Donald Trump waged a teeny, tiny battle with a binder clip Tuesday morning during a live TV press conference. While speaking to reporters at the White House during a briefing televised by CNN, the president again hit out at Joe Biden's administration, repeating to attendees once again a false claim that Biden actually lost the 2020 presidential election. Then, as he held up a "book on accomplishments" his team has allegedly achieved during the first year of his second term in office, Trump nearly shut his finger in a large binder clip holding the thick stack of documents together. The 79-year-old slightly recoiled as a loud snapping noise was heard after he removed the clip from the papers, while he exclaimed, "Ooh, I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could've done some damage." Still, he assured reporters, "You know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain." He lingered on the topic for the next few seconds, asking the room, "Did you hear that?" before calling the snap "nasty" in the moment. "But, I would not have shown the pain," he reiterated. "I would've acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was nasty. I think somebody did that." He then looked around the room and pointed toward a member of the press, smiling as he said, "It was him. It was my man. How are you?" Trump then threw the clip off to the side of the podium, and it could be heard clanging around on the floor beside him. He then shifted his attention to the contents of the stack of papers behind the podium, lifting it up as he rifled through the pages. "Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. It's big stuff, too," Trump said, calling the United States "the hottest country in the world" before tossing the papers to the ground as reporters in the room laughed at the gesture. https://ew.com/donald-trump-nearly-shuts-finger-binder-clip-live-tv-11888923

Trump’s request to purchase land under the jurisdiction of another nation has not gone down well with the Western world. While the U.S. may be the biggest economy on the planet, patience is wearing thin among its allies, after a year of barbed back-and-forths over tariffs and military spending. This weekend’s power flex may be a stretch too far, economists are now warning, and Trump’s weakness may prove to be America’s voracious spending habits. Deutsche Bank’s Jim Reid highlighted that Liberation Day tariffs in April were stepped back a week later, after U.S. Treasury yields saw a “scary” session as investors retreated to safety, away from American borrowing. “Financial markets may play a big part in how this situation resolves itself,” Reid wrote in a note to clients this morning. “The main Achilles Heel of the U.S. is the huge twin deficits. So while in many ways it feels like the U.S. holds the economic cards, it doesn’t hold all the funding cards in a world that will be very disturbed by the weekend’s events.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/america-s-achilles-heel-of-national-debt-is-exposed-by-trump-s-greenland-tariff-threat-warns-deutsche-bank/ar-AA1UvEc0

Greenland’s prime minister said the Arctic island’s population and its authorities need to start preparing for a possible military invasion, even as it remains an unlikely scenario, as President Donald Trump continues to threaten taking over the territory. “It’s not likely there will be a military conflict, but it can’t be ruled out,” Prime Minister Jens-Frederik Nielsen said at a press conference in capital Nuuk on Tuesday. https://finance.yahoo.com/news/greenland-pm-tells-people-prepare-162519127.html

I doubt Trump is coming up with this on his own. Vought? of who?

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Have fun! I’d love to do that.

Udder Bull****? It is a common practice to tie burlap bags to a cable and secure it high on a pole and to the ground. The bags are soaked with and insect repellent. The cows use it to scratch what itches. The insect repellent helps keeps the flies away.

That is great. Dysarthria hit an uncle. He went from an intelligent man to a sick and troubled man overnight.

@Mik said in The bluebirds of happiness: We know they are around, but only see them once a year or less, usually in very cold weather. I've never seen one in real life.

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Agreed.

People have a hard time admitting animals are sentient let alone intelligent.

Cool! I love the line of salt buyers. Link to video

We have friends in Holland,MI - not far from that pileup. They said not much snow today, but crazy blowing and hard to see!

This was on ATK today. We are not big beef eaters but we may make an exception to try this. Link to video https://wskg.org/arts/2020-05-28/americas-test-kitchen-beef-top-loin-roast-with-potatoes-ep-2017