Get ready for 4 years of this shit, the thin-skinned edition

Unless you think that Trump isn't going to make it through a full term.  (I'm sure some of you have heard this speculation uttered quite often since the election.)

Trump trashes John Lewis' district: Things to know about 5th Congressional District.  (Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 1/14/2017)

The president-elect does not understand the diversity of people he has insulted with the tweets shown below.  The Fifth Congressional District includes downtown Atlanta and much of central Fulton and DeKalb counties and the northern third of Clayton. Or, to put it in the language that Atlantans best understand: The Fifth Congressional District covers the majority of the land inside the Perimeter, as well as some of the suburban communities to the south and west. It includes Buckhead and Bankhead, the Ritz-Carlton and the town of Rex, Lenox Square and Lakewood Heights -- and a lot of places in between.   [bold type added]

And the criticism wasn't limited to Democrats.


Part 2 starts here.


Reported at Trump pits his staff against the media.  (Politico, 1/12/2017)

Part 1 starts here.

Derek Thompson offers the best summary I've read to date of Trump's modus operandi in Donald Trump Says '96 Million' Are Looking for Work.  (The Atlantic, 1/12/2017)

Trump didn’t pull this particular figure out of thin air. There are 96 million Americans over the age of 16 who are not in the labor force. But “not in the labor force” does not mean they want a job and can’t get one. In fact, it means something quite different: that they are neither working nor looking for work. 

According to the U.S. Department of Labor Bureau Bureau of Labor Statistics, there are 159,640,000 people in the civilian labor force.  Applying Trump's 96 million to this figure gives us an unemployment rate of 60%.  Even if you use 254,742,000 -- the civilian noninstitutional population, i.e., the civilian labor force + those over 16 not in the labor force (like me, retired) -- the unemployment rate drops to 38%.  

96,000,000 = the total population of the following states:

1. Wyoming
2. Vermont
3. North Dakota
4. Alaksa
5. South Dakota
6. Delware
7. Montana
8. Rhode Island
9. New Hampshire
10. Hawaii
11. Idaho
12. West Virginia
13. Nebraska
14. New Mexico
15. Nevada
16. Kansas
17. Utah
18. Arkansas
19. Iowa 
20. Connecticut
21. Oklahoma
22. Oregon
23. Kentucky
24. Louisiana
25. South Carolina
26. Alabama
27. Colorado
28. Minnesota
29. Wisconsin
30. Maryland
31. Misssouri