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Huey » 24 Jan 2017 7:42 am » wrote:Personally, I am concerned with the executive orders he has signed particularly with the ACA. As I understand them he has directed federal agencies to look at ways to reduce the burden and to look for ways to not enforce the mandate. I of course am delighted BUT, BUT, BUT, is this something that can be done by executive order? It sounds more like Obama's method of skirting congress thru non enforcement of laws. EOs aren't supposed to nullify a law. And is something we bitched about with Obama.

But if the left wants to be more concerned with crowd size, whether he recognized the memorial wall at the CIA, his tweets, etc, and the right get's involved with those conversations nothing has really changed.

I think the only one who is obsessed with the crowd size is Trump.

No one ever expected him to get as big a crowd as Obama did in 2009.
For one thing, that was a historic election, with him being the first black president.
Washington DC is almost 50% black, so of course they would go and see the first black president being sworn in right in their own city.

It's not just the left that didn't like what he did at the CIA.
Many intelligence people said that it was disrespectful to have people laughing and applauding and for him to give a political speech in front of that wall.
The people in the first two rows who were laughing and applauding were people he brought in.

It would be like a president standing in the middle of Arlington Cemetery, giving a political speech, and talking about how many times he was on the cover of Time Magazine.

Apparently he brings a cheering section with him whenever he speaks somewhere.
I remember when he gave his recent press conference, I thought it was odd to hear people applauding.
I'm sure it wasn't members of the press applauding him considering the way that he talks about them.

It was just proven that the people who stood in Trump Tower holding signs and cheering him as he came down that escalator in June of 2015 were paid actors.
He had to admit it to the FEC.

It's all like some kind of a big show.

As far as his Tweets, again, not just the left that's concerned.
Many members of his own party have said that they wish he would stop Tweeting.

He's not campaigning any more.
He's the president, and when the president says something it carries a lot of weight.

BTW, they say he's Tweeting from an unsecured phone, which leaves his Twitter account and his Direct Messages open to hackers.
Ironic, considering all the hooplah about the private server.
And he has deleted some of his Tweets, which would be in violation of the Federal Records Act.

I'm concerned about a lot of things including his policies and some of his appointments.
Although as far as his policies go, it's hard to tell exactly what he's going to do.
He doesn't really have a set ideology.

Sorry, I went on longer than I needed to.
I guess I just felt like venting, and your post was the first one I saw.