Robert Kuttner of the American Prospect reports about the con job in Wisconsin:
Kuttner on TAP
Fox Con Job. Remember Foxconn? Then-governor Scott Walker of Wisconsin lured the Chinese company to create “up to” 13,000 jobs in his state, with tax subsidies paid by Wisconsin taxpayers that could to as high as $3 billion. Foxconn was going to build a $10 billion factory complex to produce liquid crystal displays and other tech equipment that it now makes in Asia.
As the Prospect reported in an investigative piece last September, the taxpayer cost per new employee was estimated at $230,000, or five or six times the normal figure in such deals.
Though the 13,000 jobs were an estimate, not a formal commitment, President Trump touted that number at a ground-breaking ceremony last year with Walker, then-House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Foxconn CEO Terry Gou.
Well, that was then.
It now turns out that Foxconn will hire a maximum of 1,000 Wisconsinites, and is not building a factory at all. The company now describes its Wisconsin facility as an R&D center, combined with the possibility of some low-skill final assembly jobs.
There are several morals of this story. One, which we already knew, is never to trust Scott Walker or Donald Trump, either separately or together. Moral two is to keep your hand on your wallet whenever corporate execs hold you up for tax subsidies.
But the more important moral is that if the U.S. is to have a real industrial policy to reclaim U.S. manufacturing jobs, it is utter folly to rely on white knights on the form of Chinese companies. Making American manufacturing great again is not at the top of their national agenda.
Better to spend the money directly, on industrial strategies that benefit companies that are committed to producing in the U.S. It remains to be seen how much of the tax breaks were already squandered and what might be recouped. ~ ROBERT KUTTNER
The New York Times describes the same hoax in polite terms.
It was heralded a year and a half ago as the start of a Midwestern manufacturing renaissance: Foxconn, the Taiwanese electronics behemoth, would build a $10 billion Wisconsin plant to make flat-screen televisions, creating 13,000 jobs. President Trump later called the project “the eighth wonder of the world.”
Now that prospect looks less certain.
Pointing to “new realities” in the market, the company said Wednesday that it was reassessing the plans, underscoring the difficult economics of manufacturing in the United States. “The global market environment that existed when the project was first announced has changed,” Foxconn said in a statement.
Company officials had signaled for months that their emphasis was increasingly on research and development rather than large-scale production, dampening the potential for blue-collar job creation.
That turn runs counter to Mr. Trump’s vision for the project, which he had cited as a milestone in reversing the decline in factory jobs. The twist also brought new friction in Wisconsin, where the initiative has been politically fraught from the start because of its billions of dollars in tax subsidies.
Foxconn said that it remained committed to creating 13,000 jobs in Wisconsin and that it was “moving forward with plans to build an advanced manufacturing facility.” But it did not address the share of jobs to be devoted to production, and economists questioned how such a large work force could be created if the plant’s focus was on other areas.
A White House spokeswoman did not respond to a request for comment.
The Foxconn statement followed a Reuters report that Louis Woo, a special assistant to the company’s chairman, Terry Gou, had said the costs of manufacturing screens for televisions and other consumer products were too high in the United States.
“In terms of TV, we have no place in the U.S.,” Mr. Woo told Reuters. “We can’t compete.”
Mr. Trump’s campaign promise to revitalize American manufacturing was considered an important factor in his capturing Wisconsin and other battleground states in 2016. Yet the cost of luring Foxconn set off a partisan battle in Wisconsin that extended into the midterm elections last year, when Gov. Scott Walker, a Republican, was defeated.
Mr. Walker and state lawmakers had agreed to more than $4 billion in tax credits and other inducements over a 15-year period, an unusually high figure, for a plant in Mount Pleasant, near Racine.
Wisconsin residents have had mixed feelings about the investment, polls show. And early on, economists questioned whether the large-scale manufacturing plant and the thousands of jobs would come to fruition. The increasing focus on research raised new doubts about the scale of hiring — economists said that strategy could produce a smaller number of higher-paying jobs.
“There aren’t that many R&D facilities in the world with 13,000 people,” said Susan Helper, an economist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland
“We don’t have a manufacturing culture,” Mr. Gassée said of the nation’s high-technology heartland, “meaning the substrate, the schooling, the apprentices, the subcontractors.”
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“The challenge today is that an enormous manufacturing ecosystem is required to make products for mass markets, and that ecosystem has largely moved to mainland China, where some 450,000 people have worked at a single iPhone plant.”
“When Apple began making the $3,000 computer in Austin, Tex., it struggled to find enough screws.”
“Apple has intensified a search for ways to diversify its supply chain, but that hunt has homed in on India and Vietnam.”
“The skill here is just incredible,” Mr. Cook said at a conference in China in late 2017. Making Apple products requires state-of-the-art machines and lots of people who know how to run them, he said.
The takeaway: do not expect these jobs to come back. No manufacturing network, no skilled workers and engineers. The articles did not mention that only half of needed rare earth metals is mined in the U.S.
Apple moved to China not because of skilled labor but because of cheap labor willing to work 12 hours a day—or more. The FOXConn plant in China has nets around it to prevent suicides—workers jumping. It also has dorms on site so workers are on call 24/7.
Yes, cheap skilled labor — doublegood. The U.S. workforce is neither cheap nor skilled. Plus the absence of the supplier ecosystem. Plus the dependence of rare earths mined in China. Many factors. But if would be a grave mistake to think that when the Chinese workers’ salaries increase, the manufacturing will return to the U.S. — it won’t. Have you read the article? Apple rather will go to Vietnam than back to the U.S.
Vietnamese and Chinese workers are not more skilled than US workers. They are cheaper.
Read about FOXCONN
https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2017/jun/18/foxconn-life-death-forbidden-city-longhua-suicide-apple-iphone-brian-merchant-one-device-extract
They also moved to China because it allows them to offshore all the toxic crap that results from the manufacturing process and there by avoid having to deal with US environmental laws.
It’s basically out of sight, out of mind. As long as someone else’s children are being exploited and someone else’s back yard is being dumped on with toxic waste, Apple execs have no problem with it.
Not until they are caught with their pants down, that is, at which point they claim ignorance — and keep claiming it every time the issue is raised.
If “they” get caught with their pants down, we will discover they are androids and learn that the real Deep State is an AI.
I guess all the children working in Foxconn plants have “skills” that American adults don’t have and can’t acquire? (Like screwing in screws to assemble iPhones)
Ha ha ha!
One thing is certain.
The executives at Foxconn and Apple are highly skilled — at lying.
Doublegood. Now that’s a fine bit of Orwellean Newspeak–literally. See 1984.
Bob Shepherd: Don the Con is working to double-speak people into getting his wall. Congress doesn’t matter and neither does what people think. Here is a letter that I sent that was accepted by the NYT. Trump is the one who doesn’t know what he’s doing.
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Trump plans to consider this a national emergency and wants to spend taxpayer money without congressional approval. “I’ll continue to build the wall and we’ll get the wall finished,” he said. “Now whether or not I declare a national emergency — that you’ll see.” A wall is “absolutely buildable and can be built for far less cost than people think…It’s not even a difficult project if you know what you’re doing.”
Many parts of the border are dotted with rugged terrains and streams which would be nearly impossible to build on. Ranchers would have to agree to sell their land. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) data reveals that a main source of illegal immigration into the United States are people who arrive legally then overstay their visas. There is no evidence that any terrorists have ever entered the U.S. through the Mexican land boundary. Undocumented immigrants are more likely to sneak through legal ports of entry by hiding in cars or using falsified immigration documents versus attempting to sneak in through breached fences in remote desert areas.
It is estimated that The Wall will cost nearly $70 billion, not including the significant costs and legal resources required for land acquisition.
Only 34 percent of Americans think Trump should declare a national emergency in order to use military funding for the wall, according to a Monmouth University poll released Monday. 64 percent believe Trump should not bypass Congress.
Using military funds to build this wall is technically malfeasance, a criminal diversion of public funds appropriated for other uses. And, ofc, everyone knows that the wall is a colossally stupid boondoggle of no practical value and useful only to Trump as a sop to the racists in his base.
The Repugnicans have been willing to go along with any idiotic thing that Vlad’s Agent Orange, aka Don Cheeto Trumpbalone, Trumpty Dumpty, Don the Con has suggested until the withdrawal from Syria, but they’ve been dragging their feet on this wall because even the dumbest of them know that there is no empirical case to be made for the wall.
https://slate.com/business/2018/01/after-all-the-talk-about-a-u-s-skills-shortage-the-real-problem-may-be-an-employer-shortage.html
Given their exploitation of children in China to produce Apple iphones, it’s no surprise that Foxconn is backing out on opening a factory in US where we have laws against such stuff
The Fox Con
Foxconn works the kids
To win the Apple bids
To make the Apple stuff
The kids can’t work enough
But Timmy acts aghast
And says It’s in the past
But kids still make the phones
And Timmy simply drones
Put a manufacturer, an economist and a lawyer in the same room, and they could have told you this deal was a smoke-&-mirrors scam– & probably did. If I understand the agreement, WI taxpayers will be handing a Chinese company at least a $billion even if not one job is produced. For that money, they could put 5000 construction people to work for five years fixing roads, bridges etc, and wind up w/improved infrastructure. That $billion went instead to mfg political hay for an already-ousted govr & a [hopefully soon-to-be-ousted] president.
Even Hong Kong is noticing that Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about.
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Trump’s ‘8th wonder of the world’ may not be what he imagined…article from Hong Kong
by Alan Wong
“The global market environment that existed when the project was first announced has changed”, Foxconn statement
Remember that big deal President Trump said would bring a factory to the United States and create thousands of manufacturing jobs?
The world’s top contract electronics maker, Foxconn, no longer seems so hot on the idea of making things in its planned Wisconsin facility, which Trump had touted in June as “the eighth wonder of the world.”
While the Taiwanese company said it remained committed to creating the 13,000 jobs it had promised in 2017, the Wisconsin project might not benefit the kind of blue-collar workers that the president has styled himself a champion of.
Citing “new realities,” Foxconn said that it was seeking to hire “knowledge workers” at the facility, according to a statement the company sent Inkstone…
https://inks.tn/9ogyq
This is a story that repeats itself all over the country. It is one thing to create the infrastructure including education that facilitates private investment. It is another to directly subsidize. Corporate investment. We had the spectacle of Amazon launching a bidding war to see which locality it could extract the most cash from. Deciding to locate in the poor district in Queens; Long Island City an economic opportunity zone where few on this blog can afford the rent. And few of the residents in the greater area will see employment. Worth noting that Google located its headquarters in Midtown Manhatten with no subsidy. NYC because of Madison Ave; Wall Street and higher educational institutions has become a natural Tech Hub.
Wisconson became an opportunity zone when it went Right to Work. An opportunity for Corporations to screw workers. Of course, we knew it was a fraud.
Manhattan. Love the edit button
Another day another lie. Vote them ALL out….drain the swamps!
How about this goodie from the Trump administration. None of them care about the health of people nor the environment.
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Trump administration secretly shipped radioactive plutonium to Nevada despite state opposition
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has disclosed that it shipped roughly half a ton of weapons-grade radioactive plutonium from South Carolina to Nevada months ago, without the state’s knowledge or consent and in spite of their vehement opposition to becoming a nuclear waste dumping ground.
In a federal court filing on Wednesday, the Trump administration disclosed that the National Nuclear Security Administration transferred the substance before November 2018 after a U.S. District Court in South Carolina ordered it be removed from the state.
“Because sufficient time has now elapsed after conclusion of this campaign, DOE may now publicly state that it has completed all shipment of plutonium (approximately ½ metric ton) to Nevada,” Bruce Diamond, general counsel for the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, wrote in the filing, adding that the information was previously classified.
He added: “Although the precise date that this occurred cannot be revealed for reasons of operational security, it can be stated that this was done before November 2018, prior to the initiation of the litigation.”…
Following the disclosure today, Nevada officials expressed their anger at the Trump administration and vowed to seek accountability. “I am beyond outraged by this completely unacceptable deception from the U.S. Department of Energy,” Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak (D) said in a statement. “The department led the State of Nevada to believe that they were engaging in good-faith negotiations with us regarding a potential shipment of weapons-grade plutonium, only to reveal that those negotiations were a sham all along. They lied to the State of Nevada, misled a federal court and jeopardized the safety of Nevada’s families and environment.”…
http://www.newsweek.com/trump-administration-secretly-shipped-radioactive-plutonium-nevada-despite-1312457
The US should beware of Chinese R&D. They are well known for stealing patents and other intellectual property.https://www.marketwatch.com/story/why-is-the-us-accusing-china-of-stealing-intellectual-property-2018-04-05
R &D, Reverse-engineering and Denial
Foxconn can make iPhone screens in Bangladesh. They needed a US glass manufacturer next door capable of making truly huge sheets of glass for their truly huge LCD screens. And Scotty Walker wouldn’t give Corning the same deal he gave Foxconn.
This was just put out by the WH. Yes, I do want Trump to fail. His lies are getting to me.
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Walls Work
By DEROY MURDOCK
January 31,
Democrats know it, but they want President Trump to fail.
Of all the Democrats’ arguments against a southern border wall, the shadiest is that it would not work.
According to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.), President Donald J. Trump is “forcing American taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on an expensive and ineffective wall.” As he joined Pelosi in rebutting the president’s January 8 Oval Office address, Senate Democrat leader Chuck Schumer of New York decried Trump’s “ineffective, unnecessary border wall.” Schumer added: “We can secure our border without an expensive, ineffective wall.”..
Love them or hate them, their effectiveness is indisputable…
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/border-walls-democrat-partisan-politics/
Correction:
Foxconn is a Taiwanese multinational electronics contract manufacturing company headquartered in Tucheng, New Taipei, Taiwan.
Foxconn has plants in China and in other countries, but it is NOT a mainland Chinese company.
Foxconn has factories in China, Brazil, Europe, India, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, South Korea and has plans to open a plant in Wisconsin but hasn’t finished building it yet. They broke ground for the plant June 28, 2018. Trump was there to brag about how great he was.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn
“But the more important moral is that if the U.S. is to have a real industrial policy to reclaim U.S. manufacturing jobs, it is utter folly to rely on white knights on the form of Chinese companies. Making American manufacturing great again is not at the top of their national agenda.”
Actually, being in 2nd place with the second largest manufacturing sector in the world that has increased production annually for decades while cutting jobs by replacing humans with automation doesn’t mean the U.S. doesn’t have a growing industrial sector.
If the U.S. had a real policy to reclaim U.S. manufacturing jobs, that policy would be to limit or end automation and put humans back to work. Instead, it has been projected that in the next decade or two, 40-percent of current human jobs will also be replaced with automation and/or AI.
That does not mean the jobs left and went to other countries.
The myth (based on a lie that has been repeated thousands of times in the last few decades until most Poole believe it) that the U.S. doesn’t make anything anymore is another lie Trump said more than once during the 2017 presidential debates with Hillary, is NOT true.
“10 Countries With the highest Industrial Outputs in the World”
1st place: China — In 2016 china exported goods worth $2.342 trillion, it was only surpassed by the European Union which exported $2.659 trillion. The European Union ranked just behind China with an industrial output of $4.184 trillion.
2nd place: The United States
Despite being the largest economy, the United States ranked behind China and the European Union in terms of industrial output. In 2016 the U.S industrial output totaled $3.602 trillion. In the same year, the U.S exported goods worth $1.620 trillion. The third quarter of 2016 witnessed a real output of $1.92 trillion the highest ever in a quarter since the Great Recession of 2008. The manufacturing sector employed more than $12.4 million in March 2017. The largest exports by the US were transportation equipment, chemicals, electronics and computers, and non-electrical machinery.
Japan is #3
In 2016 Japan’s total industrial output was $1.368 while its export revenue totaled $683.85. Japan has the largest public debt as a percentage of the GDP, a situation that is preventing the private investments in the country.
Germany is #4
In 2016 Germany’s industrial output totaled $1.050 trillion. Germany witnessed the highest surge in industrial output in August 2017,
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/10-countries-with-the-highest-industrial-outputs-in-the-world.html
Remember, The Onion is not truth. Satire.
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The Onion: First Automated Foxconn Machine Immediately Tries To Commit Suicide
ZHENGZHOU, CHINA—According to sources within the facility responsible for manufacturing the majority of iPhones, Foxconn’s first fully automated assembly-line robot immediately attempted suicide after being powered up Thursday. “Unfortunately, the new robot we designed to assemble Apple products tried to take its own life after spending approximately one second on the factory floor,” said a Foxconn official who spoke on condition of anonymity, adding that upon exposure to conditions in the plant, the robotic worker instantly emitted what witnesses described as a “high-pitched shriek” before barreling toward the nearest window in an effort to jump to its death…
https://www.theonion.com/first-automated-foxconn-machine-immediately-tries-to-co-1832242264?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=theonion_email&utm_campaign=bottom
China is automating factories mainly because projects predict that the work force is going to drop from one billion people to 600 million workers. China has an aging population and the drop in people in the working age bracket is because of the one child policy that has now been changed to a two child policy.
A certain percentage of the population will always fall for these cons. And, of course, Don the Con–president of Trump University, dealer with mobsters, and reality television star, supported this. Trump has a base of 30 percent of voters, people who will believe anything. In this context, it’s interesting to note that a recent poll showed that 30 percent of Republican voters support bombing the fictional city of Agrabah (the city from Aladdin), which would be funny if it weren’t so disturbing.
Reincarnation and the Flim-Flam Man
In the 1960s, a fellow named Harold von Braunhut, a member of the Aryan Nations, sold, through comic books, an invisible goldfish. The purchaser received a small, empty aquarium and some fish food. That’s it. Von Braunhut promised that purchasers would never see the goldfish.
Kinda like all the businesses Trump has ever been involved in. His biggest scam, of course, was not Trump University. It was his presidential campaign.
Don the Con, President of the Trump University scam and reality television show star, sold America on this notion: He started with “a small loan” from his father and through “the art of the deal,” made himself into a multibillionaire. He could, he said, do the same for the country and make it great again.
Well, a New York Times investigative study showed that his father transferred almost three quarters of a billion dollars in wealth to him. If he had simply invested that in a stock index fund, he would be worth more than it’s speculated that he is today.
It still astonishes me that people didn’t see this guy, from the very beginning, for the venal, narcissistic, spoiled rich boy huckster that he is.
Von Braunhut, btw, was also the guy behind “Sea Monkeys.”
What makes Trump’s flim-flam far more egregious than von Braunhut’s is that he ran as a populist concerned for ordinary people, but he has no real interest in pursuing their interests, only his own. He used and betrayed them. The FoxCON deal is just one more of the many, many examples of this. Where is the two-trillion-dollar infrastructure program to put “forgotten Americans” back to work—the one that Trump promised repeatedly during his campaign and again in his Inaugural address? Well, this was just smoke. But we did get a huge tax decrease for the wealthy and for corporations.
Sounds like Don the Con to me.
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“It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.”
― Joseph Heller, Catch 22
President Coulter says Trump is a lunatic, lazy and incompetent. We finally agree on something. Trump runs when she speaks.
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Ann Coulter: Trump Is ‘Lazy and Incompetent’
Conservative pundit Ann Coulter called President Trump “lazy and incompetent,” and said he could potentially face a Republican primary challenger in 2020 if he doesn’t build a wall along the southern border. “We put this lunatic in the White House for one reason,” Coulter told Yahoo News. “He doesn’t need to declare an emergency.” Coulter went on to claim how the president could use his powers to make the Department of Defense and Homeland Security build the wall without congressional approval. “I think [Trump is] finally going to pull that pocket Constitution out of his lapel pocket and [say], ‘Oh my gosh, I’m the president. This is great.’”
When asked who she could see challenging Trump in 2020, Coulter said a “terrific” candidate would be Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL)—who recently claimed Democrats would have “American blood” on their hands if they blocked the wall from being built. Coulter wouldn’t say if she has recently spoken to the president, but did tell Yahoo News that Trump was still “reading” her. “I can tell. … Well, somebody’s reading me. They’re all reading me over there,” she said.
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Looks like it is sort of on again. Trump is again boasting.
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Foxconn Vows to Build Wisconsin Plant After Talk With Trump | Investing News | US News
Feb. 1, 2019, at 2:16 p.m
WASHINGTON/CHICAGO (Reuters) – Foxconn Technology said on Friday it will build a factory in Wisconsin after the company’s chairman spoke to U.S. President Donald Trump, following a Reuters report earlier this week that the Taiwanese company was reconsidering its plans.
Reuters reported that Foxconn was reconsidering making liquid crystal display panels at a planned $10 billion Wisconsin campus and intended to hire mostly engineers and researchers there. But after conversations between Trump and Foxconn Chairman Terry Gou, the company said it would move “forward with our planned construction of a Gen 6 fab facility,” which is a type of plant that produces displays.
The 20-million-square-foot campus marked the largest investment for a brand new location by a foreign-based company in U.S. history when it was announced at a White House ceremony in 2017. It was praised by Trump as proof of his ability to revive American manufacturing. The apparent reversal was seized upon by Democrats in Congress this week…
Trump tweeted on Friday: “Great news on Foxconn in Wisconsin after my conversation with Terry Gou!”…
By Friday the company shifted again. The “campus will serve both as an advanced manufacturing facility as well as a hub of high technology innovation for the region,” Foxconn said in a statement. The statement did not reiterate its commitment to create 13,000 jobs as it did on Wednesday….
https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2019-02-01/foxconn-says-it-will-build-plant-in-wisconsin-after-talk-with-trump
The owners, management and CEO of Foxconn are mostly Asian and Chinese from Taiwan.
Their ancestors learned during the Opium-Christian Wars in 19th century China to tell white-faced Westerners and their Christian missionaries what they wanted to hear and as soon as they were gone, the Asians did what they planned to do all along even if it was/is the opposite of what they told the big-nosed white faces.
This is the Orange Buffoon’s way of making the US safer? He worries about mothers and children on the southern border and pulls this CR*P. Treaties are meant to be broken. Why would anyone sign a treaty with the US with this IDIOT in control? Is this Trump’s new method of bullying the world? Why would Kim Jong Un believe anything Trump says?
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U.S. Suspends Nuclear Arms Control Treaty With Russia
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged a risk of a new arms race after the suspension of a 1987 treaty banning the deployment of intermediate-range missiles.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration said on Friday that it was suspending one of the last major nuclear arms control treaties with Russia, following five years of heated conversations over accusations by the United States that Moscow is violating the Reagan-era agreement.
The decision has the potential to incite a new arms race — not only with Russia, but also with China, which was never a signatory to the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, widely known as the I.N.F.
It also comes as the United States has begun building its first long-range nuclear weapons since 1991, a move that other nations are citing to justify their own nuclear modernization efforts.
Taken together, the two moves appear to signal the end of more than a half-century of traditional nuclear arms control, in which the key agreements were negotiated in Washington and Moscow.
This is the man leading our country? I definitely can see why international interpreters have a problem interpreting what Trump says. He makes absolutely no sense at all. Unbelievable! I thought George W. was bad.
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Read Excerpts: The Times Publisher Asks Trump About ‘Anti-Press Rhetoric’
A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of The New York Times, and two White House correspondents spoke with President Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.
…HABERMAN: But I have also had stories that were accurate called inaccurate by this White House and I don’t know — what are we supposed to do when this happens?
TRUMP: Well, little things. For instance, you cover me and you know, I get up early in the morning and I turn on television. And I do. But I don’t turn it on very much because I really read the papers much more than I watch the television, O.K.? Especially your columns lately. But it’s O.K. It’s a little off. I wish, I wish you’d call me. I would tell you exactly what the routine is. The routine is a little bit off. But it makes it — you know I went to….
TRUMP: If I were a reporter, O.K., and I worked for The New York Times and I called Donald Trump or President Trump, whichever life I’m leading and in the old days, you know I used to get great publicity. When I became a politician all of a sudden, not so good, in my opinion not so good but in the meantime I’m here, so you know, I mean many not so bad, maybe it’s different than we think.
But, if I were a reporter and I called somebody and they didn’t call me back, I’d probably be psychologically, maybe not even on purpose, I would probably be inclined to do bad stories. And I told these two [gesturing to aides], I said you know if somebody calls me — somebody, now you know we have a limited amount of time. How many calls do I get — hundreds of calls a day so in all fairness it’s tough. But if you guys call, I would love to be able to call you back. I think if I were in your position and, Peter, I called me, and I’m in your position, and I don’t return your phone call or if I’m at least not treated fairly by the people representing me, I think that’s a very bad thing. And I think that’s my fault, not your fault. Now, I am really busy and even this — I’m taking a lot more time because, No. 1, I’m finding it very interesting.
HABERMAN: We appreciate your time. Thank you.
Now we need a wall because Trump is concerned about immigrant children. [This is from the WH.] Why not solve the problem and put the children in cages?
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I’ve Fought Sex Trafficking as a DHS Special Agent – We Need To Build the Wall For The Children
-Fox News
“As a former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) special agent on the southern border who fought sex trafficking for over a decade, I can say with certainty that the issue of the border wall should be not about power and partisan politics. It should be about the children – the tens of thousands of them who have been and are being trafficked into the U.S. and forced into the commercial sex trade,” writes Timothy Ballard, founder of the nonprofit Operation Underground Railroad.
A White House official on Friday said Trump would address “the fundamental importance and Respect of human life” in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday.
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Need I say more?
Trump would address “the fundamental importance and Respect of human life”
… as long as those Trump fundamentals offer support for neo-Nazis and white supremacists that wear MAGA hats (at $25 a pop) and attend Trump rallies shouting “Lock Her Up!”