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Well, he did say that the White House is a "dump", let's see if he finds these accommodations more to his liking.
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I've noticed that ever since a flurry of manic stuff right after the Senate Healthcare Bill went down last week, Trump has been relatively subdued in his tweeting...

A lot of self-congratulatory BS, some gross distortions, and a couple of shots at Congress, but by his standards, overall pretty mild fare...

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref ... r%5Eauthor

I wonder how long he'll be able to keep this up...
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Probably the whitest group of interns since the Buchanan administration:

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It reminds me of "Where's Waldo?"

OK, let's play "Where's Blacko?"

(I'm still looking.)
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OK, let's play "Where's Blacko?"


He's standing at the back, in front of the portrait of Washington on the right...
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There's one other black guy standing second to the left of Trump.

No black women.

No Asians, either, apparently.
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Lord Jim wrote:
OK, let's play "Where's Blacko?"
He's standing at the back, in front of the portrait of Washington on the right...
LJ, you're amazing. He's not wearing a beanie on his head -- I may never have found him.

And now there's two of them.
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No black women.

No Asians, either, apparently.
There are a couple who look like they might be Latino...
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Lord Jim wrote:There are a couple who look like they might be Latino...
Maybe that one guy in the front row, but he could pass for Italian, too.
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Where's wes when you need him to chime in about how much Trump loves black people and how much black people love Trump, and how Trump got 50% of the black vote?
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Wait a minute...

I may have spotted a third black guy...

Look back at the picture of Washington, and go down three rows...

On the right of the guy who looks like he's trying to do an Abraham Lincoln impersonation, there's a guy wearing a bow tie who looks like he could be a light skinned African American...
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Harvard's entering class this fall is over 50% minority students, for the first time ever. This is the last gasp of the white majority, only 25 years until it is no more . . .
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Lord Jim wrote:Wait a minute...
I may have spotted a third black guy... there's a guy wearing a bow tie who looks like he could be a light skinned African American...
My mom and her side of the family -- God fearing Irish Catholics, some daily Mass attendees -- used to call light skinned Negroes "High Yellow." My family had disparaging names for almost every ethnic group except for the Irish, of course.

In mom's later years I did finally convince her that she needed to be more charitable to those who were different and she did her best to change. And then she died.
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Lord Jim wrote:Wait a minute...

I may have spotted a third black guy...

Look back at the picture of Washington, and go down three rows...

On the right of the guy who looks like he's trying to do an Abraham Lincoln impersonation, there's a guy wearing a bow tie who looks like he could be a light skinned African American...
Possibly.

About 110 people. 24 (all white) women, 3 (at most) African American men. Yeah, the Trumpanzee represents "America" for sure.... :loon :loon :loon
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24 (all white) women
There's one white woman who isn't in that picture that should be...

Ivanka Trump...

Since that's the only White House position she is even remotely qualified for...

Jared should be in the photo too...
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She runs her own business, but so do millions of other American women (and men). Is that sufficient for a WH staff job?
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A second or third level White House staff job, maybe, but Senior Advisor To The President, serving "along side" the White House Chief of Staff? With zero political or government experience?

Not so much...
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Agreed. It's not so much that she is there. It's the level and access. 100% nepotism.

The Jaredino, too.
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Guinevere wrote:She runs her own business, but so do millions of other American women (and men). Is that sufficient for a WH staff job?
It is when you're sleeping with the president. :nana

Face it, Trump doesn't dole out jobs based on merit; few of even his senior appointees qualify for anything.

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It is when you're sleeping with the president
I think you may have Ivanka confused with Melania..
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