The Trump Presidency (Act V - The One Where Everybody Dies)

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But who's going to help solve the problem of Cyberbullying?
Whoever it is, it's not going to be the wife of the guy who [makes fun of the physically disabled].
Maybe Ivanka can help. She is apparently quite influential. Remember, she has greatly helped Donald Trump understand environmental concerns.

In fact, before Trump nominated Pruitt for the EPA, Trump was actually going to nominate someone who stranged a dolphin with a plastic 6-pack ring. See? Disaster averted.
 
Maybe Ivanka can help. She is apparently quite influential. Remember, she has greatly helped Donald Trump understand environmental concerns.

In fact, before Trump nominated Pruitt for the EPA, Trump was actually going to nominate someone who stranged a dolphin with a plastic 6-pack ring. See? Disaster averted.

The scary thing is that I am not actually sure you are joking.
 
Maybe Ivanka can help. She is apparently quite influential. Remember, she has greatly helped Donald Trump understand environmental concerns.

In fact, before Trump nominated Pruitt for the EPA, Trump was actually going to nominate someone who stranged a dolphin with a plastic 6-pack ring. See? Disaster averted.
The scary thing is that I am not actually sure you are joking.
Wish I could take credit for it, but the joke (at least parts of it) came from an episode of Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver.

He had an episode where he was discussing Ivanka, and how she claims she is influential with her dad, even though she can't point to any issue where she's changed Donald Trump's mind. (We just have to trust her that she did.)
 
IOW you don’t use facts as a basis for forming your position on issues. Therefor not fact based.

Correct. If I'm indifferent to outcomes, facts that say what the outcomes will be don't affect the policy. But I'm still capable of telling which processes are better for reaching accurate conclusions on the outcome.
 
About Trump's Commerce Secretary:

From: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/201...ecretary-keeps-falling-asleep-during-meetings
When Donald Trump first hired Wilbur Ross, he delighted in describing the 80-year-old investment mogul as a “killer.”...
But Ross’s fortunes have since taken a turn, with Forbes calling his billionaire status into question, and his stake in a Russian shipping company with ties to Vladimir Putin surfacing at the worst possible time. All this—along with what one source said is his unfortunate tendency to fall asleep in meetings (and to mop the resulting drool up with his tie)— has reportedly caused the president to sour on the man he was once so thrilled to employ.


"I am self funding and will hire the best people"
- Trump

ETA: So who has Trump appointed:
- Tillerson for Secretary of State, who had no prior government experience, and with an "unusual" friendship with Putin
- Sessions for Att. General, who once joked KKK people were fine until he found out they used pot
- Zinke, for secretary of the interior, who doubts human influence on climate change
- Carson for Housing, who has no experience with housing
- Devos, for education, who had no experience with public schools
- Flynn for National Security advisor, who had to resign (and, it should be noted, Obama advised against hiring)
- Pruitt for EPA, despite the fact that he actually sued the EPA multiple times
- Perry for energy, despite the fact that he didn't seem to know what the department did before he was appointed to lead it
- Mattis for defense, a guy who, previously, pushed the military to buy medical technology that was complete bunk
- Perdue for Agriculture, although when he was gov. he accepted illegal campaign contributions
- Mnuchin for treasury, had been a wall street executive (isn't Trump supposed to be against wall street?), and seems to be misusing government jets
- Ross, who can't stay awake during meetings

Anyone scandals I missed?


Great summary. I'm sure there are plenty more, but that gets the point made.

It might be fun if you posted it as a thread that could keep being added to and used as a reference.
 
Wish I could take credit for it, but the joke (at least parts of it) came from an episode of Last Week Tonight, with John Oliver.

He had an episode where he was discussing Ivanka, and how she claims she is influential with her dad, even though she can't point to any issue where she's changed Donald Trump's mind. (We just have to trust her that she did.)


Seems to be a family policy.
 
It does have an effect. It reinforces even more the support from the people who put him in the White House. They love that stuff.

That's among the reasons that sexual peccadilloes which would have the entire GOP screaming for blood if it were a Dem are just water off a duck's back. Those Trump supporters are way happier about having an overt bigot in office. It makes it easier for they to do the same thing.

And they probably wouldn't mind banging a porn star either, if they could do it without having to pay $130 grand.

Yup. Meanwhile say hello to religious right-winger moral bankruptcy.
 
President Trump apparently has President Museveni as a fan. Uganda was also one of the countries that abstained from voting on the Jerusalem issue recently at the UN.
 
Melania may be having an affair. This could be an indication of that.

The 1st Presidential Lady pic she distributed was of her and a Marine escort, rather than her husband. I hate to think of what's going to happen to the military man who gets caught porking the Commander-in-Chief's wife.
 
If people start getting deported, President Trump's support will actually get a slight bump because the 35-40% who already love him will continue to love him and a proportion of the remainder will support him because he's a strong President, doing what he promised and protecting America.

Immigration is currently around 1.38 million per year.

85% of Americans think it should be less than 1 million per year.

35% of Americans think it should be less than 250,000 per year. That plurality of opinion crosses racial and party lines.

Source.
 


He acknowledged that doesn’t seem very Christian, “but again, I think this president, in his authenticity, is what has connected with people.”
I suppose Trump is authentic, in that he comes across as having no redeeming features, and indeed that is the case.

I would say that "authenticity" generally involves some self-awareness, and a recognition of the difference between truth and falsehood. But then I also don't think that the bible is an interesting window into the minds and culture of its writers.
 
Immigration is currently around 1.38 million per year.

85% of Americans think it should be less than 1 million per year.

35% of Americans think it should be less than 250,000 per year. That plurality of opinion crosses racial and party lines.

Source.

Can you give me a page number with those figures? Its an 111 page document with small print and a search of 'million' and 'immigration' did not turn up those results (other results came up, however).

I would also be curious as to whether people being polled were told about present immigration figures.
 
Immigration is currently around 1.38 million per year.

85% of Americans think it should be less than 1 million per year.

35% of Americans think it should be less than 250,000 per year. That plurality of opinion crosses racial and party lines.
Can you give me a page number with those figures? Its an 111 page document with small print and a search of 'million' and 'immigration' did not turn up those results (other results came up, however).

I would also be curious as to whether people being polled were told about present immigration figures.
Not sure if its using the same source, but there is this article:

https://www.npr.org/2018/01/23/580037717/what-the-latest-immigration-polls-do-and-dont-say
In recent years, Americans have been closely split between holding steady (38 percent as of June 2017) and decreasing (35 percent). The remainder, around 1 in 4, want to increase legal immigration.
...
The Harvard Harris poll tried the question yet another way: "In your opinion, about how many legal immigrants should be admitted to the U.S. each year?"... The poll found that 72 percent of people chose some number under 1 million, which might suggest that those people want to reduce legal immigration. But then, the question didn't provide them with current immigration levels. There was no way for many of them to know what direction they were arguing for immigration to move in.


So, the whole "85% think immigration should be under 1 million" may simply be just due to the wording of the survey question.

ETA: Oops... Ninjad. Beaten to it.
 
Can you give me a page number with those figures? Its an 111 page document with small print and a search of 'million' and 'immigration' did not turn up those results (other results came up, however).

I would also be curious as to whether people being polled were told about present immigration figures.
Looks like document page 68, and no they were not.

Page 74 is also interesting, it shows a deal trading DACA for the wall is approved of by a 60/40 split across all social divisions. It's the most even metric in the poll.
 
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