Dnarever wrote on Sep 6
th, 2026 at 11:01am:
Gnads wrote on Sep 6
th, 2026 at 10:41am:
Dnarever wrote on Sep 6
th, 2026 at 10:13am:
Gordon wrote on Sep 6
th, 2026 at 8:18am:
So he miss-spoke the word country instead of company and you're pouncing on it. You must be short of any real substance against him I guess.
While it is true that Trump referred to Mattel as a country, he quickly said "his toys" — referring to Mattel CEO Ynon Kreiz — would have to bear 100% duties, indicating he understood Mattel made toys. He also added, "I wouldn't want to have him as an executive too long," which suggested he may have known Mattel was a company.
This type of misspeak is the one most often associated with dimentia.
Ahhh so that's why you thought Joe Biden was OK?
I always said they were both too old but Biden was never anywhere near as bad as Trump.
That is probably the reason that Biden finished with about the best record of any President in about the previous 70 years and Trumps record is a disgrace.Biden was old and clearly age affected but he still found a way to produce great results.
The only thing that Trump hasn't failed at is nastyness.
That's totally unfair, Dnarever. It's far too early to tell.
Also, Mr Trump had a lot of problems dumped in his lap - foreign wars that never would have started if he was prez. Nobody said fixing Ukraine and Gaza would be this hard. Mr Trump has ended seven wars so far, but Gaza and Ukraine were the toughest.
He got a win in Gaza, but then he had to take an excursion into Iran. No one knew the mullahs would play dirty and close the Strait. That shut down the economies of at least five Gulf states. Mr Trump's working on a peace deal as we speak, so we'll have to wait and see what happens.
Also, Greenland's not solved yet - that's a major problem with Russian and Chinese warships menacing the Eskimos and causing trouble. I'd say Cuba's going to give America problems too. Mr Trump might need to take out the leadership there, like he did with Venezuela.
Mr Trump recently announced the US has taken $13 bil worth of oil out of Venezuela, which is good. He didn't comment on the recent earthquake there, which is bad. The estimated damage is over $6.7 bil. The US may sling some of Venezuela's oil cash in - or maybe not, we'll have to see.
On top of all these security and oil problems, there's the so-called "friendly" countries ripping America off. Only recently, Mr Trump had to start a trade war with Canada. Mr Trump may have fixed that - he got the Canadians back by changing the name of Lake Ontario to lake America. He then said if other countries don't play nice, there's the name of two oceans he can change too, the Pacific and the Atlantic - or both, he said, it depends how he feels.
The other major problem the US had was immigration. Mr Trump fixed that by ending it almost entirely - at least until they can work out what the hell is going on. The only people getting into America now are white South African farmers and any millionaires who fork out for the Trump gold card.
All of these things are causing inflation, but you can't blame the president for that. Mr Trump stepped in early, telling Congress to pass legislation to give big business a tax cut, putting more money in shareholder's pockets. The lost tax revenue ticked the federal deficit up, but that's okay, the US can just borrow more. Only problem is, the lenders are starting to get the jitters, triggering a major selloff in the US bond market after news came out that the US now owes $40 tril.
You can't blame that on Mr Trump. He's only just become prez. He did just the right thing by cutting taxes for the rich and starting an endless war in Iran, they all said it had to be done. If you want to pin the deficit on someone, go to Sleepy Joe and the Kenyan.
As a businessman, Mr Trump became prez at just the right time to put things right. He ordered his Treasury Secretary Scott Bessant to do something. Scott decided to buy a whole bunch of old bonds back, pulling the money out of Treasury. It raised the price of US bonds for a few days until the end of last week, when they dropped back down again. Scott blew $4 bil on the deal.
Inflation's the job of the Federal Reserve, who stop inflation by raising interest rates. Mr Trump sees things a little differently. He ordered the Fed Chair Kevin Warsh to
lower interest rates - a bit of a counter-move, but that's the kind of 4D chess Mr Trump plays. Kevin only gets one vote on the board, but if he doesn't do what Mr Trump says, Mr Trump will get cranky.
When the previous Fed Chair Jerome Powell didn't order the board to lower interest rates, Mr Trump told the DOJ to press criminal charges. The DOJ later dropped the investigation after discovering Jerome didn't commit any crimes, but you never know, so it was good to check.
So yes, Dnarever, it's far too early to say whether Mr Trump's policies will succeed or fail, the jury's still out on this.
Still, at least he didn't
break Medicare, eh?
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