Trump Can’t Seem to Remember His Father Was Born in New York, Not Germany
President Trump met with NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. Then he forced the poor guy to sit there while he vomited words all over reporters who shouted questions at him. It’s a thing Trump likes to do.

Two moments in particular stood out today, and they’re both the kind of thing that’ll have you breaking out your pocket Constitution and rereading the text of the 25th Amendment.

Let’s start with Trump’s attempt to talk about the “origins” of the special counsel’s investigation into his campaign. Three separate times he says “oranges” instead of “origins.”

It’s funny and dumb, but it’s not nearly as disconcerting as one moment of oddness that preceded it. While declaring his love for Germany, Trump said he’s proud that his father was born in the country. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany,” Trump said. Fred Trump was born in the Bronx.

Somehow, this isn’t even the first time Trump has told this lie. In his head though, as he has on so many other issues, Trump seems to have replaced fact with fiction.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/t...8NEqIPSa_GJ4Jfg



Trump wrongly claims his dad was born in Germany — for the third time
Of all the odd, counterfactual and conspiratorial claims President Trump has made over the past four years or so, this one may take the cake: He said Tuesday that his father was born in Germany, even though he wasn’t.

It is at least the third time he has said this.
“My father is German — was German,” Trump said. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.”

This is not true. Fred Trump is of German descent, and his father was a German immigrant. But Fred Trump was born in New York.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...m=.77fc4a7c0725

White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley Refers to Puerto Rico as ‘That Country’ on MSNBC
In an explosive interview on MSNBC Tuesday morning, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley referred to Puerto Rico as “that country” twice—even though the island has been a U.S. territory for over 120 years. The misidentification came while Gidley was defending Trump’s Tuesday morning tweetstorm slamming Puerto Rico and its need for “too much money” after the devastating Hurricane Maria in 2017. “With all we’ve done in that country, they have systematic mismanagement of the goods and services we’ve sent to them,” Gidley said to MSNBC host Hallie Jackson. Trump “says Puerto Ricans are taking from the USA,” Jackson responded. “Puerto Rico is part of the United States. People who live in Puerto Rico are U.S. Citizens. You’re rolling your eyes and I don’t know why you’re rolling your eyes.” Gidley later admitted his mistake, and claimed calling Puerto Rico “that country” was “a slip of the tongue.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/hogan-gidl...as-that-country

Auf fb gefunden:
"Silly Democrats can't really hold it together. Can't they understand that grabbing women, smelling their hair, and showing other forms of primitive backward behavior is the domain of Republicans. Real progressive men never reveal what they are made of, this way.

They bomb countries to the pieces, like Obama; they organize regime changes, like Biden in Ukraine, they set up tough complicated provocations, like the alpha males in CIA, they kiss ass of real tough guys in charge of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and thus showing that they belong to the same A team. All these are acceptable forms of machismo.

Smelling woman's necks? Gee, Biden is really losing it. No wonder people in Missouri have coined this proverb: "Senile Democrat is Worse than a Republican."

Same applies to Trump, Pompeo and Bolton. Just concentrate on what Republicans do best. Let the Democrats do their bombing, don't get the issues confused.
No wonder people in Connecticut like to say: "A Clever Republican Shows his intelligence by Dropping more bombs than Clinton."

Wünsche der Dame recht viel Erfolg im Kampf gegen die hohe Kriminalität in der drittgrößten und (in punkto Schußwaffengebrauch) gefährlichsten Stadt der USA ...!

<<Chicago wählt erstmals schwarze Frau zur Bürgermeisterin>>

- "Die parteilose Lori Lightfoot ist zur neuen Bürgermeisterin von Chicago gewählt worden.
- Sie steht vor großen Herausforderungen: Chicago gilt als eine der gefährlichsten Städte der USA.
- Der Präsident wird sie wohl kaum unterstützen. Immer wieder thematisiert Trump die hohe Kriminalitätsrate - auch, weil Chicago seit Jahrzehnten von Demokraten regiert wird.

Gewonnen hat am Ende die Anwältin Lori Lightfoot. Der Name sollte nicht täuschen. Lightfoot ist alles andere als ein Leichtfuß. Sie kommt aus einfachen Verhältnissen, die Mutter arbeitete in der Gesundheitsfürsorge, der Vater war Fabrikarbeiter und Hausmeister. Einer ihrer Verwandten wurde in den 1920er Jahren von Mitgliedern des Ku-Klux-Klan umgebracht. Ihr älterer Bruder geriet immer wieder mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt. Das hat sie geprägt. Sie studierte Jura, wurde Bundesanklägerin. Nicht nur für sich - sie wollte immer auch eine Stimme der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung sein. [...]

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chic...tfoot-1.4394370


<<Chicago ist „gefährlichste“ Stadt in den USA>>

Kriminalität - In der US-Stadt Chicago wohnen offenbar die „schießwütigsten“ US-Bürger in den gesamten USA. Die Mordrate ist hoch, wird aber noch von anderen Städten mit Abstand getoppt.

Chicago ist die US-Stadt mit der höchsten Kriminalitätsrate. Im Jahr 2016 zählten die Behörden 3.550 Schießereien, 4.331 Schussverletzungen und 762 Mordfälle. Im Schnitt wurden in Chicago 12 Menschen pro Tag durch eine Schusswaffe verletzt, wie ZeroHedge berichtete.
In Chicago wurden im vergangenen Jahr mehr Menschen ermordet als in den Städten New York und Los Angeles zusammen gezählt ..."

https://www.tarifometer24.com/wirtschaft...-den-usa/73308/

<<NATO-Jubiläumstreffen: Trump erklärt Deutschland zum Prügelknaben>>

Vor dem Start des 70. Nato-Jubiläums kritisiert Donald Trump Deutschland wegen der zu geringen Verteidigungsausgaben harsch. Außenminister Heiko Maas muss sich auf eine ungemütliche Geburtstagsparty einstellen.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/70...-a-1260941.html

Zitat von Indo_HS im Beitrag #5730

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Außenminister Heiko Maas muss sich auf eine ungemütliche Geburtstagsparty einstellen.
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/70...-a-1260941.html

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Zitat von Indo_HS im Beitrag #5729

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Wünsche der Dame recht viel Erfolg im Kampf gegen die hohe Kriminalität in der drittgrößten und (in punkto Schußwaffengebrauch) gefährlichsten Stadt der USA ...!

<<Chicago wählt erstmals schwarze Frau zur Bürgermeisterin>>

- "Die parteilose Lori Lightfoot ist zur neuen Bürgermeisterin von Chicago gewählt worden.
- Sie steht vor großen Herausforderungen: Chicago gilt als eine der gefährlichsten Städte der USA.
- Der Präsident wird sie wohl kaum unterstützen. Immer wieder thematisiert Trump die hohe Kriminalitätsrate - auch, weil Chicago seit Jahrzehnten von Demokraten regiert wird.

Gewonnen hat am Ende die Anwältin Lori Lightfoot. Der Name sollte nicht täuschen. Lightfoot ist alles andere als ein Leichtfuß. Sie kommt aus einfachen Verhältnissen, die Mutter arbeitete in der Gesundheitsfürsorge, der Vater war Fabrikarbeiter und Hausmeister. Einer ihrer Verwandten wurde in den 1920er Jahren von Mitgliedern des Ku-Klux-Klan umgebracht. Ihr älterer Bruder geriet immer wieder mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt. Das hat sie geprägt. Sie studierte Jura, wurde Bundesanklägerin. Nicht nur für sich - sie wollte immer auch eine Stimme der afroamerikanischen Bevölkerung sein. [...]

https://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/chic...tfoot-1.4394370


<<Chicago ist „gefährlichste“ Stadt in den USA>>

Kriminalität - In der US-Stadt Chicago wohnen offenbar die „schießwütigsten“ US-Bürger in den gesamten USA. Die Mordrate ist hoch, wird aber noch von anderen Städten mit Abstand getoppt.

Chicago ist die US-Stadt mit der höchsten Kriminalitätsrate. Im Jahr 2016 zählten die Behörden 3.550 Schießereien, 4.331 Schussverletzungen und 762 Mordfälle. Im Schnitt wurden in Chicago 12 Menschen pro Tag durch eine Schusswaffe verletzt, wie ZeroHedge berichtete.
In Chicago wurden im vergangenen Jahr mehr Menschen ermordet als in den Städten New York und Los Angeles zusammen gezählt ..."

https://www.tarifometer24.com/wirtschaft...-den-usa/73308/

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Trump's Comment zu 70 Jahren NATO:
"People pay now and I'm happy that they pay now."

Ich muss schon sagen, primitiver geht's wirklich nimmer.

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5726

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Trump Can’t Seem to Remember His Father Was Born in New York, Not Germany
President Trump met with NATO secretary Jens Stoltenberg in the Oval Office Tuesday afternoon. Then he forced the poor guy to sit there while he vomited words all over reporters who shouted questions at him. It’s a thing Trump likes to do.

Two moments in particular stood out today, and they’re both the kind of thing that’ll have you breaking out your pocket Constitution and rereading the text of the 25th Amendment.

Let’s start with Trump’s attempt to talk about the “origins” of the special counsel’s investigation into his campaign. Three separate times he says “oranges” instead of “origins.”

It’s funny and dumb, but it’s not nearly as disconcerting as one moment of oddness that preceded it. While declaring his love for Germany, Trump said he’s proud that his father was born in the country. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany,” Trump said. Fred Trump was born in the Bronx.

Somehow, this isn’t even the first time Trump has told this lie. In his head though, as he has on so many other issues, Trump seems to have replaced fact with fiction.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/t...8NEqIPSa_GJ4Jfg



Trump wrongly claims his dad was born in Germany — for the third time
Of all the odd, counterfactual and conspiratorial claims President Trump has made over the past four years or so, this one may take the cake: He said Tuesday that his father was born in Germany, even though he wasn’t.

It is at least the third time he has said this.
“My father is German — was German,” Trump said. “Born in a very wonderful place in Germany, so I have a great feeling for Germany.”

This is not true. Fred Trump is of German descent, and his father was a German immigrant. But Fred Trump was born in New York.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/...m=.77fc4a7c0725

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5728

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Auf fb gefunden:
"Silly Democrats can't really hold it together. Can't they understand that grabbing women, smelling their hair, and showing other forms of primitive backward behavior is the domain of Republicans. Real progressive men never reveal what they are made of, this way.

They bomb countries to the pieces, like Obama; they organize regime changes, like Biden in Ukraine, they set up tough complicated provocations, like the alpha males in CIA, they kiss ass of real tough guys in charge of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and thus showing that they belong to the same A team. All these are acceptable forms of machismo.

Smelling woman's necks? Gee, Biden is really losing it. No wonder people in Missouri have coined this proverb: "Senile Democrat is Worse than a Republican."

Same applies to Trump, Pompeo and Bolton. Just concentrate on what Republicans do best. Let the Democrats do their bombing, don't get the issues confused.
No wonder people in Connecticut like to say: "A Clever Republican Shows his intelligence by Dropping more bombs than Clinton."

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5735

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5728

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Auf fb gefunden:
"Silly Democrats can't really hold it together. Can't they understand that grabbing women, smelling their hair, and showing other forms of primitive backward behavior is the domain of Republicans. Real progressive men never reveal what they are made of, this way.

They bomb countries to the pieces, like Obama; they organize regime changes, like Biden in Ukraine, they set up tough complicated provocations, like the alpha males in CIA, they kiss ass of real tough guys in charge of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and thus showing that they belong to the same A team. All these are acceptable forms of machismo.

Smelling woman's necks? Gee, Biden is really losing it. No wonder people in Missouri have coined this proverb: "Senile Democrat is Worse than a Republican."

Same applies to Trump, Pompeo and Bolton. Just concentrate on what Republicans do best. Let the Democrats do their bombing, don't get the issues confused.
No wonder people in Connecticut like to say: "A Clever Republican Shows his intelligence by Dropping more bombs than Clinton."

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Da ist sie ja, die aufjaulende Brigade der Partei der Paedophilen mit ihrem Pussygrabbing Parteifuehrer. 😂

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5736

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #5735

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Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #5728

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Auf fb gefunden:
"Silly Democrats can't really hold it together. Can't they understand that grabbing women, smelling their hair, and showing other forms of primitive backward behavior is the domain of Republicans. Real progressive men never reveal what they are made of, this way.

They bomb countries to the pieces, like Obama; they organize regime changes, like Biden in Ukraine, they set up tough complicated provocations, like the alpha males in CIA, they kiss ass of real tough guys in charge of Saudi Arabia and Israel, and thus showing that they belong to the same A team. All these are acceptable forms of machismo.

Smelling woman's necks? Gee, Biden is really losing it. No wonder people in Missouri have coined this proverb: "Senile Democrat is Worse than a Republican."

Same applies to Trump, Pompeo and Bolton. Just concentrate on what Republicans do best. Let the Democrats do their bombing, don't get the issues confused.
No wonder people in Connecticut like to say: "A Clever Republican Shows his intelligence by Dropping more bombs than Clinton."

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Da ist sie ja, die aufjaulende Brigade der Partei der Paedophilen mit ihrem Pussygrabbing Parteifuehrer. 😂

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Haha, der fb-Freund, der das schrieb, ist Marxist und mit Sicherheit kein Republikaner.

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Der typische Unterschied zwischen einer Kongressfrau der Demokraten und einem Senator der Repugnians on the same topic right there:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t...25a&oe=5D0C43F7

Das erklaert fast alles. Fuer jene, die es begreifen koennen.

Trump, All About Winning, Sees Losses in Court Pile Up
The president has had scores of his initiatives shot down by federal judges. The Washington Post actually counted how many.
https://www.propublica.org/article/presi...-rs8wx4LZ3yEmpk

That's what a loser looks like. Fortunately.

McConnell to Trump: We're not repealing and replacing ObamaCare
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) told President Trump in a conversation Monday that the Senate will not be moving comprehensive health care legislation before the 2020 election, despite the president asking Senate Republicans to do that in a meeting last week.

McConnell said he made clear to the president that Senate Republicans will work on bills to keep down the cost of health care, but that they will not work on a comprehensive package to replace the Affordable Care Act, which the Trump administration is trying to strike down in court.
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/43...acing-obamacare

Mueller Testimony Before Congress ‘Inevitable,’ Schiff Says
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff said he sees it as a foregone conclusion that Special Counsel Robert Mueller will face questioning by Congress following the release of his report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

“I think it’s inevitable that Bob Mueller is going to have to testify before Congress,” Schiff said Wednesday on MSNBC. The committee has “a statutory requirement that the Intelligence Community, FBI, brief us on any significant counterintelligence or intelligence activity. And it’s hard to imagine something that rises more to that level than this investigation.”

Schiff’s comments came hours before a scheduled vote in the House Judiciary Committee to authorize a subpoena to obtain Mueller’s full report on his investigation into Russian meddling into the election and whether now-President Donald Trump’s campaign had any involvement.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/...ble-schiff-says

Trump Aides Fear He Is Overselling His ‘Exoneration’
Last Sunday, minutes before the rest of America found out about Attorney General William Barr’s summary of the Mueller report, Donald Trump received a briefing in his private residence at Mar-a-Lago that would kick off one of the most emotionally intense weeks of his presidency. In interviews with New York, White House officials and people familiar with internal events have described mood swings rippling through the administration: First came relief, in the form of smiles and tears and bottles of Champagne; then, the catharsis of “righteous anger,” with fuck yous to the press, Democrats in Congress, and members of the intelligence community; as the excitement waned, “cooler heads” emerged in the White House with brand-new anxieties about a president inclined to inflict self-harm by taking things too far. “There will be plenty of unfavorable things about the president in the full report, which we think will eventually come out, so let’s not go overboard saying there’s no wrongdoing. Let’s move on,” one senior White House official told me.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/t...xoneration.html

So now the phase of shitting themselves begins:
White House No Longer Enthusiastic About Releasing Mueller Report
In the immediate wake of Robert Mueller’s announcement that he has not established a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Donald Trump, the jovial president declared he would be happy to display the entire report before the public. “Let it come out. Let people see it — that’s up to the attorney general,” he said.

But over the last few days, the administration’s position on full disclosure has grown quieter. Meanwhile, periodic murmurs have suggested perhaps the report will amount to something other than total vindication. “Privately, some Trump advisers acknowledge those attacks may have a shelf life, and that they are deploying them in part to blunt questions about Mr. Trump’s own credibility,” notes the New York Times.

This morning, Trump tweeted, “There is no amount of testimony or document production that can satisfy Jerry Nadler or Shifty Adam Schiff. It is now time to focus exclusively on properly running our great Country!” Today, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders answered a question about the Mueller report by calling Democrats “sore losers” who need to move on. Trump is now calling demands to release the report a “disgrace” and a “waste of time.”
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/t...ler-report.html

Trump Says Wind Turbine Noise Causes Cancer. (It Does Not.)
In a speech tonight to House Republicans, Trump claimed that wind turbines cause cancer.

“They say the noise causes cancer,” the president of the United States asserted.
Wind turbines do not cause cancer. Some people blame the noise for causing a variety of other health ailments, but these charges have zero scientific validity. Cancer is not caused by noises of any kind.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/04/t...t-does-not.html

This is truly insane.

Stephen Hawking: Greed And Stupidity Are What Will End The Human Race
Physicist Stephen Hawking said pollution coupled with human greed and stupidity were the biggest threats to humanity.

Near the time of his death, the late Stephen Hawking remained convinced that the human race would require a “Planet B” if the species hoped to continued its existence.
Hawking believed that climate change would be humanity's extinction event.

Hawking took the view that humans were inherently destructive and selfish. He was skeptical of any human efforts to rein in climate change due to these characteristics.
"I fear evolution has inbuilt greed and aggression to the human genome. There is no sign of conflict lessening, and the development of militarised technology and weapons of mass destruction could make that disastrous."
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...dVHiQGifCZ0oh-4

Holocaust Expert Compares Fox News To Hitler’s Ministry Of Propaganda
President Trump and Fox News have formed a feedback loop that one historian says mimics Hitler's propaganda machine.

A free press is a pillar of democracy and a guard against authoritarianism. While Hitler used a new Ministry of People’s Enlightenment and Propaganda headed by Joseph Goebbels to undermine liberal democracy, President Donald Trump seems to be using Fox News.

Historian Christopher R. Browning drew such parallels late last year in a piece for New York Review of Books called "The Suffocation of Democracy."
https://mavenroundtable.io/theintellectu...8Yl2RjNoKT-r9DQ

It would be funny if it weren't reality:

https://www.facebook.com/OccupyDemocrats...23685581677298/

San Juan mayor suggests Trump 'vindictive' toward Puerto Rico because his golf course there 'went bankrupt'
Carmen Yulin Cruz, the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, slammed President Trump on Tuesday night over what she called his “vindictive” treatment of the island.

Cruz, during an appearance on MSNBC, rejected Trump’s claim that Puerto Rico has received $91 billion in Hurricane Maria relief, insisting they’ve received only $11-13 billion and that he’s “literally delaying people’s ability to put food on the table.”

The mayor, a Democrat, accused the president of “weaponizing” aid toward Puerto Rico and “trying to pin people against one another.” She added that she would take each insult from Trump as a “badge of honor.”

Trump late Monday renewed his calls to cut aid from Puerto Rico and blasted the San Juan mayor on Twitter as “crazed and incompetent.”
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/san-jua...Rb5ZGKR6_nFIGMg

Donald Trump said wind turbines cause cancer. Chuck Grassley called that 'idiotic.'
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/...tic/3356122002/

President Trump is Mentally Unwell
Here are three examples from just one day.
https://thebulwark.com/president-trump-is-mentally-unwell/

Der dummdreiste Lügenbaron hat auch gestern wieder zugeschlagen und sich - und damit auch seine Anhängerschaft - einmal mehr der Lächerlichkeit preisgegeben:

<<"Er kam in Deutschland zur Welt" - Trump verwechselt Vater und Großvater>>
Seit Jahren übt US-Präsident Trump Kritik am seiner Meinung nach zu geringen deutschen Verteidigungsetat. Dabei habe er "großen Respekt vor Deutschland", sein Vater sei schließlich dort zur Welt gekommen. Der wurde allerdings in New York geboren.
https://www.n-tv.de/politik/Trump-verwec...le20944872.html

<<"Mein Vater wurde an einem sehr schönen Ort in Deutschland geboren": bizarrer Trump-Auftritt im Weißen Haus>>
Donald Trump hat Nato-Generalsekretär Jens Stoltenberg im Weißen Haus empfangen. Dabei stellte sich der US-Präsident auch den Fragen der Presse - und sorgte mit seinen Antworten für jede Menge Kopfschütteln.
https://www.stern.de/politik/ausland/don...n--8650480.html

Es ist aber nicht das erste Mal - und auch kein Versehen ...:

<<Trump verbreitet Fake-News über Geburtsort seines Vaters>>
19.07.2018
Der US-Präsident betonte mehrmals, dass sein Vater in Deutschland geboren wurde. Das entspricht nicht der Wahrheit.
https://kurier.at/leben/donald-trump-ver...aters/400068425