President Trump, Week 11

Here's this week's list of narcissistic incompetence coming from President Trump and his White House for the week beginning 2 PM Friday, March 31st to 2 PM Friday, April 7th.  This is likely not all of the Trump team's transgressions, but it's most of them.

The purpose of this list is to point out the hypocrisy of the Republican party.  If the letter next to the President's name was a 'D' instead of an 'R,' everything on this list would've had at least warranted a mocking press conference from the Republicans.  Many of these issues would've lead to immediate Congressional investigations, and some would've started impeachment proceedings.  Instead, the GOP is storming around the stage at a Springer show, screaming about how everyone is a liar, after Jerry tells him, "you're the father of this grossly outmatched dimwit of a President!"

Off we go! Eleventh verse, same as the first!

• A judge approves a $25 million dollar settlement to a lawsuit brought by former students of Trump University.  Trump was defrauding students.  If this was a Democrat, I guarantee we'd have four years of wronged students testifying before Congress
  
• Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, in March of 2016, was buying $90,000 in pharmaceutical stock while at the same time making calls to halt rules, rules which if halted would dramatically help the same company's profits.  He was a sitting Congressman when he did this
• White House Financial Disclosure forms were released.  Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, the President's daughter and son-in-law, both White House Administration members, have at least $240 million in assets, and the real estate they decided to hold onto could lead to massive conflicts of interest issues
• Financial Disclosure forms show that Senior Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon was the Vice President of Cambridge Analytica, the firm which collected psychological profiles on 200 million American citizens
• Due to Trump's hyper aggressive crackdown on foreigners in America, both legal and undocumented, two doctors in Houston are in the process of being deported 
• Germany directly tells the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, "No!" in regards to Trump's demands that everyone else in NATO spend more money
• The Head of the EPA, Scott Pruitt is already under investigation from his own agency because he boldly disagrees with a scientific fact, CO2 is causing climate change.  Pruitt offers zero evidence of his assertions
• A manufacturing plant Trump claimed was a symbol of his great success of being President, the Caterpillar plant in Illinois, announced it will be closing
  
• In a Twitter temper tantrum, Trump goes off on NBC news for their failure to cover the already debunked 'President Obama wiretapped me' story
• The world's reluctance to travel to the USA while Trump is in charge is having a dramatic effect on the American tourism sector.  The so called 'Trump Slump' will cost America 7 BILLION in lost tourism dollars
• Trump is violating his 'Buy American, Hire American' policy with his Mexican border wall, as efforts to keep the costs down have opened the door for the White House to solicit bids for construction from Mexican and El Salvadoran companies
• Trump "quotes" a Fox News story to insist he was being spied on before the election, when in truth the Fox News story is about who's been leaking information from his Administration
  
• Trump's Director of Social Media, and Senior Advisor, Dan Scavino Jr. threats Freedom Caucus Republican Representative Justin Amash, calling him a hurdle to Trump's agenda, and calling for his defeat
• Senior Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Adam Schiff says there's nothing from Republican leader of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Devin Nunes' 'Trump defense documents,' (documents which do no such thing) which can't be shared with the public.  Nunes, Trump and the Republicans have declined to share them
• It's discovered Ivanka Trump still owes an active share in a Washington DC hotel, even though she has a White House role and it's a clear conflict of interest
• For the 2nd time during his short Presidency, Trump walks out of an official signing ceremony without signing the official document.  The Vice President tried to stop him, but they decided to grab the unsigned document and walk out the door.  You only had ONE job!
  
• It's revealed when Scavino Jr. attacked Rep. Amash, he likely violated the Hatch Act, attempting to electioneer by a government official
• Members of the White House staff have turned against Jared Kushner, claiming he's WAY out his league in regards to the volume of official White House duties he's trying to tackle
• It's revealed former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn kept millions of dollars he made from Russian businesses from the government.  The money was finally disclosed in the financial disclosure dump from last Friday
• A judge has ruled a lawsuit claiming Trump incited violence at a campaign rally in Kentucky, where he encouraged his supporters to turn on protesters, hurting them, can move forward
• It's revealed White House spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway worked for the group behind the dishonest and highly edited anti-Planned Parenthood videos, videos so misleading the group is now facing felony criminal charges in California
• Fox News' Chris Wallace goes after EPA Chief Scott Pruitt for his insistence that humans play no roll in climate change.  Wallace's quote: 'this isn't all a coincidence.'
• Rep. Schiff tells people when Trump uses the word 'fake' it should set off alarm bells
• UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, in response to her criticizing Russia and how her comments are wildly different from Trump, her boss, states "He can say what he wants, whenever he wants."  No, he really shouldn't
• Trump tells the Financial Times he has a plan to deal with North Korea, and if China isn't on board, it'll be bad for everyone
• A report states Trump decided to not throw out the first pitch at a Major League opening weekend baseball game, the first President since Taft to turn down the offer, because he was terrified of getting booed
  
• Trump golfed for the 14th time (that we know of) since taking office
• The Republican Activist trying to get the GOP to back a pro-Ukranian stance at the RNC last year, Diana Denman, said she was overruled by people in the highest levels of the Trump campaign, including J.D. Gordon, the Trump campaign's National Security Advisor
• Angered once again the media isn't constantly attacking Democratic candidate, and winner of 3 million more votes than Trump in 2016, Hillary Clinton and former President Obama, Trump goes on another Twitter temper tantrum, citing the wildly biased Fox News' Fox & Friends show as his source for the scandal(?)
  
• ProPublica releases a story which reveals even though Trump's private businesses/money are supposed to be in a blind trust, he rewrote the rules.  The new rules allow for him to withdraw money from them at any time without a financial disclosure
• UN Ambassador Nikki Haley breaks once again from her boss, Trump, saying Russia was "certainly" involved in the 2016 election, adding she does not trust Putin
• Trump, two and a half months into office, threatens his own party once again, by telling the Republicans he'll work with the Democrats "if we don't get what we want!"
• Republican Senator John McCain states leader of the House Intelligence Committee Rep. Devin Nunes personally killed off the bipartisan investigation into Russia and Trump in the US House
• The White House releases an official White House photo of First Lady Melania Trump, with the caption listing the White House as her "new residence." Melania does not live there.  She lives in NYC
• Donald Trump Jr.'s friend Gentry Beach was allowed access to the security council in an effort to get them to lift sanctions on Venezuela.  Trump Jr. is not officially a government or White House employee, making this a textbook definition of 'unethical access'
  
• It's noted Trump has already violated 5 iron clad campaign promises: 1) Total and complete shutdown of all Muslims entering the US, 2) Mexico will pay for the new border wall, 3) the IMMEDIATE repeal and replacement of Obamacare, 4) He won't be on Twitter if he becomes President, 5) When he becomes President, he will not vacation or play golf
• Senate Republicans announce they're at the point of blowing up the filibuster in order to get Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court
• In an odd story which clearly needs further investigation, there's a computer located in Trump Tower where the two main businesses communicating with it are 1) Russian bank AlfaBank (80% of the traffic) and 2) Spectrum Health (19% of the traffic), a company owned by the husband of Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.  This has the looks of a backdoor channel of communication between Russia and Trump officials.  AflaBank and Spectrum's official excuses for their companies contact with said computer make no sense
  
• Michael Flynn seems to have been in a relationship with Russian Agent Svetlana Lokhova, a woman with a high level of Russian government clearance.  It appears to have been a personal relationship
• Blackwater founder, and all around jackass, Erik Prince met with a Russian operative with close ties to Putin in the Seychelles Islands in June, to establish a back channel line of communication between Trump and Russia
  
• This would be a good time to mention Erik Prince, the founder of Blackwater, is also the brother of Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos
• Democratic Senators are floating the idea of filibustering Gorsuch due to the swirling treason allegations floating around the Administration
• Trump, after being called out for violating his promise to not take a paycheck while President, handed his first quarter of pay to a National Parks Service Park Ranger.  The total amount of the check was $78,000.  The Trump Administration has proposed cutting the budget for the Interior Department, the department the National Parks are regulated through, by 2 billion dollars
  
• It's reported the reason Trump hands most tasks to Jared Kushner is because he has no faith in most of his staff
• Trump Campaign Advisor Carter Page's questionable history with the Russians goes back to 2013 when Russia was trying to recruit him to possibly pass intel onto the Russians.  Carter seemed willing to betray his country back then
• Trump has halted all grants to the UN Population Fund, an organization which prevented 10,000 maternal deaths last year and works to end child genital mutilation
• After spending a year plus condemning President Obama's lack of public condemnation of human right's abuses in the Middle East, Trump's White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, when questioned about Trump's lack of public condemnation, states it's "best discussed privately"
• Trump signs a Republican bill allowing internet companies to sell your browsing history without your consent.  
• Sean Spicer attacks ProPublica for revealing Trump's backdoor private money access maneuver by calling them a 'left wing blog.'  ProPublica responds with a factual beatdown of Spicer which discredits both his asinine statement, and Spicer's ability to be honest
  
• Trump still insists Hillary Clinton got all of her debate questions in advance but does not explain how or why, nor does he offer evidence
• Jared Kushner had to coordinate his trip to Iraq on his own because apparently the State Department is in total chaos.  They haven't even hired a spokesperson yet
• Trump and Trump Jr. are frantically trying to deflect from his Administration/Campaign's treason by insisting President Obama's National Security Officer Susan Rice was the REAL bad person for wanting to publicly release the names of the Trump people openly working with the Russians to undermine American Democracy, something she was within her legal right to do as National Security Advisor 
• Trump nominee for Secretary of the Army Senator Mark Green has fought relentlessly for the right to discriminate against the LGBTQ community
• United Arab Emirates allegedly set up the meeting in the Seychelles Islands between Erik Prince and the Russians
• Trump, in a desperate attempt to save TrumpCare, tells the Freedom Caucus he's willing to go back on another campaign promise and get rid of the 'pre-existing conditions being covered' requirement
  
• Attorney General Jeff Session puts an end to investigations into rogue police officers and police departments, signaling an end to federal police reform efforts
• Nikki Haley states the US has changed it's mind as far as Bashar al-Assad, the leader of Syria, a man who used chemical weapons on his own people.  She signals that regime change is no longer a requirement for a final solution in Syria
• Assad, almost on cue, once again uses chemical weapons on his own people, within hours of Haley and Rex Tillerson stating the US would be okay with him staying in power
• Sean Spicer blames President Obama for the dead in Syria, mere hours after his own Administration's signals of Assad acceptance emboldened him to attack his own people
• Senator McCain openly criticizes Trump and Tillerson for their incompetent display in regards to Syria
• A thousand LGBTQ protesters hold a dance party protest outside Ivanka Trump's house
  
• Trump praises the building of the Empire State Building as what he envisions for American construction.  The Empire State Building was built in a lightning fast 13 months, but 5 people died building the building, countless were injured, many seriously, due to the frantic and reckless conditions
• Ivanka Trump, when asked if she is an independent voice, or if she's complicit in her father's demands, seems to not understand the meaning of the word 'complicit'
• Representative Joaquin Castro, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, during an interview, states some people included in the Trump/Russia probe will "end up in jail"
• Presidential advisor and Trump friend Roger Stone, insists Jared Kushner is leaking information to MSNBC
• It seems very likely the Russians got their information about the American people from Cambridge Analytica, the data company run by the Trump backing Mercer family, the same company Steve Bannon was listed as the Vice President of
• The Susan Rice accusation Trump, Trump Jr. and the White House are desperately trying to use to deflect from the treasonous actions of the White House/Trump Campaign came from the same guy who gave us Pizzagate
  
• Trump tells a room of construction workers he got all of their votes.  Trump is immediately booed, loudly
• After insisting Erik Prince never had a role in the Trump campaign, the White House acknowledges that Prince did indeed have a designated role within the Trump campaign
• Justice Department rules it will not release the e-mails from Makan Delrahim, Trump's Anti-Trust Regulator nominee
• North Korea responds to Trump's saber rattling by launching a missile into the Sea of Japan, but to be fair, North Korea could have been targeting anyplace.  They're not that good with the military stuff
• TrumpCare receives another setback as now moderate Republicans vow to never support the bill if it doesn't keep the protections for pre-exisiting conditions in place
• Representative Jan Schakowsky calls for a full investigation in to Trump's exact relationship with Erik Prince
• Trump removed Steve Bannon from his position on the National Security Council, as well as downgraded the role of his Homeland Security Advisor Tom Bossert
  
• White House confirms the ProPublica story Sean Spicer had insisted was false
• After Trump vowed to keep all jobs in America, it's announced Illinois Tool Works, Triumph Group, TE Connectivity Limited, Rexnord Corporation, and Carrier are all going to move jobs to Mexico
• According to the New York Times, National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster was the force behind removing Bannon from the National Security Council
• April is National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month, and Trump, a man who has a questionable history in this realm (to say the least) starts it off by praising and defending Fox News Anchor Bill O'Reilly, a man who was making headlines for his repeated problem of sexually harassing women
  
• Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly now says Trump's Mexico wall will likely not be a complete wall.  This would contradict another of Trump's promises
• Trump keeps insisting Susan Rice committed a non-existent crime, and offers zero evidence to back up his claims
• Rep. Schiff calls Sean Spicer's bluff, where Spicer said the White House would have no problem with Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates testifying in a committee hearing, and asks to schedule her up to testify for the House. No response from Spicer
• Fox News states Trump booted Bannon off the NSC because he was hogging the spotlight
  
• A judge has ordered Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to hand over the notes he had in his hand as he was photographed a few months back getting ready to meet with Trump about gutting the National Voter Registration Act
• Trump wanted to give Fox News the exclusive rights to the Inauguration 
• The home page image from the Bureau of Land Management webpage is an image of a man in front of a large wall of coal...no really!
  
• Steve Bannon allegedly threatened to quit when he was removed from the NSC, but a mega donor talked him out of it
• Jared Kushner was also a major advocate for the removal of Bannon from the NSC
• Betsy DeVos was heckled on the campus of FIU, when someone screamed at her, "they bought you a cabinet position!"
• Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner are apparently at each other's throats.  Bannon refers to Kushner as a "globalist cuck"
• Dozens of Secret Service agents are pulled from criminal investigations to provide protection details for the extended Trump family
• Rep. Devin Nunes, a major Trump advocate and head of the House Intelligence Committee, is stepping down as the head of the committee as an ethics complaint has been filed against him for 1) how exactly he received his pro-Trump information, and 2) for making a potential unauthorized disclosure of classified information
• Nunes' replacement, Representative K. Michael Conaway says he has yet to see the intel Nunes used as his basis to defend Trump
• Steve Bannon's "former" news outlet Breitbart starts publishing anti-Kushner stories
• The White House states Speaker of the House Paul Ryan will lose his speakership if he can't pass TrumpCare, sending the GOP into "total chaos mode"
  
• Trump once again refuses to release the evidence he says he has against Susan Rice
• After Trump's SCOTUS pick Gorsuch fails to overcome a filibuster, Senator Mitch McConnell invokes the 'nuclear option,' removing the filibuster from the Senate and begins pushing Gorsuch to the Supreme Court with a simple majority vote.  This ushers in the completeness of one party rule in Washington DC, setting in stone the McConnell Doctrine
• Trump's budget cuts funding to the EPA's lead paint removal and awareness program
• Education Secretary Betsy DeVos praises rapper Pitbull's charter school called The Slam Academy.  The rating for The Slam Academy in Florida is a C grade, and their funding source has a questionable history
• After Trump tried to revive TrumpCare, it dies again, with moderate Republicans leading the revolt this time
• This would be a good time to point out that for seven years, the GOP promised they had a plan to replace Obamacare.  They at no point had a replacement plan, or even a framework, in place, only rhetoric and anti-Obamacare talking points
• Trump decided to meet with the press on Air Force One, in front of a screen showing the movie Rogue One, including images of Darth Vader behind him
  
• Twitter sues the Department of Homeland Security to prevent from having to release the information of the person behind the parody account, Alt US Citizenship and Immigration Services
• Trump states he thinks he's had the most successful first 13 weeks in the History of the Presidency...pardon me a second... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA...I should point out this is his 11th week in office
• After criticizing Hillary Clinton during the campaign, insisting she'd start a war with Syria, Trump attacks Syria
  
• The US attacks Syria four days after Nikki Haley and Rex Tillerson state the US would be okay with leaving Assad in power
• The US warned Russia of the impending Syria attack, a known ally of Syria
• Jared Kushner failed to list his meetings with various Russians when he filled out the paperwork to get his security clearance
• Trump said Rep. Elijah Cummings called him a great president.  He didn't
• It's now reported Syria knew the US raid on their airfield was coming and managed to evacuate all their men and equipment before the missiles were dropped
  
• Former Saturday Night Live cast member Taran Killam said when Trump hosted the show he wasn't able to read the jokes off of the cue cards, and clearly had a lot of problems reading from a script during rehearsals.  This backs up late night host Samantha Bee's claim that Trump might not be able to read
• Trump has spent a third of his time in office at an official Trump property
• Trump's budget kills Amtrak, with 220 cities losing their train service
• Trump's FCC plans on immediately removing their net neutrality rules for the internet, turning your internet into something far closer to cable TV
• A US military official states the strike on Syria was conducted to make sure Russia's long term plans weren't hindered
  
• As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announces his plans to visit Moscow next week, it's revealed that Russia might have played a role in the Chemical attack Assad perpetrated on his own people
• Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, a flawed judge with questionable ethics, put forward by an Administration under investigation for treason, and approved by removing the Democratic process in place to ensure one party rule doesn't happen, is officially approved for the Supreme Court, completing the final act in the stealing of President Obama's final Supreme Court pick, a pick removed from him because he was black
  

That's a spirit breaker...

After following Trump closely, something has become undeniable.  He doesn't want this job.  This guy's never worked a real day in his life, and he's placed himself in a job which ages you four years for every year you're in office.  This is a man who prided himself on not caring for anyone but himself, and now he finds himself in a position of having care for 330 million Americans.  

He HATES being President.

He should resign now, and hand the reigns over to Mike Pence.  This is in no way an endorsement of Pence, or his Amish dining habits, but at least Pence is a seasoned politician who understand the basic complexities of holding down a political office.  With every day he's in office, Trump wants to be there less and less.  He should just resign, and be done with it.  He'll always be 45, and considering  what kind of man he is, that's probably good enough for him.  And the country will be FAR better with him gone.