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Cont: The Trump Presidency Part IV

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Skeptic Ginger said:
Or to bring it closer to home, your POTUS has a mental illness that is affecting him causing him to egg on a nuclear crisis to prove his personal manhood. Is that our business?
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Well, Dubya took over a whole country and deposed its government on the basis of "Bad man make my daddy look foolish? Georgie make bad man fall down go boom!" Trump's right up there with that level of maturity.
 
Foolmewunz said:
Well, Dubya took over a whole country and deposed its government on the basis of "Bad man make my daddy look foolish? Georgie make bad man fall down go boom!" Trump's right up there with that level of maturity.
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And incredibly depressing is the fact not enough people in this country are learning from this history. :(
 
BobTheCoward said:
Or grow up and accept a person's health is none of our business.
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No. Trump made it everyone's business when he ran for the post of president of the US.

If the driver of the bus you're riding in is driving like he's drunk it's more than reasonable to report this to his employer and ask for a sobriety test.

Trump is clearly behaving abnormally and it's certainly in the people's interest to know just what exactly is wrong with him.
 
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Is this the beginning of the end of Trump's real estate empire?

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The Trump name is being scrubbed off skylines from New York to Toronto to Rio as the brand backfires

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Plastering the Trump brand – which can cost tens of millions of dollars to lease – on your luxury hotel or apartment complex once added a veneer of prestige and upped profitability; Trump used to boast it would increase a property’s value by 25%. Licensing his name certainly seems to have increased his personal fortune. A financial summary Trump issued when he kicked off his presidential campaign in 2015 valued his “real estate licensing deal, brand and branded developments” at $3.3bn – the most significant single source of what Trump then claimed to be an $8.7bn total net worth.

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Since the Donald embarked upon his political career his surname appears to have become a liability. Speaking to me over the phone, previous 200 Riverside Boulevard tenants told me that Trump’s foray into politics has been disastrous for property prices. Harvey and Peggy Koeppel put their apartment on the market just before the 2016 election. “It sat there for months,” Harvey Koeppel says, until they were forced to “accept 10% less than their asking price”.

It’s not just the Koeppels who have seen the value of their Trump-associated property fall. According to a recent report by CityRealty, a real estate listings and research service, prices in the 11 Trump-branded condo buildings in Manhattan dropped below the borough average for the first time ever at the end of 2017. While the average price per square foot for all Manhattan condos fell by 1%, the price per square foot for condos in Trump buildings fell 7% in the 12 months to November 2017.

“Any building that chooses to end its association with the Trump brand is likely motivated by financial reasons … [and] no doubt greatly influenced by beliefs about how the brand affects the building’s bottom line,” says Gabby Warshawer, director of research for CityRealty. All of which, she says, raises “questions about the viability of the Trump brand”.
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I guess all those one-star "this place is a ********" online reviews aren't helping his hotels, either. I don't think Trump International reservations and Mar-a-Lago memberships are going to cover this loss. How fortunate for Donnie's high blood pressure that he isn't involved with the business now, huh.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Nearly all members of National Park Service advisory panel resign in frustration
Three-quarters of the members of a federally chartered board advising the National Park Service abruptly quit Monday night out of frustration that Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke had refused to meet with them or convene a single meeting last year.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nati...3_story.html?tid=sm_fb&utm_term=.afdda01326be
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Unfortunately this plays right into President Trump/the GOP's hands. They have already shown, by de-funding the service and considering exploitation of National Parks that they have little or no interest in National Parks or anything else which prevents rich individuals and corporations from fully exploiting the whole of the United States and damn the long term environmental consequences.

With the advisory board gone, presumably this is now easier - or at least no more difficult. :(
 
Over a three-day weekend at his private club in Palm Beach, Fla., President Trump showed little or no concern about the angry reaction set off by his use of obscenities to describe the third world countries he fears immigrants could come from under a new immigration bill. His base loved what he said, he told guests at the club, Mar-a-Lago, a refrain he repeated in phone calls over the holiday weekend.

But back in Washington on Tuesday, his advisers and congressional allies have tried to limit the fallout from his remarks in an Oval Office meeting last week, insisting that he had never described the countries as “*********.” Some who had been in the meeting said they had not heard his descriptions. Others insisted in background conversations with reporters that they were told the word he had spoken was “*********,” a phrase that he often uses to describe physical structures that he finds unsavory.

It was an unusual debate over words that until last Thursday had rarely, if ever, appeared in any mainstream news media. And if the argument seemed to amount to a distinction without a difference, neither the White House nor its allies have publicly acknowledged it, although some Trump aides have privately. There has also not been any acknowledgment that both words, as well as reports of Mr. Trump’s stated preference for immigrants from places like Norway, were offensive and many considered them racist.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/...vulgarity-debate.html?action=click&module=Top Stories&pgtype=Homepage

Note that Trump is basically only concerned with what his "base" thinks about him bashing poor, generally black or Hispanic countries, and people for that matter.

He wasn't concerned at all about looking like a racist bigot, only his aides found that concerning. After all many of his voters are either racist bigots or are willing to ignore any outbursts that come off as bigoted.
 
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