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What stupid shit has Trump done today?

I saw an article just after the election (again, I can't bloody remember exactly where now, but it was either PBS or NPR website I think) that collected together a load of old Trump interviews around politics - he's been floating the idea of running for president (served up to him by sycophantic interviewers who have a lot to answer for now!) for decades.

His views are all over the shop with one exception: trade. That was really the only consistent thing he has - America is making bad deals because our politicians are weak and we're being ripped off by Japan/Germany/Mexico/China/insert current target here, with my legendary deal-making skills (ha!) I will make good deals.
 
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Or they won't for long! That's probably his long-term gain - to be the richest man in the world; even as president his drive to make money (often in really cheap, grifting ways) hasn't ceased or even dialled down at all.

And I think he'll consider them - or the system they operate in - superior to him and try to find out what they do... And he'll make deals for the family business... I think it's a serious possibility that American foreign policy could be up for sale; not in the usual way it arguably is (trade deals, arms sales...) but by directly giving the president's family money - I'd love to see the Trump family's bitcoin accounts.
 
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(And I can only imagine the shitstorm Sanders would have been facing by now, from both the wingnut fox/breitbarters and the corporate 'liberal' media).
 
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MightyTibberton said:
A pompous aside!

I saw a decent discussion on the changing meaning of the world liberal the other day (and now I can't remember where, so that's useful!).

These days you'll see a lot of libertarian leaning free-speech fanatics (right wingers really) calling themselves "classical liberals"
Then there are Neoliberals
The Liberal Party is the party of the right in Australia... I can't say I've done a comprehensive international search on this, but I think that's true elsewhere too, where "liberalising" = "liberalising markets"
Then there's the use as an insult in America to cover a whole host of positions, often cultural/social ones...

If you spend any time consuming right-wing American media you'll soon believe you're under threat! Even the music/presentation style is paranoid and designed to induce fear. It's incredibly sinister.
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This - absolutely.
 
Dogsauce said:
I don't think it's to the advantage of the democrats for the wheels to come off Trump this soon, all it does is give the continuity Republicans time to construct a Strong and Stable administration ahead of the mid-terms. Thank god it's not that crazy guy in charge anymore, at least we have a quiet and competent government stripping down the state and putting women in their place.
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Mixed feelings on this. If the administration and congress can be halted before they cause more damage, that's a good thing.

However, I mentioned before, it's quite possible if enough shit is sticking to Trump, his cabinet and Republicans in Congress will turn on him, and deny flatly that they ever backed him at all. People will feel so relieved that at last, the charade could be over, and won't hold the GOP to account for their culpability for the clusterfuck. They'll still be able to quietly pursue their agendas, but insist they are untainted. Although the ghastly blabbermouth figurehead may be gone, the uber conservative GOP juggernaut will still be trundling on in the same direction. Not good.
 
On Bloomberg Would You Let Trump Run Your Company?
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There is a semi-charitable explanation for much of this chaos. Trump does not have any experience as a CEO—at least in the sense that most of corporate America would recognize. One telling irony: Many of the banking executives now trying to curry favor with him would never have lent him money in the past. His skills were in dealmaking, rather than running a large organization. The core Trump company had barely 100 people. It’s possible that if he takes on some of the basic management lessons to do with structure, process, and delegation, then he may be able to run America. The question now is whether he has already made enough mistakes for the board to get rid of him. The closest thing America has to a board is the group of Republican senators who must decide what to investigate. Trump will hate the analogy, but at this moment, their leader, Senator McConnell, is his chairman—and the CEO has a lot of explaining to do.
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Trump is an object lesson on how far heroic levels of bullshitting can get a fella. In his case right to the top. It's a very American ability not to be underrated and he is a master of spinning webs of deceit in an almost loveable way. This includes selling himself as a versatile Chief Executive Officer rather than a what he is basically a wealthy pratfall prone heir to a Real Estate empire. People who don't really understand how US politics works or even have much idea how you run a large enterprise were suckers for this. People just like Trump as we have to conclude now he himself appears not to know how to build an effective management team. His hiring is terribly patchy with highly respected men like McMasters rubbing shoulders hilariously awful critters like Dr Gorka PHD and his mentor Bannon. He's completely failed to staff large areas of middle management. Trump can be charismatic but is hopeless at comms. He rapidly gets tangled up in unfamiliar compliance issues. He falls back on kin as he always has as the owner of a family firm.
 
Have we not had this yet?

US 'diplomats' preparing the Trumper's visit to the Western Wall in Jerusalem apparently told the Israelis that the president won't be accompanied by any of them because.. “Certainly not. This isn’t your jurisdiction. This is part of the West Bank.”

U.S. diplomats snub Israeli offers to help with Trump's Western Wall visit
(Whether this really happened or not who knows but was widely reported on Israeli news.)
 
Yep! I posted it a little earlier. But I post too much. And Trump does this stuff at such a speed and with such regularity. . .

He's also reportedly cutting the time he spends at the Holocaust Museum to 15 minutes. I would say that he almost certainly doesn't want to go and it has every chance of being fantastically terrible - the best bet would be to keep him locked up as much as possible and let him make short, "thank you for having me" remarks before he leaves. But no, he's going to make a huge speech on Islam close to the holiest sites in the religion.

Ynetnews News - First time jitters: Trump's travel team causes logistics headache
 
I saw that Stephen Miller thing elsewhere, is that really true? Because that doesn't sound like such a great idea. "Inspiring but direct," they say - hell's bells! Trump thinks he's an historical genius, he probably thinks his "inspiring but direct" remarks are going to trigger some Islamic Reformation.
 
MightyTibberton said:
I saw that Stephen Miller thing elsewhere, is that really true? Because that doesn't sound like such a great idea. "Inspiring but direct," they say - hell's bells! Trump thinks he's an historical genius, he probably thinks his "inspiring but direct" remarks are going to trigger some Islamic Reformation.
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Cue Armageddon in 3, 2, 1. . .
(With hearty cheers from Fundamentalist Christians in anticipation of the imminent rapture, then gradual muffling from being consumed by the blast wave. . . )
 
J Ed said:
People are already dying, the same margin of people, 20 million, are currently without insurance now under the ACA as will lose it under the AHCA. 20 million without it now, another 20 million on top of that with the AHCA.

If Pence becomes the president, which is what will happen if Trump is forced out by high level political machinations, then all of the worst aspects of the Trump agenda will sail through a Republican Congress, the AHCA will pass without question as opposed to now where there is every likelihood it won't. Worse than that, there will be a national reconciliation and 'healing' of Democrats and Republicans while it is being passed, since the usurper and threat to the Republic will be gone.
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Yes, people are still dying from lack of access.

Impeaching a President takes some time and I doubt if Trump is humble enough to resign of his own accord. What I hope will happen is that he hangs on for another year and a half. Then, the Republicans get creamed in the midterms, losing both House and Senate. Assuming that Pence eventually becomes President, he would do so with a Congress that won't allow him to push through his agenda. There's plenty of other damage that he can do, but we're stuck with a Republican in charge in some way for the next few years. If Trump manages to stay his full four years, he's likely so wounded that he won't be able to push anything major through either. <fingers crossed>
 
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