Originally Posted by bamscramRetarded Lenny and fat-ass lube, interesting couple
Most of this is what always happens to an "outsider" who shows up in DC and becomes an "insider": they realize that thinks look a LOT different once you get to see behind the curtain.Exactly... Not only does he have to deal with the people behind the curtains running and manipulating the decisions made in DC he also gets to view the true state of the nation.
Almost all the people who run on agenda's like Trump did find out that their ability to change things is much less than they thought it was, and they find out that issues are a hell of a lot more complex that things seemed in their board room or their pumpkin patch in Texas.
It isn't lies, it's called having your eyes opened. I think he has shifted in the right direction more than not.
Originally Posted by Old-T
What a lying crock of shit we have for POTUS.Afghanistan is the good war.
NATO
March 27, 2016
"I think NATO's obsolete. NATO was done at a time you had the Soviet Union, which was obviously larger, much larger than Russia is today. I'm not saying Russia's not a threat. But we have other threats."
April 12, 2017
"I complained about that a long time ago, and they made a change. Now they do fight terrorism. I said it was obsolete. It's no longer obsolete."
China
June 28, 2016
"I'm going to instruct my treasury secretary to label China a currency manipulator."
April 12, 2017
"They're not currency manipulators."
Attacking the Syrian government
August 29, 2013
Tweet: "What will we get for bombing Syria besides more debt and a possible long term conflict? Obama needs Congressional approval."
April 6, 2017
"Tonight, I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched…" Trump did not ask for nor receive congressional approval to launch his attack.
Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen
September 12, 2016
"She's keeping (rates) artificially low to get Obama retired … I think she is very political and to a certain extent, I think she should be ashamed of herself because it is not supposed to be that way."
April 12, 2017
"I like her, I respect her … It's very early."
Executive orders
July 10, 2012
Tweet: "Why is @BarackObama constantly issuing executive orders that are major power grabs of authority?"
March 31, 2017
Trump has issued 23 executive orders, including his controversial travel ban, since taking office on January 20.
The unemployment rate
March 12, 2016
"The numbers are phony. These are all phony numbers. Numbers given to politicians to look good. These are phony numbers."
March 10, 2017
White House press secretary Sean Spicer: "I talked to the President prior to this and he said to quote him very clearly: 'They may have been phony in the past, but it's very real now.' "
Presidential golf
October 13, 2014
Tweet: "Can you believe that,with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf.Worse than Carter" February 11, 2017
Trump has visited his golf courses 16 times since taking office. In early February he tweeted: "Played golf today with Prime Minister Abe of Japan and @TheBig_Easy, Ernie Els, and had a great time. Japan is very well represented!"
The Export-Import Bank
August 4, 2015
"I don't like it because I don't think it's necessary … It's sort of a featherbedding for politicians and others, and a few companies. And these are companies that can do very well without it. So I don't like it. I think it's a lot of excess baggage. I think it's unnecessary. And when you think about free enterprise it's really not free enterprise. I'd be against it."
April 12, 2017
"It turns out that, first of all, lots of small companies are really helped, the vendor companies. But also, maybe more important, other countries give [assistance]. When other countries give it we lose a tremendous amount of business."
Federal hiring freeze
October 23, 2016
"On the first day of my term of office, my administration will immediately pursue … a hiring freeze on all federal employees to reduce the federal workforce through attrition (exempting military, public safety, and public health)."
April 12, 2017
Trump signed a presidential memorandum freezing federal hiring days after taking office. Then, on his 82nd day in office, budget director Mick Mulvaney announced this: "What we are doing tomorrow is replacing the across-the-board hiring freeze that we put into place on day one in office and replacing it with a smarter plan, a more strategic plan, a more surgical plan." Originally Posted by Luke_Wyatt
We are talking about Trump you dumb ass-stop deflecting the issue to someone else- we don't know if Hillary would have ket her promises- but we do know that Trump is fucking liar like you. You should change your name toNo, because of the binary choice you have to talk about Hillary. If she had won the election, what would she have done by now? Remember, she said voted for the Gulf War for political reasons. She was also a believer in traditional marriage before she became a believer in gay marriage.
I B A DumbAss Originally Posted by Luke_Wyatt
Trump's First Hundred Days
BY MICHAEL WALSH APRIL 16, 2017 CHAT 98 COMMENTS
My Sunday New York Post column today takes a look at how the traditional (well, since FDR, in American political usage) first hundred days are going:
As the end of Donald Trump’s first 100 days in office approaches, now’s a good a time to cut through the fog of misinformation, disinformation, media propaganda, ideological bias and outright hostility that has greeted his arrival in Washington and take a clear-eyed look at how he’s really doing.
Answer: much better than you think.
The rumor mills have been working overtime in Washington this weekend -- and I guess we'll find later today or tomorrow whether they're right -- but heading into the weekend, my assessment of the new president is positive.
Let’s take the area that was supposed to be his Achilles’ heel, foreign policy. Unencumbered by the can’t-do conventional wisdom of the Foggy Bottom establishment and its parrots in the Washington press corps, Rex Tillerson has played the carrot to Trump’s stick, soothing Chinese feathers ruffled during the campaign with a March visit to Beijing and setting up the successful meeting earlier this month between The Donald and the Chinese president at Mar-a-Largo that — purely coincidentally! — coincided with the cruise-missile salvo fired at Syria’s Bashar al-Assad.
Since then, the Chinese have openly cautioned the troublesome regime of Kim Jong un in North Korea not to antagonize the US with further nuclear saber-rattling in the region; “Trump is a man who honors his promises,” warned the People’s Daily, the ruling party’s official newspaper. Among those promises: a better trade deal for China and an ominous presidential tweet to the Norks that they’re “looking for trouble,” and signed “USA.” Even now, US warships are steaming Kim’s way.
Trump's also laid down the law to NATO allies about hitting spending targets of 2 percent of GDP on defense, and will meet with them in May to accept their formal surrender. The betting window is now open, by the way, so get your money down on L'ill Kim's Last Day on Earth, the official End of the Korean War and, for extra bucks, Assad's Last Day as Leader of Syria. They'll probably all happen around the same time, which is to say: soon.
Domestically, a first attempt at repealing and replacing ObamaCare flopped when Speaker Paul Ryan’s needlessly complex “better way” couldn’t muster enough GOP votes to make it to the House floor. But the fault was the ambitious Ryan’s. Now the way’s clear for a cleaner repeal. And, yes, tax reform’s on its way, too.
True, the president’s two executive orders regarding visitors from several Muslim countries have been stayed by federal judges refusing to acknowledge the plain letter of both the Constitution and the US Code 1182, which give the president plenary power regarding immigration. But the recent confirmation of Neil Gorsuch as an associate justice will quickly clear up that misunderstanding when the cases land in the Supreme Court. Further, the Republicans’ use of the “nuclear option” to eliminate the filibuster for high court nominees means Trump’s next pick is guaranteed a speedy confirmation.
Administration insiders, however, point to this as their proudest accomplishment so far:
Less remarked but equally important has been the administration’s speedy action on downsizing the federal government, proposing real spending cuts and reorganizing the bloated bureaucracy, which has drawn bleats of protest from the DC swamp creatures watching their sinecures circling the drain. Trump’s also lifted the hiring freeze, in order to flesh out a still-undermanned executive staff and replace Obama holdovers.
So as the Kushner-Bannon cage match continues, things will continue to be up in the air concerning the new administration. Will Bannon be forced out, or will the pugnacious former Breitbart chief reach a modus vivendi with the president's son-in-law? The anti-Bannon forces inside the White House will do well to remember that nobody -- not a single voter -- voted for Jared Kushner, whereas all Steve Bannon did was take a rudderless campaign, maximize Trump's strengths, and propel it to victory.
Trump can ill-afford to lose Bannon and his die-hard conservative base. And the sooner the floundering White House press operation is rebooted, the better; the administration has played defense against a hostile, sneering media long enough.
No new president will ever match the whirlwind of new programs introduced by FDR when he took office during the Depression — the gold standard cited by Democrats who equate activity with action. But Trump got elected for precisely the opposite reason: Less government is more freedom.
As long as he keeps that in mind, he — and we — will do just fine.
Stay tuned.