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Demovictory9

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Thu Jan 17, 2019, 05:14 AM Jan 2019

Paul Krugman Has A Scathing New Nickname For Donald Trump's Administration

Paul Krugman Has A Scathing New Nickname For Donald Trump’s Administration
The Nobel Prize-winning economist also said Trump surrounds himself with people of “extraordinarily low quality.”

Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman pulled no punches with his analysis of the people working under President Donald Trump.

In his latest column for The New York Times, Krugman described the people that Trump surrounds himself with as being of “extraordinarily low quality.”

“Lincoln had a team of rivals; Trump has a team of morons,” he wrote.

Krugman noted how working for the president used to be “a career booster, something that looks good on your résumé.” But Trump’s presidency was “so chaotic, corrupt and potentially compromised by his foreign entanglements that anyone associated with him gets tainted.”

“Only those with no reputation to lose, generally because they’re pretty bad at what they do” were now willing to serve Trump, he continued, adding “things have gotten even worse and even dumber” and “we haven’t hit bottom yet.”

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/paul-krugman-donald-trump-administration-nickname_us_5c3ef340e4b0922a21da2801

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Paul Krugman Has A Scathing New Nickname For Donald Trump's Administration (Original Post) Demovictory9 Jan 2019 OP
And the tweets should begin in about --oh -- 2 hours and a few minutes. fierywoman Jan 2019 #1
They're trying to build the Holey Moran Empire malaise Jan 2019 #2
A Confederacy of Dunces. Mc Mike Jan 2019 #3
Hey Jared and Ivanka! That includes YOU! no_hypocrisy Jan 2019 #4
#TeamOfMorons(R) now trending. Down. Achilleaze Jan 2019 #5
I still like a "Confederacy of Dunces"...but probably Trump isn't that literate. brooklynite Jan 2019 #6
Calling Doris Kearns Goodwin! I smell a book. Vinca Jan 2019 #7

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
5. #TeamOfMorons(R) now trending. Down.
Thu Jan 17, 2019, 07:59 AM
Jan 2019

No one respects the KGOP republicans and their assault on US democracy.

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