Whatever Else May Happen, Donald J Shitstain Finds Ways To Fuck California

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But even as his presidency teeters, one of the few policy issues that has maintained Mr. Trump’s personal focus is not one central to his political appeal, like immigration or trade. It is the state of California.

The state has been a political fixation since the early days of his presidency, but that was heightened this autumn. Mr. Trump has attended meetings, asked detailed questions at briefings and pressed aides to find ways to use policies to go after the most populous state in the union, according to three people familiar with the matter. Aides say that Mr. Trump remains deeply involved on immigration policy, like a recent decision to slash the nation’s refugee program nearly in half, and on trade. But they describe him as obsessed with narrow policies that directly affect California. Beyond those three policy matters, little else has penetrated the swirl of impeachment.

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The cause of the recent bad blood appears to have been a secret deal that the governor brokered over the summer with Ford and three other major automakers, under which the companies agreed to comply with tighter climate pollution rules set by the state, defying Mr. Trump’s national effort to roll back federal regulations on tailpipe emissions. The announcement of the deal enraged Mr. Trump, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Since the beginning of his presidency, Mr. Trump has been enthusiastic about his administration’s push to roll back Obama-era rules on climate-warming auto pollution, framing it as a signature move to save an iconic industry from burdensome red tape. For most of that earlier period, Mr. Trump stayed away from the complex regulatory details involved in undoing the regulation, according to two current and two former White House officials. That changed with Governor Newsom’s deal with the automakers. Suddenly Mr. Trump was delving into policy details. The administration and Justice Department have pushed an unusual series of legal and policy moves against California and the auto companies that backed the state’s climate change plan.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/22/climate/trump-california.html

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1. The Idiot has a personal vendetta against California

But he's met his match. Newsom is a bulwark against which he is no match.