President Trump, Week 4

Here's my (astoundingly long) weekly list of horrible things coming from President Trump and the White House for the week beginning 2 PM, February 10th to 2 PM, February 17th. This is, likely, not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

(Notice his bulbous throat pouch!)

A reminder: if the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R', all of these transgressions would've at least warranted a ridiculing press conference from the Republicans.  Most of them would've gotten their own committee hearing, and some of them would've warranted impeachment consideration.  But who am I fooling?  No Democrat would EVER come up with a list this bad for a YEAR in office, let alone for a week.  I'll elaborate more on that afterwards, but without further ado:

• Trump refuses to wear a translator earpiece for a speech from the Prime Minister of Japan, relying on hand gestures and cues from his aides in an attempt to react accordingly
• It's revealed President Tump doesn't know how to shake a person's hand
• Trump insists again New Hampshire would've voted for him if not for the illegal voters he says he has proof of, but refuses to release any information about
• In what is clearly the beginning of a major crackdown, he has US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) start rounding up undocumented people across the country, including Dreamers, a group of people he'd said he wouldn't deport
• He states he's most upset with Saturday Night Live (SNL) for having a woman playing his Press Secretary
• The White House Press Secretary makes up another massacre, this one in Atlanta 
  
• In a conversation with Senators, refers to Senator Elizabeth Warren a 'Pocahontas,' a derogatory reference to her ancestry, and ALL Native Americans.  He clearly said it in a demeaning and insulting manner
• Talks about passing a new Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim Ban through Executive Orders as a way to counter punch the Judical Branch's rulings agains his Unconstitutional Immigrant/Refugee/Muslim Ban
• Senator Franken reveals many Republican Senators do not feel Trump's mentally fit
• Trump accuses the media of bias because they're reporting on the trouble Ivanka's having with her product line, problems which were brought to light when Trump himself started commenting about them on Twitter
• Reports arise of President Trump having a VERY limited understanding of how the US government functions and operates
• Reports also arise of infighting within his Administration, going as far as saying most of them hate each other
• North Korea threatens the US and it's allies with a missile launch, but Trump continues to golf with Ernie Els
• The Department of Education removes a resource website for families who have a student with a disability, a website used regularly by families who have a student with a disability
• It's revealed the annual cost of housing Trump's wife, Melania, in New York City (reminder, there's a pretty fancy, tax payer paid for house set aside for her in Washington DC) will be greater than the entire annual budget of the National Endowment for the Arts
• Trump complained about the relatively few times President Obama golfed, but has already spent two of his first four weekends as President golfing
• The Department of Education released a statement where it had misspelled W.E.B. DuBois name, and the apology it released later also had a misspelled word in it.
• Trump's spokespeople continue to spread the voter fraud lie without any evidence voter fraud actually happened.  Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by 2.9 million 
  
• Insisted a massive group of protesters at Mar-A-Lago were actually supporters
• On Lincoln's birthday, Trump and the GOP falsely attributed a quote to him
• There's a typo in Trump's official Inauguration photo/poster
• It took Trump four days to declare parts of tornado impacted Louisiana as official disaster areas
• Trump spokesperson insists Trump has done more in his first three weeks than most Presidents do in their entire term.  Laughably untrue.  Trump is trailing well behind what President Obama had accomplished by the same time in his first term.
• Trump thinks secure negotiations about a national security crisis is a round table discussion on the floor of a jam packed restaurant, with unscreened diners and employees all within listening and viewing distance of the negotiations
• While American and Japanese officials scrambled to deal with the North Korea crisis, Trump was posing for photos with the public.  The photos captured the official intelligence briefings, and were posted for the public to see on social media
  
• At Mar-A-Lago Resort, a regular citizen was able to approach the soldier carrying the nuclear launch codes (the nuclear football), struck up a conversation with him, and was able to photograph him.  The regular citizen posted the photograph on social media, identifying the person carrying the nuclear football, compromising his and this country's national security
  
• An official White House spokesperson threatens and bullies a member of the media, telling her the Tump Administration has "dossiers" on all White House reporters 
• Michael Flynn, the National Security Advisor, resigns.  He violated the Logan Act, contacting a foreign country while not having the authority to do so.  He broke the law multiple times and likely was compromised by Russia.  He also lied repeatedly about it
• Hours after the National Security Advisor resigns in scandal, the White House insists it's "old news," and asks why the media hasn't "moved on"
• It's learned during the national security crisis with North Korea, Trump stopped everything to attended a wedding reception at his resort Mar-A-Lago.  He said he specifically put aside a national security crisis, a direct threat to the United States, so he could reward his loyal private business customers
• Trump spokespeople insist Flynn had the full confidence of the President hours before he was forced to resign. They don't elaborate on this claim
• Trump spokespeople again insist New Hampshire would have been a Trump victory if not for thousands of illegal voters being bused in from Massachusetts.  Once again, they don't offer any proof of this claim
• A senior spokeswoman, KellyAnne Conway, retweeted a known white supremacist
• Flynn was not aware, as National Security Advisor, that US spy agencies regularly spy on foreign countries ambassadors, like the Russian ambassador whom Flynn called in December
• It's reported the Trump campaign was in "constant contact" with the Russian Intelligence agencies during the election
• Russian Intelligence, during the 2016 election, was bragging about the access they had to then candidate Trump
• Trump is furious that SNL portrayed Senior Advisor Steve Bannon as the anti-Christ, and the continued implication Bannon's actually the acting President
  
• While using the crumbling Oroville Dam as a springboard, Trump insists we need to fix our ailing infrastructure, but offers zero details on his plan to do so, nor does he offer any plans, short or long term, for fixing Oroville
• A report insists two of the most visible spokespeople in the White House Kellyanne Conway and Press Secretary Sean Spicer are actively working against each other
• Trump decided the US should no longer be a leader in world peace, officially abandoning the two state strategy with Israel and Palestine, opening the door to likely bloodshed
• A former advisor of Trumps brags to clients he has full access to Trump's twitter account
• When it's discovered a Russian spy ship is anchored off the US coast, Trump seems to know nothing about it, and has zero response for Russia's bold and threatening move
• Trump is asked about the recurring Russia problems at a news conference, smiles, says nothing and abruptly walks away
• Trump sends out a celebration tweet at the news Humana will leave the Affordable Care Act
• Trump's nominee for Labor Secretary, Puzder, withdraws from consideration after scrutiny of his anti-worker policies, and the allegations he abused his wife
• After being asked about the rise of anti-semitism in America, Trump ignores the question and talks only of the 306 electoral college votes he received
  
• Official FBI file on Trump from his days as a landlord discloses the doorman was ordered to quote African American people a rent that was double the rent quoted to whites
• The White House released plans for having a billionaire investigate the United States spy agencies to determine who is and who is not loyal to Trump (Trump the person, not who's loyal to the office of the President)
• Trump announces a month into his first term he will hold a campaign rally for election 2020
• As they wait for the Press Secretary, Bannon walks past the media and refers to them as the "Opposition Party."
• Trump publicly states his electoral college victory was the largest since Reagan.  His electoral college victory ranks 46th, behind all Presidents since Reagan, outside of George W. Bush.  When pointed out he wasn't close on this stat, he insists he was talking about Republicans only.  George HW Bush's electoral college margin was also well ahead of his.  Insists, "someone told me, I didn't know if it was true."
• Trump's claim he finished first in his class at Wharton is not true
• Calls a press conference.  For 77 minutes his main message is "I'm great, and the media is the worst thing ever!" He lies repeatedly during this train wreck of a news conference
• During his infamous news conference, asks an African American reporter to set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus, implying a racist, 'all African Americans know each other' narrative 
• During his infamous news conference, verbally assaults and belittles a Jewish reporter who asked about the rise of anti-semitism in Trump's America 
• Adds that all anti-semitism in America is coming from his "opposition."
• During his infamous news conference, claims street drugs are cheaper than candy bars.  Unsure if Trump knows how much candy bars cost
• Trump's latest National Security Advisor candidate turns him down
• Trump's Defense Secretary contradicts Trump directly, says there is "No doubt" Russia threatened to hack the election
• Trump attempts to leave a bill signing ceremony without having signed the bill (you only had one job!)
• Trump doesn't seem to understand that both the US and most of the rest of the world's countries  record and release a transcript of all conversations they have with each other, especially when the United States President is involved
• Trump claimed Clinton gave Russia 20% of our uranium. That is false
• The Trump Winery has asked the Labor Department, for the second time in a year (!), to allow the winery to hire foreign workers with visas, as opposed to American workers.  The irony is lost on all involved
• It's revealed that along with the hundreds of millions of tax payer dollars it will cost to have a second White House in New York City for the First Family, the additional costs of transportation for the First Family, due to being in multiple locations, will also be hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars
  
• Due to failing to qualify for FBI security clearances, six White House staffers were dismissed AFTER having been given access to classified materials by the Trump Administration
• Has proposed using the National Guard as a nationwide police force to round up Immigrants, refugees and Muslims.  At first the White House denied the AP's story on this, but then admitted that had actually proposed this plan
• Demanded more fancy pens for bill signing ceremonies as he apparently had already given away all the ones the Administration began the term with, in less than one month

Let's just take Trump's 43rd or 44th worst discretion of the week; the Trump Winery trying to hire foreign workers.  Imagine what the reaction from the GOP would be if this was President Hillary Clinton trying to do this.  We'll put aside the context of Trump's entire message revolving around "America First," and his draconian immigration policy, AND his conflict of interest revolving on whether he actually divested himself from his personal businesses, and just focus on Trump's attempt to hire foreign workers with visas instead of American workers.

Republicans would be EXPLODING with outrage if this was 'Clinton Winery!' They'd be hammering their shoes on podiums, hosting red faced press conferences, and calling town halls to allow the unfettered anti-Hillary outrage to flow freely. Both Houses of Congress would begin multiple investigations into why Hillary HATES the American worker.  These 'investigations' would go on for years, with the GOP digging up every worker they could from 100 miles around the 'Clinton Winery' to testify about how 'they're just salt of the earth folks looking for a job, watching their hopes and dreams go to someone who likely is an anti-American terrorist.'  And without a doubt, a few Republicans would draw up the impeachment papers, leading to a long discussion about what would be the right punishment for such an Anti-Ameircan traitor.

Instead, the GOP averts their eyes and whispers, "nothing to see here..." Hell of a double standard the GOP has right now.