President Trump, Week 44

Here's this week's jaw dropping list of incompetence coming from President Trump, and the White House, for the week beginning Monday, November 13th to Sunday November 19th.  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 silently staring at their shoes, clenching their teeth, would be having a very different reaction. Everything on this list would've garnered at least a press conference, many items would've triggered official Congressional investigations, and some would've lead to impeachment proceedings.

Instead, the Republicans are looking like turkeys before Thanksgiving, hoping they'll be the one left in the cage when the day of reckoning (in their case election day) is over.  Time to baste!

When it pops, it's done! Onward!

• Senator Mark Warner of the Senate Intelligence Committee is entertaining the idea of making Donald Trump Jr's (Tweedle Dee)'s testimony to the Committee public
• More questions about the mysterious Whitefish Energy Contract with Puerto Rico.  Reminder, Whitefish was a tiny electrical company of 2 people in Whitefish, Montana who happened to capture a massive rebuild contract with Puerto Rico.  We know of at least three personal connections to Whitefish within the Trump Administration (Zinke, Perry and Trump himself).  The company charged Puerto Rico $319 an hour for linemen, and the company only paid their linemen on average $63 per hour (19% of the $319).  The $319 is 17 times more than the Puerto Rican workers would have cost.  Whitefish's contract was cancelled when details emerged.  A large portion of the island is still without power
  
• A photo of US Army Veterans, who've been deported, saluting the US flag on Veteran's Day in Ciudad Juarez, has gone viral.  They were deported by Trump's brownshirts, ICE agents
  
• How's Trump being received in the Philippines? He's being burned in effigy, an effigy which features Trump and a swastika, and the protesters are being assaulted with water cannons and batons...so, not so well
• Another country, another awkward shirt photo with another world president.  I guarantee the same people who went crazy about 'tan suits' would be making a deal about this if a Democrat was in the White House ( I don't wanna be a pirate!)
  
• Trump's basic motor skills are called into question as a symbolic handshake, where all the world leaders form a chain, fell apart when Trump couldn't figure out what he was supposed to do
• Former Senior Presidential Advisor Steve Bannon, is employing people of the Jewish faith to help fight for Trump.  Considering Bannon's embracing of white nationalists and the Nazis, I'd be surprised if he gets many takers
• Trump claims he has a great relationship with self proclaimed murderer and evil dictator Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines
  
• Trump insists he and Duterte discussed his country's deplorable human rights record.  Duterte insists the two NEVER discussed the issue 
• The new 'chicken in every pot!' First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump is pushing for Trump's tax reform, insisting the Trump tax bill would guarantee every family the opportunity to have a Mandarin Chinese Language tutor.  The comical nature of this aside, and ignoring the fact this means hiring a TON of foreign workers, the tax bill is nowhere close to giving most people a $35,000 to $50,000 a year tax break required for such a purchase
  
• The White House is implying Puerto Rico is coming back from the massive hurricane which ravaged the island.  They're saying this as a way to justify ramping down their recovery efforts on the US island.  The truth is Puerto Rico is nowhere near 'coming back.'  Below a recent food box for the needy:
  
• Trump supporter's supposedly boycotted the NFL over Veteran's Day weekend.  It didn't work as attendance at games actually increased
• The Army is lifting it's ban on people with a history of certain health issues (self mutilation, bipolar disorder depression and chemical abuse) from being able to enlist.  If this was  Democratic President's Army, I GUARANTEE this would be an issue
• A letter is coming to light which could get Vice President Mike Pence in a lot of trouble.  Pence was warned on November 18th of 2016 to not hire Michael Flynn due to his connections to Russia and other foreign governments.  The letter, from Representative Elijah Cummings, contradicts Pence's argument he never knew of Flynn's questionable connections, a statement he made multiple times after receiving the letter
  
• The Joint Committee on Taxation, the equivalent of the CBO for taxes, released it's official study of the Trump tax plan currently in the Senate.  The plan would definitely raise taxes for, or deny tax breaks to, 73 million households earning less than $200K a year.  That's the majority of middle and lower class households
• Trump has named Former Pharmaceutical Executive Alex Azar as his replacement for Tom Price as Secretary of Health and Human Services.  Azar worked for drug giant Eil Lilly earlier this year, but Trump promises "He will be a star for better healthcare and lower drug prices."
  
• Trump's Communications Director for the Office of Public Liaison Omarosa Manigault insists her job is "everything," but when asked specifics of what she does, she can't put together a clear image of what exactly she does.  She's getting paid $180K a year to do whatever she's doing
  
• Former Trump Campaign Staffer George Papadopoulos was very specific when relating details of what the Russians were offering when he talked with Senior Presidential Advisor Stephen Miller.  From London in April of 2016, Papadopoulos told Miller of Russia's invite for Trump to meet Putin, and after the meeting with "the professor," told Miller about the treasure trove of Clinton/DNC emails which the Russians had hacked.  Georgie told Miller "interesting messages coming in from Moscow."
• Trump's Opioid Addiction Panel seems to mainly be focused on cracking down on legal marijuana use, even having it described as a "dangerous fixation"
• Brett Talley, the comical Trump Judicial nominee who has an unqualified rating from he American Bar Association, and who's never even tried a case in his life, lied on his disclosure forms.  He is married to Ann Donaldson, the Chief of Staff to White House Counsel Donald McGahn, and she's a witness in the Mueller probe.  Talley never discloser HIS WIFE!
  
• Trump, looking for any victory at all, has once again asked the Congress to cut the individual ObamaCare mandate, and to trim the tax rate for the wealthiest Americans
• Trump's tax plan cuts the benefit for bicyclists who bike to and from work, $20 a month
• Proving the lying about crowd size thing runs in the family, First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump insists her hardly attended speech in Japan was bursting at the seems
  
• A sign of how desperate the White House is.  Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigning and being re-appointed to his Senate seat has come up, mainly because yet another woman has accused Republican Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore of raping her when she was a teenager.  They're going to lose that seat, and make it harder for Trump to get anything passed
• People are calling for FCC Chairman Ajit Pai to be investigated for supposed favoritism to Sinclair Broadcasting, a notorious far right wing news outlet
• An anti-Trump hotel is opening in DC, labeling itself as safe for liberals to stay
  
• The Atlantic has obtained the transcripts of messages between Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) and Wikileaks.  Jr., it turns out, was a go between for Wikileaks and the Trump Campaign.  The messages have been given to investigators. One of the messages from election night told Jr. to not concede the Election that evening if Trump lost.  Another message encouraged him to release e-mails this summer in regards to the revealed Trump Tower meeting.  Most of the communications seem to be one sided, but Jr. did communicate back occasionally.  These conversations began in 2016 and continued up until Summer of 2017
• Legal experts claim Trump Jr. could be in big trouble as the laws state campaigns can not coordinate with ANY non-Americans.  That's illegal
• Trump's new nominee for Health and Human Services Alex Azar worked for years to allow drug companies to keep their cost for making life saving drugs secret from the public
  
• The House Russia Investigation wants to interview Eric Trump (Tweedle Dum)
• On the same day Vice President Pence insisted the Trump Campaign wasn't "in cahoots" with Wikileaks,  Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) sent out a link which was provided to him from Wikileaks
• Jeff Sessions is supposedly looking at a second special council to run interference....I mean look into the Clinton Foundation
  
• Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is a nut.  Not only did he want to begin a weird ritual with the Interior Departmental flag display on the building, but now it comes to light he almost immediately wanted to redesign the Interior Department's flag, a flag with limited changes in the history of the Department.  Zinke also wanted the Department flag and his own Personal Secretary Flag to be as big as the American Flag when displayed, something they can't be.  These requests are creating a lot of head scratching and arcane historic rules verification to implement
  
• A 20 year old disabled man with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, DACA (the Dreamers Act), status has being detained by ICE for a month, despite the promise by Trump he would not go after the Dreamers
• Donald Trump Jr. has released the correspondence he had with Wikileaks.  It shows he was inquiring with Wikileaks about the potential realize of Clinton e-mails last year. "What's behind this Wednesday Leak I keep reading about?"
• The Trump Administration is promoting the US Coal industry at a UN Climate Conference in Bonn, Germany.  It's being described as promoting tobacco to a cancer survivor's gathering
  
• Former Vice President Joe Biden on Charlottesville:  "Silence is complicity..."  Trump's lack of comment "was deafening"
• Trump's tax plan would remove the $250 tax refund teachers get for buying school supplies for their own classrooms, out of their own private money
  
• Three college basketball players from UCLA, on a good will trip to China, were busted for attempted shoplifting.  Trump interceded with Chinese President Xi Jinping to get the players released.  If this was a Democratic President, he'd be getting hammered for being light on crime, and for wasting good will between two countries for shoplifters
• Apparently Trump was begging Vietnam to buy American military equipment because he's desperate for any kind of win at home
• Trump, for some inexplicable reason, is refusing to meet with the eight Americans who won Nobel prizes this year, prior to their flight to Sweden to get the medals.  This has been a tradition
  
• The US led coalition in Iraq allowed ISIS fighters from the city of Raqqa safe passage out of the city.  Why, no one seems to know, BUT I GUARANTEE a Democratic President would be getting raked over the coals right now for this decision
• Trump has hired 12 property law experts to seize all the land the US Government wants, from private landowners, along the US/Mexico border, so he can build his wall
• Many people are pointing to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's speech in the Philippines, where he called out human right violations, including ones in the Philippines, as the one Trump should have had the guts to deliver
• NATO leaders are starting to publicly worry about Trump's access to nuclear weapons
  
• Where as Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) thinks his communications with Wikileaks are no big deal, the reality is they are indeed a very big deal.  The correspondence and behavior of Jr. and Trump himself, after US Intelligence agencies had called Wikileaks a front for the Kremlin on October 7th, 2016, is prosecutable.  Their behavior clearly shows they both were listening to Wikileaks communications
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions' official excuse to the House Judiciary Committee in regards to his long list of 'forgotten' contacts between the Trump Campaign and the Russians was due to the chaos of what he called a "brilliant" campaign
  
• Sessions' stand seems to be revolving around the idea that since he didn't officially meet with the Russians, any other contact he 'forgot' about is irrelevant
• Sessions is flummoxed as he is repeatedly reminded of his past statements, where he said a person saying they forgot was enough evidence to prosecute the individual for perjury.  He tried to split hairs again insisting his comments back then were in regards to someone trying to deceive, something Sessions insists he's not guilty of.  He's just an Attorney Genral who's incredibly forgetful 
  
• Sessions was taken to the woodshed by Rep. Karen Bass for his Justice Department's authorizing of a study of 'black identity extremists.'  He insisted he had no idea who authorized the report, and was hard pressed to explain why there was no equal report for 'white identity extremists,' a FAR larger problem in America today
• Sessions is dismantled by Rep. Ted Lieu when he gets into a tiff with the Attorney General over his undeniable lying about Russian contacts
  
• Sessions might have sealed his fate as during the hearings in the House, he called the Trump Campaign "chaotic," told Trump to stop tweeting so much, and downplayed Trump's demands for an immediate investigation into Hillary Clinton
• Even Republicans are quick to mock Sessions excuse for 'forgetting' about the Russian/Trump meetings, accusing the Attorney General of having "possum memory"
• Experts are once again calling out Jeff Sessions suggestion he might sic the Department of Justice on Hillary Clinton for no other reason but to feed GOP rabid dogs some more red meat, and to create a distraction from the growing Trump/Russia scandal
  
• Trump is bragging about having a 46% approval rating.  The rating Trump is bragging about comes from the conservative Rasmussen poll, with most every other poll having Trump's approval in the mid-30's
• The day after Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) released the private messages he had with Wikileaks, Wikileaks head Julian Assange went public with his request to be Australia's Ambassador to the US.  Apparently Assange doesn't understand Australia picks their own Ambassadors, not the country of diplomacy
  
• Trump's grossly unqualified Judicial Nominee Brett Talley says he's a avid ghost hunter and paranormal activity researcher
• The FBI is currently investigating at least 60 money transfers from the Russian Foreign Ministry to it's Embassies, which seem to have been designated "to finance the election campaign of 2016."  This would include Russia's pro-Trump campaign
  
• Trump gleefully lied again about his predecessor former President Obama.  He said President Obama was forbidden to land in the Philippines because of his unpopularity in that country.  That's absolutely not true.  Obama refused to land when he and Filipino dictator Rodrigo Duterte got into a fight about Duterte's mass killings during the Filipino drug wars
• It's revealed Filipino dictator Rodrigo Duterte sang Trump a love song over their formal state dinner
  
• After initially insisting Trump's request for an ObamaCare repeal would not be in the tax bill, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell now says they are going to include it, as a way to offset the massive tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires.  That's right your healthcare has to go away so they can have MORE money
  
• Representative Maxine Waters conducted a chant of "Impeach 45" with a crowd of women, celebrities and political insiders
• Attorney General Jeff Sessions doesn't seem to understand the laws of the US.  He states weed is not as bad as heroin, but he still considers it illegal.  It's actually 100% legal in many states
• The Senate is actively looking to work with the White House to block Roy Moore in the event he does indeed become the Senator from Alabama
• The party game Cards Against Humanity is taking an aggressive approach to preserve America. The company has purchased a vacant lot of land on the Mexican/American border, and have hired a law firm specializing in fighting eminent domain.  They know they might not be able to stop Trump, but they probably can hold off Trump's wall agenda until the next office holder
  
• Reports are Trump met with Fox News host Jeanine Pirro in a special meeting on November 1st, where Pirro begged and pleaded with Trump to investigate Hillary Clinton.  She also was extremely critical of Jeff Sessions reluctance to investigate Clinton.  To recap: Trump is meeting with new anchors for policy advice
• Steven Bradbury, the Bush era top Justice Department Lawyer who was the principle author of the legal justifications for the Bush Administration's use of "enhanced interrogation techniques" was approved by a 50-47 vote in the Senate to be the top lawyer in the Department of Transportation
  
• The Republican Attorney General Association meeting was held.  They held it this last weekend at Mar-A-Lago, Trump's resort, but kept the details of the get together quiet. The GOP AG's were able to mingle freely with their largest national donors
• Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner's personal real estate company is being sued, AGAIN, this time for violating New York City's rent laws
  
• A former Watergate assistant prosecutor has made the point that Jeff Sessions has almost spoon fed a perjury charge to Robert Mueller's special investigation
• Trump tweeted (WTF???!!!???) condolences to the latest mass shooting in the USA, this time a shooting in Rancho Tehama Reserve, California.  The only problem?  He tweeted out condolences to the wrong mass shooting, instead referencing the shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas from ten days earlier
• 54% of the country, including 23% of Republicans are strongly against Trump running for a second term
• In one of the more bizarre attacks ever, a hacker angry about the truth being exposed, about Trump donor Richard Mercer's connections to white supremacists, targeted the reporter who uncovered the story, Joseph Bernstein at BuzzFeed, by vandalizing the Wikipedia page of Phineas Gage, an American railroad foreman from the 19th century, know as the guy who had a metal rod destroy the left lobe of his brain, and he survived.  There is no known connection between Bernstein and Gage
  
• A new effort to impeach Trump is being pushed by House Democrats 
• More attention is being focused on Vice President Mike Pence, who was either completely clueless about what was going on in his own campaign, or is outright lying about Trump Campaign connections to Wikileaks and the Russians
• Speaking of Pence, his NFL 'walk out' stunt cost local law enforcement $14000 to pull off, this on top of the over hundred thousand dollars in tax payer money this stunt already wasted.  Once again this was a completely planned 'walk out'
  
• A coalition of various groups is protesting Trump's nominee to a Federal Judgeship in Texas, Jeff Mateer.  Matter has claimed transgender children are evidence that "Satan's plan is working," compared marriage equality to bestiality, and is proud his church openly discriminates on the basis of sexual orientation. Trump nominated this guy to be a judge(!!!)
• A Senate Panel had a discussion about whether or not Trump should be trusted with the American nuclear weapon depository
• Trump really might be mentally unfit for office.  I get he hates CNN, and he let everyone know how much he hated being forced to watch CNN in the Philippines. In this tweet, Trump sounds like a dimwitted 5 year old...
  
• So far ObamaCare sign up is at 1.5 million
• I do think it was the right thing to do, when Trump interceded on behalf off three UCLA basketball players who had been caught shoplifting in China.  The Chinese released the three players, but then Trump implied the three players, all African American, should be groveling at his feet, thanking him for saving them.  A decent man would've keep that in private
  
• Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who complied the Steele Dossier for Fusion GPS stands by his work.  Even though he acknowledges some of the dossier is likely not true (as is the case with all dossiers.  It's hard to verify so much information) he does insist the dossier is 70-90% accurate
• White House sources are suggesting Trump is waiting to see what Fox News evening host Sean Hannity tells him to do before he makes a final decision on whether or not he supports Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race
• This is actually terrifying.  Trump is clearly taking his marching orders for how to run the government, who to support and how he enacts revenge on his enemies from the hosts at Fox News.  That should be enough to remove him from office alone.  Can you imagine what the right would be like if a Democratic President was waiting to pass judgement on anything until he heard what Rachel Maddow had to say on the issue?
  
• Another committee hearing for Jeff Sessions, as the House Intelligence Committee will talk to the Attorney General behind closed doors on November 30th.  Sessions seems to be going out of his way to avoid talking to the Senate, after he outright lied to their faces
• Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and his wife were touring the US Mint when they posed with a sheet of newly minted US dollars.  Not only did the photo have a real Bond villain vibe to it, why the heck is Mnuchin's wife accompanying the Treasury Secretary everywhere?
  
• Former Trump Campaign Advisor George Papadopoulos' lawyer tried to get the charges against him dropped by claiming Robert Mueller, the Special Counsel, tried to have the lawyer murdered.  His petition was dismissed
• One of the reasons Trump is not saying anything about Roy Moore, the far right wing loon ball who's the Republican Senate Candidate in Alabama, is because he doesn't want to draw any attention to the sexual allegations against him
• Mother Jones is reporting that Donald Trump Jr. (Tweddle Dee) coordinated an attack on an anti-Trump website (putintrump.org).  The website was taken down when it was flooded with spam, staff member's personal information was published online, and the staff were victims of a relentless campaign of threats
• This does bring up the interesting question of how much liability does Jr. have for the threats against the employees of putintrump.org
  
• Milking his 10 day experience for all it's worth, Anthony Scaramucci, the former White House Communications Director is writing a tell all book, or pamphlet
• At a press conference where he talked about his Asia trip, Trump quickly bolted from the room when reporters started to ask him about Roy Moore
• During a speech where Trump recalled his Asia/International Trade policy progress, Trump abruptly stopped his prepared remarks and began searching for a bottle of water which he guzzled.  Don't tell me the Republicans would let a Democratic President go on that one
  
• Trump's grossly unqualified Judicial Nominee Brett Talley apparently defended Nathan Bedford Forrest, the Confederate General and first Grand Wizard of the KKK, in online forums
• For some reason, with Trump in office, people are having less sex, and when they do, it's less satisfying
• Remember Drain the Swamp?  The White House announced Trump will nominate Melissa Burnison of the position of Assistant Secretary in charge go Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs at the US Energy Department.  Burnison is a nuclear energy industry lobbyist
• Another one of Trump's Judicial picks, Don Willett, nominated for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and a man who has ignored Supreme Court president on gay marriage, challenging it outright numerous times, insist his tweet comparing gay marriage to marrying bacon was only a joke
  
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump takes a sharp stance against Roy Moore, the man who likes dating teenagers.  She very specifically labeled Moore a child abuser to make sure her condemnation would not come back against her father, although at least one story about Trump involved underaged girls
• The Senate approved a Trump nominee to run the Mine Safety and Health Administration, David Zatezalo.  Prior to his approval, Zatezalo ran a mine company who routinely violated mine safety laws...amazing...
  
• The Trump Administration mysteriously cut off a grant awarded to Bay Journal, a Chesapeake Bay newspaper.  The grant was awarded in January of 2016, and the only explanation was that there was a "shift in priorities"
• Trying to do the absolute least they can do, Republicans, including the Trump White House, are floating the idea of upping the amount of tax break Puerto Rico gets per bottle of rum 'exported' to the United States.  Some lawmakers want to increase the kickback, but fiscal conservatives are vehemently opposed 
  
• Someone might say Trump is going to extreme measures to make sure no one sees his tax returns. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen talks about orders the IRS is under to make sure Trump's tax returns never see the light of day. The extreme measures include being in a locked file cabinet in a locked room no one can enter, but that apparently still isn't good enough. The IRS is supposedly building a safe solely for Trump's tax returns.  Seriously...
  
• A rational human might ask, "what's in those tax returns if Trump is going to such extreme measures to keep them private?"  If only he was a Democratic President...
• Well we've finally find the limit for Republican votes to confirm grossly unqualified Trump nominees.  Two Republican Senators from North Carolina are against Trump's nominee to head the EPA Chemical Safety Office, Michael Dourson, an unapologetic worker for the chemical industry
  
• The FCC Chair Ajit Pai has scheduled a December vote to undo the rules of net neutrality for the internet, meaning the Trump Administration is taking a big step in turning the internet into a tired purchase product, much more like cable TV, where Fox News comes for free, CNN is an additional cost, and Huffington Post, New York Times and AM950 are for gold plated, premium member access only
• Chuck Johnson, a notorious right wing blogger who worked closely with the GOP operative trying to track down the hacked Clinton/DNC emails (the passed away under mysterious circumstances Peter Smith) is the likely connection between Wikileaks and Trump Jr. He seems to have been the one to suggest the two ramp up efforts to take down putintrump.org
  
• Trump and Attorney General Sessions have vowed to take on Sanctuary Cities, sending letters to cities, counties and states who are not willing to help crack down on undocumented individuals within those jurisdictions, warning them they are breaking the law by not doing more to help
• Rick Gates, indicted guy, is trying to get released from house arrest stating he needs to take his kids to school, wants to celebrate Christmas and is trying to work for his consulting business.  Mueller's assertions that he and Manafort are flight risks
• As Trump is touting the success of his Asia trade trip, it's pointed out the rest of the world is eagerly excluding the US from the Trans Pacific Partnership deal.  How this will affect the US trade markets remains to be seen, but it is a fairly large international rebuking of Trump
• A Turkish Iranian gold dealer, Reza Zarrab, who was scheduled to go to trial in New York on Monday for money laundering and other crimes is no longer in the US prison system, but is currently in federal custody.  This has people wondering is Mueller has him, and is working with him on a plea deal to bolster his case agains former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn 
  
• More Congressional leaders are vocalizing concern over the dramatic staffing problems at the State Department 
• Former Trump associate Felix Sater has agreed to turn over documents and to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee
• Carter Page dropped off documents to two Congressional Committees and then insisted the documents were "irrelevant and unnecessary."  My guess is that these are going to be incredibly important documents
• The House passes the Trump tax bill on a fairly party line vote, 227-205
  
• Far right Breitbart editor Alex Marlow threatened First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump, telling her to keep quiet on Roy Moore's allegations considering "there's so many allegations against...Trump"
• FCC Chairman Ajit Pai and the FCC voted to undo key roadblocks hindering the further consolidation among media companies, creating the potential for about a dozen people to determine what the vast majority of Americans see, as far as the political point of view of all media and news
• Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is discovered to have received and forwarded on e-mails which talked about Wikileaks and missing documents, and an email which was a Russian overture and dinner invite.  He never turned these emails over to the Mueller investigation, even though he was under order to do so
  
• The Pentagon's official Twitter account retweeted a tweet which called for the resignation of Trump.  It was quickly deleted
• Reverend(???) Jamie Johnson, Trump's Director of Community Outreach for the Department of Homeland Security, said cities become "slums" due to black residents' "laziness, drug use and promiscuity."  He also said the only things the Muslin faith contributes to the world are "oil and dead bodies."
  
• White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders played reporter dodgeball today as she frantically tried to avoid answering anything involving Alabama Republican Senate Candidate Roy Moore
• Chris Crane, who is the union head for Trump's brownshirts, the Immigration and Custom Enforcement Agents (ICE), blasted Trump, saying he stabbed them in the back for not giving them MORE authority to basically arrest and rampage at will
• Rick Gates request for a removal from house arrest for the holidays has been denied
  
• The White House is in the process of lifting the restrictions on trophy hunters bringing their rhino, lion, elephant and giraffe carcasses back to the US after they kill them in Africa
• Fox News reports former President Obama is more popular than Trump...wait for it...in Alabama! (!?!)
• Secretary of the Interior Rynan Zinke is outright refusing to comply with requests for documentation in the internal probe of Zinke's travel habits.  Zinke's travel habits drew attention when it was discovered he and his wife were using private planes owned by oil executives at a massive taxpayer cost.  Mary Kendall says the investigation has been "delayed by absent or incomplete documentation."
  
• The Mueller investigation had subpoenaed more than a dozen Trump Campaign Officials for any documents which mentioned a set of Russia-related keywords
• Senator John McCain voices he will stop any Trump Pentagon appointees who are industry insiders
• Trump insisted the Keystone Pipeline would be safe.  There currently are 210,000 gallons of crude oil leaking out of the Keystone Pipeline in South Dakota
  
• Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner was also connected to a Belarusian-American Businessman Sergei Millian.  The two were linked via email, and Millian founded the Russian-America Chamber of Commerce .  He also was apparently the source of the urine fetish information in the Steele Dossier
• For those you wondering if FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is some sort of moderate in disguise, he voted to get rid of a former President Reagan era program which helped subsidize phone service for the poorest Americans...so, no
  
• Ten months into his service term, Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner is still using a temporary security clearance.  His permanent security clearance is STILL under review
• Testimony from the Senate's "Sweet Jesus Trump has Access to Nukes" hearing has interesting testimony from General C. Robert Kehler, former Commander of Strategic Command, who insists it will all be okay, because if Trump were to order nukes launched, surely someone would stop him, either a commander in the White House, or the troops would refuse the order because they would know it to be illegal...okay...
  
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway, who still today BLINDLY defends Trump against 19 allegations of sexual misconduct, claiming all of those women are liars, insist the #MeToo movement on Capitol Hill was her idea, and the Democratic women are the ones late to the fight against sexual harassment
• Historians are chiming in, stating Donald Trump Jr (Tweedle Dee) is likely the WORST first kid ever, beating out former President Teddy Roosevelt's daughter Alice, who ran up personal debts buying clothes and playing poker.  Still Alice was keen diplomat, helping in diplomatic efforts to galvanize the treaty which ended the Russo-Japanese War.  Jr.?  Not so much
  
• Trump on Twitter attacked Senator Al Franken for his inappropriate photos he took with Leeann Tweeden on a USO tour in 2006.  Yes, the man who has 19 women claiming sexual misconduct against him, and a man who has the entire White House tied up into knots trying to avoid answering anything about Roy Moore's allegation, actually has the audacity to attack ANYONE else on this issue
• After being purposely ignored by the White House, the South Carolina women's basketball team finally got an invite to visit Trump, after media pointed out their omission.  South Carolina, whose season has started, politely turned down he offer
• The Harvard Harris Poll, another notoriously conservative leaning poll, has Trump at a new low, 41% approval
  
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump used assistance from an international real estate grifter with ties to Russia to fill up at least half of the apartments inside the Trump Ocean Club Tower in Panama
• The Pentagon states Trump's troops surge in Afghanistan is complete
• Guilty former Trump Campaign Advisor George Papadopoulos gabbed to foreign reporters that Trump had offered him the opportunity to "choose a senior Trump Administration job" and how he was "authorized to represent [Trump] in overseas meetings with foreign leaders"
• Ex-DOJ officials are pointing out that Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner will likely face Obstruction of Justice charges if he continues to hold up supplying the Mueller probe requested documentation
  
• White House Spokeswoman Kellyanne Conway stated the reason Trump, a man with 19 women accusing him of sexual misconduct, can criticize Senator Al Franken's issues, and not Roy Moore's, is because Moore's issues began 8 days earlier, unlike Franken's, from the previous day
  
• GOP governors, at a national get-together, expressed real concern at Trump dragging down their reelection chances
• Eric Trump (Tweedle Dum) is angry at Chief of Staff John Kelly for cracking down on people doing unexpected visits to the Oval Office.  Trump's family was notoriously disrupting the limited focus their father had, with constant unexpected visits.  Kelly determined it was best to limit them
  
• Kayla Moore, the wife of seriously creepy Republican Candidate for Senate Roy Moore, stated Trump should be thanking Moore for taking the nation's attention away for his Russia scandal
• So far Trump has nominated 4 judicial nominees who rank as unqualified by the American Bar Association
  
• Rob Goldstone, the man who officially set up the Trump Tower meeting between the Russians and Trump Jr., is likely going to be interviewed by the Mueller probe soon
• How nice of him!  Trump has decided to start spending his own money on legal fees in regards to the Russian probe, not monies from political donations to his 2020 reelection campaign
• Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner perjured himself during Congressional testimony.  Kushner stated he "never had contact with Wikileaks or Assange," something we now know is not true, with the release of Trump Jr's communications with Wikileaks and Assange
• It's likely Italian shoemaker Aquazzura Italia SRL has settled their trademark dispute with First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump, as they have dropped their lawsuit against Ivanka, even though Ivanka seemed to be guilty as heck.  Lawyers from both parties are not talking
  
• Sarah Huckabee Sanders stated the reason no one should consider Trump guilty of sexual assault and sexual harassment is, as opposed to Senator Al Franken, Trump has not admitted wrongdoing.  Only men who admit their sexual misconduct should be investigated
• Trump has ordered the Department of Justice to no longer to issue guidance memos from the Obama Administration that helped guide transgender policies
• Trump's private business are tumbling down the list of 'largest privately held companies in New York,' as filings show his real estate company makes 10 times less than previously reported
  
• During a Federalist Society luncheon, Attorney General Jeff Sessions joked about his Russian connections and the ongoing investigation 
• Russian officials mocked UN Ambassador Nikki Haley after they vetoed the UN Resolution geared to renew investigations into chemical weapons in Syria
  
• Trump lets everyone know he already has five names ready to go in case another Supreme Court vacancy becomes available
  
• Trump's tax bill gives private plane owners a massive tax break...because they're poor
  
• Presidential Advisor and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner failed to disclose in his Congressional testimony contacts he had with a Russian mobster and ally to Vlad Putin, Aleksander Torshin
• White House staffers have stopped trying to control Trump's out of control Twitter interactions
• After a massive public outcry, Trump is reversing course on lifting the ban on hunting trophy's from African hunts being shipped back to the USA
  
• Trump has requested only 44 billion in emergency recovery funds for hurricane ravaged states and territories, well below what is needed for the damaged communities.  Texas alone had requested 61 billion
• It's pointed out there is no money in his request for California recovering from their horrific wildfires
  
• EPA Director Scott Pruitt claims he has done more to fight pollution than former President Obama ever did, but when asked what exactly he's done to fight pollution, he can't name one thing
  
• The Senate is exploding as the Democrats are rightly pointing out Trump's tax bill is class warfare on everyone but the wealthiest Americans.  Republicans rebuttal: nuh-uh!
• Former Trump Advisor Sam Clovis made a video a year before the Trump campaign in which he took an incredibly pro-Russia stance in regards to American foreign policy
• Trump's tax bill will trigger a massive $25 billion cut in Medicare
• As Trump pushes away Cuba, North Korea is reaching in to make stronger bonds with the country 90 miles off our coast
• Historians are weighing in and stating Trump is the most corrupt President in US history, worse than Warren G. Harding, who was rocked by the Teapot Dome scandal
  
• Pastor (!!!) Mark Burns, a vocal Trump supporter, claims Trump is fine because morality is not a necessary trait we need in our political leaders
• First Daughter and White House staffer doing...something(?) Ivanka Trump put out a suggestion for a Thanksgiving centerpiece.  I'll give her the minimal score I can for effort, but the centerpiece is God awful ugly, featuring a massive clam shell and ornamental pumpkins.  It also is likely a few hundred dollars, making it impractical for most everyone outside of her billionaire friends
  
• Trump's approval amongst Republicans is dropping. Even though a majority approve of him and state they would vote for him again.  8% of Republican voters now state they would vote Democrat if they had 2016 to do over again, more than enough to give Hillary the Electoral College win, to go along with her overwhelming popular vote victory
  
• White House staffers are feeding Trump made up "internal numbers," telling him he's far more popular than he actually is, in order to keep him happy
  
• Trump tells Hillary Clinton, the candidate he beat over a year ago, to let the election go, by insisting she's obsessed with it.  She's not the one tweeting, Donny.  Trump is the 40 year old former high school football player forever reliving the ONE good game he had
• Trump referring to Hillary Clinton:  "worst (and biggest) loser of all time."  Like I said, trying to spike the football for about the 4000th time, a year after winning.  She also beat him by three million votes in the general election, so he's not even close to being factually correct
• Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican, insists the Republican party will be finished if they continue to align themselves with the likes of Trump and Alabama Child sexual abuser Roy Moore
  
• Trump's most ardent supporter are starting to tire of his preferred method of communication, Twitter, reportedly tuning in less and less for his daily moronic statements
• Trump's Mar-A-Lago reports it has lost almost all of it's charity bookings, as most charities fear the resort will turn off a majority of donors 
• Something which will make Trump FURIOUS, the resort which he described would only be getting Mar-A-Lago's leftovers, The Breakers, is booked solid!  It's become the Palm Beach go  to resort for anyone who doesn't want to associate their event with Trump
  
   
• Air Force General John Hyten, Commander of the US Strategic Command, stated they would shut down any illegal launch of nuclear weapons attempted by Trump.  "We're not stupid." Isn't it nuts we've had to have a steady group of military commanders state they will stop the Commander in Chief if he tries to launch nukes on a whim?
• Eric Trump (Tweede Dum) did an interview where he insisted the raging wild fire which is Trump/Russia is a "total sham," meanwhile the EASILY debunked Uranium One scandal proves Hillary has betrayed America!  Yep, he's the dumb one...
  
• Trump, a man who has the incredibly hard task of running the country day after day, plus the serious satellite issues which need to be addressed, such as gun violence, North Korea, Roy Moore, natural disasters AND MANY OTHERS, took time out of his schedule to try to publicly shame the father of one of the UCLA basketball players whom he helped get out of China after they were caught shoplifting, because he felt the father didn't show enough gratitude for getting his son out of China. "I should have left them in jail." He's referring to US citizens...SWEET JESUS
  
• Trump and the White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney say they're willing to drop his demand for the ObamaCare repeal in the tax bill if it helps get the tax bill passed
• White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short refused to answer whether Trump does or does not support Republican Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore, a man who's been accused of sexual misconduct by seven women
• Conservatives are starting to push the 'Pence Rule,' named after Vice President Mike Pence, who notoriously avoids all female contact when his wife is not around.  The right feels as if this is the best solution for America in the age of sexual assault allegations.  It sounds very religious fundamentalist; "Women are not allowed to be around men, as they're temptresses, creating too many devil urges!"
  
• Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin didn't realize the public photos which were took of him holding sheets of American currency with his wife would become public
  
• Representative Frederica Wilson says Chief of Staff John Kelly owes America an apology for lying so brazenly about her
• Numerous pundits point out Trump's attack on the father of the UCLA player seems like race baiting, with one person pointing out he seems to be attacking the black man he thinks is getting uppity
• Apparently White House staffers are so terrified of the Mueller probe, they are greeting each other "Good morning.  Are you wired?"
  
• An analysis of Trump's filings with the federal government shows his personal business is worth about 1/10th of the value he touted.  This mean he's lied repeatedly over the last two years about his worth.  REPEATEDLY!!!
  
• Another weekend another protest.  This time thousands of people protested on the National Mall in Washington D.C., demanding relief and action for Puerto Rico
• Trump lashed out at Senator Jeff Flake for his comments about the impending doom of the Republicans.  He criticized him, predicted he would not voting for the GOP tax bill, and then accused him of "saying bad things about your favorite President."  (MASSIVE SPIT TAKE!!!) What did he say about Obama?
  
• NFL players continued kneeling at football games during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice in America, and Trump himself
  

That's enough to give everyone indigestion!

The nuclear stuff alone is actually terrifying.  We had military leaders have to reassure the Senate Trump really doesn't have a red button on his desk which launches nuclear missiles; that there's a process in place which will prevent him from destroying the world.  Doesn't the right see the underlying context?  Even Republicans feel as if Trump is not intelligent enough, mature enough, and/or trustworthy enough to be left alone with the nuclear arsenal.  This has NEVER been something we've had to worry about in the past.

Have a nice long weekend.  Try not to kill your far right family member who's insisting everything is great; that Trump's the most successful President ever.  Heck, pull up these lists and let him enjoy the buffet.  Let me know what insults they call me!  Remember #2018 Is EVERYTHING!