What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[CountDeMoney]

Fucking hell

Roy Moore is being considered to replace Sessions in the Senate.

Making Gross Judicial Misconduct Great Again!

[11B4V]

Fucking hell

Roy Moore is being considered to replace Sessions in the Senate.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/roy-moore-alabama-senate-seat_us_585af1b2e4b0eb5864850f07

http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2016/12/21/alabama_governor_interviews_roy_moore_for_sessions_senate_seat.html

Oh fucking awesome. Typical.

[CountDeMoney]

Link

No Bolton because...mustache.

Several of Trump's associates said they thought that John R. Bolton's brush-like mustache was one of the factors that handicapped the bombastic former United Nations ambassador in the sweepstakes for secretary of state.

"He likes people who present themselves very well, and he's very impressed when somebody has a background of being good on television because he thinks it's a very important medium for public policy," said Chris Ruddy, chief executive of Newsmax Media and a longtime friend of Trump. "Don't forget, he's a showbiz guy. He was at the pinnacle of showbiz, and he thinks about showbiz. He sees this as a business that relates to the public."

"The look might not necessarily be somebody who should be on the cover of GQ magazine or Vanity Fair," Ruddy said. "It's more about the look and the demeanor and the swagger."

Sigh.

[CountDeMoney]

Donald Trump's doctor: 'If something happens to him, then it happens to him'

Donald Trump's campaign and its supporters spent a good portion of the 2016 campaign arguing that Hillary Clinton was secretly very ill and not up to the task of being president.

Trump's doctor, by contrast, isn't too worried about his patient dying in office — at least, not when it comes to the future of the country.

"If something happens to him, then it happens to him," Harold Bornstein says. "It's like all the rest of us, no? That's why we have a vice president and a speaker of the House and a whole line of people. They can just keep dying."

When the missiles of World War Tweet finally come, for the very briefest of moments when that brilliant flash stops all time, we will be relieved that we won't have to deal with this zoo monkey shitfight of an Administration every day.

[MadImmortalMan]

I don't put assassination attempts in the realm of impossibility either. He's got people insane. 

[viper37]

Works by Peter Navarro:

Death by China: Confronting the Dragon – A Global Call to Action, 2011

Crouching Tiger: What China's Militarism Means for the World, 2015

The Coming China Wars: Where They Will Be Fought, How They Can Be Won, 2006

Right now, CdM is very, very conflicted about this.  Very.

[Tonitrus]

Donald Trump's doctor: 'If something happens to him, then it happens to him'

Donald Trump's campaign and its supporters spent a good portion of the 2016 campaign arguing that Hillary Clinton was secretly very ill and not up to the task of being president.

Trump's doctor, by contrast, isn't too worried about his patient dying in office — at least, not when it comes to the future of the country.

"If something happens to him, then it happens to him," Harold Bornstein says. "It's like all the rest of us, no? That's why we have a vice president and a speaker of the House and a whole line of people. They can just keep dying."

When the missiles of World War Tweet finally come, for the very briefest of moments when that brilliant flash stops all time, we will be relieved that we won't have to deal with this zoo monkey shitfight of an Administration every day.

The Secretary of the Interior will trying to cut off the head of the Chinese chicken. 

[jimmy olsen]

Also, that governor is embroiled in a hilarious scandal. Alabama

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/alabama-is-no-stranger-to-sex-scandals-it-just-never-expected-one-from-this-guy/2016/04/15/85ec7afe-fdc0-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html?utm_term=.f932215065d8

[Syt]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/dec/21/carl-icahn-donald-trump-special-adviser-regulation

Trump adds billionaire Carl Icahn to team as special adviser on regulation

Yet another wealthy businessman, who invests in the oil industry and bought the president-elect's floundering Atlantic City casinos, joins transition team

Donald Trump added another billionaire to his presidential transition team on Wednesday: Carl Icahn, the 80-year-old activist shareholder and long-time friend who once helped Trump keep control of his troubled New Jersey casinos.

Icahn will be a special adviser to the president-elect overseeing regulation, according to the transition team.

According to Forbes, Icahn has a net worth of $16.5bn adding his wealth to a team that already looks set to be the wealthiest White House team in history. Trump had considered him for the post of Treasury secretary but Icahn rejected the suggestions saying: "I'm not ever going to be secretary of anything in Washington."

This appointment is not an official government position and Icahn will therefore not have to divest of his vast business holdings in order to comply with government-mandated conflict of interest rules.

The hedge fund manager has been one of Trump's closest advisers and officially endorsed the president-elect in the summer of 2015. "Carl was with me from the beginning and with his being one of the world's great businessmen, that was something I truly appreciated," said Trump. Trump said Ichan's "help on the strangling regulations that our country is faced with will be invaluable".

Icahn has been a persistent critic of government regulation, most recently "crazy regulations" at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). He is a major investor in CVR Energy, an oil refiner, whose business he claims has been harmed by EPA regulations.

Trump consulted with Icahn before appointing Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma's attorney general and another EPA critic, to head the agency.

"I am proud to serve President-elect Trump as a special adviser on regulatory reform," said Icahn. "Under President Obama, America's business owners have been crippled by over $1tn in new regulations and over 750bn hours dealing with paperwork. It's time to break free of excessive regulation and let our entrepreneurs do what they do best: create jobs and support communities."

The billionaire, who has a home near Trump's Palm Beach base, Mar-A-Lago, started his career on Wall Street and has built a reputation as a fierce corporate raider.

Before Trump's elevation, Icahn was best known for his often heated battles with executives at companies, including Apple, eBay, Dell and Time Warner. In 2015 he took on Apple's chief executive officer Tim Cook, telling him the iPhone-maker was "dramatically undervalued".

In the 1990s Icahn was a bondholder in Trump's failing Taj Mahal casino in New Jersey. Trump was able to keep control if the casino despite failing to make payments to Icahn and other bondholders thanks in large part to advice given by another Trump appointee, Wilbur Ross, a billionaire bankruptcy expert and now Trump's appointed commerce secretary.

Make America Great Again! *cough*

[MadImmortalMan]

I'm looking forward to 2020, when I will for the last time be voting for a person who can draft and murder me.

I wonder how it feels going to the polls without that sitting in the back of your mind.

[Syt]

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/12/every-terrifying-thing-that-donald-trump-has-done.html?mid=facebook_nymag

It's a long one, so not gonna post it here.

[11B4V]

The troll doll got tapped as counselor of the president.

[Berkut]

Not beyond the pale.

[alfred russel]

I'm looking forward to 2020, when I will for the last time be voting for a person who can draft and murder me.

I wonder how it feels going to the polls without that sitting in the back of your mind.

???

[Eddie Teach]

They could always extend the draft age, if that's what you mean.