Trump shrugs off outcry over Postal Service: 'I'm just making it good'

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Hill

President Trump on Monday dismissed a Democratic push for billions in U.S. Postal Service (USPS) funding as a "con game" and shrugged off concerns from lawmakers that he is undermining the agency ahead of November's election.

"I’m just making it good," Trump said when asked on "Fox & Friends" about claims that he is "sabotaging" the postal service.

Trump complained that the agency has lost tens of billions of dollars over the last several years, though it is a government-funded service that is not necessarily designed to make a profit.

"We’re making it so it is going to be good, and we’re going to take care of our postal workers above all," Trump said. "We’re not firing people, but the way they ran that thing for many years, this isn’t a Trump thing… This has been one of the disasters of the world the way it’s been run.

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Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/512288-trump-shrugs-off-outcry-over-postal-service-im-just-making-it-good

[onetexan]

1. The Idiot keeps committing the crime & doubling down!!

[maxsolomon]

19. What's to stop him at this point? Or any point?

An Inspector General? Or Congressional Hearing?

Impunity.

[KPN]

28. Us. We have to vote. It needs to be a landslide in order to be safe. Nothing else will stop

him. And if the vote doesn't work, it will only be because the election has been once again stolen. In which case, it will be left to us, the people. We must be ready to do here what the people of Belarus are doing there right now.

[Wuddles440]

42. I'd plan on...

taking to the streets like the citizens of Belarus because Benedict Donald will not permit anything but total and absolute victory for himself in November and those of "his" party. The voter suppression measures, already a serious problem, will be epic. Putin can only promise to provide some counsel and assistance to him, but can't insure a 100% delivery. It's up to Barr, DeJoy, Powell, and company to drag him across the finish line. I'd anticipate Barr moving against Biden and other Obama associates any day now.

[PatSeg]

2. Yeah, he's making it "good"

like he does everything else.

[Auggie]

27. "I'm just making it good (for me)."

[PatSeg]

31. Or "making it good and dead"!

[Auggie]

39. Or "making it good and privatized ..."

Shoot, we could go on forever.

[PatSeg]

47. The possibilities are endless!

[forgotmylogin]

40. 45 is the king of "fixing" things that ain't broke and claiming credit.

Kind of like "make america great again" - America was always great (primarily) until he showed up.

[PatSeg]

48. "And I alone can fix it"

I don't think there is anything he's touched that hasn't turned to shit.

[turbinetree]

3. Oh boy here it comes the ego and narcissism always circling back to him to make

it look like he's the hero..............fucking traitor.............

[TheRealistRealist]

4. He sees Nancy Pelosi as a paper tiger

She will respond with a fierce clapback and no real action. My hope is that individual state AGs will quickly charge Dejoy. Hopefully he will rat out Trump and the others behind this fiasco.

[yellowdogintexas]

8. AG of Pennsylvania was interviewed on NPR this morning. He is emphatic

about not letting this go. It should be on the archives from this morning. I was waking up but I believe there are 3 different stories on the subject.

Of course the TX AG will sit on his hands unless it appears the Republicans will be hurt more than the Democrats. He is the one who wanted to sacrifice our seniors to COVID

[Javaman]

5. "I'm just making it good...and dead" nt

[Leghorn21]

6. Well, he's taking responsibility for this, as opposed to saying "Ask Dejoy, I don't know nuttin"

GOOD

[pandr32]

25. Yes he is

Even if he sings a different tune soon we have his own words to use against him--for all that matters.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

7. Repeal the 2006 law Bush signed

That said the USPS had to fund its retirements within 10 years for the next 75.

Biden can call for that to be repealed.

[yellowdogintexas]

9. AMEN to that.

I have been livid about that since I first learned of it. The Rs sneaked that one under the wire during the last week of the Congress elected in 2004 before the Democratic Congress of 2006 was sworn in in January.

It is high time that thing was consigned to the dust heap of history

[ArizonaLib]

16. I understood there was only a 10 year limit on that law

I don't know if it was extended beyond, but others on this board know more about that law than I do.

[IronLionZion]

20. Pelosi's House voted to end it. McConnell's Senate refused to even vote on it

It's one of the dumbest laws ever passed by Congress

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_Enhancement_Act

Politifact rates the financial assertions about the retirement plan as half true since there are other factors involved
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/apr/15/afl-cio/widespread-facebook-post-blames-2006-law-us-postal/

[maxsolomon]

22. Its not dumb if your intent is to push the USPS into a crisis

then it's brilliant.

In fact, it was probably a GOP thinktank that came up with it TO create a crisis, and then use that crisis as justification for exactly what we're seeing.

Wrecking things is easy.

[RhodeIslandOne]

34. And people wonder why we are not interested in hearing from Republicans from the Bush era

It was a looooooooooooooong slippery slope to get here.

[maxsolomon]

35. They voted for the law that created the crisis.

And allowed President Narcissist to say "they're losing billions a year".

Yes, BECAUSE OF YOUR PARTY'S BULLSHIT.

[jmowreader]

43. I'm doing some math here...

If Bush signed this law in 2006 and the deed had to be done in 10 years, the retirements should have been funded by 2017 at the latest.

[Botany]

10. All about "the profits."

"Trump complained that the agency has lost tens of billions of dollars over the last several years,
though it is a government-funded service that is not necessarily designed to make a profit."

BTW how many of Trump's businesses' failed to turn a profit.


BTW The postal service is always in hole because the republicans made it so that the USPS has to
fund all of their personal's retirement for 75 years out into the future.

[SergeStorms]

11. Trump had three and a half years...

to "make the Post Office good", but he just didn't get around to it (what with his many golf excursions) until right before the election.

Sure, I believe you, Donny. And so will your brain-dead supporters.

[iluvtennis]

13. Ditto. nt

[IronLionZion]

33. Those damn Democrats were trying to impeach him

it kept him from making the Post Office great again until now

[SergeStorms]

37. That's it!

How silly of me not to remember that. It's always the democrats fault! It had nothing to do with his 273 daytime trips to his golf courses since his inauguration. https://www.trumpgolfcount.com/

Damned Democrats.

[Cetacea]

12. "we're going to take care of our postal workers above all"

Did DeSorrow not already cut overtime for 100k postal workers?

[ananda]

14. Meaning: good for nothing and nobody!

!!!

[SWBTATTReg]

15. And I have to laugh at this POS idiot in the WH...does he not realize that postal delays result in

his own voters being impacted too (i mean, sure they can concentrate the discrepancies in blue cities etc.) but the blue cities are often centers of postal shorting units that cover large geographical areas too, that include republican areas and also, didn't scumbag know of the possible negative impact of prescriptions being delayed, etc.? He does and he's ignoring it deliberately. Another imho impeachable offense.

[LisaL]

17. Good and not Great?

Just like everything else he is supposed to be making great.

[IronLionZion]

18. He's making it great again

like how it was maybe 100 years ago

[cp]

21. No. No, you're not.

[aquamarina]

23. Let me edit this for clarity and to say what the orange asshole really means.

'I'm just making it good FOR ME'

[dchill]

24. "Everything Trump touches dies."

[calimary]

26. "Good" for WHOM???

Never mind. No need to ask, really. We know.

[KPN]

29. We need to take this guy down. Seriousloy -- one way or the other. nt

[joanbarnes]

30. Trump steak good, or Trump water good, or Trump Taj Mahal good, or Trump University good,

or Trump Foundation good?

[cayugafalls]

32. Anything he says is bullshit. He opens his mouth, bullshit ensues.

It is a fact. Trump is talking?

[dalton99a]

36. Says the King of Shit

[pazzyanne]

38. We all know what he is making it,

and it is definitely NOT good. He is using his lead touch to stamp out "the light from the city on the hill."

[Grokenstein]

41. I just had a package from Maine shipped via USPS on Saturday.

It arrived here in the Bay Area today. That's a HUGE change from the way things have been trending over the past month and a half.

Was it a fluke? Are distribution centers defying orders? Or are Li'l Don-Don and DeJoyless running scared, amping delivery up while seeking other means to fuck mail-in ballots?

[jmowreader]

44. It's too bad we can't do this...

"Any disbursal of public funds to Donald J. Trump or any member of his family shall be issued by the Manager, Transportation Security Administration Field Office, Post/Rogers Memorial Airport, Utqiaġvik, Alaska, and shall be transmitted to the recipient by First Class Mail utilizing surface transportation exclusively."

[Cha]

45. Everything trump touches Turns to SHITE.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

46. Fucking it up good