Someone really should take his phone away. He tweets now that Obama arranged for the British GCHQ ( UK version of NSA) to tap his phones during and after the US election. GCHQ normally never comments on anything about what it does, but they issued a very strong denial, as did the UK government, and now the US have agreed that they wouldn't mention it again.
So once again , based on a FOX report ( !!! ) Trump shoots his mouth off and causes himself a problem- will he EVER learn?
Just in passing I have a nephew who works in GCHQ and he told me during all the talk about Trumps contacts with the Russians, that they monitor many of the calls ( all types) between US and Russia ( along with NSA) and there are many recordings of Trumps people talking to the Russians- as the CIA is well aware and has said

 

Baubles.
Trump keeps dropping baubles and the unsupporters keep running up and frothing and glaring at them.

 

How many Trumps does it take to change a lightbulb ???

None, they have illegal aliens and taxpayers do that for them lol !!!

 

None, they're used to stumbling around in the dark.

 

"Baubles", is that what they are calling turds nowadays LOL ???

 

The only business Trump gets on with, is his own, via the family.......Oh of course I forgot, its all at arms length, blind trust or some such bullshit. Not a single person believes a word of that, but he still gets away with it !

 

Meanwhile this is the first administration in decades to propose a federal budget that imposes net cuts on federal programs, and not just cuts in the rate of budget increase. Ryan and McConnell won't give him every cut-- there will be a lot of horse trading-- but this is the first proposal in decades-- since before Clinton, at least-- which attempts to restore funding in defense (the primary purpose of the federal government) at a level balance by cutting all the rest.

And the talking heads have let this moment in history slip right past their radars.

So Tweet on. More shiny baubles for the crows, I say. Tweet them more baubles.

 

Has anyone ever heard of misdirection?

Magicians use it all the time.

Trump keeps putting his foot in his mouth and nitwits keep jumping all over that shit to mock him, while meantime he and his cronies are going about totally destroying the Constitution, the economy, human rights and the environment.

Gee. Look a shiny toy. Wow.

 

“My Twitter has become so powerful that I can actually make my enemies tell the truth.”

“While @BetteMidler is an extremely unattractive woman, I refuse to say that because I always insist on being politically correct.”


“It’s freezing and snowing in New York—we need global warming!”

 

Trump’s proverb, Paul Ryan’s ‘despicable’ pint and other St. Patrick’s Day mishaps
By Samantha Schmidt March 17 The Washington Post)

The day began with a cringe-worthy, mildly offensive Irish cliche in front of a roomful of Irish people, and it all went downhill from there.

“Top of the morning,” said Vice President Pence, as he hosted Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny at his residence for breakfast Thursday.

Really? The reaction by Irish on social media was palpable.

“Literally just shouted ‘NOBODY SAYS THAT’ at the TV,” a journalist in Ireland tweeted. “I’ve literally only ever heard that said by Americans,” another person said.

“How do all the Irish people not just go, ‘Nope,’ and leave the room?” tweeted another.

Ireland’s leader was in Washington for a series of events in celebration of St. Patrick’s Day, including breakfast with the vice president, a luncheon at the U.S. Capitol, a one-on-one meeting with President Trump and a long-standing annual ceremony in which the U.S. president is presented with a bowl of shamrocks.

Long before the festivities began, the visit was controversial in Ireland. Almost 40,000 people signed a petition titled “Shamrock for Trump: Not in my name,” demanding that Kenny cancel the trip.

During the U.S. presidential campaign, Kenny criticized Trump for his “racist and dangerous” language. Even so, the Irish leader followed through with the annual tradition on Thursday, prompting his staff and more than 20 Irish reporters to fly eight hours across the Atlantic to listen to the “Taoiseach deliver his well-polished son of the sainted shamrock routine along the east coast of America,” as the Irish Times phrased it. (Taoiseach, pronounced, TEE-shock or TEE-shuhck, is the Irish language title of the prime minister.)

And as the day went on, the awkward and at times embarrassing Irish cultural references from Washington politicians were nearly as bountiful as their green neckties.

At the luncheon, Trump shared a proverb.

“As we stand together with our Irish friends, I’m reminded of that proverb — and this is a good one, this is one I like, I’ve heard it for many, many years and I love it,” Trump said. “Always remember to forget the friends that proved untrue, but never forget to remember those that have stuck by you.”

Irish tweeters immediately displayed skepticism.

A White House spokeswoman told the Hill newspaper that the proverb was originally supplied in an email on March 8 by the State Department via the National Security Council “as building blocks in advance of this event.”

She said the “building blocks” were provided in the context of the shamrock ceremony and were ultimately used in the prepared remarks at the luncheon. While a number of websites, Pinterest boards and books do, indeed, refer to the quote as an “Irish blessing,” its origin was unclear. In fairness, Trump never actually claimed it was of Irish origin but that’s how many took it in the context of the moment.

Across social media, many pointed out that a poem by Nigerian poet Albashir Adam Alhassan includes a similar stanza.

The irony of the mishaps was that Trump has surrounded himself with Irish Americans, from presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway to press secretary Sean Spicer. Two of the leading Republicans involved in Thursday’s cultural gaffes — Pence and House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) — identify as Irish American.
Ryan introduced both Trump and Kenny at the luncheon, praising the United States’ relationship with Ireland and lauding the nation for “all she has given us.”

One of his statements caused a fair bit of head-scratching: “Americans, especially American Irish, are always trying to endear ourselves to the Irish. Think about it. We went from a president who plays a lot of golf to a president who owns a lot of golf courses,” Ryan said. “That is about the closest thing you can get to royalty in Ireland.”

Trump, indeed, owns a golf course in Ireland and has golfed on various courses at least nine times since taking office. And he recently played 18 holes with pro golfer Rory McIlroy, who is from Northern Ireland. But aside from that connection, some Irish people questioned the reference to royalty and golf, a sport that originated in Scotland.

But perhaps the most “appalling” moment of the day for some came as Ryan offered a toast, in honor of Ireland’s visit.

While addressing the luncheon, Ryan suddenly pulled out a pre-poured pint of Guinness beer from under the podium.

“To what our forefathers have started and our children will continue, may the light always shine upon them. Sláinte.”

The speaker may have used the correct word for the toast, but all Irish Guinness enthusiasts could focus on was that “despicable pint.” Anyone who has lived in or traveled to Ireland knows the law of the land: a dark, Irish beer should always be topped with a creamy, white, thick foam.

One person tweeted she would be “ashamed” to be seen holding that pint. It looked like a pint “you find in the smoking area at the end of the night, its owner stumbled home long ago,” said another.

The Irish news website the Journal summed it up this way: “Some questionable Guinness pouring going on in Washington by the looks of Paul D. Ryan’s pint.”

 

I always said that Paul Ryan's brain was 'pint-sized'

 

This falls in the same lines as Trump's steak and Ketchup...All in all...who gives a fuck.

 

Sean Spicer's green St Patrick's Day tie treated as 'green screen' during press conference

 

The only thing that Trump has made great again is SNL ...

 

Hey, der Trumper and his crew make for great comedy...you can't make this shit up.

 

Pulling and drinking a pint of Guinness requires technique, style and patience........none of which exist in the Chump administration!

Thinskin

 

This looks like a good place for a. ROLL TRUMP.

 

I said, he is cutting entitlements and non-essentials. Not by much. Typically around 3%, as for the much-maligned "destruction" of the Community Block Grants (this is the one that is erroneously claimed to be "killing" Meals on Wheels.) A 3% cut to such programs is not much, but it is the first time in several decades that a president has proposed actually cutting the bottom line of a budget item, and not just its growth rate.

As for the budget increases to military and homeland security, I also did say that theses areas get priority and are being increased. And rightly so. Obama decimated them, and yet they are the among the few items that are actually specified in the Constitution as being in the purview of the federal government of this great country.

 

Republican elites, who are rich enough that they do not need the government for much of anything, propose cuts when they feel powerful. Republican voters who are not rich protest against those cuts. There has never been popular support for major specific cuts in the federal budget.

We went through this in the beginning of the Reagan administration. We went though this again at beginning of George the Lesser's presidency. We are going through this again.