Trump 35: Still an Asshole to Everyone but Ivanka

[fraurosena]

Sweet Rufus, now he's going to take on OPEC. 

So, he's on a roll, fast on his way to alienate the EU, Canada, China, Mexico (sort of) and now OPEC. Before you know it, the presidunce will have alienated the rest of the world against you. Putin must be laughing so hard.

[AmazonGrace]

I don't get it. if the prices go down the American oil producers  get less money, don't they?

[Alisamer]

5 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

I don't get it. if the prices go down the American oil producers  get less money, don't they?

I don't think he knows or cares. He has a winner-takes-all take on life, and teaming up with anyone makes you vulnerable to them, unless you have sufficient dirt on them to be the one in total control. I'm pretty sure he sees the rest of the world as those contractors he may or may not pay for whatever work they do for him. Underlings. Putin has something on him, so he plays like he respects Russia, but the rest of the countries of the world are just support staff or enemies, depending on the day.

[AnywhereButHere]

I can see his handlers rushing in now...

"oil good"

"oil makes Trump money"

"Trump loves oil"

"Trump loves OPEC'

"OPEC = good foreigners"

All while stroking him and waving $100 bills in his face to reinforce.

[47of74]

Fucker

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President Donald Trump said he found inspiration for the U.S.-Mexico border wall after visiting the Flight 93 National Memorial this month for a ceremony commemorating the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

The memorial marks the site where United Airlines Flight 93 crashed in an open field after 40 passengers and crew members tried to overtake terrorists who had hijacked the plane.

“They built this gorgeous wall where the plane went down in Pennsylvania. Shanksville. And I was there. I made the speech. And it’s sort of beautiful, what they did is incredible,” Trump told Hill.TV in an interview on Tuesday. “They have a series of walls, I’m saying, ‘It’s like perfect.' So, so, we are pushing very hard.”

Trump’s comments on Tuesday came as Republicans fretted that his public confidence in the party's midterm chances may be leading his supporters to believe the party is in little jeopardy of losing control of the House, leading to complacency that could depress GOP turnout on Election Day.

 

[AmazonGrace]

He has the best words that aren't words https://twitter.com/Stop_Trump20/status/1042849252345561088?s=19

[mamallama]

Whenever I hear Trump talk about the red wave I think "he knows the fix is in".  

[47of74]

2 hours ago, AnywhereButHere said:

I can see his handlers rushing in now...

"oil good"

"oil makes Trump money"

"Trump loves oil"

"Trump loves OPEC'

"OPEC = good foreigners"

All while stroking him and waving $100 bills in his face to reinforce.

I just had a horrible mental image of him being given a handy J by one of his handlers with a $100 bill wrapped around his tiny little mushroom dick.  And the pain that mental image caused is a pain best shared which is why I mention it here. 

 And if I was a flight 93 relative I'd be composing a physical letter to him right now with my thoughts on what a fuck stick he is.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

He has the best words that aren't words https://twitter.com/Stop_Trump20/status/1042849252345561088?s=19

I loved this response in that thread:

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

[GreyhoundFan]

What an ass: "‘At least you got a nice boat out of the deal,’ Trump tells N.C. man during post-Florence tour"

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President Trump, clearly, has an eye for luxury — even in the most unexpected circumstances.

Walking along River Drive in New Bern, N.C., a low-lying neighborhood that was pummeled by a one-two punch of Hurricane Florence and post-storm flooding, Trump greeted residents and surveyed the devastation, according to a Wednesday pool report account.

Then he saw the yacht.

It was beached in a resident’s backyard.

“Is this your boat? Or . . . did it become your boat?” Trump asked the man who lived in the house where the boat was now inadvertently and incongruously docked.

No, it was not his boat, the homeowner replied, according to the pool report, which didn’t identify residents by name.

Trump returned his gaze to the vessel, which was white with brown accents and balanced at a precarious angle.

“At least you got a nice boat out of the deal,” he said, with a smile.

Whether Trump was joking or simply pointing out a bit of silver lining, the interaction prompted some to question the president’s empathy for the many Carolinians whose homes and possessions were destroyed in Florence — the latest in a string of his responses to natural disasters to be criticized.

In the hours after Florence made landfall last week, more than 350 people had to be rescued from New Bern, which is flanked by the Neuse and Trent rivers. More than a foot of rain fell on the Colonial-era city, and the storm’s winds drove in water from the Atlantic Ocean, overwhelming the rivers and flooding much of the community. By Monday evening, 25 people were confirmed dead in North Carolina.

In New Bern days later, the president was seeking more information on the grounded boat’s condition — a good yacht should never go to waste. He asked the crowd of reporters, residents and handlers who were escorting him on his tour of the post-Florence wreckage, “That boat is wiped out, or not?”

“Boat looks like it’s okay,” came a response from the gaggle.

“Wouldn’t want to cross the ocean in it,” Trump replied. The crowd laughed. (Trump used to own a yacht himself. It was, at the time, the world’s third-largest and was featured in a James Bond movie. He christened the ship “Trump Princess.”)

Shortly after, a reporter asked him for his thoughts on what he had seen thus far.

“I think it’s incredible; I think it’s incredible,” Trump said. “To see what we’re seeing — this boat, I don’t know what happened, but this boat just came here. And do you know whose boat that is? They don’t know whose boat that is.”

Elsewhere on River Drive, the president chatted with residents who had lost their homes. They told him the storm would displace them, the pool account noted.

One man told Trump he had named his dog after the president (though pool reporters could not confirm whether the dog’s name was Donald, Trump or both).

“That’s nice,” Trump reportedly replied.

During the trip, Trump also visited a church that was distributing meals to the city’s residents. There, he handed out packages of hot dogs and applesauce and told the crowd, “Our hearts break for you. God bless you.”

It wasn’t the president’s first trip to the site of a massive natural disaster.

The deadly 2017 hurricane season afforded Trump several opportunities to travel to storm-torn swaths of the country and address grieving citizens — instead, critics said, he largely kept attention focused on himself.

[In Puerto Rico, Trump's paper-towel toss reveals where his empathy lies]

Addressing a crowd of Texans after Hurricane Harvey in August 2017, Trump marveled at the size of his audience: “What a turnout,” he said then. It was observed that the event felt more like a campaign rally than a sympathy tour.

“There was something missing from what President Trump said … the empathy for the people who suffer,” Ari Fleischer, who served as White House press secretary under President George W. Bush, told Fox News afterward.

Then, in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island, Trump infamously tossed rolls of paper towels into a crowd at a supply distribution point. The mayor of San Juan said the act was “terrible and abominable.” On the same trip, Trump complained that relief efforts in Puerto Rico had thrown the country’s budget “a little out of whack.”

It turned out this was just the beginning of a hotly contested and roundly criticized response that has continued to spark fresh debate, most recently when Trump again denied the widely accepted Maria-related death toll last week.

Back in North Carolina, during a briefing at a Marine air station there, Trump did seem concerned about one part of the state.

“How is Lake Norman doing?” he asked a local official, according to a pool report, referring to a man-made lake north of Charlotte.

The official assured him the lake was all right.

“I love that area,” Trump responded, according to the pool account. “I can’t tell you why, but I love that area.”

Observers were quick to note one possible explanation for the president’s interest in the area: A Trump National Golf Club is located on the shores of Lake Norman.

 

[GreyhoundFan]

What a dumbass: "Trump suggested a wall across the Sahara, according to Spain’s foreign minister"

Spoiler

President Trump had a suggestion for how Spain could deal with Europe’s migration crisis during a recent meeting with Foreign Minister Josep Borrell, according to reports in the Spanish media.

The idea was simple: “Build a wall across the Sahara.”

El País and Europa Press reported this week that Borrell recalled Trump’s suggestion during a luncheon in Madrid on Tuesday. The Spanish Embassy in Washington did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the Spanish Foreign Ministry told Britain’s Guardian newspaper that the accounts of Borrell’s comments were accurate.

According to those accounts, Borrell told his audience that Trump had compared the situation in northern Africa and the Mediterranean to that along the U.S. border with Mexico. During his campaign, Trump had promised to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico and force the Mexican government to pay for it.

Borrell said that he did not support a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico and that Spanish diplomats had told Trump that the situation was considerably different in scale anyway. Trump disagreed, according to Borrell’s recollection, adding that “the Sahara border can’t be bigger than our border with Mexico."

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Though estimates vary, U.S. Customs and Border Protection says that the border between the United States and Mexico is roughly 1,900 miles long. Most estimates for the Sahara put it at about 3,000 miles long from east to west.

A wall across the Sahara would probably also involve building through several sovereign nations. The desert spreads over parts of 11 countries: Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Eritrea, Libya, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Niger, Sudan and Tunisia.

It was unclear from the Spanish media whether Trump was speaking in jest when he made the purported comments. Borrell had accompanied Spain’s King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia to the White House in June.

Spain has seen rising numbers of migrants and refugees arrive on its shores in recent months, the result of a crackdown on a central Mediterranean route between Libya and Italy. According to the International Organization for Migration, more than 33,000 people have arrived in Spain via the western Mediterranean in 2018 — three times as many as in the same period last year.

The left-wing government of Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez, in power since June, has attempted to welcome the new arrivals — accepting migrant rescue boats such as the MV Aquarius after Italy rejected them.

Borrell, who was president of the European Parliament from 2004 to 2007, has been critical of anti-immigration sentiment in Europe. “Everybody in Europe is being affected by this virus, fears of immigration,” he told The Washington Post during the June visit to the United States. “This is not the case of Spain.”

His comments at the luncheon this week appear to affirm, however, that migration and identity are the most important issues facing the continent.

“European societies are not structured to absorb more than a certain percentage of migrants, especially if they are Muslims,” he said, according to El País.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[fraurosena]

It's not surprising he's standing up for Kavanaugh. 

It's quite surprising that he's not attacking Dr. Blasey Ford.

[Cartmann99]

Vegas had him last night, so now Springfield, Missouri gets a turn:

 

[Destiny]

It's not surprising he's standing up for Kavanaugh. 
It's quite surprising that he's not attacking Dr. Blasey Ford.

You just didn’t give him enough time. He is now. He just basically called her a liar.

[fraurosena]

19 minutes ago, Destiny said:

You just didn’t give him enough time. He is now. He just basically called her a liar.

 

 

 

 

He should be careful what he wishes for.

Also, if he really wants to learn date, time and place, then he should tell the FBI to investigate.

[AmazonGrace]

Someone explained to him it was incriminating 

 

[fraurosena]

Ha, the presidunce has been taken to task by DOJ and other allied countries on the inadvisability of releasing unredacted documents.

(Also: Stormy told everyone all about your need for speed, no need to reiterate it on twitter!)

[AmazonGrace]

He is so much in over his head that he's drowning from the standpoint of water 

 

[AmazonGrace]

Guys I hate to break it to you  but I think your president is an effing moron. 

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/19/trump-declassify-fbi-documents-page-cancer-828744

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“If I did one mistake with Comey, I should have fired him before I got here. I should have fired him the day I won the primaries,” the president said. “I should have fired him right after the convention, say I don’t want that guy.”

 

[AmazonGrace]