President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

I suppose there's no chance we can make a one and only Lena threa?

 

Ted Nugent says something outrageous and liberals freak out and think he represents conservatives as a whole.
Lena Dunham says something outrageous and conservatives freak out and think she represents liberals as a whole.

 

"Look, I don't care that Bill Gates is interested in a Cabinet position. He just looks too geeky to serve under President Trump, OK."

 

This is a good point. I suspect the next four years will bring us ample reason for genuine alarm without resorting to faux outrage.

 

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't recall seeing Ted this close to a conservative/Republican presidential nominee in the midst of a race.

 

Then there's this...

Trump wanted to fire women who weren't pretty enough, employees say

"I had witnessed Donald Trump tell managers many times while he was visiting the club that restaurant hostesses were 'not pretty enough' and that they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women,” Hayley Strozier, who was director of catering at the club until 2008, said in a sworn declaration.

Initially, Trump gave this command “almost every time” he visited, Strozier said. Managers eventually changed employee schedules “so that the most attractive women were scheduled to work when Mr. Trump was scheduled to be at the club," she said.

A similar story is told by former Trump employees in court documents filed in 2012 in a broad labor relations lawsuit brought against one of Trump’s development companies in Los Angeles County Superior Court.

The employees’ declarations in support of the lawsuit, which have not been reported in detail until now, show the extent to which they believed Trump, now the Republican presidential nominee, pressured subordinates at one of his businesses to create and enforce a culture of beauty, where female employees’ appearances were prized over their skills.

A Trump Organization attorney, in a statement to The Times, called the allegations “meritless.”

In a 2009 court filing, the company said that any “allegedly wrongful or discriminatory acts” by its employees, if any occurred, would be in violation of company policy and were not authorized.

Employees said in their declarations that the apparent preference for attractive women came from the top.

“Donald Trump always wanted good looking women working at the club,” said Sue Kwiatkowski, a restaurant manager at the club until 2009, in a declaration. "I know this because one time he took me aside and said, ‘I want you to get some good looking hostesses here. People like to see good looking people when they come in.’ ”

As a result, Kwiatkowski said, "I and the other managers always tried to have our most attractive hostesses working when Mr. Trump was in town and going to be on the premises."

 

That was made in 2010 ...

 

He's actively campaigned for the last two Texas governors and won pretty high praise from Ted Cruz in the 2016 race.

 

Nugent appeared at a couple Trump rallies during the campaign. At one, he famously grabbed his crotch when talking about Hillary (or maybe it was Democrats in general). He was also in a video released by the campaign back in September.

Now is there there a photo of Nugent literally shoulder-to-shoulder with Trump? I don't know. But he undoubtedly has done as much - if not more - work on behalf of conservatives as Dunham has for liberals.

 

Government of, by and for fools.

 

Well, I did specify "Presidential nominee" ... still, I suppose those (and the Palin one) are close enough to the spirit of my post to count. I was wrong ...