Trump slams 'the resistance' in weekly address

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill



BY MAX GREENWOOD - 06/02/18 11:28 AM EDT

President Trump tore into the so-called "resistance" of Democrats opposed to his agenda on Saturday, accusing them of "resisting the will of the American voter."

In his weekly address, Trump blamed Democrats for slow-walking many of his nominees through the confirmation process, saying that Senate Democrats had "shamelessly obstructed" hundreds of qualified picks.

"From day one, Senate Democrats have shamelessly obstructed, stalled, and filibustered the confirmations of hundreds of talented men and women who are eager to come to Washington, D.C., to make a difference," he said. "They want to serve our country."

Trump also blasted the party's opposition to his hardline demands on border security and immigration. He said that Democrats were withholding support for his policies because the party is "afraid it’s going to make me and the Republicans look good."

Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/390390-trump-slams-the-resistance-in-weekly-address

[Dopers_Greed]

1. The ones who "resisted the will of the American voter"

Were the Electoral College.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

36. A lot more people voted for Hillary and third party candidates than voted for Trump.

The clear "will of the American voter" was that Trump not be president.

I don't think the Dems have a problem with approving qualified appointees; it's when he wants to make the WH doctor the head of the VA -- a position that he is clearly unqualified for -- that the Dems put on the brakes. That's their role as minority party.

Same when he appoints a lawyer who has never tried a case to be a U.S. District judge.

If he thinks the Dems are resisting his agenda now, wait until we win one or both houses of congress. He's going to get carpal tunnel syndrome from all the tweeting he'll be doing during his "executive time."

[lark]

2. Bloviating lying rw asshole.

Worst person in the world at this time and close to ever. Maybe Hitler or Ghengis the Khan were worse, but then he's only had 1 year so far, who knows what awful things he will do if he isn't checked. I do know and the other oligarch countries in the world are conspiring to bring America down for drumpfs and their personal profit.

[MBS]

35. EXACTLY how I feel.

[redwitch]

3. The weekly address is a thing?

The hourly tweets I am familiar with but has he actually been giving a weekly address?

[rurallib]

14. I'd never heard of it before either for Dear Leader

couldn't imagine they could get him off the golf course on the weekend to do any presidenting

[Sunlei]

19. Obama started the "weekly address", 100s archived on obama WH. someone tell trump that.

Difference is Obama's weekly addresses discussed current issues, I watched them every single week. the archives are online.

The Republicans president trump just whines like an idiot every day.

[PJMcK]

23. Didnt the weekly addresses start with Reagan? (n/t)

[Sunlei]

30. I don't know, never read any. Here's link to every Obama public statement.

all of it, every public record from day one. - https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room

every weekly- https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/briefing-room/weekly-address



last Press Briefing by Press Secretary Josh Earnest, 1/17/17

Q And President Putin today was accusing the Obama administration of spreading false information about the President-elect in an attempt to delegitimize his presidency and said that those in this administration who did that were worse than prostitutes. Does the Obama administration have any comment on that?

MR. EARNEST: That’s an interesting metaphor that he chose there. Listen, as I’ve said on a number of occasions, the men and women of the United States intelligence community are patriots. They are experts in their field. They do their work not because of the glory associated with it -- because most of the time they have to keep their names secret. They don’t do it for the big pay -- because in many situations they could make a whole lot more money in the private sector. They do their important work to keep our country safe because they love this country, and they have served us incredibly well in keeping us safe.

They have served President Obama enormously well. And this is not the first time that the intelligence community has had some uncomfortable things to say about Russia. These are the kinds of the things that I’m sure the Russians would rather not hear. But ultimately -- and this is something that the next administration is going to have to decide -- there’s a pretty stark divide here.

[PJMcK]

31. Here's some history

The weekly address began with FDR and his radio "fireside chats." This is from Wikipedia:

Ronald Reagan revived the practice of delivering a weekly Saturday radio broadcast in 1982, and his successors have all continued the practice.

More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weekly_Radio_Address_of_the_President_of_the_United_States

[redwitch]

42. I was being facetious with my post.

I have been listening to the weekly address ( and sometimes the rebuttal) for years from actual presidents. Trump isn’t capable. Besides, there’s the golfing to attend to.

[TEB]

26. I know

How did I miss the weekly adress

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. There isn't a policy, in this world, that can or will - make the T rump party look good...

"afraid it’s going to make me and the Republicans look good." -

RESIST...register to vote - county, state, city ALL DEM....check your registration...every month if need be


https://www.vote.org/am-i-registered-to-vote/

[rainy]

5. Payback is a real f-ing bitch ain't it😆

Plus his nominees are unqualified just like his entire cabinet!

[Fiendish Thingy]

6. Trump has been making weekly addresses?

This is the first I've heard of him making a weekly address; up till now, I thought his weekly addresses were his Saturday morning toilet tweet frenzies...

[OxQQme]

38. From wikipedia about weekly address:

A common complaint about the President's Weekly Radio Address is that only a few radio stations (mainly public radio and all-news radio outlets, a format very rare outside of major metropolitan areas) cover the very short broadcasts, they are not advertised publicly, and very few Americans are able to find address coverage on their local radio dial; Saturday mornings usually have brokered or paid programming carried on most commercial radio stations.[8]

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

7. Why are we republishing propaganda put out by that racist POS here on DU?!

[Jedi Guy]

20. So we can tear it apart and mock it for the drivel it is?

[onenote]

44. Are you afraid someone here will be convinced by it?

[lark]

8. Another thought,

it's not going against the American voter when 3 million more Americans voted for his opponent and he/Russia rigged the votes in MN, MI, WI and FL.

[asiliveandbreathe]

9. We just checked our voter registration...my husband was not registered for some

reason..he is NOW!

Check your voter registration..hubby was livid...in AZ

[duforsure]

10. He's slamming Democracy

Along with the rule of law, all our institutions , especially the DOJ because he's being investigated , and everything he's doing is to undermine our government and any accountability for anything, or corrupt all area's of our government for himself. He'll go after opposition just like putin, by criminalizing anyone who stands up to him, or by personally hurting them any way he can. He wants his own DOTJ where he is the judge, jury, and executioner, while the republican party do nothing to stop it. Pretty obvious he represents putin, not us, or this country. Just putin and himself.

[videohead5]

11. I hope Melania

One day slaps that smug face of his...after Stormy I know she wants to.

[bronxiteforever]

12. Emperor Palpatine throws a hissy fit at the rebel alliance. N/t

[Jedi Guy]

24. That comparison is insulting to Palpatine.

While Palpatine was undeniably malevolent, he was far more competent than Trump can ever hope to be. Trump just ineptly stumbles from one calamity to another. At least Palpatine formulated a plan and brought it to fruition.

[Roy Rolling]

13. Poor Baby

Sounds like somebody needs his nap.

[rurallib]

15. As a member of the resistance, this makes me want to resist even more and harder.

[heaven05]

16. well, much ado about bullshit

awww does it hurt don? So what, I remember 8 years of one of the best that led this nation in a time of severe financial crisis and led us out of it> And accomplishing that while facing malicious unprecedented obstruction by the aholes and wypipo in the GOP.

Meanwhile back at the ranch, this dipshit potus is leading us into a crisis involving our democracy, with RUSSIAN help???!!!

[DBoon]

17. He is attacking the notion of governing in a representative democracy

where there is always an opposition with which you negotiate

[NastyRiffraff]

18. Hey, Trump, we ARE American voters

Ignore us at your peril. Keep it up and it'll be pitchforks and torches next.

[MyOwnPeace]

21. The only majority

he's had in the whole process was the Electoral College. He lost the popular vote by over 3 million, has NEVER been close to 50% in approval and is usually hovering around 40% or lower.

So, just who is it that is defying the "will of the American people?"

What a piece of shit that cretin is!

[underpants]

32. He also is the only person to not get a majority of votes in the primaries and general election

and end up in The White House.

The size of the Repub field played a major part to the extent that even Fox News couldn't put him away.

[KPN]

22. FUCK TRUMP!

There ... I feel better.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

25. Trump has gotten more hard-core cons judges confirmed than any other administration.

Many Executive branch positions are empty because tRump hasn't found anybody corrupt enough to nominate.

[bucolic_frolic]

27. authoritarian propagandist trying to wrest control of the whole country

Resist! Forever!

[Thomas Hurt]

28. More Selective Populism from the sitting fascist...

13. Ur-Fascism is based upon a selective populism, a qualitative populism, one might say. In a democracy, the citizens have individual rights, but the citizens in their entirety have a political impact only from a quantitative point of view—one follows the decisions of the majority. For Ur-Fascism, however, individuals as individuals have no rights, and the People is conceived as a quality, a monolithic entity expressing the Common Will. Since no large quantity of human beings can have a common will, the Leader pretends to be their interpreter. Having lost their power of delegation, citizens do not act; they are only called on to play the role of the People. Thus the People is only a theatrical fiction. To have a good instance of qualitative populism we no longer need the Piazza Venezia in Rome or the Nuremberg Stadium. There is in our future a TV or Internet populism, in which the emotional response of a selected group of citizens can be presented and accepted as the Voice of the People.

Because of its qualitative populism Ur-Fascism must be against “rotten” parliamentary governments. One of the first sentences uttered by Mussolini in the Italian parliament was “I could have transformed this deaf and gloomy place into a bivouac for my maniples”—“maniples” being a subdivision of the traditional Roman legion. As a matter of fact, he immediately found better housing for his maniples, but a little later he liquidated the parliament. Wherever a politician casts doubt on the legitimacy of a parliament because it no longer represents the Voice of the People, we can smell Ur-Fascism.

Umberto Eco Ur-Fascism 1995

[Solly Mack]

29. Simple words for simple minds.

[LudwigPastorius]

33. Hey, President Fuckface...

since you're all about this "will of the American voter" stuff, why don't you show yourself the motherfucking door?

More voters would like to watch impeachment hearings for Mr Trump than would vote for him in the next presidential election, a new NBC News/Wall Street Journal survey found.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-impeachment-reelection-2020-poll-a8129071.html

[Firestorm49]

34. "Resisting the will of the American voter"

Really, Mr. Dennison? ( One of his many aliases) It seems I remember one Mitch McConnell who on day one of Obama’s presidency proclaimed that the Senate, under McConnell would do everything that they possibly could to stop Obama in anything he tried to do. And poor Mr. Barron can’t quite get a grip on “resistance”. Go f. k yourself Mr. Miller, you lost the popular vote.

[BigmanPigman]

40. Don't forget Boehner did the same thing

now he is Mr. "legalize pot" and "the Republicans party is gone" scrap. Too little too late! I remember what he did obstructing Obama for his entire time in office. Fuck Boehner, McConnell and Ryan (Hell, fuck the whole GOP with someone else's d*ck).

[itsrobert]

37. "the will of the voters" Didn't Clinton get 4 Million votes than he did?

hmmm? And wasn't Obama elected by the voters to select the last Supreme Court Judge?

[Initech]

39. Go blow it out your ass, president douchebag!

[Tikki]

41. I don't believe we have ever been PROUDER to be part of the RESISTANCE...

then we are now and we have been around a while, through the 60's and on...



The Tikkis

[argyl]

43. "It is legal because I wish it. I am the state."

King Louis XIV of France.

Is it really coming to this?

[Paladin]

45. I started considering myself a "resistance" member some time ago.

Being a Democrat in Texas will do that to you. I am damn sure a "resistance" member, as far as trump goes; I recommend that proud status to other DUers.

[47of74]

46. Fuck You Trump

And all your groupies as well.

Don't like it? Kiss my ass you orange sack of shit.

[riversedge]

47. Trump's bigly Ego really thinks it should have no opposition!! ha ha!!

[riversedge]

48. Where have I been? I did not know he had a weekly address.

[sakabatou]

49. Using the same play-book as his buddy Putin

[ck4829]

50. LOL