President Trump’s negative media coverage in Las Vegas

President Trump traveled to Las Vegas to show concern for the victims of the music festival massacre. While there, he visited hospitals, grieving families, first responders, which is what presidents have to do since they represent the country. Of course, there are people who will say negative things about President Trump’s visit to Las Vegas and Puerto Rico yesterday, but you can evaluate President Trump on what he does or doesn’t do. The continuing negative coverage will probably help Trump in the end. 

Mounting gambling debts, a family history of mental illness, partisan political rage and a claim of responsibility by ISIS have all emerged as possible motives for Paddock’s Sunday night shooting spree on Sin City’s fabled Strip, which left 59 dead and more than 500 injured. But police – as well as the few who knew Paddock – remain stymied as to what caused the 64-year-old former accountant to snap. 

"It's a very sad thing," Trump told reporters of the deadly shooting, as he exited the White House. "We're going to pay our respects…The police who have done really a fantastic job in a very short time," he said Wednesday. "And yeah they’re learning a lot more. And that’ll be announced at the appropriate time. It’s a very, very sad day for me, personally." 

The FBI is looking into whether he has ties to any terrorist group or had help of any kind. 

Trump declined to discuss what might have motivated the shooter, only that he was "a sick and demented person.” 

The president has also described the reaction to the Vegas shooting as a “miracle." 

While some lawmakers said the shooting underscores the need for more and better gun control, Trump has declined to discuss that subject. “We’ll talk about that on a later date,” he told reporters aboard Air Force One as he returned from Puerto Rico. 

When there is something out of the ordinary, like 50 high powered weapon purchases the FBI needs to have a mechanism within their data bank that it sends an alert and analysts pick it up. Why don’t we hear about this in any of the reports? All you hear from the media is that we have to ban guns, but it is never going to happen because the majority of Americans do not want the federal or state governments telling them that they can’t defend themselves. 

All of the other reporting on the killer is about how this guy conducted his life, but I don’t really care. In the after life, which I’m a believer in, this guy is in hell. The one thing that did jump out at me is that this guy’s father was diagnosed with a mental illness and he was in prison, so I believe that’s something that has to be looked into. 

Exploiting the Las Vegas Massacre

Extreme "Trumpism" and "white victimization" motivated the Las Vegas shooter who killed 58 (not including the shooter) and injured at least 515 others, according to a Drexel University professor.  

Well wait a minute, how could this Associate Professor possibly know what the shooter’s motivation was? 

Associate Professor George Ciccariello-Maher tweeted just hours after the massacre “white people and men” will go on shooting sprees “when they don’t get what they want.” 

Drexel University told Fox News the professor’s tweets don’t represent the university’s views. 

“The recent social media comments by George Ciccariello-Maher, associate professor of Politics and Global Studies at Drexel University, are his own opinion and do not represent the University’s views,” the university said in a statement. “Drexel is deeply saddened by the tragic shooting in Las Vegas. The thoughts and prayers of the Drexel community are with the families of those affected by this senseless act of violence.” 

Well, wait a minute, this nut has been at the University for a long time and has made controversial statements in the past, so why is this man teaching politics? If you’re that incompetent and hateful, shouldn’t the University remove you from the classroom? The University knows this guy is an extremist, but they allow him to continue to work and teach. 

This professor has a history of controversial tweets. In 2016, he tweeted “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.” Mr. Ciccariello-Maher made headlines again in March when he tweeted that he wanted to “vomit” when an airline passenger gave up his first-class seat for a uniformed soldier.

Cicariello-Maher began a Twitter thread Monday morning with a three word message: “A White Man.”  

“It’s the white supremacist patriarchy, stupid,” he tweeted. 

Cicariello-Maher continued: "But liberals will drown out all discourse with a deafening chorus screeching 'gun control.' To believe that someone who would shoot down 50 people wouldn't circumvent any gun law you pass is the height of delusion. But liberal escapism means talking about easy questions and proposing easy non-solutions rather than talking about who kills and why. 

"White people and men are told that they are entitled to everything. This is what happens when they don't get what they want. The narrative of white victimization has been gradually built over the past 40 years. It is the spinal column of Trumpism, and most extreme form is the white genocide myth. Yesterday was a morbid symptom of what happens when those who believe they deserve to own the world also think it is being stolen from them.” 

He ended with this tweet several hours later: “Here's a wild idea: white supremacy in the U.S. is a bipartisan project, & *both* the gun lobby *and* the anti-gun lobby are racist as f—.”

Jeanne Zaino, Ph.D. weighs in on crazy college professors

Professor of Political Science at Iona College, Fmr. Chair of the Political Science Department, and Fmr. Interim Dean of the School of Arts and Science. 

What we’re seeing with the associate professor at Drexel University is exploitation. He’s exploiting a situation without the knowledge of the situation to back up what he’s saying. I think this is where the university has a real problem. He can express his views as a private citizen, but you have to make sure those utterances that they are accurate and based in fact. 

This is where the University is going to have a real problem because Cicariello-Maher has never met the shooter, he has no knowledge of the shooter’s motivations, nor did he have any evidence or reason as far as we know to suggest that this person by what he suggests on his Twitter account. 

Cicariello-Maher is basically telling his students that white people are bad and if they don’t get what they want they’ll pick up a gun and kill someone. 

Here’s what the policy should be: you can’t have college professors, high school teachers, or grammar school teachers spouting hate, that would be my policy.

Nearly half of Americans disapprove of President Trump's handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, according to a new poll

Forty-nine percent of respondents in the Associated Press/NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey said they did not approve of the president's response to the humanitarian crisis on the island, where thousands of people still have limited or no access to basic necessities such as food, water and electricity. 

Only 32 percent said they approved of the way Trump has handled the emergency. The poll, conducted on Sept. 28-Oct. 2, has a margin of error is 4.1 percentage points.  

The issue is that nobody knows what is actually happening in Puerto Rico, they’re not the ones there, they only see what’s going on from the media. So, the poll question is like asking somebody from New Zealand to comment on what’s going on in Cleveland, Ohio. How would they know? 

Trump and first lady Melania Trump visited the hurricane-ravaged island on Tuesday, meeting with officials and handing out aid to storm victims.  

The president's comments on the hurricane-ravaged island sparked controversy. 

“Every death is a horror,” the president told officials. “But if you look at a real catastrophe like Katrina, and you look at the tremendous hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people that died, and you look at what happened here with, really, a storm that was just totally overpowering — nobody has ever seen anything like this.”

Poll: Almost half approve of Trump’s tax plan

Voters are receptive to President Donald Trump’s proposed tax overhaul, with nearly half of those who have heard about the plan supporting it, according to a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

Overall, the 48 percent of voters familiar with the plan who support it is greater than the 37 percent who oppose it. Fifteen percent have no opinion about the proposal. 

More than three-quarters of Republicans, 78 percent, approve of the tax plan, while a smaller share of Democratic voters, 65 percent, disapprove. Independent voters are split: 38 percent approve, and 38 percent disapprove. 

But opponents of the plan are more enthusiastic: 26 percent strongly oppose it, compared with 20 percent who strongly approve of the proposal. 

The most popular elements of the initial proposal are doubling the standing deduction from $12,000 to $24,000 (62 percent of voters say that should be in the eventual tax bill), reducing the maximum small-business tax rate from 39.6 percent to 25 percent (61 percent), creating a $500 tax credit for all dependents (61 percent) and increasing the child tax credit (60 percent). 

Among the least popular elements of the proposal: reducing the corporate tax rate from 35 percent to 20 percent (39 percent of voters say that should be in the bill) and no longer taxing overseas profits of U.S. companies. 

The POLITICO/Morning Consult poll was conducted Sept. 29-Oct. 1, surveying 1,992 voters. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 2 percentage points.

Sec. Rex Tillerson denies wanting to quit, but doesn’t deny calling President Trump a ‘moron’

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has said he will stay in the Trump administration as “long as he is useful”, but he did not deny reports that he had called the president a “moron”. 

The former Exxon CEO organized an impromptu briefing at the State Department to address a report that broke just hours earlier via NBC News that Mr Tillerson had also considered leaving his post. 

He reportedly had to be counseled by Vice President Mike Pence to stay with the Trump administration, a claim that Mr Pence said was “categorically false” in a statement.  

“The Vice President has never had to persuade me to remain as Secretary of State because I have never considered leaving this post,” Mr Tillerson said, reading from prepared remarks.  

The NBC News report indicated he had called the President a “moron” after Mr Trump’s controversial speech to the Boy Scouts of America in July of this year.  

He was pressed once again about the “moron” comment and the matter-of-fact Texan said that “this is something I don’t understand about Washington,” calling the “mis-reported” story “petty nonsense” simply meant to divide the Trump administration.  

“I’m not going to deal with petty stuff like that.” 

Immediately the left wing goes on cable TV and said, ‘See! He did’t deny it.’ This exchange was stunning to me. Did the reporters hear Tillerson call President Trump a moron? Is there a tape recording? Is there a transcript? Did they interview anybody else who heard that? The answer is no, this all came from one anonymous source. 

This is where we’ve gotten to, that anonymous reporting is now fact. Allegations are convictions. This is the state of journalism in this country, it has collapsed.

NFL Ratings Tank

The National Football League is continuing a steady decline in audience, with its fourth week of games having the smallest audience on a weekend when some conservatives called for a boycott because some of its players used the national anthem to protest against police treatment of minorities. 

The Nielsen company said Tuesday the weekend's nationally televised games averaged 13.8 million viewers, down from 14.8 million the week before. Opening week registered 16.3 million viewers and the second week had 15.8 million. 

Monday Night Football was down double digits this week. The final numbers are in and the Chiefs’ 29-20 victory over the Washington Redskins snared 11.9 million viewers and a 4.3 rating among adults 18-49. Still, in a season that has seen rare ratings traction, ESPN did top both cable and broadcast TV thanks to MNF’s performance. 

Left wing sports reporters say the decline is because all TV ratings are down, which is true, but people want to see what’s happening live, such as a sports game. Now because of the insulting protests against the American flag and the National Anthem, a lot of people said they won’t watch.

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• In your discussion, you asked if buying multiple high powered weapons should not send up a red flag. Your guest replied, it’s not against the law, so there is no red flag. But, if it was against the law you simply charge the man. A red flag is a warning sign and by 40 high powered weapons this may certainly qualify for that. 

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