President Trump's Analyst?

Once again, not to be mistaken for Tuesday's With Morrie, it's time for Tuesdays With Trump...

Summary

Discussion, critique and analysis of the potential impacts on equity, bond, commodity, capital and asset markets regarding the following:

• Macro Demographic Impact; Fake News; The President's Analyst
• Pudzer Pulls Out; Putin Depends On; Operational Vacuum; Collateral Damage 
• Flynn's Follies; Potus Operandi; Speculation; The Russians Are Coming

Last Time Out

A review of last week's tab: Alienating your closest 2.6M employees on your first day with a hiring freeze. Price? One demerit. Undermining, attacking and falsely holding the judiciary institution to blame for future acts of terrorism. Price? Two demerits. Stepping on the rule of law which forms the foundation of your country's #1 resource, the worlds #1 safe, predictable place, under rule of humane law, to do business. Priceless. And now this...

Fake News?

So, if you think this is your run of the mill political scandal, jokingly, as Stevie Wonder might say, "you haven't seen nothin yet." Some of his lyrics come to mind...

It's not too cool to be ridiculed
But you brought this upon yourself
The world is tired of pacifiers
We want the truth and nothing else

Mis-information: false or inaccurate information, especially that which is deliberately intended to deceive.

Dis-information: false information that is intended to mislead, especially propaganda issued by a government organization to a rival power or the media.

We don't tweet but often "tweak" in our missives about falsity in econometrics, MSM narrative based upon it, and the powers that be seemingly perpetrating it, viz. mis or disinformation, such as this moment of levity... of which P, Macronomics, Montana Skeptic, Early Retiree, Danielle DiMartino Booth and Heidi, Helga, Clarissa, Desiree and Schnitzel at Sleepless in The Alps should be proud.

On February 16, 2017, after POTUS held an extended press conference blasting coverage of multiple administration controversies, he repeated something familiar to us... "a tremendous disservice to the American people... a dishonest press that is out of control... and speaks for the special interests."

The day after what many are calling the POTUS "Festivus" press conference, in which grievances were aired, and the only thing missing was POTUS challenging Jim Acosta to feats of strength... POTUS tweeted the following...

As last week, we are keeping a running tab... Vilifying the MSM, whose "fake news" your campaign utilized to get elected, in Nixon-esque style as "the enemy". Price? one demerit and "a crack pot calling the kettle black?". CNN's John King reported...

"I got a text from a Republican senator who said in this text, 'He [POTUS] should do this with a therapist, not on live television,'" King did not reveal the name of the GOP senator. - The Hill

Perhaps one who oft "tweaks out" on Twitter, about fake news or serious leakage, might want to take a hint and seek out some serious analysis and therapy regarding their POTUS operandi from none other than...

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