Misadventures of a minority-elect President 195

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:

Today’s misadventures of our malignant minority-elect president begin with why our national embarrassment continues providing such outlandish tweets and actions to serve as distractions from his corrupt policies and failed presidency, how our illegitimate minority-elect president has made millions laundering money while serving as president, debunking Trump’s lies directly and repeatedly with good framing will go a long way towards embarrassing him even further, Trump’s deplorable GOP brown shirts are trying to justify his racist comments, despite his delusions of being the best president ever Trump makes history with the lowest approval rating ever, how our fraudulent demented orange delinquent is illegally profiting off the presidency, growing chances of Trump ordering a false flag to try and bolster his failed presidency and save the GOP from the bloodbath they will receive during the 2018 midterm elections, why becoming accustomed and complacent to Trump’s delusional alternate reality and demented demeanor isn’t good, rights and freedoms in America are waning due to Trump’s desire to be a dictator – though fortunately for us that won’t happen – instead of a president, why our distractor-in-chief lies so much, our demented delinquent spent at least 38 weeks at his own properties at taxpayer expense during his first year in office, how to prepare for year two of our dimwitted dip shit’s term and much more.

Donald Trump’s Ruling Passions article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/donald-trumps-ruling-passions/

Our national embarrassment continues providing such profoundly ignorant, outlandish tweets and actions because he’s a narcissistic publicity whore who enjoys the attention regardless of the consequences and to serve as distractions from his corrupt policies and failed presidency.

Trump’s wealth comes from money laundering, and it’s gotten worse since he entered the White House article from The Daily Kos. –
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/12/1732169/-Trump-s-wealth-comes-from-money-laundering-and-it-s-gotten-worse-since-he-entered-the-White-House

For years our nefarious narcissist’s illegal business practices have made him millions which is why he’s freaking out about Mueller following the money.

Trump’s War on the Press Follows the Mussolini and Hitler Playbook article from The Daily Beast. –
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-war-on-the-press-follows-the-mussolini-and-hitler-playbook

Our fake president’s war on fake news is predicated on his Hitler-aspiring desire to turn our so-called Democracy into a dictatorship.

Secret Money: How Trump Made Millions Selling Condos To Unknown Buyers article from Buzzfeed News. –
https://www.buzzfeed.com/thomasfrank/secret-money-how-trump-made-millions-selling-condos-to?utm_term=.plyKbV6z2#.baXGygABL

More on the millions Trump is making with his money laundering while sitting as president:

More than one-fifth of Donald Trump’s US condominiums have been purchased since the 1980s in secretive, all-cash transactions that enable buyers to avoid legal scrutiny by shielding their finances and identities, a BuzzFeed News investigation has found.

Records show that more than 1,300 Trump condominiums were bought not by people but by shell companies, and that the purchases were made without a mortgage, avoiding inquiries from lenders.

Those two characteristics signal that a buyer may be laundering money, the Treasury Department has said in a series of statements since 2016. Treasury’s financial-crimes unit has, in recent years, launched investigations around the country into all-cash shell-company real-estate purchases amid concerns that some such sales may involve money laundering. The agency is considering requiring real-estate professionals to adopt anti-money-laundering programs.

All-cash purchases by shell companies do not by themselves indicate illegal or improper activity, and they have become more common in recent years in both Trump buildings and other luxury home sales across the United States. Developers such as Trump have no obligation to scrutinize their purchasers or their funding sources…”

Trump claims he is ‘not a racist’ despite all evidence to the contrary article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-claims-he-is-not-a-racist-but-he-is-58f2a83645ce/

Regardless of how many times and how vehemently he denies it, there are decades of documentation that proves he is indeed racist.

Thanks to Trump’s antics, 2018 is off to an exhausting start article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/thanks-trumps-antics-2018-exhausting-start

One year in and Trump and his illegitimate presidency are on a massive downward spiral.

The best way to debunk Trump’s lies, according to science article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/debunking-trump-lies-3744fb268eac/

Debunking our Liar-in-Chief’s lies directly and repeatedly with good framing will go a long way towards embarrassing him even further.

Notes From a ‘Shithole’ Superpower article from CounterPunch. –
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/16/notes-from-a-shithole-superpower/

Ripping countries that became shitholes because of America’s shithole moves is extremely moronic:

“Most of Donald Trump’s vicious and moronic statements are best ignored. Some, though, are unavoidable.

Where to begin in processing the horror and idiocy of Donald Trump’s comments during a meeting with U.S. congresspersons late last week? Trump ripped immigration to the U.S. from “shithole countries” like El Salvador, Haiti and “Africa.”

“Why are we having all these people from shithole countries come here?” Trump said. “Why don’t we get more people from places like Norway?” (I paraphrase…we do not have the precise quote, but the basic gist and content is clear).

Norway must have been on Trump’s disordered mind since he had just met with Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg on Wednesday…”

Trump’s ‘deplorables’ moment article from The Week. –
http://theweek.com/articles/748876/trumps-deplorables-moment

Trump’s deplorable GOP brown shirts are trying to justify his racist comments.

Five Decades of White Backlash article from The Atlantic. –
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/01/trump-massive-resistance-history-mlk/550544/

How our dimwitted dip shit embodies over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought so hard to enact.

Best at Winning Disapproval: Trump’s First Year Breaks Record for Lowest Approval Rating Ever article from Common Dreams. –
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/16/best-winning-disapproval-trumps-first-year-breaks-record-lowest-approval-rating-ever

Despite his delusions of being the best president ever, Trump did set a record for having the lowest approval rating ever.

Presidency for Sale: 64 Trade Groups. Companies, Candidates, Foreign Governments and Political Groups Spending Money at Trump’s Properties article from Corporate Presidency. –
https://corporatepresidency.org/presidencyforsale/

How our fraudulent demented Orange delinquent is illegally profiting off his presidency:

“One year of Trump. One year of unprecedented conflicts of interest.

Donald Trump’s sprawling set of businesses – and his refusal to divest his financial interests in hotels, golf courses, restaurants and real estate developments around the world – has presented a unique set of conflicts that previously were unimaginable for the president of the United States.

Never before has a president owned a private club in Florida that hiked its membership fees shortly after the president took office and sold $750 tickets to a New Year’s party. Never before has the president of the United States owned an international real estate empire that’s deeply entangled with foreign governments and sold dozens of condominiums to secretive buyers.

While some of Donald Trump’s businesses, such as his hotel in Washington, D.C. have clearly been helped by his presidency, others such as hotel ventures in New York and Toronto have been hurt by his infamy. But most alarming are the array of interest groups trying to cozy up to Trump by spending money at his properties…”

From Seattle to St. Petersburg: Highlights of the Urban Resistance, Year 1 article from The Nation. –
https://www.thenation.com/article/from-seattle-to-st-petersburg-highlights-from-the-urban-resistance-year-one/

Trump has built a movement against him that will continue growing exponentially until he, his cancerous administration and his egregious agendas – he never had nor will he ever have anything remotely resembling a mandate – are radiated once and for all.

Lawrence O’Donnell Nails Why Trump Is A Visceral Insult To Every American With A Brain article from PoliticusUSA. –
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/16/lawrence-odonnell-perfectly-explains-trump.html

America’s worst-ever president’s chronic lies are an insult to anyone with a brain that is capable of thinking for themselves, and it’s compounded by Trump’s profound stupidity.

Trump says privately that a terror attack could save him and GOP from 2018 election bloodbath: report article from The Raw Story. –
https://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/trump-says-privately-that-a-terror-attack-could-save-him-and-gop-from-2018-election-bloodbath-report/

Don’t put it past Trump to order miscreants in his administration to conduct a false flag attack to try and bolster his failing presidency – though given as stupid as he is it probably wouldn’t work.

Normalizing the Abnormal article from Slate. –
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/01/we-havent-normalized-trump-weve-just-gotten-used-to-him-that-may-be-worse.html

Becoming accustomed and complacent to Trump’s bizarre alternate reality isn’t good:

“Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that the president of the United States paid $130,000 to a famous porn actress to stop her from revealing details of an alleged affair between them. For Barack Obama or George W. Bush or Bill Clinton or George H. W. Bush or Ronald Reagan or Jimmy Carter—or really, for just about any of their predecessors—the mere hint of such a payoff would have become the defining scandal of their presidency. But somehow, the sordid story of Stormy Daniels has barely entered public consciousness. Few papers featured it on the front page. Within 48 hours, the conversation had already moved on to the next Trumpian controversy. The normal rules of politics simply do not apply to this particular president.

Granted, the payoff to Daniels is hardly the most egregious of Trump’s misdeeds. If nobody cared about it because the political class was too busy chronicling the larger and more consequential outrages committed by his administration, there might have been something redeeming about this silence. But it doesn’t seem as though this is what’s going on here. Instead, we have simply revised down our expectations—big as well as small, public as well as private.

This alone shows that there was something to the biggest fear that the burgeoning class of Trump-watchers expressed after his ascent to the highest office in the land: that America might quickly start to normalize the president. “In the face of the impulse to normalize,” Masha Gessen wrote the day after the 2016 election, “it is essential to maintain one’s capacity for shock.” “Washington is going about its business talking about who’s going to get what jobs,” David Remnick observed a few days later. “You would think that Mitt Romney had won. It’s a hallucination.”

Thankfully, though, the most extreme fears about normalization have not materialized. In part because of Trump’s insistence on acting like the worst cartoon version of himself—and in part because many of us took Gessen’s and Remnick’s warnings to heart—the president, by and large, continues to be treated as the aberration he really is. Newspapers that had once insisted on quoting two points of view on every conceivable issue openly state when the president lies. Business leaders who were initially willing to play ball with the administration have deserted his advisory councils in droves. Even Republican congressmen and senators who have supported his legislative agenda time and again have repeatedly felt the need to distance themselves from his most shocking comments…”

Trump-O-Meter article from Politifact. –
http://www.politifact.com/trumpometer-year-one/all-promises/

A look at the many dubious promises kept during our malignant minority-elect president’s first year in office.

In Trump’s White House, lies beget lies article from USA Today. –
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/01/16/trump-white-house-lies-beget-lies-editorials-debates/1035510001/

When the man holding the country’s highest office is nothing but a fraudulent pathological liar it makes the entire country look extremely foolish.

Watchdog says democratic freedoms waning in US under Trump article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/news/watchdog-says-democratic-freedoms-waning-210934585.html

Which isn’t surprising given Trump’s desire to be a dictator instead of a president…

Donald Trump and his banana republic article from Salon. –
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/16/donald-trump-and-his-banana-republic_partner/

Our useless shit for brains president caters to his fraudulent billionaire friends for a multitude of reasons:

“Donald Trump is an amazingly persistent man. On the campaign trail, he promised the American people repeatedly that he would build a “beautiful wall” on the border with Mexico, “to keep murderers and the rapists out.” Now, he’s demanding $18 billion to start the project.

There is a minor problem with this request. While announcing his candidacy in 2015, Trump — the self-styled great deal maker — declared “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and I’ll have Mexico pay for that wall.”

This promise was repeated countless times during the election campaign, to the delight of his audiences. He regularly asked his audiences who would pay for that wall. “Mexico,” they hooted and repeated after him.

However, the $18 billion request to fund Trump’s great beautiful wall has not been sent to the presidential palace in Mexico City, as one would have expected, but to the U.S. Congress in Washington…”

TOM COTTON, DAVID PERDUE, AND THE TRAP OF LYING FOR DONALD TRUMP article from The New Yorker. –
https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/tom-cotton-david-perdue-and-the-trap-of-lying-for-donald-trump

When GOP politicians purposely lie for Donald Trump, they are inevitably going to have some major problems down the road…

The Distractor-in-Chief article from Counterpunch. –
https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/01/17/the-distractor-in-chief/

On the many lies Trump repeatedly uses to distract from his profound corruption and ignorance.

White House: The ‘American people love’ Trump article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/white-house-the-american-people-love-trump

The White House – as with our illegitimate president – is certifiable as the majority of the American people can’t stand him.

Majority Of Americans See Trump’s First Year As A Failure article from NPR. –
https://www.npr.org/2018/01/18/578639915/majority-of-americans-see-trumps-first-year-as-a-failure

Despite some odious claims of being the most successful president in history, Trump’s first year has been one massive failure after another:

“As President Trump approaches the one-year anniversary of his inauguration, a majority of Americans think his first year in office has been a failure — and that he’s divided the nation.

A new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll finds that by a 53-to-40-percent margin, Americans deemed Trump’s first year a failure. And by an almost 2-to-1 margin (61 to 32 percent), Americans said they believe Trump has divided the country since his election.

Americans give Trump relatively positive marks on his handling of ISIS and the state of the economy — no small things. But on just about every other issue, they disapprove of his handling of them or they think things have gotten worse — from their views of the tax plan to the state of race relations and women’s rights to immigration, health care, the deficit and foreign policy, including his approach to North Korea. Seven-in-10 Americans are now concerned about the possibility of war breaking out with the rogue nuclear nation.

“The first-year grades for Trump are not good,” said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion. “He remains with his base intact and not much else. People remain doubtful in the institutions of our government, doubtful in how he’s communicating things and how he’s handling things. It’s not a pretty picture for the president after the first year.”…”

Trump’s Inauguration Money Is Still Missing One Year Later: Report article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/trumps-inauguration-donations-are-still-missing-one-year-later-report

Trump promised to donate millions of dollars from his leftover inauguration funds but hasn’t donated one single penny – most likely because he illegally kept it all…

Trump’s #FakeNewsAwards Underscore His Hostility Toward Free Speech and Press article from Common Dreams. –
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2018/01/18/trumps-fakenewsawards-underscore-his-hostility-toward-free-speech-and-press

Our fake president decided to take his war on fake news – as well as his ignorance – to a whole new level.

Does Donald Trump Want to Be Dictator of the United States? article from Mother Jones. –
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/01/donald-trump-wants-to-be-dictator-of-the-united-states/

Yes he does, but fortunately for us, it’s never going to happen.

Trump’s first year: President spent 38 weekends at his own properties article from USA Today. –
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/01/19/trumps-first-year-office-he-spent-heres-where-president-trump-spent-his-weekends-during-his-first-ye/1041087001/

Our part-time president is milking taxpayers for millions of dollars in profit while staying at his own properties:

“Since Donald Trump took office last January, we tracked where he spent each of his first 52 weekends in office.

On at least 38 weekends, he visited at least one his properties.

Translation: For every 10 weekends that Trump was in office, about seven of them included a visit to a Trump property. He’s also expected to kick off his second year in office down at Mar-a-Lago this weekend.

Trump’s travels draw attention to his own properties, something that critics argue boost for the Trump Organization and put money into the president’s own pockets…”

America the Trumped: 10 ways the administration attacked civil rights in year one article from the Southern Poverty Law Center. –
https://www.splcenter.org/20180119/america-trumped-10-ways-administration-attacked-civil-rights-year-one

The many ways our Hitler-aspiring wannabe dictator is doing his damnedest to destroy the minority that voted for him and the majority that didn’t.

The racist legal doctrine that lets Donald Trump get away with being a loud-mouthed bigot article from Think Progress. –
https://thinkprogress.org/racist-legal-doctrine-trump-dcc378794c44/

The Chinese Exclusion Act gives the government sweeping authority to exclude immigrants from the U.S., even if it violates the Constitution.

Trump’s rhetoric about shutdowns and the military doesn’t add up article from Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. –
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/trumps-rhetoric-about-shutdowns-and-the-military-doesnt-add

Trump’s growing desperation to deflect attention from the fact that if the government shuts down it’s his and the GOP’s fault are becoming comical.

George Lakoff: 10 Rules for Resistance Against Trump article from Alternet. –
https://www.alternet.org/activism/10-points-democracy-activists-trumps-second-year-office-begins

How to prepare for year two of our illegitimate minority-elect president’s term:

“(Editor’s note: A summary of 10 points for effectively resisting Trump has recently been a viral sensation. Those points came from a talk retired linguist and cognitive scientist George Lakoff gave last year in northern California. Here are those takeaways followed by Lakoff’s summation of his talk at Sonoma State University.)

1. Don’t use the president’s surname.

2. Remember this is a regime and he’s not acting alone.

3. Do not argue with those who support him — it doesn’t work…”

Actions, not words, tell Trump’s political money story article from Salon. –
https://www.salon.com/2018/01/19/actions-not-words-tell-trumps-political-money-story_partner/

To learn all you need to know about our profoundly corrupt, malevolent minority-elect president, all you need to do is follow the money.

Russia-linked Twitter accounts are working overtime to help Devin Nunes and WikiLeaks article from Yahoo! News. –
https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/russia-linked-twitter-accounts-working-065815230.html

The GOP and their electronic Russian allies are trying desperately to derail Mueller’s investigation into Trump’s Russia scandal with yet more phony fabricated information.

The Man-Child in the White House Reels Wildly Out Of Control article from Common Dreams. –
https://www.commondreams.org/views/2018/01/19/man-child-white-house-reels-wildly-out-control

Our demented delusionist and his incorrigibly corrupt administration have no credibility whatsoever and are completely unable to lead.

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