{"id":24078,"date":"2017-05-12T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24078"},"modified":"2017-05-12T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2017-05-12T13:44:26","slug":"aaron-sorkin-ate-some-bad-sushi-and-we-are-all-living-in-his-hallucinogenic-nightmare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/aaron-sorkin-ate-some-bad-sushi-and-we-are-all-living-in-his-hallucinogenic-nightmare\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Sorkin ate some bad sushi and we are all living in his hallucinogenic nightmare."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Its like this.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r3jBg9OaQIk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Only with Trump instead of Josh, and it is real life.  Yet, less like real life.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, remembering something about watergate, tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">James Comey better hope that there are no &quot;tapes&quot; of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/863007411132649473?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>and the Washington Post reports:<\/p>\n<p><H1><br \/>\nTrump suggests there may be \u2018tapes\u2019 of his private conversations with former FBI director<\/H1><\/p>\n<p>Trump experiences verbal diarrhea and says, &#8220;In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, \u2018You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it\u2019s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Headline:<\/p>\n<p><H1><br \/>\nTrump said he was thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey<\/H1><\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s press office is incompetent and the White House can&#8217;t keep its message straight, what with all those reporters asking all those questions, so Trump sarcastically tweets:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy!&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/863000553265270786?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8230;Maybe the best thing to do would be to cancel all future &quot;press briefings&quot; and hand out written responses for the sake of accuracy???<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/863002719400976384?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 12, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Headline:<\/p>\n<p><H1>Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings <\/H1><\/p>\n<p>And those are just the examples I ran into this morning. This has been happening for months.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump needs to learn this thing: When words come out of he president&#8217;s mouth, policy is created.<\/p>\n<p>The press needs to learn this thing: When you play the run-up game with a moron like Trump, it makes you look like a bully at the beach kicking sand in someone&#8217;s face. Someone we all love to see getting sand kicked on him, sure, but still&#8230; you may want to get a different approach to dealing with this president&#8217;s random idea puking.  Like, for example, always mention that no one takes him seriously.<\/p>\n<p>Here, I&#8217;ll give you an example.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-politics\/wp\/2017\/05\/12\/trump-threatens-to-cancel-white-house-briefings-because-it-is-not-possible-to-always-tell-the-truth\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_pressbriefing-840a%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.c93bf7ca5487\">wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><H2>Trump threatens to cancel White House briefings because it is \u2018not possible\u2019 for his staff to speak with \u2018perfect accuracy\u2019<\/H2><\/p>\n<p>President Trump threatened Friday morning to end White House press briefings, arguing that \u201cit is not possible\u201d for his staff to speak with \u201cperfect accuracy\u201d to the American public.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments come after his description of his decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey in an NBC News interview Thursday flatly contradicted the accounts provided earlier by White House officials, including Vice President Pence, exposing their explanations as misleading and in some cases false.<\/p>\n<p>[Trump said he was thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey]<\/p>\n<p>In a pair of tweets sent Friday, Trump suggested he might do away with the daily press briefings at the White House and instead have his spokespeople communicate to the public only via \u201cwritten responses.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>What WaPo should have written:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><H2>Trump bathroom tweets snide remarks about the American Press, threatens freedom<\/H2><\/p>\n<p>President Trump sarcastically tweeted from the White House Commode Friday morning to end White House press briefings, arguing that \u201cit is not possible\u201d for his &#8220;surrogates&#8221; to speak with \u201cperfect accuracy\u201d to the American public. Clearly, he doesn&#8217;t know what a &#8220;surrogate&#8221; is, because he&#8217;s really talking about his staff.  Surrogates are different. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s comments come after his nonsensical and random attempt at describing his decision to fire FBI Director James B. Comey in an NBC News interview Thursday did not match, because it was nothing other than the random blathering of an ill man, entirely different lies provided earlier by somewhat more articulate  but no more honest White House officials, including Vice President Pence.  While one might normally assume that the President&#8217;s account of what happened in a conversation he was actually in would be the gold standard, and other comments by other White House personnel, if contradictory, would be incorrect, that is not an assumption we can make in the Trump White House. <\/p>\n<p>[Trump also stupidly stated that he was thinking of Russia controversy when he decided to fire Comey, in a different and equally alarming squirt of verbal diarrhea.]<\/p>\n<p>In a pair of tweets sent Friday, Trump sarcastically whined he might do away with the daily press briefings. Nobody gave a fuck.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s how to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Its like this. Only with Trump instead of Josh, and it is real life. Yet, less like real life. Trump, remembering something about watergate, tweets: James Comey better hope that there are no &quot;tapes&quot; of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! &mdash; Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 12, 2017 and the Washington &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/05\/12\/aaron-sorkin-ate-some-bad-sushi-and-we-are-all-living-in-his-hallucinogenic-nightmare\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Aaron Sorkin ate some bad sushi and we are all living in his hallucinogenic nightmare.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1824,1138,525,1239,964,1509],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6gm","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24078\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}