The Future President, Donald Trump

The Donald contradicting himself on foreign policy. If he's confused, his supporters must be confused. Or, are they?
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Trump Casinos’ Tax Debt Was $30 Million. Then Chris Christie Took Office

August 16, 2016: 7:15pm ..... Trump is talking about law and order. That's not a federal responsibility; it's local. Trump has no clue what the president's responsibilities are.
At the federal level, it's national defense. He's not even qualified to be mayor of a small town.

The reason Trump doesn't want to make his tax returns public is very simple.
He lies.

From the NYT:

My goodness. Even I wouldn't think I could get away with that.

Here's an estimate of how much Trump lost from his bigoted statements.
About $50 million.
http://www.businessinsider.com/how-much-money-may-donald-trump-have-lost-already-2015-7

He switches his opinions moment to moment.

Apparently he's going through yet another campaign change at the top. The head of the campaign is the guy in charge of Breitbart.com, which is a super-right wing website that is close to neo-Nazi thought.

Nothing like a little job security working for Trump. LOL

Apparently Trump's's keeping the pro-Putin campaign manager, he'll just be under the new neo-Nazi guy. That's what's running Trump's campaign.

Donald Trump for President?

In August 1945, Truman forced Japan to surrender by dropping two atomic bombs, the first on Hiroshima, and the second, three days later on Nagasaki. The question of whether these actions were really a prerequisite for that surrender continues to be debated to this day. But there is a very strong argument for the assertion that Japan would have been willing to surrender months earlier if they had properly understood what the American government had meant, and had not meant, by the term ‘total surrender’, as expressed at the Casablanca conference of 1943. This argument asserts that the massive differences between Roosevelt’s intentions in his use of that phrase and the Japanese interpretation thereof prevented any chance of an earlier surrender.

While I don’t have a conclusive view one way or the other on the correctness of this thesis, the discussion reinforces for me the absolutely critical role of an informed and sensitive awareness of cultural differences in the practice of international diplomacy. If the above suggested failure in diplomacy were to happen in our present time, between nuclear-armed nations, the victims would not be limited to the populations of two cities. The ensuing nuclear winter would be indescribably worse than the harsh post-war winters in Europe and Japan.

Russian military activity in Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
Chinese military activity in international waters in the South China Sea.

Can anyone truly believe that Mr. Trump is suited to be America’s spokesman, mediator and negotiator on the world stage?

Is there anyone who is not terrified by the idea of Mr. Trump as Commander-in-Chief of America’s armed forces?

“I was only joking” is not now, and never will be, appropriate in international diplomacy. Knee-jerk reactions from the man who has his unilateral finger on the nuclear trigger have (until now) been unthinkable.

Mr. Trump, you are a talented and capable man. You know your strengths and your weaknesses. Please take to heart the many criticisms which have been levelled at you – they may not be well-meant or well-intended, but they could be well-taken and well-applied. Do what you do best (and leave the White House to someone else).

The whole Grand Old Party can, and did.



The other one thinks that funding terrorists to enact foreign policy is just fine, and laughs about street murders of sovereign leaders.

Is that the best you can offer?

No one can reason with Trump. He's a narcissist who thinks he belongs in the White House. His ego does not allow him to belittle himself in any way. He believes he's fit to be CIC. He gets reinforcements from many people including many in the republican party, and those people he surrounds himself with. That 30% of Americans believe he's qualified is more than enough motivation.

He doesn't understand foreign affairs. He's not mature enough to make the difficult decisions required of a president. His narrow life experience and thin skin can be dangerous and unpredictable. He also believes that just because we have nuclear weapons, it's there for him to use.

He doesn't seem to understand the consequences of using nuclear weapons in this day and age.

It's frightening.

All we need to do is replace the words TRUMP and HE with Clinton and She.

Is the American public that misinformed about siop procedures? What we should be frightened by is the ignorance of the electorate who swallow Hook Line & Sinker the media's cry that a president Trump should not be trusted with a nuclear codes because he is a narcissist who will push the button in a fit of rage. Which of course is complete and utter nonsense. But then again I guess you can convince liberals of anything if the media screams that loud and long enough.

It does work.

Rump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns
Source: Washington Post

Manafort issued his resignation Friday to Trump and fellow senior campaign officials, the friend said. He is leaving on good terms with the campaign, the friend added, and continues to support Trump.
This is a developing story. It will be updated.


Trump campaign chairman and chief strategist Paul Manafort resigned on Friday, following a staff shake-up this week that reduced his role in the campaign.

GOP nominee Donald Trump confirmed the resignation in a statement Friday morning: “This morning Paul Manafort offered, and I accepted, his resignation from the campaign. I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process. Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success.”

Manafort is leaving on good terms with the campaign, and will remain an ally and outside confidant of the campaign, according to a close associate of his who spoke on the condition of anonymity Friday to The Washington Post.

According to conversations late Thursday with Trump aides, Manafort’s departure was expected to come due to the reshuffling of the campaign’s staff earlier in the week, with Stephen K. Bannon being named chief executive and Kellyanne Conway assuming the role of campaign manager.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2016/08/19/trump-campaign-chairman-paul-manafort-resigns-according-to-a-close-associate/


Just saw the breaking banner.

TPM

By ALLEGRA KIRKLAND
Published AUGUST 19, 2016, 10:04 AM EDT

Paul Manafort abruptly resigned as Donald Trump's campaign chairman on Friday, according to reporters from The Washington Post and New York Times.

SCOOP: A close friend of Manafort tells me he has resigned

— Robert Costa (@costareports) August 19, 2016

MANAFORT RESIGNS, per two sources briefed. Rick Gates remaining so far.

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) August 19, 2016

In a statement released shortly after the news broke on Twitter, Trump thanked Manafort for the contributions he made during his three months leading the campaign.

"I am very appreciative for his great work in helping to get us where we are today, and in particular his work guiding us through the delegate and convention process. Paul is a true professional and I wish him the greatest success," Trump said.

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