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L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
Tue Jan 2, 2018, 02:18 PM Jan 2018

Santa Donnie's quiet giveaways for billionaires and big businesses.

[link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/01/02/daily-202-trump-s-true-priorities-revealed-in-holiday-news-dumps/5a4af37830fb0469e883fe50/|The Daily 202: Trump’s true priorities revealed in holiday news dumps]
Breanne Deppisch and Joanie Greve.

THE BIG IDEA: The tax cut bill wasn’t the only Christmas gift that President Trump gave billionaires and big businesses.

...... We are living through another Gilded Age, with growing inequality and a government that is once again tipping the scales in favor of the rich at the expense of the little guy.

“You all just got a lot richer,” Trump boasted to members of Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 22, ................

In the week that followed, Trump kept giving ........ While cable news fixated on how much he was golfing — NBC reports that Monday was Trump’s 91st day at a golf course as president – his political appointees back in Washington worked overtime to deconstruct the administrative state, eviscerate several of Barack Obama’s signature achievements and roll back significant environmental protections. ................
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