Trump’s Numbers October 2018 Update

“Statistical measures of how things have changed since the president took office.”

In the time Donald Trump has been in the White House: The jobless rate dropped to the lowest in nearly half a century, and the number of unfilled job openings hit a record high. Economic growth spurted to a 4.2 percent annual rate in the most recent quarter. Median household income rose to...

FactChecking Trump’s Immigration Address

“The president made some false and misleading claims, and provided some facts without context:”

In a national address, President Donald Trump called on Congress to provide $5.7 billion for a border wall to address what he called a “crisis” on the border. The president made some false and misleading claims, and provided some facts without context: Despite the president’s claims of a...

More People Watched Pelosi And Schumer Than Trump’s Address

“Forty-five percent of Americans who were watching television watched Trump, but that number rose to 49% when Pelosi and Schumer delivered their...”

According to The Hollywood Reporter viewership went up after Trump stopped talking, “In preliminary numbers, the quarter hour (9-9:15 p.m. ET) containing the president’s speech drew a combined 28.1 household rating in metered markets on ABC, CBS, Fox, NBC, CNN, Fox News and NBC. The following 15...

Pelosi And Schumer Humiliate Trump In Front Of The Entire Country

“Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer threw down on Trump and showed that the adults in the room aren’t playing.”

Pelosi said: I appreciate the opportunity to speak directly to the American people tonight about how we can end this shutdown and meet the needs of the American people. Sadly, much of what we heard from president trump throughout the shutdown as been full of misinformation and even mall —...

Theology That Builds Walls

“it doesn’t seem far-fetched to ponder how white evangelical theology builds walls.”

Donald Trump would not be fixated on building a wall on the southern border of the United States if this were not the issue that won him the presidency and gave him the most visceral connection to his supporter base of which the most predominant demographic bloc are white evangelicals. So it...

Why Are Some Catholics “Militarizing” their Faith?

“I’m talking about Catholic men who get all excited about comparing spiritual warfare to actual warfare, who militarize their own faith”

Okay, dear readers, it’s time we had a talk about cultural appropriation. No, I’m not talking about what you think I am; I’m talking about Catholic men who get all excited about comparing spiritual warfare to actual warfare, who militarize their own faith. Yes, I’m aware that the Church already...

Link between brain damage and religious fundamentalism established by scientists

“Mike Pence, the Christian nationalist who may be the root of Trump's support among Evangelicals/Screenshot”

A study published in the journal Neuropsychologia has shown that religious fundamentalism is, in part, the result of a functional impairment in a brain region known as the prefrontal cortex. The findings suggest that damage to particular areas of the prefrontal cortex indirectly promotes...

'Countries that are dirty like toilets,’ and other ways Trump's profanity was translated abroad

“It was a debate that many journalists likely never expected to face: How to properly quote the president of the United States saying the words...”

Deciding what to do with the remarks — and whether to censor them in news reports — was tough enough for the press in the United States. It was, after all, a vulgar phrase not usually fit for a newspaper or television. But imagine trying to make sense of it in a different language. Every...

Not So Fast: Trump Called The Chinese ‘Motherf**kers’ In Vegas Speech

“Does this mean Rashida Tlaib is out of the hot seat?”

10k When Donald Trump railed against the Chinese in a campaign speech in Las Vegas, he turned to a word he just bashed Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) for using: “Motherf**ker.” Trump presented the speech in spring 2011 shortly before he bowed out of the 2012 presidential...

https://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/why-wall-wont-work

“Donald Trump captured the imagination of many American voters with a single campaign promise. “I will build a great, great wall on our southern...”

The twin pledges-which followed a tirade about Mexican rapists and drug dealers-neatly captured everything that was either attractive or repulsive to voters in the real estate mogul’s presidential run: bravado, nationalism, and controversy. Joanna Andreasson Trump was often criticized for...