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Kuka on mielestäsi järjestänyt tuollaisen lapsenmielen presidentiksi?
Mikäli henkilökuvauksesi osuu oikeaan, miehellä itsellään ei vaikuta olevan mitään tekemistä vaalivoittonsa kanssa. Monet on kyllä sitä mieltä että Trumpin toiminnalla on ansioita.
Niin kun hän ei halunnut voittaa. Oli vain tarkoitus olla kisassa mukana saadakseen arvokasta mainontaa nimelleen. Hän kun oli vähentänyt kiinteistöbisnestä ja tilalle alkanut markkinoida nimeään eri puolelle maailmaa tyyliin; maksa Donaldille niin saat käyttää Trump-nimeä tavarallesi/kiinteistöllesi.Ei ollut ainakaan varautunut asiaan.
Sitten hänen suusta tuli MAGA ja kaikki muuttui.
Sanoisin että Trumpin vastustajat teki trumpista presidentin. Vuosi putkeen yhteen kurkkuun Venäjä,Venäjä,Venäjä. Lisäksi kaikki isot mediat 24h Trumpin vastaista uutisointia. Vaikutus oli varmasti käänteinen mitä vastustajat odotti.
Ei Trump kuitenkaan Venäjän ansioista vaaleja voittanut, vaikka sieltä apuja saikin.
Merkelin vaikutus Brexitiin ja Trumpin valintaan, siitä media on hiljaa. Putin työnsi vaan siihen "liikkeeseen" lisää vauhtia.
Kenraalit joskus aukovat päätään sotilaallisissa kysymyksissä, jotka siviili olettaa osaavansa paremmin.
Obama erotti Mattisin, koska hän suututti Obaman korkeat siviilivirkamiehet (erityisesti Tom Donilonin) inhottavilla kysymyksillään, kuten mitä he sitten tekevät, jos ydinkysymys on ratkaistu mutta Iran edelleen pysyy vihollisena ja kehittää konventionaalisten aseiden valmiuksia ja uhkaa Yhdysvaltain laivaston alusten toimintaa Persianlahdella. Hän halusi aina kysyä, mitä "teet sitten jos" -kysymyksiä.
Mattis ei halunnut, että Obaman hallitus tekee sotilasvoimaa vaativia strategisia päätöksiä kuulematta kenraaleja kunnolla.
Taustalla Mattisin vaatimuksille voi sanoa olleen GWB:n päätökset 2002, kun kenraalit kyseenalaistivat hyökkäyksen Irakiin tai asettivat jälkihoidolle reunaehtoja. Heitä ei kuitenkaan kuunneltu.
(Yksi jälkihoitovaatimus oli muuten Irakin tasavaltalaisarmeijan säilyttäminen, jotta se voisi ottaa vastuun maasta, kun Saddamin hallinto on juurittu. Mutta Bush hajotti Irakin armeijan ja teki kasan työttömiä ja nöyryytettyjä upseereita, jotka valuivat Etelä-Irakiin ja aikansa kuluksi perustivat sitten Irakin ISIS:n )
President Donald Trump's surprise visit to Iraq included a revelation that a Navy SEAL team was located there, information generally considered classified.
Trump published video on Twitter of a meeting Wednesday with several members of the team, dressed in camouflage gear with night vision goggles. Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the USA" plays on the video.
"@FLOTUS Melania and I were honored to visit our incredible troops at Al Asad Air Base in Iraq," Trump tweeted. "GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.!"
The president, as commander in chief, would have the right to declassify information. The Naval Special Warfare Command did not immediately return an email for comment from USA TODAY.
Trump and first lady Melania Trump flew out of Washington in Air Force One on Christmas, arriving Wednesday at Iraq's Al Asad Air Base. Trump spent about three hours on the ground in Iraq, meeting with soldiers in a dining hall and addressing more troops in a hangar.
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the military during an unannounced trip to Al Asad Air Base in Iraq, Dec.26, 2018.
Saul Loeb, AFP/Getty Images
Trump paused to take photos and selfies with many service members. According to the media pool report, Trump stopped to talk football with one soldier named John Rader with the 201st Regional Support Group based in Atlanta. When U.S. Navy Lieutenant Commander Kyu Lee told Trump he was the chaplain for Seal Team Five, the chaplain said Trump told him: “Hey, in that case, let’s take a picture.”
The video Trump posted shows him and Melania shaking hands with several members of the team, along with support personnel.
A Defense Department official speaking on condition of anonymity told Newsweek that such personnel generally have their faces covered or their face digitally blurred prior to a photo release. The official could not recall an other time where special operation forces posed with their faces visible while serving in a war zone.
Trump's lies and corruption disgrace presidential legacies of Lincoln and Washington
David Rothkopf Opinion contributor
Published 5:00 AM EST Dec 27, 2018
President-elect Donald Trump and his wife Melania Trump at the Lincoln Memorial on Jan. 19, 2017, in Washington, D.C.
Evan Vucci/AP
A corrupt and fraudulent family foundation. Hush money to mistresses to help swing an election — felony violations of campaign finance laws. Seeking and embracing the help of an enemy to win an election. Repeatedly obstructing justice to cover up those crimes.
Selling out American interests to patrons overseas. Profiting from the presidency. Helping foreign murderers cover up the murder of an American permanent resident. Attacking our allies. Destroying the international architecture that has been the foundation of our strength.
Lying to or misleading the American people on average 10 times a day. Celebrating Nazis as very fine people. Building detention camps for children on our borders. Racist policies that turn away good people from our shores. Serial misogyny. Upwards of 20 allegations of sexual harassment.
At least one accusation of rape from an underage minor. A massive, decades-long record of income tax fraud. Seventeen investigations into his activities. Virtually every major organization he has run for two decades under investigation.
An international record of celebrating despots and autocrats and kleptocrats and brutal totalitarians and enemies. Unprecedented isolation from America's friends and a repeated record of insults of them and international rejection of him as a trusted leader.
Attacking America's law enforcement institutions. Attacking America's intelligence institutions. Collaborating with fellow travelers in Congress to circumvent the laws and to undermine decades and decades of regulation. Irreversible damage done to the environment.
A campaign to take health care away from the neediest Americans. A systematic effort to deport productive contributors to our society who have lived and worked here for decades. Hypocrisy. Vulgarity. Deceit. Mounting evidence of criminal behavior. Serial violation of his oath of office. Serial betrayal of his country.
This is our president. This is the heir to Washington and Lincoln. He stole the office with the aid of our enemies, and he has done grievous damage to this country ever since.
Sometimes I walk through Alexandria, Virginia, where I live, past the places Washington walked, and I have to admit it, it makes me physically ill. It is hard to imagine that there is a line from George Washington to Donald Trump, that we could have so squandered the legacies of past generations.
What would Washington and Lincoln say about Trump?
Read this list of wrongs and crimes and missteps and compound it with the ignorance and the incompetence and the absence of principles and the deficiency of character of this man. Think how each and any of them might have disqualified past leaders.
Think how you wouldn't allow such a man into your home or contact with your children and then of the power and prestige he has been given, the precious gifts of heritage that have been placed in his hands.
It is easy to grow numb to this. It is possible to become distracted by rage. But remembering what is at stake, we must focus on undoing this great wrong that took place in 2016 and seeking justice for the crimes that contributed to that and have unfolded since.
Imagine what Washington or Lincoln would say were they to see this. Worse still, imagine what our grandchildren and generations to come will say. This is the history we bequeath to them. Let it in the end be an affirmation of our institutions and our ability to repel danger.
Let it in the end be worthy of the best of the legacy that came before. We're an imperfect society, but we should not elevate the worst among us as we have done with this man Trump and the corrupt crowd of enablers surrounding him.
David Rothkopf is CEO of the Rothkopf Group and host of Deep State Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @djrothkopf. This column was adapted from a Twitter thread.
Published 5:00 AM EST Dec 27, 2018
It always seemed to me that Mr. Trump’s turbulent presidency was unsustainable and that key Republicans would eventually decide that he had become too great a burden to the party or too great a danger to the country. That time may have arrived. In the end the Republicans will opt for their own political survival. Almost from the outset some Senate Republicans have speculated on how long his presidency would last. Some surely noticed that his base didn’t prevail in the midterms.
But it may well not come to a vote in the Senate. Facing an assortment of unpalatable possibilities, including being indicted after he leaves office, Mr. Trump will be looking for a way out. It’s to be recalled that Mr. Nixon resigned without having been impeached or convicted. The House was clearly going to approve articles of impeachment against him, and he’d been warned by senior Republicans that his support in the Senate had collapsed. Mr. Trump could well exhibit a similar instinct for self-preservation. But like Mr. Nixon, Mr. Trump will want future legal protection.
Mr. Nixon was pardoned by President Gerald Ford, and despite suspicions, no evidence has ever surfaced that the fix was in. While Mr. Trump’s case is more complex than Mr. Nixon’s, the evident dangers of keeping an out-of-control president in office might well impel politicians in both parties, not without controversy, to want to make a deal to get him out of there.
Ehkä heillä alkaa menä perille minkälainen helppoheikki se rumputin on.Aika hiljaista on ollut tämänkin forumin trumpetisteilta....
Trump siis keksi ratkaisun ongelmaansa. Jos kerran koko raja suljetaan mihin enää tarvitaan muuria?Kyllähän ihmisillä saa mielipiteitä olla, mutta Yhdysvaltojen presidentin asemassa saisi vähän miettiä, mitä suustaan päästää. Ne Trumpin twiitit kun edustavat samalla presidentin virallista linjaa. Nyt se uhkaa sulkea Meksikon vastaisen rajan, jos rahoja muuria varten ei ala löytyä.
Jep. Tuolls rajalla on (wikipedian mukaan) vuosittain n 350 miljoonaa dokumentoitua rajanylitystä. Ei kun kiinni vaan ja hyvä tulee...Trump siis keksi ratkaisun ongelmaansa. Jos kerran koko raja suljetaan mihin enää tarvitaan muuria?