Donald Trump: Classic or Dud?

O snap good lookin out.

pew pew sniped ya

^ best Nas song

source your quotes, sniper

https://newrepublic.com/article/143586/trumps-russian-laundromat-trump-tower-luxury-high-rises-dirty-money-international-crime-syndicate

1/ About that “interview” he gave to three Times reporters I have not stopped thinking. A thread to explain why. https://t.co/dCDqxnQcUT

— Jay Rosen (@jayrosen_nyu) July 23, 2017

That's such a great thread.

a fun reminder

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/article127231799.html

Did the whole interview ever come out, actually?

that jay rosen thread is like watching a duckling wake up to realize mr fox isn't going to be his good buddy after all

Not really. It's stating the obvious but the obvious continues to bear when swathes of Americans still back Trump.

You'd get better, more informed and coherent answers interviewing a monkey. But it goes to show again and again that it does not matter. Trump might as well be an actual monkey, or answer every question with a loud fart: 80+ percent of Republicans still back him.

Good luck USA etc

*to bear repeating

i dunno, he's like "THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts, and WE are the stenographer muses, provoking them to be their best selves! what in the world are we to do once that illusion falls apart and it becomes plain that we are only useful insofar as we further their interests?" like man - that's how it's always been

"THEY are supposed to be the grownup experts

I didn't read it so much this way as "THEY are supposed to have some rudimentary grasp of the subjects that are absolutely central to doing their job and some definable thoughts in their heads, even if they are paper thin, and it is rather shocking that the POTUS's head is full of nothing but mush and putrid garbage."

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/what-its-like-to-get-laid-off-at-the-carrier-plant-trump-said-hed-save

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/08/the-best-quotes-from-trumps-embarrassing-wsj-interview.html

poll

Anyone who takes a pic of you from this angle and posts it is an enemy to you and freedom. pic.twitter.com/9nWZaDUHzK

— Melanie Dione (@beauty_jackson) August 3, 2017

god bless Vic Berger

save that shot forever

Trump's week (8/7 - 8/13/17):

✓Threatened nuclear war.
✓Threatened Venezuela.
✓Thanked Putin for expelling US diplomats.
✓"Many sides" after neo-Nazi murder.

pretty standard week in our nightmarish new hellscape tbh

american carnage! alright, alt-right, assemble in your muscle cars. a landscape of scapegoats is yours for the hurting

Not many presidents could make threatening nuclear war the second worst thing he did in a week.

— Gady Epstein (@gadyepstein) August 12, 2017

Anyone on the right saying anything re:Venezuela? He couldn't have given Maduro a better gift.

Empire City, a documentary film from 1985, is now streaming for rental on Vimeo.

While it was originally meant to contrast 1980s New York with the "golden age" from 1830 - 1930, it provides a rare and fascinating glimpse of the city at the very moment it shifted fully from the socially progressive era and into the Neoliberal Age of radical free-market economics.

Looking back three decades later, we can see the beginning of the glossy, greedy epoch in which we now live.

The film features the creators of today's city, from Donald Trump to Felix Rohatyn and David Rockefeller. In one scene, a young Trump stands with Mayor Ed Koch at a topping-out ceremony for yet another Midtown tower and says, "This mayor has created such a tremendous atmosphere with respect to the city of New York. Eight years ago, I must say, I was embarrassed to say I was in the real estate business in New York. Today, I can honestly say I'm proud of it."

That atmosphere was one that explicitly favored developers over everyday New Yorkers....

http://vanishingnewyork.blogspot.com/2017/08/empire-city.html

https://vimeo.com/ondemand/empirecity/164152028

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhclkwsU5CQ

In all the clips of the dude from the era he always seems very heavily sedated. He reminds me of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsz71luPVuE

https://www.statnews.com/2017/08/16/donald-trump-mental-health-congress/

Remember that Trump & his father were sued by the Nixon administration for racial discrimination. Trump was too racist for **Richard Nixon**

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 16, 2017

plus the last time a republican was president in september the US economy barely survived

imagine donald j. trump as president on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 :)

I'll say this much, there will definitely be people dancing and celebrating in the streets when he's gone.

With their mutated bodies

Dud

dud

I've given him a chance, but I have to conclude he is a dud

gonna go out on a limb here..... dud

i don't want to go quickly and just make a statement for the sake of making a political statement

hey there's duds on all sides people, no need to point the finger

there have been many duds in history and you never hear anyone talking about them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c45X1PHm1g

Trump abruptly ends manufacturing council after CEOs disband strategic and policy forum

You can't quit. I'm firing you first!

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/16/trump-charlottesville-temper-chaos-241721

on trump's anger-as-management and his triggers

“For Trump, there came a moment where he wanted to re-establish that he was going to do what he was going to do,” said the adviser, who knows both the president and members of the staff. “He let his lawyers know that it’s his job to make decisions and their job to figure out how to implement it.”

most underrated shitty thing about Trump is how amazingly lazy he is

— Adam H. Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) August 16, 2017

otm. It's why I can't really see him declare war on North Korea - would bring about a ton of work - but wouldn't be surprised if he fails to raise the debt ceiling.

fake news

https://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21726696-u-turns-self-regard-and-equivocation-are-not-what-it-takes-donald-trump-has-no-grasp-what-it

Mr Trump is not a white supremacist.

I beg to differ.

plus the last time a republican was president in september the US economy barely survived

imagine donald j. trump as president on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 :)

Time for some more moral equivalence and re-education of the people by the big man methinks. He's a good couple of weeks to get all the key facts.

"Other triggers include if someone's wearing a tie, if someone sneezes, if someone breathes "wrong" or if the sky's blue or any other color" pic.twitter.com/ZtVLzGQUsn

— Jon Schwarz (@tinyrevolution) August 17, 2017

has Trump's defence of white-nationalists this week damaged his popularity? I know that his approval ratings are terrible, but I got the impression that this was more due to the general chaos and inability to get anything done? will his comments this week alienate anyone who didn't hate him already? (I guess they damage Trump in that they force colleagues/officials/commentators etc to distance themselves from him making him more isolated, but do they play badly with voters?)

Aside from the hilarious URL the story is great: http://fortune.com/2017/08/15/donald-trump-itrump-trumpet-app/

The owner of Trump Tower, Trump Golf Links, and The Donald J. Trump Signature Collection can’t claim this one as his own: iTrump.

That’s because the trademark resides with a 40-year-old-engineer and amateur musician who created an iPhone app designed to teach people how to play the trumpet. This month, Tom Scharfeld prevailed in his grueling six-year legal fight against Donald Trump. And Scharfeld’s triumph is even more impressive because he succeeded without a lawyer.

Legal experts say it’s no surprise that Trump waged a fierce campaign to capture a name that he said screams DONALD TRUMP. After all, The Trump Organization has affixed the moniker to everything from real estate, vodka and golf courses to an airline, clothing and steaks. Long before Trump embarked on his run for the White House, the tycoon had sued to block upstarts from using the name, and he and his family have recently expanded their marks around the world.

“When you are representing yourself, it is almost impossible to win, so coming out a winner is one of the great long shots," said Harley Lewin, a New York lawyer not involved in the case. “Even if you are bright and perhaps right on the issues, the lack of knowledge of litigation procedure almost dooms you from the start."

Trump’s lawyers "didn’t seem to respect that I could do this," Scharfeld said. “We won all the claims and defeated those against us.”
James Weinberger, the lawyer for Trump in the iTrump case, declined to comment.