October 9th, 2017 - October 10th, 2017. 329-330 days since the Nov 8, 2016, election of some rich asshole, no.45, and 261-262 days since the Jan 20th inauguration.
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the rich asshole EXPLODES In Twitter Tantrum That Proves He’s Mentally Unfit To Be President
some rich asshole threw a massive hissy fit over just about everything on Tuesday morning.
Some things just do not need to be commented on by the president, but for some reason, the rich asshole thinks he needs to comment on everything.
In a series of whining tweets, the rich asshole took petty shots at Democrats, ESPN, Jemele Hill, the NFL, and Senator Bob Corker that perfectly demonstrate how thin-skinned and how pathetically unfit he is to be president.
He began by threatening the NFL for not punishing players who exercise their right to free speech.
Then he bitched about Democrats for not supporting his useless and expensive border wall.
the rich asshole then declared that he would destroy healthcare by executive order.
the rich asshole also attacked Jemele Hill for rightfully calling for a boycott of the Dallas Cowboys.
Hill posted her tweets in response to Cowboys owner Jerry Jones threatening to punish any player who kneels during the national anthem. By issuing such a threat, “America’s team” clearly does not support America’s Constitution.
To cap it all off, the rich asshole attacked the New York Times and insulted Senator Bob Corker.
Seriously, does the rich asshole have nothing better to do? You know, like actually doing his job?
GOP Lawmaker: Republicans Are Freaking Out About The ‘Dysfunction’ In The White House (VIDEO)
Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN) is being defended by one of his Republican colleagues following some rich asshole’s attacks on the Tennessee Republican. Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) said that Republicans in the Senate and House are frustrated with the rich asshole and added Monday on MSNBC, “We have these conversations all the time.”
“We’ve had a lot of these ‘the emperor has no clothes’ moments and I’m glad that Sen. Corker has brought voice to this,” Dent said. “We are concerned. My colleagues, my Republican colleagues in the House, I know, and Senate, are concerned by much of the dysfunction and disorder and chaos at the White House.”
Dent noted that since John Kelly became chief of staff that tensions have eased “a bit” but added that the constant “insults” and “sideshows” distract Congress from focusing on policy.
“We have these conversations all the time and we have to do better and I think more of my colleagues should speak up,” he said. “They say things privately, they don’t say publicly. I said it publicly before I announced I wasn’t running.”
Corker, who is leaving office, called the White House an “adult day care center” and said that some rich asshole is putting the U.S. on the “path to World War III.”
“When you’re the President of the United States, your words are policy. People take those words very seriously, and I don’t think the President has learned that yet,” Dent said, according to Talking Points Memo. “The President, I believe, has to be much more measured in his rhetoric, but good luck with that.”
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Sens. Jeff Flake and John McCain have also been critical of the rich asshole’s chaotic administration. In return, the rich asshole fires back at them, typically on his Twitter account. There’s a price to pay if a politician dares to criticize the thin-skinned president who is putting us on the path to World War III. For example, just this morning, the rich asshole lashed out at Corker by taking a shot at the Tennessee Republican’s height. Because it’s 2017 and we’re witnessing a dysfunctional reality show.
Matthew Cooper
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Steven Mnuchin is accustomed to criticism. For years, he was known as “the foreclosure king” on Wall Street, where he amassed an estimated $300 million—much of it by profiting from the Great Recession (after the fact). But in August, just days after the deadly rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, Mnuchin—the U.S. Treasury secretary—faced unprecedented pressure from an unlikely source: his alma mater, Yale University. President Donald Trump had equated the racist, tiki torch–wielding extremists at the rally with those who showed up to protest against them. And a group of 300 Yale alumni asked the Treasury secretary, who is Jewish, to resign. “You are better than this,” they wrote. For Mnuchin, the former publisher of the Yale Daily Newsand a member of the famed secret society Skull and Bones, the answer was obvious. He defended Trump in glowing terms and vowed to stay on and “reform taxes.”
The fight to change the tax code is the biggest issue facing Congress, and it will likely define the 54-year-old’s career in Washington. Mnuchin is the administration’s point man on what has become a must-win issue for the president. Trump came into office with a Republican-controlled House and Senate, but he’s failed to persuade Congress to pass anything save for an embarrassingly small number of confirmations and stopgap spending measures. So now it falls to Mnuchin, who has been working the Sunday news circuit, not only advocating for the tax plan but—because loyalty is so important to Trump—defending the president’s comments about NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. “It’s almost like he’s the ventriloquist and the dummy at the same time,” chided The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah.
Mnuchin has been optimistic about passing the embryonic plan to eliminate deductions and lower tax rates in hopes of stimulating economic growth. But changing the tax code is one of the hardest things to do in Washington—and this administration has failed at much less arduous tasks—such as repealing Obamacare. Changing the tax system involves huge trade-offs, and if you cut deductions to lower rates, you’re going to piss off one powerful group or another—from the real estate lobby to retirees.
Consider Tom Reed, a popular Republican congressman from upstate New York. He sits on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws. When he spoke to Newsweek in early October, he was enthusiastic about changing the tax code. Reed has met with the Treasury secretary—and he was impressed with his dealmaking chops. But like many lawmakers, the congressman is eager to protect the deductions that are important for his constituents—like the ones for state and local taxes that are slated for elimination in the proposal. So if Mnuchin can’t find a way to offset enough of them, Reed and others may balk—and the Treasury secretary will be forced to go back to his impetuous boss and tell him the team has lost again.
There is, however, precedent for him to succeed. In 1986, James Baker, the secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan, guided a massive tax revision through Congress. It not only passed with a wide majority but slashed rates and eliminated deductions. Baker, the famed dealmaker who would later become secretary of State, provided tons of details to Congress about what he wanted in the plan. He was even present as the Ways and Means Committee marked up the bill.
Mnuchin almost certainly won’t be involved at that level. “This is a different model [than Baker],” says Dave Camp, a former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who is now at senior policy adviser at PwC. “It appears the House and Senate will come up with their own bills.”
The Treasury secretary is also starting from a weaker position than Baker. In 1984, Reagan won the most lopsided election in American history. One of his promises was to change the tax code, and it still took Baker and his predecessor, Donald Regan, two years to get the bill they wanted. Trump, won by a narrow margin and remains unpopular. He didn’t run on rewriting tax laws, and Mnuchin has been given only a few months to pass something viable.
Another disadvantage for Mnuchin: His tax proposal is a harder sell than Baker’s. The 1986 plan cut rates for individuals but largely raised them for businesses. Mnuchin’s—at least according to the outline the Trump team and GOP leaders released in September—is brimming with corporate tax cuts. Supporters note that the world economy is far more competitive than it was during the Reagan era, and with the U.S. corporate rate at 35 percent, many companies have relocated abroad or squirreled away money in foreign offices. Lowering corporate rates could help overall economic growth, but it’s sure to be less popular. In a recent poll, only 39 percent of respondents said they wanted such a cut. And while Mnuchin’s plan does slash individual rates, the biggest breaks go to the very wealthy, while actually raising taxes on the poorest Americans, from 10 to 12 percent. Even Trump was reportedly angry about that, though he later seemed placated when he learned the proposal would double the standard deduction, in part to offset the higher rate.
Either way, Mnuchin has some image problems that aren’t helping his tax effort. Over the summer, his wife, the actress Louise Linton, had to apologize for lashing out at an Oregon mom who had criticized her on Instagram for bragging about designer clothes as she stepped off a taxpayer-funded jet. Later, it emerged that a top Mnuchin aide may have violated government ethics rules by accepting a private plane ride from a billionaire investor. And in the wake of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s resignation over his private charter travel, Mnuchin reportedly racked up $800,000 in trips on military aircraft. He had also inquired about using a government jet for his honeymoon (though he ultimately paid his own way). None of this looks good for a man who bought subprime mortgage lender IndyMac for $1.6 billion in 2009 with a group of billionaire investors, then sold it more than double that six years later after profiting from foreclosures and loan modifications.
Private jet travel isn’t the Treasury secretary’s only optics problem. Mnuchin made boatloads of money in hedge funds, and one question about his tax plan is whether it will repeal the loophole that allows these funds to pay a low 15 percent rate on their massive earnings. During the campaign, Trump said he was for scrapping it— “The hedge fund guys are getting away with murder”—but ending the loophole wasn’t mentioned in the outline Mnuchin crafted with GOP leaders.
Democrats will rejoice if the Trump team’s idea of “reform” means zillionaires get taxed at lower rates than their secretaries. And Mnuchin’s Treasury Department hasn’t helped with his image problem. In September, it took a study down from its website showing that much of the corporate tax cut would wind up benefiting the wealthy. Critics immediately pounced.
Because of all the criticism, the bill’s chances of passing don’t look good. It can make it through the House, where Republicans have their biggest numbers since 1928. But in the Senate, it’s going to be harder—as it was with health care. Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, has attacked Mnuchin’s outline for not cutting taxes enough. GOP Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee is worried it would raise the deficit. And moderate Democrats, like Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, say the proposal is tilted too heavily in favor of the wealthy.
Mnuchin may wind up settling for a smaller, more modest plan—one that simply cuts taxes and eliminates deductions. It might not be the “reform” that Trump and his Treasury secretary promised. But at this point, getting anything through Congress would be a win for the White House.
The fight to change the tax code is the biggest issue facing Congress, and it will likely define the 54-year-old’s career in Washington. Mnuchin is the administration’s point man on what has become a must-win issue for the president. Trump came into office with a Republican-controlled House and Senate, but he’s failed to persuade Congress to pass anything save for an embarrassingly small number of confirmations and stopgap spending measures. So now it falls to Mnuchin, who has been working the Sunday news circuit, not only advocating for the tax plan but—because loyalty is so important to Trump—defending the president’s comments about NFL players taking a knee during the national anthem. “It’s almost like he’s the ventriloquist and the dummy at the same time,” chided The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah.
Mnuchin has been optimistic about passing the embryonic plan to eliminate deductions and lower tax rates in hopes of stimulating economic growth. But changing the tax code is one of the hardest things to do in Washington—and this administration has failed at much less arduous tasks—such as repealing Obamacare. Changing the tax system involves huge trade-offs, and if you cut deductions to lower rates, you’re going to piss off one powerful group or another—from the real estate lobby to retirees.
Consider Tom Reed, a popular Republican congressman from upstate New York. He sits on the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, which writes tax laws. When he spoke to Newsweek in early October, he was enthusiastic about changing the tax code. Reed has met with the Treasury secretary—and he was impressed with his dealmaking chops. But like many lawmakers, the congressman is eager to protect the deductions that are important for his constituents—like the ones for state and local taxes that are slated for elimination in the proposal. So if Mnuchin can’t find a way to offset enough of them, Reed and others may balk—and the Treasury secretary will be forced to go back to his impetuous boss and tell him the team has lost again.
There is, however, precedent for him to succeed. In 1986, James Baker, the secretary of the Treasury under Ronald Reagan, guided a massive tax revision through Congress. It not only passed with a wide majority but slashed rates and eliminated deductions. Baker, the famed dealmaker who would later become secretary of State, provided tons of details to Congress about what he wanted in the plan. He was even present as the Ways and Means Committee marked up the bill.
Mnuchin almost certainly won’t be involved at that level. “This is a different model [than Baker],” says Dave Camp, a former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who is now at senior policy adviser at PwC. “It appears the House and Senate will come up with their own bills.”
The Treasury secretary is also starting from a weaker position than Baker. In 1984, Reagan won the most lopsided election in American history. One of his promises was to change the tax code, and it still took Baker and his predecessor, Donald Regan, two years to get the bill they wanted. Trump, won by a narrow margin and remains unpopular. He didn’t run on rewriting tax laws, and Mnuchin has been given only a few months to pass something viable.
Another disadvantage for Mnuchin: His tax proposal is a harder sell than Baker’s. The 1986 plan cut rates for individuals but largely raised them for businesses. Mnuchin’s—at least according to the outline the Trump team and GOP leaders released in September—is brimming with corporate tax cuts. Supporters note that the world economy is far more competitive than it was during the Reagan era, and with the U.S. corporate rate at 35 percent, many companies have relocated abroad or squirreled away money in foreign offices. Lowering corporate rates could help overall economic growth, but it’s sure to be less popular. In a recent poll, only 39 percent of respondents said they wanted such a cut. And while Mnuchin’s plan does slash individual rates, the biggest breaks go to the very wealthy, while actually raising taxes on the poorest Americans, from 10 to 12 percent. Even Trump was reportedly angry about that, though he later seemed placated when he learned the proposal would double the standard deduction, in part to offset the higher rate.
Either way, Mnuchin has some image problems that aren’t helping his tax effort. Over the summer, his wife, the actress Louise Linton, had to apologize for lashing out at an Oregon mom who had criticized her on Instagram for bragging about designer clothes as she stepped off a taxpayer-funded jet. Later, it emerged that a top Mnuchin aide may have violated government ethics rules by accepting a private plane ride from a billionaire investor. And in the wake of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price’s resignation over his private charter travel, Mnuchin reportedly racked up $800,000 in trips on military aircraft. He had also inquired about using a government jet for his honeymoon (though he ultimately paid his own way). None of this looks good for a man who bought subprime mortgage lender IndyMac for $1.6 billion in 2009 with a group of billionaire investors, then sold it more than double that six years later after profiting from foreclosures and loan modifications.
Private jet travel isn’t the Treasury secretary’s only optics problem. Mnuchin made boatloads of money in hedge funds, and one question about his tax plan is whether it will repeal the loophole that allows these funds to pay a low 15 percent rate on their massive earnings. During the campaign, Trump said he was for scrapping it— “The hedge fund guys are getting away with murder”—but ending the loophole wasn’t mentioned in the outline Mnuchin crafted with GOP leaders.
Democrats will rejoice if the Trump team’s idea of “reform” means zillionaires get taxed at lower rates than their secretaries. And Mnuchin’s Treasury Department hasn’t helped with his image problem. In September, it took a study down from its website showing that much of the corporate tax cut would wind up benefiting the wealthy. Critics immediately pounced.
Because of all the criticism, the bill’s chances of passing don’t look good. It can make it through the House, where Republicans have their biggest numbers since 1928. But in the Senate, it’s going to be harder—as it was with health care. Senator Rand Paul, the Kentucky Republican, has attacked Mnuchin’s outline for not cutting taxes enough. GOP Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee is worried it would raise the deficit. And moderate Democrats, like Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia, say the proposal is tilted too heavily in favor of the wealthy.
Mnuchin may wind up settling for a smaller, more modest plan—one that simply cuts taxes and eliminates deductions. It might not be the “reform” that Trump and his Treasury secretary promised. But at this point, getting anything through Congress would be a win for the White House.
White House staffers adopt babysitter-style strategy to steer the rich asshole away from bad ideas
Staffers Treat the rich asshole Like a Child
Julia Glum
Posted with permission from Newsweek
Aides to Donald Trump have reportedly adopted a babysitter-style strategy for dealing with the president's bad ideas: Instead of telling him "no," they make an empty promise to come back to it later.
The technique was detailed in a Politico report out Monday, just after Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted the White House was effectively an "adult day care center." Current and former Trump employees like Barbara Res told Politico they often attempted to forestall the president's proposals and buy some time to talk him out of them.
"You either had to just convince him something better was his idea or ignore what he said to do and hoped he forgot about it the next day," said Res, who was a top executive in Trump's real estate development firm before he became president.
It's like trying to stop a child's temper tantrum. No, really. The reports reveal that Trump staffers are following parenting tips that might have been cribbed right from WebMD: "Avoid situations in which tantrums are likely to erupt," "give your toddler a little bit of control," "distract."
Employees have also used special methods to trick Trump into doing his job. Reuters revealed in May that National Security Council officials intentionally include Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as [they] can because he keeps reading if he’s mentioned." They also keep policy documents to one page and include graphics because "the president likes maps," as one anonymous staffer told the New York Times.
Like watchful guardians, aides also keep an eye on Trump as he moves around the White House and into rooms with easy access to TVs, according to the Washington Post. Advisers even tell foreign leaders that one of the best ways to strike a favorable deal with Trump is to flatter him—specifically, to bring up the fact that he won the election in the Electoral College.
The toddler-Trump comparisons are nothing new, but they are ramping up because of the recent back-and-forth with Corker. The senator blasted the president in a Times interview this weekend after Trump criticized him for not seeking re-election.
"He concerns me," Corker said. "I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him."
Just don't call Trump a moron.
The technique was detailed in a Politico report out Monday, just after Senator Bob Corker, a Tennessee Republican, tweeted the White House was effectively an "adult day care center." Current and former Trump employees like Barbara Res told Politico they often attempted to forestall the president's proposals and buy some time to talk him out of them.
"You either had to just convince him something better was his idea or ignore what he said to do and hoped he forgot about it the next day," said Res, who was a top executive in Trump's real estate development firm before he became president.
Related: Donald Trump's Approval Rating is Awful Among Young People
The White House is constantly trying to keep Trump calm and carry on, so Monday's report isn't the first to reveal this distraction maneuver. For example, during his campaign, Trump staffers reportedly kept the tycoon from blowing up over negative media coverage by simply showing him other, more favorable stories. The morning former FBI director James Comey was set to testify about his investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, aides packed Trump's schedule with meetings to keep him from tweeting.It's like trying to stop a child's temper tantrum. No, really. The reports reveal that Trump staffers are following parenting tips that might have been cribbed right from WebMD: "Avoid situations in which tantrums are likely to erupt," "give your toddler a little bit of control," "distract."
Employees have also used special methods to trick Trump into doing his job. Reuters revealed in May that National Security Council officials intentionally include Trump's name in "as many paragraphs as [they] can because he keeps reading if he’s mentioned." They also keep policy documents to one page and include graphics because "the president likes maps," as one anonymous staffer told the New York Times.
Like watchful guardians, aides also keep an eye on Trump as he moves around the White House and into rooms with easy access to TVs, according to the Washington Post. Advisers even tell foreign leaders that one of the best ways to strike a favorable deal with Trump is to flatter him—specifically, to bring up the fact that he won the election in the Electoral College.
The toddler-Trump comparisons are nothing new, but they are ramping up because of the recent back-and-forth with Corker. The senator blasted the president in a Times interview this weekend after Trump criticized him for not seeking re-election.
"He concerns me," Corker said. "I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him."
Just don't call Trump a moron.
The Federal Election Commission (FEC) has just concluded that President the rich asshole did, indeed, pay actors to attend his very first campaign event. Why it took them so long to release the report, we’re not sure.
If the rich asshole and his team were honest about it – it might not be that big of a story – but to this day the rich asshole denies it ever happened. Now the FEC is calling him a liar.
They claim to have evidence by the rich asshole’s own filings with them, where the rich asshole disclosed a payment to contractor Gotham Government Relations, that in turn subcontracted with Extra Mile, a New York-based casting agency.
“In this matter, the available information indicates that the [the rich asshole campaign] retained Gotham as an event consultant, and Gotham, in turn, subcontracted with Extra Mile to provide extra administrative support at the rich asshole’s announcement, including the provision of at least some of the rally crowd.”
The document doesn’t say how many actors were in attendance, but that doesn’t matter. We now know for sure that the rich asshole and his team weren’t being honest about it.
This was one of the biggest stories about the rich asshole after he initially launched his campaign – it’s good to know the truth at some point, no matter how long that ends up taking.
But – here’s the thing: the rich asshole likes to regularly have people in the audience that can act as his cheerleader or benefactor. We know this – in the rich asshole’s first official press conference in over seven months earlier in the year – the rich asshole paid staffers of his to sit in the audience and clap whenever he attacked members of the “fake news” media. Those weren’t innocent bystanders – it was all planned. This is a pattern of his.
Even though the rich asshole was caught red-handed by the FEC, it says they aren’t planning to sanction the rich asshole campaign because the campaign eventually ended up disclosing the payment. Still – that doesn’t undo the harm done to the public he lied to.
The House now has legislation that would have President the rich asshole undergo a physical and mental health exam in order to determine if he is capable of still serving as President of the United States.
The resolution has the 25th amendment in mind, which states that the Vice President and a majority of his Cabinet can jointly declare if the president is unfit for office. In order for that to happen, they would have to testify to his mental state, which the exam would confirm.
The legislation states:
“Quickly secure the services of medical and psyhciatric professionals to exame the president to assist in their deliberatons under the 25th Amendment to determine whether the president suffers from a mental disorder or other injury that impairs his abilities and prevents him from discharging his Constitutional duties.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren’s office, who introduced the measure, released a statement full of questions that it hopes the mental examination will answer:
“Does the President suffer from early stage dementia? Has the stress of office aggravated a mental illness crippling impulse control? Has emotional disorder so impaired the President that he is unable to discharge his duties? Is the President mentally and emotionally stable?”
In addition to the measure, several members of Congress are in the process of setting up an expert panel to review and advise on the rich asshole’s mental capacity. This is practically unheard of in presidential politics – the rich asshole is set to be the first. They are expected to have a closed meeting on the matter in September in the coming weeks.
Per Scientific American:
“On Friday, Lee and four other psychiatrists sent a letter to all members of the U.S. Senate and House arguing that the rich asshole exhibits “severe emotional impediments that … present a grave threat to international security,” and asking Congress to “take immediate steps to establish a commission to determine his fitness for office.” The letter signers are staunch the rich asshole opponents and believe his presidency should end.Lee and the other signers of the new letter, including Dr. Lance Dodes, recently retired from Harvard Medical School, argue that the rich asshole’s “alarming patterns of impulsive, reckless, and narcissistic behavior — regardless of diagnosis … put the world at risk,” posing an “imminent danger” that psychiatrists are ethically obligated to warn about.”
Some say that the rich asshole may suffer from Alzheimer’s, the same condition that plagued former President Ronald Reagan. Others aren’t sure of what he has but want to find out.
Jeb Bush, who ran against the rich asshole in the Republican primaries once said:
“I’m not a psychiatrist or a psychologist, but the guy needs therapy.”
Chelsea Handler, who has a show on Netflix, posits another theory: She thinks the rich asshole is suffering from syphilis, which is a sexually transmitted disease that in later stages can cause neurological problems, personality changes, dementia, the list goes on.
“He doesn’t have a value system,” she said to CNN’s Jake Tapper onstage. “He’s not interested in the American people. He lies constantly. He’s also unstable, and I believe he has syphilis.”
Currently, there are several petitions circulating, one having 24,000 signatures, calling for the rich asshole’s removal from the presidency because he “manifests a serious mental illness that renders him psychologically incapable of competently discharging the duties of President.”
Another with over 36,000 signatures says the rich asshole is probably suffering from another kind of disorder entirely: “the rich asshole appears unable to control his compulsion and displays characteristics of all nine criteria to officially diagnose an individual with Narcissistic Personality Disorder.”
In any case, most are in agreement that a mental exam is long overdue
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some rich asshole threatens to 'change tax law' to penalise NFL over 'take a knee' protests'Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country?' 10-10-17
some rich asshole has criticised NFL clubs for "disrespecting" their country with protests during the national anthem, suggesting they receive "massive tax breaks" and calling for a change to the law to have these removed.
In his latest attack on players peacefully protesting racial inequality, the US president wrote on Twitter: "Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!"
It comes a day after Vice President Mike Pence walked out of a match in which players kneeled, later saying he “will not dignify any event that disrespects our soldiers, our Flag, or our National Anthem”.
Mr the rich asshole later took credit for Mr Pence's protest, seen by some as a publicity stunt, tweeting that he had asked his second-in-command to leave the game between Indianapolis Colts and San Francisco 49ers if players protested.
More than 20 members of the 49ers squad kneeled before the game. Colts players wore black t-shirts reading “We Will” on the front and “Stand for equality, justice, unity, respect, dialogue, opportunity” on the back.
A number of NFL players have kneeled during the national anthem as a form of peaceful protest in the past few weeks. Former 49ers player Colin Kaepernick initiated the practice last year, after first sitting out the national anthem in protest at police brutality of black people.
Mr the rich asshole brought renewed attention to the issue last month with a series of tweets criticising the players.
The president said in a campaign rally in September: “Wouldn’t you love to see one of these NFL owners, when somebody disrespects our flag, to say, ‘Get that son of a bitch off the field right now. Out! He’s fired."
The comments caused dozens more NFL players to begin kneeling before games and prompted the league's commissioner, Roger Goodell, to criticise Mr the rich asshole's "divisive" outbursts.
In his latest outburst on the issue on Tuesday morning, the president also took aim an ESPN presenter who was suspended by the network for defending NFL players.
Jemele Hill had urged a boycott of Dallas Cowboys advertisers after the club's owner said players would be dropped if they refused to stand during the national anthem. She was suspended for a "violation of social media guidelines".
Mr the rich asshole wrote: "With Jemele Hill at the mike, it is no wonder ESPN ratings have 'tanked,' in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!"
His tweets on the NFL were separated by digressions onto immigration policy and healthcare reforms.
The NFL was controversially tax-exempt until 2015, when it voluntarily gave up the status.
But tax code loopholes still allow the league's billionaire owners to receive huge public subsidies towards the construction and renovation of stadiums.
Taxpayers have contributed $7 billion (£5.3 billion) to work on NFL stadiums in the past two decades, according to the Franklin Centre for Government and Public Integrity watchdog.
A Republican congressman last month called for changes to tax law in response to NFL players' protests.
"Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that Americans are required to subsidise disrespect for America, or to have their tax dollars wasted on corporate welfare to sports teams," said Florida Representative Matt Gaetz.
He added: "If players want to protest, they have that right - but they should do it on their own time, and on their own dime.”
the rich asshole proposes ‘IQ tests’ faceoff with Tillerson after secretary of state calls him a ‘moron’
By Philip Rucker October 10 at 2:56 PM
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, listens as President the rich asshole speaks at a luncheon during the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 21 in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP)
President the rich asshole proposed an “IQ tests” faceoff with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after the nation's top diplomat reportedly called the president a “moron” and disparaged his grasp of foreign policy.
In an interview with Forbes magazine published Tuesday, the rich asshole fired a shot at Tillerson over the “moron” revelation, first reported by NBC News and confirmed by several other news organizations, including The Washington Post.
“I think it's fake news,” the rich asshole said, “but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
the rich asshole met for lunch Tuesday with Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in the president's private dining room at the White House. Shortly before the lunch, a reporter asked the rich asshole whether he had undercut Tillerson with his comments to Forbes.
“No, I didn't undercut anybody. I don't believe in undercutting people,” the rich asshole said during a brief media appearance in the Oval Office, as he sat beside former secretary of state Henry Kissinger during a meeting to discuss foreign affairs.
When a reporter asked the rich asshole whether he has confidence in Tillerson as his secretary of state, the president replied, “Yes.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later said that the rich asshole's “IQ tests” comment to Forbes was “a joke and nothing more than that.”
“The president certainly never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent,” Sanders said in Tuesday afternoon's news briefing. She added that the rich asshole has "100 percent confidence” in Tillerson, characterized their lunch as “a great visit” and admonished reporters for taking the president's comment so seriously. “Maybe you guys should get a sense of humor and try it sometime,” Sanders said.
the rich asshole's “IQ tests” challenge is the latest evidence of what White House officials have described as a breach of trust between the president and the secretary of state.
[‘Death spiral’: Tillerson makes nice but may not last long with the rich asshole]
Reporters asked the rich asshole over the weekend about his relationship with Tillerson.
“We have a very good relationship,” the rich asshole said Saturday. “We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes I'd like him to be a little bit tougher. But other than that, we have a very good relationship.”
President the rich asshole said Oct. 7 that he has a good relationship with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. the rich asshole also said his White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is "one of the best people" he has ever worked with. (Reuters)
In the Forbes interview, for the magazine's cover story under the headline “Inside the rich asshole's Head,” the president teases upcoming economic-development legislation “nobody knows about” that would penalize companies that move operations overseas, and offer incentives for those that stay in the United States.
the rich asshole previewed what he called “an economic-development bill, which I think will be fantastic. Which nobody knows about. Which you are hearing about for the first time.” The president said the policy is “both a carrot and a stick.”
the rich asshole also told Forbes that he has purposefully not filled many jobs throughout the federal government, including at the State Department, where many of the top positions remain vacant.
“I'm generally not going to make a lot of the appointments that would normally be — because you don't need them,” the rich asshole said. “I mean, you look at some of these agencies, how massive they are, and it's totally unnecessary. They have hundreds of thousands of people.”
By Philip Rucker October 10 at 2:56 PM
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, listens as President the rich asshole speaks at a luncheon during the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 21 in New York. (Evan Vucci/AP)
President the rich asshole proposed an “IQ tests” faceoff with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson after the nation's top diplomat reportedly called the president a “moron” and disparaged his grasp of foreign policy.
In an interview with Forbes magazine published Tuesday, the rich asshole fired a shot at Tillerson over the “moron” revelation, first reported by NBC News and confirmed by several other news organizations, including The Washington Post.
“I think it's fake news,” the rich asshole said, “but if he did that, I guess we'll have to compare IQ tests. And I can tell you who is going to win.”
the rich asshole met for lunch Tuesday with Tillerson and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis in the president's private dining room at the White House. Shortly before the lunch, a reporter asked the rich asshole whether he had undercut Tillerson with his comments to Forbes.
“No, I didn't undercut anybody. I don't believe in undercutting people,” the rich asshole said during a brief media appearance in the Oval Office, as he sat beside former secretary of state Henry Kissinger during a meeting to discuss foreign affairs.
When a reporter asked the rich asshole whether he has confidence in Tillerson as his secretary of state, the president replied, “Yes.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders later said that the rich asshole's “IQ tests” comment to Forbes was “a joke and nothing more than that.”
“The president certainly never implied that the secretary of state was not incredibly intelligent,” Sanders said in Tuesday afternoon's news briefing. She added that the rich asshole has "100 percent confidence” in Tillerson, characterized their lunch as “a great visit” and admonished reporters for taking the president's comment so seriously. “Maybe you guys should get a sense of humor and try it sometime,” Sanders said.
the rich asshole's “IQ tests” challenge is the latest evidence of what White House officials have described as a breach of trust between the president and the secretary of state.
[‘Death spiral’: Tillerson makes nice but may not last long with the rich asshole]
Reporters asked the rich asshole over the weekend about his relationship with Tillerson.
“We have a very good relationship,” the rich asshole said Saturday. “We disagree on a couple of things. Sometimes I'd like him to be a little bit tougher. But other than that, we have a very good relationship.”
President the rich asshole said Oct. 7 that he has a good relationship with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. the rich asshole also said his White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is "one of the best people" he has ever worked with. (Reuters)
In the Forbes interview, for the magazine's cover story under the headline “Inside the rich asshole's Head,” the president teases upcoming economic-development legislation “nobody knows about” that would penalize companies that move operations overseas, and offer incentives for those that stay in the United States.
the rich asshole previewed what he called “an economic-development bill, which I think will be fantastic. Which nobody knows about. Which you are hearing about for the first time.” The president said the policy is “both a carrot and a stick.”
the rich asshole also told Forbes that he has purposefully not filled many jobs throughout the federal government, including at the State Department, where many of the top positions remain vacant.
“I'm generally not going to make a lot of the appointments that would normally be — because you don't need them,” the rich asshole said. “I mean, you look at some of these agencies, how massive they are, and it's totally unnecessary. They have hundreds of thousands of people.”
Steve Bannon Tells Sen. Bob Corker To Resign For Insulting the rich asshole
Corker’s rebuke of the president is “totally unacceptable in a time of war,” the former White House chief strategist says.
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon called on Sen. Bob Corker to “resign immediately” after the Tennessee Republican’s blistering attack against President some rich asshole.
“Sen. Corker is an absolute disgrace,” Bannon, who left the White House in August, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity. “If Bob Corker has any honor, any decency, he should resign immediately. He should not let those words stand.”
Bannon said Corker’s comments were “totally unacceptable in a time of war.”
“We have troops in Afghanistan, in the northwest Pacific and Korea, we have a major problem that could be like World War I, in the South China Sea, in the Persian Gulf, we have American lives at risk every day.”
Steve Bannon: "@SenateMajLdr and @SenBobCorker and the entire...establishment globalist clique on Capitol Hill have to go." #Hannity
In an interview with The New York Times on Sunday, Corker said he was concerned the rich asshole’s volatility could lead to “World War III” and said he believed the president had “hurt” the country at times with his online Twitter tirades. Such opinions, the senator continued, were shared by the “vast majority” of congressional Republicans.
“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” Corker said. “Of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.” email
Bannon ― who continued to heap scorn on Corker, calling him “arrogant” and an “elitist snob” ― said he was continuing to ramp up his so-called war on established GOP politicians.
Steve Bannon: "There's a coalition coming together that's going to challenge every Republican incumbent, except for @SenTedCruz." #Hannity
“We’re going to go after them. There’s a coalition coming together that’s going to challenge every Republican incumbent except for Ted Cruz,” Bannon said Monday night. “We are declaring war on the Republican establishment that does not back the agenda that some rich asshole ran on. We’re going after these guys tooth and nail.”
the rich asshole launched an attack at Corker, a powerful Republican in Congress, earlier Sunday, saying the senator “begged” him for an endorsement, even though he had announced his retirement last September.
Corker shot back just an hour later, saying it was “a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.”
‘I really mean that’: the rich asshole wants owner of the Penguins hockey team to renegotiate NAFTA
President some rich asshole speaks at the White House (Screenshot/YouTube)
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President some rich asshole welcomed the Pittsburgh Penguins to the White House on Tuesday, and said he wanted the team’s co-owner to renegotiate international trade deals.
“He’s a friend of mine for a long time,” the rich asshole said. “A great, great negotiator. Ron, how about negotiating some of our horrible trade deals that they’ve made?”
The president said he would “love” to have Ron Burkle renegotiate the NAFTA trade deal.
“I really mean that,” the rich asshole remarked.
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the rich asshole calls for tax law changes for NFL over protests: Twitter post
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President some rich asshole on Tuesday called for changes to U.S. tax law affecting the National Football League, fueling a feud with the league and its players over protests that he says disrespect the nation.
“Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the same time disrespecting our Anthem, Flag and Country? Change tax law!” the rich asshole wrote in a post on Twitter.
Jimmy Kimmel escalates feud with some rich asshole Jr. in hilarious opening monologue
Jimmy Kimmel (Photo: Screen capture)
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Jimmy Kimmel feuded with President some rich asshole and his son over the weekend about whether his political jokes were funny, and the president then demanded “equal time” to defend himself, and the late-night host kept at it Monday night.
It’s “an interesting question,” Kimmel said on Monday. “Especially since the president tweeted this demand for equal time after watching Fox & Friends breathlessly drool about how great he is for three hours straight.”
He then mocked the president for talking about how repetitive people can be and played footage of the rich asshole saying the same phrases over and over again.
On Twitter, Kimmel responded to the rich asshole’s, saying, “Excellent point Mr. President! You should quit that boring job – I’ll let you have my show ALL to yourself #MAGA.”
That got a quick response from some rich asshole Jr., who attacked Kimmel, attacked Kimmel about the “disgusting” allegations against Harvey Weinstein. Kimmel responded with the infamous “Access Hollywood” video in which the rich asshole brags about assaulting women by grabbing them by the genitals.
Noting that Weinstein is “not the president” and “not particularly well-known outside of L.A. and New York,” Kimmel explained that the rich asshole’s “insinuation was that we, as part of the biased left-wing propaganda machine, wouldn’t say anything about him because he’s a Democrat — never mind the thousands of jokes about Bill Cosby and Bill Clinton” that he has told over the years.
“People are pointing to the fact that Harvey Weinstein was a Clinton supporter, and listen, it’s true, I’m not defending Hillary Clinton,” Kimmel said. “Fact is, her campaign did take money from a high-profile man who has been accused of sexual harassment multiple times.”
However, he noted that Clinton has a history of taking money from an alleged rapist and notorious sexual harasser: some rich asshole. the rich asshole had given money to her U.S. Senate race.
“Next time you’re defending your father and you think it’s a good idea to draw a comparison between him and a freshly accused sexual predator, don’t. It doesn’t help,” Kimmel told the rich asshole Jr.
He then promised his audience a joke about Weinstein:
“What’s the difference between Harvey Weinstein and the Pillsbury Doughboy? When the Pillsbury Doughboy offers you a roll, he doesn’t ask you to watch him take a shower for it,” he said.
Watch below:
Wall Street Journal backs Bob Corker: the rich asshole treats US allies ‘as if they are Rosie O’Donnell’
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The right-wing Wall Street Journal editorial page this week published an op-ed in which it backed up Sen. Bob Corker’s (R-TN) assessment that the the rich asshole White House is akin to an “adult daycare center.”
In particular, the editorial agreed with Corker that many people inside the White House see it as their patriotic duty to manage the rich asshole and make sure he doesn’t do something rash that would harm America’s interests.
“Corker was expressing views that are widely held on Capitol Hill and even within the the rich asshole Administration,” the editors write. “These men and women support the President’s policies, or at least most of them, and they remain in their jobs for the good of the cause and country. What they fear, and want to contain, are the President’s lack of discipline, short fuse, narcissism and habit of treating even foreign heads of state as if they are Rosie O’Donnell.”
Prior to becoming president, the rich asshole notoriously feuded with Rosie O’Donnell, whom he dubbed a “fat pig” and “a real loser.”
The editors conclude by encouraging other Republican senators to “keep up” their efforts to hold the rich asshole accountable, even while “understanding that doing so is difficult and might make them a target of the President’s wrath.”
‘He’s going to get her killed’: Internet furious with the rich asshole for personally attacking ESPN’s Jemele Hill
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In a Tuesday morning Twitterstorm, President some rich asshole attacked ESPN reporter Jemele Hill and accused the network of losing ratings due to her.
“With Jemele Hill at the mike [sic], it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!” the rich asshole tweeted, presumably meaning mic for microphone.
The internet was quick to blast the rich asshole for attacking Hill, who was recently suspended by ESPN for violating the company’s social media policy.
See the most important tweets below:
Does Trump realize that the global community sees him as an unhinged nutcase apart from being a raving narcissistic autocratic buffoon that is!'
Are you proud? You had a woman suspended from her job for disagreeing. The US President has the frailest ego that he attacks a young black American woman for speaking her mind.
Donald Trump loves the Bill of Rights. All of them. Except the First.twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Are you kidding me? You are doing the exact same thing that you criticized Jemele Hill for doing. You are personally attacking her!
Jemele Hill is a hero to those who wish people would speak out against your bigotry and hate. We are all @jemelehill!
Thing is... Jemele Hill was absolutely right in calling you a White Supremacist.... ir.net/news/politics/…
Your non-stop attacks against citizens of the U.S. are criminal, embarrassing, disgusting, & will not work as the deflection you intend.
do you mean “Mike” Stunt Pence?
— Joe Johnson (@JoeJohnsonOnAir) October 10, 2017
Seriously? With everything going on right now, you tweet about this? Where's your babysitter?
With Jemele Hill under suspension, is she allowed to tweet a response? twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
@espn @jemelehill give that woman back her job and take her off of suspension. If Trump can act this way, everyone can. If not, it’s...
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In a Tuesday morning Twitterstorm, President some rich asshole attacked ESPN reporter Jemele Hill and accused the network of losing ratings due to her.
“With Jemele Hill at the mike [sic], it is no wonder ESPN ratings have ‘tanked,’ in fact, tanked so badly it is the talk of the industry!” the rich asshole tweeted, presumably meaning mic for microphone.
The internet was quick to blast the rich asshole for attacking Hill, who was recently suspended by ESPN for violating the company’s social media policy.
See the most important tweets below:
Does Trump realize that the global community sees him as an unhinged nutcase apart from being a raving narcissistic autocratic buffoon that is!'
Are you proud? You had a woman suspended from her job for disagreeing. The US President has the frailest ego that he attacks a young black American woman for speaking her mind.
Donald Trump loves the Bill of Rights. All of them. Except the First.twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
Are you kidding me? You are doing the exact same thing that you criticized Jemele Hill for doing. You are personally attacking her!
Jemele Hill is a hero to those who wish people would speak out against your bigotry and hate. We are all @jemelehill!
Thing is... Jemele Hill was absolutely right in calling you a White Supremacist.... ir.net/news/politics/…
Kriss
Your non-stop attacks against citizens of the U.S. are criminal, embarrassing, disgusting, & will not work as the deflection you intend.
do you mean “Mike” Stunt Pence?— Joe Johnson (@JoeJohnsonOnAir) October 10, 2017
Seriously? With everything going on right now, you tweet about this? Where's your babysitter?
With Jemele Hill under suspension, is she allowed to tweet a response? twitter.com/realDonaldTrum…
@espn @jemelehill give that woman back her job and take her off of suspension. If Trump can act this way, everyone can. If not, it’s...
Trump’s 2020 campaign is now fundraising off Mike Pence’s $250,000 NFL ‘PR stunt’
Mike Pence at Colt's game standing for anthem (Photo: VP/Twitter)
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Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign on Monday sent out a fundraising email touting Mike Pence’s expensive decision to walk out in protest during Sunday night’s 49ers-Colts game.
Pence’s walkout, which cost taxpayers and estimated $242,500, successfully reignited the national debate around NFL player’s protests. Seizing the opportunity, Trump’s campaign implored supporters to donate.
“Yesterday members of the San Francisco 49ers took a knee during our National Anthem,” a fundraising email sent out on Monday reads. “Their stunt showed the world that they don’t believe our flag is worth standing for. But your Vice President REFUSED to dignify their disrespect for our anthem, our flag, and the many brave soldiers who have died for their freedoms.”
According to the email, Trump is offering “I STAND FOR THE FLAG” stickers to contributors who donate $5 or more.
Trump on Sunday tweeted that he directed Pence to leave the stadium if players kneel.
I asked @VP Pence to leave stadium if any players kneeled, disrespecting our country. I am proud of him and @SecondLadyKaren.
Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick began kneeling last year to protest the treatment of black people in the United States. Safety Eric Reid on Sunday said Pence’s move looked “like a PR stunt to me.”
Here’s the long-awaited notorious audio of Sen. Bob Corker blasting Trump
Sen. Bob Corker and President Donald Trump
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The New York Times on Monday released audio from an interview with Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), who laid bare his concerns over Donald Trump’s behavior in a remarkable exchange over the weekend.
“Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” Corker said of Trump. “Of course they understand the volatility that we’re dealing with and the tremendous amount of work that it takes by people around him to keep him in the middle of the road.”
“He concerns me,” Corker added. “He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
The Tennessee republican went on to call the president out for “doing ‘The Apprentice’ or something” with how he manages the West Wing. He also argued Trump is putting us “on the path to World War III” with his handling of the situation n North Korea.
“A lot of people think that there is some kind of ‘good cop, bad cop’ act underway, but that’s just not true,” Corker said.
“I know he has hurt, in several instances, he’s hurt us as it relates to negotiations that were underway by tweeting things out,” Corker said of Trump’s notorious Twitter habit.
The interview, published Sunday, sparked an immediate reaction from the president.
“Senator Bob Corker ‘begged’ me to endorse him for re-election in Tennessee. I said ‘NO’ and he dropped out (said he could not win without my endorsement),” Trump tweeted. “He also wanted to be Secretary of State, I said “NO THANKS.” He is also largely responsible for the horrendous Iran Deal!”
Corker hit back at the president, posting on Twitter, “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center. Someone obviously missed their shift this morning.”
Listen to the audio below, via the New York Times:
Kelly ‘doesn’t love’ his job as Trump’s chief of staff and is ‘fighting’ a lot with the president: report
Donald Trump and Gen. John Kelly, are “fighting a lot,” and the president’s chief of staff—his second in less than nine months in office—“doesn’t love this job,” Vanity Fair reports.
Kelly has been working to rein in the West Wing since July, when he replaced former chief of staff Reince Preibus as Trump’s right hand man. The general has struggled to enforce structural organization in the White House in hopes of limiting who can offer un-vetted advice to a president who prides himself on having hired “the best people” (in addition to Priebus, Trump has also lost two communications directors, a press secretary, a chief strategist, a national security adviser, a Health and Human Services secretary and countless other officials).
But Kelly’s efforts to provide credence to Trump’s claim that his administration is “running like a fine-tuned machine” have angered the notoriously freewheeling president. As Vanity Fair notes, the president was particularly peeved when Kelly reassigned trade adviser Peter Navarro to report to Director of the National Economic Council Gary Cohn without informing the president.
When he found out, the president was reportedly furious.
“Trump was like, what the fuck? He told Navarro, ‘You’re my guy and hang in there,’” a source told Vanity Fair.
“They’re fighting a lot,” another said.
For his part, Kelly appears to be sticking around—at least for now—despite turbulence in the White House.
“He doesn’t love this job,” a person familiar with Kelly’s thinking told Vanity Fair. “He’s doing it as a duty for the country.”
The report comes as Trump on Saturday said Kelly will remain his chief of staff for “seven remaining years” in office.
“John Kelly is one of the best people I’ve ever worked with. He’s doing an incredible job,” Trump said. “And he told me for the last two months, he loves it more than anything he’s ever done. He’s a military man, but he loves doing this, which is chief of staff, more than anything he’s ever done.”
“He’s doing a great job. He will be here, in my opinion, for the entire seven remaining years.”
WATCH: RNC chair blames Democrats and ‘the failing Obama president’ for GOP’s disastrous governing
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel talks with CNN's Wolf Blitzer (Screen cap).
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Despite controlling the entire federal government, the Republican Party has so far completely failed to pass any major pieces of legislation that were part of President Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign.
Appearing on CNN Monday, RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said that the GOP shouldn’t at all be blamed for its failure to govern, and said that all blame for the party’s failures should be laid at the feet of the Democrats.
“I blame the democrats for putting Obamacare in place and I blame democrats who aren’t working with us on anything,” she said when asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer of Trump or the Republican Senate bore the most responsibility for the party’s failures.
Blitzer wouldn’t let her off the hook, however, and noted that the GOP had failed to pass anything on health care, taxes, or infrastructure repair, despite the fact that the party has the White House, as well as majorities in the House and the Senate.
McDaniel insisted that President Trump is laser focused on helping out Americans who were hurt by “the failing Obama president,” whom she talked about as though he were still in the Oval Office.
“Republicans are trying hard,” she said in a message to Democrats. “Please help.”
Watch the video below.
With 88% of Puerto Rico still without electricity and nearly 45% without potable water, the Trump regime today allowed its Jones Act waiver to expire, reinstituting shipping restrictions that make it more difficult to get vital aid to the American citizens struggling to recover from the devastation of a category five hurricane.
Trump shocked onlookers after Hurricane Maria ravaged the island last month by refusing to waive the Jones Act until more than a week had gone by. The law, which Trump immediately waived when hurricanes pummeled Texas and Florida, requires cargo between U.S. ports only be transported by American-made and operated vessels.
As a result of the president’s initial refusal to waive the regulation, 3,000 cargo ships, packed with vital medicine, food, and water were forced to idle off Puerto Rico’s shores as American citizens suffered and, in some cases, died.
Maddening.
3,000 shipping containers packed with food water & medicene have been sitting at the port in Puerto Rico since Saturday pic.twitter.com/LJ0ETpmnOf— David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) September 27, 2017
Trump justified his delayed response to Puerto Rico by explaining that U.S. shipping magnates wanted to make money off the tragedy. “We’re thinking about [waiving the Jones Act],” Trump said, “but we have a lot of shippers and a lot of people that work in the shipping industry that don’t want the Jones Act lifted.”
After days of suffering and angry calls pouring in to Congressional offices, Trump finally issued a ten-day waiver that allowed aid to pour in.
So much for open debate: Republican Sen. Bob Corker was told to resign by an administration stooge after he dared to find fault in Donald Trump.
"He hurt my feelings!"
(AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
As the White House spirals further into a parody of a bad reality television show, a top adviser from Donald Trump’s campaign has now suggested that sitting U.S. senators ought to essentially be banished and sent home if they dare to disagree with Trump.
The result, of course, would be to completely shut down open debate in Congress.
The first up for exile would be Republican Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee. Sunday, in a stunning display of internecine warfare after Trump unleashed a Twitter rant at him, Corker returned fire in a tweet about the “adult day care” in the White House.
He followed that up with an interview in The New York Times where he portrayed the Oval Office occupant as a dangerous, out-of-control tyrant.
“I know for a fact that every single day at the White House, it’s a situation of trying to contain him,” the red state senator emphasized, warning that Trump’s recklessness could lead the country “on the path to World War III.”
Corker added chillingly, “He concerns me. He would have to concern anyone who cares about our nation.”
For an egomaniac like Trump and the loyalists around him, Corker’s outburst represented an unspeakable crime. So does the Trump team want to silence Corker politically? Do they want to strip him of his Senate chairmanship to punish is disloyalty? Do they want to ice him out of the White House’s center of power?
No. At least one wants him to resign — immediately, and then have Corker’s replacement be hand-picked instead of elected by voters.
That was the undemocratic blueprint Jason Miller, the former communications director for Trump’s presidential campaign, spelled out on CNN Monday:
If Senator Corker is retiring and he doesn’t want to be in the U.S. Senate, and he doesn’t want to support President Trump, and he doesn’t want to support such basic conservative principals, he should just resign. Let the governor of Tennessee go and appoint a conservative like Marsha Blackburn, the congresswoman who is running to replace Senator Corker and get someone in there who is actually going to support the president.
Quick civics reminder: Governors bypassing voters to appoint replacements for U.S. senators is what happens, in many states, when a senator dies, or when a politician is sent to prison after being convicted of a crime. That’s not how the American democracy deals with senators who dare to criticize a sitting president from their own party.
Because that would be utterly absurd, and thoroughly un-American.
That would be how authoritarian countries like Russia operate, not how nearly three-century old democracies like the United Sates function.
But Trump, drowning in personal insecurities, tries to fill that void by having critics utterly banished — when he’s not stroking his own ego and demanding his underlings do the same.
Monday, Mike Pence issued a vague, rah-rah statement designed to counter nameless “critics” of Trump.
And later, the White House released a bizarre press release, filled with quotes from Trump’s own appointees. It seemed designed solely to make Trump feel good about himself. The document was titled: “What they are saying: Praise from the president’s cabinet for the new immigration priorities.”
This — combined with the idea that Republicans must resign if they disagree with leader Trump — is approaching megalomania territory.
Otherwise known as Trump’s America.
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The word 'fake,' the iPhone 6 Plus, jobs and other things President Trump has lied about creating
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They can't all be covfefe.
In the same way that much of Ivanka Trump's merchandise isn't made in the United States, it turns out that many of President Trump's inventions weren't made in his own head.
Although Trump was known to craft stories about such things as a non-existent terrorist attack in Sweden during his presidential campaign, his habit of taking credit for the works of others has stretched from his days as a reality TV host to his presidency.
In light of that tradition, which continued this past weekend in a bizarre interview with former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, here's a look at just a few of the things Trump has falsely taken credit for creating.
The word 'fake'
Sitting across from Huckabee for a half-hour interview for the Trinity Broadcasting Network, Trump worked in his history as a wordsmith.
"I think one of the greatest of all terms I've come up with is 'fake,'" he said.
"I guess other people have used it, perhaps, over the years, but I've never noticed it."
The word, often paired with other nouns such as "news," "tan" and "billionaire," has been around since the 15th century.
The iPhone 6 Plus
Small hands, bigger screen.
In 2014, Apple finally made the move to match their competitors and offer consumers a larger-sized phone, and of course, Trump took to Twitter to say he was responsible.
Before he was enflaming nuclear tensions on the social network, "The Apprentice" host spent his time complaining about the iPhone's screen size while simultaneously wishing someone would practice necromancy already, scream-tweeting in 2013, "I can't believe Apple isn't moving faster to create a larger iPhone screen. Bring back Steve Jobs!"
@iPhoneTeam Better get a large screen iPhone, and fast, or risk losing even more business. Samsung cannot believe you have not acted! DUMB!
Naturally, when the tech giant revealed the iPhone 6 Plus in September 2014, Trump both tried to take credit and somehow throw Apple under the bus at the same time.
"I'll bet if I didn't harass Apple for the last 2 years about the large screen iPhone, they wouldn't have done it-but it bends & breaks!" he stated.
Trump had only been tweeting about a larger iPhone for a little over a year while it's very unlikely anyone at Apple cared what he thought.
Jobs
Speaking of jobs, 2017 was expected to result in the fewest new jobs in seven years, the LA Times reported in July.
However, that didn't stop Trump from tweeting out, "At some point the Fake News will be forced to discuss our great jobs numbers, strong economy, success with ISIS, the border & so much else!"
A month later he would brandish how 1,074,000 jobs were added to the economy since he became President, but that increase itself is misleading.
"There's nothing actually special or surprising (about the number)," Jennifer Hunt, former Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of Labor, told Fortune, considering that job addition usually increases alongside population growth and has little to no effect on unemployment.
Said Hunt, "Even if Trump had done something, it probably wouldn't be showing up in the numbers yet."
The nickname "Big Luther"
Admittedly, "Big Luther" is not the most original nickname for a guy who stands at six-foot-nine-inches, but nonetheless, Trump told everyone he was the first.
"I said, 'That is the tallest human being I've ever seen!' " Trump said about the time he first met Alabama Sen. Luther Strange, apparently never hearing of the NBA. "That's why I call him 'Big Luther.' Everyone's now calling him Big Luther."
However, as the Washington Post points out, the name has been in use for over a decade, but as it turns out, the bigger they are, they harder they fail.
Trump's support aside, "Big Luther" lost bigly to his primary opponent, Roy Moore, a man so extremist in his views that he once said, "Homosexual conduct should be illegal."
The phrase "Priming the pump"
Someone needs to prime the Trump.
In a lie so brazen that a dictionary called him out, the President told The Economist he coined the phrase "prime the pump."
"Have you heard that expression used before? Because I haven't heard it," Trump said in May. "I mean, I just ... came up with it a couple days ago and I thought it was good. It's what you have to do."
Offering to enlighten the President and any other curious linguaphile, Merriam-Webster took to Twitter to clarify that the idiom dates back to the early 19th century and got its political meaning in 1933 to describe "government investment expenditures designed to induce a self-sustaining expansion of economic activity."
Trump, it should be noted, has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics
A New Low: Trump Exploits Las Vegas Shooting To Raise Money For His Campaign (TWEET)
Donald Trump doesn’t exactly hide the fact that he’s a sociopath. Just looking at the most recent events this country has faced, we’ve witnessed the President of the United States turn his back on human suffering and be completely indifferent to those in need. As we saw with the hurricane that ravaged Puerto Rico and the Las Vegas massacre, Trump is constantly missing in action and spending more time on Twitter than actually doing his job. That’s why the latest move by Trump and his campaign shouldn’t surprise anyone, even though it’s downright heartless.
On Saturday, Trump’s campaign sent out a fundraising email that was so disgusting, it immediately drew attention on Twitter. In the email, Trump exploited the mass shooting in Las Vegas to raise funds for his pathetic re-election campaign. In the Trump-Pence Weekly Newsletter, the Trump campaign spoke to potential donors and supporters of Trump, mentioning Trump’s recent visit to Las Vegas. The emails said:
“Our nation is still in shock and mourning following the massacre of 58 concertgoers and hundreds of others injured in Las Vegas.”
Then, the email states that Trump and First Lady Melania had spoken to victims and given credit to first responders.
“We know that your sorrow feels endless. We stand together to help you carry your pain.”
You can catch a glimpse of the horrific email below:
Trump has been doing fundraiser after fundraiser in preparation for his re-election campaign, which is somewhat hilarious considering that his approval rating just hit a new historic low. One thing is for sure, though – if Trump wants to appeal to the American people, he might want to stop exploiting tragedies for his personal gain.
Trump’s war on the media has had one major unintended consequence
President Donald Trump pauses during the 9/11 Observance Ceremony at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. (DOD photo by Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Dominique A. Pineiro)
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Donald Trump attacks the media almost as regularly as he moves his bowels. He infamously kept reporters in press pens during the presidential election and has, at various junctures, referred to journalists as “enemies of the people.” As president, he tweeted a gif of himself bodyslamming the CNN logo and a cartoon of a Trump train running over a network reporter. (The latter tweet was published three days after Heather Heyer’s murder at the hands of a neo-Nazi motorist.)
Just last week, he urged the people of Puerto Rico not to believe “#FakeNews” about his government’s woefully inadequate response to Hurricane Maria, a mind-rending message considering that virtually the entire island remains without electricity.
This ploy has energized his febrile base—Trump’s approval rating among Republicans has yet to dip below 78 percent, according to Gallup—but data indicate it’s had one major unintended consequence. According to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll, the public’s trust in news outlets is surging, while confidence in the word of the president has dropped.
Of the 14,300 people surveyed, 48 percent of adults hold either “a great deal” or “some” confidence in the press, up 9 percent since last November. Conversely, 48 percent have a measure of faith in the president, down from 51 percent earlier this year. Fifty-seven percent of the public expressed confidence in Obama’s presidency before he left office.
“What you’re seeing now is a gradual recognition of the importance of the press,” Martha Kumar, a White House historian, told Reuters. “[The people] are gravitating toward institutions they trust.”
Tragically, for the future of the country and the planet, the American people are arriving at this conclusion approximately a year too late.
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