Trump Already Looks Like The Worst Of Richard Nixon

[rhodescholar]

And it’s just the first week.

Stupid people like you could never even begin to understand what a great president Nixon was, but at least your hero Billy did:

For Clinton and Nixon, a Rarefied Bond

 

[bripat9643]

Gee, it only took one week for Trump to be compared to Nixon. Wonder what next week will bring...

ROFL! Turds like you have comparing him to Hitler almost since he announced. Rational people understand that these comparisons are nothing but the petulant whining of intellectual children.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Why is it that seeing democrats in such obvious pain brings such waves of delicious pleasure?

 

[Eloy]

Why is it that seeing democrats in such obvious pain brings such waves of delicious pleasure?

Yes, Americans are about to suffer all sorts of pain, the price of electing a madman.

 

[RASTAMEN]

And it’s just the first week.

WASHINGTON ― Last May, when I was in Donald Trump’s 26th-floor office in Manhattan, the topic turned to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

“Kissinger was in to see me the other day,” Trump said. “We had a long talk.”

Trump, who had just become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was clearly delighted that the famed author of diplomatic tomes and master of (often brutal) global diplomatic maneuvers came to offer him counsel.

I suggested that Kissinger, who had helped to engineer President Richard Nixon’s 1972 opening to China, must have useful guidance on how to deal with that muscle-flexing country today.

Trump waved it away. China wasn’t what he was interested in talking to Kissinger about. Nor did he really want a global tutorial.

“I loved talking to him about Nixon!” Trump said. “Kissinger has some amazing stories about Nixon.”

Trump has long been fascinated by, even fixated on, Nixon (who, late in life, fawned over the real estate mogul). In his first week in office, he was busy doing all he could to go the disgraced former president one better ― or worse.

In the space of seven days, Trump lied through his teeth, sowed division rather than sought unity, attacked the press, treated Congress with contempt, ignored his own party, clothed race-tinged rhetoric in law-and-order lingo, and grabbed all the reins of diplomacy in his own Oval Office hands. He behaved as if he were picking up where his idol left off in 1972, before Watergate intervened.

So far, Trump has been the worst of Nixon, weaponized. Here’s a look:

More: Trump Already Looks Like The Worst Of Richard Nixon

Scary stuff - and it's only week 1. Trump epitomizes the imperial presidency.

Hey dim bulb Trump so far is doing what he said he would. more than I can say for the prior administration.

Yes Trump warned us he would be highly UNPOPULAR!!!!

 

[RASTAMEN]

Why is it that seeing democrats in such obvious pain brings such waves of delicious pleasure?

Why is it Trump voters are already having VOTERS REMORSE???

 

[whitehall]

JFK illegally used the CIA to raise an invasion army and brought us to the brink of nuclear annihilation because hes quirky brother decided to invade Cuba instead of doing his job as A.G. LBJ sent Troops to Vietnam on a faked crisis and set the rules so we could win every battle and still lose the freaking war. Just when we needed leadership the freaking coward tearfully threw in the towel on national T.V. The U.S. put a man on the moon during the Nixon administration and opened relations with China. Watergate looks like child's play compared to Clinton bombing a foreign country when he was caught with his pants down.

 

[RASTAMEN]

Gee, it only took one week for Trump to be compared to Nixon. Wonder what next week will bring...

ROFL! Turds like you have comparing him to Hitler almost since he announced. Rational people understand that these comparisons are nothing but the petulant whining of intellectual children.

 

[RASTAMEN]

JFK illegally used the CIA to raise an invasion army and brought us to the brink of nuclear annihilation because hes quirky brother decided to invade Cuba instead of doing his job as A.G. LBJ sent Troops to Vietnam on a faked crisis and set the rules so we could win every battle and still lose the freaking war. Just when we needed leadership the freaking coward tearfully threw in the towel on national T.V. The U.S. put a man on the moon during the Nixon administration and opened relations with China. Watergate looks like child's play compared to Clinton bombing a foreign country when he was caught with his pants down.

George Bush's 20 worst moments
Any list of errors is unflattering, but President George W Bush's catalogue of mistakes is particularly impressive. Some may argue that some entries here, such as not signing Kyoto, belong in a best moments list. Others even the president has admitted were cock-ups.

link to this video

By Nick Greene in Washington

4:02PM GMT 13 Jan 2009


1) No WMDs

Mr Bush built his entire case for war on the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. However, he chose to ignore conflicting evidence and forever undermined not only his presidency, but the reputation of US intelligence agencies and his country in much of the world.

2) "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job"

Mr Bush could not control the weather, but he had control in naming the director of FEMA, the agency in charge of disaster mitigation. His appointee, Mike Brown, was woefully underprepared and failed to facilitate proper aid to the stranded victims of Hurricane Katrina. Despite his tragic miscues, Mr Bush famously told his pall "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."

3) No Post-War Plan for Iraq

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The outgoing president achieved his goal of ousting Saddam Hussein but had little planned for a destabilised post-Saddam Iraq. After six years, thousands of military casualties, an untold amount of Iraqi civilian deaths, and hundreds of billions of dollars spent, the war is still not over.

4) Permitting Torture

By stating that the Geneva Convention did not apply to "enemy combatants," Mr Bush paved the way for waterboarding, attack dogs, and other draconian interrogation tactics that will forever be associated with his presidency.

5) Ignoring Pre-9/11 Terror Memo

Just weeks before 9/11, while spending a holiday at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, Mr Bush received a memo from the CIA entitled, "Bin Laden Determined To Strike in US". While the President cannot respond to every single threat presented to the country, the timing and nature of this particular warning will forever blight his legacy.

6) "Mission Accomplished"

Mr Bush's bombastic declaration of victory in Iraq while aboard an aircraft carrier in May 2003 was premature to say the least: the vast majority of war casualties have occurred since the unfurling of the "mission accomplished" banner. He has admitted this was one of his biggest mistakes.

7) Entering Iraq without a UN mandate.

After months of deliberation, the UN Security Council could not come to an agreement over the proposed invasion of Iraq. Mr Bush impatiently led a "coalition of the willing" into the country and his decision is still considered by the UN to be illegal.

8) Insisting there was a link between Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda

Mr Bush aimed to strengthen his case for war by linking the perpetrators of 9/11 to Saddam Hussein. As of today there is little to no evidence supporting his claim.

9) Failing to capture Osama bin Laden

After 9/11, Mr Bush's primary goal was to capture al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. More than seven years have passed and the only evidence of Bin Laden is a series of grainy video tapes taunting Mr Bush and the United States.

10) Abandoning the Kyoto Protocol

In 2001, Mr Bush refused to sign the Kyoto Protocol, a treaty that requires participating countries to lower their greenhouse gas emissions. He cited its effect on the economy, but the auto industry is already on the brink and global climate change is a real problem. Even merely as a sign of intent, his signature would have been helpful.

11) Refusing to let Katrina ruin his holiday

Hurricane Katrina hit towards the end of a long summer holiday for Mr Bush. His immediate response was not to view the damage personally, but at five miles high through the window of Air Force One on his way back to Washington.

12) Underestimating the cost of the war

Like a contractor's ever-inflating estimates of a home renovation, Mr Bush's original $50-$60 billion price tag on the Iraq war sounds like a steal now. The current cost is closer to $600 billion.

13) Lack of body armour for US troops

Due to the budget constraints of an expensive war, many US troops lacked proper armour for the challenges in Iraq. There have been reports of families turning to eBay to purchase protective gear for their sons and daughters stationed in the Middle East.

14) Failure to include Louisiana's coastal parishes in state of emergency plan

On August 27, 2005, two days before Hurricane Katrina hit, President Bush declared a state of emergency for parts of Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi. Not included on that list were the coastal areas of Louisiana that included New Orleans, the city hit hardest by Katrina.

15) Tax cuts for the wealthy

Believing wealthy Americans would take their fortunes to tax shelters, Mr Bush granted large tax cuts to keep their cash in the US. Critics contend it disproved the trickle down theory, as the economy headed into recession.

16) Losing focus on Afghanistan

The early campaign in Afghanistan was relatively successful. Rather than continuing the effort there however, Mr Bush quickly switched focus to Iraq. Many, including President-Elect Barack Obama, believe that a greater presence in Afghanistan would be more effective in the war on terror.

17) Limiting stem cell research

One of President Bush's earliest decisions was to restrict the research of embryonic stem cells. These types of studies have shown tremendous results in lab rats (such as reversing the course of Parkinson's in the rodents). Humans will have to wait for his policy to be annulled before seeing any benefits.

18) Appointment and backing of Alberto Gonzales

Mr Bush appointed an old Texan friend Alberto Gonzales as his Attorney General after the resignation of John Ashcroft. Widely criticised as a sycophantic foil to "Dubya", Mr Gonzales oversaw questionable US attorney dismissals and the NSA's warrantless wiretapping before eventually resigning. Along with Mike Brown, Alberto Gonzales is an example of Mr Bush's perceived penchant for surrounding himself with "yes men" rather than qualified individuals.

19) Awarding lucrative Iraq reconstruction contracts to Halliburton

Halliburton, Vice President Dick Cheney's old employer, received a large reconstruction contract in Iraq shortly after the onset of the war. Rumours of it not having to bid are unfounded, but claims of a conflict of interest remain. In addition, their exportation of the country's oil has been a largely unsuccessful endeavour.

20) Warrantless Wiretapping

Shortly after 9/11, President Bush authorised the warrantless wiretapping of certain telephone calls for the sake of national security. Eavesdropping would often top most Presidents' list of reprehensible acts but Mr Bush, supported by Congress, contended that it helped keep America safe.
George Bush's 20 worst moments

 

[ding]

And it’s just the first week.

WASHINGTON ― Last May, when I was in Donald Trump’s 26th-floor office in Manhattan, the topic turned to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

“Kissinger was in to see me the other day,” Trump said. “We had a long talk.”

Trump, who had just become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was clearly delighted that the famed author of diplomatic tomes and master of (often brutal) global diplomatic maneuvers came to offer him counsel.

I suggested that Kissinger, who had helped to engineer President Richard Nixon’s 1972 opening to China, must have useful guidance on how to deal with that muscle-flexing country today.

Trump waved it away. China wasn’t what he was interested in talking to Kissinger about. Nor did he really want a global tutorial.

“I loved talking to him about Nixon!” Trump said. “Kissinger has some amazing stories about Nixon.”

Trump has long been fascinated by, even fixated on, Nixon (who, late in life, fawned over the real estate mogul). In his first week in office, he was busy doing all he could to go the disgraced former president one better ― or worse.

In the space of seven days, Trump lied through his teeth, sowed division rather than sought unity, attacked the press, treated Congress with contempt, ignored his own party, clothed race-tinged rhetoric in law-and-order lingo, and grabbed all the reins of diplomacy in his own Oval Office hands. He behaved as if he were picking up where his idol left off in 1972, before Watergate intervened.

So far, Trump has been the worst of Nixon, weaponized. Here’s a look:

More: Trump Already Looks Like The Worst Of Richard Nixon

Scary stuff - and it's only week 1. Trump epitomizes the imperial presidency.

Trump has been president for a week. Here’s what he’s done so far.

Immigration: the US is going to be deporting a lot more people

• Trump changed existing policy to require that every unauthorized immigrant caught crossing the border be detained. Before this change, many who were apprehended while crossing were then released into the US to wait for a scheduled asylum interview or court date. Now they will have to be either detained or quickly deported.
• Additionally, Trump expanded the Obama administration’s existing policy of prioritizing the deportation of unauthorized immigrants convicted of serious crimes. Now the administration will also prioritize deporting immigrants who have merely been charged with crimes or even those who the government concludes have committed “acts that constitute a chargeable criminal offense.” And “crime” here could mean even things like driving without a license or using a fake Social Security number to pay payroll taxes.
• Trump also beefed up enforcement, adding agents to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement and Removal Operations office and reinstating the Secure Communities program, which, as Dara Lind writes, “automatically checked immigration databases to identify people checked into local jails, then allowed ICE agents to ask local officials to hand over any immigrant they wanted to deport.”
• He also directed the Department of Homeland Security to begin construction on a wallon the US-Mexico border, to the extent that it can be paid for with existing funds. However, additional money will surely be necessary, and that will still need to be approved by Congress, so this is just a start here.

Abortion and global health: bringing back and hugely expanding the “global gag rule”
Trump reinstated the “global gag rule,” a policy from previous Republican administrations that blocks federal funding from international family planning organizations that “either provide abortion or discuss abortion services with their clients,” as Emily Crockett put it. However, he also greatly expanded its scope — it now applies not just to family planning organizations but to all global health organizations that get US funding.

“If organizations don’t agree to sign the pledge saying they won’t discuss abortion,” an expert told Sarah Wildman, “they stand to lose massive funding from the US government.” Furthermore, if groups are unable to give women in developing countries information about safe abortion options, they could be driven to unsafe alternatives.

Trade: putting the nail in the TPP’s coffin

• As he promised, Trump withdrew the US from negotiations over the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal. This is no surprise to anyone who paid attention during the campaign, but it marks a major reversal from the Obama administration’s strong support of the proposed agreement and recent presidents’ support of big multilateral trade deals generally.

Government: freezes of hiring, regulations, and public communications

• Trump announced a hiring freeze throughout the federal government except for the military and national security or public safety positions. Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan announced similar hiring freezes as they began their presidencies.
• The president also announced a temporary regulatory freeze — he’s told the agencies that no new regulations should move forward until new administration appointees or staffers approve them. Regulations that had been moving through the system on topics like aircraft fuselage inspection, ending sanctions against Myanmar, and giving military spouses an advantage in federal hiring, among other topics, have been blocked for now.
• The new administration has also put a freeze on public communications (like news releases and social media posts) and grant spending at several agencies, including the Environmental Protection Agency. However, some employees told the New York Timesthat this seemed similar to what usually happens when new presidents came in — that there’s an adjustment period when new leadership is installed. So far it’s not clear whether it signals anything deeper or more permanent.

Housing policy: the rollback of a last-minute Obama rate cut

• In the final week of the Obama administration, the Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it planned to cut interest rates for Federal Housing Administration–backed home loans by 0.25 percent in a few weeks. But when Trump first took office, his administration immediately suspended this planned rate cut, therefore blocking a move that would have made home loans for many first-time borrowers slightly less expensive.

Health care: a vague anti-Obamacare order that nobody’s sure what to make of

• Trump issued an executive order telling agencies to waive or grant exemptions from Obamacare fees and regulations “to the maximum extent permitted by law.” However, it is not yet clear how this order will be interpreted by the agencies and what impact it will actually have. So the future of health policy remains deeply uncertain.
• Still, the Trump administration did take one concrete action on the health law — it canceled advertisements urging people to sign up for Obamacare, according to Politico.

Environment: a mostly symbolic encouragement of two pipelines

• Trump signaled his support of the controversial Dakota Access pipeline, which critics have argued endangers a reservation’s water supplies and sacred sites. The pipeline still faces an environmental impact review from the Army Corps of Engineers, though.
• Trump also encouraged TransCanada to resubmit its application to build the Keystone XL pipeline (the Obama administration had rejected it), and pledged quick action on any new application. The ball is in the company’s court now.

 

[whitehall]

You almost gotta laugh when you realize that the crooked media and the left digs up poor old Tricky Dick when ever they are in trouble. I recall headlines in one of the mainstream papers at the time when Bill Clinton's DNA was found on Monica's dress "new Nixon tapes found". It's a pathetic knee jerk response by the criminal conspiracy known as the mainstream media and the stodgy old socialist democrat party. It's not even relevant anymore but the left can't let go of it.

 

[RASTAMEN]

You almost gotta laugh when you realize that the crooked media and the left digs up poor old Tricky Dick when ever they are in trouble. I recall headlines in one of the mainstream papers at the time when Bill Clinton's DNA was found on Monica's dress "new Nixon tapes found". It's a pathetic knee jerk response by the criminal conspiracy known as the mainstream media and the stodgy old socialist democrat party. It's not even relevant anymore but the left can't let go of it.

 

[JimH52]

Why is it that seeing democrats in such obvious pain brings such waves of delicious pleasure?

Yes, Americans are about to suffer all sorts of pain, the price of electing a madman.

He is making Nixon look like a sane individual. The Comrade has quite a few screws lose. God help us when he finally loses his mind...what is left.

 

[kyzr]

Trump is just getting warmed up. After 8-years of mismanagement we need strong Budgetary medicine. Wall Street invests more in Russia and China than we do on defense. Hillary selling Russia our uranium is moronic if Russia is as bad as they are saying. Getting Trade Deficits down and people working again is a very good objective. So is replacing Obamacare with healthcare that works, remember the disastrous roll-out of Obamacare, Google programmers had to re-write the online systems for them.

Nixon was a "politician" and Trump has ZERO political credentials. Trump is a no-nonsense businessman, who looks to start re-organizing the Federal Government similar to the Grace Commission many years ago.

 

[sartre play]

Why would you hate other Americans? think there wrong, disagree dispute there facts, but Hate, We all need to detune.

 

[JimH52]

Trump is just getting warmed up. After 8-years of mismanagement we need strong Budgetary medicine. Wall Street invests more in Russia and China than we do on defense. Hillary selling Russia our uranium is moronic if Russia is as bad as they are saying. Getting Trade Deficits down and people working again is a very good objective. So is replacing Obamacare with healthcare that works, remember the disastrous roll-out of Obamacare, Google programmers had to re-write the online systems for them.

Nixon was a "politician" and Trump has ZERO political credentials. Trump is a no-nonsense businessman, who looks to start re-organizing the Federal Government similar to the Grace Commission many years ago.

We have a mentally ill person in the WH. This is not going to turn out well...

 

[westwall]

And it’s just the first week.

WASHINGTON ― Last May, when I was in Donald Trump’s 26th-floor office in Manhattan, the topic turned to former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger.

“Kissinger was in to see me the other day,” Trump said. “We had a long talk.”

Trump, who had just become the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, was clearly delighted that the famed author of diplomatic tomes and master of (often brutal) global diplomatic maneuvers came to offer him counsel.

I suggested that Kissinger, who had helped to engineer President Richard Nixon’s 1972 opening to China, must have useful guidance on how to deal with that muscle-flexing country today.

Trump waved it away. China wasn’t what he was interested in talking to Kissinger about. Nor did he really want a global tutorial.

“I loved talking to him about Nixon!” Trump said. “Kissinger has some amazing stories about Nixon.”

Trump has long been fascinated by, even fixated on, Nixon (who, late in life, fawned over the real estate mogul). In his first week in office, he was busy doing all he could to go the disgraced former president one better ― or worse.

In the space of seven days, Trump lied through his teeth, sowed division rather than sought unity, attacked the press, treated Congress with contempt, ignored his own party, clothed race-tinged rhetoric in law-and-order lingo, and grabbed all the reins of diplomacy in his own Oval Office hands. He behaved as if he were picking up where his idol left off in 1972, before Watergate intervened.

So far, Trump has been the worst of Nixon, weaponized. Here’s a look:

More: Trump Already Looks Like The Worst Of Richard Nixon

Scary stuff - and it's only week 1. Trump epitomizes the imperial presidency.

OOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH "Sceeeery stuff"

Grow up.

 

[Don Foreskeen]

Hopefully Trump will meet Nixon's fate - much sooner than Nixon did.

Haters are gonna hate.
I hope obama chokes on a big fat weiner.

 

[Don Foreskeen]

Why is it that seeing democrats in such obvious pain brings such waves of delicious pleasure?

Yes, Americans are about to suffer all sorts of pain, the price of electing a madman.

He is making Nixon look like a sane individual. The Comrade has quite a few screws lose. God help us when he finally loses his mind...what is left.

It takes one to know one, ain't it?

 

[JimH52]

Hopefully Trump will meet Nixon's fate - much sooner than Nixon did.

Haters are gonna hate.
I hope obama chokes on a big fat weiner.

It won't be tiny hands Trump...