The Trump Presidency

[thethe]

Your hypocrisy during this admin has been astounding. You're just a loser now like all the other brainwashed liberals

What is happening around the world? People are acting like animals. The devastation at Hamburg was a disgrace to western civilization. Is this what we have come to? You don't like a result so you riot and complain incessantly until something hopefully changes? What a joke.

[57Brave]

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/07/0....co/Ke53QAKzMD

On Sunday morning on Fox News, the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, described the Trump Tower meeting as a “big nothing burger.”

[57Brave]

Bakari Sellers‏Verified account @Bakari_Sellers 1h1 hour ago

So @DonaldJTrumpJr knowingly met with Russians to get Campaign help.

He knowingly met with Russians to get campaign help.
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President Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., was promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton before agreeing to meet with a Kremlin-connected Russian lawyer during the 2016 campaign, according to three advisers to the White House briefed on the meeting and two others with knowledge of it.

it is common practice to have 3 sources before publishing.
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[thethe]

More 'sources' about mysterious Russia meetings.

I'm sure this is going to stick like everything else.

[57Brave]

who knows if it is going to stick -- which is really kinda besides the point.

The point being I have lived through 12 Presidents and

a) never saw one have their daughter sit in their chair at a major summit. Even if Trump was ill or low energy, isn't the VP to sit in his place and wasn't the Sec of State at the same meeting ? Isn't that why we vote for leaders ?

b) read of a son acknowledging meeting with an adversary for the purpose of gaining oppo research

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[57Brave]

More 'sources' about mysterious Russia meetings.

I'm sure this is going to stick like everything else.

It isn't mysterious at all. DT Jr acknowledged the meet but said it was about "adoption" policies

[thethe]

It isn't mysterious at all. DT Jr acknowledged the meet but said it was about "adoption" policies

So the fact that there is doubt over the content of the meeting makes it mysterious and scary to your base. Thats the whole point isn't it?

[57Brave]

Darth Kara Targaryen‏ @KaraCalavera 47m47 minutes ago

Darth Kara Targaryen Retweeted NBC News

His defense is that he tried to collude with a Russian, but that she deceived him by trying to talk about adoption.

[thethe]

Darth Kara Targaryen‏ @KaraCalavera 47m47 minutes ago

Darth Kara Targaryen Retweeted NBC News

His defense is that he tried to collude with a Russian, but that she deceived him by trying to talk about adoption.

No that is not what his defense was. He clearly states that he did not know the woman or anything about her. How does one make the leap that he knowingly attempted to collude with Russia?

[thethe]

I love that the Dems continue to embarass themselves. Is this what they want to call a smoking gun? They really have nothing to prove collusion at all. Its comical.

[57Brave]

FLASHBACK: Mike Pence January 2017.
Q:
Did any Trump campaign member have contact with the Russians?

Pence: "Of course not."

[Hawk]

Darth Kara Targaryen‏ @KaraCalavera 47m47 minutes ago

Darth Kara Targaryen Retweeted NBC News

His defense is that he tried to collude with a Russian, but that she deceived him by trying to talk about adoption.

Grasping ... at .... strawz.

[goldfly]

Why would I not embrace ensuring only Americans citizens are voting.

you're trolling me with this, right?

[goldfly]

What is happening around the world? People are acting like animals. The devastation at Hamburg was a disgrace to western civilization. Is this what we have come to? You don't like a result so you riot and complain incessantly until something hopefully changes? What a joke.

the things happening in hamburg are't any different than the things that formed this supposed great country


for the most part the biggest story out of Hamburg is our president embarrassing the **** out of our country to the world

[goldfly]

agent orange logic:

[57Brave]

Michael Ian Black‏Verified account @michaelianblack 11h11 hours ago

Michael Ian Black Retweeted Yashar Ali

"Don, please take a meeting with my friend."
"Who is it?"
"Nobody."
"Ok, and I'll invite my father's campaign chair and my bro-in-law."

[57Brave]

Jonathan Chait‏Verified account @jonathanchait 12h12 hours ago

Jonathan Chait Retweeted Jonathan Chait

Notable fact here: 3 days after the meeting, Assange announced he would be publishing Clinton emails.

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...julian-assange

[Jaw]

so much winning


Once Dominant, the United States Finds Itself Isolated at G-20

HAMBURG, Germany — For years the United States was the dominant force and set the agenda at the annual gathering of the leaders of the world’s largest economies.

But on Friday, when President Trump met with 19 other leaders at the Group of 20 conference, he found the United States isolated on everything from trade to climate change, and faced with the prospect of the group’s issuing a statement on Saturday that lays bare how the United States stands alone.

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany, the host of the meeting, opened it by acknowledging the differences between the United States and the rest of the countries. While “compromise can only be found if we accommodate each other’s views,” she said, “we can also say, we differ.”

Ms. Merkel also pointed out that most of the countries supported the Paris accord on climate change, while Mr. Trump has abandoned it. “It will be very interesting to see how we formulate the communiqué tomorrow and make clear that, of course, there are different opinions in this area because the United States of America regrettably” wants to withdraw from the pact, she said.


Mr. Trump seemed to relish his isolation. For him, the critical moment of Friday was his long meeting with the Russian president, Vladimir V. Putin, which seemed to mark the reset in relations that Mr. Trump has been desiring for some time. It also provided Mr. Putin the respect and importance he has long demanded as a global partner to Washington.

Where previous American leaders saw their power as a benevolent force, and were intent on spreading prosperity through open markets and multilateral cooperation, Mr. Trump has portrayed himself as a nationalist, a unilateralist and a protectionist, eager to save American jobs.

What recent events have underscored, though — and especially at the G-20 — is that no nation is today large or powerful enough to impose rules on everyone else. In advancing his views, Mr. Trump has alienated allies and made the United States seem like its own private island.

Nowhere was Mr. Trump’s isolation more evident than on the issue of trade.

Mr. Trump thinks the United States has been unfairly disadvantaged by sweeping free-trade agreements like the North American Free Trade Agreement or the Trans-Pacific Partnership. He believes the steel industry in particular has been savaged by globalization.


Within days, he could impose restrictions and new tariffs on steel imports. Doing so would be a provocative move that could affect trade with more than a dozen major countries even while lifting the spirits of his most ardent supporters.

The tariffs could very well provoke a global trade war.

European officials here reacted astringently, threatening to retaliate. “We will respond with countermeasures if need be, hoping that this is not actually necessary,” the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, said on Friday. “We are prepared to take up arms if need be.”

Targets could include American whiskey imports. “I don’t want to tell you in detail what we’re doing,” Mr. Juncker said. “But what I would like to tell you is that within a few days — we won’t need two months for that — we could react with countermeasures.”

The Italian prime minister, Paolo Gentiloni, warned that new protectionist trade measures could bring “contagion” that would slow the growth of the world economy. “We cannot waste this moment of recovery, giving signals of protectionism or of incorrect trade behavior,” he said.

But as Mr. Trump contemplates protectionism, Europe and Japan reached a landmark free trade agreement this week. Mexico and China, two of the United States’ largest trading partners, have been mulling their own deal. The world is moving ahead regardless.

Mr. Trump and his economic team have been delaying the decision on steel in recent weeks because of disagreement among his advisers.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/07/w...smtyp=cur&_r=0

He campaigned on all of the bolded parts, none of those should be a surprise. Nice to see him following through on campaign promises. Now we need to cram a backbone into Congress so they can do the same.

[thethe]

He campaigned on all of the bolded parts, none of those should be a surprise. Nice to see him following through on campaign promises. Now we need to cram a backbone into Congress so they can do the same.

They just don't get it....

[Krgrecw]

They just don't get it....

Nope. And they never will.