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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsReality is catching up with Trump everywhere: WAPO: By Dana Milbank Feb 5th
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/reality-is-catching-up-with-trump--everywhere/2018/02/05/83644532-0ac0-11e8-8b0d-891602206fb7_story.html?utm_term=.33a5c9ddb512In ways large and small, reality is catching up with Trump.
In the same State of the Union address, Trump boasted that African American unemployment stands at the lowest rate ever recorded. (Never mind that this continued an eight-year trend.) Barely 60 hours later, Trumps Labor Department reported that this boast was no longer true: Black unemployment swelled to 7.7 percent in January from 6.8 percent in December.
Reality also threatens to upend Trumps claim that the infamous Devin Nunes memo vindicated him in the Russia probe. Now Trump faces an unpalatable choice declassify a Democratic rebuttal showing the memo was out of context or refuse to release it and appear to be concealing something.
But perhaps nowhere does reality threaten such a rude intrusion into Trumps world as it does on Wall Street. Trump claimed credit for the rising stock market, even though it has been setting records for about six years. But what goes up inevitably must come down.
Great article: The walls are closing in.
sheshe2
(83,933 posts)gordianot
(15,245 posts)Same goes for his enablers.
cilla4progress
(24,779 posts)I do...
Maybe I'll finally be able to really cry. Have been blocked since November 2016.
Feels shitty.
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)of wine and cry all night. Tears of relief and the end of worrying.
Greywing
(1,124 posts)and then I'll be calling into work and taking the day off to catch up on all the sleep I've missed from the stress.
James48
(4,441 posts)Hell no!
Im going straight for a fifth of whiskey to get the taste of that idiot out if my mouth.
I cant wait
FailureToCommunicate
(14,025 posts)HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Don't try confusing them with facts,
BigmanPigman
(51,636 posts)They couldn't discern fact from fiction if their lives depended on it at this point. The Fucking Moron and Fux Ruse has conditioned them for two years and counting.
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)it would never get to 12K.
Boy, were we wrong.
Skittles
(153,202 posts)just sayin'
japple
(9,842 posts)of last year. That would be great!
Grammy23
(5,815 posts)There will be dancing in the streets. Coast to coast, around the world. Oh, yeah, baby! Weve been through hell and back, peered into the abyss with this moron at the helm, so we deserve a day or two of rejoicing. You can bet your sweet bippy (Wow, a throw back to Laugh In!) we will be dancing, singing, drinking strong drink and shouting for sheer joy. The aftermath of this debacle will have to be dealt with, obviously, but for a little while let us have our celebration.
SWBTATTReg
(22,171 posts)I fervently hope Congress lives up to its promise of protecting Mueller and all of his investigations, as well as other innocents...