Month: February 2018
Not So Funny
Trump’s budget, by human compassion, is unencumbered.
As usual, for the poor and working class, it’s a bummer.
And that ballooning deficit?
Our grandkids will pay for it,
Though Mick Mulvaney says he could have balanced it using “funny numbers.”
Mulvaney Says He Could Have Balanced the Budget Using ‘Funny Numbers’
“I probably could’ve made it balance. But you all would’ve rightly absolutely excoriated us for using funny numbers to do it.”
— Budget director Mick Mulvaney, quoted by the Wall Street Journal, on the Trump administration’s budget proposal.
Forbes Compiles Who Pays Trump Rent
$175 million
Forbes has assembled a list of who is currently paying rent to President Trump. The Trump Organization has ongoing deals with law firms that lobby the federal government, banks controlled by foreign states and big media companies that cover Trump. Taken together — more than 150 tenants and some $175 million a year — they represent the greatest opportunity for conflicts of interest in a presidency full of them.
Omarosa Warns Pence Would Be Worse than Trump
“You would be worried about Pence, We would be begging for days of Trump back if Pence became president. He’s extreme. I’m Christian, I love Jesus, but he thinks Jesus tells him to say things.”
— Former White House aide Omarosa Manigault, quoted by Entertainment Weekly.
Trump’s Budget Covers Mueller’s Ongoing Investigation
$10 million
“President Trump’s new budget projects that special counsel Robert Mueller’s office will still be in business in fiscal year 2019 — even though White House officials have repeatedly said they expect the probe to wrap up soon,” Politico reports. “The budget projects that Mueller’s team will keep spending at its current rate of about $10 million per year in the next fiscal year, which starts in October.”
GOP Candidate Defends ‘No More Mosques’ Comment
“So I just made a statement, I’m a Christian that believes we ought to propagate our Christian faith. So I see an article and I retweet, ‘no more mosques in America,’ you know, and like, and share. So I retweeted it. So yeah. So what? I believe in Christian — I believe in liberties, freedom, free speech, and Christian values is kind of my base. And so yeah, I posted it, so no big deal. I’m not that stressed out over it.”
— North Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Gary Emineth (R), defending in a radio interview his sharing an image on Twitter that said no more mosques should be built in the United States.
Trump Team Has Had Eight Secret Meetings with Putin and Top Russians
Rachel Maddow reviews what now makes at least eight times that Americans have learned about Donald Trump interacting with Russian officials from Russian media instead of the White House.
