Is trump mad....

[Northwarks]

I think you have to give him a chance, clearly got the 'popular' vote, not sure his America is great, build and buy American track is going to work, considering he's a business man I think he forgets the days of thousands in factories milling away has long gone. Then theres the wall, its partially there now, it doesn't work so be interesting to see how that pans out.

37 minutes ago, Kevin (Mr T) - Joint Essex AO said:

Mad, in a sort of Johhny Depp/Willy Wonka kind of way.... 

And I totally agree with this and representing the US around the globe - cringeworthy really.

 

For me he just lacks the gravitas of Obama, I could watch/listen to Obama, Trump just spurts rubbish in a smug kind of way, stringing words together that folks want to hear. 

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

Can't say warm to him as a person but I do like the fact that he speaks his mind and actually speaks for a lot of Americans who like a lot of Brits are fed up with our Political Elite almost all seem to want to line their own pockets, talk a great talk and do NOTHING.

I do like that he is actually seeming to get things done and be decisive, love her or hate her Maggie did get things done and any leader needs to do that, otherwise their just watching the clock till snout in the trough time.

[benlindley]

I love the way:

He is a billionaire and has convinced people he's not part of the elite.
He's a simpleton thats convinced people that he is intelligent enough to run a country.
He is a misogynistic nepotist who has convinced women to vote for him.
He is a populist with a penchant for switching sides and opinions to suit himself but has convinced people he is a republican.
He is a multi bankrupted, indicted (for racial selection in his property dealings) buffoon but has convinced people he is a great businessman.
He got less votes than Hilary but he is claiming he is the voice of the people.
He is building a wall because it worked for the Nazis didn't it?

When people say at least he gets things done, so did all the despotic evil dictators in history so yeah, well done to him on that.

In summary, it looks like I'm on the fence..........

[Nick Algar - Competition Secretary]

I always think back to Regan the Film Star, everyone put him down, but now he is reckoned to have done a pretty good job. Time will tell with Trump  

[Captain Colonial]

1 hour ago, Nick - Joint North East AO said:

I always think back to Regan the Film Star, everyone put him down, but now he is reckoned to have done a pretty good job. Time will tell with Trump  

Lady Chair asked me early on why Americans voted for Ronald Reagan as President.  (Bear in mind that he had also previously been governor of California, so he had one up on Trump with having political experience.)  I explained to her that the office of the president depends on the person elected to be president.  If you elect someone competent, they do the work, and if you elect an idiot, they have the ideas and make others do the work.  It's a bit like going to McDonalds - just because the place belongs to a clown, that doesn't mean he's in the kitchen flipping the burgers.

[jeff oakley]

He is a polarising person but the bigger issue is the way that the media over there seem to be willing him to fail and are actively trying to do that by undermining the elector choice and ours going along with them.

Take the wall, did the press kick up a fuss when Bush signed the 2006 Secure fence to build 700 more miles of fencing? Of course not it was seen as common sense. So good in fact Mexico copied it and built one between Guatemala and their southern boarder.

He won because those in Washington were seen as out of touch. I saw a news program in Mexico from the states where a democrat senator was saying he had done over 500 different jobs working with the average Joe's. He said that don't ask a guy in a suit about garbage collecting, ask the guy who does it. He fully understood why Trump won as it felt that the elite had forgotten the people at the bottom. A steel worker in Pittsburgh is interested in his job, his family rather than if a cross dresser in New York is offended by someone being mean and there are more steel workers and the like than cross dressers.

I have not seen yet any of his policies that are against people of all walks legally in the US, Hell he even has Blacks, Hispanics and women on is team as well as whites. 

HRC lost because she was not seen as the best candidate under their electoral system, all the whining about the popular vote is just rubbish. He needs to be left to get on with the job and be judged on what he does rather that what he says. 

[DamperMan]

 

28 minutes ago, Scott Young - WSCC Chairman said:

Lady Chair asked me early on why Americans voted for Ronald Reagan as President.  (Bear in mind that he had also previously been governor of California, so he had one up on Trump with having political experience.)  I explained to her that the office of the president depends on the person elected to be president.  If you elect someone competent, they do the work, and if you elect an idiot, they have the ideas and make others do the work.  It's a bit like going to McDonalds - just because the place belongs to a clown, that doesn't mean he's in the kitchen flipping the burgers.

That's brilliant ...Lovin it!

I'm not sure being the governor of Califonia qualifies anyone for anything....Is/was  Arnold Schwarzeneggerr  governor of California...  HE will be back!

 

[DamperMan]

The electorate did not like Hilary "Goldman Sachs" Clinton.    Lets face it when her opposition has insulted about 75% of the population and wins she was pretty unpopular!

[tisme]

Trump reminds me of Billy Bunter - for those not old enough to remember him this is the definition from Wikipedia:

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His character is, in many respects, a highly obnoxious anti hero. As well as his gluttony, he is also obtuse, lazy, racist, inquisitive, deceitful, slothful, self-important and conceited

See what I mean !!

He (Trump) has also now surrounded himself with "yes" men who will a-lick their way to survival because that's all they're worth.

So no, I don't like him ..................except secretly I do

I especially like the way he's steamrollered over all those lefty libralist tree hugging wet wipes that complain if your lawn mower is not carbon neutral or who stop any form of progress that THEY don't agree with (and what always makes me smile is that they complain about pollution and the environment whilst tweeting on their Chinese polluting made iPhone 6 having sent their previous "redundant" iPhones to the nearest landfill . )

There was a time here in the UK when I would have voted for almost anyone rather than the main stream crawlers - even at one stage the National Front - but I think that's how most Americans felt - "Drain the Swamp" was perhaps an Americanism catch phrase that wouldn't catch on here but I suspect many of us felt that way on 23 June last year. Let's "upset the apple cart" or "stick one up em" is something I was prepared to do and continue to do up to the point that Cameron resigned.

Now, with Theresa May, we have to wait and see - much like we do with Donald trump I guess. The only difference is that I suspect "The Donald" will pay the ultimate price 

 

[DonPeffers]

I found a new (to me) word---kakistocracy--meaning  Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens. Origin of kakistocracy. Greek kakistos

Will Trump pay the ultimate price, by which I assume assassination is inferred? Plenty guns and hatred in America. Many thought that would happen to the first black President; I think YouTube, more than his policies and actions, made Obama popular.

I think the world needs to be fearful of dictators with mad haircuts. 

http://time.com/4644651/u-s-vows-to-stop-beijing-taking-over-south-china-sea-islands/

Let's hope things calm down after a bit. 

[pistonbroke]

It seems that the Dutch have the answer 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc

 

 

[Andrew]

30 minutes ago, pistonbroke said:

It seems that the Dutch have the answer 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc

 

 

Excellent!

[DanDud]

The ego has landed.

 

 

[Terryathome]

He's the one with his finger on the big red button, gulp. And I wouldn't trust him near me daughters.

Looks a bit like a secon hand car salesman aswell.

Apart from the above I like the business way he's doing stuff. Not saying what he doing is right but these sleaze politicians steal your lollypop while kissing the baby if you get what I mean.

[dombanks]

Simply yes he's a f***tard. 

(Blimey it got through the filter.. I'll edit myself)

 

To recap facts of the past week:
* On January 19th, 2017, Donald Trump (DT) said that he would cut funding for the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Arts.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Minority Business Development Agency.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Economic Development Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the International Trade Administration.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Legal Services Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
* On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for the Office of Fossil Energy.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
* On January 20th, 2017, DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
* On January 20th, 2017, roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics.
* On January 20th, 2017, a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
* On January 21st, 2017, DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
* On January 21st, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
* On January 22nd, 2017, White House advisor Kellyann Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news.
* On January 22nd, 2017, DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
* On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China.
* On January 23rd, 2017, DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
* On January 23rd, 2017, it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
* On January 24th, 2017, Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
* On January 24th, 2017, the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.
* On January 24th, 2017, the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
* On January 24th, 2017, HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to any insurance coverage, including Medicaid, that provides abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
* On January 24th, 2017, Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”
* On January 24th, 2017, DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
* On January 24th, 2017, it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.
And today: the wall and a Muslim ban.
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