TRUMP: Johnston, David Cay. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America .
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Johnston, David Cay. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America . (You can buy this book for Kindle on Amazon.)
Viewed properly in the context of their times, the last forty-four presidents all pursued policies that they believed would make for a better America tomorrow. The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop.
Instead the White House staff has confirmed that he spends hours each day in front of a television, the remote control flicking from one channel to another so Trump can see the latest news about himself. When he doesn’t like what he sees, he sends out nastygram tweets, often in the wee hours before dawn.
Trump has also lived a life of thumbing his nose at conventions and law enforcement, learning lessons as a boy from his father, Fred, whose business partner was an associate of the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He has long been in deep with mobsters, domestic and foreign, along with corrupt union bosses and assorted swindlers. Trump even spent years deeply entangled with a major international drug trafficker who, like many of the others, enjoyed their mutually lucrative arrangements.
The administration, however, has wrought one significant change to expand equality in America. Thanks to Trump the mentally ill now have virtually the same gun rights as the sane.
From ambassadorships to agency heads, Trump has left the vast majority of the nearly four thousand positions under his control vacant.
This is an administration that actively looks for the least qualified and the most aggressive termites to eat away at the structure of government.
Johnston, David Cay. It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America . (You can buy this book for Kindle on Amazon.)
Viewed properly in the context of their times, the last forty-four presidents all pursued policies that they believed would make for a better America tomorrow. The Trump presidency is about Trump. Period. Full stop.
Instead the White House staff has confirmed that he spends hours each day in front of a television, the remote control flicking from one channel to another so Trump can see the latest news about himself. When he doesn’t like what he sees, he sends out nastygram tweets, often in the wee hours before dawn.
Trump has also lived a life of thumbing his nose at conventions and law enforcement, learning lessons as a boy from his father, Fred, whose business partner was an associate of the Gambino and Genovese crime families. He has long been in deep with mobsters, domestic and foreign, along with corrupt union bosses and assorted swindlers. Trump even spent years deeply entangled with a major international drug trafficker who, like many of the others, enjoyed their mutually lucrative arrangements.
The administration, however, has wrought one significant change to expand equality in America. Thanks to Trump the mentally ill now have virtually the same gun rights as the sane.
From ambassadorships to agency heads, Trump has left the vast majority of the nearly four thousand positions under his control vacant.
This is an administration that actively looks for the least qualified and the most aggressive termites to eat away at the structure of government.
- To overhaul the federal Department of Education, Trump choose an heiress with no background in education theory or administration, but an intense desire to promote schooling that is corporate run and free to be religious.
- To run Housing and Urban Development, he picked a retired surgeon with no administrative experience, no housing expertise, and who has said that the Egyptian pyramids were not tombs for dead pharaohs but granaries.
- At Treasury, Trump chose for secretary a Wall Street banker who made much of his fortune aggressively foreclosing on homeowners.
- To run the Environmental Protection Agency, he chose a lawyer who had vowed to destroy it.
- After firing an FBI director who would not pledge personal loyalty to him and close part of the Russia investigation, Trump appointed as FBI director a lawyer who earned more than $17 million the previous year defending corrupt banks involved in money laundering and other white-collar crimes the FBI is known to investigate.
- For surgeon general, a job where a principal duty is to persuade Americans to not take up smoking, Trump named a physician who owned tobacco company stocks.
His entire life Trump has been a con artist. In "The Art of the Deal" he brags about deceptions that enriched him. He has boasted about not paying banks that loaned him billions of dollars. He conned thousands of people. Because of the lawsuits, Trump paid back $25 million to the people he conned so the scam would not follow him into the White House.
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