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Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Trump, Self Proclaiming Succeeding
DURING DONALD TRUMP'S first one hundred days as president, which we now know are all important, he failed to eliminate or alter Obamacare, failed to renegotiate or withdraw from the nuclear energy treaty with Iran, failed to withdraw the United States from the Paris climate change treaty, failed to tear up NAFTA, failed to pass a bill mandating the construction of the great wall of Mexico, and failed to coerce the Mexican government to pay for it. Failed, thus, to fulfill any of his bombastic campaign promises. He further failed to eliminate Islamic immigration into the United states, although he surely caused potential new Islamic citizens to question whether they really want to live in America. He also failed to appoint an open minded ideologically flexible justice to the Supreme Court. His core followers remained unperturbed; he'll get all that stuff done later. Trump did, however, succeed in asserting that Hillary Clinton lost the popular vote, succeeded in claiming that all media which tells the truth is selling fake news, and succeeded in signing executive orders of sufficient legality to inspire a spate of lawsuits. His greatest accomplishment seems to have been the writing of a succession of twitter tweets praising his personal achievements as president, demonstrating his limitless ability to call a failure a success, and showing his admiration for brutal dictators, most recently, the brutal dictator of the Philippines. Move over, Vladimir Putin, you have a rival for the heart and soul of the American president. Trump showed his quickness in thinking by giving us a history lesson on Andrew Jackson's attitude towards the civil war, an amazingly prescient attitude on the part of Old Hickory, considering that he died fifteen years before the war's advent. The new president succeeded "bigly" in running up a huuuge bill for travel expenses, flitting between his Florida home/estate/elite country club, his tower in Manhattan, and his temporary home in Washington D.C.. In his first one hundred days, Trump spent more of our money on his personal activities than Obama did during his eight years in office, and that's a record which may never be equaled or broken. Never let it be said that President Trump is a failure. To do so would do no good; it would be tweeted away as "fake news", and promptly dismissed by the thirty eight percent who still respect him, or pretend to, for whatever reason.
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