Trumps Presidency 2025

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From the article:

It does not take a security expert to unravel the layers of failure that happened at a Washington, D.C. hotel on Saturday night.

How on earth could someone with a disassembled long gun check into a room at a hotel where the president was going to speak? I can answer that: Nobody even looked at my luggage on Friday afternoon. Worse, my colleague arrived on Saturday at 5 p.m. Nobody looked at his luggage either: No magnometers, no hand checks, no I.D. checks. Nothing.

How on earth could that person get downstairs and assemble a long gun? I can answer that too. I moved up and down from Floor 10 all day. Nobody ever stopped me and asked me anything. I have never shown my I.D., except to the clerk who checked me in; I have never been searched or frisked when I checked in, or moved in and out of the hotel. To get down from my room to the dinner, I simply flashed my ticket. It could have been a photocopy.

The only time I went past a checkpoint was at the same magnetometers that Cole Allen, 31, sprinted past with his gun.

Another colleague was outside; I texted them a copy of their ticket. That allowed them to get into the hotel as far as those same magnetometers, entirely unchecked.

How on earth could that be considered safe?

And how could agents not have realized, after they knew who Cole Allen was, that the gunman had been a hotel guest, and that even after he had been neutralized, that other people might be in danger? How could it take three hours—yes, three hours—to wonder if the bomb squad should come round?

The Washington Hilton has seen the attempted assassination of a president before. I walked past the plaque commemorating that spot a few hours before the shooting.

I didn’t expect that I would be living through history again, in the room beside 10235.

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Aaaaaand here we go ... 

 

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I hate Ann Coulter, but this is hilarious. 

 

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[Tigermojo]

Probably shouldn't let Iran know the entire administration will be in the same room within the next 30 days.

[mtutiger]

4 hours ago, pfife said:

Lol at people who think this absolute **** annual event would/should be held, let alone held at the white house in a new ballroom

Plot totally lost

Don't know if it should be held either, but in terms of the impact it makes outside the Beltway chattering class, it's a non entity

Tangentially, this tweet from Dylan Byers kinda makes the point better than I ever could...

For the President and these journalists, this event (both the dinner and the shooting) was a big deal.

To average people? WGAF, playoff hockey is on.

Edited 22 hours ago by mtutiger

[guy incognito]

While the hosting turns from Colbert and Michelle Wolf were rightly praised, the event itself has always struck me as one of the more obnoxious rooms in that big club Carlin reminded us we ain’t in.

[mtutiger]

Almost 24 hours on and it's wild how the main response has centered around getting the Ballroom built.

Just an incredible like when Americans are paying $1.50 more per gallon for gasoline than they were eight weeks ago

[mtutiger]

Wow

[romad1]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Wow

such an asshat

[Tigerbomb13]

He’s a charmer

[guy incognito]

[romad1]

Looks like the Idiotic Trump regime is trying to pressure the UK by threatening the Falklands Islands.  

Last time it was under threat the Reagan admin had a boner for the Argentine Junta fighting communists and now the MAGA idiots love them some Millei.  

Nazis gonna nazi. 

[romad1]

Stephen Miller looking for more power to grab (see what I did there)

Pressure builds to oust Wiles after Trump dinner shooting

that article is fed by someone feeding it to the "journalist" 

[romad1]

a good point. 

[mtutiger]

Genuinely astounding at a time of higher gas prices and Americans feeling as anxious as ever about their own personal finances, *this* is something that vulnerable Rs are running with.

[romad1]

6 minutes ago, mtutiger said:

Genuinely astounding at a time of higher gas prices and Americans feeling as anxious as ever about their own personal finances, *this* is something that vulnerable Rs are running with.

Fascinating to see how this crowd operates. 

[mtutiger]

Old enough to remember when they hounded Biden for not going out in public enough...

[Tigermojo]

He didn't stop golfing when the second guy targeted his golf course. 

[CMRivdogs]

First of all the White House should have no control over the WCA Dinner. This event is sponsored by the White House Correspondence Association. The President is a guest (as are all other extemporizes hangers on who attend these function. (and paid the price to attend).

It is up to the White House and Secret Service to provide security for the President (and I assume his party). Having spent a bit of time around these huge convention type hotels, it's impossible to shut them down completely for one event. That said the fact the guy didn't get past the main checkpoint proves that security worked  Saturday night despite MAGA talking points.

Everything else goes back to my main believes. The occupant of the White House is merely that. While he is the President and Supreme Commander, when it comes to his/her living quarters he/she should have no more rights than your average renter. Tearing down parts of buildings and building whatever they want without permission should be grounds for immediate eviction and restitution.

Trump should be kicked to the street and made to finance all unauthorized repairs immediately. Move him and his bride to the same barraks his flunkies are staying in and start charging rent. 

Or he can go back to Florida and build his big ugly ballroom

[CMRivdogs]

A coup[le more random thoughts from last night..

November 17, 1973. Richard Nixon "I'm not a crook"

April 26, 2026. Donald Trump. "I'm not a rapist"  "I am not a pedophile"   

 

Look how far we've come in 53 years

Edited 2 hours ago by CMRivdogs

[Tigerbomb13]

1 hour ago, mtutiger said:

Genuinely astounding at a time of higher gas prices and Americans feeling as anxious as ever about their own personal finances, *this* is something that vulnerable Rs are running with.

Keep it up! It’s as if Lawler learned nothing with that angry town hall he had recently. I mean, he knows, but this is the party with the fealty to one man with a 67% disapproval rating. Hopefully it will be their downfall. 

[romad1]

41 minutes ago, CMRivdogs said:

First of all the White House should have no control over the WCA Dinner. This event is sponsored by the White House Correspondence Association. The President is a guest (as are all other extemporizes hangers on who attend these function. (and paid the price to attend).

It is up to the White House and Secret Service to provide security for the President (and I assume his party). Having spent a bit of time around these huge convention type hotels, it's impossible to shut them down completely for one event. That said the fact the guy didn't get past the main checkpoint proves that security worked  Saturday night despite MAGA talking points.

Everything else goes back to my main believes. The occupant of the White House is merely that. While he is the President and Supreme Commander, when it comes to his/her living quarters he/she should have no more rights than your average renter. Tearing down parts of buildings and building whatever they want without permission should be grounds for immediate eviction and restitution.

Trump should be kicked to the street and made to finance all unauthorized repairs immediately. Move him and his bride to the same barraks his flunkies are staying in and start charging rent. 

Or he can go back to Florida and build his big ugly ballroom

Don't threaten me with a good time.