The“Crazy/Stupid” Republican of the Day blog usually can just make a daily post where we talk about a member of the GOP who has run for, held, or currently holds office who is a bit extreme or unhinged, and cover it in a few hundred words. Donald J. Trump, is beyond most Republicans, and has spent decades running to the media to say racist, sexist, bigoted, and completely ignorant things. We covered his downright selfish and narcissistic tendencies from the first 69 years of his life in our first deep dive of this series…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part One: The Beginnings to his Presidential Run
Our second look featured events taking place from Donald Trump announcing his candidacy for president, to accepting the GOP nomination at the 2016 Republican National Convention…
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Two: The Path to the 2016 Nomination
In our third chapter, we covered the absolutely bonkers final four months leading to Election Day 2016:
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Three: The Final Run to Election Day 2016
In the fourth part in this series, where we discuss the Trump transition, a roughly three month period that any sane person who follows politics might have blocked out of their memory for the good of their own sanity.
Donald Trump- Full Timeline Part Four: The Trump Transition
The fifth party of our series begins now, where we cover the first 100 Days of the Trump Administration, which has proven to be the dumpster fire we expected:
- January 20th, 2017: The Trump inauguration is visibly one of the least attended in recent memory. At points on the parade route, entire sections of empty bleachers sit as his motorcade passes. Aerial photos compared to the first Obama inauguration eight years later show the huge disparity even farther. Trump’s speech, which Steve Bannon and Steven Miller helped write, is terrifying in its messaging, not unlike his 2016 RNC speech, so much so that the 43rd President, George W. Bush is quoted by those in attendance as commenting, “That was some weird s***.” And it’s not like Bush 43 was an inspiring orator, himself. Even scarier, perhaps, was that a group of die-hard, Alt-Right Trump supporters including White Nationalist Richard Spencer hosted a “Deplora-Ball” where they were throwing up “Heil Trump!” salutes. Trump himself spends time at his Inaugural Ball to insult the “dishonest media” and their “phony polls”. History will remember the entire affair as a dark day in our nation’s history.
- January 21st, 2017: The day after the meek crowd that arrives to attend the Trump inauguration, the Women’s March begins a day later, and not only dwarfs in in number, but has millions more marching against Trump globally.
Trump goes to CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, to try and settle his feud with them, bringing his own aides to laugh at his bad jokes, and begins to talk about his war with the “dishonest media” who lied about the “million and a half” people who attended his inauguration (a lie), and that “God himself” made it not rain while he was speaking. He did this in front of the Memorial to agents who died in the line of duty. He is even publicly criticized for the speech by former CIA Director John Brennan.
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer’s first press conference is an unmitigated disaster, as he immediately comes out, and upon orders from Trump, is asked to lie about the size of the crowd out Trump’s inauguration, calling it “the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration, PERIOD”, lied about the numbers of people who rode the D.C. Metro to the inauguration in both 2008 and at Trump’s, and making veiled threats that “we’re going to hold the press accountable”. Even conservative pundits criticize his actions as combative, counter-productive, and antagonistic towards the press.
- January 22nd, 2017: Trump gets on Twitter to complain about the Women’s March, and the celebrities involved, asking, “why didn’t these people vote?” while also trying to tout television ratings for his inauguration (that were lower than Obama’s 8 years prior). He also lies and gives himself credit for getting “standing ovations” at his CIA speech the previous day that he didn’t really get because there were no seats for anyone to sit in.
Trump begins making phone calls to Mexican President Enrique Nieto and Canadian PM Justin Trudeau to attempt to renegotiate NAFTA. “Has anyone heard of NAFTA?” he asks at the podium, with VP Mike Pence beaming like a proud mother behind him. (It’s all for show, Canada and Mexico have no intention of renegotiating NAFTA, and if they did, it wouldn’t be with Donald Trump.)
Kellyanne Conway is dragged out to go on Meet the Press and defend the Trump administration’s attacks on the media, and insistence that the inauguration had record attendance, embarrassing herself by trying to characterize the lies as “alternative facts”. She also reveals Donald Trump will never be releasing his tax returns. Which he had, on several occasions, promised to do.
Ethics lawyers file a lawsuit against Donald Trump for taking the oath of office while taking payments from foreign entities through his businesses, pointing out that it violates the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution.
- January 23rd, 2017: In his first meeting with Congressional leaders, Trump revisits his conspiracy theory that he actually won the popular vote, but 3-5 million people voted illegally.
He also signs an executive order to declare a federal hiring freeze on government workers. Many agencies flat out ignore it.
- January 24th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, complains about violence in Chicago, and threatens to “send in the Feds!” He signs executive orders to begin construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Keystone XL Pipeline, while meeting with various CEOs and industry leaders.
Acting Attorney General Sally Yates warns White House legal counsel Don McGahn about Gen. Michael Flynn’s interview with the FBI, and how it appears he is “compromised by the Russians”.
- January 25th, 2017: Trump again gets on Twitter to complain about “VOTER FRAUD” claiming that people are voting illegally, and some of them are “dead”. He also gives a deranged interview with ABC News’ David Muir where he belittles the press, claims there’s proof of voter fraud by millions (that doesn’t exist), talks about “keeping the oil” from Iraq (which remains a war crime) and says that he thinks waterboarding is effective.
The Department of Justice gets a readout of the FBI’s interview with Michael Flynn.
- January 26th, 2017: Trump finally gets wind that Chelsea Manning’s sentence was commuted by President Obama, and criticizes that decision on Twitter. He also signs a toothless executive order to start building his border wall (there’s no funding to do it). Word surfaces that he ordered the Director of U.S. National Park Services to find photographic proof that his inauguration crowd was the largest in history. Oh, and he supported Sen. Mitch McConnell’s plan to change the filibuster rules so the GOP could get a Supreme Justice named to the court with only 51 votes.
Sally Yates, meanwhile, met with Don McGahn face to face at the White House to point out that the administration needed to know about what the FBI’s interview with General Flynn included, because Vice-President Mike Pence had made public comments that directly contradicted what the FBI knew and that our nation’s national security advisor could potentially be “blackmailed by the Russians”.
Meanwhile, Steve Bannon told the New York Times that the media “should shut its mouth”.
- January 27th, 2017: Donald Trump signs an executive order to start his completely racist ban on Muslims getting entry to the United States.
They choose to do this on National Holocaust Remembrance Day, where the Trump administration releases a statement that fails to mention something important… Jews. Why, that doesn’t seem like it would be something a guy whose staff is believed to be filled with anti-Semites would do, does it?
Trump meets with British PM Theresa May, and per UK spokespeople, he asked to hold her hand while walking down stairs because he admitted to a phobia of falling down them.
Trump again posts on Twitter that 3 million people voted illegally in the 2016 elections, without proof.
Trump calls Mexican President Enrique Nieto, and pathetically begs Nieto to get Mexico to pay for a border wall, or at least to stop publicly stating that in no uncertain terms, would Mexico pay for it, because Trump promised they would. He also admits the wall is “the least important thing”, and lies saying he won the state of New Hampshire because “it is a drug-infested den”.
Sally Yates again is called to the White House, where Don McGahn asks if she thinks General Flynn could be prosecuted for what is known about his meeting with the Russians. She also publicly criticizes Trump’s “Muslim Ban” and says she won’t enforce it.
Trump has dinner this night with FBI Director James Comey, and tries to get him to swear loyalty to him.
- January 28th, 2017: After massive protests in airports, and confusion reigns as customs and immigration officials poorly carrying out Donald Trump’s “Muslim Ban”, a court ruling halts the measure, as Trump and the White House impotently whine about it, and claim nothing is unconstitutional about it.
On Twitter, Trump rants about both The New York Times and Washington Post being “FAKE NEWS”, and claims they apologized to their readers for the bad coverage they gave of him (they did no such thing).
- January 29th, 2017: Trump, from bed, orders a military raid in Yemen against the advice of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. One Marine is killed, several others wounded, and the entire operation is a disaster that provides not even one piece of intelligence against the terrorists being attacked.
Trump has a series of phone calls with world leaders, including British PM Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, Japanese PM Shinzo Abe, and ends his day calling Australian PM Malcolm Turnbull. Trump starts whining about having to accept Syrian refugees currently in Australia, keeps getting his facts wrong, and tells Turnbull “I hate taking these people. I guarantee you they are bad. That is why they are in prison right now. They are not going to be wonderful people who go on to work for the local milk people.” Even though Turnbull explained the language of the agreement was that each individual could be vetted and theoretically turned away, Trump throws a tantrum, and ends the call after telling Turnbull that he wasn’t as nice as the other world leaders he talked to. Also… what the hell are “local milk people”? Dairy workers? Really white people? Just…
On Twitter, Trump rants about a variety of topics, including insulting the New York Times, and trying to defend his ban on Muslims entering the country as “extreme vetting”.
Trump also begins moving to have Steve Bannon placed on his National Security Council.
- January 30th, 2017: Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates. While the reason given is for her protests over the Muslim ban, it later is revealed that she may have been fired for drawing suspicion towards General Michael Flynn.
Trump also signs an executive order to reduce regulations on big businesses. Including his own.
On Twitter, Trump lies about the number of people who were detained in airports because of his Muslim ban, and tries blaming airport delays caused on it by computer issues one airline had. What’s more interesting is what he doesn’t talk about… Trump says nothing about an attack on a Quebec mosque by a right-wing extremist on social media.
Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, the threshold for people signing a petition to block Trump’s visit to the country reaches over 1 million signers.
- January 31st, 2017: Donald Trump selects Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court.
- February 1st, 2017: Trump commits the first of several blunders he will commit during the celebration of Black History Month, when he starts talking about Frederick Douglass, seemingly unaware of who he is, and perhaps that he is unaware Douglass died a century ago, describing him as, “an example of somebody who has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more, I notice.”
Trump also tells Sen. Mitch McConnell to “go nuclear” to get Neil Gorsuch appointed to the Supreme Court.
On Twitter, Trump idiotically claims that “Iran is rapidly taking over more and more of Iraq”, which many believe to be a typo, and by “Iran” he meant “ISIS”. Trump also seethes over how his phone call with Malcolm Turnbull went, blaming the Obama administration for agreeing to take in refugees, who Trump calls “illegal immigrants”.
- February 2nd, 2017: Donald Trump responds to news that the University of California-Berkley canceled the speaking engagement of White Nationalist Richard Spencer by getting on Twitter and posting, “If U.C. Berkeley does not allow free speech and practices violence on innocent people with a different point of view - NO FEDERAL FUNDS?” Apparently Trump thinks of Neo-Nazis as “innocent people”, and doesn’t understand how free speech works.
Trump also speaks at the National Prayer Breakfast, and takes time at a normally solemn event to joke that the room should pray for Arnold Schwarzenegger’s bad ratings on the new season of The Apprentice to get better.
Meanwhile, in an interview, Kellyanne Conway tries defending Donald Trump’s Muslim ban by talking about the time that two Iraqi refugees carried out “the Bowling Green Massacre”. (HINT: There was never a Bowling Green Massacre”.)
- February 3rd, 2017: After an Islamic terrorist attacks police at the Louvre shopping center in Paris, France, Donald Trump suddenly takes notice, because it’s terror not committed by a white terrorist. He gets on Twitter to rant about it, writing, “A new radical Islamic terrorist has just attacked in Louvre Museum in Paris. Tourists were locked down. France on edge again. GET SMART U.S.” (Note: The attack was not even at the Louvre Museum.) This is slightly better than Trump continuing to blame Arnold Schwarzenegger for the ratings for The Apprentice being down, and insulting his performance as Governor of California.
Trump also signed an executive order to try and roll back the effectiveness of Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform.
A New York Times investigation confirms what most people could have already guessed… Trump has not actually separated himself from his family’s business interests.
Vincent Viola, Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Army, withdraws his name from consideration after about two months.
Court rulings continue to come down and block Trump’s Muslim ban.
- February 4th, 2016: The Department of Homeland Security stops trying to push for Trump’s Muslim ban, complying with court orders. Trump predictably seethes about the judge’s ruling on Twitter, impotently.
In an interview with Bill O’Reilly that aired before the Super Bowl, Donald Trump defends Vladimir Putin to O’Reilly, even after O’Reilly refers to Putin as a “killer”, by saying, “do you think our country is so innocent?”
- February 5th, 2017: Somehow, Donald Trump fails to understand the implications of what the National Security Council is, and allows Steve Bannon to basically place himself on it. Trump places Mike Pence in charge of a voter fraud investigation. He also continued to complain about the Judge’s ruling on his Muslim ban on Twitter.
- February 6th, 2017: Trump goes on a tirade against the “dishonest press” again, claiming they were deliberately not reporting on terrorist attacks. The White House went as far as to put out a list of 78 terror attacks that were “not reported”, and CNN responded that they had, in fact, reported on them, including showing the footage. Trump responds to opinion polls that are overwhelmingly negative towards his Muslim ban by claiming on Twitter that they are “Fake news”.
As if Trump taking issue with Alec Baldwin doing an impression of him on Saturday Night Live wasn’t bad enough, reports emerge that he was upset about Melissa McCarthy lampooning Sean Spicer over the weekend, because “he doesn’t like when people look weak”.
The Trump administration also interviewed Elliott Abrams, a man previously convicted of misdemeanors in the Iran Contra scandal as a potential high-ranking employee at the U.S. State Department.
- February 7th, 2017: The Yemen raid earlier in the week was meant to kill the leader of Al Qaeda in Yemen, Qassim al-Rimi, who taunts Donald Trump for not killing him in it. The government of Yemen also decides to no longer allow the United States to conduct raids in the War on Terror in their country without first giving them approval. Betsy DeVos is a controversial enough pick for Department of Education by Trump that Mike Pence has to serve as a tiebreaker to confirm her.
- February 8th, 2017: Donald Trump completely blows a hole in the idea that his family’s business ties and his presidency are separate entities when he gets on Twitter to criticize Nordstrom’s for cancelling a clothing line from his daughter, Ivanka. Kellyanne Conway came out to defend Trump, and actually made it worse when she started giving testimonials to buy Ivanka’s products.
In a bizarre phone call with French Prime Minister Francoise Hollande, Trump discussed NATO, and told Hollande that the U.S. “wanted its money back”.
- February 9th, 2017: News breaks for the first time that General Michael Flynn may have discussed sanctions with the Russian government during the Trump transition.
Trump again gets on Twitter to rant against the courts overturning his Muslim ban, writing, “SEE YOU IN COURT, THE SECURITY OF OUR NATION IS AT STAKE!”
- February 10th, 2017: Trump, meeting with 10 Senators, again makes bizarre claims about voter fraud, going with a paranoid conspiracy theory about people being bussed in from Massachusetts to help Democrats win office in New Hampshire.
Trump decides to use Mar-A-Lago for international diplomacy, meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to go golfing at his own property. Prior to leaving, Trump demonstrates that he still doesn’t know how to perform a handshake like a normal person.
He also promised to submit a new Muslim ban, hoping that the second one might be written in a way that would not be overturned by courts.
- February 11th, 2017: Questions over how the Trump administration is handling classified information and security arise immediately after his Mar-A-Lago weekend with Shinzo Abe, after a dues-paying guest of Mar-A-Lago posts photos on Facebook of himself having his photo taken with Secret Service agents, and an image of Trump’s national security team handling photos and documents from a North Korean missile launch in front of guests of the club using their cell phone flashlights to read them.
Trump’s golf holiday with Shinzo Abe is also peppered with Twitter posts, including attacks against the media for “unfair” treatment of his daughter Ivanka, defending his Muslim ban, claiming he would negotiate down the cost of fighter jets for the Air Force as well as the price tag on his proposed border wall. About six weeks after the meeting, it is discovered that Trump confided in staff that he was “obsessed” with Abe’s Japanese translators’ breasts. Because above all else, he’s a creepy bastard.
- February 12th, 2017: General Michael Flynn admits to talking to the Russian Ambassador, Sergey Kislyak, and lying to Mike Pence about it.
Trump posts a lie on Twitter that CNN cut an interview with Bernie Sanders short because he called them “fake news”.
The Trump administration sends out former Jeff Sessions speechwriter and pretty racist Stephen Miller onto the Sunday morning shows, where he declares that “the president’s power will not be questioned by the courts”. This ignores the entire system of checks and balances of the country.
Right wing media outlets begin reporting that White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus “is in over his head”.
- February 13th, 2017: Eighteen days after the White House was informed that National Security Advisor Michael Flynn may have been compromised by the Russians, as revealed in an FBI investigation, he finally is removed from his post and has his security clearance revoked.
Trump meets with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in New York, and exhibits he still hasn’t learned how to shake hands. Trudeau, however, blocks his awkward shake.
- February 14th, 2017: Trump asks FBI Director James Comey to come to the White House, and asks him to stop investigating Michael Flynn, saying “He is a good guy. I hope you can let this go.” (This would be an attempt to obstruct an ongoing FBI investigation, which is a crime.)
CNN and The New York Times report that the problem of people in the Trump campaign and Trump transition talking to the Russians is not limited to Michael Flynn, as Paul Manafort is also named.
On Twitter, Trump starts complaining more about “leaks” coming out of his administration.
Trump hosts a joint press conference at the White House with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, where he speaks out against a two-state solution in the Mid-East… which sets back any hope for peace instantly.
In a meeting with Betsy DeVos and several educators invited to the White House, Trump began to fixate on one special needs teacher, and pepper her with questions about “an increase in autism”. Given Trump’s history of trying to claim a link between vaccines and autism, this is troubling.
- February 15th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, says the “real scandal” is not that his campaign or his transition team colluded with the Russians, but of intelligence being given to the media “like candy”.
With weeks of controversy over the selection of Andy Puzder as the Trump administration’s pick for Secretary of Labor due to his reported domestic violence incident, Puzder finally gives up and withdraws his name, leaving the White House scrambling for a new Cabinet pick.
- February 16th, 2017: Trump gives a totally bonkers 77 minute press conference, where the highlights include him saying “drugs are becoming cheaper than candy bars”, claims he “had the biggest electoral college win since Ronald Reagan” (both Obama and Bush had bigger ones) him chastising an Orthodox Jewish reporter for asking a question about how he hasn’t done anything to stop an uptick in Anti-Semitic attacks, and when he asked African American reporter, April Ryan, if she would schedule a meeting with the Black Congressional Caucus for him.
This of course was after a morning where Trump had a whole series of blasts against the “FAKE NEWS” media.
Six Trump staffers are escorted from the White House on the same day because they failed their FBI background checks.
The Washington Post, meanwhile, breaks the news that Michael Flynn lied to the FBI about his contacts with Sergey Kislyak. Trump’s first pick to replace Michael Flynn, Vice Admiral Robert Harward turns down the offer to join the Trump administration.
- February 17th, 2017: Donald Trump goes as far on Twitter to call the “Fake News Media” the “Enemy of the People”. And that statement echoes Josef Stalin and Chairman Mao.
A memo from the Department of Homeland Security was leaked to the media that the Trump administration was considering calling in the National Guard for a massive immigration purge.
- February 18th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, refers to Mar-A-Lago as “the Southern White House” in the face of wide criticism of his repeated weekend vacations on taxpayer dime to his own resort.
At a rally in Melbourne, Florida, Trump talks about immigrants being let into Sweden that caused them to “have problems like they never thought possible”. The nation of Sweden is shocked to hear they were having problems.
- February 19th, 2017: Trump, on Twitter, defends his remarks about Sweden, from the previous night, because it was “reported by Fox News”. And… after some fact-checking, Fox News reported the opposite of what the statistics about immigrant crime in Sweden actually show, and their “expert” in the segment is unknown to Swedish authorities. The unsettling fact that the POTUS trusts “news entertainment” full of lies more than his own intelligence community is now publicly known.
Trump, still at Mar-A-Lago, continues interviewing candidates to be his next National Security Adviser.
- February 20th, 2017: On Twitter, for the second day in a row, Trump insists that he is right about immigrants committing crimes in Sweden, in spite of Sweden itself weighing in that it’s not really an issue.
Trump chooses General H.R. McMaster to be his new National Security Advisor, who immediately starts feuding with other White House staff like Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner because he wants the Breitbart contingent of people at the White House out.
- February 21st, 2017: Donald Trump visits the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, and says little, save when he passes a block once used in a slave auction and gives the staggering understatement of chuckling and saying, “Boy, that is not good.”
On Twitter, Trump decides to start spreading the conspiracy theory that the protesters showing up at the town halls of Republican Congressmen to protest the potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act are being “planned by liberal activists”.
- February 22nd, 2017: After promising his administration would not do so, Donald Trump signs an executive order to rescind protections on transgender students that was signed by the Obama administration.
- February 23rd, 2017: In an interview with Reuters, Trump tells them that the United States nuclear program needs to be expanded so it is “at the top of the pack”.
- February 24th, 2017: Trump speaks at CPAC, commenting on several topics including the violence in the city of Chicago, saying that he supports local law enforcement… a day later Chicago Police Superintendent Eddie Johnson goes public to say that he had repeatedly contacted the Trump administration for help and received no response. He also discusses banning the media from reporting using “anonymous news sources”, saying that when they’re used, the press is “just making things up”.
At the White House, Sean Spicer has a press gaggle, but bans virtually all news outlets except for Breitbart News and the Washington Times from being allowed to ask questions.
- February 25th, 2017: The first stories start coming out that the Trump White House, including White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, were pressuring the FBI to put out statements that their investigation into Russian hacking and interference in the 2016 elections did not implicate the Trump campaign or Trump transition team. That would be false.
On Twitter, Trump announces he will not be attending the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, breaking with years of tradition.
- February 26th, 2017: On Twitter, Donald Trump had his latest conspiracy theory… that Hillary Clinton had the election for the new Chairman of the DNC rigged so that Tom Perez can win.
Trump’s pick for Secretary of the Navy withdraws his name from consideration for the post.
The father of the Marine killed in Trump’s ill-advised military raid in Yemen demanded an investigation into his son’s death.
- February 27th, 2017: Trump is interviewed by Fox and Friends, and spitefully bites back against the host of the Academy Awards, Jimmy Kimmel, saying that he “played the race card”, in criticizing Trump, because “they’re losing badly”.
- February 28th, 2017: Trump speaks before a joint session of Congress, refers to all the opposition against his insane agenda as “trivial fights” and brings the widow of the Marine killed in the Yemen raid to use as a prop, to the disgust of critics. Even worse, Trump blames his death on “the generals”.
A Trump administration advisor, Anthony Scaramucci, responds to a rise in Anti-Semitic attacks by asking people to consider that the attacks might be staged by groups seeking political gain.
- March 1st, 2017: News breaks that Attorney General Jeff Sessions lied under oath during his confirmation hearing, and that he had, in fact, been talking to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak while working for the Trump campaign and Trump transition.
The White House acknowledges it will not be disciplining Kellyanne Conway for giving free testimonials for Ivanka Trump’s products while working for the White House.
Former Congressman Ryan Zinke is finally confirmed as Secretary of the Interior.
- March 2nd, 2017: Reports surface that Russian Ambassador Sergey Kisylak spoke to more than just Jeff Sessions, but several other Trump campaign and Trump transition members, including Paul Manafort, Carter Page, and Jared Kushner.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself in the investigation into Russia’s meddling in the 2016 elections, that just seems to keep finding links back to the Trump campaign and Trump transition team. This is probably the only decision worth applauding he will make in his role as AG.
During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump talked a lot about “buying American”, including how much while in Pennsylvania, he talked about how great American steel is. And surprise, on this date Trump exempted the people who would construct the Keystone XL pipeline from having to use American steel to build it.
Donald Trump himself speaks on aircraft carrier to a couple thousand members of the U.S. Navy, and tells them that he’s going to push for “one of the largest” defense spending increases in American history. (The United States already spends more on its military budget than the next several countries combined.)
In the late evening, Trump goes on a Tweetstorm, calling Jeff Sessions an “honest man who did nothing wrong”, and after portraying the entire investigation as being a “witch hunt” with “illegal leaks”.
- March 3rd, 2017: Throughout the day on Twitter, Trump starts posting out of context photos of Democratic Congressional members with Russian diplomats during state visits where the media is investigated from years in the past, and demanding investigations into their “secret” Russian ties. In one, he posts a photo of Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer getting a hot dog with Vladimir Putin, and in another, a state dinner that had both House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Sergey Kislyak present.
The Trump administration’s Department of Homeland Security begins discussing separating mothers of detained undocumented immigrants from their children as they are taken into custody.
- March 4th, 2017: Donald Trump’s insane Twitter posts of conspiracy theories reach a new peak, as he claims Barack Obama had “wire tapps” of his phone at Trump Tower. No evidence of his ever emerges, and various members of both parties demand he provide that evidence or apologize. He does neither.
CNN reports six members of the Trump campaign admit to having met Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, but insist there was no wrongdoing.
- March 5th, 2017: The White House announces that they’re going to have an investigation of whether or not President Obama did the “wire-tapps” on Trump Tower.
On Twitter, Trump launches a totally different conspiracy theory, this time that the DNC did not allow access to its server to the FBI or other equipment after it was hacked. We would like to thank Politifact for pointing out that this is false. Trump will occasionally float this conspiracy theory over the next few months, with a few variations on the details of his lies here and there.
- March 6th, 2017: Trump releases a revised version of his Muslim ban, hoping that this one won’t be overturned by courts. (The main difference between the two is that this one exempts Iraq.)
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer contradicts FBI Director James Comey’s assertions that the Obama administration did not do “the wire tapps” to the phones at Trump Tower, insisting that it totally happened.
Trump’s HUD Secretary, Ben Carson, refers to people who came to the United States “in the bottom of slave ships” as “immigrants”. Carson is not asked to resign, or apologize for this, of course and actually doubles down on his remarks.
Democratic Senators respond to Trump’s frequency to use his own Mar-A-Lago resort for government diplomatic efforts to insist that the estate’s guest list be released to the public.
- March 7th, 2017: On Twitter, Trump accuses President Obama of releasing 122 “vicious” prisoners from Guantanamo Bay prison while in office, and the media fact-checking of this lie (they were released during the Bush administration, and caught during the Obama administration) forces the White House to contradict him.
Trump also insists that any reports about White House infighting are “FAKE NEWS”, and Trump also makes a lot of false claims about the soon-to-be announced American Healthcare Act, the House GOP’s “repeal and replace” of the Affordable Care Act. He claims it will bring pricing of medications down, and that “eliminating state lines” would “promote competition”. To anyone who isn’t aware, he has no idea what the f*** he is talking about.
Democrats begin moving towards a Special Counsel named to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election, and if the Trump campaign colluded with them to do so.
- March 8th, 2017: A judge in Hawaii blocks Trump’s second Muslim travel ban.
Trump picks former Utah Governor and 2012 presidential candidate John Huntsman to be his Ambassador to Russia.
James Comey puts any rumors that he might resign to bed, saying that he intends to finish the next six years and then some of his term as FBI Director. (Oh, dear.)
It’s International Women’s Day, and Donald Trump kicks a hornet’s nest on Twitter when the p***y-grabber decides to post that he has “tremendous respect for women” and gets mocked mercilessly for it.
- March 9th, 2017: Sean Spicer and White House officials continue to deny that Donald Trump is under investigation.
Michael Flynn, meanwhile, is revealed to have been working as a foreign agent for Turkey while also working for the Trump campaign.
Walter Schaub, the head of the Office of Government Ethics, expresses his disgust at the Trump administration for not disciplining Kellyanne Conway for shilling for Ivanka Trump.
- March 10th, 2017: Attorney General Jeff Sessions demands the immediate resignations of 46 Obama-appointed state Attorney Generals without any warning. This includes Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan who was conducting ongoing investigations into the Trump Foundation and Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price. Bharara was told he would be allowed to remain in office until all his pending investigations were complete. Instead, Bharara was fired for “refusing to resign”.
Sean Spicer showed up to his morning presser wearing his American flag pin upside down, said that U.S. job creation numbers used to be “fake” but are “real now”, and fed into the conspiracy theory that the “deep state” had taken over the American government.
- March 11th, 2017: No less than 134 foreign policy experts sign on to a letter condemning Donald Trump’s Muslim travel ban.
On Twitter, Trump falsely claims that “Obamacare is imploding”.
- March 12th, 2017: Trump is golfing at Mar-A-Lago, and Fed Chair Janet Yellen starts making statements that seem to contradict what Trump’s intentions for the federal reserve will be regarding interest rates.
- March 13th, 2017: The American Healthcare Act’s CBO score comes out, and it’s not good. The worst part is probably that 24 million Americans would lose their health insurance. Trump’s own base would be hit the hardest. On Twitter, Trump reiterates his false claim that “Obamacare is imploding”.
- March 14th, 2017: Two pages of Donald Trump’s 2005 tax returns are leaked to David Cay Johnston, and the story breaks on The Rachel Maddow Show, whose host indicates that the most likely thing is Trump’s “best” tax year was released, without further details into his business holdings.
Meanwhile, a company owned by Jared Kushner’s family signed an “extremely lucrative” deal with a Chinese firm linked to the Chinese government. The family insists that Jared sold his stake in the company, and therefore, there is no reason to suspect wrongdoing (Sure, sounds plausible.)
- March 15th, 2017: A Hawaii judge blocks Trump’s Muslim travel ban nationally, and Trump seethes, calling it “unprecedented judicial overreach”, threatening to “go back to the first ban and go all the way” and take the case all the way to the Supreme Court.
In a meeting with auto industry executives, Trump asked the brilliant question, “Are the paints as good today as they used to be or not?”
House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes was forced to admit that there was no evidence of “wire tapps” on Trump Tower.
- March 16th, 2017: On the eve of St. Patrick’s Day, Donald Trump celebrates the holiday by reading his favorite Irish proverb… which is actually a poem written by a Nigerian poet.
House Oversight Committee member Elijah Cummings reveals Michael Flynn got $30,000 from RussiaToday, their state-owned media network in 2016, and $68,000 in 2015.
Trump White House Aide and frequent Fox News talking head Sebastian Gorka made a public denial that he was a member of the Order of Vitez, a Nazi-linked Hungarian group. It seems kind of interesting that the group acknowledges him as a member, and he wore a medal of the Order of Vitez to the Trump inauguration, though.
Trump Budget Director Mick Mulvaney claimed there was no evidence that poor kids getting government assistance to help them be fed helps their performance in school.
- March 17th, 2017: Trump meets German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House, and refuses to shake her hand in front of cameras. He also claims Germany “owes vast sums to NATO”. At a press conference during the day, he comments that President Obama “tapped her phones”.
On his Twitter, Trump makes another foreign policy blunder, insulting China for not doing enough to help stop North Korea for “behaving very badly”.
In Mosul, a military airstrike ordered by the offender-in-chief kills 200 yes (TWO HUNDRED) civilians.
In a radio with right wing talk radio host Mark Levin, Trump blames all the “wire tapps” accusations on Fox News’ Andrew Napolitano, for whatever reason. Fox News rejects the claim, outright.
The Trump administration files an appeal of a judge having blocked the second Muslim travel ban.
Mexican cement manufacturer Cemex announces their refusal to do any business that would help build Trump’s border wall.
- March 18th, 2017: The day after Angela Merkel leaves, Trump, on Twitter, claims Germany “owes vast sums to NATO”. This is false, of course.
- March 19th, 2017: Germany rejects Trump’s claim from the previous day that they “owe vast sums to NATO”, and has to explain to Trump how NATO funding works, because he’s an idiot who doesn’t understand the nuances of it.
After several consecutive weekends of Trump spending the whole weekend golfing at Mar-A-Lago at extreme taxpayer expense, people are starting to wonder how much he’s actually working down there.
- March 20th, 2017: FBI Director James Comey confirms that the FBI is, in fact, conducting an investigation about whether or not the Trump campaign colluded with Russia.
On Twitter, Trump claims that the former head of National Intelligence, James Clapper, stated that there is “no evidence that he colluded with Russia”, and anyone who says otherwise is “FAKE NEWS”. (Clapper never said that.) He also repeated his lie that the Clinton campaign and DNC did not cooperate with the FBI’s investigation into Russian hacking.
White House Press Secretary trots out on behalf of Trump, and tries downplaying any Trump/Russia rumors by claiming Paul Manafort, who was paid by the Russians over several years, only “played a small part” in the Trump campaign. Yeah, the guy who was the campaign manager only “played a small part”.
- March 21st, 2017: One day after Sean Spicer tried distancing the Trump campaign from Paul Manafort, a report that he laundered money from a Ukrainian political party loyal to the Kremlin comes out.
Trump himself is busy trying to get House Republicans to pass the AHCA, and is reported to be personally calling members of the GOP House to try and bullying them into voting for the disaster of a “repeal and replace”.
Congressman Devin Nunes, from the House Intelligence Committee, gets wind that incidental conversations were picked up between members of the Trump campaign and Russia, and hauls ass over to the White House to leak this information about the investigation back to Trump White House staffers, later revealed to be Ezra Cohen Watnick and Michael Ellis.
- March 22nd, 2017: Congressman Devin Nunes holds an impromptu press conference in the White House Rose Garden, and starts talking about the “unmasking” of Trump campaign members in the FBI’s investigation of Russia, that also picked up incidental conversations of Trump campaign members. He then goes to meet with President Trump, to tell him what a Trump staffer and Nunes already discussed the previous day.
A U.S. airstrike in Syria targeting ISIS manages to kill 30 civilians, because Donald Trump will green-light anything without considering if there are innocents anyone nearby.
- March 23rd, 2017: Donald Trump appears outside the White House, where he invited a bunch of big rig truckers to come to a discussion about healthcare reform. Little discussion seems to be had, and the whole moment boils down to the embarrassing visual of Trump climbing behind the wheel of a semi, pretending he’s driving it (he never drives himself anywhere), and honking the horn. People lampoon the unflattering photos of this moment, of a grown man trying to show everyone he’s really a big boy.
A CNN report emerges that the FBI may have proof of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.
The Alt-Right media starts claiming Devin Nunes “vindicated” Trump’s claims that Obama did the “wire-tapps” to him. The rest of the House Intelligence Committee points out Devin Nunes is an idiot who started single-handedly sharing information with the White House and then the public without first telling the rest of the House Intelligence Committee, and he ends up having to recuse himself in the Trump/Russia investigation.
- March 24th, 2017: After promising his sons would run the Trump Organization and he would not communicate with them about it, a report comes out that Donald Trump is going to be receiving quarterly reports on the company anyway from his son, Eric.
The first attempt by the GOP House to pass the American Health Care Act fails without ever coming to the floor for a vote, and Trump immediately gets on Twitter to blame Democrats, naming Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, specifically.
- March 25th, 2017: On Twitter, Trump tells his followers to watch Judge Jeannine Pirro on Fox News. Free advertising from the president, and all… but nobody expects Donald Trump to follow any kind of ethical standards. Anyway, Pirro, on her show, calls for Paul Ryan to be replaced as Speaker of the House for failing to pass the AHCA. Thus, the story becomes the President is hyped for Paul Ryan to be taken down.
At a pro-Trump rally in California, a near riot occurs between Trump supporters and counter-protesters. After violence breaks out, Trump doesn’t dissuade anyone from fighting, and instead thanks those attending for their “support” (i.e. the violence) on Twitter.
- March 26th, 2017: On Twitter, Trump shames the GOP’s House Freedom Caucus for not helping pass the AHCA the previous week, and telling them “Democrats are smiling”.
- March 27th, 2017: Trump’s approval rating hits 36% in the Gallup poll, the lowest for any president at this point in their presidency since the poll was created, and two points lower than Barack Obama ever fell to at any point during his entire presidency. Reports also spill out about infighting from within the White House between several factions of staff.
A report emerges that Jared Kushner met with not just Sergey Kisylak, but also Russian state-owned bank executive Sergey Gorkov.
On Twitter that evening, Trump starts griping about both the Clintons and John Podesta actually are the ones with shifty ties to Russia, and claims the Trump/Russia investigation is a “hoax”. He also trash-talks the House Freedom Caucus again.
- March 28th, 2017: Trump signs an executive order to undo most of President Obama’s legacy on environmental issues to allow the coal industry to profit more and not worry about carbon dioxide emissions.
Trump’s lawyer, Mark Kasowitz, tries to have a lawsuit against Donald Trump for defamation by a former Apprentice contestant thrown out of court, arguing that a president cannot be sued. The legal precedent has already been established that this is possible, because Paula Jones was allowed to sue Bill Clinton.
On Twitter, Trump starts floating conspiracy theories about Hillary Clinton selling uranium to Russia during the election based on Fox News propaganda.
- March 29th, 2017: Ivanka Trump is given a former role in the Trump White House, based on her resume of… y’know what? We’ll just state the obvious fact that she’s unqualified, even though her job duties are as vague as anything Trump ever is involved with.
Trump’s Energy Department bans the use of the phrases “climate change”, “emissions reduction”, and “Paris agreement”.
On Twitter, Trump falsely claimed The New York Times “apologized to its subscribers”. The newspaper’s communications team were very firm about the fact that there never was an apology.
- March 30th, 2017: Trump again invites FBI Director James Comey to the White House, asking what can be done to “lift the cloud” of the Russia investigation.
Lawyers for General Michael Flynn make it publicly known that he would be willing to testify against the Trump administration in exchange for immunity. The Senate and House Intelligence Committees end up rejecting this offer.
On Twitter, for the third time in about a week, Trump bullied the House Freedom Caucus. For the second day in a row, Trump attacks the New York Times, this time with the veiled threat of asking out loud if they should “Change libel laws?”
Trump’s deputy chief of staff, Katie Walsh resigns to go work for an outside political group.
- March 31st, 2017: Trump stages a ceremony in front of the media to have them take pictures while he signs an executive order, and he leaves the room after forgetting to sign the damn thing, leaving Vice-President Mike Pence no choice but to pack his order to-go and chase after him. (Note: Trump being forgetful is terrifying, as his father Fred developed and died from Alzheimer’s Disease.)
Late in the afternoon, the Trump Administration announces that April 2017 is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention month, and Trump is openly mocked on social media for the fact that he himself has boasted about committing sexual assault and getting away with it on the Access Hollywood tape, and several women came forward to accuse him of being attacked.
On Twitter, Trump mentions Michael Flynn being investigated, and calls the whole thing a “witch hunt”.
- April 1st, 2017: On Twitter, Donald Trump spends part of his Saturday again complaining about “fake news” and attacking Chuck Todd, and yet again calling him by the bizarre nickname “Sleepy Eyes”. News also breaks that Michael Flynn failed to disclose income he earned from several Russia-linked businesses.
- April 2nd, 2017: Trump continues talking tough with nothing to back it up, claiming that if China doesn’t step up to help stop North Korea, he would be willing to unilaterally act to rein them in.
On behalf of the Trump administration, Jared Kushner is sent to Iraq, and looks completely out of place, dressed for a yacht party and then covered in body armor.
From a golf course, Trump meets with Senator Rand Paul to discuss a potential repeal of the Affordable Care Act and confirms it happened on Twitter.
- April 3rd, 2017: A Washington Post report emerges that Blackwater founder Eric Prince, a trump donor and campaign advisor and brother to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, tried to set up a back channel for the Trump transition to directly communicate with Moscow.
After a White House visit from him, Trump praises Egyptian authoritarian strongman Abdel Fattah al Sisi.
Trump signs the bill into law that repeals broadband privacy rules, and allows internet providers to sell the browser history of their users to other businesses.
On Twitter, Trump tries to deflect from news about the Russia investigation by pushing conspiracy theories against John Podesta, promote false equivalencies to Hillary Clinton, and accusing President Obama of having “spied on” him prior to the election. Oh, and the “real story” everyone is missing is “leakers”.
- April 4th, 2017: After Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad again uses chemical weapons against his own people… the Trump administration refers to it as “reprehensible”, and then blame the Obama administration, citing their “weakness and irresolution”.
A report emerges that half of the positions in Rex Tillerson’s State Department have still not been filled. The Trump administration is thirteen weeks in.
Trump uses his Twitter account to Retweet a Drudge Report conspiracy theory about former Ambassador Susan Rice. The f***ing Drudge Report, bastion of journalism and definitely not “fake news” in his twisted mind. (Here’s what sane people needed to know to understand why the hell Susan Rice’s name came up.)
Noted Neo-Nazi Sebastian Gorka gets caught trying to scrub his criminal past from his own Wikipedia page. For whatever reason, Trump keeps the cartoon villain with no real qualifications for his job working at the White House.
- April 5th, 2017: In a New York Times interview, Donald Trump furthers his false narrative against Susan Rice, saying he believes she committed “crimes” without citing any evidence, at all. Oh, and he continued to insist “The Russia story is a hoax” and as revelations are made public about Bill O’Reilly sexually harassing several Fox News co-workers, and a domestic abuse case involving him on his wife… Trump defends Bill O’Reilly and calls him a “good person” and says he shouldn’t have settled in his sexual harassment lawsuits. On Day Five of his supposed “Sexual Assault Awareness Month”.
Trump’s new National Security Advisor, H.R. McMaster, finally gets around to removing Steve Bannon from the National Security Council, after exactly two months on it. (The Alt-Right Media begins its smear campaign against McMaster on Bannon’s behalf not long after this.)
- April 6th, 2017: While meeting with Chinese PM Xi Jinping, Trump orders airstrikes against Syria, launching 59 Tomahawk missiles against an airport runway. He gets probably too much praise for blowing stuff up, and the attack is less impressive once you factor in that his White House first warned Russia before the missiles were launched, the Russians then warned their Syrian allies so they could move their planes and equipment out of the way, and within a day, Syrian planes were taking off from the same location.
As it became crystal clear that there were not 60 Senators willing to vote for Neil Gorsuch to be seated on the Supreme Court, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell caved to Donald Trump’s wishes and “went nuclear”, requiring only a simple majority to nominate Supreme Court Justices.
Twitter sued the federal government for trying to force them to identify the users behind several anti-Trump accounts run by workers at federal agencies anonymously.
It seems that some of the mystery behind why Steve Bannon was allowed to be removed from the National Security Council by Donald Trump is revealed when a report emerges about how Bannon liked to call Jared Kushner a “cuck” behind his back, because the Trump White House is a junior high.
- April 7th, 2017: The Senate votes to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court. This will be the only real legislative accomplishment during the Trump administration.
- April 8th, 2017: Trump is, yet again, golfing at Mar-A-Lago on the taxpayers’ dime.
- April 9th, 2017: For the second day in a row, Trump golfs at Mar-A-Lago. It is his 17th day on the golf course out of his first 79 in office. Trump’s National Security Advisor, Secretary of State, and U.N. Ambassador all release conflicting statements about how foreign policy with Syria will be handled.
Deputy National Security Advisor and former Fox News contributor K.T. MacFarland is forced to step down from her position.
- April 10th, 2017: In a Rose Garden ceremony, Neil Gorsuch is sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice. Donald Trump again exhibits he does not know how to shake hands with another human being while congratulating him.
- April 11th, 2017: The Washington Post reports that the FBI had obtained a FISA warrant to monitor Trump advisor Carter Page, indicating that a judge somewhere saw some really dirty things about him to approve such a thing.
Trump makes a phone call to James Comey to complain that his investigation into Russia interfering in the 2016 election is “creating a cloud” that is interfering with his ability to serve as president.
Trump’s son, Eric, meanwhile, talked in interviews about how great nepotism is, and asserted that his father ordering a Syrian airfield to be hit with a missile strike disproved any ties his father might have to Russia (it doesn’t).
Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer, in his latest daily presser, takes a bizarre line of attack against Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, saying that “not even Hitler used chemical weapons against his own people” and then calls concentration camps “Holocaust Centers”. Several Jewish groups condemn his attempt at revisionist history, which doesn’t help the Trump White House’s frequently anti-Semitic image.
- April 12th, 2017: At a White House press conference, Trump completely flip flops and declares that NATO “is not obsolete”. Trump added that he was sending an “armada” towards North Korea in the Pacific (days later, we found out the aircraft carrier he claimed was headed there was actually moving in the opposite direction, thousands of miles away). He then would give an interview with the Wall Street Journal and flip his stance on China, now saying that they are not a currency manipulator. He also mentioned in that interview that he would use the powers of his office to sabotage the Affordable Care Act to force Democrats to negotiate on a new healthcare bill. Later, Trump, in an interview with Fox News Business Channel, boasts about how he was having “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake you’ve ever seen” with Chinese president Xi Jinping when he ordered his Syrian missile strike. He is also interviewed by the New York Post, and Trump lies and says “he didn’t know Steve” prior to Steve Bannon joining his campaign officially in August 2016.
Elsewhere, former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has to retroactively register as a foreign agent. And a Washington Post report detailed how the Trump administration was trying to figure out how to secure the funding for a massive “deportation force”.
- April 13th, 2017: Trump signs legislation to allow state governments to block funding to Planned Parenthood. The Department of Health and Human Services takes steps to shorten the enrollment period for the Affordable Care Act.
A Guardian report is that British intelligence can confirm the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to interfere in the 2016 elections, and alerted the United States to Russia’s interference.
The Pentagon announces that they finally used one of the “Mother of All Bombs” on a target, dropping it on an ISIS target in Afghanistan and killing 94 people (with no way to confirm who they all are due to the blast’s sheer force). The MOAB is destructive enough to permanently deafen anyone within 2 miles of the explosion. In the days that follow, Afghan President Hamid Karzai expresses his disgust with the move. In Syria, a botched military operation managed to kill 18 Syrian fighters who were allied with the U.S. to fight the Assad regime.
- April 14th, 2017: After years of transparency in the Obama White House, where the visitor logs remained public, Donald Trump’s White House will keep those guest lists secret until five years after he leaves office.
For the second time in April, Trump Retweets a Drudge Report article.
- April 15th, 2017: With tax day approaching, thousands begin protests calling for Donald Trump to release his tax returns. He again goes golfing at Mar-A-Lago.
- April 16th, 2017: Trump spends Easter Sunday alternating between golfing at Mar-A-Lago, and getting on Twitter to claim that protesters calling for his tax returns to be released are paid, without evidence.
- April 17th, 2017: Because he hates to work on weekends, Donald Trump hosts the Easter Egg roll at the White House on a Monday, the day after Easter. The same people who freak out about the War on Christmas like Trump apparently don’t hold Easter to the same standards.
Trump, against the advice of several industry leaders, signs an executive order to cut back the number of work visas being issued to skilled workers.
Trump gives a phone call to Turkish President Erdogan, congratulating the authoritarian dictator on a fixed election in his country that allowed him to further consolidate his power.
- April 18th, 2017: The Trump Administration abruptly cancel a meeting to discuss whether or not to stay in the Paris Climate Accords. They also deport the first formerly-protected “Dreamer”, Juan Manuel Montes, who had lived in the United States since he was nine years old.
- April 19th, 2017: Trump hosts the Super Bowl Champion New England Patriots at the White House. Numerous players no-show, including quarterback Tom Brady. That night, Trump hosts Sarah Palin, Kid Rock, and fellow insane draft-dodger with a sketchy history of sex crimes, Ted Nugent at the White House.
- April 20th, 2017: Trump nominates former Senator Scott Brown to be Ambassador to New Zealand, in spite of his various controversies through the past several years, and lack of background with New Zealand.
- April 21st, 2017: After a police officer is killed in Paris, Trump, on Twitter, declares it is “another terrorist attack”. Trump promises to release his tax plan the following week but it should be noted that Trump promises it will contain tax breaks for both businesses AND individuals (the former, not so much on the latter).
On Twitter, as Trump approaches his 100 day milestone with virtually no policy successes to speak of, except for Neil Gorsuch being confirmed to the Supreme court, he declares that 100 days is a “ridiculous standard”.
- April 22nd, 2017: While it was already announced that the thin-skinned Trump was not going to attend the White House Press Correspondents’ Dinner, he announces he will be going to Pennsylvania to have a rally that night instead.
- April 23rd, 2017: Trump spends most of the day trying, and failing to secure funding for his border wall. He then publishes a bizarre Twitter post about the border wall, writing, “Eventually but at a later date so we can get started early, Mexico will be be paying in some form, for the badly needed border wall.”
- April 24th, 2017: A Politico report notes that a State Department managed website has started giving free advertising for Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort in Florida. (Hint: That’s not legal.)
Trump, ultimate deal-maker that he is, gives up on making a deal to secure Congressional funding for his border wall after a few days.
- April 25th, 2017: Trump gives a speech at a Holocaust Remembrance Ceremony, and demonstrates he cannot pronounce the word “Nazis”.
On Twitter, he insists that contrary to reports, he is not giving up on trying to get funding for his border wall.
- April 26th, 2017: After the Ninth Circuit Court upholds the block on Trump’s second Muslim ban, he goes on a Tweetstorm against the judiciary, talking about splitting the court up, and promises he’ll see them at the Supreme Court.
Trump also releases his proposed tax plan, and it’s short on details. Like literally, it’s a one-page plan, so you know Donald worked hard on it.
- April 27th, 2017: Trump goes on Twitter to say that he won’t be backing out of NAFTA, but will “renegotiate” it with the leaders of Canada and Mexico.
In Sean Spicer’s daily press briefing, he tries blaming the Obama administration for Michael Flynn’s crimes. Even though they dismissed him from his post and took away his national security clearance, and Trump gave it back.
- April 28th, 2017: Trump becomes the first president since Ronald Reagan to speak at the NRA convention, and tells them they “have a friend in the White House”. This would be the same NRA that is being investigated for funneling millions of dollars of illegal campaign donations from Russian oligarchs to the Trump 2016 campaign, as well as had its leadership casually infiltrated by Maria Butina, a Russian spy.
- April 29th, 2017: Trump holds his rally in Pennsylvania during the White House Correspondents Dinner, while seething on Twitter that “FAKE media” reports don’t give him enough credit for what he’s done in his first 100 days in office. He claims it is a record-breaking crowd, even though there are empty seats filmed in several parts of the arena, which would then, by logic, to have never sold out in its history (it has).
Trump makes a pleasant phone call to Rodrigo Duterte, the dictator running the Philippines, praises his killing of suspects in his “war on drugs”, and then reveals the classified location of U.S. Nuclear submarines in international waters because… well, he’s an idiot.
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