PGT: President-Elect Donald J Trump

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Trump can't abide having an Obama appointee around for even one second. The head of the D.C. National Guard will be removed from command at the moment Trump is sworn in.. right in the middle of an event where he's in command of thousands to provide support and security. He'll have to hand over command to an interim.

“The timing is extremely unusual,” Schwartz said in an interview Friday morning, confirming a memo announcing his ouster that was obtained by The Washington Post. During the inauguration, Schwartz would command not only the members of the D.C. guard but also an additional 5,000 unarmed troops sent in from across the country to help. He also would oversee military air support protecting the nation’s capital during the inauguration.

“My troops will be on the street,” Schwartz, 65, said. “I’ll see them off but I won’t be able to welcome them back to the armory.” He said that he would “never plan to leave a mission in the middle of a battle.”

Schwartz said he would oversee duties in a command center and then depart at 12:01 p.m., retiring from the Army.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...a6b_story.html

[PsYcNeT]

Trump is planning some kind of weird junta at noon next Friday. Book it.

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Lol, Mexico currency traders have a good idea to stop Trump's tweets from impacting the Peso.

There’s a strange idea circulating among Mexican currency traders. Well, more of a joke really. But there’s a certain logic to it.

It goes like this: Instead of spending its precious reserves to defend the peso, Mexico should just buy Twitter Inc. -- at a cost of about $12 billion -- and immediately shut it down. The notion made the rounds this week after the central bank revealed it had already blown through $2 billion of reserves in a largely futile effort to shield the peso from a steady stream of anti-Mexico Tweets from Donald Trump.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...d-peso-traders

[Thor]

loool that would be genius

[MRCboicgy]

This thread is getting more depressing every day closer to inauguration.

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Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

This thread is getting more depressing every day closer to inauguration.

More funny then.

A reader reports:

“Given the Trump camp’s newfound sensitivity around bathroom humor, workers are currently going around the National Mall taping over the company name on each porta-potty: “Don’s Johns.”



http://www.popville.com/2017/01/this...-inauguration/

[chemgear]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

This thread is getting more depressing every day closer to inauguration.

Wait til he has the nuclear codes.

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Someone needs to make stickers with 'on' in the same font and colour.

[direwolf]

Here's some more comedy. Toby Keith and 3 Doors Down have been added to Trump's inauguration concert.

Keith's appearance isn't surprising in the least, and I'm sure 3 Doors Down are happy to get a break from playing the state fair circuit. Good for them.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/ne...oncert-w461008

[Senator Clay Davis]

Everclear and Gin Blossoms weren't available?

[Senator Clay Davis]

Bahahaha, I didn't even realize after they play the inauguration, 3 Doors Down has a Canadian casino tour right after. So really, they're an April Wine/Trooper level band at this point hahaha.

[flames_fan_down_under]

I also saw a group named the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is playing too.

Some real heavyweights.

Obama had Springsteen, U2 and Beyonce. Sad.

[HotHotHeat]

I was hoping for a Bruce Springsteen tribute band.

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Bruce Sprongstone

[MelBridgeman]

Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under

I also saw a group named the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is playing too.

Some real heavyweights.

Obama had Springsteen, U2 and Beyonce. Sad.

What's sad is if people who would play and aren't playing because they are being bullied or afraid - if that is true, that is truly sad.

[PsYcNeT]

Yeah they should be able to stand up proudly declare that they are desperate enough to play for the exposure and not get paid, like hundreds of thousands of local musicians throughout history.

[rubecube]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

What's sad is if people who would play and aren't playing because they are being bullied or afraid - if that is true, that is truly sad.

I kind of doubt Springsteen and U2 fall under that category.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by MelBridgeman

What's sad is if people who would play and aren't playing because they are being bullied or afraid - if that is true, that is truly sad.

Bullied or afraid? What kind of liberal triggered safe space silliness is this? This is Donnie's America now and they should really learn to buck up and quit crying. Political Correctness run amok in this comment.

[Senator Clay Davis]

Boycotts are capitalism at it's finest. Everyone is aware the likelihood of career irrelevancy if they play the inaugural. That's why they could only get state fair legends Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood, and casino legends 3 Doors Down, plus Jon Voight who's going to.....do something? Dramatic re-enactments? Anyway, it's a shrewd business decision to not play the Trump inaugural. Pure capitalism really.

[troutman]

Originally Posted by HotHotHeat

I was hoping for a Bruce Springsteen tribute band.

There really is one playing the event. Trump's first big get.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/fe...-party-w460813

The B Street Band.

Not fake news.