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The 2018 Trump Presidency thread

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mal3volent said:
This press conference is so embarrassing. Jesus fucking Christ.
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The media consensus is pretty much the same. I'll take the label as ignorant on my part, but I wasn't even sure until watching Kasie DC last night that Putin even had a command of English and indeed he does, but he always speaks Russian through a translator so he's able to carefully parse his words. Then you have the arrogant Trump thinking he's an equal or even has the upper hand and it becomes absolutely laughable.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/15/...ackage-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
 
JGrimez said:
The article could have gone without the inflammatory comments but what it reported did happen. The balloon was expected to be huge and turned out to be very small.
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Yeah, if only it were as fat as the real Donald J. Trump. Then the whole world could have seen it simultaneously.

alasdairm said:
perhaps they were just mirroring trump and his administration generally :)

alasdair
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LOL oh zing man

alasdairm took the cake

For real though I can count on one FINGER the only ONE good thing the Trump administration did for the world, and that was to prop up pharma and speed up drug approval process with the FDA.

I stretch my mind to count it as a good thing, as we need a huge overhaul on the FDA, DEA, and a lot of the gov't fat.

JGrimez said:
All for small goverment
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The deficit went up... that's essentially the opposite of small gov't. People like Price and Pruitt fleecing the gov't for millions is the exact opposite of small government.

I think you want to think highly of the Trump administration and stuff, but your ideas are a bit off. The Republicans have dropped the ball on countless things recently.
 
well trump seems to have finally done some uniting! democrats and republicans, cnn, fox and many other media companies. bloggers and commentators and many other people are condemning trump's press conference e.g.

Trump faces bipartisan criticism over press conference with Putin

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republican senator john mccain said:
President Trump proved not only unable, but unwilling to stand up to Putin. He and Putin seemed to be speaking from the same script as the president made a conscious choice to defend a tyrant against the fair questions of a free press, and to grant Putin an uncontested platform to spew propaganda and lies to the world...
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republican senator jeff flake said:
I never thought I would see the day when our American President would stand on the stage with the Russian President and place blame on the United States for Russian aggression. This is shameful...
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neil cavuto of fox said:
It’s not a right or left thing to me ― it’s just wrong...
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abby huntsman of fox and friends said:
No negotiation is worth throwing your own people and country under the bus...
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anderson cooper on cnn said:
You have been watching perhaps one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president at a summit in front of a Russian leader, that I have ever seen...
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man, when cnn and fox are on the same page, you know trump done fucked up.

interested in the opinions of our resident trump apologists in the forum...

alasdair
 
and orrin hatch - hardly a typical liberal sympathizer - had this to say:

orrin hatch said:
Russia interfered in the 2016 election. Our nation’s top intelligence agencies all agree on that point...

From the President on down, we must do everything in our power to protect our democracy...by securing future elections from foreign influence and interference, regardless of what Vladimir Putin or any other Russian operative says.
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I trust the good work of our intelligence and law enforcement personnel who have sworn to protect the United States of America from enemies foreign and domestic...
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he blew the chance to unequivocally condemn white supremacists in charlottesville. he had a golden chance to unequivocally condemn russia's actions today and he blew that too.

alasdair
 
alasdairm said:
well trump seems to have finally done some uniting! democrats and republicans, cnn, fox and many other media companies. bloggers and commentators and many other people are condemning trump's press conference e.g.

Trump faces bipartisan criticism over press conference with Putin

some quotes:











man, when cnn and fox are on the same page, you know trump done fucked up.

interested in the opinions of our resident trump apologists in the forum...

alasdair
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You'd have to be blind to be surprised at this turn of events. I mean, with Trumps track record, his support of Russia and defense of them doesn't seem surprising to me at all.

The guys a corrupt asshole. He acts like a corrupt asshole. What else can you expect?
 
i'm not surprised but it is telling that many on the right side of the spectrum are not beating about the bush with their responses...

alasdair
 
JessFR said:
You'd have to be blind to be surprised at this turn of events. I mean, with Trumps track record, his support of Russia and defense of them doesn't seem surprising to me at all.

The guys a corrupt asshole. He acts like a corrupt asshole. What else can you expect?
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It's kinda frightening how little we expect from the goddamn US President :|
 
JGrimez said:
The article could have gone without the inflammatory comments but what it reported did happen. The balloon was expected to be huge and turned out to be very small.
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Looked pretty big to me, did the job anyway and it was really funny, good article wirth the read. Thankyou <3
 
Considering the amount of wars they started I'm not missing the Bushes, Clintons or Obama. Hoping that there will be someone not of their ilk that will kick out the clown.
 
I hope so too.

Now is the time for radical change, and i hope some people with some vision can capitalise on that...
 
Sorry to double-post, but i just caught up on trump's presser with Putin.

Holy fuck!

This is incredible - it's just so out in the open now - trump's efforts to deny being a russian assett were so feeble and half-arsed.

Surely this is the (continued) beginning of the end for trump? In any sane world (or...country?) his presidency must be untenable now?

Just wow.
 
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