The Trump Presidency: Part 21

[slyjoe]

LOL! I suggest you do some fact checking. I fact check all the time and so does a lot of the media. Trump does not come off well.

Try looking up if Trump has the power to force governors or mayors to end the lockdown, open schools, etc. He doesn't. Go on. Do it.

Trump just said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's going to be. It's total, it's total."
What the hell!?

Only if I woke up in Russia this morning.

 

[alfaniner]

Now, watching Pence -- that's the way a press conference should be handled. Boring and non-committal.

 

[Stacyhs]

That is one way of looking at it. Another way could be that President Trump exposed the fake news media with facts that contradicted their false narratives. Of course this way of looking at it would mean you'd have to take the time to "fact check" the facts.

Chris B.

Come along with me and we'll do a little fact checking, 'kay?

Snopes:

States Largely Have Authority Over When to Shut Down, Reopen

Q. Does the president have the authority to override state and local orders?

A. No. Under our constitutional system, states have the power and responsibility for maintaining public order and safety. As we’ve seen since the outbreak began, decisions about limiting social interactions by ordering people to shelter in place, closing businesses and shutting schools are being made by governors and local officials. Those same officials will make the call about when to ease up. Trump’s comments “are just advisory,” said John Malcolm of the Heritage Foundation.

Politico:

Trump: It’s my decision, not governors’, to reopen country
But the law suggests the president has less power than he thinks. The president’s reassertion of his authority runs counter to the views of legal scholars, who say the federal government lacks the power to directly order states to reopen their economies.

Lawfare:

Can the Federal Government Override State Government Rules on Social Distancing to Promote the Economy?

No, the president cannot simply order state and local officials to change their policies

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

Because if the stupid bitch in chief wants to run a political ad, he can have the filthy Trumptrash who work on his campaign buy some airtime. CNN is there to report, not be a vehicle for the ****'s propaganda.

LOL! I suggest you do some fact checking. I fact check all the time and so does a lot of the media. Trump does not come off well.

Try looking up if Trump has the power to force governors or mayors to end the lockdown, open schools, etc. He doesn't. Go on. Do it.

Trump just said "When somebody is the president of the United States, the authority is total. And that's the way it's going to be. It's total, it's total."

What the hell!?

What? That must be Fake News! Of course the coronavirus was known to Obama and it's HIS fault that he didn't have tests available for it! Obama left "bare shelves" for poor Trump in the national stockpile as Trump said again today.
Hey, ChrisBFRPKY...you might want to do a little 'fact checking' on that. Here, let me help:

Politifact: FALSE
Factcheck.org : FALSE

You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

Chris B.

 

[Andy_Ross]

He seems sketchy on religion too.

We're having a religious leaders committee, you've been seeing what's going on at the churches, we're gonna to have a few committees, and then ultimately we're gonna make decisions and we're gonna make them fairly quickly and I think they're going to be the correct decisions"

 

[The Atheist]

"My authority is total."

Good time to start a game:

Who said it - Trump or Stalin?

 

[ChrisBFRPKY]

Come along with me and we'll do a little fact checking, 'kay?

Snopes:


Politico:



Lawfare:

Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.

 

[TheGoldcountry]

Everything he says sounds like a madlibs game where he just throws in words like "big", "smart", "Democrats" and "fake news".

 

[slyjoe]

Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.

It wasn't a travel ban from China. See if you can figure out why.

 

[Andy_Ross]

Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.

How about we concentrate on Trump declaring himself to have "total authority" and the power of the president being "total"??

He just made himself dictator.

 

[Craig4]

“The power of the President is total.”

After that statement, no Trump supporter could ever make a credible claim at patriotism or that they are loyal to the nation. This election truly is a cold civil war between Trumptrash and Americans.

 

[Stacyhs]

You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

Chris B.

Wow. You really are learning from Trump. Rather than address the actual points, you misdirect to ratings?

1. You fail to provide any evidence whatsoever that Trump has the authority to override state governors and mayors. Hmmm...what could possibly be the reason for that?

2. You fail to address that Trump's claims were found to be false by non-partisan fact finding sites.

Well done. Straight out of the Trump playbook.

 

[TheGoldcountry]

Now, watching Pence -- that's the way a press conference should be handled. Boring and non-committal.

Trump would be wise to let Pence speak for him more often, but between the election and his own ego, he would never let that happen.

 

[Meadmaker]

Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.

It's just hilarious that you would include "cherry picking" in your post.


"Perhaps you should concentrate on [the only intelligent thing that Trump did] and [ignore all the things he should have done, but didn't]."


If the travel ban was a good idea (it was), then it should have been obvious that the only effect of the travel ban would be to buy time, which he did not use.

 

[Craig4]

Watching these daily press conferences on a daily basis is bad for my mental health, but I do it anyway.

Our dear leader, in his garbled word salads, loves to constantly switch back and forth between "we" and "they." Whenever something good was done, it's "we" (meaning him.) Conversely, the negatives are attributed to "them" (Pelosi, Democratic governors, etc.)

When is he going to get the memo that "we" IS "them", and we're all in it together? This is the problem with the stupid "run the country like a business" mentality; you're only worried about your position at the end of the day.

The only part I enjoy is that Trump is clearly upset that he's not getting credit for his accomplishments. I think he really believes that he's doing a good job and his frustration at not being recognized shows. It's always funny when you get to see Trump suffering.

 

[Shalamar]

You guys must really have a thing for CNN. Geez have you even checked their ratings recently? Is this an apple or what?

Chris B.

You must really have a thing for dictators. “The power of the President is total.”

 

[BobTheCoward]

How about we concentrate on Trump declaring himself to have "total authority" and the power of the president being "total"??

He just made himself dictator.

I bet what happened is he was only half listening when someone was explaining unitary executive theory and was trying to recite it.

 

[Stacyhs]

Perhaps you should concentrate on the travel ban from China put in place late January and go from there. Nick nacks and cherry picking won't get you where you want to be.

Chris B.

Speaking of cherry picking, you do realize that is the single thing he did that made sense, don't you? What other steps did he take to address Covid 19?But he even failed at that as over 40,000 people still entered the US from China after that ban. But you fail to admit that he:

Ignored early warnings:

A week after the first coronavirus case had been identified in the United States, and six long weeks before President Trump finally took aggressive action to confront the danger the nation was facing — a pandemic that is now forecast to take tens of thousands of American lives — Dr. Mecher was urging the upper ranks of the nation’s public health bureaucracy to wake up and prepare for the possibility of far more drastic action.
“You guys made fun of me screaming to close the schools,” he wrote to the group, which called itself “Red Dawn,” an inside joke based on the 1984 movie about a band of Americans trying to save the country after a foreign invasion. “Now I’m screaming, close the colleges and universities.”

His was hardly a lone voice. Throughout January, as Mr. Trump repeatedly played down the seriousness of the virus and focused on other issues, an array of figures inside his government — from top White House advisers to experts deep in the cabinet departments and intelligence agencies — identified the threat, sounded alarms and made clear the need for aggressive action.

Come on, Chris...show me the evidence that Trump has the legal authority to overrule governors and mayors. Show me the evidence that he 'inherited bad tests and a depleted stockpile". Show me the steps he took in Jan. and Feb. to address the pandemic other than stopping flights from China (while still allowing 40K people in).

 

[newyorkguy]

Trump Tweets
First the Fake News Media said that it’s not fair for the President of the United States to be giving news conferences, but it is the only way I can reach the American People, as seen in the below poll.
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1249797383132766215/photo/1 (picture of a chart)

I laughed when I saw this followup tweet regarding the 'chart.'

Ah yes, a graphic from Tony Fabrizio, the Republican operative who was questioned by Mueller's special counsel team about polling data shared with pro-Kremlin pro-Putin individuals in February of 2018. Seems legit

 

[Norman Alexander]

“The power of the President is total.”

Not over us non-Americans it isn't. **** right off, you orange prick.