Report: Trump Said The White House Is a Dump
More #FAKENEWS!! from the leftists at . . . Sports Illustrated?
During election season, Bedminster morphed into a kind of permanent campaign rally site. Trump posters and bumper stickers were plastered across the property, and an anti-Hillary shrine was built in a bar in the men’s locker room. The club held a Ryder Cup–style competition in which the teams wore either red or black Make America Great Again hats. At most other golf courses in America the TV is tuned to Golf Channel, on mute, but throughout last summer and fall, the television in Trump Bedminster’s shop was on Fox News, with the sound blaring. As President, Trump has already made four visits to the club. He has his own cottage adjacent to the pool; it was recently given a secure perimeter by the Secret Service, leading to the inevitable joke that it’s the only wall Trump has successfully built. Chatting with some members before a recent round of golf, he explained his frequent appearances: “That White House is a real dump.” (A White House spokesperson denies this occurred.) Trump is often at his most unguarded among the people who pay for their proximity to him. Last November, the President-elect hosted a cocktail reception and dinner at Bedminster on the same weekend that he was holding interviews at the club with candidates for his Cabinet. At the dinner, Trump addressed the members of the club by saying, “This is my real group. You are the special people. I see all of you. I recognize, like, 100% of you, just about.” Then he issued an open invitation to drop in on his Cabinet interviews the next day.
My lede was partially ironic but I don’t follow sports journalism, so others will have to educate me as to whether SI is a hotbed of #FAKENEWS commies. Evaluating the article on its face, we don’t know who is claiming Trump said this. Ergo, the story may well be garbage, regardless of the source.
The best evidence it’s true is probably the denial from the White House. If each time the White House made an assertion, you bet five bucks that the assertion was false, you’d probably win as much money as Trump inherited from Fred.
So I can’t assume this actually happened. But he sure does spend a lot of time away from the White House, and it’s not like it sounds out of character.
If Trump said this, it’s hardly the most outrageous thing he has ever said. But as Allahpundit noted on Twitter: “We would have had a sweet week of rage in conservative media if Obama had said that.”
Yup. But hypocrisy means never having to say you’re sorry.
I’m still more mad about the failure to repeal ObamaCare than this. But, as a taxpayer, I wish he would stay home at the “dump” a little more often.
And if it turns out that he does want to leave . . . nobody’s stopping him.
[Cross-posted at RedState.]
isn’t sports illustrated owned by the same deeply anti-semitic fake news propaganda sluts what own TIME Magazine?
isn’t sports illustrated the magazine what wants us to think cows in bikinis is the hot new thing?
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:38 pmSomewhere on line I recently saw a post calling SI and ESPN leftist run media that were going bankrupt due to the changes wrought by the Internet. Perhaps Conservative Treehouse? If I remember where I will post it.
kishnevi (f358ee) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:49 pmMy lede was partially ironic but I don’t follow sports journalism, so others will have to educate me as to whether SI is a hotbed of #FAKENEWS commies.
Sports Illustrated is reliably leftist as is most sports media coverage these days (at least at the national level). They practically enshrined the University of Missouri when in back-to-back years the school had linebacker Michael Sam come out as gay followed by the whole BLM protest and threats to skip games if the university president wasn’t fired. This kind of activism just warmed the hearts of the mostly white sportswriters who cover sports (football and basketball primarily) dominated by minorities. I know you were being slightly tongue-in-cheek, but I don’t think they are necessarily a purveyor of fake news, just news filtered through a decidedly progressive lens.
JVW (42615e) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:54 pmOr maybe Trump wants to give Melania a justification to redo what Michelle did
kishnevi (f358ee) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:54 pmhttps://www.popsugar.com/home/Melania-Trump-Redecorating-White-House-43122253
It prolly is a dump after 8 years of Barack The Last and Mooch.
Don (11847a) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:54 pmmaybe the white house has been a vile tacky slut magnet for a long long time
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/1/2017 @ 6:56 pmIt needs a LOT more gold leaf. I mean, the toilets are mere porcelain; they could be so much more. Ivory, perhaps.
Kevin M (752a26) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:00 pmremember trashy-assed nancy reagan and her astrology?
how trailer park can you get
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:00 pmThere is a stain on the Kennedy era carpet that looks like the outer banks
steveg (e8c34d) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:02 pmI thought there was a two year Oval Office remodel pending.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:12 pmNot a Micarta wall panel, brass-faced elevator door, or gold-plated faucet in the whole place, I’d bet.
nk (dbc370) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:13 pmAs I recall the British didn’t think much of it when it was brand new.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:16 pmbut then the british think their bastard prince’s LA pickup leggy meggy is teh royal swanky
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:18 pmHas anyone else seen Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?
Did Abe really take a selfie in front of the Capitol erection?
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:23 pmObama spent almost $100 Million on travel in 8 years. Trump is on pace to spend that much in just 1 year.
DRJ (15874d) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:25 pm@13 happyfeet
Are you talking about Hugh Grant and Divine Brown?
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:28 pmIf anything Harry should frag his poppy.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:29 pmmeanwhile glorious war hero p.o.s. John McCain’s obamacare is gonna cost us $1.34 trillion over the next decade
happyfeet (28a91b) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:34 pmActually, it IS somewhat of a dump–at least from my memories of a visit in the 80s: peeling paint, condensation drops, deformed windows, and creaky floors. I was impressed more by its dowdiness than its glamor.
In comparison with the abandoned, open-to-the-tourists, stately homes of England, it was nothing much. At the time, I put it down to republican (small R) parsimony. I can well see a real-estate tycoon’s shock and lack of awe at its degraded condition.
I suggest Trump move to one of his preferred nouveau-riche palaces and–out of his own pocket–bring the place up to snuff for the remainder of his term: a grandiloquent gesture that will appeal to his fans.
Golden Eagle (69d665) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:34 pmif only there was a branch of government in charge of spending.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:35 pmA crazy guy managed to get in The White House.
Not Trump. Before that.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:39 pmHarry and Hugh are carrying on that same fetish that had nearly every male British solo artist in the 1980s have the customary 3 black backup singers.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:56 pmNot only is it a dump, it probably dried out Bannon’s and Conway’s skin.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 8/1/2017 @ 7:59 pmFDR begat The 22nd Amendment.
If you want to build a big beautiful wall between The Executive’s personal and public spending it’s probably going to have to start with Congress.
Prepare to be disappointed.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 8:00 pm@22 ulb
If they look like Martha Jones or Missandie I’m in.
Pinandpuller (e4c365) — 8/1/2017 @ 8:10 pmPolitics has steadily permeated the sports world. As they have in most of our institutions, progressives established a beachhead and began their march through every major sport, supported by the likes of journalists at ESPN and SI (and quite a few athletes). I just want to watch a game or news recaps and escape from the latest news regarding North Korea, the ME, and Trump-landia. But noooooooooo, the left has to ruin this simple entertainment as well.
Who cares what SI writes? I cancelled my subscription two decades ago. Stopped watching ESPN 15 yrs ago when they began to carry water for the Dems and their issues. I turn off the tube when the ballers in the NBA or on an NFL sideline decide to make a statement; the latter is experiencing a decline in viewership due at least in part to Kapernick’s antics. And college athletics? Don’t get me started.
Lenny (5ea732) — 8/1/2017 @ 8:18 pmYeah, but you might have to suffer through Grace Jones to make one for someone else.
urbanleftbehind (847a06) — 8/1/2017 @ 8:18 pmWell now, Seth Rich was the leak that got plugged.
Pinandpuller (cacf2d) — 8/1/2017 @ 8:53 pmInflation is a b-word. I blame Obama.
Patterico (bd09f6) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:20 pmI am good at deadpan huh
Patterico (bd09f6) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:21 pmWith his numbers hovering close to Harry Truman’s in office, he’d feel right at home at Blair House.
‘Play it again, Sam’: “In June 1948 a leg of Margaret Truman’s piano crashed through the floor in her second floor sitting room and through the ceiling of the Family Dining Room below.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Reconstruction
“What a dump.”- Rosa Moline [Bette Davis] ‘Beyond The Forest’ 1949
DCSCA (797bc0) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:26 pmI blame Kylie Bax.
Beldar (fa637a) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:36 pmYes the increasingly selective for Michael sams and Colin capeenuck, shurly
https://spectator.org/the-anti-trump-bad-news-is-good-news/
narciso (d1f714) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:40 pmIf it bears out that Seth Rich partied with Imran Awan on the night of his murder. that IA is DWS’ lover, that DWS is frizzy hair deep in blackmail and treason then this is going to blow way higher than the House Post Office scandal.
Pinandpuller (cacf2d) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:51 pmThey actually have to write an actual story about either the falling dc police incesrugation or the stalled Iran investigation:
narciso (d1f714) — 8/1/2017 @ 9:54 pmlegalinsurrection.com/2017/08/ny-times-defense-palin-crosshairs-editorial-wasnt-actually-about-palin
What difference does it make:
http://therightscoop.com/breaking-house-committee-fingers-ben-rhodes-in-unmasking-probe
narciso (d1f714) — 8/1/2017 @ 10:26 pmDid house of spies ripoff thevheadlines or vicevversa:
narciso (d1f714) — 8/1/2017 @ 10:30 pmhttps://pjmedia.com/homeland-security/2017/08/01/report-gives-new-details-on-173-man-islamic-state-terror-team-headed-towards-europe/
Remember there was. A musyndrstanding
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/aug/1/donald-trump-warns-nicolas-maduro-venezuela-presid
narciso (d1f714) — 8/1/2017 @ 10:45 pmSy Hersh coming through…
Pinandpuller (2aeb6c) — 8/2/2017 @ 12:14 amDon’t be disusing princess markle, pikachu just don’t.
narciso (d1f714) — 8/2/2017 @ 5:20 amBack to your two minute hate
http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/01/white-house-to-announce-bill-to-overhaul-legal-immigration-system
narciso (d1f714) — 8/2/2017 @ 5:22 amBack at the ranch:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/us/politics/trump-affirmative-action-universities.html
narciso (d1f714) — 8/2/2017 @ 5:27 amNone of the articles quoting The Don on the “dump” remark have noted that Jackie Kennedy said basically the same thing.
harkin (536957) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:00 amMary Todd also besmirched the WH carpets stained with tobacco, mushrooms growing out of the walls…
Does Trump use a Bidet or does Butler wipe him?
Ben burn (df1406) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:03 amSorry pat
Emptywheel
The African American former cop that Fox blamed for its retracted Seth Rich story, Rod Wheeler, has sued the network and a Fox associate and GOP rat-fu*ker, Ed Butowsky, for defamation and discrimination.
The suit is designed to be very inflammatory, using the claims Butowsky made about President Trump’s personal involvement pushing the story to attract attention (and increase the pain for Fox)
Ben burn (df1406) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:08 amWell, I thought that Trump probably thought so, but then we heard no complaints (that leaked) and he seemed to be spending a great deal of time there. This confirms that what we thought we knew, we really did. Trump finds the White House inadequate living quarters. Probably not much better than a hotel.
Sammy Finkelman (f9508d) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:12 amAs Elise Jordan realized let sleeping dogs lie.
narciso (5b8e39) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:14 amTrump loves alt Fake News.
Ben burn (df1406) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:16 amSpeaking of ESPN……….
Sportscenter is now only a figment of what it was, now it appears to be a bit of highlights interspersed with whatever LeBron said in the past 24 hrs plus judgements on how ‘woke’ a certain person is.
And they’ve pretty much told people looking for sports talk to avoid ESPN Radio on Saturday mornings. They’ve installed three women to discuss Title IX, LGBT issues and non-sports estrogen-infused gibberish on a show called The Trifecta.
Their radio network used to be a regular listen on my Sat morning 2hr workouts but it’s absolutely unlistenable now. The last time I checked in to see if they were still at it the discussion was “which person does Colin Kaepernick’s struggle more closely resemble, Gandhi or MLK?”.
harkin (536957) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:17 amSo Mike Hastings made uncorrobated claims re general mccrystal as the ig found out, but by then Obama had taken him off the board.
narciso (5b8e39) — 8/2/2017 @ 7:25 am@44. Public housing. Throne for a loss yet flushed with pride.
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Today’s Beldar the Bitter ‘Watergate, Watergate, Watergate’ Words of Wonder:
“Now, whats the problem with the special prosecutor as I see it it just puts another loose cannon right there rolling around the deck.” – President Nixon discussing potential problems with John Ehrlichman about Watergate probing by special prosecutor Archibald Cox, secret White House Oval Office tapes, April 15, 1973
DCSCA (797bc0) — 8/2/2017 @ 12:42 pmliving with a mother in law for eight years – i imagine it was a dump
mg (31009b) — 8/2/2017 @ 5:55 pmDCSCA @51. Notice what Nixon does not say. He does not say any indictment is likely. Mostly political embarrassment, in other words.
Samy Finkelman (f4eebb) — 8/2/2017 @ 6:12 pmThere is every reason to beleive that the claim that Trump said the White House was “dump” is a lie. There are leakers who would ewant to telkl lies about him. It is a bit implausible tyaht he woild use such strong language, and disparage a place that many people would not like disparaged.
Sammy Finkelman (02a146) — 8/3/2017 @ 2:33 pm