Donald Trump did the unforgivable by attacking former Vice President Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama on foreign soil, while in Japan this past weekend.
It is a known rule that no President deals with domestic politics while overseas, and no President embarrasses his host by putting them on the spot as he criticizes political rivals.
But this is Donald Trump, who does not believe in any rules, regulations, or common decency.
Calling Biden a low IQ individual, agreeing with totalitarian dictator Kim Jong Un of North Korea, and claiming that both Obama and Biden presided over a disastrous administration in every way, including the economy, is the continuation of an attack on opponents that began with John McCain. It has now included everyone imaginable, and not just individuals that are well known, but also victims as in Puerto Rico after the hurricane, and groups of vulnerable people, such as refugees, gays and lesbians, transgender people, disabled people, and so many more.
The massive lie about Obama, Biden, and the economy is beyond belief, when the facts are that Obama presided over the greatest economic recovery in American history, greater than Franklin D. Roosevelt before World War II resolved the Great Depression.
From 10 percent unemployment, and the worst economic conditions in 70 years in 2009, inheriting the Great Recession under George W. Bush, to Obama and Biden leaving office in January 2017 with unemployment under 5 percent, we have now seen more than eight years of constant economic growth, an all time record. The continuation of economic growth under Donald Trump would have continued if Hillary Clinton was in the White House.
The stock market also recovered more than 250 percent from what it was when Obama-Biden came in during 2009 until the beginning of 2017. And all this was done without being engaged in a major war.
Trump can lie, and his minions can believe his use of the Big Lie technique of Adolf Hitler, but “the truth shall set us free”, and history will record Barack Obama and Joe Biden for their economic accomplishments.
Bernie Sanders has it correct: “[Donald Trump] is a pathological liar.â€
This is a demonstration, nowadays in U.S. politics, that it does not matter. Meaning, by allowing for the leader of the free world to be a pathological liar, and a gaslighter, and that his party’s base of voters support him because they generally support him as an individula (regardless what he says and/or does), this is where we are at as a whole in U.S. politics.
I was born in 1971. I have seen voters for the Democrats, with Bill Clinton (with a lesser extent with Barack Obama), and the Republicans, with Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, not care. To a lot of people, all that matters is if you self-identify with the Republicans or the Democrats and whether your preferred party has the White House. If it does, all is right in your world.
This takes on a cult-like environment. That is not good. It does not help the people and/or the nation to advance—or advance as significantly as it should—and it ends up being empty (or near to it). We should be much further along.
I’m in agreement with what Mayor Pete said in an interview with Chris Matthews. Trump misbehaving in North Korea is a distraction from whatever horrible policy Trump’s admin is coming up with next.
I self-identify with Democrats because they are pro-science, they are not anti-woman, they don’t strip away our voting rights, etc.
Exactly, Leia. Trump uses distraction to the get headlines off of news that’s bad about him.
Another lie by Trump. He’s now denying that he requested the USS John McCain be hidden from his view.
Most Republicans we know vote Republican because they listen to Fox News spouting off culture wars. Fox News tells them that Democrats want to take away their SUVs and guns and nonsense like that. Many of them aren’t very well educated, so they believe that nonsense.
Another reason why Republicans we know vote Republican is because their religious views have been shaped over the years by Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson, etc.