So basically little Donnie has attacked womens issues and the arts in his first few days...I'm SURE

[Lucinda]

it doesn't have anything to do with the women's march or the entertainers boycotting his election though, right? It's just coincidental. No one could be that petty?

[uppityperson]

1. Looks like today is refugee and immigration day

Anti, that is

[Lucinda]

4. His hands may be tiny but they sure are busy lately...

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. "Visibly enraged" at the size of the march, so he will find the SC justice who hates

women more than any other and that is who it will be.

And women wont be safe in sane states like CA or NY, the SC will make abortion the same as the crime of murder.

[Lucinda]

10. I would not be surprised. It's his MO for certain.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I feel very discouraged when I see

just how deep his depravity is towards people and causes that we hold dear.

[Lucinda]

6. Well we all knew it...maybe hoped he wasn't as awful as we thought

but anyone who researched him at all saw what a truly evil person he is...

The only good thing about any of this, is that he is stoking the resistance fire.

[jmg257]

5. Sheesh - what did he do re:the arts?

[Lucinda]

8. The Hill and Fortune reporting here:

http://fortune.com/2017/01/19/trump-arts-economy-cuts/

Grace Donnelly
Jan 19, 2017

The Trump transition team may propose cuts to the federal budget that would reduce spending by $10.5 trillion over the next 10 years, the Hill reported Thursday.

Along with major funding cuts to the departments of Energy, Commerce, Transportation, Justice and State, the plan—which the Trump team has said is modeled after The Heritage Foundation's Blueprint for Balance—would achieve this reduction in part by “targeting waste” like the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).

The NEA has already weathered significant budget cuts following the recession -- their funding is 14 percent lower than in 2010, a $21.5 million drop to $146 million in 2015. The combined budgets of the NEH and NEA account for just over .002 percent of federal discretionary spending.

Both organizations administer grants to support the arts and humanities in each congressional district in the country.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis recently released a report that attempts to put a dollar amount on the arts economy and its impact. They found that arts and cultural production contributed more than $704 billion to the U.S. Economy — this accounts for 4.2% of the United States GDP and is greater than the contributions of the construction ($586.7 billion), transportation and, warehousing ($464.1 billion) industries.

[Solly Mack]

7. On his WH propaganda page under FLOTUS they brag about Melania having a passion for the arts.

Under the VP/spouse, they brag about her using art to help children.

[Lucinda]

9. It is as disconnected as everything else they are doing...

Sounds, to me, like competing elements trying to form policy, but the fact that they had no plan, made them start to follow the Heritage play book.

[Solly Mack]

11. His handlers are more in control than he ever will be.

Only he is too stuck on himself to understand that. He gets lead around by his ego and Bannon and Conway know how to tame the ego.