Multiple outlets are reporting that Tourism is hitting a slump in the wake of Trump and his rhetoric. In the last year, we’ve lost about $4.6 billion in tourism revenue and lost about 40,000 jobs in that sector as a result of the slump, and experts aren’t calling it a coincidence. Trump’s erratic and destructive behavior is turning a lot of people off. He spent the last 2 years talking about making America great again, and now after a year in office, he doesn’t understand why people from Norway aren’t rushing here in droves.
Sarah Huckabee Sanders claims that if the Senators don’t know what the President wants in terms of a deal, then it’s on them for not paying close enough attention. By all indications, the President of the United States has the temperament of a two year old, but with less ability to reason. We know that Schumer offered Trump basically everything he could have hoped for in a deal, and it still wasn’t enough, so honestly, the idea that people just couldn’t pick up what Trump was putting down seems at least a little far fetched.
Schumer offered him the wall. The President offered a number. Schumer agreed. And Trump walked away from the table. He walked away from two bipartisan deals, one which included EVERYTHING THAT TRUMP WANTED, and he still goes on to call the shutdown the Democrats fault, blaming Chuck Schumer specifically, a guy who was willing to compromise to an outrageous degree to get a deal made, and the President, master deal maker, can’t take a deal where he gets what he wants. Of sound mind and body, that’s what we were told mere days ago, right?
So, reports are coming out that Fox News was given a heads up about Trump’s tryst with a porn star as early as October of 2016. Fox News could have broken a story a story that could have turned the tide of the election, but let party politics get in the way. Say what you will about CNN or MSNBC, but given the chance to break a damaging story about Hillary Clinton, they’d have done it. And yet they have the gall to constantly criticize other news outlets of a dangerously liberal bias.
So another government shutdown is looming around the corner. With political factions more divided than they’ve ever been, I don’t think it’s surprising to anyone. But this crazy inability to find any level of common ground has become ridiculous and petty. Throwing another wrench in the works is Donald Trump constantly distracting everyone, helping to keep people from making any kind of headway. Trump just can’t seem to let things not be about him for even a few days.
So after the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump says he has a great relationship with Kim Jong Un. When Trump refuted the statements, Both the White House and the WSJ released audio from the interview…that just confirmed the WSJ interview. It’s bizarre how Trump expects vindication even though reality is against him.
So Trump had his doctors appointment, and low and behold, he’s in “excellent health.” It’s one of those situations where I don’t even know what the point was. I don’t think there was ever going to be a way that there was going to be an official negative health report to come out about Donald Trump. It’s not going to change anyone’s mind, between those who think he’s forcing some poor staff doctor to bend the truth, and for his supporters who will use the information to validate their opinions. It’s just another show to be watched. Another annoying performance.
It’s tough to think of what to say at a certain point, when your expectations get just so low. Beyond the utterly racist sentiments of calling several African countries and Haiti “Shitholes”, I kind of love how Donald Trump thinks the standard of excellence in terms of immigration that we should be aspiring to is Norway. As if we’ve been just turning away all the “upper-class” Norway immigrants who have been itching to come here.
Kellyanne Conway told Chris Cuomo on CNN that nobody talks about Hillary Clinton in the White House. “We don’t care about her. Nobody here talks about her.” That seems to be empirically untrue, as literally right after she gave the interview, good ol’ King Don sent out a tweet about her. It seems like SOMEONE pretty significant in the White House cares about her and talks about her.
So, Trump basically sh*t the negotiating bed with the DACA negotiations. Trump asked for $18 billion dollars for his wall, Sen. Diane Feinstein came back asking for “clean DACA” bill, Trump didn’t know what that meant, and just agreed to it, like a true negotiator. Gotta love his tough stance on the issues.
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