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trump is in the grips of dementia
We all know trump is an asshole. Or as republicanism call him, a leader.
Here are a bunch of his actions from his first 2 weeks.This is not a complete list.
"Trump is in it only for himself
The president’s ugly hijacking of a plane crash adds to a pattern emerging from his administration.
Yesterday at 7:30 a.m. EST
“Kamala is for they/them,” went Donald Trump’s notorious TV ad during the 2024 campaign. “President Trump is for you.”
But not quite two weeks into President Trump’s second term, we already know that to be false. Trump is for I/me/mine.
“In moments like this,” Trump said in the White House briefing room on the morning afterWednesday night’s crashat Reagan National Airport, “the differences between Americans fade to nothing compared to the bonds of affection and loyalty that unite us.”
In the next breath, he used the tragedy to pursue his usual political vendettas — against Democrats, against civil servantsand against diversity programs.
No one yet knows what caused the crash, but Trump didn’t hesitate to blame what he said were Joe Biden’s and Barack Obama’s “mediocre” and “lower” standards for air traffic controllers. He blamed Biden’s transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, for offering nothing but “a good line of bulls---” as he oversaw the Federal Aviation Administration. And Trump blamed the FAA itself for deciding that “the work force was too White” — and pursuing diversity in hiring rather than “people that are competent.”
A reporter asked whether he was really blaming the crash on DEI.
“It just could have been,” Trump said.
Wasn’t he premature to be casting blame before there’s an investigation?
“No, I don’t think so at all,” Trump replied.
How can he conclude that diversity was to blame?
“Because I have common sense.[COLOR=Red"]What a fucking moron. Not only does he not have common sense, he does't have sense of any kind.[/COLOR]
In fact, as NBC News’s Peter Alexander informed Trump, the same diversity policy the president now blames for the tragedy was on the FAA’s website throughout Trump’s first term.
If we’re recklessly assigning blame, we might just as easily point out that, before Trump took office, there hadn’t been a major commercial plane crash in the United States in the previous 16 years; that, in the week before the crash,Trump sacked the headof the Transportation Security Administration, disbanded the Aviation Security Advisory Committee, failed to name an acting head of the FAA, and imposed a hiring freeze that apparently includes air traffic controllers; and that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) last yearcelebrated his “landmark victory”in expanding the number of flights out of National — over the protest of aviation safety experts and senators from Maryland and Virginia, whowarned that Cruz and friends“decided to ignore the flashing red warning light of the recent near-collision of two aircraft at [National] and jam even more flights onto the busiest runway in America.”
Or can we agree to pause the baseless speculation and wait for the facts?
Later, asked about visiting the crash site, he replied: “You want me to go swimming?” Yet his decision to dive into the tragedy to further his political vendettas adds to a clear and familiar pattern emerging from his nascent administration: No matter the subject, Trump is in it only for himself. Instead of addressing Americans’ cost of living, as voters wanted him to do, Trump has devoted his early days in office to his own quality of living — by using the powers of the presidency to nurse his personal grievances and to seek vengeance against political foes.
He hasn’t done a thing to lower prices for the average American; the Federal Reserve this week announced a pause in its plans for interest-rate cuts, in part because it’swaiting to assess Trump’s tariffsand other policies that wouldincreaseinflation. Instead, his administration’s early actions and appointments show he is resolutely focused on his own imagined victimhood. Even as Trump was blaming the air tragedy on his foes in the Democratic Party and the “deep state,” his nominee to run the FBI was having his confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. It turned out to be a grievance recital.
Kash Pateland his Republican questionerstalked about the Steele dossier. They talked about Peter Strzok and his girlfriend. They talked about Crossfire Hurricane and the Durham report. They complained about critical race theory and covid-19 face masks and the FBI’s supposed responsibility for the Jan. 6, 2021,attack on the Capitol. They claimed the FBI was spying on churches and treating parents as terrorists. And they talked about Hunter Biden — ad nauseam. Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-South Carolina) talked about Biden’s laptop. Then Sen Josh Hawley (R-Missouri) did. Then Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Missouri) did.
“Mr. Hunter Biden cheated on his income taxes,” observed Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-Louisiana). “He tried to deduct his hookers as a business expense.”
Will they ever move on?
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The reason you’re here,” Graham told Patel, “is because most of the public, almost every Republican, believes that the FBI has been used continuously in a political fashion … to get Donald Trump.”
It was a candid admission. The nominee to head the FBI should have been there because he was the best person to protect the country from terrorists, or Chinese espionage, or Russian election interference. But Patel was there for one thing only: to exact revenge on those who, in Republicans’ view, wanted to “get Donald Trump.”
Under the new administration, avenging Trump’s perceived slights requires a whole-of-government approach.
Newly confirmed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made his first major move this week. Fortifying the nuclear triad? Nope. He moved to strip Gen. Mark Milley, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs and a Trump critic, of his security detail — protection made all the more necessary by Trump’s frequent attacks against him. Trump had previously revoked Milley’s security clearance and had his portrait removed from the Pentagon, and Hegseth ordered an investigation aimed at taking away one of Milley’s stars.
Trump had already taken away protection from Anthony Fauci, recipient of ferocious MAGA criticism and frequent death threats, and from advisers-turned-critics John Bolton and Mike Pompeo, both targets of Iranian assassination plots because of their previous service to Trump. Even Republicans such as Graham and Sen. Tom Cotton (Arkansas) raised objections — but Trump doesn’t care.
“Would you feel partially responsible if something were to happen to, say, Dr. Fauci or John Bolton?” a reporter asked Trump.
“I think that, certainly, I would not take responsibility,” Trump replied.
Trump has already sacked Justice Department career lawyers who worked for special counsel Jack Smith on his Trump investigation. The Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney in Washington launched aninvestigation of the Jan. 6 prosecutions. Trump last week pardoned the “patriots” and “hostages” involved in the attempt to overthrow the 2020 election, including one man who was justkilled in a scuffle with policeand another who is being sought by police on previouscharges of soliciting a minor. In a further indication of Trump’s vengeful intentions, he posted an article this week recommending “turning lawfare on its creators” and prosecuting the federal, state and local prosecutors who brought cases against Trump.
Trump’s Justice Department has moved to drop the prosecution of former Republican congressman Jeff Fortenberry, which Trump said was a “Witch Hunt” undertaken because of the “illegal Weaponization of our Justice System by the Radical Left Democrats.” (Trump was unconcerned about Wednesday’s sentencing of former Democratic senator Bob Menendez, prosecuted by the Biden administration, to more than a decade in prison.)
And Trump continues to nurse his grievances wherever he goes. Addressing House Republicans at his Doral resort in Miami, Trump railed against the “rigged election” (yes, he’s still talking about 2020), “impeachment hoax No. 1,” “impeachment hoax No. 2” and his belief that he “was investigated more than any human being in history,” including Al Capone.
At the heart of Trump’s reign of vengeance so far has been his demonization and discrediting of federal workers, who in his fantasy are part of a “deep state” that persecutes him. This week, his administration offered an extra seven months of pay to federal workers who quit now. (Caveat emptor: He frequently reneges.) Heousted Democratic commissionersfrom the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a Democratic board member of the National Labor Relations Board, put about 60 senior officials on leave at the U.S. Agency for International Development and canned inspectors general across the federal government. Most of these moves are illegal, but they fit with the administration’s desire, articulated by incoming Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought, for federal workers to be “viewed as the villains. ...We want to put them in trauma.
It’s early, but the second Trump administration already looks a lot like the first.
There’s the familiar incompetence. After sending the country into chaos with the announcement on Monday night that it was suspending some $3 trillion in federal grants and loans — an echo of the mayhem caused in 2017 bythe so-called Muslim ban— the White House rescinded the policy on Wednesday.
There’s the country’s fast return to pariah status (latest foe: Colombia). A halt in foreign aid has endangered counterterrorism and counternarcotics efforts. And, on the eve of ceremonies marking 80 years since the liberation of Auschwitz, Trump sidekick Elon Musk advised a far-right German party thatflirts with Nazismto not “focus on past guilt.”
There’s the routine cruelty. After the U.S. Catholic bishops complained about a Trump order allowing immigration raids in churches and schools, Vice PresidentJD Vancealleged that the bishops are “worried about their bottom line,” not “humanitarian concerns.”
There’s the casual subversion of reality. This week, the White House made theludicrous claimthat $50 million of U.S. funding paid for “condoms for Hamas.” (He seems to have confused the Palestinian Gaza for a similarly namedprovince in Mozambique.)
Above all, there’s the all-pervasive obsession with victimhood. “Having been the victim of government overreach and a weaponized system of justice and law enforcement, I know what it feels like to have the full weight of the United States government barreling down on you,” Patel said at his confirmation hearing on Wednesday. “I will make sure that no American is subjected to death threats like I was, and subjected to moving their residences like I was.”
Democrats pointed out that the longtime Trump hatchet man isn’t quite the innocent he fancies himself to be. He published a list of Trump’s deep-state foes and has suggested that the administration should prosecute Trump critics and “go after” the news media. He has called federal investigators “criminal gangsters” and sympathized with Jan. 6 prisoners, even producing and marketing a musical recording they made. He has proposed turning FBI headquarters into a “museum of the deep state.” And he hashawked Trump-themed merchandiseand a dubious medical supplement.
“All of those statements are taken out of grotesque context,” Patel protested at one point. The “grotesque context”: his own writings and interviews.
Patel distanced himself from Trump’s pardons and commutations of violent Jan. 6 prisoners. But the man who would lead the FBI testified under oath that “violent crime is exploding” — though he surely must know that it has been falling for years and is below where it was when Trump left office. As for his plans to go after Trump’s imagined deep-state enemies, Patel said, “No one that did not break the law will be investigated.” So Trump’s FBI director, in addition to inventing his own crime statistics, will determine a target’s guilt before he launches an investigation.
For a president obsessed with retribution above all else, Patel is going to be perfect. ""
Let's face it. trump fucked the U.S. He's not going to do all the things he said he was was going to. The media pointed out the impossibility of what he claimed. The trumpys either stupidly believed him or pretend to believe him.
Moot point.
Anything coming out of his lying mouth was bullshit. Listen to the trumpys twisting stories trying to make him sound like less of a liar.
Trumpys are kings of projection. Add in the masters of Dunning-Kruger effect folks.
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