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workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:40 AM May 2017

Trump is dangerously incompetent

Trump is dangerously incompetent
By Stephen Stromberg May 15 at 9:19 PM

It has long been clear that Donald Trump would be an incompetent president. But over the past week he has proven himself to be a dangerously incompetent president.

In the opening weeks of his presidency, Trump’s unforced errors were embarrassing — but, one could argue, at least the botched rollout of his immigration executive order rendered it vulnerable to legal attack, his poor negotiating skills complicated the passage of his slipshod health-care bill and his inattention to detail enabled his surprisingly capable foreign policy staff to limit the damage he could do. And, some Democrats noted, the president’s flailing has already helped create the conditions for an anti-GOP wave in 2018.

Given his many business failures, the only realms in which Trump has proven himself adept are those of popular manipulation and treachery, along with the related arts of show business. No doubt he will use them in the coming days to mislead and scapegoat his way out of accountability.

Republicans who savagely attacked Hillary Clinton over the petty email server scandal will now show where their true concerns lie — with party or with country. No agenda is worth pretending this presidency is good for the nation.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2017/05/15/trump-is-dangerously-incompetent/
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Trump is dangerously incompetent (Original Post) workinclasszero May 2017 OP
We KNEW this would MFM008 May 2017 #1
Anyone with any sense knew what our reality show con man carnival barker workinclasszero May 2017 #2
DUMP IS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MAN bresue May 2017 #3
How did marrying Ivana help? He still went bankrupt running casinos. It takes a real inept person... brush May 2017 #4
IVANA RAN HIS BUSINESS FOR A LONG TIME bresue May 2017 #5
IVANA'S BIO bresue May 2017 #6
 

workinclasszero

(28,270 posts)
2. Anyone with any sense knew what our reality show con man carnival barker
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:47 AM
May 2017

failed casino operator so-called president would turn out to be.

Fuck republicans, their traitorous party and the entire right wing apparatus that put him in the white house!

bresue

(1,007 posts)
3. DUMP IS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MAN
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:48 AM
May 2017

His businesses were barely scraping by until he married Ivana....which was the driving force behind his success at that time. After he divorced, when he tried to run his businesses, he bankrupted them. And then by getting on top again, he had to rely on money laundering and illegal means.

People do not give Ivana enough credit, we sure know Dump doesn't give her any crediit....she is a WOMAN by the way!

brush

(53,776 posts)
4. How did marrying Ivana help? He still went bankrupt running casinos. It takes a real inept person...
Tue May 16, 2017, 08:54 AM
May 2017

to do that in a business where you just about print money.

bresue

(1,007 posts)
5. IVANA RAN HIS BUSINESS FOR A LONG TIME
Tue May 16, 2017, 09:20 AM
May 2017

He did not go bankrupt until after their divorce when she stepped down.

bresue

(1,007 posts)
6. IVANA'S BIO
Tue May 16, 2017, 09:31 AM
May 2017

I have followed Ivana for years, always admiring and respecting her as a professional woman. You can read her own bio per her webpage, http://www.ivanatrump.com/Legendary-Ivana.html but if you want further fact checking, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivana_Trump and see the timeline for when she was involved with running Trump's businesses.

Furthermore, he has acknowledged on several interviews that because she was working so much and trying to raise three children, leaving no time for him, he began the affair with Marla. That is what Ivana received for working so hard to make him a success! Ivana raised his three children...with little help from Donald. But now he takes the credit!

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