How many ways can Trump make a fool of himself in one news conference?

Let us count the ways. First, I would like to make something perfectly clear. Trump is scared to death of the White House press corps. Trump has terminated press conferences conducted by his press secretary in the White House press room. Trump has conducted two full-fledged press conferences in two and a half years. Both were disasters, and he won't hold another. By way of contrast, by this time Obama had conducted 20 solo press conferences. https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/statistics/data/presidential-news-conferences

Trump has become the secret President.

He likes to hold news conferences with friendly reporters on the White House lawn with Marine One churning away. Although unpresidential, Trump is forced to shout his answers, and reporters' question are difficult, if not impossible, to hear.

Today's news conference was held in the White House with Trump's chosen reporters who ask softball questions and dare not question Trump's many lies. Trump, who thrives on camera time, is allowed to make speeches with this format.

All of man's problem are solved by rhetoric. Well, at any rate, that's how Trump thinks.

"Payroll tax is something that we think about and a lot of people would like to see that, and that very much affects the workers of our country," Trump said.

Then Trump says he is "not looking to do anything at this moment.".

So, why bring it up? Because Trump believes meaningless rhetoric accomplishes something. It is how he thinks.

The White House official statement read, “More tax cuts for the American people are certainly on the table, but cutting payroll taxes is not something under consideration at this time.” https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/20/tru...yroll-tax-cut-despite-white-house-denial.html

Trump wants it both ways. He says one thing. His White House says the very opposite.

The lies in the news conference concerning the state of our current economy and his trade war with China are far too numerous to mention here. Suffice to say the fool still thinks China pays for the tariffs, not the American consumer. Incredible, this is our President?

Trump said that Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic candidate is either stupid or disloyal. Honest that is what he said.

"I think any Jewish people that vote for a Democrat -- I think it shows either a total lack of knowledge or great disloyalty," Trump said.

Incredible, that just goes to prove there is no end to Trump's stupidity. He may have cost the GOP the Jewish vote with that one. I could hear McConnell cringe when Trump made that mindless remark.

Trump wants Russia admitted to the G-7, making it the G-8 again. Here is Trump's phenomenal reasoning as to why Russia was kicked out.

“I’ve gone to numerous G-7 meetings, and I guess President Obama, because Putin outsmarted him, President Obama thought it wasn’t a good thing to have Russia in so he wanted Russia out. I think it’s much more appropriate to have Russia in and it should be the G-8,” Trump said.

I could not believe the sheep in the room did not question Trump on this whopper. Following this lie from Trump, a reporter who will remain nameless, completely changed the subject.

Obama led the movement to expel Russia because Russia invaded a neighbor, Ukraine, and annexed a part of that neighbor, Crimea. All seven members of the economic group agreed Russia had to be booted out.

Nearly every American adult remembers that 2014 invasion. Our President does not.

We should all be happy with one aspect of all this. Because of the ineffectiveness and cowardice of these reporters, because Trump yearns to be on prime time every day of the week, even if it means making a fool of himself, we learn how inept, how inexperienced Trump is and we learn about his penchant for lying. We know we cannot trust a thing he says.

It is difficult to picture the GOP sticking with this man. Even Trump's base must be having doubts by now.

 

His habit of continually repeating what he just said 30 seconds earlier four and five times, is really annoying,like he's trying to convince himself.

 

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For those paying attention, Trump mentioned two separate things to stimulate the economy. Reduction of payroll tax and 'indexing'.

The first is self-explanatory. But what is indexing?

It's quite simple, Trump is considering giving investors a big tax cut that would primarily benefit the rich, and that he believed he could do it without approval from Congress. Indexing gives more money to the rich by removing taxes on capital gains. Trump said that the majority of his economic advisers supported the idea of reducing taxes on profits that investors earn when selling assets like stocks or bonds. This would be done by indexing capital gains to inflation.

Sure, why not? Give the rich even more money that'll keep it out of the hands of government and increase the deficit even more than their original big tax break created.

 

I only saw a small part of the news conference but I thought Trump was lucid and answered the questions. I see nothing wrong with the way he talks. Some folks stutter, some folks repeat their words, some folks insert "uh" after every 3rd word, some folks take 4 minutes to answer a yes or no question. We're all different. But those who have TDS will pick at his every word, his hair, his waist, but not his programs. That's OK because he will be reelected.

 

Trumpettes DONT CARE.

Never mind that the payroll tax was NEvER reduced by Dirty Donnie, just the WITHOLDING RATE.

At the end of the year, when you filed your taxes, you PAID MORE because the actual tax rate didn’t change.

Of course, Trumpettes never learned arithmetic, never mind actual math, so they will go on blindly denying facts and defending their Precious.

You just can’t make this up. Unreal.

 

In many cases, he knows what he is saying is wrong. But reality is not his friend, and keep in mind he always is talking just to his base. In his mind, if he repeats it often enough, his base will believe him.

“If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

― adolf hitler

No, I am not saying Trump is similar to Hitler. I am merely providing an example of deceit that is similar to Hitler.

As of June 7, his 869th day in office, the president has made 10,796 false or misleading claims, according to the Fact Checker’s database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement the president has uttered.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...as-made-false-or-misleading-claims-over-days/

 

This president has lived up to the very expectations I had of him; he has turned the White House into a circus shrine of his own narcissism. I assume his every waking breath to be a lie. It is by sheer dumb luck that we haven't had a complete catastrophe under his watch, but the cumulative effects of his incompetence may take decades to unravel. Even when we get him out of office next year, we will have to worry about his minions for many years.

 

Trump craves being on TV every day.. that's for sure.

 

Perhaps it would be better if lefties turned off the Twitter, facebook, television, and the rest of AL Gores internet. Then Trump's news conference would go unnoticed and everyone could enjoy life.

 

I seem to remember the personal deduction was doubled. And also the blind and aged deduction was increased. Both reduces your taxable income.

 

Many democrats shy away from Fox news. Where are the threads on that?

 

That is because few pay attention to him anymore, and that includes the White House as I showed in the OP. Republican members of Congress are aware of his over 10,000 lies. Notice they say very little about Trump. They try to avoid him as much as possible.

As to the second part of your statement, there are the various trade agreements Trump removed the U.S. from, he messed up badly in the in the Middle East removing the U.S. as a broker in talks, and his withdrawal from the nuclear agreement with Iran that permanently barred Iran from making a nuke.

The last was a horrible mistake. Why did he do it? Because Obama signed the agreement.

 

Like the collusion delusion?

 

I don't see your point.

First, I am not convinced that is true. Knowing what the political enemy is saying is a valuable tool. Also, Fox is coming around. A good deal of their programming is not pro-Trump. I watch Fox everyday.

Second, I have no idea what that has to do with the post you responded to.

 

Trumpets keep saying that is over. It is not. Two House committees are deeply involved in Trump's cooperation with Russia and Russia's intent, ergo, to help Donald Trump.

 

As I recall, mortgage interest was eliminated as a deduction.

 

Trump’s performance was masterful. He makes the Washington establishment look feeble.

 

Bwahahahaha! A lib wet dream and dem clown show.

 

So you are saying Americans should ignore what Trump says. From his news conference yesterday.

All of man's problem are solved by rhetoric. Well, at any rate, that's how Trump thinks.

"Payroll tax is something that we think about and a lot of people would like to see that, and that very much affects the workers of our country," Trump said.

Regarding the payroll tax, Trump says he is "not looking to do anything at this moment.".

Trump said that Jewish Americans who vote for the Democratic candidate are either stupid or disloyal.

Trump wants Russia admitted to the G-7, making it the G-8 again despite Russia's aggression and her annexation of Crimea. Reminder: Putin wanted Trump as our next President.

You know, you just may have a point.

Actually, as a Trump fan, I'm thinking you want Trump to quit talking so much and making a fool of himself. Why else your remark?

 

Care to elaborate on your claims? Here I'll straighten one out for you immediately, the low hanging fruit if you will.

"Neither the tariffs placed on steel and aluminum imposed a year ago nor the more recent ten percent tariff on Chinese goods pushed prices of goods sold to consumers up. And now we have price data from May that once again indicate no tariff pricing pressure on consumers.

So who is paying for the tariffs? We know the U.S. government has collected billions in tariffs, so it is clear that someone is footing the bill. But keep in mind that when journalists and lobbyists claim, “tariffs are taxes on consumers,” this is inaccurate."

https://www.breitbart.com/economy/2019/06/11/tariffs-producer-price-index/

 

Well I guess they will show Mueller and his 16 investigators working 2 years expending $25 million and questioning 500 people were incompetent. Come on Trump drain the swamp.

 

Trump is an embarrassment. But this one is about as Trumpian as they get.

Since he's a racist, he expects everybody to be "loyal" to what he considers their "race".

But, of course, the main reason the majority of Jews register as Democrats is because they despise racism. It's the one thing most Jewish people who grew up in the U.S. have been taught to despise.

 

Striving always for camera time, our daytime television star of a President held another lengthy news conference, this time on the White House lawn. With two major exceptions, he contradicted everything he said in yesterday's news conference.

After repeating his usual lie, "The fake news, of which many of you are members, is trying to convince the public to have a recession. "Let's have a recession," Trump doubled down on the politically suicidal comment regarding American Jews. “If you want to vote Democrat, you are being very disloyal to Jewish people and very disloyal to Israel,” Trump said. Since 80% of American Jews voted Democratic in the 2018 elections, Trump just insulted a huge number of voters for the second day in a row. It is difficult to understand how an American President could be so stupid.

After insulting a valuable American ally, Denmark, and canceling his visit there because the Danes didn't want to sell Greenland, Putin's protégé was willing to overlook Russia's aggression against a neighbor and the annexation of Crimea, saying once again that Russia should be admitted to the G-7, thereby making it the G-8.

Searching for salvation, at one point, Trump looked heavenward and declared himself "the chosen one." "Somebody had to do it, so I'm taking on China. I am the chosen one," Trump said, adding, "I was put here by people to do a great job."

Later, speaking to American veterans, Trump said he wanted to give himself the Medal of Honor, but decided not to after being counseled against the move by aides. The vets laughed at him, and Trump joined the merriment. The draft dodging President thinks it is funny to make jokes about our nation's highest military honor.

Then there is this.

Trump found a fawning quote from radio host with a few screws loose who described Trump as the “King of Israel” and who said that Israeli Jews “love him like he is the second coming of God.” Trump cited the idiot in a tweet.



Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

“Thank you to Wayne Allyn Root for the very nice words. “President Trump is the greatest President for Jews and for Israel in the history of the world, not just America, he is the best President for Israel in the history of the world...and the Jewish people in Israel love him like he’s the King of Israel. They love him like he is the second coming of God...But American Jews don’t know him or like him. They don’t even know what they’re doing or saying anymore. It makes no sense! But that’s OK, if he keeps doing what he’s doing.

4:34 AM - Aug 21, 2019

This is all a joke to Trump. He thinks the Office of the President of the United States is a stage where he can crack his jokes and make a fool of himself for the enjoyment of his audience, his ever loyal base. But that begs a question. Does his base really believe this crap? Do they really think Trump is being funny.

One thing is certain. Trump should be accorded his just deserts. Americans should never take him seriously.

Ye reap what ye sow.

 

No, I am saying the unhinged lefties should take a break from posting, reading, and lintening to any media.