All posts tagged "Saddam Hussein"

An analyst on Monday ripped President Donald Trump, calling him "MAGA Saddam" and "Donald Antoinette" as he blasted Trump's recent moves to fund his ballroom as "legalized bribery."

In a conversation between Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan and Aswin Soobsang, senior political correspondent, the two discussed whether Americans actually care about the construction of the White House ballroom and the destruction of the East Wing, as well as how taxpayers will ultimately foot the bill.

"I think this story is breaking through, and it's not that it's a ballroom being built or not being built. Like you said earlier, what the f--- do we care if the White House has a ballroom? Right now. It's like it's the White House. It's the American presidential palace. Maybe it should have a ballroom. Maybe it shouldn't," Soobsang said. ...

Mowaffak al-Rubaie sits in his office with a statue of Saddam Hussein behind him, the rope used to hang the dictator around its neck, recalling his final minutes.

"Conservatives have the uncanny ability to know what Ronald Reagan would do at any given time," Stephen Colbert said last night. "Syrian conflict? Invade. Obamacare? Repeal. Soup or salad? Jelly beans."

In a Thursday appearance on Fox News, U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) invoked a familiar Republican trope by saying that the United States would never be in the situation it finds itself in regarding Syria if Ronald Reagan was the current U.S. president. Ironically, as pointed out by Think Progress, the historical record shows that when then-ally Saddam Hussein used chemical weapons against Iranians and Iraqi Kurds, Reagan and his advisors turned a blind eye, which is exactly what Ros-Lehtinen claims the former president would never have countenanced.

Wednesday night on "The Rachel Maddow Show," host Rachel Maddow asked viewers in a teaser segment which would be worse, hearing from the Bush administration's Iraq War experts again or "sticking pins in your eyes. Think before you answer."