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The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false and misleading claims made by President Trump during his first 365 days in office.
- allthethings4
The Daily 202: Trump’s true priorities revealed in holiday news dumps
https://www.washingtonpost.com/n…
In the week that followed, Trump kept giving his members new reasons to celebrate. While cable news fixated on how much he was golfing — NBC reports that Monday was Trump’s 91st day at a golf course as president – his political appointees back in Washington worked overtime to deconstruct the administrative state, eviscerate several of Barack Obama’s signature achievements and roll back significant environmental protections.
Underscoring how politically unpopular these moves are, most were rolled out on the Fridays before Christmas and New Year’s Eve to minimize media coverage and public notice.
- allthethings4
Donald Trump’s Year of Living Dangerously
It’s worse than you think.https://www.politico.com/magazin…
Excerpt:
By the time the dinner was over, the leaders were in shock, and not just over the idle talk of armed conflict. No matter how prepared they were, eight months into an American presidency like no other, this was somehow not what they expected. A former senior U.S. official with whom I spoke was briefed by ministers from three of the four countries that attended the dinner. “Without fail, they just had wide eyes about the entire engagement,” the former official told me. Even if few took his martial bluster about Venezuela seriously, Trump struck them as uninformed about their issues and dangerously unpredictable, asking them to expend political capital on behalf of a U.S. that no longer seemed a reliable partner. “The word they all used was: ‘This guy is insane.’”
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- lol********
- How is a temporary Muslim ban an accomplishment exactly? What did it really accomplish? When did it even go into practice? Pathetic.monospaced
- he forgot this one: Coal mining deaths skyrocket in 2017 after falling to record low in 2016Gnash
- lol
- ********2
- Strict how? Are people really that fucking stupid that they think he has anything to do with that? I bet omg does.monospaced
- I don't think anyone is that stupid to believe this -- except for trump.Gnash
- also: "it is the seventh straight year that nobody died in a crash on a United States-certificated scheduled airline operating anywhere in the world."Gnash
- you won't find a person more strict than Trump on Commercial Aviation. Believe me!dorf
- Didn’t his airline go bankrupt?monospaced
- No commercial crashes since 2009, when Obama took office. LmaoCygnusZero4
- allthethings7
Unreal Donald Trump
@DonJJTrumpWhen I took office, I became VERY STRICT on no elephants in public transit vehicles--even though they're the symbol of my party. GOOD NEWS--no trampling incidents on any public transport in 2017! #PromisesKept
9:35 AM - 2 Jan 2018
- see_thru2
Please no...
- fadein114
This whole debacle could do with a good 2018 kick up the arse.
Trump Tower meeting with Russians 'treasonous', Bannon says in explosive book
- I'm surprised it took Bannon this long to turn on Trump after getting sacked.Continuity
- Bannon might be a rancid, diseased, cunt of a man, but he knows how this all operates. He's biding his time - death by a thousand cuts is more effective.face_melter
- Bannon had already made veiled anti-semitic Jared/Ivanka comments. Going for his base. Scarily. What a fucking mess.monoboy
- ^ oh aye, he's planting seeds and playing the long game for 2020 and beyond. Will be interesting (ie. scary) to see which est. Reps hop on his cunt train in...face_melter
- ...the hope of grabbing onto some kind of power and influence.face_melter
- allthethings2
The Republicans’ Fake Investigations
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/…
...written by the Fusion GPS founders.
- Fax_Benson2
- is it Fax?zaq
- I am sold. Typo at the end makes this look particularly legit.scruffics
- Who is this from?monospaced
- DNC internal, supposedly. No idea if it's legit. Various things going around about this being the strategy and B Clinton meeting TrumpFax_Benson
- seems to fit with the 'Trump wasn't in it to win' narrativeFax_Benson
- Could easily be fan fiction.monospaced
- This is real... old news thoughyuekit
- there were a couple write-ups of the Trump - Clinton chinwag at the timeFax_Benson
- allthethings4
Wow. Just wow.
http://nymag.com/daily/intellige…
Donald Trump Didn’t Want to Be President
One year ago: the plan to lose, and the administration’s shocked first days.
- https://media.giphy.…Ramanisky2
- great readlowimpakt
- Same as Brexitscruffics
- +1 "He was what he was. Twinkle in his eye, larceny in his soul."whatthefunk
- lowimpakt4
trump said bannon lost his mind when he fired him.
i'm sure all those assholes over at breitbart are going to be happy
- well if the president said it, it must be truesarahfailin
- Ramanisky27
The Greatest Shit-Show in the Universe
- ... until they don’t.monospaced
- So he was just a coffee boy ;)inv
- i struggled to believe it was real until I realised of course it is.fadein11
- This letter proves what Bannon said is true. Thats the reaction of someone shitting his pants.sofakingback
- how anyone could have Trumps back from this point forward is crazy. Just line up to be tossed in front of that bus by a psychopath.capn_ron
- @capn crazy = stupid afmonospaced
- Imagine if any one of us actually spoke like this in public, at an interview, daily at our jobs... there's no fucking way we'd be able to do that.kona
- Trump could have stopped "... after I had already won the nomination." yet he runs on reminding whom of his accomplishment?...kona
- his mouth breathing supporters, or, himself because he's a petulant child?
This is absurd.kona
- dorfsman4
Michael Wolff's Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, 10 explosive revelations:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-…
'What a f****** idiot,' said Murdoch, shrugging, as he got off the phone."
Lol
- allthethings4
Donald, Donald, Donald.
- what book is this?sarahfailin
- ^ Fire & FuryRamanisky2
- That should square well with the religious right, what with their morals and all...mg33
- The right know he's not a man of faith; as long as they got a golem whom will governed in heir interest; regardless of the shape/form. party over county.plash
- allthethings2
It was the second thing I thought after I was done chortling...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/a…
Michael Wolff tells a juicy tale in his new Trump book. But should we believe it?
- Yep, there are a lot of holes in it. Basic facts that can be completely disproved which puts the rest of it under the spotlight.
As someone said it's a postfadein11 - truth book for a post truth presidency.fadein11
- statements not facts obviously... (or should I say alternative facts)fadein11
- Even if only 10% of the allegations in this book are true, that's pretty fucking shocking.Continuity
- it's a like a political version of Spinal TapBluejam
- Hunter would have been the man for the job.fadein11
- The funny thing is: neither Trump nor Bannon have come out to say X, Y, or Z in this book is false or whatever. There've been no specific denials of anything.Continuity
- It's just some hot Trump on Bannon action, with a side of Trump trying to block the release of the book.Continuity
- Yep, there are a lot of holes in it. Basic facts that can be completely disproved which puts the rest of it under the spotlight.
- yuekit2
Trump administration to roll back state legalization of marijuana
- shitty but not surprising.fadein11
- everyday reads like fictionjaylarson
- bring it onplash
- I bet trump is for legalization, this is his controllers talkingGnash
- lol, he can’t! trump won’t shut the FUCK up about state rights overriding federalmonospaced
- what about individual state rights???
These fuckers are so hypocritical!fooler - There'll be riots. Good luck putting the toothpaste back in the tube.********
- Ramanisky25
Mike Pence Swears In Doug Jones as Gay Son Looks On
I wonder what his son is thinking here ... hmmm
- https://www.youtube.…jaylarson
- pence has a gay son?Gnash
- Jones doesBonSeff
- https://www.advocate…plash