I posted this on Facebook this morning, but wanted to expand on it a bit.
As we approach the modern-day checkpoint of the first 100 days, Trumpflake would like to remind us that he's actually done so much and anyone who says he hasn't is fake news. What has Trump actually accomplished?
He has gotten a Supreme Court Justice appointed. That is certainly a thing. I would, however, argue that it was really Mitch McConnell who did that. If not for that bag of misery, we'd have filled the available seat with Garland a year ago. This is akin to Little Donnie being proud that he baked a cake when all he actually did was turn the oven on. It's so cute when they don't know what all else has to go into it!
He has managed to simultaneously achieve the lowest approval and highest disapproval numbers since that's been a thing. If only he could have done the exact opposite of what he's doing, he'd have very nice approval numbers in the low 60s.
He keeps telling us his wall is ahead of schedule, but there was never a schedule announced. He also proudly talks about how illegal immigration is way down already. But we still need the wall because Mexicans are bad.
He has signed a huge number of executive orders whose contents he's been barely aware of, none of which (to my knowledge) has demonstrable positive effects on society. The most egregious have been held up in court. He then lashed out at the courts because so-called judges are bad.
He lied about basic, verifiable, facts like his inauguration crowd size, whether Korea was part of China, barely knowing Paul Manafort, 3+ million illegal voters (who all voted for Hillary), Obama screaming at protesters, Obama's nationality, the state of black neighborhoods, who donates money to, General Pershing subverting the Philippines by dipping bullets in pigs' blood, the relative size of his electoral college win, and probably the size of his penis. There's more, check out the false and pants on fires here (which together make up right about half of his evaluated statements):
http://www.politifact.com/…/dona…/statements/byruling/false/
http://www.politifact.com/…/donald-trump/statements/byrulin…
He made a total debacle of health care reform, then tried to pawn it all off on Paul Ryan (somewhat fairly). But, it was his promise too and he needed to be more involved.
He continues to focus on the Islamic Terrorist boogieman when there are so many far more dangerous things we can do a lot more about going on. (gun deaths, alcohol deaths, drug overdose deaths, distracted driver deaths, deaths due to preventable health conditions, homeless deaths, ... )
He also focuses on the regulations boogieman and how they should be significantly reduced. (Regulations are vetted and serve to protect the population as a whole)
He shot $90-100M of missiles at an airfield in Syria and failed to actually take it out of commission.
He has reduced the role of science in decision making, for example insisting that global warming is fake news and that it should not be a considered factor in regulations.
Numerous people on his senior/appointed staff have had to resign or recuse themselves due to lying about potentially inappropriate contact with Russians.
He, and many in his administration, continue to investigated by the FBI, Senate and House for suspicious ties to Russia.
He has spent at an actually unprecedented (the real term, not how he uses it) rate on vacations to Mar-a-Lago. He has also played golf at an unprecedented rate. Also, Trump the private citizen profits directly from these trips.
His wife lives in a different city, costing the city of New York $40-50M per year, as well as federal taxpayers money for lodging Secret Service. Trump the private citizen profits directly from this.
He rolled back protections for women and LQBQT.
He has reduced the quality of discourse to a 3rd-grade level.
While writing this up, I literally had to start looking back at older news because there's so much. I'm sure I didn't even get everything that could be considered major on here.
So ... what has he done right? Why should anyone write a positive report card about his work?
I had to think, and think, and think to come up with all the things on this list. And I still missed some (like the wiretapping lies, handing Merkel a bill for Germany's "debt" to NATO, ... ). I realize constantly that practically every day this administration does something that would be a once-a-year (or maybe once-a-quarter) shock.
As we approach the modern-day checkpoint of the first 100 days, Trumpflake would like to remind us that he's actually done so much and anyone who says he hasn't is fake news. What has Trump actually accomplished?
He has gotten a Supreme Court Justice appointed. That is certainly a thing. I would, however, argue that it was really Mitch McConnell who did that. If not for that bag of misery, we'd have filled the available seat with Garland a year ago. This is akin to Little Donnie being proud that he baked a cake when all he actually did was turn the oven on. It's so cute when they don't know what all else has to go into it!
He has managed to simultaneously achieve the lowest approval and highest disapproval numbers since that's been a thing. If only he could have done the exact opposite of what he's doing, he'd have very nice approval numbers in the low 60s.
He keeps telling us his wall is ahead of schedule, but there was never a schedule announced. He also proudly talks about how illegal immigration is way down already. But we still need the wall because Mexicans are bad.
He has signed a huge number of executive orders whose contents he's been barely aware of, none of which (to my knowledge) has demonstrable positive effects on society. The most egregious have been held up in court. He then lashed out at the courts because so-called judges are bad.
He lied about basic, verifiable, facts like his inauguration crowd size, whether Korea was part of China, barely knowing Paul Manafort, 3+ million illegal voters (who all voted for Hillary), Obama screaming at protesters, Obama's nationality, the state of black neighborhoods, who donates money to, General Pershing subverting the Philippines by dipping bullets in pigs' blood, the relative size of his electoral college win, and probably the size of his penis. There's more, check out the false and pants on fires here (which together make up right about half of his evaluated statements):
http://www.politifact.com/…/dona…/statements/byruling/false/
http://www.politifact.com/…/donald-trump/statements/byrulin…
He made a total debacle of health care reform, then tried to pawn it all off on Paul Ryan (somewhat fairly). But, it was his promise too and he needed to be more involved.
He continues to focus on the Islamic Terrorist boogieman when there are so many far more dangerous things we can do a lot more about going on. (gun deaths, alcohol deaths, drug overdose deaths, distracted driver deaths, deaths due to preventable health conditions, homeless deaths, ... )
He also focuses on the regulations boogieman and how they should be significantly reduced. (Regulations are vetted and serve to protect the population as a whole)
He shot $90-100M of missiles at an airfield in Syria and failed to actually take it out of commission.
He has reduced the role of science in decision making, for example insisting that global warming is fake news and that it should not be a considered factor in regulations.
Numerous people on his senior/appointed staff have had to resign or recuse themselves due to lying about potentially inappropriate contact with Russians.
He, and many in his administration, continue to investigated by the FBI, Senate and House for suspicious ties to Russia.
He has spent at an actually unprecedented (the real term, not how he uses it) rate on vacations to Mar-a-Lago. He has also played golf at an unprecedented rate. Also, Trump the private citizen profits directly from these trips.
His wife lives in a different city, costing the city of New York $40-50M per year, as well as federal taxpayers money for lodging Secret Service. Trump the private citizen profits directly from this.
He rolled back protections for women and LQBQT.
He has reduced the quality of discourse to a 3rd-grade level.
While writing this up, I literally had to start looking back at older news because there's so much. I'm sure I didn't even get everything that could be considered major on here.
So ... what has he done right? Why should anyone write a positive report card about his work?
I had to think, and think, and think to come up with all the things on this list. And I still missed some (like the wiretapping lies, handing Merkel a bill for Germany's "debt" to NATO, ... ). I realize constantly that practically every day this administration does something that would be a once-a-year (or maybe once-a-quarter) shock.
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