The last ten days

[kentonio]

Harding? Really? I guess the democrat plan is to assassinate the leader nobody likes to bring about the 8 years of prosperity by elevating one of the most popular conservatives in the history of America to the presidency.

Let me know how that works out for you.

Harding wasn't assassinated, what the actual **** are you blathering on about now?

[giblets]

Harding wasn't assassinated, what the actual **** are you blathering on about now?

Maybe the Democrats gave him heat disease? Did you ever think of that?

[giblets]

A "Chief Ethics Officer" can be just window dressing or somebody with no clout at all.

I reckon ethics is the joint and several responsibility of everyione in an organisation whether it be a huge government or a tiny little place.

However ...........

Anyway pchang you might find this Forbes article on ethics of some interest:

http://www.forbes.com/2006/10/23/lea...023ethics.html

If there's a Chief Ethics Officer, then it's not your fault if you do something unethical. It's their fault.

[PLATO]

The rest sounds like hooey, easily circumvented--but this is disturbing. I hadn't read this. The idea of divestment is to decrease the degree of entanglement. Government funds should not come from a man's private business activities.

All government funds come froma a man's (or woman's) private business activities. Secondly, any citizen (and the President is still a citizen) can donate to the treasury whenever they want.

What is the issue here? Not sure I am understanding...

[Main_Brain]

I remember when the president had 100 days before the media machine descented.

[PLATO]

PLATO, I have a lot of stuff that I'd like to sell you. You will be very happy with these purchases. PM me.

Will they be HUUUUGE? Will they make me great again? Woohoo!!!!

[Aeson]

I remember when the president had 100 days before the media machine descented.

Trump ran his campaign against the media, so it's not a surprise that there is friction there.

[giblets]

I remember when the president had 100 days before the media machine descented.

I remember when you had to wait until 100 days into a president's term before you would know if it would be a trainwreck.

[Uncle Sparky]

Currently Trump has a 44% approval rating (Gallup)... he's in what is known as a 'honeymoon period'... numbers always go down from here...

[BeBMan]

http://www.cjr.org/covering_trump/trump_white_house_press_corps.php

TL;DR: "We're watching you, Mr.Pres." - The Press Corps.

Let's hope they make good on that.

[BeBMan]

T-Day -1

[Proteus_MST]

So, anyone going to watch a great show with lots of well known stars tomorrow?

Dunno if there is any tomorrow , however ... the inauguration obviously not ... considering its lineup of rather unknown artists most of which aren't even known a little bit outside of the USA

[Ming]

It's really sad... yeah, Trump is a goof, moron, whatever, and considered too conservative for all the liberals, but he hasn't even spent a day as president yet.
We have the "he's not my president crowd", the "I'm not going to attend the event crowd", the "I won't perform at the event crowd" and a ton of other groups.
If this had happened for Obama's swearing in, the press would be outraged, as well as many other people.

I say let's give the guy a chance. See what happens, and then condemn him, be outraged, and whatever.

[Elok]

Concur, but for entirely different reasons. It has been perfectly clear for some time that Trump is deeply malignant and unfit, far worse than any other president or candidate I can recall (LaRouche?). We have vanishingly little hope that he will do anything good with his office. However, it is also clear that this environment of hysterical opposition is exactly what he needs to thrive. He rode this crazy to the White House, and every fresh burst only made him stronger. It has no hope of beating or even briefly impeding him. But people are still doing it. Why?

[rah]

If this had happened for Obama's swearing in, the press would be outraged, as well as many other people.

While I agree with the sentiment, let's not forget the birther crowd, and ironically just who was leading the way. So yeah, not everyone was on board with Obama, even though it wasn't quite to the degree we're seeing now.