{"id":37384,"date":"2018-09-05T07:04:30","date_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:04:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37384"},"modified":"2018-09-05T07:04:30","modified_gmt":"2018-09-05T12:04:30","slug":"how-trump-turns-on-the-fed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=37384","title":{"rendered":"How Trump Turns on The Fed"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section for_blogpost preview_basic post-291936 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-dre publication-bill-bonners-diary person-bill-bonner\">\n<div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\">\n<div class=\"w-blog\">\n<div class=\"w-blog-post-body\">\n<h3 class=\"w-blog-post-title entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/bonnerandpartners.com\/how-trump-turns-on-the-fed\/\">How Trump Turns on The Fed<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<section class=\"l-section\">\n<div class=\"l-section-h i-cf\">\n<p>POITOU, FRANCE \u2013 The U.S. economy\u2026 all $20 trillion of it\u2026 explained in a single tweet (any similarity between this and one you might get from the president of the United States of America is pure coincidence):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Just look at the Dow (near an all-time high)\u2026 and unemployment (near an all-time low)\u2026<\/p>\n<p>The tax cuts ARE WORKING! The trade war, too! And those who say otherwise are just jealous SOBs!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\" align=\"center\"><strong>Cartoon Personalities<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In reality TV \u2013 and performance art of the wraslin\u2019 genre \u2013 you add dramatic tension by creating simplified, cartoon personalities and then allowing them to get into snits with one another. The audience tunes in to find out how the spats will be resolved.<\/p>\n<p>In professional wrestling, it is pretty straightforward.<\/p>\n<p>One of the wraslers insults or challenges another one. Wives and girlfriends are brought onstage to stir up animal passions. There\u2019s some pushing and shoving in the dressing room \u2013 caught by security cameras! And then, the stage is set for a resolution in the ring.<\/p>\n<p>A tweet is not long enough to elaborate on a policy, an idea, or a complete thought. But it is great for this kind of feud-building.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump uses tweets effectively. For example, he tweeted that the lawful head of North Korea was a \u201cbad dude,\u201d a \u201cmaniac,\u201d and a \u201crocket man.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gauntlets were thrown down\u2026 leading to a rumble in the jungle \u2013 in Singapore \u2013 where the U.S. president said he would be \u201chonored\u201d to meet with Kim Jong-un.<\/p>\n<p>Upon completion of the meeting, the U.S. president announced victory and declared that North Korea was \u201cno longer a nuclear threat.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The celebrity feud is part of the entertainment world\u2019s advertising strategy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump versus Jimmy Fallon, Arnold Schwarzenegger, LeBron James, Rosie O\u2019Donnell, Mark Sanford, Robert De Niro\u2026 etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>Trump uses it in politics, too \u2013 Trump versus Low Energy Jeb, Lyin\u2019 Ted, Elizabeth \u201cPocahontas\u201d Warren, \u201cDog\u201d Omarosa\u2026 etc., etc., etc.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Trump Turns on The Fed POITOU, FRANCE \u2013 The U.S. economy\u2026 all $20 trillion of it\u2026 explained in a single tweet (any similarity between this and one you might get from the president of the United States of America is pure coincidence): Just look at the Dow (near an all-time high)\u2026 and unemployment (near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6190,7844,303,3650],"class_list":["post-37384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-bill-bonner","tag-donald-trump","tag-fed","tag-us-federal-reserve"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=37384"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37385,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37384\/revisions\/37385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}