Trump wants everybody to think that it was his decision to do away with this council, but simply put there were not enough people left to play a game of poker much less make up an actual council.Rather than putting pressure on the businesspeople of the Manufacturing Council & Strategy & Policy Forum, I am ending both. Thank you all!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 16, 2017
It's like that time I called off the late night basketball game because I was the only one who showed up, and I forgot my ball at home.
Perhaps next Trump will close the White House because people there do want to work with him anymore either.
I don't know when we are all supposed to be tired of all of this winning, but I am feeling very energetic.
OT?" Is Trump displaying a “second childishness” as he enters the last stage of his life? A childishness where the convictions of his earlier life, and childhood, are strongly reinforced and emerge without censorship? My guess is that this is a factor along with everything else in giving us a president, who as the events of the last days have demonstrated, is completely unfit for office."
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"It's very telling when corporate America has a higher moral compass than the religious Right"
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"Trump wants everybody to think that it was his decision to do away with this council"
ReplyDeleteSarah Palin wants everybody to think that it was her decision to do away with SarahPac
Sounds familiar?
Yeah he must be having her sober up to help him go rogue. Backfire anyone?
DeleteHe wants to quit. This will stave off the feeling for a little while. Obviously he does not care nor does he probably even remember there was a council. Some aide pushed this so he could have that glorious feeling of wrecking without any immediate consequences.
ReplyDeleteI am proud of the White Americans that are fighting for the good of all Americans. Thank you for walking with us that have brown skins, who are Gay, Trans, and whoever else Trump and the Republicans have deemed unworthy of their Utopia.
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DeleteAccording to Ari Melber on MSNBC (and likely earlier people) the members of the Strategy & Policy Forum had already conferred and decided to disband somewhat before Trump's tweet.
ReplyDeleteHe'll always make it look like it was his idea, Ted, and a "very, very, very" good one at that.
DeleteI was surprised to learn that Kevin Plank, Under Armour CEO, was on that council and chose to resign. I saw a segment featuring him on CBS This Morning and he treats his employees well, pays them well, seems like a decent guy. He probably had his fill and then some.
They're different than the Manufacturing Council. It was the Manufacturing Council that was losing people right and left. Strategy and Policy already lost Uber, Tesla and Disney after the Paris accord debacle.
DeleteTrump doesn't like dissenters. Just another example of how all he wants are yes men and those that agree with him.
And of course, Trump took credit for disbanding them. More damage control.
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" “He’s clueless on what to do, he doesn’t want to admit he’s clueless on what to do, he brings in advisers, and when they don’t agree, he fires, criticizes or both,” Bernstein said. “That is making the entire business world nervous, even though, at first glance, the Trump administration would seem to be business friendly.” "
I'm glad that business leaders and other Republicans are denouncing Trump's words but where the hell are all the evangelical leaders speaking out? I haven't heard a peep from them. Could racism and bigotry be a core tenet of Christianity? It certainly makes one wonder...
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For all intents and purposes, Trumps presidency is like a motorcyclist who goes 150 mph and hits a guardrail head first. Brain dead and on life support awaiting organ donation removal. He can die with Bannon, Miller and Gorka by his side or not. His choice now.
ReplyDeleteMore like the business leaders wised up and gave up on the losing trump dump truck and outhouse. Just NOT into u
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DeleteThe Entire US Military Has Now Openly Broken With Trump And Denounced Racism
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Fox News Can’t Find Any Republicans Who Are Willing To Go On The Air And Defend Trump
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/16/fox-news-find-republicans-air-defend-trump.html
Twitter shutters accounts of U.S. white supremacy website
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/16/twitter-shutters-accounts-u-s-white-supremacy-website.html
Trump Busted In Huge Lie As CEOs Forced Him To Shut Down Business Councils
It wasn't Donald Trump who shut down the presidential councils, but CEOs who shut Trump after they decided in a conference call to collectively resign.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/16/trump-busted-huge-lie-ceos-forced-shut-business-councils.html
Humiliated Trump Kills His Manufacturing Council After CEOs Flee The Toxic President
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/08/16/humiliated-trump-kills-manufacturing-council-ceos-flee-toxic-president.html
"Perhaps next Trump will close the White House because people there do want to work with him anymore either"
ReplyDeleteI think you mean "people there DON'T want to work with him any more."
While this seems like a good sign, I am appalled some of these CEOs stayed as long as they did. I am particularly upset that the AFL-CIO stayed as long as they did, being the FOURTH to resign. Did he really think that staying would mean Trump and the Republicans would cease their attacks on unions?
Correction: FIFTH to resign.
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Really?
DeleteDid he call out J.P. Morgan and British Petroleum too? Because their stocks are also down.
Stocks go up and down. I doubt Amazon's was effected by Trump's Tweet tantrum. It's still over $975 a share.
May be it's a case of "look this way" while transactions
Deleteoccur over "that way"? Shrug.
Former CIA director John Brennan wrote a heartwarming note to CNN’s Wolf Blitzer where he apologized for the “pain inflicted” by President Donald Trump’s infamous press conference.
ReplyDeleteThe anchor of “The Situation Room” on CNN, Blitzer explained on-air that all four of his grandparents had been murdered by Nazis during the Holocaust.
Brennan saw the exchange and wrote a personal note on the, “unspeakable evil of Nazism,” which CNN has shared.
“I just want to extend my sympathies not only for their deaths but also to you and your family–and countless others–for the pain inflicted today by the despicable words of Donald Trump. Mr. Trump’s words, and the beliefs they reflect, are a national disgrace, and all Americans of conscience need to repudiate his ugly and dangerous comments,” Brennan wrote.
“If allowed to continue along this senseless path, Mr. Trump will do lasting harm to American society and to our standing in the world,” Brennan predicted. “By his words and his actions, Mr. Trump is putting our national security and our collective futures at grave risk.”
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/ex-cia-director-brennan-pens-emotional-apology-to-wolf-blitzer-trump-put-our-collective-futures-at-grave-risk/
...“Today, former presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush issued a statement condemning racial bigotry, anti-Semitism and hatred,” Tapper said. “They were joined by the chiefs of staff of the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force and the National Guard.”
ReplyDeleteThough none of them referred specifically to the president, “they all felt the need to tweet condemnations of the racist hateful ideologies of the Klan and neo-Nazis and white supremacists and alt-right on display in Charlottesville within hours of President Trump’s suggesting a moral equivalence between Nazis and those protests Nazis.”
Trump’s suggestion that there were bad and “very fine” people on “both sides” in Charlottesville was been so criticized, Tapper said, that CEOs working with him are jumping ship.
“So many CEOs and union leaders have fled White House business councils in protest, President Trump was forced to abandon the councils this afternoon,” Tapper said.
As Republican figures like Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL), John McCain (R-AZ), commentator Charles Krauthammer, former presidential candidates Mitt Romney, John Kasich and Jeb Bush crowded to condemn the president, the only ones singing his praises, Tapper noted, were racists.
America fought two wars — the Civil War and the World War II — against the “morally repugnant” concepts on display in Charlottesville, Tapper said.
“We have freedoms in the country so klansmen and Nazis, they can think their ugly thoughts and spew their hideous words and they have the right to peacefully assemble,” Tapper said. “But to act as if these defeated, intellectually destitute, pathetic ideologies and people have any moral standing as they rally to intimidate and vomit forth their treasonous filth, it is not only immoral, it’s unpatriotic. It’s un-American.”
Watch the entire rousing, uncompromising criticism of the president’s “un-American” speech below, via CNN.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/watch-tapper-nails-trump-for-giving-pathetic-ideologies-the-moral-standing-to-vomit-forth-their-treasonous-filth/
But will anyone remember when 2018 rolls around?
DeleteThey'll still vote the straight R ticket.
"They tried to kill my child to shut her up. Well guess what? You just magnified her," Heyer's mother Susan Bro said to long and loud applause from those gathered at the city's 1930s era Paramount Theater.
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J.K. Rowling Finds Silver Lining In Trump’s ‘Abomination Of A Speech’
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Need proof that GOP officials are trying to avoid talking about President Donald Trump?
ReplyDeleteHow about this: They’re even turning down chances to be on Fox News.
On Wednesday, Fox host Shep Smith told viewers that he wanted to discuss the furor over Trump’s Tuesday press conference, in which the president equated white supremacists with those protesting them over the weekend in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Problem was, no one was willing to go on the air to support Trump’s statement that there were good neo-Nazis at the violent rally that killed one and injured at least 19.
Smith explained his predicament:
“Our booking team ― and they’re good ― reached out to Republicans of all stripes, across the country today. Let’s be honest, Republicans often don’t really mind coming on Fox News Channel. We couldn’t get anyone to come and defend him here, because we thought, in balance, someone should do that.”
Smith was quick to point out that just because the GOP is shying away from Trump’s controversial statements in the wake of the weekend violence, they still aren’t ready to quit him.
“And of those that are condemning the president’s condemnable actions, I’ve not heard any prominent leaders, former presidents, members of the House or the Senate use his name while speaking in generalities.”
You can watch the complete clip below, courtesy of MediaMatters.org.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/shep-smith-trump_us_5994ab78e4b0d0d2cc83ecc1?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
What? They couldn't even get Kellyanus Conjob to take Trump's side in a debate? Since when has she ever turned down a chance to appear before a camera?
Deletekellyanus conjob? hilarious.
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ReplyDeletePro-Trump Bloggers Are Trying To Disown The Alt-Right Brand After Charlottesville
Meet the “New Right.” Same as the alt-right?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/alt-right-charlottesville_us_59932926e4b04b193360992e?ncid=inblnkushpmg00000009
How about don ending his fake presidency today.
ReplyDeleteSwamp creatures need to go back underground.
ReplyDeleteSweet little ol abby huntsman and daddy russian ambassador are quite the sheepies.
ReplyDeleteYOU CAN'T QUIT MY MANUFACTURING COUNCIL!
ReplyDeleteYOU'RE FIRED!
"I wonder how he'd react if he woke up one morning and there was nobody in the White House. Every room empty. Even the admirable staff had walked out. I can just see him running wild-eyed through the halls, yanking open doors, screaming for someone to answer him, his hair wildly tangled, his silk drawers showing the urine stains appearing as he realized he was all alone...
ReplyDeleteAhhh, sweet revenge."
Stolen from a post on F/B. Sounds like the perfect ending.
Your post sounds more like a haunting (Trump running? Not in this lifetime). Great. So he dies in the White House and never leaves. Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse.
DeleteNo, he wouldn't die in there; he'd run screaming down Pennsylvania Avenue and someone would throw a net over him and they'd haul him off to the booby hatch where he'd play in his feces and babble about all his "stuff".
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