The Donald Trump Score Card

Everyone knows he likes Big Macs!

 

That tolerant right again. So ready and accepting of differing opinions

I am paraphrasing there to mock what they say when the left wing does anything that challenges dear leader.

I don't see the level of manners and respect there they feel they show.

 

How soon until Trump just takes BBC press pass for "fake news"?

Trump condemns attacks on media

 

Trumps Tax cut is a joke.

When people start doing their taxes this year are they going to be in for a shock.

The republicans with their new tax plan have manipulated the tax tables in such a way that most people will find their refund check as much as 8-10% less than last year.
And many people who were expecting a small refund check will likely owe the IRS.....

 

I give credit where credit is due

Trump just came up with the greatest idea since sliced bread

Trump will issue an executive order to have a fireworks display every 4th of July on the Washington DC mall. What a brilliant idea, the only problem is someone
beat him to the punch. You see Washington DC has been holding a concert and fireworks display EVERY 4th of July since time immemorial

 

Well, lots of people are starting to make room arraignments for that guy...at the psychiatric hospital.

 

Trump's golf simulator will facilitate even more 'executive time' for him, such as inviting Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods to the White House to discuss foreign policy (building of new Trump-branded golf courses overseas and determining which leaders are a friend or foe of the U.S. based on the extent to which they comply with Trump's desire to build golf courses in their country).


President Trump installed a new golf simulator at the White House, report says
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Published 12:50 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2019 | Updated 1:59 p.m. ET Feb. 13, 2019

President Trump installed a new golf simulator at the White House, report says

 

As his psychological state deteriorates, Trump might eventually propose a new sport where one strikes a ball with a club down a field of grass to try to get it to fall into a hole.



Trump Proposes Fourth of July Parade in D.C., Which Already Exists
By Matt Stieb
February 13, 2019

Trump Proposes July 4 Parade in D.C., Which Already Exists

excerpt:

"The president’s comment on Tuesday falls into the burgeoning category of “Things Trump Has Proposed That Already Exist.”

In November 2018, upset by his presentation on CNN, Trump put forward the idea for a “worldwide network to show the World the way we really are,” apparently unaware of Voice of America, the government-funded media distributor founded during World War II to do just that. (In his defense, most of VOA’s media output is consumed abroad.)

In June 2017, Trump suggested a policy that bars immigrants from receiving welfare for their first five years as citizens — a law that has existed since 1996, as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.

In April 2018, when China upped tariffs on agricultural commodities, Trump proposed subsidies for farmers, as if government aid to the industry didn’t already number in the billions.

And there’s this classic: In February 2018, during a meeting in which Trump said violent media may be to blame for America’s blight of mass shootings, he suggested, “Maybe they have to put a rating system” in effect for movies and video games."

 

I dunno. Having him delusional may have its advantages. Trump apparently thinks (or at least says) that a lot of his wall has already been built, even though others are unable to see it.
Trump says the wall is already being built. Here's a reality check.
FACT CHECK: Trump Says 'A Lot Of Wall Has Been Built' As He Demands We Build More
Fact check: Donald Trump says ‘tremendous amounts’ of border wall already built
This gives a Hans Christian Anderson flavor to his administration. We have The Emperor's New Wall, which is actually invisible. If Democrats would just play along, we might be able to save the country a shitload of money and lots of acrimony. They can just appropriate some invisible $billions for it, give Trump credit, and Trump and his supporters might be satisfied. A win-win for everybody.

 

Despite pressure from Trump, coal-fueled power plants to shutter in Kentucky, Tennessee
The president tweeted that TVA needed to “give serious consideration to all factors before voting to close viable power plants, like Paradise #3 in Kentucky.”
By Phil McCausland
Feb. 14, 2019, 1:12 PM EST

Two coal-fueled power plants to shutter, despite pressure from Trump

excerpt:

"The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) said Thursday that it had decided to close two outdated coal plants over the next few years, including one in Kentucky that bought much of its fuel from Murray Energy. That company is owned by Robert Murray, a generous supporter of the president.

The board met Thursday to discuss the potential shuttering of the plants that are 50 years old after a series of TVA assessments deemed them to be obsolescent and wasteful of energy. The public utility said earlier in the week that the facilities produced a steady, inflexible amount of power and could not bend to “the increased volatility in energy consumption” of its customer base."

 

Trump's AG just got confirmed by the Senate. It's no secret he wants to protect Trump. I think he will try to prosecute McCabe, Comey, Strosk, Page, and others Trump who hates, including outspoken activists and journalists. Trump wants to start wars against Iran and Venezuela, so the new AG will be going after people from these ethnic groups. The next 600 days before our next elections will be rough waters, considering Trump just declared a national emergency against the Mexicans, to distract from AG Barr's designs for manipulation of Mueller's report. The Trump Organized Crime Operations are still active, with a firm grip on the DOJ.

 

Trump to declare emergency, sign spending bill: White House
White House says Trump will sign bill to keep gov't open, but will also declare national emergency to build border wall.
February 14, 2019

Trump to declare emergency, sign spending bill: White House

 

Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill
Asylum seekers lined up in January outside the El Chaparral entry point into the United States in Tijuana, Mexico.CreditMark
By Peter Baker and Emily Cochrane
Feb. 14, 2019

Trump Plans National Emergency to Build Border Wall as Senate Passes Spending Bill

excerpt:

"The Homeland Security section of the measure allows for 55 miles of new steel-post fencing, but prohibits construction in certain areas along the Rio Grande Valley. More than $560 million is allocated for drug inspection at ports of entry, as well as money for 600 more Customs and Border Protection officers and 75 immigration officers.

It includes a provision, pushed by Representative Henry Cuellar, Democrat of Texas and the only negotiator from a border district, granting communities and towns on the border a period of time to weigh in on the location and design of the fencing. The White House finds that provision objectionable.

The bill also prohibits funds from being used to keep lawmakers from visiting and inspecting Homeland Security detention centers, following a number of highly publicized instances where Democratic lawmakers tried to visit detention centers and were turned away."

 

Legislators were turned away from ICE detention centers. The administration has the right to do that.
By Philip Bump
June 21, 2018

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...do-that/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.d7db9f586d0a

excerpt:

"It’s probably fair to give substantial credit to Sen. Jeff Merkley for helping bring the issue of immigrant children being separated from their parents to national attention. Two weeks ago, the Oregon Democrat was blocked from entering a detention facility in South Texas, even having police called on him, as he made a fairly simple case for being allowed entry: I’m a member of the Senate. Eventually, he was able to tour the facility.

Over the next few weeks, as attention to the subject increased, other elected officials and journalists sought — and occasionally gained — access to facilities housing immigrant children. In some cases, though, members of Congress weren’t allowed to see facilities, even ones in their own districts. On Tuesday, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) was denied access to a facility in his state when he tried to visit along with other legislators.

“It is an affront as the senior senator of this state that an agency head would tell me that I do not have entrance into a federally funded facility where the lives and health of children are at stake,” Nelson said afterward."

 

The perception among his voters is that an out of shape old man is so tough the "deep state" won't come for him. I think it's more like he can go at anytime and they are ready but the state is not that deep. It's more respecting of an election even if people are morons.

He is really pushing it though. I am sure he is no longer being told of many military moves. He can not be trusted. The commanding officers are leading. They last for decades and have plans for what if's like what if the president is killed who leads then? They are doing that.

 

Trump Will Declare a National Emergency. What Happens Next?
Congress has tools to override the president’s declaration, but opponents most likely do not have the votes to overcome a veto.
By Nicholas Fandos
Feb. 14, 2019

Trump Will Declare a National Emergency. What Happens Next?

excerpt

To keep a president’s party from bottling such a measure up, the law says that if one chamber passes such a resolution, the other one must bring it up for a vote within 18 days. Though Democrats are in the minority in the Senate, they would need only a handful of Republicans to join them to pass the resolution there and send it to Mr. Trump’s desk. It is easy to imagine a half-dozen or more Republican senators joining Democrats out of concern for the precedent that Mr. Trump’s declaration will set.

What would Mr. Trump do next?

As with any other bill that comes to the president’s desk, Mr. Trump can veto a joint congressional resolution terminating the national emergency, as long as it has not passed with supermajorities in both the House and the Senate.

Congress did not originally intend to give the president this recourse when it enacted the law during the post-Watergate reform era that has governed how and when presidents may invoke emergency-power statutes.

But the Supreme Court struck down what it calls legislative vetoes in 1983, ruling that for a congressional act to take legal effect, it must be presented to the president for signature or veto. Because it takes two-thirds of both chambers to override a veto, the ruling made it substantially harder for Congress to stop a president’s declaration.

 

trump is too stupid to realize that he is on a slippery slope. when Kamala becomes the next prez, she can declare gun ownership a national emergency. (Actually that is more viable than a manufactured crisis at the border.)

 

His voters don't think of that for two reasons

1. They think the Democratic party is done. If not arrested by Trump they still don't have the support to win an election. They still want Hillary "locked up". They are big on the idea the military will side with the Republican gun owner and rid America of socialism police state style.

2. If the military does not do this they still have guns so there is no emergency. You will die first.

 

The precedent of Youngstown Sheet & Tube Co. v. Sawyer will be hard for Trump to get around. In that case, the Supreme Court held that the Korean War wasn't enough of an emergency to allow Truman to take over the steel mills during a strike. In Trump's case, the "emergency" is much more difficult to show, and Trump is clearly going over the heads of Congress, which rejected his request for more funding for the wall. The Constitution clearly gives the power of the purse as its essential function. If a President, denied money for a pet project can trump Congress by declaring trumped-up emergencies (no puns intended), we're on the road to dictatorship. Of course, conservatives now hold a majority on the court, and Trump's two appointees are believers in strong executive powers. But I can's see Roberts going along with this. I doubt that Trump is particularly concerned about whether or not his wall is built, so long as he can show his base he fought fiercely for it. And the matter is unlikely to be resolved by 2020, allowing it to serve him as an issue in his second bid for the presidency.

 

I agree with you, Okie, but; Trump is going to tell the Supreme Court he is protecting White Christian American Virgins from the Mexicans who intend to have some wild uninhibited sex with them … at will!