To those that want to dig deeper and not retreat into childish name calling to cover their own deficiencies..
We have a problem in the White House. Just a few examples:
The Wall.
What a surprise. Mexico isn't going to voluntarily fund Trump's wall.
So it'll be the American taxpayer that initially pays for this boondoggle.
And what is the plan being floated on how to force the money from Mexico later?
Slap a 20% import tax on anything imported to the US from Mexico.
Genius.
So, it's American consumers and industries, purchasing imports from Mexico, that get to pay for the stupid wall a second time.
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/article129037819.html
http://www.usatoday.com/...ould-hurt-texas/97120400/
The.Art.Of.The.Deal. What a joke. Championed by Trump as HIS book, he describes it as "one of the greatest books ever written" but it was not written by him. It's a book ghost-authored by Tony Schwartz with Trump's name plastered on the cover. Sound familiar?
--“The Art of the Deal” made America see Trump as a charmer with an unfailing knack for business. Tony Schwartz helped create that myth—and regrets it.
http://www.newyorker.com/...mps-ghostwriter-tells-all
--If he were writing “The Art of the Deal” today, Schwartz said, it would be a very different book with a very different title. Asked what he would call it, he answered, “The Sociopath.”
But no worries.
I'm sure Trump had us little people in mind when after winning the electoral vote he went out to meet some friends at a local burger joint (ha):
http://www.bbc.com/.../world-us-canada-38003747
I never have, and never will, pay $36 for a burger or $10 for a side of fries. But Trump's buddies at that (ha) burger joint do, likely while complaining about the taxes they pay back to a country that made their wealth possible.
According to the Tax Policy Center, the totality of the Trump plan will reduce federal tax revenue by $6.2 trillion over the next ten years. Of those tax cuts, nearly 47% will go to the richest 1%. To put it into dollar terms, those earning less than $48,400 will experience an annual tax cut of less than $400, while those earning in excess of $700,000 will walk away with an average of an extra $215,000 per year.
http://www.forbes.com/...ur-tax-bill/#176119944b8b
This is a President in way over his head being led by the gators of the swamp he promised to drain. It's not just Putin that considers him a useful fool.
How long until we see the return of sedition prosecutions?
https://www.nytimes.com/...non-trump-news-media.html
And now he's going to have a phone conversation with Putin this weekend. Will he be dignified, with coherent talking points? Who is briefing him for this call? Will he listen to good advice? Does he have what it takes to recognize good advice from bad?
Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump
The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes
9:50 AM - 22 Dec 2016
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In an interview with MSNBC on the same day, he said: "Let it be an arms race. We will outmatch them at every pass and outlast them all."
Yup. Trump has lots of plans for your tax dollars.
Mikhail Gorbachev, who detailed his own efforts at denuclearisation during the dying days of the Cold War in the 1980s, issued a stark warning of a world where weapons of mass destruction were becoming cheaper and more readily available.
“Money is easily found for sophisticated weapons whose destructive power is comparable to that of the weapons of mass destruction; for submarines whose single salvo is capable of devastating half a continent; for missile defence systems that undermine strategic stability,” he wrote. "It all looks as if the world is preparing for war,"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/...ng-war-nuclear-threat-re/
I'm not crazy about the idea of a President Pence, but I would gladly accept it now that Trump is in the Oval Office. I would think it's becoming obvious even to some Trump voters that this President is not emotionally or mentally fit for his new job and we need to get him outta there.
I am hoping that VP Pence does his job and questions the stability of our President, and that the leaders of Congress do what the Electoral College was designed to do but failed to act on when they were the ones to actually vote for President & VP last December 19 - keep a nutcase out of the White House.
--As Alexander Hamilton writes in “The Federalist Papers,” the Constitution is designed to ensure “that the office of President will never fall to the lot of any man who is not in an eminent degree endowed with the requisite qualifications.” The point of the Electoral College is to preserve “the sense of the people,” while at the same time ensuring that a president is chosen “by men most capable of analyzing the qualities adapted to the station, and acting under circumstances favorable to deliberation, and to a judicious combination of all the reasons and inducements which were proper to govern their choice.”
http://www.factcheck.org/...or-the-electoral-college/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/...boss-as-a-clueless-child/