Tag: Trump tweets

‘CRIME OF THE CENTURY’: Trump rages against ‘Dirty (filthy) cops’ who took down his associates

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump ranted that his indicted and imprisoned associates were the victims of the “crime of the century” in an early morning Twitter rant.

The president, who’s still vacationing at his Mar-A-Lago resort, wailed about his associates who’ve been prosecuted for various crimes since his election and attacked the “filthy” law enforcement officers who busted them.

“A lot of very good people were taken down by a small group of Dirty (Filthy) Cops, politicians, government officials, and an investigation that was illegally started & that SPIED on my campaign,” Trump tweeted. Continue reading

Trump tweets message of support for deranged QAnon conspiracy theorists after FBI labels group a terrorism threat

AlterNet logoTo supporters of the wacky QAnon conspiracy theory, President Donald Trump is much more than a politician/real estate mogul — he is also the person who has been chosen to fight an international ring of pedophiles and child sex traffickers, and “Q” is the anonymous figure who is secretly sending messages on the battle. Journalist Will Sommer, in a January 2 article for the Daily Beast, reports that Trump has retweeted some posts from QAnon supporters — and they see that as validation of their cause.

In late December, Sommer reports, “Trump or someone with access to his account retweeted a message of support containing the ‘WWG1WGA’ hashtag, a reference to a QAnon motto. In total, Trump retweeted QAnon fans more than 20 times on the same day.”

Those retweets, according to Sommer, have “provided new fuel for QAnon fans, who are convinced, among other things, that Trump is on the verge of arresting and executing top Democrats at Guantanamo Bay. QAnon Twitter accounts and messages boards seized on Trump’s retweets as a tacit acknowledgment of their conspiracy theory’s validity.” Continue reading

Acclaimed Harvard psychologist on Trump’s ‘alarming’ claim of ‘unmatched wisdom’: ‘Wouldn’t these normally trigger a mental health hold?’

AlterNet logoPresident Donald Trump shocked the U.S. military and security officials over the weekend with the announcement that he would be withdrawing U.S. troops from northeastern Syria — where they have been working with Kurdish-led forces. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan confirmed the news, although Trump warned on Twitter that he will “totally destroy and obliterate the economy of Turkey” if “Turkey does anything that I, in my great and unmatched wisdom, consider to be off limits.” And Harvard psychologist Daniel Gilbert (who hosts the PBS series “This Emotional Life”) found that tweet disturbing, saying that it seriously raises questions about Trump’s mental health.

Monday on Twitter, Gilbert posted, “Am I the only psychologist who finds this claim and this threat truly alarming? Wouldn’t these normally trigger a mental health hold? Right and left must set aside politics and agree that there is a serious problem here.”

Gilbert’s tweet inspired a lot of responses. Author Adrian Bethune posted, “You don’t even need to be a psychologist to reach that conclusion.” @Woman_on_Pause tweeted, “I am beyond alarmed. Doesn’t take a Ph.D. to realize this man is and has been off the rails mentally.” And @zaphirax posted, “It’s no more insane than when he proclaimed to be ‘The Chosen One’ and retweeted that he was God the King of Israel.”

View the complete October 7 article by Alex Henderson on the AlterNet website here.

Americans recoil in disgust as Trump rages about Hillary on the 18th anniversary of 9/11

AlterNet logoOn Wednesday, as the nation remembered the 18th anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, President Donald Trump followed up his tweet marking the occasion with a disjointed, angry rant about “Crooked Hillary,” “Sleepy Joe,” “Pocahontas,” and the “fake news” media cooking up “suppression polls” to sabotage him:

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In a hypothetical poll, done by one of the worst pollsters of them all, the Amazon Washington Post/ABC, which predicted I would lose to Crooked Hillary by 15 points (how did that work out?), Sleepy Joe, Pocahontas and virtually all others would beat me in the General Election….

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….This is a phony suppression poll, meant to build up their Democrat partners. I haven’t even started campaigning yet, and am constantly fighting Fake News like Russia, Russia, Russia. Look at North Carolina last night. Dan Bishop, down big in the Polls, WINS. Easier than 2016!

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Commenters on social media were not impressed with how the president of the United States chose to kick off a solemn day of remembrance:

View the complete September 11 article by Matthew Chapman from Raw Story on the AlterNet website here.

JPMorgan creates ‘Volfefe index’ to measure Trump tweets’ impact on market

The Hill logoJPMorgan has created an index to track and quantify the impact President Trump’s tweets have on the financial market.

CNBC reports that the “Volfefe Index” — a reference to Trump’s viral “covfefe” tweet — aims to explain and measure how Trump’s tweets impact volatility in U.S. interest rates.

Of the more than 4,000 non-retweets from Trump’s personal Twitter account during market hours from the start of 2018 to now, 146 have reportedly moved the market

View the complete September 8 article by Owen Daugherty on The Hill website here.

Moving The Market: Trump Tweets, Stock Prices, And Potential Profits

President Donald Trump’s tweets often set off big gyrations in stock prices. Anyone who knows of the tweets in advance could make a fortune, though not legally.

Who knows of the tweets in advance? Trump knows, and there’s growing speculation that he might be showing tweets in the making to select others in his inner circle. Such suspicions have been bubbling since Election Day 2016, when Trump started attacking specific corporations, causing their stock prices to tank. An investor can make money off a falling stock price as well as a rising one.

NBC’s Howard Fineman opened the floodgates on this troubling discussion with a tweet of his own. “My twitter feed is asking a legitimate question: are @realDonaldTrump’s businesses and family profiting from insider knowledge of his pending — market-moving — tweets, comments and bargaining stands?” he asked. “My guess would be yes.”

View the complete June 12 article y From a Harrop on the National Memo website here.

Trump Official Covers Up President’s Toxic Anti-Vaccine Rhetoric

Trump’s secretary of health and human services, Alex Azar, is pushing falsehoods about Trump’s past advocacy of harmful anti-vaccine conspiracy theories — even as anti-vaccine extremism has helped measles cases reach a 25-year high.

During the 2016 campaign, Trump met with leaders of the discredited anti-vaccine movement, and spread some of their discredited theories about vaccine schedules during a nationally televised GOP primary debate. Before he ran for president, Trump also spent years pushing the lie that vaccinations cause autism.

Yet in a conference call with reporters on Monday, Azar claimed that Trump’s alarming record on vaccines was nothing to worry about, and just part of a “debate” about the issue that has now been “settled.”

View the complete April 29 article by Oliver Willis on the National Memo website here.

How Companies Learned to Stop Fearing Trump’s Twitter Wrath

WASHINGTON — Two years ago, some of America’s largest corporations were tearing up their business plans to accommodate President Trump, fearful that he could send their shareholders and customers fleeing with a tweet. Now they have a new strategy: Ignore him.

This week, General Motors became the latest recipient of a barrage of tweets from Mr. Trump, who is angry about the company’s closing of a plant in Lordstown, Ohio. The president told the company to reopen the plant or sell it “fast” to someone who would. He suggested that G.M. shutter a factory in China or Mexico instead.

“What’s going on with General Motors?” Mr. Trump said on Wednesday during a speech at a tank factory in Lima, Ohio. “Get that plant opened or sell it to somebody and they’ll open it.”

View the March 20 article by Alan Rappeport on The New York Times website here.

Fact-checking President Trump’s volley of weekend tweets

Credit: Andrew Harnik, AP Photo

Let’s dive right into the pile of wrongness on President Trump’s Twitter feed from Dec. 8 to Dec. 10.

“The Paris Agreement isn’t working out so well for Paris. Protests and riots all over France. People do not want to pay large sums of money, much to third world countries (that are questionably run), in order to maybe protect the environment. Chanting ‘We Want Trump!’ Love France.” (Dec. 8)

“Very sad day & night in Paris. Maybe it’s time to end the ridiculous and extremely expensive Paris Agreement and return money back to the people in the form of lower taxes? The U.S. was way ahead of the curve on that and the only major country where emissions went down last year!” (Dec. 8)

This is all wrong.

The Paris climate accord does not take effect until 2020. Each country sets its own environmental goals under the agreement. So Trump could have unilaterally changed the commitments offered by President Barack Obama, who signed the deal in 2016. Instead, Trump withdrew the United States from the climate pact.

View the complete December 11 article by Salvador Rizzo on The Washington Post website here.

‘Chaos breeds chaos’: Trump’s erratic and false claims roil the globe. Again.

President Trump cast more doubt on trade talks with China in a series of tweets that helped erase optimism and reignite fears of a global economic slowdown. (Reuters)

After his Argentine steak dinner last weekend with Chinese President Xi Jinping, President Trump announced that they had reached an “incredible deal” to temporarily suspend his trade war. But days later, Trump declared, “I am a Tariff man.”

Trump last week proposed stripping away electric-car subsidies from General Motors as punishment for the automotive giant moving to cease production at plants in the United States and Canada. But then his chief economic adviser, Larry Kudlow, said the White House would do no such thing. Targeting a single company, he explained, would be illegal.

Then there is the way Trump talks about how the economy works — imprecise at best, ignorant at worst. For instance, the president routinely says that China and other countries are paying billions of dollars to the United States because of his tariffs. But that is false. Tariffs are paid by companies, often U.S. firms, that import foreign-made products.

View the complete December 4 article by Daman Paletta and Philip Rucker on The Washington Post website here.