During the weeken that Hurricane Maria smashed into Puerto Rico and flattened much of the island, Trump played golf, traded insults with North Korea, and set off a tempest with the NFL.
He was very busy being Trump: indifferent to suffering, playing, mocking others.
When someone reminded him that an American territory was in dire straits, he went to his fallback position of complimenting himself on what a great job he was doing. He is testing the adage that you can’t fool all
The people all the time.
Now he is on to tax cuts, where the biggest cut of all is the elimination of the estate tax, which will benefit his family and other billionaires. The 1% is riding high, as usual, while Trump boasts that his tax cuts will benefit the middle class. That’s a laugh. Of. Purse, he won’t release his tax returns so we can’t be sure how many millions he will save. But the elimination of the estate tax is a honey for the Teump heirs.
Was there ever a more ineffectual and hapless president?
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Imagine living like this and having Trump say everything is going fine. Shouldn’t we all praise tRump for doing such a fine job?
I’d say the amount of help is nowhere near enough.
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In a Puerto Rican Village: ‘The Wind Came and Took Everything’ – Video – NYTimes.com
In a village fifteen minutes from the capital of Puerto Rico, residents sit amid the rubble that was once their homes.
Should we really be surprised that the ‘new improved’ GOP tax plan is offering breaks for the wealthy and next to nothing for the middle class? Trump would not stand behind a tax break that only benefits the middle class. After all, it is the wealthy who work hard and deserve the best of everything. Even if they have more than enough, a little more would never hurt.
Whatever happened to being concerned about the deficit? Is the economy really going to grow enough to cover cuts to the wealthy and corporations?
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From TheHill.com: GOP creates illusion of middle-class benefits in tax plan
For months, Republicans have been touting their forthcoming tax plan on the basis that it will help the middle class. Wednesday, we finally got a look at their plan. What’s not surprising is that the vast bulk of tax cuts will go to the richest households. What’s actually a bit surprising is just how little low- or middle-income families will get….
The most incredible part is how hard the plan tries to hide just how stingy it is to the broad middle class.
http://thehill.com/opinion/finance/352910-gop-creates-illusion-of-middle-class-benefits-in-tax-plan
PLEASE!
As if we should expect anything different from this waste-product-in-chief?
Of course he will be out golfing and lunching and probably philandering behind closed doors. He has legitimized and glamorized crudeness, rudeness, willful ignorance, oppression of liberties, sexism, racism, and just about any other type of “-ism” to be found in American culture.
“Classism” stands out in my mind the most.
You hear these dung-brained politicians in Washington spew out that class war is a horrible divisive thing, and that the term itself came right from the devil’s mouth.
Well, class war is – and SHOULD BE – a divisive thing. Why try and suppress those who assert its significance? Why not just call a giraffe a giraffe and stop trying to make it out to be a shoe lace when it’s not.?
Class war and warfare are here. Only the little people pay taxes, and if we keep on going in this direction, we will be paying taxes for services that we will no longer receive, and instead just give our money away to the ruling class so that they can have more political power, more colonialism, more income, more personal guards, more Harry Winston jewelry, more mansions, more A-list parties, more yachts, more haute couture and Lamborghinis.
Yes, Trump plays golf while PR gets blown off the globe. It is perfectly appropriate given the milieu of classism in the United States. ONLY the masses of people can change things, and one of the best ways is to start voting these viruses out of office and start running for office ourselves, on whatever level we can from the lowest to the highest.
The 98% far outnumbers the 2%. Now is only the 98% realized more, although they are compared to 7 years ago.
Meant to say that if only the 98% would realize this tenet more (they’d be better off faster), although they are doing so now more than they were 7 years ago . . .
This is what happens when English is not your first language.
You are amazingly adept at expressing yourself. I could only dream of being anywhere near that good in a second language.
Thank you!
I believe the Republicans will create a huge deficit with all their tax cuts, Next on the agenda, is to assert that the remaining social safety nets are not “sustainable.” This is probably all part of ALEC’s “big picture” plan.
Trump has not been hapless or ineffectual at all. He has advanced the long held desires of the ultra wealthy and the donor class as well as no small number of the anachronistic ideologies of theocrats, all while keeping the nation distracted and fighting against itself. Totally evil, but very effective. He has reversed many hard fought gains that were made in the pursuit of a more perfect union, gains that our founding fathers would have approved of. It is far easier to destroy than create, but he has been an effective destroyer, which is what the sheeple who rightly have long been disgusted with the corruption of our political system thought they wanted. Instead they got the redistribution of wealth and power in a swamp rapidly turned into a cesspool populated by grifters and parasites. Little did they realize that all they were doing was proving the adage ” Better the devil you know than the one you don’t.”
This is why the governor of PR praised tRump. He can’t take any criticism, especially one given by a woman mayor who was crying because of all the destruction.
Trump is sick.
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Trump bashes mayor of San Juan for ‘poor leadership ability’
President Donald Trump lashed out at the mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, on social media early Saturday, criticizing her for “poor leadership ability” in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria.
“Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help.” the president tweeted. “They want everything to be done for them when it should be a community effort….
Trump lauded the effort of first responders to Puerto Rico, saying they have done “an amazing job” despite a lack of electricity, damaged roads and no road service.
In another tweet, he blamed “Fake News CNN and NBC” for going out of their way “to disparage our great First responders.
“The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump,” the president tweeted.
http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/trump-bashes-mayor-san-juan-for-poor-leadership-ability/0XS8GMFWxQdbw9Uy0tRMAO/
Trump took a helicopter yesterday to his golf club in NJ. Another “working weekend” ?
Hmmm… the Puerto Rico relief effort could have used that additional helicopter!
If it was big enough for his fat butt . It would have been useful
tRUMP is a WHITE SUPREMACIST to the MAX and he so dumb it makes my head spin.
And ALL that DUMP knows how to do is NOT WORK. He hasn’t really ever done any work of value.
He needs to be DUMPED! Dump that DUMP.
The economic reason why tax cuts for the rich are so stupid
Inequality Media
Published on Sep 27, 2017
Rich Americans know they don’t need a tax cut. They also know trickle-down economics is nonsense. Listen to Tom Steyer.
Thanks for the Steyer link. It’s very clear and easy to digest, and as a bonus, it is given by someone who would gain under Trump’s tax plan but calls it out as stupid.
Needs to be seen by every Trump voter.
This is a partial quote from a WaPo article. There is a paywall so I can’t give access. I got this from a different site.
This is the result of ‘trickle-down’ economics. People are suffering while the wealthy live ever more luxuriously. The Repubs are still pushing trickle-down. Trump would love to have more money. Listen to the GOP line about how cutting taxes for corporations and at the wealthy will benefit the middle class.
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“I’m Going to Work Until I Die”: The New Reality of Old Age in America…WaPo
“People are living longer, more expensive lives, often without much of a safety net. As a result, record numbers of Americans older than 65 are working — now nearly 1 in 5. That proportion has risen steadily over the past decade, and at a far faster rate than any other age group. Today, 9 million senior citizens work, compared with 4 million in 2000….
Polls show that most older people are more worried about running out of money than dying.”
“There is no part of the country where the majority of middle-class older workers have adequate retirement savings to maintain their standard of living in their retirement,” said Teresa Ghilarducci, a labor economist who specializes in retirement security. “People are coming into retirement with a lot more anxiety and a lot less buying power.”
As a result, many older workers are hitting the road as work campers — also called “workampers” — those who shed costly lifestyles, purchase RVs and travel the nation picking up seasonal jobs that typically offer hourly wages and few or no benefits…
Mueller’s investigation must proceed rapidly to save us from this fool!
My description of him is far worse than ineffectual and hapless.I ons’t have anything good to say about the reality of Capitalism, either.
Trump dedicated a golf trophy ‘to all those people who went through so much”. I don’t have adequate words to express my contempt for such a disgusting lack of caring. He is inadequate and unfit beyond words.
Suffering is not in his realm of reality and it continues to show in everything he does. Good grief. They got a dedicated golf trophy! Trump: “…we have it under really great control.” That really makes me feel better.
Puerto Rico isn’t under ‘great control’ but it shows that he has no intention of doing anything more to help.
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USA Current Stories
Published on Oct 1, 2017
Trump defies critics of his Puerto Rico response by conducting business as usual | USA Current Stories
JERSEY CITY — From a glass balcony overlooking the 14th hole of the Presidents Cup golf event, President Trump on Sunday conveyed a clear statement: He would not be intimidated by the outcry over his administration’s response to the devastation on Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria.
His decision to preside over the Presidents Cup, stopping on the way back to Washington from his own luxury golf club in Bedminster, N.J., is likely to further the outcry from some Puerto Rico officials, congressional Democrats, civic leaders and celebrities that he has compounded a slow federal response to the devastation in Puerto Rico with a personal insensitivity to the suffering.
During Trump’s visit here he sought to convey the confidence of a leader. Wearing a sport coat and a white collared shirt but no tie, the president waved at a crowd in the distance and pumped his fist when a group of VIPs mingling in a courtyard under the balcony noticed him. Then, Trump turned to chat with his hosts — PGA Tour Commissioner Jay Monahan and his predecessor, Tim Finchem.
At the end, in a grand gesture at the awards presentation, he acknowledged the victims of hurricanes in Puerto Rico, Texas and Florida, dedicating the trophy to “all those people who went through so much.”
“If you look today and see what’s happening, how horrible it is, but we have it under really great control,” Trump said.
Here are golden words of wisdom to tRump who speaks without thinking, or has no ability to deeply think:
— In the Bible, reticence is a virtue. “Even fools are thought wise when they keep silent,” we are told in Proverbs 17:28. “With their mouths shut, they seem intelligent.”
An Americanized version of this saying, often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln or Mark Twain, is that it is better to remain silent and appear foolish than to speak and remove all doubt.
Or as Winston Churchill purportedly said, “We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”