President Donald Trump

**Cujo** · 22-08-2019, 09:02 AM

'I am the Chosen One': with boasts and insults, Trump sets a new benchmark for incoherence
President outdoes himself in new press conference as he attacks the Danish prime minister, Jewish Democrats and the press

Donald Trump started off precisely on-message.

Strolling to the end of a White House driveway on Wednesday ahead of his departure for a veterans event in Kentucky, the president began speaking while still walking toward a crowd of waiting reporters. “So the economy is doing very, very well,” he said.
With fears of a recession stirring and public confidence in the health of the economy dropping for the first time in Trump’s presidency, it was a sound message to project to a skittish nation. But that was as good as it got.

What followed might have swept away all previous Trumpian benchmarks for incoherence, self-aggrandizement, prevarication and rancor in a presidency that has seemed before to veer loosely along the rails of reason but may never have come quite so close to spectacularly jumping the tracks.

Over an ensuing half-hour rant, Trump trucked in antisemitic tropes, insulted the Danish prime minister, insisted he wasn’t racist, bragged about the performance of his former Apprentice reality show, denied starting a trade war with China, praised Vladimir Putin and told reporters that he, Trump, was the “Chosen One” – all within hours of referring to himself as the “King of Israel” and tweeting in all caps: “WHERE IS THE FEDERAL RESERVE?”

Leaving aside those who were left merely gape-jawed, the performance inspired reactions from new expressions of doubt about Trump’s fitness for office to evocations of “the last president I know of who compared himself to the Messiah”.

(That turns out, according to Brookings Institution fellow Benjamin Wittes, to be Andrew Johnson (1865-9), whose articles of impeachment cited his “intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues”.)

Soon after the ill-fated driveway news conference got under way, Trump faced a question about his decision to cancel a meeting with Danish prime minister Mette Frederiksen, who had rejected a proposal floated by the Trump administration to purchase Greenland as “absurd”.

Calling Frederiksen “nasty” – his preferred insult for women in politics – Trump described his wounded pride at the way his offer had been rejected.

“I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something,” Trump said. “Don’t say ‘What an absurd idea that is’… You don’t talk to the United States that way, at least under me.

“I thought it was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off.”

As Trump continued his attack on Denmark on Twitter from aboard his airplane, the world below struggled with the rest of the wild, wild things he had just said, including an attack on another group: Jews who vote for Democrats.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...wish-democrats

**AntRobertson** · 22-08-2019, 09:03 AM

So far this week Trump has: proposed buying Greenland; thrown a spiteful tantrum when rebuffed; said that Jewish people who vote Democrat are being disloyal... to Israel; retweeted a known crackpot conspiracy theorist who likened him to 'the King of Israel'; called himself 'the chosen one'; walked back on stronger background checks for guns; and just one day after saying he cut taxes said he isn't looking to cut taxes.

He belongs in a loony bin not office.

'Meanwhile Trump and his administration have continued to methodically gut environmental protections, trample civil liberties and keep kids in cages indefinitely. But he’ll probably start acting presidential any day now'.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donal...mDomTULh7_h2yM

**Norton** · 22-08-2019, 09:12 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

But he’ll probably start acting presidential any day now'.

Hope he is not setting a norm but by definition, being President, he is being Presidential.

**Humbert** · 22-08-2019, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by Norton

Hope he is not setting a norm but by definition, being President, he is being Presidential.

That's a very 'Nixonian' interpretation.

**NamPikToot** · 22-08-2019, 12:08 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It's ridiculous but perfectly sums the man up.Comes up with a clearly hare-brained idea and when it's pointed out how dumb it is he reacts with petulance.

Have to say that America has tried to buy Greenland at least twice previously so the idiot cannot claim it as an original idea - just his approach to buying it is ..... original.

**Cujo** · 22-08-2019, 12:15 PM

You'd think he'd at least find out if it was for sale before opening his trap.

**Klondyke** · 22-08-2019, 12:21 PM

Why not to buy the Greenland? It's not so strange, is it?
When Alaska bought and many islands incl. Hawaii (or it hadn't been bought?), why not the Greenland?

**Cujo** · 22-08-2019, 12:47 PM

Originally Posted by Klondyke

Why not to buy the Greenland? It's not so strange, is it?
When Alaska bought and many islands incl. Hawaii (or it hadn't been bought?), why not the Greenland?

How about because it's not for sale.
And the arrogant assumption that they would sell it to him just because he wanted to buy it.
I suppose they'll just have to do it the hard way.

**Klondyke** · 22-08-2019, 01:27 PM

If you cannot buy it, invade it... (or just advise them about orange revolution)

**harrybarracuda** · 22-08-2019, 01:58 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

It's ridiculous but perfectly sums the man up.

Comes up with a clearly hare-brained idea and when it's pointed out how dumb it is he reacts with petulance.

So you don't think he engineered a spat to get out of going on a state visit that would undoubtedly be compared unfavourably to Obama's visit in September then?.........

**AntRobertson** · 22-08-2019, 02:01 PM

I just don't think he's any where near that clever or forward thinking.

**Klondyke** · 22-08-2019, 02:03 PM

Why not to buy first an Airport?

"Awesome experience." Rothschild bought Chisinau International Airport

Businessman Nathaniel Rothschild became the owner of Avia Invest, a concession of which includes Chisinau International Airport (Moldavia), TASS reports .

It is noted that the transaction was made on behalf of Rothschild-owned company NR Investments, which invests in real estate, but the amount of the transaction is not called.

According to the airport’s press service, he made a “terrific impression” on the businessman who flew there.

Nathaniel Rothschild is a representative of the Rothschild dynasty, a banking and investment business since the end of the 18th century. In the 19th century, the Rothschild family was the richest in the world, which led to the emergence of numerous conspiracy theories around it.

Forbes estimated the personal fortune of Nathaniel Rothschild in 2012 at $ 1 billion.

Chisinau Airport was transferred to concession in 2013. Since then, discussions at a high level on possible violations in this transaction have not stopped; many politicians demand returning it to state ownership. In early August 2019, deputies demanded that the prosecutor's office institute criminal proceedings due to violations found by the parliamentary commission.

Earlier it was reported that the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine invited the Rothschilds as advisers on the issue of Eurobonds .

We also wrote that the Rothschild family sold the castle and hunting grounds in Austria .

https://strana.ua/news/218209-natani...v-moldove.html

**happynz** · 22-08-2019, 02:05 PM

He'd first have to go to the Democratic-controlled house and ask for the money and they'd probably reply with "GFY".

**David48atTD** · 22-08-2019, 03:06 PM

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

So you don't think he engineered a spat to get out of going on a state visit

Apparently he had two trips almost back to back and he hates traveling.

He's got the G7 in France ... the return trip to Denmark might have stretched this World Statesman

**Humbert** · 22-08-2019, 04:00 PM

President Donald Trump claimed to laughter on Wednesday that he sought to give himself a Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides.

The offhand remark from the president came during his address to the 75th annual national convention of American Veterans, a volunteer-led veterans service organization also known as AMVETS.

At the event in Louisville, Kentucky, Trump singled out for praise WWII veteran and Medal of Honor recipient Woody Williams.

“Thank you, Woody. You’re looking good, Woody. Woody’s looking good,” Trump said.

“That was a big day, Medal of Honor. Nothing like the Medal of Honor,” he continued. “I wanted one, but they told me I don't qualify, Woody. I said, 'Can I give it to myself anyway?' They said, 'I don't think that's a good idea.'”

Amid scattered chuckles, Trump concluded: “Great, great people. These are great, great men and women that get congressional Medal of Honor. Thank you, Woody.”

The president’s assessment that he should receive the nation’s highest award for acts of military valor followed his statement earlier Wednesday afternoon that he is “the chosen one” in relation to his administration’s trade conflict with China — a proclamation he turned to the sky to deliver.

Trump never served in the military and was granted five draft deferments — four for college and one for bone spurs in his heel.

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...-honor-1470950

Fuking buffoon

**AntRobertson** · 22-08-2019, 04:56 PM

President Donald Trump claimed to laughter on Wednesday that he sought to give himself a Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides.

Trumptard's will try to pass it off as a 'joke'... But I bet he would if he could.

**Humbert** · 22-08-2019, 06:34 PM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Trumptard's will try to pass it off as a 'joke'.

Nothing he says or does is a joke. He is an insecure cretin desperate for adulation. The US has had enough of his antics and the rest of the world thinks he is a raving lunatic.

**Norton** · 22-08-2019, 09:47 PM

Originally Posted by Humbert

That's a very 'Nixonian' interpretation.

Tricky interpretation.

**Norton** · 22-08-2019, 09:55 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

The comments I love the most are titbits like:

Build a wall to keep them out. Only 180 km. We can do this, MAGA!

Forget Mexico wall. Too hard, 3,100 km too expensive.

**Klondyke** · 22-08-2019, 09:56 PM

Greenland is also in an advantageous location for the U.S. armed forces. The U.S. and Greenland have had an agreement since World War II to house American military assets on the island.

Thule Air Base, America’s northernmost Air Force base, has operated since 1943 in Greenland and has a ballistic missile early warning system and satellite tracking system.

Trump’s administration is not the first to make an inquiry about buying the island. President Harry Truman expressed desire to acquire the island in 1946 for $100 million in gold, and earlier attempts to buy the island stretch back to 1867.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/21/here...greenland.html

**Cujo** · 22-08-2019, 10:08 PM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Reading the LA Times, it boggles the mind how many people love the guy

The comments I love the most are titbits like:
"We've protected Denmark long enough with out tax dollars".... etc . . .

What a fucked-up people

It boggles the mind.
A large proportion of the nation.
WTF.

**Humbert** · 23-08-2019, 06:01 AM

Originally Posted by Norton

Tricky interpretation.

I know you understood the reference. Other less knowledgeable posters like Buriramboy did not judging by his response to me.

Nixon infamously said - 'If the president does it, it is legal'.

**Humbert** · 23-08-2019, 06:04 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

Reading the LA Times, it boggles the mind how many people love the guy

The comments I love the most are titbits like:
"We've protected Denmark long enough with out tax dollars".... etc . . .

What a fucked-up people

No worries. A vocal minority in LA for sure. The state will go solidly Democratic in 2020 and I'm sure it irks the hell out of his base there.

**Humbert** · 23-08-2019, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by panama hat

The comments I love the most are titbits like:
"We've protected Denmark long enough with out tax dollars".... etc . . .

Yes, it's sad. Trump and his moronic supporters view the relationship the US has with NATO like some kind of transactional rental dispute between a Trump retail development and a tenant like Florsheim Shoes.

**harrybarracuda** · 23-08-2019, 08:01 AM

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

I just don't think he's any where near that clever or forward thinking.

Au contraire, he's obviously fucking obsessed with Obama.

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