The Next President of the United States

[TightEnd]

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http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/12/03/world/asia/taiwan-call-gives-china-a-clue-on-what-to-expect-from-donald-trump.html

[MintTrav]

Coulter isn't happy with the direction the transition is taking:

Ann Coulter‏ @AnnCoulter
After Nikki Haley, I expect @realDonaldTrump's next cabinet pick to be Obama. Both used State of Union address this year to attack Trump.

Ann Coulter‏ @AnnCoulter
Sounds like the big sell-out is coming. Oh well. The voters did what we could. If Trump sells out, it's not our fault.


A few of the responses:

@AnnCoulter that's a copout. You backed a life long progressive knowing full well who and what he is. You can't shed your culpability.

@AnnCoulter Big sell out? What do you mean? I voted for Trump. Should I be worried?

@AnnCoulter If only we had some indication Trump would go back on his word. How oh how did we miss that?

@AnnCoulter YES IT IS YOUR FAULT

@AnnCoulter if only someone else had already had a similar experience. A business partner or wife, perhaps.

[Doobs]

Trump is making Kim Jong Un look a master of diplomacy on his twitter account overnight. 

Yeah we all agree building up Islands in the South China sea is a bad thing, but that just isn't how you say so.

I did hope he would settle down once he got power and it was all some act to win the election. 

[DMorgan]

[MintTrav]

China lodges complaint with US over Trump's Taiwan phone call

thought to be the first US/Taiwan leader conversation since 1979

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/dec/03/china-donald-trumps-taiwan-phone-call-complaint-us?CMP=twt_gu

what's worse? if Trump knew the offence the call would cause and still made it or if he didn't know and made it?!

If Trump knew the offence the call would cause and still made it.

But what about looking at this as an olive branch to mend 30+ years of non existant diplomatic relations? You could argue he would have caused offence to Taiwan by not accepting the call?

Not sure which I think is worse, tbh, good Q Tighty.

Oh I thought Trump made the call.

They are spinning it as him just taking a call, but that can't be the case. World leaders never just phone each other in the hope of getting through - it's always arranged. Taiwan may have made the call, which would mean they are not lying by saying he accepted it, but 100/1 it was planned.

I thought Ann Coulter was actually funny for once:
Ann Coulter‏ @AnnCoulter
With his reckless Taiwan phone call, Trump could trigger the wholesale abandonment of Jimmy Carter's foreign policy.

[RED-DOG]

I enjoyed this.

[TightEnd]

Today, Trump tweeted cancellation of a contract (new air force one), employing thousands, after reading that Boeing had criticised him.

amazing times really.

[TightEnd]

from Sunday's SNL

[DaveShoelace]

Today, Trump tweeted cancellation of a contract (new air force one), employing thousands, after reading that Boeing had criticised him.

amazing times really.

What did Boeing say about him?

[TightEnd]

Today, Trump tweeted cancellation of a contract (new air force one), employing thousands, after reading that Boeing had criticised him.

amazing times really.

What did Boeing say about him?

In an article they said they were unhappy at his potential trade policies

Trump, who sold $40m of Boeing stock in June, tweeted that the new contract for AFO was $4bn over budget. "Cancel order"

the stock cratered on wall street, temporarily 

[TightEnd]

this was the article http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/columnists/ct-boeing-china-trump-robert-reed-1206-biz-20161205-column.html

Trump tweeted 22 minutes after it was published

[Doobs]

Today, Trump tweeted cancellation of a contract (new air force one), employing thousands, after reading that Boeing had criticised him.

amazing times really.

What did Boeing say about him?

In an article they said they were unhappy at his potential trade policies

Trump, who sold $40m of Boeing stock in June, tweeted that the new contract for AFO was $4bn over budget. "Cancel order"

the stock cratered on wall street, temporarily  

I love the way that you can't create a parody Trump account that is more outrageous than the real one.  

Trump is just relentless.  Katie Hopkins must be sat at home wondering how she can begin to compete.  

[DaveShoelace]

The interesting for me about all these daft Trump episodes is seeing how intelligent Trump supporters react. Or 'Trump apologists' as I'm starting to call them.

He'll do something daft like criticise SNL and Alex Baldwin, and they'll say stuff like 'oh what a genius, he is playing the mainstream media like a fiddle'. Or they will point out how Machiavellian he is by using these episodes as distractions from things like his Trump University settlement.

A few weeks back Scott Adams went on Rogan's podcast and went on for about 20 minutes about Trump's powers of persuasion, he made a really strong case, and at the end Rogan just laughed and said "I just think he keeps getting lucky".

No idea what I think, he is either a genius or a child, don't think it's anything in-between.

[Woodsey]

I quite like the fact that he doesnt take any shit from anyone 

[Doobs]

I quite like the fact that he doesnt take any shit from anyone 

Admit it, you run the Trump account.  No other explanation makes sense.