Chronicling the misadventures of our minority-elect President’s alternate reality, alternative facts and the miscreants that comprise his administration so you don’t have to:
Our minority-elect President’s administration decides to honor Australian refugee deal once labeled as ‘dumb’ by Trump as his popularity plummets, the plan to celebrate his first 100 days in a rally – since he desperately needs to feel the support of like-minded minions, destroying Lady Liberty to make America great again, still trying to push Trump’s Syrian gas attack fairy tale, revelations that Trump Derangement Syndrome is becoming pertinent, once again our fraudulent Liar-in-Chief breaks a promise – though this time it violates the U.S. Constitution, the fact that Trump tweets about terrorist attacks only when it pertains to the relevance of his delusional rhetoric, the former Florida AG that Trump bought off to derail his Trump University fraud suddenly has a new job in his administration, how Trump’s organized crime ties could come back to haunt him, the Trump cabal’s war on black and brown Americans, our warmongering leader take great pride in ‘his’ military, Trump’s despicable claim of being committed to protecting the environment while obnoxiously doing everything he can to destroy it, highlights of Trump’s 93rd day of misadventures, Trump’s inaugural donor list contains massive evidence of fraud, Trump’s big Pavarotti lie, Trump’s illegitimate DHS Secretary wants you to know the problem is you – not them and more.
US to honor Australia refugee deal Trump called ‘dumb’ article from The Hill. –
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/330036-us-to-honor-australia-refugee-deal-trump-called-dumb
Why Trump likes his freewheeling Oval Office schedule article from Politico. –
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/22/donald-trump-white-house-schedule-237428
So Trump can allow his friends and CEO’s that own him to tell him what to do next.
How Trump Fell Into His Own 100-Day Trap article from The Atlantic. –
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/trump-first-100-days-bust/523845/
Replacing Lady Liberty: Trump and the American Way article from Counter Punch. –
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/replacing-lady-liberty-trump-and-the-american-way/
DONALD TRUMP’S LATEST APPROVAL RATINGS IN ELECTION SWING STATES SHOW HOW UNPOPULAR HE REALLY IS article from Newsweek. –
http://www.newsweek.com/donald-trumps-latest-approval-ratings-election-swing-states-588108
“It’s no secret President Donald Trump’s approval rating on the national level has been relatively low his entire tenure in the White House. But polls show he’s also struggling to garner support in the swing states that won him the 2016 presidential election over Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton.
Roughly 41.9 percent of Americans approve of Trump’s job performance, compared with 52.3 percent who disapprove, according to the FiveThirtyEight aggregate of polls. Polls from swing states similarly show Trump’s approval rating under water, making him the least popular newly elected president in decades.
A March survey of Wisconsin found 41 percent of registered voters approved of his job performance while 47 percent disapproved. A February poll conducted by Franklin & Marshall College found just 32 percent of voters in Pennsylvania approved of Trump’s job performance. An EPIC MRA survey the same month pegged his support in Michigan at 40 percent, with 54 percent disapproving. In Ohio, a March Baldwin Wallace University poll found 49 percent of the state viewed the president unfavorably, while 46 percent viewed him favorably.
And it goes on. In North Carolina, which Trump won narrowly, his approval rating stood at just 36 percent earlier this month, according to a High Point University poll. Fifty-four percent disapproved. In Florida, a large, key state that helped hand Trump the win, his approval stood at just 34 percent with two-thirds of the state disapproving, according to a February survey by Florida Atlantic University. A poll later in February by Associated Industries of Florida did find that 81 percent of Republicans approved of Trump’s job performance…”
House Oversight Panel Has Questions About Trump Businesses And Foreign Emoluments article from NPR. –
http://www.npr.org/2017/04/21/525124376/house-oversight-panel-has-questions-about-trump-businesses-and-foreign-emolument
Trump says he’ll mark 100 days with Pennsylvania rally article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-hell-mark-100-days-pennsylvania-rally-171749648–politics.html
The need to feel wanted while living life in the land of delusion.
US defense secretary targets Syria with chemical weapons allegation article from The World Socialist Web Site. –
http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2017/04/22/syri-a22.html
Still trying to push Trump’s Syrian gas attack fairy tale.
THE PERSISTENCE OF TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME article from The New Yorker. –
http://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/the-persistence-of-trump-derangement-syndrome
“Suddenly, Trump Derangement Syndrome is a thing, or is trying to become one.
We’re told by many wise and well-meaning people that it is a huge and even fatal mistake for liberals (and for constitutional conservatives) to respond negatively to every Trump initiative, every Trump policy, and every Trump idea. There are bound to be—in an Administration staffed not by orcs and ogres but for the most part by the usual run of military people and professional politicians—acceptable actions, even admirable initiatives, and we would do ourselves and our country a huge disservice by simply responding to them all with the same reflexive hatred. This may be especially true if that reflexive hatred, however unconsciously, mirrors and mimics the reflexive hatreds of the Trump White House itself. We owe it to our country and to our sanity to go on a case-by-case basis, empirically evaluating each action as it takes place, and refusing to succumb to the urge to turn politics into a series of set responses—exactly the habit, after all, that we so often deplore in Trump and the people around him.
This is a perfectly reasonable assertion, and one that would count for a lot in pretty much any semi-normal circumstance. The problem is that it refuses to see, or to entirely register, the actual nature of Trump and his actions. Our problem is not Trump Derangement Syndrome; our problem is Deranged Trump Self-Delusion. This is the habit of willfully substituting, as a motive for Trump’s latest action, a conventional political or geostrategic ambition, rather than recognizing the action as the daily spasm of narcissistic gratification and episodic vanity that it truly is.
The bombing of Syria, for instance, was not a sudden lurch either in the direction of liberal interventionism, à la Bill Clinton in the lands that were once Yugoslavia, nor was it a sudden reassertion of a neo-con version of American power, à la both Bushes in Iraq. It was, as best as anyone can understand, simply a reaction to an image, turned into a self-obsessed lashing out that involved the lives and deaths of many people. It was a detached gesture, unconnected to anything resembling a sequence of other actions, much less an ideology. Nothing followed from it, and no “doctrine” or even a single speech justified it. There is no credible evidence that Trump’s humanity was outraged by the act of poisoning children, only that Trump’s vanity was wounded by the seeming insult to America and, by extension, to him. It may be perfectly true that the failure of the Obama Administration to act sooner in Syria will go down forever, in the historical ledgers, as a reproach against it; or it may be that the wisdom of the Obama Administration in not getting engaged in another futile Middle Eastern folly will go down in its favor. But it is self-deluding to think that Trump’s action was meant to be in any way remedial. It was purely ritual, and the ritual acted out was the interminable Trumpist ritual of lashing out at those who fail to submit, the ritual act of someone whose inner accounting is conducted exclusively in terms of wounds given, worship received, and winnings displayed. (Perhaps his elder daughter, Ivanka, did play some small part in the action, as her brother Eric suggested in an interview, but this is hardly a comfort; the politics of a mad king with a court are no more reassuring than those of a mad king alone.)…”
House Oversight Committee calls on Trump’s business to prove he’s not violating the Constitution article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/house-oversight-committee-trump-emoluments-violating-constitution-cf1f413eec39
Once again our fraudulent Liar-in-Chief is breaking yet another promise – which in this case violates the U.S. Constitution.
New Trump hire resurrects corruption questions video from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/new-trump-hire-resurrects-corruption-questions-927063107558
The former Florida Attorney General that Trump bought off to derail his Trump University fraud suddenly has a new job in his corrupt administration…
The revealing thing Trump’s tweets about terrorist attacks have in common article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-tweets-revealing-364e944e686d
Trump only tweets about terrorism when it pertains to the relevance of his delusional rhetoric.
DOJ departure shakes up investigation into Russia scandal article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/doj-departure-shakes-investigation-russia-scandal
“A key aspect of the scandal surrounding Russia and its efforts to elect Donald Trump is the hacking operation, which stole Democratic materials. But as Reuters reported, that wasn’t the only element of the broader espionage operation.
A Russian government think tank controlled by Vladimir Putin developed a plan to swing the 2016 U.S. presidential election to Donald Trump and undermine voters’ faith in the American electoral system, three current and four former U.S. officials told Reuters.
They described two confidential documents from the think tank as providing the framework and rationale for what U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded was an intensive effort by Russia to interfere with the Nov. 8 election. U.S. intelligence officials acquired the documents, which were prepared by the Moscow-based Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, after the election.
Of particular interest is what changed in October 2016, as Americans learned of allegations surrounding Trump’s sexual misconduct – and the recording in which Trump boasted of assaulting women – when it appeared Hillary Clinton was likely to win. At that point, the Reuters report noted, the Kremlin switched gears, moving away from pro-Trump propaganda and instead trying to raise questions about the legitimacy of the U.S. election…”
Trump’s Organized Crime Ties Bring Blackmail to the White House article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/trumps-organized-crime-ties-bring-blackmail-white-house
Roaming Charges: Dude, Where’s My War? article from Counter Punch. –
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/roaming-charges-dude-wheres-my-war/
Our warmongering wannabe dictator takes great pride in ordering ‘his’ Military to commit War Crimes.
Donald Trump and Jeff Sessions Ramp up Their Crusade Against Black and Brown Americans article from AlterNet. –
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/donald-trump-and-jeff-sessions-ramp-their-crusade-against-black-and-brown
Donald Trump: Ruling Class President article from Counter Punch. –
http://www.counterpunch.org/2017/04/21/donald-trump-ruling-class-president/
“The Ruling Class Reserve Tag
One of the many irritating things about the dominant United States corporate media is the way it repeatedly discovers anew things that are not remotely novel. Take its recent discovery that Donald Trump isn’t really the swamp-draining populist working class champion he pretended to be on the campaign trail.
The evidence for this “news” is solid enough. His cabinet and top advisor circle has been chock full of ruling class swamp creatures like former Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn (top economic adviser), longtime top Goldman Sachs partner and top executive Steve Mnuchin (Secretary of the Treasury), and billionaire investor Wilbur Ross (Secretary of Commerce). Trump has surrounded himself with super-opulent and planetarily invested financial gatekeepers – the very club he criticized Hillary Clinton for representing.
Trump meets regularly with top corporate and financial CEOs, who have been assured that he will govern in accord with their wishes. He receives applause from business elites for his agenda of significant large scale tax cuts and deregulation for wealthy individuals and for the giant, hyper-parasitic, and largely transnational corporations they milk for obscene profits…”
Donald Trump’s Earth Day Statement Is Shameful article from The Huffington Post. –
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-earth-day_us_58fb9b9ee4b06b9cb91759d6
Hypocritically claiming his commitment to protect the environment while obnoxiously doing everything he can to destroy it is despicable.
This Day in Trump, Day 93: March for Science highlights Trump policies; Pence up pressure on China article from The Dallas News. –
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/politics/2017/04/22/day-trump-day-93-march-science-highlights-trump-policies-pence-amps-pressure-china
Analysis: Trump may learn broken promises carry consequences article from The Las Vegas Review-Journal. –
https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/politics-and-government/analysis-trump-may-learn-broken-promises-carry-consequences/
‘Phony numbers and front groups'” Trump’s inaugural donor list contains massive evidence of fraud article from Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2017/04/phony-numbers-and-front-groups-trumps-inaugural-donor-list-contains-massive-evidence-of-fraud/
A Repulsed Pavarotti Family Busts Trump For Lying About Friendship With Deceased Tenor article from Politicus USA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/04/21/repulsed-pavarotti-family-busts-trump-lying-friendship-deceased-tenor.html
“Evidence has surfaced that President Trump was lying about his friendship with the departed legend. The reality is that Pavarotti and his family can’t stand Trump.
At a joint press conference with Trump said, “Through the ages, your country has been a beacon of artistic and scientific achievement — and that continues today — from Venice to Florence, from Verdi to Pavarotti, a friend of mine. Great friend of mine. These bonds of history and culture have only grown stronger as our two nations have become close partners, dear friends, and very vital allies.”
The reality according to Pavarotti’s family is that there was no friendship. According to The Independent, the family said in a statement during the presidential campaign, “As members of his immediate family, we would like to recall that the values of brotherhood and solidarity which Luciano Pavarotti expressed throughout the course of his artistic career are entirely incompatible with the world view offered by the candidate Donald Trump.”
There was no friendship there. Donald Trump was once again lying. The Independent reports that tensions grew between Pavarotti and Trump after Trump booked the tenor for a performance at one of his properties in 2002 and then demanded a refund…”
DHS Head to America: Shut Up, Be Terrified and Do What You’re Told article from Reason. –
http://reason.com/blog/2017/04/18/dhs-head-to-america-shut-up-be-terrified
John Kelly, another corrupt illegitimate crony appointed by Trump, wants you to know the problem is you, not them.
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