Lurch needs to STFU. We knew he would be along to apologize.

https://twitter.com/JohnKerry/...gs.com%2Fforums%2F16

You can tell the Swamp, both American and European, are running scared today.

You keep going, President Trump! We have your back.

Trump went over there to punch some people right in the mouth and he said as much before he even left. There’s a few bloody lips today and none of them should be surprised.

John Kerry, you're nothing but a traitor and you have been a traitor for almost 50 years. You had your chance to serve the United States and instead chose to fellate the America-hating, Israel-hating terrorist psychopaths in Iran, so just sit your ass down, be quiet and let President Trump serve his nation.

Hot dang. This is the world I am used to in business. He sits right in front of them, spells out his position, tells them it's unacceptable and it's going to change - Bam! Gobsmacked!

That's NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg getting schooled.



Where are your Starbursts now Angela?

Apparently, President Trump uses vewry scawry words.

Maybe Kerry is an ok functionary in garrison but he's clearly a cluster*^#> in the field. He needs to go back to supply. President Trump is the infantry type.

To be ready for action, the effete hand-wringers need to get in gear. Waiting for years for some small rise in payments isn't going to cut it.

Kerry wasn't up to the task for so many years and his words remind us of what, at best, ineffectual looks like.

As someone else said, he is doing business the way I recognize and engage in myself - tell it straight, explain what is fair and seek a deal to fix this.

I love how he didn't let the "stronger together" distraction to stand - he gave it right back and he is right. NATO needs to grow the F up...adults are in the room now.

NATO has been warned. Robert Gates made a speech telling them that future presidents would find it difficult to justify to American taxpayers their expenditures on NATO if they didn't step up to the plate. Now here he is.

Thanks Bama.. Trump speaks like us common people.

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Now, this has been going on for decades. This has been brought up by other presidents. But other presidents never did anything about it because I dont think they understood it or they just didnt want to get involved.

But I have to bring it up, because I think it’s very unfair to our country. It’s very unfair to our taxpayer. And I think that these countries have to step it up not over a 10-year period; they have to step it up immediately. Germany is a rich country. They talk about they’re going to increase it a tiny bit by 2030. Well, they could increase it immediately tomorrow and have no problem. I don't think it’s fair to the United States.

So we’re going to have to do something because we’re not going to put up with it. We can’t put up with it. And it’s inappropriate.

BAM!
Trump! Trump! Trump!

Honestly, NATO should be disbanded. It no longer serves any purpose. If Europe doesn't even want to protect itself, why should we continue to enable their socialism?

Screw the NATO EU socialists and the asshats in the UN as well. Abandon both and see how they all like things without the big bad USA that they've been spitting on.

I've truly grown to love President Trump. The man is a great American.

Pull all resources into Poland, let the rest of the Euros defend themselves with diversity and social programs. Either that or treat them like an occupied nation.

Reciprocity Is The Method to Trump's Madness

Townhall.com
Victor Davis Hanson

Critics of Donald Trump claim there is no rhyme or reason to his foreign policy. But if there is a consistency, it might be called reciprocity.

Trump tries to force other countries to treat the U.S. as it treats them. In "don't tread on me" style, he also warns enemies that any aggressive act will be replied to in kind.

The underlying principle of Trump commercial reciprocity is that the United States is no longer powerful or wealthy enough to alone underwrite the security of the West. It can no longer assume sole enforcement of the rules and protocols of the postwar global order.

This year there have been none of the usual Iranian provocations -- frequent during the Obama administration -- of harassing American ships in the Persian Gulf. Apparently, the Iranians now realize that anything they do to an American ship will be replied to with overwhelming force.

Ditto North Korea. After lots of threats from Kim Jong Un about using his new ballistic missiles against the United States, Trump warned that he would use America's far greater arsenal to eliminate North Korea's arsenal for good.

Trump is said to be undermining NATO by questioning its usefulness some 69 years after its founding. Yet unlike 1948, Germany is no longer down. The United States is always in. And Russia is hardly out, but instead cutting energy deals with the Europeans.

More importantly, most NATO countries have failed to keep their promises to spend 2 percent of their GDP on defense.

Yet the vast majority of the 29 alliance members are far closer than the U.S. to the dangers of Middle East terrorism and supposed Russian bullying.

Why does Germany by design run up a $65 billion annual trade surplus with the United States? Why does such a wealthy country spend only 1.2 percent of its GDP on defense? And if Germany has entered into energy agreements with a supposedly dangerous Vladimir Putin, why does it still need to have its security subsidized by the American military?


Trump approaches NAFTA in the same reductionist way. The 24-year-old treaty was supposed to stabilize, if not equalize, all trade, immigration and commerce between the three supposed North American allies.

It never quite happened that way. Unequal tariffs remained. Both Canada and Mexico have substantial trade surpluses with the U.S. In Mexico's case, it enjoys a $71 billion surplus, the largest of U.S. trading partners with the exception of China.

Canada never honored its NATO security commitment. It spends only 1 percent of its GDP on defense, rightly assuming that the U.S. will continue to underwrite its security.

During the lifetime of NAFTA, Mexico has encouraged millions of its citizens to enter the U.S. illegally. Mexico's selfish immigration policy is designed to avoid internal reform, to earn some $30 billion in annual expatriate remittances, and to influence U.S. politics.

Yet after more than two decades of NAFTA, Mexico is more unstable than ever. Cartels run entire states. Murders are at a record high. Entire towns in southern Mexico have been denuded of their young males, who crossed the U.S. border illegally.

The U.S. runs a huge trade deficit with China. The red ink is predicated on Chinese dumping, patent and copyright infringement, and outright cheating. Beijing illegally occupies neutral islands in the South China Sea, militarizes them and bullies it neighbors.

All of the above has become the "normal" globalized world.


But in 2016, red-state America rebelled at the asymmetry. The other half of the country demonized the red-staters as protectionists, nativists, isolationists, populists and nationalists.

However, if China, Europe and other U.S. trading partners had simply followed global trading rules, there would have been no Trump pushback -- and probably no Trump presidency at all.

Had NATO members and NAFTA partners just kept their commitments, and had Mexico not encouraged millions of its citizens to crash the U.S. border, there would now be little tension between allies.

Instead, what had become abnormal was branded the new normal of the postwar world.

Again, a rich and powerful U.S. was supposed to subsidize world trade, take in more immigrants than all the nations of the world combined, protect the West, and ensure safe global communications, travel and commerce.

After 70 years, the effort had hollowed out the interior of America, creating two separate nations of coastal winners and heartland losers.

Trump's entire foreign policy can be summed up as a demand for symmetry from all partners and allies, and tit-for-tat replies to would-be enemies.

Did Trump have to be so loud and often crude in his effort to bully America back to reciprocity?

Who knows?

But it seems impossible to imagine that globalist John McCain, internationalist Barack Obama or gentlemanly Mitt Romney would ever have called Europe, NATO, Mexico, and Canada to account, or warned Iran or North Korea that tit would be met by tat.

Link

President Trump wins over NATO window-lickers.

Go Trump!!!

Trump calls out Sessions over FBI lawyer Lisa Page's no-show at Congress

http://www.foxnews.com/politic...how-at-congress.html

President Trump in an early morning tweet Thursday nudged Attorney General Jeff Sessions to act over FBI lawyer Lisa Page’s refusal to comply with subpoena and testify before Congress.

“As I head out to a very important NATO meeting, I see that FBI Lover/Agent Lisa Page is dodging a Subpoena & is refusing to show up and testify,” Trump tweeted early Thursday morning.

He continued, “What can she possibly say about her statements and lies. So much corruption on the other side. Where is the Attorney General?”

Sessions has been the target of Trump in the past. The presiden slammed him for recusing himself from the Russia-collusion investigation and for his “weak position” on former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s “crimes.”

“The Russian Witch Hunt Hoax continues, all because Jeff Sessions didn’t tell me he was going to recuse himself...I would have quickly picked someone else. So much time and money wasted, so many lives ruined...and Sessions knew better than most that there was No Collusion!” Trump tweeted last month.

Trump also aired out his frustration with Sessions’ lack of fervor in tackling allegations of government surveillance abuse, calling out his “disgraceful” decision to instruct the Department of Justice's inspector general to probe the allegations.

“Why is A.G. Jeff Sessions asking the Inspector General to investigate potentially massive FISA abuse. Will take forever, has no prosecutorial power and already late with reports on Comey etc. Isn’t the I.G. an Obama guy? Why not use Justice Department lawyers? DISGRACEFUL!” Trump tweeted.

Trump’s remarks came as Page defied a subpoena to appear on Wednesday before the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees, even as her lawyer claims she “will cooperate with this investigation.”

The chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, Rep. Bob Goodlatte said Wednesday that U.S. Marshals were called in to serve Page with a subpoena to testify and accused her of “apparently” having “something to hide.”

Attorney Amy Jeffress told Fox News that Page didn’t testify on Wednesday as they didn’t have enough time to prepare, noting that she would ask lawmakers to schedule another date for the interview behind closed doors.

Members of Congress seek to grill Page regarding about her anti-Trump text messages with embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok, with whom she had an affair. Strzok, meanwhile, is set to testify publicly for the first time on Thursday before House Republicans who are investigating bias at the FBI.

I don't know what has made Jeff Sessions impotent?
I do really like him but even as much as he has come up short in many of our eyes - I think it better left for Trump to handle it privately behind closed doors.
IMO

Personally- I don't remember any other President mentioning as many financial numbers off the top of his head. Trumps on top of this like a highly qualified CEO.

Here is the full press conference ...