The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump's 'victory speech' turns into a rambling ego trip divorced from both reality and time
Mark Sumner, Daily Kos Staff
2020/02/06 ·14:06

Trump's 'victory speech' turns into a rambling ego trip divorced from both reality and time

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"At another point, in addition to talking about how amazing it was that Steve Scalise’s wife actually stayed with him at the hospital after he was shot—something that “a lot of wives” would not do, according to Trump, who has experience with a lot of wives—Trump went through a dramatic reenactment of the shooting. He also mentioned that the bullet that hit Scalise was one especially designed to cause more damage on impact. He didn’t mention that Republicans, including Scalise, have voted to keep that particular kind of bullet available to the public.

It was during this time talking about a shooting that happened on a softball field that Trump’s pinballing thought process took him back to his youth. Remembering a former Yankees second baseman, Trump asked the room if they remembered Bobby Richardson. It’s not likely that many did, because Richardson retired from baseball in 1966.

On the other hand, Richardson is only 84. Chuck Grassley is 86. He probably thinks of Richardson as an upstart."

 

Oh jesus christ, so now there is some make believe attack on the Iowa caucus now is there?

Cant be as simple as the Dems are so useless they cant run a caucus properly?

 

Do you remember who gave who the medal of freedom in January 2017?

.....for the important work he did in lining his families pockets with the contents of Chinese and Ukranian brown envelopes

 

And it was Barr himself who ordered Epstein relocated to the federal jail in Manhattan when Epstein was in Ricker's. And ask yourself: What happened to all the evidence which Barr had collected at all of Epstein's locations? Without a criminal case, why is Barr hold on to all the CDs and Videos and the DNA evidence?

 

He reminds me more of Peter Lory in Casablanca.

 

Who’s more Socialist?

Warren?

Or Sanders?

You Buttigieg.

 

"President Donald Trump has confirmed that the US killed the leader of Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula -- days after the jihadist group claimed responsibility for a mass shooting at a US naval base.

The deadly shooting at Naval Air Station Pensacola saw a Saudi aviation trainee kill three American sailors.

Qassim al-Rimi is a founder of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula."


Donald Trump confirms al-Qaeda leader Qassim al-Rimi has been killed in US operation

+1 to Donald J Trump on the scorecard

 

Makes perfect sense. He gave the medal to his own VP, it was pretty ridiculous. I will throw you an olive branch, Trump giving it to Limbaugh was stupid. But not really that much more or less stupid than Obama giving it to Biden. There have been some rather silly recipients of the award over the years

 

lolol. You must be afraid Me Again will ban you.

 

It wasn't exactly 'love thy enemies' during Trump's Pettysburg Address at the National Prayer Breakfast.



Jimmy Kimmel Endures Trump’s ‘Pettysburg Address’
By Trish Bendix
Feb. 7, 2020, 2:49 a.m. ET

Jimmy Kimmel Endures Trump’s ‘Pettysburg Address’

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“He ranted and raved for more than an hour this afternoon, airing every grievance, grinding every ax — it was his Pettysburg Address.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

“Seriously, I haven’t seen that many happy white guys since the Utah Jazz made the playoffs.” — JIMMY FALLON

“He finally found the one job he’s qualified for, newspaper boy.” — SETH MYERS

“Before his victory speech, Trump spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast, which was a tough decision, because on the one hand, he doesn’t like to pray, but on the other hand, he loves breakfast. So he went. He used it as an opportunity to lash out at those who oppose him, just as Jesus would have done.” — JIMMY KIMMEL

 

No, he can ignore me if he wants though

It's not really ignore anyway, you get a little button you can click if you want to see what they wrote. Which is cheating

 

If more people had guns at that naval base the mass shooting could have been prevented in the first place

 

China trade deficit shrinks as deficit with EU hits record high
The U.S.'s overall trade gap with China is still 22 percent higher than in Obama's final year in office.
By DOUG PALMER
02/05/2020 09:59 AM EST

China trade deficit shrinks as deficit with EU hits record high

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"In fact, unfair trade is perhaps the single biggest reason I decided to run for president," Trump told Congress Tuesday night in his annual State of the Union speech.

Data released Wednesday by the Commerce Department showed the deficit in exports versus imports from China shrank to $345.6 billion, down about 18 percent from a record high level of $419.5 billion in 2018.

But the U.S. trade deficit in manufactured goods with all countries was relatively unchanged in 2019 at close to $1.048 trillion because importers turned to other nations after Trump hit China with tariffs ranging from 10 percent to 25 percent.

Some of the beneficiaries of that shift included Mexico, Vietnam, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and members of the EU.

The trade deficit with the EU hit a record $177.9 billion in 2019, while the gap with Mexico was a record $101.8 billion, the Commerce Department said.

 

China trade deficit shrinks as deficit with EU hits record high

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"The big drop in the bilateral trade deficit with China gives Trump at least one bragging point, since it has risen most years since 1985, when it was a mere $6 billion.

But it’s not necessarily good for the U.S. economy because the tariffs Trump has imposed on approximately $370 billion worth of Chinese goods have increased costs for U.S. manufacturers, said Mary Lovely, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, a free market policy group.

That helps explain both the slowdown in U.S. manufacturing output and slight decline in the manufactured goods trade deficit in 2019, from $1.057 trillion in 2018, after years of steady growth, Lovely said.

“What we’re importing are mostly parts and components. So when U.S. manufacturers slow down, that slows down the import of manufactured goods,” Lovely said.

On Tuesday night during his annual State of the Union speech, Trump hailed his tough trade tactics were helping to fuel a "blue-collar boom," even though the uncertainty caused by his trade war with China helped push the manufacturing sector into a decline last year."

 

Who is more shallow: Trump, Pence, McConnell, Graham, Hannity, or Jim Jordan?

 

Trump continues to lie about the tariff money that he claims is coming from China. It comes from U.S. businesses who usually have to pass the higher costs to the U.S. consumer.

Trump and his daughter should know this. To maximize their profit, they've imported clothing and other products for their businesses from countries that produce at the lowest cost, such as China, Vietnam, Mexico, and Bangladesh. Trump sells at the highest price possible such as through outlets like Macy's. An example is the little Trump trinket dish made in China that Trump sells for $15.

 

Maybe Trump admired the way Rush used his house cleaning woman to acquire more Oxycontin?

 

Once again, when trump gave his Pettysburg speech, I could hear a breathing problem.
Too much coca leaves?