The old US election / Trump thread hasn't survived the transition. This presidency seems set to test the boundaries of social cohesion, truth, competency, rule of law, free press, liberal democracy, reality and handshaking. Nearly one month down.
Current ongoing crisis/scandal: Russia Russia Russia and the White House and intelligence agencies leaking like a sieve
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/mike-flynn-resign-pence-russia.html?_r=0https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/us/politics/russia-intelligence-communications-trump.html
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The pick for labour secretary has stood down. Andrew Puzder had enough controversy around him concerning his treatment of staff as chief exec of fast food chains. The tin hat on it was the release by Politico of an Oprah Winfrey episode in which his ex-wife talked about domestic abuse. Accusations she has since rescinded.
It's gradually dawning on him that the role of president isn't quite as powerful a position as he thought it was.
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The point I was making (perhaps badly) was that he was including all media outlets and the BBC misquoted him to specify just the newspapers and exclude themselves. They've got previous on this - every time there's an uproar over how something is portrayed or misrepresented by 'the media', their coverage will focus solely on the press, or FB, anyone but themselves.
Anyway, if what Trump says is true, then the media will have faked what he said, which means it isn't true, therefore the media is honest. Etc.
That's really profound, Donald
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/video/2017/feb/17/donald-trumps-press-conference-in-full-video
Lets face it, if you didn't bother reading any news or watching or listening anything broadcast by media outlets, how would you perceive life?
People always believed what they read in the papers. Still do.
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I wonder how long that's going to last...
Hopefully his latest accusations will land him in deep shit. I'll not be holding my breath though.
I'd just like to see orange narcissist squirm.
We were/are friends with an older American couple and we had had a clue of her beliefs when she went on about Obama a couple of years ago, anyway we had dinner with them the night before the election and they were gung-ho 100% Trump supporters, thought Hillary should be in jail etc etc. We drove back that night and hubby said to me "I don't think we'll bother getting together with them again"
They are so far removed from our way of thinking it sort of marred our friendship which is wrong I guess but that's how we feel. Actually immaterial to us as we are obviously Brits and nothing to do with us how they vote
I also guess his big NRA belt buckle should have given us a clue too
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There are plenty of pics of old white dudes holding these signs up.
They're such a sham.