Don't put the phone down on this thread. Treat it with respect. It's the official Trump thread 8

[amispartacus]

www.mumsnet.com/Talk/am_i_being_unreasonable/2843068-The-official-Trump-thread-Its-true-It-is-No-its-not-The-President-said-it-is

Just to remind you that Trump put the phone down on had a heated conversation with the Australian PM

Has put Iran on notice

Threatened UC Berkeley with withdrawal of funds if they 'promote violence'

Said something about troops and Mexico

Sean Spicer currently lying talking to the press corps

[AcrossthePond55]

Oh shit. It isn't all a nightmare is it? Fucketty fuck fuck fuck.

I need a drink. The strongest drink. A Bigly one.

[GingerIvy]

David Fahrenthold ‏@Fahrenthold
Washington Post reporter.
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Ivanka Trump also promised to resign from family business – and hasn’t filed the paperwork. From @propublica.

www.propublica.org/article/ivanka-trump-promised-to-resign-from-family-business-hasnt-filed-paperwork?utm_campaign=bt_twitter&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

[cozietoesie]

Please don't make me chortle so, Bore. (Your self-congratulatory - not to say self-adulatory - post.)

[amispartacus]

Just watching Angry Spice again.

The opening statements are - well, they're not British.

[GingerIvy]

Mythili Sampathkumar
Journalist | US + Intl news
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‏@MythiliSk

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1. Story time: was too upset to say this morn, but my Dad - U.S. Citizen for 17 years, born in India - was strip searched last night at IAD
   

1. He had TSA Precheck. It was a domestic flight. Was told the usual - it's a random search. Now, there's no evidence this has to do
   
2. With the #MuslimBan, but it's clear it effects all us. He didn't argue and did what he was told. He wears a sacred thread (we're Brahmin)
   
3. So you can imagine how this has shaken him. He's 68 and a U.S Citizen on a domestic flight. It's hard not to think it's all related
   
4. Ban impacts all of us. I stand w/#NoBanNoWall bec I knew things like this would happen. We all look the same to the ignorant + scared
   
5. TSA is ON EDGE. I don't know that I completely blame them for that bec everyone is watching their every action. But, come on.
   
6. There has to be a better explanation than "it's a random search," some measure of exercising common sense.
   
7. My dad is a short, balding, slight Indian guy who can barely lift a suitcase. Painfully obvious on 1st site he's no threat. Beyond that
   
8. he's got PreCheck on domestic flight. It doesn't feel random. They came for Muslims first so we need to stand with them.
   

10. We need to be polite, but don't stop resisting either. I'm telling this story because it's the reality we all face now.
11. I'm not at all saying this to demonize TSA. I understand that they have a tough job. They're just trying to keep us all safe.
12. But, innocent US citizens on domestic flights who 'look a certain way' can't be targets because then everyone is a target. Peace to all.
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Note, this was on a DOMESTIC flight! Not international.

[GingerIvy]

Please PLEASE make him stop with this fucking "winter white house" nonsense.

[GingerIvy]

Pacific Standard ‏@PacificStand 11m11 minutes ago
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The EPA has started to remove Obama-era information bit.ly/2kZhgFa via @ClimateCentral

[amispartacus]

It swings the other way because of political correctness. FFS

[GingerIvy]

The Independent ‏@Independent 5s6 seconds ago
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Thousands of shops in New York are shutting down to protest Trump's 'Muslim ban'
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-new-york-bodega-grocery-stores-strike-protest-muslim-ban-a7560121.html

[BoreOfWhabylon]

That cozietosie. Very nice. very very nice. Fantastic yooman bean.
And great piece of ass. Better than TherAYsa May who, by the way, is a very godly person too.

Soon as we get through this prayer meeting, I'm gonna just kiss her. Just start kissing her and ...

And she'll just let me, you know. Cause I'm bigly and godly.

[Roussette]

Thanks teaspoon, yes she does!

And thanks ami for the spice nonsense press conference, I'll have a listen

[amispartacus]

I've watched far too many of these now.

Front row left.
2 guys. 1 woman. Love seeing what ties they wear everyday. I think they have their favourite seats.

[CaveMum]

DH, who has travelled a lot in the US, says the TSA are very "black and white", they're low paid and poorly trained and just can't be reasoned with. DH's old boss was travelling in the US on a NATO Travel Order (DH is UK military) and the TSA he encountered at JFK Airport came close to carry out a strip search on him because he'd never seen the paperwork before and thought it was fake

[SanFranBear]

There was a small post somewhere I read which said:

There are more black people living in Beyonce than in Donald Trump's cabinet

Sad but true

[LouiseBrooks]

I just don't understand, amoungst so much else that's going on, why a British citizen who has regularly travelled the Atlantic as a cardio surgeon suddenly wasn't allowed entry anymore to the US based on her surname. I've googled but can't find what it was

Her surname is Al Hussaini which is undoubtedly why she was picked out but it appeared the reason she was banned from travel is because she had an Iraqi visa in her passport. I don't know where her family come from originally but she only has British nationality.

I also read about a Danish archaeologist who was banned because he'd been on a dig in Iraq.

So basically, if you've ever made a single trip to one of those countries it sounds you are likely to be banned from entering the U.S.

[GingerIvy]

That's it Bore. You think you have a bigger audience, even though it's just all FAKE NEWS, so I'm just going to cut off all your government funds - even if you're not getting any, I'm cutting them off.

[cozietoesie]

I heard, once, of two youngsters who went to work for a certain big US company, ami. On asking what dress code they were to adopt, they were told 'white shirts and a sincere tie'.

I wonder what instructions the press correspondents have?

[merrymouse]

I had an argument with a Trump supporter on Facebook who argued that his (English) wife had to wait for a US VISA/Green Card but that because it was "what you have to do" they "sucked it up" and so anyone from the banned countries should do too. Of course he couldn't see the difference in a Westerner applying from the safety of a country like the UK and a refugee fleeing possible death in a war zone hmm

She had to wait for 18 months in a refugee centre? That's tough! And I'm also assuming that periodically she gets told to hand it back at airports. She probably lives in fear of being dumped at Aberdeen airport with no way to get back home.

[Godstopper]

Ogod.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/donald-trump-destroy-johnson-amendment-religious-freedom-separation-church-state-a7559421.html

"The declaration came as an apparent leaked draft of a new executive order set out how specific religious beliefs—reflecting conservative Christian social tenets—could become enshrined as executive policy.

They include "the belief that marriage is or should be recognised as the union of one man and one woman, sexual relations are properly reserved for such a marriage, male and female and their equivalents refer to an individual’s immutable biological sex as objectively determined by anatomy, physiology, or genetics at or before birth, and that human life begins at conception and merits protection at all stages of life".

[GingerIvy]

The Independent ‏@Independent now6 seconds ago
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House votes to scrap Obama rule on background checks for gun ownership ind.pn/2jIxj8P

[BoreOfWhabylon]

ahahahahahah!

I've got you surrounded now! Get out of that, GingerIvy!














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[amispartacus]

Do you think Spicer is lying here?

The Australian question

[GingerIvy]

Ásta Helgadóttir ‏@asta_fish
The Icelandic Intelligence Service, how can I help? Also member of Parliament for the @piratepartyIS
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Grandpa just called. Thanked me for calling Trump a fascist in parliament yesterday. Grandpa was a kid during WWII and remembers. Remember.

[GingerIvy]

Bore

bwahaahahahahahahahahahaa

[OhYouBadBadKitten]

Maybe that should be our mocking jay sign?