Set to the tune of "Brave Sir Robin" from Monty Python and the Holy Grail:
Bravely bold Sir Trump
Set out for the White House
He was not afraid to lie
Oh brave Sir Trump
He was not at all afraid to insult in nasty ways
Brave Brave Brave Brave Sir Trump
He was not in the least bit scared to mash allies into pulp
Or to gouge medical care out
And have working families broken
To have the country split
And let Putin have his way
Brave Brave Brave Brave Sir Trump
And deny climate change
And claim illegal votes
And have Conway sell his daughter’s clothes
And claim wiretaps
And very big crowds
------
Brave Sir Trump ran away
When truth reared its ugly head
He turned his orange hair and fled
Yes Brave Sir Trump turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering off
And chickening out and slinking off home
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge
Bravely bold Sir Trump
Set out for the White House
He was not afraid to lie
Oh brave Sir Trump
He was not at all afraid to insult in nasty ways
Brave Brave Brave Brave Sir Trump
He was not in the least bit scared to mash allies into pulp
Or to gouge medical care out
And have working families broken
To have the country split
And let Putin have his way
Brave Brave Brave Brave Sir Trump
And deny climate change
And claim illegal votes
And have Conway sell his daughter’s clothes
And claim wiretaps
And very big crowds
------
Brave Sir Trump ran away
When truth reared its ugly head
He turned his orange hair and fled
Yes Brave Sir Trump turned about
And gallantly he chickened out
Packing it in and packing it up
And sneaking away and buggering off
And chickening out and slinking off home
Yes, bravely he is throwing in the sponge
By illustrating how little hesitation is shown by many federal government officials, both in the U.S. and its close ally Britain, to contradict and insult Trump, this article makes clear that a great number of them no longer even take Trump seriously as American President.
Trump's daily ejaculations on Twitter are now openly ridiculed around the world, and I suspect that he is just a very inconvenient joke to a majority of federal government employees. Trump has made it absolutely clear that he and those in his inner circle are shockingly ignorant of the practical means, rules and customs by which government functions; ours or any other kind except despotism.
In short, I have high confidence that no matter how much Trump and his surrogates bluster, lie, and ignore rules of civility and logic, their actual power has already been reduced to a level that those outside the high echelons of government service, including myself, do not yet fully understand. Nothing like this has been seen before. We can relax a little bit; Trump is *definitely* not another Hitler. Even to call him a clown would be an insult to clowns.
Although I don't have any hard proof to support my assertions, and I cannot explain here how I came to them, I am highly confident that the White House is no longer the actual center of executive power; President Trump is no longer actually President- at least in the sense that we're accustomed to thinking.
Trump's daily ejaculations on Twitter are now openly ridiculed around the world, and I suspect that he is just a very inconvenient joke to a majority of federal government employees. Trump has made it absolutely clear that he and those in his inner circle are shockingly ignorant of the practical means, rules and customs by which government functions; ours or any other kind except despotism.
In short, I have high confidence that no matter how much Trump and his surrogates bluster, lie, and ignore rules of civility and logic, their actual power has already been reduced to a level that those outside the high echelons of government service, including myself, do not yet fully understand. Nothing like this has been seen before. We can relax a little bit; Trump is *definitely* not another Hitler. Even to call him a clown would be an insult to clowns.
Although I don't have any hard proof to support my assertions, and I cannot explain here how I came to them, I am highly confident that the White House is no longer the actual center of executive power; President Trump is no longer actually President- at least in the sense that we're accustomed to thinking.
This manboy has no business being in the White House. He's an embarrassment to this nation and our government. Disgraceful.
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It's been apparent for quite some time that our Fearless Leader has some serious personality disorders. But now, considering his age -- and I myself am 72 -- I wonder if dementia is settling in?
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The comments remind me about a famous quote regarding quantum theory. "It's crazy, but it is crazy enough to be true?"
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Wait, I'm confused. Trump said they quoted a 'certain very talented legal mind,' but the article says the source was Andrew Napolitano. So which was it?
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It is not too soon to seriously consider the Presidential incompetence safeguards outlined in the 25th amendment or even the Constitutional procedures for impeachment. We have an unhinged pilot at the helm!
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The New York Times and other liberal media have been reporting all things negative about President Trump since he first announced his candidacy for president. They have continued this negativity day after day with numerous articles and reports about him with very few, if any positive accomplishments he has incurred while in office.
He has been successful as our leader but the progressive media has been fighting him every step of the way. How he is able to withstand this unfair and biased treatment is surprising. He needs to remain strong and know that he still has his supporters who are backing him and think he is doing just fine.
He has been successful as our leader but the progressive media has been fighting him every step of the way. How he is able to withstand this unfair and biased treatment is surprising. He needs to remain strong and know that he still has his supporters who are backing him and think he is doing just fine.
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Trump apparently is one of those manly men who believes in never saying he's sorry, and, by extension, none of his minions must apologize for him either.
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The Trump child continues to disrupt long standing relationships with important friends of American for no reason at all.
America...how long are you going to let this corrosive and utterly irresponsible behaviour continue?! Just how bad does it have to get?!
Do you honestly believe ANY country is going to have America's back beyond lip service...the citizens of the world and their leaders are very quickly loosing all trust in the US.
America...how long are you going to let this corrosive and utterly irresponsible behaviour continue?! Just how bad does it have to get?!
Do you honestly believe ANY country is going to have America's back beyond lip service...the citizens of the world and their leaders are very quickly loosing all trust in the US.
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It is true that Trump is proving every day how unsuited he is for the job he has. But if you read the GCHQ response, it sounds like one of those non-denial denials. They call Trump's charge "absurd" and "ridiculous," but you'll notice they don't say "This did not happen." And with the Official Secrets Act in operation, it is likely that no one will ever know one way or the other whether this happened. But the British have done dirty work for the CIA before...because the CIA pays them to do it.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10217280/Americans-pay-GC...
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/defence/10217280/Americans-pay-GC...
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Nyet Vladimir.
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He deserves a banana creme pie delivered to his smirky face.
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The SUN and Express are saying the false GCHQ story originated in Russia today. Trump, Spicer and Napolitano are now directly connected to the Russians if the Russian story is correct,
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Trump accuses Britain of spying on us but deflects any concern about Russia doing so. This says a great deal about his judgment and integrity -- and in his lack of concern for the welfare of the USA.
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If Harpo was alive from the Marx Bros. - I would pay to see him take a big bite of that stubby pointed index finger of Trump's!!
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What a peckish, nasty brat.
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He's hungry and nasty?
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Maybe the Russians asked the British to offer to the Obama Administration to tap the wires at Trump Tower? Maybe the Russians actually were posing as the British so that they could pretend that they were the Obama Administration ease dropping on the Trump Campaign? Maybe the Russians were posing as the Obama Administration for the British and monitoring the Trumps?
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Will this be "Make America burst again"?
#45 must be making our enemies so happy. We self-destruct and it does not cost them a penny!
They [fill in the gap] can laugh at us as we throw money at lawyers to defend obvious lies. We busy the media to opine on the Emperor's New Clothes.... all while we let our citizens and bridges and modern energy falter... and let the real big issues such as a habitable planet, connected migration + global stability to be solved by others, or by Mother nature herself.
#45 must be making our enemies so happy. We self-destruct and it does not cost them a penny!
They [fill in the gap] can laugh at us as we throw money at lawyers to defend obvious lies. We busy the media to opine on the Emperor's New Clothes.... all while we let our citizens and bridges and modern energy falter... and let the real big issues such as a habitable planet, connected migration + global stability to be solved by others, or by Mother nature herself.
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What planet are we on. Day after day Trump delivers his delusional reactive drivel. Lies lies lies. That on top of the most unethical self serving people including his family surrounding him who as we know don't care about us except to get money from us. The banks and Wall Street are joyous.
The administration of rich get richer, the formerly middle class is lowered even further and the poor are submerged.
The administration of rich get richer, the formerly middle class is lowered even further and the poor are submerged.
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With his errant behavior, Trump is, cleverly or not, gambling his political capital with his supporters. This is one reason he needs to continually have "campaign rallies". He uses these rallies to gage his support. When he can incite the crowd to mindlessly chant "lock her up" and "build that wall" he probably thinks he's still got strong support among them. He may be right. And until that support wanes, big time, he will keep doing what he's doing. I do think it's that simple. Sad, but simple.
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What will happen next when Kim Jong-un reads Trump's next Twitter feed that says " Kim Jong-un is a BIG FAT BUFFOON!" "Teribble that he's still in power!"
That's all it will take to start the next nuclear conflict.
(oh, and divert our minds off his latest British-Obama-wiretapp conspiracy quagmire)
That's all it will take to start the next nuclear conflict.
(oh, and divert our minds off his latest British-Obama-wiretapp conspiracy quagmire)
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Trump is fooling us all with bizarre tweets in order to keep his name on top of the news. They are the only articles that he reads
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Mr. Trump is either too stupid, too demented, or too malicious to lead the US to anything except misery and loss. Is he aware that he lies so much? Is it intentional? Or could he be so ignorant of reality that he believes what spews out of his mouth?
I find it very frightening that he is our president. He knows less about governing than I do, and I have never served in elected government either. I do know that to be effective, government must be rational, truthful, transparent, and in service to the people, not to themselves or to just a few sections of the population.
What I see in today's government is a president who is failing to protect our interests and who is trying to undermine the courts, who are an independent check on the executive and the Congressional branches of government. I see a Congress controlled by politicians who believe that corporations and rich people are more important than other Americans and which works to promote the wants of those factions over the needs of the people. I see a court system that seems to be trying to hold the line against corruption and harm to the people, including minorities. God bless the courts!
We need a change, and we need it soon. The president must be corrected or removed. Congress must start looking to the people to create and move their agendas, and the courts must continue to do their duty to be a check on the excesses of the other two branches of government.
Is it possible?
I find it very frightening that he is our president. He knows less about governing than I do, and I have never served in elected government either. I do know that to be effective, government must be rational, truthful, transparent, and in service to the people, not to themselves or to just a few sections of the population.
What I see in today's government is a president who is failing to protect our interests and who is trying to undermine the courts, who are an independent check on the executive and the Congressional branches of government. I see a Congress controlled by politicians who believe that corporations and rich people are more important than other Americans and which works to promote the wants of those factions over the needs of the people. I see a court system that seems to be trying to hold the line against corruption and harm to the people, including minorities. God bless the courts!
We need a change, and we need it soon. The president must be corrected or removed. Congress must start looking to the people to create and move their agendas, and the courts must continue to do their duty to be a check on the excesses of the other two branches of government.
Is it possible?
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The American intelligence community has an expression y'all have probably heard before, but it does describe their attitude accurately.
" In God we trust, all others we monitor"
Now why would British officials be "livid" while adamantly denying allegations that they cooperated with Americans in monitoring a presidential candidate that the past administration is doing so much to bring down after a legitimate election?
" In God we trust, all others we monitor"
Now why would British officials be "livid" while adamantly denying allegations that they cooperated with Americans in monitoring a presidential candidate that the past administration is doing so much to bring down after a legitimate election?
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Past administrations need not break a sweat. Trump is his own worst enemy--or is that enema?
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You made that up from whole cloth. The wingnuts who are still obsessed with Obama never fail to detect his clever hand, even in things that never happened.
Evidence, please, evidence! Just as with Hillary's email, all we have is innuendo and snark. It's stupid even to discuss, with the threat of abolishing healthcare for 24 million people imminent, and abolishing half the useful things the government does right behind.
Evidence, please, evidence! Just as with Hillary's email, all we have is innuendo and snark. It's stupid even to discuss, with the threat of abolishing healthcare for 24 million people imminent, and abolishing half the useful things the government does right behind.
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There was no innuendo in regard to Hillary's emails and her server. The FBI investigated at the request of the intelligence community inspector general. There was plenty of evidence, some of which Hillary admitted to during her interview with the FBI. It's on the FBI website.
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If we continue to spend time elucidating Mr. Trump’s obvious lack of qualifications for the job, we fail to discuss the elephant in the room. And in so doing, we continue to enable and perpetuate the process of dismantling our democratic institutions – the State Department, the EPA, the Judiciary, the free press – and next week with the confirmation of Judge Gorsuch , the Supreme Court. Have we forgotten that:
• A hostile foreign government directly interfered in our election apparatus in a variety of ways, the extent of which is still not disclosed?
• Our own FBI, through Mr. Comey, used its powers to interfere directly in our election process to defame and discredit the Democratic candidate only days before the election?
• The GOP-led legislature used its powers to investigate concocted false accusations concerning the Democratic candidate in order to slander Mrs. Clinton in the public’s eye?
This fraudulent election was stolen by the joint efforts of a hostile foreign government, the GOP, and Mr. Trump’s own corrupt election apparatus. They are taking a wrecking ball to our democracy. That’s the real news.
Any Democratic vote in favor of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch is a vote to destroy the last remnant of America’s constitutional credibility and means, as Kurt Eichenwald writes: “…that they (Democrats) have cowered and cringed their way into a government where governance has died,…”
And the press is still not doing its job.
• A hostile foreign government directly interfered in our election apparatus in a variety of ways, the extent of which is still not disclosed?
• Our own FBI, through Mr. Comey, used its powers to interfere directly in our election process to defame and discredit the Democratic candidate only days before the election?
• The GOP-led legislature used its powers to investigate concocted false accusations concerning the Democratic candidate in order to slander Mrs. Clinton in the public’s eye?
This fraudulent election was stolen by the joint efforts of a hostile foreign government, the GOP, and Mr. Trump’s own corrupt election apparatus. They are taking a wrecking ball to our democracy. That’s the real news.
Any Democratic vote in favor of the confirmation of Neil Gorsuch is a vote to destroy the last remnant of America’s constitutional credibility and means, as Kurt Eichenwald writes: “…that they (Democrats) have cowered and cringed their way into a government where governance has died,…”
And the press is still not doing its job.
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Broken record.
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"A liar will not be believed, even when he speaks the truth." Aesop
In just a short time, Trump has squandered whatever limited credibility he had nationally and globally.
Trump is now content to yell at rallies to the gullible shouting mob. That allows him to ignore hundreds of millions of people around the country who disagree with his every utterance.
He is satisfied to watch a single TV channel and hear a Fox talking head give him fake news. That allows him to ignore all intelligence, science, experts, and actual facts available.
This time will be remembered for those who hacked emails and spread disinformation in battleground states to barely elect him, and those politicians who enabled Trump to enrich himself and his family at US taxpayer expense while decimating medical care, research, the environment, housing, education, and meals for the sick and aged for the country.
This is a dark chapter in US history that will not be forgotten.
In just a short time, Trump has squandered whatever limited credibility he had nationally and globally.
Trump is now content to yell at rallies to the gullible shouting mob. That allows him to ignore hundreds of millions of people around the country who disagree with his every utterance.
He is satisfied to watch a single TV channel and hear a Fox talking head give him fake news. That allows him to ignore all intelligence, science, experts, and actual facts available.
This time will be remembered for those who hacked emails and spread disinformation in battleground states to barely elect him, and those politicians who enabled Trump to enrich himself and his family at US taxpayer expense while decimating medical care, research, the environment, housing, education, and meals for the sick and aged for the country.
This is a dark chapter in US history that will not be forgotten.
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Bannon wants to blow up European ties, alliances and institutions and AI suspect his dark shadow looms over Trump, a perfect instrument for his world view.
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So we go from former reality TV star to this, a Fool-in-Chief, who at best has a tenuous grasp of reality. The horrific reality for the rest of us are the repercussions and long term damage done to international trust and confidence in America and, deeply more troubling, to truth as a fundamental underpinning of all human relations. Shame on us all for being so feckless toward our democracy to have tolerated in the first place one who happily invites discord, bigotry, and vengeance to his table. May we be able to heal what damage this fool does when we are finally able to rid ourselves of him...
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Trump has a childish one track mind. He can't let go of a subject even when he is wrong. He went with the birther lie till someone pointed out that President Obama released his long-form birth certificate. Even then, he wouldn't admit he was wrong but said he would discuss it when he was ready. A few days later, when he was pressed, he admitted that Obama was born in the USA but blamed Hillary for starting the birther campaign. This man is really mentally ill and unfit to be president. The GOP should impeach him before he starts a nuclear war with North Korea.
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Trump has an impressive burn rate for both his handling of international relations with our closest allies and his administration's credibility. If he treats allies like this, I shudder to think what will happen in a crisis with our enemies.
Frankly, Tillerson's trip to Korea did nothing to reassure that there was an adult in the room. Saber rattling is not a positive sign of diplomatic competence. As for his fatigue, if he does not have the stamina for the job, perhaps he shouldn't be there.
Actually, perhaps none of them should be there. The White House is no place for amateur hour, but that is what we have.
Frankly, Tillerson's trip to Korea did nothing to reassure that there was an adult in the room. Saber rattling is not a positive sign of diplomatic competence. As for his fatigue, if he does not have the stamina for the job, perhaps he shouldn't be there.
Actually, perhaps none of them should be there. The White House is no place for amateur hour, but that is what we have.
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"Two separate sources with links to the counter-intelligence community have confirmed that the FBI sought, and was granted, a FISA court warrant in October, giving counter-intelligence permission to examine the activities of ‘U.S. persons’ in Donald Trump’s campaign with ties to Russia."
Who was President in October? Hmmm, wonder who asked for the warrant? Maybe Obama should be questioned?
Who was President in October? Hmmm, wonder who asked for the warrant? Maybe Obama should be questioned?
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A brilliant move on Trump's part. Notice the lack of Russian collusion articles? (They disappeared from the front page of the NYT the day Trump made his allegation.) Hard to make that case while also arguing that Trump was never the object of any wiretapping, which implies innocence.
A lot of people are asking, "So? Which is it?" Which is why it's time for an investigation of intelligence handling in the White House. Something is seriously off there.
A lot of people are asking, "So? Which is it?" Which is why it's time for an investigation of intelligence handling in the White House. Something is seriously off there.
6
Hillary got it wrong. Donald Trump is the deplorable.
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This is getting grotesque.
12
Everyone who thinks that Kim Jong Un of North Korea is living in some twisted alternate reality, is dangerous, and is probably not sane, raise your hand and say, "Aye!"
Now can we please do the same for Donald Trump??
Now can we please do the same for Donald Trump??
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He listens to Fake Fox news rather than his own intelligence agencies. The British should withdraw their invitation for a State visit.
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America became the front for the right wing media. These propagandists are having a field day and laughing their rears off. It was so easy....
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The Times is just feeding the anti-Trump frenzy. Granted, its circulation is up with its non-stop coverage of "unproven" (its word) allegations, but is it really doing its readers a service by encouraging them to believe that somehow Trump is derelict in his duties?
Trump is doing a decent enough job considering he's never been in politics before (a plus) and has a cadre of Obama supporters within the government working against him. Now he has Obama organizing an army to fight him outside government.
For that matter, Obama is not doing the country any favors either by organizing against a sitting president. He, of all people, should know better.
Trump is doing a decent enough job considering he's never been in politics before (a plus) and has a cadre of Obama supporters within the government working against him. Now he has Obama organizing an army to fight him outside government.
For that matter, Obama is not doing the country any favors either by organizing against a sitting president. He, of all people, should know better.
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Decent enough? I could make a long list of indecent things he's said and done. But if he's done something good, perhaps you could tell us what it was? I'd really like to know what glint of greatness you've detected.
The notion that Obama is organizing against him is just rot. Please, some evidence, else it's slander.
The notion that Obama is organizing against him is just rot. Please, some evidence, else it's slander.
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The media wants to destroy President Trump any way they can and this started long before his being elected. They were flabbergasted that he was elected and will stoop to any level to defame him. The readers of the New York Times generally loathe him and want him to fail. He has done many positive things while in office but the liberal media is a thorn in his side. He is correct to call them out on this biased behavior. They would never behave this way to their darling Hillary Clinton if she had been elected. They also treated Barack Obama with kid gloves; and if he had been so successful in his presidency, we would not have seen the Republicans win the White House in addition to both houses of congress.
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Even if that is true, oh well, reap what you sow. Such hypocrites. I was not personally an Obama fan, but the minute he became president the rabid-right and FOX were relentless in their anti-Obama agenda, and the Republicans worse. Now they whine when they get a taste of their own medicine. Fools.
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Contagion of lies
Spinner of disinformation
A clear and present danger
Impeach him.
Spinner of disinformation
A clear and present danger
Impeach him.
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Trump on a daily basis, is creating a huge mess with our allies, and we the people will be left to clean it up. Where is the patriot NOW to start the process of removal of an obviously incompetent and disturbed leader ...leading us down the path to anarchy? war? isolation? humiliation? inhumanity? The republicans are so involved in their own money-lust to notice that they are on the same sinking ship.
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Trump and his administration are a book of grotesque and bizarre presidential propaganda.
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The British will no longer share covert intelligence with us. Trump is also dismantling the CIA. But that's ok. The Russians will instruct Trump about what he should do.
Impeachment is our only hope.
Impeachment is our only hope.
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President TweetyBird should have his phone taken away when he misbehaves.
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The look on Merkel's face, when he attempted to frame his fake wire tapping with hers, spoke the disbelief the world understands about this lying so-called president. For the sake of this country and the world he must be removed from office as soon as possible...His enriching himself at Mar-a-Lago is grounds enough for impeachment..
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Certainly a constant barrage of Trump being the wrong guy. OK, I got it. But NYT please focus on why some 50/50 ratio when running against Hillary Clinton last year. This country has gone totally mad a long time ago, that is the issue and far from over.
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Look at all the comments.
Trump has made the NYT readers punch-drunk.
Another week of the media flailing away at the wiretap story and the public is going to be sick of it.
Trump has made the NYT readers punch-drunk.
Another week of the media flailing away at the wiretap story and the public is going to be sick of it.
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There wouldn't be anything to flail away at if Trump didn't insist that rumors were facts. Does it not bother you that he accepts ridiculous accusations as true, and rejects obvious truths as "fake news"? How likely is that to turn out well?
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Trump lacks the capacity to be sorry. If he does apologize, who will believe he's sincere?
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Everyone world in this world except Trump, would have evidence before accusing a former President...
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A high school senior knows that quoting involves a deliberate selection of material supporting one's opinion; one Is entirely responsible for it. Trump Is a nasty, ignorant child.
One symptom of serious mental illness is forcing others to participate in one's
narrative.
Get rid of him before the great war begins.
One symptom of serious mental illness is forcing others to participate in one's
narrative.
Get rid of him before the great war begins.
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Sadly Trump is too childish to apologize and continues to point at others. He started this whole thing and is now using newspapers as his source of support of evidence and blames them for the assertations. Very odd since he continues to claim news agencies produce FAKE NEWS. So its convenient that the news sources are correct when he needs proof or pointing blame. But they are fake when he doesn't like what they write. Very Very childish.
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What does it matter that the US can boast of having the best universities in the world (if true), when Americans don't believe in the results of scientific research?
Next thing Mr. Trump will claim that the earth being round is a Chinese or Democratic hoax, his GOP minions will clap their hands, and his tea party followers will call him God.
Next thing Mr. Trump will claim that the earth being round is a Chinese or Democratic hoax, his GOP minions will clap their hands, and his tea party followers will call him God.
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America has a lot of colleges, some good, some horrible and very few universities no matter what colleges call themselves.
He is so immature he makes my 15 yo son like an adult. Sad.
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It would be amusing if the effect of the Age of Trump on FOX News were to force their inane chatterboxes to somewhat censor themselves, think twice about spewing vacant, blatant falsehoods, and actually tamp down the polemics. Haha!
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Hmmm...Trump sowing chaos on the world stage, turning the US from a world power into a sorry joke within 60 days. The public cannot believe a word this man says. Putin could not have played this better. And the Repubs still sing while Trump fiddles.
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An apology, like the feeble Republicans are suggesting, is not enough to excuse a sitting president of falsely accusing a former president of a felony, then citing that his information about his horrifying assertions that Obama wiretapped him came from British Intelligence through Fox & Friends. Trump suffers from narcissistic personality disorder with delusional-paranoid components. This is a serious mental illness. This man must be censured on the floor of the House by every member of Congress, then forcefully removed from the White House.
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The most uncomfortable interview I have ever seen. The world leaders have GOT to be missing Obama some...
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Trump's father was arrested at a Klu Klux Klan riot in Queens 1927. So it is not too hard to figure out what's behind his obsession with President Obama. These birther and wiretapping charges are all recycled White nationalist - Klan propaganda that the racist in chief admits to spending his evenings devouring, along with his bedside copy of Mein Kampf.
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For what it's worth, I wish Donald Trump would work at removing the scowls and the smirks that are perpetually on his face. This makes him even less appealing, if that's even possible. The smiles he sometimes has aren't any better though. Oftentimes, he looks like he's got gas. Bottom line, Donald Trump is repulsive, both in actions and in looks. Poor Donald, even his looks offend. Oh, and Donald, why don't you invest in some different ties. Loose the red ones. Putin already loves you.
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We had a huge smile for eight years. But that's about all.
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Wonder what he will spout later this year at the State Banquet in front of the Queen? This man apparently has some kind of dementia that anyone can see. Fox news provides the gasoline to pour on the fire. How much more embarrassment can we tolerate?
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It is time for the media to stop covering trump's nutty sayings.
Highly unlikely given its success with its negative coverage of Trump. There's a group of Americans who seem to live from negative article to negative article, hanging onto their validation for dear life.
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I feel like my head is about to explode! Do we actually have a President who is almost single-handedly facilitating the de-evolution of the human race?
This petulant, immature boy-man continues to provide to America, and the world, uber cringe - worthy moments. His public use of Angela Merkel as a the but of a joke, knowing her lack of ease with the English language, and perhaps the concept of sarcasm, was beyond rude and undiplomatic. This is how he welcomes the Chancellor of Germany, a valued ally?
Then....oh my God....the public refusal to shake her hand! This crude, oaf-ish boor is an embarrassment to America. And no, the media is not falsly spinning his meeting with Chancellor Merkel, we saw what we saw just fine.
Perhaps this is a good time for a lesson in largesse, defined by the OED thusly : liberality, bountifulness, munificence; the bountiful bestowal by a soverign upon some special occasion or rejoycing or the like. "
This petulant, immature boy-man continues to provide to America, and the world, uber cringe - worthy moments. His public use of Angela Merkel as a the but of a joke, knowing her lack of ease with the English language, and perhaps the concept of sarcasm, was beyond rude and undiplomatic. This is how he welcomes the Chancellor of Germany, a valued ally?
Then....oh my God....the public refusal to shake her hand! This crude, oaf-ish boor is an embarrassment to America. And no, the media is not falsly spinning his meeting with Chancellor Merkel, we saw what we saw just fine.
Perhaps this is a good time for a lesson in largesse, defined by the OED thusly : liberality, bountifulness, munificence; the bountiful bestowal by a soverign upon some special occasion or rejoycing or the like. "
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Trump is a demi-god. He makes no mistakes; he has never asked for forgiveness or had reason to ask for one; he never loses...
It is always the fault of the other person...
It is always the fault of the other person...
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Fox News should be heavily fined. No more lies from them. Trump should be impeached for accusing someone of felony. He had in his means to find truth out. We need no more lies from trump or Fox News.
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Truman -- "The buck stops here"
Trump -- "The buck stops everywhere else but here"
Trump -- "The buck stops everywhere else but here"
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Chancellor Merkel. So sorry you had to be exposed to our embarrassment of a president. He treated you wth disrespect and displayed his famous ignorance and stupidity for the entire world to see. I'm sure you felt like bathing after having been in the same room with this odious man. Believe me, he's a monumental embarrassment to all Americans; I think to even those that voted for him. We'll do our best in trying to get him removed from office as soon as possible. Once again, so sorry you had to experience this cretin.
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Please do not speak for all Americans. Watching them both I couldn't have been happier that we no longer have a "globalist" for a president. Merkel deserves no apology. It was she who unleashed a deluge of refugees on her country.
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To AACNY
Merkel unleashed the refugees? Couldn't possibly be the active terrorism, poverty, starvation in parts of the planet? it doesn't take an ignorant isolationist to see that a large portion of Earth's population have been backed into a dire corner and are desperate to escape. It takes a hard heart to deny them help. It takes worse to contribute to the problem by demonizing the refugees
Merkel unleashed the refugees? Couldn't possibly be the active terrorism, poverty, starvation in parts of the planet? it doesn't take an ignorant isolationist to see that a large portion of Earth's population have been backed into a dire corner and are desperate to escape. It takes a hard heart to deny them help. It takes worse to contribute to the problem by demonizing the refugees
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The look on Mrs. Merkel's face is priceless. She was a victim of spying by Mr. Obama. Surely she can understand what Mr. Obama was and is capable of.
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The spying on foreign heads of state was done by US security agencies. As soon as Obama found out, he put a stop to it.
President Obama and Chancellor Merkel had a cordial relationship. Germany is one of our staunches ally. Well so was the UK before Trump's groundless accusations that the their secret service bugged his home in Trump Tower. Also we never had a more steadfast ally than Australia. In every war fought by the US, Australian soldiers have died next to US ones. So Trump hangs up on their Premier! And some lowly immigration official harasses Mem Fox for two hours at an airport. Mem Fox (71 years old) is Australia's favorite children's book author. You can read Australian papers on line and see the reaction.
I assume you're not working in the tourist industry, right? Do you have any idea how much $ tourism brings to the US? Do you now expect ordinary folks from a foreign country (Australia etc.) to decide to spend a couple of weeks in the US for their vacation? Tourists spend a lot of money. How many millions of Americans work in the tourist industry (hotels, amusement parks, etc.) look it up and figure our what the loss of that industry means for the folks whose livelihood depends on it (for instance, all the people working at hotels, and at restaurants, and their suppliers and the suppliers of their suppliers etc.)
How much more damage can Trump do before you realize that you've been taken by a conman?
President Obama and Chancellor Merkel had a cordial relationship. Germany is one of our staunches ally. Well so was the UK before Trump's groundless accusations that the their secret service bugged his home in Trump Tower. Also we never had a more steadfast ally than Australia. In every war fought by the US, Australian soldiers have died next to US ones. So Trump hangs up on their Premier! And some lowly immigration official harasses Mem Fox for two hours at an airport. Mem Fox (71 years old) is Australia's favorite children's book author. You can read Australian papers on line and see the reaction.
I assume you're not working in the tourist industry, right? Do you have any idea how much $ tourism brings to the US? Do you now expect ordinary folks from a foreign country (Australia etc.) to decide to spend a couple of weeks in the US for their vacation? Tourists spend a lot of money. How many millions of Americans work in the tourist industry (hotels, amusement parks, etc.) look it up and figure our what the loss of that industry means for the folks whose livelihood depends on it (for instance, all the people working at hotels, and at restaurants, and their suppliers and the suppliers of their suppliers etc.)
How much more damage can Trump do before you realize that you've been taken by a conman?
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"Trump offers no apology" is not a headline. It's a disingenuous obfuscation.
"Trump doubles down on a lie" is what happened here.
"Trump doubles down on a lie" is what happened here.
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If Fox were to report that a missile was headed to the US from North Korea, would Trump push the button without verification?
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The blame is on all the other GOP who doesn't say a thing about this madman's action. We just have to remove the GOP whole sale.
I was and am a Republican, just not Trump kind of crazy Republican.
I was and am a Republican, just not Trump kind of crazy Republican.
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Okay this "show" is produced by the Republican Party as they take the money from the register. They think they're keeping us side lined by this, and they are!
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Meanwhile we have an old man who is too tired to do his job in charge of the State Department. What could go wrong?
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Even though I dislike Trump and his ilk, Tillerson, being fatigued is not a valid criticism. At this rate you would have opposed FDR for being in a wheel chair?
The sort of comment you're making is a distraction from the fact that Tillerson is gutting the State Dept. Is it a quid pro quo for Russian support during the elections? (see Rachel Maddow on this topic)
I suspect that the way we (voters and non-voters-by-choice) are looking at personalities instead of issues has brought upon us the calamity that Trump is. So shake your head and think in terms of issue and not if someone gets fatigued (perhaps the flu?) on the job. And most important do VOTE.
Did you vote not only in this presidential election but also in the 2014 legislative elections. The fact that so few people voted in 2014 prepared the ground for the present Congress (take a look at how House and Senate members are elected, and then do the math).
So do yourself and me a favor: focus on what's important and use your hard earned right to VOTE in the 2018 elections (and in your state and municipal elections as well). If we can with our votes flip this Congress in 2018, we might get the Trump impeached.....
The sort of comment you're making is a distraction from the fact that Tillerson is gutting the State Dept. Is it a quid pro quo for Russian support during the elections? (see Rachel Maddow on this topic)
I suspect that the way we (voters and non-voters-by-choice) are looking at personalities instead of issues has brought upon us the calamity that Trump is. So shake your head and think in terms of issue and not if someone gets fatigued (perhaps the flu?) on the job. And most important do VOTE.
Did you vote not only in this presidential election but also in the 2014 legislative elections. The fact that so few people voted in 2014 prepared the ground for the present Congress (take a look at how House and Senate members are elected, and then do the math).
So do yourself and me a favor: focus on what's important and use your hard earned right to VOTE in the 2018 elections (and in your state and municipal elections as well). If we can with our votes flip this Congress in 2018, we might get the Trump impeached.....
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I am deeply ashamed of the actions of Donald Trump and many of his administration. Personal honesty seems unknown to Trump. Will we end up with more national enemies?
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This man/child may very well be the ultimate symbol of this country's decline.
His appointments have shown a decided disdain for science, reason, truth and transparency. With his party, showing loyalty to party rather than country, it is looking as though we are sliding deeper and deeper into decline, corruption the enabler. But, then, just maybe, we'll rise out of the ashes of this man/president and look at the bigger picture, the trumpers and the liberals together to form a truce and a better country. Have stranger things happened?
His appointments have shown a decided disdain for science, reason, truth and transparency. With his party, showing loyalty to party rather than country, it is looking as though we are sliding deeper and deeper into decline, corruption the enabler. But, then, just maybe, we'll rise out of the ashes of this man/president and look at the bigger picture, the trumpers and the liberals together to form a truce and a better country. Have stranger things happened?
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That doesn't mean that science, reason and truth vanish from this earth. We're all welcome to hold onto them and value them, regardless. Things that are once lost then found are less likely to be taken for granted in the future . . . So the theory goes.
Alt-Whitehouse strikes again! Those that voted for this clown have a lot to answer for and as usual, someone else is going to have to clean up after that toddler "president". Sickening.
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Trump adores Andrew Jackson who was mistreated by England when he was taken prisoner. Would it be giving too much credit to Trump to say that this is pay back?
It should be extremely disturbing to everyone that Trump is getting his intel from Fox News. Do we need any more proof that Trump is wholly unqualified to be president of the United States?
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Did anybody read Wikileaks where all these Intel organizations spied and are spying on us all and saving the date for 5 years. Why are people so shock at these accusations and wasn't the President correct to mention how Merkel and Bibi among others were hacked.
If his assertion, that Dr. Merkel's phone is tapped, lands on him. In her eyes if that would be true today, he owns that.
This man needs a check up from the neck up - this cat is barking mad!
This man needs a check up from the neck up - this cat is barking mad!
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It's not even two months. How much longer can this travesty go on?
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Only the 'little people' apologize. The people who gush over Ivanka Trump's Facebook posts. The people who thank her profusely for posting her videos and family photos because it makes them 'feel so close' to her and the first family, who feel that because she's posting kiddy pics on Facebook she's 'one of us'.
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I don't know how we will survive another month of his gaffs, his crudeness, his petulant stick out his lower lip horsecrap.
Embarrasses me every breath he takes. Ridiculous man-child
Embarrasses me every breath he takes. Ridiculous man-child
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How can responsible leaders of the Republican Party stand these lies affecting the security of our country and do not say anything and act like responsible leaders of this country? How?
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I am incompetent to be President of the United States, yet I would be more competent than Donald John Trump.
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I understand President Trump's frustrations, because Barack Obama wiretapped me too.
In my case it wasn't the British who helped him however. It was the Martians.
In my case it wasn't the British who helped him however. It was the Martians.
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So, now Trump has an excuse not to go to England.
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For a year and a half, at least, Trump has been verbally attacking our allies. He is suspect as a Russian Puppet. I wish Obama had tapped his phones. I hope someone did. There has been no bigger national security need than now and in the past year and a half.
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You can't tap someone's phone without a court order, that goes even for the president of the US.
In addition all the polls showed that Hillary was a shoe in. It's only in the last 2 weeks or so of campaigning when people were advance voting in many states, that the FBI director, James Comey, flipped the elections by putting Hillary under suspicion yet again (after her having been investigated 11 times, each showing she didn't e-mail any classified documents!). Comey raised doubts, and then practically on the eve of the elections, said "oops, wrong alarm". That was enough to flip the elections with so many people deciding to not vote at all (ultimately, they're the one who "elected" Trump...)
So please vote in the next legislative elections and never again throw away your right to vote.
In addition all the polls showed that Hillary was a shoe in. It's only in the last 2 weeks or so of campaigning when people were advance voting in many states, that the FBI director, James Comey, flipped the elections by putting Hillary under suspicion yet again (after her having been investigated 11 times, each showing she didn't e-mail any classified documents!). Comey raised doubts, and then practically on the eve of the elections, said "oops, wrong alarm". That was enough to flip the elections with so many people deciding to not vote at all (ultimately, they're the one who "elected" Trump...)
So please vote in the next legislative elections and never again throw away your right to vote.
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I suspect that at this point even Putin is getting tired of Trump's utter stupidity and his tantrums.
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Putin and most Russians are most likely laughing at all the hysterical Americans who fill the comments sections with ever more outrage. In Russia, they have more serious things to worry about. It's called "life." They certainly don't indulge themselves in the fantasy of getting rid of a president they don't like.
The more stupid and prone to tantrums our president is, the more Putin loves it.
Remember Putin's goal is to weaken the US and to break up the NATO alliance. Wouldn't that explain why Putin supports the likes of Trump? (and also extreme right wing parties in all democracies)
Remember Putin's goal is to weaken the US and to break up the NATO alliance. Wouldn't that explain why Putin supports the likes of Trump? (and also extreme right wing parties in all democracies)
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This guy is going to become so isolated and lonely in the white house, finally Nixon's soul needs to be resurrected to just keep him tolerable sanity limits.
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That's what we get for making the house so big. A more modest place could easily remedy this. God forbid America should downsize. But in a world already bulging at the seams, it might be the most sensible thing to do.
Wonder who wrote the very intelligent article in the National Enquirer that he cited when he made the claim that Cruz's old man was involved in the assassination of JFK? This guy's about as deep as a bird bath. Does he have to keep "educating" his totally uniformed base with lie after lie after lie?
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The Republican President and his staff are liars with zero integrity.
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This elected President of the United States is a sick man. When will he be forced to get help? Will anyone stand up to him? A family member? An experienced leader? Are there no precedents to bring an unhinged power broker the help he needs? Who amongst his enablers continue to condone and support his rants and tirades?
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State Dept needs a whole new section devoted to fixing Trunp's blunders. Instead, he cuts their budget by a third.
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How much crooked, self-serving, irrational, and outrageous behavior will it take to initiate impeachment proceedings? Somebody please explain this to me. A friend says it won't happen until the stock market crashes. Can that be true? Is it only a matter of money?
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There once was a leader grossly vain
Vindictive in delivering pain
Lazy and ignorant
Often belligerent
Many wondered if he was insane
Vindictive in delivering pain
Lazy and ignorant
Often belligerent
Many wondered if he was insane
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I can see by these comments that The NY Times bubble has now been securely tethered on all sides, so as not to be penetrated by anyone of opposing views. This merely ensures that not only will Trump be re-elected in 2020, but that the liberal media elite in New York and Washington, along with their loyal, single-minded followers, will be even more shocked in 2020 then they were in 2016.
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If that bubble is the truth, I certainly hope it isn't penetrated by the lies of the Trumpists.
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It doesn't matter. A thick enough bubble is immune even from the pressure change of shock waves as well as sharp objects. Of course, I'm only talking about literal bubbles, not the kind you're talking about; so yeah, they will, but that's what keeps them inflated and going strong . . . Lots of hot air.
It's getting to be time to start impeachment proceedings or to invoke the 25th amendment. Trump is continuing to do major damage to this country's standing around the world. He's giving China a door to international preeminence by his drawing back from foreign relations and his lying. By the way, New York Times statements without evidence are normally called lies.
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Only a brave person can apologize. Our country is being ruled by a coward.
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So Mr. Trump gets his information from Fox News. When the national security crises inevitably happen, will he turn on his TV for the information he needs to make critical decisions?
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The British GCHQ was the first to reveal that Russia had interfered in the U.S. election. No wonder Trump won't apologize to then. They let his cat out of the bag!
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Almost 70 years ago, the majority of the nations and governments of the world united to take down the megalomaniacal tyranny of The Axis. Are we approaching a similar crisis, calling for a similar solution, now?
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Just as passing along child pornography is considered a crime, doing the same with libelous information should be grounds for impeachment.
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I just tried contacting the White House via their web page. They seem to have blocked all emails, no one is picking up the phone and the voicemail box is full. The cowardice of Trump and his team continue to astound.
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President Trump cannot get a hard on. I know this for a fact, but don't blame me if it's not true - I read it in the Onion.
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When will the voters who held their noses when they voted for Trump finally admit that Trump is not going to evolve into anything resembling presidential. This is as good as it gets, and they made a tragic error in supporting him. A President Hillary Clinton would surely have been bogged down by controversy but much of it would have been firmly rooted in their irrational hatred of her, her husband, and the first African American POTUS. I hope you are all proud of yourselves because after less than two months in office, I can promise you it will only get worse.
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I guess Fox News is our new national go-to intelligence agency. Well, no big deal. With Exxon in charge of the State Department and Monsanto inside the EPA, we Americans have nothing to fear but fear itself.
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For Congress not to seek Trump's impeachment on any number of grounds is dereliction of duty and disrepect for the American people. It verges on treasonous as Trump's behavior aids and abets our enemies.
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i have said many times that Trump is pure evil. This country is in peril with him at the helm. I hope I am wrong.
He displays the maturity of a twelve year old.
He displays the maturity of a twelve year old.
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Please world, try to understand that Trump is not a normal American. Most of us are utterly embarrassed by him. He may not ever apologize, but I do:
I'm sorry our country sends this nasty and ignorant individual out into your countries to spread his lies.
I'm sorry our country sends this nasty and ignorant individual out into your countries to spread his lies.
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You dont have to. We all make the difference between "The People" and their politicians.
With love
With love
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While this is an informative piece on our ersatz president and his staff, confirming everything the public is coming find troubling in a man charged with leading our country, I must take issue with yet another article attempting to normalize this clearly abnormal man. Unless your reporter asked Trump directly, there is no way s/he could have known whether or not the president heard Merkel's question about a handshake. Yet the reporter clearly believes Trump did not hear; I watched the same event and would put my money on Trump ignoring Merkel (but I am biased because I do not like the man, so recognize that that is an opinion). Instead of normalizing Trump, a phrase like "perhaps the president did not hear Merkel though they were sitting side by side" would have given Trump the benefit of the doubt without defending him. This is the second NYT piece I have encountered where there was an effort to normalize this clearly incapable man. NYT is one of my primary news sources and my expectation is that you will report the facts and not opinion unless the column is to appear on your Opinion page where the question of veracity is clear.
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What all the eye-rolling and dismay doesn't take into account is that Trump is not speaking to any one who doesn't already support him, let alone the rest of the world. Trump speaks only to himself and to his base — and they love what he says! Trump now heads a mass movement which overwhelmingly approves the way he upsets the establishment and the elites. His supporters won't even reject him if he doesn't bring back all those well-paying jobs and the universal low-cost healthcare he promised—as long as he continues doing what he's doing. He will blame his failures on others and his supporters will believe him.
Only the solid GOP majority in the Congress could rein him in, and that's hardly likely as long as he'll sign the bills they've long wanted to enact. After all, this is their big chance: their best since the 1920s.
Only the solid GOP majority in the Congress could rein him in, and that's hardly likely as long as he'll sign the bills they've long wanted to enact. After all, this is their big chance: their best since the 1920s.
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if trump will lie in this way about obama, we should assume that the trump-russia economic and other ties, likely picked up by our intelligence agencies, exist and are incriminating.
trump rightly fears his unmasking as a russian agent. the media must maintain its focus on that "story"--and not on trump's mendacious accusation against obama--which is just a repeat of his "birther" claims.
the sooner we remove trump from the white house, the better. republicans will regret their spinelessness.
trump rightly fears his unmasking as a russian agent. the media must maintain its focus on that "story"--and not on trump's mendacious accusation against obama--which is just a repeat of his "birther" claims.
the sooner we remove trump from the white house, the better. republicans will regret their spinelessness.
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Here we are, the wealthiest, most powerful nation in the world, and also a complete laughingstock. How many times were we warned that trump did not have the temperament to be president, and look what happened.
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I see Trump has been successful in shifting the narrative again from intelligence obtained about him and Russia to the action of "wiretapping" in general based on complete conspiracy.
He takes anything he's accused of and turns it around as an attack to distract and everyone falls for it. Stay focused people.
He takes anything he's accused of and turns it around as an attack to distract and everyone falls for it. Stay focused people.
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It's not being unfocused that is worrisome it's just the unrelenting lies this man tells. According to David Frum these lies are not for us but for his base who seems never to care what he says. What kind of people are these who will accept this nonsense despite the obviousness of the lie? Is the alternative that horrible that they have to turn to a lunatic?
"All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it.”
Trump did offer the opinion that Judge has a "fine legal mind", which apparently is why Trump thought him credible. Trump therefore passes responsibility for erroneous statements on to Judge, but how about Trump's erroneous assessment of reliability. A yuge mistake. Sad. Sad.
Trump did offer the opinion that Judge has a "fine legal mind", which apparently is why Trump thought him credible. Trump therefore passes responsibility for erroneous statements on to Judge, but how about Trump's erroneous assessment of reliability. A yuge mistake. Sad. Sad.
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And at Fox News, no mention was made of Trump's accusation against the Britian'spy agency, but they did say that Trump pressed Merkel to pay more dues to the UN.
This is the problem.
This is the problem.
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I sincerely hope my dream (seriously) a couple of weeks ago seeing a nuclear missile land followed by zombies walking does not come true.
Dear Fourth Estate: Whatever you do, and however you choose to cover this dangerously deranged individual's antics, please never, never, never be distracted from the primary issue - the connections with Russia and the violation of our national election process. It would be nice if you also continued to spotlight the egregious conflicts of interest involving both this individual and his adult offspring. It's a lot to do, it's a heavy burden, but without you we are well and truly lost.
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President Trump should be more careful - soon he will be known as the little President who cried wolf too many times - and people will ignore what he says,
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The man that now sits in Oval Office is a traitor to the USA, an agent of Little Putting from Russia and a sick sociopath. Buckle up for these next few years.
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We are witnessing the destruction of our country by a madman. Nothing less.
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Trump's entire career: Inheriting millions from his daddy, bankruptcy, playing an authoritarian on a so-called reality tv show, running a fake university, selling over-priced steaks and lousy vodka, sticking his trumped-up name on structures developed and built by others, fostering bigotry and isolationism. His top skill: Tweeting lies. Yes, in Orwell's world, this all makes sense.
The whole world is watching. Not in admiration.
The whole world is watching. Not in admiration.
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At the very least, the Republican leadership should offer an apology on behalf of Trump, if he won't do it himself. Trump is the leader of their party. They support him even as they try to ignore his boorish behavior, rudeness and ignorance. Because Trump has now angered one of our strongest allies, the Republicans have a responsibility to step in where Trump won't. Mitch McConnell should come out from wherever he's been hiding the past few weeks and Paul Ryan should stop pretending that he's too busy with TrumpCare to notice what Trump is doing, and they should both make a statement acknowledging that Trump's wiretap claims are false and apologize to Britain and to Obama for him. If McConnell and Ryan were true leaders of their party they would act like it.
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How I wish the bubble Trump apologists and supporters are in could be breached. Perhaps they cheer for the President's embarrassingly toddlerish antics and assertions, because he's "shaking things up" as he promised. I, on the other hand am waiting for the grown ups to finally give him a bottle and put him to bed.
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Is Trump's insanity really the best that the Mercer money could buy? Trump has nothing in common with Merkel. She came to DC prepared to negotiate and was well-prepared for Trump's antics. Trump could only pout.
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The NYT should know that the US, UK, Canada, Australia are signatory to a treaty that permits intelligence agencies to spy on each other's citizens. We do not know if someone in the US asked the Brits to check up on Candidate Trump or not... but the treaty has been used in the past to permit these countries to spy on their own citizens without "breaking the law."
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But not in political contexts - that would be diplomatic suicide for whoever engaged in it.
Increasingly, the NYT provides a partial picture, one that supports its own position and doesn't rile up its anti-Trump readers with facts that contradict their views.
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Good for Trump. Everyone is being "tapped" now, including Flynn and Merkel - whether there's proof or not.
Trump keeps repeating Putin's words, "fake news." We all know now that Putin has, for many decades, been relying of "fake news" to create chaos in elections. It was inevitable that a former KGB honcho like Putin wouldn't have realized the minute Trump decided to run for president, Putin lucked out big time.
However, Trump is a master at distraction when he is boxed in by his own lies.
Notice how not one word of the Friday "intruder" into the White House who "stole a laptop with the blueprints of Trump Tower" was barely mentioned? Is it because this is all too too too coincidental with Trump getting taken down for lying about President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower?
Now really, how does an intruder get into the White House as reported on CNN for 16 minutes and know precisely which laptop had these blueprints on the hard drive? Let's get real hear. Mr. PsychoParanoia thought if he could just create the reality that someone, namely, Obama sent an intruder into the White House to steal the blueprints of Trump Tower, wouldn't that prove Trump was telling the truth about Obama?
This guy is as nutty as a fruit cake. The Republicans have unleashed what may be the most dangerous security risk to all American with that Trump mouth. He wasn't exactly "friendly" to Angela Merkel. After all, she is a "powerful woman" and as we all know Baron von un zu Trump believes no woman can ever be as powerful as he is.
Maybe he'll blame Obama when ISIS takes out Trump Tower?
However, Trump is a master at distraction when he is boxed in by his own lies.
Notice how not one word of the Friday "intruder" into the White House who "stole a laptop with the blueprints of Trump Tower" was barely mentioned? Is it because this is all too too too coincidental with Trump getting taken down for lying about President Obama wiretapping Trump Tower?
Now really, how does an intruder get into the White House as reported on CNN for 16 minutes and know precisely which laptop had these blueprints on the hard drive? Let's get real hear. Mr. PsychoParanoia thought if he could just create the reality that someone, namely, Obama sent an intruder into the White House to steal the blueprints of Trump Tower, wouldn't that prove Trump was telling the truth about Obama?
This guy is as nutty as a fruit cake. The Republicans have unleashed what may be the most dangerous security risk to all American with that Trump mouth. He wasn't exactly "friendly" to Angela Merkel. After all, she is a "powerful woman" and as we all know Baron von un zu Trump believes no woman can ever be as powerful as he is.
Maybe he'll blame Obama when ISIS takes out Trump Tower?
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The look on Merkel's face when Trump tries to pull her into this idiocy is somehow horrified and dumbfounded at once.
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It seems Trump sees the White House and American politics as another reality show. He won the Mr America award but has failed terribly at becoming Mr Congeniality.
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No apologies. NYT was first to use "Wiretaps." Obama admin tapped Merkel. Obama surveillance on Manafort, Flynn. Trump's Big Picture view is accurate. Media parses words words and italics to protect their Leader-in-Exile, President Obama.
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FOX should have its public airwaves license revoked and trump needs to be removed from office. This right wing debacle needs to be terminated.
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Our President simply wanted to mess up the British on the Occasion of Saint Patrick's Day.
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People keep trying to treat Trump like an adult and he isn't one. He only tolerates women he can intimidate and Merkel isn't one of them. She's a tough lady. Trump is a spoiled rich kid used to getting his own way. Sitting beside Merkel he looked like a petulant, little child who wants to take his toys and go home. Everything about him is childish. Bannon loves his immaturity and can exploit it for his purposes.
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Think about it: if Trump's national security advisor told him there's a terrorist training camp in, say, Libya, and Trump then authorized air strikes only to find out we bombed an orphanage, Trump's reaction would be, "Don't talk to me. Talk to my NSC advisor."
"And by the way, I'm not apologizing."
"And by the way, I'm not apologizing."
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If Trump had any respect for this country and nation would take his despicable body out of the White House and get lost in his Florida hideout. In such a short time he has turned our country into laughing talk of the world.
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The emperor has no clothes.
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I don't want to say to Trump supporters "I told you so", but millions of Trump opposers tried to warn the country about this snake oil salesman. "We told you so!" We failed with our message, Trump got elected and now the entire country gets to suffer for however long it takes to get rid of him.
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There has to be a limit to our tolerating this level of turpitude?! How many times are we to be slapped in the face by this parvenu?
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This creature is a catastrophe. Period.
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All this would be so much fun to watch if it were happening on Netflix rather than in the White House, with the whole world as a horrified captive audience.
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To all members of Congress I ask: Where do you draw the line with this president? How far does he have to push the envelope of incompetence, dishonesty, and outrageous behavior before you stand up and say 'Enough!', grow a spine, and do something about this growing internationally embarrassing petulant ManChild in the White House?
Excellent journalism is starting to connect the dots on Mr. Trump's Russia connections. He's dirty, we know it, he knows we know it. Like Nixon, it's only a matter of time. This is going to end badly for the country. But it has to end.
Excellent journalism is starting to connect the dots on Mr. Trump's Russia connections. He's dirty, we know it, he knows we know it. Like Nixon, it's only a matter of time. This is going to end badly for the country. But it has to end.
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Complete incompetence, or much worse, this is all part of his game.
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Unfortunatly this President has constantly said things that were not True in his short time in office. I know many Presidents if not all stretch the truth from time to time. But Mr. Trump has gone out of his way and said things that can never be proven true. Sad to say as the Little boy who has cried wolf, When he speakes the truth about something, it will be dissmissed as just another LIE.
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We desperately need Republican patriots to step forward and take a stand against this madman.
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"Judge" Andrew P. Napolitano, who President Trump cites among his "sources" for asserting that he was "bugged by Great Britain via a clipping he read from quoting Mr. Napolitano (later disowned by Fox) in this public embarrassment of a press conference, has failed to publicly disclose that he has a personal relationship and business interests that might conflict his journalistic objectivity in any matters relating to Mr. Trump. For over 10 years Mr. Napolitano has enjoyed investments in Trump International's 1 Central Park West in Lincoln Square, where he has purchased, sold and profited from investments in apartments 40C, 25F and possibly others. Over the years more than ten million dollars has been involved in this buying, selling and mortgaging. This is in addition to many other investments Mr. Napolitano has dabbled in here in Manhattan as well as Staten Island, and also New Jersey.
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Everyone who surrounds this man and his administration is a product of, reflection of, or attracted to his corruption and psychosis.
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Germany has surpassed the U.S. as the leader of the free world. drop mic.
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Trump on the campaign trail: here's a crazy conspiracy theory. I can't prove it, because corrupt Obama is hiding the evidence.
Trump in the White House: here's a crazy conspiracy theory. I can't prove it, because the evidence is classified.
This is called fooling some of the voters all of the time.
Trump in the White House: here's a crazy conspiracy theory. I can't prove it, because the evidence is classified.
This is called fooling some of the voters all of the time.
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We totally tired of this bizarre behavior yet?
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Anyone who depends on Fox News for information does not understand Rupert Murdock and his taste for tabloid news making. With his ability to rely on Fox bites, Trump could push the United States into war based on Murdock's editorial latitude for conspiracy theory. It makes you wonder why anyone would expect a different approach wherever Murdock has editorial control. I believe Murdock has moved beyond hacking phones to hurt people to orchestrating disorder of political processes including climate change in Australia, Brexit in England, and diluting support for the central government in America.
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The Germans (who Trump also managed to offend on Friday with his boorishness) have a saying that applies to "the president": Stupid remains stupid—there's no pill for that.
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All smoke and mirrors to deflect from the vital search for the smoking gun: Trump's long-time collusion with the Russians.
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Is it Trump's contention that defamation is okay as long as you're quoting someone else? I don't think this is how the law works and, besides, this seems to be another case of an excuse a 7 year old might make.
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I hope someone has had the common sense to change the nuclear codes but not tell Trump - just in case.
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I saw this theory on Lew Rockwell for several days, and Napolitano should have his feet held to the fire explaining exactly how this happened like any journalist. It could have happened, three can keep a secret if two are dead as the saying goes, but many secrets take years to come out. Who would benefit by doing so?
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Plan again executed flawlessly. Lap dogs (media) dutifully stare at right hand, holding the toy (controversy du jour) while the left hand slips on the leash (budget/tax cuts). Amazing to watch it happen day after day.
Hey, but it's good for business...
Hey, but it's good for business...
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Trump is white American. Stupid, fearful, and venal. Nice work. Onward Christian soldiers.
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He sinks to a new low just almost daily. It would be impressive if it weren't so scary.
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Well, at this rate, Russia will be our strongest ally. /s
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This is performance art. It's a smokescreen. Trump doesn't say this stuff because he thinks it's true. He says it because it sends everyone -- led by the media -- running around in small circles with their hair on fire. And of course, the things that really frighten Mr. Trump, like his tax returns...there's not time or energy for that. Which suits him perfectly.
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Can't someine be sued for libel or slander in these accusations of wiretapping?
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Don't you all get it? Trump's "controversies" over blatently bogus issues are a smokescreen to keep public attention diverted from his real program: convert America back to a world-isolated white Christian oligarchy, with "lower classes", non-Caucasians, non-evangelicals, and scientists disenfranchised, empoverished, and demoralized by whatever legal or unlawful use of governmental force is required. All the rest of it is just diversions to entertain him and his buddies!
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I don't understand what the surprise is about. Trump has been a CEO for years.
Raj Patel refers to the psychological profiling of the 'person' (as per the ignoramuses in the Supreme Court) of Corporations as psychopathic (no inhibition on hurting person or planet ~ and, I would add, unable to distinguish truth form falsehood). Organisational profiling reveals that they are fascist. So is the person of the CEO of siad Corp[oration.
So Drumph is used to spewing out anything that takes his fancy ~ with no consequence. He is too old to understand that the Courts can in fact question his actions.
If the citizens of the United States are stupid enough to give such rich white trash power, then we all have to learn to stomach it.
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Raj Patel refers to the psychological profiling of the 'person' (as per the ignoramuses in the Supreme Court) of Corporations as psychopathic (no inhibition on hurting person or planet ~ and, I would add, unable to distinguish truth form falsehood). Organisational profiling reveals that they are fascist. So is the person of the CEO of siad Corp[oration.
So Drumph is used to spewing out anything that takes his fancy ~ with no consequence. He is too old to understand that the Courts can in fact question his actions.
If the citizens of the United States are stupid enough to give such rich white trash power, then we all have to learn to stomach it.
[email protected]
No one with any power to do anything really cares enough to stop this madman. It's the emperor 's new clothes--but far more dangerous than walking around naked.
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Why...in this "President's" state of Diagnostic Pathology, do we chronically
Expect "Apology" for Anything he says or does? He is Immune to to "Guilt".
We are under the Leadership of his Pathology.
Expect "Apology" for Anything he says or does? He is Immune to to "Guilt".
We are under the Leadership of his Pathology.
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Reality check wake up everything person does being recorded . Video is now being collected on cars an purchses in stores. Personlly person beleives anything on news ill sell ya golden gate bridge
When does the impeachment process start?
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The lady doth protest too much, me thinks.
It is a very sad day in our history that the POTUS places more emphasis on right wing news show comments than on his own government's intelligence. No wonder the rest of the world is laughing so hard. What a sad, sad man and such a disappointment.
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And yet, if you ask any republican, he/she would say either that they couldn't vote for Hillary because she is any and all of the evils which propaganda from talk radio and/or the russian internet ad generating machine made them so sure she was or they voted for the lesser of two evils. Allow me to go now to a corner of my bunker and alternatively laugh and cry all at the same time.
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The knuckeheads who voted for Trump don't care what he does or what he says or who he offends. They like to think that he's shaking up the establishment.. an establishment that by the Grace of God has held them in check for many years. If he walked off a bridge, they'd wanted to know if they should line in alphabetical order or just run off of it willy-nilly. He will have to seriously jeopardize the welfare and security of the country, before Republicans of more morality will vote to curb his dangerous instincts. Otherwise, we'll have to wait four more years to get him voted out. Imagine the damage he will do by the end of that four years.
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We all seemed to have survived well enough when the Obama Administration was caught out having wire-tapped Chancellor Merkels phones. This little tempest, amplifying a news report, won’t last the week. It is also fun to see the NYT has added a new diplomatic standard to the lexicon, Livid.
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My deepest apologies to GCHQ and the rest of our friends across the pond. We are going to need your help. The electoral college didn't protect us from a truly awful demagogue. We will need your help, I'm afraid.
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Another day another presidential fiasco. Sigh.
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Hillary Clinton was criticized for saying that half of trump*s supporters were deplorable. It might have been argued that the other half was simply unaware of or willfully ignoring his deplorability during the election. But now that everyone has had an opportunity to view him in action it is clear that Clinton underestimated by 50%. Every supporter of trump* is deplorable. He acts like Ferris Bueller, but for god's sake...this is the real world. Enough!
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Trump has a tendency to double down because he thinks people view this as strong. Our country and the world could suffer in a crisis because our president has this demented tendency. Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49XA8c761o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D49XA8c761o
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'Just another smoky distraction to keep US and the press 'off the scent' from focusing on Trump's business entanglements, release of all his current taxes and above all his past dealings with Russia.
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Sorry, Mr. Trump: No tag-backs. When your administration recklessly repeats unconfirmed assertions made on basic cable, regardless of how "talented" the "legal mind" asserting them may be in your eyes, the assertions become yours. The British government and the media are not obligated to ask Fox to back this up. That's what you should have done before cavalierly using it to bolster your own baseless accusations.
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Chancellor Merkel,
Please accept apologies from American people for the boorish behavior of the man who won the presidency. He was extremely rude to you. Our congressional leadership is weak and spineless. We are embarrassed, afraid, and unable to reverse Putin's influence in the election. Thank you for not abandoning us too.
Please accept apologies from American people for the boorish behavior of the man who won the presidency. He was extremely rude to you. Our congressional leadership is weak and spineless. We are embarrassed, afraid, and unable to reverse Putin's influence in the election. Thank you for not abandoning us too.
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this is what happens when trailer trash elect one of their own.
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1) Why should WH go to such a length unless there is some substance in it?
Is Tapping Value= Political Change(or Policy Change)/Cost= Infinite Gains/Cost= Infinite value? This has not been debated.
2) If TV snooping is true that intrudes my patent in the US and UK. Following NYT news break, contacted GCHQ for clarifications but they are not willing to discuss. Have they been sitting tenants in the freehold intellectual property (Patent) without licensing?- of-course subject to confirmation by them.
Is Tapping Value= Political Change(or Policy Change)/Cost= Infinite Gains/Cost= Infinite value? This has not been debated.
2) If TV snooping is true that intrudes my patent in the US and UK. Following NYT news break, contacted GCHQ for clarifications but they are not willing to discuss. Have they been sitting tenants in the freehold intellectual property (Patent) without licensing?- of-course subject to confirmation by them.
Memo to President Trump. Never apologize to the dishonest media. They lie when they say you can "move on" from your charge of Obama wire taps with an apology. It is a media trick. They will see you as weak. They will never give you any credit for anything for the next 8 years. Be your own person. Give the press the middle finger. That is what they deserve for their open support of Mrs. Clinton. The free press has ceased to exist. They are an organ of the radical left.
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The British have a common responsibility with the Americans towards Europe.
European Union participation : Germany pays 29 billion euro annually ,France gives 22 billion euro, Italy 16 billion euro,UK 13 billion euro.
But the fiscal fraud organized by the USA and the UK is estimated 1 trillion euro annually with all US big corporations based in Ireland,a member of EU and cheating to not pay any taxes while invading the European market. The money is redirected from Ireland via the US through British offshore banks.
The EU gave Ireland 100 billion euros after 2008 to save its banks in exchange of closing its offshore banking system .Ireland took the money and cheated even more with the UK and USA.
European Union participation : Germany pays 29 billion euro annually ,France gives 22 billion euro, Italy 16 billion euro,UK 13 billion euro.
But the fiscal fraud organized by the USA and the UK is estimated 1 trillion euro annually with all US big corporations based in Ireland,a member of EU and cheating to not pay any taxes while invading the European market. The money is redirected from Ireland via the US through British offshore banks.
The EU gave Ireland 100 billion euros after 2008 to save its banks in exchange of closing its offshore banking system .Ireland took the money and cheated even more with the UK and USA.
Since Fox News is the President's main source of intelligence, perhaps it will force Fox to start reporting the truth and cease the propaganda.
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In the universe we now live, Spock has a beard.
With General Flynn's revelation that he was working for Russia and Turkey while he was Trump's National Security Adviser, and that Manafort was an agent of President Yanukovych, the Russian puppet in Ukraine, Trump's supporters are celebrating Trump's persistent racist attack on Obama. The media plays down Trump's efforts to rouse and use the racist character of his supporters. Anything that humiliates our Black President is red meat to Trump supporters, to racist Congressman and Senators, and to racist Governors and state legislators. The media's failure to identify racists and racist policies and racist code used against Obama.
The reason why the Republicans don't call him out: They all want jobs with Trump once he leaves office.
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Will you please stop reporting that this is a "distraction?" It's obvious there is no planned, thoughtful strategy by trump to "distract" from his"policies." His so called "policies" are little more than oft repeated GOP red meat campaign points developed by far right wing "think tanks," as if they engage in any such process at all, for years. When will national news outlets get it? Trump is insane.
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The boorishness of DT is superbly met by the rhetoric of his base, two peas in a pond.
He can't apologize, because if he start doing that, he has to apologize every other day for comments he makes every other day.
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Why don't the Democrats in Congress send a letter to the UK apologizing on behalf of the USA and distinguish themselves from this administration? The Republicans in Congress had no problem with going around President Obama to reach out to foreign leaders like when they invited Netanyahu to speak to a joint session.
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This type of behavior deserves rebuke from GOP leadership and serious investigation of his mental health. What are they waiting for? Previously, I have thought His behavior to be boorish, childish, and moronic. To call him a jacka** misses the boat. He is getting worse by the week in office and is now becoming dangerous. Please, someone get the ball rolling re a neuropsychiatric evaluation of fitness for this office with possible impeachment NOW.
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He will inevitably break a law, suborn a criminal act, or harm some innocent citizen, and even if he appears clueless, the Congress will have to act and remove him. This can't go on for four years.
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So, Trump is holding the truth hostage as he is the ONLY person who can order the reveal of what can be known, but he prefers his cauldron stirring asides and snide remarks to devalue real intelligence. He's trapped in a Scot play! That's evidence of obstruction, and that demands an inquiry, Congress. If he can make unfounded claims, so can WE! But I'm pretty sure mine has already been established as a pattern of sheltering suspects! Here come the woods.
See Madison, Vine. If he even hides the fact another is whacked, he's impeachable, like the whole world doesn't know his words are worth less than they were yesterday.
Trump cannot abuse our intelligence agencies and alliances to hide his shenanigans with the Russians, or we will see him in court. That's how Nixon got his.
So sorry we invited you before the host was ready to handle the chores, Chancellor. Maybe next time we can focus on others' struggles. Sorry for the sad flashbacks.
See Madison, Vine. If he even hides the fact another is whacked, he's impeachable, like the whole world doesn't know his words are worth less than they were yesterday.
Trump cannot abuse our intelligence agencies and alliances to hide his shenanigans with the Russians, or we will see him in court. That's how Nixon got his.
So sorry we invited you before the host was ready to handle the chores, Chancellor. Maybe next time we can focus on others' struggles. Sorry for the sad flashbacks.
I am sure Chancellor Merkel probably lectured Trump on what diplomacy is all about, or more likely, what American values are - which he didn't like.
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trump never apologizes; he's entitled to sexually assault women, cheat customers, and lie. He is a dirty, rotten scoundrel. Anyone who supports him has made a deal with the devil with small hands.
Nothing will happen until his "base" turns on him. Now they love him "kicking" the "smarty pants crowd" whether our allies, President Obama, the media, the poor, intellectuals, and any expert on any subject.
Only when they realize that he has not taken of care of their economic and social needs will they begin to "see" the real Donald Trump.
Only when they realize that he has not taken of care of their economic and social needs will they begin to "see" the real Donald Trump.
Trump as President can ask for records on any wire tap. Instead he just tweets out garbage then when pressed won't accept responsibility for what he puts out. Typical Trump.
The British should send a message to Trump about such statements: cancel his meeting with the Queen—he may come and talk with the PM, but not with Her Majesty. I cannot imagine so crass an individual meeting with a woman who has personified British dignity and restraint for the 60+ years of her reign.
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It was once believed that Kim Jong Un of North Korea was the foremost threat to world peace because of his ungoverned proclamations, slurs, and threats. We seem to have grown our own contender for that role. Trump is, like Kim, fast becoming a pariah. Whether the United States allows itself to also, like the North Korean state, to become a pariah depends on its citizens.
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I agree with all those who have said the president is wily as a fox and he's purposely distracting attention from serious issues with sideshows like this unsubstantiated claim about wiretapping. Call him out! In no uncertain terms!! Then return immediately to more important business.
It's obvious Trump is trying to play the part of president and it's equally obvious that his acting skills are entirely third rate. He's bombing this acting gig. He is completely out of his league.
He undoubtedly considers his "joke" to Chancellor Merkel clever, the height of suave intelligence, and has no clue that he comes off as ignorant buffoon. Directing the media to a commentator at Fox News as his source for his stupid and reckless accusation against Britain? Trump probably doesn't even know how truly ignorant he sounds. He has probably dismissed the hullabaloo as just the media acting in concert against him, another witch hunt, and has put it out of his mind. Not worth his time.
What we have here is a bad actor constantly exposing his staggering ignorance and ineptitude. Congress must hold Trump accountable. Americans know how dangerous this situation is. We cannot continue with a seriously impaired, incompetent man-child making decisions that affect millions of lives.
He undoubtedly considers his "joke" to Chancellor Merkel clever, the height of suave intelligence, and has no clue that he comes off as ignorant buffoon. Directing the media to a commentator at Fox News as his source for his stupid and reckless accusation against Britain? Trump probably doesn't even know how truly ignorant he sounds. He has probably dismissed the hullabaloo as just the media acting in concert against him, another witch hunt, and has put it out of his mind. Not worth his time.
What we have here is a bad actor constantly exposing his staggering ignorance and ineptitude. Congress must hold Trump accountable. Americans know how dangerous this situation is. We cannot continue with a seriously impaired, incompetent man-child making decisions that affect millions of lives.
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As an American, I am ashamed and embarrassed by that image of Trump, standing in front of international cameras and microphones, defiantly refusing to acknowledge the plain, provable facts. He is an audacious, reckless, malevolent, clumsy and unapologetic liar, who is desperate to create the perception that he is a star and a genius, superior in all respects.
Now the world knows it, and Trump's lies have cost him politically. He has no credibility, to the point where none of his pronouncements are to be taken at face value.
Not only is that embarrassing, but it is dangerous. Think about how lies led to the war in Iraq. And think about Tillerson saber-rattling in Asia right now.
Now the world knows it, and Trump's lies have cost him politically. He has no credibility, to the point where none of his pronouncements are to be taken at face value.
Not only is that embarrassing, but it is dangerous. Think about how lies led to the war in Iraq. And think about Tillerson saber-rattling in Asia right now.
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People need to remember that trump's election was a rejection of the status quo, they got it wrong this time.
Perhaps next time, collaborating with Progressives, they will get it right, and someone like Sanders will get elected.
Perhaps next time, collaborating with Progressives, they will get it right, and someone like Sanders will get elected.
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Great reporting but I am at a point where I am tired of reading about the 45th President's inept behavior in all political arenas and am hoping that he will be gone from the presidency soon ~
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From Google:
"narcissism
ˈnärsəˌsizəm
noun
excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.
synonyms: vanity, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-obsession, conceit, self-centeredness, self-regard, egotism, egoism
"his emotional development was hindered by his mother's narcissism"
PSYCHOLOGY
extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
self-centeredness arising from failure to distinguish the self from external objects, either in very young babies or as a feature of mental disorder."
"narcissism
ˈnärsəˌsizəm
noun
excessive or erotic interest in oneself and one's physical appearance.
synonyms: vanity, self-love, self-admiration, self-absorption, self-obsession, conceit, self-centeredness, self-regard, egotism, egoism
"his emotional development was hindered by his mother's narcissism"
PSYCHOLOGY
extreme selfishness, with a grandiose view of one's own talents and a craving for admiration, as characterizing a personality type.
PSYCHOANALYSIS
self-centeredness arising from failure to distinguish the self from external objects, either in very young babies or as a feature of mental disorder."
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The longer Donald Trump is present the more chaos and confusion is going to ensue. This is how paranoid schizophrenics operate.
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How much longer until nations like the U.K. start embargoes against the U.S. for such accusations?
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"My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset". Roy Cohn
Let's not forget who trained Trump in his belligerent stance to the world.
Let's not forget who trained Trump in his belligerent stance to the world.
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Donald Trump simply does not apologize. It's not a sign of humanity in his mind, but a sign of weakness. When he starts a major war in the next 12 months in North Korea or the middle East he won't apologize then either.
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Trump is mentally unstable and should never have been allowed to acend to power. I fear more than just embarrassment will end up on the plate the United States if this person is allowed to continue serving. But the gutless Republicans are too interested in turning back the clock on American liberties to do anything to stop this man.
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It's past time to realize that the Republican majorities are the main enabler, and, along with the Russians, are the chief beneficiaries of this charade of a Presidency. The rest of us? I would say the only certainty is that there will be war, and that we will pay the price for it. Again. The Republicans and Russians? I am sure they will be the chief beneficiaries. Again.
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Two questions:
1st, when does Trump get impeached for lying to the American people, insulting every Head of State he encounters on the phone or in his office, and obviously conspiring with the Russian Oligarchs to win an election and make more money?
2nd, what are Princess Ivanka's credentials for hanging around the Whitehouse, meeting with dignitaries from other countries, even sitting next to Angela Merkel at dinner? Last time I checked, she was a fashionista. Would be surprised if she even took political science in college, and certainly knows nothing about diplomacy or law.
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Sad
1st, when does Trump get impeached for lying to the American people, insulting every Head of State he encounters on the phone or in his office, and obviously conspiring with the Russian Oligarchs to win an election and make more money?
2nd, what are Princess Ivanka's credentials for hanging around the Whitehouse, meeting with dignitaries from other countries, even sitting next to Angela Merkel at dinner? Last time I checked, she was a fashionista. Would be surprised if she even took political science in college, and certainly knows nothing about diplomacy or law.
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Sad
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This man is not capable of upholding the Constitution and handling the duties of this position in the Executive Branch. He needs to be removed as soon as possible!
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As a seriously mentally impaired person, Trump is unable to stop doing what he does. But there is no excuse for the Republicans to sit by and not stop this assault on our country. The self-interest inanity of them doing nothing is unconscionable. Whom will they blame when people start dying because of Congress' cowardice?
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Doofus cannot stop doing what he is told to do, or else...that is clear is it not?
Same seems to apply to key repulsicans, there certainly must be plenty of compromising info, video and what not about some/most of them.
And there are so many bills yet to be signed...
It is up to a determined America/n to take the utterly needed action.
Same seems to apply to key repulsicans, there certainly must be plenty of compromising info, video and what not about some/most of them.
And there are so many bills yet to be signed...
It is up to a determined America/n to take the utterly needed action.
Theresa May needs to cancel Trump state visit until he apologizes. Trump relishes the pomp and circumstance of the Presidency so this would really hit him where it hurts.
As China showed forcing Trump to quickly cave on "One China is up for negotiation" ploy. There is no bite behind Trumps bark... he will fold or be royally embarrassed.
As China showed forcing Trump to quickly cave on "One China is up for negotiation" ploy. There is no bite behind Trumps bark... he will fold or be royally embarrassed.
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This is smoke and mirrors. The real story is the corruption of the US election process by Russia. #45 has a knack for distracting from the fact that his presidency is illegitimate. And that he will be taken down when all the Russian + Trump corruption dots are connected. Just you wait and see.
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I find the whole affair a sad call for impeachment. His word is worthless; in the basement. He's not presidential material. If he thinks he's gonna toss more of this dental floss at us, I am moving to Montana soon to become a real estate buffoon. Sorry, I slip into Zappa when the situation is surreal.
VP Pence, this is your calling. This man is failing and needs you to catch him, or we all fall down.
VP Pence, this is your calling. This man is failing and needs you to catch him, or we all fall down.
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Donald Trump's endless stream of lies has degraded all of us. He has diminished the integrity of every American. Add to that the ripping away of economic stability from the average American to further enrich the wealthy and we have a recipe for real revolution. He will destroy America and the Republican Party will sit there with hands folded pretending they are morally superior? This was always what was going to happen from their greed and irresponsibility. I know there are much harsher terms for defining the Republican Party but there is little point in repeating them. It is enough that are destroying our lives and our country and a certain group of racists keep cheering them on.
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Trump is a terrible liability to the country and to the world at large, but he has yet to become a sufficient liability to the Republican party for them to get rid of him. When that occurs, Mike Pence occupy the Oval Office. The question is, can we make it through until then?
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Trump is a very rude dude who thinks that being outspoken is protected by 1st amendment. The 1st amendment applies within the U.S. borders only, not to global diplomacy. The Americans elected a stupid lying president and this is going to last another almost four years.
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We're living in a dangerous world made more deadly by the utter incompetence and craven indifference of the Washington Baboon. Still, I doubt that the angry bullies who make up his core supporters have the intellectual wherewithal to regret anything. To them, it appears, this is all just good conspiracy fun.
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So the President watches fake news and believes it, even though it is a totally unqualified speculative opinion? How about any fiction he is exposed to (I doubt he reads)? I just hope he never watches Dr Strangelove or any other apocalyptic fiction, because he'll believe it is happening.
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Apology and Trump will never appear in the same sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, volume. Though Von Clownstick commits numerous faux pas daily never will one be witness to so much as a Rick Perry "oops". It''s just not in the Trump lexicon. Trump thinks that because he does not "do apologies" they don't exist. Trump is under many delusions and one is that he is above the fray, he doesn't make mistakes, so nothing to apologize for. Trump is fooling no one but himself. The rest of the world knows otherwise, even his disciples who are blindly behind no matter the ridiculous statement he makes. His supporters will dwindle the further they see that Trump is all talk, a man with a dearth of knowledge on how to govern, compromise and get things done. Like any spoiled child, Trump has never learned how to play with others. At 70. he's not about to learn. Trumpians, get used to it. You picked a dunce to lead you and he will fail miserably. So far, he's got no legislation passed and he won't be any time soon. He's just there to sign on to whatever Ryan tells him to. And that is a road to perdition for him and the Republicans.
DD
Manhattan
DD
Manhattan
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It now becomes clear why Putin wanted Trump in office. Trump's incompetent, so incompetent he's unable to recognize it. He's a danger to our national security.
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The people in this administration are really embarrassing to the United States. Trump will never apologize for anything to anyone-- a strategy he learned from Roy Cohn--McCarthy's fixer and his long-term mentor who was later disbarred for fraud etc. He taught Trump to never apologize and always to attack which is exactly what he does every time. (see Wootsin's article in Washington Post, March 10th). This is turning out to be pretty costly now that he is alienating our closest ally.
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Apparently 45 believes he has been elected as Emporer and the craven Republicans in Congress aren't willing to disabuse him of that notion. Perhaps they need to grow some ovaries since they don't have the balls to do their jobs.
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What would be truly remarkable to appear on these would be the testimony of someone who loved Trump but had a change of heart. The editors certainly strain to bring in this anecdotal coverage in their relentless attempts to undermine Trump, but the comments from the readership are all one note like the buzzing of wasps landing on their target. The stinging malevolence of this endless commentary is one thing, but its droning predictability is simply in the nature of the beast. Is there a butterfly out there who can successfully articulate a true transformation of opinion? It certainly would be more convincing than the droning chorus of Trump's tedious critics who never liked him anyway.
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Since it is now obvious that this so-called-president receives his "intelligence" from the FOX, Breitbart, and Drudge propaganda factories, we must now worry that one or more of them could run a baseless story that gives this tough-talking draft-dodging coward the excuse to lead us (our kids, not his) and his shiny new military monstrosity (that we paid for) into another War Based on Lies.
Just yesterday we heard his inexperienced, fossil-fueled so-called secretary of state, Comrade Tillerson (who also avoided the Vietnam draft), begin the saber rattling in a nonsensical rant that included a strong hint at a preemptive strike at North Korea - With that statement, it became clear that we were in the midst of yet another shameless war mongering chicken-hawk in the great tradition of Bush/Cheney/Romney/Trump. These wealth drenched thieves, liars, and cowards are all the same - and it is beginning to appear this latest bunch is already chomping on their silver spoons, looking for any excuse to break out the bullets.
Just yesterday we heard his inexperienced, fossil-fueled so-called secretary of state, Comrade Tillerson (who also avoided the Vietnam draft), begin the saber rattling in a nonsensical rant that included a strong hint at a preemptive strike at North Korea - With that statement, it became clear that we were in the midst of yet another shameless war mongering chicken-hawk in the great tradition of Bush/Cheney/Romney/Trump. These wealth drenched thieves, liars, and cowards are all the same - and it is beginning to appear this latest bunch is already chomping on their silver spoons, looking for any excuse to break out the bullets.
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This is Trump's version of "Draining the Swap." Except he is not draining the swamp, he is just spalshing around, muchking around and stirring up all of the detritus that collected on the bottom of the swamp. As the swamp water gets cloudier, it just gets harder to see what Trump is doing (carrying water for Putin) and not doing (the people's business).
Rather than elevate our standing in the international community, Trump has managed to obliterate our international credibility and turn us into an international laughing stock.
It is remarkable to me that the self-styled patriots at "Fox News" like Mr. Napolitano have no respect for freedom of speech. Rather than treating it as something sacred, right wing talking heads and disc jockeys abuse freedom of speech. To them it is a tool for making money. How so? They know that if they say outrageous, baseless and ridiculous things that they know to be untrue, it will attracts eyeballs. Eyeballs attract advertising. Advertising means they fill their bank accounts. Rinse and repeat. If called out for being liars and frauds, they use the Constitution's protection for freedom of speech as a shield which they then use as a weapon against those that rightly call them out as liars, as haters of liberty.
Such abuse of freedom of speech is incredibly destabilizing because these lies find fertile ground in the minds of the disenfranchised. Hence, the rise of Trump.
Folks, we are not going to repair this damage.
Rather than elevate our standing in the international community, Trump has managed to obliterate our international credibility and turn us into an international laughing stock.
It is remarkable to me that the self-styled patriots at "Fox News" like Mr. Napolitano have no respect for freedom of speech. Rather than treating it as something sacred, right wing talking heads and disc jockeys abuse freedom of speech. To them it is a tool for making money. How so? They know that if they say outrageous, baseless and ridiculous things that they know to be untrue, it will attracts eyeballs. Eyeballs attract advertising. Advertising means they fill their bank accounts. Rinse and repeat. If called out for being liars and frauds, they use the Constitution's protection for freedom of speech as a shield which they then use as a weapon against those that rightly call them out as liars, as haters of liberty.
Such abuse of freedom of speech is incredibly destabilizing because these lies find fertile ground in the minds of the disenfranchised. Hence, the rise of Trump.
Folks, we are not going to repair this damage.
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We thought W had ruined our international image, but apparently we were fools. Trump brings America closer to its demise everyday. It's horrific to be on the bus as it goes over the cliff and feel absolutely helpless. Our only hope is a coalition of the sane, from both sides of the aisle, to grab the steering wheel (Paul Ryan excluded). Sad!
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Are we as reasonable citizens going to endure this horsesh-- and lollie pops, clown and donkey show for the next 4 yrs.? Must we put up with trumps alligator mouth overloading his canary assho--? A president who seems functionally unable to navigate our government processes. He really seems to be enjoying the secondary effects of his own creating of on-going crisis.
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All the tweets, grandstanding, drama, and claims of conspiracy remind me of the flak my father had to dodge flying missions in WWII or the countermeasures we could deploy from my submarine during the Cold War. In both offense and defense these are distractions. Diversions that interfere with the real goal.
If we want our America to roll up our collective sleeves and lead the way in a war against the abuse of women, human induced global warming, overpopulation, and antimicrobial resistant pandemics we need to reset the clock - either declare the 2016 election invalid or reverse the control of both the Congress and Senate.
That means we ignore the flak and remember how we brought down Al Capone.
Follow the money.
If we want our America to roll up our collective sleeves and lead the way in a war against the abuse of women, human induced global warming, overpopulation, and antimicrobial resistant pandemics we need to reset the clock - either declare the 2016 election invalid or reverse the control of both the Congress and Senate.
That means we ignore the flak and remember how we brought down Al Capone.
Follow the money.
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It is truly alarming to see the presidency of the United States occupied by such a pathetic and ignorant psychotic. National security, international relations, all go out the window as the West Wing buckles down on its mendacity, the GOP congress looks askance, and as the rest of the free world trembles in insecurity and loathing at what we have wrought.
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As proven daily, the current President is emotionally, ethically and intellectually unfit. His psychological crises, as played out thru his Twitter feed, his shameless mendacity and his complete ignorance of his own mental state, is damaging the standing of our Country internationally, eroding what's left of our civil discourse and corroding the very soul of America itself. As long as Trump holds the office, it's only going to get worse
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So Paul Rand says the Republican party shouldn't investigate itself. That seems to also mean that whatever this man/child president does must be accepted by a party that thinks party affiliation is more important than country. This man/child is taking us down dangerous paths, creating constant crises, and affiliating with our enemies, and his party remains mum. So very dangerous.
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I'am Irish and Catholic and never thought in my life time I would apologies to Britain for anything. This is a special occasion and would like to apologies on behalf of myself to the British people for Mr Trump insulting their government. The American people made a enormous mistake by electing this man who insults everyone and everything most Americans believe in, the world knows by now not to believe anything he says or does, the man lies so much he can't tell the difference when he telling the truth or lying.
4
It is past time for the congress to impeach this rabid ignoramus before the whole world unites against us. This unworthy callous blowhard elected by an angry bigoted minority, an antiquated elective system, and a boost from the Kremlin is a national embarrassment of unprecedented magnitude.
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I wish I'd said that. Thank you, Tom, for a perfectly summarized evaluation of our current disgraceful condition.
Would that your words come to pass. Please. and sooner rather than later.
Would that your words come to pass. Please. and sooner rather than later.
Angela Merkel is my hero -- a woman with remarkable intelligence, knowledge, empathy, emotional stability. Would that our president had even one of these traits.
God help us.
God help us.
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As a citizen, I feel so humiliated by the President's Sophmoric attitude and conduct before the world.
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At some point some adults in DC will have to acknowledge the elephant in the room: the "President" is unfit to govern. He is mentally unstable and has only the slightest relationship with anything like an objective reality. Is there no level or degree of instability that is considered manifestly dangerous to the country and its people? Do we really have to just take whatever damage he causes and hope to survive?
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I think he waits the tapping deal out til finally there is some completely unrelated story that one country or one leader was somewhere, sometime, likely under surveillance and then equates the two events; end of story. Either that, OR he goes all Nixonian on us and announces the case is closed because "I just found out that" Hillary (or similar personage) "is to blame" and he is, thus, the winner (or the king, or whatever he wants to be). Oh, and of course, we buy all this nonsense.
"I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot someone and not lose a single vote." That may be working for Donald Trump's domestic strategy, but thankfully, it ran into a wall with the British. Reassuring to know that someone still has some backbone and will hold Donald Trump accountable -
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It's "Celebrity Apprentice" time at The White House. So, don't expect anyone there to grow up. All we can hope is that the spoiled child in the Oval Office grows up or, better still, becomes tired of playing his pathetic games and goes back to fake television. Even Ponce might be a relief after him
Trump is making up stories in response to the democrats making up stories about the Trump/Russia connection. Trumps response to the democrats story telling is childish but both sides are acting like children.
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This presidency has been a slow-moving train wreck. In its wake, we have U.S allies casually cast aside, American citizens' health care jeopardized, air and water imperiled, and the list keeps growing. All of this in just two months of governance. Trump was never qualified to be president and now it's time for the Congress to do its job and put steps in place to end this nightmare before it's too late to reverse the damage. We need an American train that stays on its tracks!
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Trump must be hiding something far worst, he keeps on making false statements to attract attention from reality.
The fourth arm of our democracy, must ask for the proof, everyday till the truth is known. Something like every newspaper in the USA should tweet all on the same day and every day after nicely asking if they can please have proof, or an apology.
Then we need to find out what he is hiding
The fourth arm of our democracy, must ask for the proof, everyday till the truth is known. Something like every newspaper in the USA should tweet all on the same day and every day after nicely asking if they can please have proof, or an apology.
Then we need to find out what he is hiding
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Angela Merkel deserves much credit for keeping a deadpan expression while next to Donald at the joint press conference. She didn't roll her eyes once, instead staying focused on a fixed point across the room. Even though Donald has publicly demeaned her previously, she bit her tongue throughout. Especially when Donald tried to drag her into his most recent "dispute" with the British and their "complicity" into the surveillance of Trump Tower. She deflected the remark instead of taking the bait. One can guess what she must have been thinking throughout Donald's performance. What is the German word for "Sad"?
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After two weeks of back and forth between President Trump and news media it's long since time for this issue to be put to bed. Although unlikely due to his obdurate nature, Mr. Trump should admit his accusation regarding being wiretapped by former President Obama was a mistake and apologize. There are other important issues to deal with such as the Federal court blocked immigration order, the disputed replacement for the ACA and the onerous proposed Federal budget. To take the high road often means avoiding detours.
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That's a nice thought, but our President is seemingly incapable of taking the high road.
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Trump never, ever apologizes. And he wouldn't know the high road if it fell on him.
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The word "should" is meaningless to Trump. He plays to the audiences to whom he can sell his scams.
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Nothing will matter unless republicans in congress are routed out in 2018 and presidency is taken from republicans in 2020. And for that a true unaopologetic strugle by the workong and middle class against every single republican, from dog catcher to congressman and senator. By direct approval or spineless silence, republicans in the Trump disaster are colluding in the demise of America. Ignorance of the facts is and will not be accepatble excuse.
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Greg-Completely agree with your very important statement. Do not doubt for a moment that there is very big money (and small) lined up right now to sweep the Congress clean of these myopic, heartless posers who do not represent the American people.The remedy is in the monumental opposition which has formed to this black swan.
Agreed. If the Republican Party doesn't take responsibility for the debacle of our so-called President, they need to be made to pay the price. In this case, collective punishment is entirely justified.
Republicans are the ones working for the average, hardworking American. They get that now. Democrats are the party of the rich and elite.
The more often that people keep referring to Trump as president, or the presidency, the lower the office sinks in respectability.
The press is in a corner about this issue; they have to keep playing the game.
The citizenry incurs less risk by calling him by other titles. How much less risk depends on how important or influential your position is in society or business. What title will offend Trump and allies the most by its honesty? His chief ally is the GOP majority in Congress.
The press is in a corner about this issue; they have to keep playing the game.
The citizenry incurs less risk by calling him by other titles. How much less risk depends on how important or influential your position is in society or business. What title will offend Trump and allies the most by its honesty? His chief ally is the GOP majority in Congress.
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Actually, I do have a favored expression by which I refer to Trump. It is, I will be the first to say, every bit as vulgar as he is.
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He is the President, and will be for four more years and four after, God willing. That''s how our system works. You want someone different? Try running someone other than a lying, enabling shrew who could care less about the average American
Accidental President Trump?
Minority President Trump?
Acting President Trump?
Minority President Trump?
Acting President Trump?
Since the furor over the "wiretapping" tweet erupted, I have been going back over the press coverage of US Intel investigations into All Things Trump, particularly by the New York Times and Washington Post, a great deal of it centered on the question of whether Donald Trump or his campaign staff colluded with the Russians or the Wikileaks people to damage Secretary Clinton's presidential campaign.
What I have noticed is that while the reporters are careful to say they have no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump, they go on at great length quoting anonymous "officials" saying vague, dark things about what the agencies might be investigating or might have found. There is talk in the Times, and indeed, everywhere, of "wiretapping", "associates", "streams of data", electronic "monitoring" from a Trump server, etc. with the word "Trump" always in close proximity. Although Donald Trump does often sound paranoid, one does not have to be paranoid to get the impression from all this reporting that the US intelligence agencies are intensely pursuing Donald Trump himself, that the Times and the Post are talking to various people who are on the verge of making a bombshell accusation, and that there will be "smoking gun" evidence from phone records, emails, FBI/CIA wiretaps, etc.
Donald Trump, in taking these reports and blurring the difference between suggesting and reporting, has the media in full retraction mode, which in many ways is a PR "win".
What I have noticed is that while the reporters are careful to say they have no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump, they go on at great length quoting anonymous "officials" saying vague, dark things about what the agencies might be investigating or might have found. There is talk in the Times, and indeed, everywhere, of "wiretapping", "associates", "streams of data", electronic "monitoring" from a Trump server, etc. with the word "Trump" always in close proximity. Although Donald Trump does often sound paranoid, one does not have to be paranoid to get the impression from all this reporting that the US intelligence agencies are intensely pursuing Donald Trump himself, that the Times and the Post are talking to various people who are on the verge of making a bombshell accusation, and that there will be "smoking gun" evidence from phone records, emails, FBI/CIA wiretaps, etc.
Donald Trump, in taking these reports and blurring the difference between suggesting and reporting, has the media in full retraction mode, which in many ways is a PR "win".
Confabulation is a medical term describing bizarre ideas generated in diseased brains. They frequently seem like bizarre lies, but the espouser believes them. I believe the Trump statement, "Terrible! Just found out that Obama had my "wires tapped" in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!" is confabulation and that this is pathognomonic for early dementia. The cover-up requires a foreign secrete service because a US service would be demonstrably false by US congressional investigation.
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I think he's always been this way. His lies aren't random imaginings, but always self-serving in both content and timing, He may even believe some or all of them at the moment he utters them -- one reason he's been an effective salesman. He's a textbook narcissist, and I understand his thinking about as well as I grasp what goes on in the mind of a Gila monster lizard.
25th Amendment, please. Mike Pence will be bad for the environment, healthcare and LGBTQ rights, but at least we'll have a country at the end of four years. Trump is going to start a war - through miscalculation or bluster - and we'll have no allies.
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I believe that Donald Trump is in way over his head as President of the United States. The world needs stability and he's not providing it with his compulsive lying. At least one commentator here is suggesting that the media is at fault for paying attention to him.
He's the President of the United States. It's a role that Americans and people from around the world need to pay careful attention to. That's why the President needs to choose his words carefully and why he needs to develop and rely on a professional civil service to guide him. He has done neither. He thinks that he can single-handedly lead the United States with a few extremist alt-right ideologues such as Steve Bannon who are whispering constitutionally destructive ideas in his ear.
It seems as if Mr Trump's supporters want the media and the world to overlook his dangerous, impulsive remarks (including Tweets), and misguided decisions because of the good things that they think he's doing. It's like advising the woman who is beaten and abused by her husband to stay with him because he still has good in him.
He's the President of the United States. It's a role that Americans and people from around the world need to pay careful attention to. That's why the President needs to choose his words carefully and why he needs to develop and rely on a professional civil service to guide him. He has done neither. He thinks that he can single-handedly lead the United States with a few extremist alt-right ideologues such as Steve Bannon who are whispering constitutionally destructive ideas in his ear.
It seems as if Mr Trump's supporters want the media and the world to overlook his dangerous, impulsive remarks (including Tweets), and misguided decisions because of the good things that they think he's doing. It's like advising the woman who is beaten and abused by her husband to stay with him because he still has good in him.
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When Trump was campaigning for the Presidency he was asked how his lack of foreign experience would reflect on his performance should he win the Presidency. He very simply stated that he would learn on the job. It's bad enough that he made a baseless claim against President Obama without apologizing, yet now he's accusing allies of being in on the wiretap. Regarding his comment about foreign relations, we can see how much he's learned!
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Until other elected leaders wake-up and smell the coffee this disastrous start to the next four years is going to feel like the film Groundhog Day. With a reelection cycle that will start in another two years it is only going to get worse and we'll be tied in knots with far worse ridiculous claims. Perhaps then, people will be better informed, and correct the mistake. Until then we have only the 25th Amendment. We better start another pot of coffee for our leaders.
5
I see that Mrs. Clinton has come out of seclusion. While not officially in government, she can provide a powerful voice of intelligence and reason as a counterpoint to this buffoon. It will help prevent normalization of his behavior and make it very clear to all, and especially to his supporters, that this emperor definitely has no clothes.
9
I understand the British displeasure. The strong signal is to withdraw their Ambassador for consultation. That is a recognized diplomatic signal, and it may well be the case that the U.K. Needs to coordinate a response to an important relationship which is endangered.
7
This 'charm them, betray them' routine is getting old, quickly. The damage being done to our country becomes exponential with each casual untruth or, 'we didn't say it, we're just quoting it' evasion. If the party in power in Congress actually cared about the country, they would take action to stop this erosion of America's position in the world. Otherwise, it will be 'America, Last'.
Also, I'm curious about the earpiece Trump is wearing. Is someone feeding him answers to questions he doesn't understand?
Also, I'm curious about the earpiece Trump is wearing. Is someone feeding him answers to questions he doesn't understand?
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A full court press to get Trump's Tax Returns released will ultimately lead to this impostor- President being charged with fraud, tried, and impeached. Until then, Trump will continue to send everyone down rabbit holes. So, lets not waste all our resources tap dancing to his tune. Let's press to get his returns and find out what he's concealing, what his counsel has told him will send him to jail.
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The look on Chancellor Merkel's face when The Con Don tried to "commiserate" with her on being spied on was priceless.
It said, "Who is this fool? Is he nuts?"
Yes, Chancellor Merkel he is. And extremely dangerous to America and the world order.
WE DEMAND THE EXPULSION OF he and his Top 1% Global Financial Elite Robber Baron/ Radical Religion Good Old Boys' Party/ Corporate Cabal OUT of OUR governments at every level before they can cause devastating damage to the world.
It said, "Who is this fool? Is he nuts?"
Yes, Chancellor Merkel he is. And extremely dangerous to America and the world order.
WE DEMAND THE EXPULSION OF he and his Top 1% Global Financial Elite Robber Baron/ Radical Religion Good Old Boys' Party/ Corporate Cabal OUT of OUR governments at every level before they can cause devastating damage to the world.
53
Censure is a formal, public condemnation of an individual whose actions run counter to acceptable standards. It is a formal statement of disapproval.
Either house of Congress can vote to censure the President whenever its members wish to publicly reprimand him or a member of his Cabinet.
Either house of Congress can vote to censure the President whenever its members wish to publicly reprimand him or a member of his Cabinet.
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Alienating, even insulting our allies; this White House's only competency is doing Putin's work. We need an independent and thorough investigation of every political, financial and social tie this administration has to Russia that is current and from the past.
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If the election were held today Trump would be fired. It appears those in the middle that "give Trump a chance" have seen enough. Trump would lose 55-45 at best, not that he didn't lose the election by nearly 3 million votes anyway. I predict a libel suit by Obama which will be an open and shut case. I think the GOP knows it's coming and that's why they publicly won't support him on this one issue--they are good at saving their own skin to be sure.
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Have we come to the point when a Fox news pundit has that kind of control over our foreign relations? Even more frightening, do we have a president who believes a Fox pundit over two of the best security agencies on earth? Horrifyingly, it is even worse than that. The Secretary of State does not participate in meetings about foreign affairs and the head of the VA is not invited to meetings on veterans issues. Sometimes I laugh, but mostly I am horrified by this rolling disaster. I am ashamed of the president and I am ashamed of us.
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No, we have a president who sends one of his surrogates to Fox to make incredibly irresponsible attention-grabbing statements, and who then repeats them so he can say he is simply repeating what someone else said, without taking any responsibility. Could the man be less presidential? Could he be more damaging to the interests of the country?
9
I assume when a critical mass of Americans care enough to do something about this situation, we will all stand up together and do it. It's clear that those in charge in Congress are too spineless, power-hungry, and/or corrupt themselves to take any meaningful action. Perhaps it will be the 2018 mid-terms before citizens can act, or perhaps we will put up with the childish nonsense even longer. I'm turning blue holding my breath, so I'm going to try to go back to living my life around the chaos while working to save what I can of what used to be my country.
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I wish it were that easy. Unfortunately, Trump is protected by a phalanx of GOP hypocrites.
While I most definitely share your hope for 2018, I'm very fearful the Republicans will orchestrate a war, possibly with North Korea, Iran or elsewhere in order to maintain their majorities.
1
I think the press covers Trump day in and day out which is what he wants - may be giving him limited coverage would stop his tweets and public misbehavior with foreign dignaritis. The press is following his every move as if he is the pied piper. Enough coverage of his tantrums please.
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We should follow even the trivia, though we must always be careful not to allow the trivia to dominate our attention, lest the real agenda (as alluded to by Bannon at CPAC) to destroy the United States Government be achieved.
Nope. Let it be seen.
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By their action and their words they have clearly revealed themselves for who they are. Vile hypocritical dishonest deceptive duplicitous manipulative merchants of an unprecedented concentration of wealth and power never before seen in our history. And, they are trying to get away with all of the above. It will not work as they paint themselves into the corner deeper and deeper with their lies and attempted deceptions. That is the soap opera.
Thanks that we still have a free press, so far.
Thanks that we still have a free press, so far.
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Why are the Republicans holing on to President Trump? President Trump is allowing America to be remade in the model of Republicans have always wanted. The goal is to return to the model last seen in the Herbert Hoover's Administration. No social welfare programs, limited government, personal responsibility, no social net, rewarding the rich while hurting the poor and the middle class, no protection against greed from Wall Street.
In the end, if there is another Great Depression that engulfs the nation, nothing will be in place to help the millions who may suffer. The 1% will make out just fine. The rest of the nation will live on bread crumbs.
In the end, if there is another Great Depression that engulfs the nation, nothing will be in place to help the millions who may suffer. The 1% will make out just fine. The rest of the nation will live on bread crumbs.
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I once used to wonder how it was the Republicans could continually propose policies which did so much damage to 98% of the population. I finally realized that they simply redefined what a Person was. To them, a Person is a member of the wealthiest 2%; the rest of us are just resources to be exploited. Once they did that, in their own minds they are doing what the people want and have a mandate. It's sickening, but it's the only explanation for their behavior.
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The only way the 1% will survive the next Great Depression will be with the help of the military.
We will be looking at the Second American Revolution if the powers that be allow that to happen again.
Think French Revolution and guillotines for a point of reference.
We will be looking at the Second American Revolution if the powers that be allow that to happen again.
Think French Revolution and guillotines for a point of reference.
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doug walker
Trump is Republicans' "Get Out of Jail Free" card, and they will cling to him until their hands give out.
Not only does his Three Stooges administration distract every single media outlet from their real work, it also gives cover and permission to The Party to do things it has always dreamed of doing but was too cowardly to try.
If their scams work but are unpopular, Republicans blame Trump; if they don't work, they blame Trump; if their scams wreck the country, the Republicans look like heroes for getting rid of Trump and riding in to save America.
How could such idiocy ever work? Just read the article again, and you'll realize that, while Trump is the questioned Master sent from on high, Republicans have been running exactly this game for decades. Look! Cuba!
Trump is Republicans' "Get Out of Jail Free" card, and they will cling to him until their hands give out.
Not only does his Three Stooges administration distract every single media outlet from their real work, it also gives cover and permission to The Party to do things it has always dreamed of doing but was too cowardly to try.
If their scams work but are unpopular, Republicans blame Trump; if they don't work, they blame Trump; if their scams wreck the country, the Republicans look like heroes for getting rid of Trump and riding in to save America.
How could such idiocy ever work? Just read the article again, and you'll realize that, while Trump is the questioned Master sent from on high, Republicans have been running exactly this game for decades. Look! Cuba!
This is the boorish behavior we have come to expect of this President. He owes apologies to President Obama, The British government, the Congress and the intelligence agencies whose time he wasted and the American public for spending his time and energy on this silliness instead of learning his job and running the country.
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Despite the fact that without a shred of evidence Trump accused President Obama of a felony, his cultish followers still believe him.
It is this kind of baseless accusation and the willingness of so many to believe it that explains why so many black people end up wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes.
It is this kind of baseless accusation and the willingness of so many to believe it that explains why so many black people end up wrongfully accused and convicted of crimes.
18
The damage Trump is doing to America is palpable. I am afraid he'll continue in order to deflect the obvious. He and his administration will be found guilty of Russian involvement. Get this investigation moving! Get him out of office before he destroys us.
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Meanwhile, while we chase the squirrel, Trump is dismantling environmental protections, opening public lands to exploitation, ending support for public transit, ending our national rail system, privatizing air traffic control, dismantling large parts of the State Department, and on and on it goes. Yes, I am very worried about our foreign policy which is dangerously adrift. But I am equally fearful of the termination of so many programs that protect our health, safety and make life better in this country.
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It has taken nearly a century for government to become so very entrenched in our lives but we do not have a century or even a decade to unravel this menace to freedom and above all personal responsibility. At best, there is two years.
@Leave Capitalism Alone
Ah, the delightful government-free life of 1917...which was decades shorter, on average, than our lives today.
You apparently have NO idea what OUR government does for you and your life, and no clue about most real lives a century ago. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair...a writer who was THERE. Most of us are glad we've progressed.
Ah, the delightful government-free life of 1917...which was decades shorter, on average, than our lives today.
You apparently have NO idea what OUR government does for you and your life, and no clue about most real lives a century ago. Read The Jungle by Upton Sinclair...a writer who was THERE. Most of us are glad we've progressed.
The worst part of all this is that there will be no consequences for Trump for lying and provoking crisis. At the end he'll still be president and his supporters will still be his supporters. If he could be punished in some way, it'd be worth going through but he uses the crisis as a way to get attention and to divert attention from issues he doesn't want discussed and he knows he will not suffer any consequences.
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It's a tough morning for the GOP propaganda machine at Fox News. How to continue to coddle and protect Trump, not offend his hardcore base and continue to portray the outlet as a fair and balanced news source?
And another tough day for the GOP. The President is a serial liar and incapable of grasping the grave consequences of his words, both domestically and on the world stage.
Every day now is a tough day for the American people with this reckless and paranoid man in the White House.
And another tough day for the GOP. The President is a serial liar and incapable of grasping the grave consequences of his words, both domestically and on the world stage.
Every day now is a tough day for the American people with this reckless and paranoid man in the White House.
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We're 60 days into this administration and still no invocation of the 25th amendment by anyone from the Republican party. I'd make this one of my signature campaign themes in 2018 if I were running.
They've chosen party before country. Not very patriotic for the party of patriotism, is it?
As for the Democrats, I'd like to see someone in Congress with the courage to say it out loud. Failure to do is enabling this man and the incompetents surrounding him.
They've chosen party before country. Not very patriotic for the party of patriotism, is it?
As for the Democrats, I'd like to see someone in Congress with the courage to say it out loud. Failure to do is enabling this man and the incompetents surrounding him.
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Why it's news that Trump refused to back down from his completely basis claim is the very definition of insanity according to Albert Einstein..."Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
To think a 70-year old narcissist will ever change his ways is beyond me. (Snarky comment: But clearly it was beyond the 63 million people who voted for him.) Our only hope is that Congress, the courts, the media and we the people can keep him and his cronies in check.
To think a 70-year old narcissist will ever change his ways is beyond me. (Snarky comment: But clearly it was beyond the 63 million people who voted for him.) Our only hope is that Congress, the courts, the media and we the people can keep him and his cronies in check.
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The president is supposed to improve foreign relations, not destroy them. Our allies are confused, as am I. I cannot imagine another four years of this. Can't anyone control his "off-the-cuff" remarks? We have a rogue president who enjoys creating chaos in his wake. I really, really miss "no drama Obama."
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Trump cannot apologize. To apologize is to acknowledge that his alternative world view is defective. That would occasion an existential crisis worse than the one he is already dealing with. We should expect that his behavior will become more extreme or that he shuts down completely and let others take the reins. We now have some history with Mr. Trump. Lets not prove the adage that 'what we learn from history is that we don't learn from history.'
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Interesting photo. Trump is meeting with the leader of the free world Merkel and once again the only other recognizable face in the photo is complicit daughter Ivanka, who holds no official position in government.
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The man who is our so-called president is simply a boor, an uncultured clod, and a bully who's very good at clouding every real issue to cover up what he has done and continues to do wrong, ineptly, or even perhaps feloniously.
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Most Trump voters didn't just vote against their own interests last November, they voted against peace, stability, science, diplomacy and ethical governing.
They voted thinking only of their pocketbooks not stopping to really consider that Trump's inevitable behavior and his mysterious team, regardless of the subject will throw their pocketbooks right out the window.
Healthy economies, security and peace need stability and thoughtful leadership which Trump voters insured we would not have.
Frigg'n thanks a lot. This will all end in tears.
They voted thinking only of their pocketbooks not stopping to really consider that Trump's inevitable behavior and his mysterious team, regardless of the subject will throw their pocketbooks right out the window.
Healthy economies, security and peace need stability and thoughtful leadership which Trump voters insured we would not have.
Frigg'n thanks a lot. This will all end in tears.
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Ever the nasty parvenu that his is, the president-for-now apparently believes he can push around world leaders as if he was still ruling the small, sometimes shady world of real estate brokers, contractors, and trade unions who need his business. Bullying does not play well on the international stage and now he is in such competition over who is the biggest bully on the block with Kim Jong-un, whose mental stability has also been the subject of debate.
I also wonder if our representatives in Congress are going to be the Mom who breaks up this insane fist fight, before there are global bloody noses and broken bones.
I also wonder if our representatives in Congress are going to be the Mom who breaks up this insane fist fight, before there are global bloody noses and broken bones.
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I couldn't help but notice that the article's photo showed Ivanka Trump watching the Trump-Mekel news conference. It made me wonder about how she observed and interpreted the boorish, disrespectful, and demeaning manner in which her father behaved as President of the U.S. toward the most prominent female leader in today's world. Does she not see it? How can a woman with her education and purported feminist positions not see that her father uses his power to degrade women, even when the woman is the Chancellor of Germany? She is indeed "Complicit" and her charming demeanor can't hide her own power hungry hypocrisy.
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None are so blind as those who will not see. Power hungry? Maybe, but it won't be coming their way. Every day they lose, by inches and feet, any advantage they might have had.
What the heck was Ivanka doing there in the first place?
And Chancellor Merkel should have done what, precisely? Punch him in the mouth? Pitch a fit? Walk out?
The point of the article is that unlike President Trumpy, our allies are led by grownups.
The point of the article is that unlike President Trumpy, our allies are led by grownups.
When will Congress start holding the President to some level of decency? I felt embarrasses at the meeting with Angela Merkel for Trump's manners. How dare he equate his fantastical wiretapping with an incident that actually happened but shouldn't have. How dare he insult our allies and praise Putin. Is he trying to hurt my country or is he just stupid or mentally unbalanced? Doesn't Congress question that he would ignore his Intelligence Service and rely on people like Sean Hannity for his information? Surely, if members of Congress have any integrity they will begin to speak up.
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No integrity. Remember congressional approval 15% last I saw.
The press should stop paying attention to what Trump says and pay much more attention to what Trump does. This would be a variation on the Ferber method for helping prevent children from screaming through the night by not reacting to the screaming.
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Sorry words matter.
Words start wars. That is what diplomacy is all about. (Read: The Art of War!)
Actions also cause wars but are non-retractable. The act of a line of tanks advancing is going to have one result. ( AoW: War destroys the wealth of nations, on both sides.)
The presidents words are important.
The problem is he is illiterate, uneducated, incompetent, idiotic and a bore.
It is called foot in mouth disease.
Words start wars. That is what diplomacy is all about. (Read: The Art of War!)
Actions also cause wars but are non-retractable. The act of a line of tanks advancing is going to have one result. ( AoW: War destroys the wealth of nations, on both sides.)
The presidents words are important.
The problem is he is illiterate, uneducated, incompetent, idiotic and a bore.
It is called foot in mouth disease.
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Possession is nine-tenths of the law. Laundering fake news is just a criminal as inventing it. Trump's passive aggressive response, "But I only repeating what someone else said," was not acceptable when Adolf Eichmann said it any more than "I don't recall" was acceptable when Ronald Reagan was questioned about Iran-Contra any more than Clinton's attempt at equivocation were acceptable when he said, "I did not have have sex with that woman." The United States of American was born on a Thursday, but not last Thursday, Mr. Trump.
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The President uses the same kind of lazy communication strategies that people in our society are in danger of using if not taught to do better -- blindly absorb information from one noisy source and then spit info back out without much explanation. The Common Core Literacy Standards emphasize providing evidence and working with multiple reliable sources. Maybe President Trump could use some lessons from a HS English teacher.
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Or a school librarian--it is disheartening to consider the example being set for students when the POTUS appears to be constantly suggesting that careful evaluation of multiple sources of information is unnecessary for a free society.
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I would recommend to all foreign leaders to officially ignore anything Trump says. Just ignore them all. It is simply not worth the effort.
Simply ignore him until Trump actually does something.
Simply ignore him until Trump actually does something.
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Absolutely. Mention or note it, and move on. Members of the press and congressional leaders should also give his nonsense as little attention as possible.
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Oh god! Don't wait until he acts, then we will be in trouble.
He will do anything to get attention.
One nuke or two?
We are done if we wait for him to actually do something.
He will do anything to get attention.
One nuke or two?
We are done if we wait for him to actually do something.
Why should birther get this privilege? Obama never did. Let Trump, his sidekicks and his supporters be held accountable for all of it.
In a just world, we would enter Spring next Monday having removed Trump from the presidency and imprisoning Sessions for contempt of Congress.
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Refusing to shake hands with Angela Merkel, accusing the British of spying, warning of preemptive strikes on North Korea, getting China's attention. While we thought at least his picks for international diplomacy was in expert hands the President seems to sabotage this arrangement with his erratic behavior. The inconsistency of daily procedure that should give the world a clear view of the US as a viable and reliable leader has fallen to the wayside. When all is said and done it appears it will take at least eight years to correct these mistakes including the domestic teardown .
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And he continues to lie.
“All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it.”
Love how suddenly it's "we" and that he has forgotten that he did have an opinion when he tweeted about President Obama being "sick."
“All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it.”
Love how suddenly it's "we" and that he has forgotten that he did have an opinion when he tweeted about President Obama being "sick."
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Trump is using this as a diversion. We need to ignore him and stay on the real issues, like the over 90 regulations he has upended, including those that protect our air and water.
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My only hope is that other countries, including leaders as respected as Merkel, instead of taking Trump seriously, deny his false accusations, tell their people it's Trump being Trump again. Then get back to work doing all they can to tackle the serious issues facing this world. Including the refugee crisis; global warming; extremism; and education.
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OK let's just say it. There are a lot of undereducated people in this country. They believe in National Enquirer-level explanations of how the world works. They are of the birther ilk, they are rabid believers in the irrational, they are not very smart and of a conspiratorial bent. They are idiots on bar stools all across America. They are trolls on this and particularly right wing sites.
They need to point to 'other forces' to explain their own lot in life.
Now, they've invested their trust in a man who has told them he will 'fix everything'. As we see from this health plan, he will not only not fix things, he will make them much, much worse. Their lives will not get better, they will pay a shocking amount for health insurance if they can get it at all, they will be saddled with a massive military set up to fight the a 1950's war, they will burden their children with debt, they will continue to retreat into God, guns and opioids.
Donald Trump is not a mystery. He has been a buffon from the get-go. So the blame for him being in this office falls squarely on the shoulders of the simpletons who voted for him. And for the Democrats in picking an unlikable and unelectable person to run against him.
Lets just hope we can make it through this. There is a significant chance of long lasting damage.
They need to point to 'other forces' to explain their own lot in life.
Now, they've invested their trust in a man who has told them he will 'fix everything'. As we see from this health plan, he will not only not fix things, he will make them much, much worse. Their lives will not get better, they will pay a shocking amount for health insurance if they can get it at all, they will be saddled with a massive military set up to fight the a 1950's war, they will burden their children with debt, they will continue to retreat into God, guns and opioids.
Donald Trump is not a mystery. He has been a buffon from the get-go. So the blame for him being in this office falls squarely on the shoulders of the simpletons who voted for him. And for the Democrats in picking an unlikable and unelectable person to run against him.
Lets just hope we can make it through this. There is a significant chance of long lasting damage.
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Just to clarify, the scenario we have now isn't because HC was unlikable, it's because 50% of eligible voters did not vote. Also Dems indulged themselves with overdoses of self righteousness and in the subsequent intra party bickering they failed to see the shadow of the wolf on the wall.
Trump's international scoreboard has the U.S. losing
badly.
Here's hoping America can rebuild its team sooner
than later because now it is the laughing stock
on the field and off.
Lots of regrouping and rebuilding will be needed
for the country to regain respect to say nothing of
foreign business relationships, etc.
badly.
Here's hoping America can rebuild its team sooner
than later because now it is the laughing stock
on the field and off.
Lots of regrouping and rebuilding will be needed
for the country to regain respect to say nothing of
foreign business relationships, etc.
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"She made a face that suggested she had no interest in getting involved."
Actually anybody with an elementary understanding of facial expressions can tell she made a face that suggested she found Trump's statement ridiculous.
Actually anybody with an elementary understanding of facial expressions can tell she made a face that suggested she found Trump's statement ridiculous.
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Never - since the Emperor Hadrian declared his boy-toy Antinous to be a god have we seen a more absurd national "leader" than Mrs. Trump's spoiled brat of a child, Donald J . who became President of the United States thanks to an equally absurd political creation, the Electoral College.
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Actually the Electoral College works but the States have rendered it useless forcing electors to follow the States popular winner. The Electoral votes if handled correctly would've denied the presidency to Trump. The founding fathers knew there might a day when a charlatan might be voted into the highest office and needed a safe guard against that hence the Electoral College........akin to taking the battery out of the smoke detector.....and the place is on fire!
The systematic dumbing down of America is almost complete.
Speaking as a Brit watching all this unfold from the outside the feeling this side of the Atlantic seems to be one of consternation that our PM extended a friendly hand (literally) to Trump when most of the rest of the western world kept to a safe distance and what thanks does she get? The clown spitting straight back in her face. It also speaks of the weakness in the White House that 10 Downing street can so openly and publicly slap down an American president. Even Thatcher wouldn't have dare to have done that (at least publicly) to Reagan.
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The American President seems unable to apologize for his boorish and blatant lies about British actions, so I, as an American citizen, humbly offer the apology of all sane Americans for the bumbling (if I may be so diplomatic) behavior and words from the President.
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Reagan the Senile was worrisome; Trump the Narcissist is a house on fire.
Well America, if you voted for a Republican then you clearly support their agenda. You own this train wreck, you are responsible for what happens next in this country and around the world. I hope you're happy now.
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Or they can realize they were fooled, because they felt that Hillary wasn't an attractive alternative. I find little pleasure in "I told you so" It's better if the Independent voters are encouraged to change their minds, rather than be criticized.
It is insufficient for Shepard Smith to claim the issue is over by invoking , "Full Stop." Fox is accusing President Obama of a felony and needs to retract and apologize for its vile insinuation.
Fox cannot evade its rancid goals by evasion of the truth.
Fox cannot evade its rancid goals by evasion of the truth.
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Trump is toxic. If the Russians did engineer his ascendancy, and have succeeded in weaponizing a head of state against his own country, they have discovered a revolutionary new form of warfare. If this president can do this much damage in a month, what will be left of our democracy in four years?
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This abomination is completely on the GOP. He is their creation and their responsibility yet a threat to us all.
"People are saying that it was the Russians who hacked Trump Tower. Believe me. I have it on good authority. Terrible. How could Vladimir to that to me. Apologize, Vladimir. You're not my friend any more." DJT
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More than anything else I am laughing at all the "Brexiters" (starting from UK Prime Minister Theresa May) who had spent the past few months in awed adoration of their new populist "hero" from across the pond, hailing the beginning of a new "special relationship" that would allow Britain to turn its back on those pesky Europeans who steadfastly refused to bow to Her Majesty's imperial power.
Now hopefully Brexit supporters in the UK will realize that the "special relationship" is just one of their many delusions, that you cannot expect to be treated as equals by a Trump government, and that their true friends and allies are those very Europeans - starting with Angela Merkel of Germany - that they despise so much.
This should be a wake-up call to all the right-wing populists that think they can re-write history and subvert global relationships by pledging their loyalty the Con-Man in Chief.
Now hopefully Brexit supporters in the UK will realize that the "special relationship" is just one of their many delusions, that you cannot expect to be treated as equals by a Trump government, and that their true friends and allies are those very Europeans - starting with Angela Merkel of Germany - that they despise so much.
This should be a wake-up call to all the right-wing populists that think they can re-write history and subvert global relationships by pledging their loyalty the Con-Man in Chief.
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Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive!
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Where are our congressional leaders? If a child did what Trump does he'd be reprimanded. If an adult did what he does, while on the job, he'd be fired.
Trump has proven, we Americans, can no longer trust our government in any capacity.
The government of the USA has walked away and allowed a violence prone, malignant narcissis to slowly destroy this nation at home and abroad.
The Republican Party has lost its soul and now is a pauper of ethics and morality.
I think every leader of every country in the world should refuse to meet with Donald Trump. And I believe every country in the world should close their borders to all Americans until we oust the varmint in our midst. Call it a health quarantine.
Trump has proven, we Americans, can no longer trust our government in any capacity.
The government of the USA has walked away and allowed a violence prone, malignant narcissis to slowly destroy this nation at home and abroad.
The Republican Party has lost its soul and now is a pauper of ethics and morality.
I think every leader of every country in the world should refuse to meet with Donald Trump. And I believe every country in the world should close their borders to all Americans until we oust the varmint in our midst. Call it a health quarantine.
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If Trump takes the USA down, the Republicans will have been complicit in the failure because of their loss of integrity (their inability to adequately address Trump's defiant, narcissistic, bullying, slanderous, ignorant, lying rants and behavior)! It appears that it is going to take the slide to the bottom before all Republicans and Trump supporters recognize the disaster that is currently consuming our once great America!
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To all representatives of the US press:
IGNORE Trump's psychopathic tweets Leave it to the medical profession to determine what is going on with his shriveling mind.
IGNORE Trump's psychopathic tweets Leave it to the medical profession to determine what is going on with his shriveling mind.
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Words have actions. The world spins on words and he is causing disorder with his remarks.
You need to silence him before he starts a war.
Bannon wants war.
Not listening to Trump as he has a mental illness online is not happening.
You need to silence him before he starts a war.
Bannon wants war.
Not listening to Trump as he has a mental illness online is not happening.
Apparently this is Trump's alternate way of breaking up NATO. UK and Germany first step.
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And why? Doing Russia's bidding? Mental incompetence? Both? Neither is acceptable, either is grounds for removal.
GOP, it is time to put your oft-professed love of country before your obviously greater love of self and party. Or be held accountable - in the next election and in the history books.
GOP, it is time to put your oft-professed love of country before your obviously greater love of self and party. Or be held accountable - in the next election and in the history books.
Trump is a serial liar. He needs to apologize to our allies and to President Obama. He is making a mockery of our democracy and congress needs to do it's job and hold him accountable.
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I long for the days of waking up, making a cup of coffee, sitting down to read the news and NOT having the front page filled with dangerous LUNACY!
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As much as I despise Mike Pence's policies, he would have to be better for the country than an uncontrolled, ignorant Trump. We're approaching the first 100 days. I hope the country survives till then so we can review the ghastly tally.
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Julianne Smith, deputy national security adviser to Vice President Biden said Mr. Trump did not appear to realize how much American intelligence agencies depend on Britain in dealing with threats around the world. “He will probably live to see the day when he will regret firing off such an egregious insult to Britain and then failing to apologize for it,” she said.
It’s very easy to have a good meeting with Trump,” said Jeremy Shapiro, former State Department official in London. “He’s very pleasant in person. He’ll promise you the world. And 48 hours later, he’ll betray you without a thought. He won’t even know he’ll be betraying you.”
Wow - great reputation Trumpster has forged in just 8 weeks - destroying 60 years of nation building. And sadly - Trump will gloss over whatever terrible event happens - and WE the American People will pay the price.... as we do for every vote placed for this incompetent president.
It’s very easy to have a good meeting with Trump,” said Jeremy Shapiro, former State Department official in London. “He’s very pleasant in person. He’ll promise you the world. And 48 hours later, he’ll betray you without a thought. He won’t even know he’ll be betraying you.”
Wow - great reputation Trumpster has forged in just 8 weeks - destroying 60 years of nation building. And sadly - Trump will gloss over whatever terrible event happens - and WE the American People will pay the price.... as we do for every vote placed for this incompetent president.
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Is this just subterfuge to keep his ugly budget (save the billionaires!) off the front page? Not to mention Jeff Sessions perjury case - what's going on there?
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Each day DT manages to find new lows that discredit our country and undermine our credibility. It's utterly exhausting. Do we really feel safe and secure with this mindless monster in the WH, a recalcitrant child who is clearly way in over his head. The curtain has been pulled back. There is nothing there, and never was. I shudder to think of the damage he can do if allowed to remain in office for 4 years. That photo session with Angela Merkel was weird and very awkward. His body language was interesting. He's either intimidated by her, who giving her the cold shoulder.
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Thanks Trump for making it even harder for us Americans who like to travel abroad.
Where can I find a Canadian flag to sow on my backpack?
Where can I find a Canadian flag to sow on my backpack?
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Canadians would never sew a flag on their backpacks, not even a discreet maple leaf. Only Americans wear their flag like clueless fools.
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Now we know why Trump has no close friends and surrounds himself with paid lackeys. He will leave this country with zero credibility and worse little "special" friends who will stand by us as they did in Afghanistan and Iraq. Someone needs to educate this man that many of these special relationships that he is treat with little regard stood by us through two wars, and paid for it with their own blood and treasure. He keeps talking about the need for our European allies to pay their fair share, those payments were already paid for with the blood of their soldiers in our misguided wars.
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So what happens when we have an actual crisis and not one created by the fevered delusions of Trump's advisors? It continues to be difficult to get a restful night's sleep with this man at the helm. God save us and here's to hoping our friends and allies around the world will not hold this boorish man child's countless missteps against the American people forever.
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We are already in a full scale crisis brought on by the fact that the US is not by any stretch of imagination a one person one vote democracy itself.
Nero, Commodus, Caligula, Chavez and other despots-histrionics must be having a party, celebrating how well they have done, everything considered.....
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Trump has accused everyone of spying on him except his best buddies the Russians – Sad!
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When can we start impeachment procedures? At the very least the Liar-in-Chief is trying to distract from the multiple crimes he has and is committing. Why else spend so much time on circus and conspiracy? What a waste of American tax dollars while he unendingly pumps his brand and that of his daughter's. Everything the Trump's are selling should be boycotted. In the olden days he would have ended in tar and feathers, or hung from a yard arm, and it would not have taken this long to squash a conman liar. He is destroying both the reputation and the power of the United States government from within. See how you like "small government" when there is any left worth the name.
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Proceedings will start only after a significant number of Republicans realize the need to protect the country.
What is this man going to deliver to the committee early this week? If anyone knows they are keeping mum. It's scary that our President gets his info from "alternate" sources rather than from our intelligence agencies, which he has both maligned and praised, often days apart. I don't think he has it in to apologize to anyone for anything!
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He has said that apologizing is weakness, He also said he sees no need for asking forgiveness for anything he has done.
Time time for impeachment!!!
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President Trump has no respect for the truth or for common decency and civility. When are his staffers, closest advisors, his voters and the GOP leadership going to hold this President accountable and show him the exit? This is a dark and shameful chapter in American history.... all brought on by a group of shameless, cynical Republican donors and party elites willing to look the other way in order to get tax cuts for themselves and to deregulate every US industry from the financial sector to Detroit to increase profits for themselves and their friends. What happened to a government working for the common good?
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With the Donald on stage, no wonder PT Barnum is hanging up its hat after over 100 years. He was right, there is a sucker born every minute. Trump and his three ring circus make the clown car metaphor reality.
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I do hope they are having second thoughts in London now. Banking on a 'special relationship'with someone who first flatters you one moment and then slanders you out of mean selfish motives the next moment may not be such a good idea after all. At least the EU partners so deeply loathed by Brexiteers usually kept their word. I expect the UK's (or little England's) position to be a rather lonely one in the years to come.....
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Imagine how shocked Merkel was when she realized she should have scheduled the meeting with Judge Napolitano and not the President of the USA.
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Only way to stop the tantrums is to ignore them. I think the responsible press should go on strike, (where is John Galt), and have periodic 24-48 hour blackouts on the name "Trump". Use his surrogates names, or POTUS, but no "Trump", no pictures, only dry news, no comments!
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Better still. When he or one of his surrogates holds a news event boycott it. Have one and only one pool reporter show up and ask no questions. That should cause the Orange Buffoon to really blow an 'O' ring.
A start was made on Wednesday when none of the TV channels covered his campaign rally in toto.
Given the lunacy of our president if this even proved to be true he has given us a ton reasons why he should be "wiretapped"?
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I voted for the guy but I'm starting to have buyer's remorse. When does this idiocy end ?
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"starting" to have buyer's remorse? Starting???
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Is he just nuts or is he hiding something? As an American citizen I want answers. If he's simply mentally ill, how do we remove him. If he's criminally involved in a cover up, who points out the facts?
This is not leadership. Not the White House, not the majority party. This is a dangerous embarrassment. Seems to me that the Russian connection gets more real everyday. What would be better for Russia than for the US to erode all of its important alliances? This is such an obvious tact, why aren't we hearing more about this? The "real media" having gone from creating Donald Trump and giving him a pass through this candidacy and helping to elect him just for better ratings and ad dollars are now the enemy of the people. It's time someone in government and/or the media stepped up and confronted the situation head on.
I think the new slogan should be " Make American America again!" I think I'll have hats made. Seems that is how you win over the American public.
This is not leadership. Not the White House, not the majority party. This is a dangerous embarrassment. Seems to me that the Russian connection gets more real everyday. What would be better for Russia than for the US to erode all of its important alliances? This is such an obvious tact, why aren't we hearing more about this? The "real media" having gone from creating Donald Trump and giving him a pass through this candidacy and helping to elect him just for better ratings and ad dollars are now the enemy of the people. It's time someone in government and/or the media stepped up and confronted the situation head on.
I think the new slogan should be " Make American America again!" I think I'll have hats made. Seems that is how you win over the American public.
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I would like to see a kickstarter fund started to buy time on Fox news--or buy a Fox commentator--and have a report that Trump should resign before he is impeached.
The only question is, how many times would they need to say it before he actually does it?
The only question is, how many times would they need to say it before he actually does it?
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Is there any way an ordinary citizen can start impeachment proceedings? If it's at all possible, this is just getting worse and worse.
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Ultimate power in this country resides with the people. There is no need for impeachment proceedings if enough loyal Americans decide that the President needs to be removed from office. The real question is, who is prepared to fight to defend him?
Our friends around the world should know that this cannot go on forever. Some day, maybe in a few months, President Trump will cross one line too many, and even the Republicans will turn on him, as they did Richard Nixon.
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GOP leadership is not the same as it was in Nixon years. When will we see they have no ethics and no willingness to stand up for country before party and their job. It's frightening.
Obama spied on Merkel and most likely every single head of state around the world.
He spied on ordinary Americans to an extent wholly beyond any President before him.
Why is it so hard to believe he authorized spying on Trump? A man whose domestic and foreign policies the Washington bipartisan establishment and its supporters in the mainstream media hysterically reject.
He spied on ordinary Americans to an extent wholly beyond any President before him.
Why is it so hard to believe he authorized spying on Trump? A man whose domestic and foreign policies the Washington bipartisan establishment and its supporters in the mainstream media hysterically reject.
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Spying on Merkel began with Bush in 2002.
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/26/turns-out-spying-chancellor-merke...
http://www.politicususa.com/2013/10/26/turns-out-spying-chancellor-merke...
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Because there is no evidence? Since when is it even remotely acceptable for the POTUS to issue serious allegations against the previous president via Twitter based on a knee-jerk reaction to TV commentary? This president has trivialized the presidency, and this country with it.
Hawkeye, it appears you are a die hard Trump fan who has suspended logic and rationality for his cult of personality. At some time, though, you are going to have to recognize that the evidence is overwhelming.
Trump needs to go before he gets us all killed....
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To all of my UK and European friends, I apologize on behalf of the US for this guy.
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This is Birtherism all over again. No truth, no evidence, no facts - just pure racism. There's a reason why Trump did say these baseless things about anything other President. He knows his 'people'. I don't know if Trump is a racist- I suspect he is - but he knows how to reach racists.
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I am wondering if James Bond was involved in the wiretapping operation and if martinis with the proper ingredients would be served at the Trump Towers.
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This is what happens when you elect a dim witted amateur President of the United States. In a democracy the people ultimately get the government they deserve.
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British should cancel Trump's State visit.
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The invitation is to the President of the United States and not to Donald Trump.
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It's already been "postponed".
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How about a compromise--let him go for the visit but refuse an audience with the Queen?
The Trump campaign left clear evidence of collusion with the Russians during and after the campaign. Several sweetheart deals were made with the proceeds laundered through the Alpha Bank.
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Enough is enough is enough is enough. I have had it with this President. Who does he think he is to ruin America's reputation and honor?
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Perhaps Americans should apologize, since Trump won't.
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Excuse me but wasn't an entire secret report done by an ex-M-6 British spy, hired by a secretive group, released just 5 months ago, detailing Trump's "relationship" to Russia that included a "golden shower" episode in a Moscow hotel and subsequently cast into a SNL show, or is the NYT's just living in some alternate universe where it can make claims on one hand, then, only a little later infer those event never happened? So, the question still remains: was Trump spied on or not?
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I read that the secretive group was initially a Republican Party opposition group, then later a Democratic party opposition group. Still later the report showed up in some national security agencies and congressional offices, and was finally shown to Trump and Obama. The operative got it from contacts in Russia. The gist was that Trump had several encounters in Russia that could be used to blackmail him. They were all discounted at first; since then some have been chased down and found to be valid. All pretty weak and fuzzy.
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Yes, Russia was spying on him.
You are confusing two different things. D
There was a reason the Brits kicked the unruly Americans out and they had to go and form their own country
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Mr. Trump is the President of the United States not a pathetic gossip disseminating false accusations and unfounded conspiracy theories read from any crackpot who has a loudspeaker. Like the petulant arrogant child he is, he says insults and falsehoods, he attacks the integrity of people, implying wrongdoing: in is campaign the phrase "some people say, or I read somewhere" were common sentences which his adoring and unquestioning supporters took as being his own words.
In just a few weeks the Office of the President of The United States has been degraded and its credibility shredded.
This megalomaniac and immature man thinks he can survive in this World alone, just with the US Military Power to back him up. He believes he can bully the world into submission. What a pathetic delusional human being! He puts us all at risk !!!
In just a few weeks the Office of the President of The United States has been degraded and its credibility shredded.
This megalomaniac and immature man thinks he can survive in this World alone, just with the US Military Power to back him up. He believes he can bully the world into submission. What a pathetic delusional human being! He puts us all at risk !!!
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Forget about about apologies from this miscreant, I would like an apology from the voters that put this embarrassment in office, both from those that voted for him and those that did not vote or voted for a third party candidate. This disaster is your fault.
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(R) after a politican's name now stands for Russian collaborator.
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Trecherous miscreant.
It appears there was an orthographic error or typo in the Trump campaign slogan. Here's hoping he is prevented from his promise to "Make America Grate Again."
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For "America First," read "Trump First."
If Tillerson, continues to provoke North Korea, then all of this will be a tempest in a teapot when the nuclear Armageddon is upon us.
Meanwhile, we may become more isolated than any other country on earth.
If Tillerson, continues to provoke North Korea, then all of this will be a tempest in a teapot when the nuclear Armageddon is upon us.
Meanwhile, we may become more isolated than any other country on earth.
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It's time for the people lying Don is maligning to take him to court for repeated and malicious slander. Congress won't do it.
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Other than John McCain and Lindsey Graham, why are the rest of the republicans in Washington so mute on Trump?
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Remember Grover Norquist's famous words: "All we need is someone who can write his signature."
They love the power they now have and the fat paychecks, too.
Like everyone else I'm waiting to see how far Trump can go before those who consider themselves adults in the republican party finally take offense. Given their cowardly past I'd guess we'll have to wait forever.
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Republicans = Cowards, collaborators, traitors.
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The American media are WEAK and intimidated by Trump. That was proven at yesterday's news conference when the German media asked the RIGHT questions that they should have been asking. I hope Trump keeps giving it to them until they stand up like REAL journalists
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Trump has a great deal in common with the tough guy gang leader in the "Our Gang Comedies" of the thirties.
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Invoke the 25 Amendment, section 4 now. This national disgrace must be brought to an end before it brings an end to us all.
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How long?
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A president should not be using a TV show as his intelligence briefing. #45 should also be discreet in his declarations. They carry weight unlike his previous life where his words where like a side show and were inconsequential. During the campaign he did everything he could to show you he was unfit to be president and yet he was still elected. It was right out of a high school student council campaign.
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The adjective the Times should be to deceive these claims is "fictitious." The statements by the leaders of the Senate Intelligence committee gives them every right to do so.
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You are all being led to the slaughter.
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I didn't think we could alienate England - reunite Ireland!
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Er,I think you mean Britain.
By the way the last thing either the south or north want is reunification.Why would Ulster folk want to leave the worlds 5th largest economy for one that's never out the toilet??
By the way the last thing either the south or north want is reunification.Why would Ulster folk want to leave the worlds 5th largest economy for one that's never out the toilet??
The bigger question is why he would want to discredit British Intelligence? His pattern is clear, make accusations and false allegations against all who question him. At least his base will believe him. The rest of us, especially New Yorkers, know his game of distraction. Eventually all con artists get exposed.
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Unmoved by a stern British crown,
The President never backs down.
Will Putin not ever surmise
The White House don’t apologize?
Sanders and Clinton may prate,
But there’s no chance he’ll abdicate.
Congress may get many licks in,
But Trump is not pulling a Nixon.
And “Never Say Sorry” has thrust
Aside the old “In God We Trust.”
The President never backs down.
Will Putin not ever surmise
The White House don’t apologize?
Sanders and Clinton may prate,
But there’s no chance he’ll abdicate.
Congress may get many licks in,
But Trump is not pulling a Nixon.
And “Never Say Sorry” has thrust
Aside the old “In God We Trust.”
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This is simply bullying behavior. On a schoolyard among children, said bully says something (a lie) to hurt some one else. Some percentage of the schoolyard population may believe it for their own reasons but most others see it for what it is.
That's a schoolyard. This is bigger and more consequential, right?
That's a schoolyard. This is bigger and more consequential, right?
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Trump is citing Fox, and Fox is retracting the story! When does Trump just say that Fox retracted the story? Can we not agree that Fox is unreliable, and that is why no one else picked up their story? Can the President just stop relying on Fox for facts? Some news organizations are indeed better and more reliable than others. When Fox cites three unnamed sources, the story turns out to be wrong. When WaPo or the Times cites three unnamed sources, the story turns out to be accurate. Why would this be? There is some assessment of the quality of the source, the ability of the source to know, the independence of one source from another ... my biggest concern is that Admin people would attempt to collaborate to spread fake news. In this case, Fox got caught believing them. Caution is needed in dealing with this Admin - they are looking to discredit the media.
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Why does the media insist on framing Trump's behavior as defiant and a refusal to back down? We are not talking about him taking a principled stand on an important matter affecting the American people. This petulant, childish behavior is about his refusal to accept responsibility for his impulsive tweets based on poorly sourced, illegitimate bloggers, talk show hosts, and cable TV pundits. When our President acts like a spoiled child, refusing common courtesies to leaders of other countries, and lacking common sense and decency in his public discourse, the media should cover it as such. To do less is to shirk your responsibilities!
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Honestly, This is starting to read like an Onion spoof. I cannot believe we have this as President of the United States. Is Britain willing to overlook my ancestors flight from their nation and let me come back???
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When was the last time anyone heard or head about Trump apologizing for anything......a living "god" never, ever apologizes.....and why should they as they are never wrong
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Everyone knows that we live in the age of surveillance. If during the Obama administration, Merkel, arguably Obama's closet ally, and the president of Brazil, etc, were wire tapped, why would it be so hard to believe that Trump would also have been under surveillance during the campaign?
In the autumn of 2016, the NYT reported that both France and Germany thwarted many attacks because of surveillance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/world/europe/germany-bans-true-religi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/europe/france-terrorist-attack-...
Makes you feel good, that this 5th column lives amongst us. To me, that is a much bigger story than the recent Brew ha ha regarding Trump's or Fox's accusation. One involves our and our allies' security, and the other is just an entertaining tempest in a tea cup. And everyone should have expected that Trump would be entertaining.
In the autumn of 2016, the NYT reported that both France and Germany thwarted many attacks because of surveillance.
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/world/europe/germany-bans-true-religi...
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/europe/france-terrorist-attack-...
Makes you feel good, that this 5th column lives amongst us. To me, that is a much bigger story than the recent Brew ha ha regarding Trump's or Fox's accusation. One involves our and our allies' security, and the other is just an entertaining tempest in a tea cup. And everyone should have expected that Trump would be entertaining.
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So my question to the GOP: How long do you intend to prop up this madman? It's past time to call in an independent prosecutor regarding the Russian relationship, and while your at it, have him verified the bald faced lie about Obama.
Does America deserve better or will you continue to put party first?
Does America deserve better or will you continue to put party first?
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For Donald Trump people are just people and it makes no difference to him whether the other party Alex Baldwin or Rosy O'Donell over some petty matter , or whether the feud is over matters of utmost seriousness and the other party is the government of the UK. To him matters of tabloid news or front page international news are all the same, as they are both subjects that cable TV feels is worthy of discussion, and its all about him opening his mouth and stating what he thinks about any given subject or person.
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Most of us here in the U.K. are following the story more with sadness than anything else. Unfortunately, we're also suffering the consequences of a populist vote fueled by misinformation and outright lies. Nevertheless, this little storm will pass. The common values that bind the USA, UK, Canada and the rest of the Anglosphere are resilient enough to survive the unprofessionalism of this administration. Good luck, USA. You'll be great again.
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Just because the people of the UK voted for Brexit does not mean they are either stupid or that they were ignorant of the issues.Presumably you wouldn't be hurling the same insults if the result was the one you wanted?!!
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I don't think I called anyone stupid, did I? I certainly didn't mean to insult anyone. In any case, this thread is about Trump, not Brexit. But on that latter subject, we've exhausted the arguments and now we're going to discover the consequences. I hope in 5 years people like you will be able to say to people like me that you've been proved right. But it's very unlikely, I'm afraid.
President Obama needs to hold a press conference and set the record straight on this.
Trump can't be allowed to say whatever pops into his head at any moment, this is completely insane.
Trump can't be allowed to say whatever pops into his head at any moment, this is completely insane.
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Take the internet social media (twitter) away from trump and what have you got left - nothing, zilch, bubkes. He thinks he's winning, controlling the narrative, but he's losing big time and so are we.
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Spying? Oh my god. Whats this world coming to. EVERYBODY spies on everybody.Brits themselves were last year exposed bugging a global conference they were hosting the US the same when it got exposed bugging, ironically, Merkel's cell phone .
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Can't recall coming even close to four thousand "comments" since this website feature was inaugurated. Seems to be yet another indication (if we needed it) that the United States has had enough of this man playing with the world while threatening to stimulate anger and, yes, war...and I look to all of them, from Trump and Pence on down, to go away while we the People take back the government and the nation. Trump's utter contempt for every person, place and thing except his own body is not wanted, not even by those who thought they'd choose him for our "leader." Some leader.
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I am embarrassed for former President Obama, a wonderful president, accused of ordering these taps with no evidence. I'm embarrassed for our good friends in Britain. But, selfishly I suppose, I am embarrassed for myself, even though I did not vote for President Trump.
Most people want to be proud of their country. And I am proud of the great people who live here, work here, raise their families here. But I am embarrassed to be in a country where it has become the norm to wake up and expect the fauxest of presidential faux pas, the most public of oopsies, the most shameful of false allegations, not occasionally but daily.
Most people want to be proud of their country. And I am proud of the great people who live here, work here, raise their families here. But I am embarrassed to be in a country where it has become the norm to wake up and expect the fauxest of presidential faux pas, the most public of oopsies, the most shameful of false allegations, not occasionally but daily.
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Donald, you're fired!
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C'mon,
if is not true in this universe, maybe in another one?
if is not true in this universe, maybe in another one?
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Why isn't everybody frightened and alarmed that Trump is getting his guidance and information from FOX News people? I can't believe we are putting up with this. Is there not one wise person around him who can tell him the truth and convince him that he is listening to the wrong--terribly wrong--people? If he cannot learn that he is passing on lies and gossip, then he's just got to be impeached or forced to resign to save our Nation, and even the World.
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Clearly Trump doesn't believe "no man is an island." But his immature and reckless rantings are bringing the citizens of the United States to the precipice of world disorder, and isolating us from friends we need, and enemies that require engagement. I'm embarrassed, angry, and frightened every day.
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The past week's circus seems to be heading toward a point at which the United States won't have a friend in the world, and the shiniest military toys that $54 billion extra can buy will be in the hands of a person with the judgment and self-control of a gerbil. This will not end well.
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“It’s very easy to have a good meeting with Trump,” said Jeremy Shapiro, a former State Department official who is the research director at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London. “He’s very pleasant in person. He’ll promise you the world. And 48 hours later, he’ll betray you without a thought. He won’t even know he’ll be betraying you.”
What's the biggest risk to America?
What's the biggest risk to America?
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At some point, President Trump will need America's allies to be there for him. It could be North Korea, it could be Iran, it could be China, it could be anything, but that day will come.
Starting to wonder whether some of them will step up as enthusiastically as they have in the past. Trust is being eroded quite rapidly. Even Trump might rue the day he casually accused the US's most loyal ally of such a serious charge as if it was part of a playground game.
Starting to wonder whether some of them will step up as enthusiastically as they have in the past. Trust is being eroded quite rapidly. Even Trump might rue the day he casually accused the US's most loyal ally of such a serious charge as if it was part of a playground game.
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Is anyone still wondering why Trump and his wife are separated? Would you willingly live with the self-proclaimed sex offender in chief?
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I'm too busy wondering how we have so many gullible citizens that still believe ANYTHING this fool says!!!!
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This is a difficult one for the UK...they have exported Murdoch to the US. He is creating havoc against them while extracting more wealth from his UK assets. God may save the Queen but God won't save the UK while it enables Rupert.
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Murdoch is Australian...
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For Trump, his advisors, and his followers, this is the perfect ploy. He is "putting America first" by disrespecting Merkel, the British, and all of those "outsiders" attempting t destroy a "Greater America". You can expect more. Much more.
What a shame where we are heading with Our current administration.. Germany has done so much to change the culture of their prison systems and human rights after WWII its strange but it's something they learned heavily from and now our nation (and others) can learn from .. One of the biggest thing any civilized adult can and should do is admit when they are wrong and offer compassion and work towards making things rights again .. yes including building jobs.. But to cut billions out of the NIH budget to help cure rare disease and help humanity or limits on PBS and other important non partisan educational services that reach all people that need better information to understand what is happening is truly the wrong side to be on.. I hope the GOP sees this and quickly reverses these problems instead of just giving a blank pass on all his agenda .
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The behavior of a sociopath. This shouldn't surprise anyone. The statement how he'll betray anyone "48 hours later" says it all. So yes, he's a nut job but don't discount Bannon's role in crafting a diversion strategy. Ladies and gentlemen we have some " bad dudes" in the White House. They defile it with their presence every day.
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What frightens me more than Trump are his supporters hat see nothing wrong with this dangerous man!!!!
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Yes, he joked about the seeming commonality Chancellor Merkel and he shated, in his opinion. That they were both wiretapped by President Obama. Then, many of the press corp laughed at him which I felt was in poor taste and only seems to embolden Pres. Trump. Why wouldn't they press him on his empty accusations again instead of letting him off the hook and also allowing this rude behavior in front Chancellor Merkel. Part of the reason this man is in the White House
is the free press he received.
is the free press he received.
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The longer the Republicans remain silent in the face of trump's lies and insults, refusing to push back or demand apologies to a former president, allies and citizens, the more spineless, cruel and purchased by big money they are exposed to be.
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Donald Trump is starting to remind us of the son of Sam. Soon he'll be getting his information from a dog.
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The video's contention that Merkel and Trump are similar in that they both went into politics late is very misleading. From Wikipedia: "A former research scientist with a doctorate in physical chemistry, Merkel entered politics in the wake of the Revolutions of 1989, and briefly served as a deputy spokesperson for the first democratically elected East German Government headed by Lothar de Maizière in 1990. Following German reunification in 1990, Merkel was elected to the Bundestag for the state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, and has been reelected ever since. Merkel was appointed as the Minister for Women and Youth in the federal government under Chancellor Helmut Kohl in 1991, and became the Minister for the Environment in 1994. After her party lost the federal election in 1998, Merkel was elected Secretary-General of the CDU before becoming the party's first woman leader two years later in the aftermath of a donations scandal that toppled Wolfgang Schäuble." Thus, unlike Trump, Merkel made no attempt to start at the top with no experience or qualification whatsoever.
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Fox News takes the position that most of what it broadcasts is really editorial content. It just is delivered like news. Messers. Trump and Spicer should be careful in selecting the sources of the assertions they choose to pass on. So should all Fox viewers, actually.
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When you present an opinion as truth, you own that opinion. I would ask if our leader is really stupid enough to think otherwise but I know the answer. What an international embarrassment he is!
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This is national crisis. Our president trusts and publicly acts on information obtained from the media and unknown sources without any checking for its accuracy. He doesn’t trust our nation’s intelligence agencies. It is the duty of the National Security Council to call an emergency session to determine how to protect our nation from the dangers posed by this erratic president who sees no problem with basing his potentially destructive statements and actions on unsubstantiated information.
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A blatant draft dodger who has no respect for the sacrifice of others and what working with others is all about on the international level. He must be impeached.
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Trump's ego totally controls his behavior. I don't think he would apologize if he ran over a grandmother in a crosswalk. He would, most likely, seek people's adulation for the fact that he didn't hit more than one grandmother.
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This situation prompts the usual terrifying questions about actions by the Bannon-Trump gang:
1)Are they the result of gross ignorance and incompetence?
2)Is the president suffering from onset dementia?
3)Is this the latest payoff Putin has demanded: creating a terrible rift with the United States' most important ally?
1)Are they the result of gross ignorance and incompetence?
2)Is the president suffering from onset dementia?
3)Is this the latest payoff Putin has demanded: creating a terrible rift with the United States' most important ally?
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Our President is a blithering buffoon.
Pop some corn and laugh at the clown, orherwise he'll drive you crazy too.
Pop some corn and laugh at the clown, orherwise he'll drive you crazy too.
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I would but I'm afraid to open the door of my microwave to do so.
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One Term Trump is an embarrassment.
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Can we talk 25th Amendment now?
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This is the great irony. Many liberals call for impeachment or other method to get Trump out, seemingly not realizing the far more competent and conservative VP would then be president.
We do we keep allowing Donald Trump to control the conversation? Why do the media use their resources to report on this nonsense instead of getting to the bottom of the real issue: his collaboration with the Russian government.
Again, this cannot become the new normal.
Again, this cannot become the new normal.
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Impeach. Impeach. Impeach. Trump is clearly deranged and unfit to carry on the duties of president. He belongs in a mental institution, not the White House. And all his GOP enablers in and out of Congress should offer their resignations. How long are they going to allow this madman to ruin our alliances and our international reputation?
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The game of Trump, played like a vast game of dungeons and dragons. Here we have lying used as a strategic weapon, entangling friends and foes in a political web both international and national. Akin to something the founding fathers feared, foreign entanglements. The key is that all the players are liars, however petty, including voters. The threat is that each player's lying will be exposed. Each stands to lose their very image of themselves and feel the shame of being revealed a liar. Nothing good can come of this ugliness.
“America’s allies are having to protect themselves against being tarred with the White House’s mendacity.” This strikes me as odd thinking. Why do America's allies have to protect themselves against being tarred by the White House's despicable behavior?
Obviously, it's the White House that is tarring itself and consequently is despised both inside and outside of the United States.
Obviously, it's the White House that is tarring itself and consequently is despised both inside and outside of the United States.
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An unserious president and a world power being run by petulant children.
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
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What is in a word? Phonetically if you change one sound in Honor it becomes Horror. Trump and his cult are a HORROR with no honor. I hear you, why does this matter? It matters because the markets have NO reason to still be pretending that the US took any form of right turn. The US and UK should feel the full wrath of their Whites First Whites Only policies but so far investors are just inflating the markets so the first ones out will make a windfall. Same old scam with a twist - an obese yellow clown leads the parade over the cliff.
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The U.K. should withdraw their invitation for Trump to visit. That would be a fitting response. It would also forestall further embarrassment to the U.S. in the likelihood of even worse gaffes tweeted by a visiting president from London.
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The US burns while the NYT 'reports'.
All we have is reporters. The opposition has no game. Sad.
The NYT is a capitalist enterprise. As long as money is coming in, you just report.
All we have is reporters. The opposition has no game. Sad.
The NYT is a capitalist enterprise. As long as money is coming in, you just report.
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Trump thinks that Andrew Napolitano is a "very talented legal mind." I have listened to Mr. Napolitano many times and find this description does not match the man. He does not seem to grasp subtleties, but then again, he apparently does have a law degree.
Are Independents starting to worry about President Trump's mental and emotional instability?
Are Independents starting to worry about President Trump's mental and emotional instability?
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It's time for us to face the facts folks. Our elected president is demented. And 40% of our population and the majority of our elected representatives support him, This looks as if it's not going to end well. Like a perfect storm. A concoction of the tea party, gerrymandering, Bernie, and the electoral college has cooked us a poisonous goose.
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Trying to explain Trump's rationale for all these outrageous claims/comments by saying he's "deflecting from other issues" is simply giving him too much credit. He doesn't think strategically. He's mentally ill. At what point do congressional republicans finally put country over party?
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This story on , spying, is just a distraction from the disastrous replacement of Obamacare, Russia, and The Budget. Please stay focus and don't be distracted by nonsense!
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Enough already. Go back to covering his disastrous budget or his disgusting trumpcare plan!
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Yesterday, Angela Merkel became the leader of the free world. Pause, think about this. The blood shed in WWII granted our leader that title. Trump has managed to desecrate what this country stood for as well as all the military that sacrificed so much. If you are a Republican, you're allegiance should be to your country, not your next election.
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There is no such thing as the leader of the free world.The freedom of the world is in organizations such as the U.N and Nato and not the ego of trip of individuals.
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I can see Trump, if impeached, standing proudly and pointing his finger at anyone but himself.
This is not strategy, no. This is a toddler lying and lying again to cover his lying. He is doggedly doing so to avoid taking any blame and he will never admit his mistakes.
Let's not forget the birther fallacy. Did he ever admit that he was wrong?
This is not strategy, no. This is a toddler lying and lying again to cover his lying. He is doggedly doing so to avoid taking any blame and he will never admit his mistakes.
Let's not forget the birther fallacy. Did he ever admit that he was wrong?
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Wow. Trump has one really great skill: hiring the most ammoral, malevolent, callous cretens in America:
Spicer: ...just broadcasting a mendacious, completely unsubstantiated news report on behalf of our emperor...what's the big deal?
Mulvanney (commenting on cutting funds for Meals on Wheels): "We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good." Tell that to those who rely on this program to eat. What a mockery (you're a dummy to have given money to Meals on Wheels) he makes of the gentle people who contribute their own time and money to this program.
It is beyond belief that there are really Americans with such stygian souls. And they occupy the highest thrones of power in the nation!
Spicer: ...just broadcasting a mendacious, completely unsubstantiated news report on behalf of our emperor...what's the big deal?
Mulvanney (commenting on cutting funds for Meals on Wheels): "We can't spend money on programs just because they sound good." Tell that to those who rely on this program to eat. What a mockery (you're a dummy to have given money to Meals on Wheels) he makes of the gentle people who contribute their own time and money to this program.
It is beyond belief that there are really Americans with such stygian souls. And they occupy the highest thrones of power in the nation!
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Obama needs to sue Trump for libel. Plain and simple. Hold him accountable for his outrageous lies and inability to behave like a President.
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Merkel is now the de facto leader of the free world and defender of Western civilization. Trump lies somewhere on the spectrum between silly buffoon and extremely dangerous fascist. I am disappointed that she deigned to meet with him.
From the look on her face and that of the German entourage it was just to see the Trump spectacle for themselves. Trump forgets that the US plan after WW II was to limit troop buildup in Europe - except for US military. Trump thinks he's going to get back payment from Europe for NATO - he forgets that the US is allowed to use NATO facilities and operates their German bases with concessions from Germany. He is truly an embarrassment to our country. The stupid comments about the Irish, Ryan and his flat beer - too unbelievably stupid and childish.
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This is how 'trump' has operated his entire life. He knows of no other behavior than that which will confuse, distract and annoy his detractors. He sees no difference between running trump steaks and our government.
Distraction from Putin.
How is this creature still in the Whitehouse? I am reminded of the scene where the peasants storm Dr Frankenstein's castle to chase him out. I keep waiting. After ever increasing scandals I think, ok! This will do it surely! they will impeach or arrest him... but no.
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So, President Trump hears something said on Fox News and then just repeats it later that day. Is that what's going on here? No fact checking, no calls to any intelligence agency? Then when caught his defense is, "Don't blame me, I was just repeating what I heard." Incredible.
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“He’s very pleasant in person. He’ll promise you the world. And 48 hours later, he’ll betray you without a thought. He won’t even know he’ll be betraying you.”
Not true only in international affairs. His supporters are starting (maybe, sort of) to figure this out too.
Not true only in international affairs. His supporters are starting (maybe, sort of) to figure this out too.
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President Donald Trump -- the creator-in-chief of FACTOIDS -- is having fun and toying around with the global news media.
International relations of such powerful country as the US used to be a serious business of war and peace.
During the Trump's administration, foreign relations is becoming another source of entertainment perfectly made for the American television format.
Like or not, America and the world have entered a brave new world of fake news and entertainment. The question is how long entertainment will last before a major military conflict set off, probably in the Korean peninsula.
International relations of such powerful country as the US used to be a serious business of war and peace.
During the Trump's administration, foreign relations is becoming another source of entertainment perfectly made for the American television format.
Like or not, America and the world have entered a brave new world of fake news and entertainment. The question is how long entertainment will last before a major military conflict set off, probably in the Korean peninsula.
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It sounds like the British "doth protest too much, me think." Trump hit a nerve.
The Peter Principle in action.
Merkel was the head of state and we have a TV guy in over his head.
Merkel was the head of state and we have a TV guy in over his head.
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And what is this madness that allows Ivanka a front row seat at every important governmental event? Does he need to read her lips to keep himself in check? The constant side glances and winks at her are irritating..sigh....
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He admitted being infatuated with his own daughter. A great example for our children.
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WH, and DJT are obviously worried that something big is about to come out that will put his presidency in the balance. It's just a matter of time before this complete buffoon is exposed.
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Just when I thought that we had reached the acme of stupid. Forest Gump couldn't even comment on this.
Not a day goes by that some print, tv, audio, and social media doesn't document and transmit another factual example that President Trump, and his support system,can't be trusted. Mistrusting Words. Said and shouldn't be. Should have been said and wasn't. Malfeasance spiced actions.Done; needing undoing.Needed,and not done.People and systems have been harmed in various ways.It is likely that many more will be.Civilians.Citizens, young and old and a range of “THEMs“ in our socio-political constructed WE-THEM culture. Armed service and security forces. Ours. Others.Who will document and delineate the score of temporary and more permanent types of harms, directly caused by, and not just associated with, toxic,contagious–trumpism, from which no one is immune?Who is creating an accurate system measuring levels and qualities of polluting willful blindness and deafness which enables “basic trust” to become disempowered and transmuted into alt-trust,as stigmatizing fellow beings soars,walling off instead of bridging between?Who will report,daily deaths associated with the trumpism-epidemic,similar, if relevant, and evidence informed, to the reported ongoing opioid drug overdose epidemic?In addition to creating profits, increasing program ratings, etc.,what can we expect from this daily, documented, trumpism-torrent?From each of ourselves?From others?Documents wind up in archives.Where, and with what, are we going to wind up as we follow and enable a trumped-Up Trumpian reality?
Even if Trump were to drop dead tomorrow, the US reputation in the world will take another 20 years - if not longer - to restore after that filth's abominations.
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I think it is time for the media to start a debate about narcissism and what the potential consequences are when we see it on full display in public by one of the most powerful men in the world with the finger on the button.
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Napolitano simply pointed out that there are ways for a president to get information without ordering the wiretapping himself. Since that president is Obama, all hands are on deck to prove Trump wrong.
If people are going to make unsubstantiated accusations against Trump, why is anyone surprised he's going to return the favor?
If people are going to make unsubstantiated accusations against Trump, why is anyone surprised he's going to return the favor?
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Two comments: (1) I think Obama should sue Trump for slander & (2) Unfortunately, "Rome" (i.e., the US) is burning while politicians are "fiddling;" By that I mean we need to do something about the $20 trillion national debt. Cutting discretionary domestic spending and increasing spending for the military as Trump proposes isn't the answer. What needs to happen is that we all tighten our belts- myself included.
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Can't some coalition of Republican and Democratic house members and senators send a letter to Britain (and the world) stating that this madman does not represent the the thoughts, feelings and attitudes of a majority of Americans? It's time that Donald Trump be repudiated by any and all thinking elected officials. I am so sad for the state of our nation today.
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The Brits will have their revenge .... by immortalizing his name in the English language
Here are 3 of the 6 present meanings assigned to the word 'trump' by the Oxford English Dictionary
1. trump v. to deceive, cheat
2. trump v, to blow or sound a trumpet
3. trump n. a thing of small value, a trifle
Looks like these will be trumped (4th meaning) by the word's newest meaning ...
4. trump n. remorselessly, stupid egotistical lying buffoon...
and while they are at it .... they could add the new meaning for the members of the party supporting him
5. Republican n. pestilent, parasitic, deplorable invertebrate species characterized by its silent cowardice
Here are 3 of the 6 present meanings assigned to the word 'trump' by the Oxford English Dictionary
1. trump v. to deceive, cheat
2. trump v, to blow or sound a trumpet
3. trump n. a thing of small value, a trifle
Looks like these will be trumped (4th meaning) by the word's newest meaning ...
4. trump n. remorselessly, stupid egotistical lying buffoon...
and while they are at it .... they could add the new meaning for the members of the party supporting him
5. Republican n. pestilent, parasitic, deplorable invertebrate species characterized by its silent cowardice
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What a loser.
The truest leaders know when they are wrong - period - and they state so.
Why/ because they are leaders and want those who entrust respect in them to be...well.. respected.
This guy?
Nope. Not in a million years. He's rather watch the barn burn.
The truest leaders know when they are wrong - period - and they state so.
Why/ because they are leaders and want those who entrust respect in them to be...well.. respected.
This guy?
Nope. Not in a million years. He's rather watch the barn burn.
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Oh i'm glad i found this comment section, was starting to think our American cousins had totally lost the plot! Keep fighting the good fight!
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Please, Trump has never offered an apology in his life. "Trump offers no apology" is not news and should not even be a part of the discussion. And Trump's press secretary repeating a Fox news idiocy is something different from a mere Fox news idiocy. It's a reprise of the entire Trump deal. "People say..."
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I think all news media ought to be funneling the nuttiest ideas they can think up to Trump and just watch him go berserk.
Obama wasn’t born in America. (OK, he was).
Though elected, IF he had lost, the election would have been rigged. But...
He won the electoral vote and the election. So, election not rigged. But...
He would have won the popular vote too, had it not been for the fact that he was cheated when 3 million illegal aliens voted en masse for Hillary. Nonetheless...
He had the largest inaugural crowd of any president. Ever. Believe me.
Check for yourself. Pictures clearly depict Uuuuuge crowd enfolded in roughly half the acerage of Obama’s turnout. And...
He knows not of Russians. But....
Accusations of surrogate contacts with Russians during the campaign persist. So...
The press is the enemy of the people. And...
Obama tapped his phone at the direction and assistance of GCHQ. Bad. Sick.
Look closely O ye barely conscious Trumpsters. Observe....
Steel balls in elfin right hand, fingers rotating them round and round in closed fist’s tiny palm. Mad Trump disease.
Though elected, IF he had lost, the election would have been rigged. But...
He won the electoral vote and the election. So, election not rigged. But...
He would have won the popular vote too, had it not been for the fact that he was cheated when 3 million illegal aliens voted en masse for Hillary. Nonetheless...
He had the largest inaugural crowd of any president. Ever. Believe me.
Check for yourself. Pictures clearly depict Uuuuuge crowd enfolded in roughly half the acerage of Obama’s turnout. And...
He knows not of Russians. But....
Accusations of surrogate contacts with Russians during the campaign persist. So...
The press is the enemy of the people. And...
Obama tapped his phone at the direction and assistance of GCHQ. Bad. Sick.
Look closely O ye barely conscious Trumpsters. Observe....
Steel balls in elfin right hand, fingers rotating them round and round in closed fist’s tiny palm. Mad Trump disease.
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Trump thinks he can just ignore things, like he did as CEO, and they will just go away because he won't deal with them.
Guess what, the Donald. Things don't go away when you are President. You're unqualified in this office, there is no doubt about that fact.
Get acquainted with the Constitution, especially the basic fact of Checks and Balances that most of us learned in 10th grade. Yes, the Judiciary branch has (to put it simply) knock-down on you. You are not a dictator, much as you seem to think you should be.
Guess what, the Donald. Things don't go away when you are President. You're unqualified in this office, there is no doubt about that fact.
Get acquainted with the Constitution, especially the basic fact of Checks and Balances that most of us learned in 10th grade. Yes, the Judiciary branch has (to put it simply) knock-down on you. You are not a dictator, much as you seem to think you should be.
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That suggestion you have made is good, and fitting, too, but remember, he does not like to read. Allegedly, he has never read a book cover to cover.
I watched the press conference yesterday with the distinguished Angele Merkel
standing next to our imbecile President in horror. Surely this was a contrast in
the reliable, intelligent opposite an anomaly of a man. When will this end?
When do we rid ourselves of this freak, his family of fatheads and the totally
destructive cast of characters that are distorting our democracy? At this point
I'll even take the awful Pence in lieu of this Trump and that's saying a lot. Where are you Joe Dimaggio........
standing next to our imbecile President in horror. Surely this was a contrast in
the reliable, intelligent opposite an anomaly of a man. When will this end?
When do we rid ourselves of this freak, his family of fatheads and the totally
destructive cast of characters that are distorting our democracy? At this point
I'll even take the awful Pence in lieu of this Trump and that's saying a lot. Where are you Joe Dimaggio........
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Since the President really loves to pass on quotes from second-and-third hand sources as truth, then refuses to accept any responsibility for the messes he makes, perhaps he can quote me: "My inability to keep my yuge trap shut merely shows that I am, always was, and always will be unfit to hold this office". He can always say he was just quoting, as he sets about ruining the US and the world around him.
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Alienation can cause one to be the most hated person in the world,. How does it feel Dump Trump to be that person?
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Too many back door covert contacts by this administration with Russians. Trump is hiding something. Probably just a business deal for Trump's hotel chain. But if he is using the office to make private business deals in trade for diplomatic concessions, could be treason.
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your article listed about 6 or 7 instances where trump, totally unprovoked, created International problems; his administration is clearly out of control, spending time, money and efforts to contain and / or fight with newly created juvenile issue INSTEAD of taking care of the needs of the people. after all, lets recall : the president serves at our pleasure. it has become clear that congress needs to start preparing articles of impeachment. if one merely schemes through the history of the reasons / grounds for initiating impeachment, it simply presents itself : this man needs to be brought to account. he needs to respond to whatever questions/ charges will be brought up. the greatest charge should be : neglecting taking care of the needs of the people. yes, its listed in the constitution as a reason for impeachment. so : where are our elected leaders of BOTH parties ?! why aren't we hearing from them on these grave matters ?! how much longer do we have to witness this circus when the needs of the country are neglected?! is ours a democracy or have we regressed back to the Middle Ages ?!
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I am neither shocked nor surprised at Mr. Trump's conduct. This has been his public persona since the 1980's. He has always been a narcissistic, loose canon who has had a love/hate relationship with the media. The people who voted for him ignored all of these signs and assumed that he would make a great "leader" based upon what? He's loud, makes money, lives ostentatiously, and an expert at generating negative publicity. We are still in the "first 100 days" of his Presidency and I shudder to think about the damage he will do to this country at home and abroad. Hillary Clinton may not have been the ideal candidate but I can rest easy knowing that I voted for her. I just hope and pray the press stays on top of Mr. Trump's shenanigans and holds this administration accountable every single day. We need good journalism now more than ever.
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Is there no failsafe mechanism in American law that would allow a president who is clearly insane to be removed from office? I have served as attorney ad litem for a close family member who displayed Trump's level of what doctors termed "altered cognition with pronounced delusions of persecution" -- paranoia at the outset of Alzheimer's dementia. This diagnosis proved to be legally and medically sufficient to have my relative committed to a care unit. Trump is obviously sick in very similar ways. Is there nothing short of inevitable impeachment or the nuclear reduction of Planet Earth to a poisonous cinder that can be done to prevent him while there is still some hope for repairing the damage already done?
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So the obvious...... Isn't this pushing away and insulting allies what Putin wants?
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This subject is a little long in the tooth. Just be mindful of the fact that we have no privacy, anywhere. The NSA taps/listens to EVERYTHING transmitted worldwide, including our allies. Ditto for England, Soviet Union and whomever. If you don't want something to be heard, learn sign language.
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I think the near future involves a straightjacket.
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He's like a child who tells an outlandish lie, but doesn't know when to stop and keeps covering it up with more nonsense. I really fear for America when a real crisis happens, because something will indeed happen. This person does not deserve the office of President of the United States.
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More tomfoolery from the shallow-rooted Trump. Journalists need to keep digging with their shovels and hoes, pull the rotten roots out of ground and toss them far away from the compost pile.
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"unusual rupture"? I think you mean "expected rupture".
All trump and his henchman do is rupture and threaten to rupture. Everything they are supposedly in charge of and touch ruptures.
Team Trump is comprised of destructive haters, bigots, liars, traitors, con artists, leaches, malevolent nutjobs and supremely greedy people. Nothing they do is constructive. Everything that comes out of their mouths is, in part or whole, lies, brazen, egregious, patronizing lies.
They destroy and call it improvements; They insult and call it joking;
They divide and call it unity; They accuse and then make excuses;
They lie and call it absolute fact; They destabilize and call it strengthening;
They abuse and call it respect; They terrorize and say they're reducing terror;
They betray and call it dedication; They fake work and call it delivering;
They steal and call it negotiating; They hurt and call it help;
They are flooding the swamp and call it draining;
They are destroying America and call it Making America Great;
If they say they care about you, run before you get hurt. Seriously.
All trump and his henchman do is rupture and threaten to rupture. Everything they are supposedly in charge of and touch ruptures.
Team Trump is comprised of destructive haters, bigots, liars, traitors, con artists, leaches, malevolent nutjobs and supremely greedy people. Nothing they do is constructive. Everything that comes out of their mouths is, in part or whole, lies, brazen, egregious, patronizing lies.
They destroy and call it improvements; They insult and call it joking;
They divide and call it unity; They accuse and then make excuses;
They lie and call it absolute fact; They destabilize and call it strengthening;
They abuse and call it respect; They terrorize and say they're reducing terror;
They betray and call it dedication; They fake work and call it delivering;
They steal and call it negotiating; They hurt and call it help;
They are flooding the swamp and call it draining;
They are destroying America and call it Making America Great;
If they say they care about you, run before you get hurt. Seriously.
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Don't you all get it? He never apologizes, because he is never wrong. He has said this himself. ::eyeroll::
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The UK should do the civilized world a favor and cut ties with the US.
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Are you suggesting Americans aren't civilized?
Lower than a slime trail expectations for the ethics of the Trump Administration are being met each passing day. There's no surprise that a proven con man would seek to line his pockets and those of his family and friends when given the biggest mark in the world.
But the incompetence and buffoonery are beyond anything imaginable. Putin and Bannon are getting exactly what they want. America's reputation and institutions are being destroyed in front of our eyes.
But the incompetence and buffoonery are beyond anything imaginable. Putin and Bannon are getting exactly what they want. America's reputation and institutions are being destroyed in front of our eyes.
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This is just another example of the problems that sprout from first amendment "free speech" rights. Does this mean that the truth needs to be legislated for public figures? How does the world now ascertain "fact" from fiction. Real news from Fake, Beware of the Black Swam.
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I don't blame Trump, he's incompetent, and did not try to disguise it while campaigning. His life has been a linty of scams, lawsuits, questionable personal behavior and unsavory associations. Also on full display during the campaign. His incompetence is all we have to hope for as a brake on the damage he can do to our nation. Like training a puppy with a treat, a compliment and a tweetable win for Trump can insure favor by businesses and foreign governments alike, he is an easy mark for manipulation. His penchant for lying disguised as hyperbole has already soiled his stature and that of the United States. If we can, as a republic, survive Trump, loaded with an arsenal of GOP party before country yes men, it as they say will make us stronger. The irony looks to be we as a Nation need to survive the billionaire bully in order to Make America Great Again.
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I am just curious about one thing in the report. Suppose the president really did not hear Mrs Merkel's offer of a public handshake, isn't it the norm of social intercourse? It just seemed incredibly gauche not to offer it himself. Reminds me of the image of him bounding up the stairs to greet the Obamas at the White House portico on Inauguration Day leaving his wife behind to make her way up the steps by herself, gift box in hand. Ugh!
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Can't wait to hear through leaks what he is allowing Bannon and his staff to get away with while he creates these "controversies". The problem with this man is he is a one-trick pony. His only tool is bait and switch, go in for the kill.
I honestly believe he was elected not to lead the country, but to get what is coming to him. Yes, that old hippy cliché, kharma—literally deeds done with impure motives—his entire lifetime, in other words.
I honestly believe he was elected not to lead the country, but to get what is coming to him. Yes, that old hippy cliché, kharma—literally deeds done with impure motives—his entire lifetime, in other words.
I suspect President Trump and his staff purposely antagonized the British in payback for part in exposing the Russian hacking and the Trump campaign's coordination in stealing the election.
cui bono? If GCHQ tipped the US off about the Russian hacking efforts then it makes sense that Trump, as a probable Russian agent, would accuse them of something inflammatory and ridiculous and create another international row. Further rupturing our relationships with allies in Europe helps Russia expand its influence there just as pulling out of the TPP opened a huge trade vacuum in the Pacific Rim that China is eager to fill. To think, it used to take you at least a couple of years before you bankrupted and destroyed an institution for which you were responsible. I see you've stepped things up...Nice going, Trump.
I think many of the same things about Trump that most people do, but he doesn't care if he offends some people or if everyone likes or believes him. He isn't going to pander to the press to win support - he'll tweet. He knows he will never be given the free pass the media gave Obama and rightly expects he will be unfairly covered. So he says whatever he wants. Sometimes he will say things that pop into his mind that make most people, myself included, gasp, and many are ridiculous (his birther madness comes to mind). Yet, clearly sometimes he is right. After all, he did win against almost every expectation.
Not a single commenter here knows if what he says about being tapped is true or partially so, any more than I do. We've been fooled before by politicians, presidents and our intelligence. If you don't know that, a little googling will enlighten you. We do know that covert actions happen regularly, that intelligence services all over the world are busy tapping and hacking each other, sometimes internally. Did we not just see this yet again with the CIA? It is not a fantasy that our digital world makes us all vulnerable. Trump was actually fairly polite in his small joke about having something in common with Merkel. He's not usually funny or subtle, but that was both. Maybe people have forgotten it.
I have no idea if being tapped is a crazy Trump fantasy or if there is some truth in it. And no one commenting here has any idea either. Just biases.
Not a single commenter here knows if what he says about being tapped is true or partially so, any more than I do. We've been fooled before by politicians, presidents and our intelligence. If you don't know that, a little googling will enlighten you. We do know that covert actions happen regularly, that intelligence services all over the world are busy tapping and hacking each other, sometimes internally. Did we not just see this yet again with the CIA? It is not a fantasy that our digital world makes us all vulnerable. Trump was actually fairly polite in his small joke about having something in common with Merkel. He's not usually funny or subtle, but that was both. Maybe people have forgotten it.
I have no idea if being tapped is a crazy Trump fantasy or if there is some truth in it. And no one commenting here has any idea either. Just biases.
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Trump is truly a banal character who shouldn't be dog catcher, never mind president. Impeach him before he starts World War III.
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He'd probably do less damage as a dog catcher but I'm sure he'd try to.
Invoke the25th Amendment. He is unhinged, un fit un worthy. Little SAD man hurting out great country. Shame complicit Repubicans.
Lock him up! Make America Safe Again.
Lock him up! Make America Safe Again.
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Trump is a threat to the country. Fox and the racist-alt-right media have never been and will never be a source for reality/facts.
The guy is going senile...
The guy is going senile...
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Being a pompous blustering bully...means never having to say your sorry.
Being insecure and narcissistic...means never being able to say your sorry.
Take your pick...
Being insecure and narcissistic...means never being able to say your sorry.
Take your pick...
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Everytime I read an article about Trump, I couldn't actually understand the logic behind his statements. Either he is a highly intellectual person, so that we couldn't understand his mind process, or a stupid person who says anything without even thinking once.
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InJanuary I signed a petition asking the British Government withdraw an invitation for a full state visit in which he would have been able to address Parliament. Theresa May rejected that petition at the time. I was disappointed at the time, but I have to say I am really looking forward to his visit now. It will be fascinating to see just how craven and wheedling Mrs May and her entourage can be when chasing a trade deal with the president, while at the same time sweeping the current fiasco under the carpet.
Donald Trump is, and remains, the world's greatest entertainer.
Donald Trump is, and remains, the world's greatest entertainer.
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Why do Republican presidents rely on so many lies (Weapons of Mass Destruction, espionage in Trump Towers, etc?) Why are they so willing to harm the country? There seems to be something beyond wilful ignorance at work here, and it's troubling.
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Money.
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We the people demand impeachment of Donald J Trump.
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We the people elected him, Inquistor. Well, not me. I wouldn't vote for either of them. Note to Democrats and Republicans. If you do not want the other side's unsuitable candidate in office, put up a decent candidate yourself and stop being blinded by partisanship. The Rs and Ds each had one suitable candidate, Kasich and Webb. I'd be happy with either.
When Fox News is willing to issue a statement to separate themselves from this President's comments, he has to know that his days at the White House are numbered ...
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Watch every video of Merkel and Trump that you can find. Watch it with the sound turned off and watch only Merkel's face and hands. Read what British intelligence said and May said yesterday. Read the very limited reporting about Tillerson and Korea. March 17, 2017 is the day the United States lost all credibility and good will amongst our allies. I would have never believed that the passing of our WWII veterans would also mark the passing of everything that they fought for.
Our enemies will now come after us with a vergence. I fear that we are in a downward spiral of increased defense spending coupled with social unrest.
Our enemies will now come after us with a vergence. I fear that we are in a downward spiral of increased defense spending coupled with social unrest.
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Trump has no allies, only pawns in his efforts to boost his ego and income. I wonder how fast and how far the world will be pulling back from us this time? I suspect that trump will exceed Dubya's record.
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If Napolitano is such a great and respected legal mind, it is only fair to not let anyone take Scalia's place on the Supreme Court besides him.
It's becoming unbearably embarrassing being an American...and remaining to be supportive, while in the company of non-Americans, of America and American ideals in spite of the current administration, their ludicrous accusations, maniacal machinations...and spokesperson Kellyanne Conway.
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Kids, this is why you should learn when you're in school! Trump clearly skipped out of history, political science, and etiquette classes.
It's hard to imagine that in his short Administration, Trump has managed to infuriate so many of our nation's allies as a result of misinformation. His insults and petty, non-sensical behavior toward allies (UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, etc.) is appalling and is not in keeping with either the dignity or stability of the Office. Trump's sheer lack of historical precedents and diplomatic norms appear to violate his oath to the Office as it relates to "faithfully executing" his duties. Do Trump's supporters really think that turning the world on its head is what is in the best interests of the US?
Vladimir is one supporter of Trump's who would like to see that outcome. Even Putin should be careful what he wishes for.
It's hard to imagine that in his short Administration, Trump has managed to infuriate so many of our nation's allies as a result of misinformation. His insults and petty, non-sensical behavior toward allies (UK, Australia, Germany, Mexico, Sweden, etc.) is appalling and is not in keeping with either the dignity or stability of the Office. Trump's sheer lack of historical precedents and diplomatic norms appear to violate his oath to the Office as it relates to "faithfully executing" his duties. Do Trump's supporters really think that turning the world on its head is what is in the best interests of the US?
Vladimir is one supporter of Trump's who would like to see that outcome. Even Putin should be careful what he wishes for.
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The media needs to focus...focus on Trumps investments in Russia and how he conspired with the Russian government to have their sanctions lifted in return for election tampering.
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Trump is dangerously incompetent and mentally unstable. If the VP of a shipping company acted way he does, he would be escorted out by security. He has to be removed from power. Either the Republicans face reality, or they get their face pushed into it by millions in the street, stopping all business as usual, shutting down the airports and federal buildings, filling stadiums with arrestees, shutting America down completely until he is no longer being passed off as a President. This has to happen before he falls apart, which will happen soon. Now that Flynn has an actual crime to beg for immunity from, Trump feels the march of doom. He is tormented beyond reasoning by fear and fury because he knows the press and the intelligence community are sooner or later going to uncover irrefutable evidence of words or behavior that even his supporters will not be able to stomach. Anyone who has had the misfortune to have a Trump type in their lives knows this to be true. He doesn't know which crime will trip him up or who will prove it, so he lies awake unit 5 AM and then Twitter attacks whoever he fears most at the moment. If one morning it is France, "boom goes Par-ee" Randy Newman puts it, "they all hate us anyhow." People like Trump harm everyone they touch, because they fear everyone they see. If they gain ultimate power, they become an ultimate menace. He threatens our country, and indeed our species, more than Putin and Un combined.
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How bad an international incident does this administration have to cause before Congress moves to remove??
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Trump is someone who would have been a complete loser if not born into wealth. Because of his inherited wealth, he has been able to avoid a life of being an outcast and failure. Instead, he leveraged up a sociopathic approach to business and grifting into 100's of millions of dollars of fortune (he's no billionaire).
Trumps leverage has always been his wealth, but now he has the leverage of the power of the US military and other legal powers within his grasp.
Trump is a dangerous sociopath; evil; disgusting; and, completely without merit. He is not fit to walk as a free man among men;he is a traitor to American values; he's not only more dangerous than the most dangerous prisoner in any American prison, he's the most dangerous man in the world; he must be removed from office. If he is not removed from office, every GOP principal who enabled him will live in infamy, for their traitorous cowardice. Remove this psychopath from office now, before he does something that changes the course of history in worse ways than any one of us can imagine.
Trumps leverage has always been his wealth, but now he has the leverage of the power of the US military and other legal powers within his grasp.
Trump is a dangerous sociopath; evil; disgusting; and, completely without merit. He is not fit to walk as a free man among men;he is a traitor to American values; he's not only more dangerous than the most dangerous prisoner in any American prison, he's the most dangerous man in the world; he must be removed from office. If he is not removed from office, every GOP principal who enabled him will live in infamy, for their traitorous cowardice. Remove this psychopath from office now, before he does something that changes the course of history in worse ways than any one of us can imagine.
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Obviously, America's vetting process for electing a POTUS failed in spectacular fashion this go around. Would like to suggest, plead and pray for, a larger participation than a paltry 13% by an engaged rank and file electorate turn out for the party primaries next go around.
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Trump and Bannon put me in mind of what the great PG Wodehouse said of one of his characters: "Like most young men whose thoughts are an open book to the populace, if there was one thing more than another for which he thought he was remarkable it was his iron inscrutability".
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Is there any world leader or nation in the world than this brain dead fool Trump hasn't offended yet.
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Why should Britain be livid? Donald Trump is insane.
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Surprise, surprise. FOX News has been the fake news leader for how long now?
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I very much doubt that Trump has been wire tapped by anyone. It is just his paranoid insecurities playing out here. He is feeling vulnerable so he invents a situation where he is more important than he really is. If, and it's a great big if, the UK security people were wire tapping him, then there must have been a good reason for it. Keep looking Trump, if you uncover anything just remember you have no authority to make them keep quiet about what they have found.
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I grew up in New Jersey and I've seen guys like Trump before, still it pains me to write that the president of my country not only is not as intelligent as he claims to be, but he basically has no class at all. This is "sad" for all of us,
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He's completely looney. I pray every day that he will finally do or say something that will cause the Republicans to come to their senses (if they have any) and start impeachment proceedings. Not only does he make a completely insane accusation, but he can't even take responsibility. I guess we all have to talk to Fox news. BTW, has anyone else wondered who Trump paid to help him get through UPenn? He has clearly never learned basic research and critical thinking skills.
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If pure, unadulterated stupidity were a crime, then both Sean Spicer and Trump would be well positioned for felony charges. As sad and outrageous as these statements are, they demonstrate a complete inability to learn from one's mistakes and as the old adage goes, when you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
As our President, our nation's credibility is on the line and this over grown man child must be held to account. And like a child, however distasteful it may be for him to admit that he told a colossal lie without a shred of evidence, he should be "encouraged" (forced if necessary), to admit the mistake and apologize first to the former President who he slandered and second to the American people for further eroding our trust in him and his administration. To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical.
Sadly, I am at the point that he could claim that "it has been widely reported" that the sun rises in the east because he "read it somewhere" and I would question the veracity of the statement.
As our President, our nation's credibility is on the line and this over grown man child must be held to account. And like a child, however distasteful it may be for him to admit that he told a colossal lie without a shred of evidence, he should be "encouraged" (forced if necessary), to admit the mistake and apologize first to the former President who he slandered and second to the American people for further eroding our trust in him and his administration. To err is human, but to persist in error (out of pride) is diabolical.
Sadly, I am at the point that he could claim that "it has been widely reported" that the sun rises in the east because he "read it somewhere" and I would question the veracity of the statement.
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It is important for our Commander-in-Chief to be able to determine which are credible sources of information and when to avoid acting when one hears unflattering information.
It appears that Mr. Trump is not equipped to make these essential distinctions.
The US Constitution offers a cure for this problem in its 25th Amendment in section four.
This needs to be applied before the US finds itself in a major war due to an impulsive action by a thin skinned head of state.
It appears that Mr. Trump is not equipped to make these essential distinctions.
The US Constitution offers a cure for this problem in its 25th Amendment in section four.
This needs to be applied before the US finds itself in a major war due to an impulsive action by a thin skinned head of state.
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He's long on bravado, but short on intelligence.
He has serious psychological issues and should be as far away from the Oval Office as possible.
The country made a HUGE MISTAKE by electing this seriously flawed individual -- a pathological liar with no conscience, no soul and apparently is incapable of seeing beyond his own nose.
He's lost and doesn't know it...and he's leading the nation down the rabbit hole....He needs therapy in a serious way...
He is not a "leader". He's a MISLEADER!
He has serious psychological issues and should be as far away from the Oval Office as possible.
The country made a HUGE MISTAKE by electing this seriously flawed individual -- a pathological liar with no conscience, no soul and apparently is incapable of seeing beyond his own nose.
He's lost and doesn't know it...and he's leading the nation down the rabbit hole....He needs therapy in a serious way...
He is not a "leader". He's a MISLEADER!
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Trump is becoming ....Persona Non Grata .....and ....if ....you support
Trump....well...you too will be just as scorned....
A deranged leader like Kim of North Korea....seems to have met his likeness
in Donald J. Trump.....both spoiled brats....and should be treated as such.
Trump....well...you too will be just as scorned....
A deranged leader like Kim of North Korea....seems to have met his likeness
in Donald J. Trump.....both spoiled brats....and should be treated as such.
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Trump has seemingly flipped from the "scapegoating Snowball" phase to the "Snowball paranoia" phase in his incarnation of Animal Farm's Napoleon.
Meanwhile, the neighboring human "farmers" over in Europe stand agape at the spectacle of the "animals," led by the pigs, having taken over the US "farm." Even Sean Spicer is starting to look like Squealer.
I say "seemingly" bc I think Trump's buffoonery is a diversionary tactic. A tactic more instinctive than calculated; the natural M.O. of the bully and narcissistic abuser. Constantly create "crazy-making" disruptions; tell lie upon lie w/o apology; gaslight incessantly until you succeed in redefining reality; follow one crisis immediately with another, so that the chaos never lets up -- all to keep everyone else off balance and running here and there, so no one they can focus on the true problem: Trump's collusion with Russia and its handmaiden Wikileaks in scuttling Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Some of the evidence is already in plain view, such as the change in the GOP plank on Ukraine, Artimenko's back-channel "peace plan" on Ukraine, which Cohen passed to Flynn during the RNC; the Alfa Bank pings of a Trump Organization server in Lititz, PA, esp during Carter Page's Russia trip; someone shutting down the server 3 days before Page left; countless meetings b/n Trump campaign officials & Russian officials.
It's remarkable that ANY evidence has emerged, considering the FBI & Congress so far have refused to investigate.
Meanwhile, the neighboring human "farmers" over in Europe stand agape at the spectacle of the "animals," led by the pigs, having taken over the US "farm." Even Sean Spicer is starting to look like Squealer.
I say "seemingly" bc I think Trump's buffoonery is a diversionary tactic. A tactic more instinctive than calculated; the natural M.O. of the bully and narcissistic abuser. Constantly create "crazy-making" disruptions; tell lie upon lie w/o apology; gaslight incessantly until you succeed in redefining reality; follow one crisis immediately with another, so that the chaos never lets up -- all to keep everyone else off balance and running here and there, so no one they can focus on the true problem: Trump's collusion with Russia and its handmaiden Wikileaks in scuttling Hillary Clinton's campaign.
Some of the evidence is already in plain view, such as the change in the GOP plank on Ukraine, Artimenko's back-channel "peace plan" on Ukraine, which Cohen passed to Flynn during the RNC; the Alfa Bank pings of a Trump Organization server in Lititz, PA, esp during Carter Page's Russia trip; someone shutting down the server 3 days before Page left; countless meetings b/n Trump campaign officials & Russian officials.
It's remarkable that ANY evidence has emerged, considering the FBI & Congress so far have refused to investigate.
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"you shouldn't be talking to me you should be talking to Fox [as opposed clearly to his own Spokesman advocating the Fox view from the White House]."
Once again a sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
"we have something in common [inrespect of US surveillance activities]"
Another reminder that Trump, who is blind as to the deeply insensitive nature of his comment from the perspective of his guest) sees all things from his own extraordinarily self-centered vanatge point and a sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
The presence of Ivanka and Jared front and center at WH press conference with Merkel...a grating, constant reminder to all that they are dealing with a deeply immature, inexperienced, family-business-cum-government, administrarion...and yet another sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
Once again a sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
"we have something in common [inrespect of US surveillance activities]"
Another reminder that Trump, who is blind as to the deeply insensitive nature of his comment from the perspective of his guest) sees all things from his own extraordinarily self-centered vanatge point and a sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
The presence of Ivanka and Jared front and center at WH press conference with Merkel...a grating, constant reminder to all that they are dealing with a deeply immature, inexperienced, family-business-cum-government, administrarion...and yet another sign that Trump does not perceive reality sufficiently well to be considered mentally healthy.
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I entered a comment yesterday based on a Daily Mail Storey stating the US apologised to the UK for making the accusation that the UK spied on Trump.
Now today 18th March another storey has emerged in the same paper stating the US did not apologise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325612/No-White-House-apology-B...
A few years ago it was commonly written in the UK Press that GCHQ (UK Electronic surveillant department) Was used by the American Intelligence Services to carry out the surveillance they could not do. Because this surveillance was requested by the Americans if it was ever investigated, Nothing was ever found.
There is some credence to Trump's statements.
Now today 18th March another storey has emerged in the same paper stating the US did not apologise.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4325612/No-White-House-apology-B...
A few years ago it was commonly written in the UK Press that GCHQ (UK Electronic surveillant department) Was used by the American Intelligence Services to carry out the surveillance they could not do. Because this surveillance was requested by the Americans if it was ever investigated, Nothing was ever found.
There is some credence to Trump's statements.
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The sources for FAKE NEWS:
1) Fox
2) Trump
Both should be tried for libel.
1) Fox
2) Trump
Both should be tried for libel.
Clearly Trump did not communicate with Putin, otherwise the Russian leader would have explained to him how important it is to control the secret services and not to have them lined up against you. Maybe we will soon wake up with a President Pence (a nightmare of a different kind for the absence of a clown does not mean a return of decency).