The Trump administration moves from one thing to the next so quickly that early on I felt a need to write everything down, as it's easy to forget even major things that happened a few days ago.
The result is a project--largely cut and pasted from news sources--summarizing Trump's first 100 days. After I posted the first 10 days, a few 2p2ers and some folks on Twitter very kindly encouraged me to keep going, so here are days 21-30.
If you're interested in this sort of thing, there's a sticky with days 1-20 here
http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/41...-days-1651105/
Day 21- Trump says that from now on he will pick the reporters allowed in the WH.
- Sends tweets saying Sen John McCain should not be commenting on the Yemen raid, and that the raid was a complete success.
- Spokesperson Conway tells Fox & Friends viewers to "go buy Ivanka's stuff."
- Asked, "Do you believe Conway crossed an ethical line here?" Press Sec Spicer replies, "Kellyanne has been counseled, and that's all we're going to go with."
- Chairman of the House Oversight Committee says the Conway plug was “Wrong, wrong, wrong. It is wholly unacceptable no if, ands or buts about it.”
- Jeff Sessions begins his time as US Attorney General by parroting the president's false statistics about the crime rate.
- He also looks into weakening Obama-era protections for transgender children.
- Former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke tweets, "Mr. Trump’s appointment of Bannon, Flynn and Sessions are the first steps in the project of taking America back."
- 9th Circuit Court of Appeals rules against Trump's travel ban.
- Judges calls the WH's claims of exclusive executive branch power regarding the ban "contrary to the fundamental structure of our constitutional democracy."
- Tweets "SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!"
- Supreme Court Justice Gorsuch finds Trump's criticism of a federal judge to be "disheartening and demoralizing."
- Trump insists that Gorsuch's words were misrepresented.
- This in spite of their meaning being confirmed by Gorsuch's spokesman and two Senators.
Day 22- Trump mentions plans to privatize air traffic control.
- Says "Pocahontas is now the face of your party"
- Pocahontas is the president's favorite nickname for Sen Elizabeth Warren.
- Has not nominated any second-tier officials—i.e. deputy, under, or assistant secretaries—in any major cabinet department.
- Nixes deputy Sec of State candidate, Elliot Abrams, after hearing that Abrams said critical things about him.
- At a Senate listening session dedicated to new Justice Gorsuch, the president veers off course again and spends several minutes talking about the election.
- Claims voters were illegally bussed in from Massachusetts to vote in New Hampshire.
- After a congressional rebuke suggesting she be suspended or fired for plugging Ivanka's brand, spokesperson Conway says that the president supports her 100%.
- WH spokesperson Salena Zito tells a CNN panel that it is clear that Conway was joking when she made the plug.
- More than half of Trump voters believe that the fictional Bowling Green Massacre is real.
- Says he may write a new travel ban order.
- Asked what he would change in the new order, answers "very little."
- US Officials confirm some of the details of the infamous Steele Dossier.
- None of the more interesting details have been confirmed or debunked at this time.
- Standing Rock anti-pipeline activists interviewed by FBI terror task force.
- It's reported that National Security Adviser Flynn talked sanctions with Russia in December, then repeatedly denied that he did.
Day 23- Unleashes a wave of immigration raids across the country.
- Tweets “Our legal system is broken! "77% of refugees allowed into U.S. since travel reprieve hail from seven suspect countries." (WT) SO DANGEROUS!”
- The surge is a backlog of previously vetted refugees who were blocked due to the travel ban.
- (WT) is the Washington Times, a conservative paper founded and owned by the Unification Church, aka the Moonies.
- Blacks out windows at Mar-A-Lago resort to keep press pool from taking pictures of him playing golf.
- Once tweeted, "The habitual vacationer, @BarackObama, is now in Hawaii. This vacation is costing taxpayers $4 milion +++ while there is 20% unemployment."
- $1 million per day is spent housing the current First Lady in a Manhattan penthouse.
- Reports emerge that National Security Adviser Flynn lied to the vice president and other colleagues about his talks with Russia.
- When asked about Flynn, the president falsely pretends be unaware of the growing controversy.
- Given that the Justice Dept pointedly warned Trump and gave him specifics regarding Flynn's collusion as far back as Day 10.
- Trump will not ask for Flynn's resignation until late on day 25.
Day 24- Tweets "The crackdown on illegal criminals is merely the keeping of my campaign promise. Gang members, drug dealers & others are being removed!"
- Back in August 2016 announced that wife Melania would hold a press conference regarding her immigration status.
- Nothing like this has occurred.
- Delays trip to the United Kingdom to avoid a planned snub by their Parliament while it's in session.
- WH Policy Director Miller makes the Sunday talk show rounds.
- Miller repeats the president's lie about voter fraud in New Hampshire.
- When asked for evidence, Miller says, "It is a fact, and you will not deny it."
- He claims that deportations will “prevent crime before it happens.”
- Miller also claims a 2000 mile wall on the border "will pay for itself many, many, many times over."
- Finally, in the arena of national security, Miller says the president's power "will not be questioned."
- Trump Tweets, "Congratulations Stephen Miller-on representing me this morning on the various Sunday morning shows. Great job!"
- After tweeting eleven times about Obama's golfing, has played golf twice so far as president.
- Pentagon official says they are holding back intelligence from the WH because, “since January 20, we’ve assumed that the Kremlin has ears inside the SITROOM,”
- Hold's open-air national security meeting on North Korea at Mar-A-Lago with club members seated around him and waitstaff looking on.
- Aides point cell phones and electronic devices at confidential documents laid out on the dinner table.
- Let's one of his Mar-A-Lago members pose for a picture with and tag on social media the aide who carries the nuclear football.
Day 25- Meets with Canadian PM Justin Trudeau.
- Trudeau becomes the first foreign leader to successfully fend off the president's upending handshake.
- During press conference, picks only friendly reporters whom he's assured won't ask him about embattled NSA adviser Flynn.
- Gateway Pundit, a conservative blog, granted WH press credentials.
- The blog's founder Jim Hoft has frequently been branded as the "dumbest man on the Internet."
- Foreclosure specialist Steven Mnuchin confirmed as Treasury secretary by a vote of 53-47.
- NSA adviser Flynn resigns amid accusations of colluding with Russian ambassador during the transition.
- Flynn is the third Trump campaign team member to resign over Russian ties.
Day 26- Signs repeal of the rule requiring oil companies to disclose payments to foreign parties.
- Undisclosed payments would presumably include bribes and kickbacks to foreign officials.
- 35 mental health professionals sign a letter to the NYT that states, "We believe that the grave emotional instability indicated by Mr. Trump’s speech and actions makes him incapable of serving safely as president."
- Tweets that the "real story" of Flynn's resignation were the leaks that brought it about.
- Spokesperson Conway says that the key to Flynn's resignation was his misleading the vice president.
- Press Sec Spicer says, “The irony of this situation is that the President has been incredibly tough on Russia,."
- Russia deploys nuclear cruise missiles which violate the INF treaty signed in 1987.
- Russia parks a spy ship off the US Coast.
- Russia tells WH it will not give the Crimea back to the Ukraine.
- WH has no immediate comment on these developments.
- Also no comment regarding multiple Russian aircraft buzzing a U.S. destroyer patrolling in the Black Sea.
- House Panel votes against requesting Trump's tax returns.
- Intercepted calls show that the president's campaign team had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence officials throughout 2016.
Day 27- Sends a flurry of tweets blaming in turn the media, the intelligence community, the Obama administration and Hillary Clinton for the mounting unease over his ties to Russia.
- Carter Page, disgraced former foreign policy adviser to Trump now under investigation for Russian ties, writes bizarre letter to the DOJ accusing Clinton campaign of "severe election fraud," "hate crimes and other extensive abuses."
- Office of Government Ethics finds Spokesperson Conway in "clear violation of the prohibition against misuse of position."
- According to the rules, It is up to the president to determine her punishment.
- Trump unfollows Conway on Twitter.
- Former campaign manager Lewandowski is telling prospective lobbying clients that he has access to the president's Twitter account.
- It's unclear whether he claims to have the password, or merely the president's ear on what to post.
- Trump company awarded valuable, long sought-after trademark in China.
- This occurs a few days after the president steered US policy back towards China's much-preferred One China policy.
- Press conference with Israeli PM Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu.
- Once again picks only friendly reporters: one from conservative website Town Hall and one from the Christian Broadcasting Network.
- Asked about the sharp rise in anti-Semitic incidents in the US, says "Well I just want to say that we are very honored by the victory that we had. 306 Electoral college votes"
- It's discovered that WH Policy Director Stephen Miller follows former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke on Twitter,
- Miller "likes" Duke's tweet about Pizzagate.
- Andrew Puzder: fast food CEO, critic of the minimum wage, illegal immigrant employer, and alleged wife-beater, withdraws from the nomination for Labor Secretary.
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions, a top adviser to the Trump campaign, says he won't recuse himself from any investigations of the Trump campaign.
Day 28- Tweets, "Leaking, and even illegal classified leaking, has been a big problem in Washington for years. Failing @nytimes (and others) must apologize!"
- Trump will ask New York billionaire friend Stephen A Feinberg to review all US intelligence agencies.
- Top House Republicans ask for investigation into the leaks that revealed the Trump campaign's Russian ties.
- No House investigation into the campaign's actual Russian ties is planned.
- In addition to 10 children and 9 women, botched Yemen raid also killed Sheikh Abdel-Raouf al-Dhahab, a tribal chief allied with the US.
- Director of National Intelligence denies reports from Day 24 that they are withholding intelligence from Trump.
- Holds press conference and answers a wide range of questions from a large pool of reporters.
- "To be honest, I inherited a mess. It’s a mess. At home and abroad, a mess."
- “The leaks are absolutely real. The news is fake because so much of the news is fake.”
- Is called out on his lie that his electoral victory was the greatest since Reagan, answers that he was simply "given that information."
- Says his administration is not rife with chaos; quite the opposite, it's running like a "fine-tuned machine."
- Says he is fine with WikiLeaks because it never leaked classified information.
- This is an absurd lie.
- Dismisses GOP town hall protesters because “They are not the Republican people that our representatives represent.”
- Says the alternative to having good relations with Russia would be a “nuclear holocaust.”
- Says, "You know what uranium is, right? It’s this thing called nuclear weapons. And other things. Like lots of things are done with uranium. Including some bad things."
- Tells a reporter from a Jewish publication asking about the rise in anti-Semitic crimes that it's "not a fair question," and to "sit down."
- Says, "I am the least anti-Semitic person that you've ever seen in your entire life."
- Another reporter reminds the president that the Antisemitism question regards his followers, not the president.
- Blames the attacks by his followers on Democrats pretending to be Trump supporters, as a false flag operation.
- Asks a black reporter to help him set up a meeting with the Congressional Black Caucus.
- During a Day 5 interview, former national security adviser Flynn lied to the FBI, telling them he had never discussed sanctions with Russia.
- This is a felony offense.
- The FBI is not expected to file any charges.
- Defense Industry Exec Robert Harward declines offer to replace Flynn.
Day 29- House Oversight chair Jason Chaffetz seeks criminal charges against an employee who helped set up Hillary Clinton's email account.
- Chaffetz has refused repeated requests to investigate the Trump campaign.
- Tweets "The FAKE NEWS media (failing @nytimes, @NBCNews, @ABC, @CBS, @CNN) is not my enemy, it is the enemy of the American People!"
- One month after Vladimir Lenin seized power in 1917, he coined the term "vrag naroda", which means enemy of the people.
- Trump signs repeal of law preventing the dumping of coal mining waste into streams and rivers.
- Climate change skeptic Scott Pruitt cleared by Senate 52-46 to head the Environmental Protection Agency.
- 700 former EPA officials wrote to Congress opposing Pruitt’s confirmation.
- Pruitt sued his agency 14 times during the Obama administration, seeking to curb its regulation of toxic mercury pollution, smog, carbon emissions from power plants, and the pollution of wetlands.
- His efforts were largely funded by oil and gas firms.
- WH denies AP report of a plan to mobilize 100,000 National Guard troops to round up illegal immigrants.
Day 30- The WH has made no nominations for 662 out of the 696 executive branch positions requiring Senate confirmation.
- Tweets "Don't believe the main stream (fake news) media.The White House is running VERY WELL. I inherited a MESS and am in the process of fixing it."
- Eric and Donald Trump Jr. cut the ribbon on a new Trump luxury golf course in the United Arab Emirates.
- The UAE is one of several Muslim majority nations where the Trump company does business.
- As mentioned on Day 7, none of these Trump-friendly nations are included in the travel ban.
- As with all of their company trips, taxpayer money will be used for Eric and Donald Jr's secret service travel and hotel costs.
- Trump family trips have cost $11.3 million over the first month of the administration.
- Obama family travel expenses averaged $12.1 million per year,
- One month into his new term, holds what is billed as a campaign rally in Florida, ostensibly for his 2020 re-election (?)
- Attacks the media again, quoting Thomas Jefferson as saying “'nothing can be believed which is seen in a newspaper.' ''Truth itself,' he said, 'becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.'”
- Jefferson also wrote "Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
- After several more minutes of undermining the free press, goes on to essentially repeat his 2016 campaign platform, as follows:
- Fixing the "terrible mess" the country is in.
- Repeal of the Affordable Care Act.
- Vastly stepping up harassment and deportation of illegal immigrants.
- Removal of regulations preventing air, water and soil pollution by oil, coal and gas interests.
- Passing a $1 trillion infrastructure program.
- "Rebuilding" the military.
- All while reducing tax rates.
- Abrogation of trade agreements and the introduction of tariffs.
- Law enforcement task forces for the inner cities.
- Showing support for the EU-undermining Brexit,
- And of course, once again rehashing the 2016 election and his victory over the "dishonest media's" predictions.
- Speaking about terrorism, alludes to some sort of incident "last night in Sweden. Sweden, who would believe this? They took in large numbers."
- Nothing of note happened last night in Sweden.
Notes
In the Melbourne speech on day 30, according to a few Twitter wags, Trump also apparently did a stock racist 1940's impression of Japanese PM Shinzō Abe. I am
not going to watch the speech to confirm. I pored through the damn transcript, and that should be enough for any person.
Last edited by suitedjustice; 02-18-2017 at 11:52 PM.
