The official President Donald J. Trump Thread

[IndySteel]

You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Spike again.

 

[Spike]

Now she's just trolling them, ha ha



Kellyanne Conway: Race would have been tougher if Sanders was VP pick

Donald Trump's campaign manager Kellyanne Conway said she believes the race would have been tougher for the President-elect had Hillary Clinton chosen Bernie Sanders as her running mate.

"Yes," she told Tapper during a special edition of CNN's "State of the Union," filmed at Harvard University's Institute of Politics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

"And Bernie Sanders -- I'd also like to publicly thank Bernie Sanders for his effect on our campaign because he softened up Hillary Clinton."

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/12/04/politics/bernie-sanders-kellyanne-conway-robby-mook/

 

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[Spike]

 

[IndySteel]

Good article, Trump and the art of getting it done:

http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/dec/7/donald-trump-and-the-art-of-getting-it-done/

 

[Spike]

HEEL!

Now kiss it


Fiorina to meet with Trump on Monday

President-elect Donald Trump will meet with former GOP presidential rival Carly Fiorina on Monday, according to a transition aide.

Fiorina isn't Trump's only Monday meeting with a former 2016 rival. He will also meet with former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.).

Trump's other Monday meetings include Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.V.)

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/309635-fiorina-to-meet-with-trump-on-monday

 

[Spike]

Trump Expected To Pick Oil Drilling Advocate To Run Interior Department

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is expected to pick U.S. Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a strong advocate of increased oil and gas development who is skeptical about climate change, to run the Department of the Interior, sources briefed on the matter told Reuters on Friday.

The appointment could mean easier access for industry to more than a quarter of America’s territory, ranging from national parks to tribal lands stretching from the Arctic to the Gulf of Mexico, where energy companies have been eager to drill and mine.

McMorris Rodgers, the fourth most senior member of the House leadership, has been a supporter of efforts to expand the U.S. energy industry. She voted for the Native American Energy Act, a bill that was vetoed by President Barack Obama in 2015, that would have made it easier to drill on tribal territories.

http://www.oann.com/trump-expected-to-pick-oil-drilling-advocate-to-run-interior-department-source/

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Drilling the swamp

 

[Spike]

Bet you haven't seen this one

 

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[Quick Draw]

 

[CharlesDavenport]

This is awesome - Trump packs trade team with veterans of steel wars with China

President-elect Donald Trump is stacking his trade transition team with veterans of the U.S. steel industry's battles with China, signaling a potentially more aggressive approach to U.S. complaints of unfair Chinese subsidies for its exports and barriers to imports.

Led by Wilbur Ross, a billionaire steel investor and Trump's nominee for commerce secretary, Dan DiMicco, the former CEO of steelmaker Nucor Corp, and three veteran steel trade lawyers, the team is expected to help shift the U.S. trade focus more heavily toward enforcement actions aimed at bringing down a chronic U.S. trade deficit, Washington trade experts said.

Based on their past efforts, this could include more challenges to China's trade practices through the World Trade Organization and more U.S. government-initiated anti-dumping and anti-subsidy cases against a wider range of Chinese products. The latter would be argued before the U.S. International Trade Commission - a forum where the steel industry has had considerable success.

Ross, DiMicco and other leaders of Big Steel have been on the front-line in U.S. trade battles against the world's export superpower.

from - http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-china-trade-analysis-idUSKBN13Y2FI

He's not ******* around and he's letting everyone know it.

Sun Tzu — 'Every battle is won before it's ever fought.'

 

[Ron Burgundy]

"Free trade agreements" usually seem to result in less or no tariffs on imports to the U.S. but keeping tariffs on our exports to those other countries. For example there is a 25% tariff on cars exported from the U.S. to China.

 

[Spike]

This never gets old



‘We were wrong’: Election forecaster Larry Sabato admits defeat

President-elect Donald Trump defied every poll, pundit and election analyst.

According to Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia’s Center for Politics, the entire political forecasting industry — which favored a Hillary Clinton win — was wrong.

“We were wrong,” Sabato said. “The entire punditry industry, the entire polling industry, the entire analyst industry – and I want to use this opportunity to take my fair share of the blame – we were wrong.”

Sabato had predicted Clinton would get 322 EVs and Trump would get 216.


http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/1...ection-forecaster-larry-sabato-admits-defeat/

 

[Spike]

Reince Priebus Destroys Hysterical Chuck Todd Over Russian Conspiracy Theories

 

[Spike]

Trump Considering Fiorina for Director of National Intelligence

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump spoke on Monday to former chief executive of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina about the job of director of national intelligence, the New York Times reported, citing a senior Trump transition team member.

Fiorina, once a rival for the White House Republican nomination who clashed with Trump during primary debates, visited Trump Tower, his transition team said on a conference call.

http://www.foxbusiness.com/politics...orina-for-director-national-intelligence.html

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Getting the Romney rub it in treatment?

 

[Buster]

And the Trump Tower girl makes another appearance...

 

[Tibs]

Donald Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed
by Michael Moore
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10154007461821857:0

A week has gone by since Donald Trump admitted he's only been to "two or three" of his daily presidential national security briefings. There have been 36 of them since the day he secured enough electoral college votes to be appointed president next Monday when the Electoral College meets.

Most would agree the #1 job of the leader of any country is to keep its people safe. There is no more important meeting every day for the President than the one where he learns what the day's potential threats are to the country. That Trump would find it too cumbersome or too annoying to have to sit through 20 minutes of listening to his top intelligence people tell him who's trying to kill us today, simply boggles the mind.

Of course, our minds have been so boggled so many times in the past year by this foolish man no one seems that surprised or concerned. He can get up at 5 in the morning and send angry, childish tweets about how he's being portrayed on SNL ("Not funny! Unwatchable!"), or belittling the local elected union leader in Indiana, but he doesn't have time to hear about the threats to our national security.

So, my fellow Americans, when the next terrorist attack happens -- and it will happen, we all know that -- and after the tragedy is over, amidst the death and destruction that might have been prevented, you will see Donald Trump acting quickly to blame everyone but himself. He will suspend constitutional rights. He will round up anyone he deems a threat. He will declare war, and his Republican Congress will back him.

And no one will remember that he wasn't paying attention to the growing threat. Wasn't attending the daily national security briefings. Was playing golf instead or meeting with celebrities or staying up til 3am tweeting about how unfair CNN is. He said he didn't need to be briefed. "You know, I think I'm smart. I don't need to hear the same thing over and over each day for eight years." That's what he told Fox News on December 11th when asked why he wasn't attending the security briefings. Don't forget that date and his hubris as we bury the dead next year.

We had a president like him before. He, too, lost the popular vote, a majority of Americans saying they didn't want him in the Oval Office. But his governor/brother and his ex-CIA chief/dad's appointees to the Supreme Court put an end to that, and he was installed as Commander-in-Chief. On August 6, 2001, he was on a month-long vacation at his ranch in Texas. That morning, the White House Counsel handed him his daily national security briefing. He glanced at it, set it aside and then went fishing for the rest of the day. Below is the photo of that moment which I showed the world in "Fahrenheit 9/11". The headline on the security briefing reads: BIN LADEN DETERMINED TO STRIKE INSIDE U.S. On the top page it tells how bin Laden will do this: with planes. George W. Bush didn't leave the ranch to go back to work for the next four weeks. In the fifth week, bin Laden attacked the US with planes on September 11th.

It's one thing to have a president who was asleep at the wheel. But, my friends, it's a whole other thing to now have a president-elect who REFUSES TO EVEN GET BEHIND THE WHEEL!

This utter neglect of duty, a daily snub at the people who work to protect us, the first Commander-in-Chief to literally be AWOL and announcing proudly he isn't going to change -- this, I assure you, is going to get a lot of innocent people killed.

To you, Mr. Trump, I say this: When this next terrorist attack takes place, it is YOU who will be charged by the American people with a gross dereliction of duty. It was YOUR job to pay attention, to protect the country. But you were too busy tweeting and defending Putin and appointing cabinet members to dismantle the government. You didn't have time for the daily national security briefing. Don't think we're going to let you use a modern-day burning of the Reichstag as your excuse to eliminate our civil liberties and our democracy.

We will remember that while the plot to kill Americans was being hatched, your time was consumed by whom you saw as the real threat to America: Alec Baldwin in a wig.

 

[Booted]

 

[IndySteel]

Donald Trump Is Gonna Get Us Killed
by Michael Moore
https://www.facebook.com/mmflint/posts/10154007461821857:0

Your post is pathetic and reeks of ignorance and spite. Ocommie only went to 43% of his briefings, golfed his *** off and took a shitload of vacations on the tax payer's dime. Trump is busy getting **** done, already, even before getting sworn it. He doesn't need to hear the same thing every day and he said that he is available on moments notice if anything changes. He's also only taking one dollar as his salary and said he's not taking any vacations. So compare that to Obama and what tired Hillary would be like and shove those results up your progressive ***.

 

[Spike]

Stop quoting him, nothing he says is of any importance. Ignore the troll.

 

[hamster]

Michael Moore is fat millionaire. Nothing more.

Hey libs. Your heroes suck.

 

[Spike]

This thread is about WINNING!


RNC announces Romney McDaniel to be chairwoman

The Republican National Committee (RNC) has named Ronna Romney McDaniel as its next chairwoman.

President-elect Donald Trump praised Romney, the chairwoman of the Michigan Republican Party, as a "highly effective leader."

"I look forward to her serving as the Party’s Chairman in 2017," Trump said in a statement Wednesday.

“Ronna has been extremely loyal to our movement and her efforts were critical to our tremendous victory in Michigan, and I know she will bring the same passion to the Republican National Committee.” Romney was the favored choice of current RNC Chairman Reince Priebus, who will leave his post to fill the role as Trump's White House chief of staff.

In a statement, Priebus credited Romney with Trump's winning Michigan. Trump was the first GOP presidential candidate to take the state since George H. W. Bush.

“Ronna has been a committed leader in our Party for years, and her leadership this cycle in helping President-elect Trump turn Michigan red for the first time since 1988 makes her an exceptional choice to serve as Deputy Chair,” Priebus said.

“Ronna is an outstanding fundraiser, and her ability to drive support for our mission of electing Republicans up and down the ballot gives me full confidence that she will be able to continue building on the RNC’s success and organizational strength as we head into important elections in 2017 and 2018.”

The RNC's 168 members will officially vote on McDaniel at their January meeting.

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/310461-rnc-announces-romney-mcdaniel-to-head-rnc

 

[Spike]

Trump-Pence Thank You USA Tour in Hershey, PA @ 7pm ET

Giant Center holds 10,500 for hockey.

Deplorables broke the all time attendance record before the election with over 14,000!

 

[Spike]

Winning!

Trump fans lined up in 15 degree weather in Hershey, PA, where PEOTUS will visit tonight.

 

[Spike]

What's that again? I can't hear you....crowds don't matter?


#Hershey #PA #ThankYouTour2016 Absolutely packed house. #TrumpRally