Trump: I Regret Things I Said That Caused Pain
What a pussy, am I right? (I didn’t want to say it. That lady over there said it. I’m just repeating it.)
It’s Trump 2.0. He regrets unspecified things!
Sometimes, in the heat of debate and speaking on a multitude of issues, you don’t choose the right words or you say the wrong thing. I have done that. And believe it or not, I regret it. And I do regret it, particularly where it may have caused personal pain. Too much is at stake for us to be consumed with these issues.
I, for one, believe Big Media will accept this and move on. I believe they will never press him, day after day, about what, precisely, he supposedly regrets.
Oh, wait: I don’t actually believe that at all.
Is this coming from Bannon the Brawler? Fuck him! He’s dead to me. š
Patterico (bcf524) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:12 amat least he’s not piling abuse on ryan (swimer) man those people are vicious
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:15 amIf Chump’s elected, those will be his infamous words after he inadvertently causes WWIII!
Tillman (a95660) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:45 amIt is sad and pathetic to watch folks work themselves up over two or three speeches in an effort to convince themselves that Trump is something he is not. And never will be. Namely, a serious, rational, adult who is worthy of holding the office of President. Given his history and his own statements about himself, how can anyone believe anything he says? He doesn’t regret saying those things, he believes those statements won him the nomination. His only “regret” is that those statements might now contribute to his loss in the general election. I watched the video, his “apology” was not in the least sincere. We remain royally screwed.
Chris (222e08) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:46 amAll this from Trump was on a teleprompter.
Sammy Finkelman (44f942) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:48 amBow if you’re going to bring up bardella, remember nadia naffe.
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:54 amSo what?
Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:55 amSome people’s behavior can be better than their character. Trump is not one of those people.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:57 amThey will never be over macho grande. How are you feeling hoagie?
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 6:57 am#3 Tillman,
Do you think Barack regrets launching his first political campaign from the living room of unrepentant terrorists? (LOL)
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:00 amNot going to Macho Falso.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:01 amSo your going for Mcguffin or bluntman?
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:02 amSeriously? I’ve been going back over some of the things Trump supporters say. Two: “Trump will make America great again.” “Trump will keep us safe.”
Let’s skip, for the sake of argument, “How?” and go to the substance.
You can be great or you can be safe but you cannot be both. The people who made this country great were not safe. Not in the Mayflower, not in the Dark And Bloody Ground, not at the Alamo, not at Verdun, not at Normandy, not in Apollo 1 … but you get the picture.
Great nations don’t build walls. They build navies. Maybe even space navies. And history shows that their walls will not keep them safe unless they’re the “wooden walls” of Themistocles (ships) or their walls are “the breasts of their fighting men” (Sparta).
(To be continued)
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:15 am5 SF: All this from Trump was on a teleprompter.
7. Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) ā 8/19/2016 @ 6:55 am
It was written for him, and may indicate nothing about what he actually thinks.
Sammy Finkelman (44f942) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:22 amYes and despite that Washington burned as Athens did millenia before if those five Nazi saboteurs not been nabbed at the port, who knows what could have happened,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:22 amYou should be a pussy like him.
otto (6b48e6) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:40 amWe were not safe, I said that. But we won. Britain is now the junior partner, and what do you need to be told about Germany and Japan?
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:40 amWar has always been nasty brutish and short, but we don’t want to make it easier for the enemy, if not for one hijacker. Capitol hill could have a a funeral pyre,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:47 amThe Great Wall of China did not stop the Mongols and the walls of Rome did not stop the Visigoths. What will prevent another 9/11 is a competent CIA and NSA, and (faint hope) a competent FBI. A wall of men.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:54 amWell we had already welcomed the vandals, into the empire.
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 8:09 am#14 Sammy,
What in God’s name are you talking about?
Just because someone has something on a teleprompter doesn’t mean it was written by someone else. That’s one of the stupidest things I’ve ever heard.
A lot of people use a teleprompter because the words are easier to read than hand-written notes on a piece of paper that you have to look up and down at. Particularly when it’s a televised event, when it’s important to have a more professional presentation than if you’re just giving a little speech to 47 people at the Elks Lodge in Butte, Montana.
Cruz Supporter (102c9a) — 8/19/2016 @ 9:08 ama teleprompter is a useful tool, obama used it as a crutch, even in appearances in elementary schools,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 9:11 amEverybody uses teleprompters nowadays, Sammy. I see no problem. Used to write a speech on paper, then typed it, then index cards now teleprompter. The method of delivery does not mean he did or didn’t write it. However, if he’s smart he’ll let a professional do it.
Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) — 8/19/2016 @ 9:59 amWe’re going to build boats in Arizona.
Big beautiful boats.
Pinandpuller (0845e7) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:10 amI’m doing okay narciso, thanks for asking. I don’t go out too much in the heat and humidity though. However, since I was put on the transplant list my wife’s anxiety level has decreased. She knows now it’s just a matter of time.
Walls are a useful tool. So are doors. So are laws. We need the former because it seems democrats won’t enforce the latter. I do know we do not need a million refugees or immigrants a year. That includes H-1B visas. Times change and our immigration and naturalization laws need to change too. Especially when we could be importing the means to our own destruction.
Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:12 amAny candidate for a major office who tells you he writes his own speeches is lying. They don’t have one speechwriter, they have half a dozen or more.
And what they start with is The Speech. One that covers the candidate from every angle in the best possible way. Then they select parts of it and tweak them for specific audiences. It helps the candidate stay on message at all times, and avoids accusations of inconsistency.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:18 amI think I see what might be coming down the pike: Trump (and whoever is whispering in his ear) wants to create a parallel media echo chamber for his kind of politics; a Bizarro MSM, if you will. Of course, this will be just as dishonest as the original.
L.N. Smithee (b84cf6) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:45 amLooks like Rev. Hoagie is into the two-word game Michael “Says who?” Cohen plays.
L.N. Smithee (b84cf6) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:46 amThere’s 80 days or so to go. Trump can reinvent himself half a dozen times still.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/19/2016 @ 10:56 am12.So your going for Mcguffin or bluntman?
Always remember. “red queen bad” and “macho grande bad” are not mutually exclusive statements. If you want me to vote for macho grande, you need to give me a reason to think that macho grande is, if not good, at least, not as bad as I think he is.
At this point I might vote for McGuffin, assuming the State of Florida doesn’t manage to keep him off the ballot. Ohio is trying to keep bluntman off the ballot, btw.
kishnevi (870883) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:18 amWho is McGuffin, and Bluntman? I can guess that McGuffin may be McMullin, but I can’t figure out Bluntman, unless it is Gary Johnson, because he smoked blunts.
Sammy Finkelman (44f942) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:23 am… and Hillary sleeps.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:27 am23. Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) ā 8/19/2016 @ 9:59 am
Sammy Finkelman (44f942) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:27 amWhen Donald trump uses a teleprompter it mans those are not hsi words. (or, as in the case of his convention acceptance speech, the speech has been reworked again and again, using ideas Donald Trump tossed out or wrote on printed out drafts, with his speechwirters adding ides.
The apology here is out of character, and does not sound like him. It will be more convincing if he repeats it.
Sammy Finkelman (44f942) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:31 amIt didn’t, really. Only government buildings were burned, in retaliation for the Americans burning Toronto. Private property was not touched.
Milhouse (5a188d) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:35 am31.
kishnevi (870883) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:37 amYou figured correctly.
Narciso’s system of names is always allusive, and sometimes elusive.
Reagan had speechwriters, but he treated what they produced as a draft, which he would seriously edit and change and make his own before producing the final speech that he’d deliver.
Milhouse (5a188d) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:41 amWell, apparently now he does. So what? They aren’t his words. They are now, I heard him say them. I don’t see your point. Everybody uses teleprompters whether they write the words themselves or not. Presidents use teleprompters and many write their own words. So what? It doesn’t matter Sammy. If he objected to the content he would not have said the words. What, you think that was the first time he read the script?
Rev. HoagieĀ® (0f4ef6) — 8/19/2016 @ 11:48 amno macho grande means this stygian primary season, red queen is self explanatory, mcmuffin or mccheese, because that’s what he looks like, and you’re right about johnson,
btw after four long years, the second shooter at abottabad, has been acquitted of leaking classified information,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 12:30 pm@37- Reagan had speechwriters, but he treated what they produced as a draft, which he would seriously edit and change and make his own before producing the final speech that heād deliver.
Ever the actor. All thespians love to change their lines.
DCSCA (797bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 12:34 pmNeither do I.
On Sunday, look for the usual suspects to probe exactly what “personal pain” he regrets inflicting, and look for him (or, his surrogates) to be dodging and weaving and saying “Oh for God’s sake I (he) said I’m (he’s) sorry that’s what you’ve been hounding me (him) about isn’t that enough you’re never satisfied how come you aren’t asking Hillary about why she hasn’t said sorry about (fill in the blank) you hold Trump (Trump) to a higher standard you’re so unfair!!1!!111!!!!!11!!”
L.N. Smithee (b84cf6) — 8/19/2016 @ 1:38 pmThis just proves Trump will never do anything right as far as a nevertrumper bus concerned. It’s like a shrew wife:
Husband: dinner is late again?
Shrew: apologise!
H: Why? I just asked if dinner was late.
S: you never apologise!
H: I do when I have something to apologise for.
S: no you don’t, now apologise because you hurt my feelings!
H: OK, I regret hurting your feelings.
S: No you don’t you don’t! You don’t mean it! You’re a meany that never apologises but if you apologise more and keep repeating it I might start to believe it! When hell freezes over. You awful person you!
LBascom (74bc82) — 8/19/2016 @ 1:58 pmMacho Grande isn’t a player
It’s the game
Pinandpuller (0845e7) — 8/19/2016 @ 3:00 pmTrump is your husband, LBascom, not ours. Or your “Daddy”, if you prefer.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:11 pmDo they have armed guards when giving blood in Chicago?
mg (31009b) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:14 pmTo us, he’s the 70-year old career criminal, with a long rap-sheet, expressing remorse to the judge and throwing himself at the mercy of the court at his sentencing hearing.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:15 pmThis just proves Trump will never do anything right as far as a nevertrumper bus concerned. Itās like a shrew wife:
LBascom (74bc82) ā 8/19/2016 @ 1:58 pm
Insults were lies and personal, apology, truth and personal it must be, or no apology it is!
Yoda (e6eca8) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:36 pmhow many governors in a row, have gone to prison in your state again, and unlike virginia, they were probably guilty,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:37 pmExcept for Otto Kerner, there’s no “probably” about it. They were guilty. And of worse things than those for which they were convicted.
But I resent your descent into false tu toque. It’s one of the more annoying Trumpian tactics. Like LBascom’s comment above, and a constant stream of others, from Trump and Trumpkins. We know who the whiny New York pansy that sounds like a shrewish woman is. We know who Lyin’ Donnie is. We know who Adulterer Trump is. We know who Demented Donna is. And it ain’t any of our guys.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:51 pmwhich laws has he broken, being a boor doesn’t count, this administration has broken so many laws, blackstone would stab himself with a quill in dispair,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 4:57 pmThat’s the other thing that’s beneath you. I know you know the difference between an analogy and a literal allusion.
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 5:03 pmIf nk had as many quills sticking out of him as he’s had stuck in him he’s look like a silly goose.
Pinandpuller (c16705) — 8/19/2016 @ 5:06 pmNk’s a master allusionist like David Blaine.
Pinandpuller (0845e7) — 8/19/2016 @ 5:11 pmI’m confuzzled really earlier on, they said he was spending too much time in texas, now they say he’s been too long in places like conneticut and pennsylvania and lousiana, where prince albert in a can, barely appears anywhere, usually with a cogswell cog loose, but she’s the one ahead,
narciso (732bc0) — 8/19/2016 @ 5:19 pmOf all the times you have commented here, pudandpuller, can you find just one when you contributed anything other than noise to the discussion?
nk (dbc370) — 8/19/2016 @ 5:21 pmTrump 2.0
More like Trump 7.33
And yet still full of bugs.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/19/2016 @ 7:36 pmAnd yet still full of
Yoda (e6eca8) — 8/19/2016 @ 8:55 pmbugssh!t.Kevin M (25bbee) ā 8/19/2016 @ 7:36 pm
Oops, FIFY!
Yoda (e6eca8) — 8/19/2016 @ 8:56 pmI, for one, believe Big Media will accept this and move on. I believe they will never press him, day after day, about what, precisely, he supposedly regrets.
THe post actually has dueling op-eds on this. Guess which one takes Trump’s side.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/which-wrong-thing-does-trump-regret-saying-exactly/2016/08/19/6662ee20-6648-11e6-8b27-bb8ba39497a2_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/08/19/for-which-of-these-two-dozen-things-is-donald-trump-finally-expressing-regret/
Yes, you’re right.
Kevin M (25bbee) — 8/19/2016 @ 9:52 pmBoth Post articles are behind a paywall, so unless their exclusive information bears repeating, it’s probably not important. Trump will handle the SUPER SERIOUS CERTIFIED JOURNALIST AND LOLYER QUESTIONS like he always does: better than anyone else because he’s more concerned about how low-information voters and women are going to take the answer then some egghead who can make the arguments but can’t do something as simple as, say, count the number of voters smart enough to be swayed by intellectual argumentation over identity politics. MASSIVE HINT: NOT THAT YUGE. YOU GETTING BEAT BY DA GUY WHO WRITES DA FUNNY PAPERS, GUY. SHOULDA GOTTEN INTO ENGINEERING, OR DID YOU TAKE THE VERBAL JOB BECAUSE YOU COULDN’T MATH RIGHT?
Dystopia Max (76803a) — 8/20/2016 @ 10:52 pm