The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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Crossbow said:
Thanks much.

That is an excellent point.
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"All we have to do is kick the door in, and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down."

Adolf Hilter just before invading Russia, 1941.

"I promise you, you will be home before the leaves fall!"

Kaiser Willhelm the Second in August, 1914.
 
bruto said:
Why would he be aware of this simply because it's his company, and his father, with whom he is reported to speak daily, was doing the negotiating in Jared's house? It could be that he's just more stupid and clueless than corrupt, but the alternative is not terribly encouraging either.
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So, you don't know?
 
dudalb said:
"All we have to do is kick the door in, and the whole rotten edifice will come tumbling down."

Adolf Hilter just before invading Russia, 1941.

"I promise you, you will be home before the leaves fall!"

Kaiser Willhelm the Second in August, 1914.
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Very true.

Here is one of my favorites as well from the most disgusting person ever to become a vice president:

"Well, I don’t think it’s likely to unfold that way, Tim, because I really do believe that we will be greeted as liberators. I’ve talked with a lot of Iraqis in the last several months myself, had them to the White House....The read we get on the people of Iraq is there is no question but what they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein and they will welcome as liberators the United States when we come to do that."

Vice President Cheney prior to the Iraq War.
 
WASHINGTON — With global markets shaken by President Donald Trump's surprise decision to impose strict tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, the president went into battle mode on Friday: "Trade wars are good, and easy to win," he wrote on Twitter.

But the public show of confidence belies the fact that Trump's policy maneuver, which may ultimately harm U.S. companies and American consumers, was announced without any internal review by government lawyers or his own staff, according to a review of an internal White House document.

According to two officials, Trump's decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.

On Wednesday evening, the president became "unglued," in the words of one official familiar with the president's state of mind.

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Trump, the two officials said, was angry and gunning for a fight, and he chose a trade war, spurred on by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro, the White House director for trade.

Ross had already invited steel and aluminum executives to the White House for an 11 a.m. meeting on Thursday. But Ross, according to a person with direct knowledge, hadn't told the White House who the executives were. As a result, White House officials were unable to conduct a background check on the executives to make sure they were appropriate for the president to meet with and they were not able to be cleared for entry by secret service. According to a person with direct knowledge, even White House chief of staff John Kelly was unaware of their names.

By midnight Wednesday, less than 12 hours before the executives were expected to arrive, no one on the president's team had prepared any position paper for an announcement on tariff policy, the official said. In fact, according to the official, the White House counsel's office had advised that they were as much as two weeks away from being able to complete a legal review on steel tariffs.
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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/wh...d-when-he-started-trade-war-officials-n852641

Good joke!
 
BobTheCoward said:
So, you don't know?
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No, I don't know whether Jared Kushner had any idea what his father was doing in his house on behalf of his company. By all means, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that, rather than being corrupt, he's just too stupid to do his job well. Mere incompetence is a breath of fresh air in these parlous times.
 
bruto said:
No, I don't know whether Jared Kushner had any idea what his father was doing in his house on behalf of his company. By all means, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that, rather than being corrupt, he's just too stupid to do his job well. Mere incompetence is a breath of fresh air in these parlous times.
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I wouldn't give him the benefit of the doubt.
 
Arcade22 said:
Trump, the two officials said, was angry and gunning for a fight, and he chose a trade war, spurred on by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross....
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Keep in mind that this is the same Wilbur Ross who has recently been criticized for falling asleep during meetings.

He also may have been lying about his net worth.

http://www.businessinsider.com/wilbur-ross-trump-2018-1
https://www.forbes.com/sites/danale...f-wilbur-ross-phantom-2-billion/#5660b6137515

Arcade22 said:
...and Peter Navarro, the White House director for trade[/I].
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Navarro is supposedly a professor who hasn't been published in any top-tier academic journals.

https://www.economist.com/news/brie...onald-trumps-new-national-trade-council-peter

By the way, Ross claims that the tariffs will add "one half of 1%" to the cost of a new $35,000 car. That's an extra $175 in cost. If you're earning $40,000 and decide to buy a new car, the increase in the car price is roughly half of the tax deduction you would have received.

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/n...mer-price-impact-of-trumps-tariffs-2018-03-02
 
bruto said:
No, I don't know whether Jared Kushner had any idea what his father was doing in his house on behalf of his company. By all means, let's give him the benefit of the doubt and assume that, rather than being corrupt, he's just too stupid to do his job well. Mere incompetence is a breath of fresh air in these parlous times.
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You're five or six "volleys" into a "bobbing".


But I presume you've already realized that.

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A WAPO article says the main reason for Trump's tariff decision is because it makes him feel like a "winner",and in Trump's world there is no such thing as a mutually good deal, only winners and losers.
 
Reports are that several of the US Major Trading Parnters have been working on contingcy plans for a trade war ever since Trump took office. Look for a quick response when Trump put the tariffs into action.
 
alfaniner said:
I was amused that he referred to himself as "DJT", almost like my appellation for him, "The PDJT". I wonder if he reads the Forum?
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Has anybody proposed calling him the international donald j trump, aka "IDJT"?
 
Trump choice for Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator for solid waste is Peter Wright, now managing counsel of Dow Chemical and formerly of Monsanto.
 
Captain_Swoop said:
Trump choice for Environmental Protection Agency assistant administrator for solid waste is Peter Wright, now managing counsel of Dow Chemical and formerly of Monsanto.
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I keep waiting for him to pardon Ted Kaczynski so he can be appointed head of Homeland Security.
 
dudalb said:
A WAPO article says the main reason for Trump's tariff decision is because it makes him feel like a "winner",and in Trump's world there is no such thing as a mutually good deal, only winners and losers.
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3rd Degree Chess!!
 
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