You all remember the movie Psycho. One of the bits of trivia about that movie that you might not know is that it was the first movie to show a toilet onscreen. Prior to that film the existence of toilets was known, certainly, but not acknowledged in cinema.
Likewise, toilets in the White House have never been the source of breaking news stories, but yet another taboo, or tradition at least, has been shattered. Maggie Haberman is releasing a new book and now we are moving into the era of flushed documentation, clogging up the plumbing. It’s a perfect metaphor for Trump’s entire $hit administration. Axios:
Why it matters:Â Destroying records that should be preserved is potentially illegal.
Trump denied it and called Haberman, whose New York Times coverage he follows compulsively, a “maggot.”
- Well, it turns out there are photos. And here they are, published for the first time.
Haberman — who obtained the photos recently — shared them with us ahead of the Oct. 4 publication of her book, “Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America.”
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A Trump White House source tells her the photo on the left shows a commode in the White House.
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The photo on the right is from an overseas trip, according to the source.
Trump spokesperson Taylor Budowich told Axios: “You have to be pretty desperate to sell books if pictures of paper in a toilet bowl is part of your promotional plan.”
- “We know … there’s enough people willing to fabricate stories like this in order to impress the media class — a media class who is willing to run with anything, as long as it anti-Trump.”
Between the lines:Â The new evidence is a reminder that despite the flood of Trump books, Haberman’s is hotly anticipated in Trumpworld.
Now we have entered the scatological phase of the Trump *residency, and I’m not sure I can handle it, truth be known. The story goes on to say that the Trump dumps, if you will, happened both in the White House and on foreign trips.
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That Mr. Trump was discarding documents this way was not widely known within the West Wing, but some aides were aware of the habit, which he engaged in repeatedly,” Haberman tells us.
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“It was an extension of Trump’s term-long habit of ripping up documents that were supposed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.”
Elise Stefanik’s name ended up in the toilet. I wonder if we can take that as metaphor. And if so, for what exactly? He $hit on her but she loves it, ala the apocryphal pee pee tape of legend and lore? Or maybe, her once promising career is circling the drain, both figuratively and literally? Both?
I just checked Truth Social. No explosion. Yet.
Actually, this might become a thing in Trump world. Stay with me, now. What if it becomes a badge of honor to become one of the Trumpites whose name is found floating in Trump’s john? And an even greater badge of honor if it’s his gold plated one? These scraps of paper could become holy relics. Think of it.
and we know these are prez. docs how? I get it, the damned fool did not treat docs as part of the permanent prez. record. I realize he shredded, flushed, hell probably burned docs that were required to be saved. Thing is there is nothing to differentiate these scraps from, say, scraps of his To-Do list. How do we know when exactly these pieces ended up in the shitter? I hate to play the devil’s advocate on anything dealing with the mango moron but this is pretty lame. As “news” goes, this has about as much value as anything coming from fux nuz.
I kind of assume you’re just having fun at drumpf’s expense Ursula. Gosh I hope so.
I am literally quoting this story by Haberman. If the facts are accurate, the plumbing got clogged up because Trump was paranoid and stuffing paperwork in it, which he should have preserved.
I do intend to read Haberman’s book and if/when I get details, I will be writing about it here. But I do appreciate your questioning the facts. That said, nothing outrageous about Trump world has ever been wrong, unfortunately.
Everytime his lips part…shit comes out. Guess his toilet serves another function, i.e., to hide some secrets, something his mouth is incapable of.
lol
“Hotly anticipated in Trump**world” – by authoritatioan hotheads who are getting hot under the collar. Because of course.
Technically, sure, they could beanything – but if they were something innocent, why would you go to the trouble of [trying to] flush them when there are wastbaskets, and shredders, available?
But it would have been smarter to eat them – and then flush them after processing rather than before.
For corruppt people, Republicans are pretty incompetent.
You remember what a farce Watergate was. If you haven’t seen Gaslit, by all means see it. It’s either Discovery Plus or HBO Max, I forget.