The Donald Trump Score Card

And workers in industries impacted by foreign retaliation can try other lines of work. And we can all pay higher prices for steel and aluminum products. And American investors can worry about the careening stock market that now has three things to think about, all inter-related to the tariffs: inflation, rising interest rates in response, and a potential trade war!

 

Next will be the coal workers---they'll have "beautiful jobs." Fuckin'buffoon. How 'bout bringing all your familys businesses home , you liar. Damn---when will this comedy of errors come to an END!!

 

Tell that to BLUMP. He's a liar and a hypocrite---among other fine attributes. Do you admire him? And if you do--why?

 

I don't give a shit about Hillary--their time has come and gone. Obama is smart, an excellent family man and is NOT A SICK AND BAD GUY like that prick Blump said about him. What's to admire about Blump? YOU tell me.

 

Trump's tariff outburst was another example of his lashing out impulsively in response to being frustrated with the disjointed internal workings of his administration that he perceives as not being under his complete authority and control.

The lack of planning of the tariff outburst is similar to Trump's first travel ban.


Trump was angry and ‘unglued’ when he started a trade war, officials say
by Stephanie Ruhle and Peter Alexander
Mar 2 2018, 3:38 pm ET

Trump was angry and 'unglued' when he started a trade war, officials say

excerpt:

"A trifecta of events had set him off in a way that two officials said they had not seen before: Hope Hicks' testimony to lawmakers investigating Russia's interference in the 2016 election, conduct by his embattled attorney general and the treatment of his son-in-law by his chief of staff.

Trump, the two officials said, was angry and gunning for a fight, and he chose a trade war, spurred on by Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and Peter Navarro, the White House director for trade — and against longstanding advice from his economic chair Gary Cohn and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin.

There were no prepared, approved remarks for the president to give at the planned meeting, there was no diplomatic strategy for how to alert foreign trade partners, there was no legislative strategy in place for informing Congress and no agreed upon communications plan beyond an email cobbled together by Ross's team at the Commerce Department late Wednesday that had not been approved by the White House."

 

Trump's nativist and protectionist remarks have been one of his mainstays. He was railing against Japan and Saudi Arabie in the 1980's and even took out full-page ads in the New York Times and other papers to express it. He has shifted to anti-China rhetoric in recent years. It's not surprising that he relied on it again in the form of a tariff outburst to vent another one of his moments of personal frustration and anger.


That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy In 1987
A jab at Reagan?
Ilan Ben-Meir, BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on July 10, 2015, at 6:56 p.m.

That Time Trump Spent Nearly $100,000 On An Ad Criticizing U.S. Foreign Policy In 1987

excerpt:

"Donald Trump once spent nearly $100,000 to place a full-page advertisement criticizing U.S. foreign policy in the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe.

"There's nothing wrong with America's Foreign Defense Policy that a little backbone can't cure," the ad's headline blares. Below, the reader finds "an open letter from Donald J. Trump" -- addressed "To The American People" -- "on why America should stop paying to defend countries that can afford to defend themselves.""

 

Europe threatens to retaliate against the red states.


E.U. Leader Threatens to Retaliate With Tariffs on Bourbon and Bluejeans
by MELISSA EDDY and CHAD BRAY
MARCH 2, 2018

E.U. Leader Threatens to Retaliate With Tariffs on Bourbon and Bluejeans

 

Then why isn't the Donald doing anything about Russian attempts to interfere with our elections? And why are you still supporting him?

 

Scaramucci (Trump's former communications director whose tenure lasted 10 days) is making remarks again. His statement posted below sounds like he was referring to Trump but he was actually talking about Gen. Kelly.

Hope is gone in more than one way at the White House.


This week’s wild Trump White House chaos, explained
Hope Hicks is out. Kushner, McMaster, Cohn, and Sessions are all said to be on the ropes.
by Andrew Prokopandrew
Mar 2, 2018, 12:05pm EST

This week’s wild Trump White House chaos, explained

excerpt:

...Scaramucci asked Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg News. “The guy is a bad dude. Fear and intimidation doesn’t work in a civilian organization.”

 

Just another normal week in the world of Trump.

Trump's allies are really worried about him - CNN

"Multiple sources report an increasingly isolated Trump: cordoned off from old friends by Kelly, getting the cold shoulder from wife Melania (after Stormy Daniels and friends), increasing friction with his daughter and son-in-law over clearance, and home alone without longtime bodyguard/friend Keith Schiller and Hicks. His economic team is split over tariffs; his national security adviser, according to reports, will be replaced soon. No doubt the exodus will continue."

 

Why not support our country first all the way?

 

We mustn't forget the scandal swirling around Kushner and his debt problem over his Fifth Avenue property ( 666 Fifth Avenue. Hmmm. Why aren't the Evangelicals looking into that?)
Is Jared Kushner using the White House as his own personal boardroom?
Jared Kushner’s many, many scandals, explained
Kushner’s Family Business Received Loans After White House Meetings
Regulator seeks information about Kushner's ties to 3 banks - CNNPolitics
Jared Kushner’s Family Got Half a Billion in Loans After Key White House Meetings
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...8e748f892c0_story.html?utm_term=.d47694ddf6f1

It seems Kushner even pushed the blockade of Qtar, after that country turned down a loan to his family business.
Jared Kushner Backed Qatar Blockade a Month After Qataris Wouldn’t Finance His Property: Report
Kushner firm sought money from Qatar before blockade | Trump ignored ‘bright line’ in discussing Russia with Hope Hicks

 

And with all this going on, what is uppermost on the Donald's mind? Alec Baldwin. At 6:00 a.m.!
Trump calls Alec Baldwin's 'SNL' impression 'terrible' in latest tweet attack
Alec Baldwin Fires Back at Trump Criticism on Twitter
Trump said (how often have we heard it of other Trump critics) that Baldwin's career is dying.
Baldwin fired back:"I'd like to hang in there for the impeachment hearings, the resignation speech and the helicopter ride to Mara Lago."

Re the tariff thing, Trump says he want a trade war. Some may remember the Smoot-Hawley tariff which may have contributed to the Great Depression of the thirties. Just what we need! Trump: When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win." Some historians think the Smoot-Hawley tariff was a contributor to the Great Depression of the thirties.
http://americastradepolicy.com/did-the-smoot-hawley-tariff-cause-the-great-depression/#.Wpn8X3xG2Uk
What Caused the Great Depression? Exploring the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

 

Jared with no previous experience has had access to top secret security information for a year without having gone through a comprehensive background check. It should be cause for high concern. Some of the members of Congress have noted this security system vulnerability that exists in general at the White House.

Kelly finally downgraded Jared's clearance by one step which is a mild approach. Yet Scaramucci refers to Kelly as Gen. Jackass and accuses him of being a bad dude who uses fear and intimidation.


Kushner family solicited Qatari investment just before blockade: report
by Brandon Carter
03/02/18 11:25 AM EST

Kushner family solicited Qatari investment just before blockade: report

excerpt:

"Kushner’s attempts to secure foreign financing for his real estate company are reportedly being scrutinized by special counsel Robert Mueller, including a previous attempt to secure an investment from former Qatari Prime Minister Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani.

The Washington Post reported this week that foreign officials in four countries — the United Arab Emirates, China, Israel and Mexico — have privately talked about how they could gain leverage against Kushner by using his business interests and lack of foreign policy experience to their advantage.

Charles Kushner was imprisoned and disbarred after pleading guilty in 2005 to convictions of tax evasion and illegal campaign contributions."

 

Charles Kushner is the father of Jared. Charles engaged in nasty back-stabbing of his in-laws.

Charles donated $100,000 to Trump's 2016 Presidential campaign.


Charles Kushner - Wikipedia

excerpts:

"Charles Kushner (born May 16, 1954) is an American real estate developer. He founded Kushner Companies in 1985. In 2005, he was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion, and witness tampering, and served time in federal prison. After his release, he resumed his career in real estate. His son is Jared Kushner, who is the husband of Ivanka Trump and son-in-law and senior advisor to President of the United States Donald Trump."

"The witness-tampering charge arose from Kushner's act of retaliation against William Schulder, his sister Esther's husband, who was cooperating with federal investigators; Kushner hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law, arranged to record an encounter between the two, and had the tape sent to his sister.[16][17][18][15] Kushner was sentenced to two years in prison,[16] and served 14 months at Federal Prison Camp, Montgomery in Alabama[19][20] before being sent to a halfway house in Newark, New Jersey, to complete his sentence.[19][20][21] He was released from prison on August 25, 2006.[22]"

 

Jared Kushner 'tried and failed to get a $500m loan from Qatar before pushing Trump to take hard line against country'
The failed business deal has reignited concerns about Trump family conflicts of interest
Emily Shugerman New York
Monday 10 July 2017 20:31 BST

Jared Kushner 'tried and failed to get a $500m loan from Qatar before pushing hard line against country'

excerpt:

"In 2015 – while Donald Trump was firing up his presidential campaign – Mr Kushner was working with his biological father to keep the property from going underwater. The men zeroed in on Qatari billionaire sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani (HBJ) as a potential investor.

HBJ eventually agreed to invest $500m in the property, sources tell The Intercept, on the condition that Kushner Companies found the rest of the money for the multi-billion-dollar project on its own."

 

Russian hackers to blame for sparking Qatar crisis, FBI inquiry finds
Gulf state isolated by neighbours after freelance hacking operation planted fake news to discredit emir over his Islamist links
by Patrick Wintour, diplomatic editor
Wed 7 Jun 2017 11.40 EDT

Russian hackers to blame for sparking Qatar crisis, FBI inquiry finds

excerpt:

"In contrast, the US president weighed in with a series of tweets on Tuesday backing Saudi Arabia and asserting that Qatar was funding terrorism, a claim it vehemently denies.

There were signs that Trump’s enthusiasm for the Saudi-UAE assault on Qatar has unnerved the Pentagon and European capitals. The serving US ambassador to Qatar appeared to openly challenge Trump’s view that Qatar has been aiding terrorism."

 

The Trump administration is like 1980's episodes of the evening soap opera TV series 'Dallas' and 'Dynasty' with the oil tycoon family in-laws at each other's throats feuding over money and ego.

Those shows were a much milder version than the Trump administration.

The volatility and intrigue could have been at least an order of magnitude higher if the setting had been in the White House. TV show writers back then couldn't even come up with something as outlandish as what is happening in the U.S. today with Trump.

 

It turned out to be 'whining'.


Trump: 'Gonna win so much people will say we can't take it anymore'

"Mr. President, you're driving us crazy, you're winning too much, please Mr. President, not so much."