TRUMP: IS RUNNING THE U.S. LIKE HE RAN “THE APPRENTICE”

…A typical Trump Campaign Rally

Trump actually believes that his political standing: “couldn’t be better”.

You know, the problem with anyone telling a bunch of lies, they have to remember to keep what they lied about, straight.

It is appearing that with the apparent scare that the economy is on the edge of a possible recession, our president is starting to panic, as he is getting some of his regular on-going lies, all mixed up.

He actually recently blurted out the truth.

“It’s tough for Apple to pay tariffs if it’s competing with a very good company [Samsung] that’s not,” the president told reporters.  This flatly contradicts the totally false narrative that he has spent months trying to sell. Trump apparently forgot his standard lie that China is paying “billions of dollars” in tariffs, acknowledging instead that they are taxes paid by US companies and, ultimately, the American consumer.

In other words, that's how tariffs have always actually worked.

This error reflects more than Trump’s inability to juggling multiple lies. It is the evidence that Trump is melting down….and for good reason.

In the composite of all the fears of a global recession, these are exaggerated by Trump’s bazaar and self-destructive trade policies.  These have sent financial markets tumbling and we all know that a sharp downturn would close off one of the lines of attack the president was hoping to use against his Democratic opponents.  He tried this out at his latest liar’s rally in New Hampshire last week: “You have no choice but to vote for me,” he told the crowd, “because your 401(k)’s down the tubes, everything’s gonna be down the tubes” if he loses. “So whether you love me or hate me, you gotta vote for me.”

The truth is, fact checking this the answer: No.

Trump is showing how concerned he is because all Trump has planned on running on for 2020 is the economy.   If there's a recession, he's toast!

He is so concerned, he berates his own, handpicked chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, for not cutting interest rates fast enough to goose the economy.

He is also basically begging Chinese President, Xi Jinping, for a meeting to work out a trade deal.  In fact, he would apparently agree to any new trade deal, but from China, so far, he is met with total silence.

He threatened China with more tariffs, but then he backed down, at least for now. According to published reports, he is seeing himself as the victim of a conspiracy to exaggerate the growing economic anxiety in order to hurt his chances of winning a second term.

The truth is that we have been in the longest recovery since the last “Great Recession”, and we are due for an economic correction.

But where is Trump's head today?  Trump continues to exaggerate his bazaar fantasy about the possible purchase of Greenland from Denmark in what Trump just calls “a large real estate deal,” and he’s also considering imposing a naval blockade to force regime change in Venezuela...?

Trump, who we all know has a sick obsession for his mob sizes, he is now being mocked for his claim that he broke an attendance record for the arena in New Hampshire that had been set by Elton John.  He spent much of his vacation weekend fuming about not getting credit for breaking that record.

Did he break the record?  Since he always lies about his crowd sizes, if he did break the record, other than his base, who’s going to believe him?

Oh, and let’s not forget about Trump’s favorite TV News Channel, and another example that Trump is in fact, flailing around.

Today, Trump can’t seem to stop railing against his favorite Fox News network,  Because, in the latest Fox News poll, it showed Trump, that if the election were today, Trump would lose to four of the current leading Democratic contenders.  The president seems to consider Fox News his administration’s Ministry of Propaganda.  He actually believes, that is the role the network’s morning-show hosts and the prime-time anchors to loyally play, just for him. 

Fortunately, even at Fox, the polling unit is a professional operation. But per the president: “There’s something going on at Fox, I’ll tell you right now.  And I’m not happy with it,” Trump told reporters.  He added a threat, saying that, “Fox is making a big mistake” because  I am  “the one that calls the shots” on next year’s general election debates.  The implication being that if Fox News doesn't please Trump, they might not get to broadcast one of the debates.  They'd better toe the GOP party line.  (…or Trump’s wishes.)

For the record, Trump’s claim about his political standing is that: “it couldn’t be better”, but we all know, it could be much better.

“Great cohesion inside the Republican Party, the best I have ever seen,” Trump tweeted. “Despite all of the Fake News, my Poll Numbers are great. New internal polls show them to be the strongest we’ve had so far! Think what they’d be if I got fair media coverage!”

It's all B.S.

But then, one hour later, the president was back on Twitter to attack Anthony Scaramucci, who famously spent only 11 days as the White House Communications Director and he recently became the latest Trump supporter to receive the “eject” button.

As is predictable for Trump, when one of his loyalist goes against him, Trump called Scaramucci a “nut job,” as Trump claimed to barely know him, and as he dusted off Trump’s ultimate insult by calling "the Much", being "bad on TV.”

What is so bazaar about this US President is that even though he continues to rave like a lunatic, and he does it so often, everyone just shrugs it off.

Look at it this way: The nation is still reeling from three mass shootings; the financial markets are yo-yoing by hundreds of points; a bomb in Afghanistan, where we’re still at war, killed 63 revelers at a wedding; tension between the United States and Iran continues to mount; North Korea keeps testing new missiles; India is playing with fire in Kashmir; Hong Kong has been convulsed for months by massive protests seeking to guarantee basic freedoms!

And what does Trump do?  He obsesses about buying Greenland from Denmark.

Which no one thinks will ever happen.

This could become the end of this great nation.  Because today, we don’t have a real US President.

We instead have a reality show host who is running the country as he ran The Apprentice on TV.

And just like a TV show with failing ratings, this nation could possibly be seeing a "cancellation" in its future….and unfortunately, that’s the real truth.

Copyright G. Ater 2019