Putin's favorite president has been at it a whopping 100 days and he has officially declared that the job of president is indeed harder than his job as being Trump in the private sector. I would have to say "no shit, Sherlock!" In the private sector you can surround yourself with yes men and no one will argue with you. Every goal in the private sector is aimed at making the most money the fastest which I love those ideals too, but they can be blinding.
Some of his accomplishments are in the executive orders and how anyone can cheer at him pulling back on laws allowing dumping of any kind from big corporations like coal companies into our rivers is beyond stupid. Another big one that will bite us in the ass is the removal of carbon emission controls. In his need to see a little growth in the coal power sector, he will undo all that has been done over the last twenty years as far as trying to get our air cleaned up. I remember even ten years ago or so we were having smog days here in Austin with 18 bad days in 2006 and 11 days in 2011. I believe that the arrival of the electric car helped reduce this some, and anything that helps is good, but with Trump's new changes, I don't see why we can't all take the catalytic converters off our cars if we can get 2-3 more miles per gallon. Fuck it with the sulfites and other pollutants, I like a slightly grey sky, blue is too chipper for me.
I can't complain about his choice for supreme court, the idiot democrats should have let it slide too. He was replacing a super conservative in Scalia, which isn't going to sway things too much. I didn't buy Gorsuch's "well gosh" and "by golly" coming out of his mouth like we pulled him out of the 1950's. People that act this naïve end up having the biggest skeletons in their closets, but whatever.
Now what else do we talk about? He was not able to add funding for his magical wall to the budget this go round or risk shutting down the whole government. That project has not been started other than as a talking point. I still say, Mexicans are just going to dig underneath that mighty wall or get a ladder tall enough to get over it. He tried twice to ban muslims from a few countries and that didn't work either. This man really thought he was getting appointed dictator instead of president. He forgot there are three branches of government which work as a perfect system of checks and balances to prevent one party or person from taking too much control. Finally, we have the healthcare reform which the bunch of incompetents could not slam dunk. It's like the republicans fielded both teams in a basketball game against each other and somehow managed to still let the democrats take the win. It was genius to come out with a health plan that had as a first bullet point "will give tax breaks to the richest people", followed by it will cost everyone more, and finally the elderly who have the most time to go and vote will be paying up to five times more for premiums.
It was hilarious and yet scary that they can insult with a straight face the plan already in place and attempt to stare at the common man and tell them "yeah, you'll pay more and get less." I guess they were hoping the American audience still cared about name brands and that America would want a health plan with an "R" sewn into it. I say these jackals should not have their own special health plans and we should vote for their coverage.
At least Trump still has the support of about 38 percent of the voters. 100 days seemed long, try another 1360 days to get through one term. He will either have to learn to play well with others or it is going to be a long stretch. Eventually, reality will break this man, he can't keep declaring every thing he does is the best if after four years and with the support of a republican congress, he gets nothing accomplished but air and water the color of his skin.
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