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Lloyd Blankfein: "The Image Of Trump With His Finger On The Button Blows My Mind"
Whether the Trump presidential campaign ultimately succeeds remains to be seen, but when it comes to one thing - the best self-promotion money can buy - the Donald has succeeded beyond his wildest dreams. In fact, earlier today the person who many say is more influential than even the Fed Chair (courtesy of Goldman's intricate network of alumni strategically placed at all central banks around the globe ,and certainly at the NY Fed), and therefore far more important than the US president, Goldman's CEO Lloyd Blankfein himself spent time commenting on Trump's campaign at length.
Earlier today Blankfein spoke at the Wall Street Journal’s “Viewpoints” executive-leadership series in Midtown Manhattan, where he devoted a substantial amount of time discussing Donald Trump’s "surprising appeal as a presidential candidate" highlighting that the "real-estate developer and reality-television star may have tapped into voters’ longing" for more dealmakers in Washington. "And then Trump comes along and talks the language of dealing."
That, or perhaps voters' longing for a Washington which is not in Wall Street's pocket?
Blankfein also noted that "nobody who listens to him thinks he’s ideologically stuck on the most extreme position."
The Goldman exec also noted that Trump's candidacy may signal voters are ready to support politicians who are willing to compromise and "get the best deal for my set of positions."
Again, that or voters are ready to reject any establishment politicians who have shown time and again they will promise everything just to turn around and pander to special interest, lobby groups, and - you guessed it - Wall Street.
Which is not to say Trump is necessarily different: where Trump does excel in is creating an aura of "otherness" which has so far served him well.
In any event, that the extent of Goldman's CEO compliments toward Trump. Blankfein, a Democrat, the WSJ comically adds "stopped well short of endorsing Mr. Trump’s run" adding that "some of Mr. Trump’s statements, the Wall Street executive said, are “wacky.”
Unlike many other commentators who have decided to write off trump prematurely despite his still commending lead in the polls, Blankfein "went back to the early 1800s when an unconventional candidate named Andrew Jackson won the presidency."
“What must people have been thinking when he got elected?” he said of Jackson, an “unkempt and noisy” populist from the woods who ended the line of establishment candidates in the nation’s highest office. “Could that be happening now?
“We’re being kind of dismissive of things. But people must’ve dismissed that.”
When asked if he could live with Mr. Trump in the White House, Mr. Blankfein demurred: “I didn’t say that.”
Blankfein's biggest nightmare? "The image of Trump "with his finger on the button blows my mind," he added, drawing laughter from the audience."
Surely a far scarier prospect for Blankfein and his peers is coming to Washington after the next crash and demanding another bailout, and coming back empty handed.
Finally, what is unsaid above is the tension between how Wall Street executives approach and react to Trump. Blankfein was perhaps one of the first to opine one way or the other. What is more interesting will be to see whether Trump's support running on the platform of "a candidate without third party financial backing" and not accountable to anyone will be impaired (or boosted) if Wall Street opines either too critically, or alternatively fawningly of him.
That is a bridge that will be crossed early next year when the primary fight is fast and furious.
For now, we sit back and prepare for the next GOP debate tonight which should provide an entertaining warm up interlude before tomorrow's grand spectacle when it will be all about Janet Yellen.
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Because the idea of Hillary's (or Bernie's or Jeb's or Plugz's) finger on the button makes you feel all warm and safe?
That button would be perfectly safe with Bernie. After his term, it would have an inch of dust on it. All the others? Not so much.
Just put the button behind Bill Clinton's penis. Hillary will NEVER touch it then.
The image of corrupt, crass Blankfein making billions fucking the American people blows my mind. And he calls it doing God's work
he didn't say which god
I say it's the one with a lot of hands
Never forget the last three words in the Jewish bible: "Get the money!"
Trump sending your Jew-Ass to prison Blows mine you little prick!
Nonsense. God doesn't have nightmares.
Blankfein was in public and nobody arrested him. What the hell is going on here. Am I back on Q99X2 or is this the twilight zone.
Ya cause after all this dumb fuck would be a win for us all ( look at his hands )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-UXZ-1ups
What Blankfuck should be worried about is Trump's Attorney's General indicting him, Jamie, and the other slime running Wall Street and not getting any more QE. Be afraid Lloyd, be very afraid.
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A justice department that actually does their job (not selectively). Wow now that would be something to see.
Well Lloyd is an expert on blowing
The fact that this asshole isn't making his snide commentary from behind bars just irritates the crap out of me. I'm no Trump fan, but if I knew he would make life miserable for this fucker I'd pound the streets drumming up support for his campaign.
Hey Lloyd Blankfein, go fuck yourself, with a broom stick. An asshole like you talking about blowing shit up.
You and the rest of your Bankster cocksuckers have done more damage than a nuclear bomb could ever do!
this is the single best reverse-"endorsement" trump could have gotten. trump's best match-up IMO now becomes hillary. if she is the candidate, he can use this attack by lloyd, tie blankfien to hillary & her 4 paid speeches she gave to goldman sachs last year, and trump can eat into the middle 10% u need to win an election (45% go republican, 45% go democrat basically no matter what ... the fight is over 6 of the middle 10%).
hillary is massive war hawk who voted for iraq, busted apart libya, and wanted to oust assad.
trump was on record back in 2006 saying we should not have gone into iraq because they and iran served as a "check" to each other in the region saying they would have a 5 year war, take 5 years on, then basically rinse & repeat BUT 1 cancelled-out, held the other from gaining too much power in the region while still keeping stable control of their respective, existing territory.
regarding russia, he was mindful. said he would sit & talk with putin. we have too many similar interests (economic, geopolitical, etc.) for us NOT to be able to get along.
whether its economics or military, IMO its a no-brainer if you put trump up head-to-head with hillary. seems to me like the guy just wants to get back to rational economics and limit the amount of bloodshed our armed forces have to suffer due to unecessary conflicts.
You can bet that if Trump gets in,the criminal laws against these crooks will be tightened up so hard that these guys would never see the light of day.Retroactive to a certain year under national security law for would be even better under endangering national security by economic harm.
Trump should start lining out the things he's gonna' do once elected. Jailing the gangster banksters is a good plank in a Constitutional platform! But then he'll have to hire more security. They've been known to throw their own from buildings and cliffs.
Blankfein is talking his position and his politics. It's no surprise he and his banker pals are very very nervous because Trump, for all his bluster, does not have his hands in anyone's pockets. In today's Washington DC where everyone is for sale, this appeals to the populus and as such does not appeal to anyone who currently pays for influence and favors. I and others have said this many times before, if you are railing against Trump, it's probably because you have bought into the establishment politicians and don't want to see that investment become worthless. I for one, hope it does.
No, everybody's got hands in Chump's pockets. He stiffs regular working people whenever his shit fails. Every $250 million in BK has to come out of real wallets eventually, you know.
LOL WUT?
Without the banksters, Trump wouldn't even exist.
Lemme guess, you're a voter, right?
You might as well be discussing Santa's logistics, as it's every bit as real as the facade of politics.
In our monetary system, without banksters almost no Medium - Large Businesses would exist. Everyone is dependent on lending for one reason or another. If you held that against someone you will be left with very very very few people. Maybe the guy that runs the hot dog truck should be president, after all he has business experience.
Ok, so to further vet the Donald, we need to take a look at who shares board seats with him or on his company(s). Then you must look at those boardmembers and see what other boards they sit on and who are they closely associated with.
froze - I think your mind is frozen. Trump is a private company, thus nop "board" members. You stoopid fuck. Now STFU.
How come nobody talks about the fact that Chump is broke? Why doesn't Blankfein have the balls to say D Chump is a failed businessman who stiffs his workers and his contractors?
Also, the man is a celebrity buffoon. I can imagine his cabinet: Ronald McDonald for head of FDA.
"Surely a far scarier prospect for Blankfein and his peers is coming to Washington after the next crash and demanding another bailout, and coming back empty handed."
Oh, of that I'm sure. But it wouldn't have gotten the audience chuckles his actual comment did.
Another possibility is Trump picks up the phone and throws Blanky and boys in the pen. Maybe that is what is really scaring Blanky about Trump. He's someone who hasn't been bought off. He's someone he can't control and that bothers him greatly.
wow; yet he has no problem with a homosexual marxist muslim coke addict
What a crazy coincidence that he mentions Andrew Jackson. Ya know, the president that fought his tribe and won and surviving two murder plots against him.
I would be worried to... if Donald blows the trumpet and puts Lloyd Blankfink on the hot seat.
A jewish wurst sales man doing gods work blows my intact cock.
This is why Blankfein is shitting his pants
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xU9ZKbf8jYc
My 2 cents on Trump after observing things for a bit is that he and Dr. Carson are the candidates the media are going to use to yet again splinter the stupid party and get the demoncrat, whoever that turns out to be, elected. Not that it matters all that much since if things could be changed through voting, they'd make it illegal.
The republicans (other than the leadership apparently) consist of conservative people. They fall in to 2 camps - fiscal conservatives and social conservatives, with some in both those camps, but many in one camp and despising the other. So along comes Trump (portrayed in media as the fiscal conservative, actual stance notwithstanding) and starts appealing to the populist senses of both the fiscal and social conservatives. Oh oh, that is dangerous, so the media must find a way to counter that. Enter the fine and decent man Dr. Carson. His appeal is strong with social conservatives. the media is going to play up their differences until it gets to the point one group will not vote for Trump, the other won't vote for Carson, and viola - we have Hillary/Bernie/Joe/Fauxcohantas.
The old divide and conquer works almost every time!
Hey Lloyd the Reality of your TBTF bailed out bonus collecting finger on our economy's button blows our mind You've done real damage to real Americans. Leftists and cuntry club RINOs laughing with you show their true colors.
When Lloyd heard his taxes would go up under Trump, it was definitely time to cast Trump as a nut who was going to Nuke the world if elected.
If Trump had promised to lower Lloyd's taxes, he would be calling Trump the next Reagan, maybe better.
It worked for LBJ with Goldwater. Every 5 minutes there was a commercial on TV with a nuclear detonation image implying Goldwater would do that. Sounds like using a proven plan.
If Blankfein is scared of a politician then I'm definitely taking notice. Right now I'd vote Bernie but if trump has loyd scared shitless then that means he isnt in the banksters pocket and i like that.
oy vey
LOL, at Tyler thinking Donald wopuld end the banker bailouts! Too funny
The rhetoric of liars.
Loyd is dung.
I think I have it figured out - Blankfein drinks bottled water - and all the rest of the Trump zealots drink city water.
(personally - I drink well water)
All hatred for these motherfuckers asside; the best we could ever hope for is a full pardon and the promise these bung-holer's dissapear forever. They'll never be arrested because they operated within a banking-system sanctioned by the criminal elite we voted for... Nicely Done Fuckers! Nicely Done...
I think every hundred yards along the wall at the Mexican border, it ought to have letters twenty feet high facing Mexico that spell out T-R-U-M-P. Yeah, and spell out the same thing along the sides of our intercontinental ballistic missles.
I am an American living in Mexico. You know how high you are on Trump - invert it to get a feel for what they think of him here. He is portrayed very poorly. The US press should pick up on some of that.
who the fuck cares. Stay the hell in Mexico. We aren't electing a president of Mexico..............or are we.......
Funny how you can almost set your clock by when the Trumpeteers will show up on ZH. Just get out of school ?
It would help if you actually knew anything or read posts before saying stupid shit like that.
Fucking moron. Stay in Mexico where you belong.
Oh dig yourself.
My point is, while not being a big fan of Trump since I believe his role is to split the republican vote, is that who the fuck cares what Mexico thinks of our election process. Seems they have enough problems of their own to be concerned with.
I truely believe someone needs to talk Romney into running.
Bet he's very OK with Netanyahoo's finger on the red button blowing away Iran!!!
Blankfein "went back to the early 1800s when an unconventional candidate named Andrew Jackson won the presidency."
“What must people have been thinking when he got elected?” he said of Jackson, an “unkempt and noisy” populist from the woods who ended the line of establishment candidates in the nation’s highest office. “Could that be happening now?
WAS THAT SOME KIND OF THREAT? Jackson narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Richard Lawrence:
Jackson was convinced that Lawrence had been hired by his Whig Party opponents to assassinate him. At the time, Jackson’s Democrats and the Whigs were locked in battle over Jackson’s attempt to dismantle the Bank of the United States. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/andrew-jackson-narrowly-escap...
From your link:
A century later, Smithsonian Institute researchers conducted a study of Lawrence’s derringers, during which both guns discharged properly on the test’s first try. It was later determined that the odds of both guns misfiring during the assassination attempt were one in 125,000.
"odds were one in 125,000"
You decide. Read this from the Wikipedia article. Sound like something that would was so reliable it only misfired once in over 300 tries? And would a misfire be caused by the gun (which could be tested 150 years later) or the load (which could not be tested at all)? Is is not likely that if one load (prepared by the shooter) failed, both would fail? And the attempt on Jackson was in 1835. From this article, the derringer wasn't produced until 1852. What's up with that? I think Jackson may have been our "only" good president. Be wary of disinformation.
Obama's finger on the button has most probably already killed millions in these last 7 years alone.
America should pay more attention on the genocide they spread arround the world and why their enemies are not just enemies but sworn enemies willing to die to inflict damage to America.
I must have been sleeping when Obama launched the nuclear armegeddon.
We have to vote for Trump to see what's in him.....right Nancy Peloshit? Sorry, take Lloyd's dick out of your mouth so we can understand you.
if his mind was literally blown people would applaud
LOL - yes indeed.
Idiots like Blankfiiiiiiine getting paid millions blows my mind
Wall Street has destroyed America's middle class, . . . now Wall Street fears Trump.
http://www.floppingaces.net/20...
Trump is the only candidate, the only one, who hasn't been bought and paid for.
Wall Street is raising millions against him, for any takers, Dem or Rep. Hopefully Trump won't back down.
The image of Lloyd Blankfein doing God's work makes me blow chunks.
Standard Disclaimer: Die already.
The image of Lloyd Blankfein with his finger on the monetary extinction button blows my mind... and yet, there it sits.
Lloyd should stop thinking that he is influential and just go back to doing his god's (satan's) work.
Then again, the more Blankfein and Wall Street dislikes Trump (or anyone for that matter) the more I like them... and I realize at the same time that Trump is more than likely just a shill for the Killery-Hitlery-Hellery campaign, who has more than likely (to the surprise of TPTB) found support from pretty much everyone who thinks that out current government sucks (my guess is pretty much everyone who is not dependent on the government for food and shoes).
And Hitlery with her finger on the button.
She slept through Bengazi
Dumb asses. No president has his finger on the button. The president makes no decisions of any kind. I can't believe this pathetic desperation for a political solution, here on ZH. Trump is one of them, and if installed (not elected; the elections are rigged) he will do as he is told.
The banking mafia effectively have their finger on the button because they're the ones who create global economic depressions - which is pretty much the only reason things could get crazy enough for a full on nuclear war.
"The image of Trump "with his finger on the button blows my mind," he added, drawing laughter from the audience."
The image of Blankfein with his finger on the money power button blows my mind. Money power is greater than nuclear power.
Everybody has a price.
If you own the money factories, then effectively you can buy people off and get your way.
In today's world, MONEY IS CREDIT. Credit is created/made at banks upon moment of hypothecation. Private banking corporations own money power, and private credit is CENTRALIZING.
Credit systems are pyramid schemes. Therefore, system concentrates power into a pyramid, and hidden agents have their finger on the button.
How does it concentrate? When you pay back your loan, the bulk of payment is usury up front. This revenue stream then ports into the system and has no debt instrument on the other side. It is floating money. Banks issue credit, yet the usury is floating money....similar to gold.
New banker creditors will then hold their "usury profits" and hence former debtors have to sell their goods and wares for cheap. Or, maybe now banker creditors can engineer depressions and then harvest debtors for their lands or other physcial assets in exchange for canceling debts. Banker is creditor as he gets to hold debt instruments, a power transferred to banker upon moment debt instument is signed. Again...banker gets to hold debt instruments on humanity, AND he gets the usury up front, AND the usury money can just sit in an account. Banker monetary gains from usury has NO velocity pressure, as there are no debts on the other side to recall it. Truly, it must be wonderful to be the king, and have money power.
Usury is also pyramiding. The 90% laborers are in constant drain as they are debt slaves. At top 10% it starts to shift, where at 10% level, they have as much usury coming in as going out, so their position is neutral. At 1% level, they are paying to the .01%, but still have more coming in than going out. At .01% level, the very big TBTF banks, and owners, have much more "interest usury" coming in than going out. These .01% will also control industry by being board members, or by engineering break up of business with greenmail, and then re-assemble body parts into new enterprise. This action creates no new wealth, it only redestributes further concentrating pyramiding money power.
In Goldman's case, they also buy off Treasury with revolving doors. Action is always one way, from Goldman to Treasury, but not vice versa. So U.S. Treasury is filled with Goldman agents. The same pattern is now observed in Europe, where unlected former Goldman executives are leaders of "caretaker" governments.
At 5% and above, if related to finance, ostensible wealth gain is purely extractive and parasitical. Money power Oligarchs have their crooked finger on money power button, and they push it readily by paying off the press, and pretending they are useful to society - when in fact they are parasites.
defund the parasites
www.sovereignmoney.eu
The idea of Blankfein with a gun in his hand pointing at his brain with his finger on the trigger and pulling it
blows the pleasure centers in my mind. It would be a Fein Day if it were not shooting Blanks.
I'd rather see him waterborded and then strung up and hung by a bunch of Syrian refugees.
Interesting that blankfein would correlate Trump with a bank killer.
Trump is no jackson -he will never hurt the Fed - I despise Trump. He's a pathetic candidate -but I hope he wins. May even vote for him in the Republican primary. The republicans deserve him.
Yes, very.
I very much doubt Trump is even remotely a bank killer but given how paranoid they are they might see simply not being controlled by them as the same thing.
Trump supporters only expect two important events in the Trump presidency. The first being the day after Trump wins the election Trump goes into the white house oval office, points his finger at Obama and utters “...you are fired…” The second being the joint address to congress at the state of the union address when Trump will point his finger at all of them and state “...your all stupid…”. Beyond that little else will get done or is expected….
I have zero faith in politics cos it's so rigged but at least Trump drives the media nuts - and now Wall St too as a bonus.
Don't be stupid. The press loves Trump, or he wouldn't be getting the coverage.
yawn
Anyone that knows anything about Ole Hickory knows that he was adamantly against a central bank. That's what has Fuckfein in a dither and too chickenshit to admit it.
He may be the best President that this country ever had, certainly in the top two or three. The worst were Roosevelt, Lincoln, and Wilson, the darlings of the Ivy League communist professors.
As I glance down at the bottom of this page the US Mint is advertising for The Celebration of Life of FDR. Well, fuck me running. There ought to be a law against defacing good gold coins.
Media will turn on Trump when told to by the money boys. Probably have a picture of Trump in a hotel room with a sheep in a garter belt..wait was that Woody Allen??
Never let the facts get in the way of your own fantasies.
The media, collectively, has been attacking Trump since he got into the race. When he spoke about illegal aliens from Mexico being murderers and rapists they exploded with criticism and when he refused to back down under their screams of outrage they screamed even louder -- and they haven't stopped.
Meanwhile a lot of the public said, "Gee, someone who says out loud what we all know is happening and doesn't wilt like all the other politicians when criticized for being non-PC. That's pretty cool. And he's being attacked by the media who we despise about as much as bankers and the political establishment. That's someone to support."
The media didn't wait to be told by "the money boys". They've been attacking him from day one and everything they have thrown at him has actually made him stronger because he rejects their PC and fights back and wins.
The image of Blankfein foaming at the mouth in a jacuzzi, as he's being ~electrocuted~ to death by a Chinese toaster, would be sweet justice.
I'm suprised this little twerp Blankfein has been the top dog at the Vampire Squid this long.
He reminds me of a slimey used car salesman.
... Blankfein has his own finger in his own bottom.
The only question that matters on this issue:
Is Trump the better game theorist than Blankfein?
Mind blowing, yes.
But what the hell, the last 7 years isnt?
If Blankfein doesn't like him then he can't be all bad.
I am sorry..I have such a hard time believing anything Lloyd Blankfink of Goldman ( Sack You If I Can) comments on. I picture him as a used car salesman..and when I enter his business..I ask him..Is this a good time to buy a car? I just know that he will look after my best interest..
Trump wants Ted Cruz as VP. Ted Cruz's wife is on the board of GS. It is all a rouse.
But he doesn't mind the image of Netanyahu with his finger on the button.
Blankfein`s mind won`t be at peace unless it is GS partner running for the Prez.
Seems like reason enough to vote Trump.