General Trump Administration F**kery Thread (2017-2021)

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The New York Times
6 hrs ·
The move to allow hunters to import big-game trophies overturns an Obama-era ban and contradicts public statements by President Trump.


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U.S. Lifts Ban on Elephant and Lion Trophies
The federal Fish and Wildlife Service will amend a blanket ban on tusks and hides imported from certain African countries, overturning an Obama-era prohibition.

 

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Trump’s $1 Billion Demand From China Was Supposed to Be $100 Billion

 

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Trump’s $1 Billion Demand From China Was Supposed to Be $100 Billion

Earlier this week, President Trump raised eyebrows when he told reporters of a phone call he had held with North Korea, in which he warned the dangerous rogue state it must de-nuclearize. (His administration later admitted quietly Trump had actually spoken with South Korea, not North Korea.) This week, Trump ventured another strange foreign policy pronouncement. He had asked China to produce a plan to reduce its trade deficit by One Billion Dollars. He even capitalized it to underscore the significance of the towering sum he proposed to extract:

 

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Next he will want sharks patrolling the oceans with laser beams attached to their freaking heads.

 

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ThinkProgress
2 hrs ·
What?!


THINKPROGRESS.ORG

Energy Secretary Rick Perry says moving from fossil fuels to renewables is ‘immoral’
But it's okay to waste $1.6 trillion on energy sources that put millions of lives at risk and destroy the climate.

 

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The Hill
2 hrs ·
In a new interview with Fox News, Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended his attack on California for refusing to obey President Trump’s immigration policies, saying “somebody needs to stand up and say no, you’ve gone too far, you cannot do this, this is not reasonable.”


THEHILL.COM

Jeff Sessions to Fox News: Someone needs to stand up to ‘radical’ California
“Somebody needs to stand up and say no, you’ve gone too far, you cannot do this, this is not reasonable,” the attorney general said.

 

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ThinkProgress
1 hr ·

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THINKPROGRESS.ORG

Pipeline exec says whoever vandalized Dakota Access Pipeline should be ‘removed from the gene pool’
Industry officials applaud crackdown on anti-pipeline activists.

 

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Bloomberg Politics
1 hr ·
The judge suggested Trump could mute accounts he doesn’t want to see, rather than blocking them.


BLOOMBERG.COM

Trump Can Block Anyone He Wants on Twitter, Government Argues
President Donald Trump’s Tweets may be official statements, but blocking some followers of his Twitter account is strictly personal,…


smh

 

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NPR
1 hr ·
At least seven current and former officials in Trump's 24-member Cabinet have faced accusations of abusing the perks of their office. But it's not the first administration to face such ethics problems.


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Trump's Cabinet Scandals: Is Abuse Of Office Contagious?
"Not only does unethical behavior spread, but it mutates into other forms of unethical behavior," says ethics consultant Susan Liautaud.

 

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A White House aide close to Stephen Miller who has advocated strict limits on immigration into the U.S. has been selected for a top State Department post overseeing refugee admissions, current and former State officials tell Politico. https://t.co/tL9UQjkCcF

 

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Interior mum on whether Zinke spent $139K on office door. via @mbieseck @MatthewDalyWDC https://www.apnews.com/fe6edd739fff49d3a8e56324f7cc9721 …

4:32 PM - Mar 8, 2018

 

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The Hill
4 mins ·
"The steel industry are the crybabies of the beltway lobby farm,” said Ronald Reagan’s White House budget director David Stockman. "They gang tackle every new president that comes in with their tale of woe. In this case, they’ve got the biggest sucker yet.”


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Former Reagan budget director: 'Steel industry are crybabies' and Trump is their 'biggest sucker yet'
President Reagan's former budget director said Thursday that the "steel industry are the crybabies of the Beltway lobby farm" and that…

 

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A senior career official with the Department of Homeland Security who served jail time for an alleged assault on his wife handles a “high volume” of classified information in his role as an intelligence briefer, according to his online résumé. https://t.co/VVGAHV1JwO

 

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Michael Cohen spotted this past weekend in Mar-a-Lago - when Trump was there - even though he’s not a member and doesn’t spend much time there. Sarah Sanders has said she’s not aware if Trump knew of Cohen payoff to Stormy. via @ElizLanders @Kevinliptakcnn https://t.co/ODUis0qPg1

 

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New York Magazine
1 hr ·
The vice-president’s attempt to show how much he respects women backfired spectacularly.


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Mike Pence Gets Roasted for International Women’s Day Tweet
Mike Pence decided to broadcast how much he respects women in an International Women’s Day tweet that’s only slightly less embarrassing than McDonald’s flipping their golden arches to a W.