In His First Seven Days, Trump Has....

[McCamy Taylor]

1. Driven his approval rating down by eight points---a feat that is even more impressive when you recall that he started with the lowest approval rating of any newly elected president in recent history. I am not sure I have ever seen a rockier “honeymoon.”

http://fortune.com/2017/01/24/donald-trump-approval-ratings/

2. Given the mainstream press (the NYT) the balls to call him out on his “lies” rather than using familiar euphemisms such as “misstated.”

Trump Repeats Lie About Popular Vote in Meeting With Lawmakers

Good thing, too. An emasculated press is not good for anything except “keeping its mouth shut.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/23/us/politics/donald-trump-congress-democrats.html

Speaking of "keeping its mouth shut", Trump (via spokesman Bannon)

3. Told the press to "keep its mouth shut", a bit odd coming from a man whose number one job is to uphold and defend the Constitution----the Constitution whose first Amendment has something in it about freedom of speech and freedom of the press. Is there some new kind of ultra orthodox Federalist that I have not heard about? A group that only wants to the Constitution but wants to dump all the amendments as being against the Founders' wishes at the moment in time when they wrote the Constitution? If so, we should hook them up with the NRA, those staunch defenders of the second amendment.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/316360-bannon-media-should-keep-its-mouth-shut

4. Declared his administration (again via a surrogate) to be in possession of "alternative facts,"

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/01/22/kellyanne-conway-says-donald-trumps-team-has-alternate-facts-which-pretty-much-says-it-all/?utm_term=.c10e5b4cb9bf

which in turn has

5. Driven sales of George Orwell's 1984 up to first place on Amazon!

http://time.com/money/4648774/trump-1984-dystopian-novel-sales-brave-new-world/

6. Given the mainstream press (the WaPo) the balls to question his sanity. Or maybe, in the case of the WaPo, I should say “gave them the tits” seeing as this what former Nixon Attorney General John Mitchell threatened to put in a wringer, precipitating the Watergate investigation.

Maybe Trump isn’t ‘lying’

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/01/25/maybe-trump-isnt-lying/?hpid=hp_no-name_opinion-card-e%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.efc6e51f16ad#comments

7. Generated the largest single day protest march the nation has ever seen. I put this in bold, because it takes a lot to get Americans off their butts and out into the streets. Bonus points for global protests in places as remote as Antarctica. And check out this headline!

Women's March against Donald Trump is the largest day of protests in US history, say political scientists
1 in every 100 Americans marches to protest new President's inauguration, with no arrests reported.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/womens-march-anti-donald-trump-womens-rights-largest-protest-demonstration-us-history-political-a7541081.html

8. Threatened to impose martial law in Chicago. Hmmm. Could this be connected to the fact that 500,000 Chicagoans marched against him?

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/25/us/trump-threatens-federal-intervention-in-chicago-citing-carnage.html

9. Threatened to withhold “federal funds” from sanctuary cities.

http://www.salon.com/2017/01/25/president-trump-signs-executive-order-threatening-to-withhold-federal-funds-from-so-called-sanctuary-cities/

Recall that these cities are the source of much of the nation’s tax revenue. Meaning that when Trumps says he will not pay for LA’s ports or New York’s airports or Chicago’s highways or Boston’s public health, he is threatening to kill the goose that lays the golden eggs that keep the red states afloat. Plus, big port cities rely upon federal funds to keep us all safe from terrorists. Meaning that to Trump, shipping a maid back to El Salvador is more important than keeping our children from being blown up by ISIS.

10. Declared that water boarding is not torture.

http://thehill.com/policy/national-security/316435-trump-waterboarding-isnt-torture

11. Tweeted 52 times!

http://trumptwitterarchive.com/#/archive

[Dotcommer]

1. Presidents have been impeached for far less.

www.WrappedintheFlag.com

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[smirkymonkey]

2. If he keeps it up at this rate, in three months we'll be a third-world country.

God help us. And I'm an atheist.