Trump presidency already off the rails
The new President of the United States and his staff spent the better part of his first two days in office throwing a public temper tantrum about press coverage and showing how sensitive Donald Trump is about the issue of crowd size.
According to a story in the New York Times, even members of the Trump inner circle are alarmed by the speed at which things have run off the rails for the Trump administration. And rather than listen to advisors who urged him not to lash out because of “his simmering resentment at what he saw as unfair news coverage. Instead, Mr. Trump chose to listen to other aides who shared his outrage and desire to punch back. By the end of the weekend, he and his team were scrambling to get back on script.”
Donald Trump’s horrible first weekend:
- Bad Polls. First, a series of polls released just before Donald Trump’s inauguration showed that he entered office with the lowest favorability of any incoming president…ever. (read: FOX NEWS POLL: OBAMACARE IS MORE POPULAR THAN DONALD TRUMP)
- Tiny Inauguration Crowd. Next, Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd didn’t live up to his lofty expectations. (read: 7 MOST EMBARRASSING PHOTOS OF DONALD TRUMP’S TINY INAUGURATION CROWD)
- Women’s March. Then on Saturday, giant crowds filled cities across the country including the nation’s capital dwarfing Donald Trump’s inauguration crowd. Estimates of the Women’s March indicate that 3 million people around the world marched Saturday. (read: PHOTOS: INCREDIBLE OVERHEAD SHOTS OF MASSIVE WOMEN’S MARCH PROTESTS)
- Trump Insults the CIA, Again. On the first full day of his presidency, Donald Trump visited the CIA – presumably to repair his relationship with the intelligence community he recently compared to Nazi Germany. Trump spoke in front of the CIA’s Wall of Stars where the 117 stars emblazoned on the wall symbolize the members of the CIA killed in the line of duty. And decided to talk about his crowd size, how young he feels and a bunch of other weird stuff. (read: DONALD TRUMP’S SPEECH TO THE CIA RUNS OFF THE RAILS, TURNS INTO ANOTHER BIZARRE TRUMP RANT)
- The Lying Press Secretary. Late on Saturday, Donald Trump sent his White House press secretary Sean Spicer out to hold a press briefing and yell at the media for showing photos of how small his inauguration crowd was. Spicer claimed, “This was the largest audience ever to witness an inauguration, period. Both in person and around the globe.” (read: VIDEO: TRUMP PRESS SECRETARY TRIES TO BULLY THE MEDIA FOR INAUGURATION CROWD COVERAGE)
- Lies Are Just “Alternative Facts.” And Sunday morning didn’t go any better for Trump, when his propaganda minister went on “Meet the Press” to say that all the lies Sean Spicer told were not lies, just “alternative facts.” (read: VIDEO–KELLYANNE CONWAY SAYS WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY’S LIES ARE JUST “ALTERNATIVE FACTS”)
- Emoluments Clause Lawsuit Filed. And late Sunday the New York Times reported that a group of prominent ethics lawyers would be filing a lawsuit on Monday morning alleging that Tump is violating the U.S. Constitution by allowing his businesses including hotels, golf courses and other businesses to accept payments from foreign governments. (read: ETHICS LAWSUIT TO BE FILED MONDAY AGAINST PRESIDENT TRUMP)
