Trumpoleon

Yes. President-elect Trump wants to steal Canada, Greenland, and the Panama Canal.

Day 1 Dictator

Mass deportations. Pardoning Jan. 6 rioters. Banning trans athletes from sports. President-elect Donald Trump has said he would not be a dictator “except for Day 1” of his presidency, when he plans to act swiftly on those proposals and several other major campaign promises he made to voters during the election.

• One of Trump’s most extreme campaign promises was to carry out “the largest mass deportation program” in the country’s history beginning on Day 1 of his presidency.
• Trump has said he would issue an executive order to reverse President Joe Biden’s climate policies and would push for a steep increase in oil and gas drilling on his first day as president.
• Trump made several promises to crack down on transgender rights upon his return to office. He said he would cut federal funding for schools that teach “critical race theory” and what he called “transgender insanity.”
• Trump has said that one of his first acts in the White House would be to pardon those convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. He has called the insurrection “a day of love” and cast the rioters as “patriots” who were “horribly and unfairly treated.”
• Trump has vowed to sign an executive order imposing steep tariffs on goods from some of the U.S.’ largest trading partners on the first day of his presidency. He threatened to charge a 25% tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico as punishment for what he called the “open borders” through which people are “bringing Crime and Drugs at levels never seen before.” During his campaign, Trump promised to impose a 60% tariff on goods from China. 

"Are You Seriously This Stupid?"

Donald Trump on Sunday tried to defend himself from the criminal charges he’s facing in the election interference case ― but experts say it sounded more like a confession. 

Trump on Fox News bragged that his poll numbers go up every time he’s indicted. 

“Whoever heard, you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election, where you have every right to do it, you get indicted, and your poll numbers go up,” he said. 

Trump flat out said he had “every right” to have been “interfering” with the election. 

Lawmakers, former prosecutors, attorneys and other legal minds were ready with a fact-check ― and some said it sounded like Trump was admitting to a crime:

Rambling Rant

Trump holds seemingly pointless press conference filled with false claims

Former president Donald Trump spent nearly an hour at his Palm Beach, Florida social club on Thursday ranting to a room full of reporters with no apparent purpose except to let the Republican presidential nominee try grabbing the spotlight back from a resurgent Democratic ticket.

The ex-president’s campaign had called the hand-picked group of journalists to his social club, the location where he allegedly hid stolen classified documents from the government after taking them during his time in the White House, in an effort to reclaim attention that has been laser focused on Harris, Walz, and the massive crowds they have drawn in their initial appearances together as a ticket.

Ostensibly, the former president said he was there to “talk about debates,” and after a rambling monologue in which he claimed that America is “in the most dangerous position it's ever been in” and “very close to a world war” without offering evidence to support those assertions, he did say that he has “agreed” to debates.

The ex-president also took a swipe at the record crowds drawn by Harris and Walz, claiming at one point that one of his events once drew more people than the 1963 March on Washington featuring civil rights activist Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr. That event drew more than 250,000 people — far more than have attended any of Trump’s political rallies.

Trump then proceeded to attack Biden, who is no longer running for president, calling him “the worst president in the history of our country” and repeating an oft-told lie that other countries are deliberately emptying prisons and mental institutions and sending their former inmates to the United States.

He also complained that Harris is now leading the Democratic ticket even though she never received a vote. In reality, Harris and Biden both received more than 81,000,000 votes when they ran against Trump and then-vice president Mike Pence in 2020, defeating them in both the popular vote and the electoral college.

In a press release, the Harris campaign called Trump “the most insecure man in America.”

Campaign spokesperson Ammar Moussa said “Trump has no vision, he has no solutions, and he is running a campaign of revenge and retribution to enact his Project 2025 agenda and make people’s lives worse.”

-- edited from an article in The Independent

Unfit to Lead

 

New York Times opinion 

Flick Away

Wish it was this easy.

Book: Disloyal

Cohen admits to being a liar and a bully. But his explanation in the book pretty much corroborates his testimony in the current-day “hush money” trial against Donald Trump. If you review the “sentencing memorandum” in the book’s appendix, he seems to be a different person in private life. His friends and acquaintances praise his many good deeds.

Convicted Felon

Book: I Alone Can Fix It

The true story of what took place in Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020. The authors explained how the government failed to contain the coronavirus. Then they explained who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud. They revealed a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country.

I got so irritated each time DT said he had won the election "by a landslide," "by millions," etc. I just wanted to wring his neck. Not that that would have changed his knuckleheaded words.

Can't Count

Donald Trump on Wednesday seemed to forget who was president in 2021 as he called on voters to remember better times. 

“Three years ago, we were a great nation,” Trump said at a rally in Michigan during an off day in his criminal trial in the Stormy Daniels hush money case. “And we will soon be a great nation again.” 

His choice of “three years ago” as a measure of greatness struck many as curious given that he wasn’t president three years ago. 

President Joe Biden had already been in office more than three months. Trump lost the 2020 election.

Dozo the Clown

Trump's "hush money" criminal trial began. A reporter for The New York Times who was in the courtroom said:

Followed by:

This prompted Jimmy Kimmel to rename DT "Dozo the Clown."

Q & A

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Book: Landslide

Landslide describes a president who was not really interested in doing the work necessary or required to steer the government. There was often no one in charge; there were meetings with no agenda or purpose, other than to listen to the president wax about whatever was on his mind, not often actual business; and the main objective, every day, was to give the president what he wanted to hear, slanted in the way he wanted it, irrespective of facts or truth. And so often, he just bashed and insulted people, often persons in his very presence, or on TV, or wherever, he just emoted insults and berating and neglected the country’s business.

Endorsement

"The Late Show with Stephen Colbert"
March 6, 2024