The man is a piece of garbage for a human being that deserves to suffer for all the misery and destruction he is raining down on this country and the world too.
I hate President Donald Trump.
With that out of the way, I saw an info-graphic that at first I was just going to re-post on Facebook, and then I remembered that I should fact check things. So, here's the info graphic, followed by a point by point investigation.
Most Days Vacationing
He hasn't reached the end of his 4 years yet. Hopefully he won't get 8. But, it seems that while he takes more vacation per unit of time, he hasn't reached the point of taking the most in total yet. So, we should be clear: the image isn't exactly correct in its word use. My source.
While the image doesn't address this specifically, I think it's worth mentioning that while the numbers are apparently unsupported in other memes, Trump does seem to spend the most of our tax money on his trips too. And the fact that he goes to his own resorts is objectionable for two reasons: 1) As president and by constitutional law, he's not supposed to have business interests anymore because it's a conflict of interest between his profit and the people he's supposed to represent, and 2) he's spending unnecessary amounts of our tax money on his own luxury. The additional source.
Most Games of Golf Played
Well... it's funny that there's a website dedicated to the topic of how much golf he plays. Here's an ABC News article about it. And here's a CNN article about it. After all the bluster Trump made about Obama playing golf, it's a little funny and a little annoying that Trump is doing more than what he complained about when it wasn't him doing it. This one seems to be true, even though he hasn't completed a term yet.
Least Amount of Bills Signed
So... here's a good article about this being true... but I'm not sure I care about this one. More bills signed means more destruction of the American Ideal when it's Trump doing the signing. He's ruining things... I don't want him to sign more bills. So, I guess I'm trying to point out that the number of bills doesn't matter as much as the quality of the bills. But then... by my measure, Trump is failing hard too. And this does still count as an example of Trump's ignorance or lies depending on why he made the statement that he signed the most bills since Truman.
Lowest Approval Rating
Not sure I need to look this one up. Well, that's surprising. Wall Street Journal says that his approval rating is going up after the Putin thing... but is still the lowest approval rating. I'm not surprised it's the lowest... just that it is going up. His supporters have no idea what they're doing I think. His supporters make claims of patriotism, and then support Trump more for betraying our country? I don't get it. Anyway... verification of the above findings from the Hill. And an interesting and in-depth look at the numbers on Vox. All together, we have verification that he does in fact have the lowest approval ratings of any president in recent history. No surprise... since he's the worst president ever.
Most Provable Lies Told
Holy crap this one is easy. The man is a pathological liar. I remember the first one I noticed still. It was during the presidential debate. In reaction to someone accusing him of not paying taxes, he responded that not paying taxes made him smart. Then immediately after (maybe next day), he denied he said it. He said it on national television during the presidential debate, and he claims the next day that he never said it. It's astoundingly stupid. And the people who voted for him didn't care I'd guess... despite one of the biggest problems in our economy being that rich people avoid paying taxes. So many of the programs that we all use and rely on are paid for by taxes... and rich people avoiding them keeps huge amounts of money out of the tax system... so we can't afford as much. Trump is part of the problem and he was proud of it. And all the rest of us who are scraping by suffer for it.
Here's the snopes article about the lie I remembered.
And here's the politifact article about him being a ridiculous liar.
Trump is such a piece of garbage.
Most Cabinet Resignations
I don't know what to think of this one either. The people he put in power are (except for one-exception I can think of) horrible people that have no skill related to the position they were put in and in many cases have conflicts of interest that would make them work against the best interest of the organization/department they took control of. Scott Pruitt comes to mind as the head of the EPA. I hate Pruitt too. If I saw him on the street I'm not sure I could stop myself from beating him until he needed a visit to the emergency room. That man did so much damage and is so obviously evil (destroyed environmental protections to allow big corporations to pollute more freely and therefore have bigger profits) that I'm glad he resigned.
Anyway, I don't know if it's the most, but there are plenty of ways to see that there are a lot...
- wikipedia
- nytimes
- NPR (this one supports the "most resignations" claim)
Most Criminal Indictments
I'm having a hard time finding a source for this one because most of the pages coming up are about the specific Mueller indictments of Trump. I am failing at verifying or denying this one. Maybe with more time. But instead I'm going to suggest you do your own research on this one. It's easy to find that he's being accused of lots of things, and has been for years. His shady business practices are easy to find, including his racial discrimination for renting out his apartments when he was younger, and plenty on how Trump likes to screw over investors: Vox (I like this one) & USA Today for example.
Final Thoughts
Trump still has supporters. People who believe he is good and that he will help them. Except during his tenure so far ALL of his actions have been to support the super-rich or to be able to make claims. And example of that is giving the coal industry help so coal miners can keep their jobs. But even IF he did make a difference for people who have depended on being a coal miner for their profession... what he did was the wrong thing. Keeping those people dependent on an industry that SHOULD die is awful. What should have happened is using tax money to help transition those companies and the employees to something better. Anything better. Any type of alternative energy would have been better, and provide training for the coal miners to have a skill that's useful in the future.
But his supporters are going to cling to things like those new stories about him helping coal miners while ignoring the down-sides of the same story, and ignoring that things like Trump's tax plans being tricks. Think we're getting money back because they're cutting taxes? Did you get your $100 or so? Hooray for you. Now when you retire there won't be any money in the programs we pay into to have money for retirement. Now programs that we depend on won't have enough support. Guess who REALLY benefits from that tax plan...
go ahead. Guess.
I'm sure you realize that the richest people in the country get the most money from that tax plan. If our taxes get cut by 1% and the average salary of $40,000 per year would mean getting back $400, what does that mean for the CEO who makes on average 300 times what their average employee makes? Are you really happy about your $400 a year when the people at the top are getting back $120,000 per year based on a 1% tax cut? That tax cut would be three times what you make on average. The programs our government runs for us... like the military, law enforcement agencies, schools, public works (road maintenance and so forth), fire departments, and so on... all depend on taxes. I'm not suggesting our government spends taxes well right now... but I am suggesting that tax money is necessary for us. While we're getting back $400, we're losing things that we need. And those rich assholes are getting enough money to pay for whatever they need, and possibly buy a boat too.
Trump is so bad for us. I hate that man.
No comments:
Post a Comment