OFFICIAL: Donald Trump thread.

[Elroy The Great]

peotus trump after party...



obamas after party....

[Baltimore]

What a great day!

[Elroy The Great]

as far as the eye can see


http://heavy.com/news/2017/01/how-ma...ndance-photos/

''Donald Trump’s Inauguration Was Attended by a Maximum of 900,000, According to Early Estimates''

if obama was white, maybe 1/2 a mil shows up

[BostonGuy]

Oh damn! So the rumours are true.

I posted pictures of yesterday's ceremonies because I accept Trump as the democratically elected president and I'm following the advice of Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton concession speech: "We owe Donald Trump an open mind and a chance to lead."

[AllBoxingAD]

I posted pictures of yesterday's ceremonies because I accept Trump as the democratically elected president and I'm following the advice of Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton concession speech: "We owe Donald Trump an open mind and a chance to lead."

I dont believe that the Dems owe Trump anything.

The republicans, as a strategy, decided they would afford Obama no such chance. And they held to that strategy the whole way. You cant hold it against the Dems if they now return the favor, though they are such a minority that they may not even be able to.

Now, personally I want to see the country do well. I dont care where the idea comes from, if it works then it works. I want Trump to find a better system then Obamacare, I want him to create a better enviornement for the economy to grow, so on and so forth.

[Combat Talk Radio]

My take:

It doesn't matter who you do or don't support. The Democratic process worked. They just don't like it when it doesn't work to their favor. But it works, and frankly, Trump did the smart thing - he didn't go after popular vote because it didn't matter.

Unlike Obama, Trump has already started to make good on campaign promises, day 1 in office.

Thing about Trump, we know who and what he is. He doesn't hide behind heavily scripted spokesmen who "soften their words". He would rather speak directly to the public, and he doesn't really care if you don't like what he has to say.

I don't know how you can't respect that, whether you like it or not.

Trump is also directly attacking the one issue the past 4 presidents have ignored: the American economy. Not the global economy. The AMERICAN economy. It's been on the decline and nobody else has cared. In fact, Obama suppported that decline with this statement:




That's a flat out defeatist attitude that excludes 50% of the American population - the lower and lower middle classes, fresh out of high school and college, as well as those who are older and not yet retired. It's not practical to expect everyone to work in IT.

That attitude is precisely what got Trump in the chair.

[Santa_]

On His First Day in Office, Trump Raises Taxes on Middle-Class Homebuyers.


Soon after Donald Trump was sworn in as president, his administration undid one of Barack Obama’s last-minute economic-policy actions: a mortgage-fee cut under a government program that’s popular with first-time home buyers and low-income borrowers.

The new administration on Friday said it’s canceling a reduction in the Federal Housing Administration’s annual fee for most borrowers. The cut would have reduced the annual premium for someone borrowing $200,000 by $500 in the first year.

The reversal comes after Trump’s team criticized the Obama administration for adopting new policies as it prepared to leave office. In the waning days of the administration, the White House announced new Russia sanctions, a ban on drilling in parts of the Arctic and many other regulations.

Last week, Obama’s Housing and Urban Development secretary, Julian Castro, said the FHA would cut its fees. The administration didn’t consult Trump’s team before the announcement.

Republicans have argued in the past that reductions put taxpayers at risk by lowering the funds the FHA has to deal with mortgage defaults.

Shares of private mortgage insurance companies, including MGIC Investment Corp. and Radian Group Inc., erased earlier losses, trading up about one percent as of mid-afternoon. They closed little changed from the day before. Private insurers, which back loans guaranteed by mortgage-finance companies Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, compete with the FHA for market share and have been critics of fee cuts in the past.

A letter Friday from HUD to lenders and others in the real-estate industry said, “more analysis and research are deemed necessary to assess future adjustments while also considering potential market conditions in an ever-changing global economy that could impact our efforts.”

Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer of New York took to the chamber’s floor to denounce the reversal.

“It took only an hour after his positive words on the inaugural platform for his actions to ring hollow,” Schumer said. “One hour after talking about helping working people and ending the cabal in Washington that hurts people, he signs a regulation that makes it more expensive for new homeowners to buy mortgages.”

Mark Calabria, director of financial regulation studies for the libertarian Cato Institute, said it was appropriate for the administration to examine last-minute decisions by its predecessor, “especially when those decisions appear to be purely motivated by politics."

Ben Carson, Trump’s nominee to lead HUD, FHA’s parent agency, said at his confirmation hearing last week that he was disappointed the cut was announced in Obama’s final days in office.

“This action is completely out of alignment with President Trump’s words about having the government work for the people,” said John Taylor, president of the National Community Reinvestment Coalition, through a spokesman. “Exactly how does raising the cost of buying a home help average people?”

Sarah Edelman, director of housing policy for the left-leaning Center for American Progress, in an e-mail wrote, “On Day 1, the president has turned his back on middle-class families -- this decision effectively takes $500 out of the pocketbooks of families that were planning to buy a home in 2017. This is not the way to build a strong economy.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/a...rtgage-fee-cut

[AllBoxingAD]

My take:

It doesn't matter who you do or don't support. The Democratic process worked. They just don't like it when it doesn't work to their favor. But it works, and frankly, Trump did the smart thing - he didn't go after popular vote because it didn't matter.

Unlike Obama, Trump has already started to make good on campaign promises, day 1 in office.

Thing about Trump, we know who and what he is. He doesn't hide behind heavily scripted spokesmen who "soften their words". He would rather speak directly to the public, and he doesn't really care if you don't like what he has to say.

I don't know how you can't respect that, whether you like it or not.

Trump is also directly attacking the one issue the past 4 presidents have ignored: the American economy. Not the global economy. The AMERICAN economy. It's been on the decline and nobody else has cared. In fact, Obama suppported that decline with this statement:




That's a flat out defeatist attitude that excludes 50% of the American population - the lower and lower middle classes, fresh out of high school and college, as well as those who are older and not yet retired. It's not practical to expect everyone to work in IT.

That attitude is precisely what got Trump in the chair.

Actually, we havent got a clue what and who Trump is. I dont see what there is to respect there.

One day Obama founded ISIS, the next he was being sarcastic about it, and the next not really. One day he wants to drain the swamp and stop lobbyists, the next he appoints 5 goldman sachs employees to cabinet positions. One day Mexico will pay the for the wall, the next they will pay us back for the wall one day, and the next day he is going to have to negotiate with them on that.

We still have no idea what he plans to do about a lot of issues.

For example, Trump talked alot about Obamacare being bad and about repeal/replace it right away, but he said VERY LITTLE about what he plans to do to fix it, what he wants to keep, what he wants to remove, how those changes impact the care, the premiums, the number of people insured...

Now I do agree with you that his promise to get Americans their jobs back is what got him elected. Thats what nailed it for him IMHO because Hillary had nothing on jobs. The economy will always be issue number 1.

[Elroy The Great]

trump inherited a 20 trillion dollar debt. yeps, obama handed trump a pristine office.

[AllBoxingAD]

trump inherited a 20 trillion dollar debt. yeps, obama handed trump a pristine office.

Trump is not concerned with the debt.

His team have made that pretty clear.

Obama gave him a dream job compared to what he inherited from Bush.