Trump, June 2017: From [Covfefe] with Love

btw re these infrastructure plans

The public-private partnership model now favored by Trump administration officials is being spearheaded by White House economic adviser Gary Cohn and Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. “We like the template of not using taxpayer dollars to give taxpayers wins,” Cohn told reporters on Friday, explaining his preference for the asset-recycling approach.

But many fear that such privatization schemes simply shift the burden from taxpayers to motorists and truckers, while creating a two-tier system that unfairly impairs the ability of low-income drivers from accessing the nation’s interstate highway system. In the process, a small group of investors reap the most rewards.

Cohn and Chao, notably, have ties to the financial firms positioned to exploit the tolling of America’s highways. Cohn is the former chief operating officer of Goldman Sachs and Chao is a former board member to Wells Fargo. Both firms have expressed interest in toll road deals. Though both Cohn and Chao have said they will recuse themselves from matters that directly affect their former companies, it is unclear if they will recuse themselves from private-public infrastructure policies that will attract interest from investment banks.

The rush to embrace a public-private model based on tolling and other private financing methods is seen as a political winner that can bring infrastructure-friendly Democrats together with Republicans concerned about the cost to taxpayers. But the short-term solution based on political expedience may have long-lasting societal impacts.

Alan Pisarski, a travel consultant, noted in a recent column that the fundamental justification for the interstate system was to connect America for military, economic, and social reasons. There was a reason the first 50 years of the national highway system prohibited tolling.

https://theintercept.com/2017/06/06/private-toll-operators-love-trump-infrastructure-plan/

plan has no support in congress, there's no bill etc.

“We like the template of not using taxpayer dollars to give taxpayers wins,”

You know what gives tax payers wins? Shit they can actually use.

I wonder if Trump understands that even if he did nothing re: Russia, he can still get/be in a lot of trouble just for being a dishonest dickhead?

Trump doesn't understand how to tie his shoes

the big infrastructure idea is PPI? and tolling the interstate?? lol great ideas, keep em comin

sorry i mean PPP (or PFI, or whatever t f)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Private_finance_initiative

Yay I mean whoops

Pentagon: We can't square Trump's comments with our position on Qatar https://t.co/GAjRr42CD8 pic.twitter.com/O55TUMWhaX

— The Hill (@thehill) June 6, 2017

lolnothingmatters.gif

The oldest joke, but wow, his hands are tiny...

We can't square Trump's comments with our position

Why is this not already the standard (unofficial) position of every dept?

printer dots are crazy http://seeingyellow.com/

BYE JARED pic.twitter.com/b6KjRIIfp9

— (⌐■_■) (@dorseyshaw) June 6, 2017

We can't square Trump's comments with our position

Why is this not already the standard (unofficial) position of every dept?

― Bio-Digital Jezza (kingfish), Tuesday, June 6, 2017 1:14 PM (four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been wondering how long it will be until this 100% happens, and trump stops even trying to be anything other than a rally-holding gadfly shoveling money into his properties

chances of it happening = -495%, but it would be really cool if the entire federal government staged a walkout

worked for the air traffic controllers vs reagan, right? er so maybe it's not a good idea.

We can't square Trump's comments with our position

"pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain"

^that's funny.

xxp yeah, i know, i don't think that the government will do a "walkout" or that trump will relinquish power or anything, it just kind of feels like he's getting (even) more flagrant in undercutting the entire rest of the executive branch this week.

I am interested in seeing who on earth is stupid enough to take over DOJ if he actually does fire Sessions

judge judith sheindlin ftw

I am interested in seeing who on earth is stupid enough to take over DOJ if he actually does fire Sessions

https://40.media.tumblr.com/2b757692cf10a0e77362fba9e9352d6c/tumblr_n6n4w4jQnf1r2amcuo1_500.jpg

Attorney General Jeanine Pirro

Hm hm hm

NEW: Conaway & Schiff of House Intel holding a media availability on the Russia investigation at 6:15pm. Exact topic unknown

— Andrew Desiderio (@desiderioDC) June 6, 2017

3:00 PM: President Trump meets with House and Senate Leadership

4:30 PM: President Trump signs a bill

6:30 PM: President Trump has dinner with Members of Congress

it's the new Curious George series

"Chyron writer" is the best job on TV right now. pic.twitter.com/TZsfAwvhHV

— shauna (@goldengateblond) June 6, 2017

And they're working hard!

Sense after hours of GOP meetings on healthcare: optimism after presentation from leaders, no real bill outline yet, urgency to vote soon

— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 6, 2017

Meantime...

As of right now, #Gianforte has not filed an extension and is expected in court at 8am tomorrow. https://t.co/RmfjXpIOgJ

— Lena Blietz (@LenaBlietz) June 6, 2017

pay no attention to that man in front of the curtain

Was looking for an appropriately Lynchian image, and look ma, no Photoshop:

http://media.salon.com/2017/05/donald-trump-curtain-620x412.jpg

http://americannewsx.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/OZ_ANX.png

That's what happens in your body when you eat a Trump Steak

unfortunate confluence of beef / curtains posts there :(

The BEST beef curtains...

in case you missed it, here's a Louisiana congressman suggesting that, well I'll let him tell it:

The free world... all of Christendom... is at war with Islamic horror. Not one penny of American treasure should be granted to any nation who harbors these heathen animals. Not a single radicalized Islamic suspect should be granted any measure of quarter. Their intended entry to the American homeland should be summarily denied. Every conceivable measure should be engaged to hunt them down. Hunt them, identify them, and kill them. Kill them all. For the sake of all that is good and righteous. Kill them all.
-Captain Clay Higgins

https://www.facebook.com/captclayhiggins/photos/a.655256107910738.1073741829.581436541959362/997878010315211/?type=3&theater

Hey, come on, he was only talking about preemptively murdering *radicalized* Muslims, what's so controversial?

Please no more pictures of Trump's birth, I'm trying to eat.

https://www.apnews.com/amp/97d2df602a664ae3a2b65b874a640baf

sounds like they're terrified of what Comey's gonna say.

...different.

https://www.axios.com/trump-pitched-republican-leaders-on-a-solar-paneled-border-wall-2435037888.html

n the meeting at the White House today with Republican Congressional leaders, President Trump spent some time talking up his latest idea for the border wall. According to 3 people with direct knowledge of the meeting, Trump floated the idea that the wall could be covered in solar panels and the electricity generated used to pay for the cost.

Trump said his vision was a wall 40 feet to 50 feet high and covered with solar panels so they'd be "beautiful structures," the people said. The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall but this would be nothing like those walls. Trump told the lawmakers they could talk about the solar-paneled wall as long as they said it was his idea. One person cautioned that the President wasn't presenting the solar-paneled wall as the definite solution.

OR WAS HE

Also, here's your wishful thinking

The majority of the meeting focused on healthcare. Trump started off by saying the base was stronger than ever now and it was time to come through for them. He asked Mitch McConnell when the bill would be ready and McConnell said the bill would be released soon and scored by the CBO and voted on before July 4. Everyone agreed June would be spent talking about the failures of the Obama healthcare bill.

lol why would a wall require power

lol vertical mounting is terrible for solar production

everything about that idea is fucking stupid

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/06/politics/russian-hackers-planted-fake-news-qatar-crisis/index.html

good thing mr. trump had the russians in the oval office for a states secret swap. what sanctions?

lol why would a wall require power

come on

Fun fun!

.@ABC Exclusive from @jonkarl @JTSantucci @JordynPhelps: AG Sessions offered to resign from his post after facing anger from Trump

— Mariam Khan (@MKhan47) June 6, 2017

The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall The President said that most walls you hear about are 14 feet or 15 feet tall

"Hey I heard about this wall..."

To me this is the most telling statement:

Trump started off by saying the base was stronger than ever now and it was time to come through for them

I have a feeling the internal eye-rolling was off the chart.

Here's the full Sessions story

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/attorney-general-jeff-sessions-suggested-resign-amid-rising/story?id=47875090

Sense after hours of GOP meetings on healthcare: optimism after presentation from leaders, no real bill outline yet, urgency to vote soon
— Burgess Everett (@burgessev) June 6, 2017

Sense after hours of looking for work: optimism after looking at job listings, no real resume yet, urgency to make fat bank soon