Thread: President Donald Trump

Had an interesting conversation with a middle aged German couple out on the island a few days ago.
Just regular folks had their own little biz in Munich and took their holidays on the island for the last 6 years. (Smart people eacape Germany in Feb.)

Anyhow they were very currious to hear my (American) opinion about Trump.

But it was equally interesting to learn how favorably they viewed Trump.

The Donald appeals to the regular folks.

Regular folks are fed up with the lefty libtard transsex bathroom morons.

Regular people are sick to death of playing pattycake with Islamo extremist fuckwits.

Originally Posted by Farangrakthai

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Originally Posted by Humbert Do you think the president has unilateral powers that are above the power of the courts to challenge? Do you wish to live in a monarchy? no, and trump tweeted this: "SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!"

Then why did his DOJ attorney claim that his powers were not subject to judicial review in court?

Originally Posted by Humbert

his labeling the press as his enemy,

Originally Posted by Humbert

his personal attacks on judges

Originally Posted by Humbert

his infantile obsession with his own ego.

yep, those are in the negative column, though doubt they are important to those who voted for him (knew what they were getting).

Originally Posted by Humbert

He has yet to implement anything.

1. Update January 31st, 2017: Trump signs executive order directing that for every new regulation, two be repealed

2. Update January 30th, 2017: Trump signs order placing lifetime ban on White House officials lobbying for foreign government

3. Update January 25th, 2017: Trump signs executive order to increase ICE deportation officers

4. Update January 25th, 2017: Trump's executive order to build border wall is a start

5. Update January 25th, 2017: Executive order targets cities that shield people here illegally

6. Update January 24th, 2017: Trump signs order to issue hiring freeze

7. Update January 23rd, 2017: Trump orders TPP withdrawal

Trump-O-Meter: Tracking Trump's Campaign Promises | PolitiFact

Originally Posted by Humbert

Then why did his DOJ attorney claim that his powers were not subject to judicial review in court?

attorneys can claim anything they want...judges decide on the worthiness of those claims...the poor schmuck was probably doing what he was told...

Iran Hawks Take the White House | The American Conservative

Inspired by fringe theories about Islamic civilization, Michael Flynn is leading Trump down a dangerous path.

The United States is adding new sanctions on Iran over that country’s alleged misdeeds, and nearly all of those allegations are either out-and-out lies or half-truths. It has a familiar ring to it, as demonizing Tehran has been rather more the norm than not since 1979, a phenomenon that has included fabricated claims that the Iranians killed American soldiers after the U.S.’s armed interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq. This time around, the administration focused on the perfectly legal Iranian test of a non-nuclear-capable, medium-range ballistic missile and the reported attack on what was initially claimed to be a U.S. warship by allegedly Iranian-backed Yemeni Houthi fighters. The ship was later revealed to be a Saudi frigate.

Donald Trump’s national-security adviser, Michael T. Flynn, “officially” put Iran “on notice” while declaring that “The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate Iran’s provocations that threaten our interests. The days of turning a blind eye to Iran’s hostile and belligerent actions toward the United States and the world community are over.”

Ignoring the fact that Iran cannot actually threaten the United States or any genuine vital national interests, the warning and follow-up action from the White House also contradict Donald Trump’s campaign pledge to avoid yet another war in the Middle East, which appears to have escaped Flynn’s notice. The increase in tension and the lack of any diplomatic dialogue mean that an actual shooting war might now be a “false flag,” false intelligence report, or accidental naval encounter away.

If it all sounds like a reprise of the baseless allegations and intentionally unproductive negotiations that led to the catastrophic Iraq War, it should. What “belligerent actions against the United States” Flynn was referring to, generally speaking, were not completely clear, but that lack of precision may have been intentional, to permit instant vilification of anything Tehran attempts to do to counter the hostility coming out of Washington.

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Originally Posted by SKkin

Ignoring the fact that Iran cannot actually threaten the United States or any genuine vital national interests

Well apart from the fact that the US has several large military bases within short-range missile distance of Iran is probably relevant, especially as they only last week threatened to raze the Naval Base in Bahrain to the ground if the US attacked.

Having said that, neither the US nor Iran have confirmed this last missile test, which came from the Fox News propaganda channel.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

the Naval Base in Bahrain

Originally Posted by SKkin

or any genuine vital national interests

That's right, a naval base in Bahrain is not a genuine vital national interest for We the people. However, it might be for the MIC profiteers...

Pul is one who believes we should ban the Muslims because of Greensboro...

No need to reply.

Originally Posted by aging one

Pul is one who believes we should ban the Muslims because of Greensboro...

Don't forget Bowling Green. Never forget. Weep, weep.

Sorry to interrupt the primary school jokes and vacuous one liners, but here's a short piece from "The Hill" that may shed some light on Trumpies life in the WH, accomplished without calling him silly names or predicting the end of civil liberties...... Something that neither flatters or condemns.....



President Trump is trying to fight the confines of the presidential bubble.

Less than a month after taking office, Trump, a man who loathes boredom and has a penchant for doing things his way, is trying his best to keep things the way they were before he won the presidency.

He tweets what's on his mind. He has refused to give up his unsecured Android phone. And he flies to the warmth of his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, on the weekends - just like old times.

Presidents and first families often bristle as they feel the White House walls closing in on them under a constant media spotlight and vast security detail.

Trump, arguably even more than his predecessors, has had difficulty giving up his past life.

Friends note that the billionaire already had a luxurious penthouse in the world famous skyscraper that carries his name. He has a nicer plane than Air Force One. And he even owns his own $7-million chopper.

After Trump was elected, Christopher Ruddy, the CEO of Newsmax media and a friend of the president's who speaks to him often, heard through the grapevine that Trump wouldn't return to Mar-a-Lago until Easter.

That didn't turn out to be true - which was no surprise to Ruddy.

"I thought, 'Yeah right,'" Ruddy said in an interview. "He's not going to like Washington ... He's not a Washington guy."

Trump left Washington Friday to head to Mar-a-Lago with a new friend - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

It's the second weekend in a row that Trump will spend at his Florida residence.

In the winter, Ruddy said Trump prefers to be in Florida, where it is warm, where he has plenty of friends and where he can play golf to unwind.

"He's been going [to Mar-a-Lago] for almost 30 years," Ruddy said. "It's just part of his life."

His daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, have relocated to Washington, D.C. to be close to the president. His wife, Melania, has stayed in New York, where the couple's young son is in school.

Sources predict Trump will be reluctant to change his life to fit into the White House perimeters.

"Washington thinks the presidency is going to change him, and I'm telling you the presidency is going to be changed by him," one Trump associate familiar with the president's thinking said. "He doesn't know or care to know how Washington thinks is the proper way to do things."

The associate said while Trump has a fondness for the history of the White House, he ultimately sees it "as a place to work. Not so much a place to live."

"It's the world's nicest prison," the associate said. "It's all-confining."

Twitter is one way for the president to connect to the outside world.

Each day Trump types out 140-character, free-wheeling missives on everything from his immigration ban to his daughter's severed ties with Nordstrom to the ratings for "Celebrity Apprentice."

The tweets have caused problems for the president.

On Thursday, after Trump tweeted that Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) had misrepresented what Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch had told him in a meeting, it put him at odds with White House staffers who were in the room with him.

"Someone needs to tell him that all these extemporaneous comments are probably not in the best interest of his larger message," one Republican consultant said. "He can't just say whatever is on his mind. It's pushing the limits too much."

Sometimes the tweets are revealing.

Trump's tweets often reflect his penchant for watching cable news. A story will appear on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," and minutes later there will be a related Trump tweet.

Jeffrey Lord, a Trump supporter who also served in the Reagan White House, suspects the president won't change much of the way he's doing business because he thinks it's working for him.

In fact, he suspects Trump may begin doing more rallies, a throwback to the campaign and another means of breaking loose of Washington.

"This is his way of staying in touch with the real world and his way of dealing with [the bubble]," Lord said. "This bubble business is a hard thing to deal with when you're president, so you make a conscious effort to make it not ruin your life."

Ruddy himself wondered how his friend with no political experience or friends in Washington would adjust to life in the White House.

But last week, while he was chatting with Melania while the Trumps were in town for the weekend, the first lady told him that Trump "really loves the place."

"He's going to break the bubble," Ruddy says. "He's going to burst it."

Originally Posted by longway

Politico?

Unfortunately, they all can't meet the high standards that Faux Noise has set.

The Spy Revolt Against Donald Trump Begins | Observer

"Now those concerns are causing problems much closer to home—in fact, inside the Beltway itself. Our Intelligence Community is so worried by the unprecedented problems of the Trump administration—not only do senior officials possess troubling ties to the Kremlin, there are nagging questions about basic competence regarding Team Trump—that it is beginning to withhold intelligence from a White House which our spies do not trust".


Open link to read entire article.

John Schindler is a security expert and former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer. A specialist in espionage and terrorism, he’s also been a Navy officer and a War College professor.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.5465ef928165

"Navarro’s “unwinding and repatriating” is, to say no more, part of an improbable project: making America greater by making Apple, Boeing and many other corporations much less efficient and less competitive. This will further slow economic growth, making even more unattainable the 4 percent (more than double the economy’s average growth this century) or higher growth that the administration says will enable it to spend $1 trillion on infrastructure (including a $15 billion or so wall on the Mexican border, begun after nearly a decade of net negative immigration from Mexico), while substantially increasing military spending, leaving entitlements unreformed and delivering enormous tax cuts. Cuts that, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (whose co-chairs include Republican Mitch Daniels and Democrat Leon Panetta, both former directors of the Office of Management and Budget ), will reduce revenues by $5.8 trillion over 10 years. This, as the Congressional Budget Office projects that even without any of the administration’s proposed spending spree and tax cuts, under current law the national debt would increase by $9.4 trillion".

Open link to read entire article.

George F. Will writes a twice-weekly column on politics and domestic and foreign affairs. He began his column with The Post in 1974, and he received the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

George F. Will

Hardly the case but no doubt will be labeled a libtard snowflake.

The US needs this in certain Metro areas. And we must note that this $1
trillion is only a proposal.


Obama wanted to be the high-speed rail president. It might be Trump instead.
Washington, Friday, Feb. 10, 2017.
BY CURTIS TATE

WASHINGTON
Could Donald Trump be the president who brings high-speed rail to America?

The Obama administration spent nearly $10 billion to improve passenger rail service across the country. While it accomplished that goal to some degree, it did not build the faster trains passengers can ride in Europe, Japan and China.

Trains in other countries can travel 200 mph or more, but no train in the United States as yet travels faster than 150 mph. Most go much more slowly than that.

Trump has proposed a $1 trillion investment in U.S. infrastructure, and he has expressed interest in improving roads, bridges, airports and passenger trains.

The subject came up in a White House news conference Friday with Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe.

Through a translator, Abe said Trump would make “major-scale investments” in infrastructure, including high-speed rail.

He said Japanese technology could cut the travel time between Washington and New York to one hour from the current three.

Before a meeting with airline executives on Thursday, Trump had openly lamented the lack of high-speed rail in the United States.

“I don’t want to compete with your business,” Trump said, “but we don’t have one fast train.”

Read more here: Can Donald Trump get high-speed-rail on track in America? | McClatchy DC

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

including a $15 billion or so wall on the Mexican border, begun after nearly a decade of net negative immigration from Mexico

Because the wall is for illegal immigrants. That pew link, written by a Latino, documents immigrants and speculates entirely with almost zero factual data.

And the entire article is an opinion piece so..... I mean in all honesty anyone can make up a topic and form an "opinion" and supply links to support it cherry picking the good bits and leaving the chaff.

Originally Posted by Slick

That pew link, written by a Latino, documents immigrants and speculates entirely with almost zero factual data.

Do you even know what Pew Research is? The report is not "opinion" and is loaded with data and citations. Immigration on the southern boarder has been in decline since 2008 and that is a fact that you can not credibly discount.

I would love to see you post up some facts to the contrary. Pew is a highly respected organization.

But fine you do not like that study then how about another one...

US Undocumented Population Drops Below 11 Million in 2014, with Continued Declines in the Mexican Undocumented Population | Warren | Journal on Migration and Human Security

Bill Clinton: Zero net migration from Mexico since 2010 | PunditFact

I could post more but I think this should suffice.

Originally Posted by bsnub

I could post more but I think this should suffice.

...the willfully ignorant won't be persuaded of anything but their own conclusions...no matter the reasoning that gets them there...

The article is opinion, the pew research link is speculation. The article is literally noted as opinion. It clearly fuckin states it. Opinion. It's even in the link. Opinion.

Everyone keeps, intentionally, leaving out the key word of ILLEGAL immigrants and immigration. Not a single person is trying to stop immigration from Mexico. Nobody. Just ILLEGAL immigration.

11 MILLION is a shitload. That's literally half the population of Australia. That's a ton, and I'm just going by Bsnots link.

There is not an article, link, spin, story that anyone can produce to convince me that there isn't a very serious problem with illegal immigration.

Some might say the only reason Democrat politicians give even a single fuck about allowing illegals a path to citizenship and ease of naturalization is vote buying, but no, that's not possible. No way. Liberals are above that and conservatives are racist gerrymanderers.

Pew research:

Measuring migration flows between Mexico and the U.S. is challenging because there are no official counts of how many Mexican immigrants enter and leave the U.S. each year. This report uses the best available government data from both countries to estimate the size of these flows. The Mexican data sources — a national household survey, and two national censuses — asked comparable questions about household members’ migration to and from Mexico over the five years previous to each survey or census date. In addition, estimates of Mexican migration to the U.S. come from U.S. Census Bureau data, adjusted for undercount, on the number of Mexican immigrants who live in the U.S.

Originally Posted by tomcat

Originally Posted by bsnub

I could post more but I think this should suffice.

...the willfully ignorant won't be persuaded of anything but their own conclusions...no matter the reasoning that gets them there...

Hear Hear

I'm crushed....absolutely crushed....

I got up this morning, expecting to see where a trump minion touted retarded shit and for the first time in forever....nothing. I figured trump would show his support of Kelly Ann scarecrow by having her make the Sunday morning talk show rounds.

Originally Posted by CSFFan

I'm crushed....absolutely crushed....

I got up this morning, expecting to see where a trump minion touted retarded shit and for the first time in forever....nothing. I figured trump would show his support of Kelly Ann scarecrow by having her make the Sunday morning talk show rounds.

She knows all the questions will be about her turning the Whitehouse into the Home Shopping Network.