Barry Butler

Father, Gov't Relations, Advising, Pragmatist. All tweets are my own.

[Barry Butler @ChspkHeel]

Cheddar Addiction. Getting your fix. Totally worth it!

[Mickey Blowtorch @MickeyBlowtorch]

Bring me strong cheese woman

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

You Winsome, you lose some. Thank you, Virginia.

[Barry Butler @ChspkHeel]

See this Instagram post by @reasoned_reality https://t.co/U3hjgjqTDa

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

When I met with President Zelenskyy this morning, I made sure to remind him that the American people stand against Russia and with Ukraine.

[🪖MilitaryNewsUA🇺🇦 @front_ukrainian]

🕯Today, people on the Maidan paid their last respects to Ethan Hertweck.

A 🇺🇸United States citizen and a veteran of the US Marine Legion who fought and died for 🇺🇦Ukraine, near Avdiivka.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Liz Cheney: “Generations of American patriots, from our revolution onward, have fought for the principles Zelenskyy is risking his life to defend. But today, Donald Trump and JD Vance attacked Zelenskyy and pressured him to surrender the freedom of his people to the KGB war criminal who invaded Ukraine. History will remember this day— when an American President and Vice President abandoned all we stand for.”

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Glory to Ukraine. 🇺🇦

[Barry Butler @ChspkHeel]

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[Washington Commanders @Commanders]

DOINKED IT IN FOR THE DUB!!!!!

📺 #WASvsTB @SNFonNBC

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⚡️As a citizen of your country, do you support that your country continues to support 🇺🇦Ukraine or are you against it?

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Woman dressed as Handmaid votes in Asheville, North Carolina. How to bring your political message while wearing no political message. Genius!🔥

[Meacham @MeachamDr]

Hey MAGA:

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT tweeted this to its 55 million followers and it has under 500 retweets - presumably suppressed due to the link out. “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s longest-serving chief of staff, said Trump met the definition of a fascist and would try to govern like a dictator if elected”

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

MAGA: "Ask yourself,... weren't you better off four years ago?"

Four Years Ago:

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[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Nikki Haley announced that she stands 100% behind her comments that Donald Trump is too old and mentally incompetent to be President. Retweet to make sure all Americans see this.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: The former chief marketer for NBC apologizes to the American people for giving us Donald Trump by helping to sell “The Apprentice” myth to the American people.

This is humiliating for MAGA…

“I want to apologize to America. I helped create a monster,” writes John D. Miller in a piece entitled “We Created a Monster: Trump Was a TV Fantasy Invented for 'The Apprentice'” for U.S. News & World Report.

“For nearly 25 years, I led marketing at NBC and NBCUniversal,” Miller explains. “I led the team that marketed ‘The Apprentice,’ the reality show that made Donald Trump a household name outside of New York City, where he was better known for overextending his empire and appearing in celebrity gossip columns.”

He goes on to state that his team “created the narrative that Trump was a super-successful businessman who lived like royalty” which was a “substantial exaggeration” that “created a false narrative by making him seem more successful than he was.”

Miller points out that Trump had to declare bankruptcy four times before the show premiered and at least twice over the course of its 14 seasons.

“The imposing board room where he famously fired contestants was a set, because his real boardroom was too old and shabby for TV,” writers Miller.

In a section that is certain to bruise Trump’s ego, Miller states that he was the “perfect choice” for the show because “more successful CEOs were too busy to get involved in reality TV and didn’t want to hire random game show winners onto their executive teams.”

Meanwhile, Trump “had no such concerns” and “plenty of time for filming.”

“I never imagined that the picture we painted of Trump as a successful businessman would help catapult him to the White House,” writes Miller, likening all of their advertising around the show to “fake news” because it was so “highly exaggerated.”

“I discovered in my interactions with him over the years that he is manipulative, yet extraordinarily easy to manipulate,” he goes on. “He has an unfillable compliment hole. No amount is too much. Flatter him and he is compliant. World leaders, including apparently Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, have discovered that too.”

Miller calls Trump “remarkably thin-skinned” and describes his adversarial relationship with the show. The future president would claim that the show was number one in the ratings, even when the numbers refuted that claim.

Not surprisingly, Trump was full of bad suggestions for the show. He wanted to make “a team of Black players compete against white players.” Miller tried to convince him against it by appealing to Trump’s greed and telling him that it would alienate sponsors.

“While we were successful in marketing ‘The Apprentice,’ we also did irreparable harm by creating the false image of Trump as a successful leader. I deeply regret that,” writers Miller. “And I regret that it has taken me so long to go public.”

“Now America is facing a critical choice. Should this elderly, would-be emperor with no clothes, who is well known for stretching and abandoning the truth, be president again?” he asks.

“I spent 50 years successfully promoting television magic, making mountains out of molehills every day,” he continues. “But I say now to my fellow Americans, without any promotional exaggeration: If you believe that Trump will be better for you or better for the country, that is an illusion, much like ‘The Apprentice’ was.”

“Even if you are a born-and-bred Republican, as I was, I strongly urge you to vote for Kamala Harris. The country will be better off and so will you,” concludes Miller.

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