‘Distrustful’ Trump Flouts Procedures to Call World Leaders

https://www.thedailybeast.com/distrustful-trump-bypasses-state-department-procedures-to-call-world-leaders/

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  2. I didn’t vote for him but here we go again with the media creating drama out of nothing because it’s Trump.

  3. Great, we are already back to checking the news every day multiple times to see what that effin’ guy has done. Ugh. 

    The news itself is bad enough, but I really can’t stand seeing his face or hearing his voice. I need an app that swaps every image of his face out with a yellow balloon or something. 

  5. Simply put, Trump campaigned on grievances. Gave over simplistic concepts of potential solutions like tariffs: tariffs will fix everything. And left it at that. You can put that on a yard sign.

    To have better messaging Democrats would need equally simplistic takes but policy doesn’t work that way. You can’t explain WHY tariffs suck in 5-6 words. Or explain a complex multi-level approach across several sectors.

    It’s also worth noting that when half your base does not expect you to actually follow through on the more drastic measures like Trumps deportation plan or national abortion ban, the truth or accuracy of your statements does not matter. You’ve taken both positions at the same time and secured both group of votes.

    You’re asking democrats to essentially lie as well in order to have a chance at countering the volley of misinformation he spewed.

    Taking abortion messaging as one example:

    If Trump says, Democrats are killing babies at all stages.

    How effective is long winded messaging breaking down the medical circumstances for each statistic —miscarriages and other health complications— which is the truth. VS. Trumps lying y’all! for a yard sign Which is technically a lie since they do not distinguish between the circumstances even if the mother wanted the child, only that the pregnancy was aborted and groups like Fox will just pull up the stats without context.

    It’s far better messaging to simply assign blame to someone else, Biden, Immigrants, antifa, woke etc.

    There’s improvements to be made for sure but Americans seem to want simple answers they can understand to incredible complex problems and generally the bases of each party hold them to different standards. The evidence being, even after the election there’s still talk over her not having policies when trumps had a tweets worth and she had pages.

  7. He is looking for a free hand and this is not someone who believed in transparency for himself. When he says media is his enemy, he actually believes it, when he says he wants to get rid of career civil service he means that too. However, there are far too many obstacles. Legal and practical. He would like to be a dictator for one day, but it is unlikely he can accomplish even that beyond talking and threatening to take action.

  9. 54% of Americans read at a 6th grade level or below. 21% are illiterate.

  10. When is his sentencing hearing for the 34 felony convictions?

    Thats still happening, right guys?

    Guys?

  11. He had classified documents sitting around his home for years, he’s the biggest security threat they have and hes in the white house.

  12. Don’t answer the phone. He’ll just try to extort money out you. “Nice North Atlantic defensive alliance you’ve got there. Be a shame if it burned down”

  13. Given America’s widespread in-the-moment reaction culture, it’s going to be hugely challenging over the next 4 years to separate his everyday nonsense from his administration’s more dangerous, far-reaching political overtures.
    I predict continuous media mayhem on steroids.

  14. Uh, focusing on the Cheeto is a horrid mistake when congress is GOP controlled. I’m quite frankly more worried about that. 

    Trump will basically just be signing whatever they cookup…. Which might include some SJs.

  15. Given this to be true:

    The reasoning for this, as sources explained to The Washington Post,
    is that Trump is “distrustful” of federal officials after a string of
    leaked transcripts emerged from calls he made with world leaders during
    his first White House term.

    Trump is wise to cut these people out of the loop. Leaking should be cause for immediate termination.

  17. Hate to break it to ya but he already has cleaned out the republican of nonloyalists. From day 1 he is fucking it all up.

  18. Great. More focus on this asshole while his minions do evil. Have fun, go mad.

  19. Sounds like its the World leaders calling Trump :

    ***”world leaders have just been calling Trump directly”***

  20. I hope Trump makes America great again just so the whining will stop.

  21. He has no guardrails anymore, in any sense of the word. He won’t go to jail, thanks to the red house and senate he wont get impeached or convicted, he wont get fined thanks to the SCROTUS. and he knows he’s not running for reelection again, so he doesnt have to appeal to anyone. He has no restrictions politically, legally or morally. So what happens if he descides to facetime world leaders when he’s on teh toilet at 2am and had an addreall induced hallucination he thinks was a great idea.

  22. Ukraine officials were reassured by the call. Is anyone reading the article?

  23. Non USA citizen and clearly do not understand how politics works in the USA but is there any way he can change the law and stay ater his 4 years in office?

  24. Deja vu? We can play a game where the contestants guess whether some news item about Trump is from his 1st or his 2nd term.

  25. I love how every day we get to see how he fucks around. What a lovely time. Who the fuck votes for this moron

  26. I mean surely he knows any call he makes to Putin is gonna be listened in closely by the NSA right? Right?

  27. That’s why Chancellor Scholz nuked the governing coalition, with new elections coming soon he doesn’t have to deal with the moron Trump. He played us like a damn fiddle but I would do it too.

  28. I don’t care who the next dem candidate is at this point, as long as they have a fucking spine and throw this shit bag in jail which should have happened before. Who cares how many offenses he’s found guilty of if there is ZERO consequences?!

  29. He’s not in office yet and multiple war torn countries called him to say they want peace. Are you all brain dead cnn simps? I swear your all incells. I know a homeless dude who has a gf….

  30. We better be the fucking kings of earth with the way these jokers act.

  31. This seems totally unlike him. Are we sure this is an accurate news article?

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