In a strange way Trump is managing to be the most transparent President in this country's history.

"Can a FEMALE Trump Communication Director ever be called "hot"?"

Her elbows are too pointy.

I'm the wrong person to answer that here :)

The business CEO's not the only ones to react to Trump's words:

US military leaders condemn racism - CNNPolitics

I just hope his response to this isn't, "Rather than putting pressure on the people of the USA and North Korea, I am ending them both. Thank you all!"

I'm not sure I believe she's only 28.

Also, why did a guy so incapable of taking advice have an advisory counsel anyway?

Ego boost. They all had to sit in the room and listen to him.

Yeah, he got to tell all these CEOs how to run their businesses.

He wanted to be able to some how equate himself with actual successful and very wealthy business people.

Did they ever meet? The one he put together on infrastructure hasn't met yet.

This tweet did not age well.

For every CEO that drops out of the Manufacturing Council, I have many to take their place. Grandstanders should not have gone on. JOBS!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 15, 2017

If only he had tweeted "Cut off one head, two more shall take its place. Hail Hydra!!!"

Fixed.

Amazing how many people are more upset about football players sitting during the national anthem than Nazis marching with torches and swastikas

What world are you living in? This is major news everywhere and there is major outrage everywhere. And you act like it has to be an either/or. I hate the anthem protests and their overcoverage and hate the Nazi shit (along with 99% of the country)

Take this board for example... what is it Tarcone and JiMGa that lean Nazi if even that? There were a lot of us irritated with the anthem stuff. The media wants it to be L/R but it's anything but.

I think the statement was in regards to right-wing people. They were very upset about the anthem and are furiously defending white nationalists.

What world are you living on? We're on a left leaning board with 2. You really think the real world is skewing 99%. Hell, I have family this is true of.

I don't like the anthem protests either. But I'm a hell of a lot more lenient on that than I am on Nazis.

Great interview with Bannon.

Bannon Tells Magazine About His White House Feuds Over China - Bloomberg

Definitely agree with him on China. Surprised at his NK comment. Liked his comment on the Nazi's.

I wonder how he differentiates between alt-right, white supremacists and neo-nazi?

If only there'd been some sort of trade deal that would have pushed back against Chinese economic expansion.

Unrelated:

Trump’s Trade Pullout Roils Rural America - POLITICO Magazine

CEO: My wife's in a coma

TRUMP: Oh sorry Newt, i didnt recognize your voice. And ahem.

I usually bathroom boycott the anthem at sporting events unless it's kids or instrumental.

Dola-our anthem is like a pufferfish. In the hands of a skilled chef, it's great. In the hands of a hack it's straight up poisonous to the ears.

I have family who I don't think gave a shit about Kaepernick but any criticism of Trump's response to the white nationalists at Charlottesville has been met with some variation of "but Obama."

It's reflexive. Because a Republican shat himself on the proper response to fascists, they have to reach for a reason why the other side is bad also instead of admitting that Republicans are ever capable of being wrong.

It's amazing how many people didn't realize the strategic reasons for TPP.

Republicans aren't the only party that struggle to admit they're wrong.

I'm okay with removing TPP assuming there would be a Trump replacement that does it "his way" e.g. anything is better than nothing.

However, it doesn't seem there is a Trump replacement and we are doing nothing?

Trump doesn't have a way, he's clueless on trade and he doesn't have the desire or ability to learn anything that can't be stated in a few sentences on Fox & Friends. He didn't know anything about TTP beyond that Fox News said it was bad because Obama wanted it. He had to be told 10 times he couldn't make a trade deal with but Germany. His depth of knowledge on health insurance is him thinking it costs $12 a year because of an ad for life insurance for infants that airs on Fox.

If he was interested in having qualified individuals negotiating trade deals he wouldn't be leaving the State Department understaffed.

It almost sounds like you're saying the emperor has no clothes.

Yes, but Republicans (that I've met, and Mitch McConnell) are more than likely to respond to that admission (or even the admission that they might be wrong) with "see I was right, you were wrong, and now that's my justification for whatever it is you were wrong about." So much of it is a competitive power struggle that any chance for correction and cooperation and conflict resolution becomes impossible. Granted, this is just from my own experience in dealing with that, rather than an overall, national observation. It's why the Democrats are always seen or accused of being weak. They're never allowed to fight the same way. Then if they do, they're called hypocrites, or losers because they should have known better or that the "competition" would use it against them, so they're dumb too. That is true.

Unbelievable. He actually did bring the Middle East together. pic.twitter.com/miP9MyVLsS

— J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling) August 17, 2017

That's why I was surprised at Bannon's comments about China being his primary concern. I would have thought Bannon would have laid out a strategy for Trump even before these recent issues (e.g. when he came on the Trump team).

Well maybe he did and Trump isn't really taking his advice. Regardless, I would like to know how Bannon would approach China, would be interesting.

Trump condemns Barcelona attack | TheHill

I bet his PR team is loving this attack because it takes the spotlight away from Charlottesville.

Woah, not worried he's jumping the gun before getting all the facts? Maybe both sides are to blame. :confused:

Damn foreigners taking more White jobs.

And now he's tweeting about urban legends as a way of stopping terrorism.

Also, when he recounted the story on the campaign trail, it stopped radical muslims for 25 years. Now its 35.

I say we adapt it to those phony anti-gluten people when we go for them.

I knew news that clowns would be fighting Nazis is DC wouldn't be the strangest news today.

I disagree. I see it equally on both sides. I notice it more on Dems, but I recognize my bias. Basically, whether you are GOP or Dem, you see it happen. Everyone is human (believe it or not).

Yeah, that's what turns a lot of people off politics, constant point scoring and failure to admit when things are wrong, bad, etc - using diversionary tactics in general. It's universal, not just to GOP/Dems, but across the world.

I've always felt that if the opposition had a great idea, I would respect a government that took it on baord, gave the opposition credit and pushed it through...

While I'm no Teresa May fan, she voiced an idea of asking our opposition parties into groupthink sessions. In a naiive, idealistic light, this seems good for the country, get people together of differing perspectives to hopefully work together.

What actually happened means no-one will ever try this again, as the opposition proved that their main priority isn't the good of the country but points scoring: their reaction was to literally laugh at the proposal and took great delight in screaming 'the government has run out of ideas!' (which tbf may have been true!)

If politicians actually cared about the country they wouldn't act the way they do - this also seems to me to be a universal truth. But it ain't gonna change.

I think you just proved his point...

I don't know the situation in the UK, but in general the whole let's come together stuff only works if the different parties agree on the problem. If they don't, it's just a way for one party to frame the debate in a way that's most favorable to them.

For example, here in the US I can see the parties coming together for a bill to strengthen S. Korea. There would be different ideas, but the problem would be recognized by both the GOP and the Dems. However, there is no way for the parties to come together for a universal college bill or a ban on abortion. There's no way to come together, and claiming to want to would be seen by the other party as the cynical framing trick that it is.

He doesn't understand the basics of economic policy. This is a guy who wanted to put giant tariffs on imports and didn't know whether a strong dollar was good for the country or not.

He didn't like TPP because Obama was for it. I doubt he even knows what the agreement was.

It's fucked up too because he's defaming a war hero who did a lot for this country.

The National Review had something to say about it:

Just minutes ago the president of the United States – the man who just yesterday said, “When I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts� – fired out a tweet ostensibly in response to the dreadful terror attack in Barcelona, Spain. Here | National Review

I predict the "when I make a statement, I like to be correct. I want the facts" will come back to haunt him numerous times in the next 3.5 years.

Unfortunately I don't think it'll do much to move his core base.

I find the TPP ballet particularly fascinating, from all sides. 6 months before the election there was a national tour/rally against the TPP featuring notable conservative icons like Tom Morello, Anti-Flag and Jello Biafra. Most of the search results from 2016 relating to stopping the TPP are from far-left sources, but after Trump actually pulled out seemingly everyone in the entire world shifted their opinion/narrative.

We had a state senator post on her personal FB page "I hope Trump is assassinated."
She is refusing to step down. But she is not going to survive I dont think.

TPP seemed to be opposed by the far-left (because it gave breaks to companies) and the far-right (Obama supported it). The people that seemed to support it the most were moderates.

The idea behind TPP is good. Let us control trade around the world. There were however things in it that I think needed to be changed so I'm kind of torn. I was hoping we would renegotiate some of the terms instead of just handing a gift to China.