TRUMP’s 1st 30 DAYS

…The look of a President after 30 days in the saddle.

 

One month of a Trump administration, and it’s clear it’s been a corporate takeover of the US government.

 

Some people say Trump’s first 30 days as president was a wholesale corporate takeover of the US Government

 

A day-by-day review of the Trump administration’s first month shows that virtually every day has been marked by a new, extraordinary grant of power to corporate interests.  If not corporate interests, just another development in Donald Trump’s get-rich-quick-scheme known as the American presidency.  This is what has been reported by the non-partisan “Public Citizen”.

Trump started his first full weekday in office with a breakfast meeting with CEOs of a dozen corporations including Arconic, Corning, Dell, Dow Chemical Company, Ford Motor Company, International Paper, Johnson & Johnson, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, UnderArmour and U.S. Steel.

Later in his first month, he met with auto company executives (and according to Trump at the meeting, environmental regulations are “out of control ”).  As to big Pharmas CEOs, Trump told them 75 to 80% of US Food and Drug Administration regulations should be cut.   And as to his Wall Street-dominated Strategic and Policy Forum, that is made up of 18 corporate executives and airline CEOs, Trump says he supports privatizing air traffic controllers.

“One month into the Trump administration, and it’s clear that there has been a wholesale corporate takeover of the government,” said Robert Weissman, current president of Public Citizen. “America has never seen anything like this, and it’s only the first month.”

The Trump administration also has taken care of its dirty energy friends. By executive order, Trump overturned President Barack Obama’s measures to block the Keystone and Dakota Access Pipelines.

The report also shows that the administration is taking care of its Wall Street friends too. Trump has signed executive orders aimed at unraveling the Dodd-Frank Wall Street reform law – thereby destabilizing the financial system and making it more prone to another 2008-style meltdown.  Also look for the repealing of the Obama administration Labor Department rule requiring financial advisers to give advice based on their customers’ best interests. The Labor Department rule could save consumers approximately $17 billion a year in rip-off fees and the giving of bad advice.

The administration has also commenced a full-fledged assault on health, safety, environmental, worker, consumer, financial security, civil rights and other regulatory protections. Trump issued a reckless executive order that aims to block the issuance of any such safeguards by directing federal agencies to repeal two federal regulations for every new rule they issue. Public Citizen, along with the Natural Resources Defense Council and Communications Workers of America, has sued Trump and the administration to have this executive order overturned.

“It makes poetic sense that Trump has gleefully signed the repeal of an anti-corruption measure,” Weissman said. “Accompanying Trump’s gift-giving spree to corporate America has been an astounding series of actions making clear that his pervasive and consequential conflicts of interest will immerse the administration in a permanent miasma of corruption: the new $200,000 fee to join Mar-a-Lago, the Kellyanne Conway advertisement for Ivanka Trump products, the apparent plans to dramatically expand Trump hotels in the United States, and on and on.”

 

Some people have asked that since the president has only had 30 days in the office, give him the full 100 days before you go after him.

 

I’m sorry, I did try, but Trump has been so rash and reckless, we don’t need a hundred days. This thirty days has been enough thank you. Thirty so far has felt like a hundred.

 

I hope the people that voted for Trump now realize what they have done, and they understand that it may take decades to fix all the damage that this man may cause.

 

But I doubt that will happen until they have to personally deal with what that this man is going to do to the country.

 

Copyright G.Ater  2017