The Irony of a Man Who Never Pays What He Owes Saying

[MineralMan]

that NATO members need to pay up is strikingly clear. Trump routinely forces vendors who contract with him to accept less than the agreed amount or refuses to pay them altogether. Now, he misunderstands the financial structure of NATO and insists that members have not been paying what they are required to pay.

We have an unscrupulous, dishonest man as our President, and it is obvious to the entire world. He is diminishing the regard other nations have for the United States on a daily basis.

[Mc Mike]

1. Purposefully destroying our alliances.

And I caught that b.s. critique he used against NATO during the campaign, about how he 'doesn't like people not paying what they owe', when he's the proudest, most blatant deadbeat in all of his own business practices.

[MineralMan]

2. Yes, he is. And we need to keep bringing that up.

[Mc Mike]

9. Dead beat. Tax cheat.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. yes, he's treasonous and just so grotesquely offensive

[Mc Mike]

8. And all the repug congresscritters who refuse to oppose him are treasonous, too.

Every international business operating in those repug swines' jurisdictions should stomp those elected traitors, financially. Not follow through on projected expansions, threaten to pull their business out, do whatever they can to aid the traitors' political opposition.

[Fast Walker 52]

21. I agree, but money has a lot of sway..

it seems to cover up a lot of crimes

[NCjack]

5. Yeah. This technique is being considered by #45 as

the solution to our National debt. We just refuse to pay it. Looks like #45 doesn't like being on the losing end of a bad deal.

[calimary]

7. Well, look what he's used to doing. Welching on his promises and commitments, short-sheeting

his contractors and subcontractors, filing for bankruptcy and bailing on his debts.

Refuse to pay it. He has a pattern of doing that. He has a long and well-documented track record of doing that, leaving lots of victims and collateral damage behind while he skates away untouched and unaffected by some fancy accounting trickery and public relations witch-doctoring. Sounds like that thing about past being prologue.

[Mc Mike]

11. I know he's stupid, but he doesn't really think that he can do that with the national debt

and it will be as 'successful' as his business dealings.

The big money repugs that put him in power know that he'll throw the economy into a depression, if he defaults on the debt. But repugs always benefit from a depression.

[MineralMan]

13. But he does think that.

And that's one of his worst beliefs.

[Mc Mike]

20. I think his ignorance and false beliefs are just a lying excuse from big money repugs.

I agree that he's stupid and ignorant, but he knows his place.

His only interest, that he actively works on, openly and all the time, is what he can personally financially grift and siphon off, what cozy business entanglements he can preserve and enlarge.

The big money power people in the repug right wing kept the entire platform intact, exactly as it was, except for Ukraine aid. The cabinet secretary appointments are the choices of people acceptable to the repug establishment, instead of drumpf loyalists and cronies, almost universally. Drumpf 'yessirs' and 'no sirs' Mercer, his biggest financial backer, that's shown by the continued prominent involvement of Mercer flunkies Bannon and Conway. The party apparatus still has Priebus and Spicer in place, and Pence was an accomodation made by dRumpf to repug power people, in order to build a 'winning' combination. His budget is the exact same as Raygun's and li'l bush's, the exact same policy which includes zero of the nods to dirtball 'populism' that he made to his teabag rubes on the campaign trail. He'll sign any typical bircher Ayn Rand repug initiative that Ryan and McConnell put in front of him to sign.

He doesn't care about economic policy, he'll do what the repug financial masters want him to do, as long as he can make a heap of money for his failed bankrupt compromised money hemorrhaging financial 'empire'. He'll play ball and do what the right wing big money financial people in the repug party want.

Exactly like Hitler did. The all powerful dictator who always did exactly what Krupp, Farben, Thyssen, Schacht, and the Ruhr coal combine owners wanted. He 'had all the power', and never made a move that didn't benefit them, or that discommoded them in even the slightest way.

[secondwind]

3. He is a pure psychopath, who believes everything he says.. . he would pass a polygraph with

flying colors...

[Wounded Bear]

6. I've long ascribed to the theory that Repubs...

have to have their irony detectors disabled before they can try to do their jobs.

[NewJeffCT]

10. it's crazy

he probably has no clue how NATO or the UN really work - just repeating RW gossip that we pay too much for both.

[MineralMan]

14. I'm sure you're correct. He has no idea how much

the US benefits from NATO, the UN and other organizations we belong to and support. He doesn't care, either.

[UltravioletDingo]

23. He doesn't even know how our own government works

And he's ignorant of his complete ignorance on almost any topic

[lark]

12. Yep, he's doing exactly as his master PUtin demands.

Everything he does, and I do mean every single little thing is to benefit him personally and to hurt us domestically and internationally so Russia can take over as the dominant country in the world. Those are the only things he actually cares about, the rest is just destractions so we're looking the wrong way why he sneakily destroys our constitution and way of life.

[MineralMan]

15. He and Putin are much the same, but Putin is far smarter

than Trump. That means that he can use Trump's ego as a tool, without Trump even realizing it. That is a very dangerous situation for all of us.

[lark]

18. Exactly!

drumpf is so stupid, all you have to do is flatter him and you can get him to do anything. Offer him bribes, like Russian oligarchs buying him properties at vastly inflated prices to launder their money, and he'll do anything Pootie says. Ignorant, greedy assface would kill our country for this and is in the process of doing just that.

[NoMoreRepugs]

16. Don the Groper is unraveling all that President BHO did to repair

the countries standing in the world after 8 years of carnage due to Cheney and Shrub in less than 90 days - where will we be 2 or more years from now if this buffoon and his minions are allowed to run free?

[MineralMan]

17. I'm at a loss to know what to do with this horrible situation.

I can only hope that it resolves itself before too much time passes.

[KPN]

19. It's an irony lost on far too many Americans unfortunately.

If and when they finally wake up, we will at least be able to say "No shit Sherlock!"

[Hamlette]

22. and to say it to Merkel, when NATO in part is to prevent a build up of arms in any European country.

after Germany built such a big military under Hitler.

Merkel should say "We'll keep the full 1.2% we send NATO and we'll just bring back Krups Arms and build our own defense (or offense?) structure. Would that make you happy?

[Hekate]

24. Kick