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Post by cliffs on Oct 17, 2019 10:26:28 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Oct 17, 2019 10:27:57 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The golf-and-politics alliance between President Donald Trump and Sen. Lindsey Graham frayed Wednesday over Syria, with the South Carolina Republican threatening to become the White House's "worst nightmare" unless more is done to protect Kurdish fighters against Turkish attacks. Trump, in turn, suggested Graham focus on his job leading the Senate Judiciary Committee and reminded him who's in a position to threaten whom. "I am the boss," Trump said.Asked whether he could still work with Trump, Graham huffed, "I don't care right now." Golf buddies no more? Trump, Graham swing apart over Syria |
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 17, 2019 13:48:10 GMT
What else has happened just in the last day....
-Trump states during meeting with Italian President that America's friendship with Italy goes back thousands of years......
-Trump explodes during meeting with House Dems when the word "Russia" was spoken (about how withdrawing our troops and abandoning the Kurds has been a good thing for Russia, Iran, Syria, and ISIS). Interesting that that particular word is what sets the orange child off......
-White House leaks a letter Trump wrote to Turkish President that appears to have been written by a 4th-Grader (no offense meant to 4th Graders). Entire letter appears below (it's short, obviously, since Trump wrote it):
"Dear Mr. President,
Let's work out a good deal!! You don't want to be responsible for slaughtering thousands of people, and I don't want to be responsible for destroying the Turkish economy - and I will! I've already given you a little sample with respect to Pastor Bruson.
I have worked hard to solve some of your problems. Don't let the world down. You can make a great deal. General Mazloum is willing to negotiate with you, and he is willing to make concessions that they would never have made in the past. I am confidentially enclosing a copy of his letter to me, just received.
History will look upon you favorably if you get this done the humane and right way. It will look upon you forever as the devil if good things don't happen. Don't be a tough guy. Don't be a fool!
I will call you later.
Sincerely,
Donald Trump"
Lord. And this was sent to Erdogan on 10/9, who read it and reportedly threw it in his trash can a moment later. 1 day later, he continued with his slaughter of the Kurds. I.e., one big fat middle finger to Trump and his letter.
All of this MAGA! All of this winning! And it's barely Thursday!
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Post by cliffs on Oct 18, 2019 21:48:07 GMT
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lawyers for U.S. President Donald Trump and his re-election campaign have threatened in a letter to sue CNN for what they said was the network falsely advertising itself as a news organization, calling on executives to first discuss an "appropriate resolution" to the matter that would include a "substantial" payment to cover damages. The letter, dated Oct. 16 and made public on Friday, is the latest threat by Trump to sue a media organization over what he sees as unfair media coverage since launching his 2016 presidential campaign, although no lawsuits have been filed. “This is nothing more than a desperate PR stunt and doesn't merit a response,” a CNN spokesman said in an email. news.yahoo.com/trump-threatens-sue-cnn-seeks-174317155.html |
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Post by cliffs on Oct 18, 2019 23:33:20 GMT
He just does not think when speaking:
The Kurds "are very happy about the way things are going," Trump added. "We've taken control of the oil in the Middle East ... the oil that everybody was worried about."
The president did not explain what he meant by taking "control of the oil in the Middle East." But he was likely referring to oil fields in eastern Syria, which Kurdish forces gained control over amid the chaos of Syria's civil war.
How did we gain control if our troops were removed from the area?
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Post by gregfordyce on Oct 19, 2019 23:21:40 GMT
Nope. He is just a second-by-second impulse vomiter. He vomits up whatever flits through his tiny little brain at the moment, and it changes almost by the second, sometimes even contradicting or being the exact opposite of what he just vomited up. His brain - and I use the term very loosely - is like a hummingbird, flitting from thought to thought without pausing, without analyzing, without any foresight whatsoever. Zero critical thinking. Zero analytical skills. Zero intellectual curiosity. Very low IQ (I would guess somewhere in the 90 or so range, seriously). Zero thought about consequences. Just blurts it out on a whim.
The motherfucker has the nuclear codes.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 19, 2019 23:35:58 GMT
He is a master fuckstick On Day 1,001, Trump Made It Clear: Being 'Presidential' Is BoringDALLAS — A one point during one of his most unpresidential of days, President Donald Trump insisted that he knew how to be presidential. “It’s much easier being presidential, it’s easy,” he told a stadium full of more than 20,000 boisterous supporters in MAGA hats and T-shirts cheering his every word Thursday night. “All you have to do is act like a stiff.” He buttoned his suit coat, pursed his lips, squared his shoulders and dropped his arms rigidly at his sides. “Ladies and gentlemen of Texas,” he then droned in a sleep-inducing staccato monotone the way he imagined most of the other 44 presidents had done. “It is a great honor to be with you this evening.” The crowd loved it, roaring with laughter. Transforming back into the unpresidential president America has come to know, Trump added, “And everybody would be out of here so fast! You wouldn’t come in in the first place!” Being presidential, he was saying, is so boring. Who wants that? news.yahoo.com/day-1-001-trump-made-142242062.html |
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 11:04:47 GMT
Following widespread bipartisan criticism, President Donald Trump said Saturday his Doral resort in Florida would not host next year's Group of Seven summit of world leaders after all.
"Based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020," he tweeted. "We will begin the search for another site, including the possibility of Camp David, immediately."
Give America a break, just resign and go away.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 11:27:15 GMT
'A threat to democracy': William Barr's speech on religious freedom alarms liberal Catholics He described the speech as a “dog whistle” to ultra-conservative Catholics who, he says, have aligned themselves to Donald Trump in a campaign to limit the rights of LGBTQ Americans, immigrants and non-Christians, especially Muslims, and to criminalize almost all abortions. “The attorney general is taking positions that are essentially un-Democratic” because they demolish the wall between church and state, Anderson said. news.yahoo.com/threat-democracy-william-barrs-speech-060051908.html |
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 11:33:28 GMT
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 21:43:29 GMT
WASHINGTON (AP) — It wasn't too long ago that Donald Trump derided presidential executive orders as "power grabs" and a "basic disaster."
He's switched sides in a big way: In each year of his presidency, he has issued more executive orders than did former President Barack Obama during the same time span. He surpassed Obama's third-year total just recently.
Back in 2012, Trump had tweeted: "Why Is @barackobama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
That criticism continued once he entered the presidential race.
"The country wasn't based on executive orders," Trump said at a South Carolina campaign stop in February 2016. "Right now, Obama goes around signing executive orders. He can't even get along with the Democrats, and he goes around signing all these executive orders. It's a basic disaster. You can't do it."
But Trump appears to have learned what his predecessors discovered as well: It's easier and often more satisfying to get things done through administrative action than to get Congress to go along, said Andrew Rudalevige, a professor at Bowdoin College who studies the history and effectiveness of presidential executive actions.
"Most candidates don't realize the utility of executive actions while campaigning," Rudalevige said. "When they become president, they quickly gain an appreciation of how difficult it is to get things done in government."
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 21:46:26 GMT
Trump accidentally refers to Defense Secretary Esper as 'Mark Esperanto' in tweet defending Syria withdrawal
President Donald Trump once again took to Twitter to defend his decision to pull U.S. troops out of northeastern Syria, opening the door to a Turkish assault on Kurds who had helped America combat the Islamic State, but in the process, he incorrectly identified his secretary of defense.
On Sunday, Trump quoted "Mark Esperanto, Secretary of Defense" as saying, "The ceasefire is holding up very nicely" aside from "some minor skirmishes that have ended quickly."
But the man the president put in charge of the Pentagon is named Mark Esper, not Esperanto. And many observers do not share Esper/Esperanto's certainty that the cease-fire the Trump administration helped broker between Turkey and the Kurdish Syrian Democratic Forces is holding up as well as he and other White House officials have implied.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 20, 2019 21:48:23 GMT
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — While President Donald Trump insists he's bringing home Americans from "endless wars" in the Mideast, his Pentagon chief says all U.S. troops leaving Syria will go to western Iraq and the American military will continue operations against the Islamic State group.
They aren't coming home and the United States isn't leaving the turbulent Middle East, according to current plans outlined by U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper before he arrived in Afghanistan on Sunday. The fight in Syria against IS, once spearheaded by American allied Syrian Kurds who have been cast aside by Trump, will be undertaken by U.S. forces, possibly from neighboring Iraq.
Esper did not rule out the idea that U.S. forces would conduct counterterrorism missions from Iraq into Syria. But he told reporters traveling with him that those details will be worked out over time.
Trump nonetheless tweeted: "USA soldiers are not in combat or ceasefire zones. We have secured the Oil. Bringing soldiers home!"
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Post by cliffs on Oct 21, 2019 17:25:43 GMT
Trump can't even leave politics out of what should be respectful solemn event. “The hardest thing I have to do, by far, much harder than the witch hunt, is signing letters to parents of soldiers that have been killed,” President Donald Trump said at the White House this month.
“I think it’s disrespectful,” said Andrew J. Bacevich, a retired Army colonel turned author and historian whose son was killed while serving in Iraq in 2007. “Those are infinitely private and painful moments. And to have anyone presume to comment on that, I think is beyond reprehensible.”
“He’s politicizing casualties,” he said.
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Post by cliffs on Oct 22, 2019 20:52:06 GMT
Leading Republicans rushed to defend President Trump’s controversial tweet Tuesday in which he portrayed himself as the victim of a “lynching” by House Democrats pursuing his impeachment.
The comparison was denounced as offensive by Democrats, including Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Kamala Harris, D-Calif., two of the three African-Americans in the Senate. Some Republicans said they were also uncomfortable with Trump’s choice of language.
“Lynching is a reprehensible stain on this nation’s history, as is this President,” Harris tweeted. “We’ll never erase the pain and trauma of lynching, and to invoke that torture to whitewash your own corruption is disgraceful.”
“Lynching is an act of terror used to uphold white supremacy,” Booker tweeted. “Try again.”
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