During his campaign Trump made many campaign promises. People who think he’s doing a great job would do well to remember how he has failed in keeping those Trump campaign promises. First, a wall between the United States and Mexico: Trump promised Mexico would pay for a wall. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern border and…
Trump Blames News Media For Mass Shootings
On the prevalence of gun violence in general and mass shootings in particular in the United States: Mick Mulvaney, Donald Trump’s Chief of Staff, blamed mental illness and social media on television on Sunday, August 4. Kevin McCarthy, the US House Minority Leader, blamed video games, also on a Sunday morning news talk television program. Trump blamed the news media through…
Enduring Trump
Enduring Trump Example 1: American Conservative rhetoric — expressed as dialogue —goes like this: Conservatives: Immigrants need to assimilate into our country, learn our history and language, and contribute to our society. Ilhan Omar: I have a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science. I speak, read and write English, and I serve the people of Minnesota’s 5th District as a Congresswoman.…
The Immigration Incompetence Of Donald Trump
President Obama’s administration deported a record 2.5 million people who were in the US illegally. The Obama administration did this without theatrical ICE raids or holding people in concentration camps across the southern border. Ice raids and concentration camps are very popular tactics with Donald Trump, who has demonstrated tremendous immigration incompetence. And let’s please remember that the numbers of…
Trump Independence Day 2020 Campaign Rally
Why are my tax dollars paying for today’s Trump 2020 re-election campaign event? The Republican National Committee doled out tickets to high-value donors, though none were distributed through members of Congress, as has been the custom. Trump gave a big political speech — the one he always gives — from the Lincoln Memorial. It’s nothing but another big Trump campaign…
Worth Of Jamal Khashoggi, Per Trump
According to the New York Times on June 23, 2019, “President Trump on Sunday shrugged off the brutal dismembering of Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist, just days after a United Nations report described how a team of Saudi assassins called Mr. Khashoggi a “sacrificial animal” before his murder. “The U.N. report urged an F.B.I. investigation into the slaying. But in an…
Democrats Should Not Impeach Trump in Summer of 2019
All the Democrats screaming to impeach Trump now are getting ahead of themselves. No one should move to impeach Trump in summer of 2019. It is too early to pursue impeachment, and there is not enough damning evidence available. Redaction riddles too much of the Mueller Report; too many investigations are still pending. Mueller farmed out those investigations to places…
Abortion Foes, What About IVF?
The latest gambit in the abortion wars opened today. On June 5, 2019, The New York Time reported this: “WASHINGTON — The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the federal government would sharply curtail federal spending on medical research that uses tissue from aborted fetuses. The move fulfills a top goal of anti-abortion groups that have lobbied hard for it, but…
Robert Mueller Speaks, Finally
After weeks of silence, Special Counsel Robert Mueller III spoke about the contents of his Mueller Report at a quickly arranged public appearance at the Justice Department on May 29, 2019. During his 10-minute presentation. Mueller didn’t clearly and obviously accuse the president of a crime. But he strongly implied he that he might have had DOJ policy not prohibited…
Ben Carson Is Out Of His Depth
During recent questioning in Congress, Ben Carson demonstrated that he is not familiar with the common term real estate term “REO,” which means real estate owned. Rep. Katie Porter, D-Calif., on May 21 questioned Carson during a House Financial Services Committee hearing. “Do you know what an REO is?” Porter asked. “Oreo?” a perplexed Carson answered. “REO,” Porter repeated. “No,…