President Donald Trump

**cisco999** · 08-03-2019, 02:48 PM

Originally Posted by Texpat

Just checkin' Friday March 8, 2019...And...

Donald J. Trump is STILL President of the United States of America.

Making America Great Again!

Fcuk yeah!

Clearly the noose is getting tighter by the day.

**raycarey** · 08-03-2019, 04:27 PM

the scandal surrounding individual one's inauguration is growing...

Trump inauguration took money from shell companies tied to foreigners

Donald Trump’s inauguration received tens of thousands of dollars from shell companies that masked the involvement of a foreign contributor or others with foreign ties.

The Guardian has identified the creators of three obscure firms that contributed money to Trump’s inaugural committee, which collected a record $107m as he entered the White House in 2017.

The three companies each gave $25,000 to Trump’s inaugural fund. At least one of the contributions was made for a foreign national who appears ineligible to make political donations in the US.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...anies-revealed

**Boon Mee** · 08-03-2019, 04:36 PM

Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate. Good, then I think I’ll do the same thing with the Fake News Networks and the Radical Left Democrats in the General Election debates! DJT

MAGA!

**raycarey** · 08-03-2019, 05:02 PM

^

hey einstein,

the RNC blocked CNN and NBC from holding republican primary debates in 2015/16.....and none of it is good for an informed electorate or democracy in the US.

**harrybarracuda** · 08-03-2019, 05:19 PM

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Democrats just blocked @FoxNews from holding a debate.

Why shouldn't they, the debates should be on news networks, not comedy entertainment for bitter old white men.

If anyone runs against baldy orange cunto, it will be sandwiched between reruns of "The Golden Girls" and "Married with Children".

**harrybarracuda** · 08-03-2019, 07:27 PM

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**Maanaam** · 08-03-2019, 07:37 PM

**raycarey** · 08-03-2019, 08:09 PM

**britanicus** · 08-03-2019, 09:06 PM

Children are easily amused by coloured crayons

**AntRobertson** · 08-03-2019, 10:04 PM

Originally Posted by britanicus

Children are easily amused by coloured crayons

Haha

**baldrick** · 08-03-2019, 10:09 PM

Originally Posted by raycarey

how many times are you going let yourself get played?

tell me again I am a hansum man

**harrybarracuda** · 08-03-2019, 11:16 PM

Originally Posted by britanicus

Children are easily amused by coloured crayons

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**David48atTD** · 09-03-2019, 04:56 AM

A "disgraceful and abusive" fishing expedition.

That's how the White House has described the Democrat-controlled House Judiciary Committee's multi-pronged investigation launched this week.

The committee is prying deep into US President Donald Trump's entire world — his White House, his inauguration committee, his 2016 campaign, his 2020 campaign, his organisation, his family.
The administration is furious.

"Democrats are harassing the President to distract from their radical agenda of making America a socialist country, killing babies after they're born

... "

cried a statement from White House press secretary Sarah Sanders.

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For the 45th ...

**Texpat** · 09-03-2019, 08:38 AM

cried a statement

Really? The statement cried? You're trying too hard.

Anyway. Good morning Saturday. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America is STILL the president of ALL Americans.

What a wonderful day to be American! MAGA!

**Boon Mee** · 09-03-2019, 08:44 AM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Why shouldn't they, the debates should be on news networks, not comedy entertainment for bitter old white men.

If anyone runs against baldy orange cunto, it will be sandwiched between reruns of "The Golden Girls" and "Married with Children".

That's the most insipidly imbecilic post moi has read today! 55555

**britanicus** · 09-03-2019, 08:47 AM

Trump the 'racist'

**AntRobertson** · 09-03-2019, 09:00 AM

The president spoke to a group of blacks so he's not racist?! That's taking 'I have a black friend...' to a whole other level.

Why are racists so keen to argue against Trump being racist?? If they recognise that being a racist is inherently wrong then why are they racists themselves? If they think it legitimizes the giant orange racist turd then they're wrong.

**tomcat** · 09-03-2019, 09:12 AM

Trump’s White House Just Out-Foxed Bill Shine

The president, certainly no saint, wants hagiography. And he’ll blame others, even allies, when he doesn’t get it.
By Timothy L. O'Brien (Bloomberg)

Bill Shine. Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg

Bill Shine, who helped Roger Ailes shape Fox News into a propaganda machine fueled by hype, cynicism and hogwash before joining a presidential administration fueled by hype, cynicism and hogwash, is leaving his post as the White House’s chief communications adviser less than a year into the job.

That short span in President Donald Trump’s warm embrace isn’t of note, really. The White House is essentially an outsized meat grinder, beset by chaos, backstabbing and incompetence and managed by someone who has little interest, and thus a woeful lack of managerial experience, in building strong teams. The practical implications of this are a dearth of expertise, loyalty, productivity and accomplishments — bad for any organization of any stripe.

The Brookings Institution, a liberal Washington think tank, has been tracking what consultants call “turnover” — what the rest of us call “hiring and firing” and what Trump calls “sport” — at the White House. As of March 1, Brookings reports, the turnover rate in the White House is 65 percent among what it describes as Trump’s “A Team” (those who are members of the president’s executive office but aren’t cabinet secretaries). That rate is far above Trump’s Oval Office predecessors. And Shine only had to consider how many people directly preceded him to get a sense of the adventure awaiting him when he signed on last July: Sean Spicer, Michael Dubke, Anthony Scaramucci (“Mooch” lasted 11 days) and Hope Hicks.

As I noted in this space last year, Trump never had a best-and-brightest problem when it came to attracting top-notch talent to his business or his White House. He tends to get wannabes or leftovers, but rarely the truly talented. Another problem, which I flagged after Trump was inaugurated, is that he rarely listens to anyone else’s advice anyway — and that the only White House advisers likely to stay around very long would be his daughter, Ivanka Trump, and her husband, Jared Kushner. Javanka’s presence meant that it was unlikely that any adviser with a sense of independence would last.

For all of that, Shine’s departure isn’t a surprise. What is compelling about the end of his run is that he came from Fox, and packaging and promoting Trump at the expense of truth, justice and the American way was familiar territory for him. Shine and his Fox team pursued this with real gusto. As Jane Mayer pointed out in the New Yorker this week, Shine was responsible for defining Fox’s brand by overseeing its morning and evening talk shows (Fox’s straight-news operation, populated by many talented, fair-minded people, wasn’t part of his purview). And as Margaret Sullivan, the Washington Post’s media critic, noted this week as well, Shine’s handiwork — Fox’s talk shows — often are fact-free zones that allow the network to essentially function as “Trump TV.”

One would have thought that Shine’s transit from 1211 Avenue of the Americas to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue would have amounted to nothing more than a change of address. But the record started skipping once he reached the White House. As my Bloomberg News colleagues Jennifer Jacobs and Jennifer Epstein reported Friday, Trump recently had lost confidence in Shine. They cite Michael Cohen’s devastating congressional testimony last week, and the collapse of Trump’s diplomatic pas de deux with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, as reasons for the president’s disenchantment.

In that context, Shine’s downfall offers some lessons. At Fox, Shine had an audience of millions, but at the White House, he had an audience of one sitting in the Oval Office, who, at his core, is a performance artist. Fox can edit, dodge, ignore, gloss and play-act when they put their shows together; the White House has to deal in real time with the material it gets. It can’t really spin Cohen’s testimony or a failed summit. And it can’t always really make everyone (except the already converted) believe that the president who causes a government shutdown, bungles a health-care overhaul, craters fiscal sensibility, dances with Russia, traffics in racism, doesn’t read, doesn’t work hard and doesn’t care is something other than the embodiment of those things.

Shine couldn’t reshape any of those things. No one could, even if they had spent a career thinking they had before going to work for Trump. Trump, certainly no saint, wants hagiography. In the absence of that, the clock is ticking for anyone in charge of White House propagandizing. Trump was on Air Force One, flying out of town, when he slipped his shiv in Shine’s back.

**Maanaam** · 09-03-2019, 09:27 AM

Originally Posted by tomcat

Trump was on Air Force One, flying out of town, when he slipped his shiv in Shine’s back.

Another of the areshole's traits: Never man enough to sit face to face with his many dismissed staff.

**tomcat** · 09-03-2019, 09:31 AM

Originally Posted by Maanaam

Never man enough to sit face to face with his many dismissed staff.

...I don't blame him: there's the danger of spit...

**misskit** · 09-03-2019, 09:34 AM

Bill Shine fled ‘meat-grinder’ White House due to ‘incompetence and back-stabbing’: Trump biographer

Bloomberg news writer and Trump biographer Timothy L. O’Brien torched the president Friday in an opinion piece regarding staff turnover in the White House that held little back.

“The White House is essentially an outsized meat grinder, beset by chaos, backstabbing and incompetence and managed by someone who has little interest, and thus a woeful lack of managerial experience, in building strong teams,” O’Brien wrote. “The practical implications of this,” he continued, “are a dearth of expertise, loyalty, productivity and accomplishments — bad for any organization of any stripe.”

The writer, who wrote “TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald,” was set off by Friday’s news that former Fox News heavyweight Bill Shine is out as White House Communications director, after serving for just eight months on the job.

“Packaging and promoting Trump at the expense of truth, justice and the American way was familiar territory for him,” O’Brien wrote of Shine, while noting that Shine still couldn’t spin the press hard enough to make his boss happy.

“At Fox, Shine had an audience of millions, but at the White House, he had an audience of one sitting in the Oval Office, who, at his core, is a performance artist,” he said of Trump. “Fox can edit, dodge, ignore, gloss and play-act when they put their shows together; the White House has to deal in real time with the material it gets….it can’t really spin Cohen’s testimony or a failed summit,” OBrien added.

He finished the column with a final thought: “The clock is ticking for anyone in charge of White House propagandizing.”

Read the full opinion piece here.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/03/bil...mp-biographer/

**AntRobertson** · 09-03-2019, 09:39 AM

the turnover rate in the White House is 65 percent among what it describes as Trump’s “A Team” (those who are members of the president’s executive office but aren’t cabinet secretaries).

That's quite astounding.

Even more astounding is the fact that some people still buy into the myth of Trump the casino bankrupting shyster as a deal-maker who can get things done, drains the swamp, and hires only the best people.

**tomcat** · 09-03-2019, 09:42 AM

Originally Posted by misskit

Read the full opinion piece here.

...already posted: see above^^^^^...

**Texpat** · 09-03-2019, 09:44 AM

Trump is the best President since Reagan and Roosevelt.
Makes us Americans proud for the first time in our lives!

USA! USA! USA!

**tomcat** · 09-03-2019, 09:45 AM

...^yep: outta gas...

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