All Things Trump: Is it over yet?

[Tero]

The feds can only threaten states with funding. Do this or we will cut off all funding to police programs.

[Seabass]

Well would you look at that. Trump appointee votes to extend LBGT workplace protections.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/15/politics ... index.html

I thought the world was coming to an end when he was appointed, and that LBGT people would be hunted in the streets? What happened?

The other appointee, Kavanaugh, dissented, but congratulated the LBGT community. His dissent was based on separation of powers, not the case itself.

Transgender Health Protections Reversed By Trump Administration

[laklak]

Sometimes an appointment to SCOTUS changes a person. I sincerely hope that's what's happening here.

[Cunt]

Sometimes an appointment to SCOTUS changes a person. I sincerely hope that's what's happening here.

Maybe some of them act a 'convincing' way until they are appointed, then do what they think is right.

[Tero]

[Animavore]

Bolton Claims Trump Encouraged Xi To Build ‘Concentration Camps’ For Uighurs
In an excerpt of his new book, the former national security advisor details the president’s complicated relationship with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bolton-b ... br9_EloCGY

Believable? Absolutely, 100%.

True? Hmmm.

[Hermit]

Bolton Claims Trump Encouraged Xi To Build ‘Concentration Camps’ For Uighurs
In an excerpt of his new book, the former national security advisor details the president’s complicated relationship with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/bolton-b ... br9_EloCGY

Believable? Absolutely, 100%.

True? Hmmm.

Quite. The story is plausible, but I'd be more inclined to take Bolton's word for it had he left the administration in disgust at the time rather than be fired later.

The sequence of events also suggests that Bolton was OK with Trump's suggestion when it was made.

[JimC]

Dictators like a quid pro quo with fellow dictators...

[Seabass]

This would all be so hilarious if these people didn't have so much power. It's a goddamn Armando Iannucci movie.

[Cunt]

I can't watch the videos, but the thumbnails suggest something kind of sinister.

Trump should grow a moustache.

[Scot Dutchy]

John Bolton’s bombshell Trump book: eight of its most stunning claims

White House tried to block publication of The Room Where It Happened, but the book has been leaked to media outlets

The eight points.

• 1. Trump pleaded with China to help win the 2020 election
  2. Trump suggested he was open to serving more than two terms
  3. Trump offered favors to dictators
  4. Trump praised Xi for China’s internment camps
  5. Trump defended Saudi Arabia to distract from a story about Ivanka
  6. Trump’s top staff mocked him behind his back
  7. Trump thought Finland was part of Russia
  8. Trump thought it would be ‘cool’ to invade Venezuela

[Scot Dutchy]

What education did the Orange Scrotum receive?

Donald Trump did not know UK had nuclear weapons, Bolton says in new book

US president reportedly said: ‘Oh, are you a nuclear power?’ during meeting with Theresa May in a way that was not a joke, Bolton recalls

Donald Trump was unaware that the UK had its own nuclear weapons, according to the former US national security adviser John Bolton.

The president’s lack of knowledge of the nuclear capabilities of his country’s closest ally is one of many examples Bolton gives of the president’s ignorance of geopolitics in his memoir The Room Where it Happened.

He recalls a meeting in 2018 with the then prime minister, Theresa May, at which a British official referred to the UK as a “nuclear power”. Trump replied: “Oh, are you a nuclear power?” in a tone of voice that made Bolton believe it “was not intended as a joke”, according to a Washington Post excerpt from the book.

[rainbow]

Desperate Don.

[JimC]

A lot of US voters wanted someone as president who was not smarter than them. They succeeded...

[Tero]

CNN
Bolton says the weekly meetings to discuss issues, chaired by Trump in the Roosevelt Room or the Oval Office, more closely resembled college food fights than careful decision-making, with no lower-level effort or involvement by the relevant agencies to sort out the issues and the options. "After these sessions, had I believed in yoga, I probably could have used some," Bolton wrote.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/17/politics ... index.html