Donald Trump, the road that might not lead to the White House!

[bimble]

fucking hell.
I think he may suffer from dementia (not joking) he has no idea where his sentences are going.

 

[Lord Camomile]

 

[J Ed]

Incredible numbers, bigger than Iraq War protests in the US isn't it?

 

[belboid]

90% of port of Oakland workers failed to turn up to work, in a protest at Trump. Hope they're white working-class enough for certain folk.

Workers no-show Port of Oakland to protest President Trump

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

fucking hell.
I think he may suffer from dementia (not joking) he has no idea where his sentences are going.

Maybe the spooks slipped something in his drink. Either that or he's a babbling idiot.... oh wait, actually yeah that's it.

 

[J Ed]

90% of port of Oakland workers failed to turn up to work, in a protest at Trump. Hope they're white working-class enough for certain folk.

Workers no-show Port of Oakland to protest President Trump

They went on strike as part of Occupy in Oakland as well

 

[bimble]

It's mad. He spent ages in that speech to Langley going on about how the crowd as his inauguration was really yuge, terrifically yuge, believe me, the failing dishonest media are lying about how many people were there.

 

[butchersapron]

90% of port of Oakland workers failed to turn up to work, in a protest at Trump. Hope they're white working-class enough for certain folk.

Workers no-show Port of Oakland to protest President Trump

Depends just what 'several' workers are? What are your assumptions?

 

[Yossarian]

Lots of media comparing todays turn out for the Women's March with Trump's inauguration, but of course many blue collar supporters of Trump just can't afford to come to Washington, overnight accomodation, etc, its another glaring example of how the liberal media don't get it, something that Trump's Communication Director has been quick to pick up on.

Is the Trump team now trying to claim real Americans don't go to inaugurations?

 

[weltweit]

Trump has such a thin skin. Why micro manage media reports - you might have thought he would have more important things to do now he is president.

 

[CrabbedOne]

Lots of media comparing todays turn out for the Women's March with Trump's inauguration, but of course many blue collar supporters of Trump just can't afford to come to Washington, overnight accomodation, etc, its another glaring example of how the liberal media don't get it, something that Trump's Communication Director has been quick to pick up on.

Trump voters have an average income of $75K (60K quid). The bottom deciles earning sub 40K generally didn't vote for him. If they voted at all it was mostly against him.

He's a candidate of the petite bourgeoisie who can well afford a hotel room. He's just not that popular with very low favourability ratings for very understandable reasons. He at about 40%, 20% lower than the last Bush and even further behind a freshly minted Obama.

He has a narrow enthusiastic base but many of the people who voted for him are establishment Republicans who did so with little enthusiasm and great reservations. Many GOP voters thought him unqualified to be POTUS. They voted for him to stop the Clintons they had been programmed to hate in the 90s, for lower taxes and to shrink government.

DC's a city with a pretty high violent crime rate that is as (George) Clinton said "Chocolate". It turned out for Obama, a cool black man who swept in on a wave of hope after a financial disaster rooted in crazy deregulation and also a neocon war gone wrong. And Trump has been painting black communities as Somalian war zones. It's little wonder the crowds for him were on the thin side.

 

[bimble]

DC's a city with a pretty high violent crime rate that is as (George) Clinton said "Chocolate". It turned out for Obama, a cool black man who swept in on a wave of hope after a financial disaster rooted in crazy deregulation and also a neocon war gone wrong. And Trump has been painting black communities as Somalian war zones. It's little wonder the crowds for him were on the thin side.

He got 4.1% of the vote in DC.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Interesting fact I wasn't aware of:

no major U.S. company has filed for Chapter 11 more than Trump's casino empire in the last 30 years.

Trump claims that successful businesses file for bankruptcy all the time. At the debate he said "virtually every person that you read about on the front page of the business sections, they've used the [bankruptcy] law."

But the facts don't back that comment up.

Despite high profile examples, including General Motors (GM), Lehman Brothers and most of the nation's major airlines, fewer than 20% of public companies with assets of $1 billion or more have filed for bankruptcy in the last 30 years, according to data from Bankruptcy.com and S&P Capital IQ.

Trump has never filed for personal bankruptcy. But he has filed four business bankruptcies, which Bankruptcy.com says makes Trump the top filer in recent decades. All of them were centered around casinos he used to own in Atlantic City. They were all Chapter 11 restructurings, which lets a company stay in business while shedding debt it owes to banks, employees and suppliers.

Donald Trump bankruptcy: Everything you want to know

 

[butchersapron]

Interesting fact I wasn't aware of:





Donald Trump bankruptcy: Everything you want to know

It's been repeatedly mentioned on this fucking thread.

 

[butchersapron]

Oh flip - is donald trump bad? I had no idea.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

It's been repeatedly mentioned on this fucking thread.

I don't think that's accurate: could you be a good lad? Flip through the 495 pages, and produce some post numbers?

 

[butchersapron]

I don't think that's accurate: could you be a good lad? Flip through the 495 pages, and produce some post numbers?

Is this some sort of joke - 15 years and you don't know how to search a thread? No, you're just a lazy arrogant type who doesn't believe people exist before you deign to notice them.

 

[2hats]

Maybe the spooks slipped something in his drink. Either that or he's a babbling idiot.... oh wait, actually yeah that's it.

No, that CIA mind ray is a powerful thing. It takes a little time to recover after re-educative re-calibration.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Is this some sort of joke - 15 years and you don't know how to search a thread?

Actually, I didn't: thanks for that.

 

[J Ed]

Trump on Iraq: ‘We should have kept the oil.’ - The Boston Globe

On the day after he was sworn in as the 45th president in American history, Donald Trump stepped in foreign policy controversy, saying the US should have kept Iraqi oil after its drawdown from the Iraq war, and suggesting “maybe we’ll have another chance” at accessing that natural resource.

The 'maybe we'll have another chance' bit is pretty incredible.

 

[butchersapron]

What does 'kept iraqi oil' "after its drawdown" even mean? The gaps in this reporting are as bad as his nonsense. It's foreign policy sounding gibberish.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Donald Trump repeated an eyebrow-raising idea this week that the United States should have kept Iraq’s oil after ousting Saddam Hussein.

"I’ve always said -- shouldn’t be there, but if we’re going to get out, take the oil," Trump told moderator Matt Lauer at NBC’s Commander-in-Chief Forum on Sept. 7, 2016. "If we would have taken the oil, you wouldn’t have ISIS, because ISIS formed with the power and the wealth of that oil."

Should the U.S. have kept Iraq's oil, as Donald Trump says?

 

[J Ed]

At the very least the US might get its anti-war movement back.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Actually, I still can't figure out how to search a thread; but I suspect that Trump's idea about Iraqi oil has been mentioned on this thread before.

 

[butchersapron]

At the very least the US might get its anti-war movement back.

Assad will be loving it.

 

[Raheem]

Should the U.S. have kept Iraq's oil, as Donald Trump says?

That quote's brilliant. It's like he thinks the oil could have been physically taken out of the country so ISIS would have got to the oilfields only to be sorely disappointed.

 

[J Ed]

Assad will be loving it.

Assadists certainly seem to like Trump.

 

[weltweit]

Actually, I still can't figure out how to search a thread; ...

While on a page of the thread, hit the search button, below the button select "search this thread" and there you are ..

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

There's at least one: post 4540.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

While on a page of the thread, hit the search button, below the button select "search this thread" and there you are ..

Thanks!