Trump's Milestones

[KathyInAR]

"Ethic's Office" -- that is a joke! I'd be surprised if 10% of those at or near the top of the administration have any idea of the meaning and the ability to apply "ethics"... their supporters must be so proud...NOT!

https://www.aol.com/article/news/201...fers/22121359/

And yes, I know that other administrations have also granted ethics waivers...it is important to look at what the waiver is for and the person's position to whom it is granted. Sometimes it is as little to allow a long-time associate/friend/family member to be allowed to introduce someone who is speaking at a function, etc.; or sometimes it is an attorney whose former law firm is representing a client, from before their appointment, in some type of legal action. And, then there are those who need waivers where they will have a direct opportunity to increase their non-government income, personal wealth and such.

[KathyInAR]

I want a weight-loss diet where I can eat cookies, cakes, pies, ice-cream, lots and lots of bacon and prime rib, pastas, pizza, mashed potatoes, mac & cheese, and drink all the lemonade w/sugar I want, and have a large Sonic Snickers Blast each and every day--instead of having to limit all those items and pay attention to calories, fat content, carbs and exercise once in a while. You know, kinda like Trump wants to "negotiate" a new Paris Climate Accord or something similar without big business having to make changes and spend $$$ to keep from polluting and damaging the planet. He is a monumental dumbass!!!

If allowed too, Trump will single-highhandedly destroy the good-will, respect and world-leadership that America has enjoyed. Other countries will not trust America to "keep its word"...it is one thing to undo or make changes when it is obvious that something isn't working as it should or circumstances have changed warranting changes. But to undo and change something just because a prior administration of a different political party did it, is so wrong in so many ways. And besides being the biggest dumbass to ever have darkened the doorway of the White House he is a coward. While in Europe he was too chickenshit to say he was pulling the US from the Paris Climate Accord, knowing all along that is exactly what he was going to do. Of course, he knows absolutely nothing about "keeping one's word" as he has not paid people the $$$ he owed them, he had not problem taking $$$ from people and promising them something and then not delivering. It is his belief and practice that "keeping one's word" really doesn't matter, in his opinion it is optional. Dumbass! Dumbass! Dumbass! I am ashamed for him because he hasn't got the good sense to be ashamed of himself...he is nothing more than a stupid dumbass that too many people put their faith in and he is f'ing them over too!!!

[sundealer]

Welcome back!!

[Fastcar]

I'm going to sound like most anti union folks here and say the following.

He did this to save jobs in the coal industry, a industry that is employing under 175,000 workers and is declining. What's the point?

Green industry jobs are close to 400,000 and increasing.

He claims he promised the voters of PA.

He has lied to everybody about everything, what's another lie.

[KathyInAR]

Trump showing us how much he really cares about the average American citizen...you know, folks like you and me...and our kids and grandkids.

Jerky stupid dumbass!!! The absolutely worse mistake made by the American people since they decided to go to war with each other back during the Civil War!!!

[Fastcar]

For all the trumpettes who support this fool. This is his new tax bill he has told you was on it's way.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/02/news...ill/index.html

[KathyInAR]

For all the trumpettes who support this fool. This is his new tax bill he has told you was on it's way.

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/02/news...ill/index.html

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."
-Abraham Lincoln

The question is, how long can the Trump supporters be fooled before they realize the fool that is Donald Trump?

[slick]

i think its a sad thing, i have always wanted to meet a president, but its a situation where if i came face to face with this chump, i think i would have to tell him he is an asshole, and walk away, before something was said that may be regreted

[sundealer]

I'm going to sound like most anti union folks here and say the following.

He did this to save jobs in the coal industry, a industry that is employing under 175,000 workers and is declining. What's the point?

Green industry jobs are close to 400,000 and increasing.

He claims he promised the voters of PA.

He has lied to everybody about everything, what's another lie.

Two words about the agreement....NON BINDING.

The way y'all are talking, I would have expected bulldozers and wrecking balls out in the turbine fields early this morning.
The guys in black suits tearing solar panels off roofs and throwing the owners in jail.
Everything we've done, and will continue to do will be for the US.

[KathyInAR]

What trump is doing is showing the world that as long as he is in office, the US can't be trusted with anything over which he has control. Period exclamation mark!!!

When a large majority, really large...huge majority of "the experts" say something is real, along comes a few, a really tiny few who say the opposite, and those who find that the facts may hinder them in some way or in how they do business, grasp onto the few and declare the others wrong without having any idea of anything related whatsoever.

[KathyInAR]

Why does everything, EVERYTHING! with this dumbass have to be chaotic?

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN18T2S8

POLITICS | Fri Jun 2, 2017 | 3:27pm EDT
Trump's continued search for new FBI chief seen as chaotic: sources
By Julia Edwards Ainsley | WASHINGTON

President Donald Trump is still looking for a new FBI director more than three weeks after he fired James Comey, and sources familiar with the recruiting process say it has been chaotic and that job interviews led by Trump have been brief.

Three close associates of three contenders for the job, all of whom have been interviewed by Trump, said the candidates were summoned to the White House for 10- to 20-minute conversations with Trump, Vice President Mike Pence and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.

Those conversations, which followed initial interviews at the Justice Department, have been light on questions about substantive issues facing the agency, the three associates said.

While the department has compiled a long list of candidates for the White House, there has been no “clear framework or logic for who was interviewed and why,” said one of the sources.

Another of the three sources described the process as chaotic and said that in one interview, Trump spoke mostly about himself and seemed distracted. (my comment: Yeah, I know that is a big surprise, isn't it?...NOT!)

... former Senator Joe Lieberman was a front-runner for the post. He withdrew his name from consideration on May 25.

...

Republican Representative Trey Gowdy was under consideration but he said on May 15 he was not interested.

... Republican Senator John Cornyn, also a contender, said he would stay in the Senate.

(my comment: These three guys realize that working with dumbass is a career ender.)
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(Additional reporting by Jeff Mason; Editing by Kevin Drawbaugh and Jonathan Oatis)

[limner43]

Now that we have experienced over four months of this bloated incompetent barking inanities with his sixth grade vocabulary, isn't it time to quit complaining and began demanding from our feckless and cowardly Congress that they begin impeachment proceedings? How far down the road to stupidity and embarrassing incompetence does he have to lead us before we take action? We cannot afford to wait until the next election cycle. This idiot has done enough damage to the environment, health care, and foreign policy already. Trump is no different than a Third World dictator. He negates a free press; refuses to answer questions, and has surrounded himself with the most corrupt and deceitful policy makers, most egregious of which are his daughter and son-in-law. Tar and feather the clown, and run him out of town. (Don't I wish....)

[KathyInAR]

Now that we have experienced over four months of this bloated incompetent barking inanities with his sixth grade vocabulary, isn't it time to quit complaining and began demanding from our feckless and cowardly Congress that they begin impeachment proceedings? How far down the road to stupidity and embarrassing incompetence does he have to lead us before we take action? We cannot afford to wait until the next election cycle. This idiot has done enough damage to the environment, health care, and foreign policy already. Trump is no different than a Third World dictator. He negates a free press; refuses to answer questions, and has surrounded himself with the most corrupt and deceitful policy makers, most egregious of which are his daughter and son-in-law. Tar and feather the clown, and run him out of town. (Don't I wish....)

Welcome, welcome, welcome...

Couldn't have said it better myself, and Lord knows I've tried...

[Fastcar]

Two words about the agreement....NON BINDING.

The way y'all are talking, I would have expected bulldozers and wrecking balls out in the turbine fields early this morning.
The guys in black suits tearing solar panels off roofs and throwing the owners in jail.
Everything we've done, and will continue to do will be for the US.

Now that he has changed his mind and decided that global warming is for real I wonder what your position is now.

[sundealer]

My position has never changed.
Climate change has been going on since day 1. It will continue.
Until men can control the weather, sun, volcanoes etc. the cycles will not change.
Can men control their contribution? Of course.
Enough to make a difference in this millennia? NO.

[KathyInAR]

My position has never changed.
Climate change has been going on since day 1. It will continue.
Until men can control the weather, sun, volcanoes etc. the cycles will not change.
Can men control their contribution? Of course.
Enough to make a difference in this millennia? NO.

My comments are where is the science that says man cannot make enough of a difference for man's part in climate change to make a difference? It seems to me that those who want very little or no control just throw out statements without any proof and/or science to back them up.

Think:

1) The Israelis were able to change the deserts in Israel into lush growing fields;

2) Los Angles and California reduced the terrible air pollution/smog of their past;

3) The UAE is planning to build a man-made mountain in the desert that is expected to bring rain to the desert where there is hardly ever any;

4) Made changes that greatly reduced the acid rain that was damaging to plant/tree growth and humans and other animals.

5) Cleaning up and stopping the poisoning and polluting of our lands and waterways making the changes needed for wildlife where they had been in danger of becoming extinct; and/or causing birth defects and cancers and other illness in humans and other animals.

To borrow a comment from some unknown (to me) person: "Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon."

[slick]

oh, ok then

[limner43]

Given that Trump continually bleats that he is smart, I'd love to see a copy of his Wharton transcript. I'll bet that it will show that he was, like Bush, a lackluster student who was accepted largely due to the father's influence. You see, no one who is really smart says that they are really smart. They simply demonstrate it in their conversation and their decision-making. Secondly, really smart people do not say dumb things as does Trump. So, when you consider his limited world view, his childlike vocabulary, and his inability to process complex information, you are left with but one conclusion. This dumb-ass has bluffed and bullied his way through life, and his facade is as fake as a diploma from Trump University. Mitt Romney was right when he described Trump during the campaign as a "phoney and a fraud". Now let's work to oust this lying, ignorant lout from the White House.

[KathyInAR]

Having worked for many years with lots of people with advanced degrees, I have made the following observations:

1) College doesn't necessarily make one smart; and

2) There are a lot of educated idiots.

Trump proves my theory daily!

[limner43]

Republicans seem to like the uneducated. Ford, by many accounts from his Congressional peers, was not a bright light. They revere Reagan, although Alzheimer's sidetracked him during the end of his presidency, so who knows who was actually running the government. Bush was a slacker and squeaked through college. His malapropisms and bungled speech patterns were fodder for countless comedians. But he had Karl Rove, who was called "Bush's Brain" and Dick Cheney, the Dr. Strangelove of the Bush 43 tenure. Then, of course, Republicans introduced Sarah Palin, a feisty airhead who had become governor of Alaska by default. Now, as if the stupid well had not been mined deeply enough, we now have to endure the incompetent and blisteringly ignorant Tweeter. Remember that this phalanx of the intellectually challenged began years ago. Grover Norquist developed the Republican strategy to regain the White house. He said that Republicans should focus on winning governorships and Congressional seats; that way all they would need is "someone who can hold a pen" to achieve their goals of mass privatization, elimination of regulations, and dismantling social programs. Norquist's dream has materialized. We now have a president who has a wonderfully stylized signature that he places on documents he does not understand while Republicans applaud. Trump may be ignorant about domestic and foreign policy, but..boy...can he hold that pen.