President* Trump

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These folks are outraged, too:

Incitement By Trump Gets Total Pass From Press At COVID Briefing
There was incredible lack of pushback from the media at Trump's COVID-19 rally on Friday, after he'd tweeted that three states with Democratic governors needed to "liberate" themselves.

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Kinda boils down to:

the press treats him as if he is a real president
he treats them as if he weren't any kind of president
then they treat him as if he will be the best real president next time
and then ...

It's just the old Charlie Brown, Lucy and the football routine and the ratings are outstanding (in the field, as uncle Al still says).

Maaaybe the media is getting the message from we patriotic Americans:

Reporter Asks Trump: 'Is This Really The Time For Self-Congratulations?'
As we hit the terrible milestone of 40,000 deaths, Trump was reading his favorable press clippings to the reporters held hostage.

Trump berates a female reporter after she pressed him on why he didn't warn Americans about the coronavirus crisis sooner

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These folks are outraged, too:

Incitement By Trump Gets Total Pass From Press At COVID Briefing
There was incredible lack of pushback from the media at Trump's COVID-19 rally on Friday, after he'd tweeted that three states with Democratic governors needed to "liberate" themselves.

Michael Moore, paraphrased: Liberation Day comes on November 3.

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Hilarious; trumpy's current tweet at top says he's "instructed" the US Navy to "shoot down" all Iranian gunboats if they harass us. I guess he thinks Iran has boats that can fly as well as sail. What a buffoon. I bet the cat fan gushes in awe over this, seeing someone other than him being a victim. Shoot hell out of those flying gunboats, you fucking ignorant raccoon eyed moron.

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Hilarious; trumpy's current tweet at top says he's "instructed" the US Navy to "shoot down" all Iranian gunboats if they harass us. I guess he thinks Iran has boats that can fly as well as sail. What a buffoon. I bet the cat fan gushes in awe over this, seeing someone other than him being a victim. Shoot hell out of those flying gunboats, you fucking ignorant raccoon eyed moron.

I agree with Dolt .45 that we should “shoot down” Iranian gunboats or anyone else’s flying gunboats. It just ain’t natural.


Only "the best":

Trump's New Press Secretary's Attempt At Twitter Sass Backfires Spectacularly

Riiight, she'll be great at crafting the WH message.

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Hilarious; trumpy's current tweet at top says he's "instructed" the US Navy to "shoot down" all Iranian gunboats if they harass us. I guess he thinks Iran has boats that can fly as well as sail. What a buffoon. I bet the cat fan gushes in awe over this, seeing someone other than him being a victim. Shoot hell out of those flying gunboats, you fucking ignorant raccoon eyed moron.

I agree with Dolt .45 that we should “shoot down” Iranian gunboats or anyone else’s flying gunboats. It just ain’t natural.


Only "the best":

Trump's New Press Secretary's Attempt At Twitter Sass Backfires Spectacularly

Riiight, she'll be great at crafting the WH message.

Well, I have to figure the CO's on these Navy ships aren't going to blast hell out of some little boat unless they are stupid enough to fire on the Navy. I think I predicted back maybe last summer that this buffoon will start a war before the election. As a former Navy guy I don't think this is going to result in anything, though. Unless we have some trump whipped Captains. And as Admiral of the Fleet, that would really piss me off.

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I've been reading that trump and the trump juniors, Eric mostly, are quacking about how they can't pay the rent on the old DC Post Office building and want some "help" and to be considered "like anybody else." How about that? They have stated in the past that they get all the money they need from Russia and don't need US banks. What the fuck? Is nobody answering the phone in Russia? I suspect little Eric is desperately trying to fall through a loophole and come out even more loopy than before he fell in. I don't know if the Postal Service still owns this building or it it's just part of GSA holdings, but whatever, these trumpy bastards should not be asking for money. I hope Eric chokes on a one dollar bill and goes to hell.

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I've been reading that trump and the trump juniors, Eric mostly, are quacking about how they can't pay the rent on the old DC Post Office building and want some "help" and to be considered "like anybody else." How about that? They have stated in the past that they get all the money they need from Russia and don't need US banks. What the fuck? Is nobody answering the phone in Russia? I suspect little Eric is desperately trying to fall through a loophole and come out even more loopy than before he fell in. I don't know if the Postal Service still owns this building or it it's just part of GSA holdings, but whatever, these trumpy bastards should not be asking for money. I hope Eric chokes on a one dollar bill and goes to hell.

... In 2013, the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) leased the property for 60 years to a consortium headed by "DJT Holdings LLC", a holding company that U.S. President Donald Trump owns through a revocable trust. Trump developed the property into a luxury hotel, the Trump International Hotel Washington, D.C., which opened in September 2016, with room rates ranging from $650 to $15,000 per night....

Throw them out, throw them out!

Edit:

Trump (the Company) Asks Trump (the Administration) for Hotel Relief

No relief, no relief!

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I watched about an hour of the daily trump clown show. This one was surreal. There will be headlines about it tomorrow. He's out of control.

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I watched about an hour of the daily trump clown show. This one was surreal. There will be headlines about it tomorrow. He's out of control.

I can look up summaries, but what would your headline be?

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I watched about an hour of the daily trump clown show. This one was surreal. There will be headlines about it tomorrow. He's out of control.

I can look up summaries, but what would your headline be?

Trump Outtrumps Himself - Goes Bonkers at Daily Corona Virus Briefing - Press is Stunned

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This clown won't last long.

"Only the best people". Guess that includes the vetting team.

New HHS spokesman made racist comments about Chinese people in now-deleted tweets The new spokesman for the Department of Health and Human Services in a series of now-deleted tweets made racist and derogatory comments about Chinese people, said Democrats wanted the coronavirus to kill millions of people and accused the media of intentionally creating panic around the pandemic to hurt President Donald Trump.

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This clown won't last long....

Has PINO fired anyone for racism or lying about Dems?

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This clown won't last long....

Has PINO fired anyone for racism or lying about Dems?

Not so much that as making him look bad.

Hmmm, betcha when asked about it at today's presser he's not going to know a thing about it or won't know the guy.

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Trump owes tens of millions to the Bank of China — and the loan is due soon
The president's financial dealings with the state-owned bank complicate his attacks on Biden.

Donald Trump is warning “China will own the United States” if Joe Biden is elected president.

But Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China: In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion. The debt includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.

Steps from Trump Tower in Manhattan, the 43-story 1290 Avenue of the Americas skyscraper spans an entire city block. Trump owns a 30 percent stake in the property valued at more than $1 billion, making it one of the priciest addresses in his portfolio, according to his financial disclosures.

Trump’s ownership of the building received a smattering of attention before and after his 2016 campaign. But the arrangement with the Bank of China — and its impending due date in 2022 — has gone largely unnoticed.

The revelation complicates one of Trump’s emerging campaign attacks against Biden: that the former vice president would be a gift to the Communist country and America’s chief economic rival.

Aside from the historic precedent of a developer-turned president paying back millions to a bank controlled by a foreign government, the 2012 Bank of China deal also stands out because Trump and his campaign have repeatedly highlighted the same bank's role in a $1.5 billion deal announced in 2013 by partners of Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Critics of the Bidens have seized on the fact that the agreement materialized just days after Hunter Biden traveled to China with the then-vice president, who was there on official business.

“Why did the Chinese government's bank want to do business with Hunter Biden while his dad was Vice President,” Trump’s campaign asked on Twitter earlier this month. The issue was also raised in a campaign ad the day before, one in a stream of criticisms about the China deal raised by campaign spokespeople and Trump since last year.

The Trump campaign has steadily increased its focus on trying to portray Biden as weak on China amid rising voter disapproval of China, the source of the coronavirus pandemic. Trump surrogate Corey Lewandowski dubbed him “Beijing Biden” in an online campaign event Wednesday. And during a White House news briefing Saturday, Trump said China will “own” the U.S. if Biden wins.

But Trump’s recent criticisms of China have been muddied by his own mixed messaging as well as by his numerous financial ties to the country. Those connections extend far beyond the Avenue of the America’s loan: Chinese state-owned companies are constructing two luxury Trump developments in United Arab Emirates and Indonesia. The president and his daughter Ivanka Trump, a White House adviser, have been awarded trademarks by China’s government. And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, has courted Chinese investors in at least one other real estate deal.

“We actually explored all these foreign enterprises and how once he became president he’d be seen differently by foreign leaders who would have leverage over this president because he had investments in their countries and/or financial dealings with business enterprises and financial institutions and investors in their countries,” said Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), a member of the House Oversight Committee. “He is highly conflicted with respect to China.”

Trump has denied he has any conflicts. But he rejected calls to fully separate from his namesake company, which comprises more than 500 businesses and includes properties in nearly two dozen countries, after he was sworn into office. He still owns his business, though he asked his adult sons to run it. His holdings were placed in a trust designed to hold assets for his benefit from which he can draw money at any time without public knowledge.

The Biden ads practically write themselves.

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Coronavirus cases on USS Roosevelt spike to 550

... Secretary of Defense Mark Esper said on "CBS This Morning" on Friday that a reinstatement of Crozier is not off the table, and no decision will be made until an investigation is complete.

"When I replaced the acting Navy secretary three days ago, I called him and the chief of naval operations into my office. I gave them some guidance. One of the things I told them is this: No further action will be taken against Captain Crozier until the investigation is completed, and once that's completed, we'll see where that takes us," Esper said....

I’m sorry to read about USS Theodore Roosevelt crew illness, but I’m proud of them for still going into battle, led by Captain Brett Crozier, with fired acting Secretary of the Navy Thomas Modly, Secretary of Defense Mark Esper and the lifelong cowardly Chickenhawk in Chief and emerging victorious.

I’m not holding my breath, but won’t it be something if Crozier is reinstated?!

Navy Recommends Reinstating Ousted Captain Of USS Roosevelt

In what could amount to a stunning about-face for the Pentagon, congressional sources have confirmed to NPR that top Navy leaders have recommended that Capt. Brett Crozier be put back in command of the coronavirus-plagued aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt....

Adm. Michael Gilday, the Navy's top officer, is reported by The Associated Press to have met with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley on Tuesday and with Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Friday to recommend the fired captain's reinstatement.

Esper's spokesman confirmed the Friday meeting....

"After the Secretary receives a written copy of the completed inquiry, he intends to thoroughly review the report and will meet again with Navy leadership to discuss next steps. He remains focused on and committed to restoring the full health of the crew and getting the ship at sea again soon."

The AP quotes Hoffman as saying before that meeting that Esper "is generally inclined to support Navy leadership in their decision" regarding Crozier.

But Esper is also reported to have asked for a delay in any public announcement while he weighs Crozier's fate.

, probably.

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Trump says briefings not worth his time after disinfectant gaffe

PINO translated: I screwed up huuugely, everyone knows it despite my sarcasm lie, I don’t have the stones to admit it, I’m taking my toys and running home.

'Don't Try This at Home': Even 'Fox & Friends' Balked at Trump's Advice

How low has Faux Noise sunk that it's mildly surprising that it doesn't endorse injecting disinfectants?

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A SPOONFUL OF CLOROX - A Randy Rainbow Song Parody

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Trump says briefings not worth his time after disinfectant gaffe

PINO translated: I screwed up huuugely, everyone knows it despite my sarcasm lie, I don’t have the stones to admit it, I’m taking my toys and running home.

'Don't Try This at Home': Even 'Fox & Friends' Balked at Trump's Advice

How low has Faux Noise sunk that it's mildly surprising that it doesn't endorse injecting disinfectants?

trump is the consummate king Schrödinger's Douchebag

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... I’m not holding my breath, but won’t it be something if Crozier is reinstated?!

Navy Recommends Reinstating Ousted Captain Of USS Roosevelt

, probably.

WH obstruction, probably:

Navy orders deeper dive into Roosevelt incident, delays decision on future of Capt. Crozier