What the world thinks of Donald

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  1. Shaboid

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    He then goes on to mention three places that you could assume he's bringing up because of terrorist attacks; Brussels, Paris, Nice.

    European countries are vastly different than America so I really don't care what point he's trying to make here, tbh. He's just playing on irrational fear.
     
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    I like this, we should remove lots of words from Trump's quotes so he only says things that we like.
     
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    You've already decided it was another fake terrorist attack he just made up figuring nobody would notice.
     
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    No I think he is addicted to Breitbart and Fox News and bases all of his intelligence on that. Pretty reckless honestly. He is just phoning in being President.
     
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    barfo triggered obsessive commie pinko Staff Member Global Moderator

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    Grandpa is a little senile, doesn't know what's real and what isn't, is pretty paranoid, and is impulsive.

    Luckily, he's not really in a position to do anyone any harm. We put him in a nice home in Washington.

    barfo
     
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    60 minutes sounds familiar, I think it is a subsidiary of Breitbart isn't it?

     
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    Of course you all just ignore the 60 minutes clip. This guy is funnier.

     
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    Now that is a typical reaction to Warm Bud (beyond the freshness date).
     
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    My God..... That's a double negative.
     
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    He reminds me of Robert Downing Jr. on good drugs. 9094-84bbcc1c01a03dc470b5eb7295555423.jpg
     
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    New York Senator Chuck Schumer has ramped up pressure on Donald Trump and the federal government to accept the mounting costs of protecting the president, the first family and their extended entourage.
    Missile crisis by candlelight: Donald Trump's use of Mar-a-Lago raises security questions

    Schumer, the Senate Democratic leader, inserted himself into the debate on Sunday, saying it costs $500,000 per day for nearly 200 police officers to protect Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, which houses the Trump family business headquarters and serves as the home of the first lady, Melania Trump, and the couple’s son, Barron. The senator estimated the cost could rise to as much as $183m annually.

    At current estimates, even a four-year Trump administration could be heading for a billion dollars in taxpayer-borne costs – an eight-fold increase of the $97m Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, estimates it cost to protect Barack Obama over the two terms of his administration.

    The estimated costs of guarding Trump Tower have varied from $1m a day (during daily protests before the inauguration) to around $100,000 for the first lady and Barron, 10, who are staying in New York until at least the end of the school year.

    Schumer urged Trump to include the costs in the federal budget, noting that New York City has only been reimbursed $7m of $35m requested for the cost of protecting the tower for the period between election day and the Inauguration.

    “It’s simply unfair to have New York City taxpayers alone bear the burden of NYPD protection at Trump Tower. President Trump: this is your protection, so I challenge you to put these costs in your upcoming federal budget and make a commitment to reimburse New York City,” Schumer said during a press briefing at his Manhattan office.

    In contrast, the cost of protecting former president Obama during his four trips to the city last year came to just $4.1m. The costs of protecting the Obama family home in Chicago over the same pre-inauguration period in his presidency was estimated at $2.2m.

    Senator Schumer’s comments come as the full costs of protecting the first family in the lifestyle that it is accustomed are only just starting to be understood.

    Last week, officials in Palm Beach said the cost of hosting the president at his Mar-a-Lago estate amounted to $60,000 a day for police overtime.

    Trump stayed at Mar-a-Lago for nearly 16 days, from 16 December to 1 January as president-elect, and has visited his private resort home on three consecutive weekends this month, driving up the costs to an estimated half-million dollars.

    Kirk Blouin, the town’s director of public safety, told the Sun-Sentinel that the municipality was “overwhelmed”.

    Trump’s frequent trips to his self-styled Winter White House in Florida are burdening local businesses. While Air Force One lands at Palm Beach, Lantana, the small airport near Mar-a-Lago, is closed for business during the president’s trips. A banner-flying company operating from there told the Chicago Tribune it has lost more than $40,000 in contracts.

    Schumer said he would cooperate with Palm Peach counties in trying to claw back the costs, adding that the cost of protecting the president in Florida was “an additional and unusual expense”.

    “We have not had a president with an auxiliary White House,” he added.

    Using figures based on a government report analyzing White House travel, the Washington Post estimated Trump’s Florida trips have cost the federal government about $10m since his inauguration. That includes money for Coast Guard units to patrol the exposed shoreline and other military and security expenses.

    Trump administration officials have argued that the president’s weekend jaunts are correctly described as working weekends: this includes hosting Japan’s prime minister, Shinzo Abe, over the weekend of 10 February and interviewing potential national security adviser picks over this past weekend.

    “He is not vacationing when he goes to Mar-a-Lago,” White House spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham told The Washington Post last week. “The president works nonstop every day of the week, no matter where he is.”

    In spite of this, he president has been urged to use alternative locations.

    “The president is going to have to be sensitive to the cost of travelling around,” said Judicial Watch CEO Tom Fitton, who recommends the president use the helicopter-accessible presidential retreat of Camp David in Virginia. “I appreciate he wants to go home to Mar-a-Lago every weekend but it is costly to do so and the work he does there he can do elsewhere.”

    The watchdog group estimates Air Force One costs around $180,000 an hour to operate. Additionally, Trump’s trips to Florida require the costs of his Secret Service detail, the cost of a cargo plane to bring his cars down there as well as putting other assets in places.

    “It adds up to a tremendous cost,” said Fitton.

    Additional costs are also mounting for protecting the Trump children in their daily lives and on their frequent business trips abroad.

    Last week, Eric Trump and his brother, Donald Trump Jr, traveled to Dubai to open a Trump-branded golf course. Estimates compiled by the Washington Post, put the cost of Secret Service hotel bills alone in excess of $16,000. Meanwhile, Eric Trump’s trip to visit a Trump-brand condo tower in Uruguay cost an estimated $100,000 in hotel bills.

    The new first family: what you need to know about the Trumps

    “The presidency is too big and costs too much and we’re seeing that front and center with President Trump,” said Fitton. “The president should look into saving money on White House operations, and he’s going to have to be sensitive to the cost of travelling around.”


     
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    Frankie Boyle is awesome, but you might need subtitles if you're not used to Scottish:

     
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    Wait, this is a video, not a tweet, not sure if I should be happy or angry about this.
     
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