There's Always a Tweet

[Scooter]

[Bicycle Bill]

This also made the rounds back in 2018, and it isn't completely, 100% true — apparently Donald never said these exact words with regard to the 2013 shutdown under Obama.  But according to a Politifact article from 2018, he DID say

"If you say who gets fired, it always has to be the top. Problems start from the top, and they have to get solved from the top, and the president’s the leader, and he’s got to get everybody in a room, and he’s got to lead. And he doesn’t do that, he doesn’t like doing that, that’s not his strength." — Donald J. Trump, in a September 2013 phone interview with 'Fox and Friends'

and

"You have to get everybody in a room. You have to be a leader. The president has to lead. He has to get (the Speaker of the House) and everybody else in a room, and they have to make a deal. You have to be nice and be angry and be wild and cajole and do all sorts of things, but you have to get a deal."  —  Donald J. Trump, in an October 7, 2013 interview with Greta Van Susteren of Fox News.

In addition, Trump also took to Twitter before, during, and after the shutdown to voice his opinion, agreeing with users that it would never happen if he were president and that Obama had "failed to lead."

So fast-forward twelve years.   Although Trump is supposedly a deal-maker — he even titled his first ghost-written autobiography "The Art of the Deal" — here we are again.

-"BB"-

[Joe Guy]

[BoSoxGal]

C'mon you guys, clearly the only reason for the first clip is Trump's eternal loathing of Barack Obama, his eloquence, intelligence, charisma, and BIG DICK ENERGY - all things which Trump will never, ever, EVER have not if he had ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD.

That clip wasn't a statement about Trump's political or leadership theories - it was 1000% about his loathing of the black president who will ALWAYS be more beloved than Trump.

[Big RR]

Obama? Even W and Nixon will be more beloved than Trump. And I would bet historians will have more respect for Buchnan and Andrew Johnson.

[Bicycle Bill]

Obama? Even W and Nixon will be more beloved than Trump. And I would bet historians will have more respect for Buchnan and Andrew Johnson.

Trump is an even bigger political joke than Dan Quayle was during his time as Veep — and believe you me, that's saying something.

-"BB"-

[Scooter]

[eddieq]

April 2018. Wasn't he president and wasn't that his department of justice then?

[Burning Petard]

The Donald, like many con-men and politicians, depends on short memories of suckers. As Pres Lincoln never said, "You can fool enough of the people enough of the time."

snailgate.

[BoSoxGal]

I’m not going to get in the mud to find the tweet, but I heard on the news today that in the wee hours of the morning he tweeted that the USA is ‘locked and loaded’ to support protestors in Iran if the Iranian government kills any of them.

This is the same guy who wanted the US military to shoot American protesters marching in support of the BLM movement after an American law enforcement officer murdered George Floyd for all the world to see.

[Joe Guy]

Here you go....

[BoSoxGal]

So I guess our troops can stay safe at home so long as the Iranian guard only shoots the Iranian protesters in the legs, like DJT wanted to do to American protesters?

[ex-khobar Andy]

"shots" ?? "violently kills"

I think he means 'shoots' - and is there a non violent way of killing people?

[Bicycle Bill]

And meanwhile he sends US troops into a FOREIGN, SOVEREIGN nation and kidnaps the president of said country. — or, to quote Trumpty-Dumpty's own words in his post on the social media site formerly known as Twitter, "has successfully carried out a large scale strike against Venezuela and its leader, who has been, along with his wife, captured and flown out of the Country ... in conjunction with U.S. Law Enforcement".
(the unnecessary capitalizations of 'country' and 'law enforcement' are Trump's doing, not mine)
Here''s a second take on the matter — https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/ ... wtab-en-us

Of special note — to me, anyway — is this paragraph from the article in the Guardian —

In early December, the Trump administration published what it called the “Trump corollary”, which said that the western hemisphere must be controlled by the US politically, economically, commercially and militarily.  As part of the new Trump doctrine, the US military can be used to gain access to energy and mineral resources in the area.

This is the first I'd heard of this so-called "Trump corollary".   Corollary to what?
And regardless of what it might be a corollary to, it sure sounds like an imperialistic manifesto to me.

-"BB"-

[BoSoxGal]

[ex-khobar Andy]

I listened to a few minutes of his press conference this morning - I couldn't stand more than a few minutes and turned it off. He was talking about the Monroe Doctrine as if he had just heard of it (and he probably had - although his fifth grade teacher probably told him about it, little Donny wasn't famous for his attention to detail or he may have been sick that day). Apparently some people are now calling it the Donroe Doctrine.

[Big RR]

Fwiw, I'm not sure the Monroe doctrine has any applicability here; it was Monroe's statement that European leaders should leave the Americas alone, not an excuse to kidnap a foreign head of state and say you had the right to do so. Of course, if he had referred to the Bush 1 doctrine...

Not to mention that Congress once again is sidelined when American troops are put at risk and willingly accepts it. At least in the 20th and this century, most presidents claimed this power and Congress just bowed to it (FWIW, at least W went through the motions to get Congressional approval for Iraq 2, and most of Congress, including many prominent dems, caved). Decades of giving the president more and more power has led to this. When an ass like Trump can use drugs as an excuse to seize oil fields and Congress does nothing, the erosion of any sense of s democratic process dissolves.