The Donald Trump Score Card

Yea, Spacely was a dick..............

Notice how he looks like a cross between Mr. Magoo and Hitler!

 

In all reality, it's Neo-Nazi Capitalism.

 

Trump should have been more receptive to Nieto who was actually aiding Trump with immigration issues. He will now have to deal with Obrador.

A populist of the right in the U.S. meets a populist of the left in Mexico.


Mexico’s next president likely to defy Trump on immigration
by Luis Gómez Romero
June 29, 2018 10.37pm EDT

excerpt:

"Migrants just cross Mexico like they’re “walking through Central Park,” Trump once claimed.

In truth, Mexico is aggressive in enforcing U.S. immigration policy. In 2014 President Enrique Peña Nieto implemented a robust deterrence effort, the Southern Border Program, to deter migration across Mexico’s border with Guatemala.

Between 2014 and 2015, Mexican deportations of Central Americans traveling to the U.S. – primarily Guatemalans, Hondurans and Salvadorans – more than doubled, from 78,733 in 2013 to 176,726 in 2015. During the same period, U.S. border agents detained half as many Central American migrants at the border."

 

He was once called a “danger to Mexico.” Now he’s its next president.
Meet “AMLO,” Mexico’s new leftist, populist, anti-establishment president.
By Jo Tuckman
Jul 4, 2018, 6:30am EDT

He was once called a "danger to Mexico." Now he’s its next president.

excerpt:

"MEXICO CITY — The landslide victory of leftist candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico’s presidential election on Sunday is the biggest political shake up the country has seen in decades — and it has the potential to change the way politics is done for decades more.

The 64-year-old baseball enthusiast won 53 percent of the vote, riding a wave of exhaustion and disgust with the country’s current leaders, who have led the country into a deep security crisis amid a cascade of corruption scandals.

Over 25,000 people were murdered in Mexico in 2017, according to official figures — the highest number ever recorded — and the numbers for the first five months of 2018 are up 15 percent on the same period last year. An estimated 130 political candidates and other public officials were assassinated just during the 2018 election alone.""

 

Trump’s Risky War of Choice Against the Generals
The president’s decision to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance has drawn fire even from figures like Robert Gates and David Petraeus, who have avoided criticizing him.
by David A. Graham
1:47 PM ET

Pulling Security Clearances Could Backfire on Trump - The Atlantic

excerpts:

"But wars, once started, don’t always unfold the way you intend. In Trump’s case, a host of prominent retired military and intelligence leaders have entered the fray opposing him. First, retired Navy Admiral William McRaven wrote an open letter to the president in The Washington Post on Thursday criticizing the revocation of Brennan’s clearance and asking to join him: “I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency.”

Later on Thursday, another 13 former generals and spy chiefs signed a letter in support of Brennan. Some of them have already been visible Trump critics, including the former NSA chief Michael Hayden and the former CIA deputy chief John McLaughlin, but others have been less outspoken, such as Porter Goss, the CIA director under George W. Bush. The real surprises are Robert Gates, a former CIA director and defense secretary, and David Petraeus, who also led the CIA."


"Now Trump is fighting wars on several fronts—against Manigault-Newman; against practically the entire former leadership of the intelligence community; and, of course, against Special Counsel Robert Mueller, whose team rested its case against the former Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort this week."

 

are you denying that daddy got her that job.? as far as being good at her job, please. if she was good at her job, she would tell the truth, at least once.

 

If her job is lying, which it seems to be, then she's doing an outstanding job!

 

Mexico has fantastic potential that never seems to materialize. They have an abundance of natural resources and some of the most impressive beaches on the planet. It SHOULD be paradise. Instead it's a den of corrupt assholes in charge of the government, families that have ruled for generations. Couple this with the variety of rebel factions fashionably called "Cartels" who will do anything/kill anybody to keep the flow of drugs going north and money coming south (thanks to American drug policy).

How would anyone logically deal with this problem as a president of the United States? I really wonder. Since Teddy Roosevelt no serious consideration has been made by any president regarding Mexico. Always the American presidents make shallow deals that add up to a band aid on skull fracture. Trump has kicked it down a notch with extreme depraved indifference. His opinion seems to be "let Mexico figure it out" which I might agree with if Mexico was overseas. Instead, we're joined at the hip.

I'd like to retire on a Mexican beach, but I can't buy beach property there. And the nation is in a protracted insurrectionist war that is only likely to escalate. Even if the US seals the border the Mexican conflicts will persist (and probably move closer to Mexico City). Refugees from Mexico would have to turn south as well, which is not likely to go very well. There's a reason central American nations are not consolidated into Mexican territory. Guatemala is the buffer zone.

I wonder how the US would react if the Mexican government opened the door to military assistance a tad wider. Sometimes wiping out the murderous assholes is the way to go. Isn't that how we feel about all the white supremacists roaming every American street corner?

 

Nixon wanted to do something similar behind the scene...away from public view. Trump does not care. He is destabilizing all federal government agencies for a reason...most likely to obey Putin.

 

I heard a commentator say that trump wants to be liked. I disagree, I think trump enjoys pissing people off, and doesn't care if people like him.

 

Her job is to be the mouthpiece for the Trump administration, not to tell the truth

 

How anti-abortion forces learned to love Trump
By JENNIFER HABERKORN and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO
05/22/2018 02:06 PM EDT
Updated 05/22/2018 08:57 PM EDT

How anti-abortion forces learned to love Trump

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump on Tuesday night was feted by a leading anti-abortion group that called him the most "pro-life president" ever. It's the exact same group that just two years ago begged Iowa caucus voters to nominate “anyone” but Trump.

“I’m totally eating my words,” said Susan B. Anthony List President Marjorie Dannenfelser, who praised Trump at the group's annual gala in Washington. “It’s the happiest wrong I’ve ever been."

Thanks to Trump, the anti-abortion movement has notched victories on federal funding for Planned Parenthood, allowing businesses to opt out of contraception coverage in health plans and confirming conservative Justice Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. The president as a result has amassed an army of loyalists who are eyeing November's midterm elections as an opportunity to ensure that Trump’s next Supreme Court pick — if he gets one — puts them a step closer toward undoing Roe v. Wade, the ruling that established abortion rights.

SBA led the 2016 anti-Trump letter to Iowa caucusgoers and a follow-up to South Carolina primary voters. The movement at the time was deeply skeptical of the candidate, who in the past had defined himself as “pro-choice,” was on his third marriage and has a history of making disparaging comments about women. But they say he has governed consistently as an anti-abortion president."

 

Trump warnings grow from forgotten Republicans
By steve peoples, associated press
NEW YORK — Aug 18, 2018, 11:41 PM ET

Trump warnings grow from forgotten Republicans

excerpt:

"The expanding list of marginalized GOP leaders underscores how thoroughly Trump has dominated — and changed — the Republican Party in the nearly two years since he seized the presidency. The overwhelming majority of elected officials, candidates and rank-and-file voters now follow the president with extraordinary loyalty, even if he strays far from the values and traditions many know and love.

The Republicans left behind are warning their party with increasing urgency, though it's unclear whether anyone's listening.

"I hope this is a very temporary place for the Republican Party," said Corker. "I hope that very soon we will return to our roots as a party that's very different, especially in tone, from what we've seen coming out of the White House."

The forgotten Republicans — people like former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, South Carolina Rep. Mark Sanford and Ohio Gov. John Kasich — have been unwilling to sit quietly as Trump steers the GOP away from free trade, fiscal responsibility, consistent foreign policy and civility."

 

I am not so sure that it is that big a deal if these folks lose their security clearances. What I have a problem with is trump trying to stop opposing opinions of his policies. It won't work. If anything, I think it will cause people to speak out more.

 

Sanders needs to reconcile her remarks about Porter and the White House relying on the intelligence community process with the actions of Trump to unilaterally and personally revoke Brennan's security clearance with apparently no consultation with the intelligence community.

A remark by Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Feb 12, 2018 regarding the security credentials of Rob Porter who was eventually dismissed:

“Look, this is a process that doesn’t operate within the White House. It’s handled by our law enforcement and intelligence community. And we support that process. It’s the same process that has been used for decades in previous administrations, and we’re relying on that process at this point.”