President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Boston!!!

 

Thanks, @exmediahack . Always enjoy your knowledge sharing.

Now, what's your take on FTVLive...

 

Bezos oughta send Trump a Get Well Soon card.

 

I take it as a given the next Democratic administration will pull every Sinclair over the air license and sue them on anntitrust grounds. Obama didn't do stuff like that because 1. It wasn't in his nature. 2. A black man isn't allowed to be mean to white people. The next Democratic President, man or woman, whatever race, will have fewer inhibitions. What goes around comes around.

 

Locally, Nexstar is an amazing study in the sacrifice of journalism for profits. If P&G or another big Walmart supplier does a 5K, it will be in A block. Charity galas get as much coverage as the occasional murder.

They finish DFL in a three-station race and don’t care.

 

The use of those LMAs where another station is "run" by a former exec of the chain? How do I get one of those gigs?

 

I just feel bad Mississippi State had to lose the game on the shot and then come back on the floor to lose it again.

 

This cover is so provocative, the story gets pushed to the next post ...

 

501 Days of Trump & Co. Stealing America Blind

More than at any time in history, the president of the United States is actively using the power and prestige of his office to line his own pockets: landing loans for his businesses, steering wealthy buyers to his condos, securing cheap foreign labor for his resorts, preserving federal subsidies for his housing projects, easing regulations on his golf courses, licensing his name to overseas projects, even peddling coffee mugs and shot glasses bearing the presidential seal. For Trump, whose business revolves around the marketability of his name, there has proved to be no public policy too big, and no private opportunity too crass, to exploit for personal profit.

Nowhere has the self-enrichment been more evident than at his Washington hotel, which quickly filled up with the very lobbyists and swamp creatures Trump had railed against during his campaign. Oil companies, mining interests, insurance executives, foreign diplomats, and defense contractors all rushed to book their annual conferences at Trump’s hotels and resorts, where Cabinet members graciously addressed them. After hiking the nightly rate to $653 — 32 percent higher than other local luxury hotels — Trump collected $2 million in profits from the property during his first three months in office. By last August, the hotel’s bar and restaurant had hauled in another $8 million in revenue. And although Trump has pledged to give away any money his hotels earn from foreign governments, the plan contains a lucrative loophole: Employees at his hotels admit that they make no effort to identify guests who represent other countries, meaning that much of the foreign money spent at Trump’s properties flows directly into his own pockets. On March 28, a federal judge allowed a lawsuit to go forward that charges Trump with violating the Constitution by accepting money from foreign governments at his D.C. hotel.

In fact, although Trump refuses to disclose the details of his myriad business operations, he continues to enjoy access to every dime he makes as president. Instead of setting up a blind trust to avoid conflicts of interest, as other presidents have done, Trump put his two grown sons in charge of his more than 500  business entities. His sons regularly brief Trump about how the enterprises are doing, enabling him to personally monitor how his decisions in office affect his bottom line. What’s more, only 15 days after this “eyes wide open” trust was set up, Trump amended the fine print to allow him to take money out of the operation any time he pleases. The loophole, buried on page 161 of the 166-page form, stipulates that any “net income or principal” can be distributed to Trump “at his request.” Far from putting his wealth in a blind trust, Trump asked the public for its blind trust, effectively sticking his money in a piggy bank in Don Jr.’s room that he is free to raid at any hour of the day or night.

 

And then Trump, Rush, Hannity, Coulter, Jones and the GOP screech about why won't the media cover Obama's role on Jesus' death.

 

How angry are the MAGA folks about 1. that hippie version of the Easter story Jesus Christ Superstar being on and 2. that a black dude is Jesus?

 

It all comes back to Mary Magdalene’s connection to Uranium One.