The Donald Trump Score Card

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Each time he flies to Florida to play golf at Mar-A-Lago it costs the Taxpayers about four and a half million bucks. Then, his resort bills the Taxpayers for the presidential entourage and secret service for their rooms and munchies.

 

I just bet Mister Magoo wants to be invited to play golf too

 

NO , he has a right to RUN THIS COUNTRY like a balanced, sane, duly elected head of the UNITED STATES. You folks that just love him think he's doing that? The prick is afraid to enact new sanctions on Russia that were voted on and passed. The byzantine twists and turns that CONTINUE to occur are NOT good for this country. So, he gets pissed off about --who knows what and fires off some figures that will be deleterious to american workers in the end. (that's not me saying that--many on both sides of the aisle are saying it.) Quote from Blump= "maybe this country will have a lifetime president some day." Maga--Mueller ain't going away, dipshit!

His major concern is Alec Baldwin?

 

A little??????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this is the guy who begrudged Obama a fraction of the time to unwind.
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The rank hypocrisy is stifling.

 

Trump has stated publicly that he thinks trade wars are good and easy to win.

Trump is well known for his desire to start fights with people and continue them for years or decades over the most trivial of issues so that, in his mind, he can perceive that he won something even if he has lost. Trump is still battling a two-decades ego fight with Vanity Fair over his small hands. Trump claimed his casino bankruptcies were a success because he was the smartest by failing early before others failed who supposedly lost more money than he did. He has stated that he has never lost at anything. He has said that he hits back ten times harder when someone hits him.

Tariff wars lend themselves readily to these pathological attributes of his personality. They can be started easily, unilaterally, and solely by Trump. They can be escalated for the purposes of him deriving his insatiable need for ego pleasure by thinking that he got even with someone and won. Tariffs can be used as threats that Trump preceives as a bargaining chip in his spur-of-the-moment, transactional style of dealmaking to try to quickly get other things he wants at the expense of others. In contrast to coalition building and cooperation, it's a self-centered, coercive, zero-sum approach that he has carried over from his Manhattan real estate dealings.

Tariffs are canon fodder for Trump's decades-old protectionism stance and garner support from what remains of his populist-oriented base.

 

I would vote for him. I like Okie! Okie is smarter then Trumpy.

 

Thanks, Stormy. What Cabinet position would you like?

 

Trump has relied on long-time personal confidants as President but even that is evaporating. Keith Schiller and Hope Hicks are gone. They were emotional support for Trump and had an ability to calm his explosive angry moments. Trump resuming conversations with Scaramucci is scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Recently he has turned to his Palm Beach two-decade friend, billionaire, and commerce secretary Wilbur Ross and the Ross-promoted tariffs as a means of venting his frustrations.

Trump has never exited campaign mode and appears eager for the 2020 campaign to start in earnest so that he can once again portray himself as the ultimate showman.


Donald Trump’s bubble presidency
He has largely done away with the political optics of rubbing shoulders with members of the public, instead cloistering himself in the White House and at his clubs.
By NANCY COOK and ANDREW RESTUCCIA
03/04/2018 05:53 PM EST

excerpts:

“President Trump has never lived a governing life before the White House. When you lead an institution and you have to govern, you create a climate of invitation. You invite people to be part of the initiative rather than dictate,” said Andy Card, former chief of staff to President George W. Bush. “If you come from the background of running a private company without a challenging board of directors or shareholders, that is much different than having to build coalitions. That has been a challenge for him.”

Bush spent about six weeks visiting different states following one State of the Union to pump up support for his policy to-do list, like the No Child Left Behind Law and tax cuts, Card said. Obama similarly traveled to promote the Affordable Care Act and the stimulus plan, and was often photographed sitting down for one-on-one conversations with people he’d traveled to meet.

“They don’t have a Karl Rove or Barry Jackson, who can say, ‘Hey, you just pitched these ideas. Here’s how we can make them happen,’” said one former White House official, referring to two top George W. Bush advisers. “It is one thing to the next, and White House staffers all have their own fiefdoms.”

Instead, the president relies on personal friends and longtime allies for a line to the outside world, according to people close to him. Corey Lewandowski, his former campaign manager, recently took a meeting in the Oval Office, while the president lately has resumed phone conversations with Anthony Scaramucci, the ex-White House communications director who lasted just 11 days, close White House advisers say."

 

except that most of trump's decisions end up hurting his base.

 

Special counsel wants documents on Trump, numerous campaign associates
by Katy Tur and Alex Johnson
Mar 5 2018, 12:00 am ET

Special counsel wants documents on Trump, numerous campaign associates

 

'Trump trying to garner support from the fraction of his populist base who still remain faithful to him after being badly damaged by him' might be more concise.

The string of special elections during the past year won by Democrats in districts and states that Trump won by large margins in 2016 indicate that the fraction has been significantly reduced.

 

Comic relief video SNL

Trump: "I said I was going to run this country like a business. That business is a waffle house at 2 a.m."

 

Thank you Brother Okie; however, I like living on welfare, driving a welfare Cadillac, and socializing with the poorest sector of American society. Can you just send me the $31,000.00 dinette set that Ben Carson will not be using in his government office? Can you let me play in your private golf club?

 

Well, his base will have to stop using OxyContin to be able to understand what happened to them.

 

The Trump golf clubs just got busted with the illegal use of the Presidential Seal of the USA. Using the seal is not allowed outside the government. Trump's golf courses are installing golf club equipment which bears the seal. It sounds like a big NO-NO to me. Republicans often disregard the law and Trump is no exception.

 

More 2 a.m. waffle house mayhem at the the luxury Trump hotel in Panama.

Trump will claim that he was a success there because his competitors supposedly later failed even more because they didn't get as much of the mafia money as he did from what he would call a shithole country.

Add Trump Turmoil and Mueller Martini to the cocktail list.


Battle rages for control of Trump hotel in Panama
by Associated Press
Mar 5 2018, 4:12 pm ET

Battle rages for control of Trump hotel in Panama

excerpt:

"The hotel remains open for business against a backdrop of service interruptions, bad press and a fight over the Trump Organization's management contract that ended in fisticuffs and repeated police calls last week.

"This isn't what you expect from a luxury hotel," one guest was heard fuming when told that access to running water would not be restored for hours.

"I could really do without the Trump Mojito. There are like four or five Trump drinks on the menu," said Leanne Horning, a tourist from Chicago staying at the hotel because she got a good deal online.

Horning is "adamantly not" a supporter of the U.S. president and said it irked her that instead of ordering standard cocktails, guests had to choose from among the Tropical Trump, Trump Breeze and Trump Rose.

 

In front of reporters, Trump confuses the cost of a temporary office inside an existing consular building (a few hundred thousand dollars) with the cost of a new embassy (on the order of a billion dollars).


FACT CHECK: Is Trump Building A $250,000 Embassy in Jerusalem?
Domenico Montanaro - 2015
March 5, 20185:55 PM ET

FACT CHECK: Is Trump Building A $250,000 Embassy in Jerusalem?

excerpt:

"He then boasted: "$250,000 versus a billion dollars."

Turning to an already laughing Netanyahu, he asked rhetorically, "Is that good?""

 

The limitations of Trump trying to portray himself as a great transactional global dealmaker.

Trump has a long history of not following through on his side of his deals.

His latest tactic is to use the threat of tariffs to try to renegotiate NAFTA.


The Trump administration wants to negotiate big deals with other countries. That's easier said than done.
The trouble with grand bargains among great powers.
by Daniel W. Drezner
December 21, 2016

https://www.washingtonpost.com/post...easier-said-than-done/?utm_term=.2e5d9e7db1ac

excerpt:

"This leads to the last problem with transactional diplomacy: What happens after the deal is struck? How is any deal honored? For bargains to hold, there has to be credible commitments of one kind or another. Those commitments are going to be very difficult for a Trump administration to provide. Foreign ministries across the world are no doubt perusing Trump’s business career and noting that an awful lot of his deals seem to end up in litigation. We’re told time and again to take Trump’s words seriously or symbolically, but not literally. The thing is, international negotiation are kind of obsessed with, you know, the literal words on the page. Trump’s erratic rhetoric will make credible commitments harder to proffer up. Oh, and if Trump shreds existing arrangements like the Iran deal, negotiating partners are going to wonder just how long any deal with Trump would last after he exits the Oval Office."

 

The important thing here is that both Rump and Nothingyahoo think it's OK to do ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. East Jerusalem has twice been reaffirmed by the United Nations as Palestinian. East Jerusalem is part of the Occupied Palestinian Lands. The Palestinians have lived there for at least 1550 years. Before that the Romans and Persians had the place until the Muslims moved in. The Jewish inhabitants left the place after Roman persecution around 2000 years ago. Until the end of World War I, the Turkish Ottoman Empire had controlled the Palestinian Lands in 3 provinces, with Jerusalem as the provincial capital. Today, Israel is pushing an ugly idea which claims Palestinians are not a true people and do not deserve a homeland. That idea is used by Nothingyahoo and Rump as justification to carry out ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. Rump's Mike Pence is a firm believer in ethnic cleansing. He is willing to kick out the Christian Palestinians right along with the Muslim ones. Their goal is an ethnically pure Jewish State.