President Donald Trump's Final Days...

[frank07]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

I voted for him thinking since he is not a career politician, he will bring change to the old Washington establishment and clean up the town and return the government back to the way the founders of this country intended it to be: of the people, by the people, for the people (written by John Wycliffe in 1384, not by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, he actually borrowed it).

I am sure many folks who voted for him thought the same thing I did.

But it seems he is just off his rocker half of the time.

Someone needs to take away his capability to Tweet because 90% of the time when he Tweets, he is either not making sense or he comes across as crazy and stupid.

I also think Alzeheimer's might be setting in on him already because he Tweets one thing and then he opens his mouth and say the exact opposite of what he Tweeted and contradicts himself.

I don't think he will get a second term and I also think he may not even make it to the end of this term.

He has made too many enemies already and pissed off just about every one in the past 17 plus months:

Republicans, Democrats, Independents, Moderates, Straight, Gay, Lesbian, Hispanic, African Americans, White, Asian, Arabs, Muslims, Islamic, almost every other country in the world friendly and hostile, plus God knows who else he has pissed off that we don't know about.

I can't recall any President in my lifetime who has fired so many people or caused so many people to quit in such a short period of time: the national security advisor, the FBI director, the Secretary of State, and on and on, etc etc

These are not a clerk or a typist or a secretary on his staff, these are big important people in his cabinet.

I am surprised the Vice-President hasn't walked out on him yet.

Here's a list as of May 2nd:

https://www.vox.com/2018/3/6/17088334/ziemer-national-security-council-trump-white-house-departures

I applaud your post, and I'm sure you're far from alone.

Except for one detail - Pence.

Don't be fooled by that self-serving, pillbox-eyed bigot. He has neither spine, soul nor brain. He is acting exactly as you'd expect any overpromoted mediocrity to when they find themselves in a job they shouldn't be in - holding onto it with his both hands and all his natural teeth, because he knows it's the last good thing that will happen to him.

[Reclaimedwg]

Sounds like you are saying the same thing about Pence as they did with Bush Sr. when he was Reagan's VP.

They called him wimp and useless among other things.

[LadyLuck]

Originally Posted by wildtig2013

I voted for him thinking since he is not a career politician, he will bring change to the old Washington establishment and clean up the town and return the government back to the way the founders of this country intended it to be: of the people, by the people, for the people (written by John Wycliffe in 1384, not by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, he actually borrowed it).

I am sure many folks who voted for him thought the same thing I did.

Then you - and they - had not been paying attention for the past twenty or thirty years or so. Trump wasn't some unknown who came out of the shadows. He was a buffoon long before he was a presidential candidate. We knew what were getting into. Expecting some great statesman was folly.

Someone needs to take away his capability to Tweet because 90% of the time when he Tweets, he is either not making sense or he comes across as crazy and stupid.

Absolutely not. Twitter won the presidency for Trump. In 144 characters (now 288) he could connect directly with his supporters while totally bypassing the liberal media whores who dissect and misrepresent anything anyone says whom they disagree with. Trump single handedly changed the way campaigns work. He knew he couldn't win as an independent, commandeered one of the major parties that did not even want him (beating over a dozen other candidates in the process) and then defeated the heiress to the throne. Thanks in a big way to Twitter. People bent over backwards to fawn over Obama when he showed he knew how to use social media. Trump makes Obama look like an amateur.

I don't think he will get a second term and I also think he may not even make it to the end of this term.

People keep making remarks like this but remember... nobody gave him a chance of being elected in the first place and look what happened. If the Dems run another goon like HRC against him he has an excellent chance to be a two term president if he chooses to. She was a dream candidate to run against.

Do I agree with everything he says or does? Nope. Am I glad I supported him and glad he won? You bet. For one reason alone. Neil Gorsuch. He hit that one out of the park. If we ever see a liberal majority on the SCOTUS again, we're doomed.

[crinolynne]

Originally Posted by LadyLuck

People keep making remarks like this but remember... nobody gave him a chance of being elected in the first place and look what happened. ...

True, but he lost the popular vote and but for about 35,000 in key states would not have won the electoral college. It was squeakiest of squeaky wins against a flawed candidate who was sabotaged a week before the election. Favouring him is the fact that he inherited a working economy and for reasons that remain a mystery to me, has benefited from the ending of the investment "strike" that plagued Obama. It does not look like he's been able to pull a Hitler and the media you so unreasonably and arrogantly sought to impugn has remained, despite immense vindicative and asinine provocation, has remained true to its calling.

[Reclaimedwg]

[ball7]

News from Trumpland:


USA to disengage from UN's Human Rights Council.

https://edition.cnn.com/2018/06/19/p...cil/index.html


It would have made sense if the government disengaged due to the council not reacting on America's constant abuse of human rights, but the mentioned reason is as flimsy as it can be.

[HugoHackenbush]

"The Trump administration implemented this policy by choice and could end it by choice. No law or court ruling mandates family separations. In fact, during its first 15 months, the Trump administration released nearly 100,000 immigrants who were apprehended at the U.S.-Mexico border, a total that includes more than 37,500 unaccompanied minors and more than 61,000 family members."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/.../the-facts-about.../...

[Arturo2nd]

Originally Posted by LadyLuck

For one reason alone. Neil Gorsuch. He hit that one out of the park. If we ever see a liberal majority on the SCOTUS again, we're doomed.

I fail to understand the reasoning that having justices like Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alioto, and John Roberts, who keep finding things in the Constitution that do not appear in black and white, is any better than having a majority liberal justices doing the same thing in other directions. How about we find judges who rely on the text and two centuries plus of jurisprudence?

Having a bunch of former corporation lawyers give us things like Citizens United is screwing us all.

[HugoHackenbush]

The truth is, Neil Gorsuch being on the SCOTUS is much more the work of Mitch McConnell and crew rather than Trump, for it was them that held up the nomination of Merrick Garland.

While I might disagree with Gorsuch philosophically, I can't say he's not qualified, having spent many years on the bench of a Court of Appeals.

That is not the case with the other Federal Judge nominations by Trump. Two of them had never tried a case in any court, much less Federal Court. One of them had practiced law for only three years, and whose main qualification seemed to be that he wrote an anti-Hillary Clinton blog. Another one called same sex marriage as being equivalent to bestiality, and that the trans-gender movement was part of "Satan's plan". Still another at his confirmation hearing, could not answer the most basic questions about trial practice, such as what a "Motion in Limine" is. This is something any second year law student knows.

Folks you are much more likely to be affected by something a Federal Judge does, than what the SCOTUS does. This is not a job that you stock with political cronies. This is active trial court that has to rule on every violation of Federal law, from drug trafficking to copyright infringement, and understand a book of law that runs for thousands of pages.

This will be the lasting damage done by the Trump administration. Because a Federal Judge is appointed for life.

[Devius]

US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order promising to "keep families together" amid fury over separation of migrant families.

He said he had been swayed by pictures of children who have been taken from parents while they are jailed and prosecuted for illegal border-crossing.

The Republican president had earlier urged lawmakers to pass a bill ending family separations.

He also wants immigration laws to be toughened under any such legislation.

"It's about keeping families together," Mr Trump said at the signing ceremony on Wednesday.

"I did not like the sight of families being separated," he said, but added the administration would continue its "zero tolerance policy".

Details:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44552852