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It's been just over a week, and what a week. Amazing. So good. The best.

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amispartacus · 28/01/2017 12:04

Follow up from previous thread.

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2837382-Donald-Trump-the-first-week-is-BAD-What-next-Come-all-ye-Beautifuls?

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GingerIvy · 28/01/2017 13:30

From the dark emperor's twitter (not I'm not "following" him)... you'll have to read from the bottom up, as I'm too lazy and annoyed to rearrange it.
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...dwindling subscribers and readers.They got me wrong right from the beginning and still have not changed course, and never will. DISHONEST
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Thr coverage about me in the @nytimes and the @washingtonpost* gas been so false and angry that the times actually apologized to its.....
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The failing @nytimes* has been wrong about me from the very beginning. Said I would lose the primaries, then the general election. FAKE NEWS!
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GingerIvy · 28/01/2017 13:31

And yes, Salems, Mexican Pres is. Grin

Roussette · 28/01/2017 13:32

He's just tweeted again. About the 'failing NY Times' who said he wouldn't win, but he did. FAKE NEWS!!!

Oh man give it a rest FFS. God does he bear grudges, he really really can't seem to let anything go can he? It's very disturbing.

And now his kneejerk reaction with banning all these people has upset the likes of Google and Facebook...
Thousands of Academics from Universities all over the US have signed a petition against the Immigration Order. here In there are Nobel Laureates and winners of prestigious prizes, medallists etc.

Olympiathequeen · 28/01/2017 13:33

I also wish someone would amputate his thumbs and stop him tweeting

TheMysteriousJackelope · 28/01/2017 13:35

They are considering letting people in who are persecuted for their religion in their home country, but only if they are in a religious minority in their home country.

Muslims have more to fear from ISIS than any other religious groups. Pagans are considered slave material. Christians and Jews can buy reasonable treatment as they are members of fellow Abrahamic faiths. Muslims who disagree with ISIS's religious views are regarded as heretics and are put to death.

This requirement could result in thousands of Muslims being executed.

GabsAlot · 28/01/2017 13:35

its all moving very quickly isnt it

cant believe people are being turned away who already live there-disgusting

ZebraOwl · 28/01/2017 13:36

Am catching up on last night's The Last Leg & apparently Trump's "people" have requested a "Full Monty" visit Hmm - so TLL thoughtfully provided a preview (pic from their Twitter; if you can't read the pants, they say "Don't/be/a/dick/tator"). Trump's also demanded to be allowed to play a round on HMQ's private golf course "while she watches on". Jaysus is there no end to the man's ego?!

That scum-sucking pile of shite who had himself excused from the army because he had hurty feet thinks he's any right to be asking a 90yo woman who DID do War Service [obviously not seeing active service; though of course her sons, grandsons & husband all have!] & lived through fecking air-raids to stand about & watch him twit around because he fancies himself a statesman rather than a windsock that has, by some hideous explosion of diarrhoea by the Donkey Of Destiny, managed to become President of the United States... Jesus Mary & Joseph HAS HE NO SHAME?!

(And I am very VERY angry about ALL the other things, yes, but this has just tipped me over. I hope HMQ "has a cold" when that great oaf visits & that Prince Charles breaks out the Duchy Originals [& his enviromentalism] & the DoE holds Trump in the contempt he so richly deserves. For all he's famed for his of-his-generation!racism [not that all that generation share or express those views!] I don't see the D of E taking to Trump: Trump is brash, vulgar, boastful, a liar - unstatesmanlike in every way. And if he does something to upset HMQ &/or is disrespectful towards her...)

It's all just so sodding awful. I actually find myself glad my grandparents aren't any of them alive to see it. I never knew my maternal grandfather - he was older than granny, she was his second wife, the first died when he was stationed out in India between the two World Wars. A branch of his family tree was burned away in the Holocaust - all his German cousins & aunts & uncles. Our line moved to Ireland, and as one did, in the late C19, converted to Catholicism. But the family in Germany... And both sides have seen Mixed Marriages with all the sectarian tensions that brings. My paternal grandmother witnessed her mother being told off by a priest because she was taking food to Protestant neighbours during the Great Depression in the 1930s - she ignored him & kept on doing it, which was a HUGE deal. To see this kind of shite rising up again, when we were meant to have learned, we were meant to know better, meant to BE better... just... it feels like failing the people who went before AND the rising generations & that's a quite astonishing amount of failure, frankly. And obviously we can do our best to protest, to resist, to mitigate - but I am so SO afraid it won't be enough.

ZebraOwl · 28/01/2017 13:38

(Sorry, got caught up in my ramblings & forgot to attach pic Blush )

HPFA · 28/01/2017 13:38

Philip Roth on Trump:

twitter.com/samfr

InformalRoman · 28/01/2017 13:40

I also wish someone would amputate his thumbs and stop him tweeting

Are you even sure he has opposable thumbs?

Meanwhile, I really, really hope that this is fake news:

You can only trust Trump, says science guy

On Monday, Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, who has previously praised Trump’s “stamina” and “conviction,” gave a floor speech in the House in which lauded the president, celebrating his many accomplishments. According to Smith, you may not be familiar with those accomplishments, because the media won’t tell you.

“Better to get your news directly from the president,” Smith said. “In fact, it might be the only way to get the unvarnished truth.”

Smith is the chair of the House Science Committee, which he has transformed into an aggressively partisan instrument, using its investigatory powers — including sweeping new subpoena powers granted by fellow Republicans in 2015 — to harass and intimidate individual scientists, agencies, and nonprofit organizations.

www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/1/27/14395978/donald-trump-lamar-smith

GingerIvy · 28/01/2017 13:42

Bahahahahaa Dear God, you just can't make it up.... Check out his tweet from 2014.

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Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?

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GrouchyKiwi · 28/01/2017 13:43

Ah, a new thread with the best information. Top thread.

I'm not sure I can handle another week of Trump news, but the incisive commentary here certainly helps.

amispartacus · 28/01/2017 13:44

Has he got any evidence for the NY Times?

I feel like subscribing to them

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Meluzyna · 28/01/2017 13:48

has anyone posted this yet?
The Netherlands speaks to Trump in his own language.

AndHoldTheBun · 28/01/2017 13:49

Another beautiful thread!

[bumhole sign] 👌

Roussette · 28/01/2017 13:54

This is all just awful isn't it. Iraqis who have worked alongside the US military in Iraq, risking their lives, protecting US soldiers, they have their Visas but they will probably be turned away.

Here

amispartacus · 28/01/2017 13:59

This is all just awful isn't it. Iraqis who have worked alongside the US military in Iraq, risking their lives, protecting US soldiers, they have their Visas but they will probably be turned away

Yet our papers would have a field day if we turned away translaters etc helping UK forces.

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SW1A1AA · 28/01/2017 14:00

I know he doesn't drink but the ranty tweets with SPAG errors in make me think he's pissed when he writes them.

Lweji · 28/01/2017 14:00

Are you allowed to impeach a president for gross incompetence?

The answer was no, and that's when he decided to run for it.

amispartacus · 28/01/2017 14:01

Anyway - I've just subscribed to the NY Times and the Washington Post. I read enough of their articles anyway.

When the President of the USA complains about 2 of the world's most well known papers, that's got to be good for sales

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amispartacus · 28/01/2017 14:02

I know he doesn't drink but the ranty tweets with SPAG errors in make me think he's pissed when he writes them

He is pissed if you use the American meaning Grin

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SpecialRelationship · 28/01/2017 14:09

Isn't the Mexican President hot!

amispartacus · 28/01/2017 14:11

The NY Times fact checking

nyti.ms/2kd6dL4

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AgedRelative · 28/01/2017 14:13

Still on previous thread but have to comment on that nutter Pence. So he honestly thinks that woman will go out and get raped so they can have an abortion all as a cunning plan to get a few days of work? In the name of sanity. So so frightening.

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