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WASHINGTON - After another morning at his Florida golf club, President Donald Trump visited firefighters and paramedics at a West Palm Beach firehouse and praised his own performance as president, including a false boast.

Trump touted his administration's work to roll back government regulations and cut taxes and claimed credit for the stock market hitting record highs. He also said he's signed more bills into law than any other president, which isn't true.

"We have signed more legislation than anybody," Trump said, standing in front of a rescue vehicle inside the fire station.

"We have more legislation passed, including - the record was Harry Truman a long time ago, and we broke that record, so we got a lot done," Trump said.

An analysis by GovTrack, a web site that tracks bills in Congress, shows that Trump has signed the fewest bills into law at this point than any president in more than 60 years, back to Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Re: blatham (Post 6565069)
I missed Lash's claim that #MeToo is a plot against President Trump. If she's actually claimed this, she's lost all credibility with me; and I feel like a fool because I was sympathetic to her point of view.

Ivers frequently calls on Yiannopoulos to back up his assertions in the text. In the first nine pages of chapter one, notes include: “Citations needed”, “Do you have proof of this?”, “Unsupportable charge” and “Cite examples”.

I'm convinced that many of the American evangelicals, had they been Germans living in Germany during the early 1930s, would have supported Hitler.

Bush Junior inherited an economy that was in surplus for the 1st time in my lifetime and gave it up to Obama with the worse recession ever.

Photo and video crews were stymied in their attempts to film President Trump on a golf course Wednesday, an apparent response to CNN's recent footage of the commander-in-chief on the links.

As the president completed another round at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, a large white truck obscured nearby journalists -- who were positioned on public property -- from getting a shot of Trump on their cameras.

When CNN's photojournalist moved his camera, the truck likewise moved, blocking the picture.

On Tuesday, CNN recorded a shot of the president on the course in West Palm Beach. The network did the same on Saturday and Sunday, shooting the footage through a gap in the hedges while positioned on a public sidewalk.

On Wednesday, crews from CNN attempted to record the president on the course -- only to be blocked by the vehicle. Cameras for ABC and CBS were also present.

Cathy Milhoan, a spokeswoman for the Secret Service, said the agency was not responsible for the truck.

"The USSS is in the business of protection and investigations not in commissioning vehicles to block the media's view of the President's golf swing," Milhoan said.

Teri Barbera, a spokeswoman for the Palm Beach County sheriff's office, said the department also "did not order a box truck to block any views of the president."

A White House spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but the truck can likely be seen as the latest -- and perhaps most literal -- attempt by this administration to limit the media's access to Trump.

It may also be interpreted it as a sign of how sensitive the White House is about the president's love of golf. For years, Trump ridiculed former President Barack Obama for golfing. On the campaign trail, Trump said emphatically that he didn't have time for the sport.

Wednesday's outing marked the 87th day Trump has spent at one of his golf properties since taking office.

I assumed she'd said this as finn said she had.

The entire sexual harassment movement was designed to take down Trump. It's being fanned by establishment Dem advocate-journalists.

People have been trying to sell the Weinstein story for years with no luck. Suddenly now, in an effort to snare Trump, the doors were open. Weinstein's formidable web of gatekeepers stopped protecting him, and Ronan Farrow's story was finally published.

I don't believe this sex assault tidal wave would have been allowed during a Clinton presidency. Clinton buddy Weinstein would still be in power.

Again Trump’s version of history is the exact opposite of reality.

In the days, weeks and months to follow, I was highly critical of the idea of a Trump presidency. The man who once told me — ironically, in another off-camera conversation — after I called him out for inflating his ratings: “People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you,” was, I thought, not a good choice to lead our country.

Yeah, she did:

Trump finally turns on the formerly ‘wonderful man’ Michael Flynn

...As I wrote a month ago, “If the White House suddenly changes how it talks about Flynn, disparaging him instead of saying what an admirable fellow he is, that’ll be a good indication of a change in Trump’s feelings.” Well, now it’s happening. The White House also knows that publicly revealing its strategy to discredit the former national security adviser will serve as a signal to Trump’s allies in the conservative media that the time has finally come to destroy Flynn. You can bet that in the next few days, the likes of Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson and Rush Limbaugh will unload on Flynn, casting him as a traitor to that highest of principles, that Trump must be protected at all costs. You can also expect hard-right members of Congress (particularly in the House) to find excuses to tear into Flynn in floor speeches and media interviews.

I speak as a Christian, by the way.

About a month after his inauguration, Donald Trump spoke at CPAC and assured conservatives, "We will not answer to donors or lobbyists or special interests."

With the benefit of hindsight, the president's rhetoric sounds almost cruel. The New York Times reported the other day, for example, on the Trump administration targeting protections for nursing home residents at the request of the industry.

Quote:

The Trump administration is scaling back the use of fines against nursing homes that harm residents or place them in grave risk of injury, part of a broader relaxation of regulations under the president.

The shift in the Medicare program's penalty protocols was requested by the nursing home industry.

Of course it was. The Times' report noted since the start of Barack Obama's second term, federal officials found that "nearly 6,500 nursing homes -- four of every 10 -- have been cited at least once for a serious violation." Given numbers like those, one is tempted to assume existing safeguards need to be maintained.

But under Trump's new guidelines, regulators will be discouraged from fining nursing homes for some infractions, "even when they have resulted in a resident's death."

Over the summer, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) hosted a forum with constituents and argued, in reference to Trump, “I think if you compare the golfing with what Obama had, you’d find he hasn’t golfed that much. Because except for Eisenhower, Obama’s golfed more than any other president.”

That was ridiculously wrong – at this point in his presidency, Trump has golfed far more than Obama – but Grassley may not have realized the truth, in part because Obama allowed himself to be seen on golf courses, and Trump doesn’t.

Indeed, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this president simply started pretending that the tallies of his golf trips are wrong. Plenty of folks, not having seen any photos or footage of Trump on the links, will probably believe him.