cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/37519364

Top White House officials told a reporter, “Your mom,” when asked who picked the location for Donald Trump’s upcoming meeting with Vladimir Putin.

Trump announced Thursday that he will soon meet with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. The choice has raised questions, because Putin is wanted by the International Criminal Court. However, Hungary appears unlikely to cooperate with the warrant and is in the process of leaving the court, the Associated Press reports.

When HuffPost asked the White House who chose the location for the meeting, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt replied, “Your mom did.” White House Communications Director Steven Cheung also followed up with, “Your mom,” the outlet reports.

  • Tomtits@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 months ago

    She responded: “It’s funny to me that you actually consider yourself a journal [sic]. You are a far left hack who nobody takes seriously, including your colleagues in the media, they just don’t tell you that to your face. Stop texting me your disingenuous, biased, and bulls*** questions.”

    What a cunt

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      I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. President Camacho was not smart, but he was well meaning. As soon as he knew there was someone smart enough to fix their problems he put them on task and worked to improve people’s lives.

      There’s nothing well meaning from the current administration and anything good that possibly comes of it is happenstance. The current administration is not idiocracy, it’s a kleptocratic authoritarian nightmare.

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        Plus, as far as we know President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho was not a rapist, or adults or children which is another thing he has over Donald.

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      Always been real and always will …

      No one understands that fucking movie, and all think they’re the main character

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          Do they actually say that its about genetics? Been a while since I watched the movie but in real life children of uneducated parents tend to remain uneducated (which is of course a major flaw in the current education and social system), not to mention the massive efforts of current US leadership to keep people uneducated in general. I could see the premise of the movie playing out without the assumption of intelligence being a genetic feature.

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              Yes I remember the beginning, just wasnt sure if it was explicitly said that its the gene pool that caused the change. Imo you could make the same movie and leave out that ‘fact’, it would still work. Uneducated parts of the population having disproportionally more kids could lead to that outcome given the current circumstances. As it is, there is a huge correlation between family income and level of education, but there is no causality, which disproves the genetic part.

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    Obviously this is rediculous but imagine if by chance the Huff Post reporter’s mother was actually a senior international politics negotiater…

    Like Karoline says “your mom” and the reporter is like “that’s rude and unprofessional”. Karoline then replies “no, you misunderstand. Your mom, Mary, was the main negotiater at the table for the USA. She did a fantastic job. She didn’t tell you?”

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      That would have been a good time for everyone involved! 😄

      Which is the exact opposite of what happens to reasonable people every time Miss Leave It steps up to the podium for a fresh batch of fascism apologia.

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        I agree but it would of been funny as hell if it happened like that… Or better yet, like a TV show… “actually we did some research and found out she is actually your mother who gave you up for adoption while in college. And we have her here today to meet you for the first time since you were 4 days old…”

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    Rock-smacking lowly beasts are running the show (into the ground).

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    My mum picked a EU country ruled by a far right wing politician who haa been attacking civil rights and political freedom?

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    Who’s the potato and who strapped those toddler’s swim goggles around its top-meat knob?