What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[The Brain]

With America in deep crisis and tearing itself apart the only rational thing is to forgo further elections and give the president time to solve this. America needs a strong man at the helm in these troubling times.

[Eddie Teach]

Is the little girl a granddaughter?

[CountDeMoney]

Is the little girl a granddaughter?

4th wife, circa 2021

[Zanza]

Could also be one of the few remaining advisors.

[celedhring]

"I guess that means the seven-day-in-May crowd is making steady progress and trying to convert the Trump administration to George Soros-style globalism," said political operative Roger Stone

I find oddly fascinating that the far right doesn't even need to come up with new material for the 21st century. The old tried-and-true International Jewish Cabal will suffice.

A bit terrifying that one can spout that kind of messaging in this day and age too, and not be called on it.

[DGuller]

"I guess that means the seven-day-in-May crowd is making steady progress and trying to convert the Trump administration to George Soros-style globalism," said political operative Roger Stone

I find oddly fascinating that the far right doesn't even need to come up with new material for the 21st century. The old tried-and-true International Jewish Cabal will suffice.

A bit terrifying that one can spout that kind of messaging in this day and age too, and not be called on it.

Where do you use International Jewish Cabal?  I just see Soros and globalists.

[CountDeMoney]

Jews:  Your Scapegoat for Any Millennium!

[Savonarola]

Just noticed he pardoned sheriff Joe. Ugh

https://www.forbes.com/sites/andyjsemotiuk/2017/08/25/trumps-pardon-of-sheriff-arpaio-could-spark-a-constitutional-crisis/#5e15d03351e2

He slid that and the transgender in the military ban on a Friday afternoon right before a hurricane.

[Savonarola]

Trump ramping up 2020 reelection campaign

Trump is mapping out a fall fundraising tour that is expected to fill his campaign bank account with tens of millions of dollars. His team has tracked dozens of potential Democratic rivals, a list of names that ranges from Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren to Facebook co-founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg. And his administration has received political advice from a top campaign pollster from his 2016 campaign, who has urged the president to keep up his attacks on the mainstream media.

that could explain why he spends so much time attacking the media, more than he attacks terrorists.

You can never go wrong attacking the media; even Hil blamed them (along with many, many others) for costing her the presidency.  The media's favorite story is always themselves, and they'll provide a great deal of in depth analysis on any comment directed at them.  That's both free publicity and time away from other stories (the bulk of which would be far more critical of Donald Trump.)

[Savonarola]

On that subject, I saw this on Fox News:

Media's 'crazy' attack on Trump is top fail of the week
Dan Gainor
By Dan Gainor Published August 26, 2017 Fox News

Journalists and pundits claim they to want to tamp down national anger. Then they turn around and push the most dangerous rhetoric I've seen in my lifetime – the absurd claim that President Trump is mentally unstable.

Claims about alleged Russian "collusion" with the Trump campaign haven't succeeded at unseating President Trump, though that was the intention of many journalists.

So the news media used the events in Charlottesville to move on – to racism, blaming President Trump for every real or perceived racial slight in the nation. Essentially, a complete reversal from how they treated President Obama.

Remember, President Obama was a "uniter," we were told. That meant the racial strife in America's cities wasn't blamed on him. Riots in Baltimore and Ferguson weren't blamed on him. The failure of leaders in many of America's cities wasn't blamed on him, even though most of those cities were run by Obama's own political party – the Democrats.

Baltimore is less than half the distance to Washington that Charlottesville is, and yet the media avoided connecting Baltimore's problems to Obama in any way.

Now, Trump gets blamed for every bit of racism in America 2017. And that still isn't enough.

The news media are promoting a far more dangerous assault. This is the centerpiece of the campaign to oust the president. This isn't resistance. That's old-fashioned. Now, we have a small group of politicians and media types pushing a claim that Trump needs to go because he suffers from mental illness.

Two senators helped set this nonsense in motion with an "accidental" hot mic moment. Republican Susan Collins of Maine and Democrat Jack Reed of Rhode Island both called  President Trump crazy back in July.

Former national intelligence director James Clapper, who most people couldn't pick out of a line-up, has been furthering this claim as well. He questioned President Trump's "fitness to be in this office," and "the access to the nuclear codes" during a CNN appearance.

CNN hyped that nuclear fear, even tweeting out an image of the nuclear football with the caption: "240 seconds: That's how long it could take for President Trump to launch a nuclear attack." Roughly the same time it would have taken President Obama, I imagine, but CNN wasn't at war with him.

Journalists have taken the allegations about the president's mental health and done everything but turned the CNN set into a giant shrink's couch. "Reliable Sources" host Brian Stelter embraced the topic like he was playing the role of "The President's Analyst." (The movie version was far better.)

Here's just a tiny bit of Stelter's unhinged concern trolling about journalists' conversations that are being had "usually after the microphones are off."

"Questions that often feel out of bounds, off limits, too hot for TV. Questions like these: Is the president of the United States a racist? Is he suffering from some kind of illness? Is he fit for office? And if he's unfit, then what?" Stelter asked. I guess they weren't too hot for TV, unless CNN is embracing global warming.

Here's the truth: This is CNN's revenge on the president who keeps attacking the news channel. Trump criticizes CNN for becoming a national embarrassment to journalism. CNN  responds, claiming he's undermining democracy.

But in fact,  CNN's response does more to undermine democracy than all of President Trump's media criticism. Because the answer CNN wants everyone to reach is that the president is unfit and must be removed. This is Stelter battling coworkers Jim Acosta and Don Lemon for the mantle of The Most Irresponsible Journalist in America.

It's quite the battle.

Lemon, chimed in during another program, repeating the allegation, calling Trump "unhinged" and a person who had "no sanity there." In yet another appearance, he was joined by Republican political consultant and wild anti-Trumper Rick Wilson, who launched into the theme of the week.

"This is a man who is not qualified or mentally or morally fit to be the president of the United States and tonight was one more proof of it," Wilson sputtered. Lemon flooded the zone with anti-Trump pundits.

This is a good time to recall that Lemon actually wondered whether a black hole had swallowed the missing Malaysian jetliner. And then he was pulled from a New Year's Eve broadcast for drinking too much and getting his ear pierced. So, he's hardly the poster child for mental stability.

It wasn't just CNN. MSNBC's Donny Deutsch climbed on his soapbox to explain in detail why he thinks Trump is a "sociopath."

"And it's interesting so many of the traits of a sociopath that this man is displaying," Deutsch concluded. Even Trump hater Joe Scarborough rejected Deutsch's "pop psychiatry" in a later appearance.

USA Today led its front page Thursday with nearly 1,900 words under the headline: "Talk of Trump's Mental Health Spreads." The online version insisted that the "debate over Trump's mental health takes off."

There's more. Enough that it's easy to think journalists coordinate far more than just deploy groupthink.

So, from the perspective of the Pro-Trump right, the media is the enemy; not just of Trump but of democracy itself.

[Valmy]

Yet they declare the media as being 'hysterical'.

[grumbler]

On that subject, I saw this on Fox News:

(snip)

So, from the perspective of the Pro-Trump right, the media is the enemy; not just of Trump but of democracy itself.

Even the media agree that the media is the enemy of democracy.

[Valmy]

Yeah how is Fox not part of the 'mainstream media'? I have never been able to figure that one out.

[Eddie Teach]

Because the main stream bends to the left while they bend to the right, insisting their stream goes straight forward.

[Valmy]

Because the main stream bends to the left while they bend to the right, insisting their stream goes straight forward.

The mainstream does bend left if you leave out all the ones that bend right. I mean of course.