DAY 252: Trump attacks the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, after she exposes his lack of leadership

After the Mayor of San Juan, Puerto Rico, Carmen Yulín Cruz, pointed out to the lack of help Puerto Rico has gotten from the federal government after hurricane Maria devastated the island, Donald Trump launched a series of Twitter attacks against the Mayor from the comfort of his New Jersey golf course:

The Mayor of San Juan, who was very complimentary only a few days ago, has now been told by the Democrats that you must be nasty to Trump.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

...Such poor leadership ability by the Mayor of San Juan, and others in Puerto Rico, who are not able to get their workers to help. They....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 30, 2017

Trump describes Puerto Rico as "an island surrounded by water"

This is probably one of the dumbest things Donald Trump has ever said in office. This is how Trump described Puerto Rico after days of being devastated by hurricane Maria and being ignored by Trump's government: "an island surrounded by... water. Big water. Ocean water."

Pres. Trump on Puerto Rico relief efforts: "This is an island. Surrounded by water. Big water, ocean water." https://t.co/HarcUS5aO0 pic.twitter.com/WtPFpl4udl

— CBS News (@CBSNews) September 29, 2017

DAY 251: Tom Price resigns because of private jet scandal; Trump says he's a "good man"

Donald Trump's secretary of health and human services Tom Price resigned today because of the scandal he created by spending $400,000 dollars in public money using a private jet.

According to The New York Times:

Already in trouble with Mr. Trump for months of unsuccessful efforts to repeal and replace President Barack Obama’s health care program, Mr. Price failed to defuse the president’s anger over his high-priced travel by agreeing to pay a portion of the cost and expressing “regret” for his actions.

“I’m not happy, O.K.?” Mr. Trump told reporters as he was about to head to his New Jersey golf club for the weekend, barely an hour before the resignation was announced. “I can tell you, I’m not happy.” He called Mr. Price “a very good man” but added that the secretary’s offer to reimburse the government for just part of the cost of the flights “would be unacceptable.”

Wait, wait.... what? Price offered to pay just a portion of the money he spent?

DAY 250: Trump lied; He will gain from his proposed tax plan and his supporters won't

Donald Trump promised he would not gain from his proposed tax plan. But that's false. The New York Times fact-checked Trump's claim and he will definitely benefit from his proposed tax plan. From the NYT:

The Republican framework would eliminate the “death tax,” which applies to estates valued over $5.49 million in 2017. Mr. Trump has an estimated net worth of $3.5 billion. He might not personally see a tax break from the repeal, Mr. Williams said, because “he’ll be dead. But his heirs will.”

The new plan also would repeal the alternative minimum tax, a parallel system of taxation that currently ensures that those who take deductions and try to exploit loopholes pay a minimum amount; it largely impacts people making between $200,000 and $1 million. Without this tax, Mr. Trump would have paid $31 million less in taxes in 2005, according to his tax return that year, which was disclosed on the “Rachel Maddow Show” in March.

Donald Trump deletes tweet claiming his support boosted Luther Strange

After his candidate for the Alabama GOP Senate primary runoff election lost, Donald Trump deleted a tweet in which he claimed his candidate, Luther Strange, increased his numbers because of his support:

It seems Trump has deleted this tweet from today. pic.twitter.com/q3UAVpIZUO

— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) September 27, 2017

DAY 249: Trump's tax plan raises taxes for poor and lowers them for the rich

The tax plan unveilled today by Donald Trump increases taxes for the poor, changes nothing for the middle class, and lowers taxes for the rich.

According to The New York Times, the tax plan eliminates the 7 current income brackets and establishes 3 brackets with the following income tax rates:

Lowest bracket: 12% income tax.
Middle bracket: 25% income tax.
Top bracket: 35% income tax.

The problem is that means the poor will pay 20% more taxes; part of the middle class will pay 25% more taxes, and the rich will pay nearly 13% LESS taxes.

TRUMP LOSES: His candidate for Alabama Senate lost despite his constant promotion

Despite the fact that Donald Trump kept on promoting Luther Strange for the GOP candidacy for an Alabama senate seat, Strange lost to conservative Roy Moore.

Trump kept promoting Strange tweet after tweet after tweet, but Republicans in Alabama simply did not listen to Trump and elected Moore instead for the GOP candidacy.

DAY 248: TRUMP LOSES: Senate Republicans cancel vote on Trumpcare

Seneta Republicans cancelled the vote on Trumpcare after it was clear they do not have the votes to pass it.

According to The New York Times, Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell claimed they would try to change the American health care system at a later date, but they “are not going to be able to do that this week.”

DAY 247: TRUMP LOSES: Once again Trumpcare doesn't have enough votes in the Senate

Senator Susan Collins, a Republican from Maine, issued a statement today unequivocally opposing the latest version of Trumpcare, thus leaving the bill without enough votes to pass it.

Collins's statement points to key parts of the bill, which cuts Medicaid and leaves pre-existing conditions without guarantee by putting them in the hands of the states, as the reason why she will vote against it.

Trump issues yet another racist Muslim ban, but adding North Korea for camouflage

Donald Trump issued today a third Muslim ban, only this time he tried to disguise it by adding North Korea to the list.

According to The New York Times, the the Muslim Ban 3.0 adds most of the countries in the original Muslim ban, but withe addition of North Korea and sanctions for Venezuela and Irak, making it very difficult to allow their citizens to travel to the US and impossible to become permanent residents.

Jared Kushner used private email for White House business

According to Politico, Donald Trump's son in-law and close adviser at the White House used private email to conduct official White House business. From the Politico article:

Presidential son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner has corresponded with other administration officials about White House matters through a private email account set up during the transition last December, part of a larger pattern of Trump administration aides using personal email accounts for government business.

Kushner uses his private account alongside his official White House email account, sometimes trading emails with senior White House officials, outside advisers and others about media coverage, event planning and other subjects, according to four people familiar with the correspondence. POLITICO has seen and verified about two dozen emails.

DAY 246: Trump's goes after NFL protests... with hypocrisy

So this morning Donald Trump went after NFL players who protest against police brutality and inequality by kneeling diring the national anthem at games:

If NFL fans refuse to go to games until players stop disrespecting our Flag & Country, you will see change take place fast. Fire or suspend!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2017

Aside from being a racist stand (Trump didn't call for the firing of White supremacists, but for the firing of mostly Black NFL players), Trump is being a hypocrite. You see, four years ago he said this:

Trump lies on Twitter about Iran firing ballistic missile; It never happened

Donald Trump twitted this:

Iran just test-fired a Ballistic Missile capable of reaching Israel.They are also working with North Korea.Not much of an agreement we have!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 23 de septiembre de 2017

Problem is, there was no ballistic missile "test fired" by Iran. Trump read some fake news story about it and then repeated without asking any of the US security agencies about it.

DAY 245: Trump throws a tantrum at John McCain after Trumpcare fails and lies about Obamacare

Republican Senator John McCain announced yesterday that he would not support the latest version of Trumpcare, which meant the bill is pretty much dead on arrival. This morning, Donald Trump threw a tantrum and attacked McCain on Twitter as a result:

John McCain never had any intention of voting for this Bill, which his Governor loves. He campaigned on Repeal & Replace. Let Arizona down!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 23 de septiembre de 2017

Large Block Grants to States is a good thing to do. Better control & management. Great for Arizona. McCain let his best friend L.G. down!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 23 de septiembre de 2017

And that was just the start. Then Trump went on to lie about Obamacare as he latest attempt at taking away the healthcare of millions of Americans failed. He said:

DAY 244: Trump is spending taxpayer dollars on his personal rallies

According to Arizona's AZCentral.com, Donald Trump spend nearly half a million dollars in public money just to do a campaign rally recently.

President Donald Trump's August visit to the Phoenix Convention Center cost the host city more than $450,000 in employee overtime expenses.

The police department — which had a vast and visible presence outside the convention center before, during and after Trump's rally — incurred the majority of the cost. But the fire, streets, water and public works departments all racked up substantial expenditures as well.

DAY 243: Trump lies about pre-existing conditions on Trumpcare

This morning Donald Trump published a tweet in which he outright lied about pre-existing conditions on the new Republican attempt on Trumpcare:

I would not sign Graham-Cassidy if it did not include coverage of pre-existing conditions. It does! A great Bill. Repeal & Replace.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 20, 2017

Again; that's a LIE. And AP debunked the claim Trump made that the new Trumpcare covers pre-existing conditions:

Trump's recent stupid comments and Trumpcare are meant to increase his poll numbers, not as actual policy

Donald Trump has been on a streak of stupid, prejudiced comments on foreign issues and he has been on an effort to pass another version of Trump care that's even worse than the one that already failed in the Senate.

As it turns out, the whole thing is a mere ploy to try to boost his approval numbers among the most racists in his followers. Which is most of his followers.

How do we know that? Because Trump is actually paying for ads on Facebook aimed at the worst of the worst of his followers, trying to sell them the idea that he will build a border wall, when in fact he won't, as he does not have the numbers in Congress to approve the money to built it.

Trump stupidity: Blocks cancer patient and invents the country of "Nambia"

Lots of Trump stupidity today. First, he read a speech in front of foreign leaders in which he mentioned the country of "Nambia", which does not exist. According to The Wall Street Journal:

An overlooked vowel by the U.S. leader resulted in him praising the progress of “Nambia,” a country that some observers were quick to point out didn’t exist in Africa—or anywhere else.

An official White House transcript of Mr. Trump’s remarks was more forgiving, crediting him with referring to the actual country of Namibia, whose president, Hage Geingob, and deputy prime minister, Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah, were said by the White House to be among those present.

Right... So Trump can't read now?

But then Trump did something truly stupid: He blocked from his Twitter account a cancer patient who refuted this new Trumpcare plan.

Trump made it more difficult for highly skilled foreigners to get work visa, and tourism sunk

Two news stories that should show just how damaging Donald Trump is for the US economy. First, he made it more difficult for highly skilled foreigners to get work visas. According to Reuters:

The Trump administration is making it more difficult for skilled foreigners to work in the United States, challenging visa applications more often than at nearly any point in the Obama era, according to data reviewed by Reuters.

The more intense scrutiny of the applications for H-1B visas comes after President Donald Trump called for changes to the visa program so that it benefits the highest-paid workers, though he has not enacted any such reforms.

Data provided by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services shows that between Jan. 1 and Aug. 31, the agency issued 85,000 challenges, or “requests for evidence” (RFEs), to H-1B visa petitions - a 45 percent increase over the same period last year. The total number of H-1B petitions rose by less than 3 percent in the same period.

Which means tech companies can't get the highly skilled labor they need to grow the American economy.

DAY 242: FED expects US economy to deteriorate with Trump in office

The American economy is expected to deteriorate with donald Trump in office, with higher inflation, more people unemployed and lower GDP growth according to numbers published by The Wall Street Journal.

Janet Yellen says short-term rate moves are the Fed's 'go-to tool' https://t.co/KjsPE89o38 pic.twitter.com/qiC24GtzQ3

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) September 20, 2017

Interest rates are also expected to go up, which would mean high home prices, and higher credit card payments.

DAY 241: Steve Miller suppressed report showing refugees contribute more in taxes than they cost the US

According to The New York Times, Donald Trump's advisor Steve Miller suppressed a report by the Department of Health and Human Services showing that refugees actually contribute more to the US in taxes than what they cost to taxpayers.

The net difference between the cost of refugees to the US and what they contribute to the US in taxes is 63 billion dollars more in taxes than what the refugees receive from public funds.

But Steve Miller, according to the NYT, suppressed the fiscal benefit from the report and only allowed one figure to be shown: the cost of about $1,000 more than the average American in taxpayer dollars.

DAY 240: Trump's approval sunk in key swing states

Donald Trump's approval has sunk in key swing states, including some Rust Belt states.

Accordingot fivethirtyeight.com, these are some of the key swing states in which Trump has lost over 10 points in his approval ratings, a lot more than the margin he got in order to win the states:

DAY 239: Trump retweets video of violence against Hillary Clinton

Donald Trump retweeted today a video in which he is depected hitting Hillary Clinton with a golf ball and knocking her over. In other words, Trump is OK with the idea of a man physically hurting a woman:

The President just retweeted an edited GIF from someone by the name of "Fuctupmind" that shows his golf swing knocking over Hillary Clinton pic.twitter.com/QZ304Lo8At

— Steve Kopack (@SteveKopack) September 17, 2017

This is the original tweet Trump retweeted:

DAY 238: Trump's "fraud" commission has been using private email; Experts say it violates federal law

Remember how Donald Trump has been bitching about Hillary Clinton's private email server? Well, turns out his "electoral fraud" commission -which is a farse in itself- has been using private email to communicate. Problem is, they are suppose to be dealing with the private information of millions of American voters.

According to ProPublica:

President Donald Trump’s voter fraud commission came under fire earlier this month when a lawsuit and media reports revealed that the commissioners were using private emails to conduct public business. Commission co-chair Kris Kobach confirmed this week that most of them continue to do so.

Experts say the commission’s email practices do not appear to comport with federal law. “The statute here is clear,” said Jason Baron, a lawyer at Drinker Biddle and former director of litigation at the National Archives and Records Administration.

TRUMP LOSES: Judge blocks his attack on sanctuary cities

A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration can't withold money for public safety ro Chicago and other sancturay cities as a result of their refusal to cooperate with Trump's anti-immigration policies.

According to Reuters, the preliminary injunction will be applied nationwide.

Trump throws tantrum and lies over ESPN anchor Jamele Hill

Many, many times Donald Trump has lied about different people. And he nas never apologized for it. In fact, to this day Trump has never apologized for claiming falsely that Barack Obama was not born in the United States.

But now Trump is throwing a tantrum over the fact that ESPN anchor Jamele tweeted this:

Donald Trump is a white supremacist who has largely surrounded himself w/ other white supremacists.

— Jemele Hill (@jemelehill) 11 de septiembre de 2017

Which is not a lie. It is exactly what Trump proved to be after saying there was good people among white supremacists in Charlottesville.

Here's Trump's response:

DAY 237: Theresa May politely tells Trump he's an idiot over tweet on London incident

After an incident treated as a terrorist attack in London, Donald Trump tweeted this:

Another attack in London by a loser terrorist.These are sick and demented people who were in the sights of Scotland Yard. Must be proactive!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 15 de septiembre de 2017

Loser terrorists must be dealt with in a much tougher manner.The internet is their main recruitment tool which we must cut off & use better!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 15 de septiembre de 2017

The travel ban into the United States should be far larger, tougher and more specific-but stupidly, that would not be politically correct!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) 15 de septiembre de 2017

To which the UK's Prime Minister, Theresa May, responded to Trump with a polite "shut up, you idiot." Here's what she said:

STUPIDITY AND RACISM: Once again, Trump blames both sides on Chrlottesville violence

Once again Donald Trump blamed the violence in Charlottesville on both, White supremacists and the people protesting them.

According to The New York Times, Trump said:

“Especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at what’s going on there, you know, you have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also,”

Trump just invited most Americans to vote against him by saying he will veto single-payer healthcare

According to a recent Gallup poll, more than half of Americans believe the government should be responsible for providing health care.

Which means Donald Trump just invited most Americans to vote against him by threatening to veto Bernie Sanders's single-payer health care proposal:

Bernie Sanders is pushing hard for a single payer healthcare plan - a curse on the U.S. & its people...

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2017

...I told Republicans to approve healthcare fast or this would happen. But don't worry, I will veto because I love our country & its people.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2017

DAY 236: Trump admits he won't get his border wall; Says wall is the fence already in place

After claiming it would be a concrete wall several feet high, and then claiming it would be a "solar wall", Donald Trump now claims his border will will actually be... the fence that already exists along the southern border...

The WALL, which is already under construction in the form of new renovation of old and existing fences and walls, will continue to be built.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 14, 2017

DAY 235: Trump did not have a legal justification for bombing Syria

After a watchdog group sued to force the Trump administration to disclose its legal justification for bombing Syria after the Assad regime used chemical weapons, the White House did not produce any legal arguments to respond.

Instead, according to The Intercept, the White House turned over a series of public statements from the Trump administration and praise from media outlets such as Fox News.

DAY 234: America's income increased with Obama; Trump could undo it

The US Census Bureau released figures today confirming that the median household income in American increased for the second year in a row in 2016, the last full year Barack Obama was in office. The oncrease in median income is equivalent to 3.2%.

Additionally, poverty decreased with Obama. But now Donald Trump's tax cut proposal for the rich could undo the economic progress for the middle class achieved under the Obama policies.

DAY 233: TRUMP LOSES on North Korea and NIH budget cut

Two more loses for Donald Trump today. First, he was unable to make the UN impose an oil embargo on North Korea, as he wanted, as a way to pressure North Korea into stop its nuclear weapons development.

According to The New York Times, Russia and China opposed the oil embargo. Instead, there will be a cap to oil exports to North Korea.

So what's Trump going to do now that Russia and China are not letting him impose his sanctions on North Korea? Probably what he always does: Nothing and blame it on somebody else.

Bot there's more.

DAY 232: Trump's White House tweets fake news about hurricane Irma

Donald Trump's director of social media, tweeted an image he claimed showed the Miami airport being flooded because of hurricane Irma, to which the Miami International Airport responded:

This video is not from Miami International Airport.

— Miami Int'l Airport (@iflymia) September 10, 2017

That should've been enough to leave the issue at that, but then Dan Scavino, Trump's social media director, responded with this:

DAY 231: Trump is governing for his clients, not for America

The New York Times published an article today showing how Donald Trump businesses (golf courses, hotels, etc) are doing a lot better in Republican states and a lot worse in Democratic states, with increases in revenue in states like North Carolina, and drops in states like California and New York.

Trump definitely knows this. And he also knows that the most idiotic and racist things Trump has done in office is not scaring away Republican customers; it's what's keeping them as clients.

DAY 230: Trump picks up a fight with Republicans over filibuster rule

Apparently Donald Trump responded to criticism from his own party over him accepting the Democrat plan on the debt ceiling and relief for hurricane Harvey's victims by picking a fight on Twitter... with the Republicans. He tweeted the following this morning:

Republicans, sorry, but I've been hearing about Repeal & Replace for 7 years, didn't happen! Even worse, the Senate Filibuster Rule will....

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 8, 2017

...never allow the Republicans to pass even great legislation. 8 Dems control - will rarely get 60 (vs. 51) votes. It is a Repub Death Wish!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 8, 2017

Republicans must start the Tax Reform/Tax Cut legislation ASAP. Don't wait until the end of September. Needed now more than ever. Hurry!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 8, 2017

DAY 229: Trump Jr. seemingly admits he knew his meeting with Russians was potentially illegal

Donald Trump Jr. apparently admitted in a statement to the Senate that he knew his meeting with Russians to dig dirt on Hillary Clinton was potentially illegal.

According to The New York Times, Trump Jr. said about the meeting:

“To the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, I believed that I should at least hear them out. Depending on what, if any, information they had, I could then consult with counsel to make an informed decision as to whether to give it further consideration.”

DAY 228: Russia bought ads on Facebook to influence the US election

The Washington Post reports that hundreds of Facebook accounts based in Russia purchased political ads to try to influence the 2016 US election.

From the WP article:

Representatives of Facebook told congressional investigators Wednesday that it has discovered it sold ads during the U.S. presidential election to a shadowy Russian company seeking to target voters, according to several people familiar with the company’s findings.

Facebook officials reported that they traced the ad sales, totaling $100,000, to a Russian “troll farm” with a history of pushing pro-Kremlin propaganda, these people said.

DAY 227: Trump ends DACA and uses Dreamers as hostages for his racist immigration plan

Donald Trump announced officially the end of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, known as DACA, which Barack Obama established through executive order to protect the children of undocumented immigrants, also known as "Dreamers," when Republicans in Congress blocked immigration reform.

Not only that, but Trump also is using the Dreamers as hostages to force Congress to pass his racist immigrantion plan that cuts legal immigrant admisions by half and only admits people who already speak English and make enough money not to need to live in the United States.

DAY 226: Trump wants your pension plan to pay for a tax cut for the rich

According to Politico, Donald Trump's finance team, which is basically people from Goldman Sachs, came up with the idea of taxing the middle class's 401(k) pension plans in order to pay for a tax cut for the rich. From the Politico article:

One idea quietly being discussed would be taxing the money that workers place into their 401(k) savings plans up front: an idea that would raise billions of dollars in the short-term and is pulled from the Camp plan. This policy idea is widely disliked by budget hawks, who consider it a gimmick; the financial services industry that handles retirement savings; and nonprofits that try to encourage Americans to save.

DAY 225: Trump now blames South Korea for North Korea, but it's HIS fault

After North Korea tested a hydrogen bomb, Donald Trump tried to blame others instead of blaming himseld for doing nothing about it. Twice. He blamed China and South Korea:

..North Korea is a rogue nation which has become a great threat and embarrassment to China, which is trying to help but with little success.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

South Korea is finding, as I have told them, that their talk of appeasement with North Korea will not work, they only understand one thing!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 3, 2017

DAY 224: Trump's DOJ admits Trump's wiretapping claim was bullshit

The Trump administration, via the Department of Justice, virtually admitted Donald Trump's claim that Barack Obama had Trump Tower in New York wiretapped was bullshit.

According to Bloomberg a Freedom of Information Act request forced the DOJ to admit there is no evidence of wiretapping at Trump Tower at the order of Barack Obama.

DAY 223: Trump backpedals on shutting down government for border wall

Two days after a rally in Arizona in which he threatened to shut down the government if Congress did not pay for his border wall, Donald Trump back off from his threat.

According to The Washington Post, the White House told Congress two days after the rally that money for the wall did not need to be included in the budget to be approved this month.