President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Wasn't it an article of faith among Republicans between 2009 and 2016 that Obama did absolutely nothing about the border?

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...s-another-severe-blow/?utm_term=.d854c4424410



"James Nolan was working in the University of Pennsylvania’s admissions office in 1966 when he got a phone call from one of his closest friends, Fred Trump Jr. It was a plea to help Fred’s younger brother, Donald Trump, get into Penn’s Wharton School.

“He called me and said, ‘You remember my brother Donald?’ Which I didn’t,” Nolan, 81, said in an interview with The Washington Post. “He said, ‘He’s at Fordham and he would like to transfer to Wharton. Will you interview him?’ I was happy to do that.”

Soon, Donald Trump arrived at Penn for the interview, accompanied by his father, Fred Trump Sr., who sought to “ingratiate” himself, Nolan said.

Nolan, who said he was the only admissions official to talk to Trump, was required to give Trump a rating, and he recalled, “It must have been decent enough to support his candidacy.”

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At the time, Nolan said, more than half of applicants to Penn were accepted, and transfer students such as Trump had an even higher acceptance based on their college experience. A Penn official said the acceptance rate for 1966 was not available but noted that the school says on its website that the 1980 rate was “slightly greater than 40%.” Today, by comparison, the admissions rate for the incoming Penn class is 7.4 percent, the school recently announced.


Trump has said he went to “the hardest school to get into, the best school in the world,” calling it “super genius stuff.” Nolan counters that “it was not very difficult” to get into Wharton in 1966 and added of his interview with Trump: “I certainly was not struck by any sense that I’m sitting before a genius. Certainly not a super genius.”

 

I'd say par for the course for Trump, but we all know about his relationship with par.

 

Yet to 99 and 44/100ths of Trumpistas, that's their first line of defense.

 

schrodinger’s Obama: putting kids in cages while simultaneously being week on immigration.

 

Tom Steyer Is Telling Allies He’s Running for President

 

Mmm-hmm.

Are you saying there weren’t people in cages?

Are you saying he didn’t deport many more undocumented immigrants than trump has?

 

He wasn’t weak. He was tougher than Bush. He just kicked the can down the road.

 

Gillebrand should take a hint from Swalwell and drop out next.
It doesn't mean you suck as a candidate, but the stakes are too high for this election being some sort of Make-A-Wish event.

 

I'm saying he's not President now and saying he did it does not make this OK.

We're not talking about Obama here. Whatever he did or did not do is irrelevant.

There's a world of difference between detaining unaccompanied minors for 72 hours and separating kids from parents and detaining them indefinitely in overcrowded, unsafe, unsanitary conditions.

It's not a distinction without a difference. There's a huge difference.

If you can't see that, I don't know what to tell you.

 

So the solution to the problem of having a billionaire (OK, for the sake of argument, let's just say he is) with no political experience as President is putting another billionaire with no political experience in the White House?