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The 15 Craziest Excerpts From Trump’s Most Recent NYT Interview
By Jacob Weindling | February 1, 2019 | 3:45pm
The President of the United States is so incredibly stupid. It’s such a big challenge to write about Trump in an engaging and original manner given that he has exhausted political writers of every adjective we own. In fact, I can say that Trump’s abject stupidity has actually made me a better writer, in that I have had to learn more adjectives, and get more creative with phrases like calling him a “meat-filled bottle of spray tan lotion.”
Because our manchild of a president cannot conceive of the outside world through any other lens than that of cable news—or really feel any human emotion at all without his beloved teevee—one of the features of the Trump era is him putting on his big boy pants to call the nation’s most prestigious newspapers in for an Oval Office interview where he tries to play minister of propaganda, but instead winds up sounding like he just sustained a severe concussion after dropping several tabs of acid. Here are the 15 craziest excerpts from Trump’s hour(ish)-long interview with the New York Times yesterday.
1. The interview starts with our big strong president telling everyone how awesome and kewl he is
2. A close reading of this passage reveals that Trump admits he wasn’t paying attention during the meeting with President Xi
3. He still has no idea how tariffs work (the tax revenue he’s bragging about is coming from Americans, not Chinese)
TRUMP: Yeah, sure. We have 25 percent now on $50 billion. And by the way, Peter, that’s a lot of money pouring into our Treasury, you know. We never made 5 cents with China. We’re getting right now 25 percent on $50 billion. And then I was putting 25 percent at a later date, which date came and went — 25 percent or $200 billion.
4. In the before times, presidents just made simple, boring news like this in these interviews
MAGGIE HABERMAN, White House correspondent: Could you ever see a point in the next year where you say, “You know what, I don’t need to do this again, I don’t need to run for re-election”?
5. I love instances like these where he goes full-mush brain and just starts repeating what he saw on TV
6. ...wut?
TRUMP: National security is very important and we’re fighting over — a very important element is the southern border. When we talk about drugs coming from China, the fentanyl — you look at the heroin and a lot of the other drugs, they come from — 90 percent, more than 90 percent — from right across the southern border. And unlike what the Democrats say, they don’t, you don’t bring trucks of drugs through the checkpoints. You bring trucks of drugs by making a right 20 miles, and a left into the country. They’re not bringing, you know, they bring massive amounts of drugs, and they do it because there’s no barrier, there’s no hardened wall that you can’t knock down with your breath.
7. “Kameela” Harris is the Dems best candidate
8. This is most of his response to the question are “you happy with [ODNI Director] Dan Coats?”
TRUMP: And then you had the China group over here, the delegation. And I’m looking and I’m saying these are really outstanding people. They’re outstanding. Did you notice that today? How outstanding? We have a lot of great people.
9. His oxygen is ink in the New York Times
10. This is the NRA’s most beloved president ever
11. Siri, please show me an example of witness tampering
TRUMP: Bear false witness. I will never testify against the president. [Roger Stone] actually said at one time — you know he’s said it numerous times, but I heard him say it one time he’s done a great job, he’s a great president, and I will not, you know, lie in order to — people respect that so much. They respect that.
12. Trump Tower Moscow was supposedly a “very unimportant deal”
Someone should tell 1986 Trump about this when he “wrote” in Art of the Deal that he was pursuing a hotel “across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government.”
Also someone should let 2013 Trump know this is a nothingburger since he was clearly making very public plans with an oligarch in Vladimir Putin’s circle of power.
@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2013
13. “We’re not going to war with Venezuela but I’m not taking war off the table”
14. He was definitely about to reveal classified intelligence before this interview suddenly cuts out here and changes topics
15. This is basically what the entire Trump era sounds like
If you haven’t read the transcript yet and consider yourself an aficionado of unintentional comedy, I implore you to read this incredibly long fit of madness. There’s an entire Michael Cohen witness tampering section that I didn’t even get to mention because there is no one quote that summarizes its insanity. God help us all.
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The 15 Craziest Excerpts From Trump’s Most Recent NYT Interview :: Politics :: Lists :: Donald Trump :: Paste
The 15 Craziest Excerpts From Trump’s Most Recent NYT Interview
By Jacob Weindling | February 1, 2019 | 3:45pm
The President of the United States is so incredibly stupid. It’s such a big challenge to write about Trump in an engaging and original manner given that he has exhausted political writers of every adjective we own. In fact, I can say that Trump’s abject stupidity has actually made me a better writer, in that I have had to learn more adjectives, and get more creative with phrases like calling him a “meat-filled bottle of spray tan lotion.”
Because our manchild of a president cannot conceive of the outside world through any other lens than that of cable news—or really feel any human emotion at all without his beloved teevee—one of the features of the Trump era is him putting on his big boy pants to call the nation’s most prestigious newspapers in for an Oval Office interview where he tries to play minister of propaganda, but instead winds up sounding like he just sustained a severe concussion after dropping several tabs of acid. Here are the 15 craziest excerpts from Trump’s hour(ish)-long interview with the New York Times yesterday.
1. The interview starts with our big strong president telling everyone how awesome and kewl he is
2. A close reading of this passage reveals that Trump admits he wasn’t paying attention during the meeting with President Xi
3. He still has no idea how tariffs work (the tax revenue he’s bragging about is coming from Americans, not Chinese)
TRUMP: Yeah, sure. We have 25 percent now on $50 billion. And by the way, Peter, that’s a lot of money pouring into our Treasury, you know. We never made 5 cents with China. We’re getting right now 25 percent on $50 billion. And then I was putting 25 percent at a later date, which date came and went — 25 percent or $200 billion.
4. In the before times, presidents just made simple, boring news like this in these interviews
MAGGIE HABERMAN, White House correspondent: Could you ever see a point in the next year where you say, “You know what, I don’t need to do this again, I don’t need to run for re-election”?
5. I love instances like these where he goes full-mush brain and just starts repeating what he saw on TV
6. ...wut?
TRUMP: National security is very important and we’re fighting over — a very important element is the southern border. When we talk about drugs coming from China, the fentanyl — you look at the heroin and a lot of the other drugs, they come from — 90 percen
t, more than 90 percent — from right across the southern border. And unlike what the Democrats say, they don’t, you don’t bring trucks of drugs through the checkpoints. You bring trucks of drugs by making a right 20 miles, and a left into the country. They’re not bringing, you know, they bring massive amounts of drugs, and they do it because there’s no barrier, there’s no hardened wall that you can’t knock down with your breath.
7. “Kameela” Harris is the Dems best candidate
8. This is most of his response to the question are “you happy with [ODNI Director] Dan Coats?”
TRUMP: And then you had the China group over here, the delegation. And I’m looking and I’m saying these are really outstanding people. They’re outstanding. Did you notice that today? How outstanding? We have a lot of great people.
9. His oxygen is ink in the New York Times
10. This is the NRA’s most beloved president ever
11. Siri, please show me an example of witness tampering
TRUMP: Bear false witness. I will never testify against the president. [Roger Stone] actually said at one time — you know he’s said it numerous times, but I heard him say it one time he’s done a great job, he’s a great president, and I will not, you know, lie in order to — people respect that so much. They respect that.
12. Trump Tower Moscow was supposedly a “very unimportant deal”
Someone should tell 1986 Trump about this when he “wrote” in Art of the Deal that he was pursuing a hotel “across the street from the Kremlin in partnership with the Soviet government.”
Also someone should let 2013 Trump know this is a nothingburger since he was clearly making very public plans with an oligarch in Vladimir Putin’s circle of power.
@AgalarovAras I had a great weekend with you and your family. You have done a FANTASTIC job. TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next. EMIN was WOW!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2013
13. “We’re not going to war with Venezuela but I’m not taking war off the table”
14. He was definitely about to reveal classified intelligence before this interview suddenly cuts out here and changes topics
15. This is basically what the entire Trump era sounds like
If you haven’t read the transcript yet and consider yourself an aficionado of unintentional comedy, I implore you to read this incredibly long fit of madness. There’s an entire Michael Cohen witness tampering section that I didn’t even get to mention because there is no one quote that summarizes its insanity. God help us all.
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