Thread: President Donald Trump

Trump: 'Nobody's ever done a better job than I'm doing as president'

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/new...ectid=12119490



Meanwhile... Senior figures in Donald Trump's administration have privately said the president is "unhinged", an "idiot" and has the understanding of a "fifth-grader"

Originally Posted by Humbert

Bob Woodward's new book paints a damning portrait of a madman at the helm of the most powerful country on earth.

For you youngsters, Bob Woodward, along with Carl Bernstein broke the story of the Nixon White House cover up of Watergate.


https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-bob...p-white-house/

Great soundtrack here of a conversation between Woodward and Trump after the book was published (but before it's release, I gather from what was said).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.3f5174ac725d

Trump's own words come back to thwart him. Hilarious.
Trump is now endorsing and supporting Ted Cruz for the midterms. He needs Cruz to win. Cruz will have a rally in Texas but a mobile billboard showing Trump's tweet about Cruz has been commissioned and will display prominantly


https://news.sky.com/story/billboard...rally-11489619



There's another Trump tweet calling him "Lying Cruz". I think that may be promulgated by billboard too.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Self portrait?

No, I'm sure Trump commissioned Banksy to do it

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Trump's own words come back to thwart him

His 33% don't care. They'll just write it off as fake news.

Meanwhile everybody seems to forget that the RNC is responsible for him being their in the first place.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Trump needs to be removed as he is incompetant. If he is removed from office, under the 25th, Pence takes over which could in fact be even worse, and scarily, Pence won't have anything to be deemed "incompetant" or illegal and thus lots of bad religion-based policy will come into effect.
It's catch 22.

Strategy would be to take out Pence first, then go after Trump.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Trump: 'Nobody's ever done a better job than I'm doing as president'

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/new...ectid=12119490



Meanwhile... Senior figures in Donald Trump's administration have privately said the president is "unhinged", an "idiot" and has the understanding of a "fifth-grader"

Mattis has come out pretty strong in refuting the comments attributed to him.

Don't be so sure about Pence not having any shit stuck to him. This Salon article provides an interesting timeline that raises some questions about Pence's dealings.

Nov. 11, 2016: Pence becomes chair of the Trump transition team, with Flynn as vice chair. Chris Christie later claims that a “significant reason” he was replaced as chair was because he opposed Flynn’s nomination as national security adviser.

Nov. 17, 2016: It was reported that Flynn would be Trump’s national security adviser.

Nov. 18, 2016: Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, sends a letter to Pence with concerns about Flynn’s links to Russia and Turkey, and requests more information.

Dec. 1, 2016: Flynn and Jared Kushner meet Russia’s Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at Trump Tower. According to Kushner’s own testimony, he proposed a secret communication link with the Kremlin through the Russian Embassy in an effort to find a “secure line.”

Dec. 9, 2016: Consistent with a key allegation in the Steele Dossier, the Russians sell 19.5 percent of energy firm Rosneft to Qatar and Glencore, which then immediately sell off these assets in smaller parts. (A Qatar-backed firm later gave Kushner’s family company a $184 million loan).
Dec. 13, 2016: Reportedly at Kislyak’s urging, Kushner meets Sergey Gorkov, who chairs Russia’s government-owned Vnesheconombank and is Putin’s close confidant. Vnesheconombank is understood by analysts to be Putin’s slush fund and is under strict U.S. sanctions.


Dec. 14, 2016: Gorkov flies to Japan, where he is reported to have met with Putin.

Dec. 28, 2016: Obama orders new Russian sanctions for election hacking and interference. Kislyak contacts Flynn.

Dec. 29, 2016: According to details later revealed in Flynn’s plea agreement, he calls a “senior official of the Presidential Transition Team” who was with other “senior members of the [team]” at Mar-a-Lago. Flynn and this “senior official” agree that they do not want Russia to “escalate the situation.” Flynn calls Kislyak immediately and afterward reports back to the senior official. Reports suggestthat this official was Jared Kushner. Was Pence, the head of the transition team, aware of these calls? Where was he during this episode?

On Dec. 30, 2016: Trump tweets to Putin, calling him “very smart” for not responding to Obama’s sanctions in kind.

January 2017: Vekselberg begins sending payments to Michael Cohen’s Essential Consulting account.

Jan. 4, 2017: According to later reporting by the New York Times, Flynn reveals to Don McGahn, chief attorney for the transition effort, that he’s under FBI investigation. Flynn is still appointed national security adviser and receives provisional security clearance. Did the top lawyer in the transition team tell the head of the transition, Pence, about the fact that Flynn was under investigation?

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/...afraid-of.html

Bob Woodward has new book on Trump coming out. Here is an actual interview of the two of them talking that Woodward recorded. Pretty damn telling.

https://us.cnn.com/2018/09/04/politi...all/index.html


Its short and a good read into the mind of a megalomaniac.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Strategy would be to take out Pence first, then go after Trump.

Realistically the best plan is to neuter the president by winning at least the Senate back.

He could write all the EO's he wants but they can be reversed at the strike of a president's pen.

Could see Pence leaving the same way Agnew did. Getting cornered by investigations with no way out.

projecting, projecting, projecting... people this is not healthy, get out and relax and forget Trump, he is doing a fantastic job

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Realistically the best plan is to neuter the president by winning at least the Senate back.

He could write all the EO's he wants but they can be reversed at the strike of a president's pen.

True. But he would remain an embarrasment to the country and would still divide and cause disruption.
I don't understand your last sentence.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

projecting, projecting, projecting

I think you mean 'speculating'.

Projection (Psychological)

1) An unconscious self-defence mechanism characterised by a person unconsciously attributing their own issues onto someone or something else as a form of delusion and denial.

It's down to who do you believe trump et al or Bob Woodward.....this book may be what causes a lot of GOPers to start distancing themselves from the admin. Coming out now so close to the election will help too....

Originally Posted by bsnub

What else would you expect him to do? That said Woodwards reputation is impeccable. He broke watergate after all and has written similar books on several presidents. Frankly I think Woodward has far more credibility than the White house at this point.

Carl Bernstein said that this book will shake capital hill the most because all those congressmen and senators have talked to and been interviewed by Woodward and they know that he is no someone that is going to publish things that are not true, well sourced and in many cases recorded.

Keep in mind, too, that Woodward recorded many of the interviews he did. Trump's shitting himself. Maybe a few more WH staff looking for a job soon.

Originally Posted by Humbert

I think you mean 'speculating'.

Projection (Psychological)

1) An unconscious self-defence mechanism characterised by a person unconsciously attributing their own issues onto someone or something else as a form of delusion and denial.

you guys are projecting your own delusional wishes onto something that is outside of your control, so that definition is not incompatible with what you people are hoping for

El cunto stay, at least as long as he is needed

speaking of which, the con man speaks

Donald Trump condemns Bob Woodward book as 'con'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45417959

this is just too awesome for words

One of the main claims is that current and former aides kept sensitive documents off his desk to prevent him from signing them, or took different actions to those demanded by the president.

This amounts to an "administrative coup d'état", Woodward says.

The book says Mr Trump had ordered the Pentagon to arrange the assassination of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

"Let's [expletive] kill him! Let's go in. Let's kill the [expletive] lot of them," Mr Trump is reported to have told Mr Mattis.

Originally Posted by Maanaam

True. But he would remain an embarrasment to the country and would still divide and cause disruption.
I don't understand your last sentence.

Executive Orders. It's the closest a president can get to making laws.

^^
"Back in 2013, Mr Trump had responded to a row between Woodward and the Obama administration with a tweet saying: "Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward.""
Now he says Woodward is not credible.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Executive Orders. It's the closest a president can get to making laws.

Thanks, yes, I understood that. I didn't understand the point of EO's being reversed by the same guy that signed them.

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

He could write all the EO's he wants but they can be reversed at the strike of a president's pen.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Woodwards reputation is impeccable. Frankly I think Woodward has far more credibility than the White house at this point.

Agreed.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

speaking of which, the con man speaks

Donald Trump condemns Bob Woodward book as 'con'
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-45417959.

So because Trump calls Woodward a con you buy it.
Look deep inside yourself and ask. Do you REALLY think Bob Woodward is a con?