Day 171.
The first 100 days of beloved leader’s presidency are finally over. In those 100 days about the only thing we learned about beloved leader is that he is a total clown with no idea of what the hell he is doing.
The three main items about trump we have learned are Bluster, Incompetence, and Complete Ignorance. If those are his three main traits, we are all in deep shit. Included in those three traits is one more. He is an absolute lousy negotiator. He couldn’t negotiate his way out of a men’s room.
But, don’t just take my word for it, look at each trait individually. The day after his inauguration, he complained that no one was giving him credit for “having the largest crowd in history at my inauguration”. Photographs of his inauguration proved otherwise, but what the hell, he believed it so we should.
Just last night at a rally in Harrisburg, PA he bragged that the crowd set an “all-time record for the arena and that there are thousands of people standing outside who couldn’t get in”. Only photographs showed the arena was not at capacity. It holds about 7,000 people, and photographs from the event show about 15 percent of the seats were empty.
Look, there was a large crowd there. They were even loud and supportive of beloved leader. But, his bluster couldn’t allow that to come out, he had to openly lie to the people in the arena who could see it was not full. Yet, they still cheered him and agreed with him. I guess the arena was never full for any event in its history. If that is true, then he was right when he said it was an all-time record setter. If that is not true, then neither is his comment.
He loudly tells us that he is for the “little people”. But, his first executive order was to increase the cost of mortgage insurance for first-time home buyers making it harder for them to get the mortgage they need. I am sure all first-time home buyers are thanking him for his support every time they write their mortgage checks out costing them $500 per year more than if he had not signed that stupid order.
Then he allows his EPA chief to let Dow Chemical’s pesticide that affects the development of brains in children and fetus’ to be used on food crops. This pesticide was banned from food crops under the last administration, but who cares if you child’s brain developes like it should. Dow Chemical’s profits are far more important than your children’s development.
The EPA has also taken down all of the information about climate change from its website. It thinks that there is no such thing as climate change so why bother with putting up all of that scientific information that shows they are wrong.
Then under his incompetence, we only need to look at all of the vacancies in the Federal Government. Of the roughly 459 positions he is required to fill, less than 60 of them have been filled. There aren’t even any nominations announced for the remaining vacancies.
Additionally, his empty suit Rex Tillerson said that he expects to lay off over 2,000 state department employees. Beloved leader apparently doesn’t believe that an active state department with real professionals can stop wars. Which is exactly what their job is. As whimpering dog Mattis over at Defense actually said “if we don’t have an active State Department, I will need a lot more bullets”. Even whimpering dog knows we need a State Department that engages with the world.
During his time in office, our beloved leader has managed to piss off our allies like Germany, England, France, Canada, and even Australia. All the while he is praising the murderer Putin for being a “great leader” as trump likes to call him.
He and his administration told the American People that “we are sending a great armada to the South China sea to show North Korea we mean business”. Only, that “great armada” was actually heading for exercises with the Australian Navy thousands of miles south of the South China Sea. The Commander-in-Chief and his whimpering dog Mattis didn’t even know where his fleet was or what they were doing.
Mattis even told us that they made the announcement because the exercise was cancelled so they had to give a reason for cancelling it. Only, it wasn’t cancelled, and the Vinson and her fleet didn’t head towards Korea until it was over. How incompetent can you be?
In Syria, his administration said they didn’t mind that Bashaad was in power and that it was up to the Syrian people to decide if they should get rid of him. Then, Bashaad used chemical weapons on his own people. So, trump launched a handful of missiles at one of Bashaad’s air bases with very limited results and bragged about being “presidential” over the incident. He claimed that he had to send the missiles because of the pictures of all of those “beautiful babies” he saw being gassed. Yet, he won’t let any of those “beautiful babies” to come here to get away from the war.
Then we get to his total ignorance. We have been staring down North Korea for about 70 years. Beloved leader seems to want to draw another “red line” in the sand over North Korea.
North Korea has artillery aimed at and in range of Seoul where about half of South Korea’s population lives. So, in order to show we mean business again, he ordered that a missile defense system be installed in South Korea. Sounds reasonable especially considering we have over 30,000 troops stationed in South Korea.
Then, he fell back on his gangster mode and claimed that he told South Korea that they should really pay for the missile defense system. He seems to have left out the part where he would pull it out if they didn’t pay, but the possibility remains loudly in the minds of the South Korean people.
Then, to make matters even worse, he said he would tear up the trade agreement we have with South Korea. This ignoramus doesn’t understand just how bad he is making relations with one of our best allies. Does he really think that the South Koreans will be so “strong” in supporting our moves against North Korea if he is going to “tear up” our trade agreements with the South?
Additionally, there are Presidential elections going on in South Korea since their last President was removed from office over corruption charges. Does he really believe that the winner will be the one who calls out the name trump as a “great leader”? Rather, it would appear that the winner will be the one who defies and distances themselves from trump the most. Boy, isn’t that a smart way to win friends.
But, let’s be fair. He has accomplished a lot in his first 100 days. He failed to get his Americans Without Health Insurance Act passed because he is a lousy negotiator. That is a positive for the country.
He was able to get his nomination to the Supreme Court approved. Of course, his patsy Mitch McConnell had to change Senate rules to achieve that, so it really doesn’t count as a “victory” to me.
He has made “town hall meetings” for his party members almost unbearable. As a matter of fact, many of his party’s members won’t even hold town halls anymore because they are afraid to face angry crowds.
He has placed a gag order on the employees at EPA so you can never find out about the real effects of climate change or the “sweetheart deals” that Pruitt is making with the fossil fuel companies.
He has removed worker protections from companies who do business with the government. So if a contractor is guilty of sexual harassment, unequal pay for women, or has a horrible safety record, we won’t know about them and they will get to keep their contracts.
He hired, and then was forced to fire, an unregistered foreign agent to be his National Security Advisor. Before he was fired, Flynn sat in on highly classified briefings even on briefings that were about the countries for which he was an unregistered foreign agent.
A total of 15 people of his administration have either been fired, resigned, or withdrew their names from consideration for high level posts. That surely is a record for a president in his first 100 days. And, we all know how much he loves records.
He has signed more executive orders in his first 100 days than any other president since World War II. Remember when Republicans claimed that executive orders were nothing more than “a political overreach that flew against the Constitution”? Funny, we don’t hear the same thing from them now that beloved leader is using executive orders instead of actual legislation.
Finally, he has managed to become the first president who is the subject of a counter espionage investigation concerning his campaign’s collusion with Russia in hacking our national elections. He managed that in his first 100 days.
All of this shows that we probably have the biggest asshole sitting in the White House in our nation’s history. The only thing he hasn’t done, yet, is follow his hero Andrew Jackson’s lead who tried make the east coast all white by shipping out all of the Native Americans who lived there. Only, trump will ship out all Mexicans and Muslims instead of Native Americans.
He has named a fossil fuel company puppet as the head of the EPA. He has named a public education hater to head up the Department of Education. He has named an openly proud racist as our Attorney General. He has placed former Goldman Sachs heads in positions to run our budgets and finances. You know the company that was the lead in destroying the economy in 2008.
He named a person to head up the Department of Energy who doesn’t even know what the department does, and wants to “get rid of it” anyway. He fired every District Attorney and has yet to fill one of those vacancies.
He gave a speech about not “tolerating anti-Semitism” in our country, but won’t name one White Supremacist or Neo-Nazi group as domestic terrorists. Of course these groups all say they are acting as real Christians. As he liked to say during the campaign, “our president won’t even say the term domestic Christian terrorist”.
The first 100 days of beloved leaders’ administration are finally over. I won’t blame you if you think it has felt more like 100 years instead of days. We are saddled with a do-nothing blusterous, incompetent, ignorant idiot in the White House. Every time he gives a speech using his tele-prompter, I get the feeling I am listening to a first grader reading “see spot run”.
That is what we have learned about trump during the first 100 days. The only question left is will we even have a country left by the 2018 elections? Considering the first 100 days, that is a reasonable question to ask.
And, the shirts keep marching along.
