Trump makes MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT
When will Trump supporters realize that this guy is a disaster?
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Some major breaking news here. As long lines at airports continue to plague the travel sector in this country, Donald Trump just took to Truth Social and wrote, quote:
"The radical left Democrats and their leader Cryin’ Chuck Schumer have made it very clear where they stand, and that is on the side of criminal illegal aliens and not the American people. They are refusing to fund immigration enforcement unless the Republicans agree to their open border policies, which will never ever happen again. They almost destroyed our country, allowing 25 million people to enter from prisons, mental institutions, and insane asylums, those that are drug dealers and thousands of murderers, many of whom killed more than one person.
Because the Democrats have recklessly created a true national crisis, I'm using my authorities under the law to protect our great country, as I will always do. Therefore, I'm going to sign an order instructing the Secretary of Homeland Security, Marine Mullen, to immediately pay our TSA agents in order to address this emergency situation and to quickly stop the Democrat chaos at the airports. It is not an easy thing to do, but I am going to do it. I want to thank our hardworking TSA agents and also ICE for the incredible help they have given us at the airports. I will not allow the radical left Democrats to hold our country hostage any longer.
Thank you for your attention to this matter, President Donald J. Trump."
So, long story short, he is paying TSA agents from the existing DHS budget, which raises a pretty interesting question. If he had this authority all along, why did he wait until right now to use it? Why did he allow Americans to spend weeks contending with hours long lines at airports? Why did he allow Americans to miss their flights? Why did he allow spring break plans to be missed? Why did he voluntarily subject Americans to chaos if a solution was available to him all along? And in fact, those are obviously all rhetorical questions because we already know that Trump had solutions right in front of him. Besides just funding TSA himself, which apparently he always had the ability to do, he was also approached with a plan that both Democrats and Republicans had reportedly agreed to.
And here's Republican Senator John Kennedy explaining what happened.
Senator Cruz and I came up with a plan. We said, "Look, it's a two-step process. The Democrats have offered to open up everything but ICE." Ted and I said, "Okay, let's accept their offer." And then at the same time, we would offer a bill through reconciliation where we don't need any Democratic votes to do whatever we wanted to do with ICE. And that way we're out of the shutdown and DHS is back open. We submitted that. Senator Thune submitted that to President Trump. As is his right, he said no. No deals with the Democrats. It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week. But the president said no deal.
Quote, "It would have worked. We would have had TSA paid by the end of the week." In other words, from the mouth of a Republican senator, the sole impediment to bringing our airports back to normal was Donald Trump. And in fact, even Trump himself reiterated that point.
They get a deal, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate, to fund all but enforcement operations of ICE to get those TSA agents to be paid and to open up... Well, I don't want to comment until I see the deal, but as you know, they're negotiating a deal. I guess they're getting fairly close, but I think any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it.
Quote, "Any deal they make, I'm pretty much not happy with it."
So the big question then became, why is Trump doing this? Why would he possibly create a situation where Americans are contending with three, four, five hour long lines at the airports and be offered a solution and yet ignore that solution so that he can entrench the problem? And he actually just comes out and admits exactly why.
We want to settle. We want to settle. And I told the people, don't settle. Don't settle because we have something bigger. Only settle if you get the Save America Act, voter ID, and so important, proof of citizenship, etc. Thank you very much.
Whose idea was that when I said the airport? We're dealing really. Whose idea was it? Mine. That was mine. And I'm suggesting strongly to the Republican Party, don't make any deal on anything. The most important thing we can have is what's called the Save America Act. Don't make any deal on anything unless you include voter ID and you have to be a citizen to vote. You have to show citizenship to vote. Very easy to do. It's very insulting when they say people can't do it because they don't know how to do it. Anybody that can't do it, I think it's a very insulting thing to say.
The Democrats are fully to blame for the struggle the great American public is going through at the airports. They're going through a big struggle right now. And we just put ICE in charge because he wanted to exploit everyone's pain and frustration so that he could ramp up the pressure and get a voter suppression bill passed. That's it. It's not even conjecture. The guy came right out and said it. The long lines weren't an unfortunate byproduct. They were the point. Because your pain isn't a bug, it is a feature. It is a tool for him to exploit. And he would rather preserve a bargaining chip for himself than relinquish it to help thousands of traveling Americans.
Because lest there be any doubt, Trump's presidency is not about helping us. It is about helping himself. And if we have to serve as collateral damage en route, that's clearly a sacrifice he's willing to have us make. All because his sole priority is not helping Americans. It is not making health care more affordable or ending childhood poverty or improving our infrastructure or lowering costs. It is quite simply passing a bill that makes it far more difficult for Americans to vote. Period.
And so instead of governing, instead of helping Americans, they spend all of their time and energy lying about voter fraud to give themselves some bogus justification to pass a bill that solves a non-existent problem. In fact, I spoke about this issue with my friend Jack just days ago. Republicans have been searching for some basis to be able to attack ballots or engage in this voter suppression. And there have been a bunch of major studies.
For example, Justin Levitt, who's a law professor at Loyola Law School, studied ballot fraud from 2000 to 2014. There were over a billion ballots cast in this study, and they found 31 instances of ballot fraud out of a billion ballots cast. That wouldn't be enough to tip a dog catcher election anywhere in this country.
And also in the state of Utah, they decided to look into exactly how many undocumented immigrants were registered to vote. And so they did this whole deep dive, full Republican control, no crunchy libs standing in their way, full investigation into how many undocumented immigrants were on the voter rolls. There was one, and that person had never voted.
So they have been beating the drum about this issue, but it is a solution in search of a problem. There is no widespread issue with voter fraud or ballot fraud. And yet this is the basis for them to upend everything. I mean, Donald Trump himself won't allow TSA to be funded because he wants to extract as much pain from people as possible to use as leverage to pass the Save America Act, which is dangerous in its own right.
It would force the states to hand over the voter rolls to the federal government, for example. It would say that if you want to be able to vote, you need one of two documents, which would be a passport, which isn't free and 21 million Americans don't have access to it, or you would need a birth certificate, which plenty of people also don't have. And women's names are different on their birth certificates from before they get married to after they get married.
And by the way, if you want to update your passport or order a passport, that's the prerogative of the federal government, which means in effect you would be giving Donald Trump's federal government the ability to give you the document that you need to be able to vote.
And so there are so many problems with all of this stuff, notwithstanding the fact that again, this stuff isn't free. It's not free to order a passport. It's not free to get a copy of your birth certificate, which means it's basically tantamount to a poll tax.
So there are so many problems with all of this stuff, and it would be one thing if voter fraud or ballot fraud was a problem, but on top of all of the problems, it's not. And so again, this is just an effort by Republicans to be able to figure out some way to suppress the vote. And they know that Democrats avail themselves of mail-in voting more than Republicans do.
And so this is just their brazen way of enacting this scheme to help themselves win elections moving forward. And it's a shame that they can't just let their governing speak for itself. That's their big problem. The fact that they have to engage in all of this stuff is just a direct reflection on the fact that these people who have full control of government, there are no Democrats in the House and the Senate and the White House that are in control.
And yet this is unencumbered, unapologetic Republican governance. And you look at what we've got. We've got Medicaid that was stripped, ACA coverage that was stripped, food assistance that was stripped. You've got costs surging on everything. Gas is the highest it's been. A barrel of oil is nearing $150.
You've got planes still falling out of the sky. There are so many problems. And so of course they can't run on their record. What are they going to run on at this point? Of course they have to cheat.
So if you take one thing away from today, it should be that Trump's big announcement saying that TSA agents will be paid is not evidence of his benevolence. It is evidence that he could have solved this on day one, but he chose to with everybody's lives. He chose to delay our travel. He chose to ruin spring breaks. He chose not to pay TSA agents even though they were going into work because it was more important to help himself than to help the country.
Per usual, Trump's presidency is about one person and one person only, Donald Trump.
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Have Trump supporters become so desensitized that they truly cannot see what this guy is doing? To still believe that Trump is working for the good of the American people (rather than use the presidency as his personal toy)?
When will the MAGAs see he only cares about himself ? Never.
Its a tragedy for this country but right now we have to move forward without the Trump suck ups.
we all should be thankful that these events haven't interfered with trump's golf games ... /s
maga leadership thru deception, extortion, and blackmail ...
But don't worry, the Trump apologist spin doctors will be out to declare it's all Democrats fault even though it's now clear Trump could have done this on day 1 but chose not to. They knew the bill was a non-starter with Democrats; this was all manufactured chaos of Republican making that their dear Leader comes in and pretends like he's solved something like big strong dear Leaders should.
It's almost like a reverse of the "Chain of Command" episode of TNG where everyone is just trying to get Republicans to agree on reality, that there are four lights, but after Trump said he thinks there are five lights Republicans now chant in unison "Yes! There are five lights! You only think there are four lights because the mainstream media told you there are four lights! But we know the truth! There are five lights just as our dear leader said! To believe anything different is blasphemy! Just do as our dear Leader did and stare at the sun for a while and you'll see the hidden light of truth!". It's probably that extra light they see at the end of Trump's tunnel.
bottom line is that trump hung the blame for this fiasco on himself ...
He loves chaos. That's why he didn't anything before now.
He's a shit show with a side of manure
he has his moronic followers fooled ...
... which really isn't saying much.
So, long story short, he is paying TSA agents from the existing DHS budget, which raises a pretty interesting question. If he had this authority all along, why did he wait until right now to use it? Why did he allow Americans to spend weeks contending with hours long lines at airports? Why did he allow Americans to miss their flights? Why did he allow spring break plans to be missed?
There are 22 agencies under Homeland Security. It is a question of robbing Peter to pay Paul. Trump just declared the long lines at airports a crisis situation in order to move money around. Will it leave FEMA short? Will it leave Coast Guard cutters tied up at the dock? Trump took action before we lost all our TSA workers. The very people who are holding up funding are asking why now? What ruthless scum!
And it is a fact that they don't care about the American people:
How you come to that conclusion is exactly what this article is about. Wake up Vic, Trump is sick.
None of your post countered the argument that there were options available to the President to pay TSA Agents weeks ago that didn't include untrained ICE Agents. The President numbers are the worst going into a midterm election. Good luck continuing to spin this as only a Dem problem.
Trump clearly had the means to stop this before TSA lost so much staff and the American people suffered all these unnecessary consequences.
Trump blocked Congress from making a deal. He insisted that his voting proposals be included. So he is the key reason for all this turmoil with TSA. And he clearly could have prevented this.
It is a fact that Trump cares only about himself and will impose/allow harm to anyone to get what he personally wants.
There is no justification for this turmoil. And you continue to defend this prick no matter what!
Trump could have moved money from ICE operations, too. A delay in buying failed warehouse businesses (with taxpayer money) shouldn't hamper immigration enforcement in the near term. Trump could have furloughed the ICE agents deployed to airports to pay TSA workers.
Why isn't Trump running the government like a business? Idling ICE for a 'show the flag' exercise while leaving the critical workers unpaid seems a little like 'woke' policy. Stupid is as stupid does.
The very place the democrats want to defund & shut down.
I don't think so.
ICE has been overfunded given a stated mission of deporting murders, rapists, etc.
You think it is better to keep the ICE force 100% intact rather than keep TSA operations running and allowing US airports to continue running without major disruptions and all the consequences to the passengers??
Always with your comments ... no matter what Trump does, you claim it is correct.
Trump stopped the ICE mission by diverting agents to airports. What did that accomplish? The Iranians to be deported are not hiding in airports.
I don't understand why pulling ICE off the streets doesn't give the evil Democrats what they want?
When his approval rating stops sinking we will have hit MAGA bedrock.
iran is messing with the the great white dope's plans of making the 4th of july celebration all about him this year ...
It's not like he's wrong.
Counter question...Why are Democrats fighting TSA being paid?
why does maga want a national law enforcement agency that is immune from operating outside constitutional boundaries?
is that what he said????
Nobody is fighting TSA being paid!!! Just make shit up and expect to be taken seriously.
MAGA!
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You mean like the "No Kings" shit we saw over the weekend? Or the Russia Collusion shit we saw? Or the "Biden is doing good" shit we saw?
have your bug out bag handy ...
For what? I'm not protesting something that never existed in the US.
Trump could have paid TSA employees all along. Instead, he chose to use them as political pawns (and, by extension, airline passengers). Further, Trump blocked Congress from passing a bill that would have paid TSA (per Senator Kennedy ... a Republican, in case you do not know this).
Trump is the problem. How is it possible for some to not recognize what is blatantly obvious?
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Well at least you realize that Trump could have addressed this problem himself and chose to not do so. And worse, chose to block Congress from solving the problem (per Senator Kennedy).
Why do you try to defend this asshole when you can see what he is doing?
the save act is DOA, or maga likely will be ...
Just as you realize this whole thing was avoidable if the Democrats did their job.
that's another unfounded opinion.
You keep focusing on partisan crap. When you deflect from Trump to Congress, you totally ignore the role of the Rs and blame everything on the Ds.
Blind partisanship coupled with total blindness regarding the unnecessary damage Trump continues to inflict on this nation, with you cheering him on.
Then stop spouting partisan crap.
I didn't deflect a damn thing. You just don't want to discuss the root cause of all this. Which brings us back to the partisan crap your keep spouting.
I'm tired of talking in circles with you.
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