As you recover from your holiday meal I wanted to show you some videos I clipped this morning. On live video, the President spoke to service members abroad sending Thanksgiving greetings – a pretty standard presidential tradition. But he’s in Florida without most of his usual minders.
Most of the press commentary was that he ‘went off script’. But that’s not it exactly. On a live call he pressed the people he was talking to on gratuitously political points, asked hem to agree with him on trade deals or keeping bad people out of the country or even his pet peeves about new military technology he clearly doesn’t understand. As usual, he pressed them to agree with various false or nonsensical points.
Here are a few examples.
In chat with commander in Afghanistan, Trump compares mission to fight on the Southern border, also trashes 9th circuit court of appeals. pic.twitter.com/2DZxMCAQlA
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2018
Coast Guard commander in Arabian Gulf does his best to respond to Trump complaining about unfair trade deals. pic.twitter.com/ssMfJE4SrL
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2018
Talking to Captain of USS Ronald Reagan Trump Trashes Catapult Tech on new Ford Class Carriers. Captain Gently Says He Thinks New Tech is Better. pic.twitter.com/BTK7qmAgJV
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2018
