This Is What Happens When You Put An Idiot In Charge of a Complex System

[Minimalist]

I'm sure this is what they both want!

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/24/us/po...tions.html

Kremlin Sources Go Quiet, Leaving C.I.A. in the Dark About Putin’s Plans for Midterms

Let's face it.  The WLB is going to need all the help he can get from Uncle Vladdy!

[Angrboda]

Like I said a while back, Trump has screwed the only deal for denuclearization we had (Iran), and instead pursued one he cannot obtain (NK). If Trumptards can't see the idiocy of this moron's foreign policy, then they're blind and/or dumb.

[Minimalist]

Or both?

[Minimalist]

A blast from the past!

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/watch-r...-missteps/

WATCH: Reagan-era budget director David Stockman viciously shreds ‘Neanderthal’ Trump for trade missteps

“I don’t think it amounts to a hill of beans,” he said of the replacement NAFTA deal. “There was never a problem with NAFTA anyway, and what he has done, basically, is remove the name and complicated the machinery, giving a big wage increase to Mexican workers.”

“This is a sideshow,” he continued. “And it is proof that Trump is an absolute Neanderthal on trade, and has no idea what he is doing, he is a complete ignoramus on fiscal policy and the debt which is soaring.”

Probably an insult to Neanderthals.

[Amarok]

A blast from the past!

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/watch-r...-missteps/

WATCH: Reagan-era budget director David Stockman viciously shreds ‘Neanderthal’ Trump for trade missteps

“I don’t think it amounts to a hill of beans,” he said of the replacement NAFTA deal. “There was never a problem with NAFTA anyway, and what he has done, basically, is remove the name and complicated the machinery, giving a big wage increase to Mexican workers.”

“This is a sideshow,” he continued. “And it is proof that Trump is an absolute Neanderthal on trade, and has no idea what he is doing, he is a complete ignoramus on fiscal policy and the debt which is soaring.”

Probably an insult to Neanderthals.

Indeed they were actually quite smart 

[Minimalist]

And so it goes....

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2018/...anada.html

Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada

High-stakes trade negotiations between Canada and the U.S. were dramatically upended on Friday morning by inflammatory secret remarks from President Donald Trump, after the remarks were obtained by the Toronto Star.

But the Star is not bound by any promises Bloomberg made to Trump. And the remarks immediately became a factor in the negotiations: Trudeau’s officials, who saw them as evidence for their previous suspicions that Trump’s team had not been bargaining in good faith, raised them at the beginning of a meeting with their U.S. counterparts on Friday morning, a U.S. source confirmed.

What a fucking loon.

[Crossless2.0]

The man simply has no discipline whatsoever. It's incredible. I would have thought that keeping a lid on a plan to fuck a friend and ally was perhaps the one real skill Trump brought to the Oval Office. But he even finds a way to fuck up the only thing he was born to do.

[Minimalist]

And so it begins:

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/us-work...interview/

‘US workers will suffer massively’: Canadian union leader taunts Trump in blistering CNBC interview

“Clearly Donald Trump may be the only person that thinks this makes sense,” he added before reminding CNBC of the U.S.’s recent trade dispute about Canadian lumber. “All that’s done is drive up the cost of new homes in the United States thousands and thousands of dollars. Canadian workers haven’t been negatively impacted, the only people negatively impacted are American consumers. Why the Trump administration would penalize his own citizens, once again, doesn’t make any economic sense.”

[Minimalist]

And now the Orange Asswipe is whining again.

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/08/made-of...ant-media/

‘I made OFF THE RECORD COMMENTS!’ Trump confirms that he insulted Canada in furious rant against media

There are no off the record comments, you dumb fuck.

[Amarok]

John F. Kennedy

Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners. And necessity has made us allies. Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder. What unites us is far greater than what divides us.
- 1961 (Address to Canadian Parliament)

Always sounded like he's marrying America to Canada 

Ronald Reagan

We are happy to be your neighbor. We want to remain your friend. We are determined to be your partner and we are intent on working closely with you in a spirit of co-operation.
- 1981 (Address to Canadian Parliament)

Never liked his politics but he's spot on 

George W. Bush

I view the relationship with Canada as a vital relationship for the United States. The relationship, of course, is defined government-to-government. It's also defined people-to-people, and there's a lot of people in my country who respect Canada and have great relations with Canadians, and we intend to keep it that way.
- 2006 (In Cancun, Mexico after meeting with Stephen Harper)

When even this gut gets it that's a sad state of affairs