"Trump supporters see a successful president — and are frustrated with critics who don’t"
By Jenna Johnson and David Weigel By Jenna Johnson and David Weigel Politics
February 19 at 6:44 PM
"“They’re stonewalling everything that he’s doing because they’re just being babies about it,” said Patricia Melani, 56, a Jersey native who now lives here and attended her third Trump rally Saturday. “All the loudmouths? They need to let it go. Let it go. Shut their mouths and let the man do what he’s got to do. We all shut our mouths when Obama got in the second time around, okay? So that’s what really needs to be done.”"
But madam, what Tweety has done is unfocused, error laden, foolhardy, and wasteful.
Here is what supports of Tweety liked, coal slurry in streams . . .
"“It was hilarious to see him give it to the media,” said Tony Lopez, 28, a car dealer who drove to the rally from Orlando. “The media’s problem is that they keep wanting to make up stories so that he looks bad. It doesn’t work. He’s talking right through you guys.”
Several people said they would have liked to see more coverage of a measure that Trump signed Thursday that rolled back a last-minute Obama regulation that would have restricted coal mines from dumping debris in nearby streams. At the signing, Trump was joined by coal miners in hard hats."
Is it good to dump slurry into streams? I don't think it is good. How is it good? And the sad fact is that few if any jobs would be lost!
"The regulation actually would have cost relatively few mining jobs and would have created nearly as many new jobs on the regulatory side, according to a government report — an example of the frequent distance between Trump’s rhetoric, which many of his supporters wholeheartedly believe, and verifiable facts."
And some supporters of Tweety have gone to the dark, dark side, loving Communist Russia as an acknowledgment of Tweety Twump's alliance with Putin. What does Tweety think of that?
"Robert Welsh, a 63-year-old vice mayor from South Miami, carried a speaker blasting the Beatles song “Back in the U.S.S.R” and a sign that portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin thanking Trump for his service."
Really? Mr. Welsh, do you want America to be like Russia? Do you want Tweety Twump to be like Putin? Stop being so stupid.
Regrettably for Tweety Supporters, Obama signed more Exec Orders and passed huge legislation to save our economy in his first thirty days. THAT is getting work done, those are ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
Tweety spends too much time lying to be loved, demanding respect not earned, going to war with the judiciary and media (except Fox News) of the United States, and tweets bad things way too often, to people in the USA and to leaders of several other countries (Australia, Germany, Sweden), loving the tyrant Putin and loving Communist "Russia," he shakes hands like a mean dork / nerd trying to rip people's arms, (Canadian PM got the best of him, blocking his rip move with a strong left grip to Tweety's left shoulder - lol) and has a weak staff writing Executive Orders. Tweety did not even read the EO he signed when he put Bannon on the National Security Council, effectively looking like a buffoon putting this political hack in touch with National Security.
Tweety does NOT criticize anti-Semitism "every chance he gets." Tweety is in a different reality. He did not even mention Jews on holocaust day!
"Issue Holding Trump Accountable"
After a month in office, he has already proved himself unable to discharge his duties. But the only people with real leverage over him won’t use it.
By George Packer
"Section 4 of the Twenty-fifth Amendment to the Constitution allows for the removal of a President who can no longer discharge his duties but is unable or unwilling to say so. It empowers the Vice-President, along with “a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide,” to declare the President unfit and to install the Vice-President as Acting President. Section 4 has never been invoked. In 1987, when Ronald Reagan appointed Howard Baker to be his new chief of staff, the members of the outgoing chief’s team warned their replacements that Reagan’s mental ineptitude might require them to attempt the removal of the President under Section 4. Baker and his staff, at their first official meeting with Reagan, watched him carefully for signs of incapacity—but the President, apparently cheered by the arrival of newcomers, was alert and lively, and he served out the rest of his second term.After a month in office, Donald Trump has already proved himself unable to discharge his duties. The disability isn’t laziness or inattention. It expresses itself in paranoid rants, non-stop feuds carried out in public, and impulsive acts that can only damage his government and himself. Last week, at a White House press conference, the President behaved like the unhinged leader of an unstable and barely democratic republic. He rambled for nearly an hour and a half, on script and off; he flung insults at reporters; he announced that he was having fun; and he congratulated himself so many times and in such preposterous terms (“this Administration is running like a fine-tuned machine”) that the White House press corps could only stare in amazement. The gaudy gold drapery of the East Room contributed to the impression that at any moment Trump might declare himself President for Life, and a flunky would appear from behind the curtain to pin the Medal of National Greatness on his suit jacket, while, backstage, officials and generals discussed his overthrow. Trump experienced such a deep need to get back on top by lashing out that he apparently overrode the objections of his advisers, felt much better afterward, then prepared to go to Florida to sustain his high at the first rally of his reëlection campaign."
Republicans continue to await Tweety's focus to turn to their needs, the legislation they want to pass. How long will he make them wait? Tweety is distracted extremely easily.
"It won’t get better. The notion that, at some point, Trump would start behaving “Presidential” was always a fantasy that has the truth backward: the pressure of the Presidency is making him worse. He’s insulated by sycophants and by family members, and he can still ride a long way on his popular following. Though the surge of civic opposition, the independence of the courts, and the reinvigoration of the press are heartening, the only real leverage over Trump lies in the hands of Republicans. But Section 4 won’t be invoked. Vice-President Mike Pence is not going to face the truth in the private back room of a Washington restaurant with Secretaries Betsy DeVos, Ben Carson, and Wilbur Ross, or in the offices of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Republican leaders have opted instead for unconstrained power.
They need Trump to pass their agenda of rewriting the tax code in favor of the rich and of gutting regulations that protect the public and the planet—an agenda that a majority of Americans never supported—so they are looking the other way. Even the prospect of Russian influence over our elections and our government leaves these American patriots unmoved. Senator John Cornyn, of Texas, the Republican whip, made it plain: Trump can go on being Trump “as long as we’re able to get things done.” Senator Rand Paul, of Kentucky, explained, “We’ll never even get started with doing the things we need to do, like repealing Obamacare, if we’re spending our whole time having Republicans investigate Republicans.”"
Things look like they will get worse before they get betters. Will Bannon survive the new Nat Sec Advisor, H.R. McMaster.
"An authoritarian and erratic leader, a chaotic Presidency, a supine legislature, a resistant permanent bureaucracy, street demonstrations, fear abroad: this is what illiberal regimes look like. If Trump were more rational and more competent, he might have a chance of destroying our democracy"
"Things got VERY ugly on CNN last night"
By Callum Borchers By Callum Borchers The Fix Analysis
February 22 at 11:05 AM
"CNN commentator Kayleigh McEnany posed a simple question to Steven Goldstein, the Anne Frank Center's executive director, on Tuesday night: “You think the president does not like Jews and is prejudiced against Jews?”
Goldstein's response was unequivocal: “You bet.”"
Well, maybe Tweety is prejudice? But his daughter is Jewish . . .
"So began an intense exchange on CNN's “Out Front” that escalated when McEnany suggested that President Trump cannot be anti-Semitic because his daughter Ivanka converted to Judaism when she married Jared Kushner.
“Does he hate his daughter?” McEnany asked. “Does he hate his son-in-law?”
“You know what, Kayleigh?” Goldstein shot back. “I am tired of commentators like you on the right trotting out his daughter, trotting out his son-in-law as talking points against the president's anti-Semitism. They are Jewish, but that is not a talking point against anti-Semitism, and that is a disgrace. Have you no ethics?”"
"Anchor Erin Burnett eventually cut in to say that “it is true that when someone is close to somebody they can see them differently [than] they see others. … If you look at what happens throughout history, that's certainly been true with anti-Semitism and many other things.”
The back-and-forth over Kushner and Ivanka Trump's Jewishness made good television, but the real substance of the disagreement between McEnany and Goldstein came down to a recurring question about Trump: Are his denunciations of hatred good enough?
Fifty-three Jewish community centers in 26 states have received threatening calls this year, and more than 170 Jewish gravestones were toppled at a cemetery in suburban St. Louis over the weekend. Trump, who often tweets his reactions to news events immediately, did not address the incidents until Tuesday, when he said that “the anti-Semitic threats targeting our Jewish community and community centers are horrible and are painful and a very sad reminder of the work that still must be done to root out hate and prejudice and evil.”"
The bottom line is that Tweety Twump speaks in an insincere manner because he cannot feel empathy for any person on planet Earth. A narcissist cannot feel empathy.
"“Time and again this president has had an opportunity to condemn anti-Semitism,” Goldstein said on CNN. “He had a chance to include Jews in [a] Holocaust remembrance. He didn't. He had a chance to speak out against the desecration of Jewish cemeteries this weekend. He didn't. He had a chance to speak out against bomb threats against JCCs, and he didn't.”"
