President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

All I know is that I didn't get my check on time this month. Really frustrating.

 

Much like anti-Communist Nixon had to be the one to go to China, it falls to a conservative like Max Boot to legitimize this view without being demonized for partisanship.

 

I diverted my check to a Kickstarter to hire a limo for Trump.

 

Haley resigning?

Scoop: Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation

 

How is trump not banned from Twitter ?

 

And it was all going so well for us at the UN.

UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump’s speech

 

Celebrity and clicks.

NEW YORK - Twitter (TWTR) has made it clear that it won't ban Donald Trump from its service, whether the president follows its rules against harassment or not.

That's no surprise: The president's tweets draw attention to the struggling service, even if tweets mocking reporters and rivals undercut Twitter's stated commitment to make the service a welcoming place.

The company has been cracking down on accounts that violate its terms, and Trump's critics say he has broken Twitter's rules multiple times.

Calls to ban Trump from Twitter, largely by liberal activists, writers and Twitter users, sounded even before he became president. They were renewed recently when the president posted a mock video of him "body slamming" a man whose face was covered by CNN logo. Groups such as the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press condemned the video as a threat against journalists (a White House aide said at the time that the tweet should not be seen as a threat).

The case for Trump on Twitter
Twitter does ban harassment and hateful conduct, but there is a lot of wiggle room as to what constitutes such behavior. For instance, though it may be crude to tweet that a TV host was "bleeding badly from a face-lift," they are at best in a gray area when it comes to violating Twitter terms.

When asked about Trump, Twitter says it doesn't comment on individual accounts. But CEO Jack Dorsey told NBC in May that it's "really important to hear directly from leadership" to hold people accountable and have conversations out in the open, not behind closed doors.

It also makes business sense: Trump's tweets are constantly in headlines, calling attention to Twitter and, ideally, getting more users to sign up.

For now, it doesn't appear to be helping. On Thursday, Twitter said its monthly average user base in the April-June quarter grew 5 percent from the previous year to 328 million, but it was unchanged from the previous quarter. Twitter's stock fell more than 9 percent to $17.75 in pre-market trading Thursday after the numbers came out.

Twitter has never turned a profit. On Thursday, the San Francisco-based company reported a second-quarter loss of $116 million, or 16 cents per share, compared with a loss of $107 million, or 15 cents per share, a year earlier.

Revenue declined 5 percent to $574 million from $602 million, inching past Wall Street's muted expectations.

Important tweets
Free speech advocates agree it's better for Trump to stay.

Emma Llanso, director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Free Expression Project, said Trump's tweets are "very clearly politically relevant speech" and are even being cited in court cases challenging the president's policies. For example, a U.S. appeals court used Trump's tweets in June to block his travel ban on people from six predominantly Muslim countries.​

Why Twitter won't ban President Donald Trump - CBS News

 

He really IS pretty! Damn pretty!!

 

Trump’s trading in for a younger more pliable model.

 

Or Haley is plotting to take Graham's Senate seat once he replaces Sessions as AG.

 

Or a final fuck before melania comes home

 

"Come on, Ted."