Trump Thread

[Michael68]

Good! There needs to be pressure put on our leaders to do something when crisis hits. I have no problem with the President coming to Louisiana - if he comes at all that is.

The crisis for Barack Husein Obama is his golf swing. Its his highest priority

 

[Thorolfr]

I don’t know how anyone could think that Trump’s new campaign CEO Stephen Bannon is going to help his campaign:

A former Breitbart News spokesman slammed Donald Trump’s new campaign chief executive, Stephen Bannon, for allegedly using racist rhetoric during editorial meetings at Breitbart that he said sounded “like a white supremacist rally,” while a Trump ally calls the new CEO a positive addition to the team. Both men joined this week’s episode of ABC News’ Powerhouse Politics podcast.

Kurt Bardella, who worked with Bannon at Breitbart for two years, says the former Breitbart News chairman regularly disparaged minorities, women, and immigrants during daily editorial calls at the publication.

abcnews.go.com/Politics/breitbart-staffer-powerhouse-politics-bannon-ran-meetings-sounded/story?id=41493955

 

[qui_est_ce]

I suppose the thought of Hillary having access to our nuclear weapons is a non-issue and not “chilling” because she would immediately sell that access to the highest donor to the Clinton Foundation.

That would mean…gulp…that with his money, Trump could still buy access even if Hillary wins.

You didn’t think of that, did you, PR?

You are welcome :tiphat:

 

[zz912]

They have experienced many floods before and surely will have more. A decision will have to be made not to resettle people in areas that cannot be defended from Mother Nature, or spend many, many dollars to build state of the art levies to keep flood waters out.

Louisiana has been given BILLIONS to construct levies. They’ve succeeded in creating 47 different levy boards full of cronies who milk the system and nothing gets built.

Yeah, Pres. Obama certainly was AWOL in this case. Just imagine if a GOP prez had gone golfing while Baton Rouge was underwater.

I’m old enough to remember the last time a Louisiana city was flooded and the President was GOP. The media coverage was SLIGHTLY different…

While I certainly understand and respect your beliefs concerning abortion, they do not negate the fact that abortion will remain safe, legal option for women in our country regardless of who we elect as our next POTUS.

They aren’t “beliefs” about abortion. They are facts. An abortion isn’t safe for the baby. How “Christians” can support such abject and horrific evil, while claiming to believe in Jesus is a mystery to me.

They have the same policies on abortion. Yes.

This is an intentional falsehood.

I daresay that most level-headed Protestants would acknowledge that Jesus founded the Catholic Church–they just believe the CC veered off course.

No, VERY few Protestants will agree that Jesus built the Catholic Church. VERY few.

The crisis for Barack Husein Obama is his golf swing. Its his highest priority

Thankfully he seems to have mostly checked out. The people of Louisiana should be relieved though. If he went there it would just make things worse.

 

[meltzerboy]

This really doesn’t look good for President Obama.

For Trump/Pence to go to Louisiana, it is a good move for them from a campaign level and hopefully their visit will bring more attention to what has happened in Lousiana and in turn help the people there.

You are correct. Obama should be there, even if only for moral support. Declaring Louisiana a disaster area is not enough. His vacation can wait.

 

[Jeanne_S]

You are correct. Obama should be there, even if only for moral support. Declaring Louisiana a disaster area is not enough. His vacation can wait.

Why should he change now? He has never made incidents similar to this a priority in the past,his golf and leisure time have always taken precedence. He really is not a very empathetic person.It is all about him,sadly…

 

[Thorolfr]

You are correct. Obama should be there, even if only for moral support. Declaring Louisiana a disaster area is not enough. His vacation can wait.

But the state’s governor has specifically asked the President not to come now because a presidential visit would hamper local efforts to respond to the situation. Should Obama have disregarded that request?

President Barack Obama has come under fire for declining to cut his summer vacation short to travel to flood-ravaged Louisiana, but the state’s governor said a presidential visit at this time would only cause more headaches for officials.

“It is a major ordeal, they free up the interstate for him,” Gov. John Bel Edwards (D) told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow on Thursday. “We have to take hundreds of local first responders, police officers, sheriffs, deputies and state troopers to provide security for that type of visit.”

“I would just as soon have those people engaged in the response rather than trying to secure the president,” Bel Edwards continued. “So I’d ask him to wait, if he would, another couple weeks.”

talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/louisiana-governor-dont-need-visit-president-now

 

[ComplineSanFran]

You are correct. Obama should be there, even if only for moral support. Declaring Louisiana a disaster area is not enough. His vacation can wait.

Did you hear the interview on Thursday with LA’s governor? He was on the Rachel Maddow Show. The governor asked that the President wait a bit before coming down to see the situation in Baton Rouge. My guess is that the two have been in communication and have made plans for a formal visit when it is most needed.

 

[meltzerboy]

Why should he change now? He has never made incidents similar to this a priority in the past,his golf and leisure time have always taken precedence. He really is not a very empathetic person.It is all about him,sadly…

True, but miracles sometimes occur. If you believe Trump can change with regard to his social views (on abortion, SSM, gun control) and his temperament, then why not Obama?

 

[Jeanne_S]

True, but miracles sometimes occur. If you believe Trump can change with regard to his social views (on abortion, SSM, gun control) and his temperament, then why not Obama?

Obama has no reason to change,he is outta here in a few months.If anything over the past term he has slowly but surely been removing his mask,revealing his true nature.

 

[ComplineSanFran]

Why should he change now? He has never made incidents similar to this a priority in the past,his golf and leisure time have always taken precedence. He really is not a very empathetic person.It is all about him,sadly…

That is a very uncharitable statement, Jeanne. President Obama is one of the most empathetic presidents we have ever had. Every time he has had to pay condolence visits to communities where shootings have taken place, the man is right there, with the families, with the bereaved, He sheds tears. He is a father who cries when children are shot and killed.

I cannot believe that people don’t see that and recognize it.

 

[Thorolfr]

True, but miracles sometimes occur. If you believe Trump can change with regard to his social views (on abortion, SSM, gun control) and his temperament, then why not Obama?

This criticism of Obama for not going to Louisiana is all about politics, not about what is best for the people of Louisiana and the people trying to respond to the disaster there.

 

[Jeanne_S]

That is a very uncharitable statement, Jeanne. President Obama is one of the most empathetic presidents we have ever had. Every time he has had to pay condolence visits to communities where shootings have taken place, the man is right there, with the families, with the bereaved, He sheds tears. He is a father who cries when children are shot and killed.

I cannot believe that people don’t see that and recognize it.

Not uncharitable in the least.I will give you that he feigns outrage at the continued raciIal incidents that have permeated our country.However,what has he done to quell them? He actually stirs the pot with his constant yammering about racism at every turn.Real empathy would be actions not just tears and words.Nuff said.

 

[estesbob]

Did you hear the interview on Thursday with LA’s governor? He was on the Rachel Maddow Show. The governor asked that the President wait a bit before coming down to see the situation in Baton Rouge. My guess is that the two have been in communication and have made plans for a formal visit when it is most needed.

Surprise surprise. The democrat governor providing coverage for the democrat president. But even if he should not go what messages do you send to those who are suffering when pictures of him golfing and laughing it up with celebrities are posted? George Bush quit playing golf when he was president because he thought It sent the wrong message when Americans were overseas and dying . And of course George Bush was pilloried unmercifully by Democrats and the mainstream media for not visiting Louisiana after Katrina

 

[meltzerboy]

This criticism of Obama for not going to Louisiana is all about politics, not about what is best for the people of Louisiana and the people trying to respond to the disaster there.

Of course it is largely about politics, but not exclusively. It is simply proper protocol for a sitting President to visit a disaster area to lend moral support and at least feign interest rather than go on vacation.

 

[Jeanne_S]

Surprise surprise. The democrat governor providing coverage for the democrat president. But even if he should not go what messages do you send to those who are suffering when pictures of him golfing and laughing it up with celebrities are posted? George Bush quit playing golf when he was president because he thought It sent the wrong message when Americans were overseas and dying . And of course George Bush was pilloried unmercifully by Democrats and the mainstream media for not visiting Louisiana after Katrina

Oh c’mon Bob,you know none of that mattered,in fact GB will probably be inserted into this latest issue as well,considering he is still being blamed for pretty much e erything gong on the past eight years.

 

[meltzerboy]

Did you hear the interview on Thursday with LA’s governor? He was on the Rachel Maddow Show. The governor asked that the President wait a bit before coming down to see the situation in Baton Rouge. My guess is that the two have been in communication and have made plans for a formal visit when it is most needed.

That changes things somewhat; but I still believe Obama should not be on vacation.

 

[ComplineSanFran]

And of course George Bush was pilloried unmercifully by Democrats and the mainstream media for not visiting Louisiana after Katrina

Katrina did him in. I don’t think George Bush ever recovered after that.

 

[Abynissa]

Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort resigns

(CNN)Donald Trump’s campaign chairman Paul Manafort has resigned from his position on the campaign, the Republican presidential nominee said in a statement Friday…

…A pair of Republican congressman have also called for investigations into Manafort’s business past. “I want to know what money he got from a pro-Russian organization in the Ukraine,” Rep. Sean Duffy of Wisconsin told CNN’s Chris Cuomo on Tuesday. “I think Donald Trump ought to really investigate this and where his chief adviser, what his association with the Russians are,” Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois told CNN’s Jake Tapper earlier this week.

 

[Stylteralmaldo]

Katrina did him in. I don’t think George Bush ever recovered after that.

Of course it did him in because he’s a Republican. Had he been a Democrat, he would have been unscathed by it.