President Trump, Week 6

Here's this week's UNBELIEVABLY long list of impotence coming from President Trump, and the White House, for the week beginning 2 PM Friday, February 24th to 2 PM Friday, March 3rd.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

Weekly explanation: I'm making this list for one reason.  If the President in the White House had a 'D' next to their name, the same House and Senate Republicans who are quietly mumbling "Nothing to see here!" would be having a very different reaction. Everything on this list would've garnered at least a press conference, many would've triggered official Congressional investigations, and some would've lead to impeachment proceedings.  The level of hypocrisy is unprecedented.  More on that afterwards.  Without further ado:

• It's discovered not only did White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus contact the FBI in an attempt to get them to lie, specifically to make up false counterpoints against news stories of a President Trump/Russia connection, numerous other White House officials contacted other intelligence community heads to pressure them to do likewise
• Rep. Darrell Issa, the former head of the House Oversight Committee, is the first major Republican to call for a special prosecutor to deal with the Trump/Russia fiasco
• The Anne Frank Center criticized Senior White House Advisor Steve Bannon's CPAC speech, a speech which was loaded with anti-semitic references
• The new Head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt not only hid e-mails which exposed his personal ties to the coal, gas and oil industry, it's discovered that Pruitt used a personal e-mail address to conduct official government business
• Trump's new immigration deportation policy would deport all people to Mexico, not only people of Mexican heritage (including some legal US residents) but all people, regardless of what country they were originally from
• Trump further damages our relationship with one of our closest allies, France, by insisting it's not safe to travel to Paris
• Trump refuses to attend the White House correspondents dinner
  
• President Trump, who insisted the replacement for the Affordable Care Act/Obamacare would have "everyone covered with FAR better coverage at a lower cost," admits many people will likely lose their coverage 
• The father of the Navy SEAL killed in Trump's botched Yemen raid counterpoints the White House's claim any investigation into what happened would tarnish his son's legacy
• Trump immediately calls the election of Tom Perez as the new head of the DNC "rigged." Offers zero proof of Perez's election having been rigged
• After Trump insisted there was no anti-semitism problem in the USA, a second Jewish cemetery, this time in Philadelphia, was vandalized
  
• Trump and the White House had yet to make an official statement on the racist shooting and murder of an Indian man in Kansas
• Fox News brings in a fake Swedish Defense and National Security expert in an attempt to validate Trump's lie about a Swedish terrorist attack. Sweden has no idea who Fox News brought in.  Imagine what the Republican's response would be if MSNBC tried to do the same thing for President Obama or Hillary Clinton?
• Trump blames Democrats for his Administrations contacts with Russia
• Trump's nominee to be Navy Secretary withdraws, due to conflicts of financial interest
• It's discovered one of the other White House staffers bedsides Priebus who contacted intelligence agencies in an effort to get them to lie about Trump/Russia connections was Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who'd contacted the CIA Director and the Senate Select Intelligence Committee Chair
• Former President George W. Bush calls out Trump.  Says "Media is indispensable to Democracy."
• The White House planted a FAKE news story about a Politico reporter to smear said reporter.  This was in response to the Politico reporter's story of Spicer confiscating his staff's phones in an attempt to stop press leaks
• The initial Trump budget proposal calls for a 54 billion dollar increase in Defense spending, with no cuts in Medicare and Social Security.  The White House insists it will not add to the deficit, which it most certainly will.  Deficits will explode if we follow Trump's plan
• Trump actually said "Nobody knew healthcare would be so complicated"
• A fifth wave of attacks on the American Jewish community directly contradicts Trump's claim the US doesn't have a growing anti-semitism problem
• Trump's Budget Director admits the President's budget numbers don't add up
• The Justice Department quietly withdraws it's opposition to Texas' unconstitutional voter ID laws
• The EPA Chief Scott Pruitt has now been caught lying to Congress, in writing, perjuring himself on his official questionnaire he submitted while being considered for the position.  He said he did not use a private e-mail account for government business, when he clearly did
• Spicer blames the Navy SEAL who died in the Trump ordered, botched Yemen raid for his own death
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway decided the best way to show respect to the leaders of historically African American Colleges and Universities was to be on her phone, kneeling on a couch in the Oval Office, like a teenager texting her BFF
  
• Spicer insists the Trump/Russia connections have been fully investigated.  They haven't
• Contradicting claims by Trump and the White House, it's discovered the botched Yemen raid yielded no usable intelligence information
• Trump now blames his generals for the botched Yemen raid he ordered against military recommendation
• The Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos praises the historically African American Colleges and Universities as "pioneers of choice," apparently forgetting a lack of choice forced African Americans to start their own Colleges and Universities
• Trump insists he hasn't called Russia in 10 years.  There are so many counterpoints I could go with on this one, but I'll choose the tweet from 2013 where he's bragging about just having returned from Russia (BTW - the photo I started with, of Trump in a Russian hat, was taken during that same trip)
  
• Trump insists former President Obama is behind the leaks in his Administration
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions says there's "a lot of violence coming from now legalized marijuana" use.  This is a VERY debatable stat, at best, but it's another sign the Trump Administration seems to be contemplating overruling states who have legalized marijuana for both medical and personal use
• Trump eludes to anti-semitic acts of violence against the American Jewish community as being 'false flag' operations, implying they're being perpetrated by liberals and the Jewish community themselves

Trump's address to the Joint Session of Congress

• Trump claims a National Academy of Science Report states immigrants cost tax payers billions of dollars.  The report doesn't even come close to saying that.  The report referenced actually praises immigrants for contributing to the US's tax base
• Trump claims he saved tax payers hundreds of millions of dollars with the F-35 fighter program, savings which were secured, in full, long before he became President. Obama secured the savings
• Trump says he'll provide tax relief for the middle class, but doesn't explain exactly how he's going to do so. The tax proposals he's put forward benefits the wealthiest 1% almost exclusively
• Trump says a factual statement; "94 million Americans are out of the labor force," touting the number as proof the Obama Administration failed.  He leaves out some important facts, such as the 94 million number includes people 16 and older in high school who don't work, ALL retirees, and many people who happily don't work, having freely chosen not to work
  
• Trump claims "Obamacare is collapsing," "Obamacare is a disaster." 12.2 million signed up for health insurance THIS YEAR, the Medicare expansion is working, and tens of millions of Americans who didn't have health insurance now do
• Trump claims his 10% increase in Defense Spending is the largest ever.  In '02 - 14.3%, '03 - 11.3%, '08 - 10.9%
• Trump claims all terrorists who strike in the United State are from outside of the country, an outright lie
• Trump claims most Americans are "optimistic." Most polls show the vast majority of Americans are NOT optimistic
• Trump takes credit for keeping 70,000 jobs in the United States, when the vast majority of those jobs were committed to staying in the United States well before Trump won the election.  69,700 of the 70,000 were already committed prior to Trump.  300 is the number he can claim, and many of those will be lost when Carrier likely moves them from Indiana to Mexico
• Trump race and religion baits as he insists his immigration plans will keep Americans safer. Police research shows immigrants commit FAR less crimes in America than regular US citizens do
  
• Trump claims his immigration policy will stop the terrorists who've come here from the countries he's banned.  The last time a person from one of the banned countries committed an act of terror on US soil was in 1975.  The countries who produced terrorists who HAVE committed terrorist attacks on the US since 1975 are not included in his travel ban
• Trump claims the Keystone Pipeline and the Dakota Access pipeline will create "10's of thousands of permanent jobs." Total amount of temporary jobs - 2,900 to 4,300, all for an average of 19.5 weeks.  Total actual number of permanent jobs - 35
• Trump once again claims his botched Yemen raid produced "actionable intelligence."  It produced none.  And the target of the raid, Qassim al-Rimi, escaped, then taunted Trump, calling him the "fool in the White House."
• Trump, using the Republican trigger word of 'Chicago,' claims murders and shootings are at "record levels." The violent crime rate is half of what it was in '91, and we currently have the lowest murder rate since the 1960's
  
• Trump claims the US withdrew from the TPP.  We didn't.  We were never in it.  We opted to not join it.
• Trump uses the factual number of 43 million American's living in poverty as "proof" things are horrible in America, without acknowledging the 43 million number is actually down from previous levels
• Trump claims businesses pay 35% in taxes, "the highest rate in the world." 1) most business do not pay the 35% tax rate, due to loopholes, deductions and incentives 2) many countries have a higher business tax rate
• Trump claims President Obama added more to the deficit than all other Presidents combined, leaving out the important FACT that Republicans made sure the bills for the Iraq War, the Afghanistan War, the Medicare Part D expansion and the Bush era tax cuts all came due January 2009.  Claiming Obama added that money to the deficit is dishonest and an outright lie.  Obama did cut deficit spending by 3/4, all by himself
• Trump stated he issued an Executive 'Directive' that all pipelines must be built with American steel.  Note, he didn't issue an Executive Order, rather a Directive.  There is nothing binding to a Presidential Directive (spoiler alert)
  

This is the end of Trump's address to the Joint Session of Congress

• Trump finally condemns the racist shooting in Kansas, a week and a half after the attack
• White House Counterterrorism Czar Sebastian Gorka refuses to state if he thinks Islam is a religion (hint:  It is!)
• The White House forgives Kellyanne Conway, saying she acted "without nefarious motive", when she repeatedly plugged the President's daughter's private product line on Fox News
• A Senior Administrative Official called Trump's attempt to make up a series of false initiatives to reporters in an attempt to get positive coverage was "a misguided play"
• It's reported the Obama Administration was so concerned about Russian ties to the Trump campaign during the election, and the interference they were attempting in the 2016 election, they left a "trail of breadcrumbs" behind for a future investigations to follow
• It's also reported the Obama Administration was very concerned about the numerous meetings that took place between Russian officials and members of the Trump campaign, meetings that occurred at various European cities during the campaign.  The Trump White House has denied the meetings took place
• Attorney General Jeff Session perjured himself when he testified to Congress during his confirmation hearings.  When asked by Senator Al Franken about stories of Russian meetings with the Trump campaign, Sessions willfully volunteered he hadn't met with the Russians.  This was not true.  He had two meetings with the Russians, one clearly part of the Trump campaign at the RNC in Cleveland, and a second one in September at his office in Washington DC
  
• President Trump has repeatedly stated NO ONE in his administration has communicated with the Russians, even though AG Sessions makes three members of his Campaign/Administration to have done so
• In a 1999 C-SPAN interview, Sessions instead anyone who perjured themselves should be held accountable, punished and leave office immediately.  So far he has not held himself to his own standard
• The Wall Street Journal reports the FBI had been investigating Sessions and his connections to the Russians
• The Former President of Mexico Fox actually threatens Trump when he says "Don't mess with us."
• AG Sessions recuses himself from overseeing the ongoing probe of Trumps campaign ties to Russia
• President Trump's travel ban has decimated international travel to the United States, costing the country millions
• A 4th member of the White House, Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is revealed to have met with the Russian Ambassador and former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn in December, prior to Trump becoming President
• Spicer insists Sessions was "100% straight" with the Senate
  
• Melania Trump doesn't call for better health care, rather she calls for "the gift of nature" in healing seriously ill children as she visits a children's hospital in DC
• After Sessions insisted both meetings with the Russians were about "official Senate business," it's revealed the meeting he had at the RNC was funded using money from the Trump Campaign, meaning it clearly wasn't official US government business
• It's revealed a 5th and 6th member of the Trump White House, JD Gordon and Carter Page also met with the Russian Ambassador at the RNC.  Both of their meetings had not been previous disclosed
• Two days after insisting all future American pipelines would use American steel, the Trump Administration immediately reverses itself and allows the Keystone pipeline, the largest of the pipelines, to buy cheap foreign steel (the difference between a Directive and an Order)
• Vice President Pence, while governor of Indiana, used a personal AOL (?!?) account to conduct official state business, some of which was sensitive.  His AOL account was indeed hacked and the state was compromised.  This after both Trump and Pence insisted such behavior was a disqualifying violation of holding the office of President or Vice President
• Secretary if the Interior, Ryan Zinke, pulls off a meaningless stunt riding to work on a horse, in Washington DC, costing additional tax payer dollars to maintain his security and to clear path to his office
• The White house, in a thank you to Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania for voting for him, immediately trims the EPA's Great Lakes Clean Up Fund by 97%
• For no reason whatsoever, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke lifts the restrictions on shooting with lead ammunition at National Parks and Wildlife Refuges
  

Are you freaking kidding me?  No seriously, ARE YOU FREAKING KIDDING ME?!?  All of this in ONE week...

Read all six weekly updates on Trump's buffoonery and realize there isn't a single Congressional investigation of the Trump White House currently going on.  The Yemen Raid?  No.  Russian Connections?  No.  His never ending lies?  No.  His role in the rise of anti-semitism in America?  No.  His claims of voter fraud?  No.  The lies his Administration's nominees have repeatedly told?  No.  The fact NUMEROUS members of his Administration, including himself and the Vice President have been caught using private e-mails for official business, AND some of their e-mail accounts were hacked, all this while Trump and Pence were insisting such actions invalidated Hillary for President?  Unbelievably, No.

If you're a Republican voter, and you've read all of Trump's horrendous incompetence from the first 6 weeks, and you still aren't asking for an investigation, you're worthless.  You have no dignity, no honor, no integrity, no morality.  I've zero respect for you!  I'm saving everything I've written for when you try to take a minor issue you have with a Democrat and turn it into a "massive scandal!"  You'll NEVER be able to insist you're just looking for justice.  You clearly are willing to overlook undeniable crimes against the American people and the United States, because you love your urine soaked, sexual assaulting, Russian worshipping, militarily incompetent, soulless anti-Christian boob.