Donald Trump 2020

[Brandywine 1312]

2 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

Stephen? Well then you know it's going to be good. Donald's a psychopath so there's that. 

Edited June 9, 2020 by Brandywine

[mdmost 42827]

The amount of backhanded compliments and talking down to black people will be impressive. 

[Brisketexan 104537]

6 minutes ago, mdmost said:

The amount of backhanded compliments and talking down to black people will be impressive. 

There's going to be some awkward wording for sure.

There always is when you translate a speech from its original German.

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

9 minutes ago, Brisketexan said:

There's going to be some awkward wording for sure.

There always is when you translate a speech from its original German.

So many 14 word sentences, weird!

[TexEx15 17456]

3 hours ago, Bozo_Casanova said:

Nope - he or his staff spammed his feed with retweets and pushed it down because he was getting ratioed, but it's still happening, currently sitting 135k/120k and accelerating. In a literal, measurable way this is unprecedented. If I was still doing marketing strategy I'd be writing a blog post about it. 

Edit - since the bots aren't doing it, I wouldn't be surprised if they used their social media channels to beg for likes from real people. He's never gotten ratioed before as president. 

I don’t think we are paying enough attention to the fact this is happening.  He tweets horrible shit all the time and he’s never close to getting ratioed like this.  It’s currently 163k vs 147k.  Realize that the likes are going to be a lot of bots programmed to like everything he tweets.  It’s why his likes are as high as they are all the time.  In order for their to be more replies you are talking about A LOT of live people pissed off (with the exception of the conspiracy theorists).  I have been waiting for this to happen.  I honestly think it speaks volumes about the amount of support he has lost.  It has to be a bloodbath in November.  Though My biggest fear is him squeaking out another electoral victory while getting beat by 5-10 mil in the popular vote.  

[Ghost of LL 15469]

3 hours ago, Hank Kingsley said:

 

You know, as somebody who desperately wants to see Donald Trump lose in November, I'm delighted by this because it will only hurt his electoral standing.

But as an American, I think this is a really, really bad idea.  I mean, I don't think having a white supremacist writing a presidential speech on race relations is particularly good for the domestic tranquility of the country just now.

[shakahorn 1625]

1 hour ago, UTCzech III said:

At some point he'll slip in something like "the jig is up" or something about people being spooked...

Let's call a spade a spade.

[Bozo_Casanova 26271]

19 minutes ago, Ghost of LL said:

You know, as somebody who desperately wants to see Donald Trump lose in November, I'm delighted by this because it will only hurt his electoral standing.

But as an American, I think this is a really, really bad idea.  I mean, I don't think having a white supremacist writing a presidential speech on race relations is particularly good for the domestic tranquility of the country just now.

Somebody on twitter said this is like Lindsay Graham giving a speech about eating pussy. 

[HenryJames 65884]

 

[UpperWestside 6126]

[TexArcher 37506]

5 hours ago, Upgrayedd said:

 

When 'Cocoon' reached theaters on June 21, 1985, Wilford Brimley was 18,530 days old (50 years, 9 months and 6 days).

You cross the Brimley/Cocoon Line today if you were born on Sep 15, 1969. 

Jesus Christ.  That's got to be from his Cuban birth certificate so he could come here and play Little League when he was really 27.

[Asithappens 974]

4 hours ago, Dnaguy said:

He'd misspell it .... and then spin it as something to do with west Africa.

One thing, Trump is probably very niggardly with his hambergers.

[Prepuce of Doom 20981]

16 minutes ago, TexArcher said:

Jesus Christ.  That's got to be from his Cuban birth certificate so he could come here and play Little League when he was really 27.

Check out Brimley/Cocoon Line (@BrimleyLine): https://twitter.com/BrimleyLine?s=09

[thepop 4409]

5 hours ago, FondrenRoad said:

Just received a letter signed by Trump telling me that I got an economic impact payment which I already received in another letter.  I also got a postcard from Trump telling me his plan for the coronavirus a couple months ago.  I'm guessing every adult got one.  I don't recall ever getting a single piece of mail from Obama, W, or Clinton.  How much does it cost to send every American a letter?  20 or 30 million dollars?  

Return to sender

[tx 3 putt 76294]

This Miller speech is going to be epic !!!

[Francisco 2.0 32312]

 

[TornACL 7674]

This speech will be a twenty minute suck off session glorifying cops and all the ways they protect us from drugs, and rapists, and MS13, and robots who eat old people's medicine for fuel. 

He'll have some bullshit made up story where a cop from central casting had tears in his eyes when he told the president "Sir, I do this job because I love this country so much." And the anecdote will conclude with the update that this very cop was hit by a bag of peas by one of the rioters, very nasty people. 

There will probably be one or two throwaway lines about how everyone loves this country and we need to come together, and remember that cops protect and serve. Some bad cops need to remember that, but most are great and if you disagree you are antifa and should be in prison anyway. 

[DigDug 1649]

 

[Mrs Whiggins 13049]

10 minutes ago, TornACL said:

He'll have some bullshit made up story where a cop from central casting had tears in his eyes when he told the president "Sir, I do this job because I love this country so much." And the anecdote will conclude with the update that this very cop was hit by a bag of peas by one of the rioters, very nasty people.

His press secretary recited a list of police officers that did good deeds at one of the pressers this week. I think one of them was the Mesa police officer that brought the Happy Meal to the little boy that called 911 to place an order. Trump will probably bring that up again since the Narcissist-in-Chief has to make it about him:

When is this speech supposed to take place?

[Grade of D as in David 13253]

9 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

His press secretary recited a list of police officers that did good deeds at one of the pressers this week. I think one of them was the Mesa police officer that brought the Happy Meal to the little boy that called 911 to place an order. Trump will probably bring that up again since the Narcissist-in-Chief has to make it about him:

When is this speech supposed to take place?

And then he will ask the little boy if he still believes in Santa, because at that age, it's marginal, right?

[Herpa Derpa 6108]

4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

[miller]threatens to be fractured across ethnic lines by racial animus and divisive multiculturalism.[/miller] (emphasis added)

Poor little confused shitbag.

[Hookah Horns 3072]

8 hours ago, UTCzech III said:

At some point he'll slip in something like "the jig is up" or something about people being spooked...

"let's call a spade a spade..."

[Hugo Stiglitz 23356]

Bunker Bitch!

 

[Francisco 2.0 32312]

https://www.axios.com/trump-aides-buffalo-protester-tweet-reaction-1085b598-4145-4c81-bf29-702116725fe2.html

 

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My phone blew up yesterday with texts from White House aides, current and former, who seemed at their wits' end over President Trump's tweet that the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was rushed to the hospital after being shoved by police last week "could be an ANTIFA provocateur."

Why it matters: They rarely register the president's tweets anymore — let alone complain about them. This one felt different.

 

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Here was Trump — struggling in the polls, damaged with independents and women who hate his tone — trafficking in a bizarre conspiracy that he had seen on the right-wing OANN cable network to excuse a blatant example of police misconduct. 

All this on the morning of George Floyd's funeral.

 

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POTUS aides and the campaign had constructed this week around getting Trump into the conversation around rebuilding/recovering, listening to ideas about police reform, etc.

One former aide remarked that it's tweets like this that make him wonder whether Trump actually wants to get re-elected.

 

 

[hookemATL 11602]

Of course he wants to be re-elected. He just can’t help himself. Because he is a fat childish piece of shit with no restraint or emotional intelligence. 

Edited June 10, 2020 by hookemATL

[Francisco 2.0 32312]

https://newrepublic.com/article/158033/jared-kushner-coronavirus-pandemic-response

 

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To understand how Jared Kushner received the opportunity to fail at managing the federal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, you mostly need to know that he is married to the president’s daughter. But to truly grasp the distinctive style of failure that Kushner has brought to bear on his latest and most urgent challenge, it helps to know about the career of a man named Kevin Hassett. 

In 1999, Hassett was 37 years old and a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, a familiar home port for Republican policy types, when his third book, Dow 36,000: The New Strategy for Profiting From the Coming Rise in the Stock Market, arrived in stores on October 1. The timing was not ideal for a hucksterish book arguing that the market would soon “rise to much higher ground.” Three months later, the Dow began a steep descent; stocks declined by 44 percent in real terms over the next few years.

 

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That book-length public blooper didn’t adversely affect his career. Hassett spent the next two decades flitting between AEI and various political campaigns. He was chairman of Donald Trump’s Council of Economic Advisers from 2017 to 2019 before returning in March of this year as an adviser focused on the economic recovery. It was in this new role that Hassett produced another simple econometric model that was, once again, preposterously wrong. Jason Furman, who headed up the CEA under President Obama, called Hassett’s “cubic model” projection, which showed coronavirus deaths dwindling away entirely by the middle of May, “utterly superficial and misleading,” and tweeted that it “might be the lowest point in the 74 year history of the Council of Economic Advisers.” In The Washington Post, Hassett insisted that “no administration policy has been influenced by my projections.” He had to produce this disclaimer because administration policy had, in fact, been influenced by his projections. The Washington Post reported that Hassett’s chart sketching out the projected death tolls “was embraced inside the West Wing by the president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and other powerful aides helping to oversee the government’s pandemic response.” “It’s not hard to see why,” Slate’s Jordan Weissmann wrote. “It has a trail of pink dots leading to zero.” 

 

 

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So here we have Kushner, a powerful special adviser with no meaningful expertise in public health or epidemiology, using a breathtakingly specious chart produced by an economist who’d flubbed the biggest prediction he’d ever made—all as a justification for the federal government to do less to confront a rampaging pandemic. While the Trump years have offered many such crystalline and bottomless moments of executive abandonment, this one felt uniquely Jared. The collaboration is what makes it—a legacy figure in the field of elite ineptitude, delivering the old egregiousness in a style optimized for the vacuous new avatar of elite incompetence. The gilded tools of one generation of catastrophic conservative governance pass into the soft and clammy hands of the next. If it weren’t for all those people dying, it would be beautiful.

 

Spoiler

Jared Kushner is not yet 40, and was a newspaper publisher and commercial real estate magnate in New York City before he became a major player in Trump’s administration. (He remains a slumlord, in Maryland.) He has a degree from Harvard and a J.D./MBA from New York University; his father, a New Jersey real estate titan and convicted felon, donated generously to both institutions prior to Jared’s admission. Kushner himself is by all accounts ambitious and hardworking, but also a cipher—a climber and a sycophant, a snob, someone who isn’t quite filled in. Ivanka Trump has said that her dream man was Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman in Mary Harron’s American Psycho; the man she married, in 2009, is a milder, ganglier, edited-for-television version. As it happened, her father’s chaotic and relentlessly paranoid administration proved the perfect environment for a sufficiently labile and servile nullity to rise quickly. He has. 

That rise is the signal success of his professional life. Kushner bought the New York Observer in 2006 and wrecked it utterly; its last print issue ran the day that Trump won election in 2016. His record $1.8 billion purchase of 666 Fifth Avenue remains one of the great boondoggles in New York commercial real estate history. And yet Kushner’s many failures seem only to have made him more ardent and secure in his self-belief. He has carried that forward into his political career, forcing himself into and up the organizational chart at the White House not because there’s anything in particular he wants to do with that power, but because he believes he deserves it.

A Trumpian suspicion of conventional expertise, a trendy deference to business-boy buzzwords, and a rich kid’s innate distaste for people with less money all likely had something to do with how Kushner came to oversee a team of two dozen volunteers he’d borrowed from big management consultancies or from other government agencies to help coordinate the response. (At FEMA, officials came to call this group the Slim Suit Crowd.) But in the search for answers to the question of how this bespoke team with, per The Washington Post, no “significant experience in health care, procurement or supply-chain operations” wound up tinkering unhelpfully in all three areas, it’s important not to overthink it, given the people involved. Volunteers from McKinsey and the Boston Consulting Group were asked to procure protective gear for the same reasons that there are (presumably) chandeliers in the bathrooms at Mar-a-Lago—in the absence of actual discernment or real consideration, a rich person simply defaulted to the most luxurious option. 

So how did this crew of private-sector efficiency experts come to award a $69 million contract to an unvetted and unqualified Twitter reply guy, or send PPE to a preferred hospital of Trump’s favorite on-air talent at Fox News? Quite naturally. Kushner’s crew wound up overseeing essential things they knew little about in the same way that ­McKinseyfied efficiency came to hold sway over American capitalism—because of a certain inbred deference to rich people in suits, but mostly because no one stopped them. 

It fits. Everything that happens in this administration happens because people decided they could get away with it. The media tend to ascribe these outcomes to some inchoate ideology—when Kushner sought out a crew of McKinsey consultants, they attributed it to his belief in the superior candlepower and deal-craft of the private sector. The truth might be even dumber—a bunch of people with no real principles smugly, blithely winged it. 

Conservative-movement lifers like Kevin Hassett are in the costume design business. Their work, in and out of power, is to dress up the atavistic avarice and self-serving fatuity of the wealthy people who fund and shape conservative politics as an ideology. For a long time, the idea was to invest these grouchy, suspicious, proudly unreasoned instincts with enough cosmetic heft that they could pass as actual values. Trump has undone this—there are no real values, now, only deals. As it happens, the old work of finding clever new ways to the same old answers was always just a matter of Getting To Yes. The solution was always going to be something as useless and superficially serious as Hassett’s vanishing pink curve. The real challenge, it turns out, was fitting it for an appropriately expensive-looking suit. 

 

 

[Sii 6]

https://www.axios.com/trump-aides-buffalo-protester-tweet-reaction-1085b598-4145-4c81-bf29-702116725fe2.html

 

My phone blew up yesterday with texts from White House aides, current and former, who seemed at their wits' end over President Trump's tweet that the 75-year-old Buffalo protester who was rushed to the hospital after being shoved by police last week "could be an ANTIFA provocateur."

Why it matters: They rarely register the president's tweets anymore — let alone complain about them. This one felt different.

 

Here was Trump — struggling in the polls, damaged with independents and women who hate his tone — trafficking in a bizarre conspiracy that he had seen on the right-wing OANN cable network to excuse a blatant example of police misconduct. 

All this on the morning of George Floyd's funeral.

 

POTUS aides and the campaign had constructed this week around getting Trump into the conversation around rebuilding/recovering, listening to ideas about police reform, etc.

One former aide remarked that it's tweets like this that make him wonder whether Trump actually wants to get re-elected.

 

 

 

I think he wants to get re-elected but his low intelligence and/or mental instability is sinking him. I mean how dumb do you have to be to tweet that.

 

He’s put that guys life in jeopardy as well when he gets out of the hospital. Some crazy MAGA piece of shit could go after him thinking he’s a terrorist

[Bruh Man 3160]

Gallup polls have sunk.

 

[Asithappens 974]

16 hours ago, HenryJames said:

He’s going to do it in blackface isn’t he?

Stephin Fetchit.

Edited June 10, 2020 by Asithappens

[brown water 3761]

Orange is the new black 

[TheStoicPaisano 9904]

1 hour ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Ivanka Trump has said that her dream man was Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman in Mary Harron’s American Psycho;

What. A. Cunt.

[Gooby 633]

14 hours ago, UpperWestside said:

This person seems upset.

[Pig Bellmont 8691]

1 hour ago, Sii said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think he wants to get re-elected but his low intelligence and/or mental instability is sinking him. I mean how dumb do you have to be to tweet that.

 

He’s put that guys life in jeopardy as well when he gets out of the hospital. Some crazy MAGA piece of shit could go after him thinking he’s a terrorist

Amplifying Russian conspiracies got him elected. Expect more of this

[DigglerontheHoof 21044]

40 minutes ago, Bruh Man said:

Gallup polls have sunk.

 

That 4 in 10 Americans think that piece of shit is doing a good job tells you all you need to know about us.  Almost half of us are pathetic and racist.

[LonghornSean 3941]

2 hours ago, hookemATL said:

Of course he wants to be re-elected. He just can’t help himself. Because he is a fat childish piece of shit with no restraint or emotional intelligence. 

I think Trump wants to get re-elected, but only because he doesn't want to be called a loser. He doesn't actually want to continue being president but his ego is the only thing that influences him. That's why the crying over voter fraud and blaming others will be loud and constant leading up to and after the election.

[Pig Bellmont 8691]

8 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

I think Trump wants to get re-elected, but only because he doesn't want to be called a loser. He doesn't actually want to continue being president but his ego is the only thing that influences him. That's why the crying over voter fraud and blaming others will be loud and constant leading up to and after the election.

He never wanted the job and hates it, because doing it properly involves more than showing up places and having your ass kissed

[Brandywine 1312]

2 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

He never wanted the job and hates it, because doing it properly involves more than showing up places and having your ass kissed

Yep. If he liked actually doing the job he wouldn’t golf so much. However he likes the taxpayers paying for all his fun stuff. 

[Biff Tannen 45491]

6 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

He never wanted the job and hates it, because doing it properly involves more than showing up places and having your ass kissed

This says it all.  It was a publicity stunt gone wrong.

Edited June 10, 2020 by Biff Tannen

[4th&Five 41457]

 

[Red Five 40627]

He doesn't have time to watch tv. 

[Guest Lobo]

Yeah, keeping backing OAN you fucking idiot.  

 

Serious question---what's the context behind that photo above of everybody around Donald and the fist-pumping Don, Jr.  And Ivanka being just plain rude?

And I fucking love everybody in $2,000 suits except the Git 'Er Done guy in the camo hat.  

[Hookah Horns 3072]

Fox News is in an abusive relationship with Dotard. Stand up for yourself, Fox News. Strike back, pussies. 

[Native Horn 3485]

8 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Serious question---what's the context behind that photo above of everybody around Donald and the fist-pumping Don, Jr.  And Ivanka being just plain rude?

 

Election night?

[gyroprotagonist 2591]

9 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Yeah, keeping backing OAN you fucking idiot.  

 

Serious question---what's the context behind that photo above of everybody around Donald and the fist-pumping Don, Jr.  And Ivanka being just plain rude?

And I fucking love everybody in $2,000 suits except the Git 'Er Done guy in the camo hat.  

That's Miller looking creepy AF on the left? 

[Native Horn 3485]

43 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

I think Trump wants to get re-elected, but only because he doesn't want to be called a loser. He doesn't actually want to continue being president but his ego is the only thing that influences him. That's why the crying over voter fraud and blaming others will be loud and constant leading up to and after the election.

This, plus the state of New York might have a few things to say.

[TwiceHorn 31240]

2 hours ago, Francisco 2.0 said:

Ivanka Trump has said that her dream man was Christian Bale’s portrayal of Patrick Bateman in Mary Harron’s American Psycho

Googling around, that is apparently true.  It's unclear whether she really liked Bateman or Bale in nice suits.  Still FUBAR.

I haven't read American Psycho in probably 25-30 years, but the googles indicate that the literary Bateman idolized Trump.  I had forgotten that.

 

Edited June 10, 2020 by TwiceHorn

[WhatTheBuck 28703]

46 minutes ago, LonghornSean said:

I think Trump wants to get re-elected, but only because he doesn't want to be called a loser. He doesn't actually want to continue being president but his ego is the only thing that influences him. That's why the crying over voter fraud and blaming others will be loud and constant leading up to and after the election.

 

37 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

He never wanted the job and hates it, because doing it properly involves more than showing up places and having your ass kissed

A narcissist has the job of being the most powerful person in the world and you think he wants to give up the job? Power corrupts and Trump is eminently corruptible, but he wants out?

He's not complicated. He'd stay in power for the rest of his life if he could. 

[DefinitelyNotHollywoodColt 12301]

1 hour ago, Bruh Man said:

Gallup polls have sunk.

 

hey speaking of... @Johnny Sack any updates from you regarding the American people's faith in Trump's response to the Covid pandemic?

i believe it was right around mid-march when you Branding Ironed that hot take...

[Asithappens 974]

42 minutes ago, Pig Bellmont said:

He never wanted the job and hates it, because doing it properly involves more than showing up places and having your ass kissed

Trump treats the country, and the Dems, like he does his business participants: he is always looking for a way to screw them over. 

This was well known before the election. He'd stiff his contractors/subs.

Fuck Trump and fuck every piece of shit who  voted for him. 

[FondrenRoad 4378]

26 minutes ago, Lobo said:

Yeah, keeping backing OAN you fucking idiot.  

 

Serious question---what's the context behind that photo above of everybody around Donald and the fist-pumping Don, Jr.  And Ivanka being just plain rude?

And I fucking love everybody in $2,000 suits except the Git 'Er Done guy in the camo hat.  

Are Trump's suits $2000?  I've seen $200 off the rack Mens Wearhouse suits that fit and look much better than his.  When Chris Christie looks better in a suit than you do, you need to fire your tailor.

Edited June 10, 2020 by FondrenRoad