The Commentariat Gushes Over How ‘Presidential’ Trump Was In Mexico

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a joint statement with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Trump is calling his surprise visit to Mexico City W... Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks during a joint statement with Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in Mexico City, Wednesday, Aug. 31, 2016. Trump is calling his surprise visit to Mexico City Wednesday a 'great honor.' The Republican presidential nominee said after meeting with Peña Nieto that the pair had a substantive, direct and constructive exchange of ideas.(AP Photo/Dario Lopez-Mills) MORE LESS
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The chin-stroking insta-reaction is in on Donald Trump’s hastily arranged press conference with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto: Trump was … “presidential.” That’s according to GOP-types, pundits, and even the stray Democrat.

Behold the conventional wisdom:

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  1. He stayed on his meds! Well we might as well give him the keys to the white house. Talk about low expectations.

  2. Oh, good god – gag me with a fork!

  3. With all due respect to the level of conversation on this site, all I can think to say is “Seriously?” Anything further would only add to the notion that there is anything to discuss. What an idiot.

  4. Avatar for cf2k cf2k says:

    "And then you take a break at your job to watch the press conference after Pena Nieto and Trump have met. You think, Goddamn, this is gonna be good. Except…well, shit. They sound like a couple of regular goddamned politicians. They talk like nothing bad happened. They say they have much in common. Trump talks endlessly about how much he just fuckin’ loves Mexicans, how “tremendous” they are, how hard-working. You feel a little dizzy. What they fuck have you believed all these months? Who the fuck is this guy?

    Even worse, when Trump is asked if he brought up the border wall, he says, “We didn’t discuss who will pay for the wall.” You feel a little sick to your stomach and you get a cramping and an urgency in your bowels. Trump called the Mexican president his “friend.” Oh, sweet Jesus, what is going on?

    You rush to the bathroom and you just start shitting in great waves of burning, watery shit. Because now you know. You’ve been played. You’re the sucker. It’d be like dying and waking up in Muslim Hell. Everything you’ve believed, everything you’ve argued for, it’s all just a big fuckin’ lie. Tough guy Donald Trump walked right up to the president of the country that sends us rapists and drug dealers and planted his tawny lips on the guy’s ass. What a fucking wuss.

    This is what an existential crisis is like, dear Trump supporters. Wallow in it, fuckers.

    But I’m probably giving you far more credit than you deserve. More likely, you’re already justifying this and making it fit the Jenga game of bullshit you’ve constructed."

  5. Just saw Chuck its not my job to report the news Todd say Trump was presidential.

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