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So he did another rambling speech and then more desperate blustering when asked to produce figures backing up his argument by the White House Correspondent for Playboy. Yes, you heard that right.

And of course got pissed off at Acosta again.

This is going nowhere but the courts.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

So he did another rambling speech and then more desperate blustering when asked to produce figures backing up his argument by the White House Correspondent for Playboy. Yes, you heard that right.

And of course got pissed off at Acosta again.

This is going nowhere but the courts.

Rambling Trump calls an emergency in speech that goes on and on and on

Trump’s White House screed was him at his Trumpiest – the old man at the bar sounding off about the world’s ills.

‘At times his speech sounded slurred, as he bragged of his achievements, aired his grievances and offered an alarming preview of his 2020 campaign pitch.’ Photograph: Carlos Barría/ReutersThere was no martial music, no armed guards snapping to attention, no ominous threats of arrest or worse from an iron-willed authoritarian. When Donald Trump awarded himself emergency powers on Friday, it was with an all too familiar mix of falsehoods, fearmongering and shoutouts to his favourite rightwing broadcasters.
It may have left some observers wondering which is worse.
“Rush Limbaugh?” mused Trump, standing in the White House Rose Garden before the world’s press and thinking about the rightwing radio host who spread conspiracy theories about Barack Obama’s birthplace.
White House press secretary says she was interviewed by special counsel – as it happened

“I think he’s a great guy. He’s a guy who can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that some time. For three hours he speaks!”
On Friday the US president tried speaking for just under one hour without a phone call or teleprompter. It did not go well.
Ostensibly, he was here to declare a national emergency and stop what he portrays as zombie-like criminals storming across the US-Mexico border.
In reality, it was Trump at his Trumpiest, reprising his now familiar role of the old man at the bar sounding off about the world’s ills. He took wild detours into the virtues of the death penalty, his trade war with China, “fake news” on CNN, stock market records, a nod to “the complexity and the problems” of Brexit, why Ann Coulter is “off the reservation”, a plea to new attorney general Bill Barr to “enjoy your life!”, a bark at a reporter to “sit down!”, the lives he has saved in Syria and why he deserves a Nobel peace prize more than Obama, who was “so close to starting a big war with North Korea”.
There were random segues from illegal immigration to relations with President Xi. Trump sniffed frequently, and at times his speech sounded slurred, as he bragged of his achievements, aired his grievances and offered an alarming preview of his 2020 campaign pitch.
But back to the national emergency. Trump proclaimed: “We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we’re going to do it one way or the other because we have to do it. It’s an invasion.”
He insisted it was no big deal because previous presidents have also declared emergencies, but did not explain why the country first had to suffer a record 35-day government shutdown before he reached that conclusion.

Trump’s peculiar obsession with women whose mouths and hands are taped, a trope he keeps repeating, is baffling

“Everyone knows that walls work,” he claimed before handing out a serving of word salad that was difficult to understand even by Trump’s standards. “A big majority of the big drugs, the big drug loads don’t go through ports of entry. They can’t go through ports of entry. You can’t take big loads because you have people. We have some very capable people, the border patrol, law enforcement, looking.
“You can’t take human traffic – women and girls, you can’t take them through ports of entry, you can’t have them tied up in the back seat of a car or a truck or a van. They open the door. They look. They can’t see three women with tape on their mouth or three women whose hands are tied? They go through areas where you have no wall.


“Everybody knows that. Nancy [Pelosi] knows it. Chuck [Schumer] knows it. They all know it. It’s all a big lie. It’s a big con game.”
There is indeed a con. Government figures show that the great majority of drugs do indeed flow through ports of entry. Trump’s peculiar obsession with women whose mouths and hands are taped, a trope he keeps repeating, is baffling. A recent Washington Post report said authorities have found no such cases.
And just as at past events, there was a rather grim and gratuitous use of “angel moms” – women whose children have been killed by illegal immigrants – as political props.
Trump asked one woman to stand up and brandish a photo of her dead daughter to the assembled media; he asked another to show a picture of her late husband. During a question and answer with reporters, Trump turned to the women for affirmation.
Why did the wall not get built earlier? For once, Trump was too polite to blame former House speaker Paul Ryan by name, though everyone knew that’s whom he meant. And the president offered a rare sliver of modesty. “I am learning. I never did politics before. Now I do politics.”
Yes, we noticed. And, just like that, America had a new national emergency officially declared.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...e-house-sketch

“I think he’s a great guy. He’s a guy who can speak for three hours without a phone call. Try doing that some time. For three hours he speaks!”

There are lots of people like that. Only normally they are aging vets and require psychiatric help.

Well Ann Coulter WTF?

Ann Coulter responded furiously to President Donald Trump after he brushed off her criticism over his declaration of national emergency in order to begin construction on the border wall.



Coulter, who is a vehement proponent of border security, called the president an "idiot" after he responded to her on Friday.

"Forget the fact that he's digging his own grave," Coulter said on a Los Angeles radio show. "The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot."

Bring it on.
When Trump's out, a REAL national emergency can be declared by Bernie or Beto or whoever replaces Trump, and that is the real emergency of out of control guns.
Great precedent set, Trump. In the long run it will serve the US well, not because of the wall, but because of what the Dems can do with it.

The only problem is that the retarded old coot actually said in public "I didn't need to do it" which sort of proves that there isn't actually an emergency.

Take a look at the vid embedded in this story. When Pence opens his speech Mr Pence said. "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.", there was not one, not a single fairy clap, not a murmur.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12204619

Trump’s emergency: the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat


US president’s latest ploy is the product of an immature, egotistic mind, and is based on a lie

The phrase “national emergency” conjures up images of riots in the streets and burning cities, a disease pandemic killing millions, or an inter-planetary invasion by little green men from Mars.
Donald Trump’s national emergency, over his thwarted plans to build a border wall with Mexico, is prompted by none of these horrors. According to him, the safety and wellbeing of the world’s richest, most powerful country is threatened with utter destruction by penniless Guatemalans.
Trump's emergency declaration is unconstitutional – ask his lawyers

Lloyd Green

“It’s an invasion. We have an invasion of drugs and criminals coming into our country,” Trump claimed on Friday. “We’re going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border and we’re going to do it one way or the other.”
With these words, Trump served notice on Central American asylum seekers fleeing crime and poverty that the Land of the Free is closed – to them at least. The Statue of Liberty is looking the other way.
One has to admire Trump. Any other president, when facing so dire a menace, would be hunkered down in the White House situation room, masterminding the fight for national survival. Not him. No sooner had he made his dramatic declaration than he set off for a golf weekend in Florida.

What wondrous sangfroid; what exemplary courage under fire. Or could it be the “national emergency” is not an emergency at all?
Official figures give the lie to Trump’s Rose Garden amateur theatrics. Illegal border crossings are at an historical low, down from 200,000-plus in 2001 to about 40,000 last year. Likewise, the number of people apprehended or turned away has decreased significantly over the past decade.


The main rise this year has been in unaccompanied children and families. Trump’s “invasion” is an invasion of kids.
It is true the US has a serious drug problem. But that is principally a problem of demand, not supply. The current opioid epidemic is but the latest manifestation of a society long prone to chronic abuse.
The first US opium commissioner, appointed by Theodore Roosevelt, described Americans as “the greatest drug fiends in the world”. Border drug smuggling is the symptom, not the cause. Ironically, funds Trump now plans to seize to finance his wall come from counter-narcotics budgets.
Trump’s faux emergency, like the self-defeating government shutdown that preceded it, reflect the Alice in Wonderland nature of American politics under this president. On some interpretations, Lewis Carroll’s famous story is an extended metaphor for drug use.
Like the Cheshire Cat, Trump grins enigmatically as one bizarre and weird event follows another. Like Alice, wincing Senate Republicans drink potions and figuratively chomp on magic mushrooms to escape the too-real travesty this White House has become.
How else to explain such surreal happenings? On one reading, by insisting on building the wall by decree, Trump is simply securing his nationalist America First voter base.
On another reading, he was petulantly reacting to claims from popular conservative pundits such as Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh that he had taken a beating from the Democrats. Ann Coulter, a venomous rightwinger, remains unappeased. “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot,” she snarled.
Trump’s emergency is historically, constitutionally and legally contentious. It is already being challenged in the courts, and the resulting delays could be indefinite. Yet this is surely no surprise. This move mirrors other, familiar aspects of his leadership style.
The declaration, or attempted diktat, is the arbitrary action of an instinctive autocrat. It trashes convention, and co-equal Congressional rights and oversight. It is the product of an immature, egotistic mind. And it is based on a lie – namely, that Trump repeatedly promised he would make Mexico pay for the wall, not US taxpayers.
More than anything, the wall is physically as well as politically divisive – and division is a trademark of Trumpism. It features in almost everything he does, whether the issue is race in the US, gun control, press freedom, Venezuela, Iran or the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Trump is not alone in his myopic, fearful outlook. Walls, or the more euphemistic, antiseptic “separation barriers”, have been proliferating globally in recent years – in the West Bank, between India and Pakistan, and between EU countries, the Balkans and the Middle East. Another may soon be erected, in one form or another, on the island of Ireland.
The world can be divided into those who build walls and those who build bridges. There is no doubt which side Trump is on.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...ctive-autocrat

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Take a look at the vid embedded in this story. When Pence opens his speech Mr Pence said. "I bring greetings from the 45th president of the United States of America, President Donald Trump.", there was not one, not a single fairy clap, not a murmur.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/...ectid=12204619

That statement might have been in his speech, but the embedded clip doesn't mention it.

#FAKENEWS


















MAYBE IT'S BEEN CHANGED FROM THE ONE YOU WATCHED?

2nd vid, about two column inches down.

^ Fair enough ... didn't show on my page ...

A lot of you shit stains are gunna fookin spew chunks when my mate The Donald gets another 4 years.

Prepare ya self fookers, ya know its gunna go down eh.

What the hell made Trump think she was in any way qualified for that position is beyond me.

Originally Posted by Cujo

What the hell made Trump think she was in any way qualified for that position is beyond me.

She was a Fox News talking head. Says it all.
Mind you, there could have been some other "head" involved.

Originally Posted by terry57

A lot of you shit stains are gunna fookin spew chunks when my mate The Donald gets another 4 years.

Prepare ya self fookers, ya know its gunna go down eh.

Originally Posted by terry57

A lot of you shit stains are gunna fookin spew chunks when my mate The Donald gets another 4 years.

Prepare ya self fookers, ya know its gunna go down eh.

Check out the lying ignoramous here if you dare.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

That statement might have been in his speech, but the embedded clip doesn't mention it.

#FAKENEWS

I think they made it abundantly clear that he was as welcome as a foreskin in a jewish nudist camp.

Videos here.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/mik...european-trip/

MENTIONED: "The Japanese PM nominated me for a Nobel prize".
NOT MENTIONED: "Because I formally asked him to".

Wanker.

Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after being requested to do so by Washington, a Japanese newspaper reported Sunday.

Originally Posted by MontyP

link?

Link.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

I think they made it abundantly clear that he was as welcome as a foreskin in a jewish nudist camp.

Videos here.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/02/mik...european-trip/

Harry, are the videos still there?

All I get is an image of Pence @ the podium.

The text is still there (below), but no video?

Vice President Mike Pence received a cold welcoming from world leaders as he attempted to convince other countries to follow President Donald Trump.
Speaking to the Munich Security Conference in Germany, Pence told the audience he brought greetings from Trump.
Not a single person clapped.

^David, are you still saying it's fake news? Why not go to the NZ Herald directly or google it. Believe me, I watched the video of Pence's introductory speech. He held his head down low, waiting, waiting for the applause, but it did not come. Very awkward. And very telling.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

^David, are you still saying it's fake news? Why not go to the NZ Herald directly or google it. Believe me, I watched the video of Pence's introductory speech. He held his head down low, waiting, waiting for the applause, but it did not come. Very awkward. And very telling.

Oh God no ... never said it was fake news, nor implied it was.

I'm thinking maybe all the links/videos showing that awkward moment has been pulled.

Unlike when many in the UN Council laughed when he said, something along the lines of how much his administration had achieved.

Originally Posted by David48atTD

Harry, are the videos still there?

All I get is an image of Pence @ the podium.

The text is still there (below), but no video?

Yes they are there. They are Twitter videos.

Have you got an overzealous ad blocker running or something? Try disabling it for that page.

It's so worth it, you can tell he feels like a right c u n t.