Archive for April 2020
Donald Trump Likes His Big Macs
Donald Trump likes red meat. According to a variety of news reports he likes steaks and Big Macs. So it should come as no surprise that when several meat packing plants threatened to close or did close because their workers had contracted the Coronavirus, Trump invoked his presidential powers to order the plants to stay…
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Donald Trump doesn’t like the U.S. Postal Service. He threatened to veto the $2 trillion stimulus bill if it contained any money for the postal service. The $13 billion grant the original bill had in it was removed and a $10 billion loan was substituted. Trump has been complaining about the postal service for some…
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This most certainly isn’t what Donald Trump had in mind, but because of his willful inaction, misrepresentation and mendacious imagination America has achieved a first—in the number of reported deaths from the Coronavirus. That’s only one among a number of grim ironies emerging from this crisis. Donald Trump, early in his presidency, took on the…
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