Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

consistency is the newt gingrich of small minds

I will never get over this...it hasn't even been a month. pic.twitter.com/5r0K4shUAW

— Yashar Ali (@yashar) June 12, 2017

"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin..." etc.

yes I was calling newt gingrich a hobgoblin thaaaat's the joke

"Never has there been a president....with few exceptions...whose passed more legislation, whose done more things that I have --" Trump
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 12, 2017

From the start of this thing, he's been like a toddler testing his boundaries and finding that there are none. Feel like he's been taking tentative steps lately toward lies that are increasingly untethered from reality. Like, not just self-serving bullshit that is likely to fool credulous saps who haven't done their research but patchy fabrications that don't even have the whiff of possible truth. He's like half a step away from declaring that he's a different person altogether or that he lives inside a basketball.

"A foolish consistency is the Newtgoblin..."

Gallup: Trump approval falls to twenty three points underwater at 36-59, his lowest since March and second worst approval of his presidency. pic.twitter.com/CJcY6LQjfD

— Josh Jordan (@NumbersMuncher) June 12, 2017

"Never has there been a president....with few exceptions...whose passed more legislation, whose done more things that I have --" Trump
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) June 12, 2017

From the start of this thing, he's been like a toddler testing his boundaries and finding that there are none. Feel like he's been taking tentative steps lately toward lies that are increasingly untethered from reality. Like, not just self-serving bullshit that is likely to fool credulous saps who haven't done their research but patchy fabrications that don't even have the whiff of possible truth. He's like half a step away from declaring that he's a different person altogether or that he lives inside a basketball.

― The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T & the Women (Old Lunch), Monday, June 12, 2017 1:04 PM (seven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Someone laid it out on reddit:

Here are president Trump's legislative accomplishments.
They can be categorized into: A - minor inconsequential garbage, B - handouts to oil and gas, C - minor procedural changes mainly to undo Obama-era federal rules, D - handouts to private industries, E - useful legislation, and F - laws that screw the citizens of the United States

June 6, 2017: H.R. 375 - Named a courthouse the “Fred D. Thompson Federal Building and United States Courthouse”. (A)
June 6, 2017: H.R. 366 - Updated the DHS vehicle fleet allocation methodology (how DHS assigns cars to its personnel) (C)
June 2, 2017: S. 583 - Law to setup a small grant fund to hire veterans as law enforcement officers (A)
June 2, 2017: S. 419 - Tweaks how public safety officers can claim disability and other benefits (C)
May 17, 2017: H.J.Res. 66 - Terminated rules that allowed states to have public retirement plans that would benefit workers by being better than private plans (D)
May 16, 2017: H.R. 274 - Allows government employees to use Uber and Lyft (C)
May 12, 2017: S. 496 - Undid a federal rule about the alignment of planning regulations (C)
May 8, 2017: H.R. 534 - U.S. Wants to Compete for a World Expo Act (A)
May 5, 2017: H.R. 244 - The budget, to narrowly avoid a shutdown (E)
April 28, 2017: H.J.Res. 99 - Kicking the budget can down the road (E)
April 19, 2017: S.J.Res. 36 - Appointed a person to the Smithsonian Institution (A)
April 19, 2017: S.J.Res. 35 - Appointed a person to the Smithsonian Institution (A)
April 19, 2017: S.J.Res. 30 - Appointed a person to the Smithsonian Institution (A)
April 19, 2017: S. 544 - Extended the termination date for the Veterans Choice Program (E)
April 18, 2017: H.R. 353 - Required NOAA to give money to the private sector for weather forcasting, so the private sector can then charge for that information (D)
April 13, 2017: H.J.Res. 67 - Terminated rules that allowed states to have public retirement plans that would benefit workers by being better than private plans (F)
April 13, 2017: H.J.Res. 43 - Allows employers to not provide family planning coverage, because Jesus says NO! (F)
April 3, 2017: S.J.Res. 34 - Allows the sale of your internet browsing history (F)
April 3, 2017: H.R. 1228 - Modified the terms of service of the Board of Directors of the Office of Compliance (C)
April 3, 2017: H.J.Res. 83, Undid a rule that stated it is an ongoing requirement that employers actually report workplace injuries (D)
April 3, 2017: H.J.Res. 69, Undid a rule that stated that the Fish and Wildlife service can restrict commercial fishing in Alaskan Wildlife Refuges (D)
March 31, 2017: S.J.Res.1 - Useless feel-good commemoration of veterans of Desert Storm or Operation Desert Shield. (A)
March 31, 2017: H.R.1362 - Renamed an outpatient clinic in Pago Pago, American Samoa, the Faleomavaega Eni Fa'aua'a Hunkin VA Clinic. (A)
March 31, 2017: H.J.Res.42 - Undid a rule that stated that states can only do employee drug testing in appropriate fields (F)
March 28, 2017: S. 305 - Vietnam War Veterans Recognition Act of 2017 (A)
March 27, 2017: H.J.Res.57 - Undid a rule that requires states to have an accountability program for measuring school quality (F)
March 27, 2017: H.J. Res. 58 - Undid a rule that requires that states actually require that teachers be qualified to do their job (F)
March 27, 2017: H.J. Res. 44 - Opened previously-protected public lands to mineral exploitation by private companies (B)
March 27, 2017: H.J. Res. 37 - Undid a rule requiring that NASA contractors document their compliance with federal labor laws (D)
March 21, 2017: S.442 - Tweaked some NASA rules and regulations regarding the use of commercial spaceflight providers and the acquisition of foreign services (D)
March 13, 2017: H.R.609 - Renamed Department of Veterans Affairs health care center in Center Township, Butler County, Pennsylvania, as the "Abie Abraham VA Clinic". (A)
February 28, 2017: H.R. 321 - Inspiring the Next Space Pioneers, Innovators, Researchers, and Explorers (INSPIRE) Women Act (E)
February 28, 2017: H.R. 255 - Promoting Women in Entrepreneurship Act (E)
February 28, 2017: H.J.Res. 40 - Undid a law that forced oil and gas companies to disclose payments to politicians. (B)
February 16, 2017: H.J.Res.38 - Undid a law that required oil and gas companies to disclose what chemicals they were dumping in public waterways (B)
February 14, 2017: H.J.Res.41 - Undid a law that forced oil and gas companies to disclose payments to politicians. (B)
January 31, 2017: H.R.72 - GAO Access and Oversight Act of 2017 (E)
January 20, 2017: S.84 - A bill allowing Mattis to be Secretary of Defense (E)

Minor inconsequential garbage: 10
Handouts to oil and gas: 4
Minor procedural changes: 5
Handouts to private industries: 6
Useful legislation: 7
Laws that directly screw the citizens of the United States: 6

http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Delta-Sponsored-2012-Guthrie-Theater-Season-Which-Featured-Obama-Inspired-Julius-Caesar-20170612

xp that's a very helpful summary, thanks

"This is a big signing, very important signing," the president said. "We are bringing back jobs, big league. We are bringing them back at the plant level, we are bringing them back at the mine level. The energy jobs are coming back."

yes - corruption produces jobs!

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2017/02/14/Trump-nixes-anti-corruption-regulation-for-US-energy-companies/2021487103685/

Trump Loses Travel Ban Ruling in Appeals Court

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/us/politics/trump-travel-ban-court-of-appeals.html?_r=0

January 20, 2017: S.84 - A bill allowing Mattis to be Secretary of Defense (E)

categorized as "useful legislation", but this was the bill that waived the rule that generals wait seven years until they can become Secretary of Defense. even in his useful legislation" he made sure to undermine the principle that the military should be checked by civilian oversight

I think they were categorized according to the opinion of the poster.

It seems like we are entering a new time period where what was once huge news is now not

― Dean of the University (Latham Green), Monday, June 12, 2017 9:10 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

truth

― jason waterfalls (gbx)

Things that should seem amazing but just don't

Well Schumer is quick off the mark today

GREAT meeting today with the best staff in the history of the world!!! pic.twitter.com/ocE1xhEAac

— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) June 12, 2017

https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/melania-trump-father-viktor-knavs-photo.html?utm_campaign=nym&utm_source=fb&utm_medium=s1

lol

If hearing Schumer's soundbites on a reg basis doesn't make one despair over the Dems' ability to push back, I dunno...

xp

Why, it's such pleasant reading here

Comments from the first full meeting of the Trump cabinet, courtesy of an admirably detailed pool report by @sdonnan pic.twitter.com/4dmQohRbrM

— Alexander Panetta (@Alex_Panetta) June 12, 2017

Who is Melania's dad supposed to look like?

"While we are bragging about international travel I just got back from Mississippi and they like you there." - finally an acknowledgement that the South is another country. Now to start building the border wall!

No backsies

Spicer now says that when Trump said he'd be willing to testify under oath, he was referring to Mueller, *not* Congress. (via @MSNBC) pic.twitter.com/WClzjdDUQT

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) June 12, 2017

fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck aaaaaall of yooooooooouuuu

xposts

This about the travel ban is incredibly important, iirc.

The appeals court said Judge Watson had erred in barring the administration from conducting internal reviews of its vetting procedures while the case moved forward.

So now when the case comes before the Supreme Court, the administration will have to answer why they couldn't do the internal review without the ban, since nothing happened while the order was stopped in courts.

each room will have only the best, the most tremendous direct line to the kremlin US taxpayer money can buy

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-kushner-business-partner-2b-fbi-building-deal-article-1.3240721

I asked a conservative Senate aide if their office has seen any text of McConnell's mostly-drafted health care bill yet: pic.twitter.com/stPAINeEEl

— Haley Byrd (@byrdinator) June 12, 2017

Why, I fully support this!

Also, Trump should testify before Congress, under oath or not. Lawyers are killjoys. It would be great!

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) June 12, 2017

wait isn't Ann still pissed at him for not building a wall + deportation force

Perhaps, but she still thinks he's a handy cudgel for swamp creatures. Perhaps the sight of him bringing all his manly swagger into normally polite chambers is enticing her back into the fold.

The New York Daily News reports:

Greg Gianforte, the soon-to-be Montana congressman who body slammed a reporter on the eve of his special election last month, was sentenced to 40 hours of community service on Monday, after having a 180-day jail sentence deferred.

Gianforte had previously pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault charges over the incident, and was sentenced Monday to complete 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management counseling and pay a $385 fine.

Gianforte had been given a 180-day jail sentence but it was deferred. The Republican technology entrepreneur, on the eve of his special election last month, slammed Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs to the ground after Jacobs asked him a question about his opinion on the GOP health care proposal.

Ha

! 9th Circuit cites Trump's travel ban tweet, & Spicer's answer that Trump's tweets are official statements, in its ruling against the ban pic.twitter.com/qP9EZ2YmzD

— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) June 12, 2017

Increasingly don't see how the SC can rule in his Orangeness' favor here, he's really narrowing their options

Tweets are powerful & the President must be held accountable for every post. I'm proud to introduce the #COVFEFEAct. https://t.co/Qv1ZweNVeg

— Mike Quigley (@RepMikeQuigley) June 12, 2017

A+ trolling

"tweets are powerful" is one of the saddest phrases I have ever read

tweeple have the power!

trenchant hall of fame

Hate the acronym but the legislation seems useful

The acronym gets people talking about it. Seems useful to me.

In March, he introduced the Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness (MAR-A-LAGO) Act, a bill that requires the publication of visitor logs to the White House or any other location where President Trump regularly conducts official business

this guy rules

the only way to beat a troll is to be a troll

yeah those gimmicky acronyms are a good thing, IMO

They make me want to die.

n March, he introduced the Making Access Records Available to Lead American Government Openness (MAR-A-LAGO) Act

Consider the hours that aides spent rejecting names to fit the acronym.

you wouldn't have like the Yippies, treesh

Sarah Huckabee weighs in:

How @RepMikeQuigley came up with the #CovfefeAct:
*gunshots outside office*
MQ: "OMG! I need to make sure Trump's tweets get archived!"

Classy

consider that those hours were the most fun they had on their jobs that week xp

Sarah H. Sanders is a chip off the old pile of shit that is her father.

she'd be running a register at a Conway Arkansas Hobby Lobby if her dad hand't played a clown on cable tv

so is Sarah Huckabee advocating for gun control, then?