Boris Johnson to chair first cabinet on Thursday
That finishes our coverage of Boris Johnson’s first day as prime minister.
It came with the biggest ever clear out of cabinet without a change of party in power.
BBC political editor Laura Kuensberg said it was “not a reshuffle it’s a new government”.
Tomorrow, Mr Johnson chairs his first cabinet meeting and faces the House of Commons. And of course we’ll bring you full coverage of that across the BBC.
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Anyone who believes that the politicians in Barbados are the worst of all time is wrong. Just look at Little Britain. Little Britain will be the new poorhouse on the edge of the EU. It is only a matter of time before all coloured migrants return to the Caribbean, especially Barbadian migrants, because everything will be better there. Then the honourable Attorney General has the opportunity to arrest the two Youtubers at the airport upon entry. Thank you Dale Marshall for imprisoning those who undermine the government!
We are fortunate that it is not Boris Johnson, but the honourable Prime Minister Mia Mottley, who will lead Barbados for the next two decades.
Thank you Mia Mottley for the thrilling reforms you have set off in just a few months on behalf of economic liberalism! She commands a skilful cabinet with an iron fist, is close to the people and knows all our problems.
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ONCE MORE…………THE DIAGNOSIS IS……….
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The new prime minister is making a Commons statement, after holding his first Cabinet meeting.
Speaking to MPs, Boris Johnson said his government would throw itself into Brexit negotiations with energy.
He said other arrangements for the Northern Ireland backstop were “perfectly compatible with the Belfast Agreement to which we are, of course, steadfastly committed”.
He said Michael Gove would make plans for a no-deal Brexit a “top priority”.
He also assured EU citizens they would have “absolute certainty” of their right to live in the UK.
On Thursday, he addressed his cabinet for the first time as prime minister.
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@Robert Lucas
You may want to deny the racism behind the words “Go back to where you came from” and it is not my duty to parse words but most Americans know the sentiment behind the statement and this is borne out by opinion polls.Perhaps you should read the opinion piece by George Conway (never heard of him?), he just happened to be married to Kelly Anne Conway (Trump counsellor) and whose mother is Filipino.
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“She commands a skilful cabinet with an iron fist, is close to the people and knows all our problems.”
yep and CAN’T FIX…not one of them..
can’t lock up the corrupt or the THIEVES…
can’t pay international creditors./
can’t bring FOIA..
can’t bring back the OFFSHORE ACCOUNTS..
it’s just…CAN’T, CAN’T, CAN’T…
a real successful government …THAT CAN’T..
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Watch Boris Johnson’s first speech as Prime Minister outside Number 10.
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“It is only a matter of time before all coloured migrants return to the Caribbean, especially Barbadian migrants, because everything will be better there.”
ya forgetting these people in UK and ELSEWHERE ALREADY KNOW..that yall are THIEVES…
and would ROB THEM and their FUTURE GENERATIONS BLIND..
all they need to do , is stay away and PROTECT THEMSELVES…..from u CRIMINALS
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@ Sargeant July 25, 2019 3:22 PM
Opinion polls are no indicators of the facts on the ground, The American election of 2016 is a prime example. you refer to George Conway article in the WP to illustrate the fact that the statement by Trump was racist. I have lived in the US and am aware that there is racism. There’s racism in Barbados also. The views of Conway’s are his views and have nothing to do with the context in which Trump used the words. You seem reluctant to admit that the statement was cherry-picked to convey a racist slant. Was Obama being racist when he referred to “that could have me or words to that effect alluding to the death of a black man? After all he was the president of all America? What about Eric Sparkes, the black Georgia lawmaker who entered an express line at a Publix supermarket and was told she had excess items : she then accused a Cuban American of telling her to go back where she came from. Subsequent events proved that man, never told her so ( the event seemed to have been caught on camera). The immigrant Cuban-American admitted he did cuss her off, The WP is a publication that needs to rebuild its reputation for fair reporting: it hasn’t got much of a reputation these days after collusion thing.
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You all say Boris is a nut well we get a classic one here too in Professor Persaud.
Today on the news the may said “we will not be forced into a settlement with the foreign creditors as we are in a good position to negotiate.” Lol
I near hit the old car when I heard that. You ain’t pay a man for 15 months now, you don’t know what you will end up having to pay them to avoid being put in court and you in a good place to negotiate? On top of that because of how you all have drawn out these negotiations you can’t dear go back to the international market to borrow a blind cent till this settle and you thin you in a good place to negotiate? My friend you and them clowns wunna hire got us looking to get put in the same boat as Argentina and you got the Gaul to stand up and tell the press you in a good place to negotiate.
Listen do us a favour and sit your short tail down and hush do!
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@ David July 25, 2019 2:29 PM
In this day and age with the rapid change in technology, a country’s leaders would be guilty of incompetence if an effort was not made to get highly educated migrants. The future is for the highly educated which might seem harsh but it is the way forward. Robotics will mean a lot of unskilled labor won’t be needed.
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“Today on the news the may said “we will not be forced into a settlement with the foreign creditors as we are in a good position to negotiate.”
we done know Mia’s professor ain’t too bright…when he is being uppity ike that, just WAIT for the fallout..
that is the same dude sent a nasty letter to the Financial Times of all places with A BIG LIE in it THAT PENSIONS HAD RISEN, when they were cut by nearly 100% that same week…and got EXPOSED for that lie…within hours..
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well OK…..Professor No Backing Down says, “the island don’t have to borrow for 4 years”…so what about AFTER THE 4 YEARS…and the people still don’t get their money cause ya have such a strong poker hand…Professor Smart Ass.
“What we have been trying to do is to get the best deal possible for Barbados, which means that it can’t be the quickest deal possible. If you play poker do you fold early? If you don’t need to borrow for four years you have a good hand. So, we are following the right strategy,” Persaud explained.
Persaud charged that the external creditors were attempting to apply pressure on Barbados by speaking publicly on the process, painting a picture that things were not going well. He also contended that the media was unwittingly helping them achieve these ends.”
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While there are people in Barbados who cannot even AFFORD to go to the supermarket or FEED THEIR CHILDREN, pensioners on disability some have children…HAVE NO INCOME..because government CUT THEIR ONLY INCOME….. and this leach and parasite in the lives of Bajans is popping SHIT..
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If I was a foreign creditor and read this report he was pontificating in, I would let him and WO know what Lord they serving.
You owe a man who you refuse to finalise settlement with 15 months after defaulting and you claiming you in a good place to negotiate. You in a good place to get put in court and black listed by the international lending community, that’s what you in a good place for!
I really got to wonder if the PM understand the position these clowns she got around her putting this country in!
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Dr Lucas, you are an amazing guy …amazingly hypocritical that is, or ROFLOL funny!
YOU … YOU said I have said on this blog that it is unwise to denigrate those who hold different views from your own. This type of action seems to be the wont of liberals.
When did Trump become a liberal … you surely can’t be serious.
When coupled with your cherry picking” accusation and contrasted with ur amazing *[was] Obama being racist when he referred to “that could have me or words to that effect I must believe you are being absolutely hilarious because you CAN’T be that hypocritical a scientist who relies on facts, now can you!
Trump’s remarks were divisive, uncalled for and denigrating (to use ur word)…the racist label is irrelevant…he was out of place and uncouth to tell duly elected US Congresswomen to return from whence they came.
That you thus label unsavory remarks liberal is hilarious… as you must be pulling our collective legs, as I said you can’t be making a serious point.
I gone.
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To further show his limited outlook on the economy he justifies them dragging their tail by saying ” we will not be returning to borrow on the international market for a few years” so wait, what happens if the private sector needs to go to these same lenders for project funding you stop to think about that? What chances you think they will have when the sovereign state their company based in has defaulted 15 months ago and is yet to settle on an agreement?
I tired saying book smart ain t street smart and here is another classic example.
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@ David.
Open a thread on this I beg you let we get back to Bim and left Boris to the Brits😁
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The higher the monkey climbs;the more he exposes his Rs.(oompah!)
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@ Vincent.
Let me bring this home and show what a clown this man is to say that. Bear with me while I bring it local.
A supermarket let we call it ” Bim Grocery” runs up a massive bill say with Stokes and refuses to pay it when due, or defaults in other words. 15 months later after Stokes try to get some sort of money out them with no luck, a director gets up and opens his RH mouth and says this ” we ain’t rushing to pay wunna cause for the next 4 years we going buy from you competitor SGF so we aint in no rush to pay you. ”
Well if I was Stokes let me tell you gloves off I coming for your short ass now.
I always remember the 2 rules you never break in cases like this. 1 you don’t make promises you can’t, or intend to keep and 2 don’t ever disrespect your creditor.
He manage to break both them in one opening of his dam mouth!
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bu is fun tho….u got a man dat dint know dat post mortems are not an emergency now trying to tink he can argue wid an intellectual and real scientist
this dpd fool is a real ass tho
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@John A
Noted.
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lol…took me a while to say this but some EXCEEDLYINGLY EVIL FORCES…are operationg OUT OF Barbados..
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All like now I bet Dr Worrell done forward that article to the foreign creditors and tell them ” fellows time to take off the gloves now this short man laughing at you all.”
To be fair we can’t cuss Worrell either for doing his job as he is representing them. It is just this clown made it a whole lot easier for him as of today. When you tell a creditor i ain t paying you cause I no longer plan to borrow from you, the proverbial battle line has now been drawn in the sand.
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Not evil just stupid!
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@ John A
I am reading you loud and clear. I read the signs long ago when Pacha referred the blog to an obscure article on the use of stochastic processes in Sovereign Debt Default.
So we are going to need to get book smart ,Boazee. I hope you are reading up on CVA and DVA.
CVA = Credit Value Adjustment
DVA = Debt Value Adjustment
We are into Game Theory . I hope,as I have said many times, that nobody gets “huff”.
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@Vincent.
This will take us there now. Up till now the hope was there that this matter was being seen as a matter of urgency on both sides. Today’s utterances will now let them know the reason we have been dragging our ass, is because we don’t intend to do business with you in the medium term. We have therefore sent the message that we will use your money until further notice, or till the need arises for us to return to you.
In the meantime the private sector will not be entertained there either and our chance at improving our credit rating from junk will just have to wait!
I said from the beginning these guys didn’t understand the game they were in and sadly that has now been proven true. No doubt he will try and back pedal out of this tomorrow but cat done gone among the pigeons.
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@ John A
I concur. We need to understand the games we are playing. And be competent in them. What? Why? How ?
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@Vincent
I betting tomorrow he will be saying he was misunderstood or misquoted or something. Thing is you can’t take back words especially when people not happy in the rate of progress on this matter hear them.
The next few weeks should now be interesting.
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@ de pedantic Dribbler
“I have said on this blog that it is unwise to denigrate those who hold different views from your own. This type of action seems to be the wont of liberals.”
I take it that you are speaking tongue-in-cheek. The statement referred to liberals and as an example of liberal doings I highlighted the gender confusion going on at present. Apart from saying that, I have never claimed that Trump was a liberal. He maybe boorish and vulgar but I have never claimed he was a liberal.
Anyhow lets agree to disagree on this one; Your opinion of Trump will not change
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@ John A
I said from the beginning these guys didn’t understand the game they were in and sadly that has now been proven true. No doubt he will try and back pedal out of this tomorrow but cat done gone among the pigeons.I just read the false prof’s comments and was shocked also. How can one be so naive to utter such compromising statements in the middle of a delicate negotiation where so much is at stake? Total folly.
I think these guys are really starting to believe their own hype. I get the impression that the BLP top brass all sit around a table and puff each other up with tales about their own greatness.
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Same dumb shit the other DLP idiots who were kicked to the curb did as well…believe too much in their own backward bullshit..
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Without an agreement with the so-called white masters from the North, the rating will not improve significantly, foreign investment will be hampered, Sagicor will not return and Canadian banks will intensify their preparations to leave the island.
I very much hope, however, that the government will soon be able to bring the negotiations to a successful conclusion. However, we’ll have to make the bride named Barbados a little prettier. Now is the time to lay off 10000 civil servants, privatise or liquidate all state-owned enterprises to get the island back on its feet. The government could use this human sacrifice to appease our beloved Goddess Bim.
Elections are not due for about four years. So there is enough time for social justice through mass layoffs. I trust our beloved Prime Minister to draw the right conclusions from the difficult negotiations and to sacrifice the civil servants.
I use a metaphor: Barbados is like a hot-air balloon. Sometimes you have to throw off excess weight. Sometimes it’s sand, sometimes civil servants.
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As they say…when i RAINS…it POURS…
https://www.facebook.com/jackie.stewart.965/videos/1079355778940627/?t=0
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July 24, 2019 6:25 PM
Things must be bad in England when those polled prefer Johnson over Jeremy Corbyn.
Britain is a failed state. hahahaahah , @@@@@@@@reprint.BU ahahaha
Things must be bad in Barbados when those polled prefer Mia Mottley over Alex Mitchell,
Barbados is a failed state ahahahahh
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@Robert Lucas
Here are some examples of “cherry picking” to prove racism:
1) Order my employees to code Apartment applications to allow me to ascertain the race of applicants in order to refuse to rent to Black people. (This activity caused me to be cited twice by Nixon’s justice Dept. for discrimination). Let’s call this looks like a duck2) After the mugging and rape of a jogger in NYC Central park I take out a full- page ad in the newspapers calling for the death penalty for the accused who were all black. Years later when they were exonerated, I refuse to apologize. Let’s call this swims like a duck
3) After the election of the first Black President I insist that he wasn’t born in the US and demands that he produce his birth certificate, when the birth certificate was produced, I insist that it is fake and announce that I am sending investigators to Hawaii to get to the bottom of the forgery.
This is quacks like a duck and we can conclude it is a duck albeit a racist duck
Those are a few examples of “cherry picking”
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DESPITE ALL THAT YOU HAVE SAID ABOVE THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ELECTED TRUMP TO BE POTUS…….AND SO FAR ……DESPITE THE ODDS AND ALL THE RESISTANCE AND OPPOSITION BY DIVERSE MEANS HE HAS DONE A VERY GOOD JOB.
AND YOU AND NONE OF YOUR ILK CANT DO ONE THING BOUT UM UH LIE?;
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SARGEANT
READ THIS AND SEE WHY TRUMP IS POTUS
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Eh! Doc , I am confused and bewildered now… your other lettered colleague has advised me in his Trumpian style (using falsehoods half-truths to bolster his argument) that I should not debate facts or opinions with such a learned fellow as yourself but being a village idiot I can’t help but crash smart people party!
So senor… The quote starting “…it is unwise to denigrate those who hold different views from your own.” was your own and clearly stands boldly in plain English.
Selecting the singular political correctness issue of gender identity to support your argument that it’s a liberal type behaviour is a bit ridiculous if I may be blunt…that ALONE is how person’s are denigrated..seriousy!
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DPD
WHY DO YOU ALWAYS CHOSE TO DEFAECATE ON BU?
IS THERE NO BATHROOM IN YOUR HOME?WIST THOU NOT THAT IT IS WRITTEN IN BAJAN FOLK LORE, AND EVEN village idiotS KNOW
“dogs before doctors”
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DPD
SOMEONE JUST WROTE TO BEG ME TO “exonerate you” MURDUH!
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@ Sargeant July 25, 2019 8:25 PM de pedantic Dribbler
I am aware of all that you have stated. The point remains that what Trump stated has nothing to do with racism.
@ de pedantic Dribbler July 25, 2019 10:01 PM
As I said before let us agree to disagree on this.
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@Doc Lucas, I am complety unclear what there is to ‘agree to disagree’ about!
You stated emphatically that “…it is unwise to denigrate those who hold different views from your own.”
I asked you to explain how the group you noted who act in that way can be so singled out when the President of the US, the man with the biggest bull-horn in the world (thus superceding the media noise of basically ANY group) has on a daily basis REPEATEDLY denigrated any and everyone who has a different view to his.
I never said liberals don’t denigrate people…simply wanted to know WHY highlight them and not Chief Bull Horn!
So what are you disgreeing about again!
And BTW, @Sargeant’s ‘walk-talks like a duck’ post should have been instructive that Trump’s motivation is indeed based on racial dog whistling.
A comment in and of itself is not racist or insulting or pejorative …it’s the context, motivation and intent of the speaker/writer that determines an interpretation.
What makes this man so abhorrent is not his ideology or disdain of political correctness or denial of climate change realities or any of the other policy issues about which one may disagree… it is his disgusting, self serving behaviour as a national leader.
That YOU would make the rather blunt remark that “…to denigrate those who hold different views…” is unwise and yet find an impossible holier than thou position to defend the person who wontonly and deliberately perpetuates that stance for cheap political gain is freaking astonishing!
But it says everything about how this man has uppended political discourse and given credence where previously it was harshly censored at the national level…. what was right, regardless of political suasion is now wrong because you guys have to defend this demigoguery !
C’est la vie…we agree on that!
I gone.
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re What makes this man so abhorrent is not his ideology or disdain of political correctness or denial of climate change realities or any of the other policy issues about which one may disagree… it is his disgusting, self serving behaviour as a national leader.
SINCE YOU OR SARGEANT AND OTHERS OF YOUR PERSUASION CAN NOT DO ONE TING BOUT UM…….WHY DONT YOU JUST SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN AND STOP HATING A MAN THAT HAS DONE YOU ABSOLUTELY NOTHING
Chief Bull Horn IS LARGE AND IN CHARGE PRO TEMP……IF YOU DONT LIKE UM YOU CAN LIKE UM
Chief Bull Horn VS little peep squeak is a big mis match!
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re @Doc Lucas, I am complety unclear what there is to ‘agree to disagree’ about!
DPD THE dummy
WHT DONT YOU GET A BRAIN TRANSPLANT? OR HAVE THE ECTOPIC RECTAL HISTOLOGY IN YOUR BRAIN EXCISED? THIS WILL HELP YOUR UNDERSTANDING
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THE PEDANTIC JACKASS CLAIMS THAT THE CURRENT POTUS PORTRAYS “his disgusting, self serving behaviour as a national leader.”
HERE IS A LIST OF Trump’S Administration Accomplishments AS A “self serving national leader.”
Almost 4 million jobs created since election.
More Americans are now employed than ever recorded before in our history.
We have created more than 400,000 manufacturing jobs since my election.
Manufacturing jobs growing at the fastest rate in more than THREE DECADES.
Economic growth last quarter hit 4.2 percent.
New unemployment claims recently hit a 49-year low.
Median household income has hit highest level ever recorded.
African-American unemployment has recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Hispanic-American unemployment is at the lowest rate ever recorded.
Asian-American unemployment recently achieved the lowest rate ever recorded.
Women’s unemployment recently reached the lowest rate in 65 years.
Youth unemployment has recently hit the lowest rate in nearly half a century.
Lowest unemployment rate ever recorded for Americans without a high school diploma.
Under my Administration, veterans’ unemployment recently reached its lowest rate in nearly 20 years.
Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps since the election.
The Pledge to America’s Workers has resulted in employers committing to train more than 4 million Americans. We are committed to VOCATIONAL education.
95 percent of U.S. manufacturers are optimistic about the future—the highest ever.
Retail sales surged last month, up another 6 percent over last year.
Signed the biggest package of tax cuts and reforms in history. After tax cuts, over $300 billion poured back in to the U.S. in the first quarter alone.
As a result of our tax bill, small businesses will have the lowest top marginal tax rate in more than 80 years.
Helped win U.S. bid for the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.
Helped win U.S.-Mexico-Canada’s united bid for 2026 World Cup.
Opened ANWR and approved Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines.
Record number of regulations eliminated.
Enacted regulatory relief for community banks and credit unions.
Obamacare individual mandate penalty GONE.
My Administration is providing more affordable healthcare options for Americans through association health plans and short-term duration plans.
Last month, the FDA approved more affordable generic drugs than ever before in history. And thanks to our efforts, many drug companies are freezing or reversing planned price increases.
We reformed the Medicare program to stop hospitals from overcharging low-income seniors on their drugs—saving seniors hundreds of millions of dollars this year alone.
Signed Right-To-Try legislation.
Secured $6 billion in NEW funding to fight the opioid epidemic.
We have reduced high-dose opioid prescriptions by 16 percent during my first year in office.
Signed VA Choice Act and VA Accountability Act, expanded VA telehealth services, walk-in-clinics, and same-day urgent primary and mental health care.
Increased our coal exports by 60 percent; U.S. oil production recently reached all-time high.
United States is a net natural gas exporter for the first time since 1957.
Withdrew the United States from the job-killing Paris Climate Accord.
Cancelled the illegal, anti-coal, so-called Clean Power Plan.
Secured record $700 billion in military funding; $716 billion next year.
NATO allies are spending $69 billion more on defense since 2016.
Process has begun to make the Space Force the 6th branch of the Armed Forces.
Confirmed more circuit court judges than any other new administration.
Confirmed Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and nominated Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
Withdrew from the horrible, one-sided Iran Deal.
Moved U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem.
Protecting Americans from terrorists with the Travel Ban, upheld by Supreme Court.
Issued Executive Order to keep open Guantanamo Bay.
Concluded a historic U.S.-Mexico Trade Deal to replace NAFTA. And negotiations with Canada are underway as we speak.
Reached a breakthrough agreement with the E.U. to increase U.S. exports.
Imposed tariffs on foreign steel and aluminum to protect our national security.
Imposed tariffs on China in response to China’s forced technology transfer, intellectual property theft, and their chronically abusive trade practices.
Net exports are on track to increase by $59 billion this year.
Improved vetting and screening for refugees, and switched focus to overseas resettlement.
We have begun BUILDING THE WALL. Republicans want STRONG BORDERS and NO CRIME. Democrats want OPEN BORDERS which equals MASSIVE CRIME. -
HERE ARE A FEW OTHER OPINIONS ON THE LIST OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS OF THE SELF SERVING POTUS FOR THE INFORMATION OF PEEP SQUEAK AND THOSE OF HIS ILK
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/trumps-list-289-accomplishments-in-just-20-months-relentless-promise-keeping
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/the-historic-results-of-president-donald-j-trumps-first-two-years-in-office/
https://710wor.iheart.com/featured/mark-simone/content/2019-03-09-the-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-so-far/https://jimbakkershow.com/news/president-donald-trumps-accomplishments-the-list-is-growing/
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Why is no-one on here telling Hal to go back to where he came from.
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This BoZO is dangerous and both Africa and the Caribbean needs to stay well away from him.
“Afro-Caribbean people in the UK have cautious and mixed views in their assessment of the new British Prime Minister Boris Johnson.
In view of the Prime Minister’s failure to mention in his speech to the nation whether it is his government’s intention to directly address the imbalances in our society, it might be prematurely optimistic if the Afro-Caribbean community were to expect a radical change in previous governments’ attitudes to their welfare and advancement in society.
As Mr Johnson spoke, it was noticeable that unlike his three immediate predecessors, he did not acknowledge that there are major problems of inequality in this country as they relate to black people.”
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Gingrich hopes DOJ will open probe into who really wrote Mueller report
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