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June 6: Forbes reports Trump funneled money for St. Jude's children's cancer research into his own pockets through his son Eric's fundraisers.
June: Trump is giving the closed Russian diplomatic compounds in Maryland and New York back to Russia. He's also getting nothing in return. Trump, the great negotiator.
May 31 - The Trump administration's crackdown on illegal immigrants will likely weaken overall U.S. consumer spending and economic growth as those targeted for arrest increasingly choose to stay home and save more, a Federal Reserve policymaker said on Wednesday.
May 31 - Donald Trump Reportedly Plans To Withdraw From Paris Climate Deal. The U.S. would join Syria and Nicaragua in rejecting the historic pact to address global warming.
May 27 - Trump's son in law Jared Kushner setup secret meetings with Russia that could occur without surveillance
May 27 - As Trump tightens every budget on earth, he has loosened one, removing spending limits: The CIA budget related to protecting him and his properties around the country.
May 24 - Trump keeps revealing intelligence secrets. Yesterday it was revealed on April 30 Trump told Philippine President Duterte (the guy that brags about killing his own citizens) we have 2 nuclear subs off the coast of North Korea.
May 24 - Supposedly Trump's math is $2 trillion off. He said $2 trillion in tax cuts will be made up by $2 trillion in economic growth. That would be a wash right? But he went on to say the nation's deficit would be reduced by $2 trillion using the same money. You can't double dip Donald. Idiot.
May 24 - regarding Trumpcare, the CBO reports health insurance premiums in some states may go down by 4% for young, healthy people due to benefits being reduced (if you give 'em less it costs less, no duh) while premiums for people with pre-existing conditions (like pregnancy - including husbands, sleep apnea, obesity, pending hospitalization, anxiety, OCD, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, alcohol/drug treatment, bulimia, heart issues and more) will increase by 800%. They predict 23 million will be priced out of insurance. Oh, and the deficit will be reduced. You know what else could reduce the deficit? Increased taxes.
May 12 - Trump threatened to end news briefings altogether if the media keeps asking about Russia and Comey. Infantile.
May 12 - Trump says he asked Comey 3 times if he was under investigation and was told "no". Legal experts say it would be highly unusual for an FBI director to tell someone whether they were under investigation or not. The easy way to tell if Trump's lying is to ask Comey. Today Trump threatened Comey in a tweet: "James Comey better hope that there are no 'tapes' of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press!" Trump thinks he's above the law. This is crazy.
May 12 - Trump actually tweeted this: "As a very active President with lots of things happening, it is not possible for my surrogates to stand at podium with perfect accuracy". He said this in response to repeated questions about the continuous stream of contradictory statements from the White House.
May 9 - when a sitting president can fire the man investigating him, everyone should be concerned. President Trump fired FBI head James Comey today. Comey was in the middle of a year long investigation into Trump ties with Russian election hacking. Unbelievable. He should not get away with this. Since when can the Joker fire Commissioner Gordon?! Then, on the same day, Trump meets with the Russian ambassador and reveals classified information to Russia. This would be treason, except for the loophole that the President is the only human on earth that can choose to declassify any classified intelligence at any time. So Trump can accidentally (or intentionally) repeat any classified intelligence to anyone at any time and not be held responsible.
May 7/8 - Jared Kushner's sister made sure Chinese investors knew her brother was Donald Trump's son in law when she pitched them to invest in Kushner Properties. The investors were promised US visas (Golden Visas) in exchange for a minimum $500,000 donation. The company apologized the next day so I guess that makes it all good even though nothing's changed. The Trump's are a massive crime syndicate.
May 5 - the same day that Trump throws a party with house republicans for destroying the Affordable Care Act, Trump tells the prime minister of Australia "You have better healthcare than we do". Ironic, since Australia has universal health care called Medicare for all.
May 3 - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson made major policy change that it's now acceptable for US to work with heads of other countries that have committed human right violations.
May 3 - Trump to sign order lifting ban on political activity by churches - so now we have to hear preachers telling us how to vote? How can they be tax exempt yet push a political agenda?
May 1 - Trump: "People don't ask that question. Why was there the Civil War?" Um, slavery, idiot?
Apr 30 - In a CBS interview today, when asked about Obamacare, trump said “Look, because if you hurt your knee, honestly, I’d rather have the federal government focused on North Korea, focused on other things, than your knee, okay? Or than your back, as important as your back is. I would much rather see the federal government focused on other things.” He then called Kim Jong-Un "a pretty smart cookie" and that he admires him for taking power at such a young age. WTF?!
Apr 30 - Trump invited confessed murderer, Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte, to the White House and met with him, saying they had "a very friendly talk". Then trump left to play golf for the afternoon.
Apr 13 - new gun laws in Iowa enacted. Gun activists were in giddy shock that they actually passed. Among other things, local governments are banned from creating gun-free zones, sawed-off shotguns were legalized, stand your ground laws were strengthened, the bar was raised for prosecutors seeking to tack on weapons charges for certain felonies, and children are now allowed to use firearms.
Trump meets with human rights violator and president of the Arab Republic of Egypt. Shakes his hand. Trump meets with chancellor of democratic Germany. Refuses to shake her hand.
Apr 14: Trump continues to shroud his activities in secrecy. He announced today he is shuttering the open.gov portal and will be keeping his visitor logs secret for 5 years after he leaves office. These logs have always been public record. He even sought a judicial ruling to keep them from being revealed under the Freedom of Information Act. This comes less than 2 months after his purge of large swaths of public government data from open.whitehouse.gov. He has zero transparency.
Apr 12 - bucking presidential tradition, Trump publicly brags dollar is strong, causing its value to plummet.
Apr 11 - Trump ran a modeling agency, Trump Model Management, for 18 years filled with illegal immigrants and girls as young as 14 housed in cramped apartments. The agency announced their pending closure this past weekend. Slumlord lying child abusing sexist hypocrite.
Apr 11 - Commenting on Assad, Sean Spicer said that even someone as "despicable" as Hitler "didn't even sink to using chemical weapons." I guess he forgot about 6 million Jews gassed in the gas chambers? Idiot.
Apr 6 - Trump had the Environmental Protection Agency reverse its position on a pesticide the Obama administration had recommended banning (chlorpyrifos), thanks to its links to autism and childhood brain defects. - Trump's endangering our children
Trump lifted a moratorium on coal leases on federal land. But on Mar 30, a massive coal mining project was scrapped in Alaska after no one would invest in it. Trump doesn't seem to understand economics. The world has been moving away from coal for decades. Ignorance.
as of April 4, Trump hasn’t appointed anyone to keep track of the 700 released Guantanamo detainees. Obama setup offices at the Department of Defense and the State Department, but these people have been reassigned. Trump is losing critical intelligence about where former detainees are now and what they are doing.
Trump appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education. In January, her brother, Erik Prince, established a potential line of communication between Trump and Putin. Prince, founder of Blackwater, met with “a Russian close to President Vladimir Putin” in January as part of an attempt to establish a back channel for the Trump administration. The meeting was arranged by the United Arab Emirates in the Seychelles Islands.
Apr 4 - Today, President Assad continues to use chemical weapons against his own people in Syria, killing dozens including children and sickening scores with Sarin gas. Trump's UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, gave him license to continue, on Mar 30th stating; "Are we going to sit there and focus on getting him [Assad] out? No.” drawing the ire of senator John McCain. “I’m sure they are encouraged to know the United States is withdrawing and seeking a new arrangement with the Russians,” McCain told CNN.
April 3 - Trump’s son-in-law is now overseeing America’s fight against ISIS. Met with Iraq Apr 3, instead of the State Department going. He also meet with Chinese ambassador, Cui Tiankai, at Trump's Mar-a-Lago golf club in Florida. Trump is concentrating power within his family and eschewing normal government checks and balances.. like all good dictators.
Apr 3 - Trump symbolically donates $73,000 salary while charging taxpayers $60,000,000 for his 17 (so far) Mar-a-Lago golf retreat visits and the upkeep of Trump Tower in NYC for Melania and Baron. Obama cost 3.5 million per year. Trump is costing $60 million in 2 months, 100 times Obama's costs. One hundred times!
Trump's son in law has become the primary point of contact for presidents, ministers and ambassadors from more than two dozen countries. He's had extensive talks with many diplomats from Mexico, Europe, the Middle East and the Asia-Pacific region. He reports directly to Trump and is operating outside the boundaries of the State Department or the National Security Council.
At a Jan. 11 news conference at Trump Tower in New York City, President-elect Trump gestures at a stack of folders that he said contained documentation separating him from his businesses. That revocable trust was modified on Feb 17 to let Trump withdraw from it at any time. Unethical, lying, thief.
April 3 - A coalition of U.S. states has mounted a broad legal challenge against Trump's illegal suspension of the EnergyStar program to improve the energy efficiency of ceiling fans, portable air conditioners and other products. These rules were to go in effect a several weeks ago. Now the illegal suspension will cost consumers and businesses close to $24 billion.
Trump is encouraging income tax fraud by cutting the budget for the IRS and reducing the number of auditors. "It's penny-wise and pound-foolish," said Robert Weinberger, a senior fellow at the Aspen Institute's Initiative on Financial Security. "They'll lose billions in revenue in order to save a few hundred million dollars." The IRS is one of the few government agencies that pays for itself; for every dollar of funding it receives, it contributes $4 to federal coffers. "This is the undermining of a basic function of government," said Chuck Marr, director of federal tax policy at the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities. -The thief is rigging the game.
30 years ago (1987) Sesame Street had a character named Ronald Grump turn Oscar the Grouch's garbage can into Grump Tower who then extorted 40 bags of garbage from Oscar in order to get his garbage can home back. The sesame street gang and a large group of children counted off the 40 bags to give to Ronald Grump to make him go away. Trump's bad reputation goes back decades.
In 2006, Ivanka Trump's father-in-law, Charles Kushner, plead guilty to 18 counts of tax evasion, witness tampering and making unlawful campaign donations and was sentenced to two years in prison. Her husband, Jared Kushner, inherited control of that illegally obtained real estate empire.
To reduce the nation's debt, you have two choices; send millions of struggling, hard working Americans closer to financial ruin. Or barely scratch a handful of super rich. Please tell me why the rich should be so above the law and coddled?
Fri Mar 31 - Trump's Mike Flynn admits guilt in Russia dealings by offering damning testimony against Trump's team in exchange for immunity. This is unprecedented in history for someone this close to a sitting US president. His request is rejected and he is told he can testify in congress. Bizarrely, Trump tweets support for Flynn's immunity request. On Septempber 25, 2016 Flynn said on Meet the Press, "When you are given immunity, that means you probably committed a crime". 6 months later, he requests immunity. Criminal idiots.
Trump has vowed to "bomb the shit out of them [Isis]" and has been granting broad freedom to the US generals to act (he's hands-off) but without giving them any apparent accompanying diplomatic and political strategies. Soldier, Seal civilian and children deaths are climbing rapidly. U.S. Engagements around the globe, bombings and airstrikes have skyrocketed. To what end? Confusion ensues.
Regarding Trump's inauguration, 3 different sources claim former president George W. Bush said, "That was some weird shit"
Mar 28 - Fraternal Order of Police director met with and warned President Donald Trump that he would endanger public safety if he follows through with cuts in federal grants to "sanctuary cities". Trump claims to support police and then withholds their funding. Two-faced back stabber
Mar 28 - Trump redirects huge cuts to medical grants and infrastructure grants to pay for his outrageously expensive Trump Wall that was supposed to be paid for by Mexico... liar. killing people. hates people.
Mar 28, 2017 - congress has passed law repealing internet privacy rules. Now your Internet provider can collect and sell your personal, medical, and browsing history to the highest bidder without asking you or telling you.
Jan 12, 2017 - Republicans ban local governments in Minneapolis from passing their own labor laws. HF 600 begins with: "A local government must not adopt, enforce, or administer an ordinance local resolution, or local policy..." I thought Republicans were all about shifting power from the federal government to the state and local government? Hypocrites. On Mar 2, 2017, protests were held at the state capitol. Republicans are introducing these "preemptive" bills all across the country (in 25 states so far) to tie the hands of local governments. It's just hateful and spiteful. More lies.
Mar 26, 17 - Earlier this week, newly confirmed Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price stalled the rollout of mandatory Medicare payment reform programs for heart attack treatment, bypass surgery and joint replacements finalized by the Obama administration in December. Hospitals and physician groups have been counting on support from Medicare - the federal insurance program for the elderly and disabled - to continue driving payment reform policies built into Obamacare that reward doctors and hospitals for providing high quality care at a lower cost.The Obama Administration had committed to shifting half of all Medicare payments to these alternative payment models by 2018.
Trump voters in West Frankfort, Illinois bemoan the closing of their favorite local restaurant after owner deported. "But he was one of the good ones!" "I think people need to do things the right way, follow the rules and obey the laws, and I firmly believe in that," said resident and Trump voter, Lori Barron. Residents flooded the mayor and police chief with letters; "I think he may have done more for the people here than this place has ever given him." "I think it's absolutely terrible." Many residents say this now complicates their view on immigration policy. Idiots.
Mar 24, 2017 - Paul Ryan finally admits GOP is simply a party of opposition with no idea how to actually implement policy; "Moving from an opposition party to a governing party comes with growing pains. Doing big things is hard,” he told reporters at a news conference covered by at least 20 television cameras.
a woman is violently raped and goes to the police. They arrest her, handcuff her and deport her. On Tuesday, March 21, 2017, Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck said “Imagine a young woman—imagine your daughter, sister, mother, your friend—not reporting a sexual assault because they are afraid that their family will be torn apart."
Under Trump’s proposed budget, the popular Energy Star program, which has saved consumers $362 billion, will lose its funding.
For an entire year, republicans refuse to grant a hearing to Obama's supreme court justice nominee and then give their own nominee a hearing after just a few weeks.
Trump's idea of inexpensive health insurance is to offer plans that are cheap but don't cover anything. Obama's Essential Healthcare Benefits put an end to those types of plans but Trump's republicans want to get rid of that minimum requirement and go back to the wild west from 10 years ago. Imagine if car makers could offer inexpensive cars with no brakes, wipers or horn.
republican Charlie Dent regarding Trumpcare: "this bill will lead to the loss of coverage and make insurance unaffordable for too many Americans, particularly for low-to-moderate income and older individuals"
Trump's budget eliminates emergency humanitarian aid
he proposes cutting the Emergency Food and Shelter program
millions of seniors and disabled will lose Medicaid under Trumpcare. Most (68%) Medicaid payments go to help the elderly and disabled, not low-income recipients.
Trump just sold one of his NY buildings to a Chinese buyer for $16 million. A Russian mobster bought 5 units in one of Trump's buildings. Another Russian just paid 124% more than the property was valued for a trump property in Miami. Trump refused to divest himself from his private businesses.
Trump's own nominee for the supreme court, Neil Gorsuch, said he's "offended by Donald Trump's attacks levelled against federal judges".
American cheese, pork and grain farmers that voted for Trump in hopes of reduced regulation (who wants those pesky meat inspections, am I right?) are now begging Trump to stop his trade wars with the world. 133 agriculture organizations have signed a letter. Mexico is already responding with tariff lists in response to Trump's bull-in-a-China-shop tactics. American farmers fear bankruptcy. Thanks Donald
Slashing vehicle pollution emission standards - remember smog-choked American cities in the 70's? apparently Trump doesn't.
liar egomaniac: Trump asked Pentagon in December about having tanks and missile launchers roll down Pennsylvania avenue for his inauguration parade. Pentagon said this request is "out if guidelines". Later Trump denied he made this request. Freedom of Information Act shows emails proving Trump is lying again.
openly threatens republican lawmakers to get in line and pass Trump's proposals. “I’m gonna come after you, but I know I won’t have to, because I know you’ll vote ‘yes,’ ” Trump has said.
Rather than freeing people from a lifetime working in underground mines through job training, Trump is reopening coal mines (more black lung and cancer) and highly polluting coal powered power plants that had already been closed and removing scrubber requirements that help reduce pollution even in the face of plummeting coal use.
American wheat farmers are going bankrupt because Trump has destroyed world trade. Crops will die in the field.
Breaking ethics laws and nepotism by giving access to top secret, classified information to his daughter Ivanka who has no government role whatsoever.
Refuses to put his assets into a blind trust as is required by law to avoid conflicts of interest
as the FBI director is testifying, Trump tweets lies about the proceedings. This is brought to the attention of the FBI director during his testimony and he is able to deny them. Incredibly he says "I have no information that supports those tweets"
Lies; claimed Ted Cruz's dad helped kill JFK
Lies: claimed Trump Tower was wiretapped by Obama, then points finger at UK's spy agency then says he made the claim because he heard it on Fox News. It is all vehemently shot down by Trump's own intelligence agencies over several weeks. He is caught in a lie but continues to double down
Lies: claims 3-4 million election votes were fraudulent - no evidence. He makes stuff up because he can't deal with having lost the popular vote
Lies: claims turnout for his inaugeration was larger than Obama's despite photographs of the Mall showing the meager turnout for Trump
Claims captured American POWs are losers (John McCain)
refuses to shake visiting Germany Chancellor Angela Merkel's hand when she verbally asks him for a handshake
ordered review of a rule that requires financial advisers to act in the best interests of their clients and calls Dodd Frank a disaster. Wants to allow banks to go back to unregulated selling of bad securities.
Trump's FCC suspends consumer data privacy rules indefinitely.
Trump's FCC removed requirement for Internet service providers to notify customers if there is a data breach
police can shoot, strangle, asphyxiate, and beat whomever they please without fear of federal oversight or repercussions. Trump has put an end to Department of Justice investigations into police departments.
lowered emission standards for car makers
paranoid delusional - the government wiretapped me
his idea of repairing America's crumbling infrastructures is to support private construction projects like toll roads owned by China, earmarking 1 billion in matching funds.
Trump's budget defunds npr, pbs, meals on wheels, medical research, the arts and more
rolling back internet privacy - companies can now sell personal data easily without users' consent
they are skirting ethics and financial laws left and right. The enforcers are all in their pocket
40 airstrikes in 5 days in Yemen, more than Obama in a year.
legalize running over protesters with your car
Trump's Muslim ban has put our military at risk because translators that assist with enemy/ally communications are banned.
making TSA pat-downs so invasive, police warned 911 calls from passengers will increase
endangered species stripped of protection
ok to pollute streams and waterways
mocks the disabled
says the poor should buy healthcare instead of phones
removed aid from struggling American familiess while giving more tax breaks to the rich
took away medical care for the sick and poor. Death sentence for millions
removed vast swathes of previously available public data from government websites
Fabricates accusations against former presidents of crimes to take the spotlight of his own crimes
net neutrality gone
people exhibiting credible fear for their lives can no longer seek asylum in America
more concerned with television ratings than <fill in the blank>
when asked about replacement for Obamacare says "nobody knew health care was this complicated"
dramatic reductions in foreign aid
head of department of energy says " after being briefed on so many of the vital functions of the Department of energy I regret recommending its elimination"
stops monitoring pollution, increase monitoring citizen activity
appoints epa head that turned his home state Oklahoma from one of the most seismically inert to one of the most seismically active places on Earth in 10 years due to fracking
children ripped from their mothers arms in America
throws his generals under the bus. Won't take responsibility for botched missions.
mom's kicked out if America due to traffic tickets
5 year old locked up and detained for hours
colluding with communist dictators
insulting federal judges
snubs our greatest allies; Canada, UK and Australia
demoralizing and critical of American intelligence gathering
killing women and children and a navy seal is a "successful mission"
prisoner's phone calls restricted
conducts confidential business in his golf course restaurant surrounded by the public
failing overcrowded private prisons green lit to expand
vice president using unsecured AOL email account for classified communications #lockhimup
trump continues to use insecure phones to communicate even after he was informed
uses platform to self promote his family brand
refuses to reveal tax returns unlike every other US president ever.
lies about hidden income
lies about unemployment numbers (includes retirees, stay at home parents, students, etc)
lies about meetings with communist dictators - has stated on video and audio that he has not and has met with Vladimir Putin
grabs p u ssy and creeping Tom teen changing rooms
threatens and strong arms American businesses
threatens free trade with foreign countries
calls Obama bad and sick guy
makes continuous claims with zero evidence
Violates Geneva convention and puts every American soldier in grave peril by endorsing and encouraging torture
shuts down free press - closed meetings
shits on freedom of press and freedom of speech
shits on freedom of religion - vettes immigrants based on religion
threatens to start nuclear war
uses fundraisers to buy shit for himself and pay for his lawsuits
appoints heads to oversee departments that are completely ignorant of their function
restricts blacks from renting in his apartments
supports kkk, white supremacy and alt right
is petty and narcissistic, prone to tantrums, intentionally vague
puts guns in hands of mentally disordered
takes away healthcare from tens of million of Americans
strips hundreds of thousands of Americans of Medicare coverage leaving them with no health care option
blocks opposing viewpoints
trolls Twitter at 4am
directly causes wild financial fluctuations in market
ignores facts
promotes misinformation and falsehoods in the face of evidence to the contrary
dooms our grandchildren to live on a dying planet
obsessed with the size of his hands and penis
creeps on women including his daughter
Repeatedly insults American Jewish community
using Russian steel in Keystone pipeline after starting he would only use 100% American made steel
cause mass extinction of wildlife (wolves, etc)
more tax cuts for the wealthy and big corporations - who ends up paying? Poor and middle class through consumptive taxes
taxpayer funded religion classes
desecrates native American land and treaties
shutting down our weather satellites by removing funding
violates international treaties
endorses war crimes
allows oil companies to take bribes
foreigners are scared to come to America
wants to expand black sites and Gitmo to restrict human rights
eliminates safety controls for our food, water, medicine and workplace