President Donald Trump: The Thread

[StrangeSox]

Trump had all 100 Senators up at the White House for a briefing on North Korea. Many of them, including GOP Senators, are leaving the meeting very confused at what the point of it was and what the strategy on North Korea actually is.

[StrangeSox]

Exclusive interview: Trump 'absolutely' looking at breaking up 9th Circuit

President Trump said Wednesday that he has "absolutely" considered proposals that would split up the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, where judges have blocked two of his executive actions.

 

"There are many people that want to break up the 9th Circuit. It's outrageous," Trump told the Washington Examiner during a far-ranging interview at the White House on Wednesday.

 

"Everybody immediately runs to the 9th Circuit. And we have a big country. We have lots of other locations. But they immediately run to the 9tth Circuit. Because they know that's like, semi-automatic," Trump said.

 

His comments came one day after U.S. District Judge William Orrick temporarily blocked Trump's efforts to withhold funds from any municipality that refuses to cooperate with immigration enforcement officers. Orrick argued that Trump had overstepped his authority in January when he directed the Justice Department to put immigration-related conditions on grants for so-called "sanctuary cities" that may not be directly related to law enforcement.

 

Other judges on the court halted two different versions of an executive action aimed at tightening vetting requirements for immigrants from Middle Eastern countries, because both actions called for a temporary suspension of some immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries.

 

"The language could not be any clearer. I mean, the language on the ban, it reads so easy that a reasonably good student in the first grade will fully understand it. And they don't even mention the words in their rejection on the ban," Trump said of his travel ban. "And the same thing with this [sanctuary city decision]. I mean, when you have people that are being enabled to commit crime. And in San Francisco, when you look at Kate Steinle, being shot and here is the court, you know, right in that same general area. And when you look at a Kate Steinle, when you look at so many other things."

 

Trump was referring to a young woman in San Francisco, a sanctuary city, who was gunned down by an illegal immigrant in 2015. He has frequently pointed to Steinle's murder as evidence that sanctuary city policies can be harmful to American citizens.

 

"Sanctuary cities have been very, very dangerous, very, very bad. And, you know, we've done a great job on law enforcement, we've done a great job at the border," Trump said. "And all of our most talented people say sanctuary cities are a disaster."

 

[...]

 

"You see judge shopping, or what's gone on with these people, they immediately run to the 9th Circuit," Trump said. "It's got close to an 80 percent reversal period, and what's going on in the 9th Circuit is a shame."

 

The 9th keeps slapping down his EO's and now he wants to get rid of them.

[caulfield12]

Exclusive interview: Trump 'absolutely' looking at breaking up 9th Circuit

 

 

The 9th keeps slapping down his EO's and now he wants to get rid of them.

 

Seems like the definition of how authoritarian and/or Banana Republics begin.

 

Or he's simply emulating his brother in arms, Erdogan from Turkey.

[BigSqwert]

[StrangeSox]

Seems like the definition of how authoritarian and/or Banana Republics begin.

 

Or he's simply emulating his brother in arms, Erdogan from Turkey.

 

It's something that only Congress could do, but it does show what his impulses are.

 

FWIW people do talk about "breaking up" the 9th circuit, but that's because they think it should be split into two circuits because of the huge caseload it gets, not because it's "bad" or that it would fundamentally change outcomes. Trump's language seems to indicate that he'd just like to get rid of the 9th all together because they're not nice to him.

[NorthSideSox72]

How many of Trump's Executive Orders do not fall into one of these two categories:

 

1. You, executive department, please do study things and do your job

2. Slapped down by a court

 

Working from that, we can have a list of what he's actually "accomplished". Maybe.

 

[caulfield12]

How many of Trump's Executive Orders do not fall into one of these two categories:

 

1. You, executive department, please do study things and do your job

2. Slapped down by a court

 

Working from that, we can have a list of what he's actually "accomplished". Maybe.

 

What executive departments?

 

 

The Senate has confirmed 26 of Trump’s picks for his Cabinet and other top posts. But for 530 other vacant senior-level jobs requiring Senate confirmation, the president has advanced just 37 nominees, according to data tracked by The Washington Post and the nonpartisan Partnership for Public Service’s Center for Presidential Transition. These posts include the deputy secretaries and undersecretaries, chief financial officers, ambassadors, general counsels, and heads of smaller agencies who run the government day-to-day.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/slo...m=.0a514b825b52

[StrangeSox]

How many of Trump's Executive Orders do not fall into one of these two categories:

 

1. You, executive department, please do study things and do your job

2. Slapped down by a court

 

Working from that, we can have a list of what he's actually "accomplished". Maybe.

It's true for the laws he's signed, too. They include things like naming an airport in American Samoa and the bill they had to pass to allow mattis to be appointed.

[caulfield12]

ONE group (ironically) very pleased with Trump as president, Christian/Social Conservatives

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...rvatives-215073

 

 

The one group Trump has paid outsized attention to—and consistently delivered for—is the social conservative movement. He reinstated and even toughened the Mexico City Policy, which eliminates U.S. funding for international NGOs that perform abortions. He rescinded President Barack Obama’s protections for transgender students to use preferred bathrooms in public schools. He signed legislation that routs federal money away from Planned Parenthood. He cut off funding to the U.N. Population Fund, which critics say has long supported coercive abortions in China and other countries. He stockpiled his administration with pro-life evangelical Christians in critical roles, including Tom Price as secretary of Health and Human Services, Betsy DeVos as education secretary and Mike Pence as vice president. And, most significantly, he appointed Neil Gorsuch, a conservative originalist in the mold of the late Justice Antonin Scalia, to the United States Supreme Court.

 

 

 

The political and demographic divisions that drove the 2016 presidential campaign have hardened into chasms in perceptions of Trump: Among Republicans, 85% approve, while just 8% of Democrats agree. Most men, 51%, approve, while only 38% of women do. Whites generally approve (52%) and non-whites mostly disapprove (68%), but among whites there's a deep gap by education, with 59% of those who do not have college degrees saying they approve vs. 38% of whites who hold at least a Bachelor's degree. In rural areas, 58% approve, but just 33% of urbanites approve.

 

 

http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/26/politics/don...poll/index.html

Edited April 27, 2017 by caulfield12

[caulfield12]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...-history-215075

 

Hillary Clinton's First 100 Days: An Alternate History

 

Good stuff. Her approval ratings would probably be not much better than Trump at this point...maybe 3-5 points higher, at best.

Edited April 27, 2017 by caulfield12

[greg775]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/201...-history-215075

 

Hillary Clinton's First 100 Days: An Alternate History

 

Good stuff. Her approval ratings would probably be not much better than Trump at this point...maybe 3-5 points higher, at best.

I repeat, the radio talk show guys say Trump has been awesome thus far and there's a liberal attack on the White House that is failing.

[caulfield12]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/26/opinion/...ol-right-region

 

This Isn't a Tax Policy: It's a Trump Heist

 

 

This isn’t about “jobs,” as the White House claims. If it were, it might cut employment taxes, which genuinely do discourage hiring.

 

Maybe he will eventually provide details, but in his campaign tax plan (which over all seems similar to the latest), fewer than 10 percent of low-income households with children would get anything at all, according to a study by the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center in February. It added that under the campaign plan, families earning between $10,000 and $30,000 a year would receive an average child care benefit of just $10.

 

It would eliminate the alternative minimum tax, without which Trump would have paid less than 4 percent in taxes for 2005; with it, he paid 25 percent.

 

The top rate for American corporations — almost 39 percent, including a 35 percent federal rate and a bit more for the average state rate — is among the highest in the world, according to the Tax Foundation. Yet that’s deeply misleading, because most companies don’t pay that rate. The Government Accountability Office found that two-thirds of active corporations paid no federal tax. Even large, profitable corporations paid an average federal rate of only 14 percent — and Boeing, Verizon, General Electric and Priceline paid no federal income tax over a five-year period, according to Citizens for Tax Justice.

 

Trump apparently would allow some business owners to dodge personal income tax by paying at the much lower corporate rate. In other words, tycoons would try to structure their incomes to pay not at a 39.6 percent top personal rate but at a 15 percent corporate rate.

 

The White House talks solemnly about protecting family farms and other businesses, but give us a break! The estate tax now affects only couples worth more than $11 million. About one-fifth of 1 percent of Americans are affected, and much of the wealth in rich estates has never been taxed at all.

 

The Tax Policy Center examined Trump’s campaign tax plan and found it would cause the federal debt to rise by at least $7 trillion in the first decade, and more than $20 trillion by 2036 — slowing growth, not raising it. To put the latter number in perspective, that’s additional borrowing of about $160,000 per American household.

 

Edited April 27, 2017 by caulfield12

[Kyyle23]

JFC Trump, stop blaming Democrats for everything. Republicans are the majority, everywhere.

[BigSqwert]

I repeat, the radio talk show guys say Trump has been awesome thus far

 

Outside of news that he's a pedophile, there's pretty much no reason they would change their tune.

 

[chw42]

I repeat, the radio talk show guys say Trump has been awesome thus far and there's a liberal attack on the White House that is failing.

 

lol who, Rush Limbaugh?

[brett05]

Remember that this man has the unilateral power to destroy global human civilization in a matter of hours.

Is that going to happen anytime soon? Liberals promoted it everywhere during the cycle and I keep waiting for the launch.

[Kyyle23]

Is that going to happen anytime soon? Liberals promoted it everywhere during the cycle and I keep waiting for the launch.

 

Tell us more about great things

[StrangeSox]

Earlier this week, Trump announced that he was turning over control of the military in Afghanistan and Iraq to the military.

 

today:

 

Jason Leopold‏Verified account

@JasonLeopold

Army just announced it's sending 1500 soldiers to Afghanistan.

[Kyyle23]

My brother, who finished his service last year, would be on his way to Afghanistan if he was still enlisted.

[Kyyle23]

Edit: he just told me his team has been there for three months

[greg775]

Supposedly a big tax cut is coming. Isn't that good news? Is Trump becoming da man?

[caulfield12]

Greg, you won't be seeing any of it.

 

If, on the other hand, you are an admirer of the Koch Brothers, they'll be throwing parties down in Wichita...

Edited April 28, 2017 by caulfield12

[StrangeSox]

Supposedly a big tax cut is coming. Isn't that good news? Is Trump becoming da man?

 

The guys who came up with this tax plan are the same guys who came up with everything Brownback has done in Kansas.

Edited April 28, 2017 by StrangeSox

[StrangeSox]

TRUMP: "I thought it would be easier."

He misses driving, feels as if he is in a cocoon, and is surprised how hard his new job is.

 

President Donald Trump on Thursday reflected on his first 100 days in office with a wistful look at his life before the White House.

 

"I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump told Reuters in an interview. "This is more work than in my previous life. I thought it would be easier."

 

A wealthy businessman from New York, Trump assumed public office for the first time when he entered the White House on Jan. 20 after he defeated former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in an upset.

 

More than five months after his victory and two days shy of the 100-day mark of his presidency, the election is still on Trump's mind. Midway through a discussion about Chinese President Xi Jinping, the president paused to hand out copies of what he said were the latest figures from the 2016 electoral map.

 

"Here, you can take that, that's the final map of the numbers," the Republican president said from his desk in the Oval Office, handing out maps of the United States with areas he won marked in red. "It’s pretty good, right? The red is obviously us."

 

 

 

[Kyyle23]

I miss my old life

 

This is way more work than i thought

 

I might bomb North Korea.

 

 

 

 

 

all in one interview