Trump 39: The Return of the Wall

[47of74]

Women's teams have never been invited to solo events at the Fuck Head White House

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A report in The Washington Post examined the lack of women teams' representation at White House events honoring athletes.

As the Post points out, there has yet to be an event during the Trump administration honoring a women's team on its own.

WNBA teams were frequently invited to the White House during the Obama, Bush, and Clinton administrations. NCAA women's basketball champion teams have visited the White House for the previous five administrations. But the Trump administration has yet to host a women's championship team at the White House, with the exception of a November 2017 event honoring multiple NCAA championship teams.

But, according to The Washington Post's reporting, the past two WNBA champions -- the Minnesota Lynx in 2017 and the Seattle Storm in 2018 -- were not invited to the White House, nor was the Notre Dame 2018 championship women's basketball team.

Of course I don't know how many of them would want to be invited to a fuck head event and eat that greasy garbage he likes to inflict on people.

[Alisamer]

2 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Women in power are great, it's just that everyone who is currently running is a biotch

This is so screwed up, but I think it is a big part of what is going on. There are enough sexist people out there of various types that some will not vote for a woman no matter what. If all the candidates were women, they'd write in a man. There are people who cannot imagine a woman as the commander in chief of the military. Despite the fact that many other countries have been very successfully led by women for years now, they think it can't be done here. They'll say they're waiting for the right woman to run, but the fact is no woman will ever be perfect enough for their standards.

I really hope one of the democratic women come out as a frontrunner for president, but that she picks a man for vice president. Not because I think a two woman team can't run the country fantastically (especially with Nancy Pelosi likely in line behind them) but because some people will feel reassured by the presence of a penis in the line of succession.

There have been multiple times I have mentioned things to my boss about Trump, that he had no idea about. His wife watches Fox News exclusively, 24/7, and there is just SO MUCH they leave out, spin to mean the opposite of what really happened, etc. There are a lot of his supporters who will not bother to look at a variety of news sources. They just watch, and believe, whatever Faux tells them. Water is dry, fire is cold, Trump is successful, immigrants are criminals, you're benefiting from tax cuts despite owing the IRS when you always got money back before, etc. 

I don't understand how people can be so incredibly stubborn and stupid. And proud of it! 

[GreyhoundFan]

"Trump’s unhinged CPAC speech should concern us all"

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The president of the United States gave a rambling and incoherent two-hour speech in which he raved like a lunatic and told crazy, self-serving lies from start to finish. If that no longer qualifies as alarming, we’re in serious trouble.

I realize the speed-of-light news cycle has moved on. I realize anything that happened last week has all but faded into the mists of time. But President Trump’s unhinged performance Saturday at the Conservative Political Action Conference is surely worth more than a passing shrug. If you had an uncle or a grandpa who sounded so divorced from reality, you’d be urgently concerned.

“You know I’m totally off script right now,” he said. “And this is how I got elected, by being off-script. True. And if we don’t go off-script, our country is in big trouble, folks. Because we have to get it back.”

There was nothing, anything, like a script.

He tried to talk about the Democratic Party’s proposed Green New Deal: “When the wind stops blowing, that’s the end of your electric. Let’s hurry up. ‘Darling — Darling, is the wind blowing today? I’d like to watch television, darling.’ No, but it’s true.”

Not even remotely true, but he was just getting started.

He raged about the special counsel’s investigation: “Now, Robert Mueller never received a vote, and neither did the person that appointed him. And as you know, the attorney general says, ‘I’m going to recuse myself. I’m going to recuse.’ And I said, why the hell didn’t he tell me that before I put him in? How do you recuse yourself?”

Um, by following the rules. Then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself because he was a potential witness in the investigation, or even a potential subject. He had no choice.

Trump imagined what the organizer of the CPAC conference, Matt Schlapp, might be thinking right then: “ ‘This is a lot more than we paid for.’ You know, normally you read a few pages and you say, ‘Bye, folks.’ But you know what I like about this? Number one, I’m in love, and you’re in love. We’re all in love together.”

Love is indeed a wonderful thing.

Two full years into his term, the president talked obsessively about the crowds at his inauguration: “And they showed — they showed from the White House all the way down. . . . There were people. Nobody has ever seen it. The Capitol down to the Washington Monument — people. But I saw pictures that there were no people. Those pictures were taken hours before.”

Trump’s crowd was big. President Barack Obama’s was bigger. Someday, perhaps, he will get over it.

“They had to walk with high heels, in many cases. They had to walk all the way down to the Washington Monument and then back. And I looked, and I made a speech, and I said, before I got on — I said to the people that were sitting next to me, ‘I’ve never seen anything like this.’ ”

Not over it yet.

Trump talked about an encounter with an old friend, New York developer Richard LeFrak: “Richard came up [to Melania]; he said, ‘I’ve known your husband for 65 years.’ I said, ‘Don’t say that.’ I say, ‘Say 25, 30. Don’t say 65 years.’ But I said, ‘Richard — Richard, call me Donald, like you always do. Call me Don.’ ‘Okay. Okay, Don. Okay.’ He gets his breath. Uh-huh. Two minutes later — ‘Mr. President . . . ‘That’s called respect for the office, right? Maybe that’s a good thing, right? Many — many of my friends. And that wasn’t in the script either.”

One hopes not.

He talked about the hardship of the government shutdown: “I spent my New Year’s all by myself. . . . It was me and about 500 men and women outside with machine guns. I never saw so many beautiful-looking machine guns. I’d look at that equipment and I’d say, ‘Man’ . . . They sit in the trees. They sit on the lawn.”

He talked about his quick trip to Iraq: “General one, general two, general three. I mean, these generals — there’s no person in Hollywood that could play the role. These guys are like perfect people. I said, ‘What’s your name?’ ‘Sir, my name is Raisin.’ What the hell kind of a name? I said, ‘Raisin, like the fruit?’ He goes, ‘Yes, sir, Raisin.’ ‘What’s your last name?’ ‘Caine.’ Raisin Caine. I said, ‘You got to be kidding me.’ ”

That is what sticks with Trump from his visit to a war zone.

“I’m going to regret this speech,” he said. The rest of us certainly do.

 

[Audrey2]

1 hour ago, 47of74 said:

Women's teams have never been invited to solo events at the Fuck Head White House

Of course I don't know how many of them would want to be invited to a fuck head event and eat that greasy garbage he likes to inflict on people.

More disgusting Trump ideas to follow.

I think there are a few reasons that Trump doesn't want to invite a women's championship team to the White House. I'm trying to get inside Trump's head, and boy, is there ever a lot of vacant space here! The following items are ideas I think he may have, and are not my beliefs.

1. I doubt that he thinks that women should play sports. He seems to have a narrow view about what women should and shouldn't be doing, which leads me to number 2.

2. (In his opinion) The women champions aren't attractive enough to warrant an invite. Yes, I know this is disgusting, but Trump seems very comfortable commenting on women's appearances. Plus, he loves Fox News, and we know there's definitely a female "look" to most of the women who appear on Fox News.

3. Pence (and Trump) may have the inappropriate and wrong theory that all women athletes are lesbians. We don't want to upset the Evangelicals.

4. He's still butt-hurt from the women's march, and doesn't want any uppity women in his sacred space.

And the reasons I don't want a women's championship team in the White House?

Remember his bragging about grabbing women and kissing them. Also, grabbing them by their bits. No matter what she achieved, I wouldn't want my daughter going to the White House under this administration.

[GreyhoundFan]

"‘Grab that record’: How Trump’s high school transcript was hidden"

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In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump’s academic records and help bury them.

The superintendent of the private school “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends” and who wanted to keep his records secret, recalled Evan Jones, the headmaster at the time. “He said, ‘You need to go grab that record and deliver it to me because I need to deliver it to them.’ ”

The superintendent, Jeffrey Coverdale, confirmed Monday that members of the school’s board of trustees initially wanted him to hand over Trump’s records to them, but Coverdale said he refused.

“I was given directives, part of which I could follow but part of which I could not, and that was handing them over to the trustees,” he said. “I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released. It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records.”

The former NYMA officials’ recollections add new details to one of the allegations that Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, made before Congress last week. Cohen, who told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that part of his job was to attack Trump’s critics and defend his reputation, said that Trump ordered him “to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.”

Trump has frequently boasted that he was a stellar student, but he declined throughout the 2016 campaign to release any of his academic records, telling The Washington Post then, “I’m not letting you look at anything.”

Last year, he said he “heard I was first in my class” at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton business program, where he finished his undergraduate degree, but Trump’s name does not appear on the school’s dean’s list or on the list of students who received academic honors in his class of 1968.

Trump spent five years at the military academy, starting in the fall of 1959, after his father — having concluded that his son, then in the seventh grade, needed a more discipline-focused setting — removed him from his Queens private school and sent him Upstate to NYMA.

At the academy, which modeled its strict code of conduct after the nearby U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Trump loved competing to win contests for cleanest room or best-made bed. Although not known as an academic standout, he was a prominent baseball player and was well known on campus for bringing women there and showing them around. Despite getting a series of Vietnam War medical deferments for bone spurs in his feet, Trump has said that his military academy background provided “more training militarily than a lot of the guys that go into the military.”

Trump told The Post during the 2016 campaign that he “did very well under the military system. I became one of the top guys at the whole school.”

He said his parents originally sent him there because “I was a wise guy, and they wanted to get me in line.”

Jones and Coverdale declined to disclose the contents of his transcript.

Those who were aware of the 2011 effort to conceal Trump’s records said the request set off a frenzy at the military academy.

“I know for a fact that in 2011, the decision was made by the superintendent to remove those records and secure them so no one on the staff could get to them,” said Richard Pezzullo, a graduate who worked closely with school officials in a drive to save the school, which was then in financial distress. “People had been making inquiries, and there was a paramount interest in securing those records.”

The boarding school had no formal archive at the time. Jones said he combed through the basement of Scarborough Hall on the academy’s sprawling campus, 60 miles north of New York City, and found the real estate mogul’s transcript in file cabinets containing student records.

“I don’t know if we should be doing this,” Jones recalled telling his boss. “He told me that several wealthy alumni, including a close friend of Mr. Trump, were putting a lot of pressure on the administration to put the record in their custody for safekeeping.”

Jones said he did not know whether the original request to remove Trump’s records from the files came from Cohen.

Coverdale declined to say where he hid Trump’s records or to identify the people who ordered him to pull them out of the school’s files. “I don’t want to get into anything with these guys,” he said. “You have to understand, these were millionaires and multimillionaires on the board, and the school was going through some troubles. But to hear, ‘You will deliver them to us?’ That doesn’t happen. This was highly unusual.”

The White House did not provide a response to The Post’s request for comment Monday. Leaders of the academy’s board from that time also did not respond to requests for comment. Nor did Cohen or the school’s current superintendent, Jie Zhang.

The academy closed in 2015 after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but it quickly reopened after a nonprofit entity led by a Chinese investor, Vincent Mo, bought it at a bankruptcy auction and said it would pay off the school’s $16 million debt.

Cohen said last week that he had sent threatening letters to Trump’s schools, warning that “we will hold your institution liable” if any of his records were released. In his letter to the president of Fordham University, where Trump spent his first two years of college, studying business administration, Cohen demanded that the records be “permanently sealed” and said any release was “criminality,” which “will lead to jail time.”

A Fordham spokesman last week confirmed that the school received Cohen’s letter, as well as a call from the Trump campaign, and responded that the university was bound by federal law not to reveal any student records without Trump’s permission. A spokesman for the University of Pennsylvania declined to comment.

In 2011, when the military academy was asked to secure Trump’s records, he had not entered politics formally. But he was considering challenging Obama in the 2012 election and had been making the rounds on TV, stepping up his criticism of the president, including insinuating that Obama was not qualified for admission to Columbia, where he finished his undergraduate degree, or Harvard, where he went to law school and graduated magna cum laude. During the 2012 campaign, Trump offered to donate $5 million to charity if Obama released his college transcripts.

At New York Military Academy, the decision to remove Trump’s records from the files was unique, said Jones, a management consultant who served as headmaster from 2010 to 2011. “It was the only time in my education career that I ever heard of someone’s record being removed,” he said. “But people were fearful as a result of whatever call was made from Mr. Trump’s friends. I was told we’re getting a lot of heat about this.”

Coverdale, who was the school’s superintendent from 2010 to 2013 and is now a public school administrator in Florida, said he does not know what happened to Trump’s file after he left the academy in 2013.

The school’s willingness to move the records stemmed from Trump’s special status and the school’s precarious position at the time, according to several academy graduates and former staff members.

The academy, founded in 1889, has had a mixed relationship with Trump through the years.

The school was in debt, and was openly discussing selling its 113-acre campus and shutting down, when a group of graduates and others trying to save the school visited Trump at his Manhattan office in 2010. The group was seeking a $7 million donation that they hoped to use to raise an additional $30 million from graduates and other sources.

The meeting did not go well.

First, Pezzullo, Trump’s fellow graduate, spilled a glass of Diet Coke on Trump’s cream-colored carpet, which caused Trump to blurt an expletive, according to two participants in the meeting.

Then, according to Pezzullo, when the school’s graduates made their pitch, Trump responded by asking, “What do I get for my $7 million?”

The military academy was prepared to offer to name a summer program, a building or potentially even the school itself after Trump, according to academy officials.

But Trump said no investment in the school was worthwhile. “It’s not a good business proposition,” he said, according to Pezzullo. “The school has had a good run.”

A decade before that meeting, Trump offered to build a facility on campus in honor of his coach and mentor, Theodore Dobias, according to two former school officials. But the school’s board turned down the offer, preferring a cash donation. Trump, who had “just wanted to build something for this man he loved,” gave nothing, Pezzullo said.

The Trump Tower meeting in 2010 ended with Trump’s “firm ‘No,’ very polite, but firm,” Pezzullo said.

After the meeting with Trump, the group from the academy met with Cohen, who delivered the same message but in a less gracious manner.

“Cohen told us he would love to have enough money to buy the school so he could bulldoze it,” Pezzullo said.

 

[SilverBeach]

9 hours ago, AmazonGrace said:

Women in power are great, it's just that everyone who is currently running is a biotch

I don't agree with this. And no one could be more unlikable or bitchlike than Dump.

[GreyhoundFan]

"T-Mobile acknowledges its patronage of Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after announcement of merger with Sprint"

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T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.

Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump’s hotel, with one overnight stay each in August 2017.

But the day after the merger’s announcement, nine of T-Mobile’s top executives were schedule to check in, The Washington Post reported in January. The Post, relying on internal Trump hotel documents, found that T-Mobile executives had reserved at least 52 nights at the hotel since the announcement.

In a Feb. 21 letter responding to questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the company for the first time disclosed its total spending at the Trump hotel during that period.

The roughly $195,000 paid for “meeting space, catering, business center services, audio/visual equipment rental [and] lodging” at Trump’s hotel near the White House, according to the letter from Anthony Russo, T-Mobile USA’s vice president of federal legislative affairs.

Russo said the Trump hotel received about 14 percent of T-Mobile’s $1.4 million in total corporate spending on D.C.-area hotels during the 10-month period. About half of that was spent at Hilton hotels, he noted.

The company’s boost in spending at the president’s hotel as its megamerger is being considered by the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission has drawn criticism from Democratic lawmakers, who say it shows that Trump is profiting from his office.

“The American people deserve better than an administration that appears to be for sale to businesses eager to line the President’s pockets,” Warren and Jayapal said in a joint statement. The two Democrats had sent written questions to T-Mobile after The Post revealed the extent of the company’s patronage of the Trump hotel.

A T-Mobile spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

In its letter, T-Mobile said it does not believe the stays at the Trump hotel by its executives would have an impact on federal regulators assessing the merger.

“While we understand that staying at Trump properties might be viewed positively by some and negatively by others, we are confident that the relevant agencies address the questions before them on the merits,” Russo wrote.

The Justice Department and FCC have declined to comment on the merger.

In a separate letter earlier last month to Warren and Jayapal, T-Mobile CEO John Legere said the stays at the Trump hotel were not intended to shift Trump administration policy.

Asked whether T-Mobile had notified anyone in the government about its patronage of the hotel, Legere wrote, “No, not to my knowledge.”

The T-Mobile executives were very visible during their stays at the Trump hotel, wearing clothes featuring the bright-magenta T-Mobile logo. At one point, Legere walked around the Trump hotel lobby posing for photos.

Trump has handed day-to-day control of his businesses to his sons Don Jr. and Eric and to longtime executive Allen Weisselberg. Eric Trump has rejected the idea that T-Mobile was staying at the hotel to curry favor.

“It should come as no surprise that a CEO of a major corporation would want to stay with us,” he said in January, noting the hotel’s reputation for luxury.

 

[AmazonGrace]

2 hours ago, SilverBeach said:

I don't agree with this. And no one could be more unlikable or bitchlike than Dump.

Yeah we totally agree I think. (It wasn't my actual opinion,  just a misogyny paraphrase.)

I think I have probably voted for more women  candidates over the years than men.

[AmazonGrace]

Lol check out the Hillary gif 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[fraurosena]

The presidunce has finally attained an achievement no other president has done before: he's the bigliest laughingstock of the world.

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[AmazonGrace]

Insurance fraud is not a crime if the president does it 

 

[AmazonGrace]

 

[GreyhoundFan]

 

[allthegoodnamesrgone]

On 3/5/2019 at 10:42 AM, AmazonGrace said:

Women in power are great, it's just that everyone who is currently running is a biotch

Kamala Harris isn't a bitch, neither is Elizabeth Warren. Don't believe everything you read about Amy Klobuchar, I don't think she's a bitch so much as she can get bitchy from time to time, and that is just human nature.  

The "liberal" media loves to portray women who want powerful positions as evil bitches who want to steal all your cows and babies, that is a little extreme but I think you get my point here.  When a man is forceful and stands his ground he's a strong leader, when a woman does it she's a pushy bitch who better mind her manners.  Women in America always must her place, and that place is behind her man or a man if she doesn't have one. We are thin skinned, hysterical and prone to temper tantrums (Oh wait, that is Trump). but when men are thin skinned hysterical and prone to temper tantrums they get elected POTUS if they are a republican. 

4 hours ago, GreyhoundFan said:

Actually there is NOTHING in the Constitution that says a sitting president can't be indicted, It is just kind of an unwritten rule, that would surely be overrun when the POTUS is an agent of a hostile foreign government. 

[AmazonGrace]

 

35 minutes ago, allthegoodnamesrgone said:

Kamala Harris isn't a bitch, neither is Elizabeth Warren. Don't believe everything you read about Amy Klobuchar, I don't think she's a bitch so much as she can get bitchy from time to time, and that is just human nature.  

 

 

I seem to have been unclear. The quoted bit is not my actual opinion, I was paraphrasing misogynists.

 

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The "liberal" media loves to portray women who want powerful positions as evil bitches who want to steal all your cows and babies, that is a little extreme but I think you get my point here.  When a man is forceful and stands his ground he's a strong leader, when a woman does it she's a pushy bitch who better mind her manners. 

 

Exactly what my point was supposed to be.

[Dandruff]

Has there been any recent mention of "The Wall" and the corresponding dire emergency?  Are we under attack?

[AmazonGrace]

2 minutes ago, Dandruff said:

Has there been any recent mention of "The Wall" and the corresponding dire emergency?  Are we under attack?

Yes!  It's the D-Day every day and Americans are the Nazis in this scenario

 

[Alisamer]

33 minutes ago, AmazonGrace said:

Yes!  It's the D-Day every day and Americans are the Nazis in this scenario

Soooo... now they're coming right out and admitting they are Nazis?

I think they are accidentally telling the truth. Kind of like how every time they try to disparage AOC or Beto, they end up basically saying "We're old out of touch white guys! We have no idea what the general populace wants, nor do we care!"  It's pathetic in the way a comedian completely misreading the room is pathetic, only they're misreading the majority of the country. And the world, frankly.

[fraurosena]

1 hour ago, Dandruff said:

Has there been any recent mention of "The Wall" and the corresponding dire emergency?  Are we under attack?

Oh yes, indeed there has been a lot of it today when Kirstjen Nielsen (speaking of arrogant biotches!) had to testify in Congress. She was grilled by the Dems, praised by the Repugs, and was woefully unprepared to answer any questions. But she was "happy to give you the information later"... a phrase that she used so much it became incredibly annoying. Mostly because she was so condescending when she said it. She was rebuked numerous times for prevaricating when simple yes or no answers were required. 

I was incredibly impressed with rep. Green from Texas. He didn't really ask questions, but his monologue, spoken in a soft, compelling voice, was very touching. I'll post a link to it as soon as I find one.

[fraurosena]

All that hairspray has damaged his memory functions. 

 

[onekidanddone]

54 minutes ago, fraurosena said:

All that hairspray has damaged his memory functions. 

 

Why is Treason Barbie there. 

[Jaamillion]

5 minutes ago, onekidanddone said:

Why is Treason Barbie there. 

She has to hold “daddy’s” hand or other things ? 

Sorry ?