Rachel Maddow shares exclusively obtained quotes and excerpts from the forthcoming book "A Warning" by an anonymous author described as “a senior official in the Trump administration,” who depicts dark dysfunction in the White House. Aired on 11/07/19.
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Exclusive: Anonymous Author Depicts Deep Trump Admin Dysfunction | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC
Who is Trump to lecture Ukraine, or any country for that matter, on corruption. Especially when he has created the most corrupt administration in American history, and then brags about falling in love with Kim Jung Un, the most despotic dictator in modern history. Trump is a failed and absurd human being, on every level, with all the redeeming qualities of a tape worm.
@JOE Why can there a lm most never be a dialogue regarding this president that avoids hurling juvenile insults and name-calling anyone that doesn’t agree with your opinion(s)? Really, how old are you guys? Cuz you’re behaving like raucous grade-schoolers, encircling two other kids and chanting “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!”…
It is very possible to have a reasonably calm discussion about what’s been happening here for the past three years. There are facts, provable data that need not be questioned since they are simply that, which they are: FACTS. Like the fact that even if (for whatever reason) you disagree with the claim that Trump did something illegal regarding anything in Ukraine, he has committed other violations of the law. He has used the office he now holds to explicitly (and implicitly, but only the other is blatantly illegal) generate income for himself and his family. I get text messages literally every day pleading me to “donate now, and your donation will be TRIPLE MATCHED!!!” He has made it known that the best way to get on his good side is to give him lots of money; even if that money cones from the taxes that we’ve already paid. He almost tried to extort all six of the other G7 nations, by demanding them pay one of his more dilapidated hotels to attend their next meeting. The only thing that stopped him was the bipartisan blowback he took after unveiling the idea. He still doesn’t understand (or so he’s stated publically) what is wrong with that proposal. These are not open to interpretation, because they happened and have been documented.
Or, how about the fact that the media has treated this president with astoundingly open-faced disdain. I know that they are merely reacting to the copious number of vexing comments issued by Trump, disparaging the media as a whole, and in some cases individually. But that is no excuse, and nothing in our new broadcasts can be accurately labeled “fair and balanced”. How can we have constructive and productive discourse when right off the bat, each side is armed with these tools of hatred, misinformation, and apathy towards anyone who dares to think differently? Productive discourse requires empathy, even if that manifests on the most rudimentary level, it must be present to some degree. Otherwise we get mired in this quicksand in which we’re all currently sinking. Everyone, before it’s too late, STOP FLAILING ABOUT! Don’t y’all know that we’ll ALL die that way?!?!
@James Kalivoda Trump was going to pay for the G7 members accommodations out of his own pocket. That’s a fact.
@David J You insult the tapeworm
@JOE I have copied the definition(s) of the word fact, according to Dictionary.com, below for your convenience:
1) something that actually exists; reality; truth
2) a truth known by actual experience or observation; something known to be true
3) something said to be true or supposed to have happened
4) Legal: Often “facts”. an actual or alleged event or circumstance, as distinguished from its legal effect or consequence (other sources add to this definition “rather than interpretation”)
Now that we’re all on the same page as to what is fact what is not, surely you will want to amend your reply to my comment. No matter how unbelievably awesome you may think that you are, you simply cannot know a fact before it has happened. Not just you, no one can do that. So what you have posted is categorically non-factual. It must be so, since the next G7 summit has yet to take place. As a matter of fact (heh heh😉), we will likely never know if that scenario would have actually occurred, as you outlined, where Trump was gonna “pay for everything”. You can suppose that he would have done so, but as of now, it is one of the very few things he’s actually reversed course on, the fantasy now collecting dust in the clutter that is the back of his mind. We can even debate the issue, as I have a very hard time trying to envision a future which has Trump allowing other foreign leaders and dignitaries to stay at his resort in Florida for free (dunno what you meant exactly, in saying that he’d “pay” for them; essentially not taking their money to stay at his place is the best he can do). He has jumped at each and every chance he perceived to make money by leveraging his position as Leader of the Free World. He won’t even fully divest himself from his myriad corporations, many of which are directly influenced by policy that he himself has the power to shift and mold, to benefit those businesses greatly. Sure, some of his moves have cost him a number of dollars, that he would otherwise be getting had someone else been where he is at making said policy choices. But do not be fooled by his silver tongue, when he claims that working in this capacity is a step down for him, and his wild notion that he is losing something around $5 million (or $5 billion; I’ve heard him use both figures to make this point) every year he stays in office. He has been making untold mountains of wealth, by manipulating our nation’s laws, policies, and institutions, as well beseeching anyone foolish enough to send him more money, so that he can do his job as president best. If anything, he has effectively raised his annual income to dizzying heights, that he himself may never have imagined.
But this exchange of our own personal conjecture is as far as any real dialogue can go. Because the fact of the matter is, that summit has yet to happen, and we have thus yet to see what he will ultimately do, when it does occur. Please try harder to use words like “fact” properly. Just because you read something in an OP-ED piece or heard it from some right-wing ideologue on T.V. or the radio does not imbue it with actuality. Facts are things that have already happened.
@James Kalivoda You should be writing a letter such as this to all your corrupt pals, the Democrats in the house, the complicit MSM, and all the deep state bureaucrats who think it is their job to make policy.
This president and his cult-followers have exhausted the American people. Vote them all out!
Hapax Palindrome 👈🏼😂 oh I see, so never mind that team Hillary and the DNC literally asked for Ukraine’s help and literally paid Russian apparatchiks via Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS, huh dummy? Were you in a coma back in 2016, or were you popping zits on your bug eyed face too young to vote? Which is it, clown?
I’d prefer to see ALL of them machine gunned en masse into shallow graves.
Scott Morley 👈🏼😂 machine gunned into shallow graves? How progressive of you gender confused beta male! If you hate America that much you could always drain your circulatory system in despair, clown.
Rebecca, it’s time to stand up to all forms of trumptrash! Vote! but do more than vote right now!
Clayton Gunter 👈🏼😂 so says the clown who shills for the party of slavery, the party who gave America the Klan, the party that opposed the 13th-15th amendments to the constitution effectively making blacks equals under the law, the party who elected presidents that segregated schools and the military, the party who gave America Margaret Sanger, a segregationist and founder of Planned Parenthood, a woman who advocated abortion as a means of controlling the black race, the party that oversaw the unjust incarceration of Japanese Americans in internment camps, the party who was dwarfed by the GOP as a total census for who supported the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the party who reveres to this day LBJ and Woodrow Wilson, two racist presidents, the party who nominated a woman in 2016, for president, who literally said she considered a former klansman turned senator as her ‘mentor,’ the party that recently elected Jew haters to Congress, the party who in concert with its media apparatchiks – repeatedly lie and skew facts to the American people all in the name of propaganda, and a clown show party who laughably wants open borders, wants hard working Americans to pay for free healthcare to illegals, free college, government controlled healthcare, and socialism galore. You’re a sperg.
The author is so cruel
They know Trump won’t be able o say “Anonymous ” 🤣🤣🤣
Onomous, omnioucsis, umm ummm umm, I resemble that remark lol.
“Who is A. Non Mouse? I have never heard of him. Have you heard of him? I know I haven’t. Nobody has. It’s true. There is no A. Non Mouse working at the White House which means, more fake news… “
@tecums3h No, he has the best “letters.” Making them into actual words, not so much. Unless you mean “word salad.”
@Sherry Burrows Yes, a balanced, nutritional word salad with the best, most beautiful letters in the history of the world!
Hahaha 😂😂😂😂
I’m tired of this man and his grubby family. tRUMP is a disgrace.
The Evangelical community should be ashamed for supporting him.
@Mitch Winters I wish you luck in your efforts. Saying “Trump is no saint” is a monumental understatement as I and numerous other Americans see it. As an example, Trump abandoned our best allies, the Kurds, in the war on terrorism to be hunted down and slaughtered. Well, gotta go, Fiona Hill is getting ready to give her testimony.
tecums3h Theyre already a Cult & fit right in!
tecums3h Grubby is a great description, but they’re all Narcissists & Sociopaths! https://thoughtcatalog.com/shahida-arabi/2016/06/20-diversion-tactics-highly-manipulative-narcissists-sociopaths-and-psychopaths-use-to-silence-you/5/
“When I challenge the president I do it directly.”
Bold face lie since you still have a job.
@DavidCAdams Either are acceptable. Bold-faced or Bare-faced.
@Intercat why assume it’s a he.
@Hazel McCloy I can’t get my laptop tp bring up my comment,so I’m going to assume that you caught me being less than perfect. If it was a gender-foul, I am sure someone named”Hazel” can set me straight, because women hold up half the sky and American women are half the great heroes in my life. Thanks for the correction.
@Intercat “Women hold up half the sky, & American women are half of the great heroes in my life.” 👍😘
Starman Dx facts
Besides the fact that a lot of his employees are underqualified for their government positions…
The GOP went from outsourcing jobs to outsourcing the justice department.
Remember Germany 1930 to 1945 when a madman ran amok.
Yes, we do William Louie, and just like that time that madman had a political group backing him; there is a similar political group that is backing Trump. History does repeat itself if we are not careful.
Llewellyn Kereiff you are the man! You went right to the heart of the problem.
@ Dale Cox However look back at history, this guy could be a modern day agent garbo🤔
@Rose Quartz Trump derangement syndrome is the perfect description of traitor trump. He truly is deranged and getting worse by the day.
I just imagine “Anonymous” is causing a huge amount of paranoia inside this crazy, clown show administration. LMAO!!! Give this man/woman a medal for public service.
One fine day, perhaps we may do just that!
We all know that this above all else this consuming his every thought……..someone is gaming him using his own rules against him…..the irony!
“A toxic combination of amorality and indifference.” The perfect definition of TraitorTreasonousTrump, Moscow Mitch, Leningrad Lindsey and every Republican, both in the House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. Shame on every single one of these amoral men and women.
l maille and yet the democrats celebrate killing babies.
Don’t forget ignorance and egotism. Essential ingredients.
“……..frustrate …….. His worst inclinations” You mean like buying Greenland , and selling the USA to russia?
@Rose Quartz like those he selected to work for him who now sees how dangerous and evil this man is? That’s what the writer of this book is talking about!
“All the best words like foistered, covfefe and Bigly.” Now that I think about Nunya Business, you don’t suppose that Spanky Trump is Bugs Bunny’s evil twin? I mean when you compare his language to Bugs. I wonder if McBonespurs likes carrots?
Who ever this author is, He has a sense of humor…he just wants to watch trump grapple that four syllable word…
https://youtu.be/dG8r_z5yukE
Or she, or zim zer you FASCIST
you mean “amomynous” ?
Hahaha so true 😂
There are no more grownups in the White House, just weak-minded men and women, otherwise known as fellow grifters…
I’m SO buying this book for everyone in my family for Christmas!
I’m making coffee mugs with the mug shots of all of Trump’s men. I’m waiting for Giuliani’s mug to complete the set of demitasses.
So, you too are willing to risk a royal battle over the dinner table?! lolol
I hope that the author stays anonymous and this is a mystery that conspiracy theories are debating about like 50 years from now
Deep Throat didn’t last THAT long! LOLOL
“A toxic combination of amorality and indifference” sums up this current administration rather well.
Unlike the obama administration that cherry picked the press and acted like a socialist dictator. Your golden boy has faced away
Fade
A lot of people are saying, that Donald Trump is a swaggering, overbearing, tin-plated dictator with delusions of godhood.
After 3 years now, there’s no doubt about it. But don’t forget COMMUNIST TRAITOR!
it was the janitor
he grew tired of cleaning up after he kept leaving his mcdonalds wrappers on the floor
As Americans we ALL should be very scared…..
Evil deeds keep losing. God doesn’t like ugly. What is done in the dark will come to the light. God bless the USA🇺🇸🥁🇺🇸🥁🇺🇸🥁🇺🇸