This "collusion map" is from a longread at NYMag.
Four months have passed since the last "Trump Clump," designed to cluster Trump-related links into a single post so that Trump supporters can easily skip over one post, and even more importantly to free up the rest of the blog from this often-depressing subject matter. Time for one massive cleansing effort.
Video showing that Donald Trump doesn't know the words to "God Bless America."
Donald Trump does not know how to color a United States flag:
He cannot pronounce the word "anonymous" (video - two mistakes within 5 seconds)
In this tweet Donald Trump confessed to collusion.
A Russian asbestos-manufacturing company has put Donald Trump's face on their product: “He supported the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, who stated that his agency would no longer deal with negative effects potentially derived from products containing asbestos." More here. And here. And this: On Friday, the EPA will enter the final stage of approval for a new rule that would allow manufacturers to use asbestos in new products, pending an EPA review. If implemented, this significant new use rule (SNUR) would reintroduce the use of asbestos into new building materials, reversing regulations that restricted "new uses" of asbestos.
"President Donald Trump hired hundreds of undocumented Polish immigrants to demolish a New York City building in 1980 and paid them as little as $4 an hour without providing proper safety equipment to do the job, court documents show. The workers and their contractor, William Kaszycki of Kaszycki & Sons, sued Trump for unfair labor practices in 1983. After litigation dragged on for 15 years, Trump ultimately paid $1.375 million to settle the case. The settlement was kept under seal for nearly two decades. But last week, in response to a motion filed by Time Inc. and the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, U.S. District Court Judge Loretta A. Preska ordered the documents be made public."... During the 2016 presidential campaign, Trump frequently boasted that, while he had been sued many times, he had “never settled.” He also campaigned extensively on calls to hire American workers while cracking down on illegal immigration. "
Trump indicated he believes that Russia did not meddle in the 2016 election because that’s what Putin told him.
At the G7 meeting he tossed two Starburst candies on the table and told Merkel, "Don’t Say I Never Gave You Anything."
Re "chain migration": Melania Trump’s parents were sworn in as US citizens on Thursday, completing a legal path to citizenship that their son-in-law has suggested eliminating.
Trump criticized the external appearance of the restaurant which refused service to Sarah Huckabee Sanders. But... "The president’s Mar-a-Lago resort has been faulted with 51 health-code violations since 2013. Health inspectors have also found an additional 30 at Mar-a-Lago’s beach club. Trump’s Doral golf club outside Miami has fared even worse: Between its main kitchen, banquet hall, cafĂ©, patio grill, and bungalows, inspectors have found 524 health-code violations since 2013, including a number that resulted in fines. Among inspectors’ findings were multiple spottings of live and dead cockroaches (they noted 20-25 live ones visibly present in the main kitchen during one 2015 visit), “slimy/mold-like build-up” in coolers and freezers, and holes in kitchen walls.
When Trump visited England, the Queen intentionally trolled him by wearing a brooch that had been given to her by the Obamas.
Video of the "Trump Baby" blimp flown at various venues in England and Europe.
"...don't forget both my parents were born in EU sectors okay? I mean my mother was Scotland, my father was Germany. And -- you know I love those countries." Trump's mother, Mary Anne MacLeod Trump was indeed born in Scotland in 1912. But Frederick Trump Sr. was born in the Bronx in 1905. And this isn't the first time Trump has made such a claim. On July 1st in an interview with Fox News' Maria Bartiromo, he said: "My parents were born in the European Union." What the hell is happening here? Why is Trump claiming his father was born in Germany? Shouldn't a man who spent years questioning the birthplace of Barack Obama know where his own damn father was born?"
Parallel quotes from George Orwell's 1984 and from Donald Trump.
An evangelical compares Bill Clinton to Donald Trump.
Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, accusing Vice Chair Kris Kobach and the White House of making false statements and saying that he had concluded that the panel had been set up to try to validate the president’s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election.
This is an actual quote (video here): ??what is he saying?? (trying to say)
The spectacular dunes system picked by Donald Trump for his golf resort in Aberdeenshire has been “partially destroyed” as a result of the course’s construction, documents released under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed... Scottish Natural Heritage, which has been under pressure for years to speak out on the issue, now acknowledges that serious damage has been done to the site of special scientific interest (SSSI) at Foveran Links... “It appears that the desires of one high-profile overseas developer, who refused to compromise one inch, have been allowed to override the legal protection of this important site. And we fear this sets a precedent that will undermine the whole protected-sites network in Scotland..."
"More than two-thirds of every factual claim made by President Trump at two of his rallies turns out to be false, misleading or unsupported by evidence. In July, The Fact Checker examined every factual claim made by the president at a rally in Montana.
He returned to Montana on Sept. 6, and we decided once again to put
every statement of material fact to the truth test to see whether the
July rally was an outlier. In July, 76 percent
of his 98 statements were false, misleading or unsupported by the
evidence. Last week the tally, out of 88 statements, was 70 percent. The
average percentage for the two rallies was 74 percent."
Donald Trump argued with Vietnam War vets over Agent Orange because he confused it with the napalm depicted in Apocalypse Now.
A "rap sheet" on the sheriffs who supported Trump.
"At a National Security Council meeting on Jan. 19,
Trump disregarded the significance of the massive U.S. military presence
on the Korean Peninsula, including a special intelligence operation
that allows the United States to detect a North Korean missile launch in
seven seconds vs. 15 minutes from Alaska, according to Woodward. Trump
questioned why the government was spending resources in the region at
all. “We’re doing this in order to prevent World War III,” Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told him. After
Trump left the meeting, Woodward recounts, “Mattis was particularly exasperated and alarmed, telling close associates that the president acted like — and had the understanding of — ‘a fifth- or sixth-grader.’ ”"
However, "criticizing Trump in a book just isn't fair. It's like criticizing the Amish on television."
FactCheck.org demolishes Trump's false claims about wind turbines as alternative energy sources.
Retaining support from his base:
On 9/11/2001 - the day the planes hit the Twin Towers - Donald Trump was interviewed live on a radio program:
"Donald Trump is facing widespread social media backlash after he was pictured greeting supporters with a triumphant double fist pump as he arrived to a 9/11 memorial service on Tuesday, the 17th anniversary of the terror attacks." (photo at the link)A little more than a minute later, Marcus asked whether Trump’s 40 Wall Street building had suffered any damage. Before getting into his response about his Financial District property, the businessman had something he wanted on the record.“40 Wall Street actually was the second-tallest building in downtown Manhattan, and it was actually, before the World Trade Center, was the tallest — and then, when they built the World Trade Center, it became known as the second tallest,” Trump said in the WWOR interview. “And now it’s the tallest.”
Here's another Randy Rainbow parody called "If You Ever Got Impeached" to the tune of the Wizard of Oz's "If I Only Had a Brain."
During a press conference Wednesday, President Donald Trump said China respects him because of his "very, very large brain."
Comments are closed for this post; I prefer to spend my time cleaning out the garage rather than curating the blog. But in all fairness I should let him speak on his own behalf (via):
"I have the best words."
"I know more about renewables than any human being on Earth."
"No one reads the Bible more than me."
"Nobody knows more about debt. I'm like the king. I love debt."
"I think nobody knows more about taxes than I do, maybe in the history of the world."
"Nobody knows banking better than I do"
"I understand money better than anybody."
"Nobody knows politicians better than Donald Trump."
"Nobody in the history of this country has ever known so much about infrastructure as Donald Trump."
"There's nobody bigger or better at the military than I am."
"I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me."
"Because nobody knows the system better than me."
“I will build a great wall – and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.”
"I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created. I tell you that.”
“I will be America’s greatest defender and most loyal champion.”
“I am the least anti-Semitic person you’ve ever seen in your entire life.”
“I am the least racist person, the least racist person that you’ve ever seen, the least.”
" I have the best [golf] courses in the world"
“No one has more respect for women than me.”
“I have the best temperament or certainly one of the best temperaments of anybody that’s ever run for the office of president. Ever.”
“I’m the best thing that’s ever happened to the Secret Service.”
“No one has done more for people with disabilities than me.”
“Nobody has better toys than I do.”
“I know more about foreign policy than anybody running.”
“I’m the most successful person ever to run for the presidency, by far. Nobody’s ever been more successful than me.”
“I am the least racist person, the least racist person that you’ve ever seen, the least.”And I would totally agree with his 9 August 2014 tweet, in which he said "We need a President who isn't a laughing stock to the entire World." The United Nations general assembly would also agree.
Now to get on with my life for another 3-4 months.
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