Well, he’s an emotionally stunted, silver-spoon suckling, nepo-baby man-child just like you-know-who.
If either one pitched a little hissy fit and screamed ‘Mommy said I could’ it wouldn’t surprise me in the least. We’re being governed by Veruca Salt and Caillou.
Don’t forget the embarrassment of having Maye Musk publicly defending her middle aged billionaire son from taunts online. No matter what else people may say about him, that is truly emasculating.
Well, there you go. Think about all the jobs that will be created to wash the coal to get it clean.
Given the choice, Veruca Salt would be pretty cool.
And since no one has their Christmas stocking up, we’re getting it in our IRAs.
Yeah, right. Like that’s even a thing.
In the first T admin, someone made a deal to sell more metallurgical coal. This was paraded around by Trump as being a comeback for coal. In actuality, it was a small hiccup in the continued drop in the coal business.
Remember two days ago when the admin talking point was that the future of American labor was making iphones by hand?
Trump doesn’t. The new talking point is now “the children long for the mines”.
"“One thing I learned about the coal miners – that’s what they want to do. You could give them a penthouse on 5th Avenue and a different kind of a job and they’d be unhappy. They want to mine coal. She was gonna put them in a high tech industry where you make little cell phones and things.”
This one suits my mood these days.
Reminds me of the old claim that black people liked to be slaves, so it was wrong to free them.
That’ll eliminate any picayune downside associated with confusing “miner” with “minor.”
Which is something, I suppose.
Reprise from The Roar of the Greasepaint, the Smell of the Crowd. Sung by Cyril Ritchard.
There are so many things I remember
From those deeply revered days of old.
When living was gentle and gracious,
and working folk did as they’re told.They were wonderful days I remember,
when a fellow could live like a king.
And children were working in coal mines,
and life was a beautiful thing.
Such as this?
The simplest explanation is that its not based on anything. Somebody told him some American cars can’t be sold in certain countries because they don’t meet that countries standards. So then he just made up a dramatically absurd standard to illustrate how unfair it was. We are well beyond the point where his lies have to have any association with anything real.
I’m not sure Trump knows that he’s president right now and isn’t still campaigning.
Why should they be when the person they’re purportedly advising isn’t?
Re your query about schoolyard insults: Huh? Do you not know this is Trump’s hand-picked group? Again, why should they be any different from him in that matter?
Very well done, @dtilque
Who says they can’t make the iPhones in the shaft? After all, this admin has been shafting the country since Day One of Felon47, the Revenge Tour.
Here’s how far into the Looking Glass world we are. I have to ask if you mean old as in “it’s been around for a long time” or “these old fuckers in office now are the ones making it”?
Not to be outdone by the missteps in both the executive and legislative branches of our government, SCOTUS has now halted the rehiring of fired federal workers.
Our government is now officially a circus with all three rings. What it seems to be lacking is a single ringmaster.
Could it be related to tests like the one mentioned here?
European Regulation 43 (2.1-2.1.4). The set up is used for testing impact resistance of rigid or soft glass used in automotive applications. This is done by dropping a 227 gram (g) steel ball freely from a height of two (2) meters (m), onto the center of a 300 millimeter (mm) square test sample.
When come back bring economics thesis … and some familiarity with geography.
Probably not.
I understand the urge to find some semblance of rationality in his nonsensical ramblings. Fight this urge. It leads many to sanewashing.
Occasionally, one may find a very loose correlation with something real, but it is so far removed from the origin as to be almost unrecognizable. Trying to find method within the madness serves no purpose - there’s no “there” there.
At this point, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Trump signed an executive order banning seat belts. After all, safety standards, including seat belts and auto glass, just add cost to the price of a car, making it more expensive.
Fair!
My first thought was the bird impact test for aircraft windshields, then I figured there probably was an automotive standard…
…agreed though, making sense of Trump is an impossible task, but hey, at least I learned something!
On the other hand, there have been instances in the past of high correlation with some things not real:
Did Donald Trump Actually Confuse Sicario 2 with Reality?
Here’s why people think the president may be conflating the crime drama with actual events at the U.S.-Mexico border.
[January 18, 2019]
However . . . what Trump describes is, once again, a plot point in the Sicario franchise. Could it be, then, that real governmental talking points are being lifted from movies, so that Trump can find new reasons to justify his proposed, costly border wall? Vanity Fair has reached out to the White House for comment.