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    I think they are the effect of sanctions.
    In fact, more so, I'd say they are the effect of catching two Chinese foreign registered ships in the act of refuelling at sea.
    That specific action and those which follow have taught the northern boys their ability to obtain oil is a little tougher than they expected.

    No convinced this is Trump related. He's a petty man arguing on the internet with another petty man.

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    Trump has a history and in fact a philosophy of always claiming to be right and always claiming he has won despite facts that may say otherwise.

    I have read many articles about him that state that he believes in claiming credit and that the more claimed the more people will believe him.


    Sadly this appears to be true. If you say something often enough people will believe it!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Muddy View Post
    True..... !!

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Monk View Post
    . If you say something often enough people will believe it!
    Especially if those people are 10,000 miles away and have no idea what they are talking about.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Griffin View Post
    Especially if those people are 10,000 miles away and have no idea what they are talking about.
    You do realise that we have television, newspapers and internet down here don't you? In fact most non-Americans seem to know more about America and the rest of the world than Americans do.



    I get information from a variety of sources including plenty in the US. An American produced documentary, "President Trump" reveals a lot as does "Trump's Road to the White House". - Both docos were I thought balanced but still showed what an egomaniac he is. Even back when he announced his candidacy he started the crowd figures thing claiming that a few hundred people at the announcement were actually thousands. The beginning of the "alternate facts" ??

    Trump is making America a laughing stock of the world with his ego taking credit for everything, lack of manners, brash attitude, lack of diplomacy, contradicting himself and stupid tweets. Trumps catch phrase of "Fake News" is applied to anything that slights or disagrees with him. Why are so many professional psychiatrists putting their professional reputation on the line about his mental stability? His response - "I'm like really smart!" Any negative comments about him, his ego will not allow him to let it pass which would be the diplomatic thing to do, but not him, he has to have a go and exacerbate the situation. The man has an extremely thin skin.

    He put shit on Obama about being non-American and when Obama retaliated with jokes at the Press Club dinner (2011) the Donald got the sulks and vowed vengeance. He can dish it but not take it.

    To me and many other non-Americans, we can see Trump may have done some good for some but what is his lasting legacy to be? Don't spruik his tax cuts because I have seen several articles that show it is good for now but not for Joe Blow public in the long term. Of course he and his mates will benefit and he is quoted as saying to them "I just made you all a lot richer".


    I am a right wing voter and would normally side with Republicans but this man is an embarrassment and disgrace to both the party and to America. He is what we call "WANKER" !!
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    Quote Originally Posted by RBP View Post
    Got that wrong didn't he, from the only president to resign to avoid impeachment.

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    TRUMP’S MENTAL-HEALTH ROAD SHOW PROVES HE’S STILL A BUMBLING IDIOT



    Thanks to revelations in a new book by Michael Wolff, as well as deranged series of tweets about his big red button, talk of Donald Trump’s mental acuity has dominated the national conversation for the past week. And though Trump reportedly views the whole kerfuffle as a “joke,” on Tuesday he threw it back to his Apprentice days, inviting reporters to watch him lead a 55-minute immigration discussion with lawmakers in an ostensible effort to prove he’s not completely nuts. By all accounts, it worked—at no point did the president babble incoherently, forget people’s names, berate perceived enemies, or exhibit any of the behaviors recently cited as evidence that he should be removed from office. On the other hand, he also proved that a year into the job, he’s more liable to be swayed by whomever has his ear than by actual policy, the details of which go far, far over his head.

    Addressing undocumented immigrants who were brought to the U.S. as children, or Dreamers, Trump suggested that he was open to a “clean deal” to protect them, replying to Senator Dianne Feinstein’s leading question on the matter with, “yeah, I would like to do that.” Yet within seconds, an alarmed Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House Republican leader, had jumped in to lead Trump back to a conservative approach. (The White House would later leave Trump’s digression out of the official transcript, which an official claimed was “unintentional.”)

    The end result was that lawmakers emerged uncertain what exactly was on the table. Senator James Lankford told reporters that 45 had “backed off any kind of description of a sea-to-shining-sea fence or wall,” but Senator Mazie Hirono [told] Talking Points Memo that Trump had rather gone from “saying it doesn’t need to be a 2,000 mile wall, but maybe a 700 mile wall . . . so you begin to wonder what exactly will be acceptable. I suppose it’s progress,” she added, “but that’s just what he says today. He could go back to saying ‘$18 billion for a wall or no DACA’ tomorrow, depending on who he’s talking to.” (Incidentally, hours after the meeting, Trump tweeted “As I made very clear today, our country needs the security of the Wall on the Southern Border, which must be part of any DACA approval.”)

    When asked whether he knows what Trump wants, Senator Ron Johnson “stammered” before eventually replying, “There’s a host of things. Just pick from the manual.” Lawmakers couldn’t even agree on whether an immigration-reform plan will make it into the spending bill, with Senator Chuck Schumer telling reporters that it would, but Mitch McConnell saying that immigration “will not be a part of any overall spending agreement.”

    All of which makes it plainer than ever that the myth of Trump as master negotiator is just that: a myth. He may have played the genius businessman on TV, but in office he’s most inclined to “do a deal” with whomever is sitting in front of him at any given moment, regardless of what that deal will actually accomplish. It was this impulse that made him so amenable to good old “Chuck and Nancy,” and that, according to Axios, terrifies Republican leaders.

    But the whole thing appeared to put Trump in good spirits—during Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting, he noted that the press’s “reviews” of the immigration discussion had been “phenomenal.” “It was a tremendous meeting,” he added, according to a White House pool report. “Some . . . called it a performance—I consider it work.”

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    Some Republicans are starting to more openly question Trump's mental health


    Some Republicans have recently begun to more openly cast doubt on President Donald Trump’s mental health — previously an area in which only Democrats would publicly speculate.

    This week, two retiring Republican senators — Sens. Bob Corker and Jeff Flake — speculated on Trump’s mental state. Corker and Flake have increasingly blasted the president in recent weeks.

    In an interview with CNN, Corker, reiterating a comment he first made in August, expressed “concerns about his leadership, and just his stability, and the lack of desire to be competent on issues and understand and nothing has changed.”

    Corker also repeated this week that that Trump’s administration was running an adult daycare center to wrangle the president.

    Flake, in his speech on the Senate floor announcing his retirement, criticised Trump for his “mercurial behaviour,” which he said was “ahistoric.”

    “The notion that one should stay silent as the norms and values that keep America strong are undermined and as the alliances and agreements that ensure the stability of the entire world are routinely threatened by the level of thought that goes into 140 characters — the notion that one should say and do nothing in the face of such mercurial behaviour is ahistoric and, I believe, profoundly misguided,” he said.

    On Wednesday, following Trump’s lunch meeting with Senate Republicans to discuss tax reform and other issues, former Republican Sen. Tom Coburn of Oklahoma said the president “has a personality disorder.”

    “We have a leader who has a personality disorder,” Coburn told The New York Times. “But he’s done what he actually told the people he was going to do, and they’re not going to abandon him.”

    Coburn, a former medical doctor who served in the Senate from 2005 through 2015, was explaining why he doubts that other GOP senators would speak out against the president like Corker and Flake had.

    But conservative columnist David Brooks, in a Times column on Friday, wrote that some GOP senators thought Trump “might be suffering from early Alzheimer’s” following their Wednesday lunch meeting.

    “The Republican senators went to the White House and saw a president so repetitive and rambling, some thought he might be suffering from early Alzheimer’s,” Brooks wrote. “But they know which way the wind is blowing. They gave him a standing ovation.”

    That ovation was referencing what both Trump and other GOP senators spoke of following the meeting. Republican Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana first told reporters that senators gave Trump “three standing ovations,” which Trump later tweeted about Wednesday morning in an attempt to deflect from Corker and Flake’s criticism.

    “The meeting with Republican Senators yesterday, outside of Flake and Corker, was a love fest with standing ovations and great ideas for USA!” Trump tweeted, adding in a follow-up tweet that, “Jeff Flake, with an 18% approval rating in Arizona, said “a lot of my colleagues have spoken out.” Really, they just gave me a standing O!”

    Earlier this week, BuzzFeed reported that Democrats, such as Rep. Jackie Speier of California, are actually going as far as calling psychologists to discuss the president’s mental state. One psychiatric professor at Yale said about half a dozen lawmakers had contacted her over the past several months.

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    Visit cancelled to honour a new embassy and its staff because of another past matter he can't get over but blames the wrong past administration anywat.






    Opening a new embassy would in no way endorse a previous decision to sell and relocate premises.


    The POMs are happy though.

    "News that Trump has thrown his toys out of the pram and cancelled his trip to the UK will be welcomed by all of us who reject his abhorrent views." -



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