Donald Trump

Pross

KingstonGraham wrote:

No tweet yet boasting about kicking out 60 Russian spies?

There's no-one to control his social media for him now they've gone!

rick_chasey

bompington

Nice to know that everything is calm, rational and under control.

pinno

KingstonGraham wrote:

No tweet yet boasting about kicking out 60 Russian spies?

...and perhaps wondering why the Standing orders have been cancelled.

kingstongraham

Pinno wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

No tweet yet boasting about kicking out 60 Russian spies?

...and perhaps wondering why the Standing orders have been cancelled.

It's a cost saving measure. Why bother with 60 low level spies when one high level one can do what you need.

PhilipPirrip

KingstonGraham wrote:

No tweet yet boasting about kicking out 60 Russian spies?

Still largely conspicuous by his absence and what tweets have appeared clearly haven't been written by him due to the use of bigly words.

And now that Gates and Manafort are one step closer to treason charges involving the Trump campaign his little fat fingers must be itching to write, "NO COLLUSION!" but someone's telling him not to.

http://www.palmerreport.com/analysis/ad ... rump/9058/

pblakeney

KingstonGraham wrote:

Pinno wrote:

KingstonGraham wrote:

No tweet yet boasting about kicking out 60 Russian spies?

...and perhaps wondering why the Standing orders have been cancelled.

It's a cost saving measure. Why bother with 60 low level spies when one high level one can do what you need.

More so when the spies are known.

PhilipPirrip

Remember when he said he was going to be the hardest working president and never take time away from office?

Well since his latest and umpteenth tax payer paid weekend break away his presidential work schedule has amounted to 2 hours or less per day;

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/sta ... 59905?s=12

Now we know he doesn't read the intelligence briefings (unless they mention him) so we can assume even within those 2 hours he's pretty ineffective, plus we know from his recent lack of tweeting his "executive time" of watching Fox isn't as productive even if all it produced were twitter rants and self-aggrandisement.

briantrumpet

PhilipPirrip wrote:

Remember when he said he was going to be the hardest working president and never take time away from office?

Well since his latest and umpteenth tax payer paid weekend break away his presidential work schedule has amounted to 2 hours or less per day;

https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/sta ... 59905?s=12

Now we know he doesn't read the intelligence briefings (unless they mention him) so we can assume even within those 2 hours he's pretty ineffective, plus we know from his recent lack of tweeting his "executive time" of watching Fox isn't as productive even if all it produced were twitter rants and self-aggrandisement.

And today is his third day in a row with no scheduled work or events. Good job all is well in the US and the world generally.

bianchimoon

And today he announces his personal doctor as head of veterans affairs controlling a budget of £350m and workforce of hundreds of thousands with no qualifications for the job whatsoever, as well as wanting his personal trump airline pilot to head up the US air traffic control operation. What is wrong with the GOP, how can the US be such a dictatorship, seems checks and balances don’t work. How long before Stormy Daniels heads up the met office?

Matthewfalle

bianchimoon wrote:

And today he announces his personal doctor as head of veterans affairs controlling a budget of £350m and workforce of hundreds of thousands with no qualifications for the job whatsoever, as well as wanting his personal trump airline pilot to head up the US air traffic control operation. What is wrong with the GOP, how can the US be such a dictatorship, seems checks and balances don’t work. How long before Stormy Daniels heads up the met office?

Sorry - is this true?

WTAF?

tangled_metal

Stormy Daniels will head up the secretive magical affairs department. But you'll like it, not a lot!

IGMC

Seriously though, if his lawyer's scheme of paying her off had worked then he would have been a shoe in for attorney General or similar.

It is the way things work with Trump. Get over it. He appoints any idiot or suck up he likes then fires them. He's not POTUS, he's on a TV reality show called The Apprentice. Seriously, try looking at it like that. See if that makes things seem more reasonable.

pblakeney

Understandable, not reasonable.

Matthewfalle

Is it just me or is Dotard trying to look like President Business?

briantrumpet

Matthewfalle wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

And today he announces his personal doctor as head of veterans affairs controlling a budget of £350m and workforce of hundreds of thousands with no qualifications for the job whatsoever, as well as wanting his personal trump airline pilot to head up the US air traffic control operation. What is wrong with the GOP, how can the US be such a dictatorship, seems checks and balances don’t work. How long before Stormy Daniels heads up the met office?

Sorry - is this true?

WTAF?

Sure is: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

A biography released by the White House shows Jackson is credentialed and experienced in medicine but has no background in management. He nonetheless will be charged with delivering on one of Trump’s signature campaign promises: to fix the federal government’s second-largest bureaucracy.

PhilipPirrip

He doesn't employ the best people nor those that would be best to serve the interests of the US. He employs those who will obey him and are willing to massage his ego and f@@k everyone else.

Dr Jackson was willing to stand up in a press conference and lie about Trump's height and weight so he didn't appear obese and that's all that matters to Trump.

As Dr Jackson was so willing to lie for Trump about such obvious truths he's clearly just another patsy to peddle Trump's crazy ideas.

Matthewfalle

briantrumpet wrote:

Matthewfalle wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

And today he announces his personal doctor as head of veterans affairs controlling a budget of £350m and workforce of hundreds of thousands with no qualifications for the job whatsoever, as well as wanting his personal trump airline pilot to head up the US air traffic control operation. What is wrong with the GOP, how can the US be such a dictatorship, seems checks and balances don’t work. How long before Stormy Daniels heads up the met office?

Sorry - is this true?

WTAF?

Sure is: https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/na ... story.html

A biography released by the White House shows Jackson is credentialed and experienced in medicine but has no background in management. He nonetheless will be charged with delivering on one of Trump’s signature campaign promises: to fix the federal government’s second-largest bureaucracy.

Blimey

Well that’s not going to go badly, badly wrong is it?

Short term gain for Admiral Hawkeye, long term loss I’d say. Oh well, he had a nice career while it lasted.

briantrumpet

PhilipPirrip wrote:

He doesn't employ the best people nor those that would be best to serve the interests of the US. He employs those who will obey him and are willing to massage his ego and f@@k everyone else.

Dr Jackson was willing to stand up in a press conference and lie about Trump's height and weight so he didn't appear obese and that's all that matters to Trump.

As Dr Jackson was so willing to lie for Trump about such obvious truths he's clearly just another patsy to peddle Trump's crazy ideas.

One theory is that Shulkin's misdemeanours gave Trump the excuse to replace Shulkin with someone who will be prepared to privatise the Veterans Affairs office. You know things are bad when a GOP right-wing nut is replaced because they aren't right wing enough. One suspects that Trump now has some leverage over Dr Jackson, so he will do his bidding... that would be why he appointed him.

bianchimoon

I was wrong, when i said the 'doctor' had control of a £350m budget, it's actually $200 billion and the second largest agency in the US behind the pentagon. Run by a man that said "trump could live to 200 years of age with a better diet" :roll: what is the point

kingstongraham

It's not his personal doctor (that was Harold Bornstein - he was the guy who said in 2016 that Trump would be the healthiest individual ever elected president). It's the White House doctor, who's part of the navy, and has been physician to the president since 2013. Still doesn't seem ideally qualified.

pinno

He should be good at navel gazing though.





I've already got my coat.

bendertherobot

Conjecture only at present

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status ... 90048?s=19

bianchimoon

Even scarier is that the largest TV media owner in the US Sinclair media (almost 200 TV stations) , who were given a 'sweetheart' deal' by Trump instructed all the journalists on it's media to read a prepared statement as though it was news

That’s a montage of local news anchors repeating, word for word, an editorial Sinclair Broadcast Group required all of its stations—and it owns nearly 200—to air. This isn’t new for Sinclair: In the final days of the 2004 election, all Sinclair stations had to run an hour-long program attacking John Kerry’s service in Vietnam. (The company fired their Washington bureau chief for pointing out this was bullshit.) But although Sinclair normally gets a pundit like Boris Epshteyn say the actual words, this time they forced their local news anchors to play Charlie McCarthy.

https://slate.com/culture/2018/04/watch ... nison.html
Followed by Trump saying" there was a caravan of immigrants headed for the US from South America to take advantage of DACA". A piece he almost quoted verbatim from Fox news yesterday morning. So factually wrong it's embarrassing to be of the same species as this man.

orraloon

Well to quote the former US Sec of State Rex Tillerson, The Dotard is a "f@cking moron"

kingstongraham

If only something could be done about the DACAs. All he wants to do is help fix it - why did the Dems break it in the first place? Those DACAs must be annoyed. No wonder they are bringing more DACAs in as reinforcements.

bianchimoon

Amazon/netflix shares down 11% since the fake president started attacking Amazon, seems an easy way Trumps cronies can make money buying/selling shares based on what he's going to say next!

briantrumpet

bianchimoon wrote:

Amazon/netflix shares down 11% since the fake president started attacking Amazon, seems an easy way Trumps cronies can make money buying/selling shares based on what he's going to say next!

...the suggestion being that he's using his position to personally attack Amazon. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04 ... s-personal

He's also carrying on his Twitter tirades this morning against all media other than Fox and Sinclair.

bianchimoon

briantrumpet wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

Amazon/netflix shares down 11% since the fake president started attacking Amazon, seems an easy way Trumps cronies can make money buying/selling shares based on what he's going to say next!

...the suggestion being that he's using his position to personally attack Amazon. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04 ... s-personal

He's also carrying on his Twitter tirades this morning against all media other than Fox and Sinclair.

definitely personal, as Bezos owns the WoPo, like Huckerbee sanders said "if you're nice to the president he'll be nice to you"

bianchimoon

Thank you to Rasmussen for the honest polling. Just hit 50%, which is higher than Cheatin’ Obama at the same time in his Administration.

Trump does irony

briantrumpet

bianchimoon wrote:

briantrumpet wrote:

bianchimoon wrote:

Amazon/netflix shares down 11% since the fake president started attacking Amazon, seems an easy way Trumps cronies can make money buying/selling shares based on what he's going to say next!

...the suggestion being that he's using his position to personally attack Amazon. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/04 ... s-personal

He's also carrying on his Twitter tirades this morning against all media other than Fox and Sinclair.

definitely personal, as Bezos owns the WoPo, like Huckerbee sanders said "if you're nice to the president he'll be nice to you"

"Now, I'd hate it if anything terrible happened to your business. I can make sure that nothing terrible happens to your business. Think of it like insurance..."

Now we know what it looks like when a mafia don becomes president. The difference is that Trump uses Twitter to enforce 'payment' of the premium, or to try to take out the competition. The 'competition' includes truth, decency, democracy, and the rule of law.