Trump posts doctored video

This reminds me of the time he or his staff posted the altered video of Jim Acosta. It’s disgraceful. They can’t stick to the truth.

Of course, Trump is in no position to talk about how anyone treats women.

President Trump posts doctored video mocking Joe Biden's controversial behavior toward women https://t.co/Tw9cskaiiE
— TIME (@TIME) April 4, 2019

Trump uses movie score without permission

Trump posted a video which used the score of The Dark Knight without permission. This is similar to his use of music at rallies after the artists have told him to stop.

Warner Brothers made him take the video down. Sad!

Warner Bros. shuts down Trump's batshit #DarkKnight video https://t.co/E7mWZpGXBt
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) April 10, 2019

Re: the Trump 2020 video that @realDonaldTrump shared earlier today: "The use of Warner Bros.' score from The Dark Knight Rises in the campaign video was unauthorized. We are working through the appropriate legal channels to have it removed." https://t.co/Jv0pHUOYw8
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) April 10, 2019

The guy who made that cinematic Trump 2020 trailer is a former pro wrestler known as Kid Krazy. We talked to him. https://t.co/6ZdK1JaiOe
— Slate (@Slate) April 11, 2019

Trump-related trials and investigations – a crime wave!

Trump campaign chairman – in prison
Trump lawyer – going to prison
Trump national security adviser – going to prison
Trump White House – under investigation
Trump University – paid $25 million fraud settlement
Trump Foundation – shut down
Trump business – under investigation
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) March 13, 2019

Don’t forget the inauguration!

THREAD on the Trump Campaign Crime Wave: With the Manafort sentencing today, it's worth noting that if the US govt more vigorously prosecuted white collar crime, most of the key figures in the Trump campaign—including Trump and his children—wouldn't have been around by 2016….
— Garrett M. Graff (@vermontgmg) March 13, 2019

Trump signed bibles

The big story is the total silence from conservatives. They tolerate anything Trump does no matter how bad it is.

There were lots of funny tweets along with the serious ones.

Look, I don't know where the rest of you stand on Bible-signing. I think it's weird; I would think it's weird no matter who does it. What I'm mostly being snide about is that once again, Trump is getting a pass from the right on something that would normally make them apeshit.
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) March 9, 2019

If during my Baptist childhood, Bill Clinton or even George H.W. Bush had signed a Bible…I cannot imagine how many sermons and revivals would have been dedicated to the blasphemy of our lost leader. https://t.co/XenXWGlQL3
— Elise Jordan (@Elise_Jordan) March 9, 2019

I think a lot of recipients are going to be disappointed in the signature… pic.twitter.com/oUyjbtYYAO
— Think B4U Tweet (@IRaiseUFacts) March 8, 2019

Imagine how arrogant you would have to be to sign the FRONT of a bible…after paying for so many abortions. pic.twitter.com/JiDeiH08UW
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) March 9, 2019

Autographing bibles is NOT a thing someone intimately familiar with its contents would do
— Zerlina Maxwell (@ZerlinaMaxwell) March 8, 2019

I don’t know who it is a worse commentary on: Trump actually signing Bibles in Alabama, or the people asking him to sign a Bible. Lordy Moses.
— Matthew Dowd (@matthewjdowd) March 8, 2019

The Bible-signing “speaks volumes about how evangelicals see … Trump as a figure sent by God to protect them from all storms of life.” — Messiah College historian John Fea, via ⁦@ReisThebault⁩ & ⁦@spulliam⁩ https://t.co/6xpQZwLKGF
— AnnGerhart (@AnnGerhart) March 8, 2019

Resolved: If Donald Trump can autograph ‘Art of the Deal,’ Donald Trump can autograph the Bible. He didn’t write either.
— Josh Greenman (@joshgreenman) March 9, 2019

Presidents have a long history of signing Bibles, though earlier ones typically did so as gifts with a spiritual message. Still, many religious leaders don't see anything outright wrong with what Trump did when he signed Bibles for tornado survivors. https://t.co/i72GfqU9yE
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2019

Another point of view

Trump wanted Obama’s grades released but pressured a school to hide his own

Hypocrite!

‘Grab that record’: @mffisher with the incredible story of the mad dash to hide Trump’s high school transcript, days after Trump pressed Obama to release his school records in 2011. https://t.co/W7p55QxEru
— Rosalind Helderman (@PostRoz) March 5, 2019

This is key, because 2011 is when Trump was actually calling Obama a terrible student and saying he should release his grades.

Trump would later suggest there was something about Obama's birthplace in the records. But he largely abandoned the issue come 2015-16. https://t.co/2ieduI79CT
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) March 5, 2019

Trump almost always draws attention to his own insecurities in the way he attacks others. Goes after Obama grades while scrambling to bury his own school records. Disparages POW McCain despite avoiding Vietnam with bone spurs. https://t.co/sGYm6KUzlV
— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) March 5, 2019

One of #Trump's "go-to moves is projection." He "identifies his faults, and as a defense mechanism, he projects those faults onto his perceived foes.
This week, however, the current president seems to have taken his fondness for projection to a new level."
Good take @stevebenen https://t.co/mPQdIAGoS1
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) March 5, 2019

The extensive effort to bury Donald Trump’s grades https://t.co/BPFY7Ep6Hf
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) March 5, 2019

Trump is a bad role model

Others are following Trump’s lead since he gets away with everything. They realize the public won’t punish them for bad behavior.

Elected officials in Virginia have not resigned even though their own party has asked them to. Trump has never been held accountable for his bad actions.

Judge Jeanine will stiff contractors just like Trump does.

“Judge” Jeanine Pirro does not plan to repay nearly $600,000 in debts accrued during her ill-fated run for the U.S. Senate, accordinf to her still-active campaign committee https://t.co/NK7g4M6qpc
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) February 22, 2019

Trump defends Kraft

How can he be innocent? They have videotape. Trump’s words sound like his defense of Putin.

If it had been a player caught in the kind of sting that swept up Robert Kraft, you’d bet Roger Goodell would land on him with both loafers. @CharlesPPierce on Kraft and the NFL’s double standard: https://t.co/8g5UXzJ927
— The MMQB (@theMMQB) March 18, 2019

This ain’t the dude you want vouching for you when it comes to illegally paying for sex https://t.co/rE70L1ET3H
— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) February 22, 2019

"He has denied it," Trump says of Robert Kraft. Always interesting, with Trump, or any politician for that matter, to see who gets the benefit of the doubt and who doesn't.
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) February 22, 2019

Trump used unsupported story of bound sex trafficking victims being smuggled to justify his wall. In the past two days, we've found out that his Labor Secretary unlawfully helped conceal horrifying abuse against kids by Trump friend Epstein—WH has done nothing. Now this on Kraft: https://t.co/OHg6xpG2GV
— Susan Hennessey (@Susan_Hennessey) February 22, 2019

Accused sex criminals who Trump has defended:

1. Roy Moore

2. Brett Kavanaugh

3. Bob Kraft

4. Roger Ailes

5. Himself
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 22, 2019

If the allegations against Patriots owner Robert Kraft turn out to be true, he has to go. He doesn’t belong in the NFL. He doesn’t deserve the victory parades and the cheering masses, writes columnist Jane McManus. https://t.co/bdhvoWR1Ki
— The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) February 24, 2019

Keep this in mind – there are larger issues here:

Dear Boston writers, editors and @Patriots fans: the Robert Kraft story is not a sports story, it is a slavery and rape story.
No reason to be emotionally confused about it.
Thank you.
— Juliette Kayyem (@juliettekayyem) February 22, 2019

While Robert Kraft is in the headlines, court documents reveal true victims of prostitution ring: women averaged 8 clients a day…1,500 a year…no days off…living in Florida strip mall…sleeping on tables at "Orchids of Asia Day Spa." https://t.co/WZC8BlTRnX pic.twitter.com/aA5RkpkkeU
— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) February 22, 2019

Photos of Robert Kraft’s alleged masseuse have been revealed https://t.co/IL2Hiriw66
— Sports News & Stuff (@SportNewsNStuff) March 19, 2019

Trump asked Japan to nominate him for a Nobel prize

This is pathetic. What a narcissist.

What’s a governmentally solicited Nobel nomination worth? Less than zero, for sure. But how MUCH less? https://t.co/G3fCYZMaaG
— Laurence Tribe (@tribelaw) February 17, 2019

Japan's government has refused to comment on Trump's claim that Shinzo Abe nominated him for a Nobel Prize. A major Japanese newspaper, citing unnamed government sources, says Abe did it because the U.S. government "informally" asked him to. https://t.co/IGgcUSrbBG
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 17, 2019

What a pathetic charade. https://t.co/228ctWJDhw
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) February 17, 2019

This reminds me of Trump

This reminds me of Trump's position on the congressional negotiations on border security:https://t.co/MojO6wQZl3
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) February 1, 2019

It would also apply to his position on NATO, the Iran deal, intelligence agencies, and basically everything that doesn’t help his base and/or Putin.

Trump’s strongman style inspires other autocrats

Around the globe, Trump’s style is inspiring imitators and unleashing dark impulses https://t.co/NtnpZ8KAjU

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2019

Trump and Pompeo Embrace Autocrats and Disparage Opponents at Home. An important piece about the message the administration is sending to the world. Via @MarkLandler⁩ https://t.co/xLQSEI46EK

— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 11, 2019

Dictator envy

When a national leader urges that votes be ignored, or that an election result he doesn’t like might best be set aside, we label him an autocrat or an authoritarian. When it’s #Trump, we shrug. Worse, many in his party go right along. My columnhttps://t.co/VqgzKCjFH4

— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) November 15, 2018

Shep explains how Trump’s autocratic attacks on Amazon are based entirely on lies. He is nothing more than a politician who admires dictators and is trying to destroy one of America’s most innovative companies. https://t.co/fvu1CqnStu

— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 3, 2018