Tag: Trump

  • Puerto Rico and Fox have teamed up to steal Donnie’s second scoop

    Trump has been…chiming in on Bret Stephens and bedbugs, raging at a hurricane for going where hurricanes do go, raging at Fox News, advising BoJo, raging at Puerto Rico. Busy busy day in the Oval Tweet Factory.

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    Bret and bedbugs:

    A made up Radical Left Story about Doral bedbugs, but Bret Stephens is loaded up with them! Been calling me wrong for years, along with the few remaining Never Trumpers – All Losers!

    “The infestation of bedbugs at The New York Times office” @OANN was perhaps brought in by lightweight journalist Bret Stephens, a Conservative who does anything that his bosses at the paper tell him to do! He is now quitting Twitter after being called a “bedbug.” Tough guy!

    It’s great to see how focused and disciplined he is.

    Raging at hurricanes:

    We are tracking closely tropical storm Dorian as it heads, as usual, to Puerto Rico. FEMA and all others are ready, and will do a great job. When they do, let them know it, and give them a big Thank You – Not like last time. That includes from the incompetent Mayor of San Juan!

    That irritable “as usual,” as if hurricanes and Puerto Rico did it on purpose to annoy him.

    Wise counsel from an elder statesman:

    Would be very hard for Jeremy Corbyn, the leader of Britain’s Labour Party, to seek a no-confidence vote against New Prime Minister Boris Johnson, especially in light of the fact that Boris is exactly what the U.K. has been looking for, & will prove to be “a great one!” Love U.K.

    Angry breakup letter to Fox:

    Just watched @FoxNews heavily promoting the Democrats through their DNC Communications Director, spewing out whatever she wanted with zero pushback by anchor, @SandraSmithFox. Terrible considering that Fox couldn’t even land a debate, the Dems give them NOTHING! @CNN & @MSNBC……..are all in for the Open Border Socialists (or beyond). Fox hires “give Hillary the questions” @donnabrazile, Juan Williams and low ratings Shep Smith. HOPELESS & CLUELESS! They should go all the way LEFT and I will still find a way to Win – That’s what I do, Win. Too Bad!……..I don’t want to Win for myself, I only want to Win for the people. The New @FoxNews is letting millions of GREAT people down! We have to start looking for a new News Outlet. Fox isn’t working for us anymore!

    Helpful of him to confirm that it was working for him before.

    And, finally, another blast of venom at Puerto Rico for being in the path of hurricanes:

    Puerto Rico is one of the most corrupt places on earth. Their political system is broken and their politicians are either Incompetent or Corrupt. Congress approved Billions of Dollars last time, more than anyplace else has ever gotten, and it is sent to Crooked Pols. No good!……..And by the way, I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to Puerto Rico!

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  • Immortal words

    Trump says his glorious Doral golf dump HAS NO BEDBUGS. Well all right then.

    The president would like to make one thing clear: The Trump National hotel in Doral, Fla. — which he’s pushing as the site for next year’s G-7 meeting — does not have bed bugs.

    “No bedbugs at Doral,” Trump tweeted Tuesday morning. “The Radical Left Democrats, upon hearing that the perfectly located (for the next G-7) Doral National MIAMI was under consideration for the next G-7, spread that false and nasty rumor.”

    Not a rumor so much as a widely-reported news item.

    The “nasty rumor” to which he refers stems from a 2016 lawsuit brought by Eric Linder, a New Jersey man who claimed his room in the Doral’s Jack Nicklaus villa had a bed bug infestation. Linder reached a settlement with the property in 2017, according to the Miami Herald.

    Linder’s lawsuit reemerged in the media discourse Monday after Trump told reporters at the G-7 meeting in Biarritz, France, that the hotel would likely be the venue for next year’s conference. Trump could stand to profit from the influx of diplomats, politicians and staff to the hotel.

    Could? There’s no “could” about it. If the G7 is held at Trump’s swamp he will make big $$$.

    Bill Kristol sums up:

    FDR: “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
    JFK: “Ask not what your country can do for you—ask what you can do for your country.”
    Reagan: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.”
    Trump: “No bedbugs at Doral.”

  • Lotta bugs

    The Daily Beast last month on Trump and vermin (the literal kind):

    Over the past few days, President Donald Trump has been on an extended Twitter tirade, going off on what he deems to be the rat infestation plaguing the city of Baltimore. But if anyone should know about the plague of vermin, it’s Trump.

    The president’s restaurants, resorts, and golf clubs have all been cited for extensive health-code violations, including the presence of rodents.

    Health inspectors have for years turned in stomach-churning reports of rats, mice, cockroaches, and other pests in the kitchens and food-preparation areas at Trump properties in New York, Florida, and Las Vegas. One infestation in the main kitchen of Trump’s Doral golf club in 2015 was so bad that health inspectors recommended that the place be temporarily shut down.

    Say what? What was that again? Can you repeat that last bit a little louder?

    One infestation in the main kitchen of Trump’s Doral golf club in 2015 was so bad that health inspectors recommended that the place be temporarily shut down.

    So, definitely the very place we want to invite world leaders to get together to discuss the issues – a verminous golf resort, owned by the corrupt president, in Florida in August! What could possibly not be fun about that?!

    In 2017, inspectors found “filth flies” buzzing around the food in the Trump Tower kitchen. Employees, they found in a separate inspection the same year, sported “soiled” garments and were not wearing hair nets. The year before, inspectors found live roaches.

    Trump Tower’s roach situation, though, paled in comparison to the infestation at Doral, where Florida authorities reported 524 health-code violations from 2013 to 2018, according to state health records and research compiled by the Democratic super PAC American Bridge.

    In 2015, they found “approximately 20-25 live roaches… on the walls, baseboards and floors in the kitchen food prep area and behind a utensil table inside a wall crack.” They also reported between 20 and 30 “live, small flying insects… in the kitchen and dishwasher room.”

    Inspectors recommended that the state issue an emergency order and temporarily shutter the Doral kitchen. It’s not clear if it was ever actually shut down.

    Mmmm, appetizing.

  • Sautez, m’sieu

    Trump’s stupidest tweet of the moment:

    The question I was asked most today by fellow World Leaders, who think the USA is doing so well and is stronger than ever before, happens to be, “Mr. President, why does the American media hate your Country so much? Why are they rooting for it to fail?”

    Lordy. Every word.

    Note “fellow World Leaders” for instance. “Get it? I’m World Leader and I get to hang with other (lesser) World Leaders. I am important!”

    Note also “Mr. President” – from the guy who keeps, embarrassingly, calling his “fellow World Leaders” Angela and Emmanuel and so on in his tweets. He loves being called “Sir” and he loves being called Mister President” – but he should be called Giant Baby With Terrible Hair.

    Note the ludicrous “Why are they rooting for it to fail?” Yes I’m sure they all used an archaic US colloquialism to ask a nonsensical question.

    And so on, but most of all, of course, note what a giant lie that is. No he wasn’t no they didn’t no they don’t no it isn’t. Nobody asked him that ridiculous question. They’re not there to flatter his ego or to help him attack the free press, and they don’t think the US is doing so well and stronger than ever before.

    Are there any cliffs in Biarritz? If so I’d like him to fall off one.

  • Holiday snaps

    Trump is hard at work at the G7.

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    Moments later:

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    Dude has his priorities straight.

    Wait there’s more.

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  • Can if I want to

    Trump says he can too so order people to do what he orders them to do. Can can CAN.

    President Donald Trump claimed he has the “absolute right” to “order” US companies to stop doing business with China that would involve using his broad executive authority in a new and unprecedented way under a 1977 law.

    Normal presidents don’t do that, even the assholes. They don’t prance around saying they have “the absolute right” to whatever it is. They don’t do it one because it sounds babyish, and two because it sounds Stalinist, and three because it’s not true.

    On Friday, China unveiled a new round of retaliatory tariffs on about $75 billion worth of US goods, the latest escalation in an on-going trade war that’s putting a strain on the world’s two largest economies. In response, Trump wrote on Twitter later Friday: “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China including bringing …your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

    When leaving the White House for the G7 summit in France, Trump told reporters, “I have the absolute right to do that, but we’ll see how it goes.”

    Sure, he has the “right” to say stupid shit on Twitter, but that’s not really the issue. The issue is whether it’s a bad stupid idea, and it’s also whether he can enforce it. Fortunately he has his ever-present formula to deal with that problem: we’ll see what happens/how it goes/whether the sun comes up tomorrow.

    Former Massachusetts Gov. Bill Weld, who has mounted a longshot bid against Trump for the 2020 Republican presidential nomination, called it “outrageous” that a US President would tell US companies how to conduct business.

    “That he believes he can actually carry out such an outrage is the insanity of a would-be dictator,” Weld tweeted Saturday.

    It’s the insanity of a would-be dictator and it’s also the stupid bullying of a nasty little boy.

  • It’s very special

    The whole King of the Jews – Chosen One – Basically God thing inspired The Caring Atheist to resurrect (see what I did there?) an old clip of Trump pretending to love the bible while actually not knowing a damn thing about it.

    1. You mention that the Bible is your favorite book !!!

    2. What are your favorite Bible verses ? – I don’t want to get into it

    3. The Bible means a lot to me

    4. Are you a New or Old testament guy ? – Probably equal

    5. The Bible is just incredible

    6. The Bible is special

  • Made in China

    We should all start using the word “hereby” a lot; it makes a person sound more powerful and authoritative and official. Or else it makes a person sound more deranged and out of touch with reality and helpless. It’s one of those.

    Donnie Two-Scoops three hours ago:

    Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far…….better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing…..your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,……..all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop – it didn’t. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!

    Magical thinking at its loopiest. All he has to do is say “I hereby order” on Twitter and the job is done; he has Absolute Powers!

    Politico documents the other times he’s engaged in this public fantasizing:

    March 3, 2017: “I hereby demand a second investigation, after Schumer, of Pelosi for her close ties to Russia, and lying about it,” Trump tweeted.

    May 20, 2018: “I hereby demand, and will do so officially tomorrow, that the Department of Justice look into whether or not the FBI/DOJ infiltrated or surveilled the Trump Campaign for Political Purposes – and if any such demands or requests were made by people within the Obama Administration!” Trump tweeted.

    April 13, 2019: “Just out: The USA has the absolute legal right to have apprehended illegal immigrants transferred to Sanctuary Cities. We herebydemand that they be taken care of at the highest level, especially by the State of California, which is well known or its poor management & high taxes!” Trump tweeted.

    Of course it’s trending on Twitter.

    Tom Nichols:

    I hereby order my Great American Cat not to wake me up at 6am I hereby order my Great American Daughter to be nice to her dad even when she feels like a moody teenager I hereby order our Great American postal service not to deliver flyers from stores I don’t like

    #IHerebyOrder

    George Conway:

    I hereby order the White House staff to take @realDonaldTrump to Walter Reed, and to convene the cabinet under Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

    #Iherebyorder

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  • Not the least racist person ever to serve in office

    Michael Gerson on Trump’s deranged performance yesterday:

    With the whir of a helicopter engine in the background, President Trump veered from topic to topic with utter confidence, alarming ignorance, minimal coherence and relentless duplicity.

    President Vladimir Putin, he said, “made a living on outsmarting President Obama” — even though it is Trump who now urges a Russian return to the Group of Seven summit without any concessions on Putin’s part.

    On pursuing the trade war with China, Trump called himself the “chosen one.” This came within hours of tweeting a quote that he is loved like “the second coming of God.” At some point, arrogance is so extreme and delusional that it can only be expressed in blasphemy.

    Trump accused the Danish prime minister of “blowing off the United States” because she scorned his own balmy, offensive musings on the future of Greenland. “We treat countries with respect,” he said — except, presumably, the “shithole” ones.

    Oh no, except all of them. He treats all of them as supplicants whom he can insult at will.

    Trump’s new immigration rule, he claimed, would “do even more” to bring migrant families together — though this togetherness, he failed to mention, would come by allowing the indefinite detention of migrant families.

    “I am the least racist person ever to serve in office,” said the man who is increasingly bold in his use of racist tropes.

    He joked again about being in office 10 or 14 years from now — appealing to people who find overturning the constitutional order a laugh riot.

    It’s every bit as funny as the “joke” about being the chosen one and the “joke” about not putting a Trump tower on the shore in Greenland.

    “Our Second Amendment will remain strong,” Trump promised, while previewing an effort to overturn that portion of the 14th Amendment guaranteeing birthright citizenship. Some parts of the Constitution, clearly, are more constitutional than others.

    Trump pledged the return of thousands of captured Islamic State fighters to Europe, one way or another. “If Europe doesn’t take them, I’ll have no choice but to release them in the countries from which they came, which is Germany, France and other places.” Did the president of the United States just threaten to release dangerous terrorists on the streets of our closest allies? Evidently.

    Of the wounded and grieving families Trump visited following recent mass shootings: “The love for me,” he boasted, “and my love for them was unparalleled.” And this was demonstrated by “hundreds and hundreds of people all over the floor.” No one draws a bigger crowd in an intensive care unit.

    After repeating an anti-Semitic trope about the disloyalty of Jews who vote Democratic, Trump insisted to a reporter, “It’s only anti-Semitic in your head.”

    It’s anti-Semitic in a lot more heads than that of one reporter.

  • He was impeached for the speeches in question

    Interesting. One of the articles of impeachment against Andrew Johnson was his habit of screaming vulgar insults at people.

    Benjamin Wittes:

    The last president I know of who compared himself to the Messiah was Andrew Johnson. He was impeached for the speeches in question.

    Here is Jeffrey Tulis’s account of those Johnson speeches, from his incredible book, The Rhetorical Presidency.

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    …deny that he was a traitor as others alleged, attack some part of the audience (depending on the kinds of heckles he received), defend his use of the veto, attack Congress as a body and single out particular congressmen (occasionally denouncing them as traitors for not supporting his policies), compare himself to Christ and offer himself as a martyr, and finally conclude by declaring his closeness to the people and appealing for their support.

    Trump is even worse, but still, the resemblance is close.

    Wittes suggests we pay special attention to the 10th article of impeachment. The Senate has them all:

    ARTICLE 10.That said Andrew Johnson, President of the United States, unmindful of the high duties of his high office and the dignity and proprieties thereof, and of the harmony and courtesies which ought to exist and be maintained between the executive and legislative branches of the Government of the United States, designing and intending to set aside the rightful authorities and powers of Congress, did attempt to bring into disgrace, ridicule, hatred, contempt and reproach, the Congress of the United States, and the several branches thereof, to impair and destroy the regard and respect of all the good people of the United States for the Congress and the legislative power thereof, which all officers of the government ought inviolably to preserve and maintain, and to excite the odium and resentment of all good people of the United States against Congress and the laws by it duly and constitutionally enacted; and in pursuance of his said design and intent, openly and publicly and before divers assemblages of citizens of the United States, convened in divers parts thereof, to meet and receive said Andrew Johnson as the Chief Magistrate of the United States, did, on the eighteenth day of August, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-six, and on divers other days and times, as well before as afterwards, make and declare, with a loud voice, certain intemperate, inflammatory and scandalous harangues, and therein utter loud threats and bitter menaces, as well against Congress as the laws of the United States duly enacted thereby, amid the cries, jeers and laughter of the multitudes then assembled in hearing…

    Ok now that is a perfect match.

  • No YOU’RE abzurd

    Just in case you want to see him telling reporters that Denmark can’t talk to him like that.

    Denmark can’t call his excellent very good outstanding idea abzurd. It is not either abzurd, it’s very excellent. Besides they didn’t say it about him they said it about the United States. He doesn’t mind about himself, he’s the most humble self-effacing guy you’d want to meet, but they said it to the United STATES I tell you.

  • No edible food for them

    On this already full day, Trump is also finding new ways to trample human rights.

    The Trump administration announced on Wednesday a plan to eliminate a federal court agreement and replace it with a regulation that would allow the government to indefinitely detain migrant children with their parents.

    Of course it did. When there’s an opportunity for rich white people to torture impoverished brown people, Trump’s your man.

    By replacing the agreement, known as the Flores settlement, the government could dramatically expand family detention and increase how long children are held in custody. The government would also have more power to determine the standards of care for children and families in custody.

    The Trump administration has prioritized ending the decades-old Flores agreement, which says the government must hold children in the least restrictive setting and release them as quickly as possible, generally after 20 days in detention. A legal team representing migrant children is also allowed to monitor the government’s detention practices under the terms of the settlement.

    Can’t have that. Gotta hold them as long as possible, and make them as miserable and sick as possible while they’re there.

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    A lawyer for the migrant children in the Flores case, Holly Cooper, said the legal team would file a response to the Trump administration rule after it is formally published. “Because the federal government is publishing a final rule on the heel of multiple findings of violations of the Flores settlement agreement it is incumbent on us to protect those interests,” Cooper said.

    As part of the Flores agreement, a federal appeals panel found last week that detained children should get edible food, clean water, soap and toothpaste after the government argued hygiene products did not need to be provided. It was also a team of Flores attorneys who raised the alarm about dire conditions for migrant children at border processing facilities in June.

    The Trump administration is publicly saying it wants to deprive migrant children of edible food, clean water, soap and toothpaste. Trump and his people want that to be government policy.

    California’s attorney general, Xavier Becerra, condemned the Trump administration plan and said the state was prepared to “defend the human rights of children”.

    “Children don’t become subhuman because they are migrants. All children are God’s children, our children, and America should never treat them otherwise,” Becerra said in a statement. “Yet, the Trump administration is about to take America down that dark road stripping protections that spare children from the trauma and harm caused by unlawful, cruel and prolonged detention.”

    Let’s not go down that road.

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  • Psychotic break or drugs?

    Is there any reason not to think Trump is simply completely out of his mind now? And thus a throbbing pulsating threat to us all?

    Eugene Wu, MD:

    We learn in med school that if someone comes to the emergency room calling themselves the King of Israel and the second coming of God, that patient is either high on drugs or is having a psychotic break and needs to be promptly evaluated with a tox screen and psychiatric consult.

    John Haltiwanger, reporter for Business Insider:

    In the past 24 hours Trump cancelled a trip to Denmark because it wouldn’t sell him Greenland, referred to American Jews who vote Democratic as disloyal, and tweeted Israeli Jews view him as the “second coming of God” and the “King of Israel.”

     

    Also he stood in the Rose Garden and told reporters he’s The Chosen One.

    It’s at .32 if you want to skip ahead.

  • Guest post: Offer ends soon!

    Originally a comment by Omar on A very not nice way of saying something.

    “Essentially it’s a large real estate deal,” he said.

    Greenland will all be prime real estate in just a few short years..! Up for fantastic developments..! All Trump’s usual stuff: casinos, golf courses, spa resorts…… Reindeer rides for the kids; Christmas shopping like you’ve never seen, and then…..who knows?

    As the rest of the world cooks in the global warming Trump says he does not believe is happening, he and Melania can move there and enjoy its balmy tropical weather: far away from the arid deserts that are fast taking over in so many other parts of the world and spoiling so many real estate markets, which will likely move southwards in the financial sense.

    Greenland also has US bases for use by Trump as backup on the day that he announces that he has no more territorial ambitions anywhere in the world, save for the fast-thawing Antarctic Continent, to which he is moving massive ‘research operations’ inspired by the Japanese whaling ‘research’ precedent, which will involve every arm of the US military-industrial complex, and a once in a lifetime offer to the Russians that they will not be able to refuse: for all their real estate interests in Antarctica.

    Under Trump, the United States of America is on course to become the United States of the Earth. Capital (or should that be Capitol?) Mar-Aaargh-Lago, Florida.

    Stand by for developments. Address all real estate enquiries to the US Embassy in your own national capital, which I am sure will be only too happy to provide you with brochures setting out all the wonderful real estate options currently on offer.

    But don’t delay! Offer is sure to end soon!

  • He said, denying that his words were antisemitic

    Trump, like any other stubborn toddler, has repeated the grossly anti-Semitic “the Jews are disloyal” trope from yesterday.

     

    There were the King of the Jews tweets, but he didn’t stop there.

    The president returned to the subject yet again later on Wednesday as he addressed reporters on the South Lawn of the White House before his Marine One departure to Kentucky where he was scheduled to speak to military veterans. Despite the furor surrounding his claims, he made his most specific suggestion yet that American Jews intrinsically have divided fealty.

    “If you vote for a Democrat, you’re being disloyal to Jewish people and you’re being very disloyal to Israel,” he said, denying that his words were antisemitic.

    Oh well as long as he denies it that’s ok then.

    Ted Deutch, a Democratic congressman from Florida who has supported aspects of Trump’s Israel policy in the past, including the decision to relocate the US embassy to Jerusalem, was also harshly critical. Talking to the CBS franchise in Miami, he called on Trump to apologise.

    “It would be an enormous start if we can all acknowledge there is no place for language like that,” he said.

    Deutch, who is Jewish, told the TV station that after Trump made his contentious remarks he had received a text from a friend whose 98-year-old mother was a Holocaust survivor. She wanted the congressman to know, he said, “that the language she heard today was language she heard as a kid in Germany”.

    But Trump says it isn’t, so that’s ok.

  • A very not nice way of saying something

    Let’s see what this looks like to people not drinking the water over here.

    Trump has called the Danish leader “nasty” after she rebuffed his idea of buying Greenland.

    He lashed out hours after Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said she was “sorry” that Mr Trump had abruptly called off a state visit to Denmark.

    She has dismissed the suggestion of such a land deal as “absurd”.

    Queen Margrethe II invited Mr Trump to visit Denmark on 2 September, and the manner of his cancellation has caused dismay in the Scandinavian nation.

    We pride ourselves on our rudeness.

    Our rudeness. Not other people’s. We get to be rude; other people don’t. Understood?

    Mr Trump told reporters on the White House lawn on Wednesday afternoon that Ms Frederiksen had made a “nasty and inappropriate statement”.

    That’s so shocking, especially to a punctilious and invariably polite man like Donald Trump.

    “I thought it was a very not nice way of saying something,” he said.

    “They could have just told me no. All they had to say was we’d rather not do that. Don’t say, what an absurd idea that would be.”

    Indeed, especially since Trump never ever calls the plans or suggestions of other heads of state any harsh names. He’s such a polite generous kind man, how could any colleague call it absurd for him to ask one country to sell him another country? It’s just mean.

    “It was not a nice statement, the way she blew me off,” the US president added.

    Joking aside…this is why I wish I could stamp on his face wearing heavy boots, if only for a second. This wildly narcissistic pouting coupled with his endless flow of trash aimed at everyone else including fellow heads of state. (Remember when he threw a Starburst candy in Merkel’s face? Remember when he shoved the prime minister of Montenegro out of his way?) This grotesquely self-loving demand for politeness to himself that he never exercises toward anyone else. It makes me crazy.

    The Beeb takes us back a few days to explain how we got here.

    Mr Trump had earlier confirmed reports that he was interested in buying Greenland. When asked on Sunday if he would consider trading a US territory for the island, he replied: “Well, a lot of things could be done.”

    “Essentially it’s a large real estate deal,” he said.

    Which is quite true, if you don’t believe in the existence of other people.

  • Mental age falling by the hour

    Oh dear god. Trump is punishing Denmark for declining to sell Greenland to him (not least because it’s not theirs to sell) and calling himself the King of the Jews.

    Trump is punishing Denmark for declining to sell Greenland to him and calling himself the King of the Jews.

    #25thAmendmentNow is trending on Twitter.

    Can we not do it now? Is this not enough?

    Denmark yesterday:

    Denmark is a very special country with incredible people, but based on Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen’s comments, that she would have no interest in discussing the purchase of Greenland, I will be postponing our meeting scheduled in two weeks for another time….….The Prime Minister was able to save a great deal of expense and effort for both the United States and Denmark by being so direct. I thank her for that and look forward to rescheduling sometime in the future!

    King of the Jews today:

    “Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world…and the Jewish people in Israel love him……..like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God…But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing, he’s good for………all Jews, Blacks, Gays, everyone. And importantly, he’s good for everyone in America who wants a job.” Wow!

    Wow indeed.

  • It’s going very well

    More on Trump’s “the Jews are disloyal” move:

    Jon Cooper:

    Trump’s accusation of “great disloyalty” by American Jews is the most anti-Semitic thing he’s ever said. He needs to apologize immediately to the more than 6 million members of the Jewish-American community—approximately 75% of whom voted Democrat in 2016.

    Trump has never apologized for anything, so that won’t happen.

    Julia Ioffe:

    So 80% of American Jews are disloyal? Sounds to me like the old anti-Semitic trope questioning the loyalty of Jews.

    First thing I thought too. It goes with the old “cosmopolitan” nudge nudge.

    Amy Siskind:

    Says the PoS who held a campaign rally hours after the deadliest shooting of American Jews in US history.

    Senator Jacky Rosen [Nevada]:

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: questioning the loyalty of American Jews is anti-Semitic. This is unacceptable, and it’s something we must call out and confront head on.

    Adam Serwer:

    Is calling the 8 out of 10 of American Jews who voted Democratic in 2018 “disloyal” anti-Semitic or nah?

    Yah.

  • Sure, Don, play that card, why not?

    It’ll be matzos made with blood next.

    Trump says Jews who vote for Democrats are “disloyal.” Hmmmm, where have we heard that “Jews are disloyal” song before…

    President Donald Trump sparked widespread outrage and confusion on Tuesday when he said that Jewish Americans voting for Democrats was showing “great disloyalty.”

    Trump made the comments in reference to two Democratic lawmakers, Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rep. Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, who have been openly critical of the Israeli government’s policies towards Palestinians.

    Just as Trump has been openly critical, not to say rude and abusive, about a great many governments’ policies in a great many areas. It’s not up to him what Democrats get to criticize openly.

    The Republican Jewish Coalition defended Trump’s comments, tweeting, “President Trump is right, it shows a great deal of disloyalty to oneself to defend a party that protects/emboldens people that hate you for your religion.”

    Other Jewish leaders and prominent commentators, however, spoke out to denounce Trump’s comments for trafficking in anti-Semitic tropes and harmful stereotypes targeting huge majorities of Jewish voters.

    And Trump’s not Jewish, and no having a daughter who converted to Judaism doesn’t make him Jewish, or an expert on being Jewish, or the arbiter of how Jews should vote in order to be considered “loyal.”

    Abraham Gutman:

    I don’t know about you but I don’t take pointers on how to be a good Jew from a guy who once said: “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.”

    Marc Berman:

    The guy who called white supremacists & KKK members who chanted “Jews will not replace us” very fine people is now lecturing Jews on how to vote? Oy vey, what a schmuck.

    Edward Luce:

    Trump says that three quarters of American Jews are ignorant or disloyal (for voting Democratic). Imagine if Ilhan Omar had said the same about the quarter that vote Republican.

    Jewish voters go about 80% for Democrats, but I’m sure these words of wisdom from Rebbe Trump will change that overnight.

  • Trump tosses a match onto the gasoline

    On today’s social calendar: a likely clash between Proud Boys and Antifa in Portland:

    Portland is preparing for a large far-right rally on Saturday that may be the largest in a series of demonstrations that have descended on the city in the Trump era.

    Police in the Oregon city are fearful of an outbreak of violence at the “End Domestic Terrorism” rally, which is targeted at Portland’s antifascist groups, who in recent years have clashed with rightwing activists in running street battles.

    The protest has been promoted primarily by Floridian Joe Biggs, a member of the rightwing Proud Boys organization. Biggs is a combat veteran and a former employee of the conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones’s Infowars network. He claims that up to 1,000 people from around the country will attend Saturday’s unpermitted event on the city’s waterfront.

    In promoting the rally on social media, Biggs has brandished a Trump-themed baseball bat, appeared in videos wearing a T-shirt bearing the slogan “Training to Throw Communists Out of Helicopters” – a reference to the Chilean Pinochet regime’s methods for executing dissidents – and has taunted antifascists, saying “You’re not gonna feel safe when you go out in public” and “I’m gonna stomp your ass into the ground, Antifa”.

    …

    Other rightwing groups have also said they are attending, or have been mentioned by Biggs and others, including “patriot movement” groups like the Three Percenters and the Oathkeepers, who often openly carry firearms at public events, and American Guard, who the Anti-Defamation League describe as “hardcore white supremacists”.

    The rally has also been heavily promoted in conservative media outlets along with its underlying message – the claim that anti-fascist groups, known as “antifa”, are domestic terrorists.

    So what does Trump do? He sends a tweet from Bedminster:

    Major consideration is being given to naming ANTIFA an “ORGANIZATION OF TERROR.” Portland is being watched very closely. Hopefully the Mayor will be able to properly do his job!

    In other words he aligns himself with fascist groups gathering to set off violence. Is that sinister enough yet?