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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTrump-- before jetting off to Utah to announce he is shrinking two national monuments.
Trump even has to diss on our National Monuments!!
Donald Trump's Monday morning perfectly encapsulates his entire presidency
http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/04/politics/trump-flynn-moore-analysis/index.html
Chris Cillizza
Analysis by Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 11:25 AM ET, Mon December 4, 2017
(CNN)President Donald Trump did two big things on Monday morning before jetting off to Utah to announce he is shrinking two national monuments.
1. He tweeted a full-scale endorsement of Roy Moore's Senate campaign in Alabama. "Democrats refusal to give even one vote for massive Tax Cuts is why we need Republican Roy Moore to win in Alabama," wrote Trump of the embattled Republican who faces a series of accusations from women that he pursued relationships with them when he was in his early 30 and they were teenagers. "We need his vote on stopping crime, illegal immigration, Border Wall, Military, Pro Life, V.A., Judges 2nd Amendment and more. No to Jones, a Pelosi/Schumer Puppet!"
2. He offered sympathy for his former national security adviser Michael Flynn, who pleaded guilty last Friday to lying to the FBI about his conversations with then-Russian Ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak.
"I feel badly for General Flynn," Trump told reporters before boarding Marine One. "I feel very badly. He's led a very strong life and I feel very badly."
For any other president -- literally any other one -- doing one of those things would be considered so politically and legally risky that they wouldn't even talk about it much less actually say it in public.
For Trump, his moves on Moore and Flynn are standard operating procedure -- illustrations of how his presidency is a sort of bizarro version of every other presidency that has come before it.
Think of it this way: Remember that "Seinfeld" ............................
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Trump-- before jetting off to Utah to announce he is shrinking two national monuments. (Original Post)
riversedge
Dec 2017
OP
That's right, Utah; get rid of one of the major reasons people visit your state.
Aristus
Dec 2017
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Aristus
(66,481 posts)1. That's right, Utah; get rid of one of the major reasons people visit your state.
National monuments.
Now they can just visit for the drinking and partying...
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)2. Expect protests in Utah. His visit will not go well for him, not even in deep red country.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)3. Well well,Donnie will be with people who look like him.
Campaign trip bay back for Orin Hatch's help with Trump wealth creation. Oh BTW,wet kiss for Vald for freeing up the Southern Boundary of Bears Ears for his Uranium Mining company.