The Pelosi-Trump State of the Union Address Chess Match

Congrats Mojo for joining my list of 1 other poster I’ve had to put on ignore. It’s just too obnoxious dude. Get a life.

 

Bye bye.

 

Most of your comics are laughable, but this one is so far out there into trump's world of alternate facts. Every analysis (both left and right) of the past two weeks have shown the Speaker of the House Pelosi, who we all simply call Nancy, standing over trump doing an end zone dance. trump is the one pictured as selfishly, childishly crying about his vanity wall. Even the majority of Americans know this. You and your cartoonist simply show how far out you and trump actually are. Congrats!!

 

Here's the reality... Democrats are saying no to trump's vanity wall, but are showing their support to increased border security (technology, increased BP hiring)... even to the point of be agreeable to increased or reinforced fencing (physical barrier) where proven needed.

Gee, I think that's exactly what I have been saying now for weeks now. Democrats appear to be the reasonable ones, looking to increase border security. So now it will be up to republicans (and the brat-in-chief)... do they really want increased border security, or simply a wall with trump's name on it.

The Hill's Morning Report - Lawmakers `cautiously optimistic’ about a border deal
https://thehill.com/homenews/morning-report/427789-the-hills-morning-report

Dems give themselves some wiggle room in border talks
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/427768-dems-give-themselves-some-wiggle-room-in-border-talks

 

And immediately, trump has a tweetrum... now who is being the childish one?



Or, in a way that mojoman can appreciate:

 

Since trump feels this way, it allows the conferees to basically ignore him and make their own deal. trump can pout on the sidelines.

 

But... there will be money for border security. Maybe some for fences... just none for a vanity wall.

 

Now you know why republicans want trump no where near these negotiations. No different a result than the last few times republicans and Democrats made deals...

 

Trump's story about veteran's comeback was not quite true

By BERNARD CONDON, Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Rankins, a formerly homeless, drug-addicted Army veteran, got a standing ovation at the State of the Union after President Donald Trump described how he turned his life around thanks to a construction job at a company using the administration's “Opportunity Zone” tax breaks targeting poor neighborhoods.

But that's not completely true.

Rankins, who indeed moved out of his car and into an apartment since landing a job refurbishing a Nashville hotel two years ago, doesn't work at a site taking advantage of the breaks and never has done so. In fact, he started that job four months before the Treasury Department published its final list of neighborhoods eligible for the breaks. And the hotel where he worked couldn't benefit even now because it's an area that didn't make the cut.

In an interview with The Associated Press, Rankins said he always considered the job that launched him on his new life two years ago to be in an Opportunity Zone and was honored to be invited by the White House to the State of the Union, with a prime seat in the balcony next to Ivanka Trump.

"After struggling with drug addiction, Tony lost his job, his house and his family. He was homeless. But then Tony found a construction company that invests in Opportunity Zones," the president said in his Feb. 4 speech. “He is now a top tradesman, drug-free, reunited with his family.”

Days later, Trump doubled down on the Rankins story in a speech on his economic initiatives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and invited him up to say a few words.

“First of all, I would like to thank the president for signing this bill, because without it I wouldn’t be standing here before you right now," Rankins said.

Trump also praised Rankins' employer, R Investments, for "working to help 200 people rise out of homelessness every year by investing in opportunity zones."

That is also not quite true.

CEO Travis Steffens said he has hired hundreds of homeless to work at the 400 buildings the company has owned over the years, taking advantage of various tax breaks. But when it comes to Trump's Opportunity Zone breaks, he said, the company has only one building tapping the program now, a warehouse in Cincinnati where no one seems to be working, homeless or otherwise.

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"Not quite true" appears to be an understatement, to say the least.