Where is/can Donald Trump take US (sic)?

[basilio]

The Emporer Nero of Washington.

The president is a pyromaniac': the week Trump set fire to the White House
What went wrong? Take your pick: healthcare, transgender troops, the fallout from his savaging of Jeff Sessions, the Boy Scouts speech – it was the worst week in Trump’s short presidency

.....In five torrid days, the US president alienated conservatives by savaging his own attorney general; earned a rebuke from the Pentagon over a rushed ban on transgender troops; watched impotently as the Senate dealt a crushing blow to his legislative agenda with the fall of healthcare reform; ousted Priebus; and threw a human grenade – the new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci – into his already dysfunctional White House.

...Charlie Sykes, a conservative author and broadcaster, said: “It could have been one of his best weeks with the Foxconn announcement. But this has been his worst week ever and everything that has happened has been self-inflicted.

“You have a White House in meltdown because the president is a pyromaniac. The thing that’s got to rattle Republicans is the damage he’s doing to the administration, to the party and to the country.”

Scaramucci is “Trump’s id”, Sykes said. “A friend said to me today, in a rational world, Scaramucci would have been fired for that interview. But in a rational world, Scaramucci would never have been hired. And in a rational world, Donald Trump would not be the president of the United States. We’re well past the rational world.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...s-healthcare-transgender-troops-jeff-sessions

 

[basilio]

Ok it's old news now (like 2 days ago..) but I couldn't resist this story on the impact of Anthony Scaramucci in his brief, meteoric career as Whitehouse communciations director.
Priceless..

Scaramucci, one week in: civil war in the White House and an even wilder Trump
It’s been one helluva week in the White House, and, like a shot of adrenaline, the president has found the arrival of his Mini-Me invigorating



Reince Priebus and Anthony Scaramucci in the Oval Office. Photograph: TJ Kirkpatrick for WSJ/Redux/Eyevine

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David Smith in Washington


@smithinamerica

Saturday 29 July 2017 21.15 AEST Last modified on Tuesday 1 August 2017 05.05 AEST

If looks could kill. There is Anthony Scaramucci going full alpha male: chest out, shoulders back, thumbs on belt, feet planted solidly apart, eyes fixed in a deadly stare. There is Reince Priebus, less obviously macho but with a face like thunder as he glares back, a yawning chasm between them. Many historic photographs have been taken in the Oval Office, but few have captured mutual loathing so indelibly.

Scaramucci’s first week at the White House was one for the ages. The new communications director declared war on Priebus, branding him “a ******* paranoid schizophrenic” in what appeared to be a brazen play for his job as chief of staff – which, late on Friday, went instead to Gen John Kelly, the homeland security secretary. He roared from TV studio to TV studio, offering his street fighter’s defence of Donald Trump and vowing to take out leakers. And not least importantly, he seemingly jolted the president back into his most unfettered, unscripted, offensive and authentically Trump-like self.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jul/29/scaramucci-white-house-reince-priebus-donald-trump

 

[basilio]

Some background on The Mooch.
The Mooch’ sleeps with the fishes

Anthony Scaramucci.

By Joan Vennochi Globe Columnist July 31, 2017
All the “Godfather” jokes suddenly became reality.

But it’s Anthony Scaramucci who’s toast. John Kelly, President Trump’s freshly minted chief of staff, was waiting for him at the toll booth and Scaramucci is out as communications director.

Scaramucci was a walking, talking ethnic stereotype: that vain, uncouth, absurdly macho Guido from the New York metropolitan area that for many Italian-Americans represents a caricature they long to escape. During his short tenure, the mobster references piled up like heaping servings of Grandma’s pasta. Nothing, including his stint at Harvard Law, seemed able to stop “the Mooch” from being “the Mooch.” Nothing except Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general from Boston who Trump brought on to bring order to a chaotic White House.

Scaramucci’s vulgar rant to The New Yorker’s Ryan Lizza launched columns and comedy routines about thugs and mobsters. Yet, like his hero Trump, Scaramucci relished almost any attention.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/...NM/story.html?p1=Article_Trending_Most_Viewed

 

[basilio]

What is the background behind Vladimir Putins control of Russia and attempts to influence the US election ? This story of a businessman who worked in Russia is powerful.

Bill Browder's Senate Judiciary Committee Hearing Could Explain Anthony Scaramucci's Bizarre Behaviour
Deliberate?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/20...ry-you-missed-whilst-distracted-b_a_23057794/

 

[DB008]

Tucker calling 'em out....

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[basilio]

The flood of people and organisations abandoning Donald Trump and questioning his character, leadership, credibilty and basic capacity to be a President is turning into a river.

'I-M-P-E-A-C-H': Donald Trump's science envoy quits, with letter embedded with message

• Amy B Wang

Washington: Daniel Kammen, a renewable energy expert appointed last year as a science envoy to the State Department, resigned on Wednesday, citing President Donald Trump's response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, as the final straw that led to his departure.

In a resignation letter posted to Twitter, Kammen wrote that Trump's remarks about the racial violence in Virginia had attacked "core values of the United States" and that it would have "domestic and international ramifications."

Trump hits out at media over Charlottesville
US President Donald Trump blames the media for the widespread condemnation of his response to a Charlottesville protest organised by white supremacists.

However, his most biting message may have come in the form of a hidden acrostic; the first letter of each paragraph spelled out "I-M-P-E-A-C-H."

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/wor...er-embedded-with-message-20170823-gy2twn.html

 

[basilio]

A few days ago it was the turn of the Business Councils that Donald Trump has brought together to refuse to be part of his administration after the Charlottesville comments by the President.

Trump disbands business councils as CEOs flee after Charlottesville remarks
The collapse of the advisory bodies follows seven different corporate leaders stepping down in recent days after Trump’s controversial remarks
Donald Trump speaking to the press about protests in Charlottesville at Trump Tower in New York. Photograph: Jim Watson/AFP/Getty Images

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Ben Jacobs in Washington


@Bencjacobs

Thursday 17 August 2017 04.35 AEST Last modified on Thursday 17 August 2017 09.38 AEST

Donald Trump was forced to disband two White House business councils that were disintegrating around him on Wednesday in the wake of his controversial remarks about the weekend violence in Charlottesville.

The Strategic and Policy Forum and the White House Manufacturing Jobs Initiative were both dissolved as corporate leaders continued to resign.

Trump claimed in a tweet that this was his decision, writing: “Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!”
The collapse of the advisory bodies follows seven different corporate leaders stepping down from the two councils in recent days including the CEOs of both Campbell’s Soup and 3M on Wednesday.

Trump had previously stated that resignations from both panels were of no consequence. “For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!” he said on Twitter on Tuesday.

Wednesday’s abrupt decision came after Trump confidante Stephen Schwarzman, chief executive of the Blackstone Group, held a conference call for about a dozen members of the strategic and policy forum who decided to abandon it, the New York Times reported. Executives from the manufacturing council had been due to hold a similar call that afternoon, the paper added.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...isory-councils-disbanded-ceos-charlottesville

 

[basilio]

This morning James Clapper ex Intelligence Chief made his concerns clear.

James Clapper calls Trump speech 'downright scary and disturbing'
By Leinz Vales, CNN

Updated 1901 GMT (0301 HKT) August 23, 2017


(CNN)James Clapper, former director of National Intelligence, said Wednesday morning he questioned President Donald Trump's fitness for office.

"I really question his ability to be -- his fitness to be -- in this office, and I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it," Clapper told CNN's Don Lemon on "CNN Tonight."
Hours after Trump delivered a defiant speech in Phoenix, Arizona, Clapper said he found the President's rally "downright scary and disturbing."

Clapper denounced Trump's "behavior and divisiveness and complete intellectual, moral and ethical void."
"How much longer does the country have to, to borrow a phrase, endure this nightmare?"
"He should have quit while he was ahead after last night," Clapper referring to Trump's announcement on US strategy in Afghanistan. "Again, I think the real Trump came through."

Clapper also said he is worried about the President's access to the nuclear codes.
"In a fit of pique he decides to do something about Kim Jong Un, there's actually very little to stop him," Clapper said. "The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary. So there's very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary."

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/08/23/p...rump-phoenix-rally-don-lemon-cnntv/index.html

 

[dutchie]

 

[basilio]

Hmmm.

Well Dutchie if anyone was in any way unclear on your position regarding Neo Nazis , KKK, White Supremicists ect the lights have come on.

So on that topic.
US man who said he was stabbed for looking like neo-Nazi actually stabbed himself
Colorado man, whose claim of being stabbed for looking like neo-Nazi went viral earlier this month, admits to faking police report after knife accident



Joshua Lee Witt lied to officers about being attacked by a black man. He claim was picked up by the conservative press as an example of leftwing violence. Photograph: Courtesy of Sheridan police department

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Sam Levin in San Francisco

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Tuesday 29 August 2017 05.59 AEST Last modified on Tuesday 29 August 2017 06.22 AEST

A Colorado man who claimed that someone had stabbed him because he looked like a “neo-Nazi” fabricated the story after he accidentally cut his hand with a knife, according to police.

Joshua Witt, who has been arrested on false reporting charges, admitted to law enforcement in Sheridan, Colorado, that he lied to officers when he alleged that a black man had attacked him for having a haircut associated with white supremacists, police officials said Monday.

Witt’s original allegations went viral on social media this month, garnering press coverage across the globe, particularly from conservative newspapers that cited the stabbing as an example of violent leftwing activists attacking white people.

Witt – a 26-year-old originally from San Diego, California – told officers on 16 August that a suspect came up to him as he was getting out of his car in the parking lot of a burger restaurant. Witt, according to police, reported that the man said, “Are you [one] of them neo-Nazi?” and then tried to stab him with a small knife. Witt said that he was cut while trying to block the knife with his hand.

Witt described the attacker as a black man in his mid 20s, 5ft 10in, wearing a green shirt and blue pants, and claimed that the suspect ran off toward a bike path along a nearby river.

Sheridan police chief Mark Campbell said in an interview Monday that officers were immediately suspicious of Witt’s story, since the attack allegedly happened in a very busy parking lot and police received no other reports of an assault.

“No one else called this in,” he said. “No one heard him scream. No one saw any type of altercation. That was the first red flag.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/28/neo-nazi-stabbing-fake-colorado-joshua-witt

 

[dutchie]

A lot of wankers on all/both sides!

 

[SirRumpole]

 

[basilio]

Exc Rumpy. Just saw the Sounds of Silence parody. Reposted it on You Tube videos
TFM

 

[SirRumpole]

The bad taste king strikes again.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-...s-video-hillary-clinton-hit-golf-ball/8955430

How much longer do we have to put up with him ?

 

[PZ99]

Crack up



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicente_Fox

 

[basilio]

Where are we going with the Adult Day care centre ?

Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit

• Trump blasts Corker on Iran, ‘negative voice’ and ‘begging’ for endorsement
  
• Senator’s spokesman says president in fact asked him not to retire

After Donald Trump issued a fierce Twitter rebuke of Bob Corker, the retiring Republican senator tweeted back: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

The exchange between the president and the chair of the Senate foreign relations committee was the latest undignified episode in Trump’s bizarre and fractious relationship with the Republican establishment and parts of his own administration. Trump’s treatment of secretary of state Rex Tillerson this week prompted remarks from Corker that were seen as critical of the president.

Midway through Sunday morning, Trump wrote: “Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement).

“He also wanted to be secretary of state, I said ‘NO THANKS.’ He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran deal!

“Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!”

In a statement to the Guardian, Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, directly contradicted Trump.

“The president called Senator Corker on Monday afternoon and asked him to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said many times,” he said.

Corker was considered for both vice-president and secretary of state and was a key Trump ally during much of the 2016 campaign. He has since become a vocal critic.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ite-house-adult-day-care-center-trump-twitter

 

[basilio]

Trump says 'only one thing will work' with nuclear-armed North Korea

• President says Pyongyang ‘making fools of US negotiators’ for 25 years
• Trump refuses to elaborate and criticises secretary of state again

Donald Trump on Saturday said “only one thing will work” in dealing with North Korea, after previous administrations had talked to Pyongyang without results.

Presidents and their administrations have been talking to North Korea for 25 years, agreements made and massive amounts of money paid,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Hasn’t worked, agreements violated before the ink was dry, making fools of US negotiators. Sorry, but only one thing will work!“

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/oct/07/donald-trump-nuclear-north-korea

 

[luutzu]

Where are we going with the Adult Day care centre ?

Bob Corker says White House is 'adult day care center' after Trump Twitter hit

• Trump blasts Corker on Iran, ‘negative voice’ and ‘begging’ for endorsement
  
• Senator’s spokesman says president in fact asked him not to retire

After Donald Trump issued a fierce Twitter rebuke of Bob Corker, the retiring Republican senator tweeted back: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”

The exchange between the president and the chair of the Senate foreign relations committee was the latest undignified episode in Trump’s bizarre and fractious relationship with the Republican establishment and parts of his own administration. Trump’s treatment of secretary of state Rex Tillerson this week prompted remarks from Corker that were seen as critical of the president.

Midway through Sunday morning, Trump wrote: “Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement).

“He also wanted to be secretary of state, I said ‘NO THANKS.’ He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran deal!

“Hence, I would fully expect Corker to be a negative voice and stand in the way of our great agenda. Didn’t have the guts to run!”

In a statement to the Guardian, Corker’s chief of staff, Todd Womack, directly contradicted Trump.

“The president called Senator Corker on Monday afternoon and asked him to reconsider his decision not to seek re-election and reaffirmed that he would have endorsed him, as he has said many times,” he said.

Corker was considered for both vice-president and secretary of state and was a key Trump ally during much of the 2016 campaign. He has since become a vocal critic.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ite-house-adult-day-care-center-trump-twitter

It's the weekend and his handlers were home with their family. What's an idiot to do but call people names, threaten wars on everybody?

Dangerous times. Given Trump's ego and tendency to give fark-all about other people, all these tough talks will have to be backed up some muscle and carpet bombing right?

But Mr. President, little rocket man just said you're all talk and no action. You're weak and your tiny little fingers can't push the button even if your dyslexia somehow managed to read the prompter.

Oh yea? Bring me that FootBall dam it!

 

[SirRumpole]

And we thought Turnbull-Aboott was bad.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-...ter-than-tillerson-but-has-confidence/9037000

 

[moXJO]

And we thought Turnbull-Aboott was bad.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-...ter-than-tillerson-but-has-confidence/9037000

Lol thats gold.
What's he going to do next? Dick measuring contests?