What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[Zanza]

GW Bush had the same drapes...

[garbon]

Okay. So GOP garishness.

Edit: Actually they appear to have made their initial debut with Clinton according to huff po.

[CountDeMoney]

Just had a quick look at the websites of the US embassies in Vienna and Berlin - yup, both without ambassador at the moment.

Not as big a deal as he's got America Safe Again and Take Back Our Borders covered--

https://www.tsa.gov/leader-bios/administrator

[Syt]

Trump's last three tweets. One of these things is not like the others ...

Watched protests yesterday but was under the impression that we just had an election! Why didn't these people vote? Celebs hurt cause badly.

Wow, television ratings just out: 31 million people watched the Inauguration, 11 million more than the very good ratings from 4 years ago!

Peaceful protests are a hallmark of our democracy. Even if I don't always agree, I recognize the rights of people to express their views.

[The Brain]

Russian hack?

[Admiral Yi]

Trump's last three tweets. One of these things is not like the others ...

You'd think the flunky in charge of tweet damage control would make at least a small effort to match the tone and language.

[The Larch]

Apparently they've also removed the Spanish language version of the White House website and closed the WH official Twitter account in Spanish. 

[garbon]

Apparently they've also removed the Spanish language version of the White House website and closed the WH official Twitter account in Spanish. 

One language under god.

[The Minsky Moment]

Anyone know of legal precedents and such clarifying the necessary conditions for impeachment?  "High crimes and misdemeanors" can be just about anything.  Or is it a purely political act?

It's political.  Whatever the House and the Senate thinks it is.

[Archy]

Apparently they've also removed the Spanish language version of the White House website and closed the WH official Twitter account in Spanish. 

When's getting Operation Wetback v. 2.0 underway there won't be no need anymore for the language of the thiefs of American jobs in agriculture and housekeeping.

[Syt]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/trump-first-days-actions/index.html

What the Trump administration has done so far

Washington (CNN)Much of President Donald Trump's first weekend in the White House was driven by criticism from Trump and press secretary Sean Spicer of media coverage over the size of his inauguration crowd.

But the new administration is also driving policy changes that will have far more long-term significance.

Here's a list of the Trump administration's actions in its first 48 hours:

- Taken over running of the entire federal government.
- Issued an executive order aimed at rolling back former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
- Halted a reduction to the annual mortgage insurance premiums borrowers pay when taking out government-backed home loans.
- Ordered agencies to freeze new regulations, giving the new administration time to review them.
- Received a key legal OK from the Justice Department for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to take on a role in the White House.
- Met with the CIA, where he addressed employees. Trump also took over the nuclear codes
- Trump's nominee for CIA director, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, contradicted his earlier testimony and said he was open to revisiting limits on interrogation techniques including waterboarding if his intelligence officers think it is needed.
- Raised the specter of another conflict in Iraq, with Trump expressing regret for not taking over the country's oil and telling the CIA, "We should have kept the oil. - Maybe we'll have another chance."
- Spoke to the Mexican president and said the two will meet at the end of January.
- Spoke to the Canadian prime minister about the two nations' economic relationship.
- Announced he has meetings with leaders in Mexico and Canada to begin re-negotiating NAFTA.
- Announced his first foreign leader meeting will be Friday with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May.
- Signaled a shift in the Justice Department's civil rights efforts when it requested a delay in the lawsuit over a Texas law requiring voters to present certain types of government-issued IDs.
- Prepared to issue more executive orders this week.
- Told the National Park Service not to tweet after it retweeted side-by-side images showing the crowd at former President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and Trump's inauguration.
- Began discussions about moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
- Confronted his first national disaster as President, deadly tornadoes in Georgia.

[Tamas]

http://edition.cnn.com/2017/01/22/politics/trump-first-days-actions/index.html

What the Trump administration has done so far

Washington (CNN)Much of President Donald Trump's first weekend in the White House was driven by criticism from Trump and press secretary Sean Spicer of media coverage over the size of his inauguration crowd.

But the new administration is also driving policy changes that will have far more long-term significance.

Here's a list of the Trump administration's actions in its first 48 hours:

- Taken over running of the entire federal government.
- Issued an executive order aimed at rolling back former President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act.
- Halted a reduction to the annual mortgage insurance premiums borrowers pay when taking out government-backed home loans.
- Ordered agencies to freeze new regulations, giving the new administration time to review them.
- Received a key legal OK from the Justice Department for Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner to take on a role in the White House.
- Met with the CIA, where he addressed employees. Trump also took over the nuclear codes
- Trump's nominee for CIA director, Kansas Rep. Mike Pompeo, contradicted his earlier testimony and said he was open to revisiting limits on interrogation techniques including waterboarding if his intelligence officers think it is needed.
- Raised the specter of another conflict in Iraq, with Trump expressing regret for not taking over the country's oil and telling the CIA, "We should have kept the oil. - Maybe we'll have another chance."
- Spoke to the Mexican president and said the two will meet at the end of January.
- Spoke to the Canadian prime minister about the two nations' economic relationship.
- Announced he has meetings with leaders in Mexico and Canada to begin re-negotiating NAFTA.
- Announced his first foreign leader meeting will be Friday with the United Kingdom Prime Minister Theresa May.
- Signaled a shift in the Justice Department's civil rights efforts when it requested a delay in the lawsuit over a Texas law requiring voters to present certain types of government-issued IDs.
- Prepared to issue more executive orders this week.
- Told the National Park Service not to tweet after it retweeted side-by-side images showing the crowd at former President Barack Obama's 2009 inauguration and Trump's inauguration.
- Began discussions about moving the US embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
- Confronted his first national disaster as President, deadly tornadoes in Georgia.

You know, one thing the opposition needs to keep a close eye on if this obsession with reacting on any minor media comments an honest idiocy, or its a (semi-)deliberate smoke screen for the press to chew on while they use their overwhelming control of everything, to make the US more into GOPland.

I think it is a very realistic scenario that while Godemperor Trump is busy spamming Twitter and thus keeping everyone's eyes focused on that, the more zealous government members will go and quietly enact the policies they always wanted, and people will barely notice because it's obviously far more important what Trump tweets from the shitter.

[Tamas]

Also one more thing:

I have decided I am not buying the narrative of this media revolution with social media etc. bulding support for Trump.

Maybe once people started to listen to him, social media became a thing in keeping the forming community together, but it was the mainstream media that created him.

Every fucking time he opened his mouth he was leading news everywhere, while his opponents tried to gain attention by being at least semi-reasonable.
But it was impossible. It was Trump coming out of all channels, all the time, because he was such an easy material to cover.

[Tamas]

Orban today quoted Trump saying something about being ok of people/nations putting themselves first. He is very happy about this because "By this we [as in, the nation] have received permission, from the highest secular place, to put ourselves first. This is a great thing, a great freedom, a great gift".

[Syt]

Well, yeah. At first glance it's the American government ceasing all pretense of taking the high road or aspiring to a higher moral than other nations.