Cont: The Trump Presidency Part IV

[alfaniner]

New reports that Trump paid off a porn star to keep quiet about an "affair:"

Of all the things The PDJT has done this is probably the one I care about least.

I don't know what the WH has planned to mark MLK day, but I would hope that people associated with MLK's family and the civil rights movement have a plan to humiliate the president on the world stage. His bigoted comments right before MLK's national holiday call for nothing less.

Will there be a viral march?

 

[Trebuchet]

10. Wanting Judge Curiel to recuse himself due to his Hispanic background.

"Mexican". He specifically said "Mexican".

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

What 'lucrative trade deals'? Trump has no intention of offering anyone anywhere a dewal that is anything other than 'lucrative' in his own eyes which means that if he doesn't get what he wants he will cheat and steal just like he has done all his business life.
Anything trump says or offers is worthless, he lies and lies and can't be trusted by anyone.

That too. ^

 

[TheRealnz]

So Trump loves to take credit for the stock market increases. I wonder if he'll take credit for this?

From: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-...x-year-low-trumps-first-year?cid=sm_fb_maddow
Job growth slows to a six-year low in Trump's first year.

Note that the article doesn't say jobs were lost (and it does say unemployment rates are pretty low)... it just says growth didn't match that of Obama's later years.

Now, normally it would be wrong to blame all economic problems at the feet of a president, especially in his first year (since there are so many outside factors affecting the economy, and much of what happens is a holdover from the previous administration.) But Trump loves to take credit for the stock market. Maybe he should take credit for the slower job growth too.

Trump's had two quarters in a row in excess of 3%. When was the last time Barry had the same?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

I don't know what the WH has planned to mark MLK day, but I would hope that people associated with MLK's family and the civil rights movement have a plan to humiliate the president on the world stage. His bigoted comments right before MLK's national holiday call for nothing less.

Apparently not. See my previous posts plus this addition:

MSNBC showed the MLK declaration from today again with a bit of a wider view. Trump and most of the attendees (pretty much all black) ignore the reporters shouting out, "President Trump are you a racist?" But one black gentleman tries to answer the question for Trump: "No, the answer is no." He said it more than once trying to get the attention of the reporters shouting the question.

 

[varwoche]

After an examination today the White House doctor says that Trump's physical health is excellent.

Not quite. That's according to the White House, not the doctor. And in this White House statement attributing Trump-like wording to the doctor, the doctor's name is misspelled.

 

[Frank Newgent]

After an examination today the White House doctor says that Trump's physical health is excellent.

A test such as this would be/have been easy and appropriate...

http://www.dementiatoday.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/MiniMentalStateExamination.pdf

 

[Mumbles]

I don't know what the WH has planned to mark MLK day, but I would hope that people associated with MLK's family and the civil rights movement have a plan to humiliate the president on the world stage. His bigoted comments right before MLK's national holiday call for nothing less.

They've been calling him out for years now. The latest was when Dolt 45 was invited to attend the Saturday opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum - and pretty much everyone else, including John Lewis, refused to attend and said "Eh, let's go on Sunday, when he's not there."

Rep. Lewis wasn't amused by Trump's latest white supremacist outburst, either.

 

[FenerFan]

The new embassy is located near here:

the Battersea power station.
If you look closely, you can see Trump doing a fly over inspection.

 

[quadraginta]

He's playing to his base.

I've considered using the model that Trump does not consider himself to be the president of the United States so much as he considers himself to be the president of his supporters.

That he's not playing to his base so much as considers everybody else irrelevant.

That there sounds like one of them "distinction without a difference' thingys.

 

[mgidm86]

They've been calling him out for years now. The latest was when Dolt 45 was invited to attend the Saturday opening of the Mississippi Civil Rights Museum - and pretty much everyone else, including John Lewis, refused to attend and said "Eh, let's go on Sunday, when he's not there."

Rep. Lewis wasn't amused by Trump's latest white supremacist outburst, either.

White supremacist outburst? Wow.

From the link:

“You cannot speak the words of tolerance and peace and love … and then put down a group of people, a nation of people because of the color of their skin or what part of the world they may come from,” Lewis said.

This guys as big a blowhard as Trump, as well as a liar. Unless I missed the part where Trump talked about skin color.

I think Haiti is a ****hole and it isn't because of anyone's skin color, it's just a ****hole. So is San Jose, CA

Aside from the word that Trump used (or maybe including it) he is being true to his platform and has been since day one. Other than that word there should be nothing shocking about his attitude toward immigration at all.

Lewis said that the comments were “unreal” and “unbelievable,” and added that the president is “not really in tune” with the American people.

If you say so.

Lewis said in an MSNBC interview. “It must be in his DNA, in his makeup,

Must be.

 

[quadraginta]

The new embassy was built to withstand terrorist attacks. That isn't cheap. When you consider that London has been the site of several attacks, it is certainly understandable that the US embassy is an attractive target. Would you be critical of the price tag if an attack occurs and lives are saved because of the way the embassy was built?

I'm not being critical at all. I'm just saying that as buildings go $1 billion is a pretty large chunk of change to spend.

I'm not speaking from a position of ignorance, or dazed by large numbers. I spent most of my career building very large, expensive buildings and building complexes. For private entities, local, state, and federal contracts.

I have a relatively pragmatic grasp of what these things cost.

It's still a pretty good chunk of change.

Whether or not the price tag is justified is an entirely different topic, and I have not seen enough hard data to make any informed judgements about that.

So I'm not.

 

[quadraginta]

True, his base consists in large part of racists and bigots.

But many of them like a certain amount of plausible deniability. "I'm not a racist... but" sort of thing. When you're that blatant with your comments it makes it difficult to maintain that deniability.

Plausible deniability is one of those practices which the GOP practiced paid lip service to the past.

The onset of the era of Trumpian politics has seen them pretty much abandon any such pretenses.

 

[quadraginta]

Well, Trump did call Haiti a ****-hole so we should all cram the streets in protest. He's a far more degenerate individual than the exemplary dignitaries we have welcomed in the past without any hint of public uprising, such as King Abdullah, Robert Mugabe, Emperor Akihito, Xi Jinping and Nicolae Ceaușescu, none of whom referred to Haiti as a **** hole and who merely indulged in a bit of mass murder, ethnic cleansing, slavery, torture, embezzlement, corruption and a whole host of human rights abuses.

Yes.

Because the example set by such human monsters as King Abdullah, Robert Mugabe, Emperor Akihito, Xi Jinping and Nicolae Ceaușescu is certainly the highest bar we should judge our leaders by.

 

[quadraginta]

Maybe so but it doesn't even matter. I dislike Trump intensely, mainly because he's a shallow, vacant moron, but I wouldn't presume that my personal tastes should have any impact on the relationship between the UK and the US. Since when has international relations been dictated by the mob, and a self-serving, virtue-signalling mob at that?

Since ... all of human history?

 

[thaiboxerken]

Trump's had two quarters in a row in excess of 3%. When was the last time Barry had the same?

2014 quarter 2&3
https://www.bea.gov/newsreleases/national/gdp/gdp_glance.htm

 

[quadraginta]

That's Khan's opinion, and his opinion is worth exactly that of every other British citizen. It's just sad that someone in his position is jumping on the bandwagon and personalising something that should have zero to do with personality and everything to do with high level international relations. It's pathetic, it's childish, it's egotistical nonsense.. and what does that description remind you of? You got it, Trump himself.

Which is it?

You seem to want it both ways.

Trump's position is the President of the most powerful country in the world (at least for now). His publicly stated opinions have weigh and meaning beyond that of any private citizen.

Something you seem to recognize.

Same as Khan.

What isn't the same is the content of those opinions.

 

[quadraginta]

And also worth noting: the geographic regions that disproportionately voted for Trump are themselves relatively underdeveloped and poor. Does he think his fans live in ********* too?

Of course he does.

He depends on that. It makes his utterly insincere promises seem so much more attractive to them.

The difference is that they live in **** holes they can vote for him from.

 

[Civet]

And also worth noting: the geographic regions that disproportionately voted for Trump are themselves relatively underdeveloped and poor. Does he think his fans live in ********* too?

He's a Manhattan real estate guy. I imagine his contempt for poor and rural types is pretty severe. I'm a southerner who's spent some time in NYC and when people asked about my hometown many of them seemed to think the south must be like something out of Deliverance outside of the large cities. And those were people a lot nicer than Trump.

 

[lionking]

I stayed in Shepherds Bush for a couple of months. People of colour everywhere. Africans, Asians, Muslims. Weird smelling food. Crap football team. Typical of the entire nation.

A ******** by any definition. No wonder Trump is avoiding the place at all costs.







(I really shouldn't have to say it, but I joke. I loved the place).