One Month In And trump Is On His 3rd Vacation

It's going to be difficult to beat obama's record of golf outings. Regardless of that, I want to see how many basketball games President Trump plays and, more importantly, his March Madness picks. Oh wait... President Trump has more important things to do than to play basketball and make March Madness picks... sorry, liberals, you lose...... AGAIN!

 

President Trump: What the new White House has done so far
By UPI Staff | Feb. 17, 2017 at 6:49 PM
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President Donald Trump signs H.J. Res. 38, disapproving a rule submitted by the Department of the Interior known as the Stream Protection Rule in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on February 16. Photo by Ron Sachs/Pool via CNP
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Feb. 17 (UPI) -- Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States on January 20 and immediately began taking action on a number of issues.

Here's a rundown of the highlights so far:
(Most recent first)


February 16

Stream Protection: President Trump signed House Joint Resolution 38, which scraps an Obama administration environmental rule to protect waterways from coal mining waste. Trump's administration said the rule puts mining companies at a competitive disadvantage.

February 14

Anti-Corruption Repeal: President Trump signed House Joint Resolution 41, which wipes away a federal rule that requires energy companies to disclose royalties and government payments. The rule was imposed by the Obama administration last year as a transparency measure. Trump's government said it puts U.S. energy companies at a disadvantage.

February 9

Police Protection: Trump signed an order to review existing laws and produce legislation to better protect federal, state and local law enforcement officers. The action is a response to increased attacks against officers in the past year.

Crime Reduction: The president ordered Attorney General Jeff Sessions to create a new federal task force to share information among agencies, develop strategies, identify deficiencies in current laws, evaluate criminal data and make recommendations for greater safety of U.S. citizens.

Foreign Crime Fighting: Trump issued an executive order prioritizing efforts to prosecute foreign-based crimes like drug and human trafficking. It calls for stricter enforcement of laws already on the books and efforts to "identify, interdict, disrupt, and dismantle transnational criminal organizations."

February 3

Wall Street Regulation: Trump signed an executive order to ease U.S. fiscal regulations in the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010 -- which was a response to the financial crisis and Great Recession that Trump's administration called "overreaching."

Money Manager Rule: The president ordered the Labor Department to review a rule from former President Barack Obama requiring financial managers to act in their clients' best interests when handling retirement accounts. The department will determine whether such a mandate is necessary.

 

January 31

Supreme Court: Trump nominated federal appellate Judge Neil McGill Gorsuch to replace Associate Justice Antonin Scalia on the Supreme Court. Some Democrats promised to filibuster the confirmation process after Republicans refused to hold hearings on former President Barack Obama's nomination of Merrick Garland after Scalia's death.

January 30

Federal regulations: Trump signed an executive order requiring that for every new federal regulation on small and large businesses, two existing regulations must be removed. He signed the document after a meeting with small business leaders. Trump said he wants to end regulatory discrepancy between big and small business.

CIA in the NSC: White House spokesman Sean Spicer said the CIA was added to Trump's National Security Council -- something that wasn't done by former President Barack Obama due to the creation of the national intelligence director post in 2005.

January 28

National Security Council: Trump reorganized the council, adding his chief strategist, Steve Bannon. The council is a panel of officials, most of them Cabinet level, who work with the president to determine the best course of action on security issues.

January 27

Military strength: Trump signed an executive order to provide new resources and equipment to strengthen the U.S. military. The order promises to "rebuild" American armed forces and upgrade national and global security as part of a strategy that dictates "peace through strength." The order directs Defense Secretary James Mattis to assess the country's military and nuclear capabilities.

Visa vetting: Trump signed an executive order that calls for more intensive security checks for foreign nationals seeking U.S. travel visas. The action stems from a controversial proposal Trump made during his campaign -- to prevent certain refugees from nations of concern, like Iraq and Syria, from reaching U.S. shores until they can be cleared.

January 25

Border security: Trump signed an executive action directing federal agencies to prepare for "immediate construction" of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border -- a controversial project that was at the center of his presidential campaign.

Immigration enforcement: The president signed an executive order to strip federal grant money from so-called "sanctuary cities" -- U.S. municipalities that protect undocumented immigrants from federal prosecution. Trump's order also seeks to hire 10,000 additional immigration officers, build more detention centers and prioritize immigrants for deportation.

January 24

Oil pipelines: Trump signed executive orders that would make it possible to complete the Dakota Access and restart the process for the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.

January 23

Abortion: Trump signed a presidential memorandum reviving a rule that prevents U.S. funds from going to certain health charities around the world that counsel on abortions. Known as the Mexico City policy, it was first instituted by former President Ronald Reagan in 1984 and has been on and off the books ever since.

Trans-Pacific Partnership: Trump signed a presidential memorandum withdrawing the United States from the trade deal with Asia. The pact has been criticized by people skeptical of its benefits and worried over its potential to kill U.S. jobs. Proponents of the deal worry that pulling out could harm relations with key allies in the region.

Federal workforce: Trump ordered a temporary hiring freeze for federal workers, except for the military and certain security positions.

January 20

Obamacare: Within hours of his inauguration, Trump took his first step toward appealing the Affordable Care Act, signing an executive order calling on government agencies to "ease the burden" of the policy.

Trump's order asked federal agencies to "prepare to afford the states more flexibility and control to create a more free and open healthcare market."

Homeowners insurance: The new president also suspended a scheduled insurance rate cut for new homeowners, which had been set by Barack Obama's government. The cut would have reduced annual insurance premiums for new Federal Housing Administration loans by 25 basis points -- from 0.85 to 0.60.

Federal regulations: Trump also ordered a freeze on all new federal regulations that had not been finalized.
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Trump is a lazy fucking prick.

 

How intelligent! of you

 

This is friggin hilarious. All the sudden the Sniveler is becoming a civic minded citizen. One cannot help but laugh.

 

The numbers don't lie.

'Trump and his family have already depleted the Secret Service's funds because of their frequent travel'

'The Secret Service's funds to pay agents have been depleted in large part by President Donald Trump's and his family's frequent travel and by having more people under agency protection, USA Today reported Monday.

'The Secret Service director, Randolph "Tex" Alles, told the publication that more than 1,000 Secret Service agents had hit the mandated caps for salary and overtime allowances. That money was supposed to last the entire year.

'The agents must protect Trump everywhere he goes, which has included trips nearly every weekend of his presidency to one of his properties, such as his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and golf clubs in New Jersey and Virginia. The Secret Service has also had to protect his adult children on business trips and vacations across the country and overseas, in addition to securing the family's many residences along the East Coast.

'Each of the president's seven trips to Mar-a-Lago has cost about $3 million, according to an estimate by the General Accounting Office for similar travel by President Barack Obama. The Secret Service has spent about $60,000 just on golf-cart rentals while at Mar-a-Lago and Trump's golf club in Bedminster, New Jersey, according to the report.'
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That last bit is telling, I think. Trump makes the Secret Service rent his golf carts, and his business enterprise pockets the profits. Sweet!

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If even one of the right-wingers had bothered to stick around, they could have pointed out that the Secret Service is prevented by law from accepting gifts from the president. That would be the time to point out that this situation would have never arisen if Trump had done the ethical thing and divested himself of his business holdings. But then, as Trump correctly pointed out, presidents aren't required by law to behave ethically in such matters, and why behave ethically if there's no law that says you have to? Trump has never done that in his life, as far as I know, and in fact has been taken to court and lost cases because of unethical behavior that was against the law. He was still happy to carry on with it though.