The Trump Presidency

[Johan]

I can.

You can't

 

[himperv303]

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[mongo18]

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The more golf a CEO plays, the more poorly their company is likely to perform.

"CEOs that golf frequently (i.e., those in the top quartile of golf play, who play at least 22 rounds per year) are associated with firms that have lower operating performance and firm values."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2495105

Pffft, only 22 rounds a year? Isn't drumpf up in the 80s somewhere? He's 4D chessing the fuck outta that.

A simpler explanation, for those who don't want to look at the academic paper (pretty much everyone) - https://www.businessinsider.com.au/ceo-golf-rounds-indicate-poor-performance-2014-11?r=US&IR=T

 

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[Johan]

Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book


Former White House strategist quoted in Fire and Fury, by Michael Wolff
Bannon: ‘They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV

Donald Trump’s former chief strategist Steve Bannon has described the Trump Tower meeting between the president’s son and a group of Russians during the 2016 election campaign as “treasonous” and “unpatriotic”, according to an explosive new book seen by the Guardian.

Bannon, speaking to author Michael Wolff, warned that the investigation into alleged collusion with the Kremlin will focus on money laundering and predicted: “They’re going to crack Don Junior like an egg on national TV.”

Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, reportedly based on more than 200 interviews with the president, his inner circle and players in and around the administration, is one of the most eagerly awaited political books of the year. In it, Wolff lifts the lid on a White House lurching from crisis to crisis amid internecine warfare, with even some of Trump’s closest allies expressing contempt for him.

Bannon, who was chief executive of the Trump campaign in its final three months, then White House chief strategist for seven months before returning to the rightwing Breitbart News, is a central figure in the nasty, cutthroat drama, quoted extensively, often in salty language.
He is particularly scathing about a June 2016 meeting involving Trump’s son Donald Jr, son-in-law Jared Kushner, then campaign chairman Paul Manafort and Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya at Trump Tower in New York. A trusted intermediary had promised documents that would “incriminate” rival Hillary Clinton but instead of alerting the FBI to a potential assault on American democracy by a foreign power, Trump Jr replied in an email: “I love it.”

The meeting was revealed by the New York Times in July last year, prompting Trump Jr to say no consequential material was produced. Soon after, Wolff writes, Bannon remarked mockingly: “The three senior guys in the campaign thought it was a good idea to meet with a foreign government inside Trump Tower in the conference room on the 25th floor – with no lawyers. They didn’t have any lawyers".
“Even if you thought that this was not treasonous, or unpatriotic, or bad shit, and I happen to think it’s all of that, you should have called the FBI immediately.”
Bannon went on, Wolff writes, to say that if any such meeting had to take place, it should have been set up “in a Holiday Inn in Manchester, New Hampshire, with your lawyers who meet with these people”. Any information, he said, could then be “dump[ed] … down to Breitbart or something like that, or maybe some other more legitimate publication”.
Bannon added: “You never see it, you never know it, because you don’t need to … But that’s the brain trust that they had.”
Bannon also speculated that Trump Jr had involved his father in the meeting. “The chance that Don Jr did not walk these jumos up to his father’s office on the twenty-sixth floor is zero.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller was appointed last May, following Trump’s dismissal of FBI director James Comey, to investigate Russian meddling in the 2016 election. This has led to the indictments of four members of Trump’s inner circle, including Manafort and former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Manafort has pleaded not guilty to money laundering charges; Flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI. In recent weeks Bannon’s Breitbart News and other conservative outlets have accused Mueller’s team of bias against the president.
Trump predicted in an interview with the New York Times last week that the special counsel was “going to be fair”, though he also said the investigation “makes the country look very bad”. The president and his allies deny any collusion with Russia and the Kremlin has denied interfering.

Bannon has criticised Trump’s decision to fire Comey. In Wolff’s book, obtained by the Guardian ahead of publication from a bookseller in New England, he suggests White House hopes for a quick end to the Mueller investigation are gravely misplaced.
“You realise where this is going,” he is quoted as saying. “This is all about money laundering. Mueller chose [senior prosecutor Andrew] Weissmann first and he is a money-laundering guy. Their path to fucking Trump goes right through Paul Manafort, Don Jr and Jared Kushner … It’s as plain as a hair on your face.”

Last month it was reported that federal prosecutors had subpoenaed records from Deutsche Bank, the German financial institution that has lent hundreds of millions of dollars to the Kushner property empire. Bannon continues: “It goes through Deutsche Bank and all the Kushner shit. The Kushner shit is greasy. They’re going to go right through that. They’re going to roll those two guys up and say play me or trade me.”
Scorning apparent White House insouciance, Bannon reaches for a hurricane metaphor: “They’re sitting on a beach trying to stop a Category Five.”

He insists that he knows no Russians, will not be a witness, will not hire a lawyer and will not appear on national television answering questions.

Fire and Fury will be published next week. Wolff is a prominent media critic and columnist who has written for the Guardian and is a biographer of Rupert Murdoch. He previously conducted interviews for the Hollywood Reporter with Trump in June 2016 and Bannon a few months later.
He told the Guardian in November that to research the book, he showed up at the White House with no agenda but wanting to “find out what the insiders were really thinking and feeling”. He enjoyed extraordinary access to Trump and senior officials and advisers, he said, sometimes at critical moments of the fledgling presidency.
The rancour between Bannon and “Javanka” – Kushner and his wife Ivanka Trump – is a recurring theme of the book. Kushner and Ivanka are Jewish. Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state, is quoted as saying: “It is a war between the Jews and the non-Jews.”
Trump is not spared. Wolff writes that Thomas Barrack Jr, a billionaire who is one of the president’s oldest associates, allegedly told a friend: “He’s not only crazy, he’s stupid.” Barrack denied that to the New York Times.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/jan/03/donald-trump-russia-steve-bannon-michael-wolff


The clever reaction to this would have been to call Bannon, try to get him to deny having made these statements, trying to do damage-control. Instead he goes nuclear against him...

 

[meesterperfect]

Trump is an actor playing a role. He makes no decisions. He has no power or say in the big decisions.

Its all a show. Endless wars is the goal no matter who is PREZ.
Whether its Bushes, Clintons, A fraud named Barry, or Trump.....everything will still go as planned. The only difference is how the media portrays it.
Nothing changes. Nothing changes because the same unelected people and groups are in charge.

This guy sums it all up in a half hour. How it really works and who really is in control.
And what their intentions are (if you haven't already figured it out). Its what I've been trying to get through to people for years.
Its all right in our faces and always has been.

The truth about Trump Presidency.....or any US Presidency.

Whats happening now is from the same playbook they have been using since WWI.
You would think by now ALL people would have figured it out and would stand against it.

 

[BCT]

Trump is an actor playing a role. He makes no decisions. He has no power or say in the big decisions.

Its all a show. Endless wars is the goal no matter who is PREZ.
Whether its Bushes, Clintons, A fraud named Barry, or Trump.....everything will still go as planned. The only difference is how the media portrays it.
Nothing changes. Nothing changes because the same unelected people and groups are in charge.

This guy sums it all up in a half hour. How it really works and who really is in control.
And what their intentions are (if you haven't already figured it out). Its what I've been trying to get through to people for years.
Its all right in our faces and always has been.

The truth about Trump Presidency.....or any US Presidency.

Whats happening now is from the same playbook they have been using since WWI.
You would think by now ALL people would have figured it out and would stand against it.

And they will not stop until everyone is locked in a cage.

 

[pool_hustler]

I can't believe I actually watched that whole thing. Especially considering it comes from a "source" that calls itself END TIMES NEWS REPORT

Trump is an actor playing a role. He makes no decisions. He has no power or say in the big decisions.

Not true according to the video, where the guy vacillates several times back on forth on the extent of Trump's power of decision.

The guy makes several arguably valid points, but the package he ties them up into is imo highly questionable.
And some of his "facts" are wrong. For instance, there wasn't overwhelming support for the invasion of Iraq, particularly not within Congress, where democrats voted against it 147 to 111.

The one thing I do for sure agree with him about is Trump's perpetual war mongering regarding Iran, and how reckless it is. And how he bafflingly chose this time to add to that recklessness with his recent statement about Jerusalem. I want to believe Trump is just too stupid and too steeped in approaching everything the way he approaches real estate deals to understand what he's potentially creating.
Some of his advisors seem to be making efforts to bring him up to speed in that respect, but in the end Trump just keeps on keeping on as his reckless, ignorant, reactionary, jingoistic, egomaniacal self.

 

[meesterperfect]

And they will not stop until everyone is locked in a cage.

I don't know if locking us in cages is part of the plan. I suppose if enough people STAND UP they will.
They know how to keep us in line however. Give just enough to prevent an uprising. Cut out the Food Stamp program for example and there will be an uprising because so many Americans are now dependant.
The 100% propaganda MSM usually is enough but people stop paying attention once the hunger sets in.

To be clear the uprising I am talking about in an Anti War uprising.

I mean look at what its done all over the planet.
Middle East- Well thats obvious.

Africa- When they destroyed Libya and handed it over to the same people who they claim are our enemy they hurt the entire Africa.
Many Africans looked to Libya for jobs to support themselves and their families, thats all gone thanks to the USA (and the "1st Black PREZ".).
Europe- Now with Libya ruined millions yes millions of poor Africans are flooding Europe. Going there with no money and not much work skills.
meanwhile millions of Middle Easterners continue to flood in because of what the USA did to their countries which is bombed them into the Stone Age.
And why do the European leaders allow this? Because they are owned by the same people who own the US politicians.

And the USA. What has all the endless wars done to the USA?
Has it put any money into any of our pockets?
Its hurt everybody, some worse than others but every one of us has lost.
All that money borrowed and spent. Could have made the USA a model Utopia.
Houses for all, medical, complete education, everything new and clean and jobs for all.

But no, it went to fund wars, military, security instead.

See there is a WAR BUSINESS that only a small few profit from. And most of these creatures are richer than rich.
And these people took over our country a long time ago, but especially after Sept. 11 2001.
That was a gift from Satan to them if you believe the official story.

Yep the War Business. Destroy the planet, kill hundreds of millions(so far) and impoversh the rest.
All so a few mutlti billioniares can get richer.
And then there is Israel, the primary benefactor.

So what is Trump doing to stop all this?
He did say he was going to stop it right?
That's what got him elected.

Well he's not doing anything. In fact he's like a Neocon on roids lately.
And his UN rep, all she does is get up there and talk down to the world and threaten war.

At 1st I thought Trump was compromised.
But now I know he conned us. A compromised person would never have all that enthusiasm.
Took me almost a year to see it clearly.
How long will it take you?

So it sure seems like they are setting up for some major wars now.
Can they get us on board again?
Maybe a " New Pearl Harbor Type Event" is needed to get us behind it.
Maybe all these Phony Fake Shows the past 6 years was just to soften us up, get us used to the fear.
Or maybe it never comes, the next big war. Just the threat of war itself is a huge money maker.


Thank you you've been great.

 

[Johan]

Stock Market’s Rise, Lauded by Trump, Lags the Gains Under Obama

President Trump has routinely celebrated, and taken credit for, the stock market’s record-setting climb during his first year in office.
Optimism around the new tax code, as well as a relaxed regulatory climate, has helped drive the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index’s 30 percent rise since Mr. Trump took office. But that performance falls short of the market’s gains during the first years of the presidencies of Barack Obama and the elder George Bush.

Mr. Obama took office amid the financial crisis. Stocks were in a freefall and hit bottom nearly two months after his inauguration. Equities then rebounded and finished Mr. Obama’s first year up more than 30 percent.
Mr. Trump, by contrast, became president during one of the longest sustained bull markets in history, and stocks have continued to set record highs during his tenure.

At more than 3,200 days and counting, this nearly nine-year bull market run trails only the boom from 1987 to 2000. And the momentum suggests the market could climb further upward.
It’s unusual for any president to take credit (or blame) for stock market performance, but in Twitter posts and speeches, Mr. Trump has continually trumpeted the success of the market as a direct result of his actions.

As with any time the stock market shoots upward, the inevitable question is when it will fall, and now, what Mr. Trump will say if it does.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/01/05/business/trump-first-year.html

 

[Ace Boobtoucher]

The Man is doing exactly what we hired him to do. And he's doing it well. If a million nutcases lose their shit because he tweets something stupid, it's exactly what he's calculated. He is playing all the dipshits out there like a fucking Stradivarius. He managed to get Lil' Kim to the table with his South Korean counterparts over the upcoming Winter Olympics by bluster. There's a lot more to him than people give him credit for. Should he take a break from some of his rhetoric? Maybe. But he is doing his job and if you fuckers took off your blinders and looked at it objectively, you'd see how successful he could be.

 

[Johan]

The Man is doing exactly what we hired him to do.

You hired him to give the top 1% and the big corporations massive tac cuts ?
You hired him for him to get richer ?
You hired him for America to be the laughing stock of the world ?


Or maybe you hired him jus to play golf ? 'cause since his in office, he's been golfing a lot (91 days spent golfing since Jan. 8th, 2017)

 

[meesterperfect]

I can't believe I actually watched that whole thing. Especially considering it comes from a "source" that calls itself END TIMES NEWS REPORT



Not true according to the video, where the guy vacillates several times back on forth on the extent of Trump's power of decision.

The guy makes several arguably valid points, but the package he ties them up into is imo highly questionable.
And some of his "facts" are wrong. For instance, there wasn't overwhelming support for the invasion of Iraq, particularly not within Congress, where democrats voted against it 147 to 111.

The one thing I do for sure agree with him about is Trump's perpetual war mongering regarding Iran, and how reckless it is. And how he bafflingly chose this time to add to that recklessness with his recent statement about Jerusalem. I want to believe Trump is just too stupid and too steeped in approaching everything the way he approaches real estate deals to understand what he's potentially creating.
Some of his advisors seem to be making efforts to bring him up to speed in that respect, but in the end Trump just keeps on keeping on as his reckless, ignorant, reactionary, jingoistic, egomaniacal self.

Thanks for taking the time. I never saw the guy before either.
Maybe it is just Trumps personality leading him. Possible.
I think its other forces from that Swamp he was gonna drain guiding him. Those same old War Spend War Spend creatures who've been around for years.

 

[xfire]

The Man is doing exactly what we hired him to do. And he's doing it well. If a million nutcases lose their shit because he tweets something stupid, it's exactly what he's calculated. He is playing all the dipshits out there like a fucking Stradivarius. He managed to get [NOBABE]Lil' Kim[/NOBABE] to the table with his South Korean counterparts over the upcoming Winter Olympics by bluster. There's a lot more to him than people give him credit for. Should he take a break from some of his rhetoric? Maybe. But he is doing his job and if you fuckers took off your blinders and looked at it objectively, you'd see how successful he could be.

Until he knocks off his shit and apologizes to the other 70% of us, those blinders are going to stay on. Trump's not smart, he's still a child bully with a rich a daddy.

 

[Straight Shooter]

Bannon Group Reportedly Shopped Document During 2016 GOP Primary Alleging Trump Had Mob Ties


:1orglaugh

It looks like the Bannon opposition research dump is in full effect.

According to CNN, a conservative group led by former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon attempted to discredit Donald Trump during the early days of the 2016 GOP presidential primary. In doing so, the group shopped an opposition research document that alleged that Trump had ties to organized crime figures. CNN has obtained a copy of the document, which was first reported on by the New York Times on Friday.

Per both CNN and NYT, the author of the oppo research doc was Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer. The work was done for the Government Accountability Institute, a group Schweizer cofounded with Bannon back in 2012. The document claimed that Trump had business connections with mobsters for years.

The group was funded by the Mercer family, who has recently pulled back their financial backing of Bannon. When Schweizer finished the doc in 2015, the Mercers were supporting Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) for president. In the early months of 2016, Cruz brought up Trump’s potential relationships with mob figures as a reason why Trump should release his tax returns.

Since Bannon’s provocative quotes from Michael Wolff’s controversial Trump tell-all have surfaced, the president has been on the warpath against the Breitbart chief. Trump released a statement claiming Bannon has “lost his mind,” has labeled Bannon with the nickname “Sloppy Steve,” and has pressed his allies to choose between Bannon or him.

For his part, Bannon issued a pseudo-apology for his remarks, specifically calling Donald Trump Jr. a “patriot and good man” in response to describing Don Jr’s 2016 Trump Tower Russian meeting “treasonous.” It appears, however, that it is too little, too late for Trump, who has told his supporters to go out on TV and “bury Steve.” Since then, White House officials have made statements absolutely excoriating Bannon.

https://www.mediaite.com/online/ban...2016-gop-primary-alleging-trump-had-mob-ties/

 

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[bobjustbob]

Again with the golf? Let's substitute him owning race tracks or bowling alleys or gymnasiums. How do you feel then?

 

[pool_hustler]

Again with the golf? Let's substitute him owning race tracks or bowling alleys or gymnasiums. How do you feel then?

It's really not about the golf per se, it's about his 1) hypocrisy about Obama playing golf and 2) his BS about how he'd be way too busy working for the American people to play very much golf.

PS: If he owned a racetrack I'd go. But then again if Satan owned a racetrack I'd still go

 

[bobjustbob]

It's really not about the golf per se, it's about his 1) hypocrisy about Obama playing golf and 2) his BS about how he'd be way too busy working for the American people to play very much golf.

PS: If he owned a racetrack I'd go. But then again if Satan owned a racetrack I'd still go

I agree with you on all fronts. Anyone believing that golf shit in the campaign can be sold pet rocks. Not withstanding, what Obama and all Presidents do on their free time is well deserved. Don't measure free time in hours at places they like to be at. Presidents have no free time. The button travels with them 24/7/365 times 4 years.

Trump doesn't smoke or drink. Obama was a smoker when he was elected and had those beer summits. Should that make Trump holier than thou? No.

 

[Johan]

Actually, we know Trump has A LOT of free time