What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[chandlerp]

edited: for reasons of being stupid

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

I'm sure this is fine . . .

Pork industry soon will have more power over meat inspections

Yeah, that's going to go well...

 

[spring-peeper]

Oh, do shut up!!!!

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly bragged about pressuring Canada to accept his terms for a new North American free-trade agreement after he said the negotiators were “not at all nice” during the talks, but he “made them nice.”

“We have the USMCA – I hope you guys can get it approved,” he said to his audience. “I mean the problem we have is that you have a very hostile group. You have a very, very hostile group on the other side and they don’t want to see us have success and the USMCA is a great deal.”

“Canada is very, very tough. We love Canada,” he said. “We think of the beautiful song, the ice hockey games. O Canada, isn’t it beautiful? But in the meantime, they knock the hell out of us on trade, and they have been doing it for a long time and they’re very tough.”

“They’re not at all nice about that situation, but we’ve made them nice. We’ve made them nice and they’re not happy about what happened.”

Trump went on to declare that U.S. farmers would be able to sell their goods to Canada under the new agreement, which “they were restricted from doing.”

According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Canada was the top market for American agricultural exports in 2017 with $20.5 billion worth of goods being sold across the border.

I wonder if today's rant has anything to do with Canada 's request to have the steel and aluminum tariffs dropped prior to Canada signing the new trade deal. (Freeland says axing tariffs on steel, aluminum should be part of CUSMA ratification process))
I' m pretty sure Mexico has made a similar request.

Doesn't really matter much, it doesn't look like the Americans will be signing the deal any time soon. New NAFTA deal at risk as U.S. Democrats want negotiations reopened

 

[Don Troooomp]

I'll bet he does - After all, his tax returns are up for grabs so Trump wants his man on the team as quickly as possible so he can stop the evidence getting out.

Trump Asked That Confirmation of I.R.S. Counsel Be a Priority

President Trump earlier this year asked Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, to prioritize a confirmation vote for his nominee to be the chief counsel of the Internal Revenue Service, indicating that it was a higher priority than voting on the nomination of William P. Barr as attorney general, a person familiar with the conversation said.

 

[chandlerp]

Funny how it became a priority as soon as the House was flipped to the Dems and they said they wanted his tax returns. Quick, get a loyal face in

 

[CRI]

Another reminder of the Trump Administration's systematic abuse of children. This all fits the definition of genocide and I hope to fuck someone is held accountable for it one day.

Opinion | We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Took My Baby.

She’s a toddler, so she can’t tell me if something bad happened to her. I don’t know if she thinks we chose to abandon her. All I know is she came back pounds thinner, with lice and a hacking cough, and she cried for days, traumatized by a government that keeps children from their parents because they are migrants.

We fled Honduras to the United States because we feared for our lives. I grew up in the capital, Tegucigalpa. In the past few years, my neighborhood has become one of the deadliest in the city. We had had run-ins with the gangs in the past. On Oct. 18, gang members came to our house looking for my partner, Kevin.

I knew what they were capable of. When my eldest daughter was 2 years old and I was pregnant with my son, their father was murdered and his body dismembered by gang members. Even after he was killed, we got death threats. We tried moving to another town until things cooled down, but the gangs found us there and extorted us.

We were caught by agents after we crossed and taken to one of the detention centers known as “hieleras,” or iceboxes, because they are kept so cold. There I learned that Kevin was taken to the same detention center with Grethshell and she had been separated from her father. Two fellow migrant women told me that five agents held him down while they ripped her from his arms. Other migrant women were asked to watch her.

I was told I would be reunited with my daughter in a week, but first I needed to fill out paperwork. Then I was told to provide a credit card with up to a $4,000 credit line for her flight, an impossibility for me. Officials refused to say who was looking after her. Finally I got fed up and went to the press. Grethshell was finally put on a plane and brought to me after I threatened to go to the address I had for the shelter manager and get her myself.

When I asked to be let into this country because my family was in mortal danger, a Border Patrol agent told me I was weak. That it would be better if I went to Canada. “I don’t care if one of your kids dies,” he said. I wonder what that agent would have done if someone had threatened to murder his children. Wouldn’t he have risked everything to ensure their safety?

 

[Pickman's model]

Another reminder of the Trump Administration's systematic abuse of children. This all fits the definition of genocide and I hope to fuck someone is held accountable for it one day.

Opinion | We Fled the Gangs in Honduras. Then the U.S. Government Took My Baby.

it's by no means good, and it's downright diabolical. but genocide? i think you may be talking hyperbollocks

information about the definition of genocide can be found here https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf (pdf)

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

it's by no means good, and it's downright diabolical. but genocide? i think you may be talking hyperbollocks

information about the definition of genocide can be found here https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf (pdf)

Article Two of the convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with the intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such":

• Killing members of the group
• Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
• Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
• Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
• Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

What is genocide?

One of the pillars of genocide is the removal of children from one group and transferring them to another. From what I can tell, what the administration is doing does fit that part of the definition. They've kept such shoddy records, that you can only come to the conclusion that they have no plan to reunite many families.

I suppose we could argue about the definition, and if this fits, but I think we can all agree that its a violation of basic human rights. And, if they could get away with it, they'd be quite happy to murder asylum seekers en mass.

Whatever you call it, its some really ugly shit.

 

[Don Troooomp]

I'm unsure it's genocide because they aren't doing all the other stuff, but that dorsn't mean Trump and his bastards aren't utter cunts for doing it - they clearly are.

 

[Don Troooomp]

And, if they could get away with it, they'd be quite happy to murder asylum seekers en mass.

Whatever you call it, its some really ugly shit.

Very probably accurate.

 

[Don Troooomp]

In other news, let another Trump pal is exposed as a twat

Officials forced way in to Stephen Moore home after failure to pay ex-wife debts

Officials forced way in to Stephen Moore home after failure to pay ex-wife debts

 

[spring-peeper]

‘Our country is full’: Trump says immigration system overwhelmed

"Our country is full" is a commom theme for my Canadian fb'ers. "ontario proud" seems to be the source.

I think it is the first time I've hear from an American.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Have we had "Woke up and inhaled air"?

 

[Don Troooomp]

Trump's lawyers are trying to stop the tax returns getting out - I'll bloody bet they are - Trump is bound to have a lot of dirty little secrets and the tax returns are very likely to show a few up.
I can image what the press will do - their combs will have finer teeth than ever seen for anything, and the dirty little nits will get brushed out.

Donald Trump lawyers issue letter fighting tax return request - CNNPolitics

 

[likesfish]

Knowing trump it will turn out he's a lot poorer than he claims

 

[chandlerp]

I imagine I’ve got more money than Trump. He will be heavily, heavily in debt.

 

[Don Troooomp]

I imagine I’ve got more money than Trump. He will be heavily, heavily in debt.

You also have the massive advantage of not being a cunt

 

[CRI]

Bear in mind, this was the Homeland Security Secretary who oversaw the policy of separating asylum-seeking children from their parents on arrival, for months, housing children in cages, keeping families in airless, windowless refrigerated buildings, placing children in "foster care" and losing records of where they went, charging asylum-seeking parents for flights, accommodation, etc. of the separated children where they DID know where they were, in order to be reunited with them, oh, and on her watch, children have suffered sexual, physical and emotional abuse, neglect and some have died.

But Trump thinks she's not tough enough on immigration, so she's out. WTF have they got planned next?

Kirstjen Nielsen Out as Trump’s Homeland Security Secretary

The move comes just two days after Mr. Trump, who has repeatedly expressed anger at a rise in migrants at the southwestern border, withdrew his nominee to run Immigration and Customs Enforcement because he wanted the agency to go in a “tougher” direction.

Mr. Trump and Stephen Miller, his top immigration adviser, have privately but regularly complained about Ms. Nielsen. They blamed her for a rise in migrants entering the United States and not finding more creative ways to secure the border.

And his son-in-law, Jared Kushner, was not an admirer of Ms. Nielsen, several administration officials said. That came to a head recently as Mr. Kushner had inserted himself into immigration discussions.

 

[twentythreedom]

Democrats will 'never' see Trump tax returns – White House chief of staff

 

[CRI]

Democrats will 'never' see Trump tax returns – White House chief of staff

That's Bollox!

 

[twentythreedom]

That's Bollox!

What is?

 

[CRI]

What is?

That "The Democrats" (by which he means Congress) will never see Trump's tax returns.

 

[chandlerp]

Mulvaney can't do anything to influence the release of tax returns at all. bellend

 

[Don Troooomp]

That "The Democrats" (by which he means Congress) will never see Trump's tax returns.

Trump is using that designation to show it's political rather than justified. In fact, it's clearly justified as he's a bent bastard that should be in the big house rather than the white one.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Democrats will 'never' see Trump tax returns – White House chief of staff

An obscure 1924 statute includes no exceptions to Neal’s authority to ask for returns and says the treasury “shall furnish” them when requested. It does require a review be conducted in “closed executive session” if the returns are provided without the taxpayer’s consent.

Trump will fight it, but hopefully lose quickly. Closed session is fine as long as the details leak out, and I'm sure they will if there's something interesting in there.
Popped them on a desk, cleaner accidentally knocked them into a fax machine ..........

 

[Don Troooomp]

Barr says Trump hasn't read the special council's report, and I believe Mr. Barr 100%.
Trump won't read anything if there are no pictures in it.

 

[Don Troooomp]

Treasury Dept. Declines House Request for Trump’s Tax Returns

New York Times reporting the request for Trump's returns has been refused.

 

[chandlerp]

and on it goes

 

[Don Troooomp]

I see so much of Trump's really odd behaviour is not reported on this thread - We're so used to this mindless shit, we hardly mention stuff that would have sent other leaders crashing out of politics.

That's the really sad thing about the idiocy we know as the Trump presidency

 

[ruffneck23]

I see so much of Trump's really odd behaviour is not reported on this thread - We're so used to this mindless shit, we hardly mention stuff that would have sent other leaders crashing out of politics.

That's the really sad thing about the idiocy we know as the Trump dictatorship

FIFY