The 100 Day Plan. Zilch! Zero for Ten!!!

Via MSNBC: 45's 1st 100 Days in 360 seconds!!!

Trumpty Dumpty!

Sunday Services!

While so many of you are in church...I'm watching TV!

• 8:00am - 9:00am - watch: "Sunday Today" with Willie Geist on a local NBC affiliate.   The show also airs at 9:00am on NBC (nation-wide), but that timing conflicts with CBS's "Sunday Morning".
• 9:00am - 10:30am - watch: CBS's "Sunday Morning" with Jane Pauley.
• 10:00am - start recording "AM Joy" (with Joy Reid) on MSNBC...while watching the last half hour of CBS's "Sunday Morning".
• 10:30am - Noon: after CBS's "Sunday Morning" is finished, start recording "Face the Nation" also on CBS with John Dickerson and start watching the earlier recorded "AM Joy"
• Noon - finish watching "AM Joy"...there are a half hour of commercials...so Joy's 2 hour show that I started to record at 10:00am can be watched (with fast forward) in 1.5 hours!
• NOON - 1:00pm - watch the previously tape "Face the Nation" that I recorded from 10:30 to 11:30.
• 1:00pm - 2:00pm - watch: Fareed Zakaria's GPS (Global Public Square) program on CNN.
• 2:00pm - 3:00pm - watch: "Meet the Press" with Chuck Todd on MSNBC (aired earier on NBC)

I know!   I need to get a life...or as the spouse says..."step away from the T.V."!

Karma is a Bitch!!!

"The Donald" & the New England Patriots!

The turn out was HUUUUUUUGE!

2015 versus 2017!!!   OK...nevermind!   BTW....where is Tom Brady?

Mar-a-LARGE-Owe!!!

Donald Trump's travel expenses in 10 weeks cost US taxpayers as much as Barack Obama spent in two years!   $24+ million and climbing!!!   But...don't worry, once he opens those coal mines, that will help offset the costs!!!

Donald Trump’s trips to his luxury Florida resort have already cost the US taxpayer at least $24 million - roughly as much as Barack Obama spent on travel in the first two years of his presidency.

Mr Trump has now spent eight weekends at Mar-a-Large-Owe since taking office ten/eleven weeks ago.   Happy Easter!!!

President Trump's trips to Mar-A-Lago costs US taxpayers!:

• Total cost for security in Palm Beach: $3.7 million
• Roundtrip flights from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland to West Palm, Florida: $700,000
• Overtime for local law enforcement during Trump’s trips: $60,000/day
• Total golf cart rentals ordered by the Secret Service "for POTUS visit": $35,185
• Loss to business due to airport closure: -$30,000/weekend

After he hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago, Mr Trump will have averaged $2.4 million tax dollars a week on his Florida trips (to his OWN property)!   If he keeps going at this pace, he will have outspent Mr Obama’s $97 million figure in just ten months.

Critics have pointed out that if the President Donald cut back on these visits, he could fund the social security and arts programs that he is planning to slash.

More @ "The Independent"!

The Donald! Flip-flops all within one day!

Similar to the Donald's face, but Dude!   You gotta get up under those toenails!

China - Currency Manipulator:
Trump repeatedly pledged during his campaign to label the country a currency manipulator.

Nevermind..."They’re not currency manipulators," the president recently said, adding that China hasn’t been manipulating its currency for months, and that he feared derailing U.S.-China talks to crack down on North Korea.

Janet Yellen's Future:
Nevermind...“I like her. I respect her,” Trump recently said, “It’s very early.”   Trump called Yellen “obviously political” in September and accused her of keeping interest rates low to boost the stock market and make Obama look good.

Export-Import Bank:
Nevermind!   Trump threw his support behind the Export-Import Bank, which helps subsidize some U.S. exports, after opposing it during the campaign.

“It turns out that, first of all, lots of small companies are really helped, the vendor companies,” Trump told the Journal. “Instinctively, you would say, ‘Isn’t that a ridiculous thing,’ but actually, it’s a very good thing. And it actually makes money, it could make a lot of money.”

NATO:
Trump said NATO is "no longer obsolete" during a Wednesday press conference with NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, backtracking on his past criticism of the alliance.

During the campaign, he frequently called the organization "obsolete," saying did little to crack down on terrorism and that its other members don’t pay their “fair share.”

More details @ The Hill.

Syria! It's all Obama's fault!

After a grisly chemical attack left dozens of people dead in Syria on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer was quick to blame, of course, former President Barack Obama.

"Today's chemical attack in Syria against innocent people including women and children is reprehensible and cannot be ignored by the civilized world," Spicer told reporters. "These heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime are a consequence of the past administration's weakness and irresolution." Spicer also said: "President Obama said in 2012 he would establish a red line against the use of chemical weapons and then did nothing. The United States stands with our allies across the globe to condemn this intolerable act." (Later in the day, the White House issued a statement echoing Spicer's remarks.)

It will come as no surprise at this point that the Trump White House's position was hypocritical. First, Obama's red line at the time was a threat of US military action against Syria should it continue to use chemical weapons. When Obama asked the GOP-led Congress to authorize the potential use of force against Syria, the Republicans, not wanting to take a firm stance, declined to hold a vote. Still, Obama's move prompted Assad to agree to a Russian-brokered deal to give up his chemical weapons. To a degree, Obama's threat worked.

Whether or not Obama's policy in 2013 was successful, this much is clear: at that point, Trump had an unambiguous position regarding Syria— do nothing. Throughout this episode, Trump tweeted up a storm about Syria. Repeatedly, he declared—occasionally in all-caps! - that Obama should not be messing around in Syria. He said there was no reason to attack Syria or take any action there. Let the Arab League deal with the problem. He was asserting that Obama should not respond to the chemical attacks - a policy certainly in sync with Assad (and his Russian patrons). Stay out of this, Trump demanded, and focus on domestic issues.

Source: Mother Jones!

Here is a sample of Trump's 2013 tweets on the subject: