[Discussion] Hope to Remember The Trump Administration Thread as being 'transparent and honest'

Let's follow and discuss what our newest presidential administration gets up to, the good, the bad, the lawsuits, and the many many indictments.

farley3k wrote:

Trump Orders FEMA To Cut Off Aid For California Wildfire Recovery

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut off wildfire relief aid for fire-scorched California until state officials “get their act together” and do a better job of managing forests.

The bizarre proclamation furthers the administration’s attempt to pin the devastation on environmentalists while ignoring the clear impact climate change is having on extreme fires out west.

I think it will be headed to court because I don't see how one person can decide that FEMA won't help a whole state. it seems to be against the idea of "united states" somehow.

This is based on a couple of since-deleted tweets. I don't think he has actually ordered FEMA to do anything. It's just posturing.

But just in case, California better break out the rakes.

Well, the (now deleted) tweet wants California to have proper Forrest Management, not forest management, so clearly he's really just mad that Forrest Gump's manager still hasn't contacted the white house to arrange a visit and photo-op like he got with JFK, LBJ, and Nixon.

BadKen wrote:
farley3k wrote:

Trump Orders FEMA To Cut Off Aid For California Wildfire Recovery

President Donald Trump on Wednesday said that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency to cut off wildfire relief aid for fire-scorched California until state officials “get their act together” and do a better job of managing forests.

The bizarre proclamation furthers the administration’s attempt to pin the devastation on environmentalists while ignoring the clear impact climate change is having on extreme fires out west.

I think it will be headed to court because I don't see how one person can decide that FEMA won't help a whole state. it seems to be against the idea of "united states" somehow.

This is based on a couple of since-deleted tweets. I don't think he has actually ordered FEMA to do anything. It's just posturing.

But just in case, California better break out the rakes.

So Trump's threatening to cut off federal disaster recovery funds to California because he thinks the state did a bad job of managing the 3% of forests it controls even though the big fires happened in the 57% of forests owned by the federal government?

Even better, Trump has repeatedly slashed the budget of the agency responsible for both managing federal forest lands and fighting fires, the US Forest Service, by hundreds of millions of dollars. And that agency has had to internally redirect money and resources from managing forests to prevent or lessen the severity of forest fires--the very things he said California should have done--to actual firefighting efforts, something that now consumes well over half the agency's $5.6 billion budget.

If I was a Californian Republican I'd really be questioning my support for Trump right about now. First there was the absolute thrashing Republicans got during the midterms, losing districts St. Reagan himself said were Republican heaven on earth. Then there was Trump announcing he was going to start deporting Vietnamese refugees who fled their homeland 40+ years ago, something that matters in a state with the largest Vietnamese population outside of Vietnam itself. And now he's threatening to f*ck over people who are just trying to put their lives back together. People who just so happen to live in counties that overwhelmingly voted for Trump in 2016.

Yep, he's a keeper.

It's like I've said before, I would not be surprised by literally anything this man might do.

I'm sure he's convinced all of California is a Democratic stronghold so he thinks he's winning by punishing them. He doesn't seem to realize that LA and San Francisco are not the entire state.

I also wonder how much of Trump's tweet was a petty attempt at political revenge because Pelosi isn't giving into his demands, especially considering he immediately walked out of today's meeting with Pelosi and Schumer when they didn't agree to give him his wall in exchange for reopening the government.

Gavin Newsome is going to be the new constant barb in Trump's side. Newsome isn't afraid to lay into Trump and I imagine that's going to bother Trump at some point. I wonder what nickname Trump will use for Newsome.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ripped the Trump administration and its policies during his inaugural address Monday while also taking a swipe at President Donald Trump himself, without mentioning him.

"Here in California, we will prove that people of good faith, and firm will can still come together to achieve big things," Newsom said. "We will offer an alternative to the corruption and the incompetence in the White House. Our government will be progressive, principled and always on the side of the people."

JC wrote:

Gavin Newsome is going to be the new constant barb in Trump's side. Newsome isn't afraid to lay into Trump and I imagine that's going to bother Trump at some point. I wonder what nickname Trump will use for Newsome.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom ripped the Trump administration and its policies during his inaugural address Monday while also taking a swipe at President Donald Trump himself, without mentioning him.

"Here in California, we will prove that people of good faith, and firm will can still come together to achieve big things," Newsom said. "We will offer an alternative to the corruption and the incompetence in the White House. Our government will be progressive, principled and always on the side of the people."

I wonder if he was more hurt/offended by the barb itself, or that it was delivered without tagging the Trump Brand(tm) by name

Nancy really twists that knife when she sticks in there, doesn't she?

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Oooooh sick burn.

Kehama wrote:

He doesn't seem to realize that LA and San Francisco are not the entire state.

No one cares about Calabama.

(kidding, kidding...kind of...)

I think it is important to remind people what trump does when he runs out of money. yes it is a bit of a burn but people need to be reminded what happens when he runs out of money. he doesn't understand

Maybe Trump can give people effected by the shutdown contact info for Russian oligarchs?

Hollywood Reporter: TV Ratings: Trump Speech, Democratic Response Draws 40 Million-Plus Viewers

The response by Democratic leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer has slightly larger preliminary numbers than the president's address.

Welcome to The Jungle, it gets worse here every day

Fox News wrote:

As the partial government shutdown nears a third week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced that it’s been forced to suspend routine inspections of domestic food-processing facilities.

You didn't want to eat anything, did you?

I was actually just thinking a couple days ago that 2018 felt like it had half a dozen e coli outbreaks in one variety of lettuce or another. Trump is really rolling the dice that there won't be another event while the FDA is hampered by this shutdown.

I'm not sure Trump understands that lettuce is food.

If there is another outbreak he'll just blame the lazy sloppy immigrants working in the fields causing the problems. It will probably actually be a boost for his base.

It's great, the shutdown apparently affects the IRS being the dudes you want working hard on chasing tax debts. When you have a revenue problem, shouldn't that be the last place you cut costs?

Food not being inspected? Super, a libertarian paradise where poor people sacrifice themselves for the safety of the rich!

Well, if the food’s contaminated the only thing we’ll have left to eat is the rich. Problem solves itself.

No, no, no. We eat babies. Read your Swift!

Yonder wrote:

I was actually just thinking a couple days ago that 2018 felt like it had half a dozen e coli outbreaks in one variety of lettuce or another. Trump is really rolling the dice that there won't be another event while the FDA is hampered by this shutdown.

How would we know, CDC is shut down too, there's no one to correlate incidents to detect or track an outbreak

BadKen wrote:

No, no, no. We eat babies. Read your Swift!

He was very specific about this: Only Irish babies.

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Is that Bigfoot in RDR?

Yeah, it's a side mission (Birth of the Conservation Movement) in the Undead Nightmare DLC.

It's legit one of the most affecting sequences I've ever seen in R* game.

Spoilers obviously.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiM-...

Spoiler:

For context, the player John Marston is directed to go around killing all the Sasquatch NPCs on the map before this mission-ending cutscene.

Trump continues to suggest this morning that he is going to declare a national emergency in order to get funding for the wall.

I would think this would be a constitutional crisis (abuse of power) but I understand that Republicans don't give a sh*t so nothing will come of it.

"I have the absolute right to declare a national emergency," Trump said after stating, correctly, that other presidents have used it, some fairly often. "I haven't done it yet. I may do it. If this doesn't work out, probably I will do it. I would almost say definitely," the President said.

When asked why he hadn't already declared it, Trump said, “Because I would like to do the deal through Congress, and because it makes sense to do it through Congress."

I heard speculation last night that this emergency powers plan is really just a ploy to get out of the mess he’s created without angering his base. He will announce emergency powers, then sign the bills to open the government, then the courts will stop the emergency powers.

Then he will campaign on the libs and judges stopping him. Then the Deplorables will help him by re-electing him and letting him continue to reform the courts into a frat house set up to funnel money and power to the 1% as quickly as possible.

JC wrote:

"I haven't done it yet. I may do it. If this doesn't work out, probably I will do it. I would almost say definitely," the President said.

I'm on pins and needles!

Jayhawker wrote:

I heard speculation last night that this emergency powers plan is really just a ploy to get out of the mess he’s created without angering his base. He will announce emergency powers, then sign the bills to open the government, then the courts will stop the emergency powers.

Then he will campaign on the libs and judges stopping him. Then the Deplorables will help him by re-electing him and letting him continue to reform the courts into a frat house set up to funnel money and power to the 1% as quickly as possible.

That's very strategic. Which means Trump didn't come up with it.