Thanks for this... even though it’s
quite scary.
Invito chi non capisce “sana
antipatia” a venire a vivere negli States per un periodo e, se è “sano” di
mente capirà la situazione.
Ecco una lista (aggiornata a giugno
2018) di fatti, bugie ed altro. DJT sta per Donald J. Trump. Chiedo scusa per
la lunghezza e densità che potrebbero spaventare chi non è abituato.
FAKE NEWS:
DJT: “Deals are my art form. I like
making deals, preferably big deals.”
DJT: "This is my 500th. Day in
Office and we have accomplished a lot - many believe more than any President in
his first 500 days. Massive Tax & Regulation Cuts, Military & Vets,
Lower Crime & Illegal Immigration, Stronger Borders, Judgeships, Best
Economy & Jobs EVER, and much more..."
REALITY:
NO DEAL on immigration.
NO DEAL on health care.
NO DEAL on gun control.
NO DEAL on spending cuts.
NO DEAL on Nafta.
NO DEAL on China trade.
NO DEAL on steel and aluminum
imports.
NO DEAL on Middle East peace.
NO DEAL on Qatar blockade.
NO DEAL on Syria.
NO DEAL on Russia.
NO DEAL on Iran.
NO DEAL on climate change.
NO DEAL on Pacific trade.
“Trump is an anarchist,” said Jack
O’Donnell, a former president of the Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino. “It was his
approach in business, it is his approach as president. It does not take good
negotiating skills to cause chaos. Will this ever lead to concessions? Maybe,
but concessions to what? Not anything that resembles a deal. I just do not see
him getting much done.”
In 497 days, Trump has made 3,251
false or misleading claims (more than 6.5 claims a day), per the Washington
Post.
In his first 10 months, Trump told
~6x as many lies as Obama told during his ENTIRE presidency, per the New York
Times.
In his first year, Trump signed the
fewest bills into law since at least Eisenhower (Note: More than half had to do
with modifying existing programs and naming something/statement), leading to
the most executive orders since at least LBJ (Note: Obama issued an average of
35 EOs per year, the fewest in 120 years), per GovTrack and NPR.
As of now, Trump has kept 12,
compromised 7, broken 8, stalled 33, and currently working on 42 of his
campaign promises, per PolitiFact.
At least 22 of Trump's 67
deregulatory actions were started under Obama, while other actions had little
impact, were part of actions typically taken by the federal government, or have
not yet gone into effect, per Bloomberg.
According to Bloomberg, U.S. companies
are valued less now than before Trump was elected, the cost to borrow for the
U.S. has soared, and the dollar's share of global currency reserves has dropped
by the most since 2002.
“Real average hourly compensation
actually fell in the first quarter after the tax reform was passed,” Bloomberg
Opinion writer Noah Smith recently explained. Wealthy shareholders have seen
gains in their stocks, he added, but there is no major rise in business
investment. He concluded that it is possible the “tax cuts have run their
course as economic policy.”
Under the prior Administration,
average hourly earnings (after adjusting for inflation) grew by 0.8% per year;
so far under Trump, they have grown by half of that amount.
Avg. monthly job growth since Trump
took office = +189,000
Avg. monthly job growth in previous
years:
2016: +195,300
2015: +226,000
2014: +250,400
2013: +191,800
Economic Scorecard:
Stock Market: Up
GDP Growth: Up
Unemployment: Down
Jobs Gained: Down
Jobs Outsourced: Up
Trade Deficit: Up
International Tourism: Down
Federal Deficit: Up
Foreign Investment: Down
Investment Spending: Down
Innovation Index: Down
Move Rate: Down
Wage Growth: Down
Homelessness: Up
Uninsured Rate: Up
Premiums: Up
Gas Prices: Up
Cost of Living: Up
(Important: Not only were Obama's
stock market gains higher than Trump's but also the vast majority of gains--92
months of upward trajectory--occurred under Obama, e.g. when the S&P 500
hit 127 all-time highs. Also: The Dow is not inflation-adjusted and is highly
curated, measuring only the best performers in the economy. Furthermore: The
average down day is 24% bigger than the average up day in 2018.)
Trump's trade policies could cost
the U.S. economy $2 trillion and nearly 2 million jobs by 2022, per a consortium
of analysts from Zurich Insurance, Ernst & Young, the Atlantic Council and
the Organization for International Investment.
Trump and the Republican-controlled
Congress have added nearly $1 trillion to the national debt in just 5.5 months,
per the U.S. Treasury.
The GOP tax law is projected to
increase the national debt by $1.9 trillion between 2018 and 2028, per the
Congressional Budget Office.
According to the Congressional
Budget Office, the fiscal gap could total as much as $2.7 trillion over the
next 10 years. Republicans counter that added economic growth of 0.4% per year
would offset the cost, but every reputable forecast puts the likely incremental
growth at a negligible amount.
Trump’s White House, which
previously claimed its policies would dramatically reduce the federal deficit,
has quietly released a budget report showing the deficit surpassing $1 trillion
in 2019 — a full year faster than expected. The report also drops average GDP
growth below the 3% Trump has frequently promised.
Trump's Treasury Department
predicted that the government's borrowing needs for the second half of 2018
will be $769 billion — the highest its borrowed since 2008 during the financial
crisis.
54% of the GOP tax cuts will go to
people making MORE than $75k, 31% will go to corporations, and 16% will go to
people making LESS than $75k, per the Joint Committee on Taxation.
Only 4.3% of workers will receive a
one-time bonus or wage increase tied to the GOP tax cuts, while businesses
received nine times more in cuts than what they passed on to their workers, per
Americans for Tax Fairness.
More than half of Americans and U.S.
voters say they have not noticed an increase in their paychecks since the GOP
tax law passed, per CNBC's All America Economic Survey and Politico-Morning
Consult polls.
More than half the benefit from the
GOP tax law's pass-through deduction will go to people who make more than $1
million a year, per the Joint Committee on Taxation.
80% of the economic growth generated
by the GOP tax cuts will eventually go abroad and benefit foreigners, per the
Congressional Budget Office.
82% of all wealth created last year
went to the top 1%, while the bottom 50% saw no increase at all, per Oxfam.
Gasoline and packaged goods
inflation will wipe out most of the tax bill benefit for the bottom half of
Americans, per the Wall Street Journal.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio (R):
"There's no evidence whatsoever that the money's been massively poured
back into the American worker."
Retiring Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker
(R): Tax cuts could be "one of the worst votes I've made."
Former White House Chief Economic
Advisor Gary Cohn: Trump is "Dumb as s***"
Trump Administration Departures:
Secretary of Health and Human
Services
White House Chief of Staff
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Deputy White House Chief of Staff
Senior Advisor to the White House
Chief of Staff
National Security Advisor
Deputy National Security Advisor
Another Deputy National Security
Advisor
Yet Another Deputy National Security
Advisor
Still Yet Another Deputy National
Security Advisor
Intelligence Director at the
National Security Council
Middle East Director at the National
Security Council
Dir. of Strategic Planning at the
National Security Council
Deputy Chief of Staff at the
National Security Council
Chief White House Strategist
White House Strategist
Director of Public Liaison for the
White House
Communications Director for the
Office of Public Liaison
FBI Director
Deputy Director of the FBI
Chief of Staff of the FBI
Special Advisor to the President on
Regulatory Reform
Director of the Office of Government
Ethics
Counselor to the Treasury Secretary
Director of the National Security
Agency
Deputy Director of the National
Security Agency
Deputy Director of the Domestic
Policy Counsel
Vice President's Chief of Staff
Vice President's Wife's Chief of
Staff
Vice President's Press Secretary
Vice President's Chief Counsel
Vice President's Chief Policy
Advisor
Head of the Centers for Disease
Control
White House Staff Secretary
White House Speechwriter
Acting Administrator of Federal
Railroad Administration
Associate Attorney General
Press Secretary
Assistant Press Secretary
White House Director of Rapid
Response
Communications Director
Another Communications Director
Yet Another Communications Director
Deputy Communications Director
Assistant Communications Director
Deputy Secretary of Homeland
Secretary
Special Representative for North
Korea Policy
Asst. to the Pres. in the Office of
American Innovation
Senior Advisor to the Defense
Secretary
U.S. Ambassador to Mexico
Deputy Director of the National
Economic Council
White House Chief Economic Advisor
Secretary of State
Under Secy. of State, Public
Diplomacy & Public Affairs
NASA Acting Administrator
Head of U.S. Forest Service
Personal Assistant to President
Trump
Another National Security Advisor
Secretary of Veterans Affairs
White House Homeland Security
Advisor
National Security Council Spokesman
White House Cybersecurity Advisor
Chief of Staff to the National
Security Council
Director of Bureau of Indian Affairs
Director of special projects - WH
counsel's office
Director of ICE
EPA senior advisor - Superfund
program
EPA chief of security
WH lawyer for special counsel probe
Director of rapid response - WH
communications dept
WH Director of Legislative Affairs
DEA Acting Director
WH Deputy Chief of Staff for
Operations
Deputy Director of the National
Economic Council
EPA Administrator
Senior National Security Council
director for intelligence programs
Deputy White House Counsel
overseeing Compliance and Ethics issues
Scott Pruitt is the fifth member of
Trump’s Cabinet to be fired or quit in just 18 months, a staggering level of
turnover for an administration.
Trump has lost roughly one-third of
his cabinet-level officials and about 75% of his most senior staff members.
According to the Wall Street
Journal, the Trump Administration has seen the highest rate of turnover among
White House staff in decades if not ever.
Rex Tillerson is one of the
shortest-serving secretaries of state in modern history. (Memorable quote:
Trump is "a f***ing moron").
Trump is an "idiot."
- Former WH Chief of Staff Reince
Priebus
Trump is "an idiot."
- White House Chief of Staff John
Kelly
Trump is an "idiot" and a
"dope" who has the mind of a "kindergartner."
- Former National Security Advisor
H.R. McMaster
“I had a better working
relationship, as far as information back and forth, with [President Obama’s
Defense Secretary] Ash Carter than I do with an old friend of 20 years
[President Trump's Defense Secretary James Mattis]."
- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
Global confidence in Trump (Pew):
Sweden: 10% (-83)
Netherlands: 17% (-75)
Germany: 11% (-75)
South Korea: 17% (-71)
France: 14% (-70)
Spain: 7% (-68)
Canada: 22% (-61)
UK: 22% (-57)
Australia: 29% (-55)
Japan: 24% (-54)
Senegal: 26% (-51)
Brazil: 14% (-49)
Chile: 12% (-48)
Mexico: 5% (-44)
Italy: 25% (-43)
Indonesia: 23% (-41)
Colombia: 15% (-41)
Peru: 17% (-36)
Poland: 23% (-35)
South Africa: 39% (-34)
Turkey: 11% (-34)
Ghana: 49% (-33)
Kenya: 51% (-32)
Hungary: 29% (-29)
Tanzania: 51% (-27)
Argentina: 13% (-27)
Philippines: 69% (-25)
Greece: 19% (-22)
Lebanon: 15% (-21)
India: 40% (-18)
Vietnam: 58% (-13)
Tunisia: 18% (-9)
Venezuela: 20% (-6)
Nigeria: 58% (-5)
Jordan: 9% (-5)
Israel: 56% (+7)
Russia: 53% (+42)
Worldwide: 22% (-42)
(64% expressed confidence in Obama
to direct America's role in the world.)
Obama better than Trump "as far
as American leadership is concerned."
- Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.)
U.S. leadership sank to its lowest
point in nearly two decades in 2017, shattering the previous record low of 34%
in the last year of George W. Bush's second term, and more than tripling the
number of countries where the majorities disapprove of U.S. leadership, per
Gallup.
Australians have less confidence in
Trump than Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping, per the latest Lowy Institute
Survey.
A majority of Russians have a
negative view of Trump, describing him as "self-centered" and
"dangerous," per the latest poll from the Russian Public Opinion
Research Center.
In a near-complete reversal of the
numbers from 2016, 57% of 18-24 year olds in 16 Arab states see the U.S. as an
enemy while 35% consider the U.S. an ally, per the latest Burson-Marstellar
Arab Youth Survey (Note: 73% of Arab youth said Trump's election has had a
negative impact on their countries).
The U.S. has dropped to 8th place on
the "Best Countries" list, per U.S. News and World Report.
The United States' political rights
rating declined from 1 to 2, per Freedom House.
The United States' press freedom
rating declined from 41 to 45, per Reporters Without Borders.
Nearly 70% of Americans say
democracy in the U.S. is getting weaker under Trump, compared to just 25% who
said it was getting stronger, per The Democracy Project.
"I believe that Donald Trump in
the White House would be more abusive to the Constitution than Barack
Obama."
- EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Special Counsel:
Guilty Pleas: 5 individuals
Indictments: 32 + 3 entities
Charges: 191
Counts: 217
Sentences: 1
(Only Phase 3 of 10; Obama: Zero)
"Sweetheart, this is Watergate.
Goodbye!"
- Dr. Harold Bornstein, Trump's
physician
There are at least 400 individuals
involved in some way in the Trump-Russia Affair. It extends across 5 continents
and more than 20 years. It not only touches 50+ disciplines but will have
profound effects on other nations, America's future and things we can't
contemplate yet.
A substantial percentage of the
Steele dossier has already been proven true, while none of it has been
disproven yet. If the dossier is 50% accurate, then it's the biggest treason in
the history of the United States. And if the dossier is 80% accurate, Donald
Trump and his conspirators committed the greatest crime in American political
history.
"I think he's an empty vessel
when it comes to things like the Constitution and rule of law."
- EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt
Under Scott Pruitt, the EPA
decreased penalty sums against polluters by 94%, according to a report by the
government watchdog Public Citizen. Also, the number of penalties imposed on
corporations that broke the law or violated regulations has fallen by 50%
during Trump’s first year in office.
After reaching a high in 2011 during
the Obama administration, the number of white-collar prosecutions fell to a
20-year low under Trump, per a case-by-case analysis of government data by
Syracuse University's Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Trump said he would "drain the
swamp," but then filled it:
-giving exclusive access during
inauguration weekend to him, his family, and top administration officials to
numerous corporate powerhouses and individual business titans, including fossil
fuel, financial and food and beverage interests with lucrative business before
the federal government;
-forming the wealthiest
administration in U.S. history;
-selecting at least five Goldman
Sachs veterans to take senior roles in his administration, more than any
president in U.S. history;
-bringing in at least 193 corporate
lobbyists, CEOs, and executives of big giant corporations and industry consultants;
-failing to divest himself from his
financial empire, opening the door to years of ethics conflicts;
-granting himself the power to
withdraw money from his businesses without publicly disclosing it;
-breaking his promise to impose a
five-year ban on White House and congressional officials becoming lobbyists
after they leave government service, instead weakening some of the language
from similar bans under Obama and George W. Bush and reducing the level of
transparency;
-refusing to release his visitor
logs to the public, keeping them secret for five years after the end of Trump's
presidency;
-issuing waivers that let officials
get around potential ethics rules violations, making it impossible to determine
the extent and details of some White House staffers' conflicts of interest;
-using money donated to the
Republican National Committee to pay his personal lawyers;
-permitting Cabinet members and
Cabinet-level officials to use millions of dollars in taxpayer-funded private
jets and military planes for government business and personal pleasure;
-letting Commerce Secretary Wilbur
Ross negotiate over South Korean steel imports while he makes money from
importing South Korean steel;
-defending embattled EPA chief Scott
Pruitt despite a stunning number of ethics scandals, which includes spending
millions of taxpayer dollars on a full-time, 20-person security detail, renting
a condo from a powerful lobbyist for just $50 a night, opting for
extra-expensive travel options, bypassing the White House to get raises for his
closest aides, demoting officials who raised concerns about his spending and
management, and asking his security team to turn on the lights and sirens in
his motorcade to get to Washington, D.C., restaurant faster;
-ending a longstanding rule
requiring tax-exempt groups like the NRA and the Koch network's Americans for
Prosperity to identify donors who contribute significant amounts of money;
-earning a fortune from the
Republican National Committee, GOP congressional campaign committees, special
interest groups and dozens of foreign governments;
-and costing the U.S. taxpayer tens
of millions of dollars to travel and vacation, surpassing all previous
presidents.
"One day someone will do an
accounting of the *total* amount we Americans paid Donald Trump and his fat-cat
cronies to continue living (and on the public dime) in the manner to which they
had become accustomed, and it will be a *nine-figure* sum. I know it seems
unfathomable--but look at the *total* cost so far of Trump's trips to
Mar-a-Lago, Melania staying in NYC for many months, all the unnecessary private
travel by the Cabinet, their endless unwarranted luxuries over a period of
years, and it'll reach $100 million."
- Seth Abramson
Trump has spent about a third of his
presidency at his properties and nearly a quarter at golf properties, outpacing
Obama and every previous president in both likely and confirmed golf outings,
by far.
"If I win I may never see my
property -- I may never see these places again," Trump said at an August
2016 campaign event. "But because I'm going to be working for you, I'm not
going to have time to go golfing, believe me. Believe me. Believe me,
folks."
In his inaugural address, Trump
declared, “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.” But the
number of violent crimes committed in the nation’s largest cities fell again in
2017, continuing a 30-year downward trend, per the Brennan Center for Justice.
However, according to a recently released report by the FBI, there have been 30
active shooting incidents in 2017 – the highest number on record and 10 more
than the previous year.
“Your child isn’t going to be shot.”
- Donald Trump, 08/24/2016
In October, Trump bragged that there
were only 16 fatalities in Puerto Rico, saying that Hurricane Maria wasn’t a
“real” catastrophe like Hurricane Katrina. However, according to a research
team led by scientists at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, there
have been 4,645 "excess deaths" between Sept. 20 and Dec. 31,
eclipsing the death tolls of 9/11 or Katrina.
“If you were a Muslim you could come
in, but if you were a Christian, it was almost impossible and the reason that
was so unfair, everybody was persecuted in all fairness, but they were chopping
off the heads of everybody but more so the Christians,” Trump told the
Christian Broadcasting Network in January 2017. “And I thought it was very,
very unfair. So we are going to help them.” However, according to an analysis
of State Department data by The Guardian, the number of Christian refugees
admitted into the U.S. has fallen by more than 50 percent under Trump.
Newly released satellite images show
that North Korea is:
-continuing to enrich Uranium
-building new buildings at nuclear
test sites
-renewing operations at the thermal
plant
Trump still hasn't visited U.S.
troops in the Middle East. In comparison, Obama visited troops in Iraq just
three months after his inauguration — and visited Afghanistan eight times after
that.
2018 Presidents and Executive
Politics Presidential Greatness Survey: Trump placed last for overall
greatness, with Republicans and conservatives ranking him the fifth-worst
president.
“The destruction of the Republican
Party will be part of Trump's political legacy, and the least damning."
- Former Rep. Joe Scarborough (R-FL)
P.S. Now to be fair, he did get Neil
Gorsuch confirmed after the Senate GOP failed to fulfill their constitutional
duty by refusing to vote on anyone Obama nominated to replace the late Antonin
Scalia (incl. a GOP-praised-and-supported moderate with more federal judicial
experience than any other Supreme Court nominee in history), along with a bunch
of other judges. However, eight of 12 appeals courts currently hold Democratic
majority, so nothing has really changed there.
