36th Weak of Donald the Dick!

Foreign policy experts ‘baffled’ by Trump’s decision to include US ally Chad on the new travel ban list

Soon after President Donald Trump’s White House released their updated travel ban list, people familiar with foreign policy noticed something strange — Chad, a Central African country and major US ally in the fight against Boko Haram, had been included on the list.

According to BuzzFeed News, some diplomats — and Chad itself — are wondering if the Trump administration made a mistake by including the country.

In a statement released Monday, Chad’s government said they were “baffled” and “astonished” to learn that Chadians would not be permitted to enter the United States due to the “strong relationship between the two countries, particularly in the fight against terrorism.”

“It makes no sense whatsoever,” John Campbell, former American ambassador to Nigeria, told BuzzFeed. “In fact I wonder if there wasn’t some sort of mistake made. It’s an insult. What really gets to me is the apparent sheer stupidity of it.”

:confused: Chad is an ally in counter terrorism, why ban Chadians from the USA?
Because Trump has no idea where Chad even is.:eek:
 
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Trump cites progress after NFL’s Cowboys, Cardinals skirt anthem protest

U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday applauded two National Football League teams that largely steered clear of controversy by standing for the national anthem at Monday night’s game, even as players protested in other ways.

At the match-up in Phoenix, the Dallas Cowboys linked arms and knelt on the playing field, then stood for the playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner.” Arizona Cardinals players also joined arms but did not kneel.

“But while Dallas dropped to its knees as a team, they all stood up for our National Anthem. Big progress being made-we all love our country!” Trump wrote in a series of early-morning posts on Twitter, continuing his war of words with the multibillion dollar NFL.

“Ratings for NFL football are way down except before game starts, when people tune in to see whether or not our country will be disrespected!” he added.

Trump’s verbal assault may play well with his conservative base at a time when the Republican president is grappling with North Korea’s nuclear threats, a humanitarian crisis in hurricane-struck Puerto Rico, an investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election and a healthcare struggle in Congress.

I doubt Trump is "grappling" with anything except his dick. :rolleyes:
 
‘The View’ women can’t help but wonder if Trump is too stupid to know Puerto Rico is a US territory

Joy Behar interjected to note that Trump’s International Golf Club in Puerto Rico filed for bankruptcy protection in 2015.

“He can do that but Puerto Ricans and Puerto Rican businesses, U.S. citizens, cannot,” Hostin reiterated. “The other thing is because you have to buy only from U.S. ships and U.S. crews, the prices are sky high, so it’s very difficult for Puerto Ricans to buy things in the country and it’s very difficult for businesses. Where does Donald Trump make his stuff? Mexico and China. That’s something that Puerto Ricans cannot do.”

Co-host Sara Haines said that the one thing people do need to hear is that hope is on the way and the American government is coming to help.

In a couple of weaks the Congress will do 'something', they are waiting for the Trumpanzy to ask.
 
Trump’s failed Puerto Rico golf course has cost the territory’s taxpayers more than $32 million

President Donald Trump may have blamed his inadequate response to the devastation in Puerto Rico on “this thing called the Atlantic,” but his own failed golf course may have made it worse.

According to a report by Death & Taxes, the Coco Beach Golf and Country Club in San Juan (renamed to Trump International Golf Club Puerto Rico in 2008) borrowed more than $26 million in “government-backed bonds” to pay for renovations and old debts — but then defaulted nearly $120,000, declaring bankruptcy and leaving Puerto Rican Americans to pay the $32.7 million bill.

According to a PolitiFact Florida report from earlier this year, Trump’s complicated relationship with the failed San Juan golf course started in 2008, when he entered a deal with the club to re-license under his brand and turn the club around as it was “hemorrhaging money.”

The resort hosted the PGA’s Puerto Rican Open that year, but by 2011, the “resort sought more bonds to repay the earlier bonds.” The following year, Trump pocketed more than $600,000 in profits.

By the time the resort filed for bankruptcy in 2015, it had done so under it’s original name. At the time, Eric Trump claimed his family’s business had “zero financial investment in this course” and merely lent it their name and managed their golf course, but the report stated he “filed a bankruptcy claim for about $927,000 for unpaid fees on behalf of Trump Golf Coco Beach LLC.”

Typical Trump brand performance. :(
 
Master of Distraction: How Trump suckers the media with his ‘stand or kneel’ tweets to divert attention from his train-wreck presidency

An excellent article about a deranged asshole who plays the media for a sucker and wins biggly!

You would think by now the mainstream media would have figured out how Trump operates.

Last week the White House dumpster fire was going nuclear. Puerto Rico was on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe “with little help in sight.” The right’s latest healthcare gambit, which would strip “at least 21 million” Americans of healthcare, was collapsing. Trump’s pick in the Alabama Senate special election was set to lose to a religious fundamentalist who makes the Taliban look moderate. To top it off, Trump was careening toward an actual nuclear war with North Korea one insult and a tweet at a time.

Cue the classic Trump misdirection. To change the conversation, he unleashed a fusillade of tweets attacking professional football players who have been protesting during the national anthem.

Now, there are real issues at stake here, namely systematic racism and police brutality that Colin Kaepernick and Eric Reid first protested on bended knee in 2016. It’s an important news story, such as why the protest began, how Kaepernick, an above-average quarterback, has been blacklisted by NFL owners for his politics — exposing the systematic racism he was protesting to begin with — and how the same owners hypocritically jumped on the protest bandwagon and tried to turn it into a watered-down feel-good moment.

Even his critics can not let a day pass without looking at the egregious shit that he spews and ignore it as we point out his worthlessness. :eek:
 
Trump orders dozens of overworked judges to take vacation.

In January, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the DOJ to deploy U.S. immigration judges to U.S. detention facilities—most of which are located on or near the U.S.-Mexico border. The temporary reassignments were intended to lead to more and faster deportations, as well as take some pressure off the currently overloaded immigration court system. But, according to interviews and internal DOJ memos, since the new policy went into effect in March, it seems to have had the opposite result: Judges have frequently had to cancel cases on their overloaded home dockets only to find barely any work at their assigned courts—exacerbating the U.S. immigration court backlog that now exceeds 600,000 cases.

According to internal memos sent by the DOJ’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) and obtained by the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) via a Freedom of Information Act request, judges delayed more than 20,000 home court hearings for their details to the border from March to May.

“I canceled about 100 cases in my home court to hear 20,” says (immigration judge Denise) Slavin, who was forced to postpone those Baltimore hearings by a year since her court schedule was already booked through most of 2018. In Otero, she had no more than 50 hours of work over the course of two weeks (she typically clocks 50 hours per week in Baltimore). But she couldn’t catch up on her work at home because she had no access to her files.

“Sending judges to the border has made the backlog in the interior of the country grow,” says Slavin, “It’s done exactly the opposite of what they hoped to accomplish.”
 
I think Trump underestimates the media's ability to fully cover both his distraction tweets and his other fuckups and coming prosecutions.
 
Trump ‘not happy’ with US health chief Price over private travel

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday declined to back his health secretary and said he was “not happy” with him amid reports that he used expensive private charter jets to travel for government business rather that cheaper commercial flights.

Asked if he would fire U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Trump told reporters, “We’ll see.” His comments came after the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee announced a bipartisan probe into top U.S. officials’ travel.

Price should repay the government for the excess costs and then be fired!:)
 
Ex-White House legal advisor: Trump’s ‘hoax’ statements about Russia are an impeachable offense

NYU School of Law professor — and former White House legal counsel to President Barack Obama — Bob Bauer told MSNBC on Wednesday that President Donald Trump’s false statements to the press about the Russian investigation constitute impeachable offenses.

Bauer was elaborating on an essay be wrote for the Lawfare blog titled, “A President’s Words Matter: Deception of the Public and the Impeachable Offense.”

In it, he wrote that when Trump says there’s nothing to the Russia investigation and calls it a “hoax” by Democrats, “He is denying the evidence. He is saying that beliefs about Russia electioneering are untrue. And he is making a still broader claim: that any claim to the contrary is a hoax — a deliberate deception or fraud.”

This is no mere exercise in political posturing, said Bauer’s essay.

“It matters that a president charged with faithfully executing the laws deliberately and continuously misrepresents to the public the grounds for an ongoing criminal investigation,” Bauer wrote. “And it is not a course he can pursue without consequences for his personal exposure in the investigation or in an impeachment proceeding.”

Put another long on the dumpster fire that is the Trump Administration!:D
 
Trump eyes executive order on healthcare, vows another vote next year

President Donald Trump, faced with the latest congressional failure to undo Obamacare, said on Wednesday he was working on an executive order to expand access to health insurance and would negotiate with Democrats for a legislative solution by next year.

Senate Republicans abandoned their latest effort to repeal President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act on Tuesday after failing to secure sufficient support.

Speaking to reporters at the White House, Trump said Congress would return to the healthcare issue in the first few months of 2018 and said he had the votes to get it done. In the meantime, he said he would work with Democrats to make the effort one that had support from both parties.

“I am … going to meet with Democrats and I will see if I can get a healthcare plan that’s even better,” he said. “So I will negotiate with Democrats but from the Republican standpoint we have the votes. We’ll vote in January, February or March.”

Or maybe July or August and we can call it Pence Care, 'cause hopefully Trump will be in jail.:)
 
Trump, GOP tax reform plan would hike deficit, debt

President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have unveiled a long-awaited outline of their tax reform plan that will affect all American individuals and businesses, but one big thing was left out: how to pay for it.

It’s not exactly clear how much the plan would increase the federal deficit, which is $693 billion during the current fiscal year, which ends this month, but estimates say the plan could add more than $2 trillion to the national debt over the next decade. The national debt is currently over $20 trillion (more than 100 percent of U.S. gross domestic product ), a level that worries many economists and policy analysts.

The outline of the plan does not itemize the costs of the proposed tax changes, so independent groups and analysts are left to make their own guesses as to the costs.

“My biggest concern is the price,” says Marc Goldwein, senior vice president and senior policy director for the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, an independent watchdog group whose latest analysis puts the cost of the new tax reform plan at more than $2 trillion over the next decade. “When the national debt is at its highest levels since World War II, I don’t see how this is the solution,” he told Newsweek.

According to an estimate from the Kyle Pomerleau, director of federal projects at the Tax Foundation, up to $5 trillion could be added to the deficit if all of the GOP ideas on this wish list were enacted.

The last time the U.S. overhauled the tax code was 1986, and that happened following a determined bipartisan effort of congressional Democrats and Republicans as well as the Treasury Department under President Ronald Reagan, which came up with a 450-plus-page plan. In contrast, this new plan is a nine-page document.

I wonder if Trump has read it and how long did that take?:rolleyes:
 
Doesn't matter. Impeachment / indictment is ultimately a political game. Impeachable offenses are whatever the House says they are. If Tromp shoots somebody in public, that's only impeachable if Ryan pushes it.

Try this comparison with Dubya's extant tax cuts:

This tax plan is a looming political disaster for Republicans
Tax cuts are more popular if they don't increase taxes on people


Tromp's plan cuts taxes on the rich and raises them on everyone else. Nice.
 
Republicans turn sharply against their own party

Eight months into Donald Trump’s presidency, Republicans now disprove of their own party’s representatives in Congress as much as they did Barack Obama in the early months of his time in the White House. Approval of congressional Republicans has sunk to a new low of 15 percent among the general population, according to a Quinnipiac poll released Wednesday. Much of the drop is tied to the approval rating among the party’s own supporters, which has fallen to 32 percent, with 61 percent saying they disapprove.

By comparison, Obama had a 43 percent approval rating among Republicans when he assumed office in 2009. It was only after two months in office that Obama’s rating among GOP voters began sinking to the low numbers where they would remain for his two terms in the Oval Office.

Republican voters also look upon their party’s representatives in the House and Senate considerably less favorably they do the current president. Trump, according to the Quinnipiac poll conducted last week among 1,412 voters nationwide, had an approval rating of 79 percent among his own party's supporters.

Such disparity is hardly a surprise, considering the unprecedented divide between the president and members of his own party. Trump ran for the White House as a self-confessed outsider, taking on establishment figures in the Republican Party and contradicting traditional conservative principals.

Will the Rethuglicans be viable after Trump?
 
Dogwhistling Dixie? Trump ally fears Obama-led ‘rebellion’ in rant against anthem protesters

President Donald Trump and his right-wing allies are stoking the long-simmering fear of racial revolt that has always lurked just below the surface of American white supremacy with their attacks on protesting NFL players.

The president has been attacking mostly black NFL players, sometimes by name, for nearly a week now over their protests during the National Anthem of police brutality and racial inequality, and he sounded a loud dog whistle Thursday morning.

“I have so many friends that are owners and they’re in a box,” Trump told “Fox & Friends.” “I’ve spoken to a couple of them they said we are in a situation where we have to do something. I think they’re afraid of their players — it’s disgraceful.”

Trump is just pissed that no one is afraid of him. Even "Rocket Man" Kim thinks he's just a barking dog.
 
US health secretary says will repay travel on private planes

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on Thursday that he would write a check to the government to cover the cost of his travel on private charter planes.

“Today, I will write a personal check to the U.S. Treasury for the expenses of my travel on private charter planes,” Price said in a statement. “The taxpayers won’t pay a dime for my seat on those planes.”

Tapper takes Price to task for paying ‘just a fraction’ of the $400K in taxpayer dollars he spent on private planes

On Thursday, after days of speculation that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price might get fired for chartering $400,000 worth of private jets on the government’s dime, the HHS secretary revealed that he would be writing a check to the Treasury to cover the costs.

As CNN’s Jake Tapper noted, however, Price did not immediately clarify whether he’d be paying the full price of the charter flights or for “his seats,” as the HHS statement claimed. As the host noted, the statement appeared to be misleading.

“Is he just going to do what a lot of politicians do, which is pay for the equivalent of a business class seat on a commercial flight which is really just a fraction of what the taxpayers paid for?” Tapper asked CNN’s government regulation correspondent Rene Marsh.

Indeed, subsequent reports revealed that Price will only cut a check for $51,887.31 of the over $400,000 cost of planes he chartered.

Who does he think he is, Donald Trump? :mad:
 
Couldn't be Donald Trump because writing any reimbursement check (because he was caught) is an admission of guilt. Trump wouldn't admit it.
 
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