Trump still throwing a tantrum over spending bill after believing bogus facts he saw on Fox: report

[DonViejo]

Trump still throwing a tantrum over spending bill after believing bogus facts he saw on Fox News: report

BRAD REED
27 MAR 2018 AT 13:25 ET

President Donald Trump did not sound happy last week when he signed a bipartisan omnibus spending package into law, and the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reports that he now hates the bill even more than before based on bogus information he’s received from Fox News.

“Per two senior administration officials, Trump continued to rail privately about the omnibus bill, and has become convinced of things that aren’t true about it,” Haberman reports. “Trump has been watching Fox, which had Coulter on Jeanine Pirro slamming Trump over the wall funding. That type of thing — as well as his conviction it includes Planned Parenthood funding — are animating him.”

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During the bill signing on Friday, Trump complained that no one had supposedly read the massive, 2,000-plus page spending bill that had passed both houses of Congress. Many conservatives, including the ones normally most loyal to him, bashed him for grudgingly signing it during appearances on Fox News over the weekend.

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https://www.rawstory.com/2018/03/trump-still-throwing-tantrum-spending-bill-believing-bogus-facts-saw-fox-news-report/

[Wellstone ruled]

1. Toddler in Chief is having a hissy.

Quick,get his binky.

[left-of-center2012]

2. Wait a minute !

"Trump complained that no one had supposedly read the massive, 2,000-plus page spending bill"

Shouldn't Trump have had one of his peeps read it?
He signs a bill, not knowing what he is signing?

[gratuitous]

6. Trump sort-of has a point

Remember back in 2010 when the Tea Baggers were complaining about Congress passing legislation that nobody had read in its entirety? Yeah, good times. For some reason, several major media outlets that should have known better, parroted what the Tea Baggers were squawking about. Somehow, in the days since then and now, that whole "read the bill" squawking point has fallen by the wayside. An omnibus budget bill is one of those bills that nobody can possibly read. It's put together by several different committees, each working independently, then mooshed together for the final bill. That's because an omnibus budget is so impossibly detailed and complex that reading it through would take weeks, if not months. Each committee trusts that the other committees have done their work properly.

Congress' propensity to wait until the last second if not beyond to put together legislation (a feature, not a bug of Republican control) means that all kinds of bills get rushed through without affording time to read and understand them. But as long as this stupid talking point keeps cropping up, it's perfectly fair to tie around the necks of the Republicans who cynically brought it up in the first place. If Trump wants time to read a bill before it's presented to him for signing (and who's kidding whom about whether Trump reads anything?), then shouldn't his fellow Republicans in Congress get on the stick?

[nature-lover]

3. He could have read it himself and then made an informed decision.

That would have taken away from his TV time.

[eShirl]

4. fox propaganda network aimed at audience of one

or ?

[Control-Z]

5. I've got a novel idea.

How about we get a president who can read? Problem solved. Gah. 2000 pages and the idiot is complaining that no one else has read it. Double gah.