Thursday, February 2, 2017

news: two weeks inside the 'Trump as POTUS' Daily Rollercoaster: late Jan 2017


There was the rainy Inauguration celebration the Friday that Trump became president. But the day after, Saturday, a much larger march was held in protest in Washington, DC called the #WomensMarch. But even though this seemed considerably larger than Trump's gathering, this also had become a march in many other cities that day across the US, and across the world.

The day of this Saturday march, Sean Spicer, acting Press Secretary for the new president, called a meeting to rail and yell at the press for their comments about crowd sizes that were in fact true. And this presentation was on his first day on the job. These were clearly not comments that the new president and his fans wanted to hear. Some in the press warn that this official disapproval of actual facts on the national level may, in addition, be meted out with repressive local legislation.
Also that same Saturday, President Trump went to the famous Memorial Wall at CIA headquarters ostensibly trying to patch up his already rocky relationship with the Agency. But, seeing as how the skills necessary in gathering intelligence include the set of skills necessary for detecting deception, many were left unimpressed.
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In addition to announcing appointees to his cabinet and White House team, there was much talk about first executive orders. Within days the new President began issuing Executive Orders conflicting with past tradition and effacing cultural norms, decrying the press, and aiming to limit government institutions, agencies and offices of all manner. Several stood up against such swift, and often unknowing, even authoritarian, effrontery. These included the acting Attorney General Susan Yates, and the head of ICE but also included many in the EPA, NASA and the National Park Service.

A week in the office, President Trump signed another Executive Order demanding targeted vetting for certain immigrants into the country. This order is particularly focused on people coming from seven majority Muslim countries.

This temporary ban has been met with widespread confusion within government and airline services. It also has generated a fair amount of condemnation and protests from people all over, fear from those targeted and, jubilation from those mistakenly believing that immigrants, and particularly Muslim immigrants cause their problems here in the US.
Thousands went to airports all over the country to protest the order and support immigrants, refugees and Muslims.
After verbally attacking China and Mexico as well, the list grows again by Thursday.

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The day before Donald Trump was inaugurated as President of the United States, Josh Rogin for The Washington Post wrote about Mr Trump's inner circle of closest advisors.
Some analysts see this shake-up, both in the way Trump will get his information and control National Security - as having placed responsibility for these weighty matters seemingly in the same person - as working toward specific ends.
There is little that might keep the majority from learning what happened with the election, the conflicts of interest that Trump and his Admin are ignoring or, the ends that Trump's closest advisers seem bent toward. It's all in the public record. Until now.

And unless they want to cover it up. But, there is also much superfluous else in the media - whether officially broadcast or not - that seems to wash away by sheer volume what should be the most alarming of these stories.
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