1/ How Trump reshaped the presidency and how it’s changed him.| In his first 100 days, Trump has transformed the highest office in ways both profound and mundane, pushing traditional boundaries, ignoring longstanding protocol and discarding historical precedents as he reshapes the White House in his own image. (New York Times) 2/ At 100 days, Trump’s big talk on the … Read More
Trump Conficts
I’m going to paste this link here, because it is awesome. A timeline of Trump conflicts by the great folks at Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW)
Let This Quote Sink In
That quote should go in every history book, because it epitomizes both the arrogance and the ignorance of the Trump campaign. We’ve gone from “Only I can fix this” in his convention speech to “I thought it would be easier”. A man who doesn’t know that President of the United States is the hardest job title ON THE PLANET, should … Read More
Trump Loses In Federal Court…. Again…. This Time on Sanctuary Cities
A federal district court ruling yesterday bars President Trump from withholding funds from jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal agencies to deport undocumented immigrants, marking his second setback in court on immigration. The first setback, of course, was his Muslim ban. Before I get to the substance of this post, first things first: First the Ninth Circuit rules against … Read More
State Department Website Plugs Trump’s Mar-A-Lago
Ethics problem: Washington (CNN)- President Donald Trump personally owns Mar-a-Lago, his private club on Florida’s eastern coast. But that didn’t stop the State Department, in a blog post on the United States Embassy in London’s website, from touting the property. In a markedly promotional blog post from April 5 that could eventually benefit the President’s bottom line, should it spur … Read More
The Associated Press Trump Interview of WTF — Annotated
So anyway, the president gave an interview to AP and it is scaring the crap out of everybody because it is Trumpian in its incoherence. Let’s take a look, shall we? The emphases are mine: A transcript of an Oval Office interview Friday with President Donald Trump by AP White House Correspondent Julie Pace. Where the audio recording of the … Read More
Trump’s Elements Of Style
TRUMP’S ELEMENTS OF STYLE by Kathryn Petras and Ross Petras of Mscsweeney’s Strunk Rule: Omit needless words Trump Rule: No word is needless. They’re all great! Terrific! They’re fantastic words! I know about fantastic words! On Day One, we will begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful southern border wall. We will use the best technology, including above- … Read More
Recommended Reading
I guess it is not a surprise, but Ryan Lizza at The New Yorker reports that Trump advisers turned the White House upside-down looking for information to justify Trump’s crazy “Obama spied on me” tweet. Key graf: The intelligence source told me that he knows, “from talking to people in the intelligence community,” that “the White House said, ‘We are going … Read More
Most Americans Think Trump Won’t Keep His Promises
Gallup this morning: Trump Loses Ground on Key Characteristics Percentage who think each of the following applies to Donald Trump Feb 1-5 Apr 5-9 Change % % pct. pts. Keeps his promises 62 45 -17 Is a strong and decisive leader 59 52 -7 Can bring about changes this country needs 53 46 -7 Is honest and trustworthy … Read More
White House University
Trump on health care: “I have to tell you, it’s an unbelievably complex subject. Nobody knew health care could be so complicated.” Trump on China and North Korea: “[President Xi] then went into the history of China and Korea….And Korea actually used to be a part of China. And after listening for 10 minutes I realized that it’s not so … Read More
“Filth”
That’s how our Attorney General describes people — illegal immigrants, specifically. Snapshot from DOJ website:
Trump’s Bizarre Interview
Our President seems unusually obsessed that he could eat dessert and have missile strikes at the same time: BARTIROMO: When you were with the president of China, you’re launching these military strikes. TRUMP: Yes. BARTIROMO: Was that planned? How did that come about that it’s happening right then, because right there, you’re saying a reminder, here’s who the superpower in … Read More
Carter Page: Subject Of A FISA Warrent
It has been a weird week in news, as the nation focuses on United Airlines and its treatment of passengers. It’s a nice break from the Trump-Russia scandal, I suppose, but the steady drumbeat of that scandal continues, as each week offers up more revelations. WaPo reports that Carter Page, whose credentials Trump once bragged on like a proud grandpa … Read More
Trump Himself Is Fake News
28% of Donald Trump’s Twitter followers are eggs, according to an analysis from Bloomberg.| In Twitter parlance, an egg is trouble. Sometimes a bot, usually a troll, eggs tends to be people who didn’t bother taking the time to even upload a photo in their profile, often because they’re so busy creating fake profiles, it’s just not worth their time. … Read More