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Trump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern
The following article by Karen Tumulty was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2017:
Donald Trump, having propelled his presidential campaign to victory while often disregarding the truth, now is testing the proposition that he can govern the country that way.
In the first five days of his presidency, Trump has put the enormous power of the nation’s highest office behind spurious — and easily disproved — claims. Continue reading “Trump’s disregard for the truth threatens his ability to govern”
Paul Krugman Just Said What We’re All Thinking About Trump’s Mental Health
The following article by Natalie Dickinson was posted on the Occupy Democrats website January 24, 2017:
Since taking office, President Trump’s behavior has become increasingly unhinged. Since ascending to the Oval Office, he has thrown a tantrum over the size of the Women’s March following his inauguration because it dwarfed his pitiful turnout and insisted to multiple audiences that his inauguration was massive despite the obvious photographic evidence to the contrary. Aides reporthe grows furiously angry over angry Twitter messages and grows bored with his work, instead preferring to watch television.
The erratic temper of an old man? Or a sign of something else? New York Times columnist Paul Krugman is fed up with Trump’s rage-and-pony show and told us all how he really feels in one sledgehammer of a tweet: Continue reading “Paul Krugman Just Said What We’re All Thinking About Trump’s Mental Health”
The sorest winner of all time cannot stop whining
The following article by James Hohmann with Breanne Deppisch was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2017:
THE BIG IDEA: Somebody call the wambulance. Donald Trump needs a box of Kleenex for all the whining he’s doing.
Just like his campaign, the first days of his presidency have been animated and defined by grievance.
At a White House reception last night to discuss his 2017 agenda, Trump devoted the first 10 minutes to rehashing the 2016 campaign. The commander-in-chief told a bipartisan group of congressional leaders that between 3 million and 5 million illegal votes caused him to lose the popular vote.
That is a ludicrously false claim, and this is not hyperbole: Trump is the sorest winner in American history. Continue reading “The sorest winner of all time cannot stop whining”
Trump Promised To Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So
The following is an article by Derek Kravitz and Al Shaw was posted on the ProPublica website January 20, 2017:
To transfer control of his companies, the president has to submit filings in Florida, Delaware and New York. We spoke to officials in each of those states.
Update, Jan. 23, 2017: The Trump Organization is now filing paperwork on President Trump’s resignation from his companies. As of 5:30 p.m., it has filed paperwork for at least 14 companies in Florida.
The documents, which we’ve posted, are dated Monday, Jan. 23.
During today’s press briefing, White House Strategic Communication Director Hope Hicks said that Trump has resigned from all his companies, but that the documents “are not public at this time.”
CNN also reported on a Trump Organization document, dated Jan. 19, in which Trump states his resignation from more than 400 companies. Trump can resign from his businesses with a private letter. But in order to complete the process, he needs to file with states, each of which has its own deadline. Continue reading “Trump Promised To Resign From His Companies — But There’s No Record He’s Done So”
Trump’s unsupported claim he has ‘received awards on the environment’
The following article by Michelle Ye Hee Lee was posted on the Washington Post website January 24, 2014:
“I’m a very big person when it comes to the environment. I have received awards on the environment.”
— President Trump, remarks during a meeting with business leaders, Jan. 23
One of Donald Trump’s first proposals as president is to help businesses by cutting regulations by 75 percent. Trump cited environmental regulations as an example during a meeting with business leaders, but claimed he was a “very big person” on the environment who has “received awards on the environment.” Continue reading “Trump’s unsupported claim he has ‘received awards on the environment’”
Trump inspired a movement, all right
The following column by Eugene Robinson was posted on the Washington Post website January 23, 2017:
It matters that the crowd for the Women’s March on Washington was far bigger than that for President Trump’s inauguration. The new president often boasts of having started a great movement. Let it be the one that was born with Saturday’s massive protests.
If size is important, and apparently to Trump it is, there was no contest. The Metro transit system recorded 1,001,613 trips on the day of the protest, the second-heaviest ridership in history— surpassed only by ridership for President Barack Obama’s inauguration in 2009. By contrast, just 570,557 trips were taken Friday, when Trump took the oath of office. Continue reading “Trump inspired a movement, all right”
Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote
The following article by Abby Phillips and Mike DeBonis was posted on the Washington Post website January 23, 2017:
Days after being sworn in, President Trump insisted to congressional leaders invited to a reception at the White House that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for millions of illegal votes, according to people familiar with the meeting.
Trump has repeatedly claimed, without evidence, that widespread voter fraud caused him to lose the popular vote to Hillary Clinton, even while he clinched the presidency with an electoral college victory. Continue reading “Without evidence, Trump tells lawmakers 3 million to 5 million illegal ballots cost him the popular vote”
Unidentified ‘woman’ in selfie with senators is, well, our senator
Inauguration Day photo failed to identify Minnesota’s Amy Klobuchar.
The following article by Erin Adler was posted on the StarTribune website January 23, 2017:
A photo of a beaming, bespectacled woman in a yellow coat attending President Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday made the rounds on social media this weekend, inspiring jeers, laughs and cries of sexism.
The woman in question poses for a selfie with U.S. Sens. Bernie Sanders and John McCain, and the photo’s caption identifies her simply as “a woman.” Continue reading “Unidentified ‘woman’ in selfie with senators is, well, our senator”
The Tyranny of A Minority President Has Begun — And So Has The Resistance
The following article by @LOLGOP was posted on the National Memo website January 23, 2017:
Donald Trump’s official presidential bio contains about a half-dozen attempts to convince someone — probably himself — that his win was a massive blowout and not a shameful, slight fluke only made possible by the intervention of a foreign government and a domestic conspiracy to get the FBI director to interfere in the democratic process during the final weeks, twice.
This sad overcompensation — like the emergency White House press briefing called Saturday night to lie about the size of of his inauguration crowd as the largest protests in U.S. history raged against the new president — isn’t an accident. Continue reading “The Tyranny of A Minority President Has Begun — And So Has The Resistance”