What stupid shit has Trump done today?

[DexterTCN]

The seal from earlier.

 

[MikeMcc]

The best bit was when he made reference to how much the US does for Sweden. Well, they created the conditions which led to that country being filled with Afghan and Iraqi asylum seekers for one thing, so yeah, they do a lot.

They must have done it by time travel then.

The first wave of Iraqi / Iranian workers came across in the 60s to work in the factories. Sodertalje even has a football club called the Assyrians (Assyriska FF - Wikipedia) that started up in 1970. Admittedly they US has kept the flow topped up as they flee the various Middle Eastern wars.

 

[a_chap]

When things go beyond parody...

 

[Don Troooomp]

Trump's supreme court has allowed the wall to go ahead with military money, and the US military gets whatever funds it wants because the arms industry bribes too many politicians for any funding bill to fail.

Supreme Court allows Trump wall funding

The US Supreme Court has said that President Donald Trump can use $2.5 billion (£2 billion) of Pentagon funds for a section of wall on the southern border.

The court ruled by five votes to four to block a ruling by a federal judge in California that barred the president from spending the money on the wall.

 

[spring-peeper]

Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half

When Trump wishes the Olympic team good luck, he’s tweeting from his iPhone. When he’s insulting a rival, he’s usually tweeting from an Android. Is this an artifact showing which tweets are Trump’s own and which are by some handler?

Others have explored Trump’s timeline and noticed this tends to hold up- and Trump himself does indeed tweet from a Samsung Galaxy. But how could we examine it quantitatively? I’ve been writing about text mining and sentiment analysis recently, particularly during my development of the tidytext R package with Julia Silge, and this is a great opportunity to apply it again.

My analysis, shown below, concludes that the Android and iPhone tweets are clearly from different people, posting during different times of day and using hashtags, links, and retweets in distinct ways. What’s more, we can see that the Android tweets are angrier and more negative, while the iPhone tweets tend to be benign announcements and pictures. Overall I’d agree with @tvaziri’s analysis: this lets us tell the difference between the campaign’s tweets (iPhone) and Trump’s own (Android).

 

[spring-peeper]

Outrage as Trump brands mostly black Baltimore 'infested mess'

US President Donald Trump was hit with new accusations of racism on Saturday after he attacked a prominent African American congressman and branded the majority-black city of Baltimore an "infested mess".

Trump's outburst came in a series of sharply worded tweets aimed at Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings - a high-profile critic of Trump's administration whose district covers much of Baltimore.

"Cummings District is a disgusting, rat and rodent infested mess," the president wrote, calling it "the worst run and most dangerous anywhere in the United States".

"No human being would want to live there," he said - in an attack ostensibly provoked by Cummings's criticism of the harsh conditions facing would-be asylum seekers at the Mexican border.

"Rep Elijah Cummings has been a brutal bully, shouting and screaming at the great men & women of Border Patrol about conditions at the Southern Border, when actually his Baltimore district is FAR WORSE and more dangerous," Trump alleged.

The top Democrat in Congress, Nancy Pelosi - whose father served as mayor of Baltimore - accused Trump of a "racist" attack.

"@RepCummings is a champion in the Congress and the country for civil rights and economic justice, a beloved leader in Baltimore, and deeply valued colleague," Pelosi wrote on Twitter.

"We all reject racist attacks against him and support his steadfast leadership."

The Democratic mayor of Baltimore Bernard "Jack" Young - who is black - rejected Trump's rhetoric as "hurtful and dangerous".

"It's completely unacceptable for the political leader of our country to denigrate a vibrant American City like Baltimore, and to viciously attack US Representative Elijah Cummings," Young wrote in a statement.

Prominent Democratic presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, tweeted that she was "proud" to have her 2020 campaign headquarters in Cummings's district.

"It's disgraceful the president has chosen to start his morning disparaging this great American city," said Harris, one of two leading black candidates in the race to succeed Trump.[\quote]

 

[a_chap]

And then how soon before he starts to casually tweet the word "nigger"?

 

[MrSki]

Has this been done before? I know it's not today but too good yo miss.

 

[binka]

It's a video of him not taking himself seriously and showing he can laugh at himself and have fun. I don't see how it's supposed to harm him? In fact it might be the first thing I've seen him do where I'm not thinking how much of a cunt he is

 

[cupid_stunt]

It's a video of him not taking himself seriously and showing he can laugh at himself and have fun. I don't see how it's supposed to harm him?

I was with you up until that point, but this is going too far...

In fact it might be the first thing I've seen him do where I'm not thinking how much of a cunt he is

 

[stavros]

Outrage as Trump brands mostly black Baltimore 'infested mess'

I hope Cummings adopts Clay Davis' mantra, and describes Trump as "sheeee-it".

 

[Smokeandsteam]

And then how soon before he starts to casually tweet the word "nigger"?

The problem confronting Baltimore is an obvious one - the mass deindustrialisation of its industrial base, collapsing employment and economic health and the concomitant white flight leaving a poor city with poor blacks (and whites) trapped. Gary, Detroit, many cities face the same problems.

Investment collapses leaving the city cash strapped and a vicious decreasing circle ensues.

The issue is not about race per se. Although blacks disproportionately suffer the consequences of the collapse. A reality that seems to fly over the head of the American political class.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

And just to add given Trump was elected on a pledge to rebuild the ‘rust belt’ and other cities facing ruin due to the collapse of their industrial productivity why aren’t democrats hammering him over it?

 

[tim]

And then how soon before he starts to casually tweet the word "*******"?

Not as soon as you have

 

[donkyboy]

Shocking video of racists in 1970s. Trump's neighbourhood.

 

[Yossarian]

And then how soon before he starts to casually tweet the word "nigger"?

I think one of his aides probably took his phone while he was in a cheeseburger-induced nap at some point and changed the settings so any racial slurs he tweeted would be replaced by other words.

 

[Yossarian]

And just to add given Trump was elected on a pledge to rebuild the ‘rust belt’ and other cities facing ruin due to the collapse of their industrial productivity why aren’t democrats hammering him over it?

Joe Biden seems to be setting himself up as Rust Belty Joe, the Guy From the Rust Belt Who Can Connect With Rust Belt Voters Like No Other and Understands Their Concerns, even though it would be a bit of a stretch to call Delaware a Rust Belt state.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Joe Biden seems to be setting himself up as Rust Belty Joe, the Guy From the Rust Belt Who Can Connect With Rust Belt Voters Like No Other and Understands Their Concerns, even though it would be a bit of a stretch to call Delaware a Rust Belt state.

Biden's problem at root is that he's the quintessential machine politician and that a) plays into Trump's narrative and b) that style of politics isn't going to fly (in my view) with enough Democrats this time.

His background isn't quite the 'son of toil' one he makes out either:

Don't be fooled: Joe Biden is no friend of unions | Gabriel Winant

 

[Yuwipi Woman]

The problem confronting Baltimore is an obvious one - the mass deindustrialisation of its industrial base, collapsing employment and economic health and the concomitant white flight leaving a poor city with poor blacks (and whites) trapped. Gary, Detroit, many cities face the same problems.

Investment collapses leaving the city cash strapped and a vicious decreasing circle ensues.

The issue is not about race per se. Although blacks disproportionately suffer the consequences of the collapse. A reality that seems to fly over the head of the American political class.

It doesn't fly over their heads at all. Both sides are happy to capitalize on the crisis. The Republicans use it to get white votes by pointing to it saying "see, look at that Democrat city and how bad they run things." They alternate that with pointing out that its a majority African-American city, blaming the problems on the race of the victims, to also pull in their racist base. The Democrats capitalize on it by promising changes that don't do anything to fix the underlying economic/structural problem that created the mess in the first place. Now and then they throw them some crumbs in the form of community redevelopment grants.

Did I used to be this cynical?

 

[spring-peeper]

Trump is right about the rodent problem in Baltimore. His son-in-law is a slum landlord.

Trump disses Baltimore but his son-in-law owns rat-infested buildings there | IOL News

His criticism rang with a particular irony in Baltimore County, where the president's son-in-law Jared Kushner owns more than a dozen apartment complexes that have been cited with hundreds of code violations and, critics say, provide sub-standard housing to lower income tenants.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

It doesn't fly over their heads at all. Both sides are happy to capitalize on the crisis

I don’t disagree with that at all. But it’s still depressing to see an avowedly ‘radical’ generation of democrats focus on the racial rather than profound class questions thrown up by the experience of cities like Baltimore. It’s also depressing their solutions offer no challenge to existing the existing economic structure

 

[GarveyLives]

He continues to do exactly what many of the USA's diminishing ethnic majority elected him to do:

Obama, the Squad, Al Sharpton: all targets of Trump's racist attacks

Trump’s Own Background Reveals the True Motivation Behind Racist Tweets: Pure White Supremacy

Donald Trump's depressing racist vitriol brings out the worst in too many Americans

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[Humberto]

It's scary to think where it would lead to if Trump gets another 4 years. It's so obviously divide and rule whilst looting everything for the 1%. It's a sinister and cynical government who overwhelmingly stock the positions of influence. As I've said before, the hate is real. This jumped up egotist rich-kid happens to hate anyone who doesn't bend the knee to him. He will use and abuse anyone or any group. Every day my opinion of him gets worse.

 

[a_chap]

It's scary to think where it would will lead to if when Trump gets another 4 years.

No-one thought he'd get a first term.

It's entirely possible he will engineer a second term.

 

[Humberto]

No-one thought he'd get a first term.

It's entirely possible he will engineer a second term.

That does look like where his 'project' is going. Though I've not got a proper opinion at the moment.

 

[GarveyLives]

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[GarveyLives]

WaPo’s Ashley Parker, Move On’s Karine Jean-Pierre, Real Clear Politics’ A.B. Stoddard, former Congressman David Jolly, and Reverend Al Sharpton join John Heilemann to discuss the president’s racist re-election campaign strategy becoming clearer after his attacks on Rep. Elijah Cummings and the city of Baltimore ...

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[Humberto]

He's gone full racist. I've never seen a worse man. Judas Iscariot is embarrassed by this.

 

[Humberto]

What a hellbound shitcunt.

 

[Humberto]

'Hey guys us hellbound shitcunts aren't all bad.'

Get in the fiery pit you disgraceful racist.