Trump decides to let Trump be Trump

 Trump decides to let Trump be Trump    Trump be Trump When Donald Trump was elected president, there was modest comfort in knowing the executive branch is made up of some 4,000 presidential appointees, 1,200 of whom must be confirmed by the Senate and 630 of whom fill top-tier agency positions. The hope was that Trump would get himself some honest, competent help.With some exceptions, that has not proved to be the case. Hundreds of jobs went unfilled for a year or more, including...

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Samuel L. Jackson mocks Trump’s proposal to arm teachers

Samuel L. Jackson took to Twitter to criticize President Trump after he made repeated pushes for arming trained teachers as a way to address school shootings. “Can someone that’s been in a Gunfight tell that Muthaf---- that’s Never been in a Gunfight, the flaws of his Arm The Teachers plan??!!” Jackson tweeted on Friday. Trump tweeted on Thursday that highly trained teachers would serve as a deterrent to school shootings in the wake of the deadly attack at a Florida...

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Trump_processes Fla. students’ grief as president, parent

Once again, it was the images of children that propelled President Donald Trump to act. Trump spent the first days after the Feb. 14 school shooting in Florida fixated on the grieving and anguished students and parents. While at his Florida estate for the long weekend after the shooting, Trump studied the students’ appeals on cable news, listened to their accounts during a visit to a hospital and processed their words not just as a president but as the father of an 11-year-old. The shooting...

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