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He's the POTUS. People are hanging on his every word.
No they're not. Just the MSM and an army of screeching "liberals" who are just waiting for the next opportunity to stick the boot in. No one else cares.
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Another alternative fact.
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No they're not.
Really? So all the supporters who turn up to his rallies aren't there to listen to him? Hmmm...
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No they're not. Just the MSM and an army of screeching "liberals" who are just waiting for the next opportunity to stick the boot in. No one else cares.
You really have a severely warped sense of reality at times. If "no-one else cares", why did the Swedish foreign ministry seek clarification after his recent remark?
Of course people take notice, he's purportedly the leader of the most powerful nation in the world.
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Old 20.02.2017, 15:05
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No they're not. Just the MSM and an army of screeching "liberals" who are just waiting for the next opportunity to stick the boot in. No one else cares.
A confusing post worthy of Trump!

The Sweden comment was made at a rally of his supporters in Florida so according to you this rally audience was just the MSM and an army of screeching "liberals"?

"who are just waiting for the next opportunity to stick the boot in." Not really, there are simply too many opportunities. It is a challenge to know which one to use
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From a Swedish friend.

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Old 20.02.2017, 15:21
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There is already thread where you can find all the statistics which prove the rise in crime and sexual assaults that coincides with the European Migrant Crisis so I can't be bothered to go into it here.

The point is Trump never referred to a terrorist attack. He was perfectly within his right to name check Sweden and Germany. The handling of the migrant crisis will go down in history as a Cautionary Tale for years to come.

How Sweden became an example of how not to handle immigration
I just have this vision of Trump as an old man sitting in front of the TV all day.
Occasionally people bring him things to sign that he does not bother reading.

When the children outside in the street get too noisy he takes his tablets and then runs outside and shouts incomprehensible fragments of sentences at them!
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I must admit it's actually getting to be quite fun seeing just what extremes the Trump fanboi comunity on here are prepared to go to, to defend their hero

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Robert Mugabe: Give Donald Trump a chance

Robert Mugabe is known for his fierce opposition to previous US presidents

President Donald Trump should be given a chance to prove himself, Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe says.

He went on to express his support for Mr Trump's America-first policy, saying "America for Americans" and "Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans".

It is unusual for the veteran head of state to publicly back any US president.
The US imposed sanctions such as travel bans and an assets freeze on Mr Mugabe and his allies in 2001.

The sanctions were imposed over allegations of human rights abuses and election rigging.

Zimbabwe's government says they caused the country's economic collapse.
Most experts however blame Mr Mugabe's seizure of white-owned farms, which used to be Zimbabwe's economic backbone.

With Mr Trump's reputation for being unconventional, Mr Mugabe is hoping his administration might decide to lift the sanctions.

"Give him time," Zimbabwe's leader said of Mr Trump in an interview aired ahead of his 93rd birthday on Tuesday.
"Mr Trump might even re-look [at] the sanctions on Zimbabwe."

President Trump has caused global uproar over his policies, including his ban on people from seven mainly Muslim countries entering the US, although this has been overturned by the courts, and his pledge to rebuild the US economy on "America-first" principles.

Mr Mugabe is unfazed by such policies as he seems to identify with Mr Trump's brand of nationalism.

"When it comes to Donald Trump... talking of American nationalism, well America for America, America for Americans - on that we agree. Zimbabwe for Zimbabweans," Mr Mugabe said.

As far as the nonagenarian president is concerned, there is more hope with Mr Trump in the White House than if it had been Hilary Clinton.
"I was surprised by his election, but I did not like Madam Clinton to win either," he said.

"I knew she could slap sanctions on us as a legacy."
President Mugabe, Africa's oldest head of state, also repeated that he is not ready to step down from power.

"The majority of the people feel that there is no replacement, successor who to them is acceptable, as acceptable as I am," he told state media.
His Zanu-PF party has endorsed Mr Mugabe as its candidate in elections due next year.

Last week, first lady Grace Mugabe said if the party were to field his corpse, he would still win.

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That smooth talker is now trying to cozy up to the Swedish Govt.

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Give the public a break - The FAKE NEWS media is trying to say that large scale immigration in Sweden is working out just beautifully. NOT!
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No they're not. Just the MSM and an army of screeching "liberals" who are just waiting for the next opportunity to stick the boot in. No one else cares.
Well it seems even Fox News 'cares' ... now that is quite something!

As for those who 'defend/support' Trump- some were very predictable- others total surprise and bafflement!
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Hush, do not disturb the old man watching TV
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A senior National Security Council adviser was reassigned to his old job at the National Defense University, a White House spokeswoman confirmed Sunday, after he criticized the Trump administration's Latin American policies.

Craig Deare was removed from his role as a senior adviser at the National Security Council's Western Hemisphere division Friday and "sent back to his original position," said Sarah Sanders, a White House spokeswoman. Deare had been assigned to the NSC by the Trump administration.

Deare reportedly knocked the Trump administration's handling of Latin American policies during a speech at The Wilson Center Thursday in Washington. He also criticized overall White House dysfunction, Politico reported based on a source.
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Also possibly some revenge in play
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Republican consultant Shermichael Singleton, a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, was fired last week for an op-ed he wrote before the election that criticized then-candidate Trump, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
The op-ed, which was published in October, said Trump was leading to low morale within the Republican Party.
Singleton, according to a source, was told he was dismissed because of the op-ed.
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Last week, first lady Grace Mugabe said if the party were to field his corpse, he would still win.

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I think in Trump's case, they probably did.
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From a Swedish friend.

I came across a really interesting discussion last week. It's not because the instances have increased at all, it's to do with the civilised way they deal with rape cases -feel free to share
Sweden reformed its sex crime legislation and made the legal definition of rape much wider in 2005, which largely explains a significant increase in the number of reported rapes in the ten-year period of 2004-2013.
The Swedish police also record each instance of sexual violence in every case separately, leading to an inflated number of cases compared to other countries. The gist of this is that if you get raped by the same person every day for a year, most countries just record that as ONE rape, in Sweden, that's 365 separate incidences.
Additionally, the Swedish police have improved the handling of rape cases, in an effort to increase the number of crimes reported. Raised awareness and a shifting attitude of sexual crimes in Sweden, which has been ranked as the number one country in gender equality, may also explain the relatively high rates of reported rape.

The donald would be considered a 'rapist' for his 'pussy grabbing' in Sweden- especially as an employer.

#LastNightInSweden #SwedenIncident
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They can't rebuild yet, the wall needs doing

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As for those who 'defend/support' Trump- some were very predictable- others total surprise and bafflement!
I don't support Trump, but I will call out irrational accusations when I see them.
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They can't rebuild yet, the wall needs doing

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He will of course 'screw' that one too... too many screws...probably more than 3,772,876...
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They can't rebuild yet, the wall needs doing

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<<"A 12,000-page instruction manual with easy-to-understand pictures makes construction child's play -- as long as there is not a single screw missing," >>
hmmmm, Trump does not like to read such big documents ..... and we all know the "easy-to-understand pictures of Ikea ..... still, Trumps interpretation of those pictures could be a whole new experience.
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I don't support Trump, but I will call out irrational accusations when I see them.
It would be interesting to know where you draw the line of "irrational", though. As an example where Trump rambles on about uranium

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We had Hillary Clinton give Russia 20 percent of the uranium in our country. You know what uranium is, right? This thing called nuclear weapons like lots of things are done with uranium including some bad things.

Nobody talks about that. I didn’t do anything for Russia. I’ve done nothing for Russia. Hillary Clinton gave them 20 percent of our uranium.
This was obviously a target for some "WTF!?" reactions. Would you say that accusations of Trump being dangerously ignorant in his assessment of weapons grade materials was "irrational"?

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The greatest thing I could do is shoot that ship that’s 30 miles off shore right out of the water.

Everyone in this country’s going to say “oh, it’s so great.” That’s not great. That’s not great. I would love to be able to get along with Russia.
Would you also classify anyone accusing him of being slightly unhinged as being "irrational"?
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