He called the former FBI director a "showboat" and "grandstander."
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Pulling no punches: Trump called Comey a "grandstander" and a "showboat."
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Trump labeling James Comey "showboat" or "grandstander" is "so detestable" - Ret.
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Mr. McGurk resigned and was swiftly labeled a "grandstander" by the president.
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Such images have given her a reputation as a grandstander and media manipulator.
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White House allies like Sean Hannity denounced Mr. Acosta as a biased grandstander.
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" The comments come after Trump called the fired FBI chief a "showboat" and "grandstander.
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"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," Trump said of Comey.
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It appears to add credence to the president's charge that Comey is, first and foremost, a grandstander.
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If you&aposre posting controversial things just for likes or retweets, you may be a moral grandstander.
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Trump called Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and said he should be booted out of the Republican Party.
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He truly believed FBI Director James Comey was a grandstander -- "Comey was a rat," said Trump -- who deserved firing.
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Trump in a tweet on Saturday suggested McGurk was being a "grandstander" and wrote that he doesn't know him.
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"He's certainly not a grandstander, has never been that," said Jon Kinsey, a Democrat, who preceded Mr. Corker as mayor.
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Even that old windbag Polonius, played by Robert Joy, is less a bombastic grandstander than a dry-as-dust martinet.
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He's certainly a terrible grandstander—he loves the sound of his own voice and indulges in weird flights of Dickensian language.
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Trump criticized McGurk as a "grandstander" over the departure, but said in a tweet that he did not know the official.
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He called him a "third rate Grandstander" who "just wants the publicity" and will only delay rather than stop the legislation.
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Others view him as a vainglorious grandstander whose carefully crafted image as "the last honest man in Washington" is a sham.
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"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," Trump told NBC News' Lester Holt in an interview airing Thursday.
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"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," Trump said of Comey in his wide-ranging interview with Holt.
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There's no good time to do it, by the way," he told NBC News last year, calling Comey a "showboat" and "grandstander.
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President Donald Trump called former FBI Director James Comey "a showboat" and "a grandstander" on Thursday, two days after abruptly firing him.
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"He's a showboat, he's grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," Trump told NBC News' Lester Holt in an interview that aired Thursday.
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He called Comey a "showboat" and a "grandstander" in a bit of public name-calling that risks alienating the FBI's rank-and-file.
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Republicans and business trade groups alike have long called Cordray a political grandstander who is abusing the CFPB perch to boost his profile.
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" Trump fired the FBI chief on May 9, setting off a political firestorm, and he has since called Comey a "showboat" and a "grandstander.
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While I questioned his motivation, Shaer's article answered my most pressing concern: Is he the real deal or just another hotheaded, flame-throwing grandstander?
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"He's a showboat, he's a grandstander, the F.B.I. has been in turmoil," Mr. Trump said of Mr. Comey in an NBC interview in May.
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"He's a grandstander who says things that embarrass the whole state," said Michael L. Fitzgerald, a Democrat, who has been Iowa's treasurer since 1983.
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Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey a few months later, calling him a "grandstander" and citing the F.B.I.'s investigation into his administration's ties to Russia.
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This fits with Mueller's lifelong style as a by-the-book prosecutor, not a grandstander who might seize the moment to put on a show.
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America's most self-obsessed grandstander will not retreat, tail between his legs, to live out the rest of his days in Howard Hughes-ish solitude.
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The president also criticized Comey as a "showboat" and a "grandstander," and claimed that Comey told him he was not under investigation for collusion with Russia.
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" Schiff was also skeptical Thursday about Trump's statement that he fired Comey because the FBI was in turmoil and that Comey was a "showboat" and "grandstander.
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After firing him, Trump told NBC News that the FBI director was a "showboat" and a "grandstander" whom he had been planning to jettison for months.
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" President Donald Trump also torched Massie on Twitter for threatening to hold up the bill, calling him a "third rate Grandstander" and a "disaster for America.
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Aquilina has both been heralded as a compassionate champion of victims' rights and derided as a grandstander who compromised the integrity of the criminal justice system.
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Trump called Comey a "showboat" and "grandstander" in an interview with NBC News on May 11, saying that he would have fired Comey regardless of Rosenstein's recommendation.
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Trump called Comey a "showboat" and "grandstander" in an interview with NBC News on May 11, saying he was going to fire Comey regardless of Rosenstein's recommendation.
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" He took heat from members of both parties, and President Trump went on Twitter to denounce Massie as "a third rate Grandstander" and "a disaster for America.
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The big picture: Trump called McGurk "a grandstander" after he submitted his resignation Saturday, which was reportedly in protest of Trump's decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.
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Within the intelligence community, Cotton is viewed as a political grandstander who might lack the experience to lead a workforce largely older and more experienced than he is.
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Yet it remains to be seen how the White House will deal with Comey, whom Trump called a "showboat" and "grandstander" after the FBI director was fired last month.
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I don't agree with Trump on Acosta, obviously, But even if you do, the problem for Trump is that being a "grandstander" isn't cause to restrict Acosta's speech rights.
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Thomas Massie, calling him a "third rate Grandstander" after the Kentucky Republican signaled he would oppose a $2 trillion relief bill intended to soften the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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Thomas Massie, calling him a "third rate Grandstander" after the Kentucky Republican signaled he would oppose a $2 trillion relief bill intended to soften the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
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And it was unusually harsh: Mr. Trump castigated Mr. Comey as "a showboat" and "a grandstander," suggesting that his issues with the F.B.I. director went beyond any previously stated concerns.
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Though Trump has publicly blasted Comey as a "showboat" and a "grandstander," those who watched him grow up in the New Jersey hamlet of Allendale recently painted a very different portrait to NorthJersey.
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Thomas Massie a "third rate Grandstander" and claimed the Kentucky Republican "just wants the publicity" after threatening a roll-call vote, which would require members travel back to the US Capitol to vote in person.
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The president's defenders said Mr. Comey had proved Mr. Trump was right when he called the former F.B.I. director a "showboat" and a "grandstander," a conclusion Democrats once shared when he was investigating Hillary Clinton last year.
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But all that was shot when Trump told NBC's Lester Holt that he was going to fire Comey "regardless of the recommendation," because Comey was a "showboat" and "grandstander" who had done a poor job leading the FBI.
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The shifting accounts of the decision to fire Comey, whom Trump derided as a "showboat" and "grandstander," added to a mounting sense of uncertainty and chaos in the West Wing, as aides scrambled to get their stories straight and appease an angry president.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump on Thursday called James Comey, the FBI chief he fired, a "showboat" and "grandstander" and said in a NBC-TV interview he would have dismissed him even if officials at the Justice Department had not recommended it.
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Recently, I talked to Grubbs over the phone about how moral grandstanding can be a good thing, how to deal with a grandstander, and the much harder question of how do we best vocalize our moral convictions in such a fractured age.
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But whether you think he is a heroic truth teller or a self-aggrandizing grandstander, and there are arguments for both, what is indisputable is that he is also something else: a 21st-century embodiment of a 20th-century archetype rooted deep in American mythology.
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A brilliant, combative grandstander who clowned in costumes, kissed catfish and crawled through the seal house in Central Park to get publicity, Mr. Stern was the commissioner under Edward I. Koch from 19763 to 1990 and under Rudolph W. Giuliani from 1994 to 2002.
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"Looks like a third rate Grandstander named @RepThomasMassie, a Congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT state, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress," President Trump wrote in his first of two Twitter rebukes, in which he suggested that Mr. Massie should be expelled from the Republican Party.
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"Looks like a third rate Grandstander named @RepThomasMassie, a Congressman from, unfortunately, a truly GREAT state, Kentucky, wants to vote against the new Save Our Workers Bill in Congress," President Trump wrote in his first of two Twitter rebukes, in which he suggested that Mr. Massie should be expelled from the Republican Party.
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Later in the week, Trump contradicted his subordinates' explanation, telling Lester Holt, of NBC, that he had fired Comey because he was "a showboat" and "a grandstander" (coming from Trump, that sounded more like a projection than like a slight) and because Comey's leadership had left the F.B.I. "in turmoil," which it is not.
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Trump rips Comey and says he planned to fire him no matter what the DOJ said Trump rips Comey and says he planned to fire him no matter what the DOJ said President Donald Trump called former FBI Director James Comey "a showboat" and "a grandstander" on Thursday, two days after abruptly firing him.
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If Trump responds that Comey was fired because he was "a showboat, he's a grandstander, the FBI has been in turmoil," as Trump once said, Mueller will then ask Trump to explain his other statements that, "When I decided to just do it, I said to myself" that "Trump and Russia is a made-up story" and that firing Comey relieved "great pressure" on him.
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Critics have called Cordray a political grandstander, accusing him of abusing the bureau's power to become the next Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE, the Democratic Massachusetts senator who rose to political fame as the architect of the CFPB.
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In just the past 24 hours, Trump revealed that he'd asked Comey directly several times over the past several months about whether he was under investigation (which, uh, you really aren't supposed to do); openly admitted that he'd fired Comey over the Russia investigation (contradicting the vice president and his own White House staff); denigrated the former FBI director as a "showboat" and a "grandstander" on national television; and publicly threatened Comey into keeping quiet, otherwise "tapes" of their private conversations might leak.
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Menke observed: > There is nothing picturesque, nothing highly colored, nothing bombastic or > spectacular about his methods. He is not a grandstander -- not theatrical. > And because he isn't, he does not get the acclaim and the plaudits which > men, less wonderful, but better showmen, achieve for themselves.
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Four astronauts aboard the spaceship Hope One set off to find new planets for colonization. Their mission takes them past a space platform circling the Earth. General Mark Tillman (James Macklin) at Earth Control HQ tells a TV reporter (John Willis) that all is going according to the pre-flight plan. The crew of gravity-controlled Hope One consists of the pilot/commanding officer, Colonel Hank Stevens (James Brown), and three scientists: grandstander Dr. John Andros (Baynes Barron), the elderly mentor Dr. Paul Martin (Russ Bender), and "the woman" Dr. Lisa Wayne (Francine York).
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"Savage's views were a departure from those of other conservative commentators, who made a concerted effort to deny that they downplayed the epidemic. Savage attacked their credibility and demanded that they be held accountable for misleading millions of Americans." As early as February 24, 2020 Savage was saying of Limbaugh and Hannity: “How can we not let our side be called on the carpet when they lie to the people?” Savage is also sharply critical of the Director of the NIAID, Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, dismissing him as “a grandstander” who mishandled the AIDS epidemic by refusing to close down the gay bathhouses.
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William Sebastian Cohen (born August 28, 1940) is an American politician, lawyer and author from the U.S. state of Maine. A Republican, Cohen served as both a member of the United States House of Representatives (1973–1979) and Senate (1979–1997), and as Secretary of Defense (1997–2001) under Democratic President Bill Clinton. Described as "a Republican moderate from Maine, something of a maverick centrist" by David Halberstam, Cohen had very good working relations with President Clinton and National Security Adviser Sandy Berger and "almost ideal" collaboration with the Joint Chiefs of Staff;Charles A. Stevenson, SECDEF: The Nearly Impossible Job of Secretary of Defense, pp. 105–114, Potomac Books, 2006 however, he often clashed with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, whom he saw as "a grandstander, too outspoken on policy matters and too eager to use military force".
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In response, Trump wrote that he did not know McGurk and questioned if McGurk was a "grandstander". McGurk criticized Trump's Syria withdrawal order in a Washington Post opinion piece on January 18, saying Trump's decision was made "without deliberation, consultation with allies or Congress, assessment of risk, or appreciation of facts." He endorsed the view that America's adversaries will take advantage of the power vacuum created by a premature pullout from Syria, writing: "the Islamic State and other extremist groups will fill the void opened by our departure, regenerating their capacity to threaten our friends in Europe — as they did throughout 2016 — and ultimately our own homeland". McGurk also wrote an essay for the May/June 2019 edition of Foreign Affairs, in which he said the United States should not expect to reach the goals it had set with a smaller number of troops.
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