The Trump Presidency: Sweet/Sweat 16

[Andy_Ross]

I prefer jokes above the level of Beavis and Butt-head in 6th grade.

[Beavis] Hehehe hehehe he said penis. [/Beavis]

Which wouldbe fine if you had a president above the level of Beavis and Butthead

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

France and President @EmmanuelMacron have done a really great job thus far with a very important G-7. Lunch with Emmanuel was the best meeting we have yet had. Likewise, evening meeting with World Leaders went very well. Progress being made!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

The Media is destroying the Free Press! Mark Levin. So True!

 

[The Norseman]

Trump Tweets

The Media is destroying the Free Press! Mark Levin. So True!

"Destroying the free press"? Once again we have a tell-tale sign of tRump's attitudes towards the country and its foundational laws and customs which will be dutifully ignored by most.

 

[Checkmite]

Well now we know why Trump is pushing the Fed so hard to lower interest rates like they're ruining the country by not doing so, while simultaneously claiming that the country's economy is stronger than it's ever been. It turns out Trump has a lot to gain personally; he has several loans outstanding from his pre-president years, and his payments would drop by millions of dollars a year if interest rates dropped. Trump is essentially attempting to use the presidency to pressure the Federal Reserve to reduce his own interest payments.

 

[alfaniner]

Trump Tweets

France and President @EmmanuelMacron have done a really great job thus far with a very important G-7. Lunch with Emmanuel was the best meeting we have yet had. Likewise, evening meeting with World Leaders went very well. Progress being made!

I'm mostly curious as to what they had for lunch. Did he get the same thing everyone else did, or insist on Les Hamberders? Or did he wait until getting back to his hotel room to scarf down on junk food?

 

[Ladewig]

Well now we know why Trump is pushing the Fed so hard to lower interest rates like they're ruining the country by not doing so, while simultaneously claiming that the country's economy is stronger than it's ever been. It turns out Trump has a lot to gain personally; he has several loans outstanding from his pre-president years, and his payments would drop by millions of dollars a year if interest rates dropped. Trump is essentially attempting to use the presidency to pressure the Federal Reserve to reduce his own interest payments.

He acts as if he has a pathological desire for money. An ordinary billionaire would not say, “my desire to increase my net worth by one-tenth of one percent is so great that I have to do things like attack the federal reserve and charge foreign leaders to stay at my property during meetings.”

 

[bruto]

He acts as if he has a pathological desire for money. An ordinary billionaire would not say, “my desire to increase my net worth by one-tenth of one percent is so great that I have to do things like attack the federal reserve and charge foreign leaders to stay at my property during meetings.”

It would be entirely in character for him to have a pathological desire for money, but one must also remember that there's a very good chance he does not actually have nearly as much of it as he makes out.

 

[acbytesla]

Well now we know why Trump is pushing the Fed so hard to lower interest rates like they're ruining the country by not doing so, while simultaneously claiming that the country's economy is stronger than it's ever been. It turns out Trump has a lot to gain personally; he has several loans outstanding from his pre-president years, and his payments would drop by millions of dollars a year if interest rates dropped. Trump is essentially attempting to use the presidency to pressure the Federal Reserve to reduce his own interest payments.

What makes you think his loans are tied to the discount rate?

 

[Skeptic Ginger]

It would be entirely in character for him to have a pathological desire for money, but one must also remember that there's a [certainty] very good chance he does not actually have nearly as much of it as he makes out.

ftfy

There's a very good chance he's actually underwater financially.

 

[phiwum]

What makes you think his loans are tied to the discount rate?

From the article: "The payments on all four properties vary with interest rate changes, according to Trump’s official financial disclosures."

 

[The Norseman]

This sort of blanket reasoning seems to apply to almost any topic. The only way Republicans would work with Democrats is if the result affects minorities in a disproportionately negative way.

That's because, according to fairly recent history, that's exactly how the republicans have acted.

Besides, if the Dems support background checks and now the Repubs then it would be child's play to actually enact such laws. But they aren't. Taking some polls at face value it seems the general public support such laws as well.

I guess in order for something like that to happen we must consult the true constituents.

It's not very useful reasoning, in my opinion. Your only argument that background checks would be onerous to minorities is that they'd have to be for them nasty Republicans to want them.

The only one I bothered to post, sure. Anyway, I decided to give one idea to answer angrysoba's question (unless it was meant to be rhetorical); it was never intended to be a formal thesis by any means.

So, how do you explain it then? Lay bare your sterling wisdom and demonstrate my inadequacies for all to see.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Before I arrived in France, the Fake and Disgusting News was saying that relations with the 6 others countries in the G-7 are very tense, and that the two days of meetings will be a disaster. Just like they are trying to force a Recession, they are trying to “will” America into..

....bad Economic times, the worse the better, anything to make my Election more difficult to win. Well, we are having very good meetings, the Leaders are getting along very well, and our Country, economically, is doing great - the talk of the world!

 

[Andy_Ross]

Trump Tweets

Such False and Inaccurate reporting thus far on the G-7. The Fake News knows this but they can’t help themselves! Leaving now to have breakfast with Boris J.

Great working breakfast this morning with Prime Minister @BorisJohnson at the Hôtel du Palais in Biarritz, France! #G7Biarritz

 

[Aridas]

Trump Tweets

Before I arrived in France, the Fake and Disgusting News

So sayeth the Fake and Disgusting President.

 

[Squeegee Beckenheim]

Leaving now to have breakfast with Boris J.

What a meeting of the minds that will be.

 

[angrysoba]

Which wouldbe fine if you had a president above the level of Beavis and Butthead

You mean President...Trump?!

Huh huh huh, I said “trump”! Huh huh huh! Huh huh!

 

[Craig4]

Trump Tweets

When I looked up to the sky and jokingly said “I am the chosen one,” at a press conference two days ago, referring to taking on Trade with China, little did I realize that the media would claim that I had a “Messiah complex.” They knew I was kidding, being sarcastic, and just....

....having fun. I was smiling as I looked up and around. The MANY reporters with me were smiling also. They knew the TRUTH...And yet when I saw the reporting, CNN, MSNBC and other Fake News outlets covered it as serious news & me thinking of myself as the Messiah. No more trust!

I have no problem with Trump being the Messiah. I'd love to see him politically crucified.

 

[Upchurch]

Trump Tweets

The Media is destroying the Free Press! Mark Levin. So True!

How...?

No, wait, let me guess. By fact-checking conservative news outlets, the “Media” is preventing the conservative media echo chamber from spewing whatever nonsense propaganda is good for the GOP?, this destroying “the Free Press”?

 

[bruto]

Nothing destroys the free press like freedom of the press. Those failing fakers forget that freedom is slavery and ignorance is strength. Sad.