The Donald Trump Score Card

Trump is on his Rake America Great Again campaign.



Trump says he has ordered FEMA to cut off funding for California wildfires
By Grace Segers
Updated on: January 9, 2019 / 12:55 PM / CBS News

Trump says he has ordered FEMA to cut off funding for California wildfires

excerpt:

"President Trump sent a tweet Wednesday morning announcing that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency not to send funding to California to assist in the aftermath of deadly wildfires.

"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen," Mr. Trump wrote. "Unless they get their act together, which is unlikely, I have ordered FEMA to send no more money. It is a disgraceful situation in lives & money!"

Mr. Trump has long claimed that the wildfires which have plagued California were a result of forest mismanagement, instead of the scientifically accepted theory that climate change is impacting the acceleration of forest fires in the state. He has also said that the Finnish president told him that Finland did not have forest fires because its citizens spent time raking the forest floor, although the Finnish president denied ever talking to Mr. Trump about raking."

 

Sounds like RAKE NEWS for sure....lol...

 

Trump's shutdown is damaging in itself. His executive order to stop scheduled pay raises is another insult to workers.

Top administration officials will actually receive pay raises due to the shutdown that they otherwise wouldn't have received.


As shutdown grinds on, furloughed workers rally
Christopher Wilson, Editor
Yahoo News
January 9, 2019

As shutdown grinds on, furloughed workers rally

excerpt:

"Officials of unions representing federal workers are concerned about receiving makeup pay, citing President Trump’s recent decision to stop scheduled salary raises via executive order. As an unintended consequence of the shutdown, a pay freeze for top administration officials that had been in effect since 2013 expired — meaning that Cabinet officers, deputies and other top administrators will receive raises of around $10,000."

 

He don't have money to fight fires or help fire victims but he has money for 17 new White House Lawyers to help him fight criminal charges pursuant Mueller's investigation?

 

once again, trump fucks over the people who voted for him.

 

and government sub contractors aren't getting paid either. he is doing the same thing he did to people who worked for him in the private sector.

 

His suggestion he will call a state of emergency is a classic dictator move. Win an election then oh no public there is an evil coming to get us. So just for now the military is in charge. Soon it's forever.

I think it's one of the many examples of the last bits of checks and balances still there. He can't do it as much as he wants.

Without the blue wave there would be no shutdown. There would be funding and still a state of emergency. He was probably not aware of what he sees as a checkmate move till a week or two ago.

 

Funny thing is Democrats see right through his lines of Bull Shit. It's his own Republican voters to whom he keep dishing out all that Bull.

 

It's very possible a PGE transformer blew, starting the fire. So, that has been said and I'm sure investigators are looking into that. Regardless of ANY situation, the damn fool thinks he has an answer, whatever the topic may be. Of course laced with multiple lies as he shows his stupidity and reckless actions. Don't know about the rest of you, but I have never seen ANYONE that thinks he knows more about everything mentioned than people that may have spent their whole careers studying subjects that he instantly "has the answers for." The lying son of a bitch needs gone,before he can fuck up anything else.

 

I want to ATTACK some of his suck-ass followers--but Skip wouldn't like it , I suppose. So-----

 

An ironic feature of this manufactured "crisis" is that the guy who "wrote the book" on deal making hasn't done any negotiating at all. He's simply turned the thing into a hostage situation (government workers being the hostages), and has given an ultimatum of non-negotiable demands--"my way or the highway". Ordinarily, in bargaining there would offers and counteroffers.Yesterday, in his brief meeting with Schumer and Pelosi, Trump simply asked if they would pay for his wall, and when Pelosi said "No" he said "Bye". Apparently, reopening the government is the quid pro quo, as though that's particularly dear to the hearts of the Democrats instead of everyone who cares about their country. In labor-management negotiations, that would never get by as "good faith" bargaining. Moving outside the box to a broader deal, e.g, including DACA, seemed to be gaining some traction among members of Congress, but Lindsey Graham thinks it's reached and impasse. I seriously doubt that he wants a deal, as opposed to an opportunity for grandstanding for the base, like the glory days on The Apprentice. He wants to play Big Shot and throw his weight around. So we seem to be poised for the nuclear option--declaring an emergency and diverting money from the military to build the damned wall. When Truman tried to take over the steel mills during the Korean War to prevent a strike by invoking a wartime national emergency, the Supreme Court said that the Korean War didn't qualify as enough of an emergency (Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. v. Sawyer). We'll see what the Court has to say about the so-called border crisis.National emergency? There are borders to the president's executive powers

 

It’s funny that he has yet to be impeached. I hope it happens because i have seen lots of things that he’s been involved with that shouldn’t of happened.
Piss gate was one of them.

 

We should not concern ourselves with Trump alone. We should pay close attention to every move the Republicans make because their agenda is the birthplace of all evil on our planet.

 

If Trump just hired 17 new White House (Executive Branch) lawyers that would mean he has 40 total lawyers to fight Mueller on issues like Obstruction of Justice. I am now wondering how much money that would come to after the tax payers foot the bill for their salaries and expense accounts. Would it be as much as his wall?

 

Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall
Under the proposal, Trump could dip into money set aside to fund civil works projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico.
By Courtney Kube and Julia Ainsley
Jan. 10, 2019, 4:37 PM EST

Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall

excerpt:

"President Donald Trump has been briefed on a plan that would use the Army Corps of Engineers and a portion of $13.9 billion of Army Corps funding to build 315 miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the briefing.

The money was set aside to fund projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico through fiscal year 2020, but the checks have not been written yet and, under an emergency declaration, the president could take the money from these civil works projects and use it to build the border wall, said officials familiar with the briefing and two congressional sources."

 

Video of Trump becoming annoyed by a reporter who refers to his fence as a wall.

Lately, Trump has indicated that he's willing to build a fence instead.


WATCH: Trump Said His Promise For Border Was ‘Not a Fence, It’s a Wall’
by Tommy Christopher | Dec 19th, 2018, 3:07 pm

https://www.mediaite.com/election-2...romise-for-border-was-not-a-fence-its-a-wall/

excerpt:

"Donald Trump and his surrogates are working hard to redefine his promise to “build a wall” and make Mexico pay for it, but Trump himself has been very clear that only a wall, not a fence, will fulfill that promise.

As Trump finds himself staring at the prospect of backing down from his threat to shut down the government over the border wall he’s spent years promising, he and his White House have, in various ways, sought to downplay the actual “wall” aspect of the wall."

 

Can’t wait until February to see Michael Cohen, Trump’s former attorney testify publicly before Congress.

This should be most revealing.

 

Correction: Trump was agitated by a reporter who called his wall a fence. What Trump had been describing at that point was actually a fence, which is why the reporter called it a fence.

Trump has changed his definition of his wall and who will finance and build it so many times that it creates confusion.

 

Trump seeks to expand powers as Mueller, Democrats threaten to constrain
Stephen Collinson Profile
Analysis by Stephen Collinson, CNN
Updated 2:57 AM ET, Fri January 11, 2019

Donald Trump seeks to expand powers as Mueller and Democrats stand in his way - CNNPolitics

excerpts:

"Some of this can be put down to the character of Trump himself. The President is mercurial and unruly. He's an outsider unfamiliar with the institutional constraints of the US constitutional system. His outlook was shaped in a family business where he enjoyed absolute power, and he sought to transfer his method to politics.

In two years in office, Trump has torn at historical norms and stamped over protocol, railing at the Washington establishment. Such behavior is why his millions of supporters stick by him still, but it repeatedly brings him into conflict with the edifices of political and legal accountability."


"CNN reported on Thursday that there is a building effort behind the scenes in the White House to keep a lot of what Mueller submits private. New White House Counsel Pat Cipollone has hired 17 new lawyers, a senior administration official said. Trump's legal team is preparing to argue that a large part of the report should be protected by executive privilege, the custom that says conversations between a President and his advisers should be private."

 

Trump's flag battle in 2006. This time it's his wall.



Trump's War With Palm Beach
For Palm Beachers, watching Trump claw and bluster his way through the Republican primary has a familiar ring.
By FRANK CERABINO
September 05, 2015

Trump's War With Palm Beach

excerpt:

"For Trump, eliminating the “town serving” requirement would mean that he could offer more memberships to his Mar-a-Lago social club to people who had no connection to Palm Beach, making it easier for him to keep his club full. Softening up the town on the flag issue to pursue some other angle was a classic Trump move. Though he has yet to get this particular exemption waived, Palm Beach has learned from experience that Trump’s lawsuits are never settled, just dormant. One of his Palm Beach lawyers said recently that the “town serving” issue is still unresolved and ripe for more litigation.

As for the flag, guess who won?

Trump eventually dropped his lawsuit over the flag, and in exchange the town waived its fines. As terms of a court-ordered mediation, Trump would file for a permit and be allowed to keep an oversized pole on Mar-a-Lago that was 10-feet shorter than original pole and on a different spot on his lawn. The agreement also called for him to donate $100,000 to veterans’ charities."