What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Oexmelin]

It's no longer about rules. It's about will to power.

[Admiral Yi]

I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

[Barrister]

I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

Yes.  Sadly this is very "on-brand" for Trump, isn't it.

[Sheilbh]

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

It's on brand. He prefers soldiers who don't get captured after all.

[Barrister]

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

Remember: Trump isn't actually pro-military or pro-soldiers.  He has no problem picking fights with families of deceased soldiers, mocking McCain, questioning Lt Col Vindman's loyalties.  He hardly ever visits soldiers, or attend to funerals.

[Admiral Yi]

It's on brand. He prefers soldiers who don't get captured after all.

Disagree.  IMO there are Trumpisms that generate applause and there are Trumpisms that generate awkward change in the subject.

No sharia law in Alabama!  Woooo!

Vets with PTSD are pussies! Hey, that economy sure is great!

[Sheilbh]

I mean he's said this sort of thing during the election. At a Q&A with Republican veterans and they still gave him a standing ovation: "when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of the folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it, but a lot of people can't handle it."

I feel like he's made these kind of comments a few times over the last four years as well.

[jimmy olsen]

No way Trump doesn't stroke out during his 2nd term with all the pseudophedrine he's doing.

He hasn't gone golfing since his surprise visit to the hospital. I'm guessing it was a minor heart attack.

[Hamilcar]

The post-truth nonsense emanating from the current right (US and European) is the final, ironic victory of Foucault, Lacan & co.

[Syt]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1199181946166874112?s=20

"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."

President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.

[The Minsky Moment]

I can see how in the Trumpiverse backing the badass SEAL who's only crime was a harmless selfie with a dirty Mooslim, over the pencil necked Secretary of the Navy, plays pretty well.

What I'm more surprised by is how his comment that only pussies get PTSD hasn't created the tiniest bit of stir.

The further we get away from the era when ordinary citizens had first hand experience of war, the more distorted the popular views of it are going to become and the more perceptions of the military and the military experience become wrapped up in fantasy. The gun fetishism that seems to have seized the modern Right doesn't help.

[Habbaku]

  Sounds like we need another war.

[Valmy]

https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1199181946166874112?s=20

"I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."

President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act.

The only coin act that Congress should be passing is to stop minting 1 and 5 cent coins. That is what needs to get done, not more commemorative collectibles.

[The Brain]

Why do you keep those coins around? We haven't had the value equivalent of a 1 cent coin in decades.

[Barrister]

Why do you keep those coins around? We haven't had the value equivalent of a 1 cent coin in decades.

Canada got rid of the penny 6 years ago.  Can't say I miss it.

I kind of wish we could get rid of the nickle too, but that would also doom the more-useful quarter.

We do have a little-used 50 cent piece - perhaps get rid of the nickle and quarter, and bring the 50-cent coin into wide circulation?

Or just get rid of both the nickle and dime, and round all prices to the nearest quarter.  Hmm, that sounds good.