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Had a terrific Summit Thursday at the White House. We had some fine folks. Brent Bozell of the Media Research Center, Melissa Henson -- she's a mother -- of the Parents Television Council,Strauss Zelnick of Take Two Interactive & Rockstar Games, Pat Vance of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, Mike Gallagher of the Entertainment Software Association, and Robert Altman of ZeniMax Media -- my little brother Robert Trump is on their board. Vicky Hartzler, one of our wonderful Republicans in Congress. Lt. Col. Dave Grossman, he's doing great things with our Police. Some good people, I assume they're good people. And I showed them some clips we put together, these are scenes from video games. Some look so real, right? They're not real, they're all Fake. And I asked, this is violent, isn’t it? youtu.be/0C_IBSuXIoo

We have to look at the internet because a lot of bad things are happening to young kids and young minds and their minds are being formed. We have to do something about maybe what they're seeing and how they're seeing it. And also video games. I'm hearing more and more people say the level of violence on video games is really shaping young people's thoughts.

And movies. You see these movies, they're so violent. And yet a kid is able to see the movie if sex isn't involved, but killing is involved. And maybe they have to put a rating system for that. You get into a whole very complicated, very big deal but the fact is that you are having movies come out that are so violent with the killing and everything else that maybe that's another thing we're going to have to discuss.

The movies, the video games, obviously a very big part of our economy. Very important to our economy. But I'm asking the folks in those industries to explore things they can do on their own to make things healthier in society. Because I think maybe when folks see so much fake violence, it can lead to real violence. This is not a guns thing. And by the way, we're not doing the age restriction on the guns. I was kidding, obviously I was kidding there. So our Second Amendment people can relax about that one. We're doing the concealed carry for teachers, for our very gun-adept teachers, instead. The 20%. MAGA! whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/readout-president-donald-j-trumps-meeting-video-game-industry-leaders

Black Panther has a 6.8 on Douban, described as the Chinese IMDB, compared to 97% on RottenTomatoes and a 7.8 on IMDB.

“A torture for the eyes”: Chinese moviegoers think Black Panther is just too black

Some moviegoers disliked Black Panther because they felt Marvel was trying too hard to be politically correct (link in Chinese). While many reviewers on Douban stopped short of leaving overtly racist comments about the film, many discussed their discomfort of being surrounded by so much blackness.

“Maybe the Chinese are still not used to a film full of black people,” wrote one reviewer on Douban (link in Chinese). The commenter said he had to pinch himself more than 10 times to stay awake during the movie because “Black Panther is black, all the major characters are black, a lot of scenes are black, the car-chasing scene is black—the blackness has really made me drowsy.”

Another reviewer who came into the theater late made a similar observation: “When I entered the theater, a bunch of black people was fighting in the night… I’ve never been in a theater so dark that I couldn’t find my seat.”

Someone else said the experience was worse in 3D (link in Chinese): “The film is filled with black actors and actresses. Also, because the film’s colors are a bit dark, it’s nearly a torture for the eyes to watch the film’s 3D version in the theater.”

The movie made $63 million on its opening weekend in China, which should put it around #30, a couple spots behind Iron Man 3, which had awkward content shoehorned into its Chinese version.

Friends, I'm going to California on Tuesday. March 13 -- that's tomorrow, as I'm writing it's tomorrow. I'll be in Otay Mesa near our VERY WEAK Border, to look at our beautiful Wall prototypes. And maybe pick a winner!!! Join me there if you can, maybe we can have a nice rally. Like we did in 2016. A word to my terrific Second Amendment folks, unfortunately it's going to be a GUN-FREE ZONE. I asked my Secret Service guys, can we have the guns, the concealed carry? And they said it could be a big problem. Because of the Sheriff. I'm sorry about that. But I hope you all will come anyway.

Then I'm heading to Beverly Hills for dinner. It's a VERY SPECIAL benefit for Trump 2020 and for our wonderful RNC. Ronna McDaniel -- Mitt Romney's niece but a very classy and sexy lady -- will be there, also our fabulous money men, Todd Ricketts and Elliott Broidy. Tickets start at $35k for singles, $50k for couples. And you'll get a delicious meal. I promise, it's going to be the best meal you've ever had in your life. But if you can do $250k it's much better. Much better. You'll get the star treatment, the works. The dinner, the round table, and the photos. Including a VERY SPECIAL photo with ME, the President of the United States of America.

Again, that's TUESDAY, March 13. Save the date and let's turn California RED!!!! For complete info, text TRUMP to 88022. Message & data rates apply. Text STOP to opt-out. T&C/Privacy: sms-terms.com/88022

He Became A Celebrity For Putting Science Before God. Now Lawrence Krauss Faces Allegations Of Sexual Misconduct.

BuzzFeed News has learned that the incident with Hensley is one of many wide-ranging allegations of Krauss’s inappropriate behavior over the last decade — including groping women, ogling and making sexist jokes to undergrads, and telling an employee at Arizona State University, where he is a tenured professor, that he was going to buy her birth control so she didn’t inconvenience him with maternity leave. In response to complaints, two institutions — Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics in Waterloo, Ontario — have quietly restricted him from their campuses. Our reporting is based on official university documents, emails, and interviews with more than 50 people.

Many of his accusers have requested anonymity, fearing professional or legal retaliation from Krauss, or online abuse from men in the movement who have smeared women for speaking out about other skeptics. A few allegations about Krauss made their way onto skeptic blogs, but were quickly taken down in fear of legal action. So for years, these stories have stayed inside whisper networks in skepticism and physics.

In lengthy emails to BuzzFeed News, Krauss denied all of the accusations against him, calling them “false and misleading defamatory allegations.” When asked why multiple women, over more than a decade, have separately accused him of misconduct, he said the answer was “obvious”: It’s because his provocative ideas have made him famous.

So excited to be meeting Chairman Kim Jong-un of North Korea. For a Summit about denuking -- denuclearization -- very important. Something no President has ever done. Time & place TBD, we'll do it by May. It will be a great meeting. And the menu will have American food.

UPDATE: going to check with my Staff about this. More info later!

Her "International Woman's Day" emojis have sparked an online backlash

Kim Kardashian's decision to launch a "women's empowerment" add-on to her personal emoji collection for International Women's Day has received a considerable online backlash.

The collection features slogans such as "nasty woman", "my body, my choice" and "full time feminist".

Some on social media celebrated the move as positive promotion of ideals of equality. Others accused the personality of hypocrisy because her other products and emojis are provocative and sexualised.

I am for them and I think a lot of them understand that. You know, I won many categories of women and the women vote in the election, and people were shocked to see it. I was running against a woman and I’m winning all of these categories. So many women came out to celebrate my inauguration. Very big march in Washington, one of the biggest crowds ever for an inauguration. And I think I would do even better right now.

Women have the best unemployment numbers that they’ve had in 17 years. And they’re doing tremendously in business, they’re doing tremendously in so many ways. And people are starting to see that.

I also think they want to feel safe at the border. I think they want to see our military get much stronger. Women want to see strong law enforcement. I’m very much a law-and-order person. There’s nobody better than me on the military. I think women really like that. Very proud of our women soldiers and pilots. I think they want to be safe at home, in many different respects. They want us to win the war on opioids. And above all they want us to be energy independent. So we don't go into so many wars in the Middle East.

I think we have to evolve. If we don’t evolve, there’s something missing. But I have tremendous respect for women. You see all of the women I have working around me and working with me. Tremendous respect for women.

But I wouldn’t say I’m a feminist. I mean, I think that would be, maybe, going too far. I’m for women, I’m for men, I’m for everyone. I think people have to go out, they have to go out and really do it, and they have to win. And women are doing great, and I’m happy about that.

Alright - I think everyone knows that I have no use for Trump. I really don't like the guy much, for a number of reasons. I've even referred to him, on this forum, as The Court Fool.

Mr. Mychal Massie was a subject of discussion on the radio talk show this morning. "Trump isn't a liberal or a conservative, he's a pragmatist."

Wow. I hadn't thought of Trump in those terms - nor has anyone else here, I suspect. It has been stated here that Trump was not a republican, or a democrat. I just never thought in the direction that Massie has.

We recently enjoyed a belated holiday dinner at the home of friends. The dinner conversation was jocund, ranging from discussions about antique glass and china to theology and politics. At one point reference was made to Donald Trump being a conservative, to which I responded that Trump is not a conservative.

I said that neither does Trump view himself as a conservative. I stated it was my opinion that Trump is a pragmatist. He sees a problem and understands it must be fixed. He then sets about fixing it. He doesn’t see the problem as liberal or conservative; he sees it only as a problem. That is a quality that should be admired and applauded, not condemned. But I get ahead of myself.

Now, isn't that enough to make heads assplode? A pragmatist. BTW - Mr. Massie happens to be a black guy. His picture is at the top of the page, showing the face of a moderately dark brown man. So, this is from an African American who does NOT see Trump as a fascist, or a Nazi, or - well - he doesn't even see Trump as the court fool. I need to keep reading . . .

Viewing problems from a liberal perspective has resulted in the creation of more problems, more entitlement programs, more victims, more government, more political correctness and more attacks on the working class in all economic strata.

Viewing things according to the so-called Republican conservative perspective has brought continued spending, globalism to the detriment of American interests and well-being, denial of what the real problems are and weak, ineffective, milquetoast leadership that amounts to Barney Fife, deputy sheriff – appeasement-oriented and afraid of its own shadow. In brief, it has brought liberal ideology with a pachyderm as a mascot juxtaposed to the ass of the Democrat Party.

Immigration isn’t a Republican problem; it isn’t a liberal problem – it is a problem that threatens the very fabric and infrastructure of America. It demands a pragmatic approach, not an approach that is intended to appease one group or another.

The impending collapse of the economy isn’t a liberal or conservative problem; it is an American problem. That said, until it is viewed as a problem that demands a common-sense approach to resolution, it will never be fixed because the Democrats and Republicans know only one way to fix things, and their impracticality has proven to have no lasting effect. Successful businessmen like Donald Trump find ways to make things work. They do not promise to accommodate.

Trump uniquely understands that China’s manipulation of currency is not a Republican problem or a Democratic problem. It is a problem that threatens our financial stability, and he understands the proper balance needed to fix it. Here again, successful businessmen like Trump who have weathered the changing tides of economic reality understand what is necessary to make business work, and they, unlike both sides of the political aisle, know that if something doesn’t work you don’t continue trying to make it work, hoping that at some point it will.

As a pragmatist, Donald Trump hasn’t made wild pie-in-the-sky promises of a cellphone in every pocket, free college tuition and a $15-an-hour minimum wage for working the drive-through a Carl’s Jr.

I argue that America needs pragmatists because pragmatists see problems and find ways to fix them. They do not see a problem and compound it by creating more problems.

You may not like Donald Trump. I suspect that the reason people do not like him is because: 1) he is antithetical to the “good old boy” method of brokering backroom deals that fatten the coffers of politicians; 2) they are unaccustomed to hearing a candidate speak who is unencumbered by the financial shackles of those who own him vis-a-vis donations; 3) he is someone who is free of idiomatic political ideology; and 4) he is someone who understands that it takes more than hollow promises and political correctness to make America great again.

Listening to Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders talk about fixing America is like listening to two lunatics trying to “out crazy” one another. Jeb Bush and Marco Rubio are owned lock, stock and barrel by the bankers, corporations and big-dollar donors funding their campaigns. Bush can deny it, but common sense tells anyone willing to face facts that people don’t give tens of millions without expecting something in return.

We have had Democrats and Republican ideologues – and what has it brought us? Are we better off today or worst off? Has it happened overnight or has it been a steady decline brought on by both parties?

I submit that a pragmatist might be just what America needs right now. And as I said earlier, a pragmatist sees a problem and understands that the solution to fix same is not about a party, but a willingness and boldness to get it done.

People are quick to confuse and despise confidence as arrogance, but that is common amongst those who have never accomplished anything in their lives and who have always played it safe not willing to risk failure.

I'm thinking that maybe I need to read more Massie . . .

http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-a-pragmatist-not-a-conservative/
Published: 01/18/2016 at 7:23 PM

Good news, folks. I'm moving very strongly on DRAINING THE SWAMP. Because I asked Gary Cohn to resign as my economic advisor. He's registered as a Democrat. And he has a long, sad history with Goldman Sachs, part of the global power structure, the global special interests, that have total control over Crooked Hillary, Lyin' Ted and so many of our politicians. Globalization has made the financial elite, who donate to politicians, very, very wealthy. I used to be one of them. I hate to say it, but I used to be one. But it has left millions of our workers with nothing but poverty and heartache. Gary wouldn't play ball on my beautiful new tariffs. He stood with the elites.

We allowed foreign countries to subsidize their goods, devalue their currencies, violate their agreements and cheat in every way imaginable, and our politicians did nothing about it. Trillions of our dollars and millions of our jobs flowed overseas as a result. I have visited cities and towns across this country where one-third or even half of manufacturing jobs have been wiped out in the last 20 years. Today, we import nearly $800 billion more in goods than we export. We can’t continue to do that. This is not some natural disaster, it’s a political and politician-made disaster. Very simple. And it can be corrected and we can correct it fast when we have people with the right thinking. Right up here. It is the consequence of a leadership class that worships globalism over Americanism. This is a direct affront to our founding fathers. America wanted to be strong. They wanted this country to be strong. They wanted to be independent and they wanted it to be free.

And listen to this. The first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln -- nobody knows this, but he was a Republican -- warned that "the abandonment of the protective policy by the American government will produce WANT AND RUIN among our people." He understood it much better than our current politicians, that’s why he was Abraham Lincoln, I guess. Right?

Our founding fathers understood trade much better than our current politicians, believe me. When subsidized foreign steel is dumped into our markets, threatening our factories, the politicians have proven, folks, have proven they do nothing. We need to be one team, one people, one American family. Because all the other Countries are against us. I'm getting a fair deal for the American people. Now, it’s time for the American people to take back their future. Going to take it back. The era of economic surrender is finally OVER!

Coca-Cola plans to launch its first alcoholic drink

Coca-Cola is planning to produce an alcoholic drink for the first time in the company's 125-year history - with an alcopop-style product in Japan. It is keen to cash in on the country's growing taste for Chu-Hi - canned sparkling flavoured drinks given a kick with a local spirit called shochu. The product is typically between 3% and 8% alcohol by volume.

A senior Coke executive in Japan said the move was a "modest experiment for a specific slice of our market". "We haven't experimented in the low alcohol category before, but it's an example of how we continue to explore opportunities outside our core areas," said Jorge Garduno, Coca-Cola's Japan president. It was unlikely the drink would be sold outside of Japan, he suggested.

Some BBC commenterds want to ban alcopops.

Also at NPR and CNBC.