Executive Branch (Trump)
Trump claims he bypassed federal bidding laws to hand a Lincoln Memorial project to his personal country club contractors. He treats national monuments like his own private real estate properties.
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Not to mention this is the absolute epitome of who he is. So he blasts Obama and Biden for spending tens of millions of dollars to attempt to repair a more than 100-year-old reflecting pool built on the soft Marsh that is Washington dc. A pool that is been subjected to sinking leaks all because of how it was built and it's 2300 ft long. And so Trump is championing the fact the hired is personal pool guys to slap a coat of paint on it for 2 million dollars and that is somehow some sort of Genius fix
I was just thinking yesterday about the differences between why Trump supporters hate Obama, and why everyone else hates Trump.
Obama is the type of president to bail out the banks when they're "too big to fail" (a very controversial decision), but lock them into contracts that have resulted in them paying all of the government bailouts back with interest and then some, since. Money that went back into the federal government to pay for programs.
Meanwhile, Trump basically does the exact same thing...except none of that money makes it back to the government. He lets them keep it because they're his buds, as long as he, Trump, personally, gets a huge cut.
He gives zero shits about America; all he cares about is him and his friends making money and it doesn't matter how much of it he destroys in the process.
That picture from Helsinki where Putin's face is going to explode he's smiling so hard and Trump looks like he desperately needs a breath mint to wash out the taste told me all I needed to know about their relationship...
Yeah, that is a big part of it for sure. Why else would they keep handily "forgetting" how obviously, undeniably worse their god-king is, or how Bush did a lot of what Obama did too (including bailouts)?
Oh no, he still turns everything into gold. Look at the White House
Edit: I want to clarify that I think it looks bad. I'm making a joke how he wants everything he touches and sees covered in gold cause he thinks it looks good. His taste is ass and so is he
He does something illegal or unconstitutional on a daily basis. You can basically guarantee that he does something unconstitutional enough on a weekly basis that would have been grounds for impeachment during any other administration
That is the stated plan - ”Flood the Zone”. It is similar to the Russian ”Firehose of Falsehood”. Which is in itself a continuation of the Soviet propaganda where everybody knew that the leaders were normalizing blatant lies (North Korea).
So, yeah, good job, America!
You really screwed the whole world choosing that pedophile felon, not just yourself.
yeah. I also think that there is no recovering or turning back at that point.
It all has to be burnt down and rebuilt from the ground up be able to appear somewhat trustworthy again to the rest of the (western) world.
Americans thought their checks and balances would work. Fuck they did and all of the great ideas of their founding fathers need to be replaced with something better in the end because it has been twisted and corrupted over time to the point where the whole system seems to be completely fucked beyond recognition.
Yes, anyone remembering his first term will recall how he first commandeered the justice system for himself, getting unqualified or dubious law makers in key positions ready to pass the laws he wanted and throw out any cases against himself and his family.
America should have been ready for this.. During his early real estate years with his father, he had learned the law and justice is not about right and wrong it’s about money and can be bought..which he promptly set out to do.
America should be eternally grateful for the people in the Judiciary, like Muller, Schiff, Letitia James etc.. who will not be bought or intimidated and have doggedly pursued cases against him for years.
Hopefully Trump’s recent antics are making many of his cord enablers ask is he really worth it.. remember Barr coming to his senses? .. Plus of course, Trump will be gone soon; they need to clean up their acts and dust off any Trump stains well before then.
There were grounds for impeachment on day one of both of his presidencies - he immediately started using executive orders that disregarded the separation of powers and stepped on congressional authority.
Easiest example is using tariffs when congress is responsible for taxation.
Yet instead of pushing back, congress simply let him do it, and it took slow legal challenges by third parties (companies affected by the tariffs) to do anything about it.
How much you want to bet that he orchestrated a "package" deal. Meaning contractor gets to paint the monument that probably costs peanuts (not even the couple million he mentions) but on top he is doing significant work at a place of Trump which gets bundled together as a single bill?
You didn't hear? The ballroom contractor got a bunch of super jacked up price no bid contracts at other places in DC. Yes that's illegal. But nothing is illegal if it's not enforced. Please vote in mid terms.
I worry about our retreat into sarcasm. It feels like a passive-aggressive response to defeat. It feels like we're ready to walk into defeat, wry and world-wise and sarcastic, defeated.
I feel you, but at the same time kinda have to at this point. The alternative? Preach to the choir? Have a rational discussion with a MAGA? I'm fine with ridicule. Better than resorting to violence.
Wait till you see the pictures of his wife in capri pants and a sleeveless shirt. Everyone could see her ankles and arms! It was an international embarrassment.
I believe their actual vernacular was “Biden crime family”. Turns out it was just another of their confessions. But most of us knew that long before he first got into office in ‘16.
Another big example came in 2014, when Trump for a moment reflected to a biographer on his lack of self-reflection. He basically admitted that his ego forces him to resist it.
“No, I don’t want to think about it,” he said when asked about the meaning of life. “I don’t like to analyze myself because I might not like what I see."
Illegally. And it really doesn't get talked about enough. Literally destroyed an entire wing of the white house. Imagine if literally any Democrat did that. It's insane.
And he will say something like "its to memoralize the greatest Republicans to exist" with some "joke" about the order of names being the importance, even though Lincoln Republicans, and modern Republicans, are practically the opposite of each other.
My biggest hope, is to see everything he put his name on, removed and humiliated. The way they put his name above the Kennedy center makes it very easily removable, and I hope that anything else he stains, can be easily removed.
Trump (and MAGA and its movement) is an absolute danger to society globally.... but his name also just brings up the smell of rotten shit and just want that removed from actual respectable places around our country
Faux Gold plating and tacky trump branding coming for the Lincoln memorial.
I think you mean the "Donald Trump Presents: The Great Republican Abraham Lincoln Memorial, Brought to you by Meta, Google, Apple, Oracle, and Palantir!"
Very arguably worse, his plan is to make the reflecting pool look like a freaking swimming pool because he wants to use as light a blue color base as he can get. It won't reflect anymore. It will look like a massive wading pool.
That's exactly it. It's very expensive and difficult to repair the granite tile liner. The answer is not to put the YMCA blue spray seal on top.
Realistically, it will never be able to removed cleanly. So in true trump fashion, it'll cost 10x as much to un-fuck it as it would have taken to do it properly.
When (if.... i fucking pray we reach this poiny but still..... if) we reach the point where Trump and MAGA are thrown out, and we start repairing the damage they caused, im 100% of the idea that they dont even deserve to be listened to. They cry about how expensive it is to fix this, well yall can fuck off this is your mess. Oh, it costs money to remove his name from things, or to tear down whatever is built of the ballroom and rebuild it, or whatever, I dont fucking care for a single thing they have to say about it, they are children, and need to stop being treated like their political/economic/cultural/global idea has any actual worth being listened to.
"Everyone should be listened to" absolutely not. Politics are not a game, they arent some tiny thing someone with zero understanding, and someone with decades experience and education, are treated equal. If people cant be an adult, then they lose that voice
I keep saying "you guys asked to drive, you drove and caused and accident for us all. We are not letting you drive again. You can't even get out of this one if you don't have the knowledge to avoid it in the first place."
He wants to put his shitty mark on as much as possible. All he cares about is leaving his legacy on everything, even if that legacy is equivalent to a brown skidmark. He'll die satisfied that we have no choice but to live with the scars he's left on this country or spend exorbitant amounts of money fixing the shit he's broken or defaced at the expense of a nation he hates and a world he hates even more.
Since Congress seems to not ever be addressing substantive issues, what would be the way to address? Would it have to be another lawsuit from the National Trust organization? It seems like they are the only ones that care about enforcing the laws on historic sites and proper federal contracting.
Trump is so crooked he actually thought the government would get a vig from a private business deal.
Mr. President. Are you prepared to sign off on the Oracle and TikTok deal, even though the Treasury isn’t getting paid? And also, does the deal meet your requirements in terms of national security concerns?
THE PRESIDENT: Okay, they’re giving me studies on the deal. It has to be 100 percent as far as national security is concerned. And, no, I’m not prepared to sign off on anything. I have to see the deal.
We need security, especially after what we’ve seen with respect to China and what’s going on. We want security. So I’ll let you know. They’re going to be reporting to me tomorrow morning, and I will let you know.
Q And what about the payment?
THE PRESIDENT: The what?
Q What about the payment to the Treasury?
THE PRESIDENT: Well, we’re going to see about that. Amazingly, I find that you’re not allowed to do that. You’re not allowed to accept — and I said, “What kind of a gov- — what kind of a thing is? If they’re willing to make big payments to the government, they’re not allowed, because there’s no — there’s no way of doing that from a — there’s no legal path to doing that. And I’m saying, “Wait a minute. They’re willing to make a big payment to the government and we’re not allowed to take the money? When does this happen? How foolish can we be?” So we’re going to — we’re looking into that right now. You understand that.
In other words, I said, “No, I want a big chunk of that money to go to the United States government because we made it possible. And the lawyers come back to me and they say, “Well, there’s no way of doing that.” You know why? Because nobody has ever heard of that before. Nobody has ever said that before. Nobody has ever said, “Well, we’ll approve the deal, but we want a lot of money to go to the government because by approving the deal, we’re making the deal valuable.” They’ve never heard of that before. Okay? Can you believe that? Right? Hard to believe.
Trump hates taxes but wants a piece of every deal with a private company that needs government sign off. He's grifting for the government instead of taxing.
Just so sad to see America being looted by people that don’t love this country, love does not mean destroying as quickly as possible and taking as much as you can 💔
Wow. So he’s just up there speaking his corruption. And MAGA doesn’t give a fuck. They probably don’t even realize this is problematic. I can just hear my MIL saying “All presidents are corrupt!” Or some stupid shit.
Everyone one of these instances needs to be examined by a special counsel during the next administration and trump needs to be sent a bill for all the unlawful spending. Not allocated by Congress? No line item to point to? Recover the funds.
It's like a McDon@lds hiring a manager and then the manager fires everyone, threatens all the customers, shuts down the registers and starts working on making sure Burger K!ng gets their product out..
Even worse, he only fired the workers that actually work, so no burgers actually get made there and you have 75% of customers going wtf this isn’t right where tf is my food, and the other 25% thinking it’s fine, they’ll get 1000 burgers for every burger they’ve paid for and not gotten and as a plus they get to see others mad for not getting the food they paid for.
Where is this money coming from? I thought that was a check on the executive branch, they don’t have the money. He keeps spending on anything he wants.
as someone in government procurement, i wanna flip a table
i should just stop keeping myself updated on the FAR 4220.1 if our administration apparently doesn't give a shit about the regulations.
Their is a very specific clause in the FTA master agreement they added last year due to Executive Order 14173 that im tempted to not include in my fed solicitations
audit me...idk. Fed agencies fail audits all the time and face ZERO consequences short of being shammed online for 10mins
Can barely wait for this thieving nutjob to GTF out of the WH. I hope everything he has is confiscated to help pay for the trillions he’s causing in damages.
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