A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to the White House, which is…
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Merkel Declines to Die for Trump [Update*2: Trump Postpones G7 to At Least September]
A little over a week ago, Trump announced he wanted to have the G7 leaders meet in person in July. (The United States is this year’s host.) First it was going to be at Camp David, which is bad enough as a pandemic breeding ground, but then he changed to the White House, which is…
Pompeo Insists the G7 Ministers Call it the “Wuhan Virus” [Updated w/ “G6” Responses]
Our rapturous Secretary of State not only insists on calling the coronavirus by the racist monicker “Wuhan virus,” he’s trying to force the G7 foreign ministers to go along: UK Independent: Coronavirus: Mike Pompeo insists G7 use 'Wuhan Virus' – but world officials refuse Ministers of the G7 – the “Group of 7” intergovernmental economic…
Trump's Doral resort was added as finalist for G7 at the last minute
We already know that Donald Trump cheats at golf. (He cheats at life. Why wouldn’t he cheat at a game?) So it’s clearly no shocker that Trump cheats at golf resorts, too. As in, getting them added to the list of potential G7 venues at the 11th hour in order to line his greasy pockets….
Mulvaney on Trump's G7 faceplant: 'He still considers himself to be in the hospitality business'
So Donald Trump — very loudly — proclaimed last night that next year’s G7 summit won’t be at his Doral resort after all, because the media and Democrats are so, so awful and simply don’t appreciate his largesse: …..its own 50 to 70 unit building. Would set up better than other alternatives. I announced that…
Trump won't host the G-7 at Doral because of “Irrational” criticism of self-dealing
BWAHAHAHAHA Darn, another line of the articles of impeachment removed. Mr. Trump added: “Therefore, based on both Media & Democrat Crazed and Irrational Hostility, we will no longer consider Trump National Doral, Miami, as the Host Site for the G-7 in 2020.” Breaking News: President Trump said he would no longer hold the next G7…
Greg Sargent: W.H. Considering Setting Up Fund To Solicit $ to Trump Org. For G-7.
Anyone who believes this crap will in any way defray even one dollar of taxpayer expense is an idiot. x A reminder: House Democrats can and should make Trump's spectacularly corrupt G-7/Doral decision part of the impeachment inquiry and possibly part of an article of impeachment. Here's @RepRaskin laying out a process to us by…
Fox analyst on G7 site: 'This is about as direct and profound a violation … as one could create'
Occasionally, someone at Fox other than Sean Hannity gets to put forth an opinion. And even though Shep Smith’s recent departure has knocked the average IQ at Bizarro World down at least 20 points, you still have a few people over there willing to call out egregious hijinks. Like, say, when the actual president of…
Mayor of Doral heard about G7 plans from Mulvaney press conference
You’re not the only one surprised that Donald Trump is corruptly using his office to boost his own company’s profits. (Okay, you’re not surprised. Who are we kidding?) Apparently, Juan Carlos Bermudez, the mayor of Doral, Florida, where Donald Trump’s very posh and expensive bedbug hatchery is currently located, was taken aback as well. From Washington…
Trump to Egyptian president: 'Where's my favorite dictator?'
Sometimes the shit he says and does is so gobsmackingly weird, I almost feel like I've fallen into a wormhole when I write these. But, alas, I’m still on Earth — and it’s still fucked until at least 2021. From the Wall Street Journal via Raw Story: “Inside a room of the ornately decorated Hotel…
Former Justice Department official: 'We have a Russian asset sitting in the Oval Office'
If only we could see that the real enemy of America is our former tan-suited president, not the vicious, lying, land-grabbing leader of our bitter rival. Then Donald Trump’s job would be so much easier. But, alas. Trump telegraphs his obeisance to Vladimir Putin nearly every day — and especially when he travels overseas to ratchet…
The “Everything Terrible Trump Has Done So Far” Omnibus (Week 136)
As part of the ongoing project to catalog every awful thing the Trump Administration has done as a reference for future political arguments and whatever few posterity survives to see 2020, here’s everything awful the Trump Administration has done this week. 1549. Ramped up the trade war with China by raising tariffs by 5% 1550. Threatened to…
Donald Trump is here to tell you his Miami golf resort doesn't have bedbugs
Wow, he’s a marketing genius! Rule No. 1 in hotel management is to place the word “bedbugs” and the name of your resort one word apart from each other as frequently as possible. Remind us all that your hotel isn’t infested with awful biting parasites that are nearly impossible to get rid of! Great work! x No…
Trump's Miami resort — where he wants to hold next G7 — was sued over bedbug infestation
Donald Trump wants to hold the next G7 summit at his Miami resort, because how else is he going to recoup all the money he’s losing for being an egregious asshole who ruins everything? In the clip below, a somewhat muted Trump — who has possibly been away from his Adderall connection a skosh too long…
PBS reporter calls Trump a liar to his face
Okay, she was kinda-sorta diplomatic about it, but still. After Donald Trump blathered some nonsense about never, ever doing things for political reasons (really?), and claimed that he ran in one election (false) and won, and that he’s ahead of the 2020 field based on polls (wrong again), he said that Obama kicked Russia out of…
Trump: 'I think I know more about the environment than most people'
Hey, don’t worry about anything — particularly not the environment. Donald Trump is on it. Trump is an environmentalist — an environmentalist, I tells ya: From his logorrheic assault on logic and consensus reality at the G7: “I think I know more about the environment than most people. I want clean air. I want clean water….
Larry Kudlow goes full Orwell in new CNN interview
On a good day, listening to top White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow discuss economics is like watching the chief herpetologist at the Bronx Zoo run around screaming in the gift shop with a Gaboon viper latched to his scrotum. Today, he looked even more out of his element. In an interview with CNN’s Brianna Keilar,…
Trump officials angry about G7 focus on 'niche issues' like climate change and gender equality
They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later called it “the best meeting we…
Trump officials angry about G7's focus on 'niche issues' like climate change and gender equality
They want to talk about issues on which Trump is merely an idiot instead of a dangerously ill-informed über-moron. It’s not fair! The Guardian: Macron whisked the US president away for an impromptu meal for two on an oceanfront terrace at the Hotel du Palais. Trump initially appeared frosty but later called it “the best meeting we…
Trump apparently thinks attending the G7 is a huge waste of his time
I mean, he could be setting the world record for most Chicken McNuggets crammed into a U.S. president’s mouth at one time. But instead he has to go to this stupid G7 thing. CNN: [I]n conversations with aides over the past weeks, Trump has questioned why he must attend [the G7], according to people familiar…
