The MAGA hat was part of the discussion this weekend about the students and the Native American.
I am offended by the hat because it stands for Trump.
Trump is a racist.
If you show your support for him by wearing the hat, you are:
a) a racist
or
b) willing to support a racist
There’s not much difference and in a confrontation, I wouldn’t have the time to find out (or really care).
We have to stop thinking of the symbology of Trump’s presidency — the MAGA hats, the wall, etc — as merely physical objects. They have long since lost their original meaning and purpose. They are now emblems. They are now the new iconography of white supremacy.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) January 24, 2019
"Trump supporters recognized a long time ago that chanting 'Trump!' at immigrants and minorities is an effective way of letting them know they are not welcome. 'Build the wall' chants serve a similar purpose, as do MAGA hats."@brianbeutler on Covington:https://t.co/c3wEuMTQKS
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 24, 2019
Remember, you can make your own virtual Trump hat here!
Billionaire Trump cabinet member Ross doesn’t have any idea what the unpaid federal workers are going through. Neither does Trump’s daughter-in-law or Kudlow. Many people live paycheck to paycheck.
Trump has referred to the shutdown as a "strike." He has complained that furloughed workers could hurt his economic numbers. He he groused that many are Democrats and part of the "deep state." And he has made comments seen by many as out-of-touch. https://t.co/jY5UZyr9o6
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 25, 2019
So a few things:
1) This isn’t remotely what Wilbur Ross was saying;
2) The world Trump describes sounds surreal; and
3) It’s amazing that Trump is this bad at offering advice at the one thing he is an expert on: indebtedness. https://t.co/sf5O2KnDj7— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) January 24, 2019
What Wilbur Ross and the Trump team’s tone-deaf shutdown comments really say https://t.co/S8am6D3O8z
— Post Politics (@postpolitics) January 24, 2019
Yesterday, Trump’s wealthy daughter-in-law Lara Trump said the #TrumpShutdown was just a “little bit of pain” for 800,000 federal workers. Today Trump’s wealthy Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he doesn’t understand why unpaid federal workers would go to a food bank for help. pic.twitter.com/CvGRbvef7O
— Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) January 24, 2019
Today in billionaire cabinet secretaries https://t.co/a3AeYh1bmv
— Abby D. Phillip (@abbydphillip) January 24, 2019
It's called "hunger" Wilbur. https://t.co/e2DyaCt3Vg
— Rick Wilson (@TheRickWilson) January 24, 2019
Thoughts on unpaid federal workers:
"In some sense they're better off."
– Kevin Hassett"It is a little bit of pain but it's going to be for the future of our country."
– Lara Trump"There’s no real reason why they shouldn’t be able to get a loan."
– Wilbur Ross— Binyamin Appelbaum (@BCAppelbaum) January 24, 2019
Hey Wilbur Ross: Let me explain this to you:
1. @realDonaldTrump shut down the government;
2. That means many federal workers, such as FBI agents & Coast Guard personnel, are working without pay;
3. Food is not free.Get it @SecretaryRoss? https://t.co/SkqEJ8741o
— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) January 24, 2019
If you live paycheck to paycheck, ‘eventually’ can be devastating. https://t.co/8bwgIWVIUf
— Juana Summers Markland (@jmsummers) January 24, 2019
Wilbur Ross is @realDonaldTrump’s Secretary of Commerce.
Wilbur Ross is a billionaire.
And this is billionaire Wilbur Ross saying he doesn’t understand why federal workers not getting paid during the #TrumpShutdown don’t just take out loans *to feed their families*.
Unreal. pic.twitter.com/YHHZqKa8sx
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) January 24, 2019
Sen. Schumer calls Wilbur Ross comments "appalling" and "the 21st century equivalent of 'let them eat cake.'"
"Secretary Ross, they just can't call their stock broker and ask them to sell some of their shares." https://t.co/5OkzsDv0CV pic.twitter.com/zT3ErjyBiN
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) January 24, 2019
54% of people say they could only miss 2 paychecks before they wouldn't be able to pay their bills, per a Fox News poll.
Federal workers are about to miss their 2nd paycheck. pic.twitter.com/6vRKXSatBI
— Aaron Blake (@AaronBlake) January 24, 2019
Because they need food? Because they are not getting paid? And many live paycheck to paycheck? https://t.co/5jF0uNgoFA
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) January 24, 2019
Paul Krugman points out that the US has started a trade war over fewer employees than the number affected by the shutdown.
Wilbur Ross, who has been leading us into a trade war on behalf of the steel industry, says that the number of workers affected by the shutdown is small, so it's no big deal. A useful chart pic.twitter.com/5sWkjtwug8
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 24, 2019
Actually primary metals is just 0.3% of GDP, and a lot of that is stuff that uses the output from steel mills. The industry being protected is much smaller. https://t.co/FZ4OjlvmqU
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) January 24, 2019
After telling the press that federal workers are "volunteering" by continuing to come to work without pay, a reporter calls out Larry Kudlow's incorrect assessment and he fumbles further, saying they are working without pay out of respect for the presidency and Trump. pic.twitter.com/ofN3unRVSY
— Amee Vanderpool (@girlsreallyrule) January 24, 2019
Open this tweet to get the thread of reactions from federal employees:
Feds working unpaid: I will anonymously tweet out any reactions I get to Kudlow's assessment. DMs are open. https://t.co/aOJiAGEvgW
— Dara Lind (@DLind) January 24, 2019
In addition to the 800,000 federal employees who are furloughed or working without pay, an estimated 1.2 million people who had been working on government contracts aren't getting paid either. https://t.co/K9yVLhu3nR
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 23, 2019
It’s been a month since the first day of the government shutdown. Here's an update on where things stand. https://t.co/XQXlm93oyv
— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 23, 2019
Shutdown risks delaying FDA approval of potentially life-saving drugs and therapies https://t.co/GkX9bZnBb9
— CNBC (@CNBC) January 22, 2019
This @GlennThrush story explains who is hardest hit by the government shutdown: the poor and vulnerable. https://t.co/8LjMAha2fl
— Molly Parker (@MollyParkerSI) January 22, 2019
The government shutdown is becoming a 'meaningful risk' to the economy https://t.co/XcrZGhOOUn by @readkrystalhu pic.twitter.com/A3GjED6itH
— Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) January 21, 2019
NEW: The federal judiciary now says it has enough money to fund operations through *Jan. 31* — the last estimate was through Jan. 25. Spox for the Administrative Office said they're looking for a way to make the money last through Feb. 1, but after that, no more extensions pic.twitter.com/FD8jyM5iUH
— Zoe Tillman (@ZoeTillman) January 22, 2019
“As of Feb. 1, 2019, all tenants will be responsible for full basic rent.”
Landlords are now pressing the poor for payments the gov't normally makes on their behalf. Read @GlennThrush on the shutdown's consequences for the most vulnerable: https://t.co/nm68sC37XK
— Emily Badger (@emilymbadger) January 22, 2019
The partial government shutdown has opened up a hole for unsafe household products to enter the U.S. https://t.co/47vJ7NSEj3
— The Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 22, 2019
This is what happens when you elect a reality TV star with no previous experience in public service, government, or politics to the highest office in the land.https://t.co/7YNzDlGKYz
— Nate Lerner (@NathanLerner) January 22, 2019
Great piece by @NatashaBertrand on the very real effect of the shutdown in law enforcement. As @Mimirocah1 and I both say here, there isn’t much prosecutors can do on their own if law enforcement agents are sidelined or limited. https://t.co/o8hnL0frHB
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) January 23, 2019
Some IRS agents are refusing to show up for work unpaid, apparently in coordination with each other, which would be a new escalation in the government shutdown: https://t.co/DOMUWC0GBU
— Matt Pearce 🦅 (@mattdpearce) January 23, 2019
Mostly white men, of course
"It seems the need to pick up the pace on seating judges is now desperate." ~ Dahlia Lithwick | Slate • https://t.co/MQJw8JEjDY pic.twitter.com/JaKzDtCykU
— David Hensley (@dashen87) January 23, 2019
The White House has announced its intention to renominate 50 judicial nominees https://t.co/F8yL2axjue
— CNN (@CNN) January 23, 2019
Lack of diversity in Trump’s first judicial nominees for 116th Congress
They don’t just want the wall. Without telling us, they loaded up their bill with anti-asylum provisions they know Democrats won’t accept.
The WH deliberately got poison pills inserted in Senate GOP bill reopening govt, NYT confirms.
"WH officials conceded privately they had tacked on controversial proposals anathema to Dems that would block many migrants from seeking asylum"https://t.co/eS78g19WPa
Yup, a sham: https://t.co/6Jh32ebSuE
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
Starting a new thread here on how the Senate GOP bill doesn't extend TPS either and actually guts it, including going forward. It is entirely new program & new restrictive status. Media should stop reporting that the bill would extend TPS https://t.co/DejhVpOILF
— David Bier (@David_J_Bier) January 22, 2019
The malevolence in this Trump/McConnell bill is staggering. It gives the Democrats nothing; the President clearly misled the American people and Congress; it isn't a compromise; it has major revisions to imm law which must go through regular order. It is a horror show. Thread: https://t.co/LeL5m8YHWe
— Simon Rosenberg (@SimonWDC) January 22, 2019
This isn’t a “compromise.” Trump’s proposal rolls back existing protections for asylum seekers. Trump’s team had to know Democrats would vote against it. The whole point appears to make it look like a “compromise” without actual compromise. https://t.co/FZL4Tyw6FH
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) January 22, 2019
"if McConnell really wanted to get a bill passed, he wouldn't have put stuff in it that would have scared off the other side." @clairecmc on the government shutdown. #Hardball
— Hardball (@hardball) January 23, 2019
I want indictments, not impeachment.
I want Trump to go to jail.
It is good to have a discussion about impeachment.
1. It’s not too early.
It won’t backfire.
It’s what the Constitution demands.
Congress must open a formal impeachment inquiry, and bring the debate out of the court of public opinion and into Congress, where it belongs. My cover story for @TheAtlantic:https://t.co/s9Y6UMQVCn— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) January 17, 2019
Should Democrats impeach Donald Trump now that they have control of the House?
It's a serious question and @YAppelbaum has just made a compelling case for impeachment in @theatlantic.
But, for now at least, I think the right answer is no.
(Thread.)https://t.co/tcKICZgQlk
— Yascha Mounk (@Yascha_Mounk) January 23, 2019
This is exactly the time for House and Senate Dem leaders to go all in and control the narrative that Trump is constitutionally compromised.
Do one thing: use the word "impeachment". Don't shy away from it.https://t.co/btz4LOs2N2
— David Jolly (@DavidJollyFL) January 18, 2019
McConnell and Ryan advised him against the shutdown but he did it anyway. He has not made any offer that Democrats could accept. He doesn’t have a plan if bullying doesn’t work. If he insists on the wall, I don’t see how this ends. It’s unfortunate that Trump is using 800,000 federal employees as hostages. I feel for them, not Trump.
Notable about the shutdown battle is how transparently Trump is flailing. You can usually see some crude political logic in his moves even if he’s lying, inflaming, race-baiting. Once he played his crime card and it didn’t work, this one has been pure flail.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) January 25, 2019
"Trump has boxed himself into a position he can't get out of because at a very basic level, he has no idea what he's doing. He started a bad fight over an unpopular wall and can't admit he's wrong." https://t.co/0mF8AeT77L
#NoWall #TrumpShutdown— Democratic Coalition (@TheDemCoalition) January 16, 2019
It's incredible to me that so many smart people don't understand that if Trump reopened govt tomorrow without any strings attached, he would *not actually have surrendered anything or made any concessions.*
Agreeing to stop hurting the country to get your way isn't a concession.
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
White House aides say the disorganization and lack of discipline feels like early 2017. Hill aides say no one — including Pence — can speak for Trump. And 30 days in, no one says a deal is close to end the shutdown. https://t.co/xLRThfyR5G
— Josh Dawsey (@jdawsey1) January 21, 2019
Twice in the past 5 prez elections, Rs have won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote. Their Senate edge is centered on small states. But is it a sustainable long-term strategy to aim an agenda at 45% or less of the country? Trump is testing. https://t.co/LNlQSN08WD
— Ronald Brownstein (@RonBrownstein) January 17, 2019
If Trump now reopens Govt, he visibly surrenders to Pelosi.
If Trump keeps Govt closed, he bleeds support faster. Workers miss next paycheck, air travel delays, govt services fail, and economy stalls.
Trump built the trap and walked into it. Pelosi just locked it behind him.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 16, 2019
"Trump wants rational people to be so horrified at the damage he’s willing to inflict that they’ll cave in…Giving in to such behavior is not moderate, reasonable or sensible."
Good @EJDionne piece calling for mere accuracy in describing Trump tactics: https://t.co/k4jinHEPr0
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
The Art of the Why Can’t We Get a Deal https://t.co/4BAgVydWJm
— Philip Bump (@pbump) January 17, 2019
On Radio Atlantic this week, @maggieNYT explains how President Trump's dealmaking as a businessman parallels his time presiding over the shutdown https://t.co/XjzPzPL7S4 pic.twitter.com/JvZ5YHn30T
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) January 24, 2019
The fight over the wall and shutdown has done more to unify Dems that it has to 'rally' the Trump base. https://t.co/rpqM4r7cKp
— amy walter (@amyewalter) January 17, 2019
McConnell answers to Trump and Trump answers to Coulter https://t.co/ub4vp3Gnls
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) January 16, 2019
The Wall is a device, a sales pitch, a bottle of snake oil, a Fyre Fest. Trump never intended to actually build it, because he did not expect to actually become president. The many subsequent scams were concocted to keep the original scam going. https://t.co/q8HMfwlhaf
— Jack Holmes (@jackholmes0) January 23, 2019
This is not winning.
The majority blames him for the shutdown.
More people oppose the wall than support it.
The majority doesn’t want a shutdown over the wall.
Trump approval in high-quality phone polls since the shutdown fallout started:
AP-NORC: 34%
CBS: 36%
Pew: 37%
Gallup: 37%
CNN: 37%
Kaiser Family Fndation: 38%
Quinnipiac: 41%Average: 37%. The liver-caller average hasn't been lower since December 2017, post-BCRA and tax bill. pic.twitter.com/xPRZ55cHFT
— G. Elliott Morris (@gelliottmorris) January 23, 2019
Trump voters now blame him for the government shutdown https://t.co/F4ArKXtNMO
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 21, 2019
In CNN's poll of polls from Jan 2-Jan. 21, Trump is at:
37% approval
57% disapproval— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) January 23, 2019
new CBS poll: is Trump’s border wall worth a government shutdown?
yes 28%
no 71%
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 23, 2019
Only 7% of American voters surveyed support giving Trump funding for his Mexico border wall to end the U.S. government shutdown https://t.co/Gq6sxaYbcB
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) January 23, 2019
new AP-NORC poll on share of Americans who approve Trump’s performance as president
December, pre-shutdown: 42%
now: 34%
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) January 23, 2019
Would you say you trust what Donald Trump says more, about the same, or less than you trusted what previous presidents said while in office?
More 26%
Same 14%
Less 58%
(Pew, 1/9-14/19)
trend: https://t.co/y7sFCxMUS3— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) January 19, 2019
As you may know, there is a proposal to substantially expand the wall along the US border with Mexico. …
ALL
Favor 40%
Oppose 58
Whites
Favor 47%
Oppose 51%
Blacks
Favor 20%
Oppose 79%
Hispanics
Favor 23%
Oppose 75%
(Pew 1/9-14/19)
more: https://t.co/nf4JAwcrG1— PollingReport.com (@pollreport) January 20, 2019
Trump is touting a poll that shows that 45% of Americans strongly disapprove of him, compared to 24% who strongly approve; that 57% of Americans say they definitely will not vote for Trump in 2020; and that 43% of *Republicans* want him to face a GOP primary challenger in 2020. https://t.co/hOai4tQiMF
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) January 22, 2019
An even worse poll for Trump, from CBS:
Trump's approval sinks to 36%.
71% say Trump's wall is not worth shutting down government over.
Only 28% say the wall is worth it — meaning fewer than 3 in 10 support his current position.https://t.co/B7h1pZZ6i8 https://t.co/w0TGAcLfRD
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) January 23, 2019
This to my knowledge is the first (at least "high quality") poll that directly pitted Pelosi and Trump. Good for the Speaker and not so good for the President. pic.twitter.com/wIGCH07to0
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) January 23, 2019
Only 31% of Americans feel confident that Russia is *not* blackmailing the president according to Morning Consult poll https://t.co/wHpzgpxGxU
— David Frum (@davidfrum) January 23, 2019
Around the globe, Trump’s style is inspiring imitators and unleashing dark impulses https://t.co/NtnpZ8KAjU
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) January 22, 2019
Trump and Pompeo Embrace Autocrats and Disparage Opponents at Home. An important piece about the message the administration is sending to the world. Via @MarkLandler https://t.co/xLQSEI46EK
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) January 11, 2019
When a national leader urges that votes be ignored, or that an election result he doesn’t like might best be set aside, we label him an autocrat or an authoritarian. When it’s #Trump, we shrug. Worse, many in his party go right along. My columnhttps://t.co/VqgzKCjFH4
— EJ Dionne (@EJDionne) November 15, 2018
Shep explains how Trump’s autocratic attacks on Amazon are based entirely on lies. He is nothing more than a politician who admires dictators and is trying to destroy one of America’s most innovative companies. https://t.co/fvu1CqnStu
— Joe Scarborough (@JoeNBC) April 3, 2018
Just more mob boss stuff
Witness intimidation
Update – it worked, for now
The Godfather in the White House may have snuffed Cohen's testimony for a while. But this is one witness he's right to fear. https://t.co/DtxXzKrE0M
— Chris Matthews (@HardballChris) January 23, 2019
Schiff, Cummings and Nadler issue statement after Trump’s comments about Cohen testimony. “Our nation’s laws prohibit efforts to discourage, intimidate, or otherwise pressure a witness not to provide testimony to Congress.”
— Manu Raju (@mkraju) January 13, 2019
Trump has been publicly attacking Michael Cohen’s family, an apparent effort to soften or prevent his Congressional testimony.
Trump knows what Cohen knows, and what Cohen can prove, so those attacks are pretty telling as new details of what Cohen might say are coming out.
— Ari Melber (@AriMelber) January 18, 2019
What's that saying about people in glass houses? https://t.co/FKZUmUkpIl
— Crooks and Liars (@crooksandliars) January 20, 2019
This is a big, big deal getting too little attention. Trump and Cohen's father-in-law. (sub req) https://t.co/DtfcB4IYRD
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) January 18, 2019
WATCH: @GeoffRBennett discusses President Trump's tweets about Michael Cohen's father-in-law. https://t.co/2xnedDzdjZ
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) January 18, 2019
For the second time in two months, the president referred to Michael Cohen's father-in-law in ominous terms this morning, which brought me back to a mystery I still haven't solved. Please let me know if you have any ideas. https://t.co/sN4GtEVOBu
— Dan Alexander (@DanAlexander21) January 18, 2019
Are we paying Trump just to tell us what they say on Fox News?
Kevin Corke, @FoxNews “Don’t forget, Michael Cohen has already been convicted of perjury and fraud, and as recently as this week, the Wall Street Journal has suggested that he may have stolen tens of thousands of dollars….” Lying to reduce his jail time! Watch father-in-law!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 18, 2019
Sad!