What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[jimmy olsen]

Lol

http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/324489-white-house-cites-satire-column-to-tout-budget

White House cites satire column to tout budget


BY MARK HENSCH

The White House included a satirical column in its list of news stories meant to promote Trump agenda — apparently ignoring the fact that the column actually savages Trump's new budget.

Friday's edition of the "1600 Daily" highlighted a Washington Post article by humorist Alexandra Petri with a deceptively positive title: "Trump's budget makes perfect sense and will fix America, and I will tell you why."

But Petri's column is actually a brutal attack on Trump's proposed budget, with cuts domestic programs and the State Department while boosting the defense budget.

"Some people are complaining that the budget proffered by the Trump administration, despite its wonderful, macho-sounding name, is too vague and makes all sorts of cuts to needed programs in favor of increasing military spending by leaps and bounds," she wrote Thursday. "These people are wimps."

"America has been soft and weak for too long," Petri added. "BUT HOW WILL I SURVIVE ON THIS BUDGET? you may be wondering. I AM A HUMAN CHILD, NOT A COSTLY FIGHTER JET. You may not survive, but that is because you are SOFT and WEAK, something this budget is designed to eliminate."

Petri next pokes fun at various funding cuts actually suggested in Trump's first federal budget blueprint, which was released Thursday.

"Affordable housing is a luxury and we are going to get rid of it," she said. "Donald Trump does not live in affordable housing and neither should you."

Trump's budget blueprint features double-digit cuts to social and environmental programs, while also pitching a $54 billion increase in the defense budget. Trump budget chief Mick Mulvaney engaged in a contentious exchange with reporters Thursday, as he defended cuts to the Meals on Wheels program for seniors.

The proposal's suggested cuts have already drawn bipartisan criticism for targeting programs that help the poor, cultural and social initiatives and scientific research on climate change.

Presidential budgets typically only a proposed guide for Congress, since lawmakers control funding.

[FunkMonk]

Alexandra Petri

Genuinely funny columnist at WaPo

[Syt]

[Josquius]

Is this normal timing for the Irish president to be in America? He said every year they gather there...

Don't Irish-Americans care more about St. Patrick's Day than the actual Irish do?  I thought I had heard that once.

I'm starting to believe that non-Irish care more about St. Patrick than the actual Irish do. My GF's family is hosting a St. Patrick's party, and there's not a single Irish gene in their bodies.

Tried to go to a st.pats event yesterday...place was swarming with Spanish kids.

[crazy canuck]

[Zanza]

This reaction of Merkel when Trump said they had being wiretapped by the Obama administration in common is also priceless:

https://gfycat.com/KeenCleanGallowaycow

[Syt]

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump  4h

Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes.....
...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!

[celedhring]

So he wants to turn it into a protection racket now? That's different than asking allies to increase their own defence budgets.

[The Larch]

What an almost Napoleonic way of extorting allies.

[CountDeMoney]

What an almost Napoleonic way of extorting allies.

If by Napoleonic, you mean the Napoleon crime family from north Jersey, then yeah, you'd be correct.

[Admiral Yi]

So he wants to turn it into a protection racket now? That's different than asking allies to increase their own defence budgets.

Hardly.  US allies have always paid some share of the cost of US troops on their soil.

[CountDeMoney]

Donald J. Trump‏ @realDonaldTrump  4h

Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes.....
...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany!

What an absolute fucking embarrassment.

[Zanza]

So he wants to turn it into a protection racket now? That's different than asking allies to increase their own defence budgets.

Hardly.  US allies have always paid some share of the cost of US troops on their soil.

Germany currently does not pay anything directly for US troops stationed here. Indirectly it provides real estate for free and provides some infrastructure and construction planning as well as paying some welfare for former civilian employees. Total in 2015 was about 40 million Euro.

[Syt]

[Crazy_Ivan80]

This reaction of Merkel when Trump said they had being wiretapped by the Obama administration in common is also priceless:

https://gfycat.com/KeenCleanGallowaycow

heh, looked at this with the music of Panzer Corps in the background... that became a lot more ominous there. lol