Trump and democracy

[SydneyRover]

''Trump says Republicans would ‘never’ be elected again if it was easier to vote

President dismissed Democratic-led push for voter reforms amid coronavirus pandemic during Fox & Friends appearance

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,”

Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends. “They had things in there about election days and what you do and all sorts of clawbacks. They had things that were just totally crazy and had nothing to do with workers that lost their jobs and companies that we have to save.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus''

[SydneyRover]

How do you get to be the President of the United States with so many personality defects?

This must be one of his best media conferences so far, it's early but I need a drink 

''Trump attacks journalists for asking 'snarky' questions on coronavirus testing in US''

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2020/mar/30/trump-attacks-journalists-coronavirus-briefing

[Superspy]

The man really is insufferable in these kind of situations with journalists. I can't stand loaded questions as much as anybody else but it's perfectly valid to ask him what the message is when he's been giving out bullshit for weeks. It's just a shit state of affairs when his only response is to shoot down the person asking the question, and we've seen it time and time again throughout his term.

[SydneyRover]

The world turns upsidedown ............. comrade Don

''He made the astonishing claim: “I will always protect your Social Security, your Medicare and your Medicaid” – despite having supported cuts''

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/apr/02/trump-coronavirus-briefing-jared-kushner-witch-hunt

[phil old leake]

Yet the rednecks love him

[SydneyRover]

Since Chinese officials disclosed the outbreak of a mysterious pneumonialike illness to international health officials on New Year’s Eve, at least 430,000 people have arrived in the United States on direct flights from China, including nearly 40,000 in the two months after President Trump imposed restrictions on such travel, according to an analysis of data collected in both countries.

The bulk of the passengers, who were of multiple nationalities, arrived in January, at airports in Los Angeles, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Newark and Detroit. Thousands of them flew directly from Wuhan, the center of the coronavirus outbreak, as American public health officials were only beginning to assess the risks to the United States.

Guess who said this below?

 “I do think we were very early, but I also think that we were very smart, because we stopped China,”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/04/us/coronavirus-china-travel-restrictions.html?action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage

[drfchound]

I would love to have heard the conversation between Trump and his wife after he said he wouldn’t be wearing a mask, then she posted a reminder on Twitter for everyone to wear one.

[SydneyRover]

She probabaly insists he wear a double one hound 

[BillyStubbsTears]

https://lawandcrime.com/covid-19-pandemic/major-producer-of-hydroxychloroquine-once-paid-michael-cohen-hefty-sum-for-access-to-trump/

Surely, surely not?

I know you should never assume we have seen the very bottom of Trump's pit of depravity, but surely he's not grifting on CV-19?

But why the hell would he be constantly pushing Hydroxychloroqunine when the medical experts are so cool on it?

[BillyStubbsTears]

Un-f**king-believable.

https://mobile.twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1247597794052972549

[SydneyRover]

He appears to be untouchable

[BillyStubbsTears]

Seems that, as long as he's sticking it to the Libs, he can do what the f**k he wants.

I do wonder what depravity it would take to genuinely shock his supporters.

[BillyStubbsTears]

But then, just look at his party. It lost any sense of decency years ago.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/491515-georgia-senator-bought-stock-in-personal-protective-equipment-maker-on-day-of

[BillyStubbsTears]

And off he goes again, the scumbag.

He's presiding over by far the worst management of CV-19 of any developed country.

The USA's death toll is looking like being several times higher than any other developed country (and it's not because the USA has a bigger population - that doesn't come into it. That only matters if you reach saturation.)

He said just a few weeks ago that everything was looking fine and CV-19 would just vanish - a miracle would happen. His exact words.

The miracle hasn't happened. A catastrophe has.

So what does he do? He starts a fight with the head of the WHO (who just happens to be a black African - coincidence, I'm sure). He says that the WHO has got the CV-19 management badly wrong. Despite every other developed country making a much better job of controlling CV-19. He says that America is looking at de-funding WHO.

His disgusting, obscene lack of simple humanity just utterly defies belief. Harry S Truman had a sign on his desk that said "The Buck Stops Here."

This t**t has a motto that says, "It's never my responsibility. Find some other sucker to blame."

[SydneyRover]

thinking about the thread title I should have made it 'trump or democracy'

[MachoMadness]

Trump having an absolute meltdown (even by his standards) at his press briefing. f**k me, I thought Patel was awful but this clown has her beat bigly. https://twitter.com/Selena_Adera/status/1249830097936363531?s=20

[SydneyRover]

There needs to be more of that in all countries

[MachoMadness]

Assuming you're referring to the reporter's response. If so I agree, fair play to the reporter for taking him to task. It's pissing into the wind with him though, all he has to do is ignore the question and throw out insults and his base eats it up. It must be nearly impossible to deal with if you're a career politician or reporter who's used to debating the issues. On a depressing note, I'm not sure Biden is capable of doing so and I think we'll have 4 more years of this.

[SydneyRover]

I thought the reporter was great, hopefully it will get shown in the US. With trump dominating the news it would appear that he controls it and with the support of murdoch he does mostly but there are plenty that don't support but struggle to be heard. It's the same in all countries there is a huge contingent of voters that don't really want to know anything until it smacks them in the face so they read the tits and togger.

[Glyn_Wigley]

The next time he tries bullying a reporter at one of these things, all the reporters should stick together, stand up and walk out and leave him in an empty room.

[SydneyRover]

Let's hope she asks trump about this next time

''US for-profit healthcare sector cuts thousands of jobs as pandemic rages
Health workers are facing layoffs, furloughs and cuts to salaries and schedules in response to declines in revenue''

Is there a problem with private health care ...... noooooooooooooo

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/14/healthcare-job-cuts-coronavirus-worker-layoffs

[MachoMadness]

Trump's announced he's defunding the WHO, so he's not content with killing tens of thousands of Americans, he's making an effort to take the rest of us down too.

[tyke1962]

Trump's announced he's defunding the WHO, so he's not content with killing tens of thousands of Americans, he's making an effort to take the rest of us down too.

Just watched it , basically blaming the WHO for the spread of the virus .

A pandemic killing thousands every day and a fecking mad man in the White House .

What times we are living in !!!! .

 

[Filo]

All Nations look the the East at Russia, China and North Korea for the threat to World Peace and stability, they’re looking in the wrong direction, it’s the West and the USA that are threatening all that!

[BillyStubbsTears]

Every time you think you've reached the bottom of his depravity, he surprises you.

CV-19 is going to kill millions in the developing world. This animal has just multiplied that by defunding the one global organisation that is intended to coordinate international response.

And all because its leader, a black African, had the temerity to mildly rebuke him.

What a f**king mess America has made of its concept of leading the free world.

[Filo]

Trump's name to appear on benefit cheques
As part of the US administration's economic response to the coronavirus outbreak, tens of millions of Americans are set to receive cheques worth $1,200 (around £945).

But according to US media, President Donald Trump's name will be printed on every single one.

The Washington Post, which first reported the news on Tuesday, says it is the first time that a US president's name has appeared on a cheque sent out by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS).

The newspaper said the decision could mean delays of a few days before recipients receive the cheques, although a senior official speaking to CNN denied this.

[Sprotyrover]

Every time you think you've reached the bottom of his depravity, he surprises you.

CV-19 is going to kill millions in the developing world. This animal has just multiplied that by defunding the one global organisation that is intended to coordinate international response.

And all because its leader, a black African, had the temerity to mildly rebuke him.

What a f**king mess America has made of its concept of leading the free world.

You need to stand back and have a good look at yourself,you are just as bad as TRUMP you are far from impartial and in this thread you have on two occasions tried your hardest to turn the matter into a Race issue!
Just stick to the facts and less of the hysteria please?

[scawsby steve]

Every time you think you've reached the bottom of his depravity, he surprises you.

CV-19 is going to kill millions in the developing world. This animal has just multiplied that by defunding the one global organisation that is intended to coordinate international response.

And all because its leader, a black African, had the temerity to mildly rebuke him.

What a f**king mess America has made of its concept of leading the free world.

Why have you mentioned that the leader is a black African?

[BillyStubbsTears]

I mentioned it because:

a) It's a fact and
b) Trump is a racist. Has been all his life, since he and his Dad were barring black Americans from renting their apartments in the 1970s, up to the present day when he casts racial slurs out like confetti.

It's not even up for debate, although I know you will get yourself worked up about it. I suggest you look at his rap sheet first.

-Turning away black applicants for an apartment, then accepting white applicants the same day. Except they weren't real applicants. It was a sting from the metropolitan authorities, following claims that the Trump organisation was racially discriminating. He settled out of court.
-Saying Mexicans are criminals and rapists.
-Saying Black American Congresswomen, born in the USA should "go back to where they came from", "countries whose governments are a complete and total catastrophe".
-Lying that he saw Muslims celebrating in New York on 9/11.
-Obsessively claiming (wrongly) that Obama was Kenyan.
-Claiming that a judge who was presiding over a fraud case against him should be recused because he was of Mexican heritage - the case had nothing to do with Mexico. And the judge was an American.
-Saying that he wouldn't get fair treatment from a Muslim American judge.
-Tweeting a picture of Hillary Clinton in front of a pile of money with a Star of David on it.
-Calling Haiti and African nations "shithole countries".
-Asking an aide of Korean heritage where she was from, and when she answered "NYC", asking her again where are "your people" from.
-Being fined $200,000 after his casino removed black table attendants and replaced them with white staff because the high rollers didn't like blacks.
-Saying "It's probably true" when asked in 1997 about explosive claims in a book about comments he was reported to have made. The alleged comments included "Black guys counting my money! I hate it"
-Refusing to denounce the KKK when pressed to do after they came out in support of him in the 2016 election. (He did denounce them a few days later, claiming he had a faulty earpiece in the earlier interview.)

I'll stop there. You get the point. Although I have little doubt that you'll ignore all of the above.

[selby]

  Where there is big bucks and organisations there is a fiddle' and like with FIFA when the Yanks get mad they will find it. I expect them to go after the big players now, and in the mean time all they have done is taken the advice, don't give your bank details over the phone to someone in Africa.