More on the Goolsbee Rule here (from 2020) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wit...
More on the Goolsbee Rule here (from 2020) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/wit...
Also how do you know DC isn’t a crime-free zone? Because the president lives there
Also, how else do you know? Read the Washington Post Armed robberies have surged above the baseline.
ouch
If DC is a crime-free zone, then I guess there have been no arrests this weekend.
The White House is sovereign territory - for Russia - so you cannot count it in DC crime statistics.
Catherine, welcome to the "snark side"!
🇺🇸👀 something something takes one to know one, eh?
And how does he reconcile his post with: 9/1/2025 12:27 AM MPD Units are investigating a robbery 8/31/2025 11:15 AM MPD Units are investigating a Stabbing 8/31/2025 2:30 AM MPD Units are investigating a Robbery 8/30/2025 11:31 PMMPD units are Investigating a SHOOTING ETC... mpdc.dc.gov/alerts
Since he lies all the time, it must mean he's on his deathbed
And How do you know that Roland Barthes' theory of the death of the author was on point?
Trump falsely claims that he cleaned up DC and that it's a "crime-free zone". It's not. Crime in DC is much lower than many large cities in the U.S., but he has not eliminated crime as he claims. Police blotter for Aug. 30, 2025. #trump #crime #dc #nationalguard #police #law #lawbreaking #larceny
This comment about no crime is a lie, but what really shocks is that anyone would believe trump. Next, there is no crime in the USA, because trump says so. He controls government data, so of course it will all be a lie.
Along those lines, does anyone know where the crime data in DC coming from? There’s apparently like a huge drop in auto theft and violent crime according to the admin and the mayor has agreed but… I’m skeptical.
It's too soon to say, crime comes in waves and there might be some temporary effect of the National Guard standing around raking leaves, but it's certainly not a crime-free zone. Less than other cities but there's still crime. I posted the Aug 30th, police blotter here: bsky.app/profile/arty...
Many supporters are only on TruthSocial. He can say anything and his operatives and multitude of bots repeat it enough times that readers fall for it. Some Trumplicans are incapable of believing that the President would lie to them and have no research skills. You get banned if you fact-check him.
Yes, but if he's sufficiently unwell, as implied by the Goolsbee Rule, then it could hypothetically have zero crimes being committed until he is no longer bedbound?
Btw- really need you back on MSNBC 😊 - Molly Jong Fast looks exhausted - she's literally on 24/7 - Morning Joe/Deadline/All-in...now the Weekend.
Talking Feds too.
I have to agree. I like Molly, but today, she looked like she didn't want to be there. But the baby comes before the network.
Yes, of course! I figured she's on maternity leave. My comment is more about Molly. All of the sudden she's everywhere on MSNBC.
I've noticed that Lawrence O'Donnell is becoming MSNBC's Johnny Carson, taking 2 nights a week off. Andrew Weissman is on the network more than Lawrence is.
It was August. Congress recesses. Usually the President also goes on vacation. All the anchors take time off.
But, as we have seen, the world's mischief-makers don't take August off. 1914 Wilhelm & Nicholas 1939 Hitler & Stalin 1956 Nasser 1961 Khrushchev in Berlin 1968 Brezhnev in Prague 1990 Saddam Hussein 1991 Russian coup 1995 Milosevic 1998 Osama bin Laden in Africa 2025 Putin in Alaska
Lawrence works four nights a week, like most of them do. They all get shit tonnes of vacation, and Lawrence also had COVID wipe him out this year so he had extra time off. Everyone should have a job with the time off that MSNBC gives.
Lol! Yep...it's like Ali Velshi and Molly are covering for everyone. Who are the actual anchors??
Love Ali…but if he’s hosting all the time shouldn’t it be called THE LAST WORD WITH ALI VELSHI?
Ali’s competent and well-educated, but lacks the rapport and compassion of a Lawrence O’Donnell. But you guys are right.. Lawrence is Carson-ing slowly out of there. Hope he stays long enough to announce Trump’s demise.
Sometimes I feel like the 8:00 (Eastern Time) show should be titled "The Bernie Sanders Show with your host Chris Hayes."
😄🤭 Well played @crampell.bsky.social
Trump probably..
Tell us more of this Goolsbee and the pathological irony of crisis. Genuinely fascinated.
wait if it's crime-free, that means the NG can go home! :o
He did not thank me for my attention to this matter, so fuck him. Probably a bored staffer twoothing anyway.
For fuck's sake just die.
So, if he "magically" made it crime free, he can remove the national guard now, right? Right?
Someone needs to photoshop Karoline Leavitt's head on this picture.
Everything he says is a lie. Every accusation is a confession.
Is that like lying in reverse?
Dt and his handlers never heard of the Goolsbee Rule. Never said they were the sharpest blades in the drawer.
This happened years years years ago
What, no 'Thank you for your attention to this matter '
A comma used correctly after “also”? That ain’t him.
Dude looks like death warmed over.
My good ol' grandpa would've called it the, "Boy who cried wolf syndrome." I'm so glad he isn't here for any of this. He would've been just crazy enough to try to fix it all himself. 😬
yep
Does that mean he's been coming to terms with God?
that's how they operate on a good day tho except our media then works for them to smooth it over.
I adore Austen Goolsbee. Maybe he should run for president.
The first part is likely accurate. Hell was a much better fit than earth.
Fucker is about to croak.
Some ppl feel a euphoric dreamlike state. Feeling and doing are two different things.
The man has never written a post with correct punctuation. He didn’t write this.
I'm 63. Anyone who ever says at 79 that they NEVER FELT BETTER in their life clearly has a memory span less than 5 years. I was a machine at 25. Sleeping 5-6 hours a night for days on end, cycling, lifting, skiing 8-hour days without lunch.
100% there is something seriously wrong with the health of Donald Trump. My bet is that's it's dire.
What no “Thank you for your attention in this matter”?
He did not write that.
I’d say trump lost credibility with normal Americans about 50 years ago. Perhaps he’s finally losing credibility with his maga morons
Sure orange clown keep up the lies
When will the White House be a crime free zone?
We can only hope.
His word hasn’t meant a thing to me since J6. Something to be ostracized and devoid of truth.
DC is a crime-free zone if, and only if, you exclude the White House, the Capitol building and the various secretariat offices. Actually, not even then, but it would be a whole lot closer.
Congrats On Becoming A Mom Catherine
If he's never felt better in his life than he does now, he's lived a shit life.
He must be dying.
Doubt if he wrote this.
How can it be with you in residence 34 felony counts!
Yep
If DC is crime free, send the Guard back to their jobs and families.
So since everything is always Opposite Day my prayers might be answered
Yep. He dead.
Even his rants are off…No long-dementia-riddled-gibberish. 🧐🧐He’s gone.
Weekend at Bernie's is already happening.
Translation: I've never felt this bad in my life!
Please be tonight, please be tonight, please be tonight...🤞🤞🤞
And may it come swiftly.
He’s “never felt better” because he just completed his latest treatment of adrenochrome. Study the breadcrumbs! #WWG1WGA
Never met anyone who would agree that life and health at 80 could be anything near"never felt better ..."
💯
Swollen bag of festering crap, oozes the ultimate pile of yourself. Amen et fm.
Never felt better in my life...famous last words.
He is sick as a dog. The guard is doing yard work. Lol
If he has a moderate or major stroke, who is his next of kin that would make decisions? Almost certainly Melania or Ivanka, no? I know the answer is not public but either possibility is pretty bleak!
Melania has neither the desire, nor the ability, nor the temperament to be Edith Wilson. It'll be Stephen Miller trying to Weekend At Bernie's him.
Please, oh please, let it be Eric. 🤞
A convicted felon posted that.
Scavino wrote it.
well the DT has always been about "Theory is Biography"
Responding to the image of the tweet: About DC, no, actually, it's not crime free. It's loaded with secret-police-style crime! But about you DJT -- you're a humanity-free zone! You're a pile! You're lint! You're a low-life! You're a thief! You're a pedo! You're a rapist! You're a felon! You bet!
But we have a convicted felon in the White House
Pretty much spelled out here since this comes from the most notorious criminal in the District
he’s either dead dead or brain dead. either will do.
How would anyone know the difference with the brain dead part?
😳🤣
Less talky
I see that we have found our capital letters. Good job, DJT! Back to breaking the English language. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
The fat felon never had credibility. He’s always been a damned liar. He’s in good health? 🤣🤣🤣 DC isn’t crime free. With military control, criminals are going further underground. Good lord this demented excuse for a human being is stupid to believe intelligent people will buy his bullshit.
I heard there is a multi-felon criminal hiding at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. It is also frequented by some pedophiles and insurrectionists. Not too crime free to me. Didn't some run a sham charity and university? Just sayin
Scump has less than zero credibility
He just took an Adderall and chased it with a painkiller.
Another lie. The pig is finally dying!
Sure... The picture wasn't saying that... See you at your next speech, interview.
He’s been having these delusions for years now . WTF 🤡🤡💩
And here I thought it was just called lying!
OFFS!
This is too short and he didn’t insult anyone. Definitely not him.
He is concentrating on that carpet so intensely. He stopped and turned like he had to look at something behind him. He knew he was messing up and was trying to get it back together. Same kinda thing he does when he messes up his speeches. He thinks we don’t notice.
Vladimir Putin knows Donald Trump lost both the popular vote and the electoral college in 2020. Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump he lost the election because of Mail In Ballots that's how much Vladimir Putin hates Donald Trump it's making Donald Trump look worse to everyone that knows he lost
Every time I see the "word" "ReTruth", I think of the word "Regurgitate", which means- bring (swallowed food) up again to the mouth. "gulls regurgitate food for the chicks" Similar: vomit bring up disgorge regorge repeat (information) without analyzing or comprehending it.
Been that way with him for a very very long time
"Situation Normal!"
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BACK TO CAPITALS???? GCN interpret this reversal. 📢📣
So he’s not in DC?
One thing about DJT, he’ll go down fighting. Might even try to take us with him.
Isn't a question of how he feels, is it?
I wish everyone would just start commenting to his posts with "blah..blah..blah."
Is that because of the national guard doing landscaping for 5 days? How does that correlate to being crime free?
The White House is a crime spree zone.
The Orange Pedo didn't write that.
The convicted CRIMINAL felon is also a sociopathic liar, so I suspect he is on his deathbed 🤷♀️
Dead as doornails!
🙏🏻
If Melania appears to be happier than usual, we'll know he's at deaths door. Someone should look in on her.
Some office serf is writing these things. Nobody can believe anything that comes out of there.
Release the Epstein files, you pussy.
The Goolsbee Rule for trump has been in effect since he was a boy.
Omg, I didn't know there was a term for it! I just learned that whenever he opens his mouth and claims someone as "nasty" or says something is "fake news" or a "hoax," or really, if he says anything defensive, the exact opposite of what he says is true.
Each position in this administration is occupied by an appointee who is incompetent to carry out its duties. Also applies to the chief executive. The Peter Principle.
The Peter Principle implies having been competent in previous positions. None of Trump's gang fits this description.
It’s not crime free while this piece of crap is allowed to wander free
I'm beginning to think that Miller is too busy wrapping up the destruction of American society that he's hired a teenager to write Trump's bullshit.
Maybe he never even wrote that. He got plenty other people doing the "irony of crisis" for him.
Who in the hell would believe anything that he says?! 🤣
Even the ALL CAPS seem frail 😢
So DC is crime free? Let’s see the obituary!!!
Reminds me of him exclaiming he never had ischemic attacks when no one mentioned it.
Seems like a ghost writer with an auto pen.
Tell his minions to put him on video holding up today's paper.
Trump may have never felt better in his life right now but he looks like shit. #NoKings #NoMadKings
That’s not him tweeting. I really think he’s dead.
Or what someone says for you....
Except for those 4 armed robberies in the heart of DC yesterday. And the stabbing on Thursday.
This has supsiciously few of the characteristics of a Trump-authored post. It appears ghosted. Far too short. No 3rd-person self-references or self-aggrandizing. No insults directed at others.
Anyone think this is Putin's doing. Maybe a little polonium in his diet coke?
🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
😳🤯
BS. He’s terrified of death. He’s scared shitless of ALL his child rape victims. I seriously hope they shame him to death.
What happened to "thank you for your attention to this matter"? Now it's President DJT? What an asshole.
Probably somebody not DJT who composed the Tweet or whatever we're calling Trump's communiques.
Diatribe?
Thank you. That's the word I was looking for.
Sounds like he is saying he is about to croak and he knows it.
He’s really sick!
“Never felt better” says guy with visible effects of vascular health issues… Must be on the “good stuff”
Orwellian New Speak. Before our very eyes.
I’m not dead and you can’t prove I’m wrong! Now I gotta roll with my peeps.
Steroids do a good job of making ill people feel well don't they?
Then he should come out in public and talk to the press!!! Also the press needs to do to trump what they did to Biden!!!!!
Except they won't because they're complicit weasels.
That’s what she’s been planning to use all those rose bushes for..
It's the first time I see Melania smile on a picture. 😆
First time she had something to smile about...
He would rather die than release the Epstein files
nope, there’s a rapist felon in the white house
AND MY PENIS PUMP NEVER EXPLODED..THE RUMORS OF MY PENIS PUMP EXPLODING COME FROM THE BLACK LADY ON THE VIEW WITH THE HAIR. SHE MADE A MORTGAGE FRAUD TOO! NO PENIS PUMP EXPLOSION. AND IF IT DID 3 INS IS TOTALLY AVERAGE!@
The AI forgot to add THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
Also on social media no one knows who’s posting.
I think this confirms that he’s unwell.
Someone needs to make him prove it.
This is not Donald trump.
That happened over a decade ago!
He. Is. Insane.
Like the spy movie/show trope/joke about the Cold War, & saying nothing is confirmed until the Soviets deny it.
My current favorite #rumor is that he was at Walter Reed having his feet amputated to prevent gangrene. That would make him... ... Wait for it... President Stump. (I'll see myself out)
You look like a bloated corpse!
May this observation become a reality in the near future...
Nobody can lie like Donald, nobody.
I’m encouraged knowing his vital organs are smothered in Crisco.
Yeah 👍🏽
Pretty sure he hit that point in the late 80's
When you lose credibility, which is now.
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
We all see your putrid body and mind disintegrating slowly but surely. We rejoice to know that there’s as special place in hell for you, right on top of the big fire.
Too grammatically correct....major fail
I’d say just the fact that he’s in the White House means that Washington DC is a crime infested zone. He’s a convicted felon.
As long as Trump is in D.C. there's a crime spree going on there.
No he is dead. They are just trying to pretend like he isn’t. You can tell by the writing and grammar.
well, i am sure a lot of MAGA airheads are restin' easy now. for sane people: time will tell.
The 1.74k re lies are very troubling.
You moved?
Those who smelt it dealt it
Do they inform him of what is going on (like his deathwatch earlier this week) with a three-day delay?
I imagine he felt better when he was at Epstein island
Did he lose credibility? Wouldn't that imply that he... that he ever _had_ credibility? 😃
He lies every day , all day long!
Not surprised a racist pedo would try to front so hard.
Spot on Catherine!
The video they released of him golfing in a white cap is from June 28th
this corpulent, vile, putrid, obscene anti-democratic buffoon and tool had no idea —nor did he or his corrupt and venal, conniving crime family admit— what was afoot. yet it worked to the Project 2025 puppet masters designs perfectly; & therein reside the fragile flaws of this republic.
I’ve been applying this rule to everything he’s been saying since term one…but you know it just sticks better and better the more rots there is ftom the inside out.
Multiple strokes, and CHF. See ya!
When did Trump have credibility?
With him that has been the case since 2017... Every accusation is a confession. Every statement the opposite has to be assumed true.
And he’s now up to 23 wars that he’s stopped now.
Sounding more like the Glasgow drunk with every passing day.
He couldn't do a one minute question & answer zoom call on CNN? He's dead or too disabled to speak.
Hmmmm, sounds like the story of the orange turd who couldn't tell the truth.
It's a shame, then, so many ppl on this site focus on letting everyone know they dislike Gavin Newsom, who's done as good a job as anybody of denting that credibility...but then again, those same ppl were probably the ones who thought calling the GOP ticket "weirdos" was untoward.
It's always been that way. *Every statement is a confession.*
His severely swollen ankles, constant bruised hands and abnormal gait would beg to differ.
🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕FDT
Crime- Free zone? He still resides at 1600 Pennsylvania, right?
...and his head is a thought-free zone! 🤦
The tone and style of that statement doesn’t follow the normal pattern. That has been crafted by another person imo.
you know what else happens when the govt/the elite lose credibility? populism. and trump has been riding the populist wave to dictatorship for a decade.
I refuse to let myself feel hopeful that the end is truly near. I’ve felt hopeful every time he was sued, accused, ruled against, etc. When he’s dead, and only when proven dead, will I break open the champagne. 🥂 I just can’t deal any other way right now. It’s too much. It’s too awful.
LOL. Ok, he’s dying. 👍🏼
I keep thinking of the USSR, when they would claim a leader "has a cold."
Bring out your dead! I'm not dead! He will be soon.
Lucie.
😁