Cont: The Trump Presidency: Part 19

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President Donald Trump's new personnel chief told agency officials at a meeting on Thursday to expect staffing changes and movements across the government, people familiar with the meeting told CNN.

A White House official said John McEntee, the President's former body man who was elevated to run the presidential personnel office, made it clear his office will be on the lookout for staffers across the bureaucracy who are seen as disloyal to Trump.
Another official said McEntee indicated he plans to first focus his efforts on personnel at the State Department and Department of Defense. He also told the liaisons that promotions and significant staff changes should not occur without prior approval from the presidential personnel office.
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https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/john-mcentee-disloyal-white-house-staffers/index.html

Trump is intent on staffing government departments with people who are "loyal" to him. In Trump's mind, anyone who would dare tell him or do anything that he doesn't like is not loyal to him. Look at what he just did to McGuire for telling him the truth. But what scares me the most is that no one will do a damn thing to stop him.
 
Stacyhs said:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/21/politics/john-mcentee-disloyal-white-house-staffers/index.html

Trump is intent on staffing government departments with people who are "loyal" to him. In Trump's mind, anyone who would dare tell him or do anything that he doesn't like is not loyal to him. Look at what he just did to McGuire for telling him the truth. But what scares me the most is that no one will do a damn thing to stop him.
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Problem is what could they do to stop him?
Only a few of the postions require confirmation;most "serve at the President's pleasure" and he can remove them at will. The upper levels of the bureaucracy do not have Civil Service protection,thouth they are highly paid and get all the benefits of the professional civil servents.
 
Steve said:
Do you mean the one where two Corinthians walked into a bar and the bartender said.......?
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Good stuff.


I would have gone with two Corinthians are standing outside a bar...

Or maybe two Corinthians and an Ionian walk into a bar...
 
dudalb said:
The WTF reference for me was "Sunset Boulevard".
Donnie seem to have missed the whole point of that movie.
If Billy Wilder were alive today, by now he would have made one of his satires that would have torn Trump to bits.
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Yes, but it would be hard to make the character believable.
 
dudalb said:
Problem is what could they do to stop him?
Only a few of the postions require confirmation;most "serve at the President's pleasure" and he can remove them at will. The upper levels of the bureaucracy do not have Civil Service protection,thouth they are highly paid and get all the benefits of the professional civil servents.
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McConnell, Graham and other GOP Congress members could tell him they will not publicly support his choices. They could openly disagree with what he's doing. In other words, open rebellion. But they won't. Because they don't care what he does as long as they keep their seats in Congress.
 
Trump Tweets - "IF OUR FORMALLY TARGETED FARMERS NEED ADDITIONAL AID CASH UNTIL SUCH TIME AS THE TRADE DEALS WITH CHINA, MEXICO, CANADA AND OTHERS FULLY KICK IN..."
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What's with the all-caps? The caps lock get stuck? Until the trade deal kicks in? I don't like the sound of that. Below is a quote from an AP story that appears in the Charlotte Observer, the NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Observer:
The Washington Post reported that the Department of Agriculture’s chief economist, Robert Johansson, projected that agricultural exports to China would reach roughly $14 billion in the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30, only a $4 billion increase from one year ago... Under the deal, China is supposed to buy $40 billion in U.S. agricultural products a year — a wildly ambitious goal considering that it’s never bought more than $26 billion a year and that during the trade war it has redirected some of its farm purchases to other exporting countries. Link
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What did Rex Tillerson call Trump? A freaking moron? Wonder why? ;)
 
newyorkguy said:
What's with the all-caps? The caps lock get stuck? Until the trade deal kicks in? I don't like the sound of that. Below is a quote from an AP story that appears in the Charlotte Observer, the NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Observer:

What did Rex Tillerson call Trump? A freaking moron? Wonder why? ;)
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I wish more ex-Trump cabinet members would come forward and tell us why they 'resigned'. Keeping quiet is cowardly.
 
Stacyhs said:
McConnell, Graham and other GOP Congress members could tell him they will not publicly support his choices. They could openly disagree with what he's doing. In other words, open rebellion. But they won't. Because they don't care what he does as long as they keep their seats in Congress.
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You are right, but that is about all they could do. Legally, the power of the President to fire Special Schedule employees (The top decision makers in the federal bureaucracy) is unquestioned.
 
Bogative said:
From your link:


The intelligence community said this was part of Russia's plan in the 2016 election. Why not try it again? Democrats were more than willing to do it then, and still haven't stopped, and are more than eager to continue on for another five years.

I just don't understand why Democrats think they are real Americans.
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Apparently you have forgotten that Obama went to Moscow Mitch, asking him to make a joint statement about the interference so that it would be a bipartisan concern, not Obama himself trying to affect the election. McConnell rebuffed him.

I just don't understand why Moscow Mitch thinks he is a real Americans.
 
dudalb said:
You are right, but that is about all they could do. Legally, the power of the President to fire Special Schedule employees (The top decision makers in the federal bureaucracy) is unquestioned.
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I have not, and do not, dispute that. About the only way the GOP could ever redeem its soul would be for GOP Congress members to say "enough is enough" and put country before party. But they won't. They'll continue to look the other way at best and actively support him at worst.

I thought the GOP hit rock bottom when Dubya and his cohorts lied about WMD's and invaded Iraq under false pretenses. I was wrong. A lot of those who supported the invasion did so because they didn't know they were being lied to. Today's GOP does not have that excuse. They know what Trump is. And they don't care.
 
TragicMonkey said:
They are consumed with an irrational desire for something that is actively harmful to them solely because they think it will spite their imagined foes; what could possibly be more American than that? The same thing slathered in cheese, I suppose.
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Actually, the funny thing (not exactly ha ha funny I guess) is that long ago I heard a now long forgotten commentator suggesting that this sort of thing is quintessentially Russian - the idea that harming others is more important than helping yourself. He used as an example an old Russian joke: An angel comes to a farmer and says he'll grant the farmer anything he asks for. The only hitch is that his neighbor will get twice as much. The farmer replies "put one of my eyes out."
 
SezMe said:
Apparently you have forgotten that Obama went to Moscow Mitch, asking him to make a joint statement about the interference so that it would be a bipartisan concern, not Obama himself trying to affect the election. McConnell rebuffed him.

I just don't understand why Moscow Mitch thinks he is a real Americans.
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Trumpers have an unusual relationship with reality.

 
Stacyhs said:
I wish more ex-Trump cabinet members would come forward and tell us why they 'resigned'. Keeping quiet is cowardly.
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This is what really scares the hell out of me about Trump. This is from a story a year ago in Market Watch:
The New York Times report on Trump’s taxes showed what a clown Trump was in business — a history of pratfalling interrupted from time to time by deals where partners did the work, he stole from suckers, or he simply failed to make his usual catastrophic mistakes. The same clown he is now, with his policies hurting industries as often as they help. Link
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Until his 'greatest ever' trade deals 'kick in,' he's prepared to give the 'beneficiaries' cash, our cash, and plenty of it. I watched him destroy the USFL. I saw him crash his airline. I watched him go broke in the gaming industry.

Now he's U.S. president, why is it going to be different?
 
newyorkguy said:
What's with the all-caps? The caps lock get stuck? Until the trade deal kicks in? I don't like the sound of that. Below is a quote from an AP story that appears in the Charlotte Observer, the NORTH CAROLINA Charlotte Observer:



What did Rex Tillerson call Trump? A freaking moron? Wonder why? ;)
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And what the hell does "formally targeted farmers" mean?
Unless he means he has "formally targeted" "farmers" like ADM, Tyson, and Cargill to get the lion's share of the handouts.
 
dudalb said:
The WTF reference for me was "Sunset Boulevard".
Donnie seem to have missed the whole point of that movie.
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The funny part is that his supporters didn't. At the rally, they resoundingly cheered when he mentioned Gone with the Wind but the same crowd were conspicuously less enthusiastic at the mention of Sunset Boulevard.
 
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