I can’t tell.
We have decades of knowledge and facts showing what a bad businessman he is. It’s clear that he does not understand economics. Doesn’t know what a deal is either.
Is he hurting us deliberately? Or is it just because he’s a dumbass?
And yes @Maus_Magill , congress is nothing but a bunch of cowards.
FWIW, I think he genuinely believes in his own brilliance and that his decisions are good for the country (at least the part he sees). That was true the last go around as well.
But he’s an entitled dumbass born to wealth and not once in his life held to account, so even if he had some inkling things weren’t totally copacetic, it would have to be somebody else’s fault
I’d agree with the former, but not the latter. I truly do not believe that Trump cares, in the slightest, about what is “good for the country” – he entirely, and only, cares about what is good for Donald J. Trump, and what will increase his personal wealth and status. If a decision happens to benefit others, it will only benefit others who can do something for him, and/or will owe him a favor for it.
Yeah, sure. So, slight correction. He believes he is more capable than anybody else, therefore whatever inane ideas he has will naturally turn out well for the country and therefore further burnish his imagined stellar reputation
And if they don’t is not his fault, the fault lies with the incompetents who did not know how to implement his vision.
Take into account that he’d like to grind about half of us underfoot.
I’d say more like 90%. Probably about the best his supporters can expect would be to be ground first.
You shall be be ground first.
Cthulhuser
Our super-patriotic POTUS apparently doesn’t know how many stripes are on the American flag.
And we have a twofer!
US magaflatearthers charged for racist (of course) attack in the UK.
I don’t think this is the correct point of view. It seems to me rather than President Ineptstein wants his name seen as the 13th stripe, or the first one even if you start counting from bottom to top, he being part and parcel of the flag and the country and everything. It is true that it is badly executed, that the white stripe is too thinly drawn and too broadly typeset. It does ot look enough like a stripe. But I am sure that is what he was told, and he liked it, until he forgot it. Even if his poor eyesight and lack of design acumen did not allow him to see the flaws in that argument and in the excution of the idea.
He should not be mocked for forgetting one stripe, he should be put to shame for trying to claim the flag as his. Only that his supporters would agree with this claim, so it has no thrust. As always with him, his most stupid, vicious, frivolous acts and statements get through with his base as if they were clever, compassionate and well thought out.
I am not defending him, just pointing out that this attack will not gain traction nor convince any supporter. It might be better to point out that it is frivolous, sacrilegeous even if you venerate the flag, and that it is very badly executed.
L’État et le drapeau, c’est moi.
No ballroom funding for you!! Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough, rules that the ballroom security funding is against the rules somehow and the $1 billion security funding proposal is not allowed. I bet I know who’s next on the Trump revenge chopping block.
“Ballroom Republicans” 
I hope that catches on.
I don’t get the presidential fascination with this “Ballroom”, which is NEVER going to be used as an actual ballroom. I mean, Trump is the quintessential example of someone who can’t dance, let alone ballroom style dancing.
So it is just going to be a glorified, gilted dining hall, with- in this foreigner’s opinion - too much space to regularly fill, and unlikely to be serviced from the White House kitchen, which is not a full banqueting setup.
Sure, most of his government appointees are only sufficietly qualified to flip burgers, so perhaps MacDs will establish a small franchise in the basement.
In the UK, there is an architectural style known as a “folly”, a result of overly rich people being overly rich and showing off.
Unfortunately Trump is not dipping to his own pocket for this folly
Thanks, I’d never heard of that architectural style but reading your link I agree it describes Trumps construction ambitions perfectly.
Hm, just don’t let @Folly know.
I just looked at Nate Silver’s aggregate poll. 45 is underwater by 20.1 points, and that’s with Rasmussen and RMG in the aggregate.
If only he was literally underwater. OceanGate probably have a few spare submersibles he could pick up cheaply.
(Now I’m picturing him sitting in a submersible in the Reflecting Pool, playing “ocean explorer”…)
And I have an image of him on the floor of the Oval Office in one of the cardboard “submarines” that could be ordered from the back pages of comic books, firing missiles and torpedoes at Iran and Cuba.
Not that he’d fit, mind you.
