Thread: President Donald Trump

Originally Posted by EKG

try harder

(alleged)physician, heal thyself

Originally Posted by EKG

california eminent hospital

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

Maybe next time try sending him a letter instead of posting it on a forum then.

and yet a "third person" responds or perhaps they are one of the same using various avatars? who knows

Originally Posted by raycarey

Originally Posted by EKG
try harder
(alleged)physician, heal thyself

Originally Posted by EKG
california eminent hospital

you are most welcome to pm a moderator and i will be happy to provide mod with and/all credentials that they indeed can verify with corresponding medical board.


i would also be interested in a mod verifying your PhD, professor

Originally Posted by EKG

you are most welcome to pm a moderator and i will be happy to provide mod with and/all credentials that they indeed can verify with corresponding medical board.

anyway.....

back to trump....

i read recently that despite the risk to their health and well being, he's making the west point graduates come back to campus so he can have a photo op....which only goes to prove that trump only cares about trump.


and btw, if the economy stays the in the shitter through the summer and he finally realizes he has no chance of re-election, i would wager there is a considerable chance that he tries to figuratively burn every government institution to the ground to prevent the biden administration from succeeding.

Originally Posted by raycarey

i read recently that despite the risk to their health and well being, he's making the west point graduates come back to campus so he can have a photo op....which only goes to prove that trump only cares about trump.

You have just worked that one out? Fcuking Einstein. You are wasted on Teakdoor...

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by David48atTD
No-one in the mainstream is taking about that ^
Just more deflection by apologists

Originally Posted by David48atTD
What everyone is talking about is the FACT that Trump even seriously discussed about injecting disinfectant into the Human Body.
. . . and deflecting from this

Why is it so difficult for these inbred Trumpeteers to admit their leader is a cretin who says and does stupid things

maybe he is not my leader but he is president

hillary or aoc are not me leaders either.

i did like bill though

Originally Posted by raycarey

Originally Posted by EKG
you are most welcome to pm a moderator and i will be happy to provide mod with and/all credentials that they indeed can verify with corresponding medical board.

is that funny because you are a moderator yourself (OMG) or you posted the animated laughter image in lieu of a rational reply?

just as you, i and everyone have the right of privacy here it is most appropriate for a mod to do it


i wouldn't want an unknown from this forum to contact the medical board as "grandfather cuckold" since you may identify as a geriatric porn star.

Originally Posted by EKG

and yet a "third person" responds or perhaps they are one of the same using various avatars? who knows

You don't really seem to get how forums work...

Trump is right, what's the point of those daily shitshow? I mean it's entertaining, but eventually it's getting old

at least, he is wising up

Originally Posted by Dragonfly

what's the point of those daily shitshow?

For Trump to spread lies and disinformation, make it all about himself, and whine like the snowflake he is apparently.

Originally Posted by AntRobertson

For Trump to spread lies and disinformation, make it all about himself, and whine like the snowflake he is apparently.

indeed, best show on the planet at the moment, at least he is making all this clear

the funny thing is that it might get him re-elected with that alone

Biden fucked

Originally Posted by EKG

Last edited by EKG; Today at 12:09 PM. Reason: tried to add images

Were you trying to add pictures of a bunch of crooks doing anything, no matter how shady, to con people into "investing"?

Trumpista...

^

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Were you trying to add pictures of a bunch of crooks doing anything, no matter how shady, to con people into "investing"?

they were screenshots of their research team and products

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some of the trump memes are quite funny

it must break up the monotony of being a geriatric porn star

fair enough

this is not from the onion....but the NY post, which is a different type of absurdist publication...

White House officials say Trump works so hard he often misses lunch

President Trump’s schedule is so packed amid the coronavirus crisis that he sometimes skips lunch, his aides told The Post — refuting a report that the commander-in-chief spends his days obsessing over TV coverage and eating fries.


White House staffers said the president works around the clock and can make five dozen work-related calls a day during the pandemic.


“I can tell you that the biggest concern I have as a new chief of staff is making sure he gets some time to get a quick bite to eat,” White House chief of staff Mark Meadows told The Post.


He said that Trump recently called him at 3:19 a.m. He wasn’t expecting the call and was asleep when the phone rang.


“I can tell you that he will go back in and have a lunch just off the Oval Office and more times than not it is interrupted by several phone calls,” Meadows said. “If he gets more than 10 minutes of time in a given day I haven’t seen in the five weeks I’ve been here.”


A different White House official said that Trump, some days, doesn’t eat lunch.


“There are times when lunch isn’t even a thought,” the official said. “A lot of time there’s either no time for lunch or there is 10 minutes for lunch.”


An account in The New York Times that claimed Trump lingers in his bedroom as late as noon infuriated the president, who tweeted Sunday, “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom.”


“I work from early in the morning until late at night,” the president tweeted.


Another White House official provided The Post with data on recent presidential phone calls, which they said attest to his packed schedule.


On Wednesday, Trump made about two dozen morning calls starting with a conversation around 6:30 a.m. with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin, according to the official.

On Thursday morning, Trump made 18 work-related calls from his private quarters, including four to foreign leaders, which can be lengthy due to translation and a broad range of topics. On Friday, he began the day with another four calls with foreign leaders.


Trump returned to the White House residence at 9 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, according to the official. On Thursday night, he made 11 work calls. On Wednesday night, he was calling until 11:30 p.m. and spoke with a governor, a senator and a congressman.


Trump has meetings and calls during his time in the Oval Office. On Thursday, he took nearly three dozen calls.


“He’ll call up until late evening or midnight on a fairly regular basis,” Meadows said.


At night, “normally he will get six or seven calls from members [of Congress] or business leaders or community leaders, so oftentimes what he will do is go up to the residence and have the White House operator literally do back to back calls,” Meadows said.


If Trump has something on his mind, he prefers to call right away. “When he calls in the evening or the early morning it’s really with a pressing issue that demands immediate action,” Meadows said.

Morning phone calls from the residence are routine for Trump.


“I get phone calls from him early in the morning and at the end of the day,” said Peter Navarro, director of the White House Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.


“I think I work hard. I put in probably 12 hour days seven days a week and he runs circles around all of us,” Navarro said. “He never seems to tire. So this idea that he’s not working hard is just so absurd. Note to the New York Times: spending time in the morning reading all of the material that’s given to him by his staff secretary, as well as virtually all of the newspapers, that’s work. That’s not kicking back with a croissant.”

Trump largely has been confined to the White House since COVID-19 triggered widespread business closures and halted his extensive travel. Now, public engagements are limited to press briefings and less frequent televised pool sprays with reporters in the West Wing and on the White House grounds.


Officials don’t dispute that Trump often has a TV screen on during the day, but said that’s a reasonable thing to do. They also do not deny that the president powers through the day on Diet Coke.


Trump monitoring TV news coverage “is like a linebacker watching tape,” the first official said. “How else are we going to know what’s being said and what’s being reported out there?”


Trump’s schedule generally is grueling for reporters and officials whose personal lives are tied to his activities. On Easter, for example, Trump was working in the Oval Office to broker an oil production agreement between Saudi Arabia and Russia.


“We watch him work and work and work, and we get frustrated by the inaccurate coverage, which does not reflect the hard work and leadership we witness every day,” the second official said.

Trump works so hard he often misses lunch: White House officials

^
btw, this was a WH generated push-back on a recent NYT times piece which reported that he doesn't come down from his residence until noon, and eats french fries while watching cable news all day.

The tell all books will be epic as this loser is bound to lose the election at this point.

Originally Posted by bsnub

The tell all books will be epic as this loser is bound to lose the election at this point.

in absolute agreement with the first part, cautiously optimistic about the second.

“I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see that I am angrily eating a hamburger & Diet Coke in my bedroom.”

We know this is a lie, as we know from his own tweets that he doesn't eat hamburgers, but hamberders.

Irish Times
April 25, 2020
By Fintan O’Toole
THE WORLD HAS LOVED, HATED AND ENVIED THE U.S. NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME, WE PITY IT
Over more than two centuries, the United States has stirred a very wide range of feelings in the rest of the world: love and hatred, fear and hope, envy and contempt, awe and anger. But there is one emotion that has never been directed towards the US until now: pity.
However bad things are for most other rich democracies, it is hard not to feel sorry for Americans. Most of them did not vote for Donald Trump in 2016. Yet they are locked down with a malignant narcissist who, instead of protecting his people from Covid-19, has amplified its lethality. The country Trump promised to make great again has never in its history seemed so pitiful.
Will American prestige ever recover from this shameful episode? The US went into the coronavirus crisis with immense advantages: precious weeks of warning about what was coming, the world’s best concentration of medical and scientific expertise, effectively limitless financial resources, a military complex with stunning logistical capacity and most of the world’s leading technology corporations. Yet it managed to make itself the global epicentre of the pandemic.
As the American writer George Packer puts it in the current edition of the Atlantic, “The United States reacted ... like Pakistan or Belarus – like a country with shoddy infrastructure and a dysfunctional government whose leaders were too corrupt or stupid to head off mass suffering.”
It is one thing to be powerless in the face of a natural disaster, quite another to watch vast power being squandered in real time – wilfully, malevolently, vindictively. It is one thing for governments to fail (as, in one degree or another, most governments did), quite another to watch a ruler and his supporters actively spread a deadly virus. Trump, his party and Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News became vectors of the pestilence.
The grotesque spectacle of the president openly inciting people (some of them armed) to take to the streets to oppose the restrictions that save lives is the manifestation of a political death wish. What are supposed to be daily briefings on the crisis, demonstrative of national unity in the face of a shared challenge, have been used by Trump merely to sow confusion and division. They provide a recurring horror show in which all the neuroses that haunt the American subconscious dance naked on live TV.
If the plague is a test, its ruling political nexus ensured that the US would fail it at a terrible cost in human lives. In the process, the idea of the US as the world’s leading nation – an idea that has shaped the past century – has all but evaporated.
Other than the Trump impersonator Jair Bolsonaro in Brazil, who is now looking to the US as the exemplar of anything other than what not to do? How many people in Düsseldorf or Dublin are wishing they lived in Detroit or Dallas?
It is hard to remember now but, even in 2017, when Trump took office, the conventional wisdom in the US was that the Republican Party and the broader framework of US political institutions would prevent him from doing too much damage. This was always a delusion, but the pandemic has exposed it in the most savage ways.
Abject surrender
What used to be called mainstream conservatism has not absorbed Trump – he has absorbed it. Almost the entire right-wing half of American politics has surrendered abjectly to him. It has sacrificed on the altar of wanton stupidity the most basic ideas of responsibility, care and even safety.
Thus, even at the very end of March, 15 Republican governors had failed to order people to stay at home or to close non-essential businesses. In Alabama, for example, it was not until April 3rd that governor Kay Ivey finally issued a stay-at-home order.
In Florida, the state with the highest concentration of elderly people with underlying conditions, governor Ron DeSantis, a Trump mini-me, kept the beach resorts open to students travelling from all over the US for spring break parties. Even on April 1st, when he issued restrictions, DeSantis exempted religious services and “recreational activities”.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp, when he finally issued a stay-at-home order on April 1st, explained: “We didn’t know that [the virus can be spread by people without symptoms] until the last 24 hours.”
This is not mere ignorance – it is deliberate and homicidal stupidity. There is, as the demonstrations this week in US cities have shown, plenty of political mileage in denying the reality of the pandemic. It is fuelled by Fox News and far-right internet sites, and it reaps for these politicians millions of dollars in donations, mostly (in an ugly irony) from older people who are most vulnerable to the coronavirus.
It draws on a concoction of conspiracy theories, hatred of science, paranoia about the “deep state” and religious providentialism (God will protect the good folks) that is now very deeply infused in the mindset of the American right.
Trump embodies and enacts this mindset, but he did not invent it. The US response to the coronavirus crisis has been paralysed by a contradiction that the Republicans have inserted into the heart of US democracy. On the one hand, they want to control all the levers of governmental power. On the other they have created a popular base by playing on the notion that government is innately evil and must not be trusted.
The contradiction was made manifest in two of Trump’s statements on the pandemic: on the one hand that he has “total authority”, and on the other that “I don’t take responsibility at all”. Caught between authoritarian and anarchic impulses, he is incapable of coherence.
Fertile ground
But this is not just Donald Trump. The crisis has shown definitively that Trump’s presidency is not an aberration. It has grown on soil long prepared to receive it. The monstrous blossoming of misrule has structure and purpose and strategy behind it.
There are very powerful interests who demand “freedom” in order to do as they like with the environment, society and the economy. They have infused a very large part of American culture with the belief that “freedom” is literally more important than life. My freedom to own assault weapons trumps your right not to get shot at school. Now, my freedom to go to the barber (“I Need a Haircut” read one banner this week in St Paul, Minnesota) trumps your need to avoid infection.
Usually when this kind of outlandish idiocy is displaying itself, there is the comforting thought that, if things were really serious, it would all stop. People would sober up. Instead, a large part of the US has hit the bottle even harder.
And the president, his party and their media allies keep supplying the drinks. There has been no moment of truth, no shock of realisation that the antics have to end. No one of any substance on the US right has stepped in to say: get a grip, people are dying here.
That is the mark of how deep the trouble is for the US – it is not just that Trump has treated the crisis merely as a way to feed tribal hatreds but that this behaviour has become normalised. When the freak show is live on TV every evening, and the star is boasting about his ratings, it is not really a freak show any more. For a very large and solid bloc of Americans, it is reality.
And this will get worse before it gets better. Trump has at least eight more months in power. In his inaugural address in 2017, he evoked “American carnage” and promised to make it stop. But now that the real carnage has arrived, he is revelling in it. He is in his element.
As things get worse, he will pump more hatred and falsehood, more death-wish defiance of reason and decency, into the groundwater. If a new administration succeeds him in 2021, it will have to clean up the toxic dump he leaves behind. If he is re-elected, toxicity will have become the lifeblood of American politics.
Either way, it will be a long time before the rest of the world can imagine America being great again.

The USA only started going to shit when Trump hit town.

How cute is that...

I wonder if they'll pay.

Washington (AFP) - US President Donald Trump suggested on Monday that he may seek damages from China over the coronavirus outbreak which began in the Chinese city of Wuhan and spread around the world.

"We are not happy with China," Trump said at a White House briefing. "We are not happy with that whole situation because we believe it could have been stopped at the source.


"It could have been stopped quickly and it wouldn't have spread all over the world," he said.


"There are a lot of ways you can hold them accountable," Trump said. "We're doing some very serious investigations as you probably know."


Trump was asked about a recent German newspaper editorial which called on China to pay Germany $165 billion in reparations because of economic damage done by the virus.


Asked if the US would consider doing the same, the US president said "we can do something much easier than that."


"Germany is looking at things, we are looking at things," he said. "We are talking about a lot more money than Germany's talking about."


"We haven't determined the final amount yet," Trump said. "It's very substantial.


"This is worldwide damage," he said. "This is damage to the US, but this is damage to the world."


There have been more than 55,000 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States and the pandemic has shut down huge swathes of the economy, leaving tens of millions unemployed.

Trump says US may seek damages from China over virus