How has Former President Trump pissed you off today?

Elendil_s_Heir · January 20, 2017, 5:21pm

During the campaign and even after being elected, Donald Trump has proved again and again that he’s not going to change from being the same arrogant, corrupt, bullying, bigoted, misogynistic, unfiltered braggart with zero interest in wise public policy that that he’s always been.

But what has he done to prove that on the day that you post here?

cochrane · January 20, 2017, 5:31pm

Taken the oath of office.

k9bfriender · January 20, 2017, 5:34pm

He said he’d make America great again.

What’s he waiting for, Monday?

VanLandry · January 20, 2017, 5:37pm

By not referring to the rain as liberal cupcake tears during his speech.

beowulff · January 20, 2017, 5:38pm

By still being alive.

AtomThought · January 20, 2017, 5:48pm

He ruined the traditional, mildly entertaining inauguration ceremony I would enjoyed had almost anyone else who ran won. His angry dictator-esque speech was particularly disappointing.

I have a feeling this is going to be a loooong thread.

GIGObuster · January 20, 2017, 5:52pm

Finding that his Swamp Thing cabinet has PBS, NPR and others in the chopping block.

While many think only of National Public Radio (NPR) and the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) when they think of public media, it actually consists of “a system of independently owned and operated local public radio and television stations” that air a combination of commercial-free original programming and programming licensed from other stations through organizations like NPR and PBS. This programming includes broadcasts on local issues, children’s education, the arts, and public affairs.

The stations derive funding from multiple sources, but that funding is often contingent on the federal grants CPB provides to more than 1,041 radio stations and 365 television stations.

The George W. Bush administration tried to use its authority to swing public programming to the right. Kenneth Y. Tomlinson, Bush’s appointee to chair CPB, used federal funds to examine alleged liberal bias on the PBS program NOW, formerly hosted by Bill Moyers. He also helped raise $5 million to produce a PBS show hosted by The Wall Street Journal’s right-wing editorial board.

But under Obama, congressional Republicans pushed to eliminate funding for public broadcasting altogether. The found a ready cheering section from right-wing media, which frequently lashed out at “liberal” PBS and NPR. Critics typically say that public media should be able to easily make up the loss of the federal dollars.

That’s not the case. According to CPB’s statement, “The federal investment in public media is vital seed money – especially for stations located in rural America, and those serving underserved populations where the appropriation counts for 40-50% of their budget. The loss of this seed money would have a devastating effect.”

Indeed, “the loss of federal support would mean the end of public broadcasting,” according to a 2012 report commissioned by CPB from Booz & Company.

The study reviewed alternative funding mechanisms but determined that none could adequately replace federal funding without compromising the mission of public broadcasting. “A reduction or elimination of CPB funding will put 63% (251) of radio stations and 67% (114) of television stations in the public broadcasting system at risk,” according to the report. Many of the stations at greatest risk for shuttering altogether are in rural areas that have more limited programming options – some are the only broadcast stations available to their audience.

Booz’s report could not have been more explicit about the “inevitable consequences” of cutting off public funding:

Mr.Greenjeans · January 20, 2017, 5:59pm

When, in the first sentence of his inaugural address, he thanked the “people of the world.”

El_Kabong · January 20, 2017, 6:01pm

I haven’t looked at any news today, so as far as I am aware, he hasn’t done anything to piss me off. I’m not laying bets on tomorrow, however.

k9bfriender · January 20, 2017, 6:04pm

By cutting off NPR and PBS to rural areas, they further reduce the opportunities for people to educate themselves about their community, their state, their country, and their world.

Keeping them ignorant ensures they keep voting republican.

bobot · January 20, 2017, 6:22pm

The day The Bastard took office:

I believe I will now unplug from all things politics until the midterms. I’ll try, anyway.

elbows · January 20, 2017, 6:30pm

Jumboton obscuring the Lincoln monument. What the…?

Bricker · January 20, 2017, 6:40pm

I thought the tone of his speech was jarring and jingoistic for an inauguration speech.

I suppose, for a candidate that made his bones by ignoring political norms, this should not surprise me. But it did. How do you go from thanking “the citizens of the world” to announcing that from this day forward it’s “America first?”

VinylTurnip · January 20, 2017, 6:44pm

What’s better, “citizens of Earth”?

RTFirefly · January 20, 2017, 6:50pm

Thanking the “people of the world” does suggest that he feels he owes his victory, at least in part, to persons or entities beyond our borders.

GIGObuster · January 20, 2017, 6:53pm

“My Fellow Earthicans”…

Nixon’s Head in Futurama.

Chetumal · January 20, 2017, 6:53pm

Removing all mention of climate change from the White House website: http://www.ibtimes.com/trump-inauguration-news-all-climate-change-references-removed-white-house-website-2478708

k9bfriender · January 20, 2017, 6:55pm

You thank them with high yield munitions.

Son_of_a_Rich · January 20, 2017, 6:57pm

What was he thanking them for? That’s just weird, even for trump.

RTFirefly · January 20, 2017, 6:58pm

Didn’t waste any time, did he?

There are those, here and elsewhere, who go on about how he’s going to threaten Republican orthodoxy almost as much as Democratic orthodoxy. Just one more reason to not have high expectations there.