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Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:02 PM Mar 2017

"This is the most failed first 100 days of any president."

Hey, Donny's finally got a YUUGE achievement to his name. Beautiful achievement. Historic. Greatest achievement ever.

President Trump faces his hardest truth: He was wrong

...

Trump did not merely allege that former president Barack Obama ordered surveillance on Trump Tower, of course. He asserted it as fact, and then reasserted it, and then insisted that forthcoming evidence would prove him right.

...

Questions about Russia have hung over Trump for months, but the president always has dismissed them as “fake news.” That became much harder Monday after the FBI director proclaimed the Russia probe to be anything but fake.

“There’s a smell of treason in the air,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. “Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mind-
boggling event.”

Brinkley, who has published biographies of such presidents as Gerald Ford, Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, said of Trump’s start, “This is the most failed first 100 days of any president.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-faces-his-hardest-truth-he-was-wrong/2017/03/20/af9cabfc-0d83-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html


Sad.
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"This is the most failed first 100 days of any president." (Original Post) Denzil_DC Mar 2017 OP
And it's only day 60. Or so. dchill Mar 2017 #1
Day 51, according to Trump: Denzil_DC Mar 2017 #3
"not counting golf days." dchill Mar 2017 #6
Since he cheats when he plays Mendocino Mar 2017 #25
He wouldn't last a month as a 7-Eleven manager dalton99a Mar 2017 #2
Failed 7-11 managers all over are insulted by the comparison. n/t rzemanfl Mar 2017 #7
7-Eleven Manager? Wolf Frankula Mar 2017 #13
The only way a 7-11 manager could fail is by not showing up... Rollo Mar 2017 #15
THIS! malaise Mar 2017 #4
The problem is neither the president nor most of his supporters have any idea enough Mar 2017 #5
*This* nt brer cat Mar 2017 #9
+1000! Yes, this is it! And he and his minions have no motivation to find out Rhiannon12866 Mar 2017 #12
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2017 #19
He's number 1! He's number 1! Poiuyt Mar 2017 #8
Looks more like Number Two Maynar Mar 2017 #16
The guy is the laughing stock of the world yuiyoshida Mar 2017 #10
Many Presidents have had to work tirelessly for 4 years some 8 and still dae Mar 2017 #11
At this point Miigwech Mar 2017 #14
Sorry, but it is the 2nd most failed. Stonepounder Mar 2017 #17
i don't see how Harrison was worse JI7 Mar 2017 #20
It was a joke. Stonepounder Mar 2017 #22
+1 uponit7771 Mar 2017 #18
"Tearing America Apart Again" DFW Mar 2017 #21
I'm curious what you're hearing on the ground over there A HERETIC I AM Mar 2017 #23
Orange Pustule Hitler loves his $ more than Country. rePukelicans love power more than the Constitut MarinCoUSA Mar 2017 #24
"bullet-proof with his base"? ginnyinWI Mar 2017 #26
I Love the Smell of Treason in the morning--when it proves I was right. joanbarnes Mar 2017 #27
And yet, when... zentrum Mar 2017 #28
But I always thought republicans were allowed to be treasonous mdbl Mar 2017 #29
Trump thought he would be loved by all, he got a shock, sunonmars Mar 2017 #30
At the risk of being uncharitable, Maynar Apr 2017 #31

dchill

(38,315 posts)
1. And it's only day 60. Or so.
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:05 PM
Mar 2017

Time to refrigerate this stew before it really starts to rancify. Oops. Too late.

Denzil_DC

(7,187 posts)
3. Day 51, according to Trump:
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:12 PM
Mar 2017



Jeff Zeleny ✔ @jeffzeleny

"I've been here like 51 days, give me a chance," @realDonaldTrump says in Louisville, on Day 60 of his presidency. Which 9 is he forgetting?


Maybe he's not counting golf days.

Mendocino

(7,430 posts)
25. Since he cheats when he plays
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:59 AM
Mar 2017

fudging the number of golf days also is a given.

Speaking of historian Douglas Brinkely, we went to the same high school. He was 3 years younger, I remember him vaguely.

Rollo

(2,559 posts)
15. The only way a 7-11 manager could fail is by not showing up...
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 11:35 PM
Mar 2017

The way Trump has failed is by showing up.

malaise

(267,796 posts)
4. THIS!
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:12 PM
Mar 2017
“There’s a smell of treason in the air,” presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. “Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mind-
boggling event.”

enough

(13,235 posts)
5. The problem is neither the president nor most of his supporters have any idea
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 09:13 PM
Mar 2017

or interest in the nature and function of our form of government.

Rhiannon12866

(202,970 posts)
12. +1000! Yes, this is it! And he and his minions have no motivation to find out
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:58 PM
Mar 2017

What a wonderful quality for the perported "leader of the free world!"

dae

(3,396 posts)
11. Many Presidents have had to work tirelessly for 4 years some 8 and still
Mon Mar 20, 2017, 10:47 PM
Mar 2017

fail to destroy their legacy. Donald Trump exudes a very special kind of stupid.

Stonepounder

(4,033 posts)
22. It was a joke.
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:04 AM
Mar 2017

I'd say being buried just a month after taking the Oath of Office was worse than having low approval ratings and a FBI investigation.

A HERETIC I AM

(24,317 posts)
23. I'm curious what you're hearing on the ground over there
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:12 AM
Mar 2017

Knowing something of your position, of the people you are interacting with, what is their impression? Are they shaking their heads at the American people in disbelief? Or do most understand that Trump is an aberration that we can most likely overcome?

In short, has the average European given up on us or are they just befuddled, amazed etc?

MarinCoUSA

(891 posts)
24. Orange Pustule Hitler loves his $ more than Country. rePukelicans love power more than the Constitut
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 11:42 AM
Mar 2017

THEY are the real un-American traitors.

ginnyinWI

(17,276 posts)
26. "bullet-proof with his base"?
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 12:00 PM
Mar 2017

Yes, maybe for now, but if they lose their healthcare, or even if it fails to improve by 2018 some of the sheep are going to leave the fold.

And if indictments come down around the same time...? The mid-terms might be looking pretty good for Dems.

zentrum

(9,865 posts)
28. And yet, when...
Tue Mar 21, 2017, 08:22 PM
Mar 2017

...his followers are questioned, they say that the first 100 days have been like Xmas every day. Not kidding. One of them actually said that on NPR.

The Repugs who control all branches of our government right now are not going to let the truth of failure be the narrative.

They want their tax, and regulation reform. They want to defund much of SS and Medicare and Medicaid and so, will keep keep insisting that he's doing what his voters want. Which is true. Ergo, not a failure.

I am as freaked out by one quarter of the country as I am by 45.

mdbl

(4,972 posts)
29. But I always thought republicans were allowed to be treasonous
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 07:03 AM
Mar 2017

and break the law. Fox news and all the right wing assholes on the radio always defend them - so it must be ok.

sunonmars

(8,656 posts)
30. Trump thought he would be loved by all, he got a shock,
Wed Mar 22, 2017, 07:05 AM
Mar 2017

He'll resign for some reason or another.....no way he can sustain this, it will kill him.

Maynar

(769 posts)
31. At the risk of being uncharitable,
Wed Apr 5, 2017, 01:03 AM
Apr 2017

I'll type the word:

"Good."

I seriously think the world would be better off without him. Indeed, we would have all been better off if he'd had some bizarre gardening accident as a young man, but I digress.

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