Thread: President Donald Trump

Originally Posted by CSFFan

What author,

Robert Dallek (born May 16, 1934 in Brooklyn, New York)[1] is an American historian specializing in the Presidents of the United States. He retired as a history professor at Boston University in 2004 and previously taught at Columbia University, the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), and Oxford University. As of November 2013 he teaches at Stanford University's Stanford in Washington program in Washington, D.C.

Pretty strong credentials there...

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s transition team is nearing a state of stasis, causing concern among both Democrats and Republicans in Washington that his White House will be woefully ill-prepared once he is inaugurated.
The primary cause, according to multiple sources, is the revamped leadership structure at Trump’s transition offices ― the demotion of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from the top post and his replacement with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.

On Tuesday morning, for example, the Obama administration alerted the press that it had not yet received a memorandum of understanding signed by Pence, which would legally allow the old and new administrations to begin discussions on how to hand off critical government functions. That document still hadn’t arrived by 4:30 p.m., and only later in the evening did a White House official confirm it had been received. The official noted that the language signed by Pence was identical to a memo signed by Christie, making the holdup all the more peculiar.

The disarray has left agencies virtually frozen, unable to communicate with the people tasked with replacing them and their staff. Trump transition team officials were a no-show at the Pentagon, the Washington Examiner reported. Same goes for the Department of Energy, responsible for keeping the nation’s nuclear weapons safe, where officials had expected members of the Trump transition team on Monday. Ditto for the Department of Transportation. Over at the Justice Department, officials also are still waiting to hear from the Trump team.
“The Department began planning for this transition well before the election and we are fully prepared to assist the incoming transition team,” Justice Department spokesman Wyn Hornbuckle said in a statement. “As the President has said, we are committed to a smooth and successful transition, including the seamless continuation of the department’s essential law enforcement and national security functions which are performed each and every day by its career staff.”

The transition dysfunction extends beyond failure to promptly execute a memorandum of understanding. According to several sources close to the Trump transition team and inside the Obama administration, the president elect and his staff have had difficulty finding able-minded Republicans willing to take on critical posts. One Democratic source, who like others would only discuss sensitive talks on condition of anonymity, said transition officials had been informally asking Obama political appointees to recommend Republicans to take over their jobs.
Other administration officials said conversations had not gotten to that point of desperation quite yet. But they acknowledged the pace of getting people in line for critical posts was moving painfully slowly.

The problem is twofold: Trump and his staff are not creatures of the establishment and are naturally skeptical of those who are. At the same time, many Republican lawyers and government officials who would have jumped at the opportunity to work in a GOP administration are balking at employment under Trump and his cabinet picks.

According to one Trump insider, this is particularly true for potential national security and intelligence officials.

“One issue is [Retired Lt. Gen.] Michael Flynn,” said the insider. Flynn, vice chair of the Trump transition, is reportedly in line for a top national security post in the new administration. “It’s a major problem. No one wants to work for him or around him because of the time he was running the DIA,” or Defense Intelligence Agency.
Eliot Cohen, a longtime neoconservative voice, tweeted a window into the disorder, recounting his talks with transition officials.

After exchange w Trump transition team, changed my recommendation: stay away. They’re angry, arrogant, screaming “you LOST!” Will be ugly.
— Eliot A Cohen (@EliotACohen) November 15, 2016

The internal rivalries inside Trump’s transition have not helped matters. The promotion of Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff was supposed to set the tone for the rest of the administration. But it came with Breitbart CEO Steve Bannon as chief strategist, a move that delighted the ardent, anti-establishment wing of the party, but has given others pause because of his history peddling anti-Semitism and white nationalism.

Priebus, according to sources, is also skittish on the possibility of former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski replacing him at the RNC, worried that he may undo a lot of the work from the past six years.

Perhaps nothing illustrates the warring fiefdoms roiling the Trump transition effort better than the demotion of Christie. According to the Trump insider, the president elect and his team soured on Christie after he “abandoned Trump,” refusing to do media appearances after videotape of Trump bragging about sexual assault surfaced and skipping surrogate duties during the presidential debates.
When Christie’s top aides were convicted in the Bridgegate scandal, Trump decided to cut him loose, along with the officials he had brought along to help with the transition. One of those officials, former Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), left the transition team on Monday morning.


Donald Trump's Transition Team, Or Lack Thereof, Is Causing Real Panic | The Huffington Post

brilliant, he is doing a great job then

Originally Posted by bsnub

WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump’s transition team is nearing a state of stasis, causing concern among both Democrats and Republicans in Washington that his White House will be woefully ill-prepared once he is inaugurated.
The primary cause, according to multiple sources, is the revamped leadership structure at Trump’s transition offices ― the demotion of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie from the top post and his replacement with Vice President-elect Mike Pence.
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A complete clusterfuck.
What else would you expect.
It's the beginning of the end for the U.S.A. Well it was good while it lasted I suppose.

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

brilliant, he is doing a great job then

A great job of fucking everything up.
Are the E.U. planning to invade during the confusion and take over the U.S..

Originally Posted by Cujo

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

brilliant, he is doing a great job then

A great job of fucking everything up.
Are the E.U. planning to invade during the confusion and take over the U.S..

Im sure a great many Americans wish they were now still under British rule.

Originally Posted by Cujo

It's the beginning of the end for the U.S.A.

Sure seems like it. I am pulling for the west coast to recede from the union.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Im sure a great many Americans wish they were now still under British rule.

A clueless idiot as always.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by Cujo

It's the beginning of the end for the U.S.A.

Sure seems like it. I am pulling for the west coast to recede from the union.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

Im sure a great many Americans wish they were now still under British rule.

A clueless idiot as always.

You trying to tell me you'd rather have Trump than our Queen as your head of state.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

You trying to tell me you'd rather have Trump than our Queen as your head of state.

There are just as many idiots in the UK as the US and you are one of them.

Originally Posted by buriramboy

You trying to tell me you'd rather have Trump than our Queen as your head of state.

I read it fast and I thought you said you'd rather have the Queen's head on a stake.

Originally Posted by bsnub

Originally Posted by buriramboy

You trying to tell me you'd rather have Trump than our Queen as your head of state.

There are just as many idiots in the UK as the US and you are one of them.

Talking about idiots, you still attending your weekly anarchist meetings, got a date yet when you're all going to overthrow the government??? Fukin retard.

^ once again a buffon who knows fuck all. I have read the brexit thread since drumpf won the election and you are a special kind of stupid.

Originally Posted by bsnub

^ once again a buffon who knows fuck all. I have read the brexit thread since drumpf won the election and you are a special kind of stupid.

You are one of the most clueless retards on this forum, you are continually proven and shown to be wrong on just about every topic. Outside your little bubble in Seattle where you only converse with other clueless fukwits who share your own warped views, you're out of your depth my little snowflake wannabe anarchist.

Originally Posted by bsnub

The transition dysfunction extends beyond failure to promptly execute a memorandum of understanding. According to several sources close to the Trump transition team and inside the Obama administration, the president elect and his staff have had difficulty finding able-minded Republicans willing to take on critical posts. One Democratic source, who like others would only discuss sensitive talks on condition of anonymity, said transition officials had been informally asking Obama political appointees to recommend Republicans to take over their jobs.
Other administration officials said conversations had not gotten to that point of desperation quite yet. But they acknowledged the pace of getting people in line for critical posts was moving painfully slowly.

Our new president can't even organize his staff and expects to organize change in America?

Originally Posted by CSFFan

Originally Posted by bsnub

The transition dysfunction extends beyond failure to promptly execute a memorandum of understanding. According to several sources close to the Trump transition team and inside the Obama administration, the president elect and his staff have had difficulty finding able-minded Republicans willing to take on critical posts. One Democratic source, who like others would only discuss sensitive talks on condition of anonymity, said transition officials had been informally asking Obama political appointees to recommend Republicans to take over their jobs.
Other administration officials said conversations had not gotten to that point of desperation quite yet. But they acknowledged the pace of getting people in line for critical posts was moving painfully slowly.

Our new president can't even organize his staff and expects to organize change in America?

Well you can be certain foreign enemies of the state are eyeing this situation with glee and considering ways to use it to their adavantage.

Originally Posted by Cujo

Well you can be certain foreign enemies of the state are eyeing this situation with glee and considering ways to use it to their adavantage.

I would be....

Originally Posted by Cujo

Well you can be certain foreign enemies of the state are eyeing this situation with glee and considering ways to use it to their adavantage.

I'd be more concerned about how many home grown nuts will soon have their posterboy in charge.

Saw on yahoo.com that Senator Webb is in the running for both Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense ...

Two thumbs up for either but prefer him at State.

Unconventional choice but stranger things have happened, eh?

I still cannot help but do a double take on "President Donald Trump".

It is like a really unfunny skit made up by SNL.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Unconventional choice but stranger things have happened, eh?

A Democrat with a lot in common with Trump's foriegn and defense policy.

Trump doesn't want to work weekends, wants to spend them at home.

President-elect Donald J. Trump won the White House with an outsider’s populist promise to “drain the swamp” of Washington.

Now, as he prepares to assume the presidency, an open question remains about the capital he repeatedly spurned: Just how much is he willing to become a part of it?

Mr. Trump, a homebody who often flew several hours late at night during the campaign so he could wake up in his own bed in Trump Tower, is talking with his advisers about how many nights a week he will spend in the White House. He has told them he would like to do what he is used to, which is spending time in New York when he can.

The future first lady, Melania Trump, expects to move to Washington. But the couple’s 10-year-old son, Barron, is midway through a school year in New York, and it is unclear when the move would happen.

The questions reflect what Mr. Trump’s advisers described as the president-elect’s coming to grips with the fact that his life is about to change radically. They say that Mr. Trump, who was shocked when he won the election, might spend most of the week in Washington, much like members of Congress, and return to Trump Tower or his golf course in Bedminster, N.J., or his Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach on weekends.

Hanging on to the familiar for presidents-elect and their families is not unusual. There were early questions about whether Michelle Obama would leave Chicago and move to the White House in early 2009 and disrupt her daughters’ school years, but the whole family moved in the day of the inaugural. Mr. Trump’s advisers hold out the possibility that the president-elect may spend more time in the White House as he grows less overwhelmed and more comfortable in the job.

Still, Mr. Trump has spent the last three decades, for the most part, cosseted within Trump Tower. His apartment is on the 58th floor, and a designated elevator takes him from there to his office on the 26th floor.

He wakes at 5 o’clock most mornings, reads The New York Post, The New York Times and a handful of other newspapers, and tunes into the morning television news shows. In the final months of the campaign, he would hang around his apartment until about 10 a.m., joining his aides in the office later.

Mr. Trump’s affection for his penthouse apartment runs deep, as his biographer, Michael D’Antonio, learned when Mr. Trump invited him inside the three-story unit in 2014 for an extended interview.

More here...http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/us...president.html

The negative hard core left wing propaganda from these retards will never end no matter what. You the reader have the choice to believe them or not.

But what is truly interesting is Media research centre in conjunction with yougov did a poll and the poll showed that people no longer believe the left wing media. The numbers are Yuge, the Donald was right and these poll numbers show it. So these leftlings can post all they want but most no longer believe them, they have done their chicken little act all to often and now they are just preaching to each other.

No matter that this is true they don't care, they are addicted to posting and cant stop even tho they also realize no one even on the left takes them seriously anymore. This is the same as the soviet unions propaganda in the 70s, its tired burnt out and just regurgitating the same old same old for their paycheck even tho the path is dowwwwwnnnnn for themmmmmm. And the future is Yuge for populism.

Originally Posted by Storekeeper

Saw on yahoo.com that Senator Webb is in the running for both Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense ... Two thumbs up for either but prefer him at State.

Better choice than either Bolton or Giggliani.

Originally Posted by pulvarien

And the future is Yuge for populism.

Maybe...if we ever get a genuine populist someday. This supposed one ain't it.