Think it's time for a recap regarding what's happening in politics today

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It's true that although he has not gotten major legislation through (REPUBLICAN!) congress, that doesn't mean he hasn't done real damage to middle America, not to mention how he's screwed over the military and veterans. And, wow, he's already managed to give millions to his 1% cronies and has funneled close to $6 MILLION into his own pocket.

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To pass the major legislation that Trump backs, corporate tax cuts, a trillion dollar infrastructure program, a 54 billion dollar increase in military spending, and of course the great wall and increases in homeland security require either massive cuts in government spending or a big deficit far greater than the projected 445 billion in Trump's first year in office.

Spending cuts will have to come out of healthcare spending and social programs that effect republicans just as much as democrats. A recent Wall Street Journal poll found that 57 percent of Americans favor government doing more, not less to solve the nation’s problems, an all-time high for that poll, up from 50 percent two years ago. A Pew Research Center poll found a similar result. So the question is will congress make the necessary cuts to satisfy fiscal conservatives and suffer the political consequences or just run up the deficit?

 

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Trump could have made his inauguration a turning point in his political career, shocking the world with his statesmanship and cordiality but instead he began his term in office with silly squabbles about the number of people at his inauguration, the size of the popular vote, attacks on the media and crowing over his victory over Clinton. He is doing exactly what his opposition thought he would do, "shoot himself in foot", over and over.

Trump is so obsessed with getting even he spends hours tweeting his latest enemies list.

In Michael D'Antonio's biography of Trump, he reveal the existence of the Trump's blacklist. These were Trump enemies that no one in Trump's employ, family, or close friends were to associate with in any way or find themselves added to that list. The author had 14 scheduled interviews with Trump. One day he showed up for an interview and found Trump was not available. All further interviews were canceled and he was warned not to make contact with anyone in the Trump organization or family. D'Antonio had spoken to Marla Maples, Trump's second wife not knowing that she was off limits. No explanation was ever given to the author. So yes, Trump certain has an enemy list.