The Donald Trump Score Card

Can we get a group photo for context

It will look like a UNAbomber fan convention

 

More like people the group that sang YMCA

We've got military people and an American Indian.
All circle jerking too so it's all in context.

 

Pence claimed that Soleimani of Iran was involved in 9/11. G.W. Bush made it sound like Saddam and Iraq were behind 9/11.



Trump Told Mar-a-Lago Pals to Expect ‘Big’ Iran Action ‘Soon’
IN THA CLUB
Attendees of a closed-door Senate briefing didn’t get much more clarity than the club guests did. Instead, officials spun Soleimani’s slaying as a way to “de-escalate” tensions.
Spencer Ackerman, Asawin Suebsaeng, Erin Banco, and Betsy Swan
Updated Jan. 03, 2020 9:36PM ET / Published Jan. 03, 2020 8:00PM ET

Trump Told Mar-a-Lago Pals to Expect ‘Big’ Iran Action ‘Soon’

excerpt:

"But on Friday, the Trump administration continued to portray the killing of a military commander of a country the U.S. is formally not at war with as an act that would lead to peace. In an interview with BBC radio, State Department official Brian Hook said the strike was “a very necessary thing to do.” And from a podium in Florida, Trump said the U.S. “took action last night to stop a war,” he said. “We did not take action to start a war.”

Then Vice President Mike Pence falsely suggested Iran was behind 9/11. Pence tweeted that Soleimani and his Quds Force “assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.” Not only were there 19 attackers, but an incredulous ex-CIA counterterrorism analyst wearily noted that it “sounds like he’s directly tying Soleimani to 9/11.” The 9/11 Commission, as a different ex-CIA analyst tweeted, found that Iran had no advance knowledge of the attacks.":

 

Pence sounds as confused as Rick Perry.



Mike Pence crams 3 inaccuracies about 9/11 into 1 tweet while trying to justify Soleimani strike
The Week
January 3, 2020

Mike Pence crams 3 inaccuracies about 9/11 into 1 tweet while trying to justify Soleimani strike

excerpt:

Pence's most questionable tweet outlined Soleimani's alleged role in the 9/11 attacks. Soleimani, Pence said, "assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States."

The most obviously incorrect bit of information here is the number of hijackers: There were 19, and "8-10" of them "traveled into or out of Iran between October 2000 and February 2001," per the 9/11 commission report. And while the report does conclude "there is strong evidence Iran facilitated the transit of al Qaeda members into and out of Afghanistan before 9/11," Charlotte Clymer of the Human Rights Campaign says Soleimani probably wouldn't have been involved in that.

 

Why can't we have more really great threads about Prince Harry and girls' butts.

 

Trump Trump Trump arrrghh Trumpity Trump

 

82nd airborne division deployed to clean up the embassy mess. Trump is going to get his war to guarantee reelection no matter how many people it kills, American and otherwise

 

You actually have your own Trump thread, VG. Just sayin.

 

Article from December 2016.


Here's Where Donald Trump Gets His News
BuzzFeed News analyzed all the links Donald Trump tweeted since he launched his presidential campaign to determine where the president-elect gets his news.
Charlie Warzel BuzzFeed Staff and Lam Thuy Vo BuzzFeed News Reporter
Posted on December 3, 2016, at 11:39 a.m. ET

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/trumps-information-universe

excerpt:

"Our analysis revealed a media ecosystem that appears to largely reinforce and affirm the views publicly expressed by Trump and his closest advisers. The news stories Trump tweets share several characteristics: 1) They often favor sensationalism over facts and reporting; 2) They frequently echo direct quotes from Trump himself or his closest advisers; and 3) They routinely malign his enemies and vindicate his most controversial opinions.

When it comes to news sources, the stories tweeted by Trump (and the staffers who sometimes manage his Twitter account) suggest that he is unfazed by news of questionable accuracy, likely to rely on hyper-partisan news, and apt to promote mainstream news only when it validates his opinions. While politicians from both sides of the aisle use their Twitter accounts to share content that furthers their agendas, Trump's reliance on sources and stories of questionable accuracy stands out both in frequency and in engagement. The stories shared by Trump’s account throughout his campaign suggest the president-elect has constructed a powerful online filter bubble that largely flatters and confirms that which he claims to be true."

 

Lolz, I do,don't I

Whoops

 

I agree, but also conservatives seek to solve problems with the easiest solution, i.e. not thinking things thru. Everything, to them, is black and white. As we all know, life is not like that.
Trump is the primary example of this. If he gave serious thought to things, he would not have filed for bankruptcy three times, and been divorced twice.

 

Trump didn't rave about his cake and ice cream this time when he ordered the assassination of Iranian officials in Iraq. His mouth may have been too full of cake and ice cream.

 

Trump campaigns with patriotism after airstrike – but election is still far off
Killing of Suleimani will help Trump among his supporters, but it could hurt him at the ballot box after promises of ‘America first’
David Smith in Washington
Sat 4 Jan 2020 09.01 EST

Trump campaigns with patriotism after airstrike – but election is still far off

excerpt:

"It was a sure sign of how, impeached and facing a Senate trial as he may be, Trump is already campaigning with a toxic brew of audacity, patriotism and appeals to the almighty. Reflecting on his shock 2016 victory, he told the crowd in Miami: “I really do believe we have God on our side. We’re going to blow away those numbers in 2020.”

For a political outsider who promised to upend Washington, it all sounds remarkably like an old-fashioned Republican pitch. It casts Trump as strongman commander-in-chief, exploiting what the rest of the world has long suspected is an American weakness for jingoism and imperialism. And it seeks to portray his Democratic opponent, whomever it may be, as soft on national security and insufficiently patriotic or Christian."

 

Right out of the Nazi playbook

You invent an enemy which is somehow both weak and less than you and also everywhere and dangerous. Only he can protect you and anyone seeking peace can be labeled a traitor to the country.

 

This has a monotonous ring of familiarity..... a knee jerk military adventure that further isolates the US from the rest of the world and will only appeal to those at the red hat(brown shirt) rallies.

 

What was the last war that 'Murica won? (Panama, and Grenada don't count).
Gulf War(1991) Why we we return to Iraq?
Afghanistan- still there
Vietnam- please. . . .
Korea- technical still at war.
WW I and II- we had help
Spanish/American war- well ok.

Typically the way 'Murica "wins" a war is to go into a country, create havoc, sign a peace treaty, declare victory(re: Vietnam).

 

New rocket attacks hit Balad air base and Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraqis say
By: Howard Altman and Shawn Snow
January 4, 2020

New rocket attacks hit Balad air base and Baghdad’s Green Zone, Iraqis say

 

Who was Iran's Qassem Soleimani and why does his death matter?
The 62-year-old led Iran's elite Quds Force, which had a hand in both fighting the Islamic State militant group and U.S. forces.
by Linda Givetash
January 3, 2020

Who was the Iranian general killed by a U.S. airstrike?

 

Trump statement May 20, 2019: "There has never been, ever before, an administration that’s been so open and transparent."



White House Refuses to Release 20 Emails About Ukraine Aid Freeze
The New York Times
January 4, 2020, 10:17 AM EST

White House Refuses to Release 20 Emails About Ukraine Aid Freeze

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — The Trump administration disclosed on Friday that there were 20 emails between a top aide to President Donald Trump’s acting chief of staff and a colleague at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget discussing the freeze of a congressionally mandated military aid package for Ukraine.

But in response to a court order that it swiftly process those pages in response to a Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, lawsuit filed by The New York Times, the Office of Management and Budget delivered a terse letter saying it would not turn over any of the 40 pages of emails — not even with redactions.

“All 20 documents are being withheld in full,” wrote Dionne Hardy, the office’s Freedom of Information Act officer."