Donald Trump To Make Presidential Aspirations Known At Evening Presser

[Vaeve]

I also fought hand to hand with Putin and personally told the Coronavirus to not come here. I kept McDonald's afloat during their down period, ordering 7200 big macs a day!

Same energy as: "I'm making China suffer by making Corona bigger there. You can see the proof, they're the only country with a strict lockdown. That's what I was doing while my off time as President.."

 

[PGen98]

Same energy as: "I'm making China suffer by making Corona bigger there. You can see the proof, they're the only country with a strict lockdown. That's what I was doing while my off time as President.."

I mean, he is such a successful businessman that writes his own books, is a billionaire that pays his taxes, and never, ever complains about anything...so...

 

[Vaeve]

I mean, he is such a successful businessman that writes his own books, is a billionaire that pays his taxes, and never, ever complains about anything...so...

Lmao do you notice how he always looks so full of energy and happy? Like he literally seems the happiest human on Earth, someone can't do all those shenanigans without being content with his life so much

 

[PGen98]

Lmao do you notice how he always looks so full of energy and happy? Like he literally seems the happiest human on Earth, someone can't do all those shenanigans without being content with his life so much

Happy or constipated

 

[Vaeve]

Happy or constipated

Do you think he'll win this time around? Also the same question to you @Webster

 

[Webster]

Also the same question to you @Webster

Nope.

 

[PGen98]

Do you think he'll win this time around? Also the same question to you @Webster

I'm guessing no, but who knows when it comes to him. He shouldn't have won the first time around and yet he did...eww...

 

[Webster]

Lmao do you notice how he always looks so full of energy and happy?

I'm sorry but what Bizarro World are you calling from tonight?

 

[Vaeve]

I'm sorry but what Bizarro World are you calling from tonight?

I know right? He seems the opposite of happy, but he actually is. Idk how to explain what the mentality is behind that but you have to be a certain level of joyful to be that active in your trolling, if that makes sense?

 

[Webster]

As usual, Trump's lying his ass off....

(CNN) Fact check: Trump incorrectly boasts that "no president" before him had "sought or received $1" from China
Former President Donald Trump boasted about his tariffs on China during his speech Tuesday, claiming, “no president had ever sought or received $1 for our country from China until I came along.”

Facts First: As we have written repeatedly, it’s not true that no president before Trump had generated any revenue through tariffs on goods from China. In reality, the US has had tariffs on China for more than two centuries, and FactCheck.org reported in 2019 that the US generated an "average of $12.3 billion in custom duties a year from 2007 to 2016, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission DataWeb."

Also, American importers, not Chinese exporters, make the actual tariff payments — and study after study during Trump’s presidency found that Americans were bearing the cost of the tariffs.

 

[Webster]

Idk how to explain what the mentality is behind that but you have to be a certain level of joyful to be that active in your trolling, if that makes sense?

Either that or he's scared that DoJ is hot on his orange-stained ass and wants to head that off right fast.

 

[PGen98]

Trump really does live in his own little world, doesn't he?

 

[Vaeve]

Trump really does live in his own little world, doesn't he?

That's what I'm talking about. You know like how kids have their own "fun place", that's literally him but he has a bigger playground.

 

[PGen98]

That's what I'm talking about. You know like how kids have their own "fun place", that's literally him but he has a bigger playground.

Yeah, that or he truly is delusional to the point that he believes the things coming out of his mouth.

 

[Vaeve]

Yeah, that or he truly is delusional to the point that he believes the things coming out of his mouth.

Nah he can't possibly believe it. He literally is just trolling like people do on forums, but on the world stage instead.

 

[Vaeve]

I'm guessing no, but who knows when it comes to him. He shouldn't have won the first time around and yet he did...eww...

Yeah you never know. Especially with the situation we're in rn. People are bound to blame the party in power rather than the actual factors that cause a situation, so yeah there's a chance.

 

[PGen98]

Nah he can't possibly believe it. He literally is just trolling like people do on forums, but on the world stage instead.

I'm not sure, part of me feels he really believes the stuff that flies out of his mouth.

Yeah you never know. Especially with the situation we're in rn. People are bound to blame the party in power rather than the actual factors that cause a situation, so yeah there's a chance.

Every fibre in my being hopes not.

 

[Webster]

(CNN) Fact check: Trump did not fill up the reserve and it is not "virtually drained"
Former President Donald Trump claimed his administration “filled up” the Strategic Petroleum Reserve but it has now been “virtually drained” by the Biden administration.

Facts First: Both parts of Trump’s claim are false. He didn’t fill up the reserve, and the reserve is not currently “virtually drained.”

Though Trump has repeatedly boasted of supposedly having filled up the reserve, it actually contained fewer barrels of crude when he left office in early 2021 than when he took office in 2017. That’s not all because of him — the law requires some mandatory sales from the reserve for budget reasons, and Democrats in Congress blocked the funding needed to execute Trump’s 2020 directive to buy tens of millions more barrels and fill the reserve to its maximum capacity — but nonetheless, it didn’t get filled.

As CNN’s Matt Egan and Phil Mattingly reported in mid-October, the US reserve remains the largest in the world even though it was at a 38-year low after Biden released a major chunk of it to help keep oil prices down in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (and, coincidentally or not, prior to the midterm elections). The reserve had more than 396 million barrels of crude oil as of the week ending Nov. 4.

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Fact check: The US did not leave $85 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan
Former President Donald Trump claimed Tuesday evening that the US left $85 billion worth of military equipment in Afghanistan upon its military withdrawal in 2021.

“Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country, where we lost lives, left Americans behind and surrendered $85 billion worth of the finest military equipment anywhere in the world,” Trump said speaking from his Mar-a-Lago resort.

Facts First: Trump’s figure is false. While a significant quantity of military equipment that had been provided by the US to Afghan government forces was indeed abandoned to the Taliban upon the US withdrawal, the Defense Department has estimated that this equipment had been worth about $7.1 billion — a chunk of about $18.6 billion worth of equipment provided to Afghan forces between 2005 and 2021. And some of the equipment left behind was rendered inoperable before US forces withdrew.

There is not any basis for Trump’s claim that $85 billion worth of equipment was left behind. As other fact-checkers have previously explained, that was a rounded-up figure (it’s closer to $83 billion) for the total amount of money Congress has appropriated during the war to a fund supporting the Afghan security forces. Only part of this funding was for equipment.

 

[PGen98]

Can he ever just tell a fact? I don't think there's been a single one in his entire "political career" of...what is it? 7 years now?

 

[Webster]

(The Guardian) Meanwhile, it seems that Facebook will be standing by its policy not to fact-check Trump once he becomes a candidate, CNN reports.

Citing a company memo, CNN writes that while Trump is banned from Facebook, his campaign and political pages will be able to skirt third-party fact-checkers. According to CNN: Tuesday’s memo from Meta underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another potential Trump presidential campaign. The former president is widely expected to announce his third presidential bid on Tuesday.

Facebook’s parent company Meta pays third-party fact-checking organizations to apply fact-check labels to misinformation across Facebook and Instagram.

The carve-out is not exclusive to Trump and applies to all politicians, but given the rate fact-checkers find themselves dealing with claims made by the former president, a manager on Meta’s “news integrity partnership” team emailed fact-checkers on Tuesday.

“Some of you have reached out seeking guidance regarding fact-checking political speech in anticipation of a potential candidacy announcement from former President Trump,” the Meta staffer wrote.

The company has long had an exception to its fact-checking policy for politicians.