traderdave wrote:During an Easter event at the White House, CNN senior White House correspondent Jim Acosta shouted several questions at President Donald Trump while he was participating in an activity with children. Brad Parscale, Trump's 2020 campaign manager, accused Acosta of "breaking protocol" for shouting the questions. Acosta shot back; invoking the First Amendment and inviting Parscale to read it.

This, of course, is the same event at which Trump made a campaign speech touting the economy and military spending. You opened the door, Mr. President.

Donald Trump wrote:I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P.O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!

slugsrbad wrote:

Donald Trump wrote:I am right about Amazon costing the United States Post Office massive amounts of money for being their Delivery Boy. Amazon should pay these costs (plus) and not have them bourne by the American Taxpayer. Many billions of dollars. P.O. leaders don’t have a clue (or do they?)!

"What I've done is I've used, brilliantly, the laws of the country. And not personally, just corporate. And if you look at people like myself that are at the highest levels of business, they use -- many of them have done it, many times," Trump told "ABC World News Tonight" host David Muir.

Uncle Milty wrote:Not sure I'd pick a fight with the richest man in the world if I were president.

Phred wrote:

Uncle Milty wrote:Not sure I'd pick a fight with the richest man in the world if I were president.

That's why he won't cross Putin.

The big Caravan of People from Honduras, now coming across Mexico and heading to our “Weak Laws” Border, had better be stopped before it gets there,Cash cow NAFTA is in play, as is foreign aid to Honduras and the countries that allow this to happen. Congress MUST ACT NOW!”

The Crimson Cyclone wrote:Van Der Zwaan becomes the 1st Mueller probe sentencing
He got 30 days for lying to the FBI

swishnicholson wrote:

Werthless wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:Here's a take: Bush was worse than Trump. I know we have at least 3 more years of Trump, but consider--Iraq, Katrina, financial meltdown. It's going to be difficult for Trump to top that.
Maybe that's why the Republican party is so enthusiastic about Trump these days.

Gosh darn he's gonna try.

As someone who laments the downfall of certain institutional norms, I think you'd be one of the last people to make this argument. Trump has furthered a lot of pre-existing attitudes in politics and pop culture -- particularly among GOP voters/politicians, but not limited to it... Distrust of large institutions, a confusion of fact with fiction, the degraded status of expertise, desire for confirmatory evidence from like-minded people, self segregated cloistering of micro-communities, dissatisfaction with the re-distributive effects of globalization and technology, unwillingness to study history for lessons...

These issues transcend politics. I can't talk to my dad about sports in the same way that I used to be able. Part of it is because I've changed. I view sports from a different perspective than he does. I read fangraphs, and he listens to sports radio. But it's more than that. I believe there is something else that drives some of the divides, and it's not political, in the sense of right/left. It's how we make decisions, and evaluate decisions. And I suspect that parts of our culture (twitter, talk radio, like-minded communities, information overload, inability to assess bias very well) creates a society that struggles to communicate effectively with people they disagree with. Even places like this forum, which is more polite and like-minded than most places, still has people trolling quite regularly. Hey, 10 years I loved the one-liners, too. But there's something about a growing lack of empathy that is a problem, and it's not going away.

To tie it back to TV's original comment, sure, Bush may have done some things causing direct harm (Iraq), and indirectly handled other bad situations poorly and made them worse (Katrina), but I don't think his presidency created a fundamental or permanent shift in national politics. Obama had more of an impact just on the discussion of what the government can do with respect to healthcare. Even if a Democrat wins in 2020, the damage of the Trump Presidency will last for a long time.

I don't disagree with anything werthless says, but tv, is right. The Iraq death and destruction alone, and the way it was arrived at, far outweigh anything the Donald has managed to this point. Though I suppose the abrogation of any responsibility in Syria and the Ukraine may eventually even the score a little bit. If it ever gets noticed, that is.

thephan wrote:He wants to send troops to the southern border? What? Does the Joint Chief know? The rest of the Pentagon? Does he understand anything about that global messaging? What the rules of engagement are? What the outcome can be? Does he understand that the caravan is essentially a peaceful protest? There is no chance that he knows what the Posse Comitatus Act is. Aaaaargh.

“The Obama Administration's determination was wrong,” said EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. “Obama’s EPA cut the Midterm Evaluation process short with politically charged expediency, made assumptions about the standards that didn’t comport with reality, and set the standards too high.”

some of the agency's problems might lie with the president. The top planning and oversight board at the Postal Service has been unable to meet and consider matters such as the agency's long-term relationship with Amazon, because the president has failed to appoint any of the nine governors to the 11-member Board of Governors of the U.S. Postal Service.

In October, Trump nominated three candidates who still await Senate confirmation. The board needs at least four new members to have a quorum for meetings