8/3/17: Trump heads for Bedminster, New Jersey for the first extended vacation of his presidency. He plans to relax for seventeen days, perhaps hob-knobbing with buddies at his exclusive golf club.
Ironically, in 2011 a peeved Citizen Trump tweeted a series of complaints, including this, about President Obama:
It may be hard for Trump supporters to
grasp, but their hero’s vacation, 17 days, is longer than Obama’s:
17
-10
7 days longer
Check my math if you disagree.
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8/4/17: The president is on vacation. In a sign of how crazy even Republicans think he is, the Senate decides to remain “in session” even if almost all 100 members are away on vacation.
Every three days a member must go to the
floor, bang a gavel, and announce his or her presence. This “pro forma” action,
lasting less than a minute, means the
Senate is technically in session. That means the president can’t fire the
Attorney General, appoint someone else, and have the new A.G. fire Special
Counsel Robert Mueller, powers the president possesses if the Senate is in
recess.
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8/5/17: Trump claims in a tweet that under his leadership gains against ISIS have accelerated.
Let’s step back a few months. Remember when he labeled planners for the battle to retake Mosul in Iraq, “a group of losers” for announcing plans to soon begin the fight, instead of making a sneak attack? Eventually the second largest city in Iraq was retaken by Iraqi forces, backed by American air and artillery, with only two U.S. personnel killed (vs. thousands of Iraqi casualties).
This was just as President Obama intended.
Trump also tweets: “The United Nations
Security Council just voted 15-0 to sanction North Korea. China and Russia
voted with us. Very big financial impact!” This is indeed good news (similar to
the approach used by Obama to isolate Iran) but let’s not forget all the times
right-wingers assailed the U.N. and said what the organization really wanted was to
rule the world.
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Right-wingers believe U.N. forces plan to take over America. |
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