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Mother Jones, NOV15
It's way past time for this stuff. ''You can call Trump's statements lies or fabrications or even falsehoods if you insist on being delicate about it. But you can't call them questionable or controversial or salesmanlike or disputed or even faulty. The man is a serial, pathological liar. Isn't it about time for the journalistic community to work up the courage to report this with clear eyes?''

Hyperbole at DT article

 * I agree with others here; the elephant in the room is that many reliable sources have found Trump to be uniquely untruthful (even for a politician), and to be untruthful in unique ways (for instance, repeating the same falsehoods after they've been repeatedly discredited). Our site policies (including WP:BLP) say that we need to convey that, clearly and accurately, but for whatever reason we have a couple of editors who are extremely resistant to following where the sources lead in this particular case. This blizzard of overlapping RfC's, silly euphemisms, and bowdlerization is becoming disruptive and needs to stop; it has taken on the appearance of a lawyerly campaign of vexatious wiki-process and wiki-litigation aimed at obscuring, rather than improving, the article. MastCell Talk 19:23, 31 August 2016 (UTC)

Challenge to Second Amendment-tors
Some unscrupulous "media-types" have mis-interpreted what he said and have misjudged his innocent intentions to improve his poll numbers. This is just another in a long line of left wing plots to dis-credit another republican.
 * Former head of the CIA, retired Gen. Michael Hayden, "You're not just responsible for what you say. You are responsible for what people hear."

I KNOW YOU THINK YOU KNOW WHAT YOU THOUGHT I SAID BUT I'M NOT SURE YOU REALIZE THAT WHAT YOU HEARD IS NOT WHAT I MEANT

 * Yahoo article:9 times Trump didnt say what you thought you heard him say

The night is dark and full of terror

 * 1) Trump International Hotel, Washington is leased with the General Services Administration, which specifically prohibits elected officials from deriving benefit from the lease.
 * 2) Deutsche Bank is owed $365 million for a hotel in Washington DC, a hotel in Chicago, and a golf course in Florida. There is a $14 billion fine being negotiated with Deutsche Bank and the Department of Justice for matters unrelated to Trump, that he as President would have power to influence.
 * 3) The Internal Revenue Service receives a new appointed head by the President of the United States every five years, the next head due November 13, 2017. Trump is currently under audit by the Internal Revenue Service.
 * 4) The National Labor Relations Board sometimes has had disputes with the Trump organization, and Trump will be appointing the members of the organization.
 * 5) The Trump organization's foreign investments around the world will be affected by policy decisions while Trump is president. The organization has business holdings in at least 20 countries.
 * 6) The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China currently rents space in Trump Tower.
 * 7) Trump favors completing the Dakota Access Pipeline, and owns stock in the company building it. Victor Grigas 14:34, 3 December 2016 (UTC)

Trumps relationship with THE TRUTH

 * But a survey of Mr. Trump’s four decades of wheeling and dealing reveals an equally operatic record of dissembling and deception, some of it unabashedly confirmed by Mr. Trump himself, who nearly 30 years ago first extolled the business advantages of “truthful hyperbole.” Indeed, based on the mountain of court records churned out over the span of Mr. Trump’s career, it is hard to find a project he touched that did not produce allegations of broken promises, blatant lies or outright fraud.
 * "I’m not saying...I’m just saying"

NPR (8-28-16)

 * He deals in mis-information of consequence
 * Many people believe something when they hear it...but...they don't hear when it is dis-credited.
 * Too many of DT's statements go unchallenged in the moment he is making them. EX:"What did you mean Mr.Trump? Jouralist speak to the candidates for us. Swawn Otto Anti-science is on the right Marcia McNutt
 * DT is compulsive...a habitual behavior...he will not change
 * Annenberg, Kathleen Hall Jamieson
 * grounding things in the evidence
 * Peer review is the best system devised to assure vetting.
 * Half the population doesn't believe in Evolution
 * His surrogates regurgitate what DT has to say
 * DT promotes a world of lock-ups and surveillance and fugitive hunting squads...a vast system of indiscriminate catch-and-punish that works just as hard to catch hotel maids and landscapers as it does gang members and terrorists

October Push

 * Breitbartshows almost the whole speech
 * Trump’s lashing out, less than six weeks before the election, underscored how his campaign seems driven more by irritable impulse than any strategic imperative.
 * [http://www.latimes.com/projects/la-na-pol-trump-women/#nt=oft01a-3li2 Trump doesn't like fat people.
 * 6'2"---267 or 236still obese
 * Trump manages to tunnel underneath the rock-bottom expectations set for him.

Aftermath

 * Climate Change
 * Myron Ebell/Natl Geo


 * Axelrod on Maher's show

Pre-Mtg

 * Plan for the new president
 * 5 ways to respond

Transition Team

 * 11/17 by NPR
 * VOA/Rudy or Mitt

Truthful hyperbolies

 * Trumps Mind
 * Impact of Lies

usatoday.com/trumps-emerging-presidency

 * USAToday and 3 lessons about emerging administration

washingtonpost.com/ Trumps proposed administration isn't ideologically diverse

 * [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/08/trumps-proposed-administration-isnt-ideologically-diverse-that-can-be-dangerous/
 * "If presidents or prime ministers plan to govern in an authoritarian manner, they will emphasize loyalty when picking advisers and by relying more on military and security personnel. If they plan to govern democratically, they will emphasize selecting advisers with legislative and political experience who can advance the policy agenda effectively. Trump’s administration picks so far have emphasized the former, with only a peppering of the latter. Notably, what’s missing are policy experts with established ideas."

politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/ Susan Glasser essay

 * 
 * "When we assigned a team of reporters at Politico during the primary season to listen to every single word of Trump’s speeches, we found that he offered a lie, half-truth, or outright exaggeration approximately once every five minutes—for an entire week. And it didn’t hinder him in the least from winning the Republican presidential nomination. Not only that, when we repeated the exercise this fall, in the midst of the general election campaign, Trump had progressed to fibs of various magnitudes just about once every three minutes! So much for truth: By the time Trump in September issued his half-hearted disavowal of the Obama “birther” whopper he had done so much to create and perpetuate, one national survey found that only 1 in 4 Republicans was sure that Obama was born in the U.S., and various polls found that somewhere between a quarter and a half of Republicans believed he’s Muslim. So not only did Trump think he was entitled to his own facts, so did his supporters. It didn’t stop them at all from voting for him."
 * Trump is entitled to his own facts.

Margin of victory?

 * Electoral College result was 306 Trump votes to Hillary Clinton's 232. Trump's 306 vs 232 electoral votes ranks 46th out of 58 elections, and him losing the popular vote by 2.1 percentage points is 47th out of the last 49 elections, per the New York Times.
 * 12/19... 1 month after elections, Clinton's popular vote count is now at 65,844,610. President-elect Donald Trump's votes total 62,979,636, giving her a lead of about 2.83 million.
 * 02/10...
 * Johnson.....4,438,912
 * Stein.......1,457,038
 * Clinton....65,844,954 or 48.2%
 * Total......71,740,560
 * Trump......62,979,879 or 46.1%
 * Difference is 8,771,025 when Johnson and Stein votes are factored in

Day 1, Friday

 * David Corn, Mother Jones
 * Trump administration halts a cut to Obama's FHA mortgage insurance premium
 * Three Executive Orders

National Day of Patriotic Devotion

 * National Day of Patriotic Devotion...announced on Monday, 3 days late
 * It's Official
 * Shades of Kim-jung-un

Day 2, Saturday

 * 4 miilion or more
 * |title=Crowd Estimates, 1.21.2017 Spredsheet on 2017 Women's March numbers.
 * Article Women's March on Washington
 * Article Trump at George Bush Center for Intelligence, criticizes the media, and dishonors patriots.
 * "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe"

Day 3, Sunday

 * "Why didn't these people vote?" Tweet

Day 4, Monday

 * Spicers first-press-conference


 * Trump says lawsuit claiming he violated the Constitution is "without merit"
 * President Trump signed three executive memos on trade Monday morning -- one withdraws the U.S. from the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), another reinstates the Mexico City Policy dealing with non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and abortion access, and a third freezes federal workforce hiring
 * 3 Days in
 * Keystone and Dakota pipelines are back in business
 * 45% of Americans approve of Trump's job performance over the first three days of his presidency, according to a Gallup survey released Monday. It's the first time a president has received an initial approval rating under 50% in the history of the poll, which dates back to Dwight Eisenhower's first term in 1953
 * Trump Is Great and Popular
 * California Gov. Jerry Brown
 * David Becker/Pew
 * 2016 ICE Immigration Removals
 * Slates viewpoint on the day
 * Conway responds to unsubstantiated vote fraud claims
 * Un-truth-iness
 * Trump nominates Gorsuch To SC
 * Betsy DeVos opposition
 * TIME article on Bannon
 * Frank Bruni
 * NOT #1---National Sheriff’s Association meeting, Tuesday morning at the WH."...murder rate in the United States is at the highest it has been in 47 years." "the press doesn’t like to tell it like it is. It wasn’t to their advantage to say that but the murder rate is the highest it’s been I guess from forty-five to forty-seven years.”
 * Not #2---Trump takes credit for reducing the price of F-35 jet when his involvement had zero to do with it. The price reduction was planned long before Trump's Twitter criticism and personal involvement.
 * Treachery---Trump sees treachery where ever he looks
 * "Crime data does not support many of Trump’s claims,...
 * NBC Recap
 * CBS Recap
 * Wash Post Trump claims
 * Mar-i-Lago
 * Sessions and Bannon history

America First Policies

 * Begins in Jan 2017
 * The Mercers, Bob and daughter, Rebekah
 * Bob Parscale, top digital strategist
 * Bernie Marcus, Home Depot
 * Kim McKAy
 * Wilbur Ross, Secretary of Commerce
 * Linda McMahon, Administrator of the Small Business Administration
 * Warren Stephans
 * T. Boone Pickens

"microwaves that turn into cameras"
KellyAnne: "What I can say is there are many ways to surveil each other," Wiretapping by Obama

"...a series of mistruths and misdirection..."

 * Schiff at hearing
 * @ 30:10
 * If we allow every incident or marginally relevant statement by peripheral "players" this article will be overcome with "sludge" and it will just get worse over time.

"...six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar..."
We’ve got this perverse situation in which the vast analytic powers of the entire world are being spent trying to understand a guy whose thoughts are often just six fireflies beeping randomly in a jar. David Brooks, NYT, 5/15/2017

Quote By T. Roosevelt on Patriotism
""Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the President." Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States."

404
What does "404" mean?

The Guardian after G7 turns into G6

 * When this devious, hollow, self-interested man offers no better approximation of ""The People’s Champion"" than the leader of the most oppressive state on the planet, you know democracy is in trouble.

From Trump article discussion on June 13

 * They talked one-on-one with only interpreters present, then had a working lunch along with staff and advisors. They signed a joint statement agreeing to new peaceful relations, security guarantees for North Korea, reaffirmation of North Korea's promise to work toward denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, recovery of soldiers' remains, and follow-up negotiations between high-level officials. At a followup press conference, Trump announced that the U.S. will stop holding joint military exercises with South Korea, calling them "provocative".

A list of officials who have left the Trump administration
as of 11/08/2017;
 * Tom Price
 * Sebastian Gorka
 * Carl Icahn
 * Derek Harvey---Middle East adviser for NSA
 * Katie Walsh---Deputy WH Chief of Staff
 * Steve Bannon
 * Anthony Scaramucci
 * Reince Priebus
 * Walter Schaub---Director of Office of Government Ethics
 * Sean Spicer
 * Mike Dupke---WH Communications Director
 * Keith Schiller---Long-time aide and confidant---Director of Oval Office Operations
 * Jim Comey
 * Mike Flynn
 * Sally Yates
 * George Sifakis: director, Office of Public Liaison
 * Ezra Cohen-Watnick: senior director for intelligence programs, National Security Council
 * Michael Short: senior press assistant
 * Vivek Murthy: surgeon general
 * Angella Reid: chief usher, White House
 * Katie Walsh: deputy chief of staff
 * Preet Bharara: U.S. attorney, Southern Dist of NY---On March 11, 2017---fired along with 46 other US Attorneys appointed during Pres Obama's administration.


 * Thomas Bossett - Homeland Security advisor
 * Michael Anton - NSC spokeperson
 * Nadia Schadlow - Deputy National Security adviser for Strategy

pinnocio

 * Factchecking Trump
 * Glenn Kessler Database

3 years In

 * Madness, ridicule, shame, lies, bully, lawlessness, isolationist, Caged children, zooming Natl Debt, empowers White Supremacy, racist stances, sows division and hate, lets foreign entities influence elections, said on 1/17..."I will work so hard for you....", rhetoric enable white nationalist and Racists, Fascism, changing the makeup and nature of all levels of the Nations courts, long history of sexual assaults of women, Hidden tax returns, condones disregarding subpeonas, Emolument violations, repetitive lying and bullying, 224 days of golf, 4 hours a day of TV, 11000 tweets, racially charged comments if subject of rant is Person of Color (POC), bamboozler, GRIFTER, conspiracy theorist, denies Climate Change, provocateur, shuts down Govt on a whim, *
 * Married 3 times, 5 kids by 3 wives, mistresses, affairs, scandals, 7.5 lies a day (8/10/2018) He plays games with words
 * Repealed ((ObamaCare]], Took 1.3 million people OFF Medicaid, shredded DACA, militarized the border, demonized immigrants, Bribes(perfect call), my future is at steak/stake, president/precedent, meeting w/ Russians after Comey firing, Helsinki w/ Putin w/ no notes.

Kessler says...

 * real estate business shenanigans, boastful, laxity about the truth, Banks declined further loans,
 * out-and-out misleads people,” Kessler says.“The difference with Trump is that he doesn’t really change what he says because you fact-check him. He’ll double down and keep saying it.”
 * He repeats, more than 80 times, the falsehood that his administration passed the biggest tax cut in United States history. “The standard way to measure it is as a measure of G.D.P., and it ranks eighth,” Kessler says.
 * Trump and untruth are synonymous
 * What was Trump’s Singapore summit with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader? Theater? Farce? Should we run away? Should we care? Should we scream? Who would hear us? Is journalism remotely adequate to describe the moral decay and mind-bending corruption (material and spiritual) of the Trump Admin?

Goldwater Rule for Psychiatrists
By Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com May 25, 2017, 11:10am EDT VOX


 * Never before has a president come with such a massive trail of behavior to analyze, in the form of 100,000-plus tweets, hundreds of hours of TV appearances, and a huge trove of journalism documenting his actions, decisions, and lies. He also continues to behave in ways that defy historical precedent for candidate, president and ex-president — for instance, intervening over and over in an investigation into his campaign’s ties to Russia and continuing to claim the 2020 election was stolen from him. Citizen Trump’s digital trail makes him as one of the most analyzable public figures in history.


 * Trump has narcissistic tendencies, avoids acquiring expertise, is impatient, impetuous, and obsessed with winning, often lies, turns around on campaign promises, ran an extremely disorganized White House, and a remarkably questionable campaign to be re-elected in 2024. If Citizen Trump’s behavior is purely the result of his personality — and not a disease --- that’s still consequential. Psychologists generally feel personality is a stable trait. And that means someone's past behavior predicts their future behavior. What’s more, research finds ascending the ladder of power only magnifies your personality traits and makes you more likely to act in accordance with them. You don’t need a diagnosis to say Citizen Trump has a troubling pattern of behavior or to conclude that pattern is bound to continually repeat. The danger is real and predictable.

dr-john-gartner-s-expert-analysis-raises-concerns-on-trump-s-mental-health

 * calling into question the cognitive capabilities of Citizen Trump.
 * The ODonnell conversation with Gartner delves deeper into Trump’s personality, characterizing his behavior as “hypomanic,” a trait that contributes to his unpredictability and potential destructiveness. Gartner warns of Trump’s penchant for revenge and poses a chilling prognosis that one of excessive punishment and destruction aimed at those he perceives as his enemies.
 * Dr. Gartner, who has been largely silent since Biden’s inauguration, emerged to clarify his stance on both Trump and Biden, stressing the potential danger posed by Trump’s psychological state. According to Gartner, “based on his behavior, and in my opinion, Donald Trump is dangerously demented.” He points to Trump’s “phonemic paraphasias” and tangential speech, which are indicative, in his view, of gross signs of dementia, a condition not associated with normal aging but with severe cognitive deterioration.