Sorry if I wasn’t clear, but this is part of what I meant by looking for the agenda of the tweets - what is he trying to distract from is the primary one for tweets, but there are other places where he does or says outrageous things that we should take seriously, but not entirely at face value.
Tman
3617
Trump is just manipulating the media so much it’s disgraceful.
The media diligently reports anything he does or says as news, such as
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/trump-japanese-mogul-pledges-50-billion-us-investment/2016/12/06/394d1bbe-bc2d-11e6-ae79-bec72d34f8c9_story.html?utm_term=.03900d87c7d8
Then a day or so later, everyone figures out Trump is lying / taking credit for something else, or just completely fabricating it.
The problem is with anything - everyone remembers the first thing. They don’t pay attention to subsequent reports.
LMN8R
3618
Yep, even the Seattle Times (pretty much the home of Boeing) had this as their headline this morning:
“Boeing blindsided as Trump slams Air Force One costs”
For fuck’s sake, Seattle Times, you had more than enough time to say “Donald Trump lies about Boeing, tanking their stock” as your headline instead.
KevinC
3619
He’s not gonna buy it until they use golden glitter for chaff.
magnet
3620
The whole “tanking stock” story is overblown. Yes, BA prices fell, but they recovered completely within hours. And today BA stock is higher than it’s been all year.
Timex
3621
The real issue, is that Trump is a fucking lunatic, and has the power to SINGLE HANDEDLY cause major market movements.
Quaro
3622
You can see Trump’s plane internals in the video here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/12/06/did-donald-trump-tank-boeings-stock-because-he-was-mad-about-a-news-article/
Gold seatbelts and buttons and everything else that can possibly be made out of gold. Like a Sadam Hussein palace. Just disgusted to see this represent America.
At my most upset with George Bush – probably over torture – I was like 1/10th as upset as I am over any one of numerous Trump issues. It’s just unsustainable. Ugh.
magnet
3623
Lots of people have caused market movements with seemingly minor comments. That’s just how markets work. They are not entirely rational.
Quaro
3624
Trump supposedly said to his staff, give me a list of every company cutting jobs and I will call them and threaten them. Tell them to ban robots, whatever.
Imagine being a new company and industry, a growth one, considering setting up in the USA. We can’t make our systems more efficient or leave if it reduces the number of jobs? Seems like a bad country to base our business!
What a screwed up world where moderate Democrats have to defend free trade and fight against tariffs and all kinds of things from the entire GOP now.
If only there was an expert on building nuclear bunkers on the forum. We could ask for advice on what to do and how to install his Vault OS as it looks like Trump will shitpost humanity into Armageddon. Did anyone realise back then think that poster was actually a prophet? The Neanderthal Kwisatz Haderach? Interesting times.
KevinC
3626
You deserve some sort of Pulitzer.
Quaro
3627
Ugh. The nuclear thing is no joke on the tail risk of Trump. He gets so damn angry about his ego. I WON THE POPULAR VOTE he insists over and over again. HAMILTON SHOULD APOLOGIZE.
My only consolation is that I looked up the nuclear football dude and he does have to hang around fairly close to Trump at all times. So there’s a least some chance he’d be like, “This dude is obviously completely nuts right now… I can hear him rambling and it’s total insanity. I’m just gonna quietly slide out of sight until things cool down…”
KevinC
3628
“Nuclear Football Dude Scores Safety, Wins Game”. I can see the headline already.
None
3629
In response a story we read about yesterday
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Jones told the Post that he hoped Trump would explain at a Dec. 1 meeting that 550 of the Carrier jobs weren’t saved.
“But he got up there,” Jones said, “and, for whatever reason, lied his ass off.”
“Trump and Pence, they pulled a dog and pony show on the numbers,” Jones said. “I almost threw up in my mouth.”
None
3631
Well. He’s not mincing any words, is he?
Well said I wonder if, Trump will start a twitter war with Reich. Sad
Quaro
3633
More from that Reich conversation:
