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The Trump Presidency

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WilliamSeger said:
That seems incredibly stupid, no matter what he says. How can he possibly give a speech about Islam that doesn't piss off either Islam or his base?
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Think he will bring up the people he saw celebrating after the great victory some of the saudi citizens struct on 9/11?
 
I believe Saudi Arabia is a country in which Trump does a fair amount of business, so he might be on good behaviour this trip.
 
Stacko said:
Ouch.
...In private, three administration officials conceded that they could not publicly articulate their most compelling — and honest — defense of the president: that Mr. Trump, a hasty and indifferent reader of printed briefing materials, simply did not possess the interest or knowledge of the granular details of intelligence gathering to leak specific sources and methods of intelligence gathering that would do harm to United States allies.
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They don't recognize it's just as much Trump's compulsive behavior as it is Trump's shunning knowledge. They go hand in hand.
 
The Great Zaganza said:
ah - false assumption:

Trump doesn't have a script - hence he can't deviate from it.
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The script thing made me realize that Trump is the Ted Baxter of presidents.

Ted Baxter: [Murray's just introduced Ted to the professor] Professor, I understand your aces in the 'brain-game.'
Karl Heller: [Looks confused] Of who is this person doing a parody?
[Sue Ann laughs]
Ted Baxter: [Arms folded in 'seriousness'] We had a couple of egg-heads in my family. But, I'm the one that became rich and famous, funny, isn't it?
Karl Heller: No, not really. One never goes broke underestimating the public's taste.
Ted Baxter: [Acting like he understands - but doesn't, he smiles] A-ha.Ha, ha
[Ted still smiling, turns away, and looks serious, and skulks away]
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PPP's new national poll finds that Republicans are facing significant backlash over the health care bill that's having the effect of firing up Democrats and putting them in position to make major gains in the House next year.

Democrats now have a 49-38 lead overall on the generic Congressional ballot, up from 47-41 a month ago. Even more notable though is that among voters who say they're 'very excited' to turn out in the 2018 election, the Democratic lead balloons to 27 points at 61-34.
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Only 37% support Donald Trump's decision to fire Comey, to 48% who are opposed. Voters aren't buying the officially stated reasoning behind Comey's firing- 54% think the FBI's investigations into Russian involvement in the 2016 election is the reason Comey was fired, to only 34% who say they don't think that's what it was. Something else voters- even Trump voters- are very clear on is that it's not the job of the FBI director to be loyal to the President. Overall only 23% of voters think the FBI director needs to be loyal to the President, to 66% who say that is not their job. This view is held emphatically by Clinton voters (8/87) but also by a plurality of Trump voters (38/48).
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Only 40% of voters approve of the job Trump is doing to 54% who disapprove. For the first time we find more voters (48%) in support of impeaching Trump than there are (41%) opposed to the idea....

Voters are both having buyer's remorse about the outcome of the 2016 election and wishing they could return to the good old days of 4 months ago. By an 8 point margin, 49/41, they say they wish Hillary Clinton was President instead of Trump. And by a 16 point margin, 55/39, they say they wish Barack Obama was still in office instead of Trump.
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Last week Trump tweeted that it was unreasonable to expect his press staff to always tell the truth, but 77% of voters say they do expect the President's Press Secretaries to tell the truth all the time compared to only 14% who say that isn't that expectation. Only 38% of voters say they consider Trump to be honest, to 55% who say they don't think he is. And a majority of voters (51%) outright say they consider Trump to be a liar to 41% who say they disagree with that characterization.
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We also looked at Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's prospects if he were to run for President as a Democrat. 36% of voters see Johnson favorably to 13% with a negative view of him, although 50% of voters have no opinion about him either way. Both Democrats (38/15) and Republicans (31/17) see him positively. Johnson would lead Trump 42/37 in a prospective contest, and wins over 15% of people who supported Trump last fall.
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http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2017/05/health-care-puts-house-in-play.html#more
 
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Interesting polling data. I thought the most interesting was the 15% of Trump voters who said they'd vote Sanders or Biden. I'd like to know more about those people. If any of them are on this forum I'd love it if they'd chime in.
 
ETA: Whoops. I see there's already a thread about this.

Source: Comey wrote in memo that Trump asked to end Flynn investigation

Former FBI Director James Comey wrote in a memo that President Donald Trump asked to end to the investigation of national security adviser Michael Flynn, according to a source familiar with the matter.

Comey was so appalled by the request that he wanted to document it, the source said. Comey shared it with FBI senior officials, according to the source.
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Stacko said:
Ouch.
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You did post the very same NYT quote I planed to share here (ninja'd, in other words :)). Thanks!

From abroad, witnessing such a buffoon in charge of the biggest and richest militarized nation on Earth is... well, words are failing here.

Please impeach this absolute disaster of a POTUS!
 
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