Living with the Trump presidency

Yes Tricia I noticed that about the Wagner too. Rather disturbing! Commented on it to DH this morning, who told me I was getting obsessed! It's car crash TV and difficult to look away. How can his followers not see how he is blatantly telling 'alternative truths'? Is he really stupid or worryingly manipulative? Although DH was taken aback by the chanting of the supporters.

Jud, apparently he was watching a programme about a film about terrorists in Sweden.

www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/19/trump-refers-non-existent-refugee-incident-sweden-rally/

I hope he doesn't watch War of the Worlds.

That's how fascism works I'm afraid. Spread fear. Spout slogans that people will latch on to - they hear the thing they want "make america great" etc. Make up rubbish that plays to the fears and expectations. (Swedish fantasies)
Apparently he has still only appointed approximately 35 white house staff out of the expected 700. And the ones he has appointed are starting to drop off the perch.

Dying, you mean?

Apparently trump's next choice for national security adviser, Vice-Admiral Harwood, called the offer a s**t sandwich.
At least he can't be sacked as he refused the offer.

This could go on so many threads.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/19/populist-correctness-new-pc-culture-trump-america-brexit-britain

Populist correctness takes over from political correctness.

And what is he going on about in Sweden? Nobody told the Swedes apparently

There was an attack but it was an attack on asylum seekers, not by them and it was a while ago now.

Warning, turn off your microphone before clicking on the link!
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/donald-trump-terror-attack-claim-sweden-neo-nazis-refugee-centre-florida-rally-a7588516.html

No, he said last night in Sweden. He got it wrong.
It was on Fox News yesterday. They got it wrong.

www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=3&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjuipa7sZ3SAhVKDsAKHZg4CU8QqUMIJDAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld%2Famericas%2Fus-politics%2Ftrump-sweden-happened-last-night-based-on-debunked-fox-news-report-a7589031.html&usg=AFQjCNHnxInPpGhSmSEezJ2Hyf_41ZrtDQ

This is good.

t.co/NxsIXDtLOl

FBI looking into Russian links with the election, and connections with Trumps finances.

It seems that 55% of the US population think that Fox News is reliable. That includes Trump, of course.
The original Sweden report was when Fox claimed that there were Muslim no-go zones in Europe. That was the whole of Birmingham as well, wasn't it? Obviously May put him right on that one.

There'll be lots of US citizens holding their heads in their hands again.

twitter.com/hashtag/lastnightinSweden?src=hash

It's ok folks. I heard from a reliable source on Facebook this morning, the crisis in Sweden in over. Ikea meatballs are now available in all its stores again.

But I heard they'd run out of panels to build the wall between Sweden and Denmark.

Trump has no dealings with Russia.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/amid-russia-scrutiny-trump-associates-received-informal-ukraine-policy-proposal/2017/02/19/72b0b264-f6eb-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21a5_story.html?tid=pm_politics_pop

I heard that four terrorists have been arrested.

You couldn't make it up!!
(Good news about the Billy bookcases and the meatballs though)

theconversation.com/trumps-russia-scandals-could-be-about-to-get-much-much-worse-73086

There might be a lot more fake news about to come out.

We need more immigrants, like Sweden.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sweden-immigration-economic-boom-theresa-may-refugee-crisis-tory-conference-a7347136.html

Refugees going to Canada to escape trump.

www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2017/02/refugees-cross-canada-escape-donald-trump-170212074112604.html

Bannons "brietbart" being talked about in government committee now. Interesting.

be very careful to fasten your Billy bookcases and your Malm chests of drawers to the wall.
They could cause a nasty accident because they can tip fowards.

I hear that Melania has ordered some for the White House.

I am so fed up with being fed up... is it just my being the fed up Amexpat or is this tRump crap just soul-destroying?

Sooner or later there is going to be a big bang of a mistake that he cannot explain away.

Almost barfed at this woman, Julie Waring of Preston, who wrote in a letter to editor published in the Sunday Express (yes, I know, I like the glossy mag) that 'You Can't Top Trump'. Puke! It was so smarmy it was almost a moment of... what if it's a fake letter? Sadly likely not.

Lewlew you could write a letter yourself to the paper with the heading 'Dump Trump'
It may even be published.
Seriously, I think the constant showing/repeating/ talking about anything to do with Trump is causing a kind of misery burn out, in fact I now refuse to read / watch or listen to anything about him.If he does something really outrageous then I guess I will hear about it, otherwise I let him get on with it.

Whitewave, why is the trump debate in a committee room?
Can't fit many MPs in there.

Well I won't, I am absolutely fascinated by how the whole thing will play out over the next weeks, months and years. This is history in the making, with a white supremacist, behind the throne whose publication Brietbart was discussed in parliament only today, and its possible danger to the UK and far right terrorism. Far right terrorism, whose rhetoric is reminiscent of the 30s. Far right terrorism is equally as dangerous as Islamic terrorism. This was all discussed today.