The Donald Trump Score Card

You know, if I hadn't taken that German test in high school, I wouldn't have gotten an F.
I spent too much time reading Das Kapital.

 

Like his blustering, populist, counterpart Trump, Bolsonaro could also claim he built a super-duper virus testing apparatus whose results he had to censor because it was making him look bad.



Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site
Government accused of totalitarianism and censorship after Bolsonaro orders end to publication of numbers
Dom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Sun 7 Jun 2020 13.40 EDT
Last modified on Mon 8 Jun 2020 12.46 EDT

Brazil stops releasing Covid-19 death toll and wipes data from official site

 

Excellent! Now it will just go away.

 

Milley apologized for participating in the photo-op with Trump. Milley was in military attire for the event which made it look particularly bad.



Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’
President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square, current and former military leaders say, has started a moment of reckoning in the military.
By Helene Cooper
Published June 11, 2020
Updated June 12, 2020

Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON — The country’s top military official apologized on Thursday for taking part in President Trump’s walk across Lafayette Square for a photo op after the authorities used tear gas and rubber bullets to clear the area of peaceful protesters.

“I should not have been there,” Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said in a prerecorded video commencement address to National Defense University. “My presence in that moment and in that environment created a perception of the military involved in domestic politics.”"

 

Another setback for Trump, this one concerning his repurposing of military money to build his border wall after he couldn't make Mexico or the U.S. Congress pay for it.



Trump broke the law by using military money for border wall, appeals court rules
Maura Dolan
June 26, 2020

Trump broke the law by using military money for border wall, appeals court rules

excerpt:

"The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals said the power of the purse belongs to Congress, and the administration lacked constitutional authority to transfer the military money. Two Democratic appointees were in the majority. A Trump appointee dissented."

 

He's sorry that it "created a perception"

He's not sorry that the military is involved in domestic politics.

 

The dismissal of Bright is yet another incident with Trump's fingerprints on it: use a Trump official to remove a person in an underhanded fashion that tries to cover Trump's order and engage in a retaliation campaign.

The same pattern was seen in the disposal of Comey, Sessions, impeachment witnesses Gordon Sondland, Lt. Colonel Alexander Vindman and Yovanovitch, Preet Bharara, Berman, and McCabe.



Ousted coronavirus whistleblower says Trump administration is 'on the warpath' against him
Dr. Rick Bright, who was removed from a key pandemic response job, updated his whistleblower complaint with additional allegations of retribution.
By Adam Edelman
June 25, 2020, 9:52 PM UTC

Ousted coronavirus whistleblower says Trump administration is 'on the warpath' against him

excerpt:

"In the initial complaint, Bright also described a chaotic response to the coronavirus at the Department of Health and Human Services fueled largely by "pressure from HHS leadership to ignore scientific merit and expert recommendations and instead to award lucrative contracts based on political connections and cronyism.

But in his amended complaint filed Thursday, Bright alleged that after he filed his initial complaint, top administration officials, including Trump, launched a retaliatory media campaign to try to discredit him and that he’d been sidelined at the NIH in an “extremely narrow role” that “excluded” him from the agency’s “work on vaccines, including the vaccine programs that he initiated in response to the current COVID-19 pandemic response.”

“This intentional effort to pigeon-hole Dr. Bright is detrimental to his entire professional career,” the amended complaint said. “He is excluded from the scientific and industry work to which he has devoted decades of his career.”"

 

Trump's Bible photo-op didn't score any points with high-ranking military and civilian officials.

The normally quiet Mattis issued a rebuke.



Milley Apologizes for Role in Trump Photo Op: ‘I Should Not Have Been There’

excerpt:

"The Lafayette Square events brought extraordinary public criticism from a number of high-profile former military officials, including Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama, and Jim Mattis, Mr. Trump’s first defense secretary before he resigned in December 2018.

In fact, the episode prompted Mr. Mattis, who had avoided publicly criticizing Mr. Trump, to write a statement denouncing his former boss.

“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago, I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution,” wrote Mr. Mattis, a retired Marine four-star general. “Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the constitutional rights of their fellow citizens — much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander in chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”"

 

Remember it's not what he does because that's nothing it's who he hurts. That's pretty much expressed by his voters too. The people who make them angry are made angry and that is what is "great" in America.

Trump Can't Name One Thing He'd Prioritize if Re-elected

 

The Trump Covid19 task force, led by a maskless Pence, held its first briefing in about two months today. Apparently, all is not well in Coronaland. Pence touted the Trump Administration's "remarkable progress" in dealing with the virus, as cases surge. He falsely claimed that the U.S. "flattened the curve" on the virus the day after the U.S. broke its single day record for new corona cases. Dr. Fauci acknowledged that some parts of the country are facing "a serious problem" as COVID infection rates are spiraling in several states in the South and West. When asked if people should wear masks, Pence replied they should consult their state and local governments, dodging the question entirely.
White House holds Coronavirus Task Force briefing as cases hit a new high in US
The Administration's stance on mask wearing seems paradoxical. The medical experts on the team acknowledge that mask wearing is helpful in combating the spread of the virus. Trump wants the economy to reopen smoothly. Yet he continues not to wear a mask and to not-so-subtly cater to the mask resistance movement. He seems instead to be using magical thinking, denial, and ostrich-like posturing as his main line of response to the problem.

 

Maybe trump wants to catch the virus and be done with it.

 

No attention span could be another sign of dementia. The glass of water and "steep" ramp ignored he's been known from day one to be like this. He can't read complex things. He lashes out with name calling and bragging because he's embarrasses when he's asked to do things he can't. He needs one page briefs with simple words. His voters see it as if he's so efficient and busy. No time for bullshit he's a smart guy and he knows. These issues are not like that.

He's probably functionally illiterate. I've heard that from a few special education teachers. But of course they have masters degrees and a liberal agenda. So they would want to lie to me about Trumps showing all the classic sings. A rich kid like is more likely to get ignored too. Money and not wanting to be embarrassed with a special child go a long way. He degree is bought and professors have said he was stupid. He's always had his father's money to pay people to read for him.

The problem now is the "home work" not being done is national security and human rights issues.
‘He’s Done With That’: Trump’s Already Bored With Police Reform

 

Trump spent about 16 minutes at his Tulsa rally trying to defend his issues with drinking a glass of water and walking down a ramp. He even threw a glass of water.

For his next carnival stunt to try to bolster his reelection chances, Trump can do a demonstration of walking down a ramp while drinking a glass of water.

 

A summary article about the misleading statements Trump made about the coronavirus and rebuttals based on facts.


Fact check: A list of 28 ways President Trump and his team have been dishonest about the coronavirus
By CNN.com Wire Service
By Daniel Dale and Tara Subramaniam | CNN
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2020 at 11:54 a.m.
UPDATED: March 12, 2020 at 1:12 p.m.

Fact check: A list of 28 ways Trump and his team have been dishonest about the coronavirus

 

This is the first coronavirus task force briefing that the Trump administration has held in about two months. The briefings ended in late April after his remarks about UV and disinfectants.



White House holds Coronavirus Task Force briefing as cases hit a new high in US
Vice President Mike Pence held a Coronavirus Task Force briefing Friday to talk about the spread of COVID-19 across the United States. This was the first briefing from the task force in nearly two months.
by: The Associated Press
Posted: Jun 26, 2020 / 06:14 AM HST
Updated: Jun 26, 2020 / 08:03 AM HST

White House holds Coronavirus Task Force briefing as cases hit a new high in US

excerpt:

"Texas and Florida clamped down on bars again Friday in the nation’s biggest retreat yet as a surge across the South and West sent the number of confirmed new coronavirus infections per day in the U.S. to an all-time high of 40,000.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott ordered all bars closed, while Florida banned alcohol consumption at all such establishments. The two states joined the small but growing list of those that are either backtracking or putting any further reopenings of their economies on hold because of a comeback by the virus."

 

Last night, on the Hannity show, trump admitted he will probably lose to Biden. He then went on to say that he can't understand why people don't like him.

 

Over 2.5 million coronavirus cases in the U.S. and over 127,000 deaths.

Coronavirus Update (Live): 9,840,498 Cases and 494,719 Deaths from COVID-19 Virus Pandemic - Worldometer

 

Considering all of Trump's self-pity, he should be playing Barry Manilow songs at his rallies.



Trump says Biden's 'going to be your president because some people don't love me, maybe'
US president told Sean Hannity: 'I don’t want to be nice or unnice, okay?'
Gino Spocchia
June 26, 2020

Trump says Biden's 'going to be your president because some people don't love me, maybe'

 

Why the three week old article?


Peru is having a worse time of it than Brazil is, and Peru locked down before the US did

Your desire for wanting to blame a right wing federal leader is blinding you to the truth

 

Biden just doesn't seem to be getting the press coverage he should, it's really weird, especially at this time