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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"This is the most failed first 100 days of any president."
Hey, Donny's finally got a YUUGE achievement to his name. Beautiful achievement. Historic. Greatest achievement ever.
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Trump did not merely allege that former president Barack Obama ordered surveillance on Trump Tower, of course. He asserted it as fact, and then reasserted it, and then insisted that forthcoming evidence would prove him right.
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Questions about Russia have hung over Trump for months, but the president always has dismissed them as fake news. That became much harder Monday after the FBI director proclaimed the Russia probe to be anything but fake.
Theres a smell of treason in the air, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said. Imagine if J. Edgar Hoover or any other FBI director would have testified against a sitting president? It would have been a mind-
boggling event.
Brinkley, who has published biographies of such presidents as Gerald Ford, Franklin Roosevelt and Theodore Roosevelt, said of Trumps start, This is the most failed first 100 days of any president.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-trump-faces-his-hardest-truth-he-was-wrong/2017/03/20/af9cabfc-0d83-11e7-9b0d-d27c98455440_story.html
Sad.
dchill
(38,498 posts)Time to refrigerate this stew before it really starts to rancify. Oops. Too late.
Denzil_DC
(7,242 posts)Link to tweet
"I've been here like 51 days, give me a chance," @realDonaldTrump says in Louisville, on Day 60 of his presidency. Which 9 is he forgetting?
Maybe he's not counting golf days.
dchill
(38,498 posts)There you go.
Mendocino
(7,495 posts)fudging the number of golf days also is a given.
Speaking of historian Douglas Brinkely, we went to the same high school. He was 3 years younger, I remember him vaguely.
dalton99a
(81,513 posts)rzemanfl
(29,565 posts)Wolf Frankula
(3,601 posts)tRump couldn't manage a kid's lemonade stand.
Wolf
Rollo
(2,559 posts)The way Trump has failed is by showing up.
malaise
(269,020 posts)boggling event.
enough
(13,259 posts)or interest in the nature and function of our form of government.
Rhiannon12866
(205,413 posts)What a wonderful quality for the perported "leader of the free world!"
Poiuyt
(18,125 posts)Maynar
(769 posts)if you catch my drift.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)And unfortunately, so are Most Americans.
dae
(3,396 posts)fail to destroy their legacy. Donald Trump exudes a very special kind of stupid.
Miigwech
(3,741 posts)Impeachment would be considered a sucess
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)The worst was William Henry Harrison.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/william-henry-harrison-is-born
JI7
(89,250 posts)he got sick and died. but that doesn't make him worse.
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)I'd say being buried just a month after taking the Oath of Office was worse than having low approval ratings and a FBI investigation.
uponit7771
(90,344 posts)DFW
(54,396 posts)Nice going.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,369 posts)Knowing something of your position, of the people you are interacting with, what is their impression? Are they shaking their heads at the American people in disbelief? Or do most understand that Trump is an aberration that we can most likely overcome?
In short, has the average European given up on us or are they just befuddled, amazed etc?
MarinCoUSA
(891 posts)THEY are the real un-American traitors.
ginnyinWI
(17,276 posts)Yes, maybe for now, but if they lose their healthcare, or even if it fails to improve by 2018 some of the sheep are going to leave the fold.
And if indictments come down around the same time...? The mid-terms might be looking pretty good for Dems.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)zentrum
(9,865 posts)...his followers are questioned, they say that the first 100 days have been like Xmas every day. Not kidding. One of them actually said that on NPR.
The Repugs who control all branches of our government right now are not going to let the truth of failure be the narrative.
They want their tax, and regulation reform. They want to defund much of SS and Medicare and Medicaid and so, will keep keep insisting that he's doing what his voters want. Which is true. Ergo, not a failure.
I am as freaked out by one quarter of the country as I am by 45.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)and break the law. Fox news and all the right wing assholes on the radio always defend them - so it must be ok.
sunonmars
(8,656 posts)He'll resign for some reason or another.....no way he can sustain this, it will kill him.
Maynar
(769 posts)I'll type the word:
"Good."
I seriously think the world would be better off without him. Indeed, we would have all been better off if he'd had some bizarre gardening accident as a young man, but I digress.