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Jilly_in_VA

(13,821 posts) Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:13 PM Dec 18

Trump Spills Real Reason for Manic Address When Cameras Stop

President Donald Trump was heard explaining why he gave his bizarre national address as soon as the cameras stopped rolling.

In seemingly unguarded comments made in front of journalists after the address, the president admitted that it had not even been his choice—but that his chief of staff, Susie Wiles, had made him do it as she plays cleanup amid the fallout from her embarrassingly candid Vanity Fair article.

In Wednesday night’s 18-minute double-speed diatribe, the 79-year-old president fired off mistruth after mistruth about how well his administration is doing and attacked his predecessor, Joe Biden, without having anything new to say.

The White House address was carried live by the major networks, with CBS forced to interrupt the live finale of its reality TV show hit Survivor so viewers could catch the presidential speech.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump-forced-to-address-the-nation-to-cover-up-susie-wiles-vanity-fair-disaster/

"Susie made me do it". Sounds like an excuse from "Calvin and Hobbes"

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Trump Spills Real Reason for Manic Address When Cameras Stop (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Dec 18 OP

You know what this means: make sure you're talking about VF, not this speech. RockRaven Dec 18 #1

No one cares about what he is saying crud Dec 18 #2

Considering that everyone he hires is really stupid and incompetent... ananda Dec 18 #5

Low energy Trump. Low ratings Trump. C_U_L8R Dec 18 #3

Time to revive the term "Dotard" jmbar2 Dec 18 #4

I didn't think it was ever retired. calimary Dec 18 #8

That devil named Susie made me do it TexLaProgressive Dec 18 #6

Again not The Onion MustLoveBeagles Dec 18 #7

Just heard on Nicole Wallace's show that CBS told him he had only 20 minutes Attilatheblond Dec 18 #9

Your post reminded me of a scene in "Bye, Bye Birdie" where, in order to fit niyad Dec 18 #10

RockRaven

(18,739 posts)

1. You know what this means: make sure you're talking about VF, not this speech.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 02:16 PM

Dec 18

And, of course, Epstein, Epstein, Epstein!

crud

(1,201 posts)

2. No one cares about what he is saying

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:05 PM

Dec 18

everyone just wants him gone.
Susie is supposed to be a savvy operator, yeah, I don't know about that.

ananda

(34,453 posts)

5. Considering that everyone he hires is really stupid and incompetent...

Reply to crud (Reply #2)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:39 PM

Dec 18

None of them are really any good whatsoever, in any way.

C_U_L8R

(48,892 posts)

3. Low energy Trump. Low ratings Trump.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 03:30 PM

Dec 18

The inevitable slo-motion crash and burn is nigh.

jmbar2

(7,649 posts)

4. Time to revive the term "Dotard"

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:36 PM

Dec 18

A babbling dotard...

calimary

(89,057 posts)

8. I didn't think it was ever retired.

Reply to jmbar2 (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:58 PM

Dec 18

But I can think of a few (hundred) more terms and synonyms and phrases to plug in, in its place.

TexLaProgressive

(12,672 posts)

6. That devil named Susie made me do it

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:47 PM

Dec 18

MustLoveBeagles

(14,805 posts)

7. Again not The Onion

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:53 PM

Dec 18

I always have to check now. What's that saying? Something about throwing and a bus.

Attilatheblond

(8,317 posts)

9. Just heard on Nicole Wallace's show that CBS told him he had only 20 minutes

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 04:59 PM

Dec 18

Guess that explains the haste of his diatribe. I can just imagine: 'Hey, Junior, I need some of your drugs so I can do all my spleen venting in record time'.

niyad

(129,609 posts)

10. Your post reminded me of a scene in "Bye, Bye Birdie" where, in order to fit

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #9)

Thu Dec 18, 2025, 05:07 PM

Dec 18

in a song, the conductor of the ballet is given an upper kind of pill, and conducts the musuc at double speed. That, of course, was fiction. No telling what he took, or was given.

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