2. He said he’d release his tax returns, eventually.
You bought it.
He hasn’t, and says he never will.

3. He said he’d divest himself from his financial empire, to avoid any conflicts of interest.
You bought it.
He is still heavily involved in his businesses, manipulates the stock market on a daily basis, and has more conflicts of interest than can even be counted.

4. He said Clinton was in the pockets of Goldman Sachs, and would do whatever they said.
You bought it.
He then proceeded to put half a dozen Goldman Sachs executives in positions of power in his administration.

5. He said he’d surround himself with all the best and smartest people.
You bought it.
He nominated theocratic loon Mike Pence for Vice President. A white supremacist named Steve Bannon is his most trusted confidant. Dr. Ben Carson, the world’s greatest idiot savant brain surgeon, is in charge of HUD. Russian quisling Rex Tillerson is Secretary of State.

6. He said he’d be his own man, beholden to no one.
You bought it.
He then appointed Betsy DeVos as Secretary of Education, whose only “qualifications” were the massive amounts of cash she donated to his campaign.

7. He said he would “drain the swamp” of Washington insiders.
You bought it.
He then admitted that was just a corny slogan he said to fire up the rubes during the rallies, and that he didn’t mean it.

8. He said he knew more about strategy and terrorism than the Generals did.
You bought it.
He promptly gave the green light to a disastrous raid in Yemen- even though all his Generals said it would be a terrible idea. This raid resulted in the deaths of a Navy SEAL, an 8-year old American girl, and numerous civilians. The actual target of the raid escaped, and no useful intel was gained.

9. He said Hillary Clinton couldn’t be counted on in times of crisis.
You bought it.
He didn’t even bother overseeing that raid in Yemen; and instead spent the time hate-tweeting the New York Times, and sleeping.

10. He called CNN, the Washington Post and the New York Times “fake news” and said they were his enemy.
You bought it.
He now gets all his information from Breitbart, Gateway Pundit, and InfoWars.

11. He called Barack Obama “the vacationer-in-Chief” and accused him of playing more rounds of golf than Tiger Woods. He promised to never be the kind of president who took cushy vacations on the taxpayer’s dime, not when there was so much important work to be done.
You bought it.
He took his first vacation after 11 days in office.
On the taxpayer’s dime.
And went golfing.

And that’s just the first month.

by Robert Reich

ROTFL Get em Truth!

Looks like Van Jones is back to feeling "afraid" of Trump. Yep. Van wants everyone to know (especially viewers of his new show on CNN) that he still "opposes" Trump, despite Van's glowing comments about Trump who Van felt became "President of the United States in that moment" during Trump's Congressional speech last week, Trump shamelessly Exploited…Ooops, I mean, acknowledged a very visibly grieving widow of a soldier recently killed in a Yemen raid gone bad that Trump had hastily ordered.

Word has it that within seconds of Van making that asinine comment his beat-down began and apparently has NOT let up. So last night he seized upon the opportunity to quickly "clarify" his comments and (in light of the fact that by Saturday of last weekend Trump had accused Pres. Obama of having committed a felony wire-tap of him) that "clarification" came none too soon.

Van wants everyone to know that his compliment of Trump was in actuality a "WARNING."

Yep. See his explanation for yourself:

I have 2 words for Van Jones. Jigga Pleeze!

Yes indeed. In other words, he's "poor white trash with money."

He's also intellectually deficient and a fake alpha-dog to boot.

Sitting in the White House…smh.

Excerpts:

It’s no secret that coal miners in coal-dependent states voted overwhelmingly for Donald Trump in 2016. And now those same people are about to feel the sting of his policies worse than anyone else, with as many as 23,000 of them poised to lose their health insurance because of their own voting habits.

Under the Miners Protection Act, the healthcare for these retired coal miners is provided by and funded by the Senate. Now, the reason they’re going to lose this healthcare coverage is because the Senate can not come up with a reconciliation bill in order to extend these benefits. They had extended them by four months a few months ago, back in January. Now, these people are set to lose their healthcare benefits once again.

The reason this is important is because, obviously, these people spent their lives working in coal mines, have very significant health problems, and need a very strong, very protective form of healthcare coverage. Now, here’s the other reason why this is an important issue. If the Senate failed to renew this health insurance, these people would be able to buy in to Obamacare, to the Affordable Care Act. Oh, wait. The Republicans are trying to strip that away from us. That’s why this is an important story.

The coal miners, specifically, are a group that overwhelmingly supported both Republicans in House and Senate races and Donald Trump for President. They voted against their own self interest. They voted for candidates who said they were going to get rid of the Affordable Care Act, and now, they’re freaking out because they don’t know how they’re going to make their black lung payments anymore. They don’t know how they’re going to get treatment for working a lifetime in coal mines and developing these God-awful illnesses. […]

– Farron Cousins, writer at the Ring of Fire Network