The Madness of King Donald continues .. Apparently he can ORDER everyone to drop the Chinese...

[cbelt3]

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/23/trump-sa...china.html

Donald Trump on Friday said he was ordering U.S. companies to “immediately start looking for an alternative to China, including bringing your companies HOME and making your products in the USA.”

Um... we don't work for you. You don't have this power.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/23/trump-ca...china.html

"“I am ordering all carriers, including Fed Ex, Amazon, UPS and the Post Office, to SEARCH FOR & REFUSE, .... all deliveries of Fentanyl from China (or anywhere else!),"
Um... they don't work for you. You don't have this power. You can push import controls because you DO (sadly) have that power. OK.. but, um.. Fentanyl has actual medical uses on humans and critters.

[Ted King]

It was probably only a matter of time before Trump's narcissism would mutate into full blown megalomania. His aides will work it out with Fox News that what he's just saying is that corporations have a duty to him the country to do as he commands. It's the way a manly man does it.

[SteveG]

It's time to bomb Greenland.

[Blankity Blank]

The Jeffrey Epstein situation certainly has spawned a ton of conspiracy theories that speculate about no one being too powerful if they begin to pose a true threat to the interests of those above them in the food chain.

[$tevie]

Twitter has been having a blast with #iherebyorder

[pdq]

From the end of an article about the challenges US businessmen are having in trying to parse the Orange One’s trade war mania:

In the retail shop operated by the Trump Organization in the back of Trump’s D.C. hotel, golf caps and travel coffee mugs emblazoned with the Trump name and made in China are still offered for sale...

A spokeswoman for the Trump Organization, Amanda Miller, did not respond to a request for comment Friday about whether the company would stop selling or producing Chinese products in response to the president’s directive.

:RollingEyesSmiley5:

[SteveG]

[hal]

Stolen from Twitter:

"If Barack Obama had “hereby ordered” private companies to do anything, every Republican & Conservative in America would have completely lost their shit."