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bucolic_frolic

(43,123 posts) Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:07 AM Sep 2017

The Trump Administration is just one big colossal Potemkin

In politics and economics, a Potemkin village ... is any construction (literal or figurative) built solely to deceive others into thinking that a situation is better than it really is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village

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The Trump Administration is just one big colossal Potemkin (Original Post) bucolic_frolic Sep 2017 OP

What are the odds somebody will build a wooden Potemkin-wall on the border to keep Trump happy? DetlefK Sep 2017 #1

Fits right in with the GOP. KY_EnviroGuy Sep 2017 #2

The tRump campaign Scarsdale Sep 2017 #3

DetlefK

(16,423 posts)

1. What are the odds somebody will build a wooden Potemkin-wall on the border to keep Trump happy?

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Mon Sep 18, 2017, 10:40 AM

Sep 2017

KY_EnviroGuy

(14,489 posts)

2. Fits right in with the GOP.

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Mon Sep 18, 2017, 12:37 PM

Sep 2017

The entire party nothing but one huge Potemkin facade. Welcome to the party, Donny!

What's behind the facade is nothing but pure evil.

Scarsdale

(9,426 posts)

3. The tRump campaign

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Mon Sep 18, 2017, 01:13 PM

Sep 2017

for 2020 has already begun. Just today, i received two calls. One asked "Do you approve of the job president Trump is doing?" WHAT has he done, apart from insult everyone? The first caller asked if I intended to support him in 2020? I hung up on both. Then I read that they are gathering information on any democratic politician who is considering running against him in 2020. Hopefully, he will be behind bars long before then. He honestly believes he can "win" in 2020. He did not win this time, he was placed into office by Putin.

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