Some of the items on the following list are inconsequential, by
themselves, but together they build a very scary picture.
Carl
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I Gave Donald Trump a Chance, and Then He…
News,
The Political Pyre
February 26, 2017
1.
Restarted
the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
2. Instituted a federal hiring freeze that
blocked
2,000 vital, new positions at the VA, and
indefinitely suspended
Army childcare programs for vets.
3. Approved a raid in Yemen that killed 30 people including at least
10 civilians,
many of whom were women and children, as well as U.S. Navy Seal Ryan Owens.
4.
Reinstated and strengthened
the global gag rule thereby pulling all world-wide federal funding
from any institutions that even attempt to educate patients about
abortion.
5.
Rescinded
federal bathroom protections for trans students.
6. Used the office of the presidency to
criticize Nordstrom,
a private company, for no longer selling his daughter's clothing line.
7. Didn't
fully divest
from his businesses and has transferred many of his companies to his
sons
opening the door for serious conflicts of interest.
8. Didn't release his tax returns like he promised and has
no plans
to do so.
9. Demonized and repeatedly
attacked
the free press in order to build a propaganda machine.
10. Signed a
bill
reversing the Stream Protection Rule making it far easier for coal
companies to dump mining waste in rivers, lakes and streams.
11. Announced plans to sign
executive orders
lifting a coal mining ban on federal land, and lifting or limiting
restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions
from utility companies.
12. Signed an
executive order,
later ruled to be
unconstitutional,
barring immigrants and travelers from 7 Muslim-majority nations from
entering the U.S.
13.
Lied
about inauguration crowd size.
14.
Lied
about the size of his electoral college victory.
15.
Lied
about attacks in Sweden, yet never mentioned attacks in
Kansas
or
Quebec
perpetrated by white men on people of color.
16.
Lied
about being solely responsible for Lockheed Martin cutting $700
million from the F-35 program.
17.
Lied
about the New York Times failing.
18.
Lied
about Chris Cuomo never asking Senator Blumenthal about
misrepresenting his service in Vietnam.
19.
Lied
about major news organizations intentionally ignoring terrorist attacks.
20.
Lied
about the murder rate being the highest its been in 47 years.
21.
Lied
about Philadelphia's murder rate increasing.
22.
Lied
about people being killed at Obama's farewell address.
23.
Lied
about Obamacare covering "very few people."
24.
Lied
about the media being less trusted than congress.
25.
Lied
about sanctuary cities being hotbeds of crime.
26.
Said
"Any negative polls are fake news."
27.
Berated
the Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.
28. Allegedly
threatened
to send U.S. troops into Mexico.
29. Used the National Prayer breakfast to
throw shade
at Arnold Schwarzenegger.
30.
Said
he would "get rid of and totally destroy" the Johnson amendment,
which was designed to keep religion out of politics.
31. Appointed
Betsy Devo
s, a billionaire GOP donor with no public school experience to run our
public school system.
32. Appointed
fossil-fuel-shil
l and
climate change-denier
Scott Pruitt to head the EPA. He's sued the EPA
13 times.
33. Appointed Jeff Sessions, a man who's racist comments
cost him a federal judgeship
in 1986, as the attorney general.
34. Appointed Rex Tillerson, a former Exxon CEO with
no military of government experience
as secretary of state.
35. Appointed Rick Perry, a man with who once
forgot
the Department of Energy existed,
flunked
organic chemistry and received Cs and Ds in other science courses to
run the Department of Energy.
36. Appointed Ben Carson, a man with no government, housing or management
experience
to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Two weeks
prior to being nominated, Carson's business manager Armstrong Williams
said
"Dr. Carson feels he has no government experience, he's never run a
federal agency. The last thing he would want to do was take a position
that could
cripple the presidency."
37. Appointed former Goldman Sachs COO Gary Cohn to head the National
Economic Council.
38. Appointed former Goldman Sachs partner Steven Mnuchin to head the
Treasury Department.
39. Appointed Alt-right hero and former Breitbart Editor Stephen
Bannon as chief strategist and later elevated him to the National
Security Council.
40. Continued to
criticize
Hillary Clinton, without ever criticizing Vladimir Putin.
41.
Threatened
Chicago with martial law.
42.
Threatened
to take away funding from all sanctuary cities.
43. Announced plans to
repeal
Dodd-Frank and fiduciary rule.
44. Plans to make
major cuts
to the EPA while dramatically increasing military spending.
45.
Demeaned
our court system and questioned a federal judge's credentials.
46.
Continued
to push evidence-less claims of voter fraud.
47.
Tweeted
"I'LL SEE YOU IN COURT" to a court.
48. Cost taxpayers
serious money
in travel expenses.
Estimates
by the Washington Post show that his first month in office has cost
nearly as much as Obama's first year
49. Set his sons out to travel the globe, growing the Trump brand with
secret service in tow while taxpayers are footing
the bill.
50.
Nominated
Neil Gorsuch, an originalist, for the open supreme court seat.
51.
Hired
hateful,
loony
creationist
Jerry Falwell Jr. to lead a higher education task force.
52. Tapped vaccine-skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to
head a commission
on vaccine safety.
53. Gave a belligerent 57 minute press conference in which he attacked
the media and
lied
about numerous inconsequential things.
54. Made a statement for Holocaust Remembrance Day and
never mentioned
Jewish people.
55.
Fired
acting Attorney General Sally Yates for saying the travel ban was
unconstitutional. A few weeks later, the travel ban was ruled
unconditional in federal
court.
56. Supported his newly-appointed Attorney General Jeff Sessions' decision to
rescind
Obama-era efforts and build up the private prison system once again.
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