Fetterman: Trump Picking Gaetz is ‘God-Tier Level Trolling’
I immediately thought Trump was also trolling the left with the pick.
I think Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and President-elect Donald Trump will get along.
While the left went insane over Trump picking Matt Gaetz for attorney general, Fetterman called it for what it is: Trolling.
Sen. John Fetterman says Donald Trump tapping Rep. Matt Gaetz for Attorney General is “god tier level trolling.” pic.twitter.com/O7RfrKBRbk
— Brennan Leach (@brennanleach) November 13, 2024
LOL:
“It’s just kind of like a God-tier kind of trolling just to trigger a meltdown,” he said. “But, really, the Dems’ opinions on Gaetz, that’s not really what’s interesting. The good ones are going to come by my colleagues on the other side, the GOP, on how they can justify voting for that j— off.”
Fetterman has praised a few of Trump’s picks, especially Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL). He even praised Rep. Elise Stefanik as UN ambassador.
Fetterman even suggested Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) as an AG pick:
He also noted that Sen. Eric Schmitt, R-Mo., served as attorney general of Missouri before being elected to Congress.
“He would have been a solid pick. And then you put out someone like that,” Fetterman said of Gaetz’s selection. “That’s just nothing but trolling. The interesting answers are going to come from my colleagues on the GOP that they’re going to vote or justify voting for that mess.”
There have been serious, qualified individuals nominated to posts, like Rubio or Stefanik. Eric Schmitt would be a solid choice for AG.
But Dem opinions on Gaetz aren’t that interesting.
The good ones will come from my GOP colleagues to justify a vote for that jerkoff. https://t.co/0vizyxYpAr
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) November 13, 2024
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Hee hee hee….
I note his use of “the libs”. Not “us”, not “the Democrats”. It’s, “the libs”. Not sure what to make of it, but I wonder if he’s really re-thinking a lot of his positions on things.
I listened to him on Rogan. I disagree with a whole lot of his positions but he is an interesting person.
My prediction, assuming Trump doesn’t pull Gaetz’s nomination, is that he will be the 1st Senate nomination vote just to get it over, and he will lose. There are other excellent choices with fire in the belly.
Or maybe the first recess appointment.
I wonder if Trump the master manipulator is throwing Gaetz out there to draw all the fire away from his other picks.
No, I think his nomination was the reason for Trump’s openly stated demand for recess appointments to be allowed (now that the Turtle is no longer calling the shots. I guess Cocaine Mitch has figured he’s got enough in the purse to give Charon a handsome enough tip.)
I noticed in Israeli news that they are not thrilled with Gaetz.
Fetterman is a self troll
Put pictures of Gaetz and Fetterman side by side and ask people to pick out the one that looks like a troll.
Gaetz has been called the most unpopular person in congress, so he likely will fail on confirmation on that alone. But he has a “sex with a 17 year old” investigation hanging over his head as well. Unless Trump knows that to be another DOJ hit job, he would have been better off not putting this particular nominee forward, I’m afraid.
To use political capital for this appointment is just plain DUMB! Furthermore, if Trump loses, that will give the Democrats “heart” and damage Trump’s momentum. He made some catastrophic appointments last time. I had hoped that he would not need a reminder of that now.
No.
https://www.newsweek.com/matt-gaetz-scandal-investigation-attorney-general-donald-trump-1985529
The point of the “investigation” was so that, for the rest of time, the “was investigated for sex trafficking” sign is hung around his neck.
Mission accomplished.
Gaetz’s “ethics” investigation is as legitimate as a Trump impeachment.. No one in the real world cares.
ALL of Trump’s picks will be contested and controversial; lest you forget, both the eGOP, the Dems and the Deep State are his (and our) enemies. They will give him nothing without being forced into it.
I am hopeful there are ways to game the system and that Trump has spent 4 years studying them.
no he doesn’t. That political hit job disappeared when he resigned from Congress
Fetterman seems to remind me of a southern democrat, formerly known as Blue Dogs.
Western PA is odd in general. You have a bunch of hard working, pro life , pro gun, basically common sense Republicans who vote Democrat their whole life because of the pro union feeling from when everyone worked in the steel mills 50 years ago. Once the mills closed, that feeling stayed, but started dying off with Trump’s first election. Allegheny county (Pittsburgh) is still a lost cause, but everywhere around it has pretty much gone Republican now.
I grew up there. So very true.
idk. Caputo: “Everyone else looked at AG as if they were applying for a judicial appointment. They talked about their vaunted legal theories and constitutional bullshit. Gaetz was the only one who said: ‘Yeah, I’ll go over there and start cuttin’ f—in’ heads.'”
https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/behind-the-curtain-why-trump-picked-gaetz
I mean he’s not wrong. I am not sure Gaetz is the one to do smash skulls. Large bureaucracies can be extremely passive aggressive at resisting. But skulls do need to be smashed.
Puzzling.
Back when I was 18/19, I worked for my step-father pouring concrete. Hard work, I had a crew of three or four. Different last names, people didn’t know the relationship and my step father was particularly intolerant of my shortcomings. They thought he had it in for me–which he did.
I had this lazy, overweight (for the time) dude that was a PITA. I made him work the screed–with me on the other end. I would work his lazy axe until he quit, He was connected through his church with the owners of the company–in a couple weeks he would be back.
I asked my dad 1)WHY do you put up with this guy? and 2) WHY do you keep assigning him to me?
Answer: “It is useful to have one person everyone hates. The rest get along. Why do I assign him to you? Because YOU can’t quit.”
I remember when George Bush thought he could get his sweet old lady personal lawyer on the supreme court just because she was a woman.
By the time Trump finishes appointments FOX will have no employees or regular guests left.
Maybe this is a two-fer: (1) it gives Matt a clean way to resign and stop the report from being released and then after the R opposition forces him to withdraw (2) Trump nominates his real choice who will appear to be a compromise, but is far more aggressive than would have been capable of being approved before Matt was chosen.
My suspicion as well. There is always going to be one nominee who doesn’t get confirmed. Gaetz could be the sacrificial lamb here. And then wind up in a position that doesn’t need confirming.
It does also free him up for DeSantis to appoint to the Senate to replace Rubio.
And once again I ask, why would he need “a clean way to resign”, when he could simply not have run again? It’s not as if this so-called investigation were new. It’s been going for years. If it didn’t bother him a few months ago when he decided to run for another term, why would it suddenly bother him now?
Fetterman isn’t stupid. He’s known for some time that the Dems are going to have to either jettison the really loony left or allow it to take over the party and he’s made which of those sides he’s chosen absolutely crystal clear with his vocal support for Israel. Don’t think for one instant that he’s a closet conservative. He likes the Gaetz pick because he sees it as pissing off his enemies to the left as well as making trouble for his enemies to the right.
Recess appointment may not be necessary. With the threat of Desantis appointing Gaetz to Rubio’s seat, senators are faced with the choice of confirming him, or listening to him every day, on the Senate Floor. I’m guessing they will take the former.
That’s an interesting take. Not sure how plausible it really is …but it would be a reason to wonder if they sink the nomination… will this dude be our Senate colleague.
When Fetterman speaks…. I know it’s going to be fun.
I like that he’s in congress. I don’t care that many of his views are not my own.
Fetterman has had a stroke and is the only Democrat that makes any sense once and while.
I am glad we were all wrong about Fetterman. He is way more entertaining than Dr. Oz would have been.
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