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[Wolfgunblood Garopa]

Dude we saw it with Carrier! Remember how he was going to tax the shit out of them for moving their production to Mexico? He totally forced them to take millions of dollars in tax cuts to keep a couple jobs in the US for a little bit. That's some good winning!

lol. The pennies add up! That's solid businessman wisdom

 

[MightyHedgehog]

Given his performance at the three-week mark, he's proven to be even dumber and more unqualified than I previously thought, but thinking government can actually be successfully run 'like a business' is beyond naive. Such a fucking trainwreck.

 

[Beartruck]

I would love a general health study of white house employees in 6 months

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

 

[Strike]

 

[tuxfool]

Well to be fair he was voted in by people who don't know how the government works either, and it is a reason why Trump supporters are enraged at stuff like courts blocking Trump.

I have read plenty of angry comments to the effect that these vile judges are liberal activists using wicked and unfair Legal Tricksies to stop Trump from saving America.

The very same people that were whining about executive overreach with Obama. Their idiocy and hypocrisy has no bounds.

 

[Saint Gregory]

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

OK please stop, now you're impacting my health *clutches sides*

 

[Tovarisc]

He is running things like his business. With anger, incompetence, hubris, impatience, petty vindictiveness, a goal of self-enrichment at all cost, and a massive sense of self-entitlement. It's just that more people are paying attention.

I'm already expecting him to try settle with 9th circuit and/or SCOTUS over his muslim ban EO.

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

She and Spicer has it rough. After Trump maybe most visible persons of administration and they have to make their best in spinning bullshit that administration puts out there. Rise of stress and decline in mental health must be rapid.

 

[Knuckle Sandwich]

If I had hair I would have pulled it all out with how many times I heard people say they want a business man to run the country like a business. You can't do that and why would you even want it? And why this failed business man?

Can someone his age really last 8 years of this? I bet we will start hearing about medical issues in the next 4 months

Listen to an interview from 10 years ago then one of his nonsense rants from today + his overall strange behavior and it seems like he's already suffering from a serious medical issue. Something's wrong with his bean.

 

[gcubed]

i think one of his biggest cons is convincing people he's a billionaire

 

[rokkerkory]

Trump doesn't even know how to run his own companies?

 

[watershed]

I am so shocked by this.

 

[Regulus Tera]

this was, and stays the most idiotic argument for an trump administration

The argument could have some sway if we had any evidence that Trump is a successful businessman and not a snake oil salesman.

 

[jelly]

i think one of his biggest cons is convincing people he's a billionaire

Yeah, the tax returns would soon mess that up along with other things. So called billionaire.

 

[kaching]

If he had run a large-scale business successfully (50-100k employees, at least), I'd see at least some merit to how his experience could translate to the presidency, but it certainly wouldn't be a perfect match.

But he's never run any business anywhere near that scale, nevermind successfully.

 

[Caja 117]

So he actually tought he was elected King of the USA...

 

[Dude Abides]

When Trump falls, we're going to have to put up with A LOT of idiots pissing and moaning about how we didn't give Trump a fair shot.

That's a price I'm willing to pay.

 

[Akuun]

i think one of his biggest cons is convincing people he's a billionaire

He's made a lot of really big cons. Somehow, he's convince people that he's:
- a billionaire
- a good businessman
- smart
- well-informed
- has good connections

...when obviously he is none of those things, and usually the complete opposite of them. Amazingly, a shitty businessman trying to bring his shitty seagull management style into the US government actually hurts the government and everything connected to it! Who would've thought.

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

The Onion's got you covered.

You Would Do The Same Thing If An Old Witch Had Your Father's Soul Trapped In A Lantern

 

[Slayven]

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

Pence looks like he is turning too stone

 

[Shao Kahn on the Lawn]

Like we all suspected, he has a grade-school understanding of civics and thought the President was a king just as we all did when we were 8 years old.

 

[CrunchyB]

Listen to an interview from 10 years ago then one of his nonsense rants from today + his overall strange behavior and it seems like he's already suffering from a serious medical issue. Something's wrong with his bean.

Yeah, for sure. The mannerisms were already there, he's still obnoxious, but he is able to dose it and he doesn't come across as a lunatic. Just a mean asshole. He's even a pretty good speaker in some videos I watched, there is none of the word salad we're all too familiar with by now.

Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2S8bbGTO0

 

[killdatninja]

Fake it til you make it gone horribly wrong. Although, in this case I don't mind.

 

[Beer Monkey]

Baldwin needs to start wearing a big padded butt in his suit and bending over to show it off. Trump would lose his mind.

 

[Agent Gibbs]

Shock horror, you can't run a country like a businessman, where you fire who you want when you want, don't have to consider peoples lives outside of work, can pack your bags and not do business with people you don't like etc etc etc

you have to be diplomatic to be....a diplomat

There is a genuine prospect Trump will destroy America's international presence and alienate all other countries, and his inconsistent statements on china are particularly bad as they could easily take up the 'slack' on the international stage left by the wake of America

He just comes across like a grumpy old man shouting at everyone and it will not end well for him or the country! Sure trump voters think his aims are just and his ideals are laudable but surely SURELY they have to realise that he doesn't have the ability to deliver!

I mean I love classic cars, they have all the looks I want, unfortunately the reality is they are occasionally good and unable to be used daily as they don't have any reliability or consistency, Trump (in my awful metaphor) is surely like that to Trump voters? great idea with absolutely awful inconsistent execution

 

[shiba5]

Did anyone seriously not see this coming from a mile away?

You mean the same people who think The Bowling Green Massacre really happened?

 

[ryutaro's mama]

Like we all suspected, he has a grade-school understanding of civics and thought the President was a king just as we all did when we were 8 years old.

That's why he signs those EOs and holds them up like they are unchallenged decrees. What a fucking moron.

Even Bush didn't behave like such a mental midget.

 

[The Hermit]

How can someone so arrogant have gone so far?

 

[BajiBoxer]

Unfortunately, millions of Americans think the country can and should be run like a business, and that the national debt works just like their personal finances.

 

[Two Words]

Like I said before, Trump must have thought "checks and balances" was referring to money transfers and bank accounts.

 

[AstroNut325]

Unfortunately, millions of Americans think the country can and should be run like a business, and that the national debt works just like their personal finances.

I can never get Libertarians to understand this concept.

 

[Jotaka]

Everytime I see a photo of Conway in the news it looks like shes been tanning with the arc of the covenant. Stress levels must be insane.

If she choose to keep in that evil job on her own free will. No sympathy.

 

[hydrophilic attack]

Some interesting tidbits from the article:

After Trump grew infuriated by disclosures of his confrontational phone calls with foreign leaders, an investigation was launched into the source of the leaks, according to one White House aide. National Security Council staffers have been instructed to cooperate with inquiries, including requests to inspect their electronic communications, said two sources familiar with the situation. It’s not clear whether the investigation is a formal proceeding, how far along it is or who is conducting it.

going full stalin

Trump aides joke that they wish their boss would spend more time at his Mar-A-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., where they say the president appears more relaxed and at ease. He dispensed hugs and kisses to female guests attending a Red Cross ball at the estate last week, and is scheduled to return this weekend for a round of golf with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe.

hide yo wife, hide yo kids, etc.

 

[mightynine]

The interviews paint a picture of a powder-keg of a workplace where job duties are unclear, morale among some is low, factionalism is rampant and exhaustion is running high.

Sounds like he's running it like a large corporation, which was his business, so why is he upset?

 

[ryutaro's mama]

How can someone so arrogant have gone so far?

Easy. His privileged birth (and financial head start) allowed him to remain inoculated from real world consequences that would have destroyed other people. Financial ruin hit him several times and he got out of it by getting people to continue to loan him money.

He scams and gets away with it. He assaults people, verbally and sexually and he gets away with it. He runs one of the worst campaigns ever for POTUS and still wins.

The arrogance is a byproduct of life failing to tell him "no". That's why any slight is magnified and why things like his little EO getting rebuked drives him insane. He isn't used to opposition that he couldn't just manipulate and/or run right through.

 

[Dash_Riprock]

Some interesting tidbits from the article:



going full stalin



hide yo wife, hide yo kids, etc.

That won't stop the leaks. If anything it'll just encourage them more.

 

[poppedcollar69]

Trump B/S/D

trump bdsm (baffled/didn't know/surprised/mad about)

 

[shoreu]

He's billionaire business man he knows how to run things

 

[BoboBrazil]

Running the us just like his business. By getting severely in debt and then going bankrupt.

 

[VendettaRed07]

Find it interesting what spicer is being put through here.

Hates having to lie spectacularly for the admin and can't even release some steam by playing with the criticism or going along with the joke. Trump is truly humorless

 

[fallengorn]

I'm glad he's stressed out. By the end of all this, I want him to look like King Theoden when he was counseled by Wormtongue.

 

[Keasar]

No.

Fucking.

Shit.

Pretty much what everyone said but noooo, don't listen to the "intellectual elite" cause "they clearly don't know anything".

Fucking idiots.

 

[aadiboy]

Spicer is only 45!? He looks at least 65...

 

[Angelus Errare]

Governments aren't run like businesses!? Please tell me more.

 

[Tovarisc]

Spicer is only 45!? He looks at least 65...

Loooooong days and stress levels off the charts [he is doing 2 jobs in WH + spinning bullshit into somewhat acceptable lines] are helluva drugs.

 

[metalslimer]

Even if you think a businessman can run the country better, Trump isn't even a good businessman

 

[dankir]

So now he'll definitely try to bankrupt it right?

 

[RuGalz]

lol, keep suffering, many of us are, it's only fair

 

[Barzul]

Spicer is only 45!? He looks at least 65...

He looks his age to me.

 

[Angelus Errare]

Yeah, for sure. The mannerisms were already there, he's still obnoxious, but he is able to dose it and he doesn't come across as a lunatic. Just a mean asshole. He's even a pretty good speaker in some videos I watched, there is none of the word salad we're all too familiar with by now.

Random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh2S8bbGTO0

Here he is in 1980

 

[Vicetrailia]

Trump does know how the legislative branch works, just not anything else. Thought he was a dictator lol.

 

[mckmas8808]

This has been the leakiest administration I've seen. It is like every week there's another story about what's happening inside the WH from insiders leaking to the press.

Every week? More like every day.