When Trump says “our country,” the racists take those two words very seriously.
The video below shows a Hispanic woman on the receiving end of a Trump-loving-empowered-racist. And he’s not afraid to let everyone know this is his country and anyone he deems a foreigner, must leave.
It’s the little things they do… or don’t do… that speaks volume.
In the pouring rain, Donald Trump sports a fancy umbrella, more than capable of sheltering his wife from mother nature. Offering her the umbrella would be the considerate thing to doto say the least, but no one ever accused Trump of being considerate.
No longer can anyone say Donald Trump does not apologize.
Of course he does. He just did. Donald Trump – flanked by Brett Kavanaugh and retiring Justice John Roberts and in front of an adorning gathering in the East Room – apologized to Kavanaugh for the “pain and suffering” he and his family went through during the nomination process.
No mention by the way was the pain and suffering Brett’s accuser is going through. She, Christine Blasey Ford, cannot go home and is currently separated from her family because of death threats. And she, Christine Blasey Ford, was forced to relive the nightmare she encountered at the hands of Kavanaugh in front of the entire nation. And although everyone, including Trump, agreed her story was “compelling and credible,” they still voted Kavanaugh into the Supreme Court. Trump did not apologies to Christine Blasey Ford, in fact, he just implied that her testimony was “based on lies and destruction.”
I’m counting the days to the midterms, and I’m counting the days to 2020!
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Watch Trump’s apology below.
Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and Colin Powell were interviewed by Fareed Zakari on CNN on Sunday, and although both had very important views on where this country is going, Colin Powell has some pointed words on Donald Trump and his leadership style.
When Fareed asked if Trump can be a “moral leader for the rest of the world,” Powell let his feelings be known.
I don’t know that he can do that because right now that is not the way he’s acting. Let me give you an example. My favorite three words in our constitution is the first three words, We The People, We The People. But recently it’s become me the president as opposed to We the people. And you see things that should not be happening. How could the president of the United States get up and say that the media is the enemy of Americans? Hasn’t he read the First Amendment? You’re not supposed to like everything the Press says or what anyone says in the First Amendment, that’s why we have the First Amendment, to protect that type of speech.
The former Secretary of State continued;
And I hope the President can come to the realization that he should really stop insulting people. And I used this two years ago when I said I could not vote for him in the 2016 election. Why? He insulted everybody. He insulted African Americans, he insulted women, he insulted women, he insulted immigrants, he insulted our best friends around the world. He insulted all of his fellow candidates upon the stage during the debates. And I don’t think that’s what should be coming out of the President of the United States, but I don’t see anything that’s changed in the last few years.”
If I haven’t said it before, hear me now and hear me good. Donald Trump is full of sh..it! He is a national and international disgrace! A joke!
The funniest thing though is he is surrounded by so many people and no one, I repeat, NO ONE tried to save him from this embarrassment.
Watch as the so-called Leader of the Free World boards Air Force 1, toilet paper in tow!
I hope he washed his hands.
“The world is laughing at us,” is one of Donald Trump’s favorite dog whistle when he wants to convey the lie that he is the best thing to happen to America since sliced bread! And often, his supporters buy the lie.
But during his America First speech to world leaders at the United Nations yesterday, Trump apparently forgot who his audience was. He forgot he wasn’t talking to base and tried patting himself on the back for a job well done.
“My administration is the best thing to happen to America since sliced bread…,” well, no. Trump didn’t actually say that, but he might as well.
“In less than two years, my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country.” World leaders from 193 countries, laughed at the American president, and rightly so.
So next time Donald Trump stand in front of his base and proclaim “the world is laughing at us,” we can all agree. We’ve seen it with our own eyes and we have Donald Trump to thank.
All together now, #ThanksTRUMP
Every time I think we’ve hit rock bottom, this happens…
On Friday, Splinter broke news that Miller, a former Trump aide stands accused of giving a pregnant stripper who he had been involved with an abortion pill without her knowledge.
According to court filings, Miller “visited her at her apartment with a Smoothie beverage. Unbeknownst to Jane Doe, the Smoothie contained an abortion bill. [sic] The pill induced an abortion, and Jane Doe wound up in a hospital emergency room, bleeding heavily and nearly went into a coma. The unborn child died.”
Miller denied the accusations.
“To be clear, none of this is is in any way true,” he said. “That doesn’t matter however in the current court of public opinion, where fraudulent statements and a lack of factual support rule the day as long as it fits into a tweet.”
For a man who demands loyalty, the steady drip of betrayals and plea bargains have to be driving the president wacky. And by the tone of his recent tweets, I’d say that I’m not saying anything new.
But loyalty is as loyalty does, and President Trump has repeatedly shown that he is not terribly loyal, even to those who have supported him. He’s burned through more cabinet members than other recent presidents as well as staff members and advisors, and every person who’s left has been the subject of a personal and public attack that demonstrates the personal nature of which the president sees these relationships. Of course, when everything has to be about him, then everything has to be either against him or for him.
The real problem for the president is what Paul Manafort and Michael Cohen have told prosecutors about what he knew and when he knew it, and this can’t be good for him. We already know that Trump lied about his sexual liaisons with Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal, and generally speaking, when people lie about their affairs, there’s usually much more skulduggery in their closets.
The president can call Robert Mueller’s investigation whatever he wants, but it looks like Mueller is conducting a sober, thorough, evidence-based inquiry that probably bothers the president because none of those three words describes how he approaches problems. It’s usually true that when you don’t have the ideas to support you, then you go after the person. That’s exactly what’s happening here. And if Mueller releases his findings close to the November elections, you’ll be able to see the fireworks no matter where you look in the sky.
The storms of September will pass and the country will unite to help people who have lost their homes and their property, and we will mourn those who have died. But there are more storms yet to come before November’s election and these will be of consequence for everyone.
If you haven’t registered to vote and you still can in your state, then please do. And make sure you vote.
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There was a time when politicians would lie behind closed doors, and if their lie saw the light of day, they would immediately go into damage-control. There was a time when Americans held their elected leaders to a higher standard and demanded the truth.
Then came Trump and a bucket full of lies followed.
On Sept. 7, President Trump woke up in Billings, Mont., flew to Fargo, N.D., visited Sioux Falls, S.D., and eventually returned to Washington. He spoke to reporters on Air Force One, held a pair of fundraisers and was interviewed by three local reporters.
In that single day, he publicly made 125 false or misleading statements — in a period of time that totaled only about 120 minutes. It was a new single-day high.
The day before, the president made 74 false or misleading claims, many at a campaign rally in Montana. An anonymous op-ed article by a senior administration official had just been published in the New York Times, and news circulated about journalist Bob Woodward’s insider account of Trump’s presidency.
Trump’s tsunami of untruths helped push the count in The Fact Checker’s database past 5,000 on the 601st day of his presidency. That’s an average of 8.3 Trumpian claims a day, but in the past nine days — since our last update — the president has averaged 32 claims a day.
Remember the Teaparty? Remember how angry and outraged they were when President Obama strapped this country around his waist and pulled it out of the ditch? Remember how Republicans stood on the sidelines and criticized every dime Obama spent to revive a dead economy?
Because of the quick and decisive actions of President Obama, the economy rebound. The Stock Market that was free-falling off the cliff grabbed the rope thrown by Obama and somehow managed to pull itself back to today’s record levels. And unemployment continually decreased.
Yes, Obama did what he had to do to save America, in spite of the grumblings of the Teaparty and the Republican party.
But where is the Teaparty now? Where are the Republicans? Miraculously, they are in lockstep with their little drummer boy, Donald Trump. Blind with their giddiness as he increased the federal deficit by 32 percent to pay for a campaign promise giving permanent tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires, like Donald Trump.
The federal deficit hit $895 billion in the first 11 months of fiscal 2018, an increase of $222 billion, or 32 percent, over the same period the previous year, according to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The nonpartisan CBO reported that the central drivers of the increasing deficit were the Republican tax law and the bipartisan agreement to increase spending. As a result, revenue only rose 1 percent, failing to keep up with a 7 percent surge in spending, it added.
Our grandchildren will thank us later… I’m sure of it!
Ben Sasse, a Republican Senator from Nebraska called out Donald Trump and his White House for all its drama in a Sunday morning interview.
“I don’t have any desire to beat this president up, but it’s pretty clear that this White House is a reality-show, soap-opera presidency,” Sasse told NBC’s “Meet the Press,” running through a list of the more incendiary reports that have put the White House on the defensive in recent months, including several anonymous accounts detailing dissent and subversion in the administration.
“What you’d like is the president to not worry so much about the short-term of staffing but the long-term of vision-casting for America, pull us together as a people, help us deliberate about where we should go and then build a team of great, big-cause, low-ego people around you,” he said. “Right now it feels like there’s just way too much drama every day and that distracts us from the longer-term stuff we should be focused on together.”
