One year since the US election Donald Trump has done absolutely nothing since

[gotsnowgotslush]

It's been one year since the US election – Donald Trump has done absolutely nothing since becoming President


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...on-no-change-policy-white-house-a8041861.html



It’s been 365 days since a clueless megalomaniac sailed past a gaggle of dedicated, career politicians and was foolishly handed the keys to the most powerful office on the planet. Here was a man who endorses religious bigotry, incites political violence, condemns equality and mocks the disabled. He openly treats women like pieces of meat, and degrades those fighting for equality – still, America nonsensically elected Donald Trump its leader.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/04/trump-first-year-office-244542


Trump’s year of anger, disruption and scandal


On Election Night last year, Trump ripped up his speech and made a personal appeal for national unity. It was a glimpse of a presidency that might have been.


Trump was on an island even after he won the nomination


Rather than bringing in bureaucrats with Washington experience, he brought family members and longtime characters from his old life in Trump Tower to the West Wing — Hicks, daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, social media guru Dan Scavino, former ‘Apprentice’ star Omarosa Manigault and security chief Keith Schiller, familiar characters from his previous life.

"... he has no friends left in his own administration. He trusted Jared, but Jared’s in a box, fighting his own battles. He had Keith, he had Corey every now and then. Now he’s alone.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/04/trump-first-year-office-244542

Now, a year after the election—and more than a year after Trump first made that pledge to the American people—many observers believe the swamp has grown into a sinkhole that threatens to swallow the entire Trump administration.

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/11/10/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935.html


Poll: Trump’s performance lags behind even tepid public expectations

Road trip to Asia! (Cringeworthy, as is usual.)

Will we have anything to celebrate, during Winter Festival, when Trump returns to Florida ?

 

[AnAmericanDarling]

I completely agree. He's just been digging his own hole and the Democrats have just been sitting back and laughing at him (myself included). He promised all this bullcrap to people and where is it? Nada. Historians are all ready ranking Obama as #12 among all the Presidents of the United States and I have no doubt that by the end of Donny boy's term(s) he'll be at the bottom of the pile.

Not to mention Trump's a negligent pill. Massive shootings in the U.S. are practically a daily or weekly occurrence and he immediately gets on his Twitter account - how lazy is that? He's the Prezzy, he should be up at the podium addressing the nation. No class whatsoever.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Are the coal jobs back yet?

 

[sharingfantasies]

He has done more than most people realize. Has he accomplished the major points of his campaign? No. But he has signed a lot of papers that have made changes to how the country and the people are protected.

1) The first thing he did was register to run in 2020.
2) He hired a bunch of people to head departments for which they have no knowledge or had worked in opposition of the purpose of that department
3) He placed a Supreme Court judge
4) He fired a lot of people

He signed a bunch of papers. Several which were disapprovals of previous rules. For example:

"Department of Veterans Affairs Accountability and Whistleblower Protection Act of 2017",

"An Act to repeal the rule issued by the Federal Highway Administration and the Federal Transit Administration entitled 'Metropolitan Planning Organization Coordination and Planning Area Reform'",

"Providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the final rule submitted by Secretary of Health and Human Services relating to compliance with title X requirements by project recipients in selecting subrecipients"

"A joint resolution providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, United States Code, of the rule submitted by the Federal Communications Commission relating to 'Protecting the Privacy of Customers of Broadband and Other Telecommunications Services' "

"Disapproving the rule submitted by the Department of Labor relating to 'Clarification of Employer's Continuing Obligation to Make and Maintain an Accurate Record of Each Recordable Injury and Illness'"

To see the rest: http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/29/politics/president-trump-legislation/index.html

Whether one agrees with his choices and decisions or not, he is doing things.

 

[Hypoxia]

He has done more than most people realize. Has he accomplished the major points of his campaign? No. But he has signed a lot of papers that have made changes to how the country and the people are protected.
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Whether one agrees with his choices and decisions or not, he is doing things.

Quite. His legislative achievements are nil. Most of his promises now live only in memory. The national and global economies are running on energy that pre-existed Tromp's term. International investors see him as disastrous.

But the pen in his little hands have signed many changes into being. Some changes can be reversed by the next hand holding the presidential pen; many cannot. I've still a hunch: one of his goals was the destruction of the Guppy party. He's been doing a pretty good job of that. And Mueller may charge the RNC as a RICO for taking Russian money. What will Gups look like in 2020?

I'm sure many unintended consequences await us. Is your passport handy?

 

[Liar]

The part of Trump's agenda that few seem to talk about, or the Bannon style cabal he's a figurehead for really, is to weaken, damage and/or dismantle government institutions. They're believers in the Deep State myth and see it as their enemy. They want disfunction and chaos in the departments, so appointing those who actively oppose what said departments are supposed to do (DeVos, Pruitt), or just people who don't know what they're doing (Tillerson, Carson, Perry) is all hepling that agenda along swimmingly.

 

[Iceprincess12]

He played whack-a-mole. You posted it. So are you mistaken, lying or speaking in absolutes because it makes a better headline?

It’s almost winter. Are you excited to ice skate again?

 

[snugglestruggle]

It's been one year since the US election – Donald Trump has done absolutely nothing since becoming President


http://www.independent.co.uk/voices...on-no-change-policy-white-house-a8041861.html



It’s been 365 days since a clueless megalomaniac sailed past a gaggle of dedicated, career politicians and was foolishly handed the keys to the most powerful office on the planet. Here was a man who endorses religious bigotry, incites political violence, condemns equality and mocks the disabled. He openly treats women like pieces of meat, and degrades those fighting for equality – still, America nonsensically elected Donald Trump its leader.

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/04/trump-first-year-office-244542


Trump’s year of anger, disruption and scandal


On Election Night last year, Trump ripped up his speech and made a personal appeal for national unity. It was a glimpse of a presidency that might have been.


Trump was on an island even after he won the nomination


Rather than bringing in bureaucrats with Washington experience, he brought family members and longtime characters from his old life in Trump Tower to the West Wing — Hicks, daughter Ivanka Trump, son-in-law Jared Kushner, social media guru Dan Scavino, former ‘Apprentice’ star Omarosa Manigault and security chief Keith Schiller, familiar characters from his previous life.

"... he has no friends left in his own administration. He trusted Jared, but Jared’s in a box, fighting his own battles. He had Keith, he had Corey every now and then. Now he’s alone.”

https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/04/trump-first-year-office-244542

Now, a year after the election—and more than a year after Trump first made that pledge to the American people—many observers believe the swamp has grown into a sinkhole that threatens to swallow the entire Trump administration.

http://www.newsweek.com/2017/11/10/trump-administration-most-corrupt-history-698935.html


Poll: Trump’s performance lags behind even tepid public expectations

Road trip to Asia! (Cringeworthy, as is usual.)

Will we have anything to celebrate, during Winter Festival, when Trump returns to Florida ?

Your Trump hate ...lol. You must have a Trump doll and plunge 6" nails through it every night .

 

[BotanyBoy]

The hater club, the lwcj....lol

If he had a (D) next to his name you would be churching him up and ignoring his scummery. You lot said the same shit about bush.

Trump is just bidniz as usual.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Well that would be wrong.

Of course, you don't know anything about Trump or the objections against Trump, so how could you tell the difference, but still, wrong.

Natch, there are some constants to hate about all Rs, up and down, no matter who it is, because: Global warming deniers, NRA tools, Military spending fools, "Entitlement" destroyers, etc.

Typical of you, you see everything anyone says through your own clumsy, heavy-handed attribution of "partisanship." You can't discern the details, you're too partisan.

The specific resistance to Trump is of course, different and unique to Trump. You did NOT see it like this, even with Dubya, because: Trump.

. You lot said the same shit about bush.

Trump is just bidniz as usual.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Well that would be wrong.

Not even.

Typical of you, you see everything anyone says through your own clumsy, heavy-handed attribution of "partisanship." You can't discern the details, you're too partisan.

Really? Which party am I ride or die for then?

The specific resistance to Trump is of course, different and unique to Trump. You did NOT see it like this, even with Dubya, because: Trump.

No it's not.

It's the same thing every (R) gets, just like every (D) get's the "OMG STALIN IS COMING FOR US!!!"

There is just more salt in your Kool-Aid this time because you lot were soooooooooooooo unbelievably arrogant you actually thought HRC and the "Fuck white people, especially working class white males." was such a sure thing.

 

[Carnal_Flower]

It's not about party. Your one belief is partisan hypocrisy, and you hammer on anything R or D that you think supports that ONE belief of yours--ignoring facts, details, differences, making outlandish attributions, denying reality, all to support your ONE point.

Although, I never see you go after R hypocrisy.

You're no different than the people you criticize.

Really? Which party am I ride or die for then?

Case in point. If you can't see any differences in the resistance to Trump vs. resistance to Bush, you're just being your own one party hack. Sick of explaining it.

It's the same thing every (R) gets, just like every (D) get's the "OMG STALIN IS COMING FOR US!!!"

Another case in point, thank you.

Attributing beliefs that are not true, painting us all with a single brush, denying and ignoring the reasons why Trump is so attacked, forcing a partisan line on us that is not there.

Denying the evidence of all the Rs (not just Ds) who are against Trump, the National Security people against Trump, all the outright conservative people in the media against Trump--none of whom supported Hillary Clinton.

Trump believes the same thing. The Muller investigation, the Resistance, the wins Ds are starting to stack up: all because the Ds are "looking for an excuse."

Keep believing that right up until the moment he's either arrested or voted or impeached out of office.

There is just more salt in your Kool-Aid this time because you lot were soooooooooooooo unbelievably arrogant you actually thought HRC and the "Fuck white people, especially working class white males." was such a sure thing.

 

[BotanyBoy]

Case in point. If you can't see any differences in the resistance to Trump vs. resistance to Bush, you're just being your own one party hack. Sick of explaining it.

Party of one =/= a political party.

That's not being partisan, you're an idiot.

Keep believing that right up until the moment he's either arrested or voted or impeached out of office.

You mean like the partisan loosers try to do with EVERY OTHER potus?

LOL like I said bidniz as usual. Good luck!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Actually, no.

"Every other" POTUS has not been impeached or threatened with impeachment.

Unless you think Andrew Johnson and Bill Clinton are "every other" president.

What you're actually doing is trying to create a false equivalence between the Right Wing Nuts of the last 30 years and today's Special Counsel Investigation of Trump. (already produced bona fide indictments and guilty pleas.)

If you can't see a difference, again, that's your rotted brain. Just like, if you can't see the difference in Tea Party Freaks comparing Obama to Stalin and Trump critics of his behavior, that's on you.

You mean like the partisan loosers try to do with EVERY OTHER potus?

LOL like I said bidniz as usual. Good luck!

 

[fit_sexual_male50]

In my opinion, President Trump has done more for this country, in less than one year, than all of the last several presidents combined. DEMS are DONE. And DeepState is reeling. Hoo-ray!

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Apparently you've been watching Fox. They barely mentioned the elections last night. Why, maybe they never happened.

In my opinion, President Trump has done more for this country, in less than one year, than all of the last several presidents combined. DEMS are DONE. And DeepState is reeling. Hoo-ray!

 

[BotanyBoy]

If you can't see a difference, again, that's your rotted brain. Just like, if you can't see the difference in Tea Party Freaks comparing Obama to Stalin and Trump critics of his behavior, that's on you.

There is no difference.

Not being a (D) cheerleader doesn't mean your brain is rotted....quite the opposite actually.

And they aren't critics of his behavior, they said he was Hitler....which is just as absurd as the Teahaddist calling Obama the Kenyan STALIN!!! LOL

 

[Carnal_Flower]

Calling Trump Hitler doesn't mean you're a "D cheerleader." Some Rs have, as a matter of fact. Quite a few. Go read the letter from the National Security Officials and Experts last year, on why Trump should never become President. The vast majority were R.

You're full of shit. Your brain is rotted through. Unable to process details, facts, and differences. It's like a sieve, the only things that can pass through are big labels like PARTISAN HACKS.

And yes, the criticisms are of his behavior (such as at his rallies. DId you ever watch his rallies? No) and his words and the things he does. Pretty damn simple.

It's not absurd at all to compare him to Hitler. That just gets clearer every single day. He only wishes he could be, he admitted it plainly the other day. Of course, you don't pay the slightest attention to his behavior, so how would you know?

You don't follow the facts. Go look up what he's doing with Mike Pompeo.

There is no difference.

Not being a (D) cheerleader doesn't mean your brain is rotted....quite the opposite actually.

And they aren't critics of his behavior, they said he was Hitler....which is just as absurd as the Teahaddist calling Obama the Kenyan STALIN!!! LOL

 

[gotsnowgotslush]

The name Pompeo has popped up in the news, now and then

*reads*

Donald Trump's CIA Director Mike Pompeo facing questions over impartiality


National security chief's conduct under scrutiny over political bias

CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly met with the purveyor of a disputed theory about the internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails that were released last year - a theory that runs counter to the intelligence community's own long-standing conclusions about the matter - according to a report in The Intercept.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...y-democratic-national-committee-a8043441.html


Trump’s CIA director keeps doing controversial — and suspiciously pro-Trump — things

November 7, 2017


The Intercept just broke a pretty big story: CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly met with the purveyor of a disputed theory about the internal Democratic National Committee emails that were released last year — a theory that runs counter to the intelligence community's own long-standing conclusions about the matter.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...usly-pro-trump-things/?utm_term=.6cd973def170

"the kicker in the Intercept's story is that Trump, according to Binney and another source, just so happens to be the one who suggested the meeting:

In an interview with The Intercept, Binney said Pompeo told him that President Donald Trump had urged the CIA director to meet with Binney to discuss his assessment that the DNC data theft was an inside job. During their hour-long meeting at CIA headquarters, Pompeo said Trump told him that if Pompeo “want[ed] to know the facts, he should talk to me,” Binney said.

A senior intelligence source confirmed that Pompeo met with Binney to discuss his analysis, and that the CIA director held the meeting at Trump’s urging. The Intercept’s account of the meeting is based on interviews with Binney, the senior intelligence source, a colleague who accompanied Binney to CIA headquarters, and others who Binney told about the meeting. A CIA spokesperson declined to comment. “As a general matter, we do not comment on the Director’s schedule,” said Dean Boyd, director of the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs.


https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/dnc-hack-trump-cia-director-william-binney-nsa/

"...Comey confronted Sessions and said he didn’t want to be left alone with Trump again, according to a Times report.."

"Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said."


Benjamin Wittes said Comey told him about another unnerving interaction with Trump on March 1:

Comey was about to get on a helicopter when his phone rang. It was the White House saying that the President wanted to speak with him. Figuring there must be something urgent going on, he delayed his flight to take the call. To his surprise, the President just wanted to chitchat. He was trying to be social, Comey related; there was no agenda, much less an urgent one. Notably, since the President has claimed that Comey told him in two phone conversations that he was not under investigation, Comey said nothing to me about the subject coming up in this call. Indeed, he regarded the call as weird for how substanceless it was. What bothered Comey was twofold — the fact that the conversation happened at all (why was Trump calling him to exchange pleasantries?) and the fact that there was an undercurrent of Trump’s trying to get him to kiss the ring.


On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/article/trump-comey-relationship-history.html

 

[RelentlessOnanism]

In my opinion, President Trump has done more for this country, in less than one year, than all of the last several presidents combined. DEMS are DONE. And DeepState is reeling. Hoo-ray!

Could you elaborate on that a little more?

 

[Carnal_Flower]

It was obvious that Pompeo was going to be nothing but a Trump lapdog.

He's the head of the CIA; Trump is calling him up telling him to go after Hillary and the Dems and he's doing it.

Trump made it clear on Jan. 21st that he believes the function of the CIA is to protect his ego and go after his political enemies, even if they are private citizens. Instead of doing all that pesky work on international terrorism, they SHOULD have been investigating the National Park Service for doctoring his inauguration photos. This is not a joke.

He doesn't make any distinction in his pea brain between the Executive (him) and the Judicial, State, Intelligence, Law Enforcement or Legislative Branches (which should only exist to carry out his will). Hitler, anyone? The only reason he doesn't come right out with it is because "he's not supposed to," which he said on tape the other day.

That is far cry from Obama passing Obamacare in the US Congress. One is fascist, the other is not.

The name Pompeo has popped up in the news, now and then

*reads*

Donald Trump's CIA Director Mike Pompeo facing questions over impartiality


National security chief's conduct under scrutiny over political bias

CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly met with the purveyor of a disputed theory about the internal Democratic National Committee (DNC) emails that were released last year - a theory that runs counter to the intelligence community's own long-standing conclusions about the matter - according to a report in The Intercept.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...y-democratic-national-committee-a8043441.html


Trump’s CIA director keeps doing controversial — and suspiciously pro-Trump — things

November 7, 2017


The Intercept just broke a pretty big story: CIA Director Mike Pompeo reportedly met with the purveyor of a disputed theory about the internal Democratic National Committee emails that were released last year — a theory that runs counter to the intelligence community's own long-standing conclusions about the matter.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...usly-pro-trump-things/?utm_term=.6cd973def170

"the kicker in the Intercept's story is that Trump, according to Binney and another source, just so happens to be the one who suggested the meeting:





A senior intelligence source confirmed that Pompeo met with Binney to discuss his analysis, and that the CIA director held the meeting at Trump’s urging. The Intercept’s account of the meeting is based on interviews with Binney, the senior intelligence source, a colleague who accompanied Binney to CIA headquarters, and others who Binney told about the meeting. A CIA spokesperson declined to comment. “As a general matter, we do not comment on the Director’s schedule,” said Dean Boyd, director of the CIA’s Office of Public Affairs.


https://theintercept.com/2017/11/07/dnc-hack-trump-cia-director-william-binney-nsa/

"...Comey confronted Sessions and said he didn’t want to be left alone with Trump again, according to a Times report.."

"Mr. Comey believed Mr. Sessions should protect the F.B.I. from White House influence, the officials said, and pulled him aside after a meeting in February to tell him that private interactions between the F.B.I. director and the president were inappropriate. But Mr. Sessions could not guarantee that the president would not try to talk to Mr. Comey alone again, the officials said."


Benjamin Wittes said Comey told him about another unnerving interaction with Trump on March 1:

Comey was about to get on a helicopter when his phone rang. It was the White House saying that the President wanted to speak with him. Figuring there must be something urgent going on, he delayed his flight to take the call. To his surprise, the President just wanted to chitchat. He was trying to be social, Comey related; there was no agenda, much less an urgent one. Notably, since the President has claimed that Comey told him in two phone conversations that he was not under investigation, Comey said nothing to me about the subject coming up in this call. Indeed, he regarded the call as weird for how substanceless it was. What bothered Comey was twofold — the fact that the conversation happened at all (why was Trump calling him to exchange pleasantries?) and the fact that there was an undercurrent of Trump’s trying to get him to kiss the ring.


On March 22, less than a week after being confirmed by the Senate, Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats attended a briefing at the White House together with officials from several government agencies. As the briefing was wrapping up, Trump asked everyone to leave the room except for Coats and CIA Director Mike Pompeo.


http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/article/trump-comey-relationship-history.html

 

[snugglestruggle]

This is totally not true! Trump has driven the entire democrat party bat shit crazy, which is quite an accomplishment .

 

[sr71plt]

This alone doesn't give me heartburn as far as Pompeo is concerned. It's concerning that the president of the United States is such a dipshit that he'd grasp as such straws to cover his ass and ask the director of the CIA to meet with such a person, but there's no reason why an intelligence agency head shouldn't give a hearing to all angles. He immediately reconfirmed that nothing he heard changed the Agency's stance on it and did so publicly, which is a public denial for the president to swallow.

There are other things Pompeo is doing that politicizes the Agency, though, which should be concerning. The last time this was done to the extent it's being done now was when the political appointees were changing Agency reports on weapons stockpiled in Iraq to tell the Bush administration what it wanted to hear.

Records were being kept--we knew what was where in Iraq, not least because we sold the stuff to them. Some was used on Iran (we applauded that) and the Kurds (we went hmmmm), some was sold to other countries, and the rest deteriorated in the desert because Saddam Hussein didn't have a clue how to store it. This is the report that went to the Bush appointees in the Agency from inside the Agency. When the Bush administration tried to finger bad reporting, the Agency saw to it that such books as Imperial Hubris got published to give another story. Where the Bush administration went wrong was that if it wanted weapons of mass destruction to be found in Iraq, the Agency jolly well could have planted some there for the Bush administration. The Bush people just didn't know the right requests to make from/buttons to push at the Agency.

 

[sr71plt]

This is totally not true! Trump has driven the entire democrat party bat shit crazy, which is quite an accomplishment .

Not like he's driven the Republican Party bat shit--and that's the truth.

Shouldn't you be looking around for a substitute Republican candidate who isn't him/herself bat shit to put up when Trump and Pence are carted off to federal prison (Lock them up; lock them up. )

 

[snugglestruggle]

Keep telling yourself that if it helps you to sleep at night. Deep down in one of those non addled brain cells of yours, you know...YOU KNOW there is nothing on Trump and you're stuck with him