A report card on the Trump administration

At the White House today Trump ended a fiery interview taping with CBS News’ “60 Minutes,” then launched an attack against the interviewer on Twitter for not wearing a mask, and threatened to post the interview before it aired.

The drama unfolded after Trump was frustrated with the line of questioning and how the interview was being conducted, said one person familiar with the episode, while another in the room described the president as “pissed.”

Trump spent more than 40 minutes with CBS News correspondent Lesley Stahl, and did not proceed to shoot a second portion of the interview that included Vice President Mike Pence.

For more, see: Trump ends ’60 Minutes’ interview, attacks Lesley Stahl on Twitter

 

When you come up with one interview in which Biden was asked one single hard question, you'll have the right to criticize Trump who's been through a thousand hostile interviews and 50 thousands malicious, hostile, mean and intellectually dishonest questions.

One interview please where Biden was asked one tough question? Can you do that?

 

It's all over but the fat lady singing.

A group of former George W. Bush administration and campaign officials have launched a new super PAC that mobilizes disaffected Republican voters for presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee Joe Biden.

The group, launched under the name "43 Alumni for Biden," "seeks to unite and mobilize a community of historically Republican voters who are dismayed and disappointed by the damage done to our nation by Donald Trump's presidency."

Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, castigated Trump in a telephone town hall with constituents, accusing the President of bungling the response to the coronavirus pandemic, cozying up to dictators and white supremacists, and offending voters so broadly that he might cause a “Republican blood bath” in the Senate.

“The depths of his dishonesty is just astounding to me. The dishonesty, the transactional nature of every relationship, though it's more pathetic than anything else. He is the most flawed person I have ever met in my life," Trump's former White House chief of staff, retired Marine Gen. John Kelly.

Sen. Mitt Romney said Wednesday he did not vote for President Donald Trump's reelection, the latest break between the GOP's 2012 presidential nominee and the leader of his party.

The first-term Republican senator, who already voted in Utah, declined to say if he voted for Democratic nominee Joe Biden or wrote in another candidate. But he made clear that Trump did not get his vote.

Reclaim Our Party is a super PAC targeting Republicans and right-leaning independents, telling them it was OK to vote against Trump.

The two biggest groups that dominate the anti-Trump Republican landscape are the Lincoln Project and Republican Voters Against Trump. Both have become multi-million-dollar operations that conduct their own sophisticated data research and polling.

 

Wow! What a rarity. As can easily be seen on this thread, it is extremely rare for someone to speak up for Trump. Here's why.

First, I will answer your question. Biden was asked if he supported packing the court. Biden probably has not decided, and/or he is awaiting developments. He said he would answer the question before Election Day.

If you review entries on this thread, including the OP, but more importantly the entries for the last two weeks, you would learn there are countless examples of Trump's incompetence, stupidity, lack of caring, baseless conspiracies and false accusations, paranoid narcissism, along with 25,000 lies. It is why Trump's fans stay away from this thread. All this represents fair game for moderator questions.

Biden has no such record, this explaining the lack of tough questions.

If you disagree with this analysis, you are welcome to pick any post or posts to challenge my statements. In fact, I encourage it.

Lack of response implies agreement with this analysis.

 

Wow,

-no questions on his countless manifestations of racism
-no questions on explicitly denouncing Antifa
-no questions on Burisma, Hunter, his laptop, the Russian oligarchs, Chinese Communist Party
-no questions on his lies, plagiarism
-no questions on his opposition to Trump's China travel ban
-no questions on his support of the Iraq war
...

But the reporters asked him on court packing, Biden told them to f**** off, they responded "yes sir! sorry sir!".

Thanks for confirming beyond any doubt that the reporters and moderators treat Biden with kid's gloves (just like senile people should be treated) while their hostility towards Trump is pathological.

PS what flavor of milkshake did you have, sir?

 

I too would like to know why Trump has paid almost $200,000 to the Chinese Communist party, considering he says they are our enemies

 

I see you agree with my various criticisms of Trump. You should. Unlike your criticisms of Biden, the criticisms of Trump are well documented.

 

Chris Cillizza writes:

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump taped a town hall with Sinclair Broadcasting Group's Eric Bolling. In it, Bolling asked the President a simple question -- and the answer Trump gave is hugely revealing.

Here's the exchange:

Bolling: "With Covid, is there anything that you think you could have done differently, if you had a mulligan or a do-over on one aspect of the way you handled it, what would it be?"

Trump: "Not much."

The President of the United States, faced with a still-raging virus that has sickened 8.2 million Americans and killed 227,500, says that there is "not much" that he would have done differently if he could do things all over.

Really? REALLY?!!?

How about not making mask-wearing a political issue? Or letting the scientists lead our response to the pandemic? Or not playing down the threat of the virus when he knew how communicable it was as far back as February? Or fixing the testing process in America in the early days of the virus? Or showing any sort of empathy for the Americans who have lost their lives? ("It is what it is," Trump said in September when confronted with the death toll from Covid-19.)

It's not clear whether Trump's "not much" answer is driven by pure tone-deafness or his obsession with always being right and never admitting a mistake.

 

In a speech to North Carolina voters, Trump said he is feeling great after his recovery from coronavirus and offered his perspective on the virus. "It's ending anyway, they go crazy when I say it, it's going to peter out."

What an incredibly stupid comment to make. It is as if Trump is living in an alternate universe. With only a few days left before Election Day, GOP leaders are dismayed Trump illustrates total dysfunction when it comes to covid.

Yesterday, there were nearly 63,700 new cases of the virus and 1,225 Americans died. The virus is surging in nearly every state. We are averaging over 55,000 new cases a day, and between 800 to 1300 deaths daily. The U.S. leads the world in number of cases and virus deaths.

"It's ending anyway, they go crazy when I say it, it's going to peter out."

 

“She’s always been terrible and unfair, just like most of the Fake News reporters, but I’ll still play the game,” our President said about NBC News anchor Kristen Welker, the moderator for tonight's debate.

The only question now is, will Trump act like an ****** again, or does he know how much he lost in the first debate when he acted like a complete ******?

Vote early! What are you waiting for?

 

China is one of only three foreign nations — the others are Britain and Ireland — where Mr. Trump maintains a bank account, according to an analysis of the president’s tax records, which were obtained by The New York Times. The foreign accounts do not show up on Mr. Trump’s public financial disclosures, where he must list personal assets, because they are held under corporate names. The identities of the financial institutions are not clear.

The Chinese account is controlled by Trump International Hotels Management L.L.C., which the tax records show paid $188,561 in taxes in China while pursuing licensing deals there from 2013 to 2015.

Note: Trump paid $750 in federal income taxes in 2016, the year he won the Presidency, and $750 in 2017. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/09/28/two...lped-trump-pay-just-750-in-federal-taxes.html

The tax records do not include details on how much money may have passed through the overseas accounts, though the Internal Revenue Service does require filers to report the portion of their income derived from other countries. Trump International Hotels Management reported just a few thousand dollars from China.

Mr. Garten [Trump's lawyer] would not identify the bank in China where the account is held. Until last year, China’s biggest state-controlled bank rented three floors in Trump Tower, a lucrative lease that drew accusations of a conflict of interest for the president.

Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits
As he raises questions about his opponent’s standing with China, President Trump’s taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account.
www.nytimes.com

 

Trump and his allies have tried to paint the Democratic nominee, Joseph R. Biden Jr., as soft on China, in part by pointing to his son’s business dealings there.

Senate Republicans produced a report asserting, among other things, that Mr. Biden’s son Hunter “opened a bank account” with a Chinese businessman, part of what it said were his numerous connections to “foreign nationals and foreign governments across the globe.”

Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits
As he raises questions about his opponent’s standing with China, President Trump’s taxes reveal details about his own activities there, including a previously unknown bank account.
www.nytimes.com

The only reason Trump's fans support Trump is because they have no idea what is happening, and they don't want to know.

 

I have to give credit where credit is due. Trump, for the most part, did not act like an ******. He apparently learned his lesson, and he allowed Biden to speak -- most of the time. Both interrupted the other occasionally, but the offenses were pretty much even.

Trump's biggest problem, of course, was his constant lying, and he showed his desperation by constantly attacking Biden's son and lying about Biden's income from foreign governments. There isn't any. Trump was relying on disputed information he got from Giuliani, who got it from a Russian agent. Trump Said to Be Warned That Giuliani Was Conveying Russian Disinformation

Trump was warned about the disinformation from the Kremlin, but he ignored the warning and foolishly used the information in the debate. The sitting President is losing this election. Trump is desperate, and it showed.

At one point Biden pointed how much taxes Trump paid to China ($188,561) as compared to how much taxes Trump paid to the IRS in 2016 and 2017 ($750 per year), and Trump responded by saying he paid millions in pre-taxes. Trump Records Shed New Light on Chinese Business Pursuits

Trump is a prolific liar. Americans have no idea if that is true or not. The payments can be easily proven, but Trump is the first President in 50 years not to reveal his tax returns, and many wonder what he is hiding.

Overall, the debate was extremely informative because, unlike the first debate, our President allowed his rival to speak during discussions of the various issues. We learned a lot about both candidates, he says with tongue in cheek.

 

Yes, They are..And I thank you. You have them all nice and packaged in a simple Sandy Shanks google search
Hope its all registered with the wayback machine, encase these forums try an stifle anything.

 

Some fact checking of the debate is in order. There were so many lies -- some told by Biden -- that it would require a book to fact check them all. I will select only the lowlights.

Trump accused Biden of receiving “$3.5 million from Russia.” There’s no evidence of that.

Biden said there’s “no evidence” that raising the minimum wage causes business bankruptcies. There is, a little.

Trump falsely said “I don’t take” money from Wall Street. He and groups supporting him got about $13.8 million from Wall Street.

Trump falsely claimed that his bank account in China was “closed in 2015.” Trump’s own attorney said it remains open.

Trump claimed that the $750 the New York Times reported he paid in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017 was a “filing fee.” There is no such fee.

Trump repeated his claim that “we’re rounding the turn” on the pandemic. Cases actually are increasing in many parts of the country.

Though Biden claimed Trump’s travel restrictions on China were imposed “late, after 40 countries had already done that,” most of those countries did it around the same time Trump did.

Trump quoted Anthony Fauci as saying the coronavirus was “not going to be a problem.” Fauci didn’t say that.

Trump claimed that Biden wants to raise “everybody’s” taxes. Analysts say 80% would get a cut.

Biden misquoted Sen. Mitch McConnell as saying, “Let them go bankrupt,” about cities and states that have lost revenue as a result of the pandemic. McConnell said bankruptcy should be a legal option for states with unrelated money woes.

Trump again falsely claimed Biden would get rid of private health insurance. Biden opposed Medicare for All.

As one would expect, most of the lies came from Trump. He just says whatever is convenient at the time, and truth can go to hell.

 

“Now because of the China virus, we’re supposed to stay home, send millions of ballots all over the country. Millions and millions. You know, you could have a case where this election won't be decided on the evening of Nov. 3. This election could be decided two months later,” Trump said.

CBS News reports, "The Trump campaign and state Republicans are demanding that a state Nevada court temporarily block election officials in a Nevada county from counting early votes."



The Trump campaign is making complete fools of themselves.

 

Fox News reports, "Trump, who has long identified as a Presbyterian, now considers himself a "nondenominational Christian.'"

“Though I was confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a nondenominational Christian,” Trump wrote, without giving an explanation for the transformation or saying when it occurred.

The explanation is easy. Trump does not go to church.

Why he has the support of evangelicals is a deep, dark mystery not even evangelicals can explain.

 

What is truly amazing is that Trump's fans allow this criticism of Trump to go on and on, and they don't say a thing.

Trump is trying to invent his own reality about coronavirus.

CNN reports, "On Saturday at a North Carolina rally, he claimed the media would no longer report on the pandemic after Election Day. He implied that news organizations are trying to drum up fear about the pandemic to get former Vice President Joe Biden elected."

Trump speaks as though he is talking to idiots.

CNN continued, "But facts are facts: Cases are rising sharply and the American public is increasingly at odds with the president's views on the coronavirus. More then three-quarters -- 78% -- of Americans remain concerned about getting infected with Covid-19, according to an ABC News/Ipsos Poll released Sunday. And 61% of Americans say they disapprove of Trump's response to Covid-19, according to the same poll.

"That's why Trump's denial of the importance of coronavirus and attempts to change the subject aren't working, according to CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter."

"This is less about media fear-mongering and more about public health experts leading the way," Stelter said.

The U.S. reported its second-highest day of new Covid-19 cases on Saturday, with nearly 84,000 Americans contracting coronavirus. As of Sunday, there were at least 8,850,000 total coronavirus cases in the United States. In total, more than 230,000 Americans have died.

And Trump is telling his adoring, ill-informed flock that this is all a media hoax.

Little wonder why Americans are in a rush to get rid of this guy. Early voting is setting records.

 

It is characteristic of a paranoid, narcissistic personality that Trump would take the pandemic personally.

“That’s all I hear about now. Turn on television, ‘Covid, Covid, Covid Covid Covid.’ A plane goes down, 500 people dead, they don’t talk about it. ‘Covid Covid Covid Covid.’ By the way, on November 4, you won’t hear about it anymore,”

Is this man for real? Good Lord, he is our President, and he is completely clueless as to what is happening.

 

Because of their cavalier attitude toward the pandemic, the Trump White House has become a hot spot for the coronavirus. The President, the First Lady, and their son have all tested positive for covid, along with several members of the White House staff. Trump's close associate, Chris Christie, landed in the hospital because of the virus.

Two top advisers to Vice President Pence have tested positive for the virus in recent days, as Pence — who tested negative on Saturday and Sunday — crisscrosses the country for rallies in swing states.

Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, tested positive for the coronavirus.

Marty Obst, a Pence political adviser, has also tested positive for the virus.

Three additional Pence aides tested positive in recent days for a total of five on the vice-president's staff.

“We’re not going to control the pandemic. We are going to control the fact that we get vaccines, therapeutics and other mitigations,” the White House chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

We are being governed by morons. Worse, countless Trump supporters want to reelect the morons, but they won't tell us why. Actually, as this thread indicates, Trump's supporters pretty much avoid what Trump is doing and saying.

Also, as the Meadows statement shows, the White House is staffed by Trump sycophants, not qualified government officials.

 

This is a switch.

For 3 1/2 years we have heard the White House attempt to clean up Trump's infantile, moronic comments.

"He didn't really mean what he said."

"Trump was using sarcasm."

"Trump was joking."

"What he meant to say was ..."

Today, Trump was busy cleaning up his chief of staff's revealing comment.

Speaking to reporters on the airport tarmac after arriving in Allentown, Pa., Trump was asked to address the controversial remarks made by Meadows. Of course, Trump could not clean up the optics of the comment without lying.

“No, not at all. In fact, the opposite. Absolutely the opposite. We’ve done an incredible job,” Trump said, claiming that the U.S. is “absolutely rounding the corner” despite the country setting a new single-day record of 83,010 coronavirus cases on Friday, and the seven day average of 68,700 is the highest since the pandemic began.

Then Trump went on his merry way, continuing the practice of holding one to three super spreader events per day with his mask-less adoring admirers.

 

Trump used voter intimidation on Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf (D). “We’re watching you, Governor Wolf, very closely," Trump said.

Trump used intimidation on other Democratic governors. The Post reports, "Trump said he would be closely watching Wolf and other governors, including North Carolina’s Roy Cooper (D) to make sure votes are cast fairly."

Then our President said, "It’s the only way we can lose, in my opinion, is massive fraud.”

How in the hell did this guy become our President? He speaks as though he is talking to idiots.

 

Trump is showing his ineptitude and stupidity once again.

He is hoping voters will forget all about the pandemic sweeping the globe.

"People are tired of COVID," Trump said last week while on the campaign trail. "Yup, there's going to be spikes, there's going to be no spikes, there's going to be vaccines. With or without vaccines, people are tired of COVID."

"I have the biggest rallies I have ever had and we have COVID. People are saying whatever, just leave us alone. They're tired of it," Trump added.

Trump fails to realize he is speaking only to his intelligence challenged, uninformed base. The majority of Americans are aware of the abject stupidity of Trump's statements. How do you forget a pandemic that is surging in the U.S.? The nation hit a record number of daily new cases last week and health officials report more than 8.9 million cases and over 231,000 Americans have died. United States Coronavirus: 8,980,349 Cases and 231,344 Deaths - Worldometer

Trump fails to realize that his base consists of 38% to 42% of the electorate, not nearly enough for his reelection. Also, he speaks only to his largely uneducated base, not even attempting to broaden his base. This is due to his narcissistic persona. He loves the cheering when he makes his outrageous lies about the pandemic, Biden, or the election itself. Cheering that would not be there in the case of a more informed crowd.

As indicated by this forum and this thread, Trump's comments are so ludicrous -- such as the statements above -- that Trump's own base largely ignores him, and they are totally incapable of defending him. His base prefers talking about Democrats, and their favorite subjects are Joe and Hunter Biden.

This source aided me in this report: https://www.usnews.com/news/electio...ambles-on-voters-not-caring-about-coronavirus

 

The man mostly responsible for Trump's reelection defeat is Donald John Trump.

“Big problems and discrepancies with Mail In Ballots all over the USA. Must have final total on November 3rd,” Trump said Monday on Twitter. Twitter attached a disclaimer that said “content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading.”

In 2016, Trump was declared the winner the day after Election Day.

"It’s the only way we can lose, in my opinion, is massive fraud,” Trump said.

The polls show Trump losing in nearly every battleground state.

“We’re not going to control the pandemic," Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows.

Because of their cavalier attitude toward the pandemic, the Trump White House has become a hot bed for the coronavirus. The President, the First Lady, and their son have all tested positive for covid, along with several members of the White House staff. Five members of the vice-president's staff have tested positive. The vice-president continues on the campaign trail holding super spreader events.

Trump continues to host super spreader events, three of them today.

"I have the biggest rallies I have ever had and we have COVID."

"We’ve done an incredible job,” Trump said, claiming that the U.S. is “absolutely rounding the corner.”

The country set a new single-day record of 83,010 coronavirus cases on Friday, and the seven day average of 68,700 is the highest since the pandemic began. 232,000 Americans have died from the virus, and the U.S. leads the world in number of cases and the number of deaths. United States Coronavirus: 9,034,002 Cases and 232,009 Deaths - Worldometer

"People are tired of COVID. Yup, there's going to be spikes, there's going to be no spikes, there's going to be vaccines. With or without vaccines, people are tired of COVID."

The last statement is correct, but we must continue the fight to control the virus. We know the virus won't get tired.

 

Despite a new wave of COVID-19 cases across the country, President Donald Trump continues to hold frequent in-person rallies that bring together thousands of people with little regard for social distancing. His political events in Washington, D.C., already contributed to an outbreak among his aides and throughout the White House.

New analysis by the Center for American Progress finds that about half of the president’s 22 campaign rallies held between June and September were followed by a county-level increase in COVID-19 cases, suggesting the events may have led to community spread. The analysis also finds that counties that had a lower COVID-19 incidence—a measure of new cases per capita—prior to the rally were more likely to have a visible increase in cases after the rally.

Attendees at rallies—including those held in Pennsylvania, Florida, and North Carolina—tend not wear masks or socially distance, even after Trump himself contracted the virus. In addition, the majority of these events have been in violation of local or state restrictions on gatherings to limit the spread of COVID-19.

Due to concerns about COVID-19, the Trump team suspended rallies in March. It then held two indoor rallies in June and again halted in-person events as the United States approached its second peak of COVID-19 cases. Trump resumed rallies in mid-August, appearing at multiple large events per week.

https://www.americanprogress.org/is...ften-followed-increases-local-covid-19-cases/