They’re trying to make him seem cool about the whole thing, when in reality he’s trying to save face by canceling before enough news organizations dropped out to empty the event and avoid even hinting at the kind of merciless mocking he might have gotten there.

“he can’t handle the roast”

The last president to actually deliberately skip it was Nixon, wasn’t it? How telling...

Really. He’s some random asshole. The only value in talking to him would be to specifically find out just how horrible his acolyte Miller is, because Miller is at least a dangerous asshole.

“What the fuck is happening?!?!?”

He paid for a ticket and they kicked him out as an attendee? Why isn’t Trump going after them for their attack on his free speech rights? Where’s all the talk about safe spaces! Snowflakes! I guess it’s different when they kick out someone they don’t want to be publicly associated with - when they very much are.

Not even that - the police can arrest people for “resisting arrest” or “failing to comply with orders” (or whatever other bullshit routinely gets used for peaceful protests), and that’s still potentially “a riot.” They just effectively outlawed protests, no trial required.

Hell, let’s even leave aside someone from “the other side” breaking a window (etc.) - even in cases where it’s only the police getting violent, protests get labeled “violent” as a result. There’s literally no way to guarantee a protest won’t qualify as a “riot” under these rules as a result. Which means they’re…

Can one actually prosecute someone for “breaking” a law if you can’t actually explain how to follow it?

As it is, he’s essentially being shuffled from one government job working under Trump to another, so in the end... But it’s not like he was willingly brought into working under Trump.

That would have been his only other option, yeah. But since, as a military person, he was technically already working for the Trump administration...

Boy, it’s almost as if Trump’s many, whiny condemnations of Obama’s vacations and travel expenses (which he was careful to keep low, btw) had nothing to do with the actual money spent! I wonder what it could have really been about? Hmm...

Yeah, he’s certainly got company in the GOP...

The guy is an active duty soldier and the president is his commander - he has to do what the president asks him to do, like it or not. That was Trump’s solution to his problem of not being able to find anyone willing, it appears.

Yep.

I’m sorry they didn’t stick with him, and just own the fact that 2017 Republicans are the party of Nazi pedophiles. Oh well, one out of two, then.

Some survey indicated that a majority of the people who supported his Muslim ban thought that it was justified by the Bowling Green massacre. So either they do believe the media is covering up terrorist attacks, or they are never being exposed to the debunking of the claims in the first place... I’m not sure which is…

Maybe Alex Jones will talk about it some more (he’s a believer, or pretends to be), at which point Trump will bring it up as a cautionary example of a civilization brought down by immigrants or something.

Unless he misunderstood “Sehwan” and thought they said it took place in Sweden... he might pay attention to that.

Oh man, Bowling Green and now Sweden - where else will terrorists not attack?