knapplc Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 A Hundred Days of Trump On April 29th, Donald Trump will have occupied the Oval Office for a hundred days. For most people, the luxury of living in a relatively stable democracy is the luxury of not following politics with a nerve-racked constancy. Trump does not afford this. His Presidency has become the demoralizing daily obsession of anyone concerned with global security, the vitality of the natural world, the national health, constitutionalism, civil rights, criminal justice, a free press, science, public education, and the distinction between fact and its opposite. The hundred-day marker is never an entirely reliable indicator of a four-year term, but it’s worth remembering that Franklin Roosevelt and Barack Obama were among those who came to office at a moment of national crisis and had the discipline, the preparation, and the rigor to set an entirely new course. Impulsive, egocentric, and mendacious, Trump has, in the same span, set fire to the integrity of his office. Trump has never gone out of his way to conceal the essence of his relationship to the truth and how he chooses to navigate the world. In 1980, when he was about to announce plans to build Trump Tower, a fifty-eight-story edifice on Fifth Avenue and Fifty-sixth Street, he coached his architect before meeting with a group of reporters. “Give them the old Trump bullsh#t,” he said. “Tell them it’s going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories.” This is the brand that Trump has created for himself—that of an unprincipled, cocky, value-free con who will insult, stiff, or betray anyone to achieve his gaudiest purposes. “I am what I am,” he has said. But what was once a parochial amusement is now a national and global peril. Trump flouts truth and liberal values so brazenly that he undermines the country he has been elected to serve and the stability he is pledged to insure. His bluster creates a generalized anxiety such that the President of the United States can appear to be scarcely more reliable than any of the world’s autocrats. When Kim In-ryong, a representative of North Korea’s radical regime, warns that Trump and his tweets of provocation are creating “a dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment,” does one man sound more immediately rational than the other? When Trump rushes to congratulate Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for passing a referendum that bolsters autocratic rule in Turkey—or when a sullen and insulting meeting with Angela Merkel is followed by a swoon session with Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, the military dictator of Egypt—how are the supporters of liberal and democratic values throughout Europe meant to react to American leadership? It is to be hoped that, at some point, even Trump's ego will be satiated and he will either get down to the actual business of the office he holds, or he'll let someone else run the show properly while he capers about in front of the cameras. I'm not holding my breath. 3 Link to comment
commando Posted April 27, 2017 Share Posted April 27, 2017 4 years to go.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uepFO4psgKE 1 Link to comment
Moiraine Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Derrrrrrrrp "I loved my previous life, I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump said in an interview with Reuters. "I actually, this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier." He later added, "I do miss my old life. This -- I like to work. But this is actually more work." 1 Link to comment
NM11046 Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Pretty much sums it up. ZERO thought went into running, and he didnt think he had a chance. Thanks 'merica. Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Derrrrrrrrp "I loved my previous life, I loved my previous life. I had so many things going," Trump said in an interview with Reuters. "I actually, this is more work than my previous life. I thought it would be easier." He later added, "I do miss my old life. This -- I like to work. But this is actually more work." Where was this quote from? Link to comment
BigRedBuster Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Ok...found it. This guy has spychological problems. He is still fixated in the election. Link to comment
TGHusker Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 thanks Obama yes, you can't have it both ways - saying America is great again and all of the jobs you saved and not also claim this #. So if he doesn't claim the GDP # he can't claim the other 'beneficial' #s. Link to comment
Moiraine Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 https://twitter.com/AP/status/857935222524039168 thanks Obama yes, you can't have it both ways - saying America is great again and all of the jobs you saved and not also claim this #. So if he doesn't claim the GDP # he can't claim the other 'beneficial' #s. He can and will and his idiots will cheer. Link to comment
commando Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 the walgreens on the corner on main street in fargo added a stock boy job....trump is bringing back jobs!!! growth is slowest in 3 years....it's obamas fault!!! Link to comment
mrandyk Posted April 28, 2017 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Where's bnillhome? Lurking in the shadows, biding his time until those filthy liberals are on the cusp of having some power again. 2 Link to comment
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