President blamed his staff for not telling him $1 TRILLION on infrastructure would drain the treasur

[kpete]

Link to tweet

[underpants]

1. Because you live in a bubble

Everyone around you is either scared or manipulating you.

[Duppers]

64. I'll go with manipulating him.

Dems have proposed infrastructure projects in the past, funded over years with tax increases on the ultra-rich. Didn't happen due to the fact that this country is controlled by the 1%.

[Generic Brad]

2. But yet he is a business genius

Apparently his genius is on the same level as Wile E Coyote's.

[Stuart G]

6. I have to tell you that Wile E Coyote is deeply offended.

Those of us who admire him, laugh at him and enjoy is pursuit ...............realize that he is much much smarter than Drumpf...Look at the incredible efforts and projects that he puts together to catch the road runner..Now that is true intelligence, far greater than the idiot who now sits in the White House

[simguy225]

39. Wile E's only fault

was buying that junk from Acme. You have to give it to him- he had a goal.

[FailureToCommunicate]

43. Acme is the Trump branded product line: nothing ANY good.

[uponit7771]

9. +1, did he think he'd be able to grift a trillion from college students !?

[Scarsdale]

49. Well, it is a choice

He can have infrastructure if he cuts back on the $$$ spent guarding him, his nude model wife and two residences, trips every weekend to Florida. He also has more "aides" than normal, paid for out of the treasury. Maybe HE should cut back a little? I would prefer he quit, go back to bankrupting small businesses and leave the rest of us alone.

[meow2u3]

25. Case in point

[Ligyron]

57. When did he start talking?

I must be getting old...

[meow2u3]

59. This was one against Bugs Bunny

Wile E. Coyote remains silent when he tries to catch the Road Runner.

[Ligyron]

60. Noticed that.

Never saw him tangle with the bunny before this one.

[Blue_true]

67. Don't insult a beloved cartoon character by comparing it

To Trump.

[lame54]

3. Did someone say...

"because no one tells you anything, Mr. President."

[tblue37]

35. And on the rare occasion that someone tries, he ignores them because he isn't interested

in anything but watching TV for references to himself and vengefully whining on Twitter when he is criticized.

[Stuart G]

4. Perhaps one of the most important notes ever published about Drumpf..

Why?.....He hasn't got the slightest clue...not even a little..on how the budget is made up and spent..how it affects the treasury, deficit, interest rates, etc. Not the slightest clue..he defines these two words....
......stupid idiot........

[BREMPRO]

54. how can a guy who is famed as a " brilliant businessman" and has run and budgeted

thousands of building projects, not know that you have to have revenue to pay for a massive infrastructure project somehow?? oh yeah, he's a dilettante phony businessman who when bankrupt 4 or 5 or 6 times... Even i could run a better government that this joker.

[Tanuki]

5. "Why did I have to wait to have this guy tell me?"

Easy answer, Easy D: Because you're stupid and incompetent, but that doesn't stop you from making catastrophically uninformed decisions on everything from healthcare to energy to the environment to foreign policy. Sadly, this revelation will not cause you to rethink your disastrous agenda, because you are incapable of self reflection and impaired in a critical area of cognition called "executive functions."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_functions

[smirkymonkey]

14. +1000

[appalachiablue]

44. Bravo!!

[colorado_ufo]

50. Excellent!

[mountain grammy]

52. Easy D. Well said!

[Johnny2X2X]

7. LOL

The Republicans will never make major investments in infrastructure. And Trump's big plan will be to sell off public roads and land at pennies on the dollar so corporations can start charging people to go for a walk in a park or drive on a road.

[notdarkyet]

42. In az they charge you to go anywhere in the forest and state parks.

Twenty years ago you didn't pay to hike but congress starved the park and forest service so they had to come up with ways to pay for their agencies. I see it as more taxes. This is what is in store for water cos, roads, bridges and anything else they can charge you for.

[LiberalLovinLug]

51. This kind of shell game goes on everywhere by conservative governments

It all sounds good to conservative voters. They are lowering taxes (small print is that most of the tax relief goes to the top 1% in their circle of peers), and then hike fees, licenses, parking, access passes, tolls, etc. etc..or as you say they force those agencies to do it to survive with the explanation that those that use those services should be the ones that pay them. The ruse is that they hike everything. including essential services. ie.. one can't avoid a bridge to go to work for instance.

And then also sell off traditional park land, and bridges, roads to private interests, and those are then gone forever from public cost control. Its a one-way deal. Its no problem selling off public assets to private interests, but you know that their would be screams of "communism!" if they ever in future tried to take it back.

[Scarsdale]

53. OPM

For someone who has not paid taxes for many, many years, he sure likes spending other people's money!!

[The Wielding Truth]

8. Incredibly ignorant of the workings of government and the cost of repairs and advancements.

He is totally unprepared and ill-tempered to lead a nation. He and his like need to leave their offices and go home.

[dalton99a]

10. All good businessmen know that money grows on trees.

[get the red out]

11. Scary

Trump makes W look smart.

[dalton99a]

20. He's more useless than W/Reagan/Terminator/Caribou Barbie who at least ran a state government

[uponit7771]

22. +1, at this point he's looking like a useless asshole... a person who no one wants to be around. His

... polls should be in the 30s again by summer or we're really screwed up nation

[Turbineguy]

24. Yeah, maybe we could

bring Dubya back to finish out trumps term.

[Squinch]

12. To which I hope someone in the room muttered, "Well exactly how stupid are you?"

[Achilleaze]

13. What a republican weasel he is...

The republican draft-&-tax-dodger-in-chief is now dodging responsibility for being a dumb loser who does not do his homework, and who is not prepared to to his job for the citizens who write his paycheck with their hard-earned tax dollars.

As the 3-million-plus majority of decent, honest Americans agree, the republican family-values role model is an exceedingly poor example of dignity, honor and integrity.

[MineralMan]

15. Dumbasses. Each and every one of them.

They didn't tell him, because they're as clueless as he is. They don't want to run a real country. They want to run a fantasy world.

[smirkymonkey]

16. Oh, yes sir. But focus on the important things.

Like giving the fucking 1% another damn tax cut. You stupid fool!

[Duppers]

61. Exactly! We NEED infrastructure projects now tho.

Dems have pointed this out many times. Rethugs wouldn't let the proposals get out of committees or voted it down in budgets.

We do NOT need a wall but we do need to repair bridges, roads, schools. The $Trillion needs to be spread over a few years and TAXES on the 1% MUST be increased.

It's a matter of HOW, not if.

Except for the fucking wall and lower taxes, I'm a bit on Trump's side on infrastructure than his advisors. We need more JOBS created. We need long-term spending on infrastructure projects. Dems have supported this, when done right. Remember, folks?

[logosoco]

17. well, he has gotten away with not paying people who did work for him,

so maybe he just figured all this work could be done like that.

[Wounded Bear]

18. Maybe because "You're Fired!"....

is not conducive to having people tell you shit that you don't want to hear, even the true shit.

[bluecollar2]

19. it won't drain the treasury

We are going to get it from Iraq....

Dick Cheney promised....

[Hekate]

45. Excellent retrieval of that past lie from a GOP admin. "The war will pay for itself."

Every so often I forget how much I hate the 21st century Republican Party. Then I awaken from my brief nap and remember they are rotten to the core, and that they have labored for 40 years to do this to themselves.

[dae]

48. Good Ole Dick could always be counted on for a lie.

[Duppers]

62. Exactly! We spent that much $ in Iraq & Afghanistan!!

[rock]

21. And why would you care Turd Face?

You are not generally constrained by facts. Why this time?

[progressoid]

23. Nothing a good tax cut for the rich can't fix.

[KewlKat]

26. How does he think we get much of our revenue?

Perhaps if he and his other rethug billionaires had been paying their fair share of taxes over the years and really invested in their own country we might have less of a deficit? oh that's right the con doesn't think..........

[madokie]

27. Watch

[JHan]

28. Does Tropicana Jong Ill know any damn thing?

[eppur_se_muova]

29. "How can I be overdrawn when I still have all these checks left ?"

From an old "Blondie" cartoon -- portraying her as the stereotypical ditzy blonde, a caricature now monstrously mutated into 45

[democratisphere]

30. "Genious" probably thought he could just print more money to fund his pet projects.

Prepare for a typical republiCON economic disaster.

[Ms. Toad]

31. So much for being a brilliant businessman. n/t

[Docreed2003]

32. So much for that fancy Wharton Business school degree

Oh wait, that's right....that's a total fabrication on the part of the Don!0

[yardwork]

33. He thought we had $1 trillion lying around? No wonder he wanted to be president.

He thought he got to be King Midas. In fact, being president is probably similar to being treasurer of the most dysfunctional coop preschool imaginable.

[HuskyOffset]

34. He just figured...

...that Uncle Sam's dad would give him the $trillion, just like his dad gave him money when he needed it. I mean, that's how it works, right?

[Bernardo de La Paz]

36. An end-run to funnel billions to corporations -- "would need private-industry partners". . . . nt

[meadowlander]

37. "Is this true?" he asked his staff.

"Can't we just borrow the rest from Russia?"

[dchill]

38. Draining the treasury...

Wouldn't that be a major item on the so-called president's to-do list, anyway?

What's the big deal?

[DippyDem]

40. LOL! Should have been videoed and made into a Candid Camera moment!

[muriel_volestrangler]

41. Link to the full article, not behind a firewall:

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/11/trumps-economic-cabinet-is-mostly-bare-this-man-fills-the-void.html

Basically, Cohn is the only person competent in economics that Trump has. He's nominally a Democrat, but is working to try and implement the Trump policies in a realistic fashion where that's possible. And sometimes he has had to say "it doesn't work that way". Anything that happens is going to be good from the Wall Street bankers' point of view, because they are the only ones in the SCROTUS regime who know what they're doing.

[world wide wally]

46. Yeah, but wait till he gets involved in the negotiations

[Vinca]

47. Maybe the treasury would have more money if the Trumps paid their taxes.

[zentrum]

55. Hateful Idiot. nt

[Nitram]

56. So that's what happens when you surround yourself with YES-men

Who knew?

[Hekate]

58. He thought the Treasury was a gigantic piggy bank he could dive into like Scrooge McDuck...

Just roll around in it and take whatever he wants for whatever he wants.

He thought being POTUS was akin to being Emperor, and that he could run things as he had run his business empire, which is built on bullshit interspersed with air and has failed repeatedly.

A constitutional government, be it democracy, republic, or monarchy -- is not run like either a household or a personal business.

Christ on a trailer hitch these people are stupid.

Well not Bannon. He a self-described Leninist intent on reducing the federal government to rubble -- he's just evil. And Cohn thinks he can mitigate the damage -- that's just delusional.

The Mad King needs to be returned to his Golden Tower.

[AgadorSparticus]

63. Goddam, he is stupid!! Isnt that common sense? HOW is he potus?

I can't tell if I am beside myself or just plum scared shitless.

[krispos42]

65. So his plan is to sell naming rights and/or put ads on infrastructure?

Like... on the wall?

Adopt-A-Wall?

"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of Chik-Fil-A"
"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of Papa John's"
"This part of the wall maintained courtesy of your local chapter of the Klu Klux Klan"


I... I... my brain hurts.

[NCjack]

66. I thought great CEOs used some quick check dashboard indicators

on the daily health of their companies. Simple things that indicate there may be a problem, for example, like how much money is in the bank account this morning, and how does that compare to 14 days ago? (Is anyone removing large amounts of cash that I should know about? If I had to act quickly to an emergency, what is my ready cash limit?) Obama and Biden always knew the financial status of the Federal Government. #45 is incompetent.

[NewRedDawn]

68. Retired Laborer Union Member

It pissed me off at no end How our Laborers President Sullivan, Kissed the Cons Ring & tried to legitimize this Fascist Piece of shit. Even bad mouthing Obama, about never getting a meeting,
I called Their offices & really let them have it!

I said as long as pukes hold the purse strings, no infrastructure spending will never happen that Sullivan & other labor leaders were used as cheap whores Like Mitt was used to legitimize a illegitimate piece of shit!