It’s the CIA memorial wall all over again. The Oompa Loompa In Chief does not know how to act in public. Goes to show that money can’t buy class.

So I guess the new definition of “Presidential” is, “Acting like a minimally functional adult, for round about an hour or so.” Quite some achievement there. Do you all remember the fire in HRC’s words after her first debate with this nitwit? You could feel how she’d come alive. Someone remind me again why she was all…

And he let it be.

He looks so much Mussolini’s grandson (if they dropped Mussolini’s grandson on his head, dipped him in bronzer, and sent him to live with the cousins who run a boarding school scam).

Remind you of anyone?

Clearly the issue wasn’t that he was demonizing all of those who didn’t worship at his feet. It was that he didn’t look presidential enough doing it.

This is what happens when you lower the standard of human conduct the way he has. The press has decided anything even remotely above that absolves what came before.

Trump didn’t “let it be,” he ended it by crowing about what a long ovation he got (even though it was actually for the grieving widow he was using as a prop).

As a vet myself this is something everyone needs to understand: sometimes American Soldiers die for no good reason. They die in accidents, in blue-on-blue attacks, from improper medical care, in stupid wars, in badly planned missions. It happens. “Soldiers have died” is not a reason to keep fighting in and of itself.

Well said. Pretty sad to see Van Jones do a complete 180 over one speech. So disappointed in all of them. Trump has still done some pretty shitty things over the last few weeks and still is a narcissistic monster. One speech doesn’t change any of that.

Yes, gawd. Like the pinnacle of that soldier’s life was getting the longest applause before Congress in history upon his death. Who thinks like that? Jesus, this man is disgusting.

Jesus christ. He is such an odious human being.

After the applause died down, he said he though it was the longest ovation ever in such a speech (of course it wasn’t but even that’s beside the point).

The family of the vet does get to make a choice. Owens’ wife made one choice (yes, you can use me as a prop); his father made another (GTFO you moron whose idiotic decision got my son killed).

I didn’t watch or listen to his speech. Frankly, it makes me a little ill to listen to him anymore. Did he really act like applause was for him? Wait why am I asking this, of course he did. ugh.

As long as you can get American soldiers killed, you will always have defenders, because there will always be people who think saying that American soldiers were sent somewhere to die for no good reason is more offensive than sending American soldiers somewhere to die for no good reason.

I refused to watch the speech, because obviously, but when I saw the headlines on NY1 this morning with the “press” pivoting to say he was “Presidential” and didn’t pee on any of the carpets, my reaction was, ‘here we go...’

Chris Cilizza is consistently and dangerously moronic. But “Donald Trump understood the applause for Carryn Owens was a moment. And he let it be.” is simply wrong.

Bad caretakers seem the more likely cause of death than just bed bugs.

44 already did.