June 8, 2016

Our Donald Question of the Day: What Is “No PP” Supposed to Mean?

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Apologies for the lousy video, but can someone please explain this:

Here’s a transcript, such as it is:

GUY IN AUDIENCE: No TPP!

TRUMP: No PPP, you’re right about that. [Smirks toward crowd.] And you mean, no PP.

Trump is such a moron that he doesn’t realize right off what the guy is talking about and says “No PPP.”1 Then he smirks and makes a little aside. Does he mean “no pee pee”? Is he that much of a child? Was it something else? WTF was this supposed to mean?

1Someone must have yelled at him about this in his ear, because a few seconds later he said, “We’re not going to approve, as someone just said, the Trans. Pacific. Partnership.” He drew out the last three words very slowly and carefully.

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“Lying.” “Disgusting.” “Scum.” “Slime.” “Corrupt.” “Enemy of the people.” Donald Trump has always made clear what he thinks of journalists. And it’s plain now that his administration intends to do everything it can to stop journalists from reporting things it doesn’t like—which is most things that are true.

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