Diplomacy in 140 characters

[TheDrake]

If Cuba is unwilling to make a better deal for the Cuban people, the Cuban/American people and the U.S. as a whole, I will terminate deal.

What does "a better deal" consist of? Did Trump mean Cuban and American people, or Cuban-Americans? Why is the current course not good for the US? So many open questions. The lack of clarity is one of the major things I feared.

[Pete at Home]

Maybe he means to take Credit for Castro's death, like Al Gore taking initiative in inventing the internet?

[TheDrake]

Also, why would he care about a better deal for the Cuban people. What happened to "America First"? Is he trying to make Cuba great again?

[TheDeamon]

He wants to (re)open some Casino Resorts down there.

[rightleft22]

Trump tweet @CNN
“Pathetic - you have no sufficient evidence that Donald Trump did not suffer from voter fraud, shame! Bad reporter.”

Question fallacy?

The lack of evidence is now evidence. – Trump is a dangerous man


No one else worry about Trumps constant demand that ‘the media’ stop reporting stories he does not like? Of course it’s a great diversion tactic.

[Pete at Home]

The lack of evidence is now evidence. – Trump is a dangerous man

Yes, but who makes him dangerous?  When Box does a report on the Alt-Right, and amid the facts slips in crap like anyone who uses "politically correct" as a pejorative is "Alt-Right", what does that do to the ranks of the Alt-Right?



"No one else worry about Trumps constant demand that ‘the media’ stop reporting stories he does not like?"

Why should we?  He's not the first president we have had with a sense of celebrity entitlement, any more than he's the first president to think he's entitled to grope a cute young thing he just met. 

What worries me is the press is either too stupid to realize that they are just being manipulated to turn Trump into a 24/7 reality star (at the expense of serious domestic and international stories which don't see daylight unless the name Trump is in the story.


What disgusts me is that it's freaking BANNON himself that publicly tells us how he's taking this country by the throat, and that the Media has parsed that quote into gibberish so most Americans don't get warned about what he actually said.

[rightleft22]

I agree with you on the failure of the media to wake up. 
 
However I still believe that Trumps communication and leadership style is dangerous and willing to bet history would/will agree with me.

[rightleft22]

Tweet “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”

Somewhat haplessly, the Washington Post's superb fact-checking department awarded president-elect Donald Trump four "Pinocchios" for his claim that millions of people voted illegally for Hillary Clinton, and that he in fact won the popular vote, or, as Trump now prefers to call it, "the so-called popular vote."

The Post's main headline called it a "baseless claim." The New York Times used classic Times-speak: "Trump Claims 'Millions' Voted Illegally, Citing No Evidence."

All of this is rather quaint, if admirable. Both newspapers, like other firmaments in the fussy, old-fashioned world of the mainstream media, continue to behave as though citing evidence, or making claims based in fact, actually still matters.

Talk about left behind. A massive segment of the U.S. population has happily said farewell to all that, sailing off into the new era of "post-truth."

Trump brilliantly recognized post-truthism long ago, while others were still stupidly issuing fact-checks
Trump also realized the crucial value in a bumper-sticker culture of keeping his fact-free blurts to 140 characters

http://www.cbc.ca/news/opinion/post-truth-president-1.3871021.   

[rightleft22]

Not only diplomacy in 140 characters but its going to be policy in 140 characters.

Is this the future?

[D.W.]

It's all just a publicity stunt for the next season of Black Mirror rightleft22.  Don't worry about it.    Can't possibly be real.