Donald Trump's Fatal Errors — Page 7

He's not the Libertarian voice of America? Your last candidate was? Who leads your movement?

Daughter, you have lost mind

Make love to Petra. Make all the love to Petra!!!!

Yes is very scary

What is this crazy trend in rump's supporters that keep insisting liberals don't know "hard work"? It's the new go-to on Facebook. I keep seeing bizarre crap like "While you snowflakes were out getting educated, we were working hard!" And yet they voted for...the privileged white-collar college-educated elite who really show no evidence of work any harder than pointing, walking and delegating. This "hard work" rhetoric is really baffling and completely illogical.

Anyway, back to Donald Trump's fatal errors....

As hearings on Russia intensify in the House Intelligence Committee, the House Freedom Caucus (staunch movement conservatives) vow to take down Trumpcare.



DAILY BEAST: Freedom Caucus Vows Not to Blink on ‘Taking Down’ Trumpcare: Members of the House Freedom Caucus said Tuesday they appreciated Trump’s pitch, but not enough to change their mind on the House Republican health care plan.

Today's Wall Street Journal editorial is DEVASTATING to the president.



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A President’s Credibility

Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.

March 21, 2017 7:28 p.m. ET


If President Trump announces that North Korea launched a missile that landed within 100 miles of Hawaii, would most Americans believe him? Would the rest of the world? We’re not sure, which speaks to the damage that Mr. Trump is doing to his Presidency with his seemingly endless stream of exaggerations, evidence-free accusations, implausible denials and other falsehoods.

The latest example is Mr. Trump’s refusal to back off his Saturday morning tweet of three weeks ago that he had “found out that [Barack] Obama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory” on Election Day. He has offered no evidence for his claim, and a parade of intelligence officials, senior Republicans and Democrats have since said they have seen no such evidence.

Yet the President clings to his assertion like a drunk to an empty gin bottle, rolling out his press spokesman to make more dubious claims. Sean Spicer—who doesn’t deserve this treatment—was dispatched last week to repeat an assertion by a Fox News commentator that perhaps the Obama Administration had subcontracted the wiretap to British intelligence.

That bungle led to a public denial from the British Government Communications Headquarters, and British news reports said the U.S. apologized. But then the White House claimed there was no apology. For the sake of grasping for any evidence to back up his original tweet, and the sin of pride in not admitting error, Mr. Trump had his spokesman repeat an unchecked TV claim that insulted an ally.

The wiretap tweet is also costing Mr. Trump politically as he hands his opponents a sword. Mr. Trump has a legitimate question about why the U.S. was listening to his former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and who leaked news of his meeting with the Russian ambassador. But that question never gets a hearing because the near-daily repudiation of his false tweet is a bigger media story.

FBI director James Comey also took revenge on Monday by joining the queue of those saying the bureau has no evidence to back up the wiretap tweet. Mr. Comey even took the unusual step of confirming that the FBI is investigating ties between the Trump election campaign and Russia.

Mr. Comey said he could make such a public admission only in “unusual circumstances,” but why now? Could the wiretap tweet have made Mr. Comey angry because it implied the FBI was involved in illegal surveillance? Mr. Trump blundered in keeping Mr. Comey in the job after the election, but now the President can’t fire the man leading an investigation into his campaign even if he wants to.

All of this continues the pattern from the campaign that Mr. Trump is his own worst political enemy. He survived his many false claims as a candidate because his core supporters treated it as mere hyperbole and his opponent was untrustworthy Hillary Clinton. But now he’s President, and he needs support beyond the Breitbart cheering section that will excuse anything. As he is learning with the health-care bill, Mr. Trump needs partners in his own party to pass his agenda. He also needs friends abroad who are willing to trust him when he asks for support, not least in a crisis.

This week should be dominated by the smooth political sailing for Mr. Trump’s Supreme Court nominee and the progress of health-care reform on Capitol Hill. These are historic events, and success will show he can deliver on his promises. But instead the week has been dominated by the news that he was repudiated by his own FBI director.

Two months into his Presidency, Gallup has Mr. Trump’s approval rating at 39%. No doubt Mr. Trump considers that fake news, but if he doesn’t show more respect for the truth most Americans may conclude he’s a fake President.



WALL STREET JOURNAL OPINION: A President’s Credibility: Trump’s falsehoods are eroding public trust, at home and abroad.

This just in...

Secret Service asked for $60 million extra for Trump-era travel and protection, documents show

By Drew Harwell and Amy Brittain March 22 at 10:56 AM

The U.S. Secret Service requested $60 million in additional funding for the next year, offering the most precise estimate yet of the escalating costs for travel and protection resulting from the unusually complicated lifestyle of the Trump family, according to internal agency documents reviewed by The Washington Post.

Nearly half of the additional money, $26.8 million, would pay to protect President Trump’s family and private home in New York’s Trump Tower, the documents show, while $33 million would be spent on travel costs incurred by “the president, vice president and other visiting heads of state.”

The documents, part of the Secret Service’s request for the fiscal 2018 budget, reflect the costly surprise facing Secret Service agents tasked with guarding the president’s large and far-flung family, accommodating their ambitious travel schedules and fortifying the three-floor Manhattan penthouse where first lady Melania Trump and her son, Barron, live.

Full story at link above.

"Trump is already trying to distance himself from his former campaign manager."

Try as he might, it's sticking to him like a fly on shaite.

Updated On: 3/22/17 at 03:13 PM

Who are ya and what did you do to Madbrian?

Please forgive my thread-jacking but the following myths have now been dispelled:

1. Paul Ryan is a policy genius

2. Donald J. Trump has mastered the art of the deal

That is all.

Updated On: 3/23/17 at 03:47 PM

Chump and his administration should hand out lube with the way they are screwing the poor in this country.

Fergy--you have a PM