We’re now down to the final days and it’s still really close. For those that think another President Trump can’t be that bad or just want to send a message to the political establishment, here’s a rundown of what happened the last time Trump was in office and what awaits if he’s re-elected.
Remember all the crazy turnover at the White House? For awhile, I was keeping track.
January 2017 – Remember the Muslim Ban and how BART had to tweet that “those of foreign national origin are welcome on BART.”
March 2017 – “We have to understand that the alternative to facts is not alternative facts. It’s fiction.” Marty Baron, then editor of the Washington Post
September 2017 – Hillary Clinton on Trump, “So when I say that he doesn’t just like Putin, that he wants to be Putin. I’m not saying he’s going to start killing journalists but I am saying he likes the idea of unaccountable, unchecked power.”
August 2018 – Remember when Trump was just a “unindicted co-conspirator”
June 2019 – an all-star cast of actors gathered together in New York to perform a dramatic reading of the 448-page Mueller Report
November 2019 – Remember Marie Yovanovitch, the former US Ambassador to Ukraine and how Trump threatened her, as she was testifying to congress? What about when her replacement,
October 2020 – The venerable and respected New England Journal of Medicine broke with tradition and published a political editorial lambasting the current administration’s response to Covid-19.
November 2020 – Was there a Quid Pro Quo? “As I testified previously, with regard to the requested White House call and White House meeting, the answer is yes.”
And that’s just stuff that I wrote about.
“Mr. Trump’s first term was a warning,” says The New York Times did put together a timeline setting the record straight. (gift link
Not that this should be any indication of a candidate’s qualifications for the job, it does give you insight to their web dev team and it’s something I did before. Interesting to see that Trump’s team is still running a 404 jabbing at the last guy.
As Michelle Obama said at a recent rally in Michigan, “This is not just the obligation of what we should say no to, it’s about the opportunity for what we can say yes to.”
And just to put a point on it . . .
