shit Trump press secretaries say

Or Tricky Gimmicks

December 17, 2020December 17, 2020 Buck Banks

It’s the power of language that fuels politics,
But under duress, spokespersons forget their scripts.
Which caused that zany
Kayleigh McEnany
To accuse the U.S. courts of stealing Trump’s election using “gimmicky tricks.”

McEnany Implicitly Acknowledges Biden’s Win

December 8, 2020 Buck Banks

“You have the power to call in a special legislative session because right now if we lose these two Senate seats, guess whose casting the deciding vote in this country for our government? It will be Kamala Harris.”

— White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany implicitly acknowledging Joe Biden will be president and Kamala Harris will be vice president as she chastised Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in a Fox News interview.

The Consistency of Trump’s Press Secretaries

August 31, 2020 Buck Banks

“The president’s never seen that video.”

— White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, quoted by the New York Times, referring to a video President Trump himself tweeted out.

McEnany Is a Liar, Too

August 29, 2019 Buck Banks

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Or Tricky Gimmicks

McEnany Implicitly Acknowledges Biden’s Win

“You have the power to call in a special legislative session because right now if we lose these two Senate seats, guess whose casting the deciding vote in this country for our government? It will be Kamala Harris.”

— White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany implicitly acknowledging Joe Biden will be president and Kamala Harris will be vice president as she chastised Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in a Fox News interview.

The Consistency of Trump’s Press Secretaries

“The president’s never seen that video.”

— White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, quoted by the New York Times, referring to a video President Trump himself tweeted out.

McEnany Is a Liar, Too

“He doesn’t lie. Guess who lies? The press lies.”

— Trump campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, in an interview by CNN, when asked about President Trump’s lies.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“I hope that at the end of the day this resolves quickly for Matt because I don’t want him to miss the prom.”

— Michael Cohen, talking about Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on MSNBC.

“I don’t beat anybody up, it’s not really my style, except that jerk.”

— Former House Speaker John Boehner, in an interview with CBS News, on Sen. Ted Cruz.

“A lot of people want me to. The Border Patrol and all of the people of ICE, they want me to go. I really feel I sort of owe it to them, they’re great people.”

— Former President Donald Trump told Fox News that he will visit the southern border “over the next couple of weeks.”

“Oh, come on. I don’t even think about — I don’t — I have no idea. I have no idea if there will be a Republican Party, do you?”

— President Biden, quoted by the Washington Post, when asked if he was going to run against Donald Trump in 2024.

“Some of them went in and they’re — they’re hugging and kissing the police and the guards. You know, they had great relationships. A lot of the people were waved in, and then they walked in and they walked out.”

Numerati

$13.7 million

Wall Street Journal: “Median pay for the chief executives of more than 300 of the biggest U.S. public companies reached $13.7 million last year, up from $12.8 million for the same companies a year earlier and on track for a record.”

35

“A new report examining voting access across all 50 states and Washington, D.C., finds that more than 70% of states offer all voters access to a mail ballot and early voting, while 15 others lag in the methods available to cast a ballot,” CBS News reports.

100

“More than 100 chief executives and corporate leaders gathered online Saturday to discuss taking new action to combat the controversial state voting bills being considered across the country, including the one recently signed into law in Georgia,” the Washington Post reports.

$3 trillion

60%

A new Pew Research poll finds the 60% of Republicans think the coronavirus pandemic — which has killed 550,000 Americans so far — has been made a bigger deal than it really is.