Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 25

[Mojo]

Trump Tweets

Sleepy Joe Biden has spent 47 years in politics being terrible to Hispanics. Now he is relying on Castro lover Bernie Sanders to help him out. That won’t work! Remember, Miami Cubans gave me the highly honored Bay of Pigs Award for all I have done for our great Cuban Population!

Apparently there’s no such award, but I can imagine Trump being given some sort of award with “pig” in the title.

 

[Bob001]

It was mentioned in an earlier post that he received an endorsement, not an award, from an organization called the Bay of Pigs Veterans Association.

Trump himself said he won "the highly honored Bay of Pigs award." The endorsement was from 2016. And I'm not sure who this band of elderly counter-revolutionaries thinks they represent. It's not like getting endorsed by the UAW.
https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/trump-bay-of-pigs-award/

 

[TragicMonkey]

Trump himself said he won "the highly honored Bay of Pigs award."

Eventually he'll remember getting a huge gold trophy in the shape of a pig, presented to him by a team of trained circus pigs, in front of a HUGE stadium full of hundreds of thousands of people cheering him. And it was televised to millions more watching at home. It happened on National Pig Day, and also there were so many people telling Trump he's so smart, he's the smartest, and there was a pork contest and Trump won it along with a second trophy.

 

[varwoche]

Trump Retweeted

Steve Milloy
@JunkScience
California has a long history of megadroughts that pre-date SUVs.
People can either manage forests intelligently or nature will do it indiscriminately.

A blast from the past. He's an activist, global warming denier.

Even if he is right about cause, which he isn't, the fires are predominantly on federal land. It's Trump who needs to get the brooms deployed.

 

[Mojo]

Eventually he'll remember getting a huge gold trophy in the shape of a pig, presented to him by a team of trained circus pigs, in front of a HUGE stadium full of hundreds of thousands of people pigs cheering him. And it was televised to millions more watching at home. It happened on National Pig Day, and also there were so many people telling Trump he's so smart, he's the smartest, and there was a pork contest and Trump won it along with a second trophy.

FTFY.

 

[carlitos]

What are the odds that someone asks him about why he isn't managing the forests, most of which are on federal land?

ETA - which varwoche already said, yeah.

 

[JoeMorgue]

What are the odds that someone asks him about why he isn't managing the forests, most of which are on federal land?

ETA - which varwoche already said, yeah.

Oh come on what the odds Trump even knows that Federal Land is?

It's in California on the map, it's California's problem is literally as far as his mind can go, if it goes that far.

 

[Stacyhs]

Trump Tweets

Biden Handlers know this is a lie!
Quote Tweet

New ad by the Biden camp suggesting President Trump will deplete Social Security by 2023, receives four Pinocchios from WAPO.
FACTS MATTER. We will be substantially LOWERING Medicare Premiums and Prescription Drug Prices, bringing them down to levels that were not thought possible!

Highlighted part: Oh, the irony!!!

I'll believe Medicare premiums and prescription drug prices will be lowered substantially (much less "to levels that were not thought possible") when I see it. Not that Trump lies. No, not at all. Maybe they're part of the fantastic GOP health plan that's coming any day now. Or two weeks from now.

ETA: This is priceless. Immediately after posting that "FACTS MATTER" in one tweet, Trumps tweets .

...replied “Yes, Absolutely.” Biden calls for abolishing cash bail and closing prisons — and Biden even called law enforcement “the ENEMY.” Biden’s anti-police crusade must STOP. Furthermore, the corporations funding anti-police organizations should instead give their money..

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Biden never said any such thing. What he did say was:

"Surplus military equipment for law enforcement — they don't need that. The last thing you need is an up-armored Humvee coming into a neighborhood; it's like the military invading. They don't know anybody; they become the enemy, they’re supposed to be protecting these people."

https://www.wral.com/fact-check-pence-takes-biden-s-police-enemy-comment-out-of-context/19188646/

 

[timhau]

Has anyone else noticed that Rasmussen polls have been really out there lately?

 

[carlitos]

WaPo documents 20,000 Trump lies and that’s fake news. WaPo gives Joe Biden four Pinocchios and I should care.

 

[alfaniner]

Trump Tweets

Trump Tweets
Push it hard Marsha. DOJ must act. This should include Crooked Hillary’s illegal deletion of her emails. SPEED!

Annnnnddd... we're back to the ******* emails again. Unbelievable.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Annnnnddd... we're back to the ******* emails again. Unbelievable.

he was calling for Hillary and her lawyers to be thrown in jail at the last rally.

 

[JoeMorgue]

he was calling for Hillary and her lawyers to be thrown in jail at the last rally.

Listen he's got to play the hits. A Trump rally without "Lock her up" would be like Don McLean not closing with "American Pie."

 

[Stacyhs]

WaPo documents 20,000 Trump lies and that’s fake news. WaPo gives Joe Biden four Pinocchios and I should care.

Especially after Trump's campaign was caught editing several videos themselves.
This is interesting from an interview with Glenn Kessler who does WAPO's fact checking on Trump:

Washington Post's Glenn Kessler On The Full-Time Job Of Fact-Checking Trump

How often are the lies of the four Pinocchio nature, which is to say a bald faced lie as opposed to maybe a misstatement of fact, but essentially correct.
You mean for Trump versus opponents in general?

Well, I guess that's interesting. How about both?

As an example, Barack Obama, or Hillary Clinton or someone like that, or Ted Cruz…

A mainstream politician of the traditional mold.

Right, we fact checked Obama like 200 times, so, you know, I'm talking about people that we have fact checked regularly. Generally, it works out to end up with four Pinocchios about 15 to 20% of the time. In the case of Trump, it's about 65 to 70% of the time. He's just in a totally different realm. And the worst politician we ever had regularly checked before Trump was a Congresswoman from Minnesota, Michelle Bachmann and she earned four Pinocchios 30% of the time. So Trump is just in another status here.

Trump just bald faced, 4 Pinocchios lies 65-70% of the time!

 

[Mojo]

he was calling for Hillary and her lawyers to be thrown in jail at the last rally.

Projection, again.

 

[Stacyhs]

Even taking away politics, as a human being Trump is just a vile, vile man. His own sister has nothing nice to say about him. Roger Stone is his friend. He admired Roy Cohn. You have a hard time finding anyone who really has anything nice to say about him who isn't sucking up to him but you have lots of stories about what an awful, petty, vengeful person he is. He is just an awful person.

 

[Craig4]

Highlighted part: Oh, the irony!!!

I'll believe Medicare premiums and prescription drug prices will be lowered substantially (much less "to levels that were not thought possible") when I see it. Not that Trump lies. No, not at all. Maybe they're part of the fantastic GOP health plan that's coming any day now. Or two weeks from now.

ETA: This is priceless. Immediately after posting that "FACTS MATTER" in one tweet, Trumps tweets .
.

Biden never said any such thing. What he did say was:

https://www.wral.com/fact-check-pence-takes-biden-s-police-enemy-comment-out-of-context/19188646/

So, the ad is sort of false. The Social Security Actuarial used hypothetical legislation to come up with a model that said the account would run dry by 2023. The false part is that there is no Trump plan. All Trump said was that he'd eliminate payroll tax but there's no actual plan to analyze as Trump hasn't presented one.

 

[JoeMorgue]

Even taking away politics, as a human being Trump is just a vile, vile man. His own sister has nothing nice to say about him. Roger Stone is his friend. He admired Roy Cohn. You have a hard time finding anyone who really has anything nice to say about him who isn't sucking up to him but you have lots of stories about what an awful, petty, vengeful person he is. He is just an awful person.

It's how he has some much support from people who will swear up and down they don't like him. Because nobody likes Trump. Some people just see him as a flaming brick to throw the window of liberalism.

 

[Stacyhs]

So, the ad is sort of false. The Social Security Actuarial used hypothetical legislation to come up with a model that said the account would run dry by 2023. The false part is that there is no Trump plan. All Trump said was that he'd eliminate payroll tax but there's no actual plan to analyze as Trump hasn't presented one.

I'm not saying it's not false. I just find the hypocrisy funny coming from the Four Pinocchio King.

 

[The Great Zaganza]

If only Trump was President!

Then he would be able to have Clinton investigated.

But President Biden won't do it!