So for…reasons? I guess? So for reasons, the Trump administration has decided to take a hardline stance AGAINST breastfeeding, and on a GLOBAL scale. In fact, Trump reps went to the World Health Assembly, and flat out told the assembly, and many countries that despite decades of science backing up the benefits of breastfeeding, that the US was NOT okay with the Assembly promoting breastfeeding programs, and would retaliate against many countries who would seek to employ that goal within the World Health Assembly. There is a lot of speculation as to the why of all this. I mean, it’s pretty baffling. The popular rumor is that Trump is really trying to help the formula industry because…who knows. Whatever the reason, it’s a weird situation. Frankly, I suspect something more childish.
Trump’s slogans have always been about America being number one. Make it great again! America First! American’s and their jobs should be our first priority! So it came as a bit of a shock this week when Trump told us that he thought some jobs for a Chinese telecom corporation was pretty important to him too. A Chinese company. As in the country that, according to him is basically the economic devil he has sworn to defeat. Could it be that Trump, realizing his nationalistic approach to politics may have been ill-informed? Maybe, but I would bet money that the half a billion dollars that the Chinese government is investing to fund a project with the Trump brand on it Indonesia had a bit of sway on that decision. It’s important to remember that the company Trump has directed our government to help, was deemed a military and intelligence risk as it’s a company that could track service members because they are the biggest telecom company in China, and was fined $1.2 billion for violating sanctions against Iran and North Korea. Nothing shady there.
So, at the beginning of October, Donald Trump was supposed to put in place the initial sanctions against Russia that he agreed upon in August. That deadline has passed and….no one seems to be talking about it? It’s buried beneath NFL protests and all around tom foolery. I imagine this is how Congress confronted him two weeks ago…
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