Well in fairness he's not wrong, although it was more a case of them chucking him a nobel prize for being black and becoming president of the USA, it was something of an historic achievement.
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The economy to maintain that powerful military?
SK is pretty important to the West.
Working here.
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Refreshing usually works.
Well, for a start he didn't write it, and the guy who did Tony Schwartz has expressed regret on doing do, said if it was written again he'd title it 'The Sociopath' and describes it as putting lipstick on a pig.
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Schwarz is an unusual chap, in being a Jew embittered with Trump. He's also a man with lousy predictivity.
In August 2017, Schwartz predicted Trump would resign, saying "Trump's presidency is effectively over. Would be amazed if he survives till end of the year. More likely resigns by fall, if not sooner.
Great that the two leaders/nutters met in Singapore but the whole thing was little more than empty posturing with probably the only country to win being China. I suspect in a few short months business will resume with threats flying everywhere.
Don't really know a lot about the guy, and his crystal ball skills aren't that relevant to the matter tbh, but I think the guy who shadowed Trump enough to write his book for him knows him better than we all do.
And even if he is/was a successful business man (which is debatable since no-one actually knows his worth) I'm not sure how that makes him suitable to be POTUS.
I'm a successful accountant, doesn't mean I'd be any good at being PM.
Plus then you have his previous Secretary of State calling him a moron...and it's well documented that he is not a man for details, has a short attention span, gets bored easily, doesn't prepare for things and shoots from the
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You won't feel much positivity about our shadow Home Secretary then....
Sorry, I don't see the connection
I wasn't meaning a successful Businessman can't be a Politician, just that the skill set required for the former isn't one that necessarily transfers to be successful in the latter. Politics requires other personality traits.
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Sorry, I don't see the connection
I wasn't meaning a successful Businessman can't be a Politician, just that the skill set required for the former isn't one that necessarily transfers to be successful in the latter. Politics requires other personality traits.
Our *SHADOW* Home Secretary, Diane Abbott... Not Javid.
Ahh yes! Sorry, missed the shadow...
Diane....*cough*.... I would definitely put her on the liability section of the balance sheet....
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Unfortunate that you love Trump so much but don't know the basics. He didn't write The Art of the Deal, Tony Schwartz did. Tony Schwartz, one of the few to have spent any serious time with Trump, has an incredibly low opinion of him.
Look no further than the man-child dummy spitting idiot Twitter feed to learn what Trump is really like.
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It is very apparent Schwartz made a mint in Royalties from sales of this exceptionally well received book, then in 2016 decided that Trump was receiving too much negativity so jumped ship, gifting a token amount to a now popular liberal cause, illegal immigrants, and at the same stating the book he put his signature to was factually suspect and the man he happily credited with financial genius was in reality an unpleasant charlatan. Classy move, and to think he now calls out Trump.... In other words he's the sort of man to run with the fox and hunt with the hounds.
"By 2016, Schwartz said he had received some $1.6 million in royalty payments.[15] In October of that year, Schwartz said the royalties he was still receiving for the book "suddenly became, for me, blood money. I didn't want to be anywhere near it. It just feels wrong".[16] As a result, Schwartz said he would be donating the prior 6-months of royalties worth $55,000 to the National Immigration Law Center which advocates for more undocumented immigrants to remain in the USA legally. Schwartz had earlier donated royalties he received in the second half of 2015, worth $25,000, to a number of charities including the National Immigration Forum. Schwartz said he wanted to help the people Trump was attacking."
Details pretty murky and not clear if it was submarine or testbed launched but seems NK have tested an SLBM
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...listic-missile-south-korea-idUSKBN1WH038?il=0
While still a long way from having a stealth submarine platform capable of delivering a nuclear warhead they've progressed a lot quicker than was generally anticipated if this is a successful sub launch of an intermediate range ballistic missile.
EDIT: US sources say it was barge launched rather than submarine.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...listic-missile-south-korea-idUSKBN1WH038?il=0
While still a long way from having a stealth submarine platform capable of delivering a nuclear warhead they've progressed a lot quicker than was generally anticipated if this is a successful sub launch of an intermediate range ballistic missile.
EDIT: US sources say it was barge launched rather than submarine.
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