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Trumps Tweets

109 replies

OhYouBadBadKitten · 03/01/2017 13:26

What did Trump mean by "North Korea just stated that it is in the final stages of developing a nuclear weapon capable of reaching parts of the U.S. It won't happen!"?
Was he deriding North Korea's manufacturing capability - which has been somewhat unreliable, but may not remain so, or was he saying that North Korea would be stopped?

It's very hard to tell what he ever means with such short statements. He's had an 'interesting' Christmas with his tweets. He promised that if he got elected he would hardly ever use social media. Funny sort of restraint he's showing.

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Lweji · 06/01/2017 17:08

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 13m13 minutes ago
I am asking the chairs of the House and Senate committees to investigate top secret intelligence shared with NBC prior to me seeing it.

I imagine the response will be that the CIA were hoping that by putting the report in the news that he'd pay attention to it.
Maybe they should have tweeted it to him

Lweji · 06/01/2017 17:07

That's why he compared it to Season 1. Because lately the ratings weren't that great anyway.

InformalRoman · 06/01/2017 17:05

Season 14 (last Trump season) peaked at 6.98 million viewers according to Wiki. Arnie got 4.93 million viewers for his opening show (Trump season 14 opening show got 6.31).

Lweji · 06/01/2017 17:02

I hadn't realised he had been sacked.
I thought it was due to his candidacy and then election.

Do you think Lord Sugar could help a bit? :)

InformalRoman · 06/01/2017 17:00

And being dropped by NBC as host of The Apprentice hurt too:

In 2015, when Trump was fourteen years into the run of The Apprentice, NBC announced that it was removing him as host of the program “due to the recent derogatory statements by Donald Trump regarding immigrants.” (In reply, Trump blasted the network, saying it was “so weak and so foolish to not understand the serious illegal immigration problem.”)

fortune.com/2016/09/08/donald-trump-the-apprentice-burnett/

OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/01/2017 16:55

I think its the old 'look over there' ploy.
Sorry, even the media arent falling for that one this time.

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Lweji · 06/01/2017 16:48

But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary

It still hurts. Particularly because Arnie is a Republican.

what were the ratings for season 13, BTW?

InformalRoman · 06/01/2017 16:38

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 10 Dec 2016
I have NOTHING to do with The Apprentice except for fact that I conceived it with Mark B & have a big stake in it. Will devote ZERO TIME!

Well ... apart from the time he's going to spend tweeting about Arnie:

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago
Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got "swamped" (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for...

Donald J. Trump ‏@realDonaldTrump 4h4 hours ago
being a movie star-and that was season 1 compared to season 14. Now compare him to my season 1. But who cares, he supported Kasich & Hillary

You would have thought he might have better things to do today ... like meeting with the intelligence agencies, but no, he's sounding off about The Apprentice and Vogue Hmm

Lweji · 06/01/2017 16:15

Yes, because it shows how great he was in the Apprentice. The best. Nobody can ever compare favourably to him.

squishysquirmy · 06/01/2017 16:10

It's a shame for him that his approval ratings as a politician don't correspond to TV ratings.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/01/2017 13:39

"Wow, the ratings are in and Arnold Schwarzenegger got "swamped" (or destroyed) by comparison to the ratings machine, DJT. So much for...."

Really?? This is an important thought in his head that he has to share?

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 06/01/2017 09:00

It's exactly that squishy.

He really isn't showing any sense is he? Banging on about the hacking on twitter when he hasn't even heard the intelligence briefing, which demonstrates that either he has made his mind up already and thinks he knows better than they do or he is scared at what will come out and is trying to preemptively prejudice people against the evidence.

Any wise person would at least listen to the briefings first before spouting off.

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Lweji · 05/01/2017 23:22

He claims they are moving to Baja, but it's not even going to be in Baja, it seems.

Another of those post-truth things, I imagine. But some people will buy it.

squishysquirmy · 05/01/2017 23:04

Or is just a cunning way for him to claim credit for preventing something which was never going to happen anyway?

Trump: "Don't move US jobs to Mexico!"
Toyota: "We weren't going to".
Trump: "You see how I saved those jobs with just a tweet?!"

squishysquirmy · 05/01/2017 23:01

Bit confused by that tweet - what does Toyota shifting production from Canada to Mexico have to with American jobs? Am I missing something, or is this just another case of Trump completely misunderstanding the facts?

Lweji · 05/01/2017 22:46
Grin

But I'd like to know who benefits from these tweets:

"Immediately after Trump's tweet, shares of Toyota dove slightly into the red, down 0.5% as of 1:27 p.m. ET."

www.businessinsider.com/trump-takes-aim-at-toyota-2017-1

I hope his company of his offspring didn't short sell Toyota shares.

OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/01/2017 22:35

now he's warning a Japanese company (toyota) against moving a plant from Canada to Mexico.
Mr Trump, you don't get to decide what foreign companies can do.

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OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/01/2017 14:11

that was a pretty genius idea!

trump twitter archive for those who are bored or procrastinating

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Lweji · 05/01/2017 14:11

perhaps he has pre new job jitters?

Most likely. :)

You have to love Bernie.

The problem is that Trump has said and written so many opposing proposals that he can probably claim he supported anything at this stage.

squishysquirmy · 05/01/2017 13:53

At least his tweets can come back to haunt him:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/05/bernie-sanders-prints-giant-poster-trump-tweet-best-memes/

OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/01/2017 13:39

Too right it's time they worked together. It takes two to tango! Perhaps they could work on the issues that the republicans created by resisting so much of the affordable care act.

Do you think he will calm down on twitter when he gets elected? perhaps he has pre new job jitters?

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Lweji · 05/01/2017 12:57

Oh, the irony. Does he know much about US politics?

"The Democrats, lead by head clown Chuck Schumer, know how bad ObamaCare is and what a mess they are in. Instead of working to fix it, they.....do the typical political thing and BLAME. The fact is ObamaCare was a lie from the beginning."Keep you doctor, keep your plan!" It is.... ...time for Republicans & Democrats to get together and come up with a healthcare plan that really works - much less expensive & FAR BETTER!"

No shit, Shertrump. Obamacare is the mangled result of Republicans undermining healthcare reform.

Lweji · 05/01/2017 10:38

It's the beginning of the Matrix. If we're not already there. Hmm Wink

OhYouBadBadKitten · 05/01/2017 10:37

I think they will probably end up just doing things that undermine it further rather than pull the plug on things.

It would make rather a good short book wouldn't it - a world war being played out on twitter only, written in just tweets. The very final act being the pulling of the plug on the internet and satellite communications. I expect it would end up being played out by bots in the end.

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Lweji · 05/01/2017 09:23

Perhaps we could just move all real world wars on to twitter?
Grin
They say the pen is mightier than the sword. :)

Yes, it looks like he's trying to shift blame on health care in preparation for not scrapping Obamacare. I'm not sure that would be a popular move, in fact, as they're not prepared to replace it and many people would probably protest about losing cover they already have.