adrina
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Golf?
Yes, golf.
11 to Obama, 21 to Trump. As of Aug 1st.
Campaigner In Chief?
Yup, Campaigner In Chief
And oddly enough, look what he lands in.
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Emails?
Sigh, yes emails.
And more emails...
Vacations?
Yes... vacations.
Yes... vacations and expenses
Executive Orders?
And yet:
Syria?
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Yup... Syria
Transparency?
Yes... transparency.
Lack of experience?
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/58f4ed38f40dae9a008b4bf5-1200/5-experience-trump-also-laid-into-obama-shortly-before-the-2012-election-saying-he-was-a-disaster-at-foreign-policy-never-had-the-experience-or-knowledge.jpg
Yes... lack of experience.
Diplomacy?
And yet...
There's more. But I think we get the picture. Very very clearly.
Between 2011 and 2016, he also tweeted at least 27 complaints, jokes, or scoldings about Barack Obama playing golf while president. Some of the following could be considered retweets, but Trump’s long had a unique Twitter style that blurs the line between tweets about him and those he writes himself.
Yes, golf.
For years, President Donald Trump criticized his predecessor Barack Obama for playing golf while on the job.
"Can you believe that, with all of the problems and difficulties facing the U.S., President Obama spent the day playing golf," he tweeted Oct. 13, 2014.
But since taking office, Trump has been a regular visitor at his own golf clubs in Florida and Virginia — so far outpacing Obama in the amount of time he spends on the green.
11 to Obama, 21 to Trump. As of Aug 1st.
Campaigner In Chief?
"Taxpayers are paying a fortune for the use of Air Force One on the campaign trail by President Obama and Crooked Hillary. A total disgrace!" he wrote in summer of 2016.
"Looking at Air Force One @ MIA. Why is he campaigning instead of creating jobs & fixing Obamacare?" he tweeted in November.
Yup, Campaigner In Chief
President Donald Trump is holding a campaign rally Saturday in politically strategic Florida — 1,354 days before the 2020 election.
The unusually early politicking follows a pattern: Trump filed his paperwork for re-election on Jan. 20, Inauguration Day. By comparison, President Barack Obama didn’t make his re-election bid official with the Federal Election Commission until April 2011.
And oddly enough, look what he lands in.
http://d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/newshour/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/trumpplane.jpg
Emails?
During July 2015 rally in North Carolina, Mr Trump then said that the FBI called Ms Clinton “extremely careless,” but he thought she was “grossly incompetent” and putting Americans lives at risk.
Sigh, yes emails.
The documents show that on February 28, Trump—identifying herself as Ivanka Kushner—emailed Linda McMahon, the administrator of the United States Small Business Administration, from a personal domain. At the time, Trump was operating inside the White House in a nonofficial capacity.
And more emails...
Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.
Vacations?
Pres. Obama is about to embark on a 17 day vacation in his ‘native’ Hawaii, putting Secret Service away from families on Christmas. Aloha!
When will Obama next go on vacation if he wins the election? The day after.
Yes... vacations.
A May analysis by the conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch found that Obama spent nearly $100 million on travel in his eight years in office. Trump’s trips during his first 80 days alone have cost $20 million, according to CNN.
Yes... vacations and expenses
The spending comes as Trump asks the federal government to slash non-defense spending by $54 billion, including deep cuts to the State Department, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Environmental Protection Agency and the wholesale elimination of other federal programs. The proposed cuts, which are unlikely to be adopted in total, will correspond with $54 billion in increases to defense spending.
Executive Orders?
"I don't think he even tries anymore," Trump said of President Barack Obama in December 2015. "I think he just signs executive actions."
A month later, as contests in Iowa and New Hampshire loomed, Trump said Obama's executive orders show he "doesn't talk to anybody."
"You know, it's supposed to be negotiated," Trump told CNN in January 2016. "You're supposed to cajole, get people in a room, you have Republicans, Democrats, you're supposed to get together and pass a law. (Obama) doesn't want to do that because it's too much work. So he doesn't want to work too hard. He wants to go back and play golf."
And yet:
Trump, after Thursday, will have signed 29 executive orders, more than any President in the last 72 years, when President Harry Truman signed 57 orders in his first 100 days.
Syria?
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/58f4f5b5c75d4a2d008b4c04-1200/3-syria-trump-argued-extensively-against-us-intervention-in-syria-tweeting-in-july-2013-what-will-we-get-for-our-lives-and--billions-zero.jpg
In a Sept 2013 tweet: The only reason President Obama wants to attack Syria is to save face over his very dumb RED LINE statement. Do NOT attack Syria,fix U.S.A.
Yup... Syria
When a chemical attack killed dozens of Syrian citizens in April 2017, Trump authorized a military strike against Syrian President Bashar Assad's infrastructure and air field. Trump said the strike was in the vital national-security interest of the US.
Transparency?
On October 30, 2012, Trump tweeted this: "Why does Obama believe he shouldn't comply with record releases that his predecessors did of their own volition? Hiding something?
The following day, he offered this variation on the theme: "Why is @BarackObama spending millions to try and hide his records? He is the least transparent President--ever--and he ran on transparency."
Yes... transparency.
The Trump administration said on Friday that it would stop publishing White House visitor logs and that they would be kept secret for five years after Trump leaves office.
Lack of experience?
http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/58f4ed38f40dae9a008b4bf5-1200/5-experience-trump-also-laid-into-obama-shortly-before-the-2012-election-saying-he-was-a-disaster-at-foreign-policy-never-had-the-experience-or-knowledge.jpg
Yes... lack of experience.
Trump is the only US president with no military or political experience. Some experts have concluded that his unpredictable actions indicate he has no foreign-policy doctrine.
Diplomacy?
“We’ve picked fights with our oldest friends,” Trump declared in his April 2016 foreign policy speech, adding “We’ve had a president who dislikes our friends and bows to our enemies.”
And yet...
So why, less than two weeks into his presidency, is Trump doing precisely what he criticized Obama for doing — picking fights with one of our oldest friends, Australia, while treating our adversary, Russia, “with tender love and care”?
There's more. But I think we get the picture. Very very clearly.
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