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Old 12th April 2017, 09:49 PM   #1
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Trump: learn while you earn

Isn't the USA a wonderful country? Even a completely ignorant person can be elected to the Presidency with no experience and no knowledge and learn on the job! So I thought I would start this thread by listing just a few of the things that Trump has learned in just the past 100 days:

1. Health insurance is complicated!

2. Russia is probably not our best friend!

3. al-Assad is not a nice person!

4. Fanatically crazy right-wing white-supremists are not ideal National Security Council members!

5. It would be a bad idea to declare China to be a currency manipulator!

6. NATO is not obsolete!

I stopped at six for now just because I am soon to head to bed. Not because I've run out of additional examples where Trump has discovered facts in the past few weeks that everyone else knew for their entire lives.

Of course there will be some posters who will declare how wonderful it is that Trump is willing to reconsider his positions. Well, my own expectations for a President of the USA are that they should BEGIN with some basic knowledge, rather than having to learn the fundamentals of the job by making mistake after mistake that place the USA and the world at risk.
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Old 12th April 2017, 09:50 PM   #2
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Who would have thunk that Donald Trump has no idea what he is doing?
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Old 12th April 2017, 09:53 PM   #3
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It's the new version of "The Apprentice." With Trump as the title character!
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Old 13th April 2017, 04:47 AM   #4
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I'm hoping 7. will be a Very Special Episode where he learns what happens when you mix bleach and ammonia.
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:11 AM   #5
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Hey, another masterclass for our hero:
Quote:
He said they hit it off during their first discussion. Mr. Trump said he told his Chinese counterpart he believed Beijing could easily take care of the North Korea threat. Mr. Xi then explained the history of China and Korea, Mr. Trump said.

“After listening for 10 minutes, I realized it’s not so easy,” Mr. Trump recounted. “I felt pretty strongly that they had a tremendous power” over North Korea,” he said. “But it’s not what you would think.”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-s...rea-1492027556

By his second term he may learn what the Federal Reserve does.
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:27 AM   #6
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:27 AM   #7
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Whoever gets the gig in 2020 is going to look like the best president ever!
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:33 AM   #8
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I also enjoy that the "America First" guy is learning about foreign policy matters from other countries with their own agenda.

"China just told me that Tibet and Taiwan are theirs. I had no idea. All those monks trying to steal land from China, SAD!"

"Hey, I just got done talking to Hitler. He told me the Sudetenland was all German, anyway. Totally cool that he annexed it."
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:34 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by TraneWreck View Post
Hey, another masterclass for our hero:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-s...rea-1492027556

By his second term he may learn what the Federal Reserve does.

So pretty much Trump said that China'smuch weaker than he thought.

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Old 13th April 2017, 05:35 AM   #10
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Originally Posted by TraneWreck View Post
... By his second term he may learn what the Federal Reserve does.
I thought it was a Judaeo-Commie plot designed to destroy the economy of the USA by issuing phoney paper money not backed by gold coin.
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:40 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by TraneWreck View Post
Hey, another masterclass for our hero:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-s...rea-1492027556

By his second term he may learn what the Federal Reserve does.
Totally fake news.

I mean, Trump listening to someone for 10 minutes?
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Old 13th April 2017, 05:47 AM   #12
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Originally Posted by TheRealnz View Post
So pretty much Trump said that China'smuch weaker than he thought.
Well, I suppose if you, like Trump, believed the relationship between China and North Korea was Employer-Employee, then the revelation would be some sort of weakening.

"What do you mean? I told China they should fire North Korea. They can't do that? Whoa, this is way more complicated than I thought."
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Old 13th April 2017, 06:25 AM   #13
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7. Building a wall take some time and cost the US taxpayers money and a few taxpayers their land.

8. Golfing at every opportunity while president is not such a bad thing.
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Old 13th April 2017, 06:33 AM   #14
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Originally Posted by Giordano View Post
It's the new version of "The Apprentice." With Trump as the title character!
Can't wait for him to be fired.
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Old 13th April 2017, 06:34 AM   #15
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Originally Posted by TraneWreck View Post
Well, I suppose if you, like Trump, believed the relationship between China and North Korea was Employer-Employee, then the revelation would be some sort of weakening.

"What do you mean? I told China they should fire North Korea. They can't do that? Whoa, this is way more complicated than I thought."
"Nobody knew international relations would be this complicated!"
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Who would have thunk that Donald Trump has no idea what he is doing?
Me!, me!, me!!!! I knew it!!!!!!!!!
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Originally Posted by TragicMonkey View Post
I'm hoping 7. will be a Very Special Episode where he learns what happens when you mix bleach and ammonia.
In a small sealed room - no window or exhaust fans would be good!!!!!
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Old 15th April 2017, 04:49 PM   #18
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Bumping the thread only because the NY Times just came out with a good list:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/o...nvictions.html
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Originally Posted by Argumemnon View Post
Can't wait for him to be fired.
Out of a cannon straight into a 10-foot thick concrete wall?
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Originally Posted by Giordano View Post
Isn't the USA a wonderful country? Even a completely ignorant person can be elected to the Presidency with no experience and no knowledge and learn on the job! So I thought I would start this thread by listing just a few of the things that Trump has learned in just the past 100 days:

1. Health insurance is complicated!

2. Russia is probably not our best friend!

3. al-Assad is not a nice person!

4. Fanatically crazy right-wing white-supremists are not ideal National Security Council members!

5. It would be a bad idea to declare China to be a currency manipulator!

6. NATO is not obsolete!

I stopped at six for now just because I am soon to head to bed. Not because I've run out of additional examples where Trump has discovered facts in the past few weeks that everyone else knew for their entire lives.

Of course there will be some posters who will declare how wonderful it is that Trump is willing to reconsider his positions. Well, my own expectations for a President of the USA are that they should BEGIN with some basic knowledge, rather than having to learn the fundamentals of the job by making mistake after mistake that place the USA and the world at risk.
And yet even the entry-level positions I'm applying for require at least a year of experience.
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Guys, you know I went to some effort to resurrect a general Trump thread for the last few posts here....
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Guys, you know I went to some effort to resurrect a general Trump thread for the last few posts here....
But you only did it because it's Easter.
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Whoever gets the gig in 2020 is going to look like the best president ever!

Trump raised 13.2 million. Hillary, um, well, er, a little slow on the starting line.
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Originally Posted by Trebuchet View Post
Guys, you know I went to some effort to resurrect a general Trump thread for the last few posts here....

The entire politics subforum is a Trump thread.
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The entire politics subforum is a Trump thread.
It's the best sub-forum!
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Who would have thunk that Donald Trump has no idea what he is doing?
Or that he would take the job then fairly quickly go on an extended vacation.
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8. Golfing at every opportunity while president is not such a bad thing.

Unless you happen to have an aviation business in the area or being a pilot who inadvertently smashed through the no-fly zone during Trump's visit at Mar-a-Lago
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I also enjoy that the "America First" guy is learning about foreign policy matters from other countries with their own agenda.

"China just told me that Tibet and Taiwan are theirs. I had no idea. All those monks trying to steal land from China, SAD!"

"Hey, I just got done talking to Hitler. He told me the Sudetenland was all German, anyway. Totally cool that he annexed it."
Just want to circle back to this.

Our doofus in chief managed to ignite a bit of an international incident with South Korea (this seems like maybe the wrong time to piss off South Korea?):

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/...ushpmg00000009

He said that Korea used to be "part of China."

So, after his 10 minute history lesson with the president of China, Trump starts spouting Chinese propaganda.

In-***********-credible. It's kind of a problem when your president doesn't know anything and can effortlessly be swayed by invested parties. He doesn't even know that what he said was deeply troubling to our ally. He just had a 10 minute conversation and thinks he knows how the world works.

Just amazing.
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Korea was part of Japan from 1910 to 1945. Perhaps Trump would like to give it back to them as well?
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Another lesson for our truly tremendous president:

Quote:
During his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel last month, Trump insisted on to negotiating a trade deal between the U.S. and Germany, only to be shut down numerous times. ‘You can’t do a trade deal with Germany, only the EU,'” a senior German official told the Times of London.

“On the eleventh refusal, Trump finally got the message, ‘Oh, we’ll do a deal with Europe then,'” the official added.

Merkel explained to Trump that he must instead negotiate with the EU in its entirety after his administration’s efforts to reach out to the nations individually had been denied. Merkel also said to her own cabinet members that Trump only had “very basic misunderstandings” regarding the “fundamentals” of the EU and multinational trade agreements.
http://www.salon.com/2017/04/24/art-...uropean-union/

I suppose I would prefer he learn from Merkel as opposed to Xi.
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