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Trump Has Redefined Hypocrisy
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Dec 19, 2017 @ 07:00 AM 4,000
Stan Collender , Contributor
Zach Gibson/Bloomberg
In the week when the GOP Congress and White House will probably get its first major legislative victory by adopting a tax bill (even if it is economically insane), it never occurred to me that Donald Trump would step on his own story and tweet out totally nonsensical and hypocritical remarks about yesterday's fatal Amtrak derailment in Washington State.
But he did, and for that Trump fully deserves the ignominious "honor" of winning his second Mulvaney Award for "ultimate hypocrisy and nonsense .. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/10/04/introducing-the-mulvaney-award-for-ultimate-hypocrisy-and-nonsense/#24413f494f49 " named for Trump's nonsensical and hypocritical director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney.
This was the tweet that won Trump this dubious honor for the second time:
-
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The train accident that just occurred in DuPont, WA shows more
than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must
be approved quickly. Seven trillion dollars spent in the Middle
East while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways (and more)
crumble! Not for long!
5:41 AM - Dec 19, 2017
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Trump get's his second Mulvaney for six reasons, any one of which on its own would have been enough.
1. While Trump was extolling the virtues of more money for Amtrak, the fiscal 2018 budget he submitted earlier this year proposed to cut it by $630 million ..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/20/amtrak-riders-rally-save-funding-trump-budget-threatens-massive-cuts/103041856/ .
2. The Trump Family and Friends Tax Cut the president is pushing will increase the deficit and debt by at least $2 trillion .. http://www.crfb.org/blogs/tax-bill-conference-committee-can-make-final-bill-responsible .. over the next 10 years and make it far more difficult for any infrastructure plan to be enacted.
3. The reason we don't have an infrastructure plan yet is that, in spite of repeated promises that it would soon be sent to Congress, Trump hasn't submitted one yet .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/08/trump-keeps-pretending-his-infrastructure-plan-is-real-its-not/?utm_term=.18f108dc1e6e .
4. Even if Trump had submitted and Congress had adopted an infrastructure plan earlier this year, none of it would have been spent by now and wouldn't have had an impact on yesterday's tragedy.
5. Trump has said in the past (especially about the events in Charlottesville) that he doesn't like to speak until he knows all the facts .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/15/donald-trump-returns-new-york-city-first-time-president-wasnt-joyful-homecoming/568752001/ , yet he tweeted yesterday without knowing any of them. Was this really an infrastructure failure, human error, terrorism or something else?
6. In the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas, Trump insisted that the immediate aftermath of a tragedy was not the right time .. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/las-vegas-shooting-gun-control-trump-white-house-not-time-premature-latest-a7979741.html .. to call for congressional action. But yesterday, in the aftermath of a tragedy that didn't involve guns, he did what he said no one should do by...wait for it...demanding congressional action.
The only question at this point is whether Trump thinks that winning the Mulvaney Award twice is an honor worth tweeting about.
Follow Stan Collender on Twitter at TheBudgetGuy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/12/19/trumps-amtrak-tweet-earns-him-his-second-mulvaney-award/#4b3dc72e1449
"Jimmy Kimmel Makes a Hilarious Discovery at Trump's Online Store
The late-night host couldn't find a single product manufactured in the U.S."
Dec 19, 2017 @ 07:00 AM 4,000
Stan Collender , Contributor
Zach Gibson/Bloomberg
In the week when the GOP Congress and White House will probably get its first major legislative victory by adopting a tax bill (even if it is economically insane), it never occurred to me that Donald Trump would step on his own story and tweet out totally nonsensical and hypocritical remarks about yesterday's fatal Amtrak derailment in Washington State.
But he did, and for that Trump fully deserves the ignominious "honor" of winning his second Mulvaney Award for "ultimate hypocrisy and nonsense .. https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/10/04/introducing-the-mulvaney-award-for-ultimate-hypocrisy-and-nonsense/#24413f494f49 " named for Trump's nonsensical and hypocritical director of the Office of Management and Budget, Mick Mulvaney.
This was the tweet that won Trump this dubious honor for the second time:
-
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
The train accident that just occurred in DuPont, WA shows more
than ever why our soon to be submitted infrastructure plan must
be approved quickly. Seven trillion dollars spent in the Middle
East while our roads, bridges, tunnels, railways (and more)
crumble! Not for long!
5:41 AM - Dec 19, 2017
-
Trump get's his second Mulvaney for six reasons, any one of which on its own would have been enough.
1. While Trump was extolling the virtues of more money for Amtrak, the fiscal 2018 budget he submitted earlier this year proposed to cut it by $630 million ..
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/06/20/amtrak-riders-rally-save-funding-trump-budget-threatens-massive-cuts/103041856/ .
2. The Trump Family and Friends Tax Cut the president is pushing will increase the deficit and debt by at least $2 trillion .. http://www.crfb.org/blogs/tax-bill-conference-committee-can-make-final-bill-responsible .. over the next 10 years and make it far more difficult for any infrastructure plan to be enacted.
3. The reason we don't have an infrastructure plan yet is that, in spite of repeated promises that it would soon be sent to Congress, Trump hasn't submitted one yet .. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/08/trump-keeps-pretending-his-infrastructure-plan-is-real-its-not/?utm_term=.18f108dc1e6e .
4. Even if Trump had submitted and Congress had adopted an infrastructure plan earlier this year, none of it would have been spent by now and wouldn't have had an impact on yesterday's tragedy.
5. Trump has said in the past (especially about the events in Charlottesville) that he doesn't like to speak until he knows all the facts .. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/15/donald-trump-returns-new-york-city-first-time-president-wasnt-joyful-homecoming/568752001/ , yet he tweeted yesterday without knowing any of them. Was this really an infrastructure failure, human error, terrorism or something else?
6. In the wake of the shooting in Las Vegas, Trump insisted that the immediate aftermath of a tragedy was not the right time .. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/las-vegas-shooting-gun-control-trump-white-house-not-time-premature-latest-a7979741.html .. to call for congressional action. But yesterday, in the aftermath of a tragedy that didn't involve guns, he did what he said no one should do by...wait for it...demanding congressional action.
The only question at this point is whether Trump thinks that winning the Mulvaney Award twice is an honor worth tweeting about.
Follow Stan Collender on Twitter at TheBudgetGuy
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stancollender/2017/12/19/trumps-amtrak-tweet-earns-him-his-second-mulvaney-award/#4b3dc72e1449
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