President Trump

While on the campaign trail he gave a list of 20 potential SCOTUS nominees and no one complained (that I know of) and he said the nominee is from that list.

And I agree with you on DeVos.

 

President Trump, at 9:16 p.m. Monday, announced the firing of the acting attorney general who had defied him on his migrant-travel ban, saying she "has betrayed the Department of Justice."

Here is the text, emailed to reporters:

Statement on the Appointment of Dana Boente as Acting Attorney General

The acting Attorney General, Sally Yates, has betrayed the Department of Justice by refusing to enforce a legal order designed to protect the citizens of the United States. This order was approved as to form and legality by the Department of Justice Office of Legal Counsel.

Ms. Yates is an Obama Administration appointee who is weak on borders and very weak on illegal immigration.

It is time to get serious about protecting our country. Calling for tougher vetting for individuals travelling from seven dangerous places is not extreme. It is reasonable and necessary to protect our country.

Tonight, President Trump relieved Ms. Yates of her duties and subsequently named Dana Boente, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, to serve as Acting Attorney General until Senator Jeff Sessions is finally confirmed by the Senate, where he is being wrongly held up by Democrat senators for strictly political reasons.

"I am honored to serve President Trump in this role until Senator Sessions is confirmed. I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected," said Dana Boente, Acting Attorney General.

 

Every day is a nuclear bomb! In the old days, we'd still be talking about the killing of TPP from a week ago. That seems like 10 years ago. No way that would make a top 5 headlines of the last week and that was "Yuuuge!"

 

To be fair, people freaked out and protested when Obama did it too. Oh wait. Nevermind.

 

Does it not concern you that he's doing nothing to the countries that producced terrorist attacks in the US? That isn't some kind of red flag for you?

That can't be ignored

 

What president has held Saudi accountable?

Surely not Clinton after Khobar bombing. Not Bush or Obama. And let's not hold our breath on Trump.

 

None. But you can't give Trump credit for protecting the country from terrorists while not actually doing ANYTHING to the nations that have actually produced people that have attacked us.

Right now Trump is just ineffectively spinning his wheels

 

First off, I love that meme.

I agree with you. While I might not agree with his course of action, I applaud that he's trying something. Rumor is he got the 7 nations to ban from Obama Admin. (No source, heard on the radio today)

 

^^^ my point had nothing to do with Obama being right or wrong, but the response from Americans and people around the world when he did it. I despised Obama constantly blaming Bush and am really trying not to do the same. Not a case of "well, he did it too." I just see a lot of hypocrisy (both sides) and was pointing it out.

 

No what makes people angry is that Trump is President. And what makes it worse is that the majority of people who use the Internet as a voice are liberal creating a glass chamber where liberal thoughts echo back and forth making people think that's the only way and that there's no other answers. Trump is uncouth, brash, misogynistic, and immature. He's all the things the Internet hates. So now there's millions of people seething on the Internet and every little thing he does is judged poorly no matter what it is.

For instance, he has decided to uphold Obama's Transgender protection EO and there's crickets about that.

Also in regards to Saudi: I do not deny that Trump has ties there... but so does the US in general. Trump reached out to Saudi and (according to him, not them) convinced them to start taking care of more refugees. The angle against Saudi was never going to be a strong fight, it was going to be a discussion. Too much money at stake. I don't necessarily agree with his Muslim ban (the wording specifically is poor), but I do think actions need to be taken. I was all for more stringent vetting of immigrants and refugees from the ME. I'm also in favor of intelligence overhaul as most of the attacks in the US are "homegrown" threats that the FBI has files on, but never does anything about. The immigrant vetting is actually more important in Germany and France anyway.