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Trump Twitter Rant: Fake News Is Lying About GOP Tax Scam

Desperate to enjoy the passage of the GOP Tax Scam, Donald Trump lashed out at critics (for a change) in today’s Trump Twitter rant:

The United States Senate just passed the biggest in history Tax Cut and Reform Bill. Terrible Individual Mandate (ObamaCare)Repealed. Goes to the House tomorrow morning for final vote. If approved, there will be a News Conference at The White House at approximately 1:00 P.M.

The Tax Cuts are so large and so meaningful, and yet the Fake News is working overtime to follow the lead of their friends, the defeated Dems, and only demean. This is truly a case where the results will speak for themselves, starting very soon. Jobs, Jobs, Jobs!

I’d like to remind you that during the George W. Bush years, there were two massive “tax cuts” that eventually led to the biggest recessions the country has seen since the Great Depression.

Many CEOs are already speaking out saying they have no intention of raising wages or hiring more middle-class employees with the expected funds from these tax cuts.

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Report: Donald Trump Considered Rescinding Gorsuch SCOTUS Nomination

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As most politically-minded Americans know, the only actual consequential thing Donald Trump has actually done in the past 11 months is have his Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, confirmed to the high court.

But The Washington Post is reporting Trump considered rescinding Gorsuch’s nomination after the judge told Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) in a private meeting that he found Trump’s repeated attacks on the federal judiciary “disheartening” and “demoralizing.”

The president worried that Gorsuch would not be “loyal,” one of the people said, and told aides that he was tempted to pull Gorsuch’s nomination — and that he knew plenty of other judges who would want the job.

This account is based on interviews with 11 people familiar with the episode, some of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private deliberations.

Trump was especially upset by what he viewed as Gorsuch’s insufficient gratitude for a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court, White House officials said. The judge sent the president a handwritten letter dated March 2, thanking him for the nomination and explaining how grateful he was, according to a copy obtained by The Post.

Aides said Trump did not immediately receive the note, but it was retrieved by legislative affairs director Marc Short and then viewed by Trump on March 10, helping ease his concerns.

Trump was, predictably, defensive and denied the report:

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Donald Trump Denies Any Plan To Fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller

Last week, Democratic Reps. Jackie Spier and Adam Schiff both shared the “rumor on the Hill” that Donald Trump was planning to fire Special Counsel Robert Mueller next week when Congress is gone for the holidays.

Last night, the Donald denied any such plans.

From The Washington Post:

Returning to the White House from Camp David, Trump was asked Sunday whether he intended to fire Mueller. “No, I’m not,” he told journalists, insisting that there was “no collusion whatsoever” between his campaign and Russia.

The outcry over Mueller’s investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference grew louder over the weekend among Trump loyalists and conservative media figures. Although Trump has publicly and privately criticized the Department of Justice and the FBI and voiced displeasure with his appointees there, the president’s advisers insisted he is not aiming his ire at Mueller.

Trump’s lawyer, Ty Cobb, also shot down the rumor yesterday saying, “As the White House has repeatedly and emphatically said for months, there is no consideration about firing or replacing the special counsel with whom the White House has fully cooperated in order to permit a fully vetted yet prompt conclusion.”

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New Poll: Trump Is Least-Popular First Year President In History Of The US

There’s a big lump of coal in Donald Trump’s Christmas stocking according to two new polls by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

The results show Trump is the least popular first-year president in the country’s history.

The survey shows the Trumpster’s approval rating at a dismal 32% and his disapproval rating at a sky-high 67%.

Of those polled, only 23% feel Trump has kept his campaign promises versus 45% who say he’s failed to keep them. Interestingly, 30% say he has “tried and failed.”

If you look to averaged poll results, Real Clear Politics says Trump is in the 37% approval range.

Ouch.

Note: According to Gallup, Barack Obama averaged 57.2% approval his first year as president.

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USA Today: Trump Is Not Fit To Clean The Toilets At Obama Presidential Library

In stone-cold sober language, the USA Today editorial board takes Donald Trump to task for once again finding a new rock bottom for his crassness.

With his latest tweet, clearly implying that a United States senator would trade sexual favors for campaign cash, President Trump has shown he is not fit for office. Rock bottom is no impediment for a president who can always find room for a new low.

A president who would all but call Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the Barack Obama Presidential Library or to shine the shoes of George W. Bush.

This isn’t about the policy differences we have with all presidents or our disappointment in some of their decisions. Obama and Bush both failed in many ways. They broke promises and told untruths, but the basic decency of each man was never in doubt.

Donald Trump, the man, on the other hand, is uniquely awful. His sickening behavior is corrosive to the enterprise of a shared governance based on common values and the consent of the governed.

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The nation doesn’t seek nor expect perfect presidents, and some have certainly been deeply flawed. But a president who shows such disrespect for the truth, for ethics, for the basic duties of the job and for decency toward others fails at the very essence of what has always made America great.

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Monmouth University Poll: Donald Trump Approval Rating Hit’s All-Time Low 32%

Donald Trump’s approval rating has hit an all-time low in the latest Monmouth University Poll.

The Donald’s current job rating stands at a net negative 32% approve and 56% disapprove. This marks his lowest rating in Monmouth’s polling since taking office in January.

Trump’s biggest dips come from Independent women voters.

His lack of any notable legislative achievements plus his decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel which many feel will destabilize the Middle East were contributing factors to his declining numbers.

Previous surveys conducted over the course of the past year indicated his approval rating ranging from 39% to 43% and his disapproval rating ranging from 46% to 53%.

So. Much. Winning.

You can dive into the details here.

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Donald Trump “Embarrassed” Mike Pence Has Pets, Calls Them “Low Class”

Vice President Mike Pence (L) and Donald Trump (R)

Just one more horrible thing to learn about Donald Trump.

Last week, folks were quoting an article at The Atlantic by Mckay Coppins wherein Donald Trump was quoted as saying Vice President Mike Pence wants to “hang” all the gays.

But what didn’t get hardly any attention was the next paragraph where a White House adviser shared that Trump was embarrassed that Pence brought his family pets with him to Washington, D.C.

Apparently, Donald Trump thinks having pets is “low class.”

When it was reported last January that the Pences would be moving some of their family pets—which include two cats, a rabbit, and a snake—into the Naval Observatory, Trump ridiculed the menagerie to his secretary, according to a longtime adviser. “He was embarrassed by it; he thought it was so low class,” says the adviser. “He thinks the Pences are yokels.”

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PolitiFact Awards Trump “Lie Of The Year” For Denying Russian Election Interference

From the Pulitzer Prize winning fact-check website, PolitiFact:

A mountain of evidence points to a single fact: Russia meddled in the U.S. presidential election of 2016.

In both classified and public reports, U.S. intelligence agencies have said Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered actions to interfere with the election.

Those actions included the cyber-theft of private data, the placement of propaganda against particular candidates, and an overall effort to undermine public faith in the U.S. democratic process.

Trump continually asserts that Russia’s meddling in the 2016 election is fake news, a hoax or a made-up story, even though there is widespread, bipartisan evidence to the contrary.

When the nation’s commander-in-chief refuses to acknowledge a threat to U.S. democracy, it makes it all the more difficult to address the problem. For this reason, we name Trump’s claim that the Russia interference is a hoax as our Lie of the Year for 2017.

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Trump Attacks Sen. Gillibrand After Calls For His Resignation Due To Sexual Misconduct Allegations

In today’s Trump Twitter rant, President Cheeto goes after Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York after Gillibrand joined the chorus of senators calling for Trump’s resignation over allegations of sexual misconduct.

Wrote Trump, “Lightweight Senator Kirsten Gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone who would come to my office “begging” for campaign contributions not so long ago (and would do anything for them), is now in the ring fighting against Trump. Very disloyal to Bill & Crooked-USED!”

Gillibrand didn’t miss a beat firing back her own missive: “You cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gotten off the sidelines to speak out about the unfitness and shame you have brought to the Oval Office.”

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NY Times: Trump Watches Up To 8 Hours Of TV News Daily

The New York Times has a fascinating piece up chronicling Donald Trump’s daily television viewing habits.

You know – the television he says he has no time to watch.

Around 5:30 each morning, President Trump wakes and tunes into the television in the White House’s master bedroom. He flips to CNN for news, moves to “Fox & Friends” for comfort and messaging ideas, and sometimes watches MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” because, friends suspect, it fires him up for the day.

Energized, infuriated — often a gumbo of both — Mr. Trump grabs his iPhone. Sometimes he tweets while propped on his pillow, according to aides. Other times he tweets from the den next door, watching another television. Less frequently, he makes his way up the hall to the ornate Treaty Room, sometimes dressed for the day, sometimes still in night clothes, where he begins his official and unofficial calls.

As he ends his first year in office, Mr. Trump is redefining what it means to be president. He sees the highest office in the land much as he did the night of his stunning victory over Hillary Clinton — as a prize he must fight to protect every waking moment, and Twitter is his Excalibur. Despite all his bluster, he views himself less as a titan dominating the world stage than a maligned outsider engaged in a struggle to be taken seriously, according to interviews with 60 advisers, associates, friends and members of Congress.

Before taking office, Mr. Trump told top aides to think of each presidential day as an episode in a television show in which he vanquishes rivals. People close to him estimate that Mr. Trump spends at least four hours a day, and sometimes as much as twice that, in front of a television, sometimes with the volume muted, marinating in the no-holds-barred wars of cable news and eager to fire back.

Check this tweet from July, and remember Trump said he’d have “no time” for golf if he was elected president… #liar