
If he’s “Sloppy Steve”, what do you call the guy that appointed him chief executive of their campaign, chief strategist & senior counselor to the President and personally selected him for attendance at National Security Council meetings?
Duped Donald? Deluded Donald? Decieved Donald? How many of his staff has he vouched for and later decided were either criminals or insane? It’s like a running joke.
@Malachi: here’s already claiming Bannon only had a small role… Coffee boy perhaps?
@Shane Hickey: Aye. Just like how Manafort and Flynn (both under investigation) were in the playroom with the crayons while all the big stuff was left to those who haven’t been caught doing anything illegal yet.
@Malachi: isn’t it amazing that people are so willing to believe his BS
@Shane Hickey: Covfefe boy, Trump calling it lies and Pot calls Kettle Black.
Surprised this president can read to be honest. Hopefully beginning of his downfall.
@Raymond Dennehy: he never reads books but this is an overall summary of Wolff’s book. It makes fir a devastating indictment of the chaos in West Wing.
@Fiona deFreyne: From the Hollywood Reporter though?
@Raymond Dennehy: to be honest everyone is acting childish, including the child president and his enemies. And completely missing the most important thing Bannon said. Donald Jr and the sleazy son in law are being investigated for laundering Russian money. I would think the Corporate democrats will want him to stay because Pence would have a chance of winning if he was forced to resign.
@Fiona deFreyne: that’s some piece Fiona! Wow!
@Neal Ireland Hello.: Doesn’t matter. It’s not an opinion piece it’s directly quoted from the book.
At this point a person has to be painfully delusional to support this man as their President.
@ianglen: for sure, but that is Trump’s hardline support base.
@Fiona deFreyne: Voter’s Remorse
@ianglen: but they see Trump as an allowance for themselves to be “un PC” which means racist, xenophobic, misogynist a*seholes.
@Fiona deFreyne: We all know, Trump could would gun them down and they’d still crawl to voting booth to vote for him.
North Korea has accepted the offer to talks with South Korea. This is context of Donald Trumps Administration agreeing to delay annual joint military exercises with South Korea. Trump is the first US President to agree to this in decades. There are no headlines about Trumps military decision because this does suit the mainstream narrative that he is crazy and going to start a war.
@Alan Gee: A bit of context:
1. Kim boasts about the size of his nuclear knob
2. Kim wants to send a team to the Olympic Games
3. South Korea responds positively to this olive branch
4. Trump boasts about having a bigger knob
5. No more word from North Korea
6. Diplomats concerned
7. South Korea and the US decide to postpone exercise
8. North and South Korea are talking again
@Alan Gee: Have a tissue as you retreat to your Breitbart safe-space, where you can join in an orgy of confirmation bias against the MSM
@DJ François: the usual ad hominem attack. Trump is Commander in Chief. He gets to decide. And despite his rhetoric he has decided to delay joint military exercises. Nothing Breitbart about that.
@neilo: tin foil hat is generally regarded as the symbol of paranoid conspiracy theory folk. Nothing tin foil hat about my post. You can cofirm it by a quick google search.
@DJ François: nothing breitbart about my post. Its a straightforward observation.
@Alan Gee: Yes Alan, of course he is a tactical genius. That was his plan all along. Of course it was.
MSNBC asked, in this divorce, who gets custody of Hannity? Made me lol
Satire in politics is dead. You couldn’t at make this up.
@john Appleseed: satire is exceeded by total and surreal insanity. Off the scale craziness in the White House.
@TonydeFreyne: I’m no Trumpy but the obsessions, especially yours, about Trump make you all look pedantic. There is serious carnage going on in this world and your main concern is the Hollywood reporter? I think you need professional help. Just try one post about how you hate him and then use the rest of day to have a life maybe? It’s almost like Trump stole your wife or something.
Crazy Americans.the whole world is laughing at ye.
@Red hurley: They think they are in the right. Scary.
Imagine having such a man child as President of a nation. Many Americans wince whenever they hear his name.
Trump is a testament to how the support of wealthy billionaires can secure the office of Presidency for one of their own. The most effective manipulators were the Mercer family.
@Fiona deFreyne: the Republicans are pretty much all Koch-suckers.
Stage 1: Denial.
Stage 2: Attack character of author.
Stage 3: Deflect. Deflect.
Just heard the RTE news .The first item was all about this book.So we have people on trolleys, long hospital waiting lists,gang warfare on the streets with daily shootings,an Egyptian going around knifing people,elderly people terrorised in their homes by violent thugs with numerous previous convictions ,I could go on as we all have our concerns and yet the main issue of interest for the compulsory funded National Broadcasting Station is the publication of a book in America with engages in their favourite topic, Trump bashing.How can we make it demonstratively clear to RTE that we don’t give two f..ks about the antics of Donald Trump especially when there presented in such an obvious biased liberal PC way.This station peopled by arrogant elitist overpaid nincompoops should without any delay be shut down as it doesn’t serve any agenda except their own.
@Denis Mc Kenna: this is pretty mental news Denis and the journal have covered all of those topics so what are you talking about? The order of stories is dictated by time that’s how the journal has always worked
@Denis Mc Kenna: You don’t think that the revelation that the man with the power to kill everyone on the planet is a fool is a newsworthy story ?
@Larry Doyle: he is many things but a fool he is not …
@Alan Gee: Ah now Alan your devotion is admirable but a fool he is.
The key moment is if or when the multi billionaire Mercer family decide that their nominee in the White House is just too crazy and too volatile to retain in that role.
EDIT :
North Korea has accepted the offer to have talks with South Korea. This is in context of Donald Trumps Administration agreeing to delay annual joint military exercises with South Korea. Trump is the first US President to agree to this in decades. There are no headlines about Trumps military decision because this does not suit the mainstream narrative that he is crazy and going to start a war.
@Alan Gee:
I preferred the unedited version….
@Walt Jabsco: he he
@Alan Gee: There are plenty of headlines about it. The Independent, BBC, CNBC, The Hill, Washington Post, LA Times all ran the delay as a headline.
RTE just did an article about it an hour ago. It’s still a pretty fresh story, and it has good coverage, but don’t let that get in the way of the ‘ugh the media’ rant…
@Malachi: the point Im making is that it happened in context of Trump agreeing to delay military exercises. Noone is giving the man credit for that decison.
@Alan Gee: one minor decision not to do something inflammatory is always going to get lost in the avalanche of bs coming out of this White House. There is also very little coverage of the opening up of practically all costal waters to oil drilling, plans for massive federal oversight on local state legal actions on weed legalisation, disbanding the committee to investigate voter fraud in the last presidential election………all these and more in the last two days!
@Alan Gee: I just listed some of the many major media organisations that mentioned Trump’s involvement (even though we don’t know how much involvement there was) in the agreement, even adding it as the headline.
There’s not much to give ‘credit’ for seeing as nobody knows how much Trump contributed to it in the first place, after all him and Kim were discussing nuclear button sizes a few days ago.
Your point is pretty weak here, this is hardly a major victory for Trump like you’re making it out to be.
@Malachi: i never said it was a victory for trump,
@Larry Doyle: A military decision by the Commander in Chief of the US Armed Forces that has provided context for talks between Pyongnang and Seoul may be a minor decision in your world ….
‘Cuck Fight’, what a headline! The Alt-Right crybabies are the greatest cucks of all!
@Angela O’Riordan: the alt-right will fall back on their defence that they were only joking when they said that they were supporting Trump. They did not mean it. They were just being ironic. It’s what they do when they are confronted on their detestable prejudices. Did you not see we were only being funny. You should not take us seriously. We were only taking the proverbial.
Bozo trump is going to get what is needed the truth on him he is the lier
A taste of Wolff’s book on Trump. It is a White House of headless chickens.
The conflict of Ivanka and Jared with Bannon is superbly depicted. Insane is a euphemism.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
It is the era of the mad President.
This is the era of insanity in the White House.
Dustin the Turkey would have made a better President had he been born in the US.
Trump is a turkey. Thanksgiving Day is over. He is old stock.
Is “sloppy Steve” a sexual reference? I know it’s the error of acceptance – but what the hell were these two up to???
Should be a good read.
Ok America….smell the damn coffee! Act!
id say donald is in league with mr wolff,there is something going on in the background you lefties are not seeing
@Tom Mc Cormack: What are you seeing? Enlighten us?
@Lisa Saputo: wait and see !
@Tom Mc Cormack: I’d say that most right wing people are horrified at his antics.
costa rico is an island surrounded by water
@Larry Roe: Puerto Rico
@Shane Hickey: damn .thanks shane x
ZZZZzzzzzz Rubbish book about rubbish US president, roll on the movie rights.
@Austin Rock: it will make for compelling although predictable drama.
I notice some of caring and sharing[along as it's not their own] brigade are beginning to respond to their own comments.Is this a sign of mental illness or just an ego out of control due to its belief that it has a monopoly on” truth”.A little bit like the Catholic Church of old which believed it had a monopoly on morality and was the path to salvation.Yet see what happened to them.Question;What comes before the fall?
Sloppy Steve says Donald dumb
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