[Closed] Donald! Trump!

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-19/trump-sends-cheque-to-family-of-war-dead-after-june-promise/9065406
Cheque is in the post - finally
Morally bankrupt, insulting everyone
More I do not recall from Sessions

The US attorney general, Jeff Sessions, has given a new account of his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the 2016 election, conceding it was possible that they had discussed Donald Trump’s policy positions.

Under intense questioning by the Senate judiciary committee, Sessions departed from his previous blanket denials about contacts with Russian officials, saying he did “not recall” elements of the conversations in three meetings in 2016 with the ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and conceded for the first time that substantive issues may have been discussed.

"He knew what he signed up for", jeezo

Perhaps, next time, when Poor little Donnie is whining about how tough it is being president of the US, someone could repeat these sentiments to him.

And yet after all this it seems, according to various people who would know, that it will be virtually impossible to get him out in any other way than in a box. There's just not the political will to go up against the "fake news!" machine.

The GOP are soon to be embroiled in a bitter civil war for the "soul" (no pun intended) of the party, given that Bannon is calling for replacement of moderate senators with hard-right nut jobs paid for by some very powerful donors.

The Democrats for their part have exploited the tension between the GOP and Trump, they know that stroking Drumpf's ego will be enough to win some key concessions. Mid-term elections aren't far away, the political landscape will change significantly if the ruling party is at war with itself.

Meanwhile, Trump's "plan" seems to be becoming clearer. He seeks to undo everything achieved under Obama, with no regard given to medium to long term planning. It really is that simple.

Yet another example of Trump denigrating Obama’s operational policies, yet has nothing at all to replace them with:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/why-trump-has-nothing-to-say-about-isis-w509499
#rollseyes

"He knew what he signed up for", jeezo

Perhaps, next time, when Poor little Donnie is whining about how tough it is being president of the US, someone could repeat these sentiments to him.

The thing is, I'm not sure he really knew and understood what he was signing up for when he became POTUS - and still doesn't really know and understand now. I imagine he thought he could be like a dictator and just say 'I want this to happen' and people would get it done, no questions. How many EOs can a president write? As that seems to be the only way he's getting his agenda done.

Agree on pettiness of undoing (or trying to undo) Obama, but he's damaging America and also the world through his actions and tweets (and his family aren't helping... Honestly, if I'd have made that many 'mistakes' on my security forms, I wouldn't be allowed to do my job! And there's also the 'But their emails....', which seems to have died down - MSM keeping it in reserve??)

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/921323063945453574

Marvellous stuff. Donnie on form on his early morning toilet stop.

Meanwhile, Trump's "plan" seems to be becoming clearer. He seeks to undo everything achieved under Obama, with no regard given to medium to long term planning. It really is that simple.

This. I wouldn't mind so much if there was a deep ideological difference between them, or Donald thought that Obamas policies were in somewhere detrimental to the furtherment of the USA, but it's literally 'he came up with it so I'm stopping it.', as said above with no alternative, not even a crap alternative, just as long as it's not Obamas policy.

Petty child.

Incidentally, I notice that the defenders on here are somewhat subdued of late, are they seeing the error of their ways or have they gone on enforced holidays/simply got bored?

Hilary Clinton mentioned in an interview about the job of POTUS being to unit the country not divide it as trump-breath seems intent on doing. The fact that both his predecessors (Obama and GW Bush) have publicly commented about this despite the protocol of previous incumbents not commenting on their successors should speak volumes.

Trump seems content in playing to his baying supporters rather than reaching out to anyone else.

GW Bush

Remember when he was considered a fool? Seems we really misunderestimated where we could go from there...

This. I wouldn't mind so much if there was a deep ideological difference between them, or Donald thought that Obamas policies were in somewhere detrimental to the furtherment of the USA, but it's literally 'he came up with it so I'm stopping it.', as said above with no alternative, not even a crap alternative, just as long as it's not Obamas policy.

Petty child.

I think this is why the Reps stuck with Trump: He can play the bad guy, and get rid of everything Obama did, no matter how positive, and the rest of them can sit back and look moderate by comparison. Then, at the next election, one of the "more moderate" Rep candidates will swan in and play the good guy, by which time all the damage will have been done.

he's essentially a Republican patsy.

Remember when he was considered a fool? Seems we really misunderestimated where we could go from there...

Yes, it's come to something when GWB is talking sense!

The Democrats must be in a bit of a bind: on the one hand they don't want to see Trump destroying things wholesale but on the other, getting rid of Trump means Pence gets in and he knows how things work and how to push the right (not the red!) buttons to make things happen. Their strategy has to be to let Trump make such a mess that the mid-term elections are a disaster for the GOP and hope they take enough seats to properly control things.

Anyone else feeling some nostalgia for the days of George HW Bush and John Major?

seem like the bawbag has taken interest in our crime rate and seems to be suggest it's all down to the Islamic Mobsters !

Just out report: "United Kingdom crime rises 13% annually amid spread of Radical Islamic terror." Not good, we must keep America safe!

The crimes that account for most of that rise:

Domestic abuse (18%)
Bicycle theft (19%)
Violence without injury (21%)
Stalking and harassment (36%)
Sex offences (19%)

Damn those radical islamic bike thieves!

Would it do any good to retweet that quote about our crime rate with a #fakenews tacked on?

Remember when he was considered a fool? Seems we really misunderestimated where we could go from there...

The thing with Bush was that he's not actually a bad guy, remember this was a man who visited mosques immediately after 9/11 - to unify the country and make American Muslims less fearful.

Bushes problem was that he was naieve when it came to being able to actually help Iraq and Afghanistan.

This is too good not to repost from twitter:

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Troll level = Genius 😆

A Republican Senator just ripped into Trump, really went for him. Interesting stuff ahead.

[url= http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41743473 ]Republican Jeff Flake resigns[/url] Arizona Senator Jeff Flake said "reckless, outrageous and undignified behaviour" at the top of the US government was dangerous to democracy.

Along with Bob Corker and his current row with regard to Trump (not to mention Trumps spat with John McCain) are the wheels coming off the Trump presidency?.

These were both reps looking at being unseated by tea party types or just couldn't be arsed with fighting that battle in the midterms?

Interesting to see how this feeds into 538s 14 scenarios...

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/where-is-the-trump-presidency-headed/

Along with Bob Corker and his current row with regard to Trump (not to mention Trumps spat with John McCain) are the wheels coming off the Trump presidency?.

The podcasts are worth a listen too.

Good to see he is holding that strong 37% approval - keeping it consistent.
https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/trump-approval-ratings/

Now he’s claiming to have one of the greatest memories of all time, as he had a chart in front of him with LaDavid Johnson’s name on it, so he couldn’t have forgotten...

Numbskull...

https://www.thepoke.co.uk/2017/10/25/donald-trump-show-he-is-intelligent-ends-doing-exact-opposite/

"People say we have the best relationship of any president-president, because he's called president also. Some people might call him the king of China, but he's called president."

Good grief. 😯

Mr Woppit - Member
"People say we have the best relationship of any president-president, because he's called president also. Some people might call him the king of China, but he's called president."

Wow...

Say what you want about Trump, but is he as good a demolitionist as the current Tories?

I'm not sure he really knew and understood what he was signing up for when he became POTUS

The thing I forget (and I'm not the only one) is that he never expected to be president. The result was a total suprise/shock to both Clinton & Trump.

When he first entered the race to be Republican candidate I very much doubt that actually becoming President was what motivated him or that he gave any thought to what being President meant.

I had a chart 😆

Mueller s filed his charges so Monday may be interesting to see who gets taken into custody.

Weekend tweets might be intresting 🙂

Well I'll put my money on Manafort to get the first pic, maybe one of the advisors along the way.
Wind the screws in see who cracks and what the reaction is from the Don...

The JFK files and I wanted to/they wouldn't let me was actually a smart move in the PR game in playing the investigators as the bad guys. That isn't given him credit for that, everyone gets lucky some day

I’m hoping that he doesn’t kick off a war as a sideline diversion thou.

Mattis is raising the game on that one, though I'm not sure anyone has presented an argument that NK can be anything other than a complete screw up.

Also Twitter diversion is on Hillary and email today

He's been surprisingly subdued with his tweets today, though Sarah Sanders has been pumping out the fake news [url= https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/924288256577036289 ]https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/924288256577036289[/url]

I'd guess it will be Manafort or Flynn first then slowly working to his kids/son in law

Hopefully Farage will be sucked in as i've no doubt Brexit was manipulated as well

I [i]love[/i] those pics maxtorque posted! Had me in fits of giggles earlier, still laughing at them now. 😆

Clinton and the DNC’s credibility, what litte they had anyway, is in tatters after they have been found to have funded the fake Russian dosiser.

I thought political oppo research (copyright Donnie Jr) was deemed OK these days? Huckabee told me so, I think.

TBH the reputations of the Dems, Trump and GOP (members of which part funded the dossier research when they were still trying to get Jeb Bush elected) are looking a tad threadbare right now.

Wouldn't put it past the Democrats to fluff the Congressional elections next year and leave Trump (well, what's left of the Grand Old Party) still controlling both houses.

[quote=jambalaya ]Clinton and the DNC’s credibility, what litte they had anyway, is in tatters after they have been found to have funded the fake Russian dosiser.

Thank goodness it's been shown that credibility isn't a requirement to be POTUS

jambalaya - Member
Clinton and the DNC’s credibility, what litte they had anyway, is in tatters after they have been found to have funded the fake Russian dosiser.

Lol, Russian trolls even make it STW and pay for the privilege

So who's going to jail then, obviously no one as the investigation is clearly fake and the grand jury who agreed with the evidence are clearly just paid off by Clinton.

[url= https://twitter.com/W7VOA/status/924430902733824000 ]Lone cyclist responds to @POTUS motorcade shortly after departing Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.[/url]

[url= https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/trump-assange-bannon-farage-bound-together-in-unholy-alliance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other ]https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/28/trump-assange-bannon-farage-bound-together-in-unholy-alliance?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other[/url]

Excellent article on how Farage keeps popping up in the middle of everything

Excellent article on how Farage keeps popping up in the middle of everything

No matter how many times you flush...

It feels like the 60s and 70s when the heart of the British establishment were KGB moles.

I'm enjoying the blind panic among the Trump minions and the man himself. Judging by the moral integrity of his inner circle any of them will squeal given the opportunity.

IF it all goes tits up for Trump, how long will it take? Will it be like the Berlin Wall coming down which seemed to happen overnight or will it drag on.