Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

[quadraginta]

Trump Tweets

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IF OUR FORMALLY TARGETED FARMERS NEED ADDITIONAL AID UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE TRADE DEALS WITH CHINA, MEXICO, CANADA AND OTHERS FULLY KICK IN, THAT AID WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PAID FOR OUT OF THE MASSIVE TARIFF MONEY COMING INTO THE USA!

Yup. He still doesn't understand how tariffs work.

In fact, he may be losing ground.

 

[eeyore1954]

Never. But that is the wrong question. Rather, the issue is the extreme, overt pressure applied by the President in some cases. I would argue that the current situation is without precedent.

I don’t see that it is without precedent or even a great deal of pressure. Although previous administrations have usually preferred the IRS for harassing.

 

[The Don]

Yup. He still doesn't understand how tariffs work.

In fact, he may be losing ground.

He may, but he's banking on the fact his supporters don't.

 

[newyorkguy]

That's what I was referencing, but I thought I remembered him telling his son to fast forward the movie while they watched it on a plane.

That was another article. I remember that one too. I think it was Eric Trump doing fast the forwarding.

 

[Stacyhs]

You'd think the democrats would be able to muster at least one solid, inspiring and all-around decent candidate.

I agree completely. Although I think any of the Dem candidates would do a far better job as POTUS than Trump, none of them have that "it" factor.

I'd say Sanders and Warren come closest to that description.

My problems with Sanders are his age, health, and being so far left. And frankly, I don't care for him personally. He irritates me. The thought of listening to him for 4 years is not appealing at all. Saying that, I'd still vote for him over Trump any day of the year.

I prefer Warren to Sanders. Although she is older, she is still 8 years younger than Sanders and appears to be in better health.

 

[dudalb]

I just though of a new comparasion for Trump. Marshal Petain ie head of a puppet government.

 

[Stacyhs]

It's been reported that when he watched the Jean-Claude Van Damme movie "Bloodsport", he had someone fast forward through all of the scenes with plot and dialogue so he could just watch the fight scenes. Gone With the Wind would put him in a coma.

Someone please. please play GWTW on FOX.

 

[dudalb]

I agree completely. Although I think any of the Dem candidates would do a far better job as POTUS than Trump, none of them have that "it" factor.



My problems with Sanders are his age, health, and being so far left. And frankly, I don't care for him personally. He irritates me. The thought of listening to him for 4 years is not appealing at all. Saying that, I'd still vote for him over Trump any day of the year.

I prefer Warren to Sanders. Although she is older, she is still 8 years younger than Sanders and appears to be in better health.

Sanders come off almost as a Saturday Night Live parody of the aging 60's radical.
I think Warren could sell herself to moderate and centrist voters;something Sanders could never do.

 

[Segnosaur]

That's what I was referencing, but I thought I remembered him telling his son to fast forward the movie while they watched it on a plane.

That was another article. I remember that one too. I think it was Eric Trump doing fast the forwarding.

So I guess the take-away from all this is that we can no longer claim Trump's children are TOTALLY useless.

 

[dudalb]

Someone please. please play GWTW on FOX.

The WTF reference for me was "Sunset Boulevard".
Donnie seem to have missed the whole point of that movie.
If Billy Wilder were alive today, by now he would have made one of his satires that would have torn Trump to bits.

 

[Stacyhs]

Sanders come off almost as a Saturday Night Live parody of the aging 60's radical.

True. It doesn't help that every time I see Sanders, I think of Larry David.

I think Warren could sell herself to moderate and centrist voters;something Sanders could never do.

Agreed. I'm pretty liberal but Sanders is too far left for me.

 

[Stacyhs]

The WTF reference for me was "Sunset Boulevard".
Donnie seem to have missed the whole point of that movie.
If Billy Wilder were alive today, by now he would have made one of his satires that would have torn Trump to bits.

Such a film would be too long for a movie. It would have to be a miniseries. The best miniseries. The greatest. The most perfect miniseries in the history of miniseries.

 

[dudalb]

Such a film would be too long for a movie. It would have to be a miniseries. The best miniseries. The greatest. The most perfect miniseries in the history of miniseries.

"I am ready for my close up, Mr De Mille"

For the last four Christamases I have changed channels when Home Alone 2 comes on because of THAT scene...

 

[a_unique_person]

Trump Tweets

So @TeamCavuto has very bad ratings on @foxnews with his Fake guests like A.B.Stoddard and others that still haven’t figured it all out. Will he get the same treatment as his friend Shepherd Smith, who also suffered from the ratings drought?

Another misinformation campaign is being launched by Democrats in Congress saying that Russia prefers me to any of the Do Nothing Democrat candidates who still have been unable to, after two weeks, count their votes in Iowa. Hoax number 7!

IF OUR FORMALLY TARGETED FARMERS NEED ADDITIONAL AID UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE TRADE DEALS WITH CHINA, MEXICO, CANADA AND OTHERS FULLY KICK IN, THAT AID WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, PAID FOR OUT OF THE MASSIVE TARIFF MONEY COMING INTO THE USA!

TARRIFS DON'T WORK LIKE THAT

 

[a_unique_person]

Bloodsport is awesome and will fight like Frank Dux if anyone says otherwise. It's the one thing Trump and I are kindred spirits about.

Bloodsport should have won an Oscar.

 

[alfaniner]

Do you mean the one where two Corinthians walked into a bar and the bartender said.......?

"Nice fine leather you're wearing there, but this isn't that kind of bar."

 

[TragicMonkey]

"Nice fine leather you're wearing there, but this isn't that kind of bar."

However they dress they are pillars of the community.

 

[Ziggurat]

Bloodsport should have won an Oscar.

It's a god-damn farce that they gave it to Hotel Terminus instead.

 

[Fast Eddie B]

"Nice fine leather you're wearing there, but this isn't that kind of bar."

...and...

However they dress they are pillars of the community.

I have to say there are some very clever folks posting to this forum!

 

[Stacyhs]

President Donald Trump's new personnel chief told agency officials at a meeting on Thursday to expect staffing changes and movements across the government, people familiar with the meeting told CNN.

A White House official said John McEntee, the President's former body man who was elevated to run the presidential personnel office, made it clear his office will be on the lookout for staffers across the bureaucracy who are seen as disloyal to Trump.
Another official said McEntee indicated he plans to first focus his efforts on personnel at the State Department and Department of Defense. He also told the liaisons that promotions and significant staff changes should not occur without prior approval from the presidential personnel office.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/john-mcentee-disloyal-white-house-staffers/index.html

Trump is intent on staffing government departments with people who are "loyal" to him. In Trump's mind, anyone who would dare tell him or do anything that he doesn't like is not loyal to him. Look at what he just did to McGuire for telling him the truth. But what scares me the most is that no one will do a damn thing to stop him.