So Trump held another one of his “news conference” rallies today in front of a bunch of wealthy paying customers at the Bedminster golf club and announced that he was signing executive orders to cut unemployment by two hundred a week but extend it to the end of the year while making cash strapped states pick up 25% of the tab. All this is apparently in an effort to take credit for fixing the problem after he and his henchmen sabotaged the congressional negotiations.
He also instituted a payroll tax holiday which he said would have to be paid back at the end of the year unless h wins re-election after which he will get rid of the payroll tax altogether, meaning he will also be getting rid of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid which are funded through that tax.
No word yet on what the potted plants otherwise known as Republican Senators and Governors have to say about this.
Who knows where this is going? I honestly can’t tell if he can do this or if it’s just more bullshit.
I do think he might have had more of an impact with this if he had announced it from the White House instead of in front of a crowd of drunken revelers in golf attire at his Bedminster resort. And he might have tried to at least pretend that it wasn’t being done for purely political purposes rather than spend most of his rally ragging on Biden and the Democrats to big cheers from the crowd.
Let’s just say it didn’t exactly come off as serious business.
Anyway, some highlights: