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Protesters Dispersed With Tear Gas So Trump Could Pose at Church
As police sirens blared in the background, Mr. Trump, his lips set in a thin line, stood with his back to the boarded-up, graffiti-laden facade of the buttermilk yellow church.
He cradled a Bible, bouncing it in his hands as if testing its weight.
“Is that your Bible?” a reporter yelled.
“It’s a Bible,” Mr. Trump responded, and hoisted up the book so reporters could see.
The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington, who watched the scene unfold while away from the church visiting with her mother, said church officials were not told of the plan and expressed outrage at the White House’s use of riot-control tactics on a generally peaceful crowd to clear a path for the president.
“He did not pray,” the bishop, Mariann E. Budde, said in an interview. Referring to the death of the black man in police custody that set off the protests, she added: “He did not mention George Floyd, he did not mention the agony of people who have been subjected to this kind of horrific expression of racism and white supremacy for hundreds of years. We need a president who can unify and heal. He has done the opposite of that, and we are left to pick up the pieces.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/01/...action=click&module=Spotlight&pgtype=Homepage
https://nypost.com/2020/06/08/trump-orders-nearly-10k-troops-removed-from-germany/
Trump orders nearly 10K troops removed from Germany in ‘unacceptable’ move
George Conway started off a movement to get Chumpie a new 2020 campaign slogan with:-
“Trump 2020: He may be a nutjob, but he’s OUR nutjob!
others soon followed
Make America Gated Again (with image of gates going up around White House)
"Trump 2020 - People are dying to re-elect me."
“Putin America First”
"Trump 2020: He hasn't killed EVERYBODY. Yet."
“Trump 2020: He may be a nutjob, but he’s OUR nutjob!
others soon followed
Make America Gated Again (with image of gates going up around White House)
"Trump 2020 - People are dying to re-elect me."
“Putin America First”
"Trump 2020: He hasn't killed EVERYBODY. Yet."
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Why is #TrumpRecession trending ?
It's official: The U.S. entered a recession in February
“The unprecedented magnitude of the decline in employment and production, and its broad reach across the entire economy, warrants the designation of this episode as a recession,” said the National Bureau of Economic Research.
June 8, 2020, 9:36 PM SAST
By Martha C. White
The U.S. is officially in a recession, bringing an end to a historic 128 months of economic growth, after the coronavirus pandemic swept the country and shut down the economy.
For more than a decade, the American economy seemed to contradict the adage, “What goes up, must come down.” That ended in February, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the agency that identifies periods of economic growth and contraction.
The economic expansion would have turned 11 years old this month — a span unmatched in the postwar economy.
The NBER noted that the quarterly peak was the final quarter of 2019. GDP dropped by 5 percent in the first quarter of 2020, and analysts predict that the drop in the current quarter is likely to be historically steep. A tracking tool from the Atlanta Federal Reserve currently estimated a drop of nearly 54 percent for the quarter.
“March represented a huge contraction, and that contraction was significant enough that it offset the growth in January and February,” said Bankrate.com chief financial analyst Greg McBride. “That really underscores the significant and sudden stop in the economy because the lockdowns didn’t even kick in on March 1,” he said. “So, in reality, it was the last two weeks of the quarter.” The dizzying speed of the drop in those final weeks was enough to cancel out the rest of a robust quarter.
“This was a man-made recession-slash-bear-market where, in a sense, there was almost no uncertainty about what was going to happen to us. The only question was how deep would it go,” said Sam Stovall, chief investment strategist at CFRA Research.
The speed of the NBER’s announcement is another unusual dynamic. While the usual rule of thumb for defining a recession is two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth, that’s not a hard-and-fast rule.
“In some ways, it’s not a surprise that the NBER told us we were in recession faster than any other prior time,” Stovall said.