Current Events > Trump's wild performance at his daily briefing was a troubling spectacle

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this dude is like an 80s drugged out rock star

https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/politics/donald-trump-coronavirus/index.html

To begin with, Trump sparked concern that he will prevent oversight of the disbursement of economic rescue funds by removing a watchdog official responsible for overseeing the $2 trillion package. The move, coming after Trump ousted an intelligence community inspector general last week, was yet another sign that an already impeached President is using the cover of the worst domestic crisis since World War II to further erode constraints on his power.

Then Trump insisted he hadn't seen January memos by a top White House official warning about the pandemic at the same time the President was dismissing it as a threat.

He also announced he was placing a "very powerful hold" on funding for the World Health Organization, even though it correctly identified the scale of the virus and he didn't. Then moments later, he insisted he did no such thing.

Stable
Fucking
Genius
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I don't think you should be laughing man. He controls Congress and the Supreme Court right now. Checks and balances are fucked. There isn't shit we can do to stop him.

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Yeah the hold thing was weird

But he literally said "We're putting payments on hold. A very powerful hold."

Then when a reporter asked "IS a pandemic a good time to do that?"

And he snapped and screamed "I never said we are doing it now I said we might be doing in the future!"

I think I get what he meant. I think he meant they've already paid WHO up until now, and they are still going to put money aside for them but not actually give any more until the investigation is completed.

But he is so bad at communicating
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Squall28 posted...

I don't think you should be laughing man. He controls Congress and the Supreme Court right now. Checks and balances are fucked. There isn't shit we can do to stop him.

theres always something

and its written into the consitution
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E32005 posted...

theres always something

and its written into the consitution

He literally just got rid of the supposedly independent watchdog, and now he essentially has a $2 TRILLION slush fund. Call him a bumbling idiot all you want, but he's fucked us. We lost. Any action to punish him by the House Democrats gets blocked by Senate. The Supreme Court is filled with his lackeys. All the major government officials are his guys. He "drained the swamp" and filled it all with cronies.

And to top it all off, we're getting 4 more years because the best we can do is an old sexual offender with Alzheimer's.

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A majority of Americans -- 55% -- now say the federal government has done a poor job
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Squall28 posted...

He literally just got rid of the supposedly independent watchdog, and now he essentially has a $2 TRILLION slush fund. Call him a bumbling idiot all you want, but he's fucked us. We lost. Any action to punish him by the House Democrats gets blocked by Senate. The Supreme Court is filled with his lackeys. All the major government officials are his guys. He "drained the swamp" and filled it all with cronies.

And to top it all off, we're getting 4 more years because the best we can do is an old sexual offender with Alzheimer's.

thanks, debbie downer.
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He's not wrong sadly.

The people asked America if they are bothered with Trump destroying lives, killing people and commiting crimes while fucking over the country

And the overwhelming response was "No we don't care."

At this point it's hard to even be mad at Trump anymore. He has tens of millions of enablers and hundreds of millions of people who don't care.
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His entire presidency can be described that way.

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E32005 posted...

theres always something

and its written into the consitution

It doesn't matter when over half of Congress doesn't care or follow the Constitution

The GOP use it as a piece of toilet paper for their pro 2nd amendment rights, to them that is the Constitution. Anything else is just "hints" and "suggestions".

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Letron_James posted...

It doesn't matter when over half of Congress doesn't care or follow the Constitution

The GOP use it as a piece of toilet paper for their pro 2nd amendment rights, to them that is the Constitution. Anything else is just "hints" and "suggestions".

Check your math. Dems have over half of the Congressional seats. It's just that half of one chmaber are way too scared to do anything.

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I agree about the WHO, however. They seem awfully chummy with China.

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