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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Fri Jan 27, 2017, 03:39 PM Jan 2017

Trump's first week: Well, that was intense

27 January 2017

... "This was a speech for the angry, the frustrated, the American voters who turned out in places like Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida and Ohio to shake their fist at the status quo and take a chance on a man who was unlike any presidential politician who came before him" ...

... as protests continued, President Trump gave an extraordinary press conference at the CIA headquarters, telling staff that the media had fabricated a "feud" between him and the intelligence agencies, despite previously tweeting they were acting as if the US was Nazi Germany ...

... "As long as you live you'll never see a photograph of 7 women signing legislation about what men can do with their reproductive organs" ...

The barrage of executive actions continued on Tuesday, with two orders signed to back controversial oil pipelines - Keystone XL and the Dakota Access project - if American steel is used ...


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38768272

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