CNBC - Trump told Gary Cohn to 'print money' to lower the national debt, according to Bob Woodward's book

 

As a candidate, Donald Trump pledged to balance the federal budget and lower the national debt, promises that are proving difficult to keep.

 

Once he won, Trump considered an unusual approach that was quickly slapped down by his chief economic advisor, according to veteran journalist Bob Woodward's new book, "Fear: Trump in the White House," which went on sale Tuesday.

 

"Just run the presses - print money," Trump said, according to Woodward, during a discussion on the national debt with Gary Cohn, former director of the White House National Economic Council.

 

"You don't get to do it that way," Cohn said, according to Woodward. "We have huge deficits and they matter. The government doesn't keep a balance sheet like that."

 

Cohn was "astounded at Trump's lack of basic understanding," Woodward writes. ...

 

The president also floated an idea for making money from the recent rise in interest rates, according to Woodward.

 

"We should just go borrow a lot of money, hold it, and then sell it to make money," Trump reportedly said. ...

 

Fake facts!

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year was an “unsung success” and “incredibly successful,” despite the fact thousands of people died in the wake of the storm.

Business insider

SMH

jarledb:

 

Fake facts!

 

President Donald Trump on Tuesday claimed his administration’s response to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico last year was an “unsung success” and “incredibly successful,” despite the fact thousands of people died in the wake of the storm.

 

kingdragonfly: Donald Trump Is Really Bad at 9/11, World Trade Center attack
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ajobbins:

 

kingdragonfly: Donald Trump Is Really Bad at 9/11, World Trade Center attack
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"Video unavailable. The uploader has not made this video available in your country."

 

I got the same response, while on a VPN to Melbourne.

Worked OK with VPN turned off - worth watching. 

NBC News - Booming sales for Woodward's 'Fear,' Trump presidency book

"Fear" seems likely to join Michael Wolff's "Fire and Fury" as a million-selling takedown of Trump.

 

Woodward's account of a dysfunctional Trump White House has already sold more than 750,000 copies, Simon & Schuster announced Wednesday, the day after the book arrived in stores.

 

Good on Woodward - this is one journalist who deserves to make a lot of money.

Donald Trump rejects Hurricane Maria death toll in Puerto Rico

DONALD Trump has sparked controversy with his new theory about how many people died in the Hurricane Maria disaster.

 

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has rejected the widely accepted conclusion that nearly 3,000 died in Puerto Rico from Hurricane Maria, arguing without evidence that the number was wrong and calling it a plot by Democrats to make him look bad.

 

“This was done by the Democrats in order to make me look as bad as possible when I was successfully raising Billions of Dollars to help rebuild Puerto Rico.”

 

Puerto Rico’s governor last month raised the US territory’s official death toll from Hurricane Maria from 64 to 2975 after an independent study found that the number of people who succumbed in the sweltering aftermath had been severely undercounted.

 

EDIT - Backlash Erupts

CNN - Donald Trump's absolutely mind-boggling assault on facts is actually picking up steam

This anecdote from the Washington Post writeup is absolutely staggering:

"On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington.
He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.

 

In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements - in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes.

 

It was a new single-day high."

 

From Sept. 4 to Sept. 13, Trump averaged 32 false of misleading claims a day.

At this point the only thing he can do to stoop lower is to actually shoot someone on 5th Avenue...