The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far....

....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..

....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....

....all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didn’t. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!

 

[Ladewig]

Trump is saying American companies should stop using China, which has caused the stock market to get bumpy:



It's not surprising that Trump is saying "everyone else should change how they're doing things except me" but at some point he has to realize that this isn't going the way he planned and he should make some changes.

Does he?
Does he have to realize that he should make changes?

I posit that such a thought is beyond his abilities.

 

[Segnosaur]

Not sure if this was covered earlier in the week...

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/20/tax-democrats-trump-1673427
A whistleblower recently made “credible allegations” to the Ways and Means Committee of potentially wrongful interference with the IRS’ presidential audit process, lawyers for the House told a federal court Tuesday.

So if true, not only is Trump trying desperately to hide his tax returns from the public (with the claim that he can't because they're under audit), he or his minions may be trying to mess with the audit system overall.

 

[plague311]

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China

This man has to be ******* insane LoL. Did anyone tell him that he can't actually tell companies what to do? He actually does think that everyone has to listen to him.

 

[carlitos]

Trump Tweets

Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!

Our GDP was about 7 trillion larger than China 2 1/2 years ago, and it's about 7 trillion larger now. So by percent, the difference has actually shrunk as the numbers have gotten bigger.

Imagining that something specific happened while he was in office to make our economy surpass China is almost as stupid as pretending that the Chinese pay our import tariffs.

 

[dudalb]

Lol, I see you still haven't learned to moderate the hysteria of your predictions. Would be interesting to go back to the Trump threads of 2016 and see what else you had ZERO doubt about.

Still think Donnie is the new messiah, DOghouse?

 

[plague311]

Our GDP was about 7 trillion larger than China 2 1/2 years ago, and it's about 7 trillion larger now. So by percent, the difference has actually shrunk as the numbers have gotten bigger.

Imagining that something specific happened while he was in office to make our economy surpass China is almost as stupid as pretending that the Chinese pay our import tariffs.

I said the same thing about the unemployment numbers of POC. His supporters scream that every time racism is brought up, and I say, "Ok, can you point to one thing that Trump has done to make it easier for POC to get and keep a job?"

I generally don't get an answer.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump's tweets are an indicator of just how far off the rails the Trump Train has fallen. He sounds like a raving lunatic. But until a psychiatrist interviews him in person, apparently, we can't say he's NVTS.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlsiiWlt35s

 

[Armitage72]

It's in CNN's live updates, so a link will quickly become obsolete, but the National Farmers Union has issued a statement that Trump is making things worse for farmers, not better.

The National Farmers Union issued a statement today regarding China's tariffs on US goods.

Roger Johnson, president of the National Farmers Union, said President Trump was making things worse for farmers.

"It’s no surprise that China is slapping even more tariffs on American products. Every time Trump escalates his trade war, China calls his bluff — and why would we expect any differently this time around? And it’s no surprise that farmers are again the target. In just the past three years, US soybean exports to China have fallen nearly 80 percent, and once these tariffs kick in, things are likely to get worse. Things have been difficult for farmers long before this trade war rolled around. Farmers are making half of what they were in 2013, and they’ve taken on record levels of debt just to keep their doors open. Chronic overproduction continues to push commodity prices down, and extreme weather events and higher temperatures caused by climate change have made the job of growing food just that much more challenging. But instead of looking to solve existing problems in our agricultural sector, this administration has just created new ones.
Between burning bridges with all of our biggest trading partners and undermining our domestic biofuels industry, President Trump is making things worse, not better."

But he's from a union. That means he's probably a Communist anyway.

 

[Stacyhs]

Oh man! That's the most internet points I've ever been awarded! Thank you. I'll probably just save them though. If it helps, this totally distracted me from the fact that it's my fault others don't use words that fit their definitions. Thanks.

It's a little known fact that internet points can be used to upgrade to business class on Trump Shuttle.

 

[varwoche]

Lol, I see you still haven't learned to moderate the hysteria of your predictions. Would be interesting to go back to the Trump threads of 2016 and see what else you had ZERO doubt about.

What I find fascinating in those threads is learning about cultists utterly incapable of admitting that Trump lies.

 

[varwoche]

I hereby order you (yes you) to gift me a pony.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I hereby order you (yes you) to gift me a pony.

Not until you finish the last one.

 

[Ladewig]

This man has to be ******* insane LoL. Did anyone tell him that he can't actually tell companies what to do? He actually does think that everyone has to listen to him.

I’m trying to imagine the invective that would have come out of DJT’s mouth if President Obama “hereby ordered” real estate developers to do something.

 

[Checkmite]

Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China

This is fascism

 

[smartcooky]

Surely you aren't talking about the same Judicial Watch that blew the doors off of the Benghazi Big, Fat Nothing-burger investigation? I seem to remember a larger canine insisting that they were not only patriots, but the only source of truth we can trust!

(FTFY)

One and the same, although that will depend on which of the eight (or was it nine, or ten?) investigations you are talking about.

Oh, and don't call me Shirley!

 

[GlennB]

This is fascism

It might be if it carried any weight whatsoever. It doesn't, so it's just b/s.

 

[smartcooky]

Trump is saying American companies should stop using China, which has caused the stock market to get bumpy:



It's not surprising that Trump is saying "everyone else should change how they're doing things except me" but at some point he has to realize that this isn't going the way he planned and he should make some changes.

Trump is losing his rag over the possibility if a huge downturn to recession in the US economy, but he is too stupid to realise that dumb, unfiltered remarks like these, are contributing to it bigly.

 

[plague311]

(FTFY)

Accepted

One and the same, although that will depend on which of the eight (or was it nine, or ten?) investigations you are talking about.

If you were to ask the Big Dog, and some of our resident GOP folk, they were all needed. It's only the Mueller investigation that was ********.

Oh, and don't call me Shirley!

YOU ARE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!

 

[pgwenthold]

Trump is losing his rag over the possibility if a huge downturn to recession in the US economy, but he is too stupid to realise that dumb, unfiltered remarks like these, are contributing to it bigly.

Now he has gone to insulting Jay Powell, the guy he picked to be the Fed Chair, as being a threat to the US, asking if he is a bigger threat than Chairman Xi from Chuna.