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Spicer has already walked back the 20% "import tax", now claiming that it was "only one possible way" to pay for the wall.

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I give Spicer two more weeks before he is fired, quits, or gets appointed to a different position.

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They may also just abandon daily briefings.

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Buzzfeed is publishing a running list of Trump's porkies.

Jan 21: The inaugural crowd “looked honestly like a million and a half people” adding that “it went all the way back to the Washington Monument.”

Jan 23: Sources confirmed to multiple media outlets that Trump spent at least 10 minutes of his meeting with congressional leaders talking about how three to five million “illegals” voted in the election, costing him the popular vote.

Jan 25: “You have people who are registered who are dead, who are illegals, who are in two states,” Trump told ABC’s David Muir. “You have people registered in two states. You have people registered in New York and New Jersey. They vote twice.”

Jan 26: “The president of Mexico and myself have agreed to cancel our planned meeting scheduled for next week,” Trump said at the GOP retreat in Philadelphia. “Unless Mexico is going to treat the United States fairly, with respect such a meeting would be fruitless and I want to go a different route.”

Jan 26: At the GOP retreat Trump said that Philadelphia’s murder rate is “steady, I mean just terribly increasing.”

Not bad. And his first week in office isn't even over yet.

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Among those confirmed to be registered in two states as of today:
Bannon, Kushner, Priebus, Mnuchin, and Tiffany Trump

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Trump senior staff are using their private e-mail accounts for official White House business.

Lock 'em up!

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This is pretty scary, and could explain a lot towards Trump and Brexit.

edit: woops, I'm an idiot and forgot I saw this from NHH in the Corbyn thread.

Still, absolutely worth discussing here.

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That's very interesting.

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Hot Pepsi wrote: Exactly. And whatshisfuck got up there and said a 20% tax on $50b in trade would yield $10b in revenue. As if there's no such thing as price elasticity.

Ironically, it's usually the Republicans who always point out that taxes reduce sales and harm consumers.

Same over here. One Tory backbencher said "bring on tariffs with the EU, we'll make loads out of them".

Admittedly he's not as far up the pecking order as Trump.

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I've seen another version of that pop up online in the last couple of days and I'm a tad confused, as Bloomberg had basically the same story before the election, though its spin was more what the team would do with the data/infrastructure when Trump lost.

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Safe to say that boarding Marine One is not forgiving to Trump's hair.

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My dear, your tiny hand is 'shopped.

(Second tweet in that thread)

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That is some disgusting, hideously complicated and doubtlessly Yugely expensive comb-over. As if Jackie Healy-Rae was unshackled from his One of Us sticking it to that Dublin Kerryman politician mask and allowed to wear his Gombeen corruption and venality on his fat head.

Gero was thinking him a syphilitic case pages back, and the exposed scalp does look nicely like the horrible cup a soup spew inducing pictures of tertiary hair-loss symptoms in medical textbooks that my on-off winch left around the place in Uni (she was a med student rather than some random sick bastard).

Fucking Gary Gibbon and Krishnan Guru-Murthy saying Theresa has "tamed" Trump cos he didn't shit through his mouth during a 15 minute photo op. Channel 4 news can be well cunty when John Snow is taking the day off.

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Watching The Daily Show last night, and Laurence Fishburne was the guest.

He calls Trump '45', and won't use his name. I think this is a great idea. If enough tweets get to him with that name on it, he will blow a gasket.

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Hannity just asked Trump about the possibility of Democrats fillibustering his choice for the Obama Supreme Court appointment. His answer: "These people are obstructionists" and "why do they delay, why do they do that?" Hannity of course didn't call him out.

Also, Apparently he already cut "many many hundreds millions of dollars" off the price of a particular military aircraft project.

Now he's back complaining about the journalists telling lies about the MLK bust. About his time at the CIA: "I gave a speech. It was a 10. You wouldn't believe it."

edit: "The media are liars. I had the largest audience in the history of inaugurations." "They are so demeaning, they are so dishonest. And in many ways not smart." And Hannity: "I don't remember them treating Obama in that way." Looks like Fox has gotten over the Trump election pretty quickly.

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Americans, did you notice a journo from the BBC ask Trump a tough question?

She doesn't always do that with leaders.

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Also, Apparently he already cut "many many hundreds millions of dollars" off the price of a particular military aircraft project.

Ha ha.

He's a decent bet to add hundreds of million dollars to it by leaning over their shoulders and saying "why don't you just make it do that?"

It's going to be like IDS with Universal Credit, times about 1000.

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Gerontophile wrote: My dear, your tiny hand is 'shopped.

(Second tweet in that thread)

They look the same size to me. And as someone pointed out in a reply, it's not the same photo anyway. Also the follow-up tweet 'for the skeptics' links to a tweet that's since been deleted.

The thing I find funniest about the 'tiny hands' thing is that although it was never even pretending to be actually true, he actually does seem to have quite, shall we say delicate hands for such a heavy-set man.

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What gets me is the way he keeps on repeatedly doing that 'OK'-type gesture to emphasise points while he's talking, with hand raised at shoulder level, thumb and first-fingertip pinched together and other fingers curled upwards, which really draws attention to that 'delicacy'. For someone who's apparently so sensitive about the manliness or otherwise of his hands, you'd think he'd learn to keep them out of camera-shot a bit more.

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Hahahahahahaha

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So, on Holocaust Remembrance Day, Trump signs his Executive Order suspending the Refugee Admissions Program for 120 days, and indefinitely suspends admission of any refugees from Syria, saying that "the entry of nationals of Syria as refugees is detrimental to the interests of the United States."

Trump gave an interview to the Christian Broadcasting Network in which he said that Christian refugees need to be prioritized, and that it was easier for Muslim Syrians to get into the US than it was for Christian Syrians. The executive order states that when the program is resumed, claims of religious persecution due to belonging to a minority religion will be prioritized, presumably as a way to bring in more Christians from the Middle East.

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hobbes wrote: Hahahahahahaha

That site also happily led me to this, while I feel I really should share here as I nearly ruptured something laughing at it just now:[video size=60]

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Hot Pepsi wrote:

We might find that people don't make that connection and blame government environmental regulation or Obama or some other bullshit when everything costs more.

After all, the people in West Virginia, etc don't seem to care or understand that everything at WalMart is currently cheap because it's made by foreigners, so they won't notice or care if that disappears.

Is the protectionism happening properly? Or is it going to be a media operation concentrating on a few places allegedly talked out of moving to Mexico, possibly with tax freebies?

We'll see

The supply chains of most US making-stuff companies are so byzantine that it will be impossible to unravel without huge losses for all concerned. I assume Trump knows this, so will do loads of small watch-me-dive-mum deals to keep the base salivating.

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Tubby Isaacs wrote:

Also, Apparently he already cut "many many hundreds millions of dollars" off the price of a particular military aircraft project.

Ha ha.

He's a decent bet to add hundreds of million dollars to it by leaning over their shoulders and saying "why don't you just make it do that?"

indeed