Trump Boasts That the Dollar is Strong While 'World is Blowing Up Around Us'

[DonViejo]

Source: Mediaite


by Colby Hall | Dec 17th, 2018, 8:41 am

President Donald Trump appears to be taking a different tact on Twitter Monday morning after a weekend of “rage tweets” in complaints of alleged media bias and Witch Hunts.

Trump tweeted Monday morning high praise for the strength of the US dollar amidst a turbulent global scenario:

Link to tweet

“Paris is burning” has been an oft-used phrase on pro-Trump Fox News programming since there have been riotous protests in the French capital over a government mandated tax on gas that has since been rescinded.

Paris is Burning is also a groundbreaking 1990 documentary that focused on drag queens living in New York City and their “house” culture. President Trump is presumptively unaware of this historic film that pop culture critics see as the seminal moment that eventually led to a nation that tuned into Will & Grace and, for the most part, embraces same-sex marriages.

###

Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/online/trump-boasts-that-the-dollar-is-strong-while-world-is-blowing-up-around-us/

[democratisphere]

1. Propaganda drumpf always promotes the opposite of reality and the facts.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. Does he know his pants are on fire?

..or that his administration is about to go up in flames?

[Roy Rolling]

3. Zero

He knows zero about how global economics work.

In fact, less than zero. When he says something, people around him get their intelligence sucked right out of their brains just from being in his vicinity.

[George II]

4. The dollar was at .88 Euro back in August, it's at .88 Euro today.

It was at .95 Euro when trump took office and dipped all the way down to .80 Euro in February.

[ProfessorGAC]

6. Whoops!

Waiting for PINO's Emily Litella tweet "Never Mind"

Of course, since as the poster above mentioned, PINO knows NOTHING about world economics, the numbers you quoted won't mean a thing to the dolt.

[MBS]

7. "PINO" - perfect.

I will steal this one.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Not An Original

But given the mob-like nature of this crowd, it not only fits, but has a mobster feel to it, as well.

[MBS]

12. well, I'm glad to find it anyway.

And yes, an appropriate mobster feel to the acronym, too. A nice twofer. Thanks.

[jmowreader]

17. This nickname is especially riotous to fans of John D. Clark's book "Ignition!"

"Ignition!" is an "informal history" of liquid rocket fuels, and Dr. Clark tells stories of a researcher named Mike Pino, who worked for Standard Oil of California. This guy was famous for discovering, or creating, the most foul-smelling preparations in the aerospace business. Says Dr. Clark of Dr. Pino's final atrocity, "And finally he surpassed himself with something that had a dimethylamino group attached to a mercaptan sulfur, and whose odor can't, with all the resources of the English language, even be described. It also drew flies. This was too much, even for Pino and his unregenerate crew, and they banished it to a hole in the ground another two hundred yards further out into the tule marshes. Some months later, in the dead of night, they surreptitiously consigned it to the bottom of San Francisco Bay."

Seventy years later, we have something even more offensive...and this one is capable of moving under its own power.

[MBS]

18. !!!

"finally he surpassed himself with something that had a dimethylamino group attached to a mercaptan sulfur, and whose odor can't, with all the resources of the English language, even be described. It also drew flies."

Hilarious story
. . . except for the part about their dumping the nasty concoction in the tule marshes and the bottom of SF Bay.

That said, the current version of PINO is even worse for the environment than the earlier one.

[ProfessorGAC]

5. Um! "Paris Is Burning" Also Has Nazi Connotations

Not sure why that wasn't included, given the source of the quote.

[machoneman]

8. Yes, having Hitler's Mein Kampf on his nightstand....

is the source of "Paris is burning". Thankfully, the German general of Paris refused his orders to do so.

[dalton99a]

11. +1

"Brennt Paris?"

[watoos]

10. Well I don't know squat about the market but,

it opened down again today. That sugar high that Trump gave corporations with his tax scam must be wearing off.

If there is a downturn in the economy what will Republicans brag about? I'm buying stock in fainting couches.

[Firestorm49]

13. I think Trump best shut the f... up.

He’s just lucky as hell that this country hasn’t exploded yet. Quite honestly, so am I.

[progree]

14. Low interest rates used to be bad and Obama's fault, per Charles Schwab

and that's why he supported Romney in 2012. (Yes, the discount brokerage founder bearing his name). He was gnashing his teeth and beating his breasts about how savers were getting so little interest on their savings accounts and CDs and blah blah, and how the elderly used to depend on this for a substantial portion of their income, but now have to eat cold gruel. Oh, and did I mention this was all Obama's fault?

I find it ironic now that Benedict Caligula Trump is trying to cajole the Fed into keeping interest rates at near-historic lows. I haven't heard Chucky-poo Schwab saying anything about that.

[beachbum bob]

15. trump has no idea what a "strong dollar" is OR any economic indicator

[louis-t]

16. He has no idea how the oil market works either.

All the self-congratulations after claiming that the Saudis "listened to him and lowered the price of oil" is such bullshit. 70% of oil market controlled by speculators, we only get 11% of our oil from Saudi Arabia, OPEC may yet cut production early next year, causing dum dum's head to explode.