The 63rd Weak of the Duke of Dick!

[JackLuis]

‘It’s like a vampire’: Colbert’s Cartoon Trump explains why he doesn’t want pictures of his penis to see the light of day

The “tru-ish misadventures” of President Donald Trump were parodied in a new episode by Showtime’s Our Cartoon President. The show, produced by Stephen Colbert and his Late Show executive producer Chris Licht, featured a White House press conference with the commander in chief discussing his legal strategy and penis.

“Spring has sprung. All winter long, adult film stars have been hibernating — bellies full of fish — now they’re all emerging from their caves and giving interviews to Anderson Cooper,” the Cartoon President told the assembled journalists.

“Sir, why haven’t you refuted the Stormy Daniels allegations,” a reporter asked.

“I’m trying to take the high road,” the Cartoon President explained “and do everything I can not to have a picture of my penis go public.”

“I mean, that thing is like a vampire,” the Cartoon President said of his penis. “Bloodless, can’t see it in a mirror. And at first Eastern European women fall in love with it, but eventually they try to drive a wooden stake through it.”

What would be the appropreate wood for a stake to finish off a Big Apple Asshole?

White Pine?

 

[phrodeau]

‘It’s like a vampire’: Colbert’s Cartoon Trump explains why he doesn’t want pictures of his penis to see the light of day



What would be the appropreate wood for a stake to finish off a Big Apple Asshole?

White Pine?

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[JackLuis]

It looks to be Roger Stone's "Time in the Barrel" ... finally

When a rat feels cornered … a Rat lashes back.

Every street-wise Wise-guy know that.

Get in bed with a Russian spy-network, wake up with the threat of legal indictments up the ying-yang ...

Roger is up to his balls in this borscht.

Will Roger take one for the Trumpster, or flip on him with Muller and lay it at Trump's doorstep?

 

[JackLuis]

Former Fox Host: 'There Is Indeed A Witch Hunt and It's Led By Fox Against Robert Mueller'

Ralph Peters is a retired Army officer who was a Fox News commentator for a decade. Ten days ago he declined to renew his contract with Fox, not only closing that door but slamming it off the hinges with an impassioned internal memo which was leaked, decrying the network as a propaganda machine and saying that Peters was ashamed to be there. He’s not a rat leaving the ship, he made clear, rather, “the best sailors were driven overboard by the rodents.” Peters elaborates on the Trump Russia probe in an illuminating op ed piece today at the Washington Post:

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Peters also said this about the deterioration of the network in recent years:

You could measure the decline of Fox News by the drop in the quality of guests waiting in the green room. A year and a half ago, you might have heard George Will discussing policy with a senator while a former Cabinet member listened in. Today, you would meet a Republican commissar with a steakhouse waistline and an eager young woman wearing too little fabric and too much makeup, immersed in memorizing her talking points.

The editorial is lengthy, covers a number of topics and is worth the read.

On March 1st, I informed Fox that I would not renew my contract. The purpose of this message to all of you is twofold:

First, I must thank each of you for the cooperation and support you've shown me over the years. Those working off-camera, the bookers and producers, don't often get the recognition you deserve, but I want you to know that I have always appreciated the challenges you face and the skill with which you master them.

Second, I feel compelled to explain why I have to leave. Four decades ago, I took an oath as a newly commissioned officer. I swore to "support and defend the Constitution," and that oath did not expire when I took off my uniform. Today, I feel that Fox News is assaulting our constitutional order and the rule of law, while fostering corrosive and unjustified paranoia among viewers. Over my decade with Fox, I long was proud of the association. Now I am ashamed.

In my view, Fox has degenerated from providing a legitimate and much-needed outlet for conservative voices to a mere propaganda machine for a destructive and ethically ruinous administration. When prime-time hosts--who have never served our country in any capacity--dismiss facts and empirical reality to launch profoundly dishonest assaults on the FBI, the Justice Department, the courts, the intelligence community (in which I served) and, not least, a model public servant and genuine war hero such as Robert Mueller--all the while scaremongering with lurid warnings of "deep-state" machinations-- I cannot be part of the same organization, even at a remove. To me, Fox News is now wittingly harming our system of government for profit.

Yeah! What he said!

 

[JackLuis]

Big American Money, Not Russia, Put Trump in the White House: Reflections on a Recent Report

“She Doesn’t Have Any Policy Positions”

On the Friday after the Chicago Cubs won the World Series and prior to the Tuesday on which the vicious racist and sexist Donald Trump was elected President of the United States, Bernie Sanders spoke to a surprisingly small crowd in Iowa City on behalf of Hillary Clinton. As I learned months later, Sanders told one of his Iowa City friends that day that Mrs. Clinton was in trouble. The reason, Sanders reported, was that Hillary wasn’t discussing issues or advancing real solutions. “She doesn’t have any policy positions,” Sanders said.

The first time I heard this, I found it hard to believe. How, I wondered, could anyone run seriously for the presidency without putting issues and policy front and center? Wouldn’t any serious campaign want a strong set of issue and policy positions to attract voters and fall back on in case and times of adversity?

Sanders wasn’t lying.

Hillary Happened

FJC may well be right that a wish not to antagonize off right-wing campaign funders is what led Hillary to muzzle herself on important policy matters, but who really knows? An alternative theory I would not rule out is that Mrs. Clinton’s own deep inner conservatism was sufficient to spark her to gladly dispense with the usual progressive-sounding campaign boilerplate. Since FJC bring up the Johnson-Goldwater election, it is perhaps worth mentioning that 18-year old Hillary was a “Goldwater Girl” who worked for the arch-reactionary Republican presidential candidate in 1964. Asked about that episode on National Public Radio (NPR) in 1996, then First Lady Hillary said “That’s right. And I feel like my political beliefs are rooted in the conservatism that I was raised with. I don’t recognize this new brand of Republicanism that is afoot now, which I consider to be very reactionary, not conservative in many respects. I am very proud that I was a Goldwater girl.”

Of course, Bill and Hillary helped trail-blaze that plutocratic “New Democrat” turn in Arkansas during the late 1970s and 1980s. The rest, as they say, was history – an ugly corporate-neoliberal, imperial, and racist history that I and others have written about at great length.

In the end, FJC note, the billionaire Trump’s ironic, fake-populist “outreach to blue collar workers” would help him win “more than half of all voters with a high school education or less (including 61% of white women with no college), almost two thirds of those who believed life for the next generation of Americans would be worse than now, and seventy-seven percent of voters who reported their personal financial situation had worsened since four years ago.”

“What happened in the final weeks of the campaign was extraordinary. Firstly, a giant wave of dark money poured into Trump’s own campaign – one that towered over anything in 2016 or even Mitt Romney’s munificently financed 2012 effort – to say nothing of any Russian Facebook experiments…[Then] another gigantic wave of money flowed in from alarmed business interests, including the Kochs and their allies… Officially the money was for Senate races, but…late-stage campaigning for down-ballot offices often spills over on to candidates for the party at large.”

The Myth of Potent Russian Cyber-Subversion

As FJC show, there is little empirical evidence to support the Clinton and corporate Democrats’ self-interested and diversionary efforts to explain Mrs. Clinton’s epic fail and Trump’s jaw-dropping upset victory as the result of (i) Russian interference, (ii), then FBI Director James Comey’s October Surprise revelation that his agency was not done investigating Hillary’s emails, and/or (iii) some imagined big wave of white working-class racism, nativism, and sexism brought to the surface by the noxious Orange Hulk. The impacts of both (i) and (ii) were infinitesimal in comparison to the role that big campaign money played both in silencing Hillary and funding Trump. The blame-the-deplorable-racist-white-working-class narrative is belied by basic underlying continuities in white working class voting patterns.

The Cliff notes version
The NY Underclass of Finance (Mob), kicked off Trump and he rode a wave of "Fuck Hillary and Her Little Dog too" into the flood of money from Rethuglicans scared of Killery and her globalist North East Establishment owners.

So we are left with a Grifter in Charge of Mega Tons of Mega tons and he's fucking around with North Korea? Who, by the way, shored up it's relationship with China this week. Plus China want to trade oil in remimbi or Yuean rather then Yankee Dollars, cause they got too many IOU's from America now.

This too:

Yes, we get to vote. Super. Big deal. Mammon reigns nonetheless in the United States, where, as the leading liberal political scientists Benjamin Page and Martin Gilens find, “government policy…reflects the wishes of those with money, not the wishes of the millions of ordinary citizens who turn out every two years to choose among the preapproved, money-vetted candidates for federal office.” Trump is a bit of an anomaly – a sign of an elections and party system in crisis and an empire in decline. He wasn’t pre-approved or vetted by the usual U.S. “deep state” corporate, financial, and imperial gatekeepers.

The ruling-class had been trying to figure out what the Hell to do with him ever since he shocked even himself (though not Steve Bannon) by pre-empting the coronation of the “Queen of Chaos.” He is a homegrown capitalist oligarch nonetheless, a real estate mogul of vast and parasitic wealth who is no more likely to fulfill his populist-sounding campaign pledges than any previous POTUS of the neoliberal era. His lethally racist, sexist, nativist, nuclear-weapons-brandishing, and (last but not at all least) eco-cidal rise to the nominal CEO position atop the U.S.-imperial oligarchy is no less a reflection of the dominant role of big U.S. capitalist money and homegrown plutocracy in U.S. politics than a more classically establishment Hillary ascendancy would have been.

It’s got little to do with Russia, Russia, Russia – the great diversion that fills U.S. political airwaves and newsprint as the world careens ever closer to oligarchy-imposed geocide and to a thermonuclear conflagration that the RussiaGate gambit is recklessly encouraging.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump stands in front of church and attacks immigrants on Easter Sunday

President Donald Trump celebrated his Easter Sunday by lashing out at undocumented immigrants.

Before entering Bethesda-by-the-Sea Church for Sunday services, Trump stood in front of the front doors and answered questions about his call on Twitter to end deportation protection for so-called Dreamers who were brought to the U.S. as children.

When he was asked about the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, Trump blamed Mexico for “not helping at the border.”

“If they’re not going to help us at the border, it’s a very sad thing. Mexico has got help us at the border. And a lot of people are coming in because they want to take advantage of DACA. And we’re going to have to really see,” the president said.

“They had a great chance, the Democrats blew it,” he added. “They had a great, great chance. But we’ll have to take a look. But Mexico has got to help us at the border. They flow right through Mexico. They send them into the United States. Can’t happen that way anymore.”

What a Dick!

 

[JackLuis]

Tax Bill May Backfire on Republicans In Midterm Elections

It appears that the Republican tax message has “hit a snag.”

Nearly four months after the GOP passed their signature tax-cut law in December, new surveys show that most people believe they are NOT getting bigger paychecks than they did before. This could greatly reduce support seen for Republicans during this year’s midterm elections.

The GOP has made the tax-cut law the center of the message it plans to take to voters this fall in the 2018 midterm elections. Their argument is that with Republicans in control of Congress and the White House the American people are getting more money in their take-home pay, thanks to the tax bill.

According to The Hill, one reason that most taxpayers won’t see much of a tax cut in their take-home pay is that benefits get spread out over an entire year. The Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center said that people with incomes between $48,600 and $86,100 will, on average, receive $35 per pay period if divided equally among 26 pay periods. But they also said that people with incomes below $25,000 will, on average, get a tax cut of only $60 over the course of the whole year.

Wow, $35 a pay period. What's not to like? Almost $1K a year if you make $48-$86K, but a lot less if you're poor.

 

[Hypoxia]

Tromp announces steel and aluminum tariffs. Metal-makers flood US markets before tariffs start. Metal prices plunge. US metal plants announce layoffs and shutdowns. Nice work, Donnie.

Fastest growth in US employment is in solar installations. Tromp imposes tariffs on solar imports, killing many jobs. Tromp pushes coal, which has lost market demand and thus jobs. Nice work, Donnie.

It's not 1955 anymore, Donnie. Put away your toys.

 

[JackLuis]

Anchor at Sinclair-owned outlet blasts Trump for attacking independent media: ‘This isn’t funny at all’

Trump steps in it again!

President Donald Trump on Monday praised Sinclair Broadcast Group after a viral video showed how the media conglomerate forced TV news anchors across the country to read the same scripted attacks on mainstream media outlets.

“So funny to watch Fake News Networks, among the most dishonest groups of people I have ever dealt with, criticize Sinclair Broadcasting for being biased,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Sinclair is far superior to CNN and even more Fake NBC, which is a total joke.”

But Mary Nam, an anchor at the Seattle-based KOMO 4 local news station, blasted the president for finding anything funny about media consolidation.

“Actually, this isn’t funny at all,” wrote Nam, whose station is owned by Sinclair, in response to Trump’s tweet. “None of it. When media giants gobble up local news stations, there are repercussions. And since you brought it up first this morning, will your admin green light the Tribune buyout?”

Easy Donald, you've already lost much of Fox and if you lose Sinclair you'll be at the mercy of BriteFart and Alex Jones!

 

[JackLuis]

Seth Meyers hilariously mocks Trump’s unhinged Easter speech: ‘SHUT UP AND GIVE US OUR F*CKING EGGS!’

“Late Night” host Seth Meyers on Monday ripped Donald Trump’s speech at the White House Easter Egg Roll, noting the young attendees at the event probably did not care about the economy, DACA or any of the issues the president felt the need to mention during his bizarre rant.

“He still could not stop himself from rambling, even about something as mundane as the White House itself,” Meyers explained, rolling a clip of Trump describing the most famous building in the world as “a house” or “whatever you want to call it,” as “there really is no name for it.”

“What do you mean there’s no name for it?” as shocked Meyers asked. “It’s the name everyone calls it, it’s the White House.”

“Even the children know what it’s called!” Meyers continued. “And if they hadn’t learned it yet you could just ask them to describe it and they’d still probably get the name right!"
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Meyers replied:

“Now obviously those kids didn’t say anything, but if they did I imagine it’d be something like, ‘In order to qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, you have to have lived here continuously since 2007 and been under 16 when you arrived, which means no one arrive now would qualify for the program, and on top of that, you’re the one who cancelled it last year after which you rejected multiple bipartisan compromise to save it, so what you’re saying makes absolutely no sense now shut up and GIVE US OUR F*CKING EGGS!”

 

[Hypoxia]

Seth Meyers hilariously mocks Trump’s unhinged Easter speech: ‘SHUT UP AND GIVE US OUR F*CKING EGGS!’

Yes! We Have No Bananas

There's a fruit store on our street
It's run by a Greek.
And he keeps good things to eat
But you should hear him speak!
When you ask him anything, he never answers "no".
He just "yes"es you to death, and as he takes your dough
He tells you

"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
We've string beans, and onions
Cabbageses, and scallions,
And all sorts of fruit and say
We have an old fashioned to-mah-to
A Long Island po-tah-to
But yes, we have no bananas.
We have no bananas today."

Business got so good for him that he wrote home today,
"Send me Pete and Nick and Jim; I need help right away."
When he got them in the store, there was fun, you bet.
Someone asked for "sparrow grass" and then the whole quartet
All answered

"Yes, we have no bananas
We have-a no bananas today.
Just try those coconuts
Those walnuts and doughnuts
There ain't many nuts like they.
We'll sell you two kinds of red herring,
Dark brown, and ball-bearing.
But yes, we have no bananas
We have no bananas today."

Yes, we are very sorry to inform you
That we are entirely out of the fruit in question
The afore-mentioned vegetable
Bearing the cognomen "Banana".
We might induce you to accept a substitute less desirable,
But that is not the policy at this internationally famous green
grocery.
I should say not. No no no no no no no.

But may we suggest that you sample our five o'clock tea
Which we feel certain will tempt your pallet?
However we regret that after a diligent search
Of the premises
By our entire staff
We can positively affirm without fear of contradiction
That our raspberries are delicious; really delicious
Very delicious
But we have no bananas today.

Yes, we gotta no banana
No banana
We gotta no banana today.
I sella you no banana.
Hey, Marianna, you gotta no banana?
Why this man, he no believe-a what I say.

Now whatta you want mister?
You wanna buy twelve for a quarter?
No? well, just a oneofadozen?
I'm-a gonna calla my daughter.
Hey, Marianna
You gotta piana
Yes, banana, no
No, yes, no bananas today
We gotta no bananas.
Yes, we gotta no bananas today.

Give us our fucking eggs.

 

[JackLuis]

‘Is anyone paying attention?’: Wall Street Journal blisters Trump for ignoring trade war he started with China

The editorial board of the conservative Wall Street Journal took President Donald Trump out to the woodshed on Tuesday morning for his ill-considered tariffs on China that have rocked the U.S. stock market and have the potential to devastate American farmers.

According to the Journal, Trump has talked about everything else in the world but is avoiding talking about the stock market which has taken a precipitous drop over the past few weeks.

“Donald Trump hasn’t been talking about the rising stock market lately, and no wonder,” the editors wrote. “”Stocks have given up their earlier gains since the President unveiled his protectionist trade agenda, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell another 1.9% on Monday. Tech stocks took a particular beating as Nasdaq fell 2.74%, but the main policy concern is the new uncertainty from rising trade tension.”

The Journal went on to note that Trump’s previous announcement on tariffs of Chinese steel have boomeranged as the Chinese fired back by slapping “punitive tariffs on 128 categories of American goods on Monday,” including pork producers and fruits and nuts growers who will be hit hard by the Chinese actions.

“Greater damage may come from China’s 15% tariff on American fruits, nuts and sparkling wine,” the editorial explained. “Apple growers in Washington state only gained full access to the Chinese market in 2015 and have seen rapid growth in exports from zero three years ago. Sales of American wine to China, almost all from California, grew 10% last year to $197 million, still a small percentage of total production. Such industries now face headwinds to building market share.”

Donald the Duke of Dickishness, stepped into a deep shit pit with the trade war he does not have the leverage to win.

 

[JackLuis]

Illinois farmer on Chinese tariffs: ‘Our worst fears seem to be coming true’

Brian Duncan, an Illinois hog farmer, had hoped the tough trade talk in recent weeks between President Donald Trump and China amounted to saber-rattling.

On Monday, he discovered otherwise, when the Chinese government imposed tariffs on 128 U.S. products, including pork and various fruits, in retaliation for Trump's previously announced tariffs on steel and aluminum.

"We were hoping it was just brinkmanship and cooler heads would prevail. But instead, some of our worst fears seem to be coming true," said Duncan, who's also vice president of the Illinois Farm Bureau. "This is significant, real and serious for rural America."

The tariffs could test Trump's popularity among farmers, many of whom voted for him and have since cheered his rolling back of environmental regulations. Tax reform was also well-received by many farmers, Duncan said, but the mounting trade war with China has them "darned worried."

In Illinois, pork producers that have increasingly come to depend on the Chinese export market, particularly for cuts of pork less desirable to American consumers, will be hit hard by the Chinese tariff of 25 percent on pork. Buyers in China could turn to other countries as a result. The trade restrictions also could have a ripple effect on corn and soybeans, the two largest crops in the state, as both are used in pork production, according to the farm bureau.

This trade war comes at a tough time for U.S. farmers, who have seen net farm income decline by 50 percent since 2013.

In the past few weeks, the value of hogs has declined by about $20 a head on the commodities market, said Duncan, who also grows corn and soybeans on about 4,000 acres in Polo, Ill., about 115 miles west of Chicago.

Illinois pork producers have worked hard to build the export market for pork, Duncan said. The industry now supports about 10,000 jobs in the state.

 

[Hypoxia]

Illinois farmer on Chinese tariffs: ‘Our worst fears seem to be coming true’

Tromp has a long history of screwing employees, contractors, partners, banks, taxpayers, customers, and underage girls. Naive fucktards voted for him because he's different. Now they get what they wanted, but they didn't know they wanted poverty. Tough.

 

[KeithD]

Tromp has a long history of screwing employees, contractors, partners, banks, taxpayers, customers, and underage girls. Naive fucktards voted for him because he's different. Now they get what they wanted, but they didn't know they wanted poverty. Tough.

Naïve fucktards voted for him because they are naïve fucktards--and he knew he could con them.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Reports on Pruitt and Zinke are not good for my blood pressure.

Fucking Zinke:

A fierce opponent of the Endangered Species Act is picked to oversee Interior’s wildlife policy

Another thing he did:

--mass firing of as many women as he could when he took over

And fucking Pruitt.

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announces rollback of Obama-era auto fuel efficiency, emissions standards

I can't wait to be choking on car exhaust again.

Scott Pruitt Bypassed the White House to Give Big Raises to Favorite Aides

The embattled EPA chief used an obscure provision last month to increase the salaries of a pair of staffers by tens of thousands of dollars.

Oh my, the raises went to people who helped him with his sweetheart condo deal with lobbyists

Scott Pruitt’s $50-per-night condo looks really bad

They're both scum.

Zinke is just a flaming asshole, the CoachB in the Cabinet.

And Pruitt is just batshit crazy.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump is still ‘protecting’ EPA head Scott Pruitt because he wants him to replace Jeff Sessions

Good bye DOJ!

 

[JackLuis]

Trump national security aides all oppose his Syria plan

Now he wants to pullout?

President Donald Trump's announcement that "it's time" to rapidly pull U.S. soldiers out of Syria within the next five to six months was met with opposition from every one of his top national security aides, according to the Associated Press.

Hours after telling reporters on Tuesday that it was time to pull the 2,000 American troops out of Syria, Trump sat down with his Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Pentagon, the State Department and the intelligence community in the Situation Room. The national security aides unanimously opposed the president's plan, warning that a swift withdrawal would allow the militant group known as the Islamic State, or ISIS, to reestablish itself, according to the AP. The wire service cited five administration officials who were briefed on the conversation.

 

[KeithD]

The obvious answer is new national security aides.

 

[JackLuis]

Donald Trump Bones Own Stormy Daniels Case, Without Prophylactic

Donald Trump finally had something to say about l’affaire Stormy Daniels yesterday, and it was “No” — in reply to a question about whether he knew his lawyer, Michael Cohen, had paid the porn actress $130,000. That may turn out to be one of the more legally damaging monosyllables he’s ever uttered. After all, if he didn’t know about the hush money, then clearly Trump’s saying he wasn’t a party to the nondisclosure agreement Cohen arranged with Daniels, and that’s not going to help Trump and Cohen in their attempts to sue Daniels for $20 million for violating the agreement. The one Trump says he didn’t know anything about.

Trump also said he didn’t know where Cohen would have gotten $130,000 — maybe from a paper route, a lemonade stand, or laundering money for Russians, we bet. And Trump certainly has no idea why Cohen was going around paying money to Daniels — he’s just generous that way, perhaps?

Avenatti corrected Melber when he said Avenatti seemed happy: “Ari, I’m not happy, I’m ecstatic. Let’s be clear about that.” Very important to get those nuances in there.

Avenatti said again that if Trump knew nothing about the payment or why it was made, then there’s no agreement, which means the nondisclosure agreement had vanished in a puff of logic, as did the threat to financially ruin Daniels, because how can you enforce a contract that one party says he knew nothing about?

 

[Hypoxia]

Donald Trump Bones Own Stormy Daniels Case, Without Prophylactic

By that disclaimer, Tromp throws his lawyer to the dogs. It's now Cohen's obstruction problem. See what happens when you work for Tromp?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Pruitt is off the farm. Out to lunch. Completely batshit.

I watched his interview with Ed Henry about three times, stopping to carefully note his "answers" and doublespeak. He's worse than Kellyanne with the alternative facts and deflection, and he delivers it with total wild-eyed conviction. You can tell Kellyanne knows it's all bulllshit, not Scotty! He's ALL IN with the right wing insanity, because he. believes. it.

I fucking hate him, and I hate Roseanne and every single one of the dumb shits who handed our country to these people.

Trump is still ‘protecting’ EPA head Scott Pruitt because he wants him to replace Jeff Sessions

Good bye DOJ!

 

[JackLuis]

Today in Bat Shitery

Sarah Sanders: Trump still believes trade wars are ‘easy’ to win because ‘he’s the best negotiator’

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on Friday that President Donald Trump still believes it will be “easy” to win a trade war with China because he is the world’s greatest negotiator.

Trump’s threats to slap heavy tariffs on China have roiled global financial markets for the last week, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average on Friday was down by more than 600 points at the time of Sanders’ press conference.

 

[Hypoxia]

Sarah Sanders: Trump still believes trade wars are ‘easy’ to win because ‘he’s the best negotiator’

He's quite good at negotiating defaults and going-out-of-business sales. Much experience there. But a bailout for a national default may be hard to find now. Hmmm, how have his negotiations with Putin gone? And with Dums?

THE ART OF THE DUNCE: 15 MONTHS INTO HIS PRESIDENCY, TRUMP CAN’T NEGOTIATE HIS WAY OUT OF A PAPER BAG

Any sort of policy requires some firsthand mastery of details. Trump, as we know, lacks this. So when he goes into meetings with Democrats and gives away the store, only to backpedal hours later and pretend he didn’t, his weakness as a negotiator is only one part of his vulnerability. The other, more brutal fact is that he simply doesn’t know what’s being discussed.

Only the best.

 

[JackLuis]

Trump ‘freaked out’ after seeing Fox News personalities turn on him over his border wall failure

President Donald Trump was reportedly “freaked out” to see Fox News personalities slam him for signing an Omnibus spending bill that failed to fund the building of his signature border wall, Axios reported Saturday.

“Sources who’ve discussed it with Trump say it freaked him out to see the array of usually friendly faces on Fox News’ opinion shows — Pete Hegseth, Laura Ingraham, Tucker Carlson, et al. — ripping into him for signing a bill that spent a ton of money, but gave lots away to liberal priorities and did little for his signature promise to build a wall,” Axios recounted.

During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump constantly repeated that he would build a wall along America’s southern border — to be paid for by Mexico.

Mexico has shown no interest in paying for Trump’s promised border wall.

“Mexico’s not going to pay for the wall and neither are we,” Fox News personality Jesse Watters complained about the Omnibus spending bill.

So as the 63rd Weak of the Trumpster ends he has lost Fox and the Congressional Rethugicans don't actually listen to his gibberish.

Bob is creeping up on him and he has no real allies, just a few simpering incompetent sycophants.