Why do people like Trump?

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Come on.

If someone offers you $10,000 (or 10,000 pounds), you wouldn't care about vital resources or your countryman.

Yes. I find it quite staggering that you wouldnt.

Society doesnt function without basic resources

My point was that the topic is "why do people like Trump", yet the majority of the points being made are not being made as they would be interpreted by those who like him, but rather, as noted by "TheRobotLives", reasons why people are critical of him.

For example:

Or


These entries, for example, do nothing to explain why people may like him, merely pointing out events which occurred during his presidency thus far, as selectively phrased by the poster in a way in which he may be critical of Mr Trump.

Similarly, entries such as

Takes an event (potentially "favourable" at the time), and appends information regarding later events (within a few days) so as to make the entire series of events appear in a negative light.

Then there are the events which would likely be seen as net positives by his supporters, yet are phrased in a negative way, such as:

An honest attempt to contribute with reasons people may like Mr Trump would have simply stated:

The additional "information" was solely added for the negative conotations which people would then apply to the statement as a whole.

You also have other items, such as the ban on travel from China, which are completely ignored, giving rise to the reasonable belief that this list was not put forward to explain "Why do people like Trump", but rather as a way to derail the conversation, or to change the direction to "Reasons to not like Trump", which was what "The RobotLives" was indicating.

My note about the person contributing these items being a self-declared "professional" writer was in relation to this: To show that they are not "accidentally" selecting and phrasing items in a way that does not align with the stated topic and intention of the thread, but that it is being done in a considered manner, with the poster knowing what is the intention of the thread, yet willfully ignoring this in their posts.

I would vote for Trump simply because Biden wants to bring back the individual mandate.

This doesn't even affect me.

However, it's cruel to poor people.

(it also makes Biden a hypocrite, with his tv ads "I won't raise taxes on poor people")

Trump is still the least militarily aggressive US president since Hoover. I opposed the Suleimani strike, but it was less provocative and dangerous than Clinton's 1998 bombing of Iraq (which went against the advice of UN weapons inspectors and caused the breakdown of UN inspections that was later used to justify the Iraq war). It was also less dangerous than Obama's policy of regime change in Syria (which Jimmy Carter warned against because there was no path to stability - either the Sunnis would slaughter the Alawites, or a different Alawite government would take over and repeat what Assad had done).


What would you call people who advocated putting a half million middle class people out of work (i.e. demanding the shutdown of the entire oil and gas industries beginning in 1977) on the basis of data that they now admit wasn't accurate enough? It's true that they aren't sincere socialists, and they certainly aren't humanists, but "prophets of doom" seems pretty accurate.


He stopped implementation of an Obama administration rule that would have broadened federal jurisdiction to include artificial ponds on farms, and small drainage ditches. A far greater threat to water quality is how inconsistently and insincerely the underlying law was applied. For example it's been used to sue power plants over fish caught in their cooling water inlets, while the far greater number of municipal water systems with identical inlet designs have never been sued or cited even once as far as I know.


I take it that you're volunteering to guard those borders yourself...? Or that you support the drastic reduction in global trade that would be required to extricate the US from foreign conflicts? In the latter case you would be supporting one of Trump's signature policy goals.


The CDC itself has a background that includes fudging statistics when it's politically or economically expedient to do so, even when it permanently hurts children.

On the topic of how much to defer to scientific authority, it was the previous administration that appointed a political hack with no knowledge of physics to lead the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. I believe it was Burns who contradicted every piece of statistical evidence, every theoretical model, and the expert opinions of every great physicist in living memory (including Edward Teller) to argue that nuclear power is inherently dangerous. Pretty cheeky for someone whose only education is in law.


This is one of the most petty complaints. "Chinese virus" is no more stigmatizing than "Legionnaires disease" or "Spanish Flu."

Anyway ... picking up from where I left off:

• September 1, 2020: The Trump administration canceled a $646.7 million order to buy ventilators for coronavirus patients -- after a congressional investigation revealed "evidence of fraud, waste, and abuse" in the deal with the company that makes the machines.

• September 1, 2020: Melania Trump made frequent use of private email accounts while in the White House, said Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former senior adviser and friend. Donald Trump had said many times that his opponent, Hillary Clinton, should have been imprisoned for using a private email server.

• September 2, 2020: Trump encouraged people to vote twice in November, mailing in an absentee ballot, then voting in person on Election Day. "Let them send it in and let them go vote, and if their system's as good as they say it is, then obviously they won't be able to vote", he said. Voting more than once in an election is illegal under federal law.

• September 2, 2020: Trump signed a memo listing Democrat-led cities that should have their federal funding cut -- for being "anarchist jurisdictions."

• September 3, 2020: Trump canceled a 2018 visit to an American World War I cemetery in France, saying, "Why should I go to that cemetery? It's filled with losers." At the time, Trump had said he didn't go to the Aisne-Marne American Cemetery because "the helicopter couldn't fly" due to rain. According to a report in the Atlantic, however, Trump was concerned that the rain would ruffle his hair. More than 1,800 U.S. Marines died in the fighting at Belleau Wood, which is at the foot of the cemetery. According to the report, Trump said the Marines were "suckers" for getting killed.

• September 3, 2020: Trump belittled his rival, Joe Biden, for wearing a mask during the pandemic, telling rally-goers in Pennsylvania, "Did you ever see a man who likes a mask as much as him?" The president added, "It gives him a feeling of security. If I were a psychiatrist, right, you know I'd say: 'This guy's got some big issues.'" Most who attended the rally did not wear masks.

• September 3, 2020: Without any evidence of voter fraud, Trump's campaign and the Republican National Committee sued Montana Governor Steve Bullock to halt expanded mail-in voting. They accused the Democratic governor of a "brazen power grab."

• September 7, 2020: Bob Woodward revealed in his new book, Rage, that Trump knew about the dangers of the coronavirus but downplayed them for the public. "This is deadly stuff", Trump said in a Feb. 7 call with Woodward. On Feb. 26, by contrast, Trump told a press conference: "You know, in many cases, when you catch this, it's very light; you don't even know there's a problem. Sometimes they just get the sniffles."

• September 10, 2020: "I didn't lie", Trump said when an ABC reporter asked him why he downplayed the pandemic. "The way you phrased that is such a disgrace", Trump added. "It's a disgrace to ABC Television Network. It's a disgrace to your employer."

• September 10, 2020: The Trump administration secretly withheld roughly $4 million from a program that helps New York City firefighters, emergency medical technicians and paramedics who suffer from illnesses related to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

• September 11, 2020: Trump's appointees to the Department of Health and Human Services interfered with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in its reports on COVID-19. According to Politico, Michael Caputo, the health department's top spokesman, accused the CDC of trying to use the reports to "hurt the president."

• September 13, 2020: Accusing Joe Biden of "being terrible to Hispanics", Trump boasted in a tweet that he received a "highly honored Bay of Pigs Award" from Cuban Americans. In reality, there is no such award named after the failed 1961 invasion of Cuba.

• September 14, 2020: During a visit to California, Trump dismissed climate change as being a factor in the record-breaking wildfires that swept across the state. "It will start getting cooler, just you watch", he said. When State Natural Resources Agency Secretary Wade Crowfoot spoke of the importance of relying on science, Trump rebuffed him, saying, "I don't think science knows, actually." By early October, the wildfires will have consumed 4 million acres in California.

• September 14, 2020: Michael Caputo, the top communications official at the Department of Health and Human Services, falsely accused CDC scientists of "sedition." Speaking in a Facebook Live event, he said, "there are hit squads being trained all over this country" to keep Trump from winning a second term. "You understand that they're going to have to kill me, and unfortunately, I think that's where this is going."

• September 14, 2020: Violating Nevada's regulations, Trump held an indoor rally near Las Vegas. "We are not shutting the country again. A shutdown would destroy the lives and dreams of millions of Americans", he said. "We will very easily defeat the China virus." Most in the crowd shunned masks.

• September 15, 2020: During an ABC News town hall, Trump maintained that the coronavirus would "disappear." Apparently referring to "herd immunity", the president said, "You'll develop, you'll develop herd -- like a herd mentality. It's going to be, it's going to be herd-developed, and that's going to happen." Trump also faulted Biden for not instituting a national mandate on masks. Biden, however, does not hold public office.

• September 17, 2020: Assailing "left-wing demonstrators" and "far-left mobs", Trump called for the creation of a "1776 Commission" to "restore patriotic education to our schools." Speaking at the National Archives Museum, he said, "Our heroes will never be forgotten. Our youth will be taught to love America."

• September 17, 2020: Taking a rare political stance for a U.S. attorney general, William Barr likened stay-at-home orders to house arrest. "It's -- you know, other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history", he said. "As an attorney general, I'm not supposed to get into politics", he said. But, he added, "I think we were getting into a position where we were going to find ourselves irrevocably committed to the socialist path and I think if Trump loses this election that -- that will be the case."

• September 17, 2020: Amy Dorris, a former model, said that Trump sexually assaulted her in 1997 at the U.S. Open tennis tournament; he was 51 and she was 24. "He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off", she said. "And then that's when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything."

• September 17, 2020: Trump's properties took in more than $1.1 million that it charged the government while he was in office. The Washington Post said that the Trump Organization made some of that money off of room rentals at Trump's club in Bedminster, N.J., when the business was shut down during the pandemic. Before assuming office, Trump vowed to "completely isolate" himself from his business. While in office, however, he visited his properties 274 times.

• September 17, 2020: Olivia Troye, Vice President Pence's former homeland security adviser, claimed that Trump once said, in a meeting, "Maybe this covid thing is a good thing. I don't like shaking hands with people. I don't have to shake hands with these disgusting people."

• September 18, 2020: Health officials estimated that Americans would not get a coronavirus vaccine before mid-2021, but Trump insisted that everyone could get doses by April. "We essentially have it -- we will be announcing it soon", he said. Just a few days earlier, he said the vaccine would be available by March.

• September 21, 2020: The Justice Department designated Portland, Oregon, New York and Seattle as "jurisdictions that have permitted violence and destruction of property to persist" -- and that risk having their federal funding cut.

• September 22, 2020: As the nation's death toll from the coronavirus reached 200,000 people, Trump declared at a rally in Ohio that the virus "affects virtually nobody."

• September 22, 2020: Congress in March approved $1 billion for the Pentagon to "prevent, prepare for, and respond to coronavirus", including making more masks and medical equipment available. Instead, the Defense Department gave most of the money to defense contractors for jet engine parts and other military supplies.

• September 23, 2020: Claiming once again that mail-in voting was fraudulent, Trump said that if he lost the election, he would not commit to a peaceful transfer of power. "Well, we're going to have to see what happens", he said.

• September 27, 2020: Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and in 2017 -- and received an income tax refund of $72.9 million after declaring large losses. According to a New York Times investigation, Trump is $421 million in debt. He once boasted that his tax returns were "very big" and "beautiful", but he has for years refused to release his returns.

• September 29, 2020: In their first presidential debate, Trump interrupted Biden almost every time the Democratic candidate spoke, prompting debate moderator Chris Wallace to plead with the president to be quiet. When Biden asked Trump if he would be willing to condemn the Proud Boys, a group of white supremacists who endorse violence, the president refused. Instead, he called on them to "Stand back and stand by." Trump also ridiculed Biden for wearing what he called "the biggest mask I've ever seen."

• September 29, 2020: The White House contacted Amy Coney Barrett about being a Supreme Court nominee only a day after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died on September 18. On September 21, Barrett accepted Trump's offer to be the nominee, four days before Ginsburg was to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol.

• October 1, 2020: In a secret 2018 recording made by her former friend and adviser Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, Melania Trump belittled the fate of migrant children taken from their parents at the Mexican border. "Give me a f*****g break", she said. "Were they were saying anything when Obama did that?" She also complained about having to work during the holidays. "I'm working like a -- my ass off at Christmas stuff", she said. "You know, who gives a f**k about Christmas stuff and decoration?"

• October 2, 2020: In a tweet he sent at nearly 1 a.m. -- just 32 days before the election -- Trump said that he and the first lady had tested positive for the coronavirus. The president's announcement followed months of his downplaying a disease that has killed more than 207,000 Americans and plunged the nation into an economic crisis. Dr. Sean Conley, the White House physician, wrote in a memo that Trump was doing "very well." Aides, however, said that Trump was coughing and had a fever, and he was flown by helicopter to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center. Over the coming days, more than a dozen people who had attended events at the White House or on the campaign trail contracted the virus. They included Trump advisers Hope Hicks and Stephen Miller, U.S. Senators Thom Tillis and Mike Lee, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel, former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and University of Notre Dame President John Jenkins.

• October 3, 2020: White House physician Sean Conley again said Trump was "doing very well", yet he was contradicted minutes later by Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff. Citing a fever and a drop in blood oxygen level, Meadows said, "The president's vitals over the last 24 hours were very concerning."

• October 3, 2020: Even though he was infected with a deadly virus, Trump defied public health guidelines and left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center to greet supporters from a slow-moving SUV -- he said he was bored of being in the hospital. In the vehicle with Trump were several Secret Service agents. Health professionals said the agents were at risk of contracting the virus while in such a closed environment. Speaking anonymously for fear of retribution, one agent said about Trump: "He's not even pretending to care now."

• October 5, 2020: Trump's doctor said he "may not be entirely out of the woods yet", but the president chose to leave the hospital to return to the White House. "Don't be afraid of COVID", he said of the virus that has claimed the lives of more than 209,000 Americans. "Don't let it dominate your life." Arriving at the White House, Trump climbed stairs to a balcony and made a point of pulling off his mask for a photo-op. He then entered the White House, endangering the lives of the hundreds of people who work there.

• October 6, 2020: Five U.S. attorneys expressed concerns about separating immigrant children from their parents along the Mexican border. According to a recent draft report, then-U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions dismissed what they had to say. "We need to take away children", he told the U.S. attorneys -- regardless of how young they are.

• October 7, 2020: The coronavirus outbreak at the White House infected 34 people, making the executive mansion a super-spreader location and one of the densest concentrations of COVID-19 in the Washington, D.C. area. Trump did not wear a mask after his return from the hospital, nor did several aides who were seen working closely together at the White House.

• October 7, 2020: In a video he posted on Twitter, Trump said the drug he was given to treat the coronavirus was a "cure" -- the drug, however is unapproved. As for contracting the coronavirus, he said, "I think this was a blessing from God that I caught it."

• October 8, 2020: Only six days after he revealed that he was infected with the coronavirus, Trump refused to take part in a second debate with Joe Biden unless it was in person. "I'm not going to waste my time on a virtual debate", he said. "It's ridiculous, and then they cut you off whenever they want."

• October 8, 2020: Speaking publicly at length for the first time since testing positive for the coronavirus, Trump lashed out at Cabinet members and his political rivals. "I'm not happy about him", Trump said about Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, citing Pompeo's failure to release Hillary Clinton's emails. In an interview with Fox, the president added that William Barr's legacy would be tainted if the attorney general did not indict Joe Biden and Barack Obama. He also called vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris "a monster" and a "communist." Speaking about the coronavirus, Trump said that he might have contracted it when meeting with relatives of fallen service members -- even though a veterans' group maintained that none of those people got sick after visiting the White House. "I went through like 35 people", he said. "They come within an inch of my face sometimes. They want to hug me and they want to kiss me. And they do. And frankly, I'm not telling them to back up. I'm not doing it. But I did say it's obviously dangerous. It's a dangerous thing, if you go by the Covid thing."

• October 8, 2020: Doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center were told to sign nondisclosure agreements when Trump visited the hospital for an unscheduled visit in November 2019. The unusual requirement angered staff members, who said they respect patient confidentiality. Trump's last-minute visit was unscheduled, but the White House called it a "routine" checkup.

• October 8, 2020: Elliott Broidy, a top Trump fund-raiser, was charged with conspiring to violate lobbying laws. A defense contractor, Broidy was accused of accepting $6 million from a foreign client to lobby the Trump administration. In 2018, Broidy resigned as deputy finance chairman of the Republican National Committee -- after it was revealed that he agreed to pay $1.6 million to a former Playboy model to keep quiet about their affair. The deal was overseen by Trump's personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, who was later sentenced to prison for financial and political crimes.

• October 9, 2020: The Trump administration blocked the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention from requiring masks on public transportation throughout the country. The mandate had the backing of Alex Azar, the secretary of health and human services, but Vice President Mike Pence, who heads the White House Coronavirus Task Force, refused to even address it.

• October 10, 2020: When running for president, Trump said he would "completely isolate" himself from the Trump Organization. But a New York Times investigation found that as president, Trump has been involved in scores of events at his properties. In the first two years of his presidency, they delivered roughly $12 million of business to his company.

• October 12, 2020: Trump addressed supporters at an airport hanger in Florida, claiming -- without any scientific evidence -- that he was immune to the coronavirus. "I feel so powerful", he said. "I'll kiss everyone in that audience. I'll kiss the guys and the beautiful women. Just give you a big fat kiss."

• October 12, 2020: Every time Trump's children visited his properties, the U.S. government had to pay his company for the Secret Service agents who stayed with them. According to the Washington Post, the Trump Organization earned at least $238,000 in taxpayer money by charging the government. The children's visits to Trump's resorts and hotels included overseas golf trips. Ivanka Trump repeatedly brought her Secret Service agents to the Trump golf club in Bedminster, N.J. -- at a time when she appealed to Americans to "please, please" stay home during the pandemic.

• October 13, 2020: During the coronavirus outbreak at the White House, the Trump administration backed a petition that defends the concept of herd immunity. Most medical experts say the controversial strategy of boosting immunity through widespread infection would kill millions of Americans.

• October 13, 2020: Mocking his opponent, Trump tweeted a Photoshopped image of Joe Biden in a wheelchair, surrounded by elderly people in what seemed to be a nursing home. The words "Biden for president" were changed to "Biden for resident."

• October 14, 2020: Trump's re-election campaign took Dr. Anthony Fauci's comments out of context in an ad to make it seem as if the infectious diseases expert were praising the president. After Fauci said he had not agreed to be in the ad, Trump ridiculed him on Twitter, alluding to Fauci's first pitch at a baseball game in July. Fauci's "pitching arm", he said, "is far more accurate than his prognostications."

• October 15, 2020: At a town hall forum, Trump refused to disavow QAnon, the extremist conspiracy-theory group that supports him. He also would not endorse mask-wearing, just two weeks after he was infected with the coronavirus. "I believe we're rounding the corner", he said, praising his administration's response to the pandemic. Daily infections, however, exceeded 60,000 for the first time since early August.

• October 17, 2020: "Lock her up!" chanted the crowd at a Trump rally in Muskegon, Michigan, after he demanded that Gov. Gretchen Whitmer reopen the state during the pandemic. Trump responded by saying, "Lock 'em all up." His comments came nine days after the FBI announced that it had charged 13 men in an alleged plot to attack the state's capitol building and kidnap and potentially kill the governor.

• October 18, 2020: At a rally in Carson City, Nevada, Trump ridiculed Joe Biden for relying on scientists for advice during the pandemic. "He'll listen to the scientists", he said in a mocking tone, adding, "he will surrender your future to the virus."

• October 19, 2020: Trump called Anthony Fauci, the nation's top infectious disease expert, "a disaster." In a call with his campaign staff, the president said, "People are tired of hearing Fauci and all these idiots." He implied that hundreds of thousands more people would have died if they relied on Fauci's advice. At a rally in Arizona, Trump accused the media of focusing too much on the pandemic. "You turn on CNN. That's all they cover. Covid, covid, pandemic. Covid, covid, covid. … They're trying to talk people out of voting. People aren't buying it, CNN, you dumb bastards." To date, the pandemic has killed more than 219,000 Americans.

• October 20, 2020: The New York Times revealed that Trump maintains a secret bank account in China. During his re-election campaign, Trump has accused Joe Biden of being too soft on China because of his son Hunter's business dealings in that country. Trump paid only $750 in federal income taxes in 2016 and 2017, but between 2013 and 2015, he paid $188,561 in taxes in China.

• October 21, 2020: The parents of 545 children who were separated at the Mexican border under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy cannot be found. Of those children, a report said, roughly 60 were under age 5 when they were taken away from their parents, who were likely deported. These children are now essentially orphaned, and most live in privately run detention centers in the United States.

• October 22, 2020: Trump issued an executive order to take away job security from tens of thousands and possibly hundreds of thousands civil servants. Issued less than two weeks before the election, the order would allow policymaking employees to be removed from their jobs with little cause.

• October 24, 2020: At least five aides or advisers to Vice President Mike Pence, including chief of staff Marc Short, tested positive for the coronavirus. Despite an outbreak at the White House that infected dozens of people, most who work there have not been wearing masks. Though he has been in close contact with most of the infected staffers, Pence did not quarantine. Instead, he went on the campaign trail.

• October 24, 2020: Speaking about the coronavirus at a campaign rally in North Carolina, Trump declared, "We're doing great, we're rounding the turn, our numbers are incredible." The day before, more than 85,000 new cases of the coronavirus were reported in the United States -- the highest number on any single day since the pandemic began.

• October 24, 2020: At a rally in Wisconsin, Trump put forth a conspiracy theory that "doctors get more money and hospitals get more money" if they classify any deaths as coronavirus deaths. Medical experts, however, say that the actual number of Covid-19 deaths has been underreported, not overreported.

• October 25, 2020: "We're not going to control the pandemic", Trump's chief of staff Mark Meadows told CNN -- suggesting that the Trump administration had given up on any attempt to stem the spread of the virus.

• October 26, 2020: "We're rounding the turn", Trump said once again, this time at a rally in Allentown, Pennsylvania. "You know, all they want to talk about is Covid. By the way, on November 4, you won't be hearing so much about it. 'Covid Covid Covid Covid.'" Over the two past weeks, the average of new daily Covid cases in the country grew by 32 percent. The disease has killed more than 225,000 people in the United States, including over 1,000 in the two days prior.

• October 26, 2020: A federal judge rejected a Trump policy cutting billions of dollars in food aid to low-income Americans during the pandemic, but the administration is appealing the order. According to a Politico, Trump's Agriculture Department has eliminated roughly $480 million in nutrition assistance for people in the state of Pennsylvania alone.

• October 27, 2020: At a campaign rally in Michigan, Trump boasted about winning the state's "Man of the Year" award -- a claim he has made at least six times in past years. There is no such award.

• October 27, 2020: Hundreds of Trump supporters, many of them elderly, were left stranded in frigid conditions for hours after he left a nighttime rally in Nebraska. Thousands attended the event, held at an airfield, and buses weren't able to get to them because of crowded airport roads. Seven people were transported to hospitals, some suffering from hypothermia.

• October 28, 2020: Trump eliminated Clinton-era protections that banned logging and development on 9.3 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. His action will allow logging companies to cut down trees and build roads in one of the largest temperate rainforests on Earth.

• October 29, 2020: Two people who were at a Trump rally in North Carolina tested positive for the coronavirus. Thousands attended the outdoor gathering at Gastonia Municipal Airport on October 21. Rallygoers stood shoulder to shoulder, and few wore masks. "This is one hell of a big crowd", Trump said, praising his supporters. On October 28, North Carolina broke its record for new COVID-19 cases: 2,885 in one day.

• October 29, 2020: In an interview on Fox News, Donald Trump Jr. asserted that the number of Americans dying from COVID-19 is "almost nothing." One thousand and four Americans died from the virus the day of his statement, bringing the total dead to almost 230,000.

• October 31, 2020: A Stanford University study concluded that at least 30,000 people contracted the coronavirus -- and 700 people died of it -- due to 18 Trump campaign rallies.

• October 31, 2020: For the second time in a week, Trump falsely claimed that doctors were inflating the number of patient deaths from COVID-19 in order to be paid more. At a rally in Michigan, Trump said, "Our doctors get more money if someone dies from COVID. You know that, right? I mean our doctors are very smart people. So what they do is they say, 'I'm sorry, but everybody dies of COVID.'"

- October 31, 2020:[/b] Warning of "FRAUD like you've never seen, plain and simple!" Trump's campaign began raising money to use after the election. The campaign's website automatically withdraws weekly donations from donors -- unless they go out of their way to click on a box preventing them from making multiple contributions.

• November 1, 2020: Trump will hold an election night party in the East Room of the White House with roughly 400 invited guests. The campaign moved the event from the nearby Trump Hotel, which, according to the city's rules, could have allowed only 50 people. Dozens of people, including the president, were infected with COVID-19 after a White House ceremony in September that Dr. Anthony Fauci called a "superspreader event."

• November 1, 2020: At a rally in Michigan, Trump falsely claimed that before his election, no new auto plants had opened in the state for "decades and decades." He also repeated a fabricated story that former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, at Trump's urging, announced that five Japanese auto plants would be built in Michigan. No Japanese automaker has plans to build any plants in the state.

• November 1, 2020: Trump hailed supporters of his who blockaded a Biden campaign bus on a highway in Texas. The FBI is investigating the incident, in which trucks flying Trump flags tried to run the bus off the road, according to Biden's camp. "In my opinion, these patriots did nothing wrong", Trump wrote on Twitter. "Instead, the FBI & Justice should be investigating the terrorists, anarchists, and agitators of ANTIFA, who run around burning down our Democrat run cities and hurting our people!"

• November 2, 2020: The crowd at an after-midnight Trump rally in Florida chanted "Fire Fauci", prompting the president to say that he might, in fact, oust the nation's top infectious disease expert. "Don't tell anybody, but let me wait until a little bit after the election", he said. "I appreciate the advice."

• November 2, 2020: On his final day of campaigning, Trump held five rallies in four states, drawing thousands of supporters -- most of whom neither wore masks nor social-distanced despite a dramatic increase in coronavirus cases across the country. The president mocked his rival, Joe Biden, for holding smaller events at which people stayed in their cars to remain safe.

• November 4, 2020: Baselessly alleging "fraud" in the election process, Trump falsely declared that he had won the presidential election. "This is a fraud on the American public", he told a crowd of supporters in the East Room at 2:30 a.m. "This is an embarrassment to our country. We were getting ready to win this election. Frankly, we did win this election." He added, "We will be going to the U.S. Supreme Court. We want all voting to stop." In making his historically unprecedented claim, Trump rejected the fact that millions of mail-in ballots in several states had yet to be counted in races that were too close to call.

• November 4, 2020: Without the power to do so, Trump proclaimed victories in states that will decide the outcome of the election. On Twitter, he wrote, "We have claimed, for Electoral Vote purposes, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (which won't allow legal observers) the State of Georgia, and the State of North Carolina, each one of which has a BIG Trump lead." He added, "Additionally, we hereby claim the State of Michigan if, in fact, … there was a large number of secretly dumped ballots as has been widely reported!" A president has no legal right to claim Electoral College votes. Nor has there been any credible evidence of illegal dumping of ballots.

• November 5, 2020: Trump falsely claimed throughout the day that the election had been rigged, demanding that states put an end to vote counting. "STOP THE COUNT!" he wrote on Twitter. "ANY VOTE THAT CAME IN AFTER ELECTION DAY WILL NOT BE COUNTED!" The president, however, does not have the authority to halt vote counting. Several states, too, were still legally counting mail-in ballots. In a statement from the White House briefing room, the president continued to cast doubt on the election with false assertions. "If you count the legal votes, I easily win", he said. "This is a case where they're trying to steal an election. They're trying to rig an election, and we can't let that happen." Despite Trump's allegations, there was no evidence of any voter fraud in any state.

• November 6, 2020: Trump continued to argue that he won the election, despite any evidence to the contrary. He shared tweets that falsely alleged fraud, and wrote, "I had such a big lead in all of these states late into election night, only to see the leads miraculously disappear as the days went by. Perhaps these leads will return as our legal proceedings move forward!" Trump filed lawsuits to stop vote counting in Georgia, Michigan, and Pennsylvania (where his numbers were dropping), yet he urged vote counting to continue in Arizona and Nevada (where he hoped to collect more votes).

• November 7, 2020: The Associated Press and all the major TV networks, including Fox News, called the election for Joe Biden, but Trump declared that it was "far from over." In a statement, he wrote, "We all know why Joe Biden is rushing to falsely pose as the winner, and why his media allies are trying so hard to help him: they don't want the truth to be exposed." Later, on Twitter, he wrote: "THE OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED INTO THE COUNTING ROOMS. I WON THE ELECTION, GOT 71,000,000 LEGAL VOTES. BAD THINGS HAPPENED WHICH OUR OBSERVERS WERE NOT ALLOWED TO SEE. NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE. MILLIONS OF MAIL-IN BALLOTS WERE SENT TO PEOPLE WHO NEVER ASKED FOR THEM!" No violations of elections laws were reported, however, and Trump offered no proof of "illegal ballots." In another tweet, he wrote, "71,000,000 Legal Votes. The most EVER for a sitting President!" Trump did, in fact, receive more votes than any sitting president. However, more than 75 million people voted for Biden -- a record for the most votes any presidential candidate has received.

• November 7, 2020: Minutes after Joe Biden was declared the winner of the election, Rudy Giuliani, Trump's personal lawyer, challenged its results, baselessly charging that laws were broken by "Democratic Party hacks." The former mayor of New York City addressed the media in the parking lot of a Philadelphia business, Four Seasons Total Landscaping. Earlier in the day, on Twitter, Trump had announced a "Lawyers News Conference Four Seasons", presumably referring to the upscale hotel chain. He then deleted his post and replaced the venue with the landscaping business on an industrial road, next to a sex shop and across the street from a crematorium.

• November 8, 2020: A day after the election was called, Trump again insisted that he won and that the other side committed fraud. "We believe these people are thieves", the president wrote on Twitter. "The big city machines are corrupt. This was a stolen election… We have a history in this country of election problems." Trump, though, did not provide any evidence of lawbreaking. Nor had he disputed narrow vote margins that won him the presidency in 2016.

• November 9, 2020: Trump's attorney general, William Barr, gave federal prosecutors the go-ahead to investigate "substantial allegations of voting and vote tabulation irregularities" -- circumventing Justice Department policies that prevent prosecutors from getting involved in election outcomes. Richard Pilger, who heads the Justice Department's Election Crimes Branch, stepped down in protest hours after Barr's directive was issued. Barr's memo offered no proof of election fraud.

• November 9, 2020: Trump's campaign sued Pennsylvania's secretary of state and seven of the state's counties, attempting to block them from certifying election results. Similar lawsuits by the campaign have been rejected as meritless in Georgia, Michigan, and Nevada.

• November 9, 2020: The Trump administration removed Michael Kuperberg, the head of the program that produces the National Climate Assessment, the government's most important report on climate change. Kuperberg was expected to be replaced by David Legates, a climate-change skeptic who wrote in June that "carbon dioxide is plant food and is not a pollutant." Yet the Environmental Protection Agency, under Trump, recognizes that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas and air pollutant.

• November 9, 2020: Two Trump administration officials and a campaign adviser who attended an election night party in the White House East Room tested positive for the coronavirus. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and campaign official David Bossie were at the party attended by hundreds of people, most of whom did not wear masks.

• November 9, 2020: Two months before his term was set to end, Trump fired Defense Secretary Mark Esper, the latest on a long list of political appointees who have resigned or been dismissed. The firing created instability atop the military chain of command at an uncertain time when the president refused to concede his loss in the election.

• November 10, 2020: The White House told federal agencies to work on a budget proposal for the next fiscal year -- even though the proposal is usually issued in February, by which point Trump is scheduled to be out of office. The White House also ordered officials not to work with Biden's transition team, while Trump's lawyers pursued litigation across the country.

• November 10, 2020: At a news conference, Trump's secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, was asked if the Trump administration would ensure a smooth transition to Biden's presidency. "There will be a smooth transition to a second Trump administration", Pompeo said with a smile.

** Trump fans seem to lap this stuff up like hogs at a gravy-trough, seeming to believe that all of this proves Donald J. Trump is some kind of geriatric wunderkind, when it really proves only that Trump is a legend in his own mind, and that his followers are gullible enough to believe it.

Pathetic.

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The point is not to put all these people out of work but to get the coal and oil companies to diversify and gradually switch over (and hopefully re-train their employees) to the production of cleaner forms of energy.

The coal and oil industries have a limited lifespan anyway, due to being non-renewable. Switching to cleaner and/or more renewable forms of energy is a good idea even if you don't believe the scientific consensus on climate change.

Waving around a flag is not "loving your country". Anybody can do that. He doesn't give a single s**t about 99% of the people.

It's pointless arguing with people who have so much lack of imagination. Weird how the US went from putting someone on the moon to just being a slave to gigantic greedy corporations who look no further to the future than quarterly earnings. It's almost like the US needed the Soviet Union as competition. With nobody to compete with everything has turned to greed and rot. Corporations have turned people 100% against government doing anything but paranoid warmongering. The culture is dominated by fear and insipid tunnel-vision. Nobody will do anything for the collective good anymore. It's all me me me me me me.... And Trump is the epitome of that. A disgusting selfish piggish pea-brained man-child. US is an empire in decline, ruled by greedy closed minded tunnel-visioned a**holes, and no amount of moronic flag waving will fix that.

You are beholden to a Trump-created caricature of Trump.

Trump 'asked for options on strike on Iran nuclear site'

This is ONE DAY AFTER HE BRINGS 2,500 TROOPS HOME.