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http://thehill.com/homenews/senate/386565-hatch-ridiculous-for-mccain-to-request-that-trump-not-attend-his-funeral Of course he tried to walk it back the next day... Report: Hatch calls McCain request that Trump not attend his funeral 'ridiculous' By Luis Sanchez - 05/07/18 03:50 PM EDT Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) said on Monday that it is “ridiculous” for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) to request President Trump not attend his funeral. “I think it’s ridiculous,” Hatch said, adding that he hopes McCain reconsiders his request, Politico reporter Burgess Everett reported. Hatch's comments would represent the first criticism from a GOP colleague of McCain's reported decision to not have Trump attend his funeral. Hatch said it was up to McCain whether to invite Trump, but said if he were in McCain's position, he would invite the president. "Well, he's the president of the United States and he's a very good man. But it's up to [McCain]. I think John should have his own wishes fulfilled with regard to who attends the funeral," he told Politico. McCain is undergoing treatment for brain cancer and has not been in the Senate this year. The New York Times reported on Saturday that McCain does not want Trump at his funeral and requested Vice President Pence attend instead. Trump and McCain have repeatedly battled since the then-GOP presidential candidate in 2015 insulted the Arizona senator by saying he preferred war heroes who were not captured. McCain endured years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. Last year McCain foiled Republican efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, leading Trump to call out the senator at the Conservative Political Action Conference earlier this year. In his recently finished memoir, "The Restless Wave: Good Times, Just Causes, Great Fights, and other Appreciations," McCain criticizes the president for caring more about "the appearance of toughness" than American values. Former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama are expected to deliver eulogies at McCain’s funeral, according to NBC News. Tags Donald Trump Barack Obama John McCain Orrin Hatch McCain

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/the-naked-truth-about-trump.html?rref=collection%2Fcolumn%2Fmaureen-dowd&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection The Naked Truth About Trump By Maureen Dowd Opinion Columnist May 5, 2018 Image WASHINGTON — Before I get to America’s Mayor and America’s Nightmare, I would like to say this: Michelle Wolf was right when she turned a gimlet eye on the media. “You guys are obsessed with Trump,” the comedian said at the White House Correspondents Dinner. “Did you used to date him? Because you pretend like you hate him, but I think you love him. “I think what no one in this room wants to admit is that Trump has helped all of you. He couldn’t sell steaks or vodka or water or college or ties or Eric, but he has helped you. He’s helped you sell your papers and your books and your TV. You helped create this monster, and now you’re profiting off of him. If you’re going to profit off of Trump, you should at least give him some money, because he doesn’t have any.” You know Donald Trump also believes that he is the best thing to ever happen to the media — and that he should be getting a cut of the action. There’s nothing he hates more than feeling that someone has profited off him, while he gets nothing. Remember when he proposed a $5 million ransom to show up at the CNN debate? Donald Trump is damaging the country and civic discourse, and undermining the First Amendment. But this Batman cartoon villain with an uncanny gift for cliffhangers and lurid story lines is buoying journalism, giving us a reprieve while we figure out how to save ourselves in the digital age. And he’s making journalists stars in a way they haven’t been since Watergate, inspiring documentaries and movies and helping them secure lucrative book and TV deals. The most intense, toxic cat-and-mouse game in President Trump’s life is not with Robert Mueller. It’s with the press. (Besides, it’s not a cat-and-mouse game with Mueller; it’s just cat.) Trump is an attention addict, and now he’s in a position to get all the attention in the world, as long as he keeps those sirens blaring. CNN has been on a constant Breaking News Alert for months. And we are Trump addicts, hooked on the hyperventilating rush of wild stories and all the great things that accrue from playing Beowulf to Trump’s Grendel. As we pat ourselves on the back, though, for the grueling hours and Pulitzer-quality scoops, we should remember one thing: Even if we vanished tomorrow, Trump would probably end up in the same place. EDITORS’ PICKS And he’s making journalists stars in a way they haven’t been since Watergate, inspiring documentaries and movies and helping them secure lucrative book and TV deals. The most intense, toxic cat-and-mouse game in President Trump’s life is not with Robert Mueller. It’s with the press. (Besides, it’s not a cat-and-mouse game with Mueller; it’s just cat.) You could put a nanny cam on the guy and leave the room, and he would crash out of his high chair. He incriminates himself faster than we can incriminate him. And he surrounds himself, in the Trumpland of Misfit Toys, with playmates who have that same perverse gift for self-incrimination and immolation. You know you’re in trouble when Donald Trump has to correct you on the facts. And Rudy Giuliani is in trouble. He and the Donald, the lawyer who was a mob buster and the president who acts like a mob boss, cooked up a harebrained plan to get Trump past the Stormy Daniels problem. The gruesome twosome, whose reputations have grown darker since the days when they swanned around New York as larger-than-life figuras, didn’t consult any top White House officials, even the counsel. When Ashley Parker, a Washington Post White House reporter, texted a West Wing adviser, the adviser texted back a string of emojis, including a popcorn box, as in they were just watching this horror movie from the audience. Even on a great day, things are always unraveling with Trump. Chaos is always getting unleashed. Turbulence is always brewing. So Rudy’s scheme quickly unraveled. He admitted in TV interviews this week that President Trump had reimbursed Michael Cohen — also a Sean Hannity lawyer — for the $130,000 payoff to keep the porn star mum about her Lake Tahoe liaison with Trump, while claiming that the president didn’t know specifically what the payment was for. “Oh my goodness, I guess that’s what it was for,” Trump said, according to Giuliani, incredibly making the First Vulgarian sound more like Mike Pence or James Comey. Instead of getting Trump out of a jam, it jammed him into a deeper hole, giving Mueller’s team new areas of legal inquiry and material to add to its mountain of damaging records, and possibly helping the special counsel fill in the blanks on the 70 blank subpoena forms he just requested from a courthouse in Virginia. Trump distanced himself from his good friend, as he is wont to do, promising that Rudy will “get his facts straight.” This prompted Vanity Fair to write the headline: “Trump Assures Reporters He’ll Make Giuliani a Better Liar.” Trump’s game is keeping everyone, especially the press, riveted. “He needs the excitement,” says Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio. “Without the drama and the crisis and the powerful opponent, he’d be just another guy.” Comments The Times needs your voice. We welcome your on-topic commentary, criticism and expertise. D’Antonio compares Trump, who has compared himself to Babe Ruth and who once wrote a poem when he was 12 about being a baseball player — “I like to hear the crowd give cheers, so loud and noisy to my ears” — to Jimmy Piersall. Piersall, a charismatic and talented baseball player, described his emotional spiral in his memoir, “The Truth Hurts”: “Probably the best thing that happened to me was going nuts. It brought people out to the ballpark to get a look at me.” The center fielder engaged in brawls, scuffles and pranks, once bringing a water pistol to home plate. Then one day he lost his grip; in a movie based on his life, that was depicted as him climbing up the backstop at Fenway Park. “That may wind up happening with Trump,” D’Antonio says. “One day he might walk to Marine One stark naked and we’ll all just say: ‘This is the end. It has finally happened.’” You could put a nanny cam on the guy and leave the room, and he would crash out of his high chair. He incriminates himself faster than we can incriminate him. And he surrounds himself, in the Trumpland of Misfit Toys, with playmates who have that same perverse gift for self-incrimination and immolation. You know you’re in trouble when Donald Trump has to correct you on the facts. And Rudy Giuliani is in trouble. He and the Donald, the lawyer who was a mob buster and the president who acts like a mob boss, cooked up a harebrained plan to get Trump past the Stormy Daniels problem. The gruesome twosome, whose reputations have grown darker since the days when they swanned around New York as larger-than-life figuras, didn’t consult any top White House officials, even the counsel. When Ashley Parker, a Washington Post White House reporter, texted a West Wing adviser, the adviser texted back a string of emojis, including a popcorn box, as in they were just watching this horror movie from the audience. Even on a great day, things are always unraveling with Trump. Chaos is always getting unleashed. Turbulence is always brewing. So Rudy’s scheme quickly unraveled. He admitted in TV interviews this week that President Trump had reimbursed Michael Cohen — also a Sean Hannity lawyer — for the $130,000 payoff to keep the porn star mum about her Lake Tahoe liaison with Trump, while claiming that the president didn’t know specifically what the payment was for. “Oh my goodness, I guess that’s what it was for,” Trump said, according to Giuliani, incredibly making the First Vulgarian sound more like Mike Pence or James Comey. Instead of getting Trump out of a jam, it jammed him into a deeper hole, giving Mueller’s team new areas of legal inquiry and material to add to its mountain of damaging records, and possibly helping the special counsel fill in the blanks on the 70 blank subpoena forms he just requested from a courthouse in Virginia. Trump distanced himself from his good friend, as he is wont to do, promising that Rudy will “get his facts straight.” This prompted Vanity Fair to write the headline: “Trump Assures Reporters He’ll Make Giuliani a Better Liar.” Trump’s game is keeping everyone, especially the press, riveted. “He needs the excitement,” says Trump biographer Michael D’Antonio. “Without the drama and the crisis and the powerful opponent, he’d be just another guy.”

If you think that, then you haven't been following Mr. Avenatti., or Mr. Mueller

Avenatti is my next ex-husband...

Classic Tim Conway

My last comment here...Rockhard is leaving because he's a fraud and a liar. Period!!....He got caught by Larstrup, who called him out. As it was mentioned on Morning Joe the other day. "I don't know what's worse, the fact that Trump is a liar, or the fact that 40 percent of the people in the country believe him." There's a reason, the ultimate 'Internet Troll' he was permanently banned from the other site. And for the record Mr. Rich...My username MsAnn, has historical significance. MsAnn quietly exits stage left.

The ultimate device for senior citizens...

Thou doth protest too much Overly insistent about something, to the point where the opposite is most likely true.

I don't disagree with you, although I think his purse is fatter than most realize. That said, my response was really to tartegogo who stated that "He never warns," which is not true, and based on my experience, for some reason I felt a need to set the record straight. But suckrates also makes a good point, I think that posters that contribute are probably given more consideration than those of us who keep the purse strings tightly closed.

That's not always true. I understand that there is a lot of animosity here regarding Daddy and Deej and how he operates the other site, some of it deserved some of it is not. Over the years. I have been banned four times, and three times I received a warning. Twice publicly and once privately, and once it was without warning (though I was not surprised). The same can be said about several friends of mine, who over the years, have received more warnings and bans than anyone can count. It is almost routine. The last one was only a few weeks ago, when he received a PM that said simply "enough! One more time and I will permanently ban all of your user names." He called to tell me and we had a good chuckle over it, but he likes to push buttons and push his luck. He did get the message , and as of today, he is still posting. When threads are closed, he usually sends a shot across the bow first, some warnings are subtle, and most posters ignore it, though I don't know why, but when a warning is ignored, threads do get locked. We can argue how he runs the site, whether or not he micro manages too much, injects personal feelings into posts, over reacts etc. but as far as warnings go they are given more often than not. It's not perfect, nothing is, but he prefers civility, and it is his site, and it's our choice whether or not we choose participate. Anyway, that's my thoughts. Most here will probably disagree with me, and that's fine also.

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Good Lord man...all night long, and this is what you come up with?

Perhaps next time Rocky can do a painting of himself in a place that he actually visited...