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Brits: Trump Is a Threat to World Stability

February 6, 2017 Buck Banks

64%

Of the British public believe Donald Trump is a threat to international stability and a clear majority believe he will be a bad president, according to a new Opinium/Observer poll.

Needless in D.C.

February 1, 2017March 17, 2017 Buck Banks

Donald Trump says we don’t need the Mexicans.
Mike Flynn says we don’t need the Iranians.
And we don’t need Muslim refugees
Or green card holders with advanced degrees.
And pretty soon, we won’t even need real Americans.

First Cuban Migrants Since Castro’s Death Land in Florida

December 7, 2016 Buck Banks

13

Number of Cuban migrants who landed in the Florida Keys Tuesday, AP reports. They were the first Cuban migrants to land in the U.S. since Fidel Castro’s death. Following Donald Trump’s election and Castro’s death, there has been a surge in Cubans trying to reach the U.S., fearing a change in the “wet foot/dry foot” policy. Last week the U.S. Coast Guard intercepted 38 illegal migrants and returned them to Cuba.

International Diplomacy, Trump-Style: ‘Screw ‘Em’

December 6, 2016 Buck Banks

Taiwan is our ally. That is a country that we have backed because they believe in freedom. We oughta back our ally, and if China doesn’t like it, screw ’em.

— Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to Donald Trump, defending the President-elect’s recent call with the president of Taiwan, saying in a local radio interview that he didn’t care if it upset China,” CNN reports.

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Brits: Trump Is a Threat to World Stability

64%

Of the British public believe Donald Trump is a threat to international stability and a clear majority believe he will be a bad president, according to a new Opinium/Observer poll.

Needless in D.C.

First Cuban Migrants Since Castro’s Death Land in Florida

13

International Diplomacy, Trump-Style: ‘Screw ‘Em’

Taiwan is our ally. That is a country that we have backed because they believe in freedom. We oughta back our ally, and if China doesn’t like it, screw ’em.

— Stephen Moore, an economic adviser to Donald Trump, defending the President-elect’s recent call with the president of Taiwan, saying in a local radio interview that he didn’t care if it upset China,” CNN reports.

Poetic Justice

Verbatim

“If you are committing fraud against the American people, all of us in public leadership should be trying to stop it and throw you in prison for enriching yourself off the American taxpayer.”

— Vice President JD Vance, on Fox News.

“Your generation has a great bullshit meter, because you’re fed bullshit online all day. And the Democratic Party brand right now is so bullshit.”

— Michigan U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed (D), quoted by The Atlantic, speaking to college students.

“We are done, Americans are done with endless conflict in the Middle East, spending trillions of dollars, American lives… this is insane and we have to call it for what it is.”

— Rep. Jason Crow (D-CO), on CNN.

Numerati

+175,000

“The U.S. State Department announced on Monday that it has revoked more than 175,000 visas during President Donald Trump’s administration so far,” Fox News reports.

$4,600

11

30%

A new American Research Group poll finds just 30% of Americans say they approve of the way Donald Trump is handling his job as president and 67% say they disapprove.

61% to 35%