Trump's America

[Fru]

[BigRedBuster]

[Moiraine]

This sounds like the opposite of the platform Trump ran on.

 

 

"We have tremendous trade deficits with everybody, but the big one is with China. ... And I told them, 'You want to make a great deal?' Solve the problem in North Korea. That's worth having deficits. And that's worth having not as good a trade deal as I would normally be able to make," Trump told The Wall Street Journal in an interview last week, a day after he spoke with Chinese President Xi Jinping by phone.

[BigRedBuster]

So....in other words he just realized he has no way of making a better trade deal with china.

[knapplc]

Here's how this works. Trump (the person/corporation) has several business interests with the Chinese. He has domestic problems, including dipping popularity in the polls. He's already bombed Syria and he doesn't have a reason to keep that up, so he needs another distraction.

 

Enter China, who controls North Korea. The Chinese President was just at Miralago cutting deals with Ivanka, but at the same time he cuts a deal with Donald - I'll get Pyongyang to stir up trouble, you threaten war and you can wipe the headlines clean.

 

Pyongyang talks tough and "plans a missile launch." Except the missile was never intended to fly, because that could actually start a war. Nobody wants war. So the missile "blows up" on the launch pad. OOPS! Guess we won't need a war just this moment.

 

Donald and Kim Jong Un got to rattle their sabers.

Donald's poll numbers go up (temporarily).

Last week's American headline news (which was bad for Donald) is forgotten. Remember what that was?

China gets a sweetheart trade deal. And when anyone complains about it, Donald can say, "But I used leverage with the Chinese against the North Koreans to fix this war problem. See? I'm the hero!" and his base will eat it up.

 

North Korea will calm down for a while, at least until Donald needs another distraction. Or maybe it'll be another flight of Tomahawks into yet another desert. Or maybe it'll be something with the Russians - another Trump ally.

[knapplc]

Looks like that Carrier Task Force heading toward North Korea... isn't.

That 'Armada' Heading To North Korea? Actually, It Sailed South

News organizations around the world, including NPR, covered the statements by Trump and other officials in Washington about the Carl Vinson's deployment as though the ships were bearing down on North Korea. The narrative last week was that the U.S. and its allies in the Western Pacific were gearing up for a showdown with strongman Kim Jong Un ahead of the anniversary of the birth of his grandfather, the late North Korean leader Kim Il Sung.

"We are sending an armada, very powerful," Trump told Fox Business News, warning that Kim Jong Un "is doing the wrong thing."

Other nations were said to be joining in. News reports said Japan was planning to deploy its own destroyers to form up with the Carl Vinson and its U.S. escorts, the destroyers USS Wayne E. Meyer and Michael Murphy and the cruiser USS Lake Champlain.

That could still happen, but the potential flashpoint that many expected over the weekend has passed: North Korea attempted to fire a ballistic missile early Sunday, but it exploded very soon after launch. It did not conduct a nuclear weapons test or attempt an attack on South Korea or Japan, which might have prompted a military crisis.

Defense News' well-known naval correspondent Christopher P. Cavas was first to report on Monday about the Navy's post that revealed the Carl Vinson nowhere near the Korean Peninsula.

It isn't clear yet whether the storyline about the Carl Vinson was the product of deliberate deception by the Navy, defense officials in Washington or the White House, or whether internal miscommunication within the government might have turned the snowball into the avalanche. But as part of its regular updates about the operations of the strike group after it sailed from Singapore, the Navy posted photos of ships and aircraft along with captions describing them as underway in "the South China Sea."

 

 

 

 

 

So what changed? Nothing.

 

 

Just today's headlines.

 

 

And that's what this was always all about.

[knapplc]

[NM11046]

He had the most impressive attendance of any team of any president in the history of America.

[BigRedBuster]

Next Trump tweets.....

 

"I just hosted the biggest team championship turnout ever."

 

"Dishonest main stream media is lying about the Patriots turnout. So dishonest....not fair."

[mrandyk]

I'm surprised he got that many minorities to show up.

[commando]

crowd size wouldn't bother anyone if Donny hadn't made a big deal about it before.

[Making Chimichangas]

 

 

 

I've never, ever heard of Tariq Nasheed. Where do you find stuff like this, Dewiz?

A lot of the anti-Trump top feeds/hashtags on the explore option on Twitter, sometimes you'll find a lot of his tweets. Same goes for the BLM movement hashtags.

 

Dude praises riots, violence and racism toward white people. He's a scumbag

Yes because white people certainly have never spent the last 400 years treating black, red, and brown people like less than human.

And it's only white people that do this today?

Get real

 

No. We (white people) just have it perfected to an art form.

 

You (I mean white people in general, not you specifically Dewiz) can't treat people of darker skin colors as less than human for generation after generation, sabotage their communities, put laws in place to openly discriminate against them, keep them out of economic prosperity, and then act "surprised" when some of the people you've been oppressing have an anti-white mentality.

[QMany]

[Mike Mcdee]

I'm no Trump supporter, but the top is full of players and personnel. The bottom is just the players with personnel seated in the front few rows. I believe the Patriots even addressed this. I feel like this type of reporting is what adds fuel to the fire that the FAKE MSM is out to get Donny and his buddies. I want to tell those in the media, you have plenty to go on, there is no reason to embellish or make things up.

[zoogs]

Fewer players came this year -- several of them SPECIFICALLY choosing to highlight their political opposition. The total number was buttressed by extra staff.

 

It was the kind of tweet that shouldn't have made it past editors, but there isn't quite "nothing" to the story. Still, ultimately, sports is not going to shy away from some patriotic photo op branding.