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Re: Trump Has Shown His (unTrue Colors)... "Not saying Trump's inauguration crowd was small, but I found Waldo in like three seconds."Within an hour of Trump's swearing in, the Federal Housing Authority also announced the reversal of planned cuts to interest premiums on FHA mortgages. Outgoing HUD secretary Julian Castro had ordered the reduction, estimating that the change would save eligible homeowners an average of $500 a year. In a statement Senator Chuck Schumer said, "In one of his first acts as president, President Trump made it harder for Americans to afford a mortgage. Working class Americans, struggling Americans — now it's harder for them to get a mortgage." The Senator added in a tweet that "it only took an hour for those populist words delivered on the steps of the Capitol to ring hollow." ---------------------------------- Trump And His Press Secretary Flagrantly Lied On Their First Full Day In Office. That Matters. Thankfully, some reporters are calling them out on it. Nick Baumann - Jan 21 2017 On Saturday, President Donald Trump’s first full day in office, he gave a speech at CIA headquarters in which he lied about the size of the crowd at his inauguration and falsely claimed that he had never feuded with the U.S. intelligence community. Hours later, his press secretary emerged from the West Wing, lied about the size of the inaugural crowd and took no questions. The most important news here is not the crowd size, or whether Trump feuded with America’s spies (he did), or even that the president and his press secretary lied. Politicians lie. What’s remarkable is that the president and his administration chose to lie, repeatedly, on their first full day on the job, about a relatively trivial ― and easily checkable ― matter. Journalists should inform readers when the administration is not telling the truth. They shouldn’t credulously promote Trump and his team’s falsehoods in headlines and opening paragraphs, with the truth buried somewhere below. They should focus attention on the fact that the administration lied, not the content of the lie itself. Some media outlets did a good job of this on Saturday. Others didn’t. (More on that below.) Crowd sizes don’t matter that much. Although Trump enters office historically unpopular, crowd sizes at inaugurations indicate very little about whether a president is well-liked or likely to succeed. Weather can keep people away. So can the cost: Attending inaugurations is expensive, and Hillary Clinton, not Trump, carried the states closest to D.C. Many Americans can’t afford to take off work for a day to drive or fly to Washington for an inauguration. Nor does the number of people who attend an inauguration affect a president’s ability to pass legislation. “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, period, both in person and around the globe,” White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer claimed, falsely, Saturday evening. Here’s the truth, which exists even if the administration doesn’t want to admit it: Fewer people attended Trump’s inauguration than attended some previous inaugurations. Keith Still, a professor at Manchester Metropolitan University and expert on crowd estimates, told The New York Times that, based on photographs, he believed Trump’s crowd was about one-third the size of the group that gathered for Barack Obama’s 2009 inauguration. ------------------- By simply rearranging letters... Sean Spicer = I sense crap |
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Msg # | Subject | Author | Recs | Date Posted |
764627 | Re: Trump Has Shown His (unTrue Colors)... "Not saying Trump's inauguration crowd was small, but I found Waldo in like three seconds." | wmkjohiv | 0 | 1/22/2017 11:36:04 AM |
764630 | Re: Trump Has Shown His (unTrue Colors)... "Not saying Trump's inauguration crowd was small, but I found Waldo in like three seconds." | wmkjohiv | 0 | 1/22/2017 12:41:39 PM |