These are the 20 most insane things coming from Trump and his Administration for this week. All the things on this list should be the catalyst for investigations, committee hearings, firings, resignations and even one or two impeachment charges. Instead, we're treated to a never-ending cavalcade of D-list celebrities, insults to the veterans, and disturbing realities which the Trump Administration tries to keep hidden. Meanwhile, Republicans hope they can convince voters they were always concerned about Trump's actions, even though they never were. Vote them out!
I did want to mention two of the countdown items deal with celebrity incidents, the Roseanne Barr and Samantha Bee fiascos. I'm including them because there was always a tie between both incidents and the Trump Administration. Barr is a close friend of Trump's and Bee went after Ivanka Trump with her comments. Regardless, by the time these stories got going, Trump couldn't help but get involved directly in both cases, hence why they're both included.
20 - There was a 'policy meeting' between Donald Trump and Kim Kardashian. I don’t think I need to add anything else to that sentence (5/31)
19 - More news from the White House Communications office, which sounds like it’s devolving into Thunderdome. After an open door (???) meeting which had White House aide Kelly Sadler defending herself against the leaked joke she made against a suffering from cancer Senator John McCain, a defense which included her pointing fingers at pretty much everyone in the room and accusing them of being the leakers, one of the people she accused didn’t take it too kindly. White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp, furious at Sadler’s accusations, openly called Sadler a "Bitch." Immediately after that story broke, the White House issued a statement insisting no one had ever stated that word. (5/30)
18 - Apparently the June 12th Summit with North Korea is back on. North Korean President Kim Jong-Un sent Trump a bachelorette party novelty size card about the summit, and it was apparently enough to get Trump to sign back on for the event. At a press conference, Trump contradicted himself in a major way. Trump stated the letter "was a very nice letter, a very interesting letter." Eight minutes later, Trump stated he hadn't opened the letter yet. Also, Trump is apparently trying to find someone to foot the bill for North Korea's hotel stay while at the summit, something the host country (in this case Singapore) should actually do. People are speculating the comically size letter might be some Kim Jong-Un trolling of Trump and his tiny little hands, after Trump's repeated size insults about Kim. (6/1-6/3)
17 - Former National Security Agency Analyst John Schindler claims the US Intelligence agencies have had enough information to label Trump 'a Russian agent' since 2016, adding the agencies have FAR more information linking Trump to the Russians than is publicly known. (5/28)
16 - People are condemning comedian Samantha Bee for referring to First Daughter and White House staffer doing....something, Ivanka Trump with a bad word. She called her a 'feckless [C-word]." For the record, I feel as if that's going too far, but a few points. One, she was directing it a public figure and it wasn't racist, just mean spirited. Trump and the Administration are on the warpath for Bee, demanding she be fired. Hypocrisy alert: Trump and the Republicans are demanding Bee be fired as reciprocity for Roseanne Barr being fired for her racist comments, but they have yet to condemn or even acknowledge Barr's comments were out of line. How can you ask for reciprocity if you don't think the original crime was committed? In the book Fire and Fury, Trump is quoted as calling former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates the C-word. Ted Nugent, the conservative musician (???), viciously called Hillary Clinton the C-word, but was welcomed into the White House by Trump. There are also hundreds of pictures of Trump supporters wearing shirts featuring the C-word in reference to Hillary Clinton at Trump rallies in 2016. At no point has anyone from the Administration called the use of the C-word, prior to Bee using it, wrong. Even Actress Sally Field stated"[Bee] is flat wrong to call Ivanka a [C-word]. [C-words] are powerful, beautiful, nurturing and honest." They're actually defending the C-word over Ivanka. WOW! This issue proves there is no moral high ground anymore for the Republican right in America. (5/31-6/1)
15 - For the second year in a row, Trump has refused to issue a proclamation honoring June as GLBT Pride Month. He has signed proclamations declaring June Great Outdoors Month, National Caribbean-American Heritage Month, African American Music Appreciation Month, National Ocean Month and National Homeownership Month. (6/1)
14 - Trump apparently played a major role in drafting the White House's response to the Trump Tower meeting in 2016 between his campaign and the Russians. In a memo sent from Trump's lawyers to the Mueller investigation, they revealed Trump's role in scripting the response. This has been confirmed by White House spokespeople, and it contradicts Trump's previous claims. The lawyers are now claiming since they have told Mueller everything there is to know about Trump's knowledge of the incident, there's no legal standing to subpoena Trump, that Trump legally can't be accused of Obstructing Justice, and that Trump can stop the legal probe at any point. That's not how it works. (6/2)
12 - Trump lawyer, and contender for worst lawyer of all time, Rudy Giuliani implies Trump has the ability to pardon himself, but as of right now "he has no intention" of doing so. Legal experts point to such a brazen act being the equivalent of 'self impeachment.' Giuliani also claimed Trump could have shot the former FBI Director James Comey, and no one would be able to indict him with a charge of murder. (6/3)
10 - China is lashing out at Trump's renewed threats of a trade war. After implying he wouldn't impose tariffs on China, Trump announced on Tuesday he indeed would, and the markets immediately dropped 500 points. China has already said they won't make most of the concessions Trump is demanding, and the US needs to meet them halfway. Not only is China threatening retaliatory tariffs on American products, it's threatening to really hurt American agriculture by just ordering their Ag imports from other countries, something which would hurt the US far more than tariffs. (5/30)
9 - Loyal Trump supporter Roseanne Barr blew up her career with one tweet. On Twitter, Barr commented former President Obama's Senior Presidential Aide, Valerie Jarrett, was (and a warning, this is unforgivably racist) the offspring of the "Muslim Brotherhood & Planet of the Apes." The public immediately condemned her, and ABC was asked to fire her. By the end of the day, ABC announced Barr's show Roseanne had indeed been cancelled, and her talent agency had decided to cut ties with her as well. Conservative responses ranged from trying to distance her from Trump, to insisting this was just a PC culture thing. It wasn't. Trump himself used the firing of Barr to turn the attention on him. ABC called Valerie Jarrett and apologized, adding "ABC does not tolerate comments like those." Trump then whined about how ABC never called him to apologize for the horrible things said about him on their network. It's unknown what instance Trump is referring to. White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders pseudo-defended Roseanne Barr. Defending Trump's comments, she insisted no one (not just ABC) ever apologized to Trump, so to go after Barr was wrong. Trump and the White House are seeming to try to equate a comedian making jokes about Trump to Barr's racist comments. Those two things are not comparable. (5/29-30)
8 - Former FBI Director Andrew McCabe gave the Mueller investigation a memo which detailed a conversation McCabe had with Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein where they talked about the firing of the other FBI Director James Comey. Rosenstein said Comey was fired because of the mis-handeling of the Clinton E-mail case, but apparently Trump had told Rosenstein to mention Russia in Comey's dismissal letter. Rosenstein omitted the Russia element from the letter. McCabe took Trump's Russia insistence as direct proof the firing of Comey had to do with the Russia investigation. (5/31)
7 - The US announced it will impose new tariffs on steel and aluminum from the European Union, Canada and Mexico, opening a new front in the trade war. Commerce secretary Wilbur Ross stated any further tariffs would depend on how the EU, Canada and Mexico reacted to the newly imposed tariffs. The US tariffs were unprovoked. Ross stated the reasons the tariffs were being imposed on NAFTA members Canada and Mexico was simply because NAFTA talks "were taking longer than we hoped." Yikes! For Trump to invoke tariffs on Canada, due to the NAFTA agreement, he has to declare Canadian trade with the US to be a "National Security threat." This isn't going over well with the Canadians, especially since Trump hasn't communicated his fundamental objectives during the negotiations. He hasn't explained anything to them. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has issued a furious response to the US's classifying of Canadian trade in such terms. Also reports are Trump told the French President Emmanuel Macron he wants to remove all German luxury car brands from the US markets, something which (understandably) is alarming Germany and German car manufacturers. Additionally, the journal Nature published a study which shows Trump's decision to withdraw the US out of the Paris Climate Accords will cost the US economy several trillion dollars in the coming decades. (5/31-6/1)
6 - Trump met with the family members of victims of the Santa Fe, Texas school shooting. As he left for the meeting, he described his visit inappropriately, saying we'll "have a little fun." This on the way to meet family members of loved ones gunned down at school. He then said the shooter was a "wacky kid who was wearing a wacky trench coat." WTF??? One parent described talking to him thusly: "It was like talking to a toddler." When people brought up gun safety measures the US could put into place, Trump couldn't comprehend the most basic of proposals being explained to him. (6/1)
5 - Trump doesn't seem to understand the basic role of the US Attorney General. He seems to think the Attorney General is Trump's personal lawyer, something he's definitively not. Trump was surprised current AG Jeff Sessions didn't walk back his recusal from the Russia investigation, retaliating by refusing to take Session's phone calls after the recusal. Trump considered it a personal betrayal. After the story of Trump asking Session to un-recuse himself broke, Trump went after Sessions again, implying he made a mistake. "'...There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!' And I wish I did!" (5/30)
4 - Trump's attempt to get the Trump/Russia investigation dismissed has backfired spectacularly. After implying the FBI was illegally spying on his campaign, he ordered Republicans to go look at what he labeled evidence of spying. Trey Gowdy, the Chairman of the House Oversight Committee, ON FOX NEWS, downright destroyed Trump's argument, stating the FBI was well within their right to approach Trump campaign members, adding the FBI acted appropriately when they used an informant to gather information on Trump's campaign advisers whose Russian contacts had been brought to light. (5/30)
3- After it was revealed federal prosecutors prosecuting anti-Trump protestors from the Inaguration Day had withheld numerous videos from the defense teams, prosecutors dropped charges against a half dozen people the government had sought to imprison for decades. The judge was clearly furious with the prosecution as they couldn't explain the lies their colleagues had told about the existence of the videos. This was after the James O'Keefe led Project Veritas had edited videos to make the protestors look guilty, a fact the prosecutors had previously admitted hiding from the defense. Beyond the edited 55 minute video, another 69 recordings (66 videos and three audio recordings) had been kept from the defense. The government's entire case rested on James O'Keefe's edited videos, a fact which alone is mind numbing. Of the original 200 people arrested, the first 6 were acquitted on all counts in December, which prompted the prosecutors to drop charges on all but 59 of the remaining accused. Now, after the next six were acquitted, it seems those cases are falling apart because fools trusted the integrity of James O'Keefe. (5/31)
2 - One thing which has become a tradition with the holidays, Trump will inevitably say something wildly innapporprate. He commemorated Memorial Day this year by insisting all dead US soldiers would be so happy of Trump's accomplishments in office. He made the Memorial Day tribute TO HIMSELF! Reminder: If President Obama even blinked at the wrong time during a commemoration of the military fallen, Republicans called him unfit for office. Veteran's groups condemned Trump's callous message, calling it the "most inappropriate ever." Meanwhile former President Obama delivered the message Trump should have delivered. He stated "we can never repay the debt." (5/28)
1 - Harvard University conducted a study and determine the death toll for Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The official number touted by Trump (64) was considered to be suspiciously low. Between the storm itself and the lack of medical aid, water, food and transportation in the weeks which followed (mainly because of the Trump Administration's horrific response), the Harvard study determined at least 4600 people died in Puerto Rico due to Hurricane Maria. This would be over 70 times the amount the White House insists is the official loss of life. (5/29)
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