Trump Can't Be Trusted On Anything

Trump is in hot water for things other than his media relations these days.  Scott Pruitt is a contravfersial cabinet candidate for the Environmental Protection Agency and he sues the EPA all the time, or he did in Oklahoma.  Thom Hartman had a caller from Oklahoma who complained of the salt water injections in these new slant wells dug in that state.  The caller says “It’s worse than anything fracking does to the earth because of the sheer volume of salt water under pressure”.  Of course Sixty Minutes had an extended piece on this a couple of months ago.  I don’t like any of Trump’s cabinet picks but maybe Nicky Haily is acceptable for Sec to the UN.   Mad Dog Mattis was confirmed last Saturday and Mattis was sworn in by the Vice President.   The big thing now is that Trump has been signing executive orders.  He signed an order freezing government worker’s wages.  He signed an order getting us out of the Trans Pacific Partnership, and Democrats will applaud that one.  And Trump signed some mortgage bill making home acquisition more difficult for the average American.  But the war with the media continues to be the big thing.  You blog readers of mine can dig up tons of stories on Google and other places on this topic and for me to elaborate at length now would be not only redundant but a couple days too late.  Still I plan to past a few snippits over.  Thom Hartman says that Trump really doesn’t care about getting rid of free trade that he’s just using it as a campaign ploy.  “Trump really wants to be a King doing what he wills to do and so may raise or lower terrifs at his whim or depending on the company we are talking about.  If it’s a drug company out to screw us, then Trump will go on and allow us to be screwed.  I think it’s clear that in this world of “Alternative Facts” and Trump’s many lap dogs for instance Kelly Anne Conway- - will lie of “pervericate” to her heart’s content.  Someone pointed out that eighty percent of the “facts” mentioned by Trump’s press secretary on his very first outing were lies.  And of course these people can lie about anything, petty things, and even photographs of the Washington Mall they won’t believe.  When you have a president that starts off this bad in his first three days you wonder where he will be in three weeks, or three months or three years.  I’d like to know where the economy will be.  Because you know whatever happens Trump is going to lie about it.  Remember Trump is starting with a scant forty percent approval rating.  I haven’t talked much about the women’s march in my writings.  It seems the women outnumber the men three or four to one and a lot of them are wearing their pink pussy cat hats.  They say that subways and busses were jammed to capacity and they even added on extra cars and shortened waiting times to accomidate them all.  Some have said that the women’s protests drew more people than the inaugural on Friday.

Trump is doing what he criticized President Obama for.  He's ruling by the stroke of a pen.  The biggest executive order of course was the elimination of the worst provision of the Affordable Care Act.  This is the one that enacts tan penalties for people who refuse to buy insurance.  President Obama was a little lax in this enforcement himself because provisions on the original ACA bill made exceptions for hardship if people didn't buy their health insurance like good little peons.  Now Trump just eliminated this stick entirely and I'm glad he did.  It takes away the "socialized medicine" aspect of the bill.  We have heard it said, "Don't look at the administration's words; look at their actions".  They are distracting us with this stuff about attendance figures when other things are happening.  Marco Rubio for instance has caved and now intends to vote for Rex Tillerson for Secretary of State, almost insuring this Exxon stooge will be approved for the highest cabinet office.   Donald Trump will not be aiding any medical charity such as the Red Cross or Doctors without Borders is they so much as mention in any of their litriture that abortion is a medical option.  But the law already was that the government would not fund abortions on the world scene.  

Leo Le Port wasn’t on.  It was Neil Savedra talking about the women’s march on Washington and the numerous protests all around the country including in Chicago and right here in LA’s Pershing Square.  Neil seemed almost in praise of the protestors and none too happy to praise Donald Trump.  Meanwhile I turned on channel two again to check it.  I was able to get an NCAA basketball.  It was the Kansas Jay Hawks beating the Texas Longhorns in rust colored uniforms.  Then it was UCLA playing Arizona and the score was tied ten to ten when I turned it off.  Trump gave a speech in the CIA building that was available only on the radio.  Trump was pretty full of himself.  He criticized the media for manufacturing the myth that there had ever been any rift between the seventeen intelligence agencies and Donald Trump.  Those in the room applauded when Trump went off on the media.  It struck me that Trump is never going to miss a chance to toot his own horn.  Neil compared the thing to a dog trainer rubbing the dog’s nose in his piss and whacking him with a rolled up newspaper.  In other words Trump would not “allow the media to do business as usual” defining the terms of the discussion.

I toggled between Meet the Press and This Week.  Chuck Todd is pretty pissed at the Trump campaign and he was confrontative to Trump’s campaign manager.  Kelly Anne Conway or something and she’s turning fifty now.  She’s become a real “front woman” so to speak.   John Mc Cain was on ABC.  The general media beef is that the trump administration makes up facts and gets indignent when the media refutes their lies.  So they show an empty boulevard and the question is who do you believe, Trump or your lying eyes?  The difference between the Obama inaugural was marked.  Also on the matter of saying Trump had no rift with the intelligence communities is silly.  That is an obvious fact.  A little after nine I turned on Breakfast with the Beatles.  They had “rainy day” mellow songs all day.  They played “Why be mean to the ones you love?” or something from “Extra Texture” by GH I’d never heard.  They also played a track from “Press to Play” by Mc Cartney, which they never do. 

Rhapsody in black had January of 1962 songs.  This was a good selection.  They began with “Let Me In”, which is by the Sensations.  They played “Dear Lady Twist” and also “Shadrach, Mishack, and Abendigo”, which is a song I haven’t heard since I was twelve.   There was an early Smokey Robinson song, an early Ike and Tina song and an early song by the Chrystals, which I didn’t recognize as that group.   There were holdovers from November of 1961 including “Mind Your Own Business”, “Baby, It’s You” and “I Love You Gypsey Woman”.   But after three the station began acting up.  The volume fluctuated wildly and alternately blacked out.  It became too much to listen to and I turned it off.  I then turned on the TV and again got channel two working, but in a different antenna position. .

 Paul and I talked about Trump’s speech.  After telling Paul I liked the speech Paul said that he didn’t like it.  He felt uncomfortable with the idea that government has to solve all of our problems and he made too many overreaching statements like saying all the crime and poverty and everything stops NOW.   Paul, too praised the cabinet members for being Born Again Christians.  Earlier Judy had suggested I make another attempt to try and get Tim and Marie and Mom saved.  I don’t even know where I’d start.  I think sharing my own “testimony” would be useless.  Paul had to get back by four because Elizabeth gets off then.