April 23-26: President Trump Says the "Dreamers" "Can Rest Easy."

 

4/23/17: Trump suggests that Dreamers, young immigrants brought to America as children, and who remained through no fault of their own, “can rest easy.” He doesn’t want to deport them. Attorney General Sessions, however, says that they, like “everyone that enters the country unlawfully,” are “subject to being deported.” 

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“The United States is my home, and I don’t know any other.” 

Jaime Rangel, on why DACA is important to her

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Take Jaime Rangel. She was brought to the U.S. at six months of age. Now attending college in Georgia, she explains,  

I was brought here…before I could walk, before I could talk, and long before I had any rights to make legal decisions of my own. I love America. I work hard, follow the rules, and because I grew up in Georgia, I speak with a southern accent. The United States is my home, and I don’t know any other – which is why it is so frightening to think that I could be facing possible deportation to a country I have never known.

 

You must be nuts to think deporting Ms. Rangel makes sense. Oh, wait. This is the Trump administration.

Protest in favor of DACA protection.

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4/24/17: With tensions on the Korean Peninsula rising, the president decides to meet with members of the U.N. Security Council over lunch at the White House. Meanwhile, the North Koreans detain a third American citizen. The situation is more complicated than healthcare and just as complicated now as it was when George W. Bush and Barack Obama had to wrestle with similar issues. 

In Trump’s more simplistic days – that is, five weeks ago – he regularly bashed the U.N. and promised to cut funding to the organization. 

Now he wants U.N. assistance.

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4/25/17: Trump says he isn’t worried about an “arbitrary” framework, measuring him by a “first-100-days” standard. He’s the best president ever. Every foreign leader loves him. He has great chemistry with them all. He’s not going to fire Press Secretary Spicer because the man has higher TV ratings than soap operas. 

The unintended irony is impossible to miss. 

Turning from stupid to sickening: The president is too obtuse to realize that saying he’s helping CBS (and other networks) to their best ratings “since the World Trade Center came down,” might strike Americans as grotesque. It’s like claiming to be a great driver after you rear-end another vehicle and cause a fiery crash that kills ten children. Your story is going to make the nightly news. 

You still killed those poor children.

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4/26/17: Tough day for Trump fans. Congress isn’t going to fund the big, beautiful wall, and it’s not going to get “ten feet taller” every time the president is in a snit. Will Mexico ever pay for it? Sure they will! Kind of like Trump has an imaginary friend in the White House. 

Also, guess who might be going to jail! General Michael T. Flynn! Wouldn’t that be something! Guess who reported this “fake news.” CNN, the “failing” New York Times…and Fox News.

 

Also, Ivanka got booed while speaking in Germany.