The Donald Trump Score Card

Thanks for clarifying the extent to which you mischaracterized the story. Do you not see a difference between a report that the Republican controlled Senate hasn't yet found direct evidence of a conspiracy and your statement "So NPC news now comes out and says Russiagate was all a hoax"? If that's the reckless way you deal with news, how can we trust anything you say?

 

He is now a "beta" to his voters. I think it's funny they are turning on him. He has totally lost his image and that kind of voter does not respect him anymore.

I don't know what they expect though. You will not find someone more openly racist and willing to cut his nose off to spite his face a nice alpha trait to own libs. He is the average old man watching Fox News and he does what they want. Other Republicans can be as racist but not as willing to make stupid moves.

 

Protests planned against Trump's national emergency over the border wall
Christal Hayes, USA TODAY
Published 11:41 a.m. ET Feb. 16, 2019

Protests planned against Trump's national emergency over the border wall

excerpt:

"WASHINGTON – Protests across the nation are planned Monday in response President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.

The protests are being planned from New York and North Dakota to California and Texas all to counter the order Trump signed Friday, which freed up billions to construct a wall along the southern U.S. border with Mexico.

The national emergency and other measures will free up $8 billion – far more than the $5.7 billion he initially demanded – to garner funds for 234 miles of wall, the White House said. It's a move that is almost guaranteed to draw the White House into a lengthy legal battle over the president's ability to use his executive powers for that purpose."

 

Ann Coulter has gone from her 2016 book titled “In Trump We Trust: E Pluribus Awesome!” to saying “The only national emergency is that our president is an idiot.”

Her next book will be titled: "In Idiocacy We Trust: E. Pluribus Gullibility"



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Trump failed multiple times.

He didn't uphold his promise to make Mexico finance his wall. Then he talked as if he would pay back the U.S. taxpayers after he would get Mexico to pay for it later. His lack of paying back his U.S. bank loans in his real estate business is an indicator of how much the taxpayers can trust him.

He couldn't make the U.S. taxpayers to pay for it directly in a budget spending bill, even after his extortion tactics of ending of DACA, separating young children from their migrant parents, and initiating a 35-day government shutdown..

He claimed without justification that his administration's revision to NAFTA made money that could be used for the wall. If that's factual, he shouldn't have to force U.S. taxpayers to pay for it but should instead draw funds from his claimed extra NAFTA money.

He ended up resorting to trying to use repurposed U.S. taxpayer money via circumvention of the U.S. Congress, which a recent Fox headline claimed as Trump winning a strategic victory.

 

Fox once again trying to make a Trump losing effort appear to be a win.


Trump wins on border security with emergency declaration and funding by Congress
By Charlie Kirk | Fox News
February 16, 2019

Trump wins on border security with emergency declaration and funding by Congress

 

I think some of the Republican culture is be the underdog. They are happier saying if only our policy was put in place America is fine. When it is and we see they fail from an economic standpoint they turn on the person putting them in place as if they did not do it right. They never ask if the policy was wrong.

They still think trickle down economics works for example. Trump has done everything Fox has said they wanted since the days of Bush 2.

 

An article about Trump referring to his monument wall in 2015.

The U.S. citizens are still waiting for the $1.5 trillion of spending on infrastructure (and other promises such as great low-cost healthcare for everyone in a healthcare system that has since been crippled by Trump's sabotage). The $10 billion allocated by the Congress and Trump in 2018 for infrastructure is a very small fraction of $1500 billion and can hardly be declared a victory.



Trump on Border: Maybe They'll Call It "The Trump Wall"
Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date August 19, 2015

Trump on Border: Maybe They'll Call It "The Trump Wall"

excerpt:

"I'm a great builder. What do I best in life, I build. Your infrastructure is crumbling. Isn't it nice to have a builder? A real builder. So you take precast plank. It comes 30 feet long, 40 feet long, 50 feet long. You see the highways where they can span 50, 60 feet, even longer than that, right? And do you a beautiful nice precast plank with beautiful everything. Just perfect. I want it to be so beautiful because maybe someday they'll call it The Trump Wall. Maybe. So I have to make sure it's beautiful, right? I'll be very proud of that wall. If they call at this The Trump Wall, it has to be beautiful. And you put that plank up and you dig your footings. And you put that plank up -- there's no ladder going over that. If they ever go up there, they're in trouble, because here's no way to get down. Maybe a rope."

 

Some are much more interested in generating a folk hero who can be perceived as a 'winner', much like the Fox News article posted earlier on this page about Trump supposedly achieving a strategic victory by his circumvention of Congress after failing in all of his other attempts.


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"What the presidents legions of detractors don’t see is that they have made him an underdog. Regular people love to root for the underdog. They are inadvertently making him into a folk hero. If he’s not taken down, and it seems more likely he won’t be, he will have become just about unbeatable."

 

‘Finish that wall’: Trump seeks to turn his failure to build the wall into campaign rallying cry
By Toluse Olorunnipa , Robert Costa and Josh Dawsey
February 16, 2019

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...ory.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.751dd9cfcb8a

excerpt:

"“What you’re seeing is the mother of all pivots,” said veteran GOP strategist Mike Murphy, a Trump critic.

He’s trying to turn being outfoxed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) “into a win by creating a rally cry for the reelect campaign,” he said. “For his core base, it’ll ameliorate some of the criticism. But it won’t help him with general-election voters. He’s playing survival politics with his own base and using the illusion of success.”

Trump has been building up to this strategy for much of the past year, as conservative angst mounted over the lack of progress on the wall while Republicans had full legislative control. Democrats took back the House in last year’s midterm elections, all but killing Trump’s chances of securing adequate funding to build hundreds of miles of wall on the border.

The president’s original promise, to make Mexico pay for the wall, also remains unfulfilled, succumbing to a political reality that was long obvious despite Trump’s claims to the contrary."

 

Thanks to Trump's overhaul of the tax laws for the United States, Amazon will now pay nothing, zero, zilch for tax year 2018 where they made $11, 200,000.000.00 in profit. They didn't pay a penny in taxes the year before that either. I'm waiting for other corporate tax reports, and perhaps Trump's tax returns?

 

In Republican controlled Indiana we pay high taxes, we are required to buy ambulance insurance or get stuck with that bill, we pay lots of money for water & sewer & trash directly to the city government even when they don't pick up on time, we can't get social services because we are not White Christians, our car license plate/registration has secret charges which were never approved by the voters, but Mike Pence and Donald Trump gave millions to a company to move 700 factory jobs to Mexico..

 

'Many of us are concerned': Lawmakers react to Trump's national emergency declaration
By Allan Smith
Feb. 17, 2019, 1:20 PM EST

'Many of us are concerned': Lawmakers react to Trump's national emergency declaration

excerpts:

"The president on Friday also signed a bipartisan spending agreement that included more than $1.3 billion for 55 new miles of border fencing as well as money for other border security measures. Trump will now try to divert nearly $7 billion from a combination of military construction projects, counternarcotics programs, and a Treasury Department asset forfeiture fund to build a longer border barrier.


Speaking with CNN's "State of the Union, Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown said the declaration was in violation of the Constitution.

"Well, this is the first kind of emergency we have seen like this that a president has done this," he said. "He couldn't get the Mexicans to build the wall. He couldn't get Congress to vote the money in. ... That's why you see so many Republicans saying don't do this. Republicans are afraid that he's going to take the money from somewhere else and something they care about, but, fundamentally, they think it's a president who failed, who hates to lose, who is acting childish.""

 

If Trump isn’t your president, you have to show up for work tomorrow

 

I'm celebrating Obama's Birth Day, because he is a Muslim who was born in Kenya, just like Trump said!

 

Teehee

You sure about that?

 

Nobody else is there. Mind if I break into the bottle of scotch?