Today Donald Trump celebrates his 72nd birthday. Messages are pouring in from around the world … Russia, China, Philippines and North Korea!
Soup Nazi To Trump – “No Nobel Prize For You!”
Donald Trump has called off his much-anticipated meeting with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un scheduled for June 12 in Singapore.
In a letter to the communist leader he once called “Little Rocket Man,” Trump wrote:
Sadly, based on the tremendous anger and open hostility displayed in your most recent statement, I feel it is inappropriate, at this time, to have this long-planned meeting. Therefore, please let this letter serve to represent that the Singapore summit, for the good of both parties, but to the detriment of the world, will not take place.
But in true Trumpian fashion, the man who is cancelling the tête-à-tête ends his letter by telling Kim Jong-un:
If you change your mind having to do with this most important summit, please do not hesitate to call me or write.
The dramatic turn of events has caught everyone by surprise, especially the 18 Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, all Republicans, who only three weeks ago nominated Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize.
As a famous Seinfeld character might now say, “No Nobel Prize for you! Come back one year!”
In retrospect, it did seem farfetched Trump would actually meet with Kim Jong-un and, even more dubious, Trump could have convinced him to give up his nuclear weapons. But the Trump team believed and plowed right ahead. They even minted a commemorative coin for the historic meeting that will not take place.
It appears that the coin is still being sold on the White House Gift Shop website at the price of $24.95… but if you act today, you can buy a coin at a discounted price: The coins are now sold at the Gift Shop’s “Deal of the Day” price of $19.95.
It would not be surprising if Trump has gotten his hands on a batch of the coins. After all, our avid golfer-in-chief could use the gaudy “minted-before-its-time” coin to mark his ball on the golf course.
Photo | cnbc.com
During The Vietnam Era, McCain And Trump Fought Different Wars
While the North Vietnamese were holding John McCain a prisoner of war, Donald Trump, who avoided Vietnam because of a “bum foot”, was telling Howard Stern:
It’s amazing, I can’t even believe it. I’ve been so lucky in terms of that whole world, it is a dangerous world out there. It’s like Vietnam, sort of […] It is my personal Vietnam. I feel like a great and very brave solider.
Here is more of the transcript from the 1998 interview with radio shock jock Howard Stern::
STERN: A lot of guys who went through Vietnam came out unscathed. A lot of guys going through the 80’s having sex with different women came out with AIDS and all kinds of things.
TRUMP: This is better than Vietnam, but it’s uh… it’s more fun.
STERN: A little better, but every vagina is a landmine, haven’t we both said that in private?
TRUMP: [intense laughter] I think it is a potential landmine. There’s some real danger there.
STERN: When you go to a bar, do you ever go with a fleet of doctors and have them check all the women, and then party with the uninfected?
TRUMP: [laughter] The few! You mean the few uninfected!
TRUMP: You have to have a roving doctor, his office has to be in your briefcase. He has to be your best friend. He has to go with you at all times. He has to do onsite tests. [laughter]
Cadet Bone Spurs, there is only one great and very brave soldier in the above photo. For damn sure it isn’t you!
Photos| AP, The Washington Post/Tom Allen
Cognitive Dissonance, Trump Style
Cognitive Dissonance – “The state of having inconsistent thoughts, beliefs, or attitudes, especially as relating to behavioral decisions and attitude change.”
Photo | Michael Reynolds/EPA
Which One Is The Golf Addict?
According to the Independent, Donald Trump plays golf almost three times as much as Barack Obama. That’s the same Donald Trump who promised voters, “I’m not gonna play much golf because there’s a lot of work to be done.”
Obama played a total of 333 rounds of golf during his 8 years as president. According to Trumpgolfcount.com, Trump has already hit the links 105 times in 1 1/3 years in office… at a cost of over $65 million to John Q. Public.
Like so many Trump lies told to his gullible supporters during the presidential campaign, the “no golf” whopper is a real doozy. It is like the “hole-in-one” of lies… a spectacular feat!
Photo | news.sky.com
Just Who Is Michael Avenatti?
Michael Avenatti, Stormy Daniels’ lawyer, is everywhere these days. In the last few months he has practically become a regular on MSNBC, especially Lawrence O’Donnell’s, The Last Word.
If you didn’t know any better, you might think Avenatti is some off-Broadway bit player who suddenly got his big shot on the Great White Way thanks to his high-profile client, Miss Daniels.
You’d be wrong!
Michael Avenatti is considered one of the top trial lawyers in the country, having built a reputation as an aggressive litigator through many noteworthy cases across the land. He has brought lawsuits against the National Football League, various celebrity defendants, including Paris Hilton and Jim Carrey, athletes, high-ranking business executives and Fortune 100 companies.
Avenatti’s website claims he has been responsible, as lead counsel, for over $1 Billion in verdicts and settlements, including many well in excess of $10,000,000.
The now ubiquitous attorney is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, making him a fellow alumnus with Donald Trump! Avenatti went on to attend the law school at George Washington University, graduating Order of the Coif, first in his class.
In an alternate universe, Avenatti would be Trump’s lawyer, not one who has initiated two lawsuits against him. Avenatti is bold, brash, self-confident and fearless … just the kind of qualities Trump likes.
But Avenatti is saddled with one trait that Trump seems to shy away from… brains.
Trump’s lawyers, whichever ones are still left representing him, are mostly a subservient group who cannot control their client. No matter the sound legal advice given him, Donald Trump wants to call the shots, legal wisdom be damned.
Thanks to Stormy Daniels and her lawsuits against Trump, Michael Avenatti has made his way out of the insular world of the legal community and into primetime.
No doubt Avenatti’s stock has increased dramatically thanks to one Donald J. Trump. Don’t expect Avenatti to fade into the woodwork anytime soon.
When it comes to Trump, I picture Avenatti repeating, in his mind, the words made famous by George M. Cohan … “my mother thanks you, my father thanks you, my sister thanks you, and I thank you!”
Photo | rawstory.com
So What’s Up With Jared And Ivanka?
With so much drama surrounding the White House these past few weeks … with round-the-clock news coverage of mistresses, Playboy bunnies, FBI raids, Michael Cohen … there has been very little press devoted to two familiar names, Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump.
It’s as if Jarvanka (as the couple is derisively called) skipped town.
Well, last week, they did.
The two attended the Summit of the Americas in Lima, Peru, along with Vice President Mike Pence, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross, and United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer.
Some observers have noted that whenever things heat up in Washington D.C., the power couple seems to make themselves scarce.
As Republican efforts to repeal Obamacare were sinking in the Senate during the spring of 2017, Kushner and family skied in Aspen. During protests in defense of confederate monuments in Charlottesville in August, Jared and Ivanka escaped Washington, D.C. for a quick trip to Vermont.
And so, following the raid of the home, office and hotel room of Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, Jarvanka decides to head for Peru?
It is possible what law enforcement agents find in documents seized from Cohen (e-mails, tax documents, and business records, or from whatever Cohen decides to share with investigators) could be very harmful for Jarvanka.
The Summit of the Americas is a two-day gathering for heads of state from the Western hemisphere that occurs every three years.
Though the summit has ended, no one seems to be sure of the current whereabouts of Jared and Ivanka. Have they decided to extend their stay?
Does anyone know if Peru and the United States have an extradition agreement?
Photo | slate.com
Trump’s Lawyer, Michael Cohen, … No “Legal Eagle”
In light of the most recent developments surrounding Michael Cohen, this March 10 story is worth the reprint.
Donald Trump likes to boast he surrounds himself with only the best and the brightest. Judging from the revolving door that is his administration, that brag is just another example of the fantasyland Trump’s mind inhabits.
Take Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer.
Also known as Trump’s “pit bull,” Cohen has demonstrated, on multiple occasions, he will never be confused with Clarence Darrow. The whole Stormy Daniels saga drips with legal incompetence and possible ethics violations.
Many lawyers watching Cohen’s most recent bumbling performance can only shake their heads and laugh. “Where did this guy get his law degree … Trump U? A Cracker Jack box?”
Michael Cohen is a graduate of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in Michigan. The school was recently ranked the worst law school in the country by Above the Law.
According to Cooley’s ABA required disclosures, only 27.4% of graduates from the class of 2015 obtained full-time, bar-passage-required employment 9 months after graduation. As for academic standards, Cooley recently accepted 85.6% of its applicants, far and away the highest acceptance rate in the country.
Even mob bosses know to look for talent among the better law schools. The infamous Roy Cohn, who, coincidentally, was one of Trump’s early mentors, was a graduate of Columbia Law School.
The combination of dumbness and bravado may get you a job with Trump, but it can also buy you major ethical and legal problems, potentially meriting disbarment and prosecution for crimes.
Paying a porn star “hush money” out of his own pocket to silence her about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, Cohen may have broken several laws and ethical rules.
But a far greater threat to Cohen is the Mueller Trump-Russia investigation. It has been reported he is a person of interest to the Special Counsel because of his role in the negotiations he undertook during the campaign to help the Trump Organization build a tower in Moscow.
Michael Cohen … not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Yes, he may be a “pit bull” but he is far from the “legal eagle” someone like Trump should be surrounding himself with.
Photo | dailydot.com
For A Businessman, And Wharton Graduate, Trump Stinks At Math
Perhaps because he had nothing better to do, or there was a long wait at the next hole, today Trump tweeted how popular he is.
Rasmussen and others have my approval ratings at around 50%, which is higher than Obama, and yet the political pundits love saying my approval ratings are “somewhat low.” They know they are lying when they say it. Turn off the show – FAKE NEWS! 8:16 AM – Mar 11, 2018
Even for a man who never lets facts get in the way of a good tweet, this one is a doozy because it is so easy to disprove. Trump’s latest Rasmussen rating stands at 44%. For those Trump fans crying fake news, here is the link to rasmussenreports.com with the latest numbers.
I don’t know, but when I studied math in high school the number 44 was closer to 40 than 50. Maybe it’s the “new math”?
Here is how Trump fares in popularity on Rasmussen and “other” polls:
Rasmussen 44%
Marist 44%
Economist 41%
Quinnipiac 38%
Monmouth 40%
Reuters 40%
Gallup 39%
Let’s not kid ourselves. Trump puts out patently false statements for one simple reason … his diehard supporters have been conditioned to take him at his word. They don’t question … they don’t fact-check.
But what if they click that link to rasmunnsenreports.com?
“Site must have been hacked by some liberal commie group” or “someone sitting on their bed that weighs 400 pounds.”
Poll numbers provided by Josh Jordan @numbersmuncher
Photo | bostonglobe.com
Trump’s Lawyer, Michael Cohen, … No “Legal Eagle”
Donald Trump likes to boast he surrounds himself with only the best and the brightest. Judging from the revolving door that is his administration, that brag is just another example of the fantasyland Trump’s mind inhabits.
Take Michael Cohen, Trump’s personal lawyer.
Also known as Trump’s “pit bull,” Cohen has demonstrated, on multiple occasions, he will never be confused with Clarence Darrow. The whole Stormy Daniels saga drips with legal incompetence and possible ethics violations.
Many lawyers watching Cohen’s most recent bumbling performance can only shake their heads and laugh. “Where did this guy get his law degree … Trump U? A Cracker Jack box?”
Michael Cohen is a graduate of Thomas M. Cooley Law School, in Michigan. The school was recently ranked the worst law school in the country by Above the Law.
According to Cooley’s ABA required disclosures, only 27.4% of graduates from the class of 2015 obtained full-time, bar-passage-required employment 9 months after graduation. As for academic standards, Cooley recently accepted 85.6% of its applicants, far and away the highest acceptance rate in the country.
Even mob bosses know to look for talent among the better law schools. The infamous Roy Cohn, who, coincidentally, was one of Trump’s early mentors, was a graduate of Columbia Law School.
The combination of dumbness and bravado may get you a job with Trump, but it can also buy you major ethical and legal problems, potentially meriting disbarment and prosecution for crimes.
Paying a porn star “hush money” out of his own pocket to silence her about her alleged affair with Donald Trump, Cohen may have broken several laws and ethical rules.
But a far greater threat to Cohen is the Mueller Trump-Russia investigation. It has been reported he is a person of interest to the Special Counsel because of his role in the negotiations he undertook during the campaign to help the Trump Organization build a tower in Moscow.
Michael Cohen … not the sharpest knife in the drawer. Yes, he may be a “pit bull” but he is far from the “legal eagle” someone like Trump should be surrounding himself with.
Photo | dailydot.com
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