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All in the Family Trump 2nd Term

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by deb4rockets, Dec 11, 2024.

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    Trump's 2nd term. The family grift, drama, and more.
     
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    Ivanka's Father-in-Law

    Charles Kushner the U.S. ambassador to France and Monaco.

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    The Ex Girlfriend of Don Jr.

    Kimberly Guilfoyle to be the US ambassador to Greece.

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    deserves its own thread
     
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    Tiffany's Father-in-Law

    Trump taps Tiffany Trump's father-in-law Massad Boulos as Middle East adviser. Shown on far left of pic below.

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    Your comments are always so enlightening. Not!
     
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    so are your Trump threads
     
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    Your threads are so usually boring to me, so the feeling is mutual. I could care less whether you like the way Trump is hiring his billionaire big donors, grifting family members and billionaire club to make them all richer while screwing the middle class. Go find a gossip column to start another thread for your little buddies.
     
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    Who made you the Trump Thread Queen?
     
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    this entire thread is about how Trump is relying on his family for appointments etc. during his transition. In other words, his family is PART of his transition. And according to CNN, "most Americans approve how Trump is handling his return to the White House."

    so your bolded statement is simply incorrect
     
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    related

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    There are a million threads on Trump, Biden, Harris, and everyone else. Who cares?
     
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    You are back on ignore. Your Trump coddling and highly inflated sense of self-worth are nauseating. You really are so much like Trump. Just another misogynistic arrogant jerk. No wonder it puts your big boy panties in a wad when someone other than you posts a thread. You seem to think you are only worthy of posting hundreds and hundreds of threads.
     
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    LOL I would hope that at least 54%-55% of the American people would.... there is always a Honeymoon phase for newly elected President's... especially before he has to do things like track down and deport ten million immigrants or not track down ten million immigrants....... give Ukraine to Russia or not give Ukraine to Russia......... once those types of things happen, we will likely see the numbers change some. Right now he is just giving government positions to family and his billionaire friends (like some prior residents).
     
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    I'd be shocked if people even know what's going on

    They hear Trump and they approve or disapprove
    no matter the issue

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    Doesn't matter, let Trump do what he wants to do, we will see the results in 4 years. I personally would not bet on him doing a good job, but I hope he proves me wrong.
     
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    more Trump family news

    Kai Trump, a New Star Journalist
    And she isn’t trying to be a journalist at all.

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2024/12/kai-trump-a-new-star-journalist/

    Abigail Anthony writes:

    The best coverage of SpaceX’s sixth flight test of Starship came from an unlikely source. It wasn’t a reputable reporter at a prestigious publication. It wasn’t an expert with a long list of impressive degrees who could explain the advanced technology. It was a young girl still in high school: Kai Trump, the 17-year-old granddaughter of our president-elect.

    While plenty of Trump family members have become celebrities, Kai has flown under the radar. She appeared briefly at the 2024 Republican National Convention and delivered a nice speech about her grandfather, whom she clearly loves and admires. Now, just as Donald has grown a devoted fan base, Kai is slowly growing a following on her YouTube channel. Like plenty of other teenage girls, she posts videos about her daily activities and hobbies — but in her content, some of the most powerful people in the world can be detected in the background.

    Perhaps unintentionally, Kai’s video blogging has provided us with memorable journalism. In her video titled “Watching a Rocket Launch at SpaceX with Elon Musk!” Kai gives us a peek of the Trump Force One — and I’m definitely not jealous that she got to sit in the front of the plane. Once she arrives at the site to watch the rocket launch, we get the inside scoop.

    The event attendees ask Elon simple questions, the kinds of practical but curious questions normal people have. We watch Elon himself explain details about the rocket to Donald Trump, Ted Cruz, and others. “We’ll see if some of the changes we made to the heat shield are better,” Elon says, adding that “the last launch, you could actually see where it was getting really hot ’cuz we would lose some heat shields, so it was like kind of glowing.” Not only do we learn about the rocket, but we get a glimpse of personality: “I asked Grandpa, ‘Would you go in it?’” Kai relays. “And he goes ‘no.’” (Donald is in the blurry background, wearing his signature red hat.)

    Kai provided more behind-the-scenes exclusives in her Election Night coverage at the gilded palace known as Mar-a-Lago. You’d expect to see snippets of chaos on the stressful evening, complete with campaign interns running around and an espresso fountain to keep everyone awake until the end. But everyone seems calm and composed — although Kai eats a rice-crispy treat and admits to “stress eating.” With her warm and outgoing personality, Kai makes us feel as though we’re alongside everyone and nervously watching the televisions as the votes are tallied. Before taking a big family photo, Donald tells a photographer, “We have to get Elon with his boy, that gorgeous, perfect boy.” (I guess Elon is just part of the family now.) We see Barron tower above the rest of the family — he’s the sole participant in the big photo to maintain a stoic stare, and he is silent during the vlog. But a recently viral video clip from Election Night shows that Barron has lost that Slovenian accent from childhood.

    Why is Kai’s blogging valuable? After all, she isn’t providing us with incisive analyses of controversial policies. Well, politicians are often mysterious and untrustworthy; we see them as manipulative elites largely motivated by self-interest. But Kai’s homemade videos humanize the Trump family, which has been relentlessly demonized by the legacy media for more than eight years. In Kai’s blogs, the Trumps seem shockingly normal and relatable — traits that rarely, if ever, shine through in professional interviews, campaign speeches, or onstage debates because we always suspect that the polished candidates are lying to maintain a particular image and appeal. Nothing unusual emerges about the Trump family in Kai’s YouTube snippets, even though their lives are certainly unordinary. Rather, they come across as down-to-earth neighbors who would invite you to their annual barbecue. Kai might have inadvertently developed the most effective PR strategy for the (in)famous family.

    Plenty of people have noted the shifting media landscape: Publications that were previously respected are struggling to maintain an ounce of credibility, independent writers are gaining audiences through nontraditional platforms such as Substack and X, and people receive their news through unconventional sources including podcasts and social media. Kai’s video-blogging is another dimension of the changing information ecosystem. Never before have we had this particular type of intimate, authentic documentation of the presidential family; future historians will pull from diaries, letters, and YouTube videos. We’ll never get the entire story, but Kai’s material has given us a fuller picture.

     
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    You are obsessed with Donald Trump

     
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