The 45th POTUS - Donald J. Trump

[96583UP]

the white house staff must all be popping champagne whenever he leaves for a trip

they must be rooting for natural disasters at this point

not that he attends all of them

and when he does is pulled their kicking and screaming

but must be nice to work in the WH a few days in quiet dignity along the lines of what it should feel like to WORK IN THE FUCKING WHITE HOUSE

[bune]

His tweets never age well.

[doug rr]

rakes...
pleasure...
fuck you

[bune]

So no comedian at the White House Correspondents Dinner next year...What do to.

[96583UP]

not a bad idea actually

the whole culture surrounding the white house correspondents dinner makes me want to vomit

maybe this will thin out the numbers a bit

[B]

https://variety.com/2018/politics/news/ ... 203032891/

Seriously, why do ANY press show up at the White House Press Conferences. Just don't show up. You don't need to dedicate resources to Sarah Huckabee Sanders reading Trump's tweets. You think you'll miss something? You won't. Trump will find the press. He wants so badly to be heard.

[96583UP]

Lock! Her! Up!

Ivanka Trump used a personal account to send emails about government business

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... story.html

[bune]

But she's hot and Hilary's not.

[96583UP]

and Hillary had a private email server installed in her home that was professionally deleted by a team of people that can make dead bodies disappear forever

[McParadigm]

The currency is nearly worthless outside of Iraq, but Kotseos bought millions of dinars in April, after watching a video of President Trump at a 2017 press conference. In the clip, Trump says, with characteristic vagueness, that all currencies will soon “be on a level playing field.”

In reality, Trump was talking about trade imbalances with China. But like other Trump supporters who have fallen into the dinar investment scam, which has existed since at least 2012, Kotseos interpreted Trump’s rambling statement as proof that the Iraqi dinar would soon be worth as much or even more than the dollar, making anyone who had been smart enough to buy in early a millionaire.

“I love my president, and I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Kotseos told The Daily Beast.

The purchase, Kotseos said, cost her and her husband somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000, counting the cut to the company that sold them the dinars. Two of her adult children have bought millions more dinars, too.

[guestT]

Oh god, the dinar thing again. My dad sunk $4k into that. So now I have a box of them in my basement.

[McParadigm]

Christ

[bune]

The currency is nearly worthless outside of Iraq, but Kotseos bought millions of dinars in April, after watching a video of President Trump at a 2017 press conference. In the clip, Trump says, with characteristic vagueness, that all currencies will soon “be on a level playing field.”

In reality, Trump was talking about trade imbalances with China. But like other Trump supporters who have fallen into the dinar investment scam, which has existed since at least 2012, Kotseos interpreted Trump’s rambling statement as proof that the Iraqi dinar would soon be worth as much or even more than the dollar, making anyone who had been smart enough to buy in early a millionaire.

“I love my president, and I was like, ‘Oh my God,’” Kotseos told The Daily Beast.

The purchase, Kotseos said, cost her and her husband somewhere between $5,000 and $10,000, counting the cut to the company that sold them the dinars. Two of her adult children have bought millions more dinars, too.

A fool and his money something something...

[bune]

Trump’s ties to the Russian mafia go back 3 decades

Some interesting stuff in there.

Sean Illing
Part of what’s so puzzling to me is trying to figure out how money and ideology intersect in all this, if they intersect at all. In other words, Trump seems much more motivated by money than political ideology, but I keep wondering if his drift into politics was in any way influenced by his financial entanglements.

Craig Unger
It’s an important question, and it’s not clear what the answer is. One weird anecdote that jumped out to me was this story about Ivana Trump, whom Donald married in 1977. It turns out the Czech secret police were following her and her family, and there’s a fascinating file I quote in the book that says they started tracking her in the late 1980s, and one of the Czech secret police files says that Trump was being pressured to run for president.

But what does that mean? Who was pressuring him? How were they applying the pressure, and why? And did it have anything to do with potentially compromising materials the Russians had on Trump from his 1987 trip to Russia?

What we do know is that Trump returns from that first trip to Moscow and he takes out full-page ads in the Washington Post, New York Times, and Boston Globe — and it’s fascinating because the ads essentially pushed the same foreign policies that he’s pushing today. They were anti-European, anti-NATO — basically they were aligned with the Soviet plan to destroy the Western alliance. And Trump takes out full-page ads in major American newspapers affirming this view. Maybe that’s just what he always believed. In any case, it’s worth noting.

[Simple Torture]

Christ

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the ... rous-place

[B]

But she's hot and Hilary's not.

Think of the lesbian, prison porn through!

[96583UP]

Christ

this actually isn't the worst statement i have read

at least they are honest about the situation (except that MBS ordered the hit): we need them to fight Iran, and if we don't arm them, Russia and China will

and that's true

and the part about having a relationship with the country and not the leader is relevant - take a look at the case of the US! what if all our allies turned on us just because our leader is a shithead? gotta get the bigger picture

so basically where I'm at right now: fuck kashoggi, heil hitler

[Strat]

This isn’t much of a surprise but I guess the fact he actually did it is huge? He actually instructed the justice department to pursue criminal charges against comey and Clinton.

[tragabigzanda]

Why is this the only thread that, for several months now and without fail, will never load to the most recent post I've seen but rather one way higher up on the page?

[Strat]

Why is this the only thread that, for several months now and without fail, will never load to the most recent post I've seen but rather one way higher up on the page?

It’s the numerous images and linked tweets. I think that fucks it up.