The Trump Presidency

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Tony Stark said:
Sounds like a good way to launder money.
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Construction in general is a good way. Millions sunk into a ghost skyscraper in Azerbaijan.

Even with an LLC I'm unclear if owners of real estate can remain completely anonymous. Corporations have boards, don't they? Or at least officers?

Some of those people could be straw buyers/surrogates, which is a different issue. At the end of the day somebody owns those buildings, or shares of those buildings. Maybe you can keep it all behind a wall of secrecy in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland. Maybe in the U.S., but I kind of doubt it.

Donald Trump's Worst Deal. New Yorker.
 
Minoosh said:
Construction in general is a good way. Millions sunk into a ghost skyscraper in Azerbaijan.

Even with an LLC I'm unclear if owners of real estate can remain completely anonymous. Corporations have boards, don't they? Or at least officers?

Some of those people could be straw buyers/surrogates, which is a different issue. At the end of the day somebody owns those buildings, or shares of those buildings. Maybe you can keep it all behind a wall of secrecy in the Cayman Islands or Switzerland. Maybe in the U.S., but I kind of doubt it.

Donald Trump's Worst Deal. New Yorker.
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Obviously I'm just speculating but the LLCs could have been made for the sole purpose of purchasing the condos. And in turn they are owned by some shell corporation in the Caymans, which is owned by another shell corporation in Switzerland, and so on. The true owners could be Russian oligarchs and it would be very difficult to untangle.
 
The covfefe bill looks interesting.

Those spelling and grammar errors can be memorialised because we need an indelible reminder that 'Trump was here'.
 
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newyorkguy said:
I addressed that in the part you snipped.


In other words, if Donnie asked Comey to pledge loyalty who is to say he hasn't asked the same of Pruitt, Sessions, Priebus etc. If they were willing to debase themselves by pledging allegiance to the Trumpmeister, gushing over him at a Cabinet meeting (even in front of assembled media) would be a cake walk.

I got a laugh from a story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel headlined:
Help poor Reince Priebus find his next job

The Journal Sentinel (with tongue firmly in cheek I'm sure) thinks in his zeal to save his job, ol' Reince may have laid it on a little too heavy and that could backfire on him. He came across a tad too pathetic. And Donnie don't like pathetic. Here's what Priebus said:


The Journal Sentinel wonders:


You can suggest job leads for Reince by following the link and posting an online message or by using the email address provided.
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In Trump's world there isn't even the concept of overblown praise of Trump. He would not be able to understand such a concept if you tried to explain it to him.
 
Stacko said:
Days to hit a 60% disapproval rating:

Carter: Never
Reagan: Never
H.W. Bush: 1,288
Clinton: Never
W. Bush: 1,756
Obama: Never
Trump: 144
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So you are saying he is the number one president! *


*Alternate facts supplied by Con and Way publicists to the stars
 
Trump only minds if his human toys debase themselves for others, like Spicer being portrayed by a women. For him, they can't crawl low enough.
 
newyorkguy said:
Here's a resume the Journal Sentinel came up with for Reince. Suitable for LinkedIn or Craig's List. It's a quickie, could use some work, but you get the idea:

Ironic. Last summer Reince Priebus was strategizing ways to deny Trump the Republican nomination. Priebus wanted no part of him. Wonder if he ever imagined that a short ten months later he'd not only be working for Donnie but reduced to fawning over him in public.

Sad! ;)
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It is sad. I think people are underestimating Reince Priebus though. He's a weasel and he knows how to keep himself in the mix. He'd opposed Trump enough to have warranted the boot and yet there he is, still standing. Well... not exactly standing, but you know what i mean.
 
Is anyone worried about the state of US commerce at the highest levels?

Trump thrived, presumably by using the same tactics he's failed to use as president. Does it concern anyone that it seems US businesses actually work with people like Trump at the helm?
 
3point14 said:
Is anyone worried about the state of US commerce at the highest levels?

Trump thrived, presumably by using the same tactics he's failed to use as president. Does it concern anyone that it seems US businesses actually work with people like Trump at the helm?
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He *mostly* thrived in a business that requires a particular skillset (and failed miserably in several others) - the property business and in particular the high end property business. These days AFAIK it's all about licencing though.

I doubt that people like Trump are leading the U.S.' great businesses.
 
I made some minor edits to the Trump Cabinet Praise Session.

“It is the greatest privilege of my life to serve as senior secretary under Comrade Stalin who is keeping his word to the proletariat of the Soviet Union.”

“Comrade Stalin, what an incredible honor it is to lead the People’s Commissariat for Health at this pivotal time under your leadership. I can't thank you enough for the privileges you've given me and the leadership that you've shown.”

“We are receiving, as you know -- I'm not sure the rest of you fully understand -- the support of NKVD officers all over the Soviet Union. They have been very frustrated. They are so thrilled that we have a new idea that we're going to support them and work together to properly, lawfully fight the rising industrial sabotage that we are seeing. ... The response is fabulous around the country."

“Comrade Stalin, last week was a great. It was the All-Union Infrastructure week. Thank you so much for coming over to the Ministry of Transportation. Hundreds and hundreds of people were just so thrilled, hanging out, watching the ceremony. "

"Comrade Stalin, it's an honor to serve as your Minister of State Security. It's an incredible privilege to lead the men and women who are providing intelligence so that we can uncover plots by the Zinovievite-Trotskyite bloc."

“Comrade Stalin, thank you for the opportunity to help fix the steel production and other things. The other countries are gradually getting used to that bourgeois oppression somewhat over with. They're not happy with this, but I think the growing recognition that you have successfully eliminated the kulak class will force them to accept this.”
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Trump thanked the mayor and the entire island of Tangier, where he received 87 percent of the votes, for their support. Then the conversation turned to the island’s plight.

“He said we shouldn’t worry about rising sea levels,” Eskridge said. “He said that ‘your island has been there for hundreds of years, and I believe your island will be there for hundreds more.’” Eskridge wasn’t offended. In fact, he agreed that rising sea levels aren’t a problem for Tangier.

“Like the president, I’m not concerned about sea level rise,” he said. “I’m on the water daily, and I just don’t see it.”
Instead, Eskridge, along with many of Tangier’s residents, said he worries about the erosion caused by the Chesapeake’s water pounding on the island’s shores. He said he believes this is why his home is disappearing at an alarming rate.

Trump apparently agreed.

“He said that is a problem, and maybe when I’m up in Washington, I could come by and we can chat about it,” Eskridge said.

Currently, the Army Corps of Engineers is scheduled to begin building a jetty on the west channel of the island some time this year to protect it from the harsh currents. But Eskridge said they need a jetty, or perhaps even a sea wall, around the entire island.

He believes Trump will cut through red tape and get them that wall. “He’s for cutting regulations and the time it takes to study a project,” Eskridge said. “Of course you need the studies, but we’ve been studied to death.”
“We’re running out of land to give up,” he added.

That said, Trump’s administration hasn’t been friendly to the Chesapeake Bay itself. Trump’s proposed budget included ending federal funding of the Chesapeake Bay Program, a federal-state collaboration coordinated by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Begun in 1983, the program aimed to help reduce pollution and restore the Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystem, the very one from which the watermen on Tangier Island make their livings.

As a compromise on the budget, Congress restored the $73 million Trump’s administration planned to cut, at least until September when the fiscal year expires.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-island-and-tells-him-not-to-worry-about-it/

He will save their island and build that sea wall right after he gets Mexico to pay for the other wall America needs to save itself from the swarthy, smelly Mexican hordes pouring in over the border.
 
The Don said:
He *mostly* thrived in a business that requires a particular skillset (and failed miserably in several others) - the property business and in particular the high end property business. These days AFAIK it's all about licencing though.

I doubt that people like Trump are leading the U.S.' great businesses.
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He also ran a company that was owned by the Trump family. He had no one stockholders,no Board Of Directors to answer to like most CEO's do.
And Trump was NOT held in high regard in the US Business community. His rep was as someone who was good at making money for himself but for his investors and partners...not so much.
In fact, over the last decade he found it difficult to get loans from American Banks...they just did not trust him.
 
Arcade22 said:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...e-island-and-tells-him-not-to-worry-about-it/

He will save their island and build that sea wall right after he gets Mexico to pay for the other wall America needs to save itself from the swarthy, smelly Mexican hordes pouring in over the border.
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Its nutty. The residents can see the island disappearing, but deny the sea level is rising! This one is from last year, before Trump.
https://www.pri.org/stories/2016-07...o-us-towns-how-theyre-responding-matter-faith
 
Minoosh said:
Even with an LLC I'm unclear if owners of real estate can remain completely anonymous. Corporations have boards, don't they? Or at least officers?
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It is very easy to keep the owners and operators of an LLC out of the public record. Some states make it easier than others.
 
Stacko said:
It would be political suicide. Just like firing Comey weakened his political position, this would be tantamount to an admission of guilt and most likely obliterate his political position.
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In a recent column (I can't find it now) Krugman argued that there is now no red-line for Republicans. He opined that there is basically nothing Trump can do that will cause House Republicans to bring Articles of Impeachment to the full House for consideration. On that I agree. However, if he fires Mueller, he may have effectively ended any ability he might have had to influence policy.
 
SezMe said:
In a recent column (I can't find it now) Krugman argued that there is now no red-line for Republicans. He opined that there is basically nothing Trump can do that will cause House Republicans to bring Articles of Impeachment to the full House for consideration. On that I agree. However, if he fires Mueller, he may have effectively ended any ability he might have had to influence policy.
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He could veto their "healthcare" bill (assuming it hits his desk).
 
Giordano said:
I honestly believe that there are already plans by the Republican leadership to devise the best methods to erase all public memories and mentions of him as soon as he is gone. "Trump? No, I can't quite recall the name. Wan't he some reality show MC?"
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All they have to do is dust off the "Bush 43" playbook and do a search and replace: Bush -> Trump.
 
quadraginta said:
And you don't have to get a command line to open it. If you want you can put it on your taskbar and leave it open if it's something you need to use frequently.
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You don't need to go to the command line. I have it on my (highly customized) Start menu. One click and there it is.
 
Argumemnon said:
In my mind the only way they can get one is if they field a candidate who understands how populist, hateful rhetoric combined with voter apathy helped Trump win and uses it as well, but is also actually a person with an ideological agenda. Such a man could be very dangerous indeed.
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That man has a name: Pence.
 
skyeagle409 said:
The men of Tangier Island make a living catching crabs and oysters and with Trump's help, the day will come when they will be able to do so from the door steps of their homes.
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Or maybe not, since Trump is against funding to preserve the health and viability of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.

There won't be enough oysters or crabs for them to make a living anyway.
 
SezMe said:
Yep. If only because finances use numbers, not oral pledges of fealty. It will be pretty hard to argue the numbers are "fake news".
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What on Earth makes you think that?

I have yet to see anything at all which Trump supporters will not argue is "fake news", no matter how perfectly documented or blatantly obvious it is.

They called Obama's larger Inauguration crowd "fake news".

See Kellyanne Conway's "alternative facts". If they don't like the way it makes Trump look, then they will cheerfully call it fake. It won't be hard for them at all.

And Trump voters will accept it as gospel.

They have to. Otherwise they have to admit to themselves just how badly they screwed up by helping to put the clown in the White House.

That ain't gonna happen.
 
The Australian prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has been recorded mimicking Donald Trump and joking about his poll numbers, his attacks on fake news and his alleged links to Russia.

Leaked video and audio of Turnbull’s off-the-record speech – which was also self-deprecating about his own poor opinion poll ratings – shows him impersonating the US president’s unique oratorical style.

In his speech to the Canberra press gallery’s Midwinter Ball, the Australian equivalent of the White House correspondents’ dinner, Turnbull says: “The Donald and I, we are winning and winning in the polls. We are winning so much, we are winning, we are winning like we have never won before. We are winning in the polls. We are, we are. Not the fake polls. Not the fake polls. They’re the ones we’re not winning in.

“We’re winning in the real polls.

“You know, the online polls. They are so easy to win. I know that. Did you know that? I kind of know that. They are so easy to win. I have this Russian guy.

“Believe me it’s true, it’s true.”
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...donald-trump-in-humorous-speech-to-press-ball

The world really is laughing...
 
This is a sad commentary on the Presidency President, but...

In his second (?) statement to the press about the shooting, Trump called Rep. Scalise "... a good friend, a really good friend."

And my first thought was... I don't believe you.

I can't help thinking Trump has probably never met the man outside of a group setting, and probably only once or twice at that. Likely didn't even know his name before today... just like the vast majority of the rest of us outside of either D.C. or his home district in Louisiana (of course, I could be wrong).

But it's Trumps demeanor, the constant bragging, the constant exaggerating that's at the heart of it... and I can't imagine the rest of the world seeing it as a good thing.

I can't imagine it was ever a plus in his business dealings either. :rolleyes:
 
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