Emperor Donald J. Trump [2017-??] Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

Republican Donald Trump is a fascist and a multiple bankrupt and a racist and a crook and a sexist pig;
the really sad part is that Trump was the best that the Republican Party could come up with to run for President of the U.S.A.
And then a large number of racist, xenophobic, reality-averse dimwits elected the man President!

If Donald Trump was a legitimate official under the U.S. Constitution, the original real estate tycoon Donald J. Trump Page would include
his term as President. But things as they are require a split: this second page is for Emperor Trump and his fascist administration.

“Donald Trump is a unique threat to American democracy. He is unfit for the presidency and cannot be endorsed.
A Trump presidency would be dangerous for the nation and the world.” — Washington Post Editorial Board, 22 July 2016

“Trump [is] a fascist. Not in the sense of an all-purpose bad guy, but in the sense of somebody who sincerely believes that the toxic combination
of strong government and strong corporations should run the nation and the world.” — columnist Michael Kinsley, Dec 2016

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command, shows that his reason is weak.” — essayist Michel De Montaigne [1533-92]

“We made our mistakes back in the XXth century, Lord knows, but we never nominated a man for president who brags about not reading . . . When I envision
a Trump Presidential Library, I see enormous chandeliers and gold carpet and a thousand slot machines. God help us. I mean it. We’re in trouble down here.”
— author & radio personality Garrison Keillor

“So the people have spoken, giving the finger to the Washington Consensus and electing an admitted sexual predator and proven prevaricator
so lacking in impulse control that he spent the early morning hours of one day cyberbullying a beauty pageant contestant he had once
humiliated in person. Strike up 'Hail To The Chief'.” — journalist Lou Dubose

A 'Days Until Trump Leaves Office' counter belongs here, haven't found any code that works {5/2017}

          B I O
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          the first Trump-for-President trial balloon in 1987,
          numbskull Donald Trump almost ran again in 2011 for the 2012 race. (The domain www.impeachTrump.com was registered in January 2011; the minimum bid for auction in 2017 is $10,000.)
          listed among the Top Thirty Dirtbags of the One Percent in 2011

Trump is not the first loony to be Emperor of The United States: there also was Emperor Norton I [1818-80] who reigned in San Francisco for twenty years.

Business History
The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's businesses remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page.

Secretary of Agriculture
nominee ex-Gov. Sonny Perdue of Georgia {{CONFIRMED}}
approved by committee on 30 March 2017; confirmed by Senate vote on April 24 of 87-11.

Attorney General and the Department of Justice
nominee U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama {{CONFIRMED}}
described as 'an enemy of civil rights and women's rights', as well as
someone 'deemed too racist to confirm to a federal judgeship by a Republican Judiciary Committee in 1986'; attempt by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to read anti-Sessions letter
from long ago was blocked (but read into record by Sen. Udall & others); Senate confirmed Sessions late on February 8th with a vote of 52-47.

Secretary of Commerce
nominee 'bankruptcy king' Wilbur Ross of New Jersey
a Wall Street billionaire who made his money as a notorious 'vulture capitalist': he offshored American textile jobs
to China & Mexico, and 12 coal workers died at his mine in West Virginia; Ross has a record of defending China on trade.

Secretary of Defense
nominee retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis was {{CONFIRMED}} by Senate vote on January 20

Secretary of Education
nominee billionaire and anti-public schools lobbyist Betsy Prince DeVos of Michigan {{CONFIRMED}}
sister of Erik Prince, founder of the Blackwater Xe mercenary service
in a first ever tied-up vote for a cabinet confirmation, the Vice President cast the final vote on February 7 to put DeVos over the top

Secretary of Energy
nominee former Governor Rick Perry of Texas {{CONFIRMED}}
board member of Energy Transfer Partners which is attempting to build the Dakota Access Pipeline and the Keystone XL pipeline
confirmed in the Senate on March 2 with a vote of 62-37.

Secretary of Health & Human Services
nominee Congressman Tom Price of Georgia {{CONFIRMED}}
Price has long advocated: stripping Planned Parenthood of all federal funding and launching an all-out attack on a woman’s right to choose; repealing Obamacare and leaving
millions of Americans without health coverage; and slashing Medicaid by more than 30% and stripping Medicaid insurance from at least 14 million Americans. The Senate Finance Committee released a memo questioning Price's ethics, i.e. tax reporting violations. The Senate confirmed Price on February 9 by a vote of 52 to 47.

Secretary of Homeland Security
nominee retired Marine Corps Gen. John F. Kelly of Massachusetts was {{CONFIRMED}} by Senate vote on January 20

Secretary of Housing & Urban Development {{CONFIRMED}}
nominee & loose cannon Dr. Ben Carson of Florida
confirmed in the Senate on March 2 with a vote of 58-41.

Secretary of the Interior
nominee Congressman Ryan Zinke of Montana
Zinke is a climate change skeptic: "It’s not proven science."

Secretary of Labor
nominee fast food CEO Andrew Puzder of Tennessee {{WITHDRAWN}}
his company C.K.E. settled three California class-action lawsuits concerning overtime pay for $9 million in 2004; in 2007-2014, the company spent $20M
on labor lawsuits; a 2013 class-action lawsuit over failure to pay overtime to managers is still pending; further allegations of anti-labor actions and failure to pay
employer taxes and domestic abuse were revealed; he withdrew his nomination on February 15th

Secretary of State
nominee oil company executive Rex Tillerson of Texas {{CONFIRMED}}
joined ExxonMobil in 1975 and has never worked anywhere else; while Tillerson served as ExxonMobil’s CEO, the company's profits collapsed
by more than 80 percent, falling from $39.5B in 2006 to $7.84B in 2016; listed among the Top Thirty Dirtbags of the One Percent in 2011
What is the Russian Order of Friendship, and why does Rex Tillerson have one?
The State Department’s entire senior management team - the top four deputies - resigned on January 25: Undersecretary Patrick Kennedy,
Assistant Secretary Joyce Anne Barr, Assistant Secretary Michele Bond, and Office of Foreign Missions director Gentry O. Smith

Deputy Secretary of State
nominee John Bolton was U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations in 2005-2006 (17 months)

Secretary of Transportation
nominee Elaine Chao of Kentucky (who is married to Sen. Mitch McConnell)

Secretary of the Treasury
nominee 'foreclosure king' Steven Mnuchin of California was {{CONFIRMED}} in the Senate on February 13 by a vote of 53-47.

Secretary of Veterans Affairs
nominee David Shulkin of Pennsylvania
currently Under Secretary for Health at the V.A.

Central Intelligence Agency
nominee Congressman Mike Pompeo of Kansas {{CONFIRMED}}
he supports torture, Guantanamo, and NSA mass surveillance, yet was approved by the Senate on January 23 by a voyte of 66-32.
2/2017: director Pompeo announced selection of Gina Haspel to be the first female career C.I.A. officer to be named deputy director.

commission on vaccine safety and scientific integrity
appointee Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. who is a vaccine skeptic and proponant of bad public-health policy.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Consumer_Product_Safety_Commission
Ann Marie Buerkle [GOP; apptd 2013, promoted to acting chair 2/2017]
safety activist Elliot Kaye [Dem; chair 2014-2017] plans to stay on as a commissioner until his term expires 10/2020

Economic Advisory Council aka 'Strategic and Policy Forum'
Thousands of People’s Action members called on Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to step down from Trump’s economic advisory council and stop collaborating with Trump’s illegal and immoral agenda (mostly his unconstitutional ban of Muslims); customers boycotted the Uber service across the country, taxi-drivers protested at New York City airports, and employees voiced opposition in person; Kalanick resigned from Trump’s economic advisory board on Thursday February 2.

Environmental Protection Agency
Administrator nominee climate science skeptic Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt

Federal Bureau of Investigation
Director James Comey will stay on under the Trump administration
ooops didn't happen
The Senate confirmed Comey’s replacement Christopher Wray as director of the F.B.I. in a 92-5 vote on 1 August 2017.

Federal Communications Commission
nominee Ajit Pai is a net neutrality critic

National Security Council
longtime Chief of Staff retired LtGen Keith Kellogg (kept on by Trump)

Office of Management and Budget
Director nominee Congressman Mick Mulvaney of South Carolina

Securities & Exchange Commission
Commissioner nominee Wall Street lawyer Jay Clayton - surely classic 'fox in charge of the henhouse'

Small Business Administration
Administrator nominee professional-wrestling executive Linda McMahon

U.S. Supreme Court
nominated is very dreadful conservative Judge Neil M. Gorsuch of Colorado

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations
nominee South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley {{CONFIRMED}}
who is a United Nations skeptic was approved by 96-4 Senate vote on January 24

U.S. Ambassador to Britain
nominee Woody Johnson is owner of the New York Jets N.F.L. pro football team

White House Counselor to the President
appointee Kellyanne Conway
was formerly a TV pundit, pollster, and campaign advisor

White House homeland security adviser
appointee Bush administration veteran Thomas Bossert

White House infrastructure adviser
appointee New York real estate tycoon Richard LeFrak

White House national security adviser
appointee Mike Flynn misled officials about his dealings with Russia, and so was forced to resign on February 13th.

White House national security communications adviser
appointment of Monica Crowley was announced, but she was quickly accused of plagiarism in her PhD dissertation
and in her 2012 book; {{WITHDRAWN}} in January 2017

White House Press Secretary
appointee Sean 'Pants On Fire' Spicer is already spewing 'alternative facts'

White House science adviser
appointee David Gelernter is a fiercely anti-intellectual computer scientist

2011 Jan: Planning ahead, somebody registered the www.impeachTrump.com internet domain, which is now being auctioned for $10,000 or more with a deadline of April 2017.

2016 July: Trump won the Republican Party nomination and chose Indiana Governor Mike Pence for VP.

2016 Nov 8: Trump won the national election with 304 electors to 227, but lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton by nearly 3 million.

2017 Jan 20: Donald J. Trump was inaugurated as U.S. President/Emperor #45 in Washington, DC.

2017 First Day

Trump is ignoring the Foreign Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article 1, Section 9), which prohibits all government officials - including the President - from taking gifts or money from a foreign government; Trump is also ignoring the Domestic Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article 2, Section 1), which prohibits officers of the Executive Branch - including the President - from taking gifts or money from any federal government agency or agency of any of the states. Thus, Emperor Trump was immediately in violation of his Oath of Office, and lawsuits were filed and petitions begun. The A.C.L.U. filed an F.O.I.A. request to see Trump's tax returns so they can determine any conflicts of interest.

Several political organizations launched the Impeach Donald Trump Now petition website, also based on immediate violations of Trump's Oath of Office.

Immediately after his inauguration, Donald Trump's White House staff deleted the civil rights, LGBTQ, and climate change sections of the White House website.

2017 First Week - January 20-28

Emperor Trump signed a series of executive orders that: withdraws the U.S. from the Trans-Pacific Partner-ship, a move seen as a win for China (but Beijing isn’t celebrating); reverses abortion-related U.S. policy by banning funds to international health groups; and gives a green light to both Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines (Trump owns stock in the company that is building both projects).

The E.P.A. announced plans to remove the climate change page from its website, based on instructions from the White House; but the resulting public outcry forced cancellation of that plan.

The Trump administration ordered the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to cancel sponsorship of a summit to be held on climate change and health, but climate activist and former vice president Al Gore, Jr. is teaming up with the American Public Health Assn. and other organizations to make the event happen.

The Trump administration pulled the plug on all Obamacare outreach and advertising in the crucial final days of the 2017 enrollment season. Even ads that were already placed and paid for were pulled.

2017 Second Week - January 29 to February 4

The U.S.D.A. website abruptly purged its animal welfare information; the records, which up to then had been freely available, were used to monitor animal treatment at circuses, scientific labs, breeding facilities, and zoos.

Following White House advisor Kellyanne Conway's insistence that 'alternative facts' were a real thing, sales of George Orwell's 1949 novel "Nineteen Eighty-Four" shot up, becoming an international best-seller on Amazon.

2017 Feb 1: Widely-circulatecd draft of a document entitled "Establishing a Government-Wide Initiative to Respect Religious Freedom" was leaked to The Nation Magazine and other investigators. One of many such drafts, all of which seek to make discrimination against minorities legal based on any religious or corporate belief.

2017 Third Week - February 4-11

2017 Feb 8: The attempt by Sen. Elizabeth Warren to read an anti-Sessions letter by Coretta Scott King from long ago was blocked (but read into the record by Sen. Udall & others); the Senate confirmed Sessions as Attorney General later that day with a standard vote of 52-47.

2017 Feb 9: A three-judge panel at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a nationwide injunction against Trump’s Immigration Order.

2017 Feb 9: The Senate confirmed Congressman Tom Price of Georgia for Secretary of Health & Human Services by a standard vote of 52-47.

2017 Fourth Week - February 12-18

2017 Feb 13: Wall Street veteran Steven Mnuchin of California was confirmed in the Senate as Secretary of The Treasury by a standard vote of 53-47.

After more reports of anti-labor behaviour, failure to pay taxes for household employees, and of domestic abuse in the 1990s, Andrew Puzder withdrew from his nomination as Secretary of Labor.

2017 Fifth Week - February 19-25

2017 Sixth Week - February 26-March 4

2017 Feb 28: Trump spoke to joint session of Congress, with 60 million viewers; Trump was praised by pundits for reading the teleprompter and seldom going off-script.

2017 March 2: Texan Rick Perry was confirmed in the Senate as Secretary of Energy (vote 62-37) and Dr. Ben Carson was confirmed as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (vote 58-41).

2017 Seventh Week - March 5-11

2017 Fifth Month - June

2017 June 23: The New York Times published a full list of 'Trump's Lies' in office {so far} as compiled by David Leonhardt & Stuart A. Thompson

2017 July 12: Congressman Brad Sherman [Dem-CA30] introduced House Resolution 438, Articles of Impeachment of Donald J. Trump for Obstruction of Justice.

2017 Aug 30: Emperor Trump's campaign visit to Harvey-ravaged Texas was to Corpus Christi - 30 miles away - because Houston was flooded.

The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's pre-Emperor writings, et cetera remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page;
post-inauguration content will be coded here as they occur.

The entries & links concerning Donald Trump's pre-Emperor appearances remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page;
post-inauguration events will be coded here as they occur.

Works About Donald Trump
The entries & links concerning books about tycoon Trump remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page; post-inauguration works will be coded here as they appear.

What We Do Now ... in Trump's America book (essays)

"What We Do Now: Standing Up For Your Values In Trump's America" [2017] 8/2016

Edited by Dennis Johnson & Valerie Merians
27 recent essays from progressive leaders, including: Cornell William Brooks (NAACP), Michael Brune (Sierra Club), Rea Carey (National GLBTQ Task Force), David Cole (ACLU), novelist Dave Eggers, Ilyse Hogue (NARAL), Cristina Jimenez (United We Dream), Mara Keisling, M. Dove Kent, Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, Nobel Prize-winner Paul Krugman, linguist George Lakoff, Allan Lichtman, John R. MacArthur (Harper's Magazine), eco-activist Bill McKibben, Ilhan Omar, Brittany Packnett (Campaign Zero), Robert B. Reich, Anthony Romero (ACLU), Sen. Bernie Sanders, Linda Sarsour (Arab American Assn.), novelist George Saunders, feminist Gloria Steinem, artist Nato Thompson, Trevor Timm (Freedom of the Press Foundation), Katrina vanden Heuvel (The Nation Magazine), and Sen. Elizabeth Warren
Kindle Edition from Melville House/Penguin [1/2017] for $11.99
Melville House 8¼x5½ pb [1/2017] for $12.89

Family & Friends & Fans
Donald John Trump was born in Queens, New York City in June 1946; he made tentative runs for U.S. President in 1987, 2000, and 2011,
and won the Republican Party nomination in July 2016, then the election in November, and was inaugurated on 20 January 2017.

The detail entries & links about Donald Trump remain on the original Donald J. Trump Page;
not much is expected to be added to this section on this page.

daughter Ivanka Marie Trump Kushner [b. 1981]
given unspecified position as advisor to her father, with full security clearance and an office in the White House

third wife Melania Knauss {nee Melanija Knavs in Slovenia} Trump [b. 1970] - married 2005
son Barron William Trump [b. 2006]

white nationalist leader Richard Spencer quickly praised several of Trump's cabinet nominees

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	"Pussy: A Novel" [2017] by Howard Jacobson Prince Fracassus passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned, and egotistic; he has no manners, no curiosity, no knowledge, no idea, and no words in which to express them. Could he, in that case, be the very leader to make the country great again? Kindle Edition from Vintage Digital/P.R.H. UK [4/2017] for $9.99 Random House UK 8½x5 pb [5/2017] for $15.15
	"You Can't Spell America Without ME: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year As President Donald J. Trump" [2017] by Alec Baldwin & Kurt Andersen Announced March 2017 for November publication Kindle Edition from Penguin Press [DUE Nov 2017] for $14.99 Penguin Press hardcover [DUE Nov 2017] for $22.36
	"Win Bigly: Persuasion In A World Where Facts Don't Matter" [2017] by Scott Adams Cartoonist Adams goes beyond Trump & politics to look at persuasion tools that can work in any setting - the same ones that Adams saw in Steve Jobs when he invested in Apple decades ago. Kindle Edition from Portfolio/Penguin [10/2017] for $13.99 Portfolio 9x6 hardcover [10/2017] for $24.30

Emperor Donald J. Trump U.S. President/Emperor #45, 2017-2021?

Emperor Donald J. Trump
U.S. President/Emperor #45, 2017-2021?