June 21, 2016

Trump Campaign Announces Evangelical Executive Advisory Board // Return of the Bachmann

https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/745319869051187200?lang=en

this is member of his religious team


https://twitter.com/owillis/status/745320741613277184?lang=en

June 21, 2016

What is Trump spending his meager campaign resources on? Why, himself, of course.

https://twitter.com/HillaryClinton/status/745271373363290113?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


Fcukin' con artist....

What’s just as telling as how much money the Trump campaign has raised, however, is where exactly that money is going. The answer: back into Trump’s pockets. According to the FEC filing, nearly 20 percent of Trump’s campaign expenditures have been spent on Trump-owned venues and airlines, as well as on members of the Trump family.

Talk about a self-funded campaign. Trump is, quite literally, funneling money back to himself. There are, for instance, a number of payroll disbursements to Donald J. Trump himself. There is a $423,000 payout to his Mar-A-Lago golf club and a $349,000 payment to Tag Air, a Trump-owned airline. And that’s just from May. There’s also a nearly $30,000 rental expense for Trump International Golf Club, and a nearly $36,000 fee for Trump National Golf Club. The list goes on.

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/trumpsopoor-trending-well-kind/

June 21, 2016

Scottish Guy Is Flying A Mexican Flag Next To Donald Trump’s Golf Course Today

When Donald Trump lands in Aberdeenshire this Saturday to inspect his Scottish golf course, he’ll be greeted with the sight of the Mexican flag flying above its border.

Residents on the Menie Estate, north of Aberdeen, told BuzzFeed News they raised the flag as part of their campaign against the Trump International Golf Links, which the Republican presidential nominee opened in 2012.

“The point of the flag is to show solidarity with the Mexicans and every other group that Trump has decried, derided, insulted, and tried to marginalise,” said David Milne, who has lived for 25 years in a former coastguard’s lookout that is now enveloped by the golf course.

Milne is one of a handful of residents who have fought a long campaign against the development and attempts by Trump’s organisation to acquire their land. The residents, who are now part of the Tripping Up Trump campaign, have successfully resisted compulsory purchase orders to take their land.



https://www.buzzfeed.com/simonusborne/mctrumped?utm_term=.txJWzZ3am#.ek2QRPgoZ

June 21, 2016

Clinton: "Trump has written a lot of books about business. They all seem to end at chapter 11"

• Mrs. Clinton described the process of constructing her speech: “I had my researchers and my speech writers send me information” on Mr. Trump “and then I’d say, ‘Really? He really said that?’ And they’d send me all the background and the video clip.”

• Observing that Mr. Trump had not released his tax returns, Mrs. Clinton speculated that he might be “afraid” of voters seeing what they would reveal. “Maybe he isn’t as rich as he claims,” she said.

• As Mr. Trump posted on Twitter to counter Mrs. Clinton’s remarks, she ticked off a list of foreign countries where Trump-branded products had been made.

• The crowd laughed when Mrs. Clinton discussed Mr. Trump’s record with casinos in Atlantic City and the bankruptcies of his companies. She said Mr. Trump had “written a lot of books about business” and added, “They all seem to end at Chapter 11.”



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/22/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speech-highlights.html
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/21/politics/hillary-clinton-economy-donald-trump/index.html

June 21, 2016

Donald Trump is ranked as one of the top threats to the global economy

http://gfs.eiu.com/Archive.aspx?archiveType=globalrisk

June 21, 2016

Mr. Trump’s sense of humor is about as sharp as a soup spoon.

At roasts, the “guest of honor” gets to give a rebuttal — written by professional comedians — to the people who have spent the past hour raking him over the coals. While most guests of honor will be good-natured about poking fun at themselves, Mr. Trump was not, according to Mr. Joyce. He said the writing team would send potential jokes to Mr. Trump, and the script would come back with the punch lines blacked out with marker.

“He would literally send it back redacted, like a real estate contract. I’ve never seen anybody do this before,” Mr. Joyce said.



http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/opinion/campaign-stops/can-you-insult-your-way-to-the-white-house.html

June 21, 2016

#TrumpSoPoor

Duh! Of COURSE Trump has virtually no "cash on hand!" Have you seen his hands?

THE ONE PRESIDENTIAL candidate who’s staked his reputation on being “really rich” is actually not all that rich, at least, not as far as his campaign is concerned.

On Monday, the Federal Election Commission’s monthly report revealed a historic gap between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump’s campaign war chests. Where Clinton ended the month with $42 million in cash on hand, Trump rounded out May with just $1.3 million. To put that in context, that’s less than the $1.8 million Ben Carson’s campaign still has left, and Carson dropped out of the race in March.

Word traveled fast, and overnight, the hashtag #TrumpSoPoor began trending on Twitter, spawning endless tweets about his business dealings…

my favorite:

#TrumpSoPoor his next trophy wife will be from Mexico.
https://twitter.com/TheRickWilson/status/745090241313177600

http://www.wired.com/2016/06/trumpsopoor-trending-well-kind/
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpSoPoor?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
https://twitter.com/hashtag/TrumpSoPoor?src=tren&data_id=tweet%3A745186104815423488

June 21, 2016

The Trump Campaign Spent $208,000 on Hats in May

Trump is totally crushing Clinton in the all-important campaign infrastructure category of hat buying.


https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/745098363155132416


http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2016/06/21/the-trump-campaign-spent-208000-on-hats-in-may-n2181535



hat tip to liberal N proud for reminding me about this:

June 21, 2016

Robert Crumb & Friends Flush Donald Trump Down The Toilet, 1989

Such a thing actually fucking exists!

In 1991 Crumb left America for France, but before he did so he put out “Point the Finger,” a comic about a certain over-publicized real estate mogul that appeared in his short run of Hup comics (Issue #3). In the five-page strip, “Crumb” (the character) has a run-in with Trump, whom he calls “one of the more visible big time predators who feed on society” and “one of the most evil men alive.” He also says, “Hey Don—Ugh! You’re so hateful I can’t even look at you!”




http://dangerousminds.net/comments/robert_crumb_and_friends_flush_donald_trump_down_the_toilet_1989






MORE:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/robert_crumb_and_friends_flush_donald_trump_down_the_toilet_1989

June 21, 2016

Will Trump Swallow the G.O.P. Whole?

Inside the identity crisis roiling the Republican Party.

By MARK LEIBOVICH
JUNE 21, 2016



Every week or so during the spring, I met with Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee, at the party headquarters on Capitol Hill. We fell into a familiar routine. I would enter his office, usually chaperoned by Sean Spicer, the R.N.C.’s chief strategist and head of communications. Priebus has a healthy appreciation for gallows humor, which is not a bad thing for an R.N.C. chairman these days. “I haven’t started pouring Baileys in my cereal yet,” he says often enough that it has become a signature line. I would regularly break the ice with something sarcastic, like asking Priebus how his party’s Hispanic outreach program was going on the morning after the committee’s head of Hispanic outreach resigned rather than work another day for Donald Trump’s election. “The scent of party unity is in the air,” I said in May when Paul Ryan reported that he was “not there yet” on supporting Trump. “No, that’s incense,” Priebus said, pointing out that he had been burning some behind his desk.

As suits a man occupying what might be the toughest political job in America, Priebus does his best to stay availed of serene distractions. He plays jazz piano at home late at night and gazes into the 29-gallon saltwater fish tank that he keeps next to his desk. “You see that big eel?” Priebus asked one day, pointing out a black slithery creature on the bottom, before noting others. “That’s a yellow tang, hippo tang, a spotted puffer. There’s an anemone. An urchin. An orange clown fish.” He took a hunk of shrimp from a refrigerator and dangled it with a set of tongs into the water. A race to the bottom ensued as bits fell away and the fish vied for pieces of flesh. It was difficult to look away from the feeding frenzy. The big orange clown fish flailed at front and center. I asked Priebus if it reminded him of anyone. “That’s not funny,” he said with something between a slight grunt and chuckle.

No matter how much Trump has roiled the Republican water, it remained Priebus’s job to carry it. The presumed Republican nominee appears on many days to be at open war with the party that is about to nominate him. The entire campaign, meanwhile, has been a proxy battle for the proverbial “soul of the party” that has been escalating between the G.O.P.’s populist grass roots (captured by Trump) and “party leaders” (embodied by Priebus, the House speaker, Paul Ryan, and the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell). Is the G.O.P. now the “party of Trump”? Priebus bristles when people ask him this — or taunt him. I asked Priebus some variation on this question during each of my visits. “Donald Trump is Donald Trump,” Priebus says. “And the party is the party.”

..............

For a while this spring, it seemed possible to contain the earthquake. Trump showed flickering signs of “maturing” as a candidate, and Republicans seemed willing to “support the nominee,” if not endorse him. The “normalization” of Donald Trump became a media watchword, the idea that his daily affronts could be integrated into the routine paces of a quadrennial exercise. Formerly hostile primary opponents like Marco Rubio, Lindsey Graham, Bobby Jindal and Rick Perry all at various points said they would support Trump or were at least no longer (in Rubio’s case) deriding him as a “fraud,” “con man” and “lunatic” or (in Graham’s) a “race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot” or (in Jindal’s) a “madman who must be stopped” or (in Perry’s) a “barking carnival act.” I imagined Trump laughing at how easy it was to get Republicans to submit to him after he had savaged so many of them during the primaries. Actually there was no need to imagine because Trump was doing exactly that. “I’ve never seen people able to pivot like politicians,” he said at a rally in California in late May while boasting of his support from Perry. In an interview, I asked Trump if it was harder to flip politicians or the real estate people he has dealt with over the years. His smirk was audible over the phone. “Well, I’m not referring to any politicians in particular, but I’ve said many times that businesspeople are much tougher,” Trump said. “Politicians tend to be much more deceptive and deceiving and more willing to break a deal. But they are not as tough.”


Way, way more:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/magazine/will-trump-swallow-the-gop-whole.html?_r=0