The Donald Trump Score Card

This aligns with Rump's adoration of, and public, outright praise for the likes of COMMUNIST DICTATORS Vladimir Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jung Un. He's said publicly that he admires their "strong leadership styles." He admires RUTHLESS DICTATORS. Rump's comments are all a matter of public record .............................. on VIDEO and AUDIO TAPE.

 

Even older white voters are sick of the Rump circus. Some friends and relatives who've traditionally been Republican voters think Rump is a jerk and a disgrace. They think Rump is a disaster on many fronts - corruption, and especially his denials & lies about the Covid-19 pandemic, and his "handling" of it. They're voting for Biden.

 

No, you haven't been paying attention. His racism was manifest in 1973, when the Trump Management Corporation settle its first lawsuit for discriminating against blacks by lying to them about the lack of availability of apartments and quoting them different rental terms and conditions than for whites. Years later, they sued him again for similar charges. Then in 1992, the New Jersey Casino Control Commission fined the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino $222,000 because managers would remove African-American card dealers at the request of a certain big-spending gambler. A state appeals court upheld the fine. He also complained that he had black guys handling his money. “The only kind of people I want counting my money are short guys that wear yarmulkes every day.” In 2013, he called for the death penalty for the Central Park 5, since acquitted on the basis of DNA evidence. But his political use of racism began big time with the Birtherism of the Obama era. And that was well before the went down that escallator!

Whattabout Hillary? Whattabout her? I guess she's still alive, but isn't running for anything at the moment. Her campaign worker has been accused of starting birtherism, although no link has been proven between the issue and her personally. It was Trump who took the issue and ran with it, putting it and himself on the political map!

In the most lurid terms. The dogwhistle was obvious.

It was obvious from the context he wasn't sympathizing with their poverty. When every example he gives is of a black majority country, the implication is obvious. Who do you think you're foolin'?

You must have been a terrible student. I've gone over this with you several times. I said he was a racist and a bigot. This is an example of his bigotry.

I see. Telling U.S. citizens to go back to where they came from was a political ploy to smoke out the democrats--using ethnic and religious bigotry for political purposes. Genius! True genuus! What a scumbag!

No, Six. That's not how we got started. I called him a racist and a bigot and I proved it.
When the President of the United States uses "mean words" as often as he does against members of minority races, religions and ethnic groups, that's a serious problem![/QUOTE]

 

Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC
Will Feuer
Published Thu, Jul 16 20209:31 AM EDT

Coronavirus data has already disappeared after Trump administration shifted control from CDC

excerpt:

"Previously public data has already disappeared from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s website after the Trump administration quietly shifted control of the information to the Department of Health and Human Services.

Since the pandemic began, the CDC regularly published data on availability of hospital beds and intensive care units across the country. But Ryan Panchadsaram, who helps run a data-tracking site called Covid Exit Strategy, said that when he tried to collect the data from the CDC on Tuesday, it had disappeared."


"Panchadsaram thinks of the project as something of a “progress czar” as they grade different states on the overall progress they’ve made in fighting Covid-19. Available hospital beds and ICU capacity is a key indicator they use to assess state performance, he added.

“It’s disappointing. It happened a lot quicker than expected,” he said. “The picture that we’re presenting to the world is incomplete.”

Other coronavirus researchers and public health specialists expressed concern because the policy change was announced so suddenly in the midst of a public health crisis that appears to be worsening."

 

Trump faces the same type of restrictions for his convention in Jacksonville, FL as he did in North Carolina. Staying with North Carolina would have been better considering the new cases in FL, particularly the Jacksonville area. But Trump had a feud with the Democratic governor of NC.


Republicans limit attendance to Jacksonville convention as coronavirus surges in Florida
"I want to make clear that we still intend to host a fantastic convention celebration in Jacksonville," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said.
By Allan Smith and Monica Alba
July 16, 2020, 10:50 AM EDT

Republicans limit attendance to Jacksonville convention as coronavirus surges in Florida

 

The CDC had drafted a briefing packet describing guidelines for the reopening of chools in a safe manner. It never went public via the Trump administration.

In his quest to make the public perceive that everything is back to normal in time for his election, Trump thought that the guidelines were too strict and said that the CDC would be issuing different guidelines in the following week which are expected to be a watered-down version.

In a related matter, Trump snubbed the CDC again by rerouting coronavirus data to the HHS instead of going to the CDC first, which creates suspicions that the data might be manipulated and politicized.



As Trump Demanded Schools Reopen, His Experts Warned of ‘Highest Risk’
A briefing packet for federal emergency response teams details the steps schools should take to reopen safely.
By Eileen Sullivan and Erica L. Green
Published July 10, 2020
Updated July 11, 2020

As Trump Demanded Schools Reopen, His Experts Warned of ‘Highest Risk’

excerpt:

"“The good news is, this is very thoughtful and complete,” he added. “The bad news is, it’s never been released.”

A breakdown of state plans included in the briefing also identified state and university proposals that the task force appeared to see as models. The document identified as “examples of consistency with C.D.C. guidance” institutions like Arizona Western University, which will offer virtual services to students and staff members throughout the fall, and Hampton University, where in-person class sizes and gatherings will be reduced to 50 percent. It also highlights a number of states, like Georgia, where families are offered an option of in-person and virtual classes.

And as Mr. Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos were trying to pressure local schools to comply with their reopening vision, the document was expressly saying the federal government should not override local judgment."

 

The wording of a question affects what people think it is actually asking.

A Gallup poll was asking parents about their school preferences for their children.

Many parents may prefer that their children are back in full-time, in-person schools for the new school year. That doesn't necessarily mean that they will send them back based on the current safety conditions of schools related to the coronavirus.

A more specific poll question would be: "Based on the current safety conditions at schools and the current state of the coronavirus, will you send your children back to school in-person and full-time this autumn?"

The question that was asked by the Gallup poll:

"In the fall, would you want your children's school to have full-time distance/remote learning, have a modified program where they attend school part time and do some distance/remote learning, or have your children attend school full time?"


Parents Slightly Favor Full-Time, In-Person School This Fall
by Jeffrey M. Jones
June 18, 2020

Parents Slightly Favor Full-Time, In-Person School This Fall

 

Governors and mayors are taking over the helm in the wake of the lack of national leadership and the promulgation of counter-safety politics emanating from DC.



As U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit 3.5 Million, Officials Scramble to Add Restrictions

More U.S. school districts have joined the move toward online learning for their reopening plans. China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, expanded in the second quarter.
Published July 15, 2020
Updated July 16, 2020, 5:31 a.m. ET

As U.S. Coronavirus Cases Hit 3.5 Million, Officials Scramble to Add Restrictions

excerpt:


"The United States on Wednesday reported more than 67,300 new infections across the country, according to a New York Times database. It was the nation’s second-highest single-day total and roughly 1,000 cases shy of the record set last week.

The U.S. outbreak, which has increased in 41 states over the past two weeks, hit 3.5 million total infections on Wednesday, the Times’s database shows.

Alabama and Idaho set single-day death records, and officials in Arizona announced 101 deaths, tying that state’s daily record.

In a cautionary effort, several large school districts said on Wednesday that they would open the year with online classes, bucking pressure from President Trump and his administration to get students back into classrooms as quickly as possible.

The Houston Independent School District, the seventh-largest in the country, said it would start the year virtually on Sept. 8. Students will have at least six weeks of online instruction, with a tentative plan to start in-person classes on Oct. 19.

In San Francisco, school officials announced that the upcoming school year would start with distance learning and that the district would “gradually phase in a staggered return” to the classroom. In a message to parents, the superintendent, Vincent Matthews, wrote that “we hope to provide a gradual hybrid approach (a combination of in-person and distance learning) for some students when science and data suggest it is safe to do so.”"

 

Now it'll be more Rump lies. He hates that the Covid-19 case numbers and deaths are spiking in an election year, so he's commandeering the data so he can manipulate the numbers to make himself look better. This asshole Rump - is a 100% corrupt criminal. It's HIS OWN dumb-ass misinformation, directions, lies, and lack of competent leadership that are the cause of the spiking numbers.

Watch the numbers suddenly turn for the better. The hospitals all across the country should send their numbers to Johns Hopkins University AND still send them to the CDC, the NIH and anywhere else that is an HONEST source.

 

The White House has tried to discredit Fauci by publishing a list of cherry-picked statements he made without context to try to make it look like he was wrong about various aspects of the virus.



Fauci calls White House criticism of him bizarre, says 'let's stop this nonsense' and fight coronavirus
Doina Chiacu
July 15, 2020 / 2:11 PM

Fauci calls White House criticism of him bizarre, says 'let's stop this nonsense' and fight coronavirus

excerpts:

"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. infectious disease expert Anthony Fauci on Wednesday called the White House effort to discredit him “bizarre” and urged an end to the divisiveness over the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic, saying “let’s stop this nonsense.”

Fauci, who has become a popular and trusted figure during the coronavirus outbreak, came under criticism from President Donald Trump and some of his Republican allies as Fauci cautioned against reopening the U.S. economy too soon.

The recent spike in coronavirus infections, primarily in states that were among the earliest to lift coronavirus restrictions, put Fauci on a collision course with the White House.


“You know, it is a bit bizarre. I don’t really fully understand it,” Fauci said in an interview with The Atlantic.

He said he believed the people involved in releasing that list, which was misleading because it did not include the entirety of Fauci’s statements or other context, are really “taken aback by what a big mistake that was.”

White House tensions with Fauci have risen with the decline of Trump’s popularity in opinion polls over the president’s handling of the outbreak."

 

Trump is like the anti-science trolls on a science forum.

 

Trump doesn't even seem to know what he wants to do with Fauci. Trump has his own people in the White House running interference on Fauci for him, yet he acts like he's still on good terms with Fauci and that it's some other unnamed people outside of his control that are disparaging him.

 

and Epstein, and Ghislaine.

 

Trump has rebranded himself as a far-right, bigoted ideologue.

He doesn't say much anymore about the coal miners and other down-and-outers either who were once a centerpiece of his campaign.




Trump’s presidency has shattered a key myth that helped propel him to victory: conservative columnist
By Matthew Chapman
July 16, 2020

Trump’s presidency has shattered a key myth that helped propel him to victory: conservative columnist

excerpt:

"That image, argued Miller, may have once let voters believe Trump would break the partisan mold and work with both parties to get things done. Instead, he’s been a cut-and-dried Republican ideologue.

“It is this brand pivot, from a dealmaking anti-establishment businessman to an extremist far-right firebrand that has limited the president’s political aspirations more than anything else, in a way that is underappreciated by most of the political chattering class, for whom the concept of ‘Donald Trump, centrist dealmaker’ never really took,” wrote Miller."


“The result is that he’s removed dealmaking Donald from his political tool box and the only thing he has left is Trashing Trump,” concluded Miller. “And that’s why, with 18 million Americans out of work and 137,000 dead, the president is in the Rose Garden throwing nonsensical haymakers about Biden wanting to abolish the suburbs and screwing up H1N1, hoping something lands, rather than giving his more moderate voters what they signed up for and walking down to Capitol Hill to give the swamp a lesson in the Art of the Deal.”

 

Thing is he never was a "dealmaker" He's always just been trash...

 

Trump has confused having his father's money for actual intelligence or skill. He thinks he makes deals because he hires people to draft contracts and use said money. I would challenge his voters to find one example of him doing something right. He just goes bankrupt.

 

Trump's gut was wrong in proclaiming that UV and warm weather would essentially end the coronavirus problem.

Now Trump has chosen to try to criticize Biden for something he supposedly did wrong with the bird flu in 2009 that crippled Trump's ability to grapple with the coronavirus in 2020.



Why didn't summer kill the coronavirus? Experts explain what White House officials were missing
Abby Haglage
Yahoo Life
July 16, 2020, 1:31 PM

excerpt:

"When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March, White House officials’ hopes seemed high that summer would stem the tide of COVID-19. During an April 24 White House coronavirus task force briefing, William Bryan, the acting undersecretary for science and technology at the Department of Homeland Security, touted “emerging evidence” that reportedly showed SARS-CoV-2 would die more quickly in the presence of sunlight and humidity.

Scientists were dubious that this would have a major effect, pointing to countries with already-warm weather that were then experiencing outbreaks. Now mid-July, with over 3.4 million U.S. cases and record-breaking daily cases in some of the warmest states, scientists are realizing their predictions were right — and are shining a light on what the officials may have missed.

Rachel Baker, a postdoctorate fellow at the Princeton Environmental Institute, was one of three authors of a study published May 15 in the journal Science on how SARS-CoV-2 — the virus that causes COVID-19 — may be affected by climate. In it, she and her colleagues concluded that summer was unlikely to have a major effect on the spread of COVID-19. Their findings did not inherently contradict Bryan’s; they too found that the virus may be weakened by sunlight and warmth. But their research contained a pivotal missing piece: that a virus with zero immunity is more powerful than both."

 

And then one day Mary Trump came along and wrote a book ........................

"The president is “clearly racist,” but that his behavior stems from a combination of upbringing and political cynicism"

“Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the n-word or use anti-Semitic expressions,” she said.

 

Trump's deal-making ability in the context of national governance leaves much to be desired.

He still hasn't cut any meaningful overhaul deals on immigration, education, infrastructure, trade, and healthcare, not even with members of his own party.

His supporters will claim a trade deal with China and one with Mexico. His trade agreement with China tries to undo a relatively small percentage of damage done by his trade wars overall. The trade war continues and Trump has even admitted it may take a second term to try to win his war with China. The revisions to NAFTA were minor.

On the immigration front, Trump was coercing members of Congress by threatening to end DACA. He later offered citizenship to DACA recipients in return for Congress to give $25 billion of U.S. taxpayer money for his wall (that he said Mexico would finance). He blew whatever opportunity he may have had by adding more draconian, general immigration restrictions. It turned off members of Congress and a deal was never brokered, leaving Trump to rely on help from the Supreme Court which decided that he can't end DACA in the quick, capricious way he desired.

On the healthcare front, Trump has made a last-ditch effort further cripple the healthcare of Americans by requesting the Supreme Court to overturn the Obama era ACA. A decision won't be issued before the November 2020 election. Trump's skinny repeal of the ACA failed and no new meaningful legislative improvement of the healthcare system has been formulated by Trump and the Republicans in Congress.

The best proposed deal Trump could concoct for solving the coronavirus pandemic was for the state legislatures (mostly states with Democratic governors) to bargain with anti-health safety, gun-toting protesters and make a deal with them while describing them as good people.

The lack of progress leaves little for him to campaign on, which is likely why he has increasingly turned to bigoted, ideological remarks to try to appeal to the fringe in his base. Although the polls show that it is unlikely, he thinks that it will somehow win the votes of the middle class in suburbia which he claimed Biden wants to destroy during a 63-minute meandering monolog at the Rose Garden that he misleadingly billed as a press conference.

 

Do conservatives have a death-wish? I mean, is it that much of an inconvenience to wear a little face mask?

Check out this meeting at the Utah County Commission public hearing about the face-mask mandate. You have to watch it on YouTube. Fast forward to around the 6:30 mark.