Buckle up folks, we’re screwed…
On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for
- the DOJ’s Violence Against Women programs.
On January 19th, 2017, DT said that he would cut funding for
- the National Endowment for the Arts.
- the National Endowment for the Humanities.
- the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
- the Minority Business Development Agency.
- the Economic Development Administration.
- the International Trade Administration.
- the Manufacturing Extension Partnership.
- the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
- the Legal Services Corporation.
- the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ.
- the Environmental and Natural Resources Division of the DOJ.
- the Overseas Private Investment Corporation.
- the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
- the Office of Electricity Deliverability and Energy Reliability.
- the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.
- for the Office of Fossil Energy.
On January 20th, 2017,
- DT ordered all regulatory powers of all federal agencies frozen.
- DT ordered the National Parks Service to stop using social media after RTing factual, side by side photos of the crowds for the 2009 and 2017 inaugurations.
- roughly 230 protestors were arrested in DC and face unprecedented felony riot charges. Among them were legal observers, journalists, and medics. Their cell phones were harvested for all contacts and messages (including those of reporters).
- a member of the International Workers of the World was shot in the stomach at an anti-fascist protest in Seattle. He remains in critical condition.
On January 21st, 2017,
- DT brought a group of 40 cheerleaders to a meeting with the CIA to cheer for him during a speech that consisted almost entirely of framing himself as the victim of dishonest press.
- White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer held a press conference largely to attack the press for accurately reporting the size of attendance at the inaugural festivities, saying that the inauguration had the largest audience of any in history, “period.”
On January 22nd, 2017,
- White House advisor Kellyanne
Conway defended Spicer’s lies as “alternative facts” on national television news. - DT appeared to blow a kiss to director James Comey during a meeting with the FBI, and then opened his arms in a gesture of strange, paternal affection, before hugging him with a pat on the back.
On January 23rd, 2017,
- DT reinstated the global gag order, which defunds international organizations that even mention abortion as a medical option.
On January 23rd, 2017, Spicer said that the US will not tolerate China’s expansion onto islands in the South China Sea, essentially threatening war with China. - DT repeated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing him the popular vote.
- it was announced that the man who shot the anti-fascist protester in Seattle was released without charges, despite turning himself in.
On January 24th, 2017,
- Spicer reiterated the lie that 3-5 million people voted “illegally” thus costing DT the popular vote.
- DT tweeted a picture from his personal Twitter account of a photo he says depicts the crowd at his inauguration (in sepia tone) and will hang in the White House press room. The photo is curiously dated January 21st, 2017, the day AFTER the inauguration and the day of the Women’s March, the largest inauguration related protest in history.
- the EPA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to freeze all grants and contracts.the USDA was ordered to stop communicating with the public through social media or the press and to stop publishing any papers or research. All communication with the press would also have to be authorized and vetted by the White House.
- HR7, a bill that would prohibit federal funding not only to abortion service providers, but to ANY insurance coverage, including Medicaid and employer healthcare plans, from providing abortion coverage, went to the floor of the House for a vote.
- Director of the Department of Health and Human Service nominee Tom Price characterized federal guidelines on transgender equality as “absurd.”
- DT ordered the resumption of construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline, while the North Dakota state congress considers a bill that would legalize hitting and killing protestors with cars if they are on roadways.
- DT ordered the construction of the KXL pipeline which will be built atop a major aquifer utilized by the breadbasket of our nation. And on that same day, dual leaks let loose in the existing pipeline with two major spills.
- it was discovered that police officers had used confiscated cell phones to search the emails and messages of the 230 demonstrators now facing felony riot charges for protesting on January 20th, including lawyers and journalists whose email accounts contain privileged information of clients and sources.
In case you hadn’t realized it yet, elections do have serious consequences. This last one was exceptional and NOT in a good way! The carnage continues.