Donald Trump says that he has multiple different lawsuits that have been filed against former staffers because they allegedly violated the non-disclosure agreements that he forced them to sign when they took the job. This move was highly unusual to begin with, and it likely won’t stand up in court due to things like the Presidential Records Act.
and in today’s headline... @realDonaldTrump
Trump has floated dropping nuclear bombs into hurricanes to stop them from hitting the United States in meetings with Homeland Security and national security officials, Axios reported Sunday.
According to sources who have heard the president’s private remarks and have been briefed on a National Security Council (NSC) memorandum, the suggestions were made during briefings on hurricanes.
“I got it. I got it. Why don’t we nuke them?” Trump said at one such White House briefing, a source who was there told Axios.
“They start forming off the coast of Africa, as they’re moving across the Atlantic, we drop a bomb inside the eye of the hurricane and it disrupts it. Why can’t we do that?” the source added, paraphrasing the president’s remarks.
The source told Axios that the briefer responded with something to the effect of “Sir, we’ll look into that.”
A 2017 NSC memo relayed to Axios reportedly describes a second conversation in which Trump asked whether the administration should bomb hurricanes to stop them from hitting the homeland…
A National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration fact sheet about tropic cyclones addresses the concept and points out that it would be unlikely to work and most likely cause more harm than good.
“Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems,” the sheet reads.
“Needless to say, this is not a good idea.”
Trump is so naive he’s completely unaware of the radiation created from a nuke.
During one hurricane briefing at the White House, Trump said, "I got it. I got it. Why don't we nuke them?"
Rex Tillerson, Trump’s former Secretary of State, once argued over which one was “dumber than a rock.”
Trump has also cited his Wharton degree as proof of “super genius stuff.” On Monday, the Washington Post reported that an admission officer recalls that Trump’s entry into the school was not, on its own, a sign of genius. In fact, a young Trump was able to get an interview through his family connections.
“James Nolan was working in the University of Pennsylvania’s admissions office in 1966 when he got a phone call from one of his closest friends, Fred Trump Jr.” The Post reports. “It was a plea to help Fred’s younger brother, Donald Trump, get into Penn’s Wharton School.”
“’He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t,” Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “He said, ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?’ I was happy to do that.”’
Ironic how Trump criticized Obama and asked him to release his Harvard grades yet Trump has refused (just as he has with his tax returns) — even ordering Cohen to threaten college officials.
Obama was ELECTED as the president of the Harvard Law Review. #ChokeOnItHaters
Nolan said of the time Trump applied in 1966, adding: “I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”
“When I say con man, I’m talking about a man who declares himself brilliant but directed me to threaten his high school, his colleges, and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores,” Cohen said Wednesday. “The irony wasn’t lost on me at the time that Mr. Trump in 2011 had strongly criticized President Obama for not releasing his grades.”
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Cohen testified Wednesday that Trump had directed him to threaten his own high school, colleges and the College Board against ever releasing his academic grades or SAT scores. Cohen submitted a copy of one of those letters to Congress.
Seems appropriate today. # horseface
— Adam P. McIver @ad7m - Oct 16, 2018
*** Ben Carson's first lobotomy.
President Donald Trump—who boasted over the weekend that his success in life was a result of “being, like, really smart”—communicates at the lowest grade level of the last 15 presidents, according to a new analysis of the speech patterns of presidents going back to Herbert Hoover.
