Proud to be AMERICAN -- with our MAGA President Donald J. Trump.
Hell yeah!
...That's his job as figurehead and apologist for white nationalists... to embolden them.Originally Posted by Texpat
Q.E.D.
Silent majority my ass. Wait until 2020. The bloodbath is coming and the Dems will take all three chambers. I am betting that we will have Medicare for all by the end of 2021.
Silent majority!
That's taking some utter liberties with math and objective reality right there!!
Drumpf doesn't like it when he's not the one peddling the conspiracy theories:
Whiny hypocrite.
Some great responses though:
"Photoshopped??? Like your inauguration crowd size?"
"And this is what you are worrying about during a 'National Emergency?'"
"Between your impressively exhaustive TV watching, and tweeting, when do you actually work?"
MAGAt!
Indeed. Trump Derangement Syndrome has manifest itself in a number of TD members. Look at these fools, salivating, desperate, out-of-their-minds crazy about the Don.
MY PRESIDENT! And many of these Trump-hating imbeciles aren't even Americans. Go figure. What other person in the world is so powerful that clueless lonely twats from the asshole end of the Earth spend hours every day lathering over you in a shower of hatred and bile. Those kiwis seem to have anger-control issues, don't they?
Is he corrupt or just a clown. What you say TP?
At Mar-a-Lago, Donald Trump’s waterfront winter retreat, an end-of-term air hangs over the expansive verandas and perfectly manicured lawns. In barely a month’s time, following the traditional season-closing Easter Sunday brunch gala, the private members’ club will be scrubbed and shuttered for the summer, its wealthy clientele dispersing to residences in the Hamptons or boarding their mega-yachts to cruise the Mediterranean.
With the winding down of the annual Palm Beach social circuit comes the end of another season of controversy, scandal and ethics concerns that swirl around the exclusive resort, which drips with gold-leafed opulence and where a $200,000 “initiation fee” appears to cover the privilege of bending the president’s ear.
This year’s cast of notable characters includes the Chinese former owner of a massage parlour snared in a high-profile prostitution sting, a Russian investor wanted in his home country for tax fraud and a cosmetic dentist who influenced Trump’s thinking on veterans’ care by writing policy advice on a cocktail napkin.
Add to the mix last summer’s confirmation as ambassador to the Dominican Republic of Trump’s longtime friend and former insurance agent Robin Bernstein, a Mar-a-Lago founding member, and renewed concerns by ethics experts over the ease of access to and influence over Trump when he visits his resort are easy to understand.
The Mar-a-Lago club has turned into a pay-for-access to the president club, with a president with almost no knowledge of governmental policy,” said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen, a Washington-based pro-transparency group that has criticised Trump for continuing to profit from his business operations while in office.
“If you can whisper in his ear and tell him anything, he may well think it’s sensible and he may well act upon it.
There’s no reason to believe people he’s picking out of the field at Mar-a-Lago are qualified to serve as ambassadors for the US or in any governmental position but they’re paying, they have access, they’re buddying up and they get to use serious positions as casual rewards.”
Of equal concern, Weissman said, is that the most powerful man in the world could be so easily manipulated by those whose credentials as policy advisers seems based solely on wealth.
“Long ago presidents were very accessible and the White House was open, but even then the access wasn’t based on your ability to pay a $200,000 cover fee,” he said. “There’s absolutely no precedent for this kind of paid-for access, and there’s no precedent for a president who is so responsive to random bits of information because he has no views of his own and no background knowledge of his own.
"If there had been a comparable situation with Barack Obama, whispering in his ear might have been important but it wouldn’t have shaped his world view or had him go off on some new path because he would have known what you were talking about. He had his own views already, and that’s just not the case with Trump.”
The Trump administration appears immune to a catalogue of embarrassing headlines, among them the story of Li “Cindy” Yang, 45, the Chinese American founder of a day spa where Trump’s friend Robert Kraft, the owner of the Super Bowl champion New England Patriots, was arrested and charged with soliciting prostitution, which he denies, in February.
Yang, a Republican fundraiser and donor who was photographed with Trump in a Super Bowl party selfie at his West Palm Beach golf club, and also at Mar-a-Lago with Florida’s Republican governor, Ron DeSantis, sold the massage parlour where Kraft was arrested several years previously. She still owned others.
But follow-up coverage by the Miami Herald and Mother Jones said Yang owned a consulting business that promised Chinese investors access to Trump at Mar-a-Lago and had arranged for a group to attend a Trump fundraiser in New York in 2017, testing strict rules prohibiting foreign involvement in the US political process.
That forced a denial from the White House that Trump knew Yang, and a fierce denouncement from her lawyers of any wrongdoing.
“She is being accused of human trafficking, providing favours to Chinese politicians and businesses by selling access to the president,” attorney Michelle Merson told NBC News. “She denies everything.”
The Yang saga was followed by another eye-opening scandal this week when the Herald exposed the presence at a Mar-a-Lago charity event last year of Sergey Danilochkin, a Russian real estate investor accused in his home country of a $170m tax fraud. There is no suggestion he met Trump, but the Herald reported he was there as part of a $600-a-head event hosted by Elizabeth Trump Grau, the president’s sister.
Neither the White House nor the Trump Organization answered the newspaper’s questions about how Danilochkin gained access.
When he’s there, it’s a circus’
Some of the more extraordinary and questionable moments at Mar-a-Lago have their roots closer to home, and involve club members. Palm Beach handbag designer Lana Marks, for example, is Trump’s pick for US ambassador to South Africa.
More bizarrely, Trump’s dentist, Albert Hazzouri, scribbled a note on a Mar-a-Lago napkin, inexplicably addressed “Dear King” and proposing ways to eliminate what he saw as waste in federal spending on dental care for former military personnel. According to ProPublica, Trump endorsed the napkin with a “the president has seen” stamp and ordered it forwarded to David Shulkin, then secretary of veterans’ affairs.
Hazzouri told ProPublica: “I’m not really involved in politics, I’m just a small-time dentist.” But Trump placed enough value on his thoughts to send them to the agency responsible for the health of 9 million ex-servicemen and women.
When he’s there, it’s a circus,” said Palm Beach society writer Jose Lambiet, who has chronicled Trump’s tenure at Mar-a-Lago since he bought the 126-room, 1920s-built mansion from the estate of the late cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post in 1985.
“It’s not just the ethics of this, but the visuals are terrible. No policy should be done this way. He thinks it’s cool, that he was elected for this stuff, but I don’t think he was. The ethics of people having access to him through Mar-a-Lago should be investigated because it allows rich people to have access to him in a way that regular people don’t.”
Lambiet said Trump has always enjoyed the theatre of playing host.
“He comes out in the early evening, he walks around and he shakes hands with everybody. He always thought that even when he was just a TV celebrity or businessman, the reason for people to pay that kind of money, and back then it was $100,000 to join, was for him. He didn’t think they came for the beautiful scenery or the food.
“Now he’s president there’s more hangers-on. The characters have changed in the sense that Palm Beach society has been replaced with people with a lot of money but not necessarily a lot of class.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...thics-concerns
“If we stop testing right now we’d have very few cases, if any.” Donald J Trump.
Bathhouse Barry formed his values while being brought up in a household of transvestites and transsexuals. His circle of confidants include drug dealers and frenzied preachers screaming, "God Damn the United States."
Yeah, Trump's a breath of fresh air. Thanks for asking.
Just checking ... yep, Donald J. Trump is STILL the President of the United States of America.
What a great day to be American! Happy Sunday to ALL Americans who are proud Donald J. Trump is YOUR president!
^ When are you going to stop spamming these threads with the same couple of repetitive posts? Clearly you have not the intellectual capacity to engage in intelligent dialog so frankly you should not be able to post here. Not sure why you were ever let out of the dog house. There was a reason that DD kept you locked in his darkest dungeon.
These namby-pamby left-wing lunatics who don't support our President give me gas.
Nattering Nabobs of Negativism with their never-ending litany of doom & gloom.
Love it when the Truth comes out!
“New evidence that the Obama era team of the FBI, DOJ & CIA were working together to Spy on (and take out) President Trump, all the way back in 2015.” A transcript of Peter Strzok’s testimony is devastating. Hopefully the Mueller Report will be covering this." -- DJT
^ More fake news bullshit for gullible morons. The fact that you would take a confirmed pathological liar at his word shows how much of a moron you must be.
Sort of like this is it you little cheerleader you?
Heh...& MAGA On!
More spambot bullshit. What a couple of utter morons.
Happy Sunday, Buns! Great day to be America, isn't it? With a president, Donald J. Trump, who makes US proud.
LULZ... Trumptard posts cartoon parody of cartoon president, doesn't quite get it.
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