All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Tero]

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—Former President Barack Obama ignited a firestorm of controversy on Wednesday by demanding to see President Donald Trump’s elementary-school diploma.

Speaking to reporters in Washington, Obama called on Trump to prove “once and for all” that he had completed a K-through-five program.

“While the U.S. Constitution does not require the President to have graduated from fifth grade, it would still be nice to know that he had done so,” Obama said.

By insisting on the release of Trump’s diploma, Obama joined a growing movement of so-called schoolers, who contend that Trump never attended school.

Schoolers’ demands to see documentation of Trump’s elementary-school attendance have yet to sway the White House, which has released only a short version of Trump’s second-grade report card, with the grades completely redacted.

Obama revealed that he had hired forensic detectives to study Trump’s utterances and tweets to determine the extent of his verifiable schooling, but, so far, they had found “no proof” of a fifth-grade education.

“Donald Trump claims that he attended elementary school,” Obama said. “All I’m asking is, where’s the evidence?”

[Cunt]

Didn't Obama just recently warn his adherents to not arrange themselves into a circular firing squad?

You must have missed it...

[Cunt]

Oh, and they called for his tax returns, but didn't call for anyone else's. Why not follow Pocohontas's example, and just have everyone release their tax records. Maybe we can figure out how elected officials get so wealthy while suckling at a frugal, sensible government teat...

[Tero]

So what good is the Mueller Report if it does not prove FBI spying on Trump?

[Brian Peacock]

Is it just me or does he smell of derp?

[Tero]

Trump in 2016: 'I love WikiLeaks,' Trump now: 'I know nothing about WikiLeaks'
President Donald Trump, when asked if he still "loves" WikiLeaks as he said in 2016, told reporters in the Oval Office that he knows "nothing about WikiLeaks."

CNN
2 hours ago
After Assange arrest, Trump says he knows 'nothing' about WikiLeaks
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he knows "nothing about WikiLeaks" hours after the arrest of the organization's founder, Julian Assange

NBC News
3 hours ago

[Tero]

Mueller quit too early. The Wikileaks hacking is a crime and we now have Assange.
https://www.msnbc.com/mtp-daily/watch/w ... 8664643745

[Joe]

Apropos of nothing.

The New Yorker Clarifies: The Borowitz Report Is ‘Not the News’
The New Yorker has taken steps to clarify that The Borowitz Report is not actually true.

With fake news a hot topic following the election, The New Yorker has taken steps to make sure people aren’t fooled by The Borowitz Report it runs on its web site.

Last week, the magazine changed the tagline of Andy Borowitz’s popular online satirical humor column, which consistently tops The New Yorker’s trending chart, from “the news, reshuffled” to the more blunt “not the news” and added a banner to prominently display the new tagline when the posts get shared on social media.

[Tero]

"The Fox Business Network issued an on-air correction Thursday after the network aired a poll graphic — later shared online by President Donald Trump — that incorrectly displayed the president's unfavorable rating as his job approval rating."

"...., the 55 percent figure actually represents the number of respondents who said they hold unfavorable views of Trump. "
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019 ... ll-1270245

[pErvinalia]

Wtf?! Fucking monster!

President Trump threatens Gouda and Edam cheese with new import tariffs
https://www.dutchnews.nl/news/2019/04/p ... t-tariffs/

Someone has got to stop this son of a bitch...

How about all the other cheeses we make? Just two of hundreds.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/07/04/trumps- ... ong-f.html

“The real message here — and I think he’s right about this, but it’s hidden in the presentation and sound and fury — is fundamentally European macro-economic policy… is that Europe is free-riding global demand, running huge trade surpluses and nobody has really stood up credibly to that ideology until Trump."

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Nonetheless, Lonergan said it was ironic that Trump had been criticized by the “commentariat” on the details of trade tariffs, but that his wider aim to address global trade imbalances was being overlooked with too much focus on the headline-grabbing tariff threats and trade war fears.

“Look, I do not like all these tariffs, I do not like trade wars, I do not like the presentation of Trump. But when it comes down to the fundamental point of saying to policymakers in Europe, ‘Look at what you’re doing and this is not sustainable and look what happened the last time we had these imbalances,’ there is actually a fundamental point here,” Lonergan said.

He added that Europe was dominated by economies enjoying a trade surplus and had been able to take advantage of consumption in the States.

“What has happened post-euro crisis is that Europe is free-riding, it’s saying we’re going to run massive trade surpluses — Italy’s running a current account surplus now; peripheral Europe is; central and eastern Europe, which were deficit countries pre-crisis are now big surplus countries… We’re only able to run those surpluses thanks to the generosity and kindness of strangers who are willing to take in all of those goods.

“It’s a lie to say this is an amazing German export achievement — no, it isn’t, it’s because there is a consumer at the other end who’s willing to generate the demand.”

What happened to the supposed virtue of free markets?

[Brian Peacock]

"The Fox Business Network issued an on-air correction Thursday after the network aired a poll graphic — later shared online by President Donald Trump — that incorrectly displayed the president's unfavorable rating as his job approval rating."

"...., the 55 percent figure actually represents the number of respondents who said they hold unfavorable views of Trump. "
https://www.politico.com/amp/story/2019 ... ll-1270245

What an unfortunate accident, but it's a simple mistake that anyone could make.

[Brian Peacock]

...

What happened to the supposed virtue of free markets?

The President tells us, often, that the free market is rigged against the US. The only fair and free free market is the one that rigged in favour of the US.

[Tero]

and trump said its rigged.png (440.2 KiB) Viewed 2172 times

[Tero]

This suggests that the real problem is US indebtedness and trading deficits. That trade surpluses are a bad thing is basically a moral argument as presented here. I'd rather see some sound economics supporting that view if I'm not to take it as plain old whinging and self-pitying resentment.

It's not as much a problem for Europe? Uneven wages will always result in an excess of trade to the rich partner. It sounds wrong, but somehow happens. But if your rich country imports more than it exports, someone in the "poor " partner country ends up with extra $ cash. Not cash in their currency. They can only invest that money in the US, so they end owning parts of the rich country that has the fat credit card bill.

[Joe]

and trump said its rigged.png

Elizabeth Warren said it first.