Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

Our Country has lost, stupidly, Trillions of Dollars with China over many years. They have stolen our Intellectual Property at a rate of Hundreds of Billions of Dollars a year, & they want to continue. I won’t let that happen! We don’t need China and, frankly, would be far....

10:59 AM · Aug 23, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

....better off without them. The vast amounts of money made and stolen by China from the United States, year after year, for decades, will and must STOP. Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing..

10:59 AM · Aug 23, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

....your companies HOME and making your products in the USA. I will be responding to China’s Tariffs this afternoon. This is a GREAT opportunity for the United States. Also, I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE,....

10:59 AM · Aug 23, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump

....all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!). Fentanyl kills 100,000 Americans a year. President Xi said this would stop - it didn’t. Our Economy, because of our gains in the last 2 1/2 years, is MUCH larger than that of China. We will keep it that way!

10:59 AM · Aug 23, 2019·Twitter for iPhone

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1164914959131848705

“Already, Trump has shaken up the schedule, calling at the last minute for a special meeting Sunday morning to discuss the global economy. Senior administration officials said he will contrast U.S. growth with Europe’s economic doldrums and press his pro-jobs and ‘fair’ trade messages,” the report states. “It is unclear how receptive the others will be to whatever thoughts Trump might offer as to how they should shift their own economic approaches. Many world leaders blame Trump’s trade war with China and his threats against Europe and Japan for a major contraction in investment and spending, and are frustrated with what they see as attempts to use weaknesses elsewhere to demand changes he thinks will benefit U.S. companies.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/g7-diplomats-cringing-at-weekend-with-trump-you-just-try-to-get-through-the-summit-without-any-damage/

The family’s $100 billion fortune comes mostly from a massive network of oil and gas pipelines, and investments in other polluting industries like paper and plastics. The brothers inherited the seed money for their holdings from their father Fred Koch, who made his first fortune building oil pipelines for the Russian dictator Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. Back in the states, Fred Koch supported racial segregation and white supremacist groups like the John Birch Society.

https://www.rawstory.com/2019/08/here-are-11-things-the-koch-brothers-didnt-want-you-to-know/

Seth Abramson
@SethAbramson

(THREAD) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (CNN): Convicted Kremlin agent Maria Butina's longtime boyfriend confirms that Don Jr. met secretly with Kremlin agents for an hour during the 2015 NRA Conference in Knoxville; Don Jr. therefore lied to Congress about collusion. Please RT and read on.

https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/1164714935944974336

Touré
@Toure

AP poll: Trump disapproval at 62% and 12% of Republicans would be unhappy to see him reelected.

The ship be sinkin.

https://twitter.com/Toure/status/1164590265606299649

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Trump says he's "very seriously" looking at trying to change the Constitution by executive order.

"We're looking at that very seriously -- birthright citizenship. Where you have a baby on our land ... 'congratulations the baby is now a US citizen' ... it's, frankly, ridiculous."

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1164228952661078018

Jordan Fabian
@Jordanfabian

Schumer: "When President Trump uses a trope that has been used against the Jewish people for centuries with dire consequences, he is encouraging—wittingly or unwittingly—anti-Semites throughout the country and the world. Enough.”

https://twitter.com/Jordanfabian/status/1164247183492878336

Aaron Rupar
@atrupar

Trump closes by falsely blaming Obama for his family separation policy.

"I am the one that kept the families together. You remember that, right? Just remember I said it. And now it gets even better -- President Obama and others brought the families apart."

https://twitter.com/atrupar/status/1164229531974144000

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/canned-heat-larry-taylor-dead/

Canned Heat bassist Larry “The Mole” Taylor died at the age of 77 on Aug. 19, a band spokesman confirmed.

The musician, who’d been a member for several stints since 1967, two years after the band formed, died after a 12-year cancer battle at his Lake Balboa, Calif., home.

“Larry told great stories, funny jokes, was a foodie, wine, record and rock-poster collector, computer whiz and a special human being who really lived for the music,” his manager Skip Taylor told Billboard. “Music was his religion. He influenced many of us in different ways, and he will be missed by many throughout the music industry.”

Taylor was part of Canned Heat when they made their iconic appearance at Woodstock in 1969. Before that, the New Yorker had done session work for Buddy Guy, Albert King and many others. His career began at the age of 18 as a member of Jerry Lee Lewis’ touring band; he also played bass on several of the Monkees’ hits singles, including the TV show theme and “Last Train to Clarksville.”