Bugged and storming: Trump lashes out about bedbugs and nuking hurricanes

[riversedge]

Source: latimes.com





Aug. 27, 2019 3:07 PM

After a weekend of roller-coaster meetings with foreign leaders in France, President Trump turned to less weighty matters Tuesday, denying a bedbug problem at the troubled Trump golf resort in Miami, where he wants to host next year’s G-7 summit, and rejecting a report that he pondered using nuclear weapons against Atlantic hurricanes, a move that scientists say would spread radioactivity around the globe.

In railing to his 63.6 million Twitter followers, Trump gave those stories global visibility — demonstrating his penchant for taking arms against even minor slights, and the scattershot focus that defines his stream-of-consciousness presidency.

Trump’s myriad tweets, like his news conferences, are a mash-up of the momentous and the minuscule, a digital record of whatever is occupying his thoughts — and drawing his ire — from moment to moment. Oftentimes, they undermine the agenda he is hoping to advance.

Even as he insisted that his three days at the G-7 summit in Biarritz, France, were “a great success for the USA” and a harmonious meeting of allies, Trump fired off tweets that placed him well outside the group consensus on such critical issues as climate change, trade tariffs and whether Russia should be readmitted to the elite group of industrialized economies.

Trump skipped the G-7 working session on climate, biodiversity and oceans (he twice said he planned to attend while the meeting was underway)........................................

Read more: https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2019-08-27/bedbugs-nuclear-strikes-on-hurricanes-trump-keeps-lashing-out

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[cstanleytech]

1. To be fair he did not say that there "never" were bed bugs.

Is it still a lie on his part? Sure but then its Trump and if he says something you can almost bet he is lying about it in some way.

[ffr]

2. Because a story about his bedbugs is surprisingly appealing right now.

[Princetonian]

3. The Onion is going to go bankrupt. Nothing they could write trumps Trump's headlines here.

[Perseus]

4. Roller-coaster implies he had good moments, up and down, in his case it was down all the way

This guy came to the G7 already thinking how he could sell is bedbug ridden place in El Doral, he wasn't thinking in terms of what negotiations he could win for the country, as always, it was all about how to put money in his pocket.

What a disgrace. He could have carried on with many of the Obama accomplishments, ride the economy with positive changes (no Tax cuts for the rich), and truly make things better for everyone, but he is self-centered and evil, plus he surrounds himself with evil people as well like Nazi Stephen Miller and MoscowMitch.