President Obama Dismantled Program Trump Intended to Use as Muslim Registry
President Obama took the plan out of commission and described it “not only as out-of-date but also an inefficient waste of resources.â€
President Obama took the plan out of commission and described it “not only as out-of-date but also an inefficient waste of resources.â€
This is the America that Trump is trying to normalize, an America where there is a hierarchy of rights based on who you are or how you pray.
A member of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir has resigned over its plan to sing at the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, and more than 22,000 people have signed a petition opposing the choir’s participation.
The president-elect is already personally profiting from the presidency, as Trump sold tickets to a New Year’s Eve party that will be held at his private club and attended by the Trump family.
The more he opens his mouth the more he damns himself. Sure he’s a big crybaby. But the smart money is on him being Vladimir Putin’s crybaby
Guns. Chicago ends 2016 with more than 700 murders and over 4,000 people shot – the worst bloodshed the city has seen in 18 years.
When Russian Hacking is outlawed, only outlaws will defend Russian Hacking. OH! WAIT! Never mind.
President Barack Obama plans to meet Democratic lawmakers in Congress next week to discuss how to protect his signature healthcare law from Republican efforts to dismantle it, a White House official said on Friday.
Donald Trump used his position as president-elect to praise Fox News for their pro-Putin coverage while criticizing two other networks who reported the facts about Russian spying activities in the US.
“To compare the next president of the United States to Hitler is not only intellectually dishonest – it’s downright repulsive.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) is defending America’s veterans from a Trump scheme to privatize the VA that the Senator from Vermont called an insult to vets.
GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, said he can’t defend Trump’s position “We can try to have a better relationship with Russia, but we also have to defend ourselves.â€
“If the trajectory of 2016 continues through Trump’s presidency, the ‘commons,’ the public sphere and the values of shared responsibility, will be tested as never before.”
Trump has only two equally detrimental choices in dealing with the effects of President Obama’s sanctions against Russia. and they’re both damning.
Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) did one better than Trump, claiming that Russia’s attack on our democratic institutions was somehow a public service
A drop in U.S. exports last month pushed the country’s trade deficit in goods higher while the number of Americans filing for unemployment benefits fell last week in a positive sign for the labor market.
She repeated Trump’s line that it’s time to “move on” from the cyberattack and called Obama’s tough retaliation “symbolic.”
Trump’s response suggests that holding Russia accountable for its unprecedented election meddling isn’t that high on his list of priorities.
The evangelical fundamentalists, all 13.2 percent of them, are appealing to vice president-elect Pence by petition and demanding that he, as head of domestic policy, inform president-elect Trump that it is crucial to immediately issue an executive order in”definitely banning†the teaching of evolution as science.
“It is an appropriate way to end eight years of failed policy with Russia. And…serves as a prime example of this administration’s ineffective foreign policy”
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump suggested that the United States and Russia lay to rest the controversy over Moscow’s computer hacking of Democratic Party computers, saying, “We ought to get on with our lives.”
“These actions…are a necessary and appropriate response to efforts to harm U.S. interests in violation of established international norms of behavior.”
Studies are finding that repealing Obamacare will unleash a healthcare catastrophe on the very same people who voted for Donald Trump.
President-elect Trump was asked by reporters to provide details of his plan for veterans’ health care, and he and his senior advisors provided nothing, which means that the next commander in chief lied to veterans thousands of times on the campaign trail when he promised that he would fix health care for our veterans.
Congressional Republicans spent six years trying to repeal Obamacare, but now that they are in control of Congress and the White House, House and Senate Republicans are stuck in a trap of their own making and are trying to delay implementation of the repeal for up to four years.
One of them was investigated by the Senate Finance Committee in 2011 for shady fundraising practices. The other owns one of Detroit’s biggest mansions
If you’re keeping score at home, the number of new jobs Trump helped add to the economy today was zero.
Obama has protected more federal land and water than any single previous president.
Before the Trump campaign was even an idea, the economy was growing, the stock market was soaring, and deficits were falling.
For the second time in a week Charles Schumer aligned himself with Trump in a portent the Democrat’s opposition to Trump is faltering.
Millions of Americans voted for Donald Trump after he promised not to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid†and “he must be held to his promises.â€
“The Israeli prime minister publicly supports a two-state solution, but his current coalition is the most right-wing in Israeli history, with an agenda driven by its most extreme elements.â€
“The beginning of the end was the horrible Iran deal, and now this (U.N.)! Stay strong Israel, January 20th is fast approaching!”
Russia and its president Vladimir Putin should expect tough sanctions after cyber attacks during the presidential election won by Donald Trump, U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday.
White nationalism and anti-Semitism have become growing problems not only around the world but in the United States, and particular focus has been drawn to the movement, calling itself the “alt-right” because of it’s support for Donald Trump. In Montana, prominent Nazi Richard Spencer’s mother, who owns a business in Whitefish, Montana, has been getting…
“When 92% of black voters don’t support the Republican nominee, but the KKK does, there’s a problem. Let’s deal with it and move forward.”
Perhaps the worst blow of all for Trump is that “Fifty percent of Democrats named Obama as most admired, compared with 34% of Republicans choosing Trump.”
“This policy has brought the current US administration…into a dead end. We hope the new administration will be more sagacious.â€
“Arbitrarily limiting Ohio’s energy generation options amounts to self-inflicted damage to both our state’s near- and long-term economic competitivenessâ€
“The U.S. Consumer Confidence Index for December surged nearly four points to 113.7, THE HIGHEST LEVEL IN MORE THAN 15 YEARS! Thanks Donald!”
Not only has the foundation forked over hundreds of thousands of dollars to non-charitable causes, but Trump himself gave little of his own money to the organization.
Not only is the president looking to punish Russia for interfering in the U.S. electoral process, but he’s hoping to do it in a way that Trump can’t undo.
We know how we feel about the potential collapse of our own republic, and what needs to be done in answer to the threat.
She will be missed as a woman who was never afraid to be herself and speak her mind in an age when women are often expected to do neither.
It is all hypothetical, but the numbers and personal dynamics of the two candidates suggest that President Obama would have beaten Donald Trump to win a third term in office.
When Trump said Happy Hanukkah one swastika-toting follower tweeted “WTF?!†while another seconded that sentiment and added, “I hate trump now.â€
Fake news is bad enough but as Media Matters explains, the “alt-right†“embraces it for a more dangerous purpose”: harassment and death threats
“In the advanced stages of the disease, the afflicted lose touch with reality. Opinion is unmoored from fact.”
“The DJT Foundation, unlike most foundations, never paid fees, rent, salaries or any expenses. 100% of money goes to wonderful charities!”
President Barack Obama said on Sunday it had been the “privilege of my life” to serve as U.S. commander in chief and promised his continued gratitude and commitment to service members and their families during a Christmas Day visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
Nearly 40% of white voters without a college degree switched from Obama to Trump based on campaign promises that are the opposite of the Republican agenda. When these voters catch on to the fact that they were lied to, it will be a disaster for the Republican Party.
British singer George Michael, who became one of the pop idols of the 1980s with Wham! and then forged a career as a successful solo artist with sometimes sexually provocative lyrics, died at his home in England on Sunday. He was 53.
Freedom of religion isn’t just about the right to practice religion. It’s about the right to have your own views about religion including being agnostic and atheistic.
Washington business interests are “shocked and alarmed†that Trump’s transition team is “defending new tariffs” Trump pledged to impose.
Trump seems intent on following in the footsteps, not of our most successful modern president, Barack H. Obama, but rather the least, George W. Bush
The U.N. reaffirmed its consensus that settlements have no legal validity. The United States has been sending a message that settlements must stop.
There is no freedom in compelling others to celebrate the holidays of others…For Republicans, Christmas has become an un-Constitutional religious test.
Once again the top rated basic cable channel proves that if it weren’t for White Privilege, Fox “News” would have no privilege at all.
It has cost New York City $35 million to protect Trump since the election and Florida residents are stuck with bills for Thanksgiving and the Holidays
“This a ridiculous shame? He loves these kids, has raised millions of dollars for them, and now must stop. Wrong answer!”
Putin sent Trump a gushing Christmas love note, and the president-elect responded by proclaiming that the thoughts of a murderous dictator are “so correct.”
Senate Democrats have announced that they are going to fight Trump’s cabinet nominees tooth and nail and the battle will be the launching pad for their political comeback.
Jeffrey Wright Says Trump was “Publicly pleasuring himself on Presidential power” but guess who is in the splatter zone?
Largest police union “expects” Trump to militarize the nation’s police and legalize racial profiling within his first 100 days.
“The so-called “A” list celebrities are all wanting tixs to the inauguration, but look what they did for Hillary, NOTHING. I want the PEOPLE!”
The United States intended to allow the U.N. Security Council to approve a resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building, two Western officials said on Thursday, a major reversal of U.S. practice, which prompted Israel to ask President-elect Donald Trump to apply pressure.
Conway alternated between playing dumb and pretending that Trump never proposed the nuclear expansion in the first place.
The president is acting quickly to ensure that Trump cannot establish a Muslim registry.
The fact that physical appearance weighed heavily into Trump’s cabinet picks is outrageous, but it’s not surprising.
Some big talk from Putin and a single tweet from Trump have experts wondering if the US is about to embark on a new nuclear arms race with Russia.
Allowing Governor Snyder to flout the committee’s authority will deny the people of Flint the answers they deserve.
The ranking members of 16 Senate Committees issued a statement that outlined the principles that should be used to vet Trump’s nominees. The principles became necessary as reports are growing that the president-elect’s nominees are withholding information from Senate Committees.
Trump’s former campaign manager revealed that the president-elect never had much interest in draining the swamp.
A new inside look at the chaos between the FBI and the Justice Department reveals that Hillary Clinton was correct. FBI Director Comey’s letter to Congress 12 days before the election was a bombshell whose impact was underestimated by both the FBI and the Justice Department.
“Political ignorance in the USA is the greatest threat to our democracy — 50 years of personal observation indicates it is worse than ever!”
“The legislature may not be willing to undo their unconstitutional overreach and respect the rights of LGBT people, so we’ll just have to see them in court.”
Trump voters, in particular, would be in a world of trouble if the man they supported follows through.
As Hurricane Trump picks up steam on its way to the White House, the American people are coming to grips with just how good things have been under Barack Obama.
Trump’s attempts to sway the public away from demanding an investigation in Russian election meddling are failing as a new Suffolk University poll found that Americans want an investigation by a nearly two to one margin.
It was Donald Trump’s own son who had the idea of selling time with the President Of The United States in exchange for million dollar donations.
A House Republican is telling his constituents that they are going to have to spend more money, and have less health care after the GOP repeals Obamacare.
“I’m told he now just disclaims that. He now says it was cute, but he doesn’t want to use it anymore.”
The FADA “Prohibits the federal government from taking discriminatory action against a person” who acts “in accordance with a religious belief”
“Talking Points believes this is all about race. The left sees white privilege in America as an oppressive force that must be done away with”
“Because of new and legally inventive strategies, Mr. Obama… may well have built firewalls around environmental policies that could hold off his successor.”
He can claim he would have campaigned differently if there were no electoral college but then so would have Hillary Clinton.
Bee: “Our future is going to require a broad coalition of nonpartisan decency…it’s all of us against Trumpism.”
Beck: “I agree.”
The incoming president appears to be turning a blind eye to the growing threat of Russia.
In 2008, the same poll found that a combined 62 percent of Americans thought Barack Obama would either be a “good” president or “one of the greatest.”
“I am appalled,” one lawyer told USA TODAY of the FBI’s pre-election actions.
While warning that a repeal of the ACA would be devastating for small business owners, a small business coalition is urging Republicans not to repeal Obamacare.
“Budget director appears to be John Bircher and conspiracy theorist (but aren’t they all?…Birchers want return to gold and silver, Mulvaney seems to agree.”
Donald Trump’s transition team is in full backpedal mode after his sons Eric and Don Jr. were caught selling access to the president in exchange for a vaguely worded charitable donation.
Senate Democrats are exposing Donald Trump real agenda by hitting the president-elect hard for filling his cabinet with people who are committed to cutting Social Security and Medicare.
A memo obtained by Foreign Policy magazine details the incoming Trump administration’s priorities for the Department of Defense. Conspicuously missing from the list was Russia.
Trump’s dreams of a wall on the Southern border are crumbling as zero members of Texas’s congressional delegation support his plan to build the wall.
Republican Senator Corey Gardner of Colorado will defy President-elect Trump and Senate Majority Leader McConnell by introducing a bill that would create a special panel to investigate Russian hacking and election meddling.
“He “doesn’t know much”…especially how to get people, even with an unlimited budget, out to vote in the vital swing states ( and more).”
“He could simply say, ‘Look, I want them to be my advisers. I pardon them if anyone finds them to have behaved against the rules. Period.”