G7 meeting: did you guys followed?

[Cracker Jack]

First I would like to say I have known about Trump most of my adult life, and he has always been a back stabbing A**hole. As far as having ball's, the man has none. When he wants to fire someone, he always has someone do for him because he is a coward. He is a draft dodging coward like his two son's. It makes me want to vomit when I see him salute the troops. He has no moral's, and has cheated on every one of his wives multiple times even when Melania was home with their two month old son. This man lies when it is easy to tell the truth, and I don't believe he even knows what the truth looks like. Maybe if people would get their news from somewhere besides Fox and Friends they might learn something. You all that voted for him can have him and I wish you all the luck in the world. As far as this Kim thing, it is just a show so he can garnish more adulation because that is all he lives for. I am a Viet Nam vet, 73 years old, and not a Democrat.
John

PS: Sorry if I have pissed you Trump supporters off but after reading some of the posts here I had to voice my opinion. Have a good night, and ride safe.

Where would you suggest we get our news from, CNN or MSNBC?

[JFaje1]

Well cracker, anywhere you want, I really don't care. Fox is just the Trump network with has bin's like Rudy, and loud mouths like Jeanine Pirro, and Shawn Hannity. I guess everyone else is fake news because The King says so.
John

[Gavin_Sons]

First I would like to say I have known about Trump most of my adult life, and he has always been a back stabbing A**hole. As far as having ball's, the man has none. When he wants to fire someone, he always has someone do for him because he is a coward. He is a draft dodging coward like his two son's. It makes me want to vomit when I see him salute the troops. He has no moral's, and has cheated on every one of his wives multiple times even when Melania was home with their two month old son. This man lies when it is easy to tell the truth, and I don't believe he even knows what the truth looks like. Maybe if people would get their news from somewhere besides Fox and Friends they might learn something. You all that voted for him can have him and I wish you all the luck in the world. As far as this Kim thing, it is just a show so he can garnish more adulation because that is all he lives for. I am a Viet Nam vet, 73 years old, and not a Democrat.
John

PS: Sorry if I have pissed you Trump supporters off but after reading some of the posts here I had to voice my opinion. Have a good night, and ride safe.

Just ignore the good job he has been doing, that does not matter one bit. I don't particularly care for the man either but he is getting done what be said he would. I didn't vote for him for his character,  I voted for him because of his campaign promises.  And the fact he is not a politician. I don't care what he has done in his past as long as he continues to follow through with what he said be was going to do. Even the most hardcore Democrat has to admit he has done a great job at keeping his campaign promises. If they don't they are just lying to themselves. So be pissed all you want but still does not change the fact that he is doing a good job.

[Gavin_Sons]

Well cracker, anywhere you want, I really don't care. Fox is just the Trump network with has bin's like Rudy, and loud mouths like Jeanine Pirro, and Shawn Hannity. I guess everyone else is fake news because The King says so.
John

  you're funny. Guess you drank some of that anti Trump koolaid. 

[Robert]

Well cracker, anywhere you want, I really don't care. Fox is just the Trump network with has bin's like Rudy, and loud mouths like Jeanine Pirro, and Shawn Hannity. I guess everyone else is fake news because The King says so.
John

The May Small Business Optimism Index increased to the second highest level in the NFIB survey's 45-year history, rising to 107.8 from 104.8, with small businesses reporting high numbers in several key areas including compensation, profits, and sales trends amid euphoria over Trump's economic, fiscal and tax policies .

After fighting the policies that previous admins put into place paying through the nose for health care, worker salaries, insurance,rent and all that goes with business its refreshing to see a little positive moves from the Trump administration. Plus after knowing what he goes through confronting people such as yourself I have a definite appreciation for the man and the moves he is making. The response you posted is laughable and so out of touch that it must be fun sometimes to be a troll. You are almost as bad as CNN which is more than likely where you get your news from.   

I think what is amazing is the US middle class and small business has been the backbone of the US. I have seen the previous admins target these specif areas with taxes, legislation,rules, regulations not to benefit anyone but to destroy this area of society. Its not one law or one tax but a series of things put into place that removes wealth and possibilities for anyone to take a different route, than college and working for government or big business. It was this entrepreneurial spirit that birthed many of the big businesses we see today that there has been a systematic scraping away of any laws or regs benefiting this type of small bushiness.  For this I applaud Trump that is putting some money, power and laws back to where it originated from, the people and not a global system with big players and open boarders.

The US is very self sufficient and has all the resources to make a good living for its people, there is no real need to go outside to import anything including talent.

[Tx Bohemian]

If you think Trump is doing well.  Read this piece on the auto industry.  Anyone here work in the auto industry....maybe not much longer.

https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2018/06/11/trump-auto-tariffs-impact_a_23456366/

If he imposes tariffs, then I can honestly say that he does not know what he is doing.  Looks like it may hit Americans more than anyone else.  This could send the world into a recession.  ???

A multipurpose publication. You can read it or wipe your ass with it, neither of which is very satisfying.

Thanks f6john,
I needed a good laugh!!

That's almost as good a laugh as refering to huffington post articles as anything but anti-Trump!!!

[¿spoom]

Maybe Trump can "save" another US auto maker, by letting an Italian, state-subsidized corporation buy it. 

[Fla. Jim]

Mr. Trump’s accomplishments through December 2017 include at least the following 82:

    100 percent vote by UN Security Council to sanction North Korea.

    41 percent decline in illegal southern border crossings

    97,482 illegal immigrant arrests, 70 percent convicted of additional crimes, 52,169 expelled

    Adopted a resolute policy on Afghanistan

    Advocated for practical tertiary education

    Advocated for skills-based immigration policies

    American companies now expanding rather than shipping jobs overseas

    Announced sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

    Appointed a Transportation Secretary who is modernizing air traffic control

    Appointed an Education Secretary who is correcting abuses of Title IX

    Appointed an EPA administrator who has rescinded over 30 regulations

    Appointed an FDA director who is facilitating generic drug competition

    Appointed an Interior Secretary to improve forest management and expand users of public lands

    Approved the Keystone pipeline

    Called for international support of Iranian protesters

    Canceled school lunch program that failed to force children to eat unpopular foods

    Constructed test models of the border fence

    Convinced Japan and South Korea to increase defense spending

    Convinced NATO members to honor minimum financial commitments

    Decertified Iranian nuclear treaty and sent it to Senate as constitutionally required

    Designated North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism

    Eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales

    Ended abuses of the student loan forgiveness program

    Ended forced provision of contraception by Catholic nunneries

    Ended requirement for state funding of Planned Parenthood

    Ended research into Y2K preparedness

    Ended rule requiring employers to report pay data by gender and race

    Expanded school-choice efforts

    FCC has begun to dismantle unnecessary Internet “Neutrality” regulations

    Foreign firms building plants and creating jobs in the U.S.

    Improved rules of engagement for military in combat situations

    Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA

    Initiated sanctions on Venezuelan dictatorship

    Introduced regulatory budgeting requiring agencies to rescind two rules to issue a new one

    ISIS bombing ramped up from about 20 to 500 or more airstrikes per week

    ISIS ground campaign intensified; Raqqa captured, its fighters surrendering in large numbers

    Issued a National Security Strategy

    Kate's Law passed House now pending in Senate

    Leveraged U.S. contribution to UN budget to force 5 percent budget cut and reduce staffs

    NLRB reversed rule making indirect employee control sufficient to be “joint employees”

    Nominated 60 judges, 21 confirmed, none yet denied

    Nominated a new Fed chief

    Nominated one Supreme Court judge, who was confirmed

    Obtained release of Aya Hijazi after three years in Egyptian prison

    Obtained release of Caitlan Coleman and husband from Haqqani

    Obtained release of UCLA basketball players from China

    Raised awareness of Opioid addiction crisis

    Recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital and announced plan to move U.S. embassy there

    Reduced excess size of two national parks in Utah

    Reduced permanent staff in all Cabinet agencies except VA, HS and Interior

    Reduced White House staff by 110

    Repeal of ACA mandate included in tax change bill

    Requested increased funding for missile defense in face of North Korean and Iranian threats.

    Rescinded (temporarily) the Jones Act, facilitating speedier emergency shipments to Puerto Rico

    Rescinded 2015 Waters of the United States rule

    Rescinded ban drilling in the Arctic and coastal areas

    Rescinded coal mining ban on public lands

    Rescinded criminalization of accidental killing of migratory birds

    Rescinded Cuban cash give-away

    Rescinded the “Clean Power Plan”

    Rescinded the “War on Coal”

    Rescinded threat to pull funds from schools that prohibit transgenders picking their bathrooms

    Rescinded Title IX “guidance letter” on sexual harassment

    Restored policy barring federal funding of abortions overseas

    Restoring military capability in the face of personnel shortages and equipment failures

    Revamped U.S. space program, assigning ambitious new objectives

    Revised rules for screening potential terrorist tourists

    Sanctioned Venezuela for human rights violations

    Sanctuary cities legislation passed House pending in Senate

    Signed 74 legislative bills (13 reversing executive orders) and 23 joint resolutions into law

    Signed comprehensive tax change bill containing most of the changes he proposed

    Signed legislation opening Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve [ANWR] to oil drilling

    Signed legislation to expedite firing of incompetent VA officials

    Supreme Court largely upheld ban on selected travelers

    Taking steps to control the rogue Consumer Finance Protection Agency

    Targeted MS13 gang members for priority deportation

    The president’s lawyers announced a framework for restoring the separation of powers:

    Congress should cease delegating its legislative power to the executive branch

    Courts should stop rubber-stamping regulations and orders that lack force of law

    Executive will end informal “guidance documents” that undermine due process

    U.S. energy production is on the upswing

    U.S. sorties and assisted forces reduced ISIS to 2 percent of the area controlled in 2016

    Unemployment is at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low

    Withdrew from Paris Climate Accord

    Withdrew from UNESCO (a warning to other wasteful, overstaffed UN agencies

Generalizing, under Mr. Trump we’re seeing a wide-ranging reduction of regulatory overreach and restoration of the separation of powers now specified in speeches to the Federalist Society, elements in a coherent policy aimed at making the US the dominant center for investment globally.

[Serk]

[¿spoom]

Mr. Trump’s accomplishments through December 2017 include at least the following 82:

    100 percent vote by UN Security Council to sanction North Korea.

    41 percent decline in illegal southern border crossings

    97,482 illegal immigrant arrests, 70 percent convicted of additional crimes, 52,169 expelled

    Adopted a resolute policy on Afghanistan

    Advocated for practical tertiary education

    Advocated for skills-based immigration policies

    American companies now expanding rather than shipping jobs overseas

    Announced sanctions targeting Iran’s Revolutionary Guards

    Appointed a Transportation Secretary who is modernizing air traffic control

    Appointed an Education Secretary who is correcting abuses of Title IX

    Appointed an EPA administrator who has rescinded over 30 regulations

    Appointed an FDA director who is facilitating generic drug competition

    Appointed an Interior Secretary to improve forest management and expand users of public lands

    Approved the Keystone pipeline

    Called for international support of Iranian protesters

    Canceled school lunch program that failed to force children to eat unpopular foods

    Constructed test models of the border fence

    Convinced Japan and South Korea to increase defense spending

    Convinced NATO members to honor minimum financial commitments

    Decertified Iranian nuclear treaty and sent it to Senate as constitutionally required

    Designated North Korea as a state-sponsor of terrorism

    Eliminated prohibition on interstate health insurance sales

    Ended abuses of the student loan forgiveness program

    Ended forced provision of contraception by Catholic nunneries

    Ended requirement for state funding of Planned Parenthood

    Ended research into Y2K preparedness

    Ended rule requiring employers to report pay data by gender and race

    Expanded school-choice efforts

    FCC has begun to dismantle unnecessary Internet “Neutrality” regulations

    Foreign firms building plants and creating jobs in the U.S.

    Improved rules of engagement for military in combat situations

    Initiated resistance “sue and settle” tactics against EPA

    Initiated sanctions on Venezuelan dictatorship

    Introduced regulatory budgeting requiring agencies to rescind two rules to issue a new one

    ISIS bombing ramped up from about 20 to 500 or more airstrikes per week

    ISIS ground campaign intensified; Raqqa captured, its fighters surrendering in large numbers

    Issued a National Security Strategy

    Kate's Law passed House now pending in Senate

    Leveraged U.S. contribution to UN budget to force 5 percent budget cut and reduce staffs

    NLRB reversed rule making indirect employee control sufficient to be “joint employees”

    Nominated 60 judges, 21 confirmed, none yet denied

    Nominated a new Fed chief

    Nominated one Supreme Court judge, who was confirmed

    Obtained release of Aya Hijazi after three years in Egyptian prison

    Obtained release of Caitlan Coleman and husband from Haqqani

    Obtained release of UCLA basketball players from China

    Raised awareness of Opioid addiction crisis

    Recognized Jerusalem as Israeli capital and announced plan to move U.S. embassy there

    Reduced excess size of two national parks in Utah

    Reduced permanent staff in all Cabinet agencies except VA, HS and Interior

    Reduced White House staff by 110

    Repeal of ACA mandate included in tax change bill

    Requested increased funding for missile defense in face of North Korean and Iranian threats.

    Rescinded (temporarily) the Jones Act, facilitating speedier emergency shipments to Puerto Rico

    Rescinded 2015 Waters of the United States rule

    Rescinded ban drilling in the Arctic and coastal areas

    Rescinded coal mining ban on public lands

    Rescinded criminalization of accidental killing of migratory birds

    Rescinded Cuban cash give-away

    Rescinded the “Clean Power Plan”

    Rescinded the “War on Coal”

    Rescinded threat to pull funds from schools that prohibit transgenders picking their bathrooms

    Rescinded Title IX “guidance letter” on sexual harassment

    Restored policy barring federal funding of abortions overseas

    Restoring military capability in the face of personnel shortages and equipment failures

    Revamped U.S. space program, assigning ambitious new objectives

    Revised rules for screening potential terrorist tourists

    Sanctioned Venezuela for human rights violations

    Sanctuary cities legislation passed House pending in Senate

    Signed 74 legislative bills (13 reversing executive orders) and 23 joint resolutions into law

    Signed comprehensive tax change bill containing most of the changes he proposed

    Signed legislation opening Arctic Natural Wildlife Reserve [ANWR] to oil drilling

    Signed legislation to expedite firing of incompetent VA officials

    Supreme Court largely upheld ban on selected travelers

    Taking steps to control the rogue Consumer Finance Protection Agency

    Targeted MS13 gang members for priority deportation

    The president’s lawyers announced a framework for restoring the separation of powers:

    Congress should cease delegating its legislative power to the executive branch

    Courts should stop rubber-stamping regulations and orders that lack force of law

    Executive will end informal “guidance documents” that undermine due process

    U.S. energy production is on the upswing

    U.S. sorties and assisted forces reduced ISIS to 2 percent of the area controlled in 2016

    Unemployment is at 4.1 percent, a 17-year low

    Withdrew from Paris Climate Accord

    Withdrew from UNESCO (a warning to other wasteful, overstaffed UN agencies

Generalizing, under Mr. Trump we’re seeing a wide-ranging reduction of regulatory overreach and restoration of the separation of powers now specified in speeches to the Federalist Society, elements in a coherent policy aimed at making the US the dominant center for investment globally.

A great list, but the cartoon below it is why it'll never be long enough. We have many allies, but some are just the best friends money can buy. The last few decades we've been MC Hammer, and much of the world was our entourage. When the money runs out...

[Chrisj CMA]

First I would like to say I have known about Trump most of my adult life, and he has always been a back stabbing A**hole. As far as having ball's, the man has none. When he wants to fire someone, he always has someone do for him because he is a coward. He is a draft dodging coward like his two son's. It makes me want to vomit when I see him salute the troops. He has no moral's, and has cheated on every one of his wives multiple times even when Melania was home with their two month old son. This man lies when it is easy to tell the truth, and I don't believe he even knows what the truth looks like. Maybe if people would get their news from somewhere besides Fox and Friends they might learn something. You all that voted for him can have him and I wish you all the luck in the world. As far as this Kim thing, it is just a show so he can garnish more adulation because that is all he lives for. I am a Viet Nam vet, 73 years old, and not a Democrat.
John



PS: Sorry if I have pissed you Trump supporters off but after reading some of the posts here I had to voice my opinion. Have a good night, and ride safe.

Didnt piss off this Trump supporter.  Everyone has an opinion

[G-Man]

If Trump can't sit down and talk to a Canadian and get results, how does he expect to get anything from a dictator like Kim.

Standing up and walking out is a negotiating technique. One that can be highly effective.

Stood up and walked out of the Honda salesman's cube twice before they actually agreed to honor the Truecar price. 

[G-Man]

You guys really need to stop gazing at Trump's prostate and see him for what he really is.  He is not a good negotiator, he thinks that he is and he was a good one at one time, but now he isn't.  His tactics may work in the business world, but it doesn't cut it in the political world.  Doesn't cut it in the political world yet he beat out 14 politicians in the primary and the heir apparent politician in the election.
 His armed forces have taken back cities and areas the last administration gave up.  He's drawn real red lines and defends them.  He's stopped rocket man from playing with his toys for 7 months now.  He's gotten other countries to pay their fair share for their own security, and is in the process of leveling the export trading field.  And there's even more accomplishments but these are just a few of the high notes.

He may look good to you now, but I suspect that the house of cards he has created will come crashing down and you guys are going to be the ones to feel it.  He will just get on his private jet and fly away to his  mansion.  The assumptions about what will happen regarding Trump have yet to prove true.  Keep assuming.

[Fla. Jim]