Stupid Trump stuff

Adam Schiff - Investigators in my office uncovered the contracts behind the banners of Donald Trump’s face now hanging on federal buildings across Washington — the largest of them eight stories tall at the Department of Health and Human Services, with “America First” printed beside it: Here’s what we uncovered:

The American people paid for every inch of it, and we have the receipts. $114,000 from the FAA. $39,000 from Interior. A third check from the Labor Department. The list goes on and on.

Congress long ago outlawed spending taxpayer dollars on propaganda and self‑aggrandizement, and an eight‑story‑high Donald Trump head certainly qualifies.

Because I spent years as a federal prosecutor, and I know a pattern of intent when I see one. In every country where democracy gave way to one man, the faces went up on the government buildings first. Not as decoration, and not even as vanity — but to teach the people who paid for those buildings a simple lesson: all of this belongs to him now.

And yet not one of those buildings belongs to Donald Trump. They belong to the American people, to the taxpayers who funded them. We were never asked, and we do not have to accept it.

Alternet - US President Donald Trump pledged on Wednesday to send every American adult a $5,000 check if Republicans keep control of Congress in the upcoming midterm elections, a promise that was widely seen as a desperate ploy to distract from a flagging economy and the destructive impacts of the Iran war.

“If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000,” Trump declared in his address to the GOP’s midterm convention in Dallas. The president, who recently railed against Medicare for All as too costly, called his proposed payment “the Trump Dividend,” but did not mention its potential price tag. Snap estimates indicate the checks, which would require congressional approval, would likely cost more than $1.3 trillion—close to the size of the discretionary federal budget.‘

Warren Gunnels, staff director for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.)—the leading Medicare for All champion in Congress—derided Trump’s promise by comparing it to other campaign pledges that have not materialized.