Numerous polls conducted on social media by news organizations, including Deutsche Welle, Trump came out the outright victor.
Other news organizations, such as CNBC, Time magazine and ABC News, also saw similar results on their social media polls.
Trump: US has ‘false economy’ & artificial stock market
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump © Carlo Allegri / Reuters
Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has described the US economy as “false,” saying that the central banking system is intentionally keeping interest rates low to prevent a new economic collapse.
“We have a very false economy,” Reuters reported Trump as saying in answering to a journalist’s question while campaigning in Ohio on Monday.
“They’re keeping the rates down so that everything else doesn’t go down,” Trump added in response to the question, which was about a possible rise in interest rates by the Federal Reserve this month.
At some point the rates are going to have to change,” Trump said. “The only thing that is strong is the artificial stock market.” We have to rebuild the infrastructure of our country. We have to rebuild our military, which is being decimated by bad decisions. We have to do a lot of things. We have to reduce our debt, and the best thing we have going now is that interest rates are so low that lots of good things can be done – that aren’t being done, amazingly,” Trump said back in April.
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BREAKING NEWS Donald Trump has endorsed Speaker Paul Ryan in his primary race
Friday, August 5, 2016 8:28 PM EDT
Moving to heal a deepening rift within the Republican Party, Donald J. Trump belatedly endorsed the primary campaign of Speaker Paul D. Ryan here on Friday, giving his backing to the re-election effort of the nation’s most powerful elected Republican.
Mr. Trump ignited a controversy on Tuesday when he said he was not “quite there yet” in supporting Mr. Ryan, echoing a similar line of doubt that Mr. Ryan had cast before eventually endorsing Mr. Trump for president. The remarks threatened to further splinter Mr. Trump’s relationship with the party and infuriated many officials, including Reince Priebus, the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Mr. Trump’s running mate, Gov. Mike Pence of Indiana, publicly, but peacefully, disagreed with him and backed Mr. Ryan.
Breaking News: President Obama urged Republicans to withdraw their backing for Donald Trump, calling him “unfit to serve as president”
Tuesday, August 2, 2016 11:56 AM EDT
In his strongest denouncement of Donald J. Trump so far, President Obama on Tuesday said the Republican criticisms of Mr. Trump “ring hollow” if the party’s leaders continue to support his bid for the presidency this fall, particularly in light of Republican criticisms of Mr. Trump for his attacks on the Muslim parents of an American soldier, Humayun Khan, who died in Iraq.
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/03/us/politics/president-obama-donald-trump.html?emc=edit_na_20160802&nlid=49769097&ref=headline&_r=0
Breaking News: Donald Trump has been formally nominated as the Republican presidential candidate. He is expected to accept on Thursday night.
CLEVELAND — Day 2 of the Republican National Convention enters prime time, after the delegates formally nominated Donald J. Trump for president. The evening’s speakers — including the Republican leaders of the Congress — will focus on the economy. Here’s what else you should know (and some of Tuesday’’s best photos):
Mr. Trump, the New York real estate mogul and reality TV star, formally took control of the Republican Party on Tuesday as delegates to the convention here officially chose him as their nominee, ending a tumultuous, year-long political crusade.
Breaking News: Trump Chooses Indiana’s Mike Pence as Running Mate
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Donald Trump is choosing Mike Pence as his running mate, NBC News has learned.
Pence, a former congressman and the current governor of Indiana, flew from Indianapolis to the New York area Thursday ahead of a planned Friday morning joint appearance with the presumptive Republican nominee in Manhattan.
Pence, who served as a congressman for more than a decade before being elected governor of Indiana in 2012, has been viewed as a frontrunner for the job who could bring governing experience, knowledge of Capitol Hill and conservative credentials to Trump’s ticket.
Influential figures within Trump’s staff were said to be urging the real estate mogul to pick Pence, whose record of conservative governance could soothe Republicans wary of Trump’s unconventional proposals and inexperience in Washington policy-making.
The final decision came after weeks of deliberation and hours of uncertainty on Thursday as rumors about the pick flew while sources in Trump’s orbit insisted publicly and privately that no decision had been finalized.
Trump’s son, Don Jr., told NBC News in an interview Thursday afternoon that the shortlist is “down to three” — meaning Pence, Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich — but that his father would “come up with a decision today.”
The final call came after an unusually public vetting process, with each of the three finalists campaigning alongside the candidate in appearances widely viewed as auditions for the job.
Trump’s team was impressed with Pence’s fiery performance at a rally in Westfield, Indiana on Tuesday night. The governor and his wife met at their home with the candidate, his son, daughter and son in-law on Wednesday morning, stoking further speculation that he would be Trump’s the ultimate choice.
Sources close to Pence and Trump were preparing for the likelihood of a Pence pick early Thursday but warned that the final choice would be made by the candidate alone.
Without confirming that he was not the choice, Gingrich – who had been viewed as the most likely alternative, said in an interview Thursday that “it was a very great honor to be considered” for the job.
Early Warning Signs of Turkey’s Troubles with Trump
BY HARUT SASSOUNIAN
The Republican and Democratic Parties will be holding their conventions later this month to select Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton respectively as their presidential nominees.
For loyal party members, the choice is very clear: vote for your party’s candidate. Yet, millions of other voters have a more difficult task in making up their minds. Unhappy with both major parties, some are contemplating to vote for an independent candidate, while others are considering to sit out the election altogether.
Armenian-American voters are also uncertain about their choice. In Mrs. Clinton’s case, many are highly disappointed at her failure to acknowledge the Armenian Genocide when she was Secretary of State, calling it “a matter of historical debate,” despite her multiple promises to recognize the Genocide as U.S. Senator and presidential candidate eight years ago.
Trump is also a puzzle for most Armenian-Americans. Those who are willing to ignore his controversial positions and base their vote purely on Armenian issues are not sure whether he is, in his own words, “friend or foe,” since Trump, a businessman, does not have a public record on most political issues, including Armenian ones.
It would be ideal to have a face to face meeting with the Republican candidate to find out first hand where he stands on issues of interest to Armenians. However, in the absence of such an opportunity, voters have to rely on few brief remarks he recently made on Turkey.
Last December, Trump criticized Turkey’s support for Islamist terrorists. He told Breitbart News Daily: “Turkey looks like they’re on the side of ISIS, more or less based on the oil.” He went on to say that he had a conflict of interest when talking about Turkey because of the Trump Towers in Istanbul. Although he does not own the building, he lends his name to the Turkish owners of the hotel and receives a lucrative branding fee. He has a similar arrangement with Trump International Hotel & Tower in Baku, Azerbaijan. Not to damage his business relationship, Trump quickly asserted in his interview: “I’ve gotten to know Turkey very well; they’re amazing people, they’re incredible people, they have a strong leader.”
Despite Trump’s kind words about Erdogan, the Turkish President attacked him two weeks ago, accusing him of being anti-Muslim and calling for the immediate removal of Trump’s name from the Istanbul Tower! Erdogan told a large group of Turkish businessmen that Trump “has no tolerance for Muslims living in the United States; and on top of that, they used a brand in Istanbul with his name. The ones who put that brand on their building should immediately remove it.” Erdogan also stated that he regretted attending the inauguration of Trump Towers in 2012 when he was Prime Minister: “I also made a mistake and opened the [Trump Towers].” The Turkish owner of the hotel announced that he was evaluating his business ties with Trump.
Bulent Kural, manager of the Trump Shopping Mall in Istanbul, was also critical of Trump: “We regret and condemn Trump’s discriminatory remarks. Such statements bear no value and are products of a mind that does not understand Islam, a peace religion. Our reaction has been directly expressed to the Trump family. We are reviewing the legal dimension of our relation with the Trump brand.”
The Republican candidate made another unscripted comment about Turkey during a speech in Denver on July 1. As he was naming several countries that are militarily defended at U.S. expense, someone from the audience shouted, “Turkey!” Trump interrupted his remarks and asked that man if he was a “friend or foe.” The Republican candidate then added: “And Turkey, by the way, should be fighting ISIS. I hope to see Turkey go out and fight ISIS, because ISIS has in a certain sense taken very serious advantages of Turkey. And they could wipe ISIS out by themselves. I would love to see that.”
It remains to be seen if President Erdogan would escalate his budding feud with Donald Trump by insisting on the removal of the latter’s name from the Istanbul Towers. Not surprisingly, Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has so far ignored Trump’s negative comments on Islam, preferring to protect his own business interests in the Baku Trump Tower!
Erdogan Launches Offensive Against Trump, praise Barack Obama says who “is on the side of Muslims”,
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan called for the immediate removal of the ‘Trump’ name from the Trump Towers Istanbul.
The Turkish leader made this announcement during an evening event hosted by the Industry and Business Association, according to Yeni Safak newspaper.
Erdogan “[Trump] has no tolerance for Muslims living in the US. And on top of that they used a brand in [Istanbul] with his name. The ones who put that brand on their building should immediately remove it,” Erdogan said, the Turkish Sun reports.
Trump Towers Istanbul was opened in 2012 by Turkish tycoon Aydın Doğan who paid Trump in order to use the brand name.
It should be noted that the then-Prime Minister Erdogan was one of the dignitaries attending the towers’ opening ceremony,
During his speech, the Turkish president also accused the European Union of Islamophobia
Trump on Brexit: EU break-up on the cards, people want their borders back
The Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has praised the British public, saying they “took back control of their country” by voting to leave the EU. He also warned the EU could break-up as people seek to regain control of their borders.
“It looks like it is on its way and we will see what happens. I have a lot of friends in Germany who have always been very proud Germans, but now they are thinking of moving because of the massive influx of people. I could see it happening [the break-up of the EU]. I saw this [Brexit] happening,” he said.
In the run up to the referendum vote, Trump, who is in Scotland to open a golf course, had said he would be personally inclined to leave the EU.