Trump - hoće li biti impeachment ili 8 godina drugačijeg predsednikovanja?

[3opge]

[Gandalf]

 

 

[dvb-t manijak]

 

 

Edited April 25, 2020 by dvb-t manijak

[Tsai]

Neko davno (zaboravio sam ko) je super napisao, "ko kad bi komentari s sajta kurira postali predsednik" 

[theanswer]

Nego, Drudge poliva po Trampu za sve pare, toliko da je ovaj tvitovao za njega pre neki dan. Ali, od tad je postalo još gore

 

Edited April 26, 2020 by theanswer

[3opge]

 

[mustang]

die motherfucker

 

laki je malo nervozan 

 

uplasio se 

 

 

joooj ce da posaljem ovo james woods ...da vidimo sta on ima da kaze na ovo 

Edited April 26, 2020 by mustang

[Tsai]

travolta iz borce grede

[Gojko & Stojko]

 

Od australijskog dopisnika iz US (bold na dnu moj):

Trump's sudden silence betrays his coronavirus failures

Washington: Something remarkable happened over the weekend in the United States: President Donald Trump was not seen or heard.

 

Since early March, Trump has appeared almost every day at the White House to brief the nation on his administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

 

Often stretching over two hours, the rambunctious affairs have shown Trump jousting with reporters, bragging about his administration's response, hyping unproven treatments and attacking his Democratic rivals.

 

As the weeks went on, heath experts such as Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx received increasingly little airtime as Trump dominated the podium.

 

Then came the disastrous briefing on Thursday (Friday AEST) when Trump mused about the possibility of injecting coronavirus patients with disinfectant or exposing them to high levels of ultra-violet rays.

 

It made Trump appear dangerously uninformed, and exposed him to global ridicule. Three days later, health experts and politicians still felt the need to remind Americans not to drink Clorox if they believe they have the virus.

 

It was one of the worst moments of Trump's presidency - on par with his 2018 press conference in Helsinki when he appeared to side with Vladimir Putin over his own intelligence agencies on the question of Russian election meddling.

 

A day after that press conference, Trump came up with the implausible explanation that the whole thing was a misunderstanding. Trump claimed he had meant to say there was no reason to believe Putin wasn't behind the meddling when he said the exact opposite.

 

He tried to pull a similar trick this time around when he said that his disinfectant remarks were a "sarcastic" prank on the press - a transparent attempt at retro-fitting that few took seriously.

 

Trump cut the next day's briefing off after just 22 minutes, refusing to take any questions. There was no briefing on Saturday or Sunday local time.

 

Instead of fronting up to the White House briefing room, Trump spent the day sulking on Twitter. He declared himself the "hardest working President in history", demanded journalists return their "Noble [sic] prizes" and accused Fox News of promoting Democratic Party talking points.

 

"What is the purpose of having White House News Conferences when the Lamestream Media asks nothing but hostile questions, & then refuses to report the truth or facts accurately," Trump said on Twitter. "They get record ratings, & the American people get nothing but Fake News. Not worth the time & effort!"

 

Trump's sudden silence speaks volumes. He has conceded - in his actions, if not his words - that the lengthy daily briefings were doing him more harm than good.

 

In times of crisis, citizens usually rally behind their political leaders, giving them more leeway than usual to make mistakes and change their mind.

 

But Trump has not received the popularity boost from the pandemic that almost all elected officials have received - both in the US and abroad - despite his dominance of the daily news cycle.

 

After a modest initial bump, Trump's approval ratings have fallen back to where they were before the outbreak began: the low 40 per cent range.

 

Compare that to New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, whose approval ratings shot up from 44 per cent to 71 per cent in a month. That came despite the huge death toll in his state and questions about whether he was too slow to order non-essential businesses to close.

 

Cuomo's ratings have surged, in large part, because of his direct, fact-based and empathetic communication style.

 

Trump's briefings, by contrast, have been rambling and full of dubious claims. They have also stood out for the lack of time spent empathising with the 50,000-plus Americans who have died from the virus. A Washington Post analysis of the past three weeks' briefings found Trump spent just four-and-a-half minutes expressing condolences for victims compared to two hours attacking his enemies and 45 minutes praising his administration.

 

The coronavirus pandemic presented Trump with a golden opportunity to appear presidential, put partisanship aside and increase his appeal to the swing voters who will decide the November election.

 

So far, it's an opportunity he has squandered.

 

SaE

[Gandalf]

 

 

[vememah]

 

Quote

 

Trump is unravelling – even his supporters can't ignore it now

The president is leaning heavily on sarcasm to excuse a range of blunders, but US conservatives are unimpressed

 

Perhaps the only people more incompetent than Trump are the ragtag team of sycophants he has surrounded himself with.

 

I don’t know what kind of disinfectant Donald Trump has been injecting, but the man does not appear to be well. The president’s lethal medical musing has turned him into (even more of) a global laughing stock and the widespread ridicule has clearly bruised his fragile ego. While Trump has never been a paradigm of calmness or competence, he has become increasingly irate and erratic in recent days. Now even his diehard supporters seem to be cooling towards him. Is the “very stable genius” starting to unravel?

Let’s start with the president’s weekend tweetstorm, which, even by Trumpian standards, was spectacularly unhinged. On Sunday, Trump lashed out at what he called a “phony story” in the New York Times that claimed he spends his days eating junk food and watching TV. “I will often be in the Oval Office late into the night & read & see [in the Times] that I am angrily eating a hamberger & Diet Coke in my bedroom,” he tweeted. “People with me are always stunned.” He then deleted the tweet and replaced it with one in which hamburger was spelled correctly. (This was clearly a challenge for him: he has previously misspelled hamburgers “hamberders”.)

It turned out that the hambergers were just an appetiser. A rant about the “Noble” prize, which Trump seems to have confused with the Pulitzer prize, followed. This was subsequently deleted and replaced with a tweet stating it had all been an exercise in sarcasm. He is a master of sarcasm, as we all know.

 

 

Donald Trump: comments about injecting disinfectant were 'sarcastic' – video

 

While none of Trump’s aides seem able to shut down his Twitter account, they are trying to tone down his daily press briefings. Trump didn’t hold a briefing over the weekend as he normally does, while Monday’s event was cancelled and then reinstated. “We like to keep reporters on their toes,” the White House director of strategic communications, Alyssa Farah, tweeted with a winking emoji. She then deleted the tweet – presumably to keep reporters on their toes. Monday’s briefing was notable for the briefness of Trump’s remarks; instead of treating it like a political rally, he ceded the floor to a number of CEOs.

Trump enjoyed a bump in his ratings last month when he stopped downplaying coronavirus and announced a 15-day plan to slow the virus’s spread. During his brief experiment with coherence, 55% of Americans said they approved of the way he was handling the crisis and CNN’s chief political correspondent, Dana Bash, told viewers Trump “is being the kind of leader that people need”.

The tide now seems to have turned. Recent polls show that most Americans are unimpressed with Trump’s handling of the crisis. This includes conservatives: a Siena College poll released on Monday found that 56% of Republican voters in New York say they trust Andrew Cuomo, the state’s Democratic governor, to decide how to reopen the state over Trump. Even Fox News seems to have cooled towards Trumpism; the network has just cut ties with Diamond & Silk, a pair of rightwing social-media stars who have been two of Trump’s biggest cheerleaders, after they promoted conspiracy theories and disinformation.

Perhaps the only people more incompetent than Trump are the ragtag team of sycophants he has surrounded himself with. According to Politico, Trump is leaning heavily on Hope Hicks, who he reportedly calls “Hopey”, to steer him through the coronavirus crisis. Hicks, 31, who was formerly the White House communications director, is one of Trump’s most-trusted aides; according to one tell-all book, her duties used to include steaming his trousers – while he wore them. It turns out Hopey is the mastermind who urged Trump to “act as a frontman” during the crisis instead of deferring to health experts. Now that plan has backfired, Hicks – who officially works under boy genius Jared Kushner – is apparently developing a new strategy for Trump. He had better Hopey this one is a little more effective.

 

• Arwa Mahdawi is a Guardian columnist

 

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/28/trump-is-unravelling-even-his-supporters-cant-ignore-it-now

[Gandalf]

 

 

[mustang]

a national guard answers to whom?

 

 

[Gandalf]

kada nacionalna garda služi kao rezerva regularnoj vojsci, nadležnost ide na federalni nivo. u ovom i sličnim slučajevima, guverner je nadležan. čari federalizma.

[mustang]

aha

 

i onda pozove glavnog u nac. gardi predsednik amerike i pita rodjo dje su maske i respiratori i ti neces da mu kao odgovoris?

 

how do we call president of the US?

 

 

 

 

Edited April 30, 2020 by mustang