[Discussion] The Donald Trump Administration

Let's follow and discuss what our newest presidential administration gets up to, the good, the bad, the lawsuits.

Sorry, but this just springs right to my mind.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

John Boehner says Trump's term has been a "disaster" so far, except for foreign affairs. Apparently he hadn't seen the news out of Brussels yet.

Alternate Headline: Former politican unhappy with the end result of his actions... still doesn't acknowledge how he helped create that end result.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

John Boehner says Trump's term has been a "disaster" so far, except for foreign affairs. Apparently he hadn't seen the news out of Brussels yet.

You know it's bad when the Oompa Loompas start to turn on each other...

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Those bad, bad germans at Der Spiegel accurately sum up the situation:

Donald Trump is not fit to be president of the United States. He does not possess the requisite intellect and does not understand the significance of the office he holds nor the tasks associated with it. He doesn't read. He doesn't bother to peruse important files and intelligence reports and knows little about the issues that he has identified as his priorities. His decisions are capricious and they are delivered in the form of tyrannical decrees.

He is a man free of morals. As has been demonstrated hundreds of times, he is a liar, a racist and a cheat. I feel ashamed to use these words, as sharp and loud as they are. But if they apply to anyone, they apply to Trump. And one of the media's tasks is to continue telling things as they are: Trump has to be removed from the White House. Quickly. He is a danger to the world.

I want to see this everywhere, in every country.

I still can't believe he actually went after German car manufacturers. That's just ludicrous. As was said earlier, we're manufacturing those "German cars" here in the United States. For years here in Alabama getting a job at the Mercedes plant was THE goal for most non-professionals. It paid a ton (comparatively) and they had fantastic benefits with lots of job security as long as you showed up and worked. If anything it was the pinnacle of the blue collar American dream. Go to work in a factory, make big metal things that people can buy, work with your hands, work long shifts, make good money and have a nice retirement. And now we're going to say they should gtfo so Ford and Chevy can sell more cars since those companies were started here in America?

Nobody knew car manufacturing could be so complicated.

JC wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

John Boehner says Trump's term has been a "disaster" so far, except for foreign affairs. Apparently he hadn't seen the news out of Brussels yet.

You know it's bad when the Oompa Loompas start to turn on each other...

Orange on orange violence.

DSGamer wrote:
JC wrote:
ClockworkHouse wrote:

John Boehner says Trump's term has been a "disaster" so far, except for foreign affairs. Apparently he hadn't seen the news out of Brussels yet.

You know it's bad when the Oompa Loompas start to turn on each other...

Orange on orange violence.

And between the two of these, I'm now in tears.

Stengah wrote:

Nobody knew car manufacturing could be so complicated.

lol perfect.

Malor wrote:

That really makes me wonder how pro-Trump voters in southern Tennessee will be reacting now, since an awful lot of them are employed by VW.

Doesn't matter what he does. It's always better than what Hillary would've done...

I'm glad too see more people from the GOP turning against Trump, but it's not enough. They invested so much time and energy into demonizing the Clintons that too many conservatives think anything that stops "Killary" serves the GREATER GOOD, no matter how f*cked up it is.

Evan McMullin, throwing a little shade:

In the intelligence business, this is called a "comms plan." Usually, however, it's proposed by the officer, not the traitor.
ranalin wrote:

Doesn't matter what he does. It's always better than what Hillary would've done...

I was literally told this today by a "No Trump" Republican who voted for Trump because Goresuch. He doesn't like Trump. Doesn't think that he's done as much damage as Hillary would have, though. (He also thinks the latest budget "is a good start" but doesn't cut far enough, and asserted that literally no "big government program" could ever be successful; apparently there are books about that.)

He's praying for President Pence. Not praying against Trump, mind you; he's not seen any problems with racism or ethics or morality since Trump's election. But he wants an experienced politician who isn't some namby-pamby half-liberal to take the reigns.

Back-channel communications between heads of state through non-official channels are fairly standard practice. It's the only way to get smoke-filled back room deals done when everything you do is public. I'm not exactly sure what the real issue is here. Aside from the fact that Trump should already have ways of telling his KGB handlers that he needs to talk to Putin. That's what cloaks and daggers and dead drops are for.

ranalin wrote:
Malor wrote:

That really makes me wonder how pro-Trump voters in southern Tennessee will be reacting now, since an awful lot of them are employed by VW.

Doesn't matter what he does. It's always better than what Hillary would've done...

I live in Southern Tennessee, and I can tell you that the rumblings of concern are starting. Several of those plants closed on 2008, and people are worrying it'll happen again.

http://mobile.reuters.com/article/Bi...

Undisclosed conversations with the Russians during the campaign in addition to trying to set up his own communication channel after the election.

I'm starting to think Kushner is going to go down, even if Trump himself doesn't.

Mixolyde wrote:

Back-channel communications between heads of state through non-official channels are fairly standard practice. It's the only way to get smoke-filled back room deals done when everything you do is public. I'm not exactly sure what the real issue is here.

Because there are established ways of setting up those non-official channels and smoke-filled back rooms. Going to the ambassador of another country before you're sworn into office and asking if you can use their secure channels to talk to their country is very unusual.

Kushner allegedly went to the Russian ambassador and asked if Trump could use the channels that Kislyak himself uses to talk to Moscow instead of using any of the existing channels or mechanisms for communication with Russia. That's really weird and raises the question of why the administration would want that arrangement.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Kushner allegedly went to the Russian ambassador and asked if Trump could use the channels that Kislyak himself uses to talk to Moscow instead of using any of the existing channels or mechanisms for communication with Russia.

"Hey man, can my daddy-in-law borrow your phone?"

Mixolyde wrote:

Back-channel communications between heads of state through non-official channels are fairly standard practice. It's the only way to get smoke-filled back room deals done when everything you do is public. I'm not exactly sure what the real issue is here. Aside from the fact that Trump should already have ways of telling his KGB handlers that he needs to talk to Putin. That's what cloaks and daggers and dead drops are for.

This was pre-inauguration, so Trump wasn't even in office yet. Also, as one former senior intelligence official said,

“How would he trust that the Russians wouldn’t leak it on their side?” The FBI would know that a Trump transition official was going in and out of the embassy, which would cause “a great deal” of concern, he added. The entire idea, he said, “seems extremely naive or absolutely crazy.”

IMAGE(http://s3.reutersmedia.net/resources/r/?m=02&d=20170527&t=2&i=1186467602&w=640&fh=&fw=&ll=&pl=&sq=&r=LYNXMPED4Q017)So huge side note but all these Kushner pics make me wonder, does he ever not look like someone just walked in on him unexpectedly? Dude lower those eyebrows. "Oh, I thought the door was locked"

Chairman_Mao wrote:

The entire idea, he said, “seems extremely naive or absolutely crazy.”

Describes the whole administration.

Stele wrote:
Chairman_Mao wrote:

The entire idea, he said, “seems extremely naive or absolutely crazy.”

Describes the whole administration.

who would have thought the sequel to Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close could actually be worse?

The lead story on Fox news, and the first thing you see on the mobile site is this image of a shady looking Kushner beside a shady looking Russian:

IMAGE(http://a57.foxnews.com/www.foxnews.com/images/root_images/0/155/KushnerKislyak397260_20170526_195509.jpg?ve=1&tl=1)

I think Kushner is going down. He just looks too damn shady and keeping him around makes the whole White House look shady. I think if Trump plays this well and cuts Kushner loose he will be fine himself, but it would be uncharacteristic of Trump to actually handle things intelligently.

So does this make trump look bad or just his son in law? what's the punishment for something like this?

Welp, no way Kushner will be bringing peace to the Middle East now, let alone retool our entire government to fix all its problems.

Thanks a lot, investigative journalism...

FiveIron wrote:

So does this make trump look bad or just his son in law? what's the punishment for something like this?

Makes Trump look like a pawn if he is really out of the loop. Punishment? Trump bringing it up at every damn family gathering....

Trump has apparently been toxic for Breitbart’s readership numbers

Quoting Vanity Fair‘s Tina Nguyen, the piece notes that Breitbart has dropped from the 29th-highest ranked site on the internet, back in February, to 281st today. The piece puts forward a couple of different rationales for the conservative mouthpiece’s sudden decline—which mimics, but on a far more dramatic scale, similar losses at a number of right-leaning media outfits, including Fox News—but they mostly boil down to “This is the asshole you’re choosing to defend?”