American Politics Thread: Orange is the new POTUS

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by Fuzz

In fairness, it says at the top he will "fight for their passage", not that he would actually be able to implement them. And he has tried and failed on a lot of those items.

Really, what have his accomplishments been? Got Gorsich confirmed? I guess we could add the following.

* doubled initiation fees at Mar-a-lago.
* got China to push through multiple trademarks for Trump products.
* got China to push through multiple trademarks for Ivanka.
* maintained his handicap.

That's a lot!

[Fuzz]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not defending him. I'm just pointing out the language of the statement wasn't that he would do all those things, just that he would try to do them. Had his voters realized this they may have considered the items on his list were mostly unattainable. Trump is a failure, no matter how you slice it. But his voters put him there by buying into his huckster sales pitch and not thinking it through.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by Texas Flames Fan

His name is Fozzie Bear? Relax buddy.

OK, thanks for the advice.

[chemgear]

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-us...-idUSKBN17U0CA

He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is.

President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.

"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.

"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us.

[Ozy_Flame]

"I thought it would be easier."

Herro frend, president is hard. Brane hurts becos lots of responshabilityyyyy.

[MRCboicgy]

Steve said it would be easy, just sign everything he puts in front of me!

[Lanny_McDonald]

Originally Posted by MRCboicgy

Steve said it would be easy, just sign everything he puts in front of me!

Sadly, that's what he thought the position would be. He thought it could be like his companies. Appoint people to do his bidding and then he could take credit for their success. Unfortunately that isn't how the world of geopolitics works. The man is a fool. The only reason he did this was to feed his unbelievably huuuuuge ego.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by New Era

Sadly, that's what he thought the position would be. He thought it could be like his companies. Appoint people to do his bidding and then he could take credit for their success. Unfortunately that isn't how the world of geopolitics works. The man is a fool. The only reason he did this was to feed his unbelievably huuuuuge ego.

And the definitely not easily conned voters that we won't call snake oil buying rubes because we don't want to hurt their feelings and shut down the possibility of discourse handed it to him on a silver platter.

Hey at least he's not a black guy, woman, or Democrat. That's all that matters.

[ernie]

CNN asked me to write 100 words that describe Donald Trump's first 100 days. Here they are:

Nothing. Zip. Zilch. Zero. Diddly. Squat. Nought. Zippo. Zot. Negatory. Nada. Nil. Nix. Nyet. Hot air. Nothingburger. Goose egg. Broken promises. Empty promises. Also: Calamitous. Irresponsible. Inexperienced. Unprepared. Undisciplined. Uninformed. Unimproved. Unpopular. Bumbling. Embarrassing. Flimsy. Flailing. Failing. Harmful. Hurtful. Hateful. Shortsighted. Half-baked. Irrelevant. Puny. Piddling. Paltry. Petty. Immature. Infantile. Impulsive. Trite. Tiresome. Stale. Superficial. Small. Meager. Impotent. Limp. Obstructive. Destructive. Damaging. Distracted. Despised. Backwards. Reckless. Bumbling. Bungling. Blind. Arrogant. Rude. Mean. Tacky. Trigger happy. Evasive. LYING. Vacuous. Vapid. Vacant. Vacationing. Meaningless. Frivolous. Oblivious. Sloppy. Silly. Empty. Outvoted. Overruled. Overturned. Null. Void. Inane. Inept. Negligent. Negligible. Naïve. Juvenile. Trivial. Disappointing. Underwhelming. And sad.

That was Sally Kohn. Jeffrey Lord of course thinks Drumpf has a A- grade. And of course Lord has to say the thing that annoys me most nowadays...his best accomplishment is Gorsuch who will be on the bench for decades as a conservative. Not as a judge looking at the law but a conservative. Of course Roberts is also on the court as a "conservative" and he has helped deliver some of the biggest blows to the GOP.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/27/opinio...dup/index.html

[RougeUnderoos]

"It's a false standard, 100 days, but I have to tell you I don't think anyone has been able to do what we've done in a hundred days".

He said that out loud just now after signing some Executive Order with typical flourish.

Do his not-dumb supporters him believe him when he says this kind of thing?

[photon]

Shutdown averted. For a week anyway.

The House passed legislation Friday to avoid a government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline.

The weeklong stopgap measure easily passed. After the Senate clears the bill late Friday, lawmakers will have one week to hash out a longer-term spending package that lasts through September.

The larger spending bill is expected to need Democratic help to keep the government funded, even though Republicans control both chambers of Congress as well as the White House.

Negotiations between the GOP and Democrats have dragged on amid unresolved policy riders regarding Puerto Rico and health benefits for coal miners.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/33...avoid-shutdown

[HotHotHeat]

This actually might work.

[PostandIn]

Kasich is the only guy in the GOP that appears sane, reasonable and could build a coalition of moderates from both parties to get some important stuff done. The more I hear of him the less-partisan and more results orientated he appears.

http://thehill.com/homenews/331062-k...ealthcare-plan

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by photon

Shutdown averted. For a week anyway.

The House passed legislation Friday to avoid a government shutdown just hours ahead of a midnight deadline.

The weeklong stopgap measure easily passed. After the Senate clears the bill late Friday, lawmakers will have one week to hash out a longer-term spending package that lasts through September.

The larger spending bill is expected to need Democratic help to keep the government funded, even though Republicans control both chambers of Congress as well as the White House.

Negotiations between the GOP and Democrats have dragged on amid unresolved policy riders regarding Puerto Rico and health benefits for coal miners.

http://thehill.com/policy/finance/33...avoid-shutdown

The gov't shut down alert seems to be a not unusual situation in Washington.

Did something similar happen at least once when Obama was in power.

[DuffMan]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

The gov't shut down alert seems to be a not unusual situation in Washington.

Did something similar happen at least once when Obama was in power.

the government did shutdown for a week when Obama was in, thanks to Ted Cruz.

[DuffMan]

President Donald Trump on Friday said he would name one of the most prominent anti-abortion activists in the nation to a top communications post at the Department of Health and Human Services.

Charmaine Yoest, tapped to be to be assistant secretary of public affairs, is a senior fellow at American Values. She is the former president of Americans United for Life, one of the most prominent anti-abortion groups in the country, which has been instrumental in advancing anti-abortion legislation at the state level to restrict access to the procedure.

AUL’s website — which states that the group offers state lawmakers 32 different pieces of model legislation to restrict access to abortion — characterizes Yoest as “public enemy #1” for abortion rights organizations.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...irs-hhs-237743

[DuffMan]

A federal appeals court granted President Donald Trump's request to halt a lawsuit over the Obama administration's most important climate change regulation on Friday, handing the him a major victory in his bid to revoke the rule that would have required power plants to curb their greenhouse gas emissions.

The decision by the D.C. Court of Appeals sends the rule back to Trump's EPA to review and most likely quash the regulation that had been at the heart of former President Barack Obama's strategy to combat emissions of carbon dioxide from coal-burning power plants.

Today's ruling comes just as Trump signed a new executive order to begin rolling back Obama's restrictions on offshore oil and gas drilling and just one day ahead major climate change protests planned for Washington and several other cities around the country.

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...lawsuit-237747

[DuffMan]

Pretty sure Donny is one of the Conservatives that can't be reasoned with and thrives on pissing off Liberals.

[ernie]

Kasich and actually Bush were the two moderates and not only were they moderate they actually wanted to talk policy, particulars and how to actually help people. Even if I don't agree with the theories they believe in, I do believe they had people's interest at heart and to do that requires reaching across the aisle and making compromises....i.e. governing from the middle.

A very large chunk of the voting public doesn't care about the policies and particulars or helping others. They are shamelessly self-centered and stupid.

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by DuffMan

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/0...irs-hhs-237743

So at what point does the U.S. just give up and implode on itself? They must be getting close to the breaking point by now, and it's only been three months. That country has survived a lot of crazy s--t over the decades, but can they survive three more years of Trump?