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There is one thing for certain concerning the Trump administration; they aren’t good at anything. Just the last two weeks alone have magnified the ineptitude of this bunch. I mean seriously, there is absolutely nothing they have gotten right, and there doesn’t appear to be anything in their bag that will put them back in the fairway much less the green.
It begins with their biggest legislation disaster so far. The President’s inability to negotiate a slam dunk healthcare bill through congress is just another in a string of broken campaign promises. With total control of both houses of Congress and that damn pen he is so proud of, he couldn’t get it done. He didn’t get out and rally the troops; he didn’t campaign, he didn’t do anything to help the cause. Well except grant an interview with CBN about his pen. In the collapse, Trump and the Republicans have essentially ceded any future health care debate back to the Democrats, especially if the GOP loses its majority in 2018.
The day the world caved in on Republican’s health care dreams, he was playing fireman on the lawn of the White House. Touting his “Made in America” campaign and bouncing around like a 10-year-old who got to go to work with daddy. We’ll get back to that campaign in a minute.
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As the week unfolded, a heck of a lot more information came out about Donald Trump Jr’s meeting with the Russians. A meeting that was nothing according to Jr yet had some big players from both sides of the Iron Curtain. Leaving the likes of Trump Jr. and Paul Manafort with requests to appear before a Senate panel investigating all things Russian collusion related.
On Thursday, Trump’s ire turned on one of his campaign’s earliest allies, his now Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It seems all the turmoil and pesky investigations are getting under the skin of the POTUS. He also appears to believe Jeff Sessions could have protected him from all of it, had he not backed away and recused himself. Saying he would not have given Sessions the AG job had he known he was going to do so.
Here’s the thing that floors me about this. Jeff Sessions is from Alabama, and I am from Alabama. That part of me is waiting and hoping that the Alabama in Jeff Sessions comes out. That part that is given to us at birth, the one that doesn’t take well to being publicly chided. Especially by someone who, speaking strictly on legal and governmental policy, couldn’t shine Jeff Sessions shoes. That part of every Alabamian that would tell Donald Trump to take the AG job and shove it up his ass! Come on Jeff, Roll Damn Tide for god sake!
Needless to say, things aren’t looking well at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
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Then Friday morning we have the news that nearly everyone who paid attention knew was coming rapidly. Sean Spicer was quitting the administration. The much maligned Press Secretary had finally had enough. Enough having to go out every day and put lipstick on the same herpes infested hog. I felt bad for the guy most days; he was truly in a no win situation. Getting flogged for being truthful or having to look reporters in the eye telling them it wasn’t raining while listening to water drip into buckets all over the press room. I know we all make our own beds, but this poor guy was stuck. I hope he writes a book.
Oh but wait, there’s more!
Remember that whole Iran nuclear deal that the Obama administration put together? The one Trump called “The worst deal ever?” Yeah well, this week the administration had to admit it was working. They also recertified it instead of canceling it as he promised.
Speaking of BS campaign promises lets go back to the “Made in America” campaign of Trump’s. In December then President-Elect Trump went to Indiana to proclaim to all that he had negotiated with the Carrier Corporation to save the jobs at one of its plants there. The employees, some in the media, and all of his supporters heralded him as a hero that keeps his word and gets shit done. Well, Thursday the first round of what will be at least six hundred and thirty-two people to be laid off from that plant began. He didn’t do squat. Carrier got a big tax break, bought a few robots, and they shuffled some numbers around. They still had the layoffs.
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So one thing the last couple of weeks have proven is that Trump’s promises aren’t worth anything. The promise of transparency, health care reform, American jobs, a wall, canceling the Iran deal, and just about everything else has been unfulfilled. Now we all know what it felt like to be a vendor on a Trump building project.
When this administration does find something it’s good at, let’s all hope it’s packing. And soon.
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