The Trump Administration: A Clusterfuck in the Making

You may be on to something: the Wizard was a flimflam artist and snake oil salesman who had bamboozled the citizens of the Emerald City into believing he could perform miracles. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I observed that asahi’s been doing Putin’s work months ago. (Not claiming it’s paid work; it could be coincidence that what asahi posts adheres so closely to what paid Putin operatives try to get Westerners to believe. But: even so.)

'Tain’t nothing too stupid for trump, nor, evidently, for his supporters.

The people who voted for Trump.

Meh.
He is an idiot, but not much of an id…
He is stupid, but not that stu…
NM

Works for the Senate Majority Leader as well: the Wizard and the Lizard.

I don’t believe iDJiT has ever heard of the Bangles.

The White House official transcript of today’s press conference claims that he was saying that Cecilia Vega was not thanking, instead of thinking.

I’ve decided I don’t need conservative friends or family members.

When conservative meant preserving old values, I could tolerate their presence. But what conservative means now is preserving old and inhumane values, and I refuse to legitimize that. I would no more try to reason with a conservative than I would a rabid raccoon.

I cannot visualize the short-fingered vulgarian listening to or appreciating any music whatsoever.

He was probably just thinking about how nice it would be to grope Susanna Hoffs.

Nothing is too stupid for our God-Emperor, alas.

This would have been a top three scandal in the Obama administration. Here? Barely newsworthy.

Trump personally directed efforts to silence Stormy Daniels:

The WSJ story is behind a paywall but the link to it is https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-directed-legal-action-to-enforce-stormy-danielss-hush-agreement-1538478000

Yeah - This is getting old.

Plonk.

According to the Times, Trump committed millions of dollars worth of tax fraud.

Developing story…

Donald Trump engaged in tax schemes that included cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes, the New York Times reported on Tuesday.

The Times investigation, which a Trump lawyer said was inaccurate, cited a “vast trove” of confidential tax return and financial records to show Trump received the equivalent today of at least $413m from his father’s real estate business.

The Times reported that much of that fortune came to Trump because he helped his parents evade taxes, setting up a fake corporation with his siblings to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents.

I’m beginning to sour on Donald Trump.

He seems like such a nice boy. It’s probably just a simple accounting slip-up. He works so hard but he really should slow down and be more careful.

A $500 million slip-up:

Trump’s parents transferred more than $1 billion to their children and paid about $52.2 million in taxes. Given the relevant tax rates on gifts and inheritances, they should have paid about $550 million — 10 times more.

Guess that claim that he only received $1 million from his dad was a small lie. Whooops, probably miscounted.

That sounds too good to be true. I would think that the IRS would pay a lot of attention to a family with that much wealth.