All Things Trump

[Woodbutcher]

Well, your profile says "Africa," and I'm not going to test your claim against every country in that continent.

I can see that it is a problem for you.

Why should it be mine?

Look up Gurib-Fakim, if you like.

In which African country do they say: äitisi nai poroja? Ehkä Pohjois-Sudanissa?

[Tero]

Trump cheesed with cheese:
“Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create nonmonetary barriers,” Trump tweeted. “The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.”

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump cheesed with cheese:
“Please tell Prime Minister Trudeau and President Macron that they are charging the U.S. massive tariffs and create nonmonetary barriers,” Trump tweeted. “The EU trade surplus with the U.S. is $151 Billion, and Canada keeps our farmers and others out. Look forward to seeing them tomorrow.”

The orange turd does not understand what "standards" mean. The fact that Americans are willing to eat sub standard garbage does not mean the rest of us will. America should raise its standards then it will have plenty of trade but of course he cant see that as he eats crap every day any way.

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump: the great wheeler dealer.

Trump is a useless negotiator, and Kim Jong-un will know that

The president’s desperation shows, and he has no eye for detail – flaws that have seen him suckered countless times

Next week will see tested one of the enduring fictions of current politics: the myth of Donald Trump, master negotiator. That the myth lives on was demonstrated afresh on Thursday with the leaking of after-dinner remarks by Boris Johnson urging his audience to “imagine Trump doing Brexit”. The foreign secretary fantasised about the US president going in “bloody hard”. Perhaps growing flushed at the prospect, he mused: “Actually, you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.”

Johnson was merely echoing the US president’s perennial boast that he brings to geopolitics the skills of a boardroom maestro. When Trump launched his candidacy in 2015, he declared: “We need a leader that wrote The Art of the Deal" (Tony Schwartz?).

A revealing essay in Politico starts, comically enough, with The Art of the Deal itself. It turns out that Trump negotiated a terrible deal for himself on that very book: the ghostwriter received an unheard-of 50% of the advance fee, 50% of all subsequent earnings and equal billing on the cover. The writer, Tony Schwartz, didn’t even have to push Trump hard. “He basically just agreed,” he recalls.

[rainbow]

It's not a problem for me. I think it's pretty obvious that if someone says "I don't live in a country that does X", it's impossible to investigate the claim without knowing what country the person is talking about, don't you think?

I really don't give a toss whether you do, or not.

[rainbow]

Well, your profile says "Africa," and I'm not going to test your claim against every country in that continent.

I can see that it is a problem for you.

Why should it be mine?

Look up Gurib-Fakim, if you like.

In which African country do they say: äitisi nai poroja? Ehkä Pohjois-Sudanissa?

Sim.

Mke wa mama yako

[Tero]

Isäsi nai äitisi poroja!

[Tero]

Trump playbook

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/pl ... -g7-279483

[Joe]

Trump playbook

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/pl ... -g7-279483

WTF!? From further down in that article:

WHAT IN GOD’S NAME … TAMPA BAY TIMES: “Adam Putnam’s office stopped concealed weapons background checks for a year because it couldn’t log in,” by Steve Contorno: “For more than a year, the state of Florida failed to conduct national background checks on tens of thousands of applications for concealed weapons permits, potentially allowing drug addicts or people with a mental illness to carry firearms in public.

“A previously unreported Office of Inspector General investigation found that in February 2016 the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services stopped using a FBI crime database called the National Instant Criminal Background Check System that ensures applicants who want to carry a gun do not have a disqualifying history in other states.

“The employee in charge of the background checks could not log into the system, the investigator learned. The problem went unresolved until discovered by another worker in March 2017 — meaning that for more than a year applications got approved without the required background check.” http://bit.ly/2JG2G4Q

[pErvinalia]

Jesus...

[Tero]

Colbert...very little on Trump and Kim...yet!
https://youtu.be/-bEQKyyZQmM

[pErvinalia]

Any chance Air Force One could crash land into Kim's hotel?

[Scot Dutchy]

Trump at G7: Who's who in Merkel's photo?

It was always slated to be a tense and awkward G7 summit and an Instagram post from the official account of German Chancellor Angela Merkel appears to have captured one of those moments.

The bad boy is being told off.

[Tero]

Trump still cheesed off at Canada and cheese
https://mobile.twitter.com/realDonaldTr ... gr%5Etweet

[Seabass]

They're attacking Canada and all our allies, and playing footsie with Putin. Canada for fuck's sake! Is there no end to this madness?! How can anyone in their right mind continue to defend this fat stack of orange shit?!?

Trump Refuses to Sign G-7 Statement and Calls Trudeau ‘Weak’

White House ratchets up trade war with ‘special place in hell’ slug at Trudeau