Church of Trump

[rmt]

knew Mike was keeping his options open/angling for eventual VP spot when he praised Trump while endorsing Cruz

[boutons_deux]

CBS Confirms Trump Had His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech

http://usuncut.com/news/cbs-confirms-trump-studio-audience-clap-cia-speech/


:lol You assholes picked a totally fraudulent, sicko asshole.

[hater]

CBS Confirms Trump Had His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech

http://usuncut.com/news/cbs-confirms-trump-studio-audience-clap-cia-speech/


:lol You assholes picked a totally fraudulent, sicko asshole.

Still better than Shillary who cheated her way to demo nomination

[CosmicCowboy]

CBS Confirms Trump Had His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech

http://usuncut.com/news/cbs-confirms-trump-studio-audience-clap-cia-speech/


:lol You assholes picked a totally fraudulent, sicko asshole.

Funny...if you google it all you can find is nutwing news claiming "CBS said" and there is nothing from CBS even 3 pages deep.

[rmt]

Funny...if you google it all you can find is nutwing news claiming "CBS said" and there is nothing from CBS even 3 pages deep.

Maybe why I can't find that recent CBS poll (that boutons mentioned but won't link to) even though the MSM articles refer to it.

[Spurminator]

Funny...if you google it all you can find is nutwing news claiming "CBS said" and there is nothing from CBS even 3 pages deep.


Maybe why I can't find that recent CBS poll (that boutons mentioned but won't link to) even though the MSM articles refer to it.

An official said the visit “made relations with the intelligence community worse” and described the visit as “uncomfortable.”

Authorities are also pushing back against the perception that the CIA workforce was cheering for the president. They say the first three rows in front of the president were largely made up of supporters of Mr. Trump’s campaign.

An official with knowledge of the make-up of the crowd says that there were about 40 people who’d been invited by the Trump, Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Pompeo teams.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/

[CosmicCowboy]

An official said the visit “made relations with the intelligence community worse” and described the visit as “uncomfortable.”

Authorities are also pushing back against the perception that the CIA workforce was cheering for the president. They say the first three rows in front of the president were largely made up of supporters of Mr. Trump’s campaign.

An official with knowledge of the make-up of the crowd says that there were about 40 people who’d been invited by the Trump, Mike Pence and Rep. Mike Pompeo teams.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sources-say-theres-a-sense-of-unease-in-intel-community-after-trump-cia-visit/





You selectively missed this one:


Officials acknowledge that Mr. Trump does have his supporters within the CIA workforce, many of whom were interspersed among the rank and file standing off to the president’s right.

[Spurminator]

You missed this one:

You asked for the CBS link, I gave it to you.

Not sure anyone ever denied Trump had supporters in the CIA.

[CosmicCowboy]

You asked for the CBS link, I gave it to you.

Not sure anyone ever denied Trump had supporters in the CIA.

Did the article say CBS Confirms Trump Had His Own Studio Audience To Clap For Him At CIA Speech?

[Spurminator]

CBS confirmed with sources that Trump brought staff and those were the ones applauding. Same thing happened at his Press Conference last week. You're not supposed to take "studio audience" literally, but it's clear they're bringing people to these things to create a similar effect. It's a perfectly relevant metaphor.

I assume you watched both of those. If you did, it's hard for me to believe you think those were organic reactions from the intended audiences of those statements.

[CosmicCowboy]

CBS confirmed with sources that Trump brought staff and those were the ones applauding. Same thing happened at his Press Conference last week. You're not supposed to take "studio audience" literally, but it's clear they're bringing people to these things to create a similar effect. It's a perfectly relevant metaphor.

I assume you watched both of those. If you did, it's hard for me to believe you think those were organic reactions from the intended audiences of those statements.

Was the POTUS just supposed to stroll down to Langley by himself? So taking staff and the new Sec. of Defense makes it a "studio audience"? Did they have laugh tracks too like I Love Lucy?

[Spurminator]

Was the POTUS just supposed to stroll down to Langley by himself? So taking staff and the new Sec. of Defense makes it a "studio audience"?

It does when the staff reacts like a studio audience. Do you think those were organic reactions typical of POTUS staffers brought to press conferences / CIA addresses?

He's not the first President to give speeches and bring staffers. I doubt he's just that compelling a speaker that this is the first time those staffers have reacted like they're seeing blinking "Applause" signs.


Did they have laugh tracks too like I Love Lucy?

You act like that's a far-fetched concept for the people who brought stacks of blank paper to a press conference and staged a lobby photo where Trump pretended to be writing his inaugural speech with a Sharpie.

[Spurminator]

And for the record, I hope they keep doing it.

Shows the circus sideshow for what it is.

[Trill Clinton]

823302607045132288

so there are rumblings of mrs. trump feeling like she's no longer a priority in her husband's life. expect to see a real life "BLACKED" situation go dine at the white house. word is one of trumps top coons has been piping her down. thats what i heard http://i64.tinypic.com/2j5h02.png







http://i66.tinypic.com/mijncw.jpg

[hater]

823302607045132288

so there are rumblings of mrs. trump feeling like she's no longer a priority in her husband's life. expect to see a real life "BLACKED" situation go dine at the white house. word is one of trumps top coons has been piping her down. thats what i heard http://i64.tinypic.com/2j5h02.png







http://i66.tinypic.com/mijncw.jpg

:lmao


Maybe she should put on a pussy hat :lmao

[TheSanityAnnex]

823302607045132288

so there are rumblings of mrs. trump feeling like she's no longer a priority in her husband's life. expect to see a real life "BLACKED" situation go dine at the white house. word is one of trumps top coons has been piping her down. thats what i heard http://i64.tinypic.com/2j5h02.png







http://i66.tinypic.com/mijncw.jpg

These rumblings are fabricated by a dumb twat looking for more Instagram followers.

823424689183723520

Stop using Twitter as a news source fam :bobo

[unleashbaynes]

donald is looking like a delicate snowflake more and more everyday. i thought the liberals were supposed to be the sensitive ones?

You clearly don't get it.

When Republicans cry about Obama, they're standing up for their country because :cry muh first amendment :cry

When liberals raise legitimate concerns about Trump, they're just a bunch of whiners.

[Trill Clinton]

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[boutons_deux]

There was another pic of her following Trash into a doorway, as women do in Africa, while Barry and Michelle each had an escorting hand on M's back.

Trash is a pussy-grabbing slob of a slimeball egocentric misogynist.

There was another pic of M seated at table with the same depressed look on her face as the tweet above.

[hater]

823635384672382976

:lmao thats funny tbqh

[Thread]

:lmao thats funny tbqh

This.

[boutons_deux]

Bannon working his racial hate/white nationalist supremacy into Trump's empty head

The Meaning of “American Carnage”

Trump won the presidency with his message of racial reaction, and now he’s governing with it, too.

“The crime and the gangs and the drugs that have stolen too many lives and robbed our country of so much unrealized potential,” said the president. “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”

There’s a small problem with this image. It’s a fantasy. And it’s a fantasy that serves a particular purpose:

to demonize groups and protest movements organized around police reform.

The evidence is the White House page on law enforcement, updated after Trump’s inauguration.

“Our job is not to make life more comfortable for the rioter, the looter, or the violent disrupter,”

writes the administration on a page titled “Standing Up for Our Law Enforcement Community (https://www.whitehouse.gov/law-enforcement-community).” But this isn’t demonization for its own sake; it’s central to

the president’s larger political vision, a white identity politics that looks with skepticism and hostility toward claims of racial injustice.

There is no broad “American carnage.”

Just 35 percent (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/09/29/the-racial-confidence-gap-in-police-performance/) of black Americans believe their local police treat “racial and ethnic groups equally,” and 31 percent think officers are held accountable when “misconduct occurs.”

The Trump we have understands that millions of white Americans, including much of his voting base, are profoundly alienated by black protest movements against abusive police.

The numbers tell the story. Supermajorities of whites see police as essentially above reproach.

Seventy-five percent say they “use the right amount of force for each situation” and believe they “treat racial and ethnic groups equally.”

Seventy percent believe police are held accountable for misconduct, and 81 percent say they have either “some” or “a lot” of confidence in their local police departments.

In terms of Trump’s supporters (http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2016/06/27/on-views-of-race-and-inequality-blacks-and-whites-are-worlds-apart/), 59 percent of white Republicans believe “too much attention” is paid to race.

Perhaps the most revealing number is this one: Just 14 percent of white Americans “strongly support” Black Lives Matter (26 percent support it “somewhat”).

If public opinion is any indication, most white Americans simply don’t see the problem.

What they do worry about is crime.

And Trump is using that fear to undermine the drive to reform law enforcement, and he’s doing it by

tying protest to disorder and evoking a highly racialized vision of the violent, crime-ridden “inner city.”

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/01/what_trump_means_when_he_talks_about_american_carn age.html

So Trash, Bannon are appealing to the KKK and racists in general.

So "why does Trash make everything about race?" :lol

[spurraider21]

top coons has been piping her down. thats what i heard "many people are telling me"... lol ur takin a play from don's playbook

[Reck]

These rumblings are fabricated by a dumb twat looking for more Instagram followers.

823424689183723520

Stop using Twitter as a news source fam :bobo

Says the guy who goes to 4chan for his news feed? :lmao

But I doubt even you can say Trump doesn't devalue his wife. She's just a tool he parades when ever he needs her.

[rmt]

823635384672382976

You people obviously don't understand what it means to be a supporting wife. Her job is to be encouraging for him (when he's looking at her). Besides, it's exhausting to smile all day - was a bridesmaid once and by the end of the day, my cheeks hurt from having to smile so much for pictures, etc.

[boutons_deux]

President Trump Declared His Inauguration A "National Day Of Patriotic Devotion"

Trump said he was designating Jan. 20, 2017, as “National Day of Patriotic Devotion “in order to strengthen our bonds to each other and to our country — and to renew the duties of Government to the people.”

The language of the proclamation echoed the nationalism that was a focus of Trump’s inauguration and campaign speeches.

“A new national pride stirs the American soul and inspires the American heart,” the proclamation said. “We are one people, united by a common destiny and a shared purpose. Freedom is the birthright of all Americans, and to preserve that freedom we must maintain faith in our sacred values and heritage.”

https://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/national-day-of-patriotic-devotion?utm_term=.flp9MWlnP#.dnrDxw598

Sieg Heil! der Vaterland! USA fuck yeah and Uber Alles ('cept Russia)

Trash companies can start importing some trademarked tee-shirts, mugs, caps, bikinis, shoes from China with patriotic slogans.

[boutons_deux]

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1558/5451/products/IDW_ca0be2af-cb24-49b6-be58-87d4f0b8d875_1024x1024.jpg?v=1484685642

https://myfamilygear.com/products/inauguration-day-mug?utm_source=fb&utm_campaign=inauguration-mug-fb&utm_medium=social&variant=29378059218

a huge majority of the country prefers this mug:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/41o4LerXSHL.jpg

[pgardn]

You people obviously don't understand what it means to be a supporting wife. Her job is to be encouraging for him (when he's looking at her). Besides, it's exhausting to smile all day - was a bridesmaid once and by the end of the day, my cheeks hurt from having to smile so much for pictures, etc.

Well it's good you know your place.

Holy shit please no daughters if they live a life of smiling submission.
This is truly depressing. I get that some females like this. When I read something like this it makes my Y chromosome so proud. If my wife did not directly give me the stink eye... We, Read Males, need to be kicked in the ass sometimes. Publically.

I want a partner, not a doting slave.
Sweet Jesus...

Seriously depressing...

[boutons_deux]

Trash abandons his arm candy porn model while Michelle and Barack graciously lend a hand

http://cdn.inquisitr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Obama-Melania-Trump-1.jpg

[boutons_deux]

On Top Of the World

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FYgtGEl8uMw/WIXGrS8WXwI/AAAAAAABsXU/DhYk4uJBbuo1OAG3PADFT1GaPzqgqjWwwCLcB/s1600/donald%2Btrump%2Bdoesn%2527t%2Blove%2Bhis%2Bwife.j pg

I bet Trash demanded those implants and specified the size.

[Trill Clinton]

822808971077632002

[boutons_deux]

yawn

Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers

President Trump used his first official meeting with congressional leaders on Monday to falsely claim that millions of unauthorized immigrants had robbed him of a popular vote majority, a return to his obsession with the election’s results even as he seeks support for his legislative agenda.

The claim, which he has made before on Twitter, has been judged untrue by numerous fact-checkers. The new president’s willingness to bring it up at a White House reception in the State Dining Room is an indication that he continues to dwell on the implications of his popular vote loss even after assuming power.

Mr. Trump appears to remain concerned that the public will view his victory — and his entire presidency — as illegitimate if he does not repeatedly challenge the idea that Americans were deeply divided about sending him to the White House to succeed President Barack Obama.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Repugs will impeach and convict their embarrassing asshole as soon as they can, to get Pence.

[rmt]

Well it's good you know your place.

Holy shit please no daughters if they live a life of smiling submission.
This is truly depressing. I get that some females like this. When I read something like this it makes my Y chromosome so proud. If my wife did not directly give me the stink eye... We, Read Males, need to be kicked in the ass sometimes. Publically.

I want a partner, not a doting slave.
Sweet Jesus...

Seriously depressing...

Would you prefer she frown at him so he wonders what's wrong? Or keep smiling when he turns away even if her cheeks are probably killing her. Sorry you feel that a wife is a doting slave should she be supportive/encouraging enough as to smile at him. As far as being kicked in the ass and knowing my place - those are YOUR words.

[CosmicCowboy]

On Top Of the World

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FYgtGEl8uMw/WIXGrS8WXwI/AAAAAAABsXU/DhYk4uJBbuo1OAG3PADFT1GaPzqgqjWwwCLcB/s1600/donald%2Btrump%2Bdoesn%2527t%2Blove%2Bhis%2Bwife.j pg

I bet Trash demanded those implants and specified the size.

We have photographic proof that she had damn nice boobs before they hooked up.

[boutons_deux]

No White House Leaks Like This ... Until Now

We now have a story from The Washington Post ("The first days inside Trump’s White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-first-days-inside-trumps-white-house-fury-tumult-and-a-reboot/2017/01/23/7ceef1b0-e191-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.48b7f1a2f321)") to match yesterday's from The Times ("Rocky First Weekend for Trump Troubles Even His Top Aides (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/22/us/politics/donald-trump-aides-rocky-first-weekend.html?ref=politics&_r=0)").

They are each a classic type for a major newspaper. Throw your biggest reportorial names at the story, talk to every one and put together an over-arching from-the-inside narrative.

They are each fascinating, occasionally comic and in some ways horrifying reads.

But there is an underlying, not-made-explicit message to both which is perhaps the most important. We are three days into the administration and the Trump White House leaks not so much like a sieve as a bucket with no bottom.

The Trump White House not only leaks like crazy. It casually leaks the most intimate and humiliating details about the President - hurt feelings, ego injury, childlike behavior, self-destructive rages over tweets, media failure to credit his own grandiosity. We have simply never seen this level of leaking, with this little respect for the President's dignity or reputation, this early.

A few examples. From the Times ...


Mr. Trump grew increasingly angry on Inauguration Day after reading a series of Twitter messages pointing out that the size of his inaugural crowd did not rival that of Mr. Obama’s in 2009. But he spent his Friday night in a whirlwind of celebration and affirmation. When he awoke on Saturday morning, after his first night in the Executive Mansion, the glow was gone, several people close to him said, and the new president was filled anew with a sense of injury.
From The Post ...


Trump has been resentful, even furious, at what he views as the media’s failure to reflect the magnitude of his achievements, and he feels demoralized that the public’s perception of his presidency so far does not necessarily align with his own sense of accomplishment.

From Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/donald-trump-campaign-habits-234014) ...


One person who frequently talks to Trump said aides have to push back privately against his worst impulses in the White House, like the news conference idea, and have to control information that may infuriate him. He gets bored and likes to watch TV, this person said, so it is important to minimize that.
There is, to put it mildly, a rather clearly recurring theme:

a torqued up man-child,
alternatively rageful and fragile,
both grandiose and profoundly insecure.

To a degree it is difficult to maintain perspective since the contrast between the departed and incoming Presidents could simply not be any greater - either in the composure and steadiness of the man in question or in his associates' willingness to share his secrets with the press.

Would it even be possible to mount a leak investigation when everyone seems to be leaking?

It is a bracing picture, chilling and hilarious. But don't lose the point: no White House leaks like this, leaks this much or leaks this casually about the President's emotional weakness.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/no-white-house-leaks-like-this-until-now

[boutons_deux]

We have photographic proof that she had damn nice boobs before they hooked up.

these aren't even the same level. Sad, so Sad.

[Thread]

Well it's good you know your place.

Holy shit please no daughters if they live a life of smiling submission.
This is truly depressing. I get that some females like this. When I read something like this it makes my Y chromosome so proud. If my wife did not directly give me the stink eye... We, Read Males, need to be kicked in the ass sometimes. Publically.

I want a partner, not a doting slave.
Sweet Jesus...

Seriously depressing...

...I'll just bet it is.

[CosmicCowboy]

these aren't even the same level. Sad, so Sad.

Boo clearly doesn't know boobs. Sucks to live in his mamas single wide.

[pgardn]

Would you prefer she frown at him so he wonders what's wrong? Or keep smiling when he turns away even if her cheeks are probably killing her. Sorry you feel that a wife is a doting slave should she be supportive/encouraging enough as to smile at him. As far as being kicked in the ass and knowing my place - those are YOUR words.

I will pray for you.

You pray for me.

And we both hope our daughters will be happy.

Read again what you stated and I stated. I need a kick from my wife. I need to be challenged. Which you in fact are doing.

Partners? I don't think so. I happen to like women who challenge and have ambition outside of only motherhood. And my wife happens to love working and riding horses. I say go for it.
I would not want my daughter near a Trump type based on what the press has shown us. He may be a kind loving husband, but I somehow doubt it.

[rmt]

I will pray for you.

You pray for me.

And we both hope our daughters will be happy.

Read again what you stated and I stated. I need a kick from my wife. I need to be challenged. Which you in fact are doing.

Partners? I don't think so. I happen to like women who challenge and have ambition outside of only motherhood. And my wife happens to love working and riding horses. I say go for it.
I would not want my daughter near a Trump type based on what the press has shown us. He may be a kind loving husband, but I somehow doubt it.

I pray for everybody on this board. You are aware that Melania has her own business - jewelry line, I think, on QVC? To each his/her own - it's up to the individual what he/she wants to do - I just want our freedoms preserved so that we can each make our own choice.

[boutons_deux]

you're always out of touch

TV selling channel (s) dropped her

so the grifter moved to the White House website.

"her own business" :lol financed by? :lol

[rmt]

you're always out of touch

TV selling channel (s) dropped her

so the grifter moved to the White House website.

"her own business" :lol financed by? :lol

I hardly think she'll have time for any business being First Lady and carting Baron to school/activities. My point above was that she's hardly without ambition outside of only motherhood - she had a modeling career and jewelry line.

[boutons_deux]

Paul Ryan: ‘I’ve Seen No Evidence’ of Trump’s Claim of Voter Fraud
http://www.mediaite.com/online/paul-ryan-ive-seen-no-evidence-of-trumps-claim-of-voter-fraud/

Even the Repug leadership is "demoralizing" illegitimate Trash by exposing his LIES. :lol

Ryan could have stayed silent, but ...

[boutons_deux]

I hardly think she'll have time for any business being First Lady and carting Baron to school/activities. My point above was that she's hardly without ambition outside of only motherhood - she had a modeling career and jewelry line.

She's not even moving into the WH, but staying with her son in NYC.

I'm sure Barron has heavily armed security envoy to drive him to/from school.

[Chucho]

She's not even moving into the WH, but staying with her son in NYC.

I'm sure Barron has heavily armed security envoy to drive him to/from school.

And it wont cost us $96 million to transport him like it did Big Dick Miche and the mongoloid looking "daughters" they conceived.

[rmt]

She's not even moving into the WH, but staying with her son in NYC.

I'm sure Barron has heavily armed security envoy to drive him to/from school.

From all accounts, she's a very hands-on mother - no nanny - teaches him values, etc. From my POV (being a homeschool mom), I think that there is no better thing for kids than spending time learning from parents (as long as she can afford to - which she can). If the mom doesn't want to and wants to work/have a career, that's fine too - her decision and none of my business.

[CosmicCowboy]

From all accounts, she's a very hands-on mother - no nanny - teaches him values, etc. From my POV (being a homeschool mom), I think that there is no better thing for kids than spending time learning from parents (as long as she can afford to - which she can). If the mom doesn't want to and wants to work/have a career, that's fine too - her decision and none of my business.

No matter what you say Boo is going to hate her...she is smart, attractive, wealthy, well traveled, cosmopolitan...everything he isn't.

[TheSanityAnnex]

822808971077632002

one man has a wookie, one man has a milf.

[clambake]

one man has a wookie, one man has a milf.

interesting slip from tsa

[TheSanityAnnex]

?

[clambake]

?

think about it. do a little internal investigating. tell me what you come up with.

[Trill Clinton]

one man has a wookie, one man has a milf.

Huh?

[Splits]

822808971077632002

Holy shit.

[Splits]

think about it. do a little internal investigating. tell me what you come up with.

Was there a pizza in Michele's box?

[TheSanityAnnex]

think about it. do a little internal investigating. tell me what you come up with.
You think you said something clever so just state it.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Huh?
Who'd you rather fuck?

[clambake]

You think you said something clever so just state it.

you stated something telling. cleverness isn't necessary.

[DMX7]

Melania is going to help stop cyber bulling. She is going to cut it by 75%... simply by taking away Mr. Trump's twitter.

[Thread]

Melania is going to help stop cyber bulling. She is going to cut it by 75%... simply by taking away Mr. Trump's twitter.

I'll tell ya's though,,,the best First Lady/First Mother:::got to be Jackie Kennedy. Her & uncle Bobby take that John John---with his father on a slab, his brains blown out and what do they do? Teach how to salute deep into the night. Yeah, big shots.

[boutons_deux]

Trump dogged by insecurity over popular vote, media coverage

he's dogged by insecurity over his loss of the popular vote in the election and a persistent frustration that the legitimacy of his presidency is being challenged by Democrats and the media, aides and associates say.

Trump's fixation has been a drag on the momentum of his opening days in office, with his exaggerations about inauguration crowds and false assertions about illegal balloting intruding on advisers' plans to launch his presidency with a flurry of actions on the economy.

His spokesman Sean Spicer has twice stepped into the fray himself, including on Tuesday, when he doubled down on Trump's false claim that he lost the popular vote because 3 million to 5 million people living in the U.S. illegally cast ballots.

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/61415760238042f2ad7bc38acc2f468c/trumps-bridge-building-eclipsed-false-voter-fraud-claim?utm_source=nl-politics-daily-012417

What a sicko.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Wants The American People To Stop Protesting So He Can “Enjoy” The White House

President Trump is very upset. According to anonymous White House aides, the women's march gave him bad media coverage, which is preventing him from enjoying the White House like he feels he deserves.


The AP reported: (https://apnews.com/61415760238042f2ad7bc38acc2f468c)

After relishing in Friday’s inaugural festivities, the new president grew increasingly upset the next day by what he felt was “biased” media coverage of women’s marches across the globe protesting his election, according to a person familiar with his thinking.

Trump was particularly enraged with CNN, which he thought was “gloating” by continually running photos of the women’s march alongside the smaller crowds that attended his inauguration the day before, according to this person, one of several White House aides and associates who spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about private conversations.….

The bad press over the weekend has not allowed Trump to “enjoy” the White House as he feels he deserves, according to one person who has spoken with him.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/trump-american-people-stop-protesting-enjoy-white-house.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/24/trump-american-people-stop-protesting-enjoy-white-house.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

sniff sniff :lol

[CosmicCowboy]

I'll tell ya's though,,,the best First Lady/First Mother:::got to be Jackie Kennedy. Her & uncle Bobby take that John John---with his father on a slab, his brains blown out and what do they do? Teach how to salute deep into the night. Yeah, big shots.

Should have taught him to fly VFR.

[RD2191]

Threatening to send the feds to Chicago.:lol lame ass mother fucker

[rmt]

So we should do nothing about the killing going on in Chicago?

[RD2191]

Wtf are the feds going to do?

[rmt]

Wtf are the feds going to do?

I dunno - what do they usually do? A curfew?

[Spurminator]

Usually local crime is left to local authorities.

[SnakeBoy]

Melania is going to help stop cyber bulling. She is going to cut it by 75%... simply by taking away Mr. Trump's twitter.

http://media.giphy.com/media/SUeUCn53naadO/giphy.gif

[Trill Clinton]

the feds are already in chicago helping the government backed sinaloa cartel run their heroin operation.

[rmt]

Usually local crime is left to local authorities.

Well, they are doing a terrible job of it.

[TheSanityAnnex]

according to one person who has spoken with him.

Your spam is reaching all time lows :rollin

[TheSanityAnnex]

the feds are already in chicago helping the government backed sinaloa cartel run their heroin operation.

https://media0.giphy.com/media/BAv6CywswH8A0/200.gif#56

[pgardn]

So we got a fella running for Kansas representative spot with the following little tidbit:

The president will be front and center. Cobb, who turned down a White House job to run in the upcoming special election, plans to cast himself as a Trump loyalist — a candidate with close ties to the new administration who embraces its outsider approach.


We have got morons that can't figure out they are no longer outsiders.

[ducks]

Wtf are the feds going to do?

solve the crime problem the liberals there can not

[boutons_deux]

Trump biographer: "He's an actor who's been playing himself for his entire life"

"Sometimes he'll say things, and I'll go, 'Oh, gosh, seriously?' But at least he's willing to say it," a Trump supporter told CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/politics/donald-trump-voters-2016-election/) back in November. "All these politicians are afraid to tell the truth."

This is a common sentiment among Donald Trump voters. They may not like everything he says, but his style feels ... honest. It isn’t, of course. Trump — and his surrogates — lies with alarming alacrity (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/01/02/yes-donald-trump-lies-a-lot-and-news-organizations-should-say-so/?utm_term=.60ffe807992b). For millions of Americans, however, his crude, rambling approach is seen as refreshing, a welcome blast of political incorrectness.

The irony of Trump’s straight talk shtick is that it’s so obviously a shtick. Whether he’s peddling steaks, ties, a TV show, a fraudulent university, or a vision of America, he’s engaged in a performative act, as all salesmen are. But now the performer has crossed a line. The presidency isn’t performance art; the stakes are as real and high as they get.

And now it really matters what kind of man Trump is.

If anyone outside Trump’s family knows what’s behind his public mask, it’s his biographers, the people who’ve studied his life, followed him around, and spent hours interviewing him.

http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/25/14357474/donald-trump-2016-election-barack-obama-dantonio-mark-media

[hater]

solve the crime problem the liberals there can not

:lmao

Ducks serving knuckle sammiches :lmao

[clambake]

solve the crime problem the liberals there can not

gee ducks, i just don't think they want to. all sides

[RD2191]

solve the crime problem the liberals there can not

Okay, and how are they going to accomplish that?

[boutons_deux]

Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

Had a great meeting at CIA Headquarters yesterday, packed house, paid great respect to Wall, long standing ovations, amazing people. WIN!
6:35 AM - 22 Jan 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/823146987117772800)

16,90616,906 Retweets (https://twitter.com/intent/retweet?tweet_id=823146987117772800)

125,340125,340 likes (https://twitter.com/intent/like?tweet_id=823146987117772800)


==============

The 400 agency staffers were standing when Trump entered the room, were still standing when he came to the lectern, and then remained standing through his 15 minutes of remarks.

“You know that the

CIA will not sit down until the president tells them to,” :lol

said Yael Eisenstat, who spent more than half of her 13-year career in counterterrorism and intelligence work at the agency.

Even more offensive to many in the intelligence world than Trump’s lack of understanding about protocol, though, was the content of his remarks (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-cia-visit_us_5883f6b0e4b070d8cad312f2) ―

a rambling, campaign-style speech that

attacked the news media for their coverage of the inauguration,

a boast about his own intellect, :lol :lol :lol :lol and a

claim that almost everyone in the room had voted for him ―

all of it while standing in front of a memorial wall honoring the 117 CIA agents who have died in the line of duty over the decades.

“Unbelievable,” Wilson said. “It’s like going to do standup in Arlington Cemetery. I know how much that wall means to the people in the agency. I know how sacred that space is. It was a graceless display.”

Remember how media outlets talked about Trump’s “ability to read a room?” :lol

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/24/1624671/-SO-CRAZY-Trump-s-standing-ovation-was-him-not-allowing-the-CIA-to-sit-during-his-speech?detail=email&link_id=6&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-trumps-mentally-ill-says-paul-krugman-2&email_referrer=trumps-mentally-ill-says-paul-krugman-2&email_subject=trumps-mentally-ill-says-paul-krugman

[hater]

Okay, and how are they going to accomplish that?

They work for Trump. They will get to the bottom of the cases

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump, Republicans plan enormous tax cuts, even though it’s going to balloon the deficit

The Republican Party may throw away its fiscal responsibility mantra with its planned massive tax cuts

President Donald Trump and his administration, along with congressional Republicans, are reportedly thinking of implementing massive tax cuts that aren’t revenue neutral — ones that would cause the deficit to rise dramatically.

it will be difficult for Republicans to bring Democrats on board for a tax cut plan that increases the deficit (the one from Trump’s campaign would cost $10 trillion over a decade), could prove very difficult for the Trump team to overcome.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/republicans-plan-to-go-through-with-enormous-tax-cuts-even-though-its-going-to-balloon-the-deficit/

(REPUG) "deficits don't matter"

[CosmicCowboy]

Salon doesn't matter

[boutons_deux]

An action a day...

If you want to support Senator Warren's request to audit President Trump's finances for conflicts of interest, the Government Accountability Office says that the most effective way to be sure your support counts is to email two administrators, Katherine Siggerud and Timothy Minnelli -- and a third email address through which they're tracking people who are urging support for the audit.

You can send ONE email addressed to:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Audit for President Trump's financial concerns

Dear Ms. Siggerud and Mr. Minnelli,

I’m writing in support of Senator Elizabeth Warren's request for an audit of President Trump's finances, to prohibit conflicts of interest that would prevent him from carrying out the responsibilities of the office without corrupt influence.

Sincerely
...

[boutons_deux]

Did the US Navy docs, or whoever does it for the government, give Trash a full physical? Results?

[Trill Clinton]

824318467243462656

[CosmicCowboy]

An action a day...

If you want to support Senator Warren's request to audit President Trump's finances for conflicts of interest, the Government Accountability Office says that the most effective way to be sure your support counts is to email two administrators, Katherine Siggerud and Timothy Minnelli -- and a third email address through which they're tracking people who are urging support for the audit.

You can send ONE email addressed to:

[email protected], [email protected], [email protected]

Subject: Audit for President Trump's financial concerns

Dear Ms. Siggerud and Mr. Minnelli,

I’m writing in support of Senator Elizabeth Warren's request for an audit of President Trump's finances, to prohibit conflicts of interest that would prevent him from carrying out the responsibilities of the office without corrupt influence.

Sincerely
...



Who do we email to tell Elizabeth Warren to fuck off?

[boutons_deux]

Bill Maher opening monologue, paraphrase

"Did you see the image showing the current and former First Families?

The man with children with 3 different women was the white guy"

[boutons_deux]

Trump says he will order ‘safe zones’ for Syria :lol

President Donald Trash said on Wednesday he “will absolutely do safe zones in Syria” for refugees fleeing violence in the war-torn country.

Saying Europe had made a tremendous mistake by admitting millions of refugees from Syria and other Middle Eastern trouble spots, Trump told ABC News in an interview: “I don’t want that to happen here.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-says-he-will-order-safe-zones-for-syria/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

yes, sire, your wish is our command, sire, will there be anything else, sire? ISIS will get right on it, sire.

[TheSanityAnnex]

Bill Maher opening monologue, paraphrase

"Did you see the image showing the current and former First Families?

The man with children with 3 different women was the white guy":lol Bill Maher Former porn star Jenna Jameson has attacked Bill Maher for criticizing President Trump over his infamous “grab them by the p****” remarks, claiming she saw Maher at the Playboy mansion and he “fits right in with us ‘p**** grabbers'”.
On Sunday night, Jameson went to Twitter to accuse the host of HBO’s Real Time of hypocrisy forcriticizing Trump over the infamous remarks in the 2005 recording with Billy Bush. In the recording, now-President Trump said that when he sees a beautiful woman he feels the urge to “grab them by the p****”.
“Just watched BILL (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=13753)maher for s**** and giggles. You rail Trump about his grabbing p**** statement? lol I’ve seen you at the [Playboy] mansion,” she tweeted (https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/823328613869043713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw). Some people have instead attacked Jameson for being spurious with her claims, one Twitter user writing (https://twitter.com/the_red_dahlia/status/823330010194907138) “She only said she’s seen him in the mansion; not saying specific behavior”—to which Jameson replied (https://twitter.com/jennajameson/status/823330836959244289): “trust in fact, I saw his behavior … he fits right in with us ‘pussy grabbers.'”

[Splits]

824078446942887937


Translators around the world reported that it’s a struggle to accurately interpret Donald Trump’s speeches, statements and interviews – a challenge which shows no signs of abating as the dominant newsmaker assumes the world’s most influential office.“For translators, Trump is an unprecedented and desolating struggle,” wrote professional translator Bérengère Viennot in the French version of Slate (http://www.slate.fr/story/131087/traduire-trump-mourir-un-peu) last month.

In the widely circulated article, Ms Viennot lamented the president’s disjointed syntax, run-on sentences and limited vocabulary.

“When it comes to speaking of something other than his victory, he clings desperately to the words contained in the question put to him, without succeeding in completing his own thought,” she wrote.

“The poverty of the vocabulary is striking.”


:lol

[spurraider21]

"speaking of something other than his victory"

fake news confirmed tbh

[boutons_deux]

:lol Bill Maher Former porn star Jenna Jameson has attacked Bill Maher for criticizing President Trump over his infamous “grab them by the p****” remarks, claiming she saw Maher at the Playboy mansion and he “fits right in with us ‘p**** grabbers'”.

gold diggers and whores at the Playboy mansion are there, knowingly, to be grabbed by the pussy, at least metaphorically.

[boutons_deux]

The Internet Is Ablaze With this Amazing Video From the Netherlands Welcoming Trump

the Dutch late night satirical show Zondag has been focusing its skewering efforts as of late on the outcome of the U.S. presidential election. And while Zondag and its host Arjen Lubach may not be household names here in the United States, a recent segment they did on President Donald Trump is lighting all corners of the internet on fire for its spot-on satire.

“[Donald Trump] had a clear message to the rest of the world,” says Lubach at the segment’s opening, “‘I will screw you over big time.'”

He continued, “And because we realize it’s better for us to get along, we decided to introduce our tiny country to him.” What follows is a parody visitor video littered with insanely accurate grabs and hot takes from Trump’s candidacy and campaign, all framed around the contributions of the Netherlands to the global community.

“We speak Dutch,” says a narrator who does a frighteningly-accurate impression of POTUS himself. “It’s the best language in Europe. We’ve got all the best words. All the other languages failed. Danish… total disaster. German is not even a real language. It’s fake. It’s a fake language.”

Then, in what I can only assume is a twist of insider baseball given the big reaction from the Dutch crowd, the segment continues, “We’ve got Ponypark Slagharen, which has got to be the best ponypark in the world. It’s true. They’re the best ponys, they are. You can ride them, you can date them, you can grab ’em by the pony, it’s fantastic.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/the-internet-is-ablaze-with-this-amazing-video-from-the-netherlands-welcoming-trump/

The planet RIDICULES the toxic clown Trash :lol

[tlongII]

Trump is doing great. He is pulling Federal funding from Sanctuary Cities now. About time!

[Clipper Nation]

gold diggers and whores at the Playboy mansion are there, knowingly, to be grabbed by the pussy, at least metaphorically.
How "progressive" of you.

[boutons_deux]

BOOM: WaPo went there. (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/25/1625091/-BOOM-WaPo-went-there)

I’ve been wondering who in the mainstream press would be the first to put the pieces together and have the courage to write about Trump’s obvious mental incapacity.

Jennifer Rubin just dropped this:

Maybe Trump isn’t ‘lying’ (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/25/maybe-trump-isnt-lying/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.c0d0acd8cbb7#comments)

Schumer calls that a political problem. He gently offered (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/01/24/sen-chuck-schumer-worries-trump-facts/96982270/), “In general you cannot run a country unless you know the facts. If you’re going to believe your own facts, whether it’s about what Putin is doing in the world or what jobs or companies are doing here, you aren’t going to be able to govern, so I worry about it.”

The shorter version: If he cannot accept reality, he is not fit to carry out the duties of the president.

We are not calling — yet — for invocation of Section 4 of the 25th Amendment.

(“Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”)

We are calling for someone, perhaps his children, to see if they can prevail upon him to stop behaving in this way, for if not, legitimate worries will mount about whether he is able to carry out his duties.

We also are saying that Republicans need to be pressed to state their view:

Is he lying or is he unable to separate what he wants to believe and what exists, literally, in front of his eyes?

The first makes him morally unfit, and was the basis upon which many #NeverTrumpers refused to vote for him.

If the latter, they — and we all — have a constitutional crisis the likes of which we have never seen.

With Trump, however, we have learned the past provides no guarantees.


http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/25/1625091/-BOOM-WaPo-went-there?detail=email&link_id=6&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-trumps-top-staffers-have-their-own-private-email-server-trump-is-still-using-his-unsecured-phone&email_referrer=trumps-top-staffers-have-their-own-private-email-server-trump-is-still-using-his-unsecured-phone___158341&email_subject=boom-wapo-went-there

yes B O O M !

Wapo will not be allowed in the WH press pool :lol

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/25/maybe-trump-isnt-lying/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.2ccc9bdb6405#comments

[boutons_deux]

Narcissistic personality disorder (http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/definition/con-20025568)

Narcissistic personality disorder is one of several types of personality disorders. Personality disorders are conditions in which people have traits that cause them to feel and behave in socially distressing ways, limiting their ability to function in relationships and other areas of their life, such as work or school.

If you have narcissistic personality disorder, you may come across as conceited, boastful or pretentious. You often monopolize conversations. You may belittle or look down on people you perceive as inferior. You may feel a sense of entitlement — and when you don't receive special treatment, you may become impatient or angry. You may insist on having "the best" of everything — for instance, the best car, athletic club or medical care.

At the same time, you have trouble handling anything that may be perceived as criticism. You may have secret feelings of insecurity, shame, vulnerability and humiliation. To feel better, you may react with rage or contempt and try to belittle the other person to make yourself appear superior. Or you may feel depressed and moody because you fall short of perfection.

Many experts use the criteria in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published by the American Psychiatric Association, to diagnose mental conditions. This manual is also used by insurance companies to reimburse for treatment.

DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder include these features:



Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Exaggerating your achievements and talents
Being preoccupied with fantasies about success, power, brilliance, beauty or the perfect mate
Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
Requiring constant admiration
Having a sense of entitlement
Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations
Taking advantage of others to get what you want
Having an inability or unwillingness to recognize the needs and feelings of others
Being envious of others and believing others envy you
Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner


Although some features of narcissistic personality disorder may seem like having confidence, it's not the same. Narcissistic personality disorder crosses the border of healthy confidence into thinking so highly of yourself that you put yourself on a pedestal and value yourself more than you value others.

http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/narcissistic-personality-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20025568

Thanks, Repugs. You've followed St Ronnie The Diseased Useful Idiot with Trash the Diseased ASSHOLE

[boutons_deux]

It’s No Trump Tower, but White House Has ‘Beautiful’ Phones

President Trump, who flew across the country on hundreds of nights during the 2016 campaign to sleep in his own bed, has now spent five straight days in the unfamiliar surroundings of the White House. His aides said privately that he seemed apprehensive about the move to his new home, but Mr. Trump has discovered there is a lot he likes.

“These are the most beautiful phones I’ve ever used in my life,”

“The world’s most secure system,” he added, laughing. “The words just explode in the air.” :lol

What he meant was that no one was listening in and recording his words. :lol

“They have a lot of board rooms,” :lol

“I’ve had people come in; they walk in here and they just want to stare for a long period of time,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html

===========

President Trump Reportedly Still Using His Favorite Unsecured Cellphone [Updated] (http://gizmodo.com/is-president-trump-still-using-his-favorite-unsecured-c-1791627966)

http://gizmodo.com/is-president-trump-still-using-his-favorite-unsecured-c-1791627966?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+gizmodo%2Ffull+%28Gizmodo%29

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btw, Twitter is very insecure, so a hacker could cause some real $Bs in stock market moves, and course BigFinance would pay anything to a hacker who could do it.

Will Trash be stopped from tweeting?

[boutons_deux]

Secret Service agent: I wouldn’t take a bullet for Trump

A longtime U.S. Secret Service member wrote in a Facebook post that she would not take a bullet for President Trump (http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/315887-secret-service-agent-i-wouldnt-take-a-bullet-for-trump) in open defiance of the

Hatch Act, which forbids Secret Service agents and other federal employees from making partisan statements on social media.

Kerry O’Grady wrote the post shortly before the election, in support of Hillary Clinton:

“As a public servant for nearly 23 years, I struggle to not violate the Hatch Act. So I keep quiet and skirt the median.

To do otherwise can be a criminal offense for those in my position.

Despite the fact that I am expected to take a bullet for both sides.

But this world has changed and I have changed.

And I would take jail time over a bullet or an endorsement for what I believe to be disaster to this country and the strong and amazing women and minorities who reside here. Hatch Act be damned. I am with Her.”


O’Grady deleted the post several days later, after at least one complaint was filed to her superiors. However, she recently has also changed her Facebook cover photo to images of the Women’s March in Denver, writing “all of these women represent me! Proud to say it! #nasty.”

http://usuncut.com/news/secret-service-agent-wouldnt-take-bullet-trump/

[spurraider21]

She should be fired.

[boutons_deux]

Trump regularly interrupts high-level meetings to take phone calls from ‘Morning Joe’: report

Trash President Donald Trump watches a lot of cable news (https://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/crazy-grandpa-yelling-at-the-tv-internet-mocks-trump-after-oreilly-segment-inspires-carnage-tweet/), and it seems his fixation with what’s on TV is so strong that he’ll interrupt important meetings to chat with top cable news hosts.

A Politico report (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/buzzfeed-trump-media-234197) on Trump’s relationship with the media claims that Trump will regularly “take phone calls from MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough” despite being in the middle of “high-level meetings.”

“He has told political allies that the news media is his best foil because his supporters don’t trust mainstream outlets,” Politico writes.

“Yet, he chats with network executives behind the scenes, trying to shape his coverage, and he obsesses over ratings.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-regularly-interrupts-high-level-meetings-to-take-phone-calls-from-morning-joe-report/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[RandomGuy]

You're not doing shit, botox. Just spamming a Spurs forum with opinion articles and being a partisan ballsack cleaner like RandomGuy

Jeez dude, cry for attention louder.

[Mitch]

Jeez dude, cry for attention louder.

You still have the avatar of the people citi bank bought? Fucking clown.

[Clipper Nation]

DSM-5 criteria for narcissistic personality disorder include these features:



Having an exaggerated sense of self-importance
Expecting to be recognized as superior even without achievements that warrant it
Believing that you are superior and can only be understood by or associate with equally special people
Having a sense of entitlement
Expecting special favors and unquestioning compliance with your expectations
Behaving in an arrogant or haughty manner





Wow, that sounds an awful lot like you, Boutards. You should get that checked out.

[boutons_deux]

Trash is a cretin, illiterate, inarticulate, ignorant

Muir covers a lot of topics dear to you Trash fellators' hearts

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transcript-abc-news-anchor-david-muir-interviews-president/story?id=45047602

[boutons_deux]

Trump White House Statement Distorts Wages Figure On Its First Day

the White House said that eliminating power plant climate rules, a clean water rule and other environmental regulations would “greatly help American workers, increasing wages by more than $30 billion over the next 7 years.”

The statement, included on the White House’s website (https://www.whitehouse.gov/america-first-energy) to justify Trump’s drive to eliminate environmental rules (http://www.climatecentral.org/news/trumps-cabinet-could-fuel-warming-crisis-21040) affecting the energy sector, was a distortion.

And if it was true, it would represent wage gains equivalent to less than $20 per American every year.

The figure was based on a paper produced by a Louisiana State University finance professor in 2015 on behalf of a fossil fuel industry nonprofit. :lol

The paper, which was not peer reviewed, investigated potential economic impacts

if all protected federal lands were opened to unlimited oil, gas and coal mining. :lol

https://cleantechnica.com/2017/01/26/trump-white-house-statement-distorts-wages-figure-first-day/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IM-cleantechnica+%28CleanTechnica%29

[boutons_deux]

Demonstrators flood the streets of Philadelphia to protest Donald Trump at GOP retreat

Throngs of protesters took to the streets for the third day of massive protests since Trump's inauguration

Sonald Trump took his first official trip as president aboard a newly rechristened Air Force One Thursday. When the 45th president landed in Philadelphia, he was greeted by throngs of protesters who took to the streets for the third day of massive protests since Trump’s inauguration six days ago.

Protesters had gathered for a second day of demonstrations against congressional Republicans, who were visiting the city of brotherly love for an annual retreat. Trump arrived in Philadelphia to address Republican lawmakers and broke with a long-held bipartisan tradition by refusing to take any questions from the elected officials of his own party.

Amid petty battles over crowd sizes and viewership of his inauguration, Trump has taken to setting the controversial agenda he presented on the campaign trail into motion — leaving Republican congressional leaders in the awkward position of dodging questions about torture, rampant voter fraud and who will pay for a wall on the U.S. – Mexico border.

Partially organized by PA Home Care Workers (https://www.facebook.com/PAHomeCareWorkers/) and SEIU Healthcare Pennsylvania (https://www.facebook.com/seiuhealthcarepa/), hundreds of demonstrators protested the GOP’s plan to repeal the Affordable Care Act by holding an activism workshop followed by a march to Thomas Paine Plaza Thursday morning.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/26/demonstrators-flood-the-streets-of-philadelphia-to-protest-donald-trump-at-gop-retreat/

[boutons_deux]

President Donald Trump’s ABC Interview And The 13 Most WTF Moments
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/president-donald-trumps-abc-interview_uk_5889be03e4b0de43f92cc25c?section=poli tics&

:lol Trash can't even FAKE being coherent, intelligent, articulate.

He's fucking sicko LOSER

[TheSanityAnnex]

:lol online 24/7 spamming political takes on sports board
:lol calling others losers

[boutons_deux]

:lol online 24/7 spamming political takes on sports board
:lol calling others losers

There's just so much Trash, Repug SHIT to throw at you people.

[boutons_deux]

Trump and congressional Republicans share a laugh about murders in Chicago

After cherry-picking a stat that reinforces his grim view of American cities (https://thinkprogress.org/trump-inaugural-speech-debunked-f1e79dcfabf2#.m7qogwhdp), Trump turned to Philadelphia specifically. “Here in Philadelphia, the murder rate has been steady — I mean just, terribly increasing,” Trump said.

That’s false. According to data from the Philadelphia Police Department (https://www.phillypolice.com/crime-maps-stats/), the murder rate in Philadelphia has actually steadily decreased over the last decade:


After cherry-picking a stat that reinforces his grim view of American cities, Trump turned to Philadelphia specifically. “Here in Philadelphia, the murder rate has been steady?—?I mean just, terribly increasing,” Trump said.

That’s false. According to data from the Philadelphia Police Department, the murder rate in Philadelphia has actually steadily decreased over the last decade:


Trump then turned to Chicago?—?a city he threatened to “send the Feds!” intoearlier this week to combat the “carnage” occurring there.

“What’s going on in Chicago?” Trump said. “I said the other day, what the hell is going on?”

In response to Trump’s question, somebody in the court yelled, “Democrats!”

The room burst out in laughter. Trump smirked and said, “There’s a lot of truth to that.”


https://thinkprogress.org/trump-and-congressional-republicans-share-a-laugh-about-murders-in-chicago-31d6efa83dae#.p33tx3wim


Funny stuff, dead knitters, huh?

[boutons_deux]

Steve Bannon: The Media Should ‘Keep Its Mouth Shut and Just Listen For Awhile’

“The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” Mr. Bannon said during a telephone call.

“I want you to quote this,” Mr. Bannon added. “The media here is the opposition party. They don’t understand this country. They still do not understand why Donald Trump is the president of the United States.”

http://www.mediaite.com/online/steve-bannon-the-media-should-keep-its-mouth-shut-and-just-listen-for-awhile/

All kneel, Don The Con and his fatass sidekick ogre are here

[Ball Buster]

In a lot of pictures I've seen lately, his son Baron appears to be sad along with his wife Melania. Or at least their smiles seem to be forced. Strange Dynamic happening there

[Thread]

In a lot of pictures I've seen lately, his son Baron appears to be sad along with his wife Melania. Or at least their smiles seem to be forced. Strange Dynamic happening there

I imagine. She never believed he'd win. She was happy just be in that Tower with all her shit. Then he comes home with another "toy." She is probably ready to brain him.

[boutons_deux]

The leaks coming out of the Trump White House cast the president as a clueless child

Two recent examples:

1. This (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/donald-trump-presidency.html?smid=tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0) from the New York Times today on Trump's impulsiveness:


Mr. Trump’s advisers say that his frenzied if admittedly impulsive approach appeals to voters because it shows that he is a man of action. Those complaining about his fixation with fictional voter fraud or crowd counts at his inauguration, in their view, are simply seeking ways to undercut his legitimacy.

Yet some of his own advisers also privately worry about his penchant for picking unnecessary fights and drifting off message.

They talk about taking away his telephone or canceling his Twitter account, only to be dismissed by a president intent on keeping his own outlets to the world.


2. This (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-first-days-inside-trumps-white-house-fury-tumult-and-a-reboot/2017/01/23/7ceef1b0-e191-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.b53d949202b4) from WaPo on Trump's inauguration crowd estimates:


Trump’s advisers suggested that he could push back in a simple tweet. Thomas J. Barrack Jr., a Trump confidant and the chairman of the Presidential Inaugural Committee, offered to deliver a statement addressing the crowd size.But Trump was adamant, aides said.

Over the objections of his aides and advisers — who urged him to focus on policy and the broader goals of his presidency — the new president issued a decree: He wanted a fiery public response, and he wanted it to come from his press secretary.

===========

what we know about Trump from his presidential campaign is that

some of his top staffers — most notably Kellyanne Conway — often communicated to the boss via the media.

What that strategy suggests is that Trump is influenced at least as much — and, in truth, likely more — by reading the sniping of his aides on background (meaning without their names attached) in the news than he is by private conversations. That

the best way to reach him, change his mind or otherwise bend his ear is through a public airing of grievances (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS7-jcsB_WQ).

Trump has shown that his tendency to obsessively consume media — especially cable television — is unchanged in the six days since he has become president.

He appears to be making policy decisions via things he watches or reads. (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/25/donald-trump-is-making-major-policy-pronouncements-based-on-what-he-sees-on-tv/?utm_term=.43ed62fd77e1)

(Remember Trump's famous/infamous statement that

he got his military information and advice “mostly from the shows.” (http://www.politico.com/story/2015/12/donald-trump-shows-military-advice-jeb-bush-217023))

Trump is both deeply proud and hugely image-conscious.

Having to read and watch allegedly loyal “aides” casting him as a sort of feckless child constantly in need of guidance wouldn't seem to be the sort of thing that would sit well with him.


It doesn't take much imagination to conjure up an image of an irate Trump surrounded by the various clips of his aides driving the perception that he badly needs to be managed at every moment. If Trump's entire #brand is centered on being the best/classiest/smartest, these sort of leaks fundamentally undermine that image.

And we're only six days into his presidency!

The frequency — and nature — of these leaks are yet another reminder that the Trump presidency is nothing like anything that's come before it. There is no blueprint. We're through the looking glass.

But my educated guess is that these leaks must be driving Trump absolutely crazy.

And when he gets mad, history suggests he will try to get even. And quickly.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/26/the-leaks-coming-out-the-trump-white-house-cast-the-boss-as-a-clueless-child/?utm_term=.510dfd5a5859&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

:lol What a fucking disaster this asshole is.

Thanks, "white working class". Trash and Repugs gonna screw all y'all, sooner or later.

[boutons_deux]

no way to know if the twit account was verified as WH worker, but if it were ... very credible disaster aka Don The Con Trash


West Wing leaker goes dark after pulling back the curtain: Trump "irrational", staff "demoralized" (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625349/-West-Wing-leaker-silenced-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-Trump-irrational-staff-demoralized)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/356825/story_image/LeakerLogo.jpg?1485418702

On Wednesday, a twitter account was briefly active before being shut down. The tweeter, @WhiteHouseLeak, is an anonymous mid-level staffer in the West Wing of the White House, who described a chaotic atmosphere, a demoralized staff, and an unfocused and irrational President incapable of processing information.

The staffer is a Republican who apparently worked on the Trump campaign, but is now thoroughly disillusioned by what has been going on. During his brief presence he was tweeting to real reporters, including Fox News and the New York Daily News.

It is impossible to know if the leaker shuttered the account himself or was outed. The tweets have all been deleted, but thanks to screencaps by MC Rantz Hoseley (@MysteryCr8tve) and an imgur by vapensiero (http://imgur.com/a/TSrPJ) they were preserved before vanishing. The presentation here is, I believe, in strict chronological order.

I have omitted a few irrelevancies, but most of the 37 total tweets from the account are shown below.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/26/1625349/-West-Wing-leaker-silenced-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-Trump-irrational-staff-demoralized?detail=email&link_id=1&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_referrer=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_subject=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized

[boutons_deux]

Republicans retreat into confusion, disarray as Trump creates new headaches (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625424/-Republicans-retreat-into-confusion-disarray-as-Trump-creates-new-headaches)

House and Senate Republicans began the week expecting specific guidance on what will replace the Affordable Care Act, how quickly taxes might get slashed and how the government will pay for a new border wall and infrastructure plan.

But on Wednesday, Trump offered up a fresh set of distractions with a flurry of announcements and early-morning tweets. […]

That left Republicans scrambling with few details and fewer answers at a moment when they had intended to secure the opposite. […]

The first signs of trouble came at midday Wednesday, when Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) and Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.) faced reporters in a hotel ballroom here at the start of a two-day party strategy session.

They came prepared to talk about health care and the tax code but were barraged with questions about Trump’s latest moves.

----

Never mind the distractions and the disagreements with Trump—the Republican congressional body isn't united:

Interviews with more than a dozen GOP lawmakers revealed a clash of expectations between rank-and-file lawmakers to get started in disassembling Obamacare and party leaders who are all too aware of the obstacles and difficult choices ahead.


The rabble rousers want full repeal and nothing else and damn the torpedoes.

So does the new boss—when he has time to think about it between tweets.

http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625424/-Republicans-retreat-into-confusion-disarray-as-Trump-creates-new-headaches?detail=email&link_id=5&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_referrer=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_subject=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized

[boutons_deux]

http://images.dailykos.com/images/357318/story_image/Trump_as_Narcissus_smaller.jpg?1485489511

[boutons_deux]

Carl Bernstein: Republicans are openly discussing Trump's 'emotional maturity, stability' (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/1/26/1625550/-Carl-Bernstein-Republicans-are-openly-discussing-Trump-s-emotional-maturity-stability)


http://images.dailykos.com/images/357001/story_image/GettyImages-53249066.jpg?1485456115

Veteran Beltway journalist Carl Bernstein told CNN Wednesday that discussions in Washington this week have been, "unlike anything I have seen in 50 years as a reporter." Adam Withnall writes (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-carl-bernstein-republicans-emotional-voter-fraud-inauguration-count-a7547301.html):


“I am hearing from Republicans, and other reporters are as well, that there is open discussion by members of the President of the United States’ own party about his emotional maturity, stability,” he said.

“People are saying that his psyche is driving the news cycle.

“We are in uncharted territory here and we ought to talk to some of our colleagues about what they are hearing.

[I think it’s a really fruitful area because] I’ve never heard [people] talking about a president… the way this subtext is now a talking point.”


Donald Trump's mental (in)stability is absolutely driving the news cycle, just the way it did during the campaign.

Then it seemed freakish, bizarre, at times amusing (among many other adjectives). Now it's just downright dangerous.

Every day is another day in, OMG, Can you believe he just did that and he's "leading" our country?

As Bernstein said of Trump’s twisted 3-5 million fraudulent voters claim:

“Something very disturbing is going on here.

I talked about the tweets being an MRI of his psyche.

These remarks are likewise an MRI of his psyche,

and it’s not a very pretty place.”


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/01/26/1625550/-Carl-Bernstein-Republicans-are-openly-discussing-Trump-s-emotional-maturity-stability?detail=email&link_id=9&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_referrer=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized-2&email_subject=west-wing-leaker-goes-dark-after-pulling-back-the-curtain-trump-irrational-staff-demoralized

Trash is imminent roadkill.

I posted a R Reich's conversation with a Repug friend, where the Repug said, paraphrase

"Repugs will get Trash to sign all their big stuff ASAP, then impeach and convict him, to get Pence"

[SnakeBoy]

President Trump’s job approval rating hits 59 percent
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/25/president-trumps-approval-rating-rises-57-percent/

[tlongII]

#Winning!

[boutons_deux]

President Trump’s job approval rating hits 59 percent
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jan/25/president-trumps-approval-rating-rises-57-percent/

Poll: 36% approve of Trump's job performance

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-approval-rating-quinnipiac-poll/index.html

[tlongII]

^Fake News^

[boutons_deux]

The IGNORANCE is astounding, but matches all the TV interviews I heard with Trash supporters before the election

Macomb v media: voters who read little news think Trump had a great first week

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/donald-trump-michigan-voters-media?CMP=fb_gu

[rmt]

Poll: 36% approve of Trump's job performance

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/27/politics/trump-approval-rating-quinnipiac-poll/index.html



still with these polls?

Registered voters:
Republican 25%
Democrat 34%
Independent 34%
Other/DK/NA 7%

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us01262017_demos_Uhmk49b.pdf/

[SnakeBoy]

The IGNORANCE is astounding, but matches all the TV interviews I heard with Trash supporters before the election

Macomb v media: voters who read little news think Trump had a great first week

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/donald-trump-michigan-voters-media?CMP=fb_gu

The only news here is that a reporter was sent out on a field assignment to talk to the regular people.

[Spurminator]

still with these polls?

Registered voters:
Republican 25%
Democrat 34%
Independent 34%
Other/DK/NA 7%

https://poll.qu.edu/images/polling/us/us01262017_demos_Uhmk49b.pdf/

According to Gallup, 26% of Americans identify as Republican.

What kind of difference do you think an additional 1% would have made in this poll?

[Clipper Nation]

Actually, according to the latest Gallup poll, 28% of Americans identify as Republican and only 25% identify as Democrat:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

So they undersampled Republicans by 3% and oversampled Democrats by a whopping 9% compared to the actual population. Add in the fact that the Republicans currently enjoy the most political power they've had since Reconstruction, and the Q-Poll's biased sample is even more laughable.

[Spurminator]

You're right, I misread the year on my source.

[Thread]

I'll tell you who's absolutely livid is Bernstein. LOL. That fucker is mad. He doesn't know whether to shit or go blind over Trump. He sits there on that CNN set waiting his turn and is actually vibrating in his seat, leaning forward as the turn moves. I tell ya's I love this shit. CNN doesn't know quite how to behave with Trump. And every time they appear to get comfy Trump will light them up like with Bannon saying "Shut up." LMAO. Bannon does all the wet work for Trump. Media knows this and they want to kill him.

And Trump, he's gorgeous in his ignorance. He climbs the steps into Air Force One for the first time and just disappears into the doorway without the proverbial turn and wave to the camera. Poor CNN, they just sat there bemoaning the fact that he hadn't turned. Fuckin' Trump, what a ball bustin' bastard.

CNN/Media want Hillary Clinton so bad.

What an absolutely wonderful week. Been like what, over six 6 years this past June since I've been so happy and contented.

God bless the United States of America and the men who made her free.

[spurraider21]

Actually, according to the latest Gallup poll, 28% of Americans identify as Republican and only 25% identify as Democrat:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/15370/party-affiliation.aspx

So they undersampled Republicans by 3% and oversampled Democrats by a whopping 9% compared to the actual population. Add in the fact that the Republicans currently enjoy the most political power they've had since Reconstruction, and the Q-Poll's biased sample is even more laughable.the poll numbers regarding what % of the population is democrat or republican should be representative of the popular vote, not the electoral college

[Clipper Nation]

the poll numbers regarding what % of the population is democrat or republican should be representative of the popular vote, not the electoral college
The :cry Electoral College :cry excuse would hold more water if the Democrats didn't also get BTFO in the downticket elections.

[spurraider21]

The :cry Electoral College :cry excuse would hold more water if the Democrats didn't also get BTFO in the downticket elections.i wasn't making an excuse for the election in that post. i'm just saying a poll of how many americans lean which way or the other wouldn't be a poll that necessarily parallels the electoral college

[boutons_deux]

At the Philly Repug meeting, Trash said he wanted to eliminate the electoral college. Repugs talked him out of it.

He's so fucking ignorant, stupid, UNserious.

[ducks]

He knoewth more then though

[boutons_deux]

President Trump's daily routine: Twitter, cable TV and plotting to change America

Donald Trump has swapped Trump Tower for the White House but his habits of little sleep, prolific tweeting and watching ‘the shows’ remain unchanged

Since moving into the White House on Friday, Trump has posted his first Twitter messages each day at 6.53, 7.35, 6.38, 6.11, 7.10 and 6.04am, reportedly from an unsecured Android phone (https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/26/trump-android-samsung-phone-security-hacks).

Trump, who happens to have a long history with professional wrestling, can’t get enough of “the shows”. He rises before six, the New York Times reported (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/politics/president-trump-white-house.html?_r=0) this week, and watches cable TV in the residence and later in a small dining room in the west wing. His favourites appear to be Fox News and MSNBC, in particular Morning Joe with Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, both of whom he speaks to frequently.

it appears that Trump was in front of a screen watching Bill O’Reilly’s show on Fox News, which carried an item about soaring crime in Chicago. At 9.25pm, quoting the same statistics used by O’Reilly, the president tweeted: (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/824080766288228352) “If Chicago doesn’t fix the horrible ‘carnage’ going on, 228 shootings in 2017 with 42 killings (up 24% from 2016), I will send in the Feds!”

Once, asked whom he turns to for guidance on matters of national security, he replied: “Well, I watch the shows.” (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/07/26/no-one-watches-more-cable-tv-than-donald-trump/?utm_term=.a931fcb72146)

“Doesn’t spend time on introspection or meeting advisers, much less chewing through briefing books. He’s there in front of a big TV and with an unsecured cellphone, tweeting away.”

during his days as a property tycoon in New York, “he was on the phone constantly to reporters. Now he tweets. Whatever degree of filtering reporters provided at the time, now he’s got a better megaphone with Twitter … Distract, distract, distract. He’s distracting now to keep attention away from the implications of his policies. It’s a hugely ramped-up version of what he did in his whole career.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jan/27/donald-trump-white-house-twitter-cable-news-sleep?CMP=fb_gu

Trash carefully protecting, cultivating his ignorance, solipsism.

He has no idea of the damage he's done, will be doing, and doesn't fucking care.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Targets Muslims, Refugees In New Executive Order Issued On Holocaust Remembrance Day

“We don’t want them here,” he said.

Trump approved the refugee ban amid the biggest refugee crisis in history (http://www.unhcr.org/en-us/news/press/2016/3/56e6e3249/syria-conflict-5-years-biggest-refugee-displacement-crisis-time-demands.html) and on Holocaust Remembrance Day, which honors the millions of people killed during World War II (https://www.ushmm.org/remember/days-of-remembrance/remembrance-day-calendar), many of whom tried to flee to the U.S. but were turned away (https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005267).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-bans-muslims-refugees-executive-order_us_588bcaf3e4b0b065cbbc07ed

Great timing! a real showman.

[boutons_deux]

Trump executive order prompts Google to recall staff

Google has recalled travelling staff members to the US after an executive order from President Donald Trump restricting entry for nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries.

Google has told the BBC it is concerned about the order and any measures which could block great talent from the US.

President Trump's order could mean that thousands of citizens from Iran, Iraq, Syria, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya may not be allowed to board flights bound for the US.

The new restrictions will have a major impact on technology companies that hire skilled staff from all over the world on special H1-B visas.

There have already been reports of "green card" holders, who are allowed to work in the US, being prevented from getting on flights

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38781420

Trash fucking up, and Repugs happy to let him fuck up.

[boutons_deux]

— An ABC News transcript of its interview with President Donald Trump on Wednesday quoted him as saying that two people were fatally shot in Chicago while his predecessor, Barack Obama, was giving his farewell speech at Chicago's McCormick Place — a claim shown to be false by Police Department records.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-reportedly-claimed-2-were-shot-dead-in-chicago-during-obamas-speech-but-it-never-happened/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Repugs didn't what this ignorant asshole, but now they got him, they realize he's another extremely USEFUL IDIOT

The VRWC has surrounded him with their hitmen

Frightened by Donald Trump? You don’t know the half of it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/nov/30/donald-trump-george-monbiot-misinformation?CMP=fb_gu

One the many payoffs to BigOil, Trash and Tillerson dropping sanctions on Russia to close the $500B deal with America's motral enemy Putin.

No doubt, the insider buying of Exxon, etc will be very well-timed.

America is so fucked and so unfuckable.

[Spurminator]

lol Peter Thiel



"I think one thing that should be distinguished here is that the media is always taking Trump literally. It never takes him seriously, but it always takes him literally. ... I think a lot of voters who vote for Trump take Trump seriously but not literally, so when they hear things like the Muslim comment or the wall comment, their question is not, 'Are you going to build a wall like the Great Wall of China?' or, you know, 'How exactly are you going to enforce these tests?' What they hear is we're going to have a saner, more sensible immigration policy."

[boutons_deux]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x2YLS80Nmls

[boutons_deux]

lol Peter Thiel

Silicon Valley billionaires like Thiel are buying up New Zealand as their escape hideouts when the villagers come for them with torches and pitchforks.

Thiel is a sea-steader

https://www.wired.com/2015/05/silicon-valley-letting-go-techie-island-fantasies/

[boutons_deux]

Johns Hopkins’ Top Psychologist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump

One of the nation’s top psychologists just broke one of his profession’s ethics rules to give President Donald Trump a professional diagnosis.

John D. Gartner (http://www.johngartner.com/), a psychotherapist who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, told US News (http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw) that he believes

Trump has “malignant narcissism,” which is incurable, and different from narcissistic personality disorder.

“Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president,” Gartner said, citing (http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw) his movements and behavior, pointing out the president’s tendency for grandiosity, sadism, aggressiveness, paranoia, and anti-social behavioral patterns.

“We’ve seen enough public behavior by Donald Trump now that we can make this diagnosis indisputably,” Gartner added.


Malignant Narcissists will go to great lengths to achieve their aim.

They can be intelligent, high functioning (hold an important job for example) soft-spoken, charming, tearful/seemingly emotional, gracious, well mannered, kind and have the ability to form relationships.

They may lie, falsely accuse, dramatize, smear, cheat, steal, manipulate, accuse, blame or twist to get what they want and feel justified in doing so.

Because they are entitled, egocentric and desperate, they do not experience it as wrong.

They are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted.

Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other.

They lack guilt (https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/guilt)or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated.


President Trump’s aides previously reported that their boss watches an excessive amount of television (http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/donald-trump-is-addicted-to-the-media-and-its-worrying-his-aides/), mostly out of obsession for how he is perceived by the media.

Salon’s Matthew Rosza compared the timestamps of Trump’s tweets about topics in the news and found that they coincided with the airing of various network news programs talking about those same subjects.

http://usuncut.com/politics/top-psychologist-just-diagnosed-trump-mental-disorder/

[boutons_deux]

Trump boots top officials — but includes Steve Bannon — in reshuffled National Security Council

another series of executive orders on Saturday, Pres. Donald Trump restructured the National Security Council (NSC) and created a position on it for senior aide and former Breitbart.com CEO Stephen K. Bannon.

The Post reported that Bannon has been given a regular seat on the National Security Council’s principals committee, which will include the nation’s highest ranking security officials, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of State.

Unlike previous presidential administrations,

Trump’s Saturday memo specified that the

director of national intelligence and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs !!!

will only attend principals committee meetings that pertain to their specific “responsibilities and expertise.”

The changes, Trump said, will bring “a lot of efficiency and, I think, a lot of additional safety.”

On the council, Bannon will be privy to some of the country’s most highly classified military and intelligence secrets.

Typically membership on the council is reserved to the president and key administrators and is, as columnist and author Dan Froomkin said Saturday night (https://twitter.com/froomkin/status/825483105620332545) “off limits to political hacks.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/trump-boots-top-officials-but-includes-steve-bannon-in-reshuffled-national-security-council/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Holy Shit, Trash is really fucking crazy, kicking pros off NSC and installing a white supremacist political hack (ex-Goldman Sacks).

[spurraider21]

Salon’s
:lmao

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CH48vUfWUAAVD5D.png

[DMX7]

825329757646618624

Can someone actually spell check his constant rants against the NY Times?

[Thread]

825329757646618624

Can someone actually spell check his constant rants against the NY Times?

Only pussies & assholes lodge the spelling indictment. We all know what he meant.

[boutons_deux]

‘Who is Cleaning House?’ Kellyanne Conway Wants Media Outlets to Fire People Critical of Trump

“Who is cleaning house,” Conway asked.

“Which one is going to be the first network to get rid of these people who said things that were just not true?

Talk about fake news, talk about alternative facts.”

"Not one network person has been let go.

Not one silly political analyst and pundit who talked smack all day long about Donald Trump has been let go.

They’re on panels every Sunday, they are on cable news every day.

Who is the first editorial writer, where is the first blogger that will be let go that embarrassed his or her outlets?

We know all their name"

============

Donald J. Trump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)
(https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)✔@realDonaldTrump (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump)

Somebody with aptitude and conviction should buy the FAKE NEWS and failing @nytimes (https://twitter.com/nytimes) and either run it correctly or let it fold with dignity!
7:00 AM - 29 Jan 2017 (https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/825690087857995776)

http://www.mediaite.com/online/who-is-cleaning-house-kellyanne-conway-wants-media-outlets-to-fire-people-critical-of-trump/

short form: "If you're against Trash, you're lying"

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GOP and Democrats agog at Trump’s ‘stone cold crazy’ Bannon-included National Security Council plan

“Chairman of Joint Chiefs and DNI treated as afterthoughts in Cabinet level principals meetings. And where is CIA?? Cut out of everything?” wrote former United Nations Ambassador Susan Rice on Sunday, according to the New York Daily News. (http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-blasted-dems-gop-putting-bannon-nsc-article-1.2958861)

“This is stone cold crazy,” Rice continued. “After a week of crazy. Who needs military advice or intel to make policy on ISIL, Syria, Afghanistan, DPRK?”

“Trump loves and trusts the military so much he just kicked them out of the National Security Council and put a Nazi in their place,” she said.

Press Secretary Sean Spicer :lol responded by complaining about Rice’s tone, which he said was “clearly inappropriate language from a former ambassador.” :lol

The questioning wasn’t only from the opposite side of the aisle, however. Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said he’s concerned about the reorganization.

“I am worried about the National Security Council who are the members of it and who are the permanent members of it,” he told CBS’s Face the Nation on Sunday. “The appointment of Mr. Bannon is something which is a radical departure from any National Security Council in history.”

Republican former Defense Sec. Robert Gates said that Trump’s reshuffle of the NSC is a “big mistake,” although he is more concerned, he said, about the removal of the Joint Chiefs chairman and director of intelligence that the addition of Bannon.

“(A)dding people…never really bothers me,” he told ABC’s This Week on Sunday. The removal of key officials, he said, is his “biggest concern.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/01/gop-and-democrats-agog-at-trumps-stone-cold-crazy-bannon-included-national-security-council-plan/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

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https://scontent-ord1-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16298595_408318059512329_262687129081502993_n.png? oh=bb9f79d10825e4b30e729e58b7f87b3c&oe=59090990

[boutons_deux]

It took 3 years for George W. Bush to hit 50% disapproval. Trump is there after 8 days. (http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/29/14432250/trump-disapproval-50-percent)

[Splits]

825688837611540482

lol

[spurraider21]

good thing he announced his candidacy from an escalator and not stairs

[dbestpro]

So when will democrats realize that they cannot scream and insult their way back into power? They must start articulating their positions and stop ranting. The media must find a way to not look so one sided or the democrats will lose more seats. Pulling harder left is a recipe for disaster. They need to find there way back to the center. Ryan of Ohio is an example of someone who can talk to middle America. They have got to move on from the old guard and bring in new young moderates.

[baseline bum]

So when will democrats realize that they cannot scream and insult their way back into power? They must start articulating their positions and stop ranting. The media must find a way to not look so one sided or the democrats will lose more seats. Pulling harder left is a recipe for disaster. They need to find there way back to the center. Ryan of Ohio is an example of someone who can talk to middle America. They have got to move on from the old guard and bring in new young moderates.

LOL screaming and insulting is exactly how the Republicans got back in power.

[dbestpro]

LOL screaming and insulting is exactly how the Republicans got back in power.

When you look through the yes of middle America you might see a different picture. Point is, at some point there needs to be a meaningful dialogue and a little less lol.

[spurraider21]

When you look through the yes of middle America you might see a different picture. Point is, at some point there needs to be a meaningful dialogue and a little less lol.yes because that's how the republicans won in 2016. meaningful dialogue

[Mitch]

Johns Hopkins’ Top Psychologist Releases Terrifying Diagnosis of President Trump

One of the nation’s top psychologists just broke one of his profession’s ethics rules to give President Donald Trump a professional diagnosis.

John D. Gartner (http://www.johngartner.com/), a psychotherapist who teaches at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, told US News (http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw) that he believes

Trump has “malignant narcissism,” which is incurable, and different from narcissistic personality disorder.

“Donald Trump is dangerously mentally ill and temperamentally incapable of being president,” Gartner said, citing (http://www.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2017-01-27/does-donald-trumps-personality-make-him-dangerous?src=usn_tw) his movements and behavior, pointing out the president’s tendency for grandiosity, sadism, aggressiveness, paranoia, and anti-social behavioral patterns.

“We’ve seen enough public behavior by Donald Trump now that we can make this diagnosis indisputably,” Gartner added.


Malignant Narcissists will go to great lengths to achieve their aim.

They can be intelligent, high functioning (hold an important job for example) soft-spoken, charming, tearful/seemingly emotional, gracious, well mannered, kind and have the ability to form relationships.

They may lie, falsely accuse, dramatize, smear, cheat, steal, manipulate, accuse, blame or twist to get what they want and feel justified in doing so.

Because they are entitled, egocentric and desperate, they do not experience it as wrong.

They are determined to gratify their wishes and furious if thwarted.

Their desire can be so consuming that there is little comprehension of, respect for or ability to empathize with the other.

They lack guilt (https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/guilt)or remorse and tend to feel or pronounce that it is they who have been mistreated.


President Trump’s aides previously reported that their boss watches an excessive amount of television (http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/donald-trump-is-addicted-to-the-media-and-its-worrying-his-aides/), mostly out of obsession for how he is perceived by the media.

Salon’s Matthew Rosza compared the timestamps of Trump’s tweets about topics in the news and found that they coincided with the airing of various network news programs talking about those same subjects.

http://usuncut.com/politics/top-psychologist-just-diagnosed-trump-mental-disorder/

:lol Botox with the salon again, how do you think Trudeau is feeling now after lefty and his syrian friends shot up a mosque

[baseline bum]

When you look through the yes of middle America you might see a different picture. Point is, at some point there needs to be a meaningful dialogue and a little less lol.

You got in power by Trump throwing tantrums and saying Clinton was the founder of ISIS. Holy fuck, meaningful dialog. :lmao

[Thread]

You got in power by Trump throwing tantrums and saying Clinton was the founder of ISIS. Holy fuck, meaningful dialog. :lmao

You took up with the wrong motherfucker/Bannon.

I've no sympathy for you.

[Thread]

Good morning, Arizona!!!

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Princes William and Harry may not be so keen to meet a man who claimed on a radio interview just a few days after their mother’s death (https://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/princess-diana-donald-trump?utm_term=.ryZGBD7Wm#.mlVLKoYjV) that he could have had sex with her.

Howard Stern asked him: “You could have got her right? You could’ve nailed her.” Trump replied: “I think I could have.” Nice.

Of Kate Middleton, he tweeted (https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/247757867032117248?lang=en): “Who would not take Kate’s picture and make lots of money if she does the nude sunbathing thing.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jan/30/petition-queen-uk-citizens-travel-ban-bend-knee-hate?CMP=fb_gu

[boutons_deux]

:lol Botox with the salon again

:lol Salon?

goddam, all you kneejerk cretins are fucking stupid.

[boutons_deux]

SCIENTISTS BAFFLED BY MCCONNELL AND RYAN’S ABILITY TO STAND UPRIGHT WITHOUT SPINES

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/borowitz-spine-1200.jpg


WASHINGTON — Calling it a “medical mystery of the first order,” scientists are baffled by the ability of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Speaker Paul Ryan to stand upright without the benefit of spines.

Doctors at the University of Minnesota Medical School, who have been studying the skeletal structures of both Republicans for months, believe that

their ability to stand, walk, and even break into a brisk trot when confronted by reporters’ questions is “virtually inexplicable.”

“The fact that they can do these things without the aid of spines makes McConnell and Ryan anomalies in the animal kingdom,”

said Dr. Davis Logsdon. “According to everything medical science teaches us, their bodies should be collapsing to the ground in two heaps.”

As the Minnesota scientists have struggled to solve the medical conundrum presented by the two invertebrate leaders,

one theory that has gained traction is what Logsdon calls “the startled-deer hypothesis.”

“Just as a deer freezes in the headlights of a car and briefly appears statue-like, we believe that

Ryan and McConnell’s bodies may retain their rigid structure out of terror alone,”

he said. “In other words,

fear is performing the function that a spine performs in other people.”

Calling it “just a theory,” Logsdon said that the anatomies of McConnell and Ryan require further study, and that

there was growing public support for both men to be dissected.
http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/scientists-baffled-by-mcconnell-and-ryans-ability-to-stand-upright-without-spines

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Kellyanne Conway Has An Epic Meltdown And Compares Donald Trump To Jesus

Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway blew up on Fox News Sunday and went on a rant which

compared President Trump and his staff to Jesus all because the White House thinks the media is biased against them

In case you didn’t catch the reference, Donald Trump is Jesus walking around with the gaping, seeping wounds that are caused by “biased media coverage.”

Kellyanne Conway and the rest of the White House are the disciples who are turning the other cheek while being assaulted by the media.

Conway’s rant demonstrates how the White House can shrug off facts and invent their own reality.

They are believers, not in God, but in Donald Trump as their almighty political messiah.For anyone who thinks that this administration is going be defeated by facts and reality, Kellyanne Conway’s rant should serve as a wake-up call.

This White House appears to believe that they are on a mission to save America through the gospels of Trump.

Their loyalty is to Trump, not the American people.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/29/kellyanne-conway-epic-meltdown-compares-donald-trump-jesus.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29 (http://www.politicususa.com/2017/01/29/kellyanne-conway-epic-meltdown-compares-donald-trump-jesus.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29)

The entire Trash staff is mentally ill. It's a FUCKING KOOLAID DRINKING CULT

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Just the first 2 minutes. Excellent work as editing of content is executed:::

wkZxIpMDEAM

[Mitch]

http://i.imgur.com/XKOxp.gif

Piece of trash thinking salon the daily beast are credible sources. :lol

[boutons_deux]

Harley-Davidson Reportedly Cancels Trump's Visit Over Planned Protests

A Harley-Davidson factory in Milwaukee backed out of hosting President Donald Trump later this week due to plans for large protests, an anonymous administration official told CNN (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/31/politics/donald-trump-milwaukee-harley-davidson/).

Trump had been scheduled to sign executive orders related to manufacturing at the factory on Thursday.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/report-harley-davidson-uncomfortable-trump-visit-protests?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

Trash expect demonstrations everywhere he goes, for 4 years.

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California state senator demands to see Melania Trump's immigration documents

Renewed focus on status of First Lady as President's 'travel ban' sparks uproar

A California state senator has called for the White House to release Melania Trump (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/melania-trump)’s immigration documents as part of an objection to President Donald Trump (http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/DonaldTrump)’s hardline immigration policies.

Nancy Skinner, a Democrat, made the call in reaction to the leader’s executive order to restrict funds to “sanctuary cities” (http://www.independent.co.uk/news/donald-trump-immigrants-sanctuaries-city-funding-seattle-new-york-los-angeles-chicago-a7429576.html)— areas controlled by local authorities that refuse to enforce federal immigration policies.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/melania-trump-immigration-documents-muslim-ban-nancy-skinner-california-state-senator-berkeley-a7554501.html

[Splits]

:lol Botox with the salon again, how do you think Trudeau is feeling now after lefty (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=6896) and his syrian friends shot up a mosque

You mean this Syrian refugee?

http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/half/public/2017/01/31/543935-quebec-city-shooter-reuters.png?itok=OE0Z0h-r


Fucking dumbass

[Mitch]

You mean this Syrian refugee?

http://static.dnaindia.com/sites/default/files/styles/half/public/2017/01/31/543935-quebec-city-shooter-reuters.png?itok=OE0Z0h-r


Fucking dumbass

'sup splits, still ignoring Trump winning PA after your ass got shown? :lol

[spurraider21]

https://i.redd.it/ol7ea42tl1dy.gif

[boutons_deux]

President Trump hints at possible reversal of Medicare drug negotiation pledge

President Trump may have promised to negotiate drug prices through Medicare, but Big Pharma has changed his mind

After meeting with pharmaceutical executives and lobbyists on Tuesday, President Trump seems to have reversed his campaign pledge to use Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices (http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/1/31/14453740/trump-medicare-prescription-drugs).

Calling Medicare “the biggest dog in the market,” Trump hinted that he wouldn’t be negotiating on behalf of millions of Americans.

“So what I want, we have to get lower prices, we have to get even better innovation and I want you to move your companies back into the United States. And I want you to manufacture in the United States. We’re going to be lowering taxes, we’re going to be getting rid of regulations that are unnecessary.”

While this statement isn’t a definitive reversal of his stance, it continues the post-election trend of Trump moving farther to the right on Medicare than his campaign rhetoric indicated.

Earlier this month President Trump called for reversing this policy and allowing the government to directly negotiate with drug manufacturers,

arguing that under the current system Big Pharma is “getting away with murder. We’re the largest buyer of drugs in the world, and yet we don’t bid properly, and we’re going to save billions of dollars.” :lol :lol :lol

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/01/president-trump-hints-at-possible-reversal-of-medicare-drug-negotiation-pledge/

Trash will allow Ryan to fuck up ACA, Medicare, Medicaid, by NOT giving "better coverage FOR EVERYONE, and cheaper" :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump Golf Golf Course Ordered to Pay $5.7 Million to Ex-Members

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida golf course owned by President Donald Trump must immediately repay $5.7 million to 65 former members who had been denied membership refunds after he bought the club in 2012, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

District Judge Kenneth Marra ruled that Trump National Golf Club in Jupiter violated contracts the members had signed with the previous owner, Ritz-Carlton. The average payment will be about $87,000 if the ruling is upheld.

http://lawnewz.com/high-profile/trump-golf-golf-course-ordered-to-pay-5-7-million-to-ex-members/

Trash and his orgs are total slimebags

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Planned to Fire and Replace Every Inspector General in the Government

The House Oversight Committee has gotten hold of an email confirming a Washington Post story about Donald Trump's plan to fire and replace all the Inspectors General of every government agency.

Luckily, the committee leadership has dug deep into this and confirmed that it's nothing to worry about: (https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/02/01/trump-transition-email-shows-initial-effort-to-oust-all-inspectors-general/)

House Oversight Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) said that the White House had told him

the phone calls to inspectors general were a “mistake” and the work of a “junior person.” :lol

The inspectors general were later told to disregard the initial calls.

“I want to let you know that I’ve spoken with the general counsel at the White House on this topic,” Chaffetz said. “I think it’s safe to say

that was a mistake, they wish it hadn’t happened, it’s not their approach, it’s not their intention.” :lol LIE!!


http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/donald-trump-planned-fire-and-replace-every-inspector-general-government

[boutons_deux]

Holy shit, Trash is insane

Trump Threatening Mexico With Military Invasion If They Don’t Deal With ‘Bad Hombres’

"You aren't doing enough to stop them," Trump said.

"I think your military is scared.

Our military isn't, so I just might send them down to take care of it."

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/01/trump-threatening-mexico-military-invasion-deal-bad-hombres.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[DarrinS]

https://i.redd.it/ol7ea42tl1dy.gif

:lmao

[cd021]

Just saw trump talking about Fredrick Douglass:lmao:lmao
It's like he was winging a book report back in grade school.

He clearly has no idea who he is.

[spurraider21]

Just saw trump talking about Fredrick Douglass:lmao:lmao
It's like he was winging a book report back in grade school.

He clearly has no idea who he is.
lol daily show talking points

[boutons_deux]

Holy shit, Trash is insane

The Washington Post reported (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?postshare=6261485997638889&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.d6e33839367d) on Wednesday that a scheduled hour-long call with Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull went horribly awry when Trump used the call to brag about winning the election, and to balk at adhering to a refugee agreement that he made earlier.

Trump also told Turnbull that out of calls with four other world leaders that day, his conversation with the leader of Australia was “the worst call by far.” :lol

According to the Post:


“This is the worst deal ever,” Trump fumed as Turnbull attempted to confirm that the United States would honor its pledge to take in 1,250 refugees (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/australian-pm-says-not-sure-how-many-refugees-us-will-accept/2017/01/31/28378f14-e836-11e6-903d-9b11ed7d8d2a_story.html?utm_term=.35c804d87aba) from an Australian detention center.

Trump, who one day earlier had signed an executive order temporarily barring the admissions of refugees, complained that he was “going to get killed” politically and accused Australia of seeking to export the “next Boston bombers.”


Telling Turnbull he didn’t “want these people,” Trump hinted that it was his “intention” to honor the agreement signed at the Pentagon to accept 1,250 refugees, though the phrase was carefully worded so as to avoid having to follow through.

To honor the agreement, Turnbull said, all the U.S. would have to do was subject the 1,250 refugees to the normal nine-step process refugees normally have to endure before being accepted onto U.S. soil.

Trump, however, vowed to subject each refugee to his “extreme vetting” procedures (https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/no-gday-mate-on-call-with-australian-pm-trump-badgers-and-brags/2017/02/01/88a3bfb0-e8bf-11e6-80c2-30e57e57e05d_story.html?postshare=6261485997638889&tid=ss_fb&utm_term=.d6e33839367d) alluded to in his controversial executive order. He then proceeded to end the call 35 minutes early.

http://usuncut.com/politics/trump-shattered-relations/


:lol :lol :lol :lol :lol

[Fabbs]

^^ Good for Donny.

As for any leftover butthurt, Australian said US relationship remained strong.
Just media trying to stir up chit.

[boutons_deux]

^^ Good for Donny.

As for any leftover butthurt, Australian said US relationship remained strong.
Just media trying to stir up chit.

... the entire planet, getting news daily about America, was astonished that America elected an asshole, and they're are astonished everyday by his assholiness. Trash is horrible for the American brand, for the planet's confidence, respect for America.

You're naive to think Trash is not hurting relations with allies, trading partners.

[boutons_deux]

Trump slams 'dumb' refugee deal

'Do you believe it? The Obama administration agreed to take thousands of illegal immigrants from Australia.Why? I will study this dumb deal!' he wrote.

http://www.skynews.com.au/news/top-stories/2017/02/02/pm-reportedly-had-heated-call-with-trump.html

Trash "study" something? :lol

:lol "thousands"? :lol

[boutons_deux]

In the dying days of Barack Obama's presidency,

Australia and the United States agreed to a deal to essentially swap refugees (http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2016/11/12/us-considering-deal-to-resettle-detainees-from-nauru-manus-isla/).

In exchange for an as-yet-undisclosed number of refugees from Central America,

Australia would send refugees from their Pacific Ocean immigration facilities on Nauru and Manus Island to the United States.

Australia's policy of mandatory detention for unauthorised immigration arrivals has drawn outrage worldwide, with reports from the detention facilities -- deaths, sickness, injury, sexual assault, protests, even refugees self-immolating and attempting suicide -- becoming a millstone around the government's neck in recent years

In farcical scenes earlier this week, press secretary Sean Spicer seemed to confirm the deal was still firmly on, :lol

before another White House source told Australia's ABC the swap was not locked in. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation reported (http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-02-02/us-issues-conflicting-claims-on-australian-refugees-deal/8234442) a follow-up written statement from the White House reiterated Trump had not decided on the deal yet.

It caps off a truly bad week for the Australian Prime Minister, who was widely criticised at home for being one of the few western leaders to not publicly oppose Trump's travel restrictions on those Middle Eastern countries

Criticism of Turnbull's response was swift. Federal opposition leader Bill Shorten came out strongly, calling Trump's plan "appalling" and that it "ought to be ended as soon as possible." Constituents started joking that he had "no spine" (https://twitter.com/search?q=turnbull%20spine&src=typd). Cartoonists even portrayed him as a puppet being controlled by Trump

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3n6opTVYAEbMNO.jpg

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/2017/02/01/how-donald-trump-destabilised-australias-prime-minister-with-one-phone-call/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217+CID_5ef 8ba314356a6c6b5add7705c9c2003&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=HuffPost%20Australia&ncid=newsltushpmgnews

[boutons_deux]

U.S. Military Probing More Possible Civilian Deaths In Yemen Raid

Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations, officials said.

U.S. military officials told Reuters that Trump approved his first covert counterterrorism operation without sufficient intelligence, ground support or adequate backup preparations.

As a result, three officials said, the attacking SEAL team found itself dropping onto a reinforced al Qaeda base defended by landmines, snipers, and a larger than expected contingent of heavily armed Islamist extremists.

One of the three U.S. officials said on-the-ground surveillance of the compound was “minimal, at best.”

“The decision was made ... to leave it to the incoming administration, partly in the hope that more and better intelligence could be collected,” that official said.

two MV-22 Osprey vertical takeoff and landing aircraft to extract the SEALs.

One of the two suffered engine failure,

(fucking Ospreys, what long-term, mortal disaster)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-military-probing-more-possible-civilian-deaths-in-yemen-raid_us_5892bf5de4b0af07cb6b8930?&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217+CID_5ef 8ba314356a6c6b5add7705c9c2003&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Reuters&

and the WH says, "It's all Obama's fault" :lol

Trash is really enjoying the WH and all the machines, toys to him, he gets to fly around in. What a deal! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Trump wants less scrutiny on violent white supremacists

Instead, the exclusive focus of a Homeland Security program would be Islamic extremism.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/us-military-probing-more-possible-civilian-deaths-in-yemen-raid_us_5892bf5de4b0af07cb6b8930?&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217&utm_content=The%20Morning%20Email%20020217+CID_5ef 8ba314356a6c6b5add7705c9c2003&utm_source=Email%20marketing%20software&utm_term=Reuters&

:lol This is like dubya and dickhead saying

"We were attacked by OBL in Afghanistan, so let's invade Iraq for BigOil"

US citizen terrorists have killed way more Americans that Muslim foreigners, so let's not go after US citizen terrorists.

[boutons_deux]

‘Who’s next? Switzerland?’: Internet dumbfounded by Trump fighting with US ally Australia

Alena Smith @internetalena (https://twitter.com/internetalena)

First, he came for Australia, and I said nothing, because I was so confused
7:40 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/internetalena/status/826968506050584576)


Tom Tomorrow (https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow)
(https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow)✔@tomtomorrow (https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow)

Takes a certain sort of idiot-savant genius to start a foreign policy crisis with Australia.
9:16 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/tomtomorrow/status/826992658107076609)


https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/797103116051169280/DPa4PaUH_normal.jpgRichard Deitsch (https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch)
(https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch)✔@richarddeitsch (https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch)

Before today, I thought loving Australia was something all Americans could agree upon.
9:12 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/richarddeitsch/status/826991756721922050)


https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1652138520/souhan_normal.jpegJim Souhan (https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib)
(https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib)✔@SouhanStrib (https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib)

We must all understand that Australia poses an existential threat.
9:05 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/SouhanStrib/status/826989957185155072) · Houston, TX (https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A1c69a67ad480e1b1)



Karen Tumulty (https://twitter.com/ktumulty)
(https://twitter.com/ktumulty)✔@ktumulty (https://twitter.com/ktumulty)

Time to build an ocean and make Australia pay for it.
9:03 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/826989334079348737)



Bill Weir (https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN)
(https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN)✔@BillWeirCNN (https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN)

This would be the perfect time to make Ryan Lochte Ambassador to Australia
9:20 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/BillWeirCNN/status/826993694024822784) · Manhattan, NY (https://twitter.com/search?q=place%3A01a9a39529b27f36)


https://twitter.com/StephanieCarvin/status/826991700899946496/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

Jeff Shesol JeffShesol (https://twitter.com/JeffShesol)

We are going to build a Great Barrier Reef, and Australia is going to pay for it
7:43 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/JeffShesol/status/826969172215267328)


Andy Hones @HonesWireless (https://twitter.com/HonesWireless)

I fall asleep for two hours and Trump's already pissed off Australia.
9:45 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/HonesWireless/status/826999909257773056)


Clint Hollingsworth @Wanderclint (https://twitter.com/Wanderclint)

Pretty soon, if our President keeps calling our allies, the USA will be that guy that NO one invites to parties. #Australia (https://twitter.com/hashtag/Australia?src=hash) #TRUMP (https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRUMP?src=hash)
9:46 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/Wanderclint/status/827000308135899140)


Peter Leite MasterTheBig3 (https://twitter.com/MasterTheBig3)

What an embarassment to have this orange menace treat the leaders of Australia and Mexico like reality show contestants #resist (https://twitter.com/hashtag/resist?src=hash)
9:46 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/MasterTheBig3/status/827000200531152896)


Sean Kent (https://twitter.com/seankent)
(https://twitter.com/seankent)✔@seankent (https://twitter.com/seankent)

Dear Australia,

We fucking hate him too.

Love,
America
9:50 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/seankent/status/827001107046076416)


Karen Tumulty (https://twitter.com/ktumulty)
(https://twitter.com/ktumulty)✔@ktumulty (https://twitter.com/ktumulty)

Time to build an ocean and make Australia pay for it.
9:03 PM - 1 Feb 2017 (https://twitter.com/ktumulty/status/826989334079348737)

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/whos-next-switzerland-internet-dumbfounded-by-trump-fighting-with-us-ally-australia/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

:lol All y'all's orange asshole is the RIDICULED BUTT OF JOKES all around the planet.

... but, but, but .... Hillary was bad! :lol

[boutons_deux]

Cleaning Up the Mess

the State Department went into damage control mode.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C3oJ3f9UcAA1CB1.jpg:small (https://twitter.com/jamesmassola/status/826984334062084098/photo/1)




https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/724372268864823296/nQ_M3gqO_normal.jpgJames Massola (https://twitter.com/jamesmassola)
(https://twitter.com/jamesmassola)✔@jamesmassola (https://twitter.com/jamesmassola)


Statement from the US Embassy in Canberra. Trump Whitehouse will honour the refugee deal. Wow.



http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cleaning-up-the-mess?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29


:lol

bu but but .... Hillary was BAD! :lol

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https://i.redd.it/ol7ea42tl1dy.gif

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Pentagon Points Finger of Blame at Trump

Some missions just go wrong. On its own I'm not sure we could draw more conclusions than that.

But the comments in the Reuters article make clear that some military officials are willing to point the finger of blame at the President.

Again, that is a big deal whether it is a fair characterization or not.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/pentagon-points-finger-of-blame-at-trump?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

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Trump Says He Heard Frederick Douglass Was Alive from Betsy DeVos (http://links.newyorker.mkt4334.com/ctt?kn=2&ms=MTAzNTI3NzAS1&r=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&b=0&j=MTEwMDE2Mjg3MQS2&mt=1&rt=0)

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Borowitz-Frederick-Douglass-600.jpg

WASHINGTON --- After raising eyebrows by suggesting that he believed that Frederick Douglass was still alive, Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that everything he knew about Douglass had come from his Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos.

“Betsy told me all about Frederick Douglass,” Trump told reporters. “I think she’s going to be a fantastic Education Secretary.

She really made Frederick Douglass come alive.”

Before his breakfast meeting to mark Black History Month, Trump told DeVos, “Betsy, write down everything you know about black history so I can read it at the meeting. She took out a pen and did it in, like, three minutes. She’s fantastic.”

Impressed by the one-sentence summary that DeVos wrote about Frederick Douglass, Trump said that he was now considering Douglass for a top White House post.

“Based on what Betsy said about him, we could really use Fred’s energy around here,” Trump said.

He lashed out at the press for reporting that Frederick Douglass was dead, calling those reports “very unfair.”

“That’s a nasty thing to say about someone who is alive and doing a great job,” he said. “This is why the press is failing and they’re failing very, very badly.”


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heard-frederick-douglass-was-alive-from-betsy-devos (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heard-frederick-douglass-was-alive-from-betsy-devos)

Trash should also know that Freddy did a number on Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. :lol very unfair

[Trill Clinton]

This guy

827159368353280000

[SnakeBoy]

This guy

827159368353280000

Like Honest Abe he can't resist telling the truth

[boutons_deux]

U.S. Dept. of Labor quietly takes down their Wells Fargo complaint webpage—Sen. Warren busts them (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/1/1628698/-U-S-Dept-of-Labor-quietly-takes-down-their-Wells-Fargo-complaint-webpage-Sen-Warren-busts-them)

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) seems to have quietly taken down its website page for Wells Fargo’s employee complaints. As of this moment, it instead gives you this. (https://www.dol.gov/wellsfargo)

Senator Elizabeth Warren says she went to check up on where the Department of Labor was in its investigations into Wells Fargo’s fraudulent practices and business environment, and couldn’t find the Wells Fargo page. Sen. Warren sent a letter to the DOL for an update on the department’s status in regards to Wells Fargo. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-27/u-s-senator-says-government-s-wells-fargo-website-taken-down)


“I am concerned that the Department of Labor has removed the website where Wells Fargo’s employees who were victims of the company’s fraudulent actions could file labor complaints or report illegal activity,” Warren wrote to acting Labor secretary Edward Hugler in the letter dated Thursday.

In September, the Labor Department said it started an investigation into Wells Fargo after the lender settled regulators’ claims that it created legions of unauthorized accounts for customers to reach sales targets. The complaint website was set up after Warren and a group of Democratic lawmakers asked the agency to look into whether the company violated wage and overtime rules while pushing branch workers to meet quotas.


In recent weeks, Wells Fargo employees have been coming out from the shadows (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/9/21/1572730/-Wells-Fargo-workers-coming-out-of-the-woodwork-to-say-that-they-pointed-out-frauds-and-were-fired) to talk openly about the fraud-inspiring work environment fostered at the banking giant. But don’t worry, like everything else with this administration, no one knows anything about anything that’s happening with anything. (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-01-27/u-s-senator-says-government-s-wells-fargo-website-taken-down)

Steve Barr, a spokesman for the Labor Department, said the website was taken down on Jan. 9, before Trump’s inauguration.

He said he didn’t know the reason and that the

agency hasn’t been informed by the White House about how the new administration wants to proceed on investigating Wells Fargo.
:lol Let me guess! :lol

“We have been given no direction from the current administration on matters involving Wells Fargo," Barr said.


One reason is probably money. Lots and lots of money.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/01/1628698/-U-S-Dept-of-Labor-quietly-takes-down-their-Wells-Fargo-complaint-webpage-Sen-Warren-busts-them?detail=email&link_id=5&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-unapologetic-kansas-air-patrol-officer-to-legislator-this-b-needs-to-swing-from-a-tree&email_referrer=unapologetic-kansas-air-patrol-officer-to-legislator-this-b-needs-to-swing-from-a-tree&email_subject=unapologetic-kansas-air-patrol-officer-to-legislator-this-b-needs-to-swing-from-a-tree

This kind of SHIT will be standard Secretrary Pudenda

[FuzzyLumpkins]

Trump Says He Heard Frederick Douglass Was Alive from Betsy DeVos (http://links.newyorker.mkt4334.com/ctt?kn=2&ms=MTAzNTI3NzAS1&r=MTQzNTk4NzA3ODYzS0&b=0&j=MTEwMDE2Mjg3MQS2&mt=1&rt=0)

http://www.newyorker.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Borowitz-Frederick-Douglass-600.jpg

WASHINGTON --- After raising eyebrows by suggesting that he believed that Frederick Douglass was still alive, Donald Trump revealed on Wednesday that everything he knew about Douglass had come from his Education Secretary nominee, Betsy DeVos.

“Betsy told me all about Frederick Douglass,” Trump told reporters. “I think she’s going to be a fantastic Education Secretary.

She really made Frederick Douglass come alive.”

Before his breakfast meeting to mark Black History Month, Trump told DeVos, “Betsy, write down everything you know about black history so I can read it at the meeting. She took out a pen and did it in, like, three minutes. She’s fantastic.”

Impressed by the one-sentence summary that DeVos wrote about Frederick Douglass, Trump said that he was now considering Douglass for a top White House post.

“Based on what Betsy said about him, we could really use Fred’s energy around here,” Trump said.

He lashed out at the press for reporting that Frederick Douglass was dead, calling those reports “very unfair.”

“That’s a nasty thing to say about someone who is alive and doing a great job,” he said. “This is why the press is failing and they’re failing very, very badly.”


http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heard-frederick-douglass-was-alive-from-betsy-devos (http://www.newyorker.com/humor/borowitz-report/trump-says-he-heard-frederick-douglass-was-alive-from-betsy-devos)

Trash should also know that Freddy did a number on Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates. :lol very unfair





Doing the same stupid shit after it has failed for over a year is the sign of a true moron, boutox.

[boutons_deux]

Doing the same stupid shit after it has failed for over a year is the sign of a true moron, boutox.

fools you every time :lol

[FuzzyLumpkins]

fools you every time :lol

:lol nice delusions. If you are going to make such claims then you need to have people actually arguing it at face value and we both know that is not the case.

you should try matching the color of the font to the actual background for starters. It's so obvious it's sad that you think it works.

[boutons_deux]

:lol nice delusions. If you are going to make such claims then you need to have people actually arguing it at face value and we both know that is not the case.

you should try matching the color of the font to the actual background for starters. It's so obvious it's sad that you think it works.

nah, too much work (the b/g color isn't a standard color), and I, mercifully, gotta give you suckers a chance

[lefty]

https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/21a62ad6-191b-464e-b187-ebee269b66bd-large.png

[boutons_deux]

I don't hear Trash/Repugs talking about 17 opioid deaths/day, but that's BigPharma profits, so expected

[boutons_deux]

Trump Is Throwing Tantrums And Humiliating Himself When Confronted By World Leaders

It is being reported from inside the government, that Donald Trump is throwing tantrums during calls with world leaders when he is confronted about his policies.

“A government official familiar with the call says President’s Trump’s interactions with foreign leaders have been,’at this stage naive.

In that, he keeps suggesting that we will have the best relationship ever with a broad departure of countries,

but there is no substance to back it up.

When he encounters a policy challenge, like with Turnbull, he responds with a tantrum.”

Trump isn’t only a national disgrace. It is a safe guess that he is turning the world’s only superpower into a laughingstock in the eyes of the rest of the world.

President Trump has no idea how to govern, and clearly no concept of diplomacy or give and take.

The behavior described by the government official is embarrassing and not appropriate for the President Of The United States

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/02/02/trump-humiliates-throwing-tantrums-confronted-world-leaders.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+politicususa%2FfJAl+%28Politi cus+USA+%29

[boutons_deux]

You’re Not Crazy, The Leaks Coming Out Of The Trump Admin Really Are YUGE

Many of these unflattering details about the turmoil at the White House and inner psychology of the President have come from a steady stream of anonymous leaks. Presidential historians and veteran political journalists agree they’re unlike anything they’ve seen before.

“I can’t recall having seen a situation where there appears to be so much leaking of such an intimate nature in such a short period of time,”

“I think typically there is an enormous amount of care on the part of the White House staff not to do anything to undermine the President,

he’d seen “nothing remotely like” the leaks coming out of the Trump White House over the course of his career.

Less than two weeks into the Trump administration, staffers at federal agencies have been taking a similar approach. Drafts of executive orders have been leaked to the press days before they are made public.

Anonymous officials said (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/donald-trump-rush-immigration-order-chaos.html?_r=0) that Homeland Security Secretary Gen. John Kelly learned that Trump was moving forward with his travel ban on immigrants and refugees because an official on his briefing call happened to see Trump signing it on television.

Trump is blazing ahead with huge policy changes like the travel ban, reportedly without consulting officials essential to the successful rollout of those policies.

Trump “basically ran against the establishment and the establishment works for him now and they’re not all contented employees,”

“I think they feel less of the initial loyalty they’d feel to a new president because he’s basically told the world he doesn’t think much of them.”

Trump administration’s “tricky relationship with the truth” has also pushed career civil servants to try to “set the record straight.”
“He’s kind of created a whole government of fact checkers,”

Senior Trump staffers who could quash such leaks are stymied by their own lack of government experience and the ongoing clashes between warring factions trying to get the President’s ear,

the leaks only serve as confirmation of the aggressive, bull-in-a-china-shop attitude of a President who wears his opinions on his sleeve.

“What’s remarkable is that you don’t even need those leaks coming out of the White House,” Steinhorn said. “This stuff is really front and center: his psychology, his insecurities, his neuroses, what keeps him up at night—he’s not hiding that from anyone. There is no filter with this man.”

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/presidential-historians-political-journalists-trump-administration-leaks-unprecedented?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29

What a fucking disaster.

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump is freezing out National Security Council experts

The president has created a barrier separating himself from those with the most policymaking knowledge

National Security Advisor Michael Flynn is stacking the National Security Council with friends of the Trump administration in a move insiders fear will create a wall between President Trump and the intelligence community.

the goal was to reduce the size of Flynn’s staff so as to “run a very precise and orderly and quick process,” but multiple sources told Politico that staffers that they were concerned this organization structure will lead to an insular policymaking process within the White House.

This isn’t the first time that reports have leaked about federal staffers and policymakers being displeased with how the Trump administration is conducting himself.

Many talk with Obama’s recently-departed personnel over how they can resist the president’s initiatives or created social media accounts to anonymously leak their dissatisfaction with the new president’s policies and actions

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/02/donald-trump-is-freezing-out-national-security-council-experts-report/

what a fucking disaster.

Trash is so insecure, has to on top, he's surrounded by sycophants

[boutons_deux]

President Trump and his staff are distrustful of each other and everyone else in the government

After a slew of leaks came from the White House, the Trump administration is now paranoid about sharing information

In President Trump’s first two weeks of office, damaging reports involving White House aides and staffers have steadily emerged from 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Embarrassing stories — from the the president’s unhealthy TV diet (http://www.salon.com/2017/01/24/donald-trump-is-addicted-to-the-media-and-its-worrying-his-aides/) to his tendency to throw temper tantrums (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/01/the-trump-white-house-is-already-disseminating-propaganda.html) — have been sourced through people reportedly close the president. Now, a longtime Trump adviser has leaked to Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-aides-distrust-confusion-leaks-234550) that the president is paranoid about all the leaks streaming from his office.

“Trying to nail down who the leakers are is like trying to count the cockroaches under the couch,”

Some Trump staffers told Politico (http://www.politico.com/story/2017/02/trump-aides-distrust-confusion-leaks-234550) that they were shocked by the amount of secrets leaking from the White House. “People are just knifing each other,”

Kellyanne Goebbels, Trump’s senior counselor, told Fox News that no one in the Trump administration is responsible for the leaks. :lol

Trump and his team are reportedly distrustful of government bureaucrats, whom they see as loyal to former President Obama. “Every time something got to one of the agencies, it got out,”

Agency staff reportedly think the White House’s unwillingness to share information is causing implementation problems with the executive orders. The result is an undeniable disconnect between the White House and federal agencies.

http://www.salon.com/2017/02/02/president-trump-and-his-staff-are-distrustful-of-each-other-and-everyone-else-in-the-government/

[boutons_deux]

Mounting dissent: Former diplomat reveals officials fear Trump is a serious national security threat

“There’s nothing unusual about the entire national security bureaucracy of the United States feeling like their commander in chief is a threat to U.S. national security. That happens all the time. It’s totally usual. Nothing to worry about.”

But an anonymous source told the Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/resistance-from-within-federal-workers-push-back-against-trump/2017/01/31/c65b110e-e7cb-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?utm_term=.ba96391ff0a4) that bureaucrats in Washington plan to fight back against the president’s policy plans.

“You’re going to see the bureaucrats using time to their advantage,” the employee said. He added officials will use leaks and internal complains to “resist and push back against orders they find unconscionable.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/mounting-dissent-former-diplomat-reveals-officials-fear-trump-is-a-serious-national-security-threat/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

[boutons_deux]

Another tone-deaf klutz :lol

Mike Pence honors Black History Month by tweeting a white man’s accomplishments — gets schooled by Twitter

On Wednesday, Pence commemorated the beginning of a month dedicated to celebrating African Americans who made contributions to enriching American culture, society, and government by

shouting out a white man — Abraham Lincoln — for signing the Emanicpation Proclamation. He proceeded to get schooled hard by Black Twitter.

http://usuncut.com/politics/mike-pence-black-history-twitter/

At least he didn't say "We racist Repugs are the party of Lincoln"

[boutons_deux]

Donald Trump Lied To Us About His Health

In December 2015, Donald Trump released a letter from his physician (http://www.npr.org/2015/12/14/459700154/doctor-trump-would-be-healthiest-individual-ever-elected-president) stating that he takes "81 mg of aspirin daily and a low dose of a statin." Yesterday we learned that's untrue. Here's the New York Times: (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/politics/trump-prostate-drug-hair-harold-bornstein.html?_r=1)

President Trump takes medication for three ailments, including a prostate-related drug to promote hair growth, Mr. Trump’s longtime physician, Dr. Harold N. Bornstein, said in a series of recent interviews. The other drugs are antibiotics to control rosacea, a common skin problem, and a statin for elevated blood cholesterol and lipids.


The hair-growth drug, Propecia, has been associated in some men with "depression, anxiety and mental fogginess." (http://abcnews.go.com/Health/baldness-drug-propecia-long-lasting-possibly-permanent-sexual/story?id=16758123)

This is all good for a few jokes, but there's something serious here too: Once again, Trump has lied to us. He released a letter saying he takes only one prescription drug. He actually takes three, and obviously he knew this. What else is he lying about?

http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/02/donald-trump-lied-us-about-his-health-1

and where is the US Navy/Bethesda docs total physical report on Trash?

[boutons_deux]

Legally I can kill him, Queen confirms

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/images/stories/queen-cerise-425x265.jpg

THE QUEEN has confirmed that if President Trump makes a state visit, she can kill him with a sword and nobody can touch her.

Palace staff have assured the Queen that, according to English law, Trump is a subject of the Crown and can, if judged to be damaging the monarchy, be dispatched without repercussion.

She said: “I haven’t made up my mind yet. I might.

“It’s been an awful lot of years hefting the old sword without using it, and who better to christen it on? Just imagine the look on his satsuma face.

“And the colonies would be so grateful they’d have me straight back as their reigning monarch, which solves this Brexit thing literally at a stroke.

“I should do one useful thing before I abdicate, really. And imagine how furious it’d make the May woman.”

Her Majesty added: “I genuinely can’t think of a reason not to. Anyone?”

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/international/legally-i-can-kill-him-queen-confirms-20170131121313?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork

en garde, Monsieur Trash, preparez a mourir, sale con!

[spurraider21]

:lol

http://trumpdonald.org/

[Th'Pusher]

:lol

http://trumpdonald.org/

:lmao

[DMX7]

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be outraged about Trump but his health record isn't one of them. He takes three commonly prescribed drugs and two are essentially for cosmetic purposes.

[boutons_deux]

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be outraged about Trump but his health record isn't one of them. He takes three commonly prescribed drugs and two are essentially for cosmetic purposes.

He ain't gonna grow no hair at 70, not gonna stop losing hair, either. that hormonal stuff works maybe 30, 40 years earlier, not now.

Where is full medical that all Presidents get, annually? It's just another "fuck all y'all" from Trash, like his tax returns, and his emoluments violations.

[boutons_deux]

'Trump Adviser' Is a Contradiction in Terms

Rex Tillerson, who ran Exxon Mobil for a decade before signing on as Donald Trump's secretary of state, is reportedly "baffled" (https://apnews.com/98c2a8cac3b74bde803f03af4e53af47/Trump-faces-blowback-from-Cabinet,-diplomats-for-refugee-ban) that the White House didn't consult with him on its controversial executive order restricting travel and immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.

James Mattis, who retired as a four-star Marine Corps general and supervisor of the U.S. Central Command before becoming Trump's secretary of defense, is said by the Associated Press to be "particularly incensed" (https://apnews.com/98c2a8cac3b74bde803f03af4e53af47/Trump-faces-blowback-from-Cabinet,-diplomats-for-refugee-ban) about exactly the same thing.

Both men -- seasoned, thoughtful managers with bucketloads of experience and insight -- probably thought that Trump recruited them to his cabinet to be trusted advisers. They may be in for more surprises, however, because there's a good chance that Trump merely sees them as hood ornaments atop the little engine of state he's building at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.

For most of Trump's career he has only trusted a small group of longtime loyalists at the Trump Organization, and even then

he has often tightened the circle further to family members.

it's likely that

the only permanent confidantes and counselors to the most powerful man in the world will be his 36-year-old son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and his daughter, Ivanka Trump, 35.

Advisers like Christie and Giuliani (and Cory Lewandowski (https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-06-20/trump-removes-corey-lewandowski-as-campaign-manager-ipo32k7c)) who are considered overly ubiquitous or assertive -- or both -- can find themselves out on the street. That's a reality that may eventually land hard on Trump's current leading media ambassador, Kellyanne Conway (http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/a-conversation-kellyanne-conway-im-face-trumps-movement-968579), who seems to have enjoyed more airtime lately than her boss. Chief strategist Steve Bannon (https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/graphics/2015-steve-bannon/), on the other hand, has shrewdly managed to stay off TV and has avoided interviews (a posture Kushner also favors).

Trump has always enjoyed having street-smart brawlers like Bannon at his side (think of Roy Cohn (http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/04/donald-trump-roy-cohn-mentor-joseph-mccarthy-213799) and Roger (http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/06/02/the-dirty-trickster) Stone (https://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/27/fashion/roger-stone-rides-donald-trumps-well-tailored-coattails.html)) but he's unlikely to countenance a pretender to the throne. (Even if Bannon is going out of his way not to pretend, the media has crowned him. Trump absorbs media coverage and it often sways him.)

Bannon and Conway may survive in the White House for as long as Trump does. But

there are already rifts (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/from-order-to-disorder-how-trumps-immigration-directive-exposed-gop-rifts/2017/01/30/b4e42044-e70f-11e6-b82f-687d6e6a3e7c_story.html?postshare=4441485830052982&tid=ss_tw&utm_term=.7da9c9c39c0b) within Trump's senior team, as different cliques jockey (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-first-days-inside-trumps-white-house-fury-tumult-and-a-reboot/2017/01/23/7ceef1b0-e191-11e6-ba11-63c4b4fb5a63_story.html?utm_term=.d12141c3ce14) for position.

And Trump's inability to knit together advisers and managers, and his family-centric ways, will continue to be stumbling blocks for his administration.

https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-02-02/-trump-adviser-is-a-contradiction-in-terms

[boutons_deux]

Trump Embraces Pillars of Obama’s Foreign Policy

including warning Israel (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/israel/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) to curb settlement construction,

demanding that Russia (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/russiaandtheformersovietunion/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) withdraw from Crimea and

threatening Iran (http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/iran/index.html?inline=nyt-geo) with sanctions for ballistic missile tests.

In the most startling shift, the White House issued an unexpected statement appealing to the Israeli government not to expand the construction of Jewish settlements beyond their current borders in East Jerusalem and the West Bank.

Ambassador Nikki R. Haley declared that the United States would not lift sanctions against Russia until it stopped destabilizing Ukraine and pulled troops out of Crimea. :lol

On Iran, the administration is preparing economic sanctions similar to those the Obama administration imposed just over a year ago. The White House has also shown no indication that it plans to rip up Mr. Obama’s landmark nuclear deal, despite Mr. Trump’s withering criticism of it during the presidential campaign.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/world/middleeast/iran-missile-test-trump.html?utm_source=huffingtonpost.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=pubexchange_gplus&_r=0

"startling" indeed. :lol

We'll see if Trash punishes Israel or Pootin.

Punishing Iran is great for increasing oil prices, helping Pootin, and punishing Trash's voters.

[Mitch]

https://gfycat.com/MellowWebbedGhostshrimp

[Clipper Nation]

:lol Canada

http://i.imgur.com/a1CNM8d.jpg
lefty apalisoc_9 HarlemHeat37 resistanze get in here and :downspin: this shiiiiiiit!

[resistanze]

:lol Canada


Who looks to politicians to keep all their promises? Trudeau is a chode in general. :lol

The problem is more than half of the US was hoping Trump wouldn't keep his dumber promises. The novelty of thee insecure yellow man in office will wear off, and we'll just be stuck with him (we since I live in the USA, for now :lol)

[rmt]

There are plenty of legitimate reasons to be outraged about Trump but his health record isn't one of them. He takes three commonly prescribed drugs and two are essentially for cosmetic purposes.

One (or even 3) is few for that age. Most old people I know take a LOT of pills. And quite a few of my contemporaries (50s) are already on high blood pressure and cholesterol pills.

[SnakeBoy]

He ain't gonna grow no hair at 70, not gonna stop losing hair, either. that hormonal stuff works maybe 30, 40 years earlier, not now.

Where is full medical that all Presidents get, annually? It's just another "fuck all y'all" from Trash, like his tax returns, and his emoluments violations.

You still refusing to take a statin against medical advice ?

[baseline bum]

You still refusing to take a statin against medical advice ?

That shithead thinks cancer treatment is bullshit, you think he cares about statins? Most people I know who share his opinion of healthcare are Jesus freaks who pray away ailments or dumbass hippie fucks who believe in Chinese medicine and unregulated supplements. It's a wonder boo even wants health coverage for Americans.

[rmt]

That shithead thinks cancer treatment is bullshit, you think he cares about statins? Most people I know who share his opinion of healthcare are Jesus freaks who pray away ailments or dumbass hippie fucks who believe in Chinese medicine and unregulated supplements. It's a wonder boo even wants health coverage for Americans.

Not that I'm any of the above, but I'm with boutons in that I would try cutting carbs and taking fish oil (or eating a lot of fatty fish) before going on statins. But if you do take statins, I suggest also taking COQ10 with it.

[boutons_deux]

Documents confirm Trump still benefiting from his business

newly released documents show that Trump himself is the sole beneficiary of the trust and that it is legally controlled by his oldest son and a longtime employee.

The documents, obtained through a public records request by the investigative news service ProPublica and first reported by the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/us/politics/donald-trump-business.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news), also show that Trump retains the legal power to revoke the trust at any time.

The documents show that Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, and Allen Weisselberg, the Trump Organization’s chief financial officer, were placed in legal control of the trust on Jan. 19, one day before Trump took office.

But they outline that the trust’s purpose is “to hold assets for the exclusive benefit of Donald J. Trump,” who “has the power to revoke the Trust.”
The records provide documentary evidence of what ethics experts have been warning about since before Trump took office.

While Trump has promised he will observe a separation between his business and the presidency, he retains ownership of the business and will personally benefit if the business profits from decisions made by his government.

The trust also does not dissolve other potential conflicts, including his title as executive producer of the NBC competition reality show “Celebrity Apprentice.” He recently made headlines for criticizing the show’s new host, former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, at the National Prayer Breakfast.

NBC representatives have not said whether Trump will be compensated for that role, or how much. But executive producers are traditionally paid, even when only retaining a passive credit.

The trust document obtained by ProPublica is attached to license filings tied to Trump’s Washington hotel, and it remains unclear whether other Trump businesses are governed under the same trust. The company has declined multiple requests to provide company trust agreements that could provide more clarity.


The question of Trump’s continued ownership stake has been particularly nettlesome at his Washington hotel, which is located in the Old Post Office building and is owned by the federal government. The terms of the 2013 lease agreement with the General Services Administration prohibit any elected official from benefiting from the property.

It is not yet clear whether placing his shares in the hotel under the control of the trust will provide sufficient legal separation to satisfy the terms of the lease. The GSA, which controls the lease, indicated on Jan. 27 that it had received new information from the Trump Organization and was “reviewing and evaluating this information to assess its compliance with the terms and conditions of the Old Post Office lease.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/documents-confirm-trump-still-benefiting-from-his-business/2017/02/04/848fdd5a-eae0-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.9ad4776c82af&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1

Crooked Hillary! :lol

[DMX7]

Trump Admin says he is just keeping campaign promises with the executive order; yet they say it's not a Muslim ban which is precisely what he promised during the campaign.

[boutons_deux]

Trump Admin says he is just keeping campaign promises with the executive order; yet they say it's not a Muslim ban which is precisely what he promised during the campaign.

It's A MUSLIM BAN
(that protects his Muslim country emoluments)

[Thread]

It's A MUSLIM BAN
(that protects his Muslim country emoluments)

They're mudslimes they should be ousted.

[djohn2oo8]

They're mudslimes they should be ousted.

Its unconstitutional. Period.

[Thread]

Its unconstitutional. Period.

We shall see.

[Splits]

Not that I'm any of the above, but I'm with boutons in that I would try cutting carbs and taking fish oil (or eating a lot of fatty fish) before going on statins. But if you do take statins, I suggest also taking COQ10 with it.

Bend over, I'll give you a cock-10

[Splits]

hater

827984347458322432

[spurraider21]

hater (http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=7609)

827984347458322432if its not pizza i'm not interested

[Splits]

Fintan O’Toole: Welcome to Trumperica (https://www.irishtimes.com/news/world/us/fintan-o-toole-welcome-to-trumperica-1.2960823?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter)Donald Trump’s chaotic signing of grandiose orders has the air of a deluded despot’s last days, not his first
Probably the smartest thing anyone said about Donald Trump before his election was the explanation by Salena Zito in The Atlantic of why he could get away with making wildly exaggerated or flatly false statements: “When he makes claims like this, the press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”

And yet Zito’s insight has turned out to be insufficient. In the mad days that have followed his inauguration, it has become clear that Trump takes himself both literally and seriously.


He mistakes his own impulses for facts. He does not know the difference between self-aggrandising symbolic gestures and lived human realities, and this tiny-minded literalism has very serious consequences for millions of people.


The most important thing to understand about the executive order keeping immigrants and refugees from seven Muslim countries out of the US is that it has no relationship whatsoever to its stated purpose. That purpose is, supposedly, to keep America safe from terrorism. The order is actually called “Protecting the Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into the United States”.


Memory of 9/11
As the chaos, anguish and shame erupted last weekend, Trump’s surrogates and supporters repeatedly evoked the memory of the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
But Trump’s order would do absolutely nothing to prevent a repeat of those attacks. Fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudis. Saudi Arabia continues to be the primary sponsor of the extremist versions of Islam that feed into militant jihadism. Yet Saudi Arabia is not one of the seven countries whose citizens are affected by Trump’s order.


On the contrary, the Saudi government this week reiterated its delight at Trump’s accession to the presidency and declined to utter the smallest criticism of the order.


By contrast, not one American has been killed since 9/11 by any immigrant or refugee from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen – the countries targeted by Trump. Every jihadist who carried out a lethal attack inside the United States since 9/11 was a citizen or legal permanent resident of the US itself.


The most recent major attacks – the Orlando nightclub massacre last June and the killing spree in San Bernardino in December 2015 – were carried out principally by people born in the US. (The San Bernardino shooter was helped by his wife, who was born in Pakistan, which is not on Trump’s list.)


And, in fact, the biggest terrorist threats to US citizens come from disturbed people, many of them high on white supremacist fantasies, who are allowed by US laws to have access to extremely lethal weapons. Trump’s own rhetoric and his close association with elements of the white nationalist right have, at least in their own eyes, further legitimized many of these extremists.


Further, Trump’s absolute commitment to insuring that extremely lethal weapons remain easily available to anyone planning a terrorist attack makes a nonsense of his claims to be “protecting the nation”.


Campaign rhetoric
The problem the executive order is really meant to address is not terrorism, but Trump’s own campaign rhetoric. The order relates, not to actual, living, breathing events or conditions, but only to language.


It is pure postmodern politics: The order is a text that refers only to another text, which is Trump’s stump speech on the campaign trail and its dark promise of a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States, until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” (If the lifting of the ban really has to wait for Trump to figure out what is going on, it will last indefinitely.)


Many people within the US media and political worlds, including some Republicans who support the intention of the order, wondered why Trump did not consult more widely before signing it. But this is to entirely miss the point. Once you start to consult, you recognise that you are intending to do something that will have consequences for real people in the real world – and that you have to modify your intentions to take account of those consequences.


What the world is struggling to come to terms with is that this is not what Trump is about at all. He is not engaged in rational politics. He is a character in a story of his own invention. And the only rules he understands are the rules of the narrative.


The president does not read books (though he watches a lot of TV), yet he instinctively understands the rule laid down by one of the greatest of storytellers, Anton Chekhov: “Remove everything that has no relevance to the story. If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there.”


Trump gets this, and the anti-Muslim executive order shows him applying it. First, remove everything that has no relevance to the story, which in this case is all the real people with real lives that are being thrown into further turmoil, whether it is an Iranian mathematician studying at an Ivy League university or a desperate orphan fleeing Islamic State in Syria.


There is a paradox at work here: precisely because these people are in fact entirely irrelevant to what Trump claims to be doing – keeping America safe from terrorism – they are all the more easily erased. You just tell everybody to shut up and talk about the real story: 9/11, jihadists, Islamic State.


Big guns
Next, Chekhov’s rule requires that Trump has to fire in his second chapter all the shotguns he put up on the wall in his first. That first chapter – his long rampage through the Republic primaries and the general election – was all about loading the big guns with vicious ammunition: fear-mongering, xenophobia, ethnic nationalism, anti-Mexican and anti-Muslim vitriol, white revenge for a perceived loss of power and privilege.


He knows that the shaping of the story requires that these weapons, once loaded, must be fired at somebody.


There has been much talk of liberals being in a bubble when it comes to Trump. But his first days in office have shown that the biggest bubble of all was the one occupied by the sneaking regarders and the old-school political cynics.


These are the people who – some with a slightly desperate smile, some with a superior smirk – have informed everyone that President Trump would not be the same as candidate Trump. In the wishful thinking of old-style conservatives and the buyer’s remorse of people who voted for him in the belief that he could not possibly be as boorish as he seemed, there was an assumption that old patterns still held.


The old pattern is, as the New York politician Mario Cuomo put it, that you campaign in poetry but govern in prose. Campaigns are primarily rhetorical; being in office is primarily practical.


But this is a political dictum – and Trump is not a politician. He is a reality TV star, a semifictional invention. If your character is a big, blowsy burlesque of a mogul, like Trump’s in The Apprentice, he doesn’t suddenly become a quietly competent chief executive. You stick with your shtick.


Forget poetry, forget prose – they are for people who read books. This is spectacle. This is entertainment. The vulgar, reckless narcissist, the pathological liar, the panderer to prejudice, is a vastly popular character. It gets the ratings with which Trump is so dementedly obsessed. Why on earth would he change it?


And besides, the political skill of being two people – one for the campaign trail, one for the office – requires some subtlety of mind. It may not be especially admirable, but those who are good at it are able to keep contradictory notions in their heads at the same time. They can juggle different realities: what they would like to do and what they can do.


But Trump has neither the brain nor the personality for such complexities. He is the one-dimensional man. And that dimension is all Trump. The narcissist has eyes only for his own reflection: when President Trump looks in the mirror, he sees only candidate Trump. He hears only his own voice from the platform.


To his credit, this is one thing Trump didn’t lie about: he said on the campaign trail that he was his own chief adviser. The president listens to the braggart, the bully, the blowhard that roars in his ear. And what it tells him is what the last Russian Tzar, Nicholas II, constantly told himself: “I wish it, therefore it must be.”


His first traitor
Donald Trump’s frantic signing of grandiose orders has about it the air of a despot’s last days, not his first. Deluded tyrants, their grip on reality faltering, simply issue more directives, ordering nonexistent tank divisions to take up their positions, or firing traitors. It is remarkable that Trump got to fire his first traitor, the acting attorney general, who he explicitly accused of betrayal, just 10 days into office. She will not be the last.


There is no place for argument or consultation or a weighing of consequences: I wish it, therefore it must be. Trump, in other words, takes himself, and his own desires literally. And this is both his greatest strength and his biggest weakness.


It should be borne in mind that literalism has a strong grip on American culture. The born-again evangelicals who were so crucial to Trump’s victory take the Bible literally as the word of God. (They are, of course, highly selective in their application of this principle, but that does not stop them from being literal-minded.)
And the right-wing “originalist” legal tradition that Trump honoured this week when he nominated Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court is also proudly literal: it purports to be able to discern what the framers of the US constitution really meant in the 18th century and be able to apply this meaning quite literally in the 21st.


Trump’s style resonates with these habits of mind, even in its narcissistic weirdness: he is a fundamentalist believer in the literal truth of the Book of Trump; an originalist interpreter of the constitution of Trumperica. This places him, for his fans, somewhere between God and the founding fathers.


American carnage
However, taking himself literally is also Trump’s weakness – because what he is being literal about is a dystopian fiction.


The “American carnage” he evoked in his inaugural address, the graveyard landscape and ruined republic, the communities stalked by immigrant rapists and jihadi terrorists, does have some distant correlatives in an actual America. But it is so wildly distorted that it has no practical use as a map of the country Trump is supposed to rule. And Trump doesn’t know the difference between his crazy map, with “here be monsters” scrawled all over it, and the real territory it is supposed to chart.


What has been clarified this week is that Trump will not – and most likely cannot – do what a successful ruler needs to do: separate the fictional place in his head from the country he has to govern.


The president will go on as he has started, with empty gestures that have no purpose other than allowing him to claim that Trump has obeyed the sacred word of Trump. The misery wrought in people’s lives and the damage to the global standing of the US will never matter beside that great imperative.

[Thread]

^You lost, dad. Sure, some piss pot rolled over that EO, but, you ain't rollin' over Trump. He's POTUS and he stayin' POTUS.

You're gonna sit here with me for at least the next 4 years and I'm gonna ride your ass like a $3 whore.

& you ain't wise guyin' him out of it either. That's how he got it. You ain't doin' to him what he did to "you" if that's what you're thinkin'.

No.

[boutons_deux]

Trevor Noah on USA invading Mexico

https://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow/videos/10155019817216800/

[boutons_deux]

Trump defends Putin’s murder of critics to Bill O’Reilly: ‘You think our country’s so innocent?’

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-defends-putins-killings-of-critics-to-bill-oreilly-you-think-our-countrys-so-innocent/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

Trash is REALLY FUCKING STUPID

[boutons_deux]

http://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/320/cpsprodpb/14A37/production/_93953548_19c358c7-da9c-4b9a-b19d-9433a6db7494.jpg

[DD]

Trump president not Clinton

[Thread]

Trump president not Clinton

[boutons_deux]

Despite Vows, Documents Show Trump Retains Close Ties to Business Empire'Records provide documentary evidence of what ethics experts have been warning about since before Trump took office'

http://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/02/04/despite-vows-documents-show-trump-retains-close-ties-business-empire

[DD]

Nobody's gonna read that.

Trump president not Clinton

[boutons_deux]

Ron Wyden wants to remind you—the FBI knows things about Trump and Russia that they're not sharing (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/3/1629472/-Ron-Wyden-wants-to-remind-you-the-FBI-knows-things-about-Trump-and-Russia-that-they-re-not-sharing)

It’s the story that Trump has been trying to avoid (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2016/8/3/1555927/-Donald-Trump-may-be-acting-crazy-but-it-s-keeping-the-news-away-from-the-one-story-he-wants-to-bury) since he started his campaign. The one that Senate Republicans promised to investigate, then hoped that everyone will forget. (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/2/1629154/-Remember-that-Senate-Russia-hacking-investigation-Republicans-are-hoping-you-don-t)

Don’t need a select committee, don’t need to add staffers or increase the budget … oh, yeah, Republicans are all over this one.


But there are a few people in the Senate who are still trying (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/ron-wyden-intelligence-committee-russia-trump-investigation) to bring attention to the little fact that a foreign power interred in our election with the express intent of making Donald Trump president.

Now that the intelligence committees are supposedly on the case—and with the FBI not discussing whatever inquiries it may be holding on this front—the controversy (or scandal!) has been nudged to the back burner. This often happens in Washington: a secret investigation is launched, the story goes dark.


Helping cast those shadows is a press that seems to have instant amnesia about anything Russia related, to the extent that Russian forces attacking towns in Ukraine (http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/02/02/1629248/-Russian-backed-rebels-launch-new-assault-in-Ukraine-Trump-played-for-an-actual-fool-Again) just one day after Trump and Putin had their contents unknown (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/2/1629090/-There-s-no-recording-of-Trump-s-talk-with-Putin-because-Trump-s-team-turned-off-the-recorder) chat, wasn’t enough to push aside Trump’s latest tweets on television ratings. The connections between Putin and Trump, Manafort, Flynn, Page, and others in the regime seldom merits a mention.

Enter Wyden.

For the public, at this point, there is no way to tell if the intelligence committee is doing a good job investigating these dicey issues.

Republicans on the committee certainly have an interest in not embarrassing, inconveniencing, or delegitimizing Trump.

So it's up to Wyden and the other Democrats on the committee to monitor the probe and inform the citizenry if it ends up being a whitewash.


Oregon Senator Ron Wyden holds a key role. Even if Republicans try to bury the investigation at this point, Wyden has to both keep the task alive in the Senate, and keep the FBI and intelligence community from quietly shredding evidence now that Trump is in charge.

Wyden has already indicated that there is information on Trump-Russia ties within the US government that ought to be declassified, that he will push to keep the committee's inquiry on track, and that he will press to make as much of its findings as public as possible.


As Harry Reed did in the fall, Wyden has pressed hard on FBI Director Comey, trying to get the FBI to share in public some of the information that a number of senators have been given behind the scenes. But the FBI continues to sit on the information.


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/3/1629472/-Ron-Wyden-wants-to-remind-you-the-FBI-knows-things-about-Trump-and-Russia-that-they-re-not-sharing?detail=email&link_id=5&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-trump-reportedly-tells-female-staffers-to-dress-like-womentwitter-says-fun&email_referrer=trump-reportedly-tells-female-staffers-to-dress-like-womentwitter-says-fun___162456&email_subject=ron-wyden-wants-to-remind-you-the-fbi-knows-things-about-trump-and-russia-that-theyre-not-sharing

[DD]

Nobody's gonna read that.

Trump president not Clinton

[boutons_deux]

Trump blamed for racism at Texas restaurant: ‘Owner is Mexican. We will not return. America first’


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/77ee5de1-7350-4573-86f8-de69d8563b2d-large16x9_receipt.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-blamed-for-racism-at-texas-restaurant-owner-is-mexican-we-will-not-return-america-first/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

PVL Trash brings out the best in his supporters

boycott MX restaurants, burn down synagogues, deface/burn black churches, swastikas in the subway cars. FOUR MORE YEARS!

[Th'Pusher]

Trump blamed for racism at Texas restaurant: ‘Owner is Mexican. We will not return. America first’


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/77ee5de1-7350-4573-86f8-de69d8563b2d-large16x9_receipt.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-blamed-for-racism-at-texas-restaurant-owner-is-mexican-we-will-not-return-america-first/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

PVL Trash brings out the best in his supporters

boycott MX restaurants, burn down synagogues, deface/burn black churches, swastikas in the subway cars. FOUR MORE YEARS!




Di Frabo is an Italian restaurant out by the dominion, but likely owned by a Mexican. Lots of nationals in the dominion.

[boutons_deux]

Eric Trump’s business trip to Uruguay cost taxpayers $97,830 in hotel bills

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/eric-trumps-trip-to-uruguay-cost-taxpayers-97830-in-hotel-bills/2017/02/03/ababd64e-e95c-11e6-bf6f-301b6b443624_story.html?utm_term=.27dba4701d81

[boutons_deux]

Two Million Dollars a Day to Protect Trump and his Family, But It's About to Get a Lot More Expensive... (http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/11/743403-two-million-dollars-a-day-to-protect-trump-and-his-family-but-its-about-to-get-a-lot-more-expensive/)

Sources told The New York Post (http://nypost.com/2016/11/24/trump-tower-security-may-take-over-2-floors-and-cost-millions/) the Secret Service is negotiating with the Trump Organization to take over two floors of Trump Tower, and will run a 24/7 command post with the New York Police Department — 40 floors below Trump’s $90 million penthouse.

Trump's situation is unique in that taxpayers will be paying Trump's own corporation for the cost of the two floors and related infrastructure — aside from the normal costs of Secret Service agents, staff, and equipment and barriers.

As president, Trump and his family will be protected by more than 920 Secret Service agents and support personnel in both Washington D.C. and New York City, as reported by NBC News (http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/cost-protecting-jet-setting-president-elect-trump-yuge-n687336).

Right now, the cost to taxpayers is more than $2 million a day, the documents show, a number that is sure to increase whenever the president or the first lady travels — or when the threat level rises.

Meanwhile, the New York Police Department is already handling external security at Trump Tower, the president-elect's Manhattan home base, at an estimated cost of $1 million per day.


Terry Sullivan of the White House Transition Project (http://whitehousetransitionproject.org/about/) explained the complexity.

"You have to be able to conduct a global war from the front porch — that is just the reality of the situation.

They would need at least a whole floor, and every apartment on that floor would need to be turned into an office."


Complicating matters further — and driving up costs even more — is Trump's plan to return to New York on weekends to spend time with Melania and Barron.

Former Secret Service agent, Evy Poumpouras, hopes Trump will change his mind.

"This is one of those situations where they really should have an honest conversation with him and just really explain to him that this is not a good idea.

To physically re-create the security that exists at the White House in New York City, it's not going to happen.

There's buses going by. There's trucks going by. When that detonates, that building is not going to withstand that blast."


However, having the government as a major tenant would be a boon for Trump Tower, which has seen sales and rentals drop by nearly 40 percent in the past year — due in large part to stepped-up security and protests.

http://ijr.com/wildfire/2016/11/743403-two-million-dollars-a-day-to-protect-trump-and-his-family-but-its-about-to-get-a-lot-more-expensive/

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Trump blamed for racism at Texas restaurant: ‘Owner is Mexican. We will not return. America first’


http://2d0yaz2jiom3c6vy7e7e5svk.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/77ee5de1-7350-4573-86f8-de69d8563b2d-large16x9_receipt.jpg

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/trump-blamed-for-racism-at-texas-restaurant-owner-is-mexican-we-will-not-return-america-first/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheRawStory+%28The+Raw+Story% 29

PVL Trash brings out the best in his supporters

boycott MX restaurants, burn down synagogues, deface/burn black churches, swastikas in the subway cars. FOUR MORE YEARS!






That seems super fake, tbh.

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Trump and Bannon struggle to implement more Chaos (http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/2/6/1630309/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Trump-and-Bannon-struggle-to-implement-more-Chaos)

With his chaos moves, what is Bannon up to? Who does Trump gain? Who does Trump lose?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C36uP8EXAAAQpVa.jpg


Not just 'bad hombres': Trump is targeting up to 8 million people for deportation

Up to 8 million people in the country illegally could be considered priorities for deportation, according to calculations by the Los Angeles Times. They were based on interviews with experts who studied the order and two internal documents that signal immigration officials are taking an expansive view of Trump’s directive


I Was on the National Security Council. Bannon Doesn’t Belong There.

In his first weeks in office, President Trump has outlined plans to reorganize the White House’s National Security Council (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/29/us/politics/stephen-bannon-security-council.html).

This is in keeping with tradition: New presidents regularly reconfigure the council to fit their management style and national security priorities.

Some of Mr. Trump’s plans, such as including the director of the C.I.A. as a full voting member of the council, are welcome.

But some of Mr. Trump’s other plans are unsettling and should be remedied as soon as possible — in particular the role he has given to his top political adviser, Stephen K. Bannon

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C38f2ksVcAAb0W1.jpg


Paul Gowder @PaulGowder (https://twitter.com/PaulGowder)

By far the craziest story I've seen about Trump.

He WASN'T BRIEFED on his own order putting Rasputin on the NSC?!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/2/6/1630309/-Abbreviated-Pundit-Round-up-Trump-and-Bannon-struggle-to-implement-more-Chaos?detail=email&link_id=15&can_id=4217e8eb109c68bd0c2e4143dd2d8c15&source=email-trump-couldnt-shut-up-about-obamas-vacations-but-hes-headed-to-mar-a-lago-after-just-two-weeks&email_referrer=trump-couldnt-shut-up-about-obamas-vacations-but-hes-headed-to-mar-a-lago-after-just-two-weeks___163020&email_subject=trump-and-bannon-struggle-to-implement-more-chaos

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Under Trump, Hill GOPers Struggle To Stay Focused On Their Own Goals

There is mounting frustration on Capitol Hill with how President Donald Trump has conducted himself in his first week and a half in office.

Trump's decision last week to roll out an executive order that restricted travel from seven-majority Muslim countries and temporarily halted the U.S. refugee program, reportedly without consulting his Capitol Hill, Justice Department or Department of Homeland Security, bruised egos and left congressional Republicans stunned. Some worried that this could be their new normal.

"I got the impression that the people who were briefing us know there needs to be more caution, I'm not sure the President knows that," said Sen. Chuck Grassley

plans keep getting overshadowed by a White House and President that shoots from the hip and goes ahead with their own agenda without even consulting the first branch of government.

Trump really is beginning to get in their way.

members who had gathered to hammer out a plan to repeal and replace the ACA spent much of the first day answering questions about Trump's false statement that millions of undocumented immigrants cost him the popular vote in the 2016 election.

I think any time you get away from our message, which is jobs, manufacturing, economy, defense, rebuilding the military, I think you derail the message."

senator after senator was forced to address a draft executive order showing Trump was open to re-examining the merits of torture as a method to gather intelligence, which the Senate voted to halt years ago.

"We view that to be a matter of settled law," Sen. John Thune

Senate Republicans have been forced to answer for Trump's too-cozy-for-comfort relationship with Russia, combative phone calls with U.S. allies like Australia and tendency to shun traditional Republican foreign policy norms.

more news breaks that forces Republican lawmakers to answer for Trump and that takes them away from their two main policy goals.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/can-congressional-republicans-focus-on-goals-under-trump

...and not one mention of President BANNON :lol

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The Trump administration has sprung a leak. Many of them, in fact.

So far, the Trump White House has gushed.

Unauthorized transcripts of phone conversations between President Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Australia went public last week. So did details about the administration’s stage-managing of Trump’s Supreme Court pick (https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/01/us/supreme-court-runner-up-thomas-hardiman.html?_r=0).

Drafts of executive orders, including one that would grant legal protection to people and businesses that discriminate against same-sex married couples on moral or religious grounds, also slipped out before they were ready for prime time.

The leaks have been a bonanza for news organizations, particularly mainstream outlets such as the New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC and the Associated Press. The pattern of leaks to these organizations suggests the leakers are seeking not just wide distribution of confidential information but are hoping to gain the credibility conveyed by establishment news organizations —

the very news outlets that Trump has frequently derided as purveyors of “fake news.”
They also suggest the extent of rivalries and some possible misgivings within Trump’s inner circle about policies and would-be policies. Leaks, after all, are often designed to isolate a rival or to whip up public pressure to derail a decision.

The breadth of the leaks has surprised — and, of course, delighted — journalists,

who say it gives the public an unfiltered view of what those in power are thinking and doing. The leaks of Trump’s calls to Turnbull and Peña Nieto may have been the most surprising of all; it’s rare for transcripts of presidential phone calls or details of meetings with foreign leaders, especially potentially embarrassing exchanges, to leak so soon afterward.

“Given Trump’s erratic nature and lack of experience, especially in foreign affairs, these leaks may be more important than ever,” says David Corn (http://www.motherjones.com/authors/david-corn), a reporter with the muckraking Mother Jones (http://www.motherjones.com/)magazine. “They give us a sense of how he’s doing his job” and

what important advisers such as Stephen K. Bannon and Jared Kushner are telling him to do.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-trump-administration-has-sprung-a-leak-many-of-them-in-fact/2017/02/05/a13fad24-ebe2-11e6-b4ff-ac2cf509efe5_story.html?utm_term=.bf99a45e8713&wpisrc=nl_most-draw7&wpmm=1