trump just said that Miami Airport was "one of the biggest airports in the world, maybe the biggest"

[George II]

Fact: It's not even in the top 20, or in the top 5 in the United States:

https://www.internationalairportreview.com/article/32311/top-20-largest-airports-world-passenger-number/

[spanone]

1. he's been talking about Doral for ten minutes non-stop. This should be illegal

[spanone]

4. Still talking about doral....fucking moron

[George II]

5. I wish someone should ask him about bedbugs.

[cwydro]

43. Mika mentioned bedbugs a couple times this morning.

I almost choked on my coffee.

[malaise]

2. I did laugh

He is a raving lunatic - Obama's book deal at Netflix deals are examples of violations to the emoluments clause

[George II]

6. Both of those deals came AFTER Obama left office.

[malaise]

8. He' s a fucking idiot

seriously

[Caliman73]

21. Everyday he shows us how little he knows

He admitted he had never heard of the emoluments clause and tried to pass it off as if NOBODY had ever heard of it. The thing is, most people understand that you should not use the power of the government to personally enrich yourself, especially when dealing with foreign powers. That is one of the reasons why there is a general dislike of politicians. People think that politicians line their pockets handing out favors. Trump is actually trying to do it right out in the open because again, he does not understand how things work and is used to be crooked right out in the open.

Every President has written books or a memoir. They have given speeches for which they were paid. It is expected and understood that a President, especially the first Black President is going to be sought after to share his experiences. He is going to make money. There is no expectation that Presidents just go hide away and go broke or do nothing the rest of their lives. W Bush started painting and if someone wants to buy the stuff he paints, then go for it, nothing wrong with that. Granted Bush should be in jail for Iraq, but he isn't and if he wants to go on a speaking tour or write a book, then there isn't anything wrong with that.

Trump actively pushing for foreign and domestic leaders to use his properties is text book violation. If he waited until he was out of office and stated hawking his crap, then it would be a different story.

He is just an idiot.

[malaise]

24. Great post

This idiot thinks everyone is as crooked as Don the Con.

[Control-Z]

28. Did he really?

I had the good luck to only catch the end of that oral diarrhea fest.

What exactly did he say?

"Obama's book deal at Netflix deals are examples of violations to the emoluments clause"

[malaise]

29. He even wanted to know when Obama started negotiating for them

I'll try and find the video for you

[malaise]

46. Video here

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212606577

[Phoenix61]

3. WTeverlovingF!!!!

Dementia is cruel.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. DFW is HUGER, Donnie......

I have navigated through many airports on my journies over the past 50 plus years. Dallas-Ft. Worth is by far larger in scope than Miami.

[George II]

10. According to that link that I provided (just the top 20 in the world) as far as the US is concerned:

1. ATL (Atlanta, largest in the world)
2. LAX (Los Angeles)
3. O'Hare (Chicago)
4. DFW (Dallas)
5. DEN (Denver)

[Midnightwalk]

13. Is it ever

Sometimes taxiing at dfw feels like you are driving to your destination.

But unless there are runway restrictions the size of Miami airport has nothing to do with why doral was an emolument. Captain obvious signing off

[Control-Z]

32. Gawd, I had to change planes in Dallas once.

It was like being lost in a small City.

[FM123]

9. I wish just one reporter at the press conference there would stand up and say

actually that is not true
(like a million times)

[Caliman73]

23. Me too.

Just straight out, "You are completely wrong. Miami is not even in the top 10 US airports. It is number 15. If we are talking world...then Miami isn't even in the top 30."

Then they should follow up with..."Why is it that you constantly say things that are wrong, inaccurate, or straight up lies, when they are so easily disproven?"

[malaise]

26. This

Someone will call it out in a few minutes 0 sadly few of them are prepared to shout that is not true in his presence.

[LakeArenal]

39. Presidential abuse. Presidential Abuse!!!

“He’s the most mistreated Prezdent”

(Sarcasm thing required?)

[FM123]

41. Exactly!

While he stands there and lies about everything from airports to Obama, they just sit there and let Fux News collect soundbites instead of correcting him right there and then on the spot.

[malaise]

44. Then three years later they apologize like Toobin

after their owners' agendas have been served.

[FM123]

45. You are so right.

I just heard that he regrets "blowing things out of proportion" about Hillary's emails. Too little too late.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

11. It is fairly big, though. And would have been an aboslute mess if had been shut down.

Which it could very well have been if the 7 most powerful people in the world were right below its flight path.

[exboyfil]

12. STRAWBERRIES

This meltdown should be shown along with The Caine Mutiny trial scene in every Civics course in the country. Can you imagine if we could ever get him into the witness box?

[George II]

15. Yes, a classic scene, one I thought of just a month or so after the 2017 inauguration......

&t=19s

[Ohiogal]

14. Why don't any reporters

challenge him on his facts when he spews this oral diarrhea?

[Blue Owl]

16. Maybe it was during the Revolutionary War, but not today

[underpants]

30. LOL

[George II]

17. Additional fact check, Miami is 15th in the UNITED STATES...

https://www.world-airport-codes.com/us-top-40-airports.html

[HAB911]

18. Miami is a shithole airport

[George II]

20. Last time I was there it was pretty run down...

...when we went down there we'd go to Fort Lauderdale, FLL.

[ARPad95]

25. His self-serving plan was to have the airport upgraded...

along with his bed bug hotel and stick us taxpayers with the bill. He's way too obvious at this point.

[frazzled]

19. Well, it is 15th largest in the US alone

But who knows in the world? It could be first!

[CurtEastPoint]

22. meh... my hometown ATL rules

More than 107 million passengers flew through Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport last year, making it the busiest passenger airport in the world for the 21st year in a row.

[frazzled]

37. I know; it was sarcasm

There are 14 other cities in the US (much less the world, where Beijing, Tokyo, and Dubai airports are massively traveled), including my hometown's airport, O'Hare, which is third busiest in the US.

I was simply pointing out, as have others, the absurdity of the man's thought processes.

[CurtEastPoint]

38. He is a sad POS. No truth...just lies and exaggerations.

[dewsgirl]

27. I wonder if Putin wanted it there for some reason? He is

pushing so hard for this.

[DinahMoeHum]

31. Fuck him. He's gone off his rocker. . .

. . .and talking in superlatives, as usual.

[jcgoldie]

33. May as well just let him have it there...

Would have been less fucked up than listening to him whine about it like a four year old who didn't get a candy bar at the supermarket checkout line for the next 8 damn months.

[Cirque du So-What]

42. If he wasn't whining about that, it would be something else

I wish I could give him something to really whine about, like meal worms in his prison oatmeal.

[Siwsan]

34. trump* uses superlative as camouflage for his lack of knowledge and facts.

Which is why he uses them, pretty much every time he opens his mouth.

[George II]

36. Right. Anytime he's asked what he's going to do about something, he says...

"We have lots of ideas, many many ideas, we'll see in a couple of weeks."

That's his go-to for "I have no freaking idea"!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. If you go by size it's not even in the top 15.

https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-world-s-10-largest-airports-by-size.html By traffic it's not evenin the top 30. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_busiest_airports_by_passenger_traffic

But if it was the world's largest airport that would be another reason not to have to G7 at Doral. MIA is only about a mile away and the noise would be considerable.

[gibraltar72]

40. Since 1776.