We need to talk about Donald: cursing and swearing allowed

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Guess who invented the term 'fake news'? In a cozy interview with Mike Huckabee, Trump essentially states that he did. Of course he knows that he didn't, but being the narcissistic liar that he is, he can't help himself from putting forward the idea he came up with it.

"Trump's claim to have come up with the term 'fake news' is fake news, Merriam-Webster dictionary says"

President Trump suggested that he invented the word "fake," or the term “fake news” in an interview on Saturday, prompting a weekend correction from dictionary Merriam-Webster.

“The media is really, the word, one of the greatest of all [the] terms I've come up with, is ‘fake,’” Trump told former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee on the Trinity Broadcasting Network, CNN reports. “I guess other people have used it, perhaps, over the years, but I've never noticed it. And it's a shame. And they really hurt the country. Because they take away the spirit of the country.”

Some have speculated that Trump was using “fake” as shorthand for “fake news,” one of his favorite phrases, which he’s used several times in interviews, speeches and on Twitter.

Ironically an early instance of fake news was Lenin announcing the Soviets were in control of St Petersburg when in fact they weren't. Many of the interim governments soldiers deserted and joined the revolution as a result. Don't tell Trump though.

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Trump to visit DMZ and wave fist at N Korea

North Korea, however, views the drills as highly provocative, partly due to bitter memories of US bombing raids during the Korean war.

The White House sent a team of working-level officials to South Korea late last month to view possible sites for inclusion in Trump’s itinerary, Yonhap said, citing an unnamed South Korean defence source.

Trump was expected to send a strong message to North Korea, either verbally or “kinetically”, during his first trip to the peninsula as president, the source was quoted as saying. “[He] will likely do something like that and his aides are making the relevant preparations.”

If the visit goes ahead, Trump would probably spend time at the Panmunjom truce village and an observation post inside the DMZ, the source said. The White House has not commented on the reports.

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Any chance lil' Kim could blow him up?

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His death would be FAKE NEWS!

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Another person abandons the sinking rat nest flotilla.

The Trump administration is not exactly known for its high regard for science – or facts in general. Now, the White House has lost itself yet another scientific advisor.

Joel Clement, a government scientist and policy expert, has called quits on his career at the Department of Interior (DOI) so that he can "join with the majority of Americans who understand what’s at stake." In his letter of resignation to Ryan Zinke, US Secretary of the Interior and his boss, Clement condemns the White House's agenda, which he says "undermines the DOI mission and betrays the American people."

Before joining the department in 2010, Clement worked in climate adaptation for a Seattle-based conservation group called Wilburforce Foundation. Part of his job in the DOI has been to study the effects of climate change in Alaskan native communities. In June, he was removed from his post as the top climate policy expert and reassigned to an accounting office where he was responsible for collecting royalties from fossil fuel companies. It was part of a major reshuffle within the department, displacing dozens of senior officials and placing them in jobs they had no expertise or experience in.

In an op-ed in the Washington Post, Clement turned government whistleblower, accused Zinke of reassigning him involuntarily for his role in publicizing and warning against the effects of climate change. He argued that Zinke organized the reshuffle, hoping it would encourage scientists to quit the department.

"A few days after my reassignment, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke testified before Congress that the department would use reassignments as part of its effort to eliminate employees; the only reasonable inference from that testimony is that he expects people to quit in response to undesirable transfers," he wrote.

But Clement decided to stay. As he explained in an interview with the Portland Herald Press, it was only after hearing Zinke's comments to a group of oil and gas executives on September 25 that he changed his mind.

“I realized at that point that he isn’t there to work with the career staff to advance the agency and its mission, he’s there to reverse everything they can from the Obama years and shrink the government, and it’s profoundly wrong,” he explained.

In his resignation letter, he explains his decision to leave in more detail – and he had some harsh words for Zinke.

First, he cites poor leadership. “You and President Trump have waged an all-out assault on the civil service by muzzling scientists and policy experts like myself," he said. "[Y]ou have played fast and loose with government regulations to score points with your base at the expense of American health and safety."

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Donald Trump has made repeated attacks on NFL players who refuse to stand during the national anthem, but critics said Trump is guilty of doing just that during a Fox News interview with Sean Hannity this week.

Trump was interviewed by Hannity at an Air National Guard hangar in Middletown, Pennsylvania. In the midst of the interview, the loudspeakers began playing the tune “Retreat,” which signals the official end of duty. As the Balance noted, it is also a ceremony to pay respect to the flag as it is lowered for the day.

But Donald Trump appeared to be confused with hearing the song — which Newsweek noted is a military tradition dating back to even before the American Revolutionary War — and instead asked Sean Hannity if the song was playing in his own honor.

“What a nice sound that is,” Trump said (via the Washington Examiner). “Are they playing that for you or for me?”

“They’re playing that in honor of his ratings,” Trump replied to his own question. “He’s beating everybody.”

During the song, the show’s cameras caught some members of the audience standing in respect for the flag, Newsweek noted. Uniformed members of the military are required to stop and salute the flag, while civilians are required to place their hand over their heart.

But Trump did neither, instead continuing his interview with Sean Hannity, Business Insider noted.

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Trump-don't-care:
President Trump on Thursday announced he is "starting that process" of repealing and replacing Obamacare with his executive order to unilaterally change some aspects of health insurance coverage.

Mr. Trump, surrounded by top administration officials, business leaders and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, in the White House Roosevelt Room, praised his executive order as step towards repealing and replacing his predecessor's signature health care law. Mr. Trump, stuck with a Republican-led Congress that hasn't passed a bill to undo Obamacare, announced earlier this week that he is resorting to his "pen" instead.
The president's executive order is intended to make lower-premium plans (the kind that allows insurance to dump you anytime) more widely available. Mr. Trump has long talked about his desire to make health insurance plans available across state lines.

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Evil president wants to punish Puerto Rico
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/1 ... erm-243705

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while civilians are required to place their hand over their heart.

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WTF?

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The 'great businessman' is either lying on a grand scale or is abysmally ignorant of economic reality and the nature of the national debt. His fawning sycophant Hannity just accepts the nonsense and carries on kissing Il Douche's arse. It's at the very beginning of the video, so if you wish to verify that the story below is accurate, you only have to sit through about a minute and a half of the nausea-inducing drivel. I wonder if this astounding disconnect from the real world could be considered 'arguably true'?



'In embarrassing display, Trump flubs test on how money works

With Trump now in the White House, we’re starting to get a better sense of why he had so many difficulties in the business world. As The Daily Beast noted, the president tried to argue last night that he’s already managed to shave off a huge chunk of the national debt.

“The country – we took it over and owed over $20 trillion. As you know the last eight years, they borrowed more than it did in the whole history of our country. So they borrowed more than $10 trillion, right? And yet, we picked up $5.2 trillion just in the stock market,” Trump told Sean Hannity. “So you could say, in one sense, we’re really increasing values. And maybe in a sense, we’re reducing debt. But we’re very honored by it.”

This wasn’t just some verbal gaffe. Yesterday afternoon in Harrisburg, during a speech on taxes, he pushed a related point: “Very proudly, just in the stock market alone, we have increased our economic worth by $5.2 trillion, that’s right, since Election Day. $5.2 trillion. Think about that, that’s a quarter of the $20 trillion that we owe.”

This is gibberish. They’re the remarks of someone who doesn’t know what the national debt is. Or how the nation’s finances work. Or even how money works.

Let’s try to make this plain. When the government spends more than it takes in over the course of a year, it runs an annual budget deficit. When this happens repeatedly over the course of several years, the cumulative totals of these deficits is the national debt. Currently, the national debt is, as Trump noted, about $20 trillion.

This was, however, pretty much the only thing he got right. The president believes stock market gains over the last year or so are worth $5.2 trillion, and if he applies that money to paying off the debt, “in a sense” he’s reducing the debt by nearly a fourth.

Except, that doesn’t make any sense at all: unless the White House intends to seize all of that money, the $5.2 trillion isn’t the government’s money. The national debt is still $20 trillion – and growing – whether stock indexes go up or down.

What’s more, instead of “reducing debt,” Trump actually intends to add quite a bit more to the debt with a massive tax-cut package that he and his cohorts have no idea how to pay for.

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It's at the very beginning of the video, so if you wish to verify that the story below is accurate, you only have to sit through about a minute and a half of the nausea-inducing drivel.

It's ok. I believe you.

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He really is colossally dumb, isn't he?