The White House is starting to remind me of Masada.
Russian election interference
Obstruction of Justice
Stormy Daniels, Karen McDougal, Summer Zervos
Trump Organization being investigated
Kushner/Kushner Companies being investigated on multiple fronts
McCabe Firing
His C+ legal team is playing checkers in a 3-D chess tournament
Practically siding with Putin over our strongest historical Allie of the last 75 years
Global mockery of his sheee incompetence
FL eenagers displaying more cogent, articulate arguments and leadership than Trump ever imagined
PA gerrymandering overturned by courts twice
Losing slam dunk special elections
Disastrous trade policies
Virtually no agenda or plan to accomplish policy objectives
Moralky bankrupt, intellectually incurious, devoid of idealogy, trusts his questionable gut judgement over data, anti-intellectual
Thats off off the top of my head, probably missed several major crisis / scandals.
Think about this: since the farcical tax cut, what has this administration accomplished? Put another way, When is the last time the WH had a day - one freaking day Donnie - in which you could say “Today the Trump agenda moved forward.”
Every day its defense, reactions, denials, blatant pathological lies, spinning scandals, stating laughably implausible explanations. I cannot imagine how awful it is to come to the West Wing every day & try to put lipstick on this pig.
All condoned by McConnell, Ryan, and the rest of the GOP leadership.
By and large, yes - across the board. Ryan is especially egregious; he seems to have no conception of the historical power of the Soeaker of the House postion. He handles Trump like a weak father who has no idea how to properly parent a tyrannical toddler. Party over country has been his recurring theme.
Not everyone kowtows to the bully.
STATEMENT BY SASC CHAIRMAN JOHN McCAIN ON PRESIDENT TRUMP CONGRATULATING VLADIMIR PUTIN
Washington, D.C. – U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ), Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, released the following statement today on President Trump congratulating Vladimir Putin on his “election” victory:
“An American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections. And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country's future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin's regime."
News of the Trump-Putin call came first from the Kremlin — foreign governments often disclose contacts with Trump before the White House, and with more information — prompting reporters to question the president about the call during a brief session in the Oval Office.
“We had a very good call,” Trump said, “and I suspect that we’ll be meeting in the not-too-distant future to discuss the arms race, which is getting out of control.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders offered little clarification about a future meeting of the two presidents. “There are no specific plans made at this time,” she told reporters.
Trump spoke to reporters as an Oval Office visitor, Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, looked on. His conversation with Putin came as the president is coming under increasing and widespread criticism for his refusal to confront Putin about Russia’s hacking and disinformation efforts to destabilize U.S. politics and, more recently, about its alleged assassination attempt in Britain using a military-grade nerve agent against Russian expatriates there.
Though some Republicans have joined the criticism of Trump’s rapport with Putin, few have been as outspoken as McCain, the longtime Senate Armed Services Committee chairman who is undergoing treatment for brain cancer. More typical of Republican reaction was a comment from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, who was noncommittal on Trump’s call to Putin, saying, “The president can call whomever he chooses.”
Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, implicitly rebuked Trump on Twitter, writing: “Putin does not deserve congratulations for his sham reelection. He made the outcome inevitable by silencing and disqualifying any credible opposition.”
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a South Carolina Republican who is McCain’s close friend but less publicly critical of Trump, echoed McCain’s critique of Putin’s re-election on Sunday without mentioning Trump. He tweeted: “Congratulations to Russian President Putin on his Fake Victory in the Fake Election. Heaven help the 25 percent who didn’t vote for him!”
Putin was re-elected on Sunday with more than 77 percent of the vote against a weak field of opposition candidates.
Trump told reporters that he and Putin discussed matters related to North Korea, Syria and Ukraine. He made no mention of Russia’s election meddling or its alleged attack in Britain March 4.
Later, asked whether Trump raised the subject of Moscow’s U.S. election interference, Sanders said, “I don’t believe it came up.”
Sanders sidestepped a question from reporters about whether the Russian election was free and fair. “We don’t get to dictate how other countries operate,” Sanders said.
Asked about McCain’s criticism, Sanders said the administration is “tough when necessary” on Russia but must maintain a dialogue with Moscow.
Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats because of the nerve-agent attack, and Putin retaliated in kind. The United States has not taken similar action against Russia for the attack, though the Trump administration last week sanctioned 19 individuals and five entities for their roles in the 2016 campaign meddling.
The administration also officially joined Britain, France and Germany to condemn the nerve-agent attack. Trump has not personally weighed in, however.