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Can't trust Trump
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Everyone has their style. All that matters is it works.
Look at the mess he created... global stock markets tanked after he decided to kill off the trade talk with China and raised tariffs on $200b of China imports into US and as a result , China also retaliated with tariffs of its own on US imports.
It is going to long-drawn battle with neither side winning at the end of the day.
Just a few weeks ago, he tweeted that he was going to have an epic deal signing with President Xi. Does it not remind you of the last ditched cancellation of the deal he was going to have with Kim of North Korea at Hanoi ?
It is going to long-drawn battle with neither side winning at the end of the day.
Just a few weeks ago, he tweeted that he was going to have an epic deal signing with President Xi. Does it not remind you of the last ditched cancellation of the deal he was going to have with Kim of North Korea at Hanoi ?
To the Trumpists, this is the way the world should work - constant chaos so that everyone is always on their toes, worried and no time to be lazy.
Trump is acting like a giant baby...throw tantrum when he is not breast-fed. Expect China to breast feed him if not he will cry to the whole world that he is a neglected child.
More stats to come.
By the way, wrong attribution. Easy money is the reason the stock market is soaring. When Fed raised rates, the market started to tank. Your hero, Trumpet, kicked and scream and forced the Fed to hold rates.
It is going to be an ulgy cleanup when the global economy blows up. And Trump's name will be on it. Ha, ha, ha.
What grade would you give to Donald Trump?
“There are only two grades to get,” goes the ancient snark, “A or F. Anything else, it’s as if you aren’t really trying.”
But it’s hard to know whether good grades predict success.
Donald Trump, of course, spent part of the 2016 campaign criticizing Barack Obama for being a terrible student, wondering aloud why the man had been admitted to Columbia and Harvard. He demanded — climbing upon his high pony — that Mr. Obama release his transcripts. Mr. Obama didn’t.
Then, last February, we learned that Mr. Trump’s former attack dog, Michael Cohen, had written letters to the Wharton School at Penn and to the College Board, threatening legal action if they released the president’s college transcripts or his SATs. You know, like if they did the exact same thing Mr. Trump had demanded of Mr. Obama.
The president has claimed he graduated first in his class at Wharton, which is — prepare yourself for a shock — an easily documented lie. He graduated without honors at Wharton, which means his grade point average in 1968 was probably less than 3.4 — a B, in fact. The gentleman’s failure.
What was it that prevented the man from graduating with honors, one wonders. Was his G.P.A. that low? Was he bad at statistics, like measuring crowd size? Is it possible they refused to give him honors because, even then, they had reservations about his performance in Self-Paced Narcissism?
Here’s a hint: If you fail at governance because the issues we face are incredibly complex, well, that’s an E, a good failure. But if you simply don’t care? And see no difference between a lie and the truth? Well, that’s an F, the same grade you might give a businessman if he’d lost more money, year after year, than any other American taxpayer.
“There are only two grades to get,” goes the ancient snark, “A or F. Anything else, it’s as if you aren’t really trying.”
But it’s hard to know whether good grades predict success.
Donald Trump, of course, spent part of the 2016 campaign criticizing Barack Obama for being a terrible student, wondering aloud why the man had been admitted to Columbia and Harvard. He demanded — climbing upon his high pony — that Mr. Obama release his transcripts. Mr. Obama didn’t.
Then, last February, we learned that Mr. Trump’s former attack dog, Michael Cohen, had written letters to the Wharton School at Penn and to the College Board, threatening legal action if they released the president’s college transcripts or his SATs. You know, like if they did the exact same thing Mr. Trump had demanded of Mr. Obama.
The president has claimed he graduated first in his class at Wharton, which is — prepare yourself for a shock — an easily documented lie. He graduated without honors at Wharton, which means his grade point average in 1968 was probably less than 3.4 — a B, in fact. The gentleman’s failure.
What was it that prevented the man from graduating with honors, one wonders. Was his G.P.A. that low? Was he bad at statistics, like measuring crowd size? Is it possible they refused to give him honors because, even then, they had reservations about his performance in Self-Paced Narcissism?
Here’s a hint: If you fail at governance because the issues we face are incredibly complex, well, that’s an E, a good failure. But if you simply don’t care? And see no difference between a lie and the truth? Well, that’s an F, the same grade you might give a businessman if he’d lost more money, year after year, than any other American taxpayer.
America may have its first royal family soon ...if King Trump succeeds in making Congressional oversight irrelevant.
and inaccurate
low interest rates and too much liquidity looking for sources of return are the reason for that.
Imperial Presidency ?
We watch daily as the constitutional and conventional fabric of this country is clawed at and unraveled by Donald Trump, while those with any power to prevent or punish his actions are suspended in a state of listlessness, making political calculations rather than performing constitutional duty.
We are drifting dangerously close to an imperial presidency that exists above and outside the rules we thought were designed to prevent such an occurrence.
There is no doubt whatsoever that Trump broke the law by obstructing justice, as he sought to end investigations into him, his campaign and his administration. The Mueller report makes that abundantly clear. Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to state declaratively that Trump committed a crime because of Department of Justice guidelines issued by the Office of Legal Counsel that are against indicting a sitting president.
That leaves the option of action up to Congress, the only avenue left by which a sitting president can be punished. That punishment is impeachment.
Democrats are trying to flex their muscle, to slowly build a case, but the cast is already being set.
They have opened a raft of investigations and even issued subpoenas, but Trump and his allies are executing a strategy of wholesale obstruction, refusing to comply in any way on any front. This is a severe challenge to Congress’s constitutional role of oversight.
As Kerry W. Kircher, former House general counsel for the last Republican majority, told The Washington Post, the confrontation is “a complete breakdown and complete obstruction of Congress’s role.”
He continued: “If the court signs off on this stuff, then we’ll have an imperial presidency,” and added, “We’ll have a presidency that will be largely unchecked.”
We watch daily as the constitutional and conventional fabric of this country is clawed at and unraveled by Donald Trump, while those with any power to prevent or punish his actions are suspended in a state of listlessness, making political calculations rather than performing constitutional duty.
We are drifting dangerously close to an imperial presidency that exists above and outside the rules we thought were designed to prevent such an occurrence.
There is no doubt whatsoever that Trump broke the law by obstructing justice, as he sought to end investigations into him, his campaign and his administration. The Mueller report makes that abundantly clear. Special Counsel Robert Mueller refused to state declaratively that Trump committed a crime because of Department of Justice guidelines issued by the Office of Legal Counsel that are against indicting a sitting president.
That leaves the option of action up to Congress, the only avenue left by which a sitting president can be punished. That punishment is impeachment.
Democrats are trying to flex their muscle, to slowly build a case, but the cast is already being set.
They have opened a raft of investigations and even issued subpoenas, but Trump and his allies are executing a strategy of wholesale obstruction, refusing to comply in any way on any front. This is a severe challenge to Congress’s constitutional role of oversight.
As Kerry W. Kircher, former House general counsel for the last Republican majority, told The Washington Post, the confrontation is “a complete breakdown and complete obstruction of Congress’s role.”
He continued: “If the court signs off on this stuff, then we’ll have an imperial presidency,” and added, “We’ll have a presidency that will be largely unchecked.”
Trump cancelled the trade deal with China because he thinks that USA is able to get more out of it than China. China will face a bigger impact due to its slowing economy, high debt levels and foreign companies fleeing China for non tariff countries. Trump has no intention to get a fair deal. He wants a deal that will keep USA at the top of the world's economy, global technology, innovation, military might and even manufacturing.
As tariffs increases will drive manufacturers out, China's role as the world 's manufacturer and supply hub will be diminished. Millions of jobs will be eliminated in the process. In order to cushion the economic impact, the Chinese government plans to unleash huge stimulus measures to prop up the economy. This , however, comes at a huge cost as the debt level in China reaches more than 300 per cent of GDP.
Moreover, Trump bans Huawei , China top technology company , access to the US market and also sanctions US suppliers to buy and sell to Huawei , effectively crippling Huawei to supply its 5G technology, devices and equipments to the rest of the world. Restrictions on Chinese investment in the US, especially in technology-related areas, risk stalling the transfer of technologies and foreign know-how, slowing China's move up the value chain, said Zhuang Bo, chief China economist in Beijing at research firm TS Lombard. Even worse may await should Mr Trump add export tariffs or ban shipments of key technology components to China, especially semi-conductors, said Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Natixis SA in Hong Kong. That would strangle the Chinese economy, she says.
The potential long term cost is huge even with the stimulus package to rev up the China economy. Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie Securities Ltd in Hong Kong commented that "They must know that Japan fell into the lost decade partly because the Bank of Japan overstimulated the Japanese economy after the Plaza Accord."
Analysts are projecting that if US proceeds to raise tariffs to 25% for all China imports to US, the economic impact to China could be a 1.5% drag on its GDP. This means that China 's overall GDP may go below 6% in 2019 and worse in 2020.
China's leaders know the challenges ahead. Liu He, China vice premier and lead negotiator, was sent to US for a last-ditch effort to secure a deal , but it did not come through. Trump would not want a half bake deal. He knows he has China at the throat.
As tariffs increases will drive manufacturers out, China's role as the world 's manufacturer and supply hub will be diminished. Millions of jobs will be eliminated in the process. In order to cushion the economic impact, the Chinese government plans to unleash huge stimulus measures to prop up the economy. This , however, comes at a huge cost as the debt level in China reaches more than 300 per cent of GDP.
Moreover, Trump bans Huawei , China top technology company , access to the US market and also sanctions US suppliers to buy and sell to Huawei , effectively crippling Huawei to supply its 5G technology, devices and equipments to the rest of the world. Restrictions on Chinese investment in the US, especially in technology-related areas, risk stalling the transfer of technologies and foreign know-how, slowing China's move up the value chain, said Zhuang Bo, chief China economist in Beijing at research firm TS Lombard. Even worse may await should Mr Trump add export tariffs or ban shipments of key technology components to China, especially semi-conductors, said Alicia Garcia Herrero, chief Asia-Pacific economist at Natixis SA in Hong Kong. That would strangle the Chinese economy, she says.
The potential long term cost is huge even with the stimulus package to rev up the China economy. Larry Hu, chief China economist at Macquarie Securities Ltd in Hong Kong commented that "They must know that Japan fell into the lost decade partly because the Bank of Japan overstimulated the Japanese economy after the Plaza Accord."
Analysts are projecting that if US proceeds to raise tariffs to 25% for all China imports to US, the economic impact to China could be a 1.5% drag on its GDP. This means that China 's overall GDP may go below 6% in 2019 and worse in 2020.
China's leaders know the challenges ahead. Liu He, China vice premier and lead negotiator, was sent to US for a last-ditch effort to secure a deal , but it did not come through. Trump would not want a half bake deal. He knows he has China at the throat.
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Trump is lifting tariffs on Canada and Mexico ... but why so many hurdles on China ? China is willing to import billions of dollars of American agricultural goods.
My relationship with President Xi is very good... that 's hogwash .. you don't strangle a friend to death. Xi has no choice , but to respond and push back.
An Ode to Desperate 'Don' - by Charles M Blow
Donald Trump lies all the time. We know that. Some of us are incensed and disgusted by this. Others have been worn out by it. But, few even attempt to deny or excuse it anymore. It has simply become a recognized feature of the man and a predicament for the country. Last month, The Washington Post’s fact-checker column announced that Trump had reached the ignominious marker of having told more than 10,000 false and misleading claims as president. And, the pace has quickened from the early periods of his presidency, in what The Post called a “tsunami of untruths.”
Trump lies about everything and for every reason. He lies to brag. He lies to deflect. He lies to inflate. He lies to defame. He lies to praise. He sometimes seems to lie just for the sport of it.
He is being trained, right before our eyes, to see that there is no cost for this deceit among the people who support him. He can lie at a rally, right to their faces, and they will still cheer. He can lie in public proclamations, and the Republican cowards in Congress will find a way to defend, rationalize or forgive it.
When a dyed-in-the-wool thief realizes that there are no consequences for theft, everything not nailed down will go missing. The same is true of the liar: When there is no consequence, the deceiver is unbound and unashamed.
But, to me, it is when Trump lies out of desperation, out of the fear of being found out, blamed, reprimanded, possibly even abandoned, that most people can relish it. It is in those moments that Trump is most human and our ire toward this liar is most vindicated and validated.
In those moments, at least when he makes a public appearance in conjunction, his eyes are stretched wide and his face flush. He looks defensive and nervous. The above-it-all posture of imperviousness vanishes, and he is reduced to the most mortal of beings, one for whom, like the rest of us, the truth still has purchase and power.
Last week, court records were unsealed that showed that Michael Flynn, President Trump’s onetime national security adviser, gave Robert Mueller and his team a voice-mail recording of a conversation in which Trump’s lawyers tried to influence his cooperation with the investigators.
This was a smoking gun of a revelation which blew yet another hole in Trump’s false “no collusion, no obstruction” mantra. And it adds weight to the House Democrats’ debate about whether they should perform their constitutional duty to impeach or whether they will allow this man to continue unchastened.
Trump, realizing the threat that the revelation poses, turned to Twitter … and lied. He wrote: “It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?”
As CNN put it: “Trump’s tweet is misleading and lacks context. For starters, the Justice Department and F.B.I. conduct all their investigations in secret, including the one into Flynn. Trump also fails to mention that he was repeatedly warned about Flynn, though not by the Justice Department, but he ignored that political advice and gave him a top job in the administration.”
Trump knows his statement is off, but he also knows that the truth has the capacity to harm when one operates in an arena beyond it. That tweet, unlike lying about his wall of hate already being under construction, is born of fear. I can just imagine the beads of sweat forming on the philtrum above his upper lip as his thumbs tap this falsehood on this phone. He grimaces; I smile.
In all those moments, he simply reeks of dread and trepidation. In those moments, we are reminded that Trump knows what other thinking people know: In a world not blinded and numbed by racial tribalism, demographic fears and cultural panic, these issues that barely nick him would cut him smooth and deep.
It is in those moments that we are reminded of what normal felt like, when an apology or explanation was compelled, and politicians confronted their foibles with some degree of contrition.
Trump knows nothing of contrition, but take his moments of desperation as proof that the world has not completely gone mad, that sin still has the ability to convict.
Donald Trump lies all the time. We know that. Some of us are incensed and disgusted by this. Others have been worn out by it. But, few even attempt to deny or excuse it anymore. It has simply become a recognized feature of the man and a predicament for the country. Last month, The Washington Post’s fact-checker column announced that Trump had reached the ignominious marker of having told more than 10,000 false and misleading claims as president. And, the pace has quickened from the early periods of his presidency, in what The Post called a “tsunami of untruths.”
Trump lies about everything and for every reason. He lies to brag. He lies to deflect. He lies to inflate. He lies to defame. He lies to praise. He sometimes seems to lie just for the sport of it.
He is being trained, right before our eyes, to see that there is no cost for this deceit among the people who support him. He can lie at a rally, right to their faces, and they will still cheer. He can lie in public proclamations, and the Republican cowards in Congress will find a way to defend, rationalize or forgive it.
When a dyed-in-the-wool thief realizes that there are no consequences for theft, everything not nailed down will go missing. The same is true of the liar: When there is no consequence, the deceiver is unbound and unashamed.
But, to me, it is when Trump lies out of desperation, out of the fear of being found out, blamed, reprimanded, possibly even abandoned, that most people can relish it. It is in those moments that Trump is most human and our ire toward this liar is most vindicated and validated.
In those moments, at least when he makes a public appearance in conjunction, his eyes are stretched wide and his face flush. He looks defensive and nervous. The above-it-all posture of imperviousness vanishes, and he is reduced to the most mortal of beings, one for whom, like the rest of us, the truth still has purchase and power.
Last week, court records were unsealed that showed that Michael Flynn, President Trump’s onetime national security adviser, gave Robert Mueller and his team a voice-mail recording of a conversation in which Trump’s lawyers tried to influence his cooperation with the investigators.
This was a smoking gun of a revelation which blew yet another hole in Trump’s false “no collusion, no obstruction” mantra. And it adds weight to the House Democrats’ debate about whether they should perform their constitutional duty to impeach or whether they will allow this man to continue unchastened.
Trump, realizing the threat that the revelation poses, turned to Twitter … and lied. He wrote: “It now seems the General Flynn was under investigation long before was common knowledge. It would have been impossible for me to know this but, if that was the case, and with me being one of two people who would become president, why was I not told so that I could make a change?”
As CNN put it: “Trump’s tweet is misleading and lacks context. For starters, the Justice Department and F.B.I. conduct all their investigations in secret, including the one into Flynn. Trump also fails to mention that he was repeatedly warned about Flynn, though not by the Justice Department, but he ignored that political advice and gave him a top job in the administration.”
Trump knows his statement is off, but he also knows that the truth has the capacity to harm when one operates in an arena beyond it. That tweet, unlike lying about his wall of hate already being under construction, is born of fear. I can just imagine the beads of sweat forming on the philtrum above his upper lip as his thumbs tap this falsehood on this phone. He grimaces; I smile.
In all those moments, he simply reeks of dread and trepidation. In those moments, we are reminded that Trump knows what other thinking people know: In a world not blinded and numbed by racial tribalism, demographic fears and cultural panic, these issues that barely nick him would cut him smooth and deep.
It is in those moments that we are reminded of what normal felt like, when an apology or explanation was compelled, and politicians confronted their foibles with some degree of contrition.
Trump knows nothing of contrition, but take his moments of desperation as proof that the world has not completely gone mad, that sin still has the ability to convict.
More fake news. What else is new?
Hussein had his 8 years. Let Trump have his.
When ur economy doing well u dont go create problem and tension all over the place. Is only when something is not right then u try to cover up ur home domestic issue by creating havoc elswhere to divert attention. Thus u have dotard intervening in Venezuela, Syria, China (trade war) and now Iran.
As for those numbers above, it wont last long. Dotard forcing Fed not to raise interest rate. How long can it last?
When fake news isn't fake news ...
President Trump has claimed that the mainstream American media regularly reports fake news. His usage of the term has increased distrust of the American media globally, particularly in Russia. His claims have given credibility to the stories in the Russian media that label American news, especially news about atrocities committed by the Syrian regime against its own people, where it was quoted that "munitions at the air base had as much to do with chemical weapons as the test tube in the hands of Colin Powell had to do with weapons of mass destruction in Iraq", as just more fake American news.
Trump has carried on a war against the mainstream media, often attacking it as "fake news" and "the "enemy of the people".
According to Jeff Hemsley, a Syracuse University professor who studies social media, Trump uses this term for any news that is not favorable to him or which he simply dislikes.Trump provided a widely cited example of this interpretation in a tweet on May 9, 2018:
Donald J. Trump via Twitter@realDonaldTrump
The Fake News is working overtime. Just reported that, despite the tremendous success we are having with the economy & all things else, 91% of the Network News about me is negative (Fake). Why do we work so hard in working with the media when it is corrupt? Take away credentials?
May 9, 2018
Chris Cillizza described the tweet on CNN as an "accidental" revelation about Trump's "'fake news' attacks", and wrote: "The point can be summed up in these two words from Trump: 'negative (Fake).' To Trump, those words mean the same thing. Negative news coverage is fake news. Fake news is negative news coverage."
Other writers made similar comments about the tweet. Dara Lind wrote in Vox: "It's nice of Trump to admit, explicitly, what many skeptics have suspected all along: When he complains about 'fake news,' he doesn't actually mean 'news that is untrue'; he means news that is personally inconvenient to Donald Trump."
Jonathan Chait wrote in New York magazine: "Trump admits he calls all negative news 'fake'.": "In a tweet this morning, Trump casually opened a window into the source code for his method of identifying liberal media bias. Anything that's negative is, by definition, fake."Philip Bump wrote in The Washington Post: "The important thing in that tweet....is that he makes explicit his view of what constitutes fake news. It's negative news. Negative. (Fake.)" In an interview with Lesley Stahl, before the cameras were turned on, Trump explained why he attacks the press: "You know why I do it? I do it to discredit you all and demean you all so that when you write negative stories about me no one will believe you."
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