President Trump, Week 7

Here's this week's list of buffoonery coming from President Trump, and the White House, for the week beginning 2 PM Friday, March 3rd to 2 PM Friday, March 10th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

Once again, the reason I'm posting this list is because if the letter next to President's name was a 'D' instead of and 'R', most of this list would've AT LEAST warranted a stern, condemning press conference.  The majority of these infractions would've justified immediate Congressional hearings, and more than a few of these would've been the catalyst to begin impeachment proceedings.  But who are we kidding?  If a Democrat had the same list of incompetence Trump's had these first 7 weeks, the Republicans would've already thrown them out of office.  That's a fact.

Grab the Pepto-Bismol and let's proceed:

• President Trump, in an effort to deflect from the continued fallout of his Administration's numerous contacts with the Russians, puts forward a non-comparable, 15 year old image of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, an image originating from an racist, alt-right social media account, as the justification for his Administration's repeated Russian infractions and lies
  
• In another attempt at deflection, Trump goes on an unhinged Twitter rant insisting former President Obama wire tapped Trump Tower in NYC prior to the election.  Trump offers ZERO proof of said wiretapping
• It's discovered the Obama wiretapping story Trump is running with is a made up story coming from far right lie machine Breitbart
• Trump goes an another unhinged Twitter rant, attacking the host of a reality show, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
• Trump spent his 4th weekend (of his first 7) at Mar-A-Lago, a trip which costs taxpayers 3 million dollars every time he makes it
  
• It's reported the Trump Administration is outright threatening government employees, in an attempt to stop the continued leaks in his Administration
• In another attempt at deflection away from his continued Russian problem, Trump threatens House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi with an investigation because of a public meeting she had with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader, a meeting which was official government business, out in the open, a meeting that was NEVER lied about by Pelosi
• In the Twitter threat against Minority Leader Pelosi, Trump misspells the word 'hereby,' twice
• White House lawyers spend the weekend combing through anything they can find in an effort to discover 'evidence' of Trump's claim Obama wiretapped him.  They find nothing 
• Trump is apparently furious with his staff in regards the public perception and fallout from the Attorney General Jeff Session's perjury scandal
• Roger Stone, a Trump advisor, goes on a BONKERS Twitter rant against a female critic, where he not only uses the B-word repeatedly, he also tweets (and then deletes) his admission that he has an open channel of communications with the head of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, becoming a lynchpin between Russia, Trump and Wikileaks in regards to the election tampering of 2016
• A pro-Trump rally at Berkeley, California becomes violent.  Trump, his administration, and all Republicans, who had previously demanded every Democrat apologize when an anti-Trump rally at Berkeley became violent, remains suspiciously quiet about the pro-Trump rally violence
  
• The Director of the FBI, James Comey, strongly demands the Department of Justice immediately condemn the false Trump claim of President Obama's wiretapping
• Due to Trump's unconstitutional travel ban, an Afghan family with legal US visas was held in an airport for several days
• For some reason, the US Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, appeared to be working the crowd and glad-handing guests at Mar-A-Lago over the weekend 
• Even though it was a charity event, Trump openly promoted an event at his private resort, as President of the United States
• In an ominous sign, a Russian ship pulls into a New Jersey port, loaded to the gills with Russian ore to be processed into steel.  The port processing plant has been specifically designed and built for processing foreign, primarily Russian, ore.  The Russians are expecting to process a tremendous amount of ore at this facility, with an eye on government contracts.  This after Trump insisted American steel for American projects
• House Judiciary Committee Democrats call out Trump and his Administration for their attempts to make up 'evidence' about the fake Obama wiretapping story, asking why they're pressuring the US's Intelligence community to back up their unsubstantiated claims
• Department of Homeland Security analysis shows Trump's travel bans are more about restricting certain groups of people from coming into the United States as opposed to what the Administration claims is the primary goal, counterterrorism efforts
  
• Press Secretary Sean Spicer deflects on the Obama wiretapping claim by saying the White House will no longer comment on the issue until after a full Congressional Investigation has been finished
• Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders stammers her way through a TV interview when asked where the Trump claims of Obama wiretapping him came from, and what evidence the White House has for such claims
• Trump is apparently furious no one believes his made up Obama wiretapping story
• Trump reissues his travel ban.  Even though he claims the travel ban is relatively unchanged, it's actually dramatically scaled back, now only applying to people from six countries who don't already have visas
• Trump, a man who says he's guided by Christian principles, implements a new travel ban which prohibits all refugees for 120 days, and decreases the allowable number from 120,000 to 50,000
  
• Over the time period North Korea was repeatedly firing missiles into the Sea of Japan as a direct threat to the US and it's allies, Trump was out golfing, hanging out at his resort, getting into repeated Twitter fights and making up an outrageous lie agains this predecessor.  One thing he never did is explain to the American people what he plans on doing about North Korea
• Trump has his 8th golfing excursion in six and a half weeks as president
• Trump misspells the word 'tap.'
  
• A report surfaces of a strange Trump property in Azerbaijan which seems to be a front for a local organized crime outfit
• Analysis has shown Trump has spent a quarter of his time as President at Mar-A-Lago
• Dr. Ben Carson, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, insists slaves shipped to America against their will, to be held as property in forced servitude, had the "same hopes and dreams" as other early immigrants who came to the US of their own free will
• Trump gives a great example of the meaning of 'duplicity' as he insists on waiting for the reliable investigation into his made up Obama's wiretapping allegation by the same House and Senate Committees whom he claims are fraudulent with their (as yet to be released) findings on Trump's Russian connections
• Trump is preparing to strip Federal workers of the extra pay they've earned when they work overtime
• It's been discovered Trump's partner in the Azerbaijan property was a government official who is a known front for the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, making President Trump in undeniable violation of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, where you're not allowed to engage in international business with known organized crime outfits and/or terrorists
  
• Trump claims President Obama released 122 prisoners form Guantanamo.  Former President George W. Bush realized the vast majority of the 122.  Obama released 9.
• In a heartless and EXTREMELY anti-Christian attempt at deterring immigration, Homeland Security is threatening to separate parents from their children at the border
• President Trump, after the GOP released their replacement for the Affordable Care Act, was forced to go on damage control in regards to the unfinished and inadequate plan, referring to a "Phase 2" and "Phase 3" of the replacement, 'phases' no one else seems to be aware of
• A report claims the White House is colluding with Russian Intelligence agencies in the targeting of US journalists
• In praising Exxon Mobil for no apparent reason (?!?), the White House copies an Exxon Mobile media release near verbatim
• The Secretary of Transportation, Elaine Chao, suggests a MASSIVE expansion of toll roads and fee based bridges in the US's future
• It's revealed Trump did indeed meet with the Russian Ambassador on April 27th, 2016 while campaigning for President, something he and his staff have repeatedly denied
• It's now admitted that White House staffer Carter Page not only met with the Russian Ambassador at the RNC, he also went to Moscow to met with Russian officials as an official member of the Trump campaign, something he was told by campaign leaders to deny if asked
• With a St. Patrick's Day version of Trump's MAGA hat, Trump's team makes two cultural mistakes in regards to Ireland
  
• In a bizarre, prop driven press conference Sean Spicer claims the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act isn't a government program.  It undeniably is a government program
• In a prime example of the old expression 'robbing Peter to pay Paul,' Trump is funding his private government military force, ICE, by making drastic cuts to the Coast Guard (a branch of the armed services) the TSA and to FEMA
• White House spokesperson Kellyanne Conway demands everyone stop calling the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act TrumpCare.  TrumpCare is still referred to as TrumpCare
• MSNBC reporter flumoxes Sean Spicer when she asks the very legit question 'why does the Congress have to investigate Trump's baseless claims of Obama wiretapping if Trump claims to have evidence of Obama doing so?  Can't the Trump Administration just hand them the evidence they have?'  Spicer steams
• Trump bans the media from all of his meetings after they refuse to report his baseless Obama wiretapping claims as fact
• Trump's private businesses, which are supposed to be completely separate from the President at this point, were awarded a surprising amount of trademarks from China, uncharacteristically fast, for a wide variety of business options in China, such as massage parlors and social escort services
  
• Senate Democrats have sent Secretary of State Rex Tillerson a letter asking how exactly the State Department has gotten into such disarray in only a month and a half
• Sessions apparently met the Russian Ambassador a third time.  He had not mentioned this third meeting either
• Spicer and White House spokespeople preemptively attack the unreleased Congressional Budget Office's report on the likely high cost of the GOP's ACA replacement plan, TrumpCare
• The White House announces plans to cut 6 BILLION dollars form the Housing and Urban Development Department's budget, likely crippling many of that department's programs
• The Trump team misspells Kirsten Gillibrand's name in a 2020 campaign fundraising e-mail.  It's March of 2017
• Trump's choice to run the Air Force also has a conflict of interest problem due to his existing relationship with Lockheed Martin.  He'll likely have to withdraw, meaning Tump will be 0-3 in Armed Services Secretary selection
• If the Republican replacement to the Affordable Care Act (TrumpCare) fails, Trump announces the solution will be to blame the Democrats
  
• Roger Stone, the Trump advisor who admitted to knowing the head of WikiLeaks, is now discovered to have had direct communications with the computer hacker, Guccifer 2.0, who hacked the Democrats' computers during Election 2016, hacking which was ordered by the Russians, with hacked information which was eventually published by WikiLeaks.  The Republican Congress yawns...
  
• The Head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt insists carbon dioxide doesn't cause climate change.  Spoiler alert:  it does!  His own EPA website states it as a fact based on scientific evidence
• Trump, for the third time, blows off a meeting with a Veteran's group.  He sends reality star turned White House spokeswoman Omarosa, a person with no Military experience, as his replacement
• Trump's travel ban has dramatically damaged the potential for the USA to host the 2026 World Cup, a sporting event which means billions in tourism dollars for the host country
• Another wave of threats against the American Jewish community, throughout the week, a 6th wave of incidents since Trump claimed the US doesn't have an anti-semitism problem
• While he was a member of the Trump campaign team, former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was also receiving $500,000 from Turkey to work on behalf of their best interests, interests which were undermining US foreign policy at the time
• Another connection between Trump and WikiLeaks as Brexit Leader and Trump British confidant Nigel Farage has longstanding ties to Assange 
• Sean Spicer actually goes into a press conference with his flag pin upside down
• Operating under orders from Trump, Federal thug and enforcement agency ICE holds a US citizen for days, with the sole reason being "he looked Hispanic."
• Sean Spicer alleges there's a covert shadow government actually working against Trump.  He offers no proof of such an allegation
  
• The State Department was unaware the Mexican Foreign Minister was in Washington DC to meet with the White House
• Trump, who had repeatedly claimed the Obama employment numbers from the Department of Labor were grossly underreported, were all lies, and were part of a large cover up to prevent the American people from knowing the truth about the US's massive underreported unemployment problem, now says the same numbers, coming from the same department, under the same methodology, are completely legitimate since they show his employment numbers are positive.

You want to know how bi-polar the standard Republican is today?  One of the things I purposely left off this list was the story of how Trump's plane keeps ending up at the same airport, at the same time, as the plane for Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian Billionaire.  I left this off the list because it is purely speculative, even though verifiable.  Even if they are meeting, we have no idea what they're talking about, although my guess is it's not social.  Rybolovlev has some questionable business practices to say the least, but there does seem to be a legit private sale between the two in the past.  And you can't deny one of the the American airports where the planes met (Las Vegas, Charlotte, Miami) is a little strange.  Vegas and Miami I can overlook, but Charlotte, North Carolina?  

If this was the ONLY thing a Democrat had clouding their record, every major Republican would be screaming for a full investigation, subpoenaing everyone.  What did they talk about? Why were they there?  Why Charlotte?  Is it part of some super secret international Star Chamber???  They'd be going crazy, demanding answers, and starting impeachment proceeding on 'what might have been talked about!'

It's sad to watch a man violate everything this country is supposed to stand for, while the party who claims to be the most patriotic decides to ignore the assault on our Democracy, placing party loyalty over country.