Category Archives: Politics

“He doesn’t drink. He doesn’t do drugs. His drug is himself.” (Sam Nunberg about Trump)

The New Yorker: How Trump Could Get Fired. “The Constitution offers two main paths for removing a President from office. How feasible are they?”
By Evan Osnos.

“Hours after Donald Trump’s Inauguration, a post appeared on the official White House petitions page, demanding that he release his tax returns. In only a few days, it gathered more signatures than any previous White House petition. The success of the Women’s March had shown that themed protests could both mobilize huge numbers of people and hit a nerve with the President. On Easter weekend, roughly a hundred and twenty thousand people protested in two hundred cities, calling for him to release his tax returns and sell his businesses. On Capitol Hill, protesters chanted “Impeach Forty-five!“ In West Palm Beach, a motorcade ferrying him from the Trump International Golf Club to Mar-a-Lago had to take a circuitous route to avoid demonstrators. The White House does all it can to keep the President away from protests, but the next day Trump tweeted, “Someone should look into who paid for the small organized rallies yesterday. The election is over!“ “

Sprachlos.

The Atlantic: Donald Trump’s Conflicts of Interest: A Crib Sheet. “A semi-comprehensive list of the business concerns that may influence the president during his time in office.” By Jeremy Venook. Published Apr 24, 2017.

“As early as 2000, he was speculating that he “could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it“ by patronizing his own businesses and running the campaign out of one of his properties. During his 2016 bid, he did exactly that, establishing his political headquarters in Trump Tower (and quintupling the rent as soon as he became the Republican nominee and began drawing funds from the party rather than his personal war chest). Shortly before his victory, The Wall Street Journal reported that Trump’s campaign had paid out the unprecedented sum of more than $14 million to his family and companies for such services as flights on his personal airplanes, rent at Trump Tower, and meals and hotel rooms at other Trump buildings.”

(Emphasis mine.)

“There are legitimate reasons to run deficits […] Borrowing trillions of dollars to provide a huge windfall for people at the top is not one of those reasons.”

The New York Times: President Trump’s Laughable Plan to Cut His Own Taxes”.

“As to the rationale offered up by Mr. Mnuchin and Mr. Cohn, even many conservative economists believe that the argument that tax cuts will pay for themselves, by increasing investment and creating jobs, is the same supply-side fantasy that has repeatedly been proved wrong. This durable nonsense would instead add mightily to a federal debt that Americans will be paying off for generations to come.
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Regardless of the plan’s fate, Mr. Trump has already sent a strong message about where his sympathies really lie. They lie not with the working people who elected him, but with the plutocracy that envelops him.”

“Natürlich ist die Regierung daran nicht direkt schuld. Aber sie erzeugt ein bestimmtes Klima.”

Zeit online: Auswandern: Trump kam, sie gehen. “Nach Trumps Wahlsieg schien es, als wolle die halbe USA nach Kanada auswandern. Kaum einer meinte es ernst. Ein jüdisches Paar aus South Carolina geht tatsächlich.” Von Kersten Augustin und Alexander Krex.

“Zeit online: Wann haben Sie die Entscheidung getroffen, zu gehen?
Jesselson: Vor der Wahl haben wir im Spaß gesagt: Wenn Trump gewinnt, wandern wir aus. In der Wahlnacht hatten wir dann Freunde zu Besuch, wir hatten Champagner kalt gestellt, um auf Clintons Sieg anzustoßen. Dann kamen nach und nach die Ergebnisse, und alle unsere Freunde sind nach Hause gegangen. Wir haben uns dann angeschaut und gesagt: Wir machen das. Wir wandern aus.”