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Lapping the fieldTrump Said He Was in Meetings But Was Actually Golfing — Again Isn’t this the party of personal and fiscal responsibility? 03/29/2017 DAVID MOIR / REUTERS Donald Trump has taken his twelfth golf trip since becoming president just nine weeks ago. He’s been at his usual routine, rather than in Washington, D.C. actually getting important work done. During a recent round of golf, the press pool had been told that President Trump was busy attending meetings at Trump National Golf Club, in Sterling, VA, but several social media posts by employees at the golf course proved otherwise. The White House has not even commented on the president’s weekend trip. This is the party of personal and fiscal responsibility, so shouldn’t there be someone in an official position holding President Trump accountable? Republicans loved to criticize Obama for taking golf trips, but he didn’t hit the course within his first 65 days. Further into his presidency, he played his 12th round of golf on his 201st day in office. Trump's golf outings are costing taxpayers considerable money, which mostly benefit Trump’s many hotels and resorts. The president promised he would work tirelessly for the American people, but it’s looking like the other way around. ------------------------------------------------ Stephen Colbert addressed President Donald Trump’s proposed rollback of Obama-era environmental regulations on Tuesday. The “Late Show” host questioned the president’s insistence that his push for so-called “clean coal” would have no negative effect on the environment. “I know clean coal sounds like an oxymoron, but so does President Trump,” Colbert said. To further highlight the absurdity of Trump’s claim, Colbert referenced his (fake) high school girlfriend who “worked with clean coal in the clean mines.” “She told me that they mine the clean coal and put it on that silver-bullet train and then they sent it to Narnia where the Keebler Elves use it to power the pump on the fountain of youth,” Colbert said. ------------------------------- "Calling coal 'clean' is just this side of a lie, and at best is horribly misleading," Slate science writer Phil Plait noted last July. "Adding that word to the platform is just another fairy tale substituted for science by the GOP." In shifting the focus back to coal, Trump is backpedaling on Obama-era policy, which focused on developing other clean, renewable energy sources. Trump says doing so will make the U.S. more energy independent and bring back coal mining jobs. But the U.S. already relies largely on domestic energy sources, and the coal mining jobs were lost not because of regulation, but because of automation (as well as the growing reliance on cheaper, cleaner natural gas). |
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