I never met someone from NM to discuss MN. Honest. Trump thread cont

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I dunno, applause sounded loud on my headphone

Loud music now.

Ugh he's such a wanker when he walks around clapping and thumbs up-ping

"At the battle of Midway. You all know about the battle of Midway [because I sure don't and I hope it's not fake]"

I think on the contrary, they put his supporters in front and told them all to clap.
It seems most of the support comes from his civilians in the crowd.

He's reading from the autocue. He keeps turning left and right and changes the way he talks.

Also, his hands do look small in that jacket.

I wonder if he now has someone dictating his speeches into a tiny earphone?

You all know about the battle of Midway

Midway - that was a battle based on intelligence. They knew the Japanese were coming because of intelligence. The US destroyed most of the Japanese naval strength.

Payback for Pearl Harbour.

I'm guessing the navy people know about Midway. It's on the syllabus

Yikes. Scary option it is - someone is working to make him look more sane.

I wonder if he now has someone dictating his speeches into a tiny earphone?

They probably bark "stay on topic!" if he strays too.

In these troubled times our navy is the smallest it's been since world war one

So is the UK's. Large naval power is not what is needed. A big carrier can be taken out with an underwater drone.

Has to be Bannon or Ivanka then. Don't think he'd listen to anyone else.

It's strange.

The UK is suffering a lot of budget issues despite having a strong economy.

I would love to know how all this will be paid for? Does money grow on trees? Will it be paid back?

Definitely autocue.

Autocue at these speeches are two transparent screens on the left and right. Most people will only turn slightly, but he turns 90o from one side to the other, as if he has no peripheral vision or couldn't turn his neck.

In his off the cuff speeches he tends to face forward most of the time, as when he says something off script.

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Trump said he had "total" confidence in his attorney general and wasn't aware of contacts with Russia's ambassador

Just like he didn't know about Flynn either.

Maybe he didn't ask the right question. He didn't know what he didn't know because he didn't know the right question to ask.

The question is simple.

When did you last meet someone from Russia?

But that can be answered without referring to the ambassador if they met a Russian person last week.

Is there anything you think I need to be told about about any contacts you have had with people from Russia?

Does that work? It's all about asking the RIGHT question.

And there I was thinking he'd bothered to learn something off by heart. #fail

DH is in the military. Warfare has changed, its no longer about "boots on the ground" or who has the biggest boat/tank/plane. It's about intelligence, unmanned drones, etc.

As DH pointed out to me, the US Naval Air Force (i.e. Just those planes/helicopters attached to the Navy) is bigger than our ENTIRE Royal Air Force.

Plus, again from DH, the US Military has long been inefficient with its manpower and training. For example, in the RAF you'd train an engineer to be able to fix all the components of an aircraft, meaning a smaller ground crew. The US military will train 1 man for the landing gear, 1 man for the wings, 1 man for the engine, etc meaning you need a huge team and that they don't understand each other's jobs.

t's about intelligence, unmanned drones, etc

And drone hunters. That's the next big thing

I wonder how the secret service protect the President against drone attacks? Just a small drone with a hand grenade attached to it. It's what they are using to attack troops in Mosul.

Indeed so, ami.

I'm still waiting for the teeny tiny drones carrying biological weapons. Or cyanide. Just wiping out people with precision. Has to happen eventually, right?

Trump also has a reading style in which if he encounters a three word combination he reads the first two, then realises there was a third and says it awkwardly after a pause.

Clearly, Trump's understanding of current warfare is on a par with his knowledge of health systems, economics and foreign policy.
Maybe someone can eventually find something he does understand well.

Regarding the navy, he's contradicting himself in relation to his preferred method of surprise attacks. I dare him to make a surprise attack using huge ships. Maybe he's thinking of making them invisible? Or beaming them up? George Takei could help.

He's distancing himself. I just realised. Sorry.

I'm still waiting for the teeny tiny drones carrying biological weapons. Or cyanide. Just wiping out people with precision

Take out an aircraft carrier by infecting the crew with the plague?

These days terrorists could send bomb packages through Amazon. They just need to become Amazon sellers.

Anything happening on the recusal?

"I have said whenever it's appropriate, I will recuse myself," he said. "There's no doubt about that."

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House Speaker Paul Ryan said Thursday that he supports Sessions' decision to recuse himself if he becomes part of an investigation into Russia, but there's been no evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow.

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Look, if Lil' Kim had to go to jail for perjury, that big eared racist gotta go too.