Playing Devil’s advocate here, I think he’s badly mangling the way laws over conflict of interest work. That is, the President is, in fact, exempt from them.

Oh, there’s plenty of outrage. You must follow different twitter accounts than I do. I can’t fucking read twitter anymore because everyone tweets something Trump or one of his cronies has said or done, and then tweets, “This is terrifying.” I’d like to know how they’d feel if the new President had once used a private…

What’s really terrifying is how little people realize this stuff is a problem. The whining about the media coverage, the waffling about imprisoning political opponents, the strong-arming and then glad-handing of critics, this stuff is so beyond the pale, and he’s successfully normalized it to the point where him…

I think Trump wishes he could wield a katana so he could have an O-ren Ishi style conference. You know he dreams of the moment he can publicly behead someone.

No, he’s saying it’s LEGAL for the President to have conflicts of interest.

Well, when one governs by the dictum “l’etat, c’est moi,” the president’s interests are the nation’s interests. No conflict!

I just read through the live stream. I am thoroughly horrified. I am going to try heroin.

If he doesn’t think the laws require him to put his holdings in a blind trust, then he is delusional. Nope, he’s totally pulling a Nixon.

Who knows? I think (*think*) what he’s saying is, the laws really don’t require the President to put his holdings in a blind trust or anything like that. But maybe he’s going full-Nixon and saying if the President does it, it can’t be illegal.

Is he saying it’s impossible for the president to ever have conflicts of interest?

There’s a livestream here: http://www.nytimes.com/live/trump-at-the-new-york-times-the-tweets/

It’s interesting. I keep wanting to scream at the Times staff: “Remember: he lies about everything all the time everywhere forever in every way!”

These two twitter accounts are really important to follow for the next hour or so. Tweeting the NYT’s meeting with Trump today:

None! My husband’s been abandoned by his shit-ass family (it’s serious, a long story, and yes we lawyered up cause it’s over surprise surprise MONAY!) and none of my relatives are visiting this year. So it’s just us and the dogs for our meal :)

I don’t know, since I plan on being that embarrassing uncle.

The cats might embarrass us but they are cats and can get away with it.

Then from the sound of it, I’d say it’s more of a blessing than a curse.

Oh I’m pretty sure my mom already told everyone not to bring up politics or Trump or anything remotely republican related as “I’m too sensitive” and get set off easily on rants. I’m the only liberal in my family, aside from my kids and husband. And we will spending the holidays with a lot of religious right wingers.…

I’m trying to figure out whether the fact that none of my family invited us for Thanksgiving is either a blessing or a cursed slight.

No one should ever put me in a position of power because this is exactly the kind of bullshit stunt I would pull. No dad jokes at the turkey pardoning for me, just embarrassing royal bachelors as much as possible.