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Cont: President Trump: Part 3

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Is there any way to explain why Trump didn't shake hands with Merkel except that he's afraid of a picture showing that her hands are bigger than his?
 
The Great Zaganza said:
Is there any way to explain why Trump didn't shake hands with Merkel except that he's afraid of a picture showing that her hands are bigger than his?
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Trump shakes hands in a weirdly dominant used car salesman manner. I don't think he knows how to do a dignified handshake by rote, and felt that he might look insecure by attempting it, and worse trying the "dominant" way with Merkel.
 
Steve said:
The child just oozes class, doesn't​ he? Or maybe that's slime. All you Americans must be just so proud.
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He didn't grab her genitals, so he is really doing much better than people expect. This was one of his most presidential moments since his speech to congress.
 
SezMe said:
Yes, she was.

See, your assertion has as much validity as mine. Both are based on information we don't have. Well, maybe I'm wrong. DO you have information to support your claim?
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Actually, yours has more validity than his. All one has to do is show the entire portion of the speech where she mentions the deplorable in context. His assertion depends on the removal of context and misrepresentation of fact.
 
The following report is just another example of how Trump supporters were duped by Trump.


Trump, critic of Obama's golfing, regularly hits the links

West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, once a critic of his predecessor's golfing, has visited one of his golf courses in Florida -- seemingly to play the sport -- five of the last seven weekends.

"I'm going to be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said during a 2016 event in Virginia.

"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump tweeted in October 2014. "Worse than Carter."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/19/politics/trump-golf-weekends/index.html
 
skyeagle409 said:
The following report is just another example of how Trump supporters were duped by Trump.


Trump, critic of Obama's golfing, regularly hits the links

West Palm Beach, Florida (CNN)President Donald Trump, once a critic of his predecessor's golfing, has visited one of his golf courses in Florida -- seemingly to play the sport -- five of the last seven weekends.

"I'm going to be working for you; I'm not going to have time to go play golf," Trump said during a 2016 event in Virginia.

"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the US, President Obama spent the day playing golf," Trump tweeted in October 2014. "Worse than Carter."

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/19/politics/trump-golf-weekends/index.html
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I guess that just means Trump is much more efficient than Obama. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump gets two or three weeks worth of stuff done in a single week. The man's energy is tremendous.
 
marplots said:
I guess that just means Trump is much more efficient than Obama. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump gets two or three weeks worth of stuff done in a single week. The man's energy is tremendous.
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That's a pretty bold assertion. Do you have anything to back that up ?
 
The Don said:
marplots said:
I guess that just means Trump is much more efficient than Obama. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump gets two or three weeks worth of stuff done in a single week. The man's energy is tremendous.
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That's a pretty bold assertion. Do you have anything to back that up ?
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It's obvious, isn't it?

Just compare the number of tweets per day. That is (now) the primary measure of Presidential accomplishment.
 
marplots said:
I guess that just means Trump is much more efficient than Obama. It wouldn't surprise me if Trump gets two or three weeks worth of stuff done in a single week. The man's energy is tremendous.
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How else would he get so much more time to watch TV than Obama? The man needs to much less time to read all the reports a president needs to read.
 
Bob001 said:
Hey, coal miners, you ain't getting your jobs back:
Washington Post article
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Thanks for the link Bob, that was an interesting article, giving a fairly extensive look at the coal industry from the viewpoint of the companies and the financial industry. Interesting that one of the things the coal industry wants is continued support from the federal government for some of the technological research. But Trump hasn't made any promises there and many of the programs will probably be defunded by the Trump administration. It's also interesting to see how production is very price sensitive and market prices are set by global markets, especially China. But Trump seems to want a trade war with China and manipulating coal prices will be an easy way for China to retaliate against the U.S.

But this goes to something I have long believed. I understand the thinking of some of the people I know who voted for Trump. The idea of getting a tough, successful business person in the White House who could better guide our economy, someone who knows how the economy works, knows what drives the business cycle. But that doesn't describe Donald Trump. Not even close.

Decent idea, wrong guy.
 
a_unique_person said:
Even open cut mines employ less and less people these days. Those big trucks can drive themselves now.
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Bringing back jobs for American robots.

I heard a Mexican on the World Service point out that when the US carmakers moved factories to Mexico, they replaced a 10,000 employee factory with a 1,500 employee factory, and the trend would be continuing if they moved back to the US.
 
jimbob said:
Bringing back jobs for American robots.

I heard a Mexican on the World Service point out that when the US carmakers moved factories to Mexico, they replaced a 10,000 employee factory with a 1,500 employee factory, and the trend would be continuing if they moved back to the US.
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Make America Great Again.
America was at its greatest during the 1950s.
Therefore, everything needs to be taken back to how it was in the 1950s, including industrial technology.

Problem solved.
 
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