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Taxpayers on the Hook for Tiffany Trump’s Roman Holiday

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

$117,489.44

“The State Department splashed out over $100,000 on car rentals during First Daughter Tiffany Trump’s recent vacation in Italy,” the Daily Mail reports. “Federal records show that three separate payments in the amounts of $54,694.84, $39,188.64 and $23,605.96 were made on July 18 in Rome.”

Trump Has Lied More than 1,000 Times as President

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

1,057

Washington Post: “We have been tracking President Trump’s false or misleading claims for more than seven months. Somewhere around Aug. 4 or Aug. 5, he broke 1,000 claims, and the tally now stands at 1,057. … That’s an impressive number by any standard. In fact, we are a little late with this update because we have simply been overwhelmed keeping track of the deluge of claims made by the president in the later part of July.”

Germans Confiscate Trump-Shaped Ecstasy Pills

August 23, 2017August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

5,000

German police have seized around 5,000 ecstasy tablets shaped like the head of President Trump, a haul worth tens of thousands of euros, CNN reports.

Ryan Thinks Tax Reform Will Be Easier than Healthcare

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

“I believe it’s going to be far easier for us to do tax reform than it was for, say, health care reform.”

— Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), in a CNN town hall meeting.

Is This the End of the Trump Government?

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

“It doesn’t mean the end of the Trump presidency but it may mean the end of Trump government. It’s going to be impossible for Donald Trump now to attract good people to government.”

— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, in an ABC News interview.

McConnell’s Approval Rating in Kentucky Lower than Trump’s Nationally

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

18%

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds 74% of Kentuckians disapprove of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) job performance, while only 18% approve. Furthermore, just 27% of state residents approved of the Republican health care bill which went down to defeat.

Mar-A-Lago Has Lost $1 Million Since Trump’s Charlottesville Debacle

August 23, 2017 Buck Banks

$1 million

In all, 14 have canceled and only two events remain: The Palm Beach Police Foundation’s annual Policeman Ball and the Palm Beach County Republican Party’s annual Lincoln Day Dinner, according to reports. The departures could cost the Trump Organization $1.1 million in total, the Washington Post estimated, with rental fees ranging from $24,000 to $276,000. Recent financial reports showed that the property generated around $37 million in revenue from January 2016 to April 2017, reports TVN.

The Old Kabul Bobble

August 21, 2017 Buck Banks

Following his egregious Charlottesville sham,
Trump said, “Come on guys, gimme a success plan.”
So said the generals —
The guys with the arsenal:
“Yes sir! Let’s rev up the war in Afghanistan!”

Ryan’s Faustian Bargain

August 21, 2017 Buck Banks

“I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party. But he’s made a Faustian bargain. I keep thinking about that scene from A Man for All Seasons, where Thomas More says, ‘What profit a man to gain the whole world if he loses his soul, but for Wales?’ And I keep thinking, But for tax cuts, Paul?”

— Charlie Sykes

Macron’s Numbers Match Trump’s

August 21, 2017 Buck Banks

36%

Le Figaro poll in France finds that just 36% of French citizens approve of President Emmanuel Macron after 100 days in office.

$117,489.44

1,057

5,000

German police have seized around 5,000 ecstasy tablets shaped like the head of President Trump, a haul worth tens of thousands of euros, CNN reports.

“I believe it’s going to be far easier for us to do tax reform than it was for, say, health care reform.”

— Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), in a CNN town hall meeting.

“It doesn’t mean the end of the Trump presidency but it may mean the end of Trump government. It’s going to be impossible for Donald Trump now to attract good people to government.”

— GOP strategist Alex Castellanos, in an ABC News interview.

18%

A new Public Policy Polling survey finds 74% of Kentuckians disapprove of Sen. Mitch McConnell’s (R-KY) job performance, while only 18% approve. Furthermore, just 27% of state residents approved of the Republican health care bill which went down to defeat.

$1 million

— Charlie Sykes

36%

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“The man is afraid of the voice of the people and that the people understand and know what he’s doing. He’s trying to stifle the ability of journalists to let the people of America know what’s really going on with their government.”

— “Kamala Harris called President Donald Trump’s ban of CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the White House ‘absolutely abhorrent,’” The Wrap reports.

“Not one of them is trained in technical skills. Not one research PhD, as opposed to China, where half the cabinet is science and technology PhDs. We’re led by grifters and fools.”

— Columbia professor Jeffrey Sachs, on X, on President Trump’s 35-person cabinet.

“Mr. President, some of your immigration enforcement efforts have gone too far… The same Hispanics who helped you get to the White House in 2024 feel betrayed today.”

— Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar (R-FL), breaking with President Trump in a direct-to-camera video.

Numerati

1,000

10%

“The unprecedented spate of mid-decade redistricting for the U.S. House has changed the congressional districts for one-tenth of Americans and significantly altered the makeup of at least one-fifth of districts, according to a new study,” the Associated Press reports.

71%

$9.5 billion

“The Trump administration last year spent $9.5 billion on paid administrative leave for federal workers as part of its plan to shrink the government and save taxpayers money, according to a new estimate by a congressional watchdog,” CNN reports.

470

Reuters has documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Trump’s leadership – from federal employees and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. The list illuminates the sweeping effort by the president and his administration to punish dissent and reshape the government.