I confess to back pedaling into Trump territory when I wanted to leave discussions about him in the garbage can. My thread on the read-only break room site has 9,600 replies so I thought I'd bring up a new one.
He's not going away.
Haberman's book is out based on interviews. I won't read it, but the excerpts are interesting. Especially what he says about McConnell, a description that's against the Terms of Service here, but I actually don't disagree with. LOL
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“At one point, Trump made a candid admission that was as jarring as it was ultimately unsurprising. ‘The question I get asked more than any other question: “If you had it to do again, would you have done it?”’Trump said of running for president. ‘The answer is, yeah, I think so. Because here’s the way I look at it. I have so many rich friends and nobody knows who they are.’ … Reflecting on the meaning of having been president of the United States, his first impulse was not to mention public service, or what he felt he’d accomplished, only that it appeared to be a vehicle for fame, and that many experiences were only worth having if someone else envied them.”
Trump boasted that he personally knew both Zelenskyy and Putin and that they liked him better than they liked Biden. Trump bragged that he could end that war before he was sworn in if he was just reelected. He said that it would take one day to end that violence. His Secretary of State nominee contradicted that notion and now they are talking about maybe a 100 days goal for peace in Ukraine.
Maybe Trump only really has a concept of foreign policy relative to Ukraine. That fits the pattern.
Well the Isreal/Hamas conflict seemed to resolve before he was sworn in. Oh right, that's because of Biden. LOL. I guess we'll let the old mam take the win,like a participation trophy, considering he and his party lost so much. Including the election and yes!! The poulular vote.
No not resolved. At least closer than it was 3 years ago. I wonder the change?
Thanks for clarifying because you said "the Isreal/Hamas conflict seemed to resolve."
There isn't a lot of confidence that the deal, given past failures and Israels destroy to completely destroy Hamas, but time will tell. I certainly can agree this is the best news in 3 years.
I'm not sure what you're asking "I wonder the change?"
Hamas has really been beaten down by Israel and the Palestinians are suffering (I am not a sympathizer to Hamas, just stating an observation) but Trump coming along had also a lot to do with it and his team was involved in the negotiations.
I haven't seen a lot of press giving Biden much credit for the cease fire. Other than it was brokered under his watch and he got to announce it. But clearly Trump being elected was influential.
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"It has to be remembered that the world, the region has changed with the weakening of Hezbollah, the weakening of Iran, the fall ofAssad,” he said in a phone interview on Thursday. "There are changing dynamics ... which facilitate the possibility of such an arrangement.”
Nonetheless, he said, he believed that ultimately Trump was "the game changer in a sense, because of the relationship between him and Netanyahu.”
President Trump plans to have a "whole big discussion very shortly" on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he'd "rather see the states take care of their own problems," according to an interview broadcast Wednesday evening.
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"The FEMA is getting in the way of everything," Trump said on Fox News' "Hannity."
"FEMA is a whole 'nother discussion because all it does is complicate everything," he told Fox News' Sean Hannity in the prerecorded interview.
"FEMA has not done their job for the last four years."
Trump gave the example of if Oklahoma were hit by a tornado, then the state should be allowed to respond "and then the federal government can help them out with the money."
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Project 2025 suggests "reforming FEMA emergency spending to shift the majority of preparedness and response costs to states and localities instead of the federal government" — though during the 2024 campaign Trump disavowed the Heritage Foundation-backed blueprint that some of his Cabinet picks have ties to.
Trump apparently doesn't know that roughly 20% of Oklahoma state money is federally sourced. The people of western North Carolina are pretty critical of FEMA and might be happy to just pull themselves up by their bootstraps. NC also builds a state budget with federal funds providing one fifth of their revenue.
This will be fun to watch in the same way it was fun to watch states struggle with a national public health disaster with zero federal leadership.
I think here we are mostly okay with FEMA. They put up people in hotels, gave out food stamps to the needy, and they even came in person to ask me if I was okay and if I needed anything.
I think natural disasters require a federal response. It's one thing if your town his hit by a tornado but another during a mass flood or fire situation.
I don't know enough about FEMA though and I'm sure with them being a federal agency there is lots of red tape and issues. Also I note how it hasn't done its job in four years which conveniently leaves out his first term.
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Tweety said:
I think here we are mostly okay with FEMA. They put up people in hotels, gave out food stamps to the needy, and they even came in person to ask me if I was okay and if I needed anything.
I think natural disasters require a federal response. It's one thing if your town his hit by a tornado but another during a mass flood or fire situation.
I don't know enough about FEMA though and I'm sure with them being a federal agency there is lots of red tape and issues. Also I note how it hasn't done its job in four years which conveniently leaves out his first term.
That narrative about the last 4 years of FEMA activity is indoctrination, not an accurate historical record.
Trump announced that he was set to approve an executive order "to open up the pumps and valves in the north.”
"We want to get that water pouring down here as quickly as possible, let hundreds of millions of gallons of water flow down into Southern California, and that'll be a big benefit to you,” he told a gathering of city, county and state officials at Los Angeles Fire Department Station 69 in Pacific Palisades.
"We have to have that water. You're talking about unlimited water,” Trump said. "You'll never run out, you'll never have shortages, and you won't have things like this, and when you do, you'll have a lot of water to put it out.”
Is the president crazy and delusional or is he dumb or is it a bit of both? He certainly believes and says some crazy things on the regular.
I guess it's kind of funny that the most powerful man in the USA looks and sounds so foolish so often.
Trump has an itch about that black president and the things he did. Changing the name of the mountain from the native name back to the white man's name is both a petty attempt to damage Obama's legacy and a slap in the face of the native Americans. That's OK though. Those Alaska natives need to toughen up because Trump is looking for excuses to take Alaska land from them.
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Tweety said:
Thanks for clarifying because you said "the Isreal/Hamas conflict seemed to resolve."
There isn't a lot of confidence that the deal, given past failures and Israels destroy to completely destroy Hamas, but time will tell. I certainly can agree this is the best news in 3 years.
I'm not sure what you're asking "I wonder the change?"
Hamas has really been beaten down by Israel and the Palestinians are suffering (I am not a sympathizer to Hamas, just stating an observation) but Trump coming along had also a lot to do with it and his team was involved in the negotiations.
I haven't seen a lot of press giving Biden much credit for the cease fire. Other than it was brokered under his watch and he got to announce it. But clearly Trump being elected was influential.
Trump wants the neighboring nations to build homes for Palestinian refugees and immigrants because Trump wants to make Gaza fully available for Israeli settlement.
Trump wants the neighboring nations to build homes for Palestinian refugees and immigrants because Trump wants to make Gaza fully available for Israeli settlement.
Is the president crazy and delusional or is he dumb or is it a bit of both? He certainly believes and says some crazy things on the regular.
I guess it's kind of funny that the most powerful man in the USA looks and sounds so foolish so often.
I'm not sure he's crazy delusional or dumb - but he's definitely impulsive and completely lacking concern for consequences of his actions.
He may know that he's just blustering but if it works it works. And it seems to be working. No matter how crazy it sounds, and his fans will think he is brilliant.
Delta smelt - One of the fish species that could be harmed by his suggested approach to water policy, and according to the experts wouldn't have made any difference anyway...
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"it's a tiny little fish - it's a fish that's doing poorly anyway,” Trump said this week.
What would normally be considered endangered to Trump is weak and undeserving.
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Well the Isreal/Hamas conflict seemed to resolve before he was sworn in. Oh right, that's because of Biden. LOL. I guess we'll let the old mam take the win,like a participation trophy, considering he and his party lost so much. Including the election and yes!! The poulular vote.