Donald "Tweety" Trump - June 14, 1946 - (2146? 200 years?) (Navy "Doc" says he has great genes!)
What is the best thing and worst thing Donald Trump has done and said since becoming President? A man who tweets daily gives plenty of material to sort thru.
Tweets Tracking Page . . . as of 3 march 2019, approximate estimate of tweets in 773 days. In my opinion, the tweets expose Trump as a "Tweetster" looking for attention, and that means he cares less for the United States than he cares form himself. President Trump is self-serving, at best.
Tweets as President (773 days) . . .
362 tweets about Fake News
452 tweets Russia and Collusion
315 tweets about Fox News or Sean Hannity
73 tweets about CNN
58 tweets about NBC
71 tweets about the New York Times
202 tweets about Clinton
171 tweets about Obama
http://www.trumptwitterarchive.com/
I am listing headlines Tweety has accumulated in 2017 and 2018.
What do these headlines say about the President and the GOP/his Base? Read them, and tell me what kind of man he is, and what kind of people support him, good, bad, or indifferent.
Donald Trump is NOT a true Republican, and is doing many more bad things while achieving some "good," yet the GOP follows him more than ever, likely to the follow him to the pits of Hell. Sadly, to the detriment of the United States in the World Stage we have a President who is not just unpredictable, he is unhinged and uncaring of anyone other than himself and his family.
"‘We’re not going to turn on our own’: Republicans rally around Trump as threats mount"
By Robert Costa March 2, 2019 at 4:24 PM
"When President Trump’s longtime fixer Michael Cohen testified last week that his former boss was a “racist” and “con man” who routinely skirts the law, Republicans showed little interest in following up on his claims.
They shrugged when Trump called murderous dictator Kim Jong Un a “real leader” and once again elevated the North Korean leader on the world stage.
And faced with a vote on Trump’s legally contested declaration of a national emergency at the Mexican border, just 13 of 197 House Republicans opposed him.
Acquiescence to Trump is now the defining trait of the Republican Party more than two years into his presidency — overwhelming and at times erasing principles that conservatives viewed as the foundation of the party for more than a half century.
Trump’s ownership of the GOP was on vivid display again Saturday, when the president appeared at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) in Maryland, an annual gathering that has transformed into a raucous celebration of Trump, featuring propaganda-style art and a speaker who declared that the president was “chosen by God.”"
The GOP invoked God as the one who gave us Trump? That is Dominonist!
If they think "God" gave them Trump, their version of God is a fool, and, ironically, an atheist at best if so. Trump is a serial adulterer, to name o ne sin. He is a racists beyond the pale, for another - "shit hole countries" comment, paired with why don't more [white] Norwegians come to America?
God indeed! If "God" appointed Trump as President, this is more proof there is no God, certainly not my "God."
I have talked to Trump supporters and they like "his" economy. How is THAT going?
"What the Republican tax bill did — and didn’t — do, one year later"
The GOP tax cuts didn’t pay for themselves. They did, however, deliver a lot of stock buybacks.
By Emily Stewart Updated Dec 22, 2018, 12:40pm EST
Trump's economy will fail, ultimately. Then the GOP and his Base will suffer like the rest of us. The worst part of this is that the United States will not recover for ten-twenty years.
"In October 2017, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin forecast that “the stock market will go up higher” if Republicans passed a tax cut bill.
Both the S&P 500 and Dow Jones Industrial Average are now down from where they were on December 22, 2017, when President Donald Trump signed the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. The Dow on Friday ended its worst week since the 2008 financial crisis.
In September 2017, Mnuchin said that not only would the GOP’s tax plan “pay for itself, but it will pay for the debt.” He also claimed it would “cut down the deficits by a trillion dollars.”
In October 2018, Treasury said the United States’ federal budget deficit had increased to $779 billion in fiscal 2018, up 17 percent from the year before."
The economy is not going like the Republicans hoped.
"The Congressional Budget Office estimates that GDP growth, spurred by fiscal stimulus including the tax cuts and increased government spending, will be 3.1 percent in 2018 and will decline to 2.4 percent in 2019 as business investment and government purchases slow."
"The average worker isn’t seeing Trump’s “economic miracle.” Here’s why."
Just look at these two charts.
By Alexia Fernández Campbell@AlexiaCampbell alexia@vox.com Mar 1, 2019
https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/3/1/18246233/economic-growth-workers-wages-economy
What was the man, Donald Trump, is the question to be asked when Donald Trump dies. He invested his dad's millions, got rich in many "deals," went bankrupt 6 times, continuously lied in interviews, news conferences, in tweets, and at his rallies, defrauded people in his Trump University, had to shut down his charity because he sued it as a personal checking account . . .
"Michael Cohen testimony: The 10 best lines from his hearing before Congress"
The president's former fixer is telling lawmakers what he did for him in testimony before the House Oversight Committee.
By David K. Li Feb. 27, 2019, 2:24 PM EST / Updated Feb. 27, 2019
"Trump ... the 'enigma'
"Mr. Trump is an enigma. He is complicated, as am I. He has both good and bad, as do we all," Cohen said. "But the bad far outweighs the good, and since taking office, he has become the worst version of himself. He is capable of behaving kindly, but he is not kind. He is capable of committing acts of generosity, but he is not generous. He is capable of being loyal, but he is fundamentally disloyal.""
"Why Trump's border wall national emergency is constitutional"
by Devin Watkins February 20, 2019
"It was Congress that gave the president this power."
This quote from Devin shows why Devin is wrong. Devin is wrong, obviously, because Congress cannot legislate away Congressional powers provided to Congress by the Constitution of the United States, even Republicans know this as fact.
"Is Trump’s Declaration of a National Emergency Constitutional?"
BU’s Robert Sloane on whether border wall meets law’s emergency definition
02.20.2019 By Rich Barlow
http://www.bu.edu/today/2019/is-trumps-declaration-of-a-national-emergency-constitutional/
This is very complex since the legislation Congress passed was intended to LIMIT presidential powers. Law is hard to write.
"Trump intervened to get Kushner a top-secret clearance. Congress should investigate."
By Editorial Board March 1 at 4:00 PM
Trump is risking the National Security of the United States by ordering a clearance for a man who is a classic security risk, too much debt. Jared Kushner is a lousy businessman and has too much debt to have a Top Secret security clearance.
Time will tell whether Jared sells his soul and sells out America to get out of debt for HIS bad business choices.
"You can’t solve North Korea’s nuclear challenge if you ignore its torture chambers"
By Jackson Diehl March 1, 2019 at 3:58 PM
Do human rights matter? Tweety Trump does not care about humans, why should he care about human rights?
Trump did not recognize the evidence of the Khashoggi murder either . . . Saudi Arabia exports more terrorism and has at least as bad a human rights record as North Korea . . .
"Trump Faces Fury After Saying He Believes North Korean Leader on Student’s Death
By Julie Bosman and Kevin Williams March 1, 2019
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/01/us/trump-otto-warmbier-north-korea.html
Trump said the torture and death of an American student was horrible, but the leader of North Korea, a murderous tyrant in total control of everything that happens in North Korea, told Trump, according to Trump (Trump lies all the time, so . . .), that he did not know about it!
Trump says he believes the North Korean leader did not know about the student. Ha! That is a joke! Bull shit!
"Truthful hyperbole" is Trump lying for what he decides is a good purpose, but this lie about Un not knowing about the student "crime," the show trial, imprisonment, and finally the torture has no good purpose.
"Trump sides with Putin over US intelligence"
By Jeremy Diamond, CNN Updated 5:28 PM ET, Mon July 16, 2018
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/16/politics/donald-trump-putin-helsinki-summit/index.html
Donald Trump consistently supports cruel, brutal, autocrats. Why?
"Who Needs Career Intelligence Officials When You Have Fox News?"
The president bashed the intelligence community on Twitter, questioning their assessments of Iran, ISIS and North Korea
By Ryan Bort 30 Jan 2019
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-intel-officials-786414/
"How Trump's Jerusalem Announcement Will Shape Palestinian Politics"
Dim Prospects for Abbas—and for Peace
By Ghaith al-Omari 6 Dec 2017
This decision of Trump was incredibly stupid. Christian Zionists support it, of course, like Mike Pence. People who say Palestinians are terrorists support it.
Human rights? Trump made Jerusalem the capitol of Israel! Forget the Palestinians, and forget peace, and forget the two-state solution. Forget human rights under Donald Tweetster Trump, President of the United States.
"The controversial US Jerusalem embassy opening, explained"
As the embassy event took place, Israeli soldiers killed dozens of Palestinian protesters along the Gaza border.
By Alexia Underwood alexia.underwood@vox.com Updated May 16, 2018, 2:41pm EDT
https://www.vox.com/2018/5/14/17340798/jerusalem-embassy-israel-palestinians-us-trump
"Kushner’s Peace Plan Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen"
The last thing Israelis and Palestinians need now is another failed blueprint. Stabilizing Gaza is more important.
By Ilan Goldenberg June 25, 2018, 2:03 PM
"Israeli minister dismisses Trump peace plan as 'waste of time'"
Justice minister Ayelet Shaked says gap with Palestinians is much too big to be bridged
White Power, White Nationalism . . . KKK and the extreme right now have a reason to like Trump even more than they did before he said he was a "Nationalist."
"A Year After Charlottesville, Not Much Has Changed For Trump"
Ayesha Rascoe NPR August 11, 2018
Heard on Weekend Edition Saturday
https://www.npr.org/2018/08/11/637665414/a-year-after-charlottesville-not-much-has-changed-for-trump
Trump was confused about what transpired in Charlottesville, at best. At worst, Trump is a racist White Nationalist.
"Trump on climate change report: 'I don't believe it'"
26 November 2018
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-46351940
"US President Donald Trump has cast doubt on a report by his own government warning of devastating effects from climate change."
What greater challenge to national security is there before Climate Change?
"Climate impacts grow, and U.S. must act, says new report"
The 4th National Climate Assessment takes the temperature of climate change across the United States. The message? Adapt.
By Alejandra Borunda PUBLISHED November 23, 2018
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/2018/11/climate-change-US-report0/
"The ticking bomb of climate change is America's biggest threat Michael H Fuchs"
It’s time for the United States to treat climate change as the national security challenge it is
Opinion page 29 Nov 2018
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/nov/29/ticking-bomb-climate-change-america-threat
"Donald Trump tells widow of soldier killed in action: 'He knew what he signed up for'"
Ben Riley-Smith, US Editor Chris Graham 18 October 2017 • 4:55am
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/18/donald-trump-tells-slain-soldiers-widow-knew-signed/
"Trump on McCain: 'He's a war hero because he was captured'"
Copyright © 2019, Chicago Tribune [Video]
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/84026237-157.html
"Trump biographer examined his feet for bone spurs that helped him avoid Vietnam but 'didn't see anything'"
Alexandra Ma Dec. 27, 2018, 5:19 AM
"Trump reportedly has no regrets about saying McCain was 'not a war hero'"
Michelle Mark August 25, 2018
"Donald Trump’s Draft Deferments: Four for College, One for Bad Feet"
By Steve Eder and Dave Philipps Aug. 1, 2016
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/02/us/politics/donald-trump-draft-record.html
