Vacation or not, a hurting Louisiana needs you now, President Obama

[The Nature Boy 7,659]

I would be happy if he did a little work

I would be content for him to do nothing for a few more months

[eieio 1,594]

The more Obama golfs, the less damage to the US occurs.

I would be happy if he stayed on vacation for another 6 months. He is in the running as one of the worst presidents ever.

To be fair...he is the best black president we have ever had.

[lostinblue 1,989]

Still waiting for the headline, “Clinton Foundation sending millions of dollar to relieve the suffering of Louisiana flooding victims.”

[Rob L 3,811]

forgot about the instead of coming part, came anyway and announced that he was going to rebuild everything...I assume that is right after he finishes that wall

[eieio 1,594]

forgot about the instead of coming part, came anyway and announced that he was going to rebuild everything...I assume that is right after he finishes that wall

The only thing you need to know is......if anyone could get it done it would be trump.

Under budget and ahead of schedule of coarse.

[lostinblue 1,989]

We have not heard from Killary today ... Still sleeping off that bender .. Hoping a 3 pm call will not wake her from her nap .

[Dashinka 23,251]

I am happy for the prez to relax...but does it always have to be a photo-op? I mean Roosevelt made it through three terms with the country not knowing he used a wheelchair...we could hide a few golf rounds.

Things were different back then. No 24/7 news hounds looking for a story. Kennedy allegedly was able to have mistresses brought to the West Wing, but Clinton was impeached for ejaculating on the dress of an intern. Bush understood the photo-op issue with golf, I thought Obama was smarter than Bush.

[ready4ONE 5,400]

The only thing you need to know is......if anyone could get it done it would be trump.

Under budget and ahead of schedule of coarse.

Rump could probably pay for it himself with all the money he has saved NOT paying his taxes?

[Rob L 3,811]

Still waiting for the headline, Clinton Foundation sending millions of dollar to relieve the suffering of Louisiana flooding victims.

is that more than an 18 wheeler of water?

[Rob L 3,811]

The only thing you need to know is......if anyone could get it done it would be trump.

Under budget and ahead of schedule of coarse.

is that serious or is that the sarcasm i hear so much about?

[CarlosAndSveta 808]

The only thing you need to know is......if anyone could get it done it would be trump.

Under budget and ahead of schedule of coarse.

Trump is coarse and I am sure just about everything he does would be done coarsely.

[lostinblue 1,989]

is that more than an 18 wheeler of water?

Do you feel that his donation was inadequate ?

[Teddy B 17,251]

Do you feel that his donation was inadequate ?

His donation was nothing more than a headline grabber. What donations did he make during hurricane Katrina or super storm Sandy that wiped out a good chunk of his home state?

From 1990 through 2009, Trump has personally donated a total of just $3.7 million to his foundation, which was incorporated in 1987. In fact, the billionaire is not even the largest contributor to his own charitable organization.

Tax returns show that World Wrestling Entertainment has given Trump’s foundation a total of $5 million in return for the developer’s assistance in working a couple of televised angles along with WWE boss Vince McMahon. The WWE gave Trump’s foundation $4 million in 2007 for his help in promoting that year’s WrestleMania festivities, and another $1 million in 2009, when Trump (pictured below with McMahon) pretended to purchase part of the WWE empire.

The real estate titan’s foundation has also banked $205,000 from media outlets and supermarket tabloids in return for exclusive photos (People magazine, for example, paid the foundation $150,000 in 2006 for the first shots of Trump’s newborn son Barron).

During the past two decades, the Trump foundation has made charitable contributions totaling a paltry $6.7 million.

Both the amount of money Trump has donated to his own foundation as well as the aggregate contributions made by the not-for-profit group are pitiful when compared to the philanthropy of other high-profile tycoons like Bill Gates, Warren Buffett, Larry Ellison, Ted Turner, Michael Bloomberg, David Geffen, or S.I. Newhouse.

For example, in 2008 alone, Bloomberg’s charitable contributions totaled $235 million. In 2009, Ellison gave his medical foundation stock worth $73.2 million, according to IRS records. Newhouse’s foundation reported making donations totaling $11.8 million on its 2009 IRS return. And a tax return filed last year revealed that the late entertainer Johnny Carson even left his charitable foundation $156 million.

Trump’s miniscule donations have also been dwarfed by the charitable contributions of Leona Helmsley, whom Trump took great pleasure in mercilessly skewering. Helmsley, who died in 2007, left billions to her charitable trust, which last month alone made donations totaling $12.93 million (or nearly twice what Trump’s foundation has donated in the past 20 years).

In the aftermath of national tragedies like September 11 and Hurricane Katrina--when public figures worth a fraction of Trump were donating seven figures to relief organizations--the billionaire apparently misplaced his checkbook somewhere in his triplex atop Trump Tower.

Helmsley, by comparison, gave $5 million to the American Red Cross when New Orleans was submerged, and, post-9/11, she gave $5 million to the New York Police and Fire Widows' and Children's Benefit Fund.

In 2006, Trump’s foundation did give $1000 to the New York Rescue Workers Detoxification Fund, a controversial Scientology program (co-founded by Tom Cruise) that promoted a “purification rundown” for firemen and others who inhaled toxins while working near the smoldering remains of the World Trade Center.

While the Trump foundation’s 2010 tax return won’t become public until later this year, it seems unlikely--if history is any indication--that any groups providing aid in the wake of last January’s Haiti earthquake received money from the billionaire.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/celebrity/trump-least-charitable-billionaire-109247

[floridadave 195]

His donation was nothing more than a headline grabber. What donations did he make during hurricane Katrina or super storm Sandy that wiped out a good chunk of his home state?

Hear, hear

[floridadave 195]

Jeh Johnson Tells Flooded La., 'The President Can't Be Everywhere'; 'He Has a Very Busy Schedule'

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/jeh-johnson-tells-flooded-la-president-cant-be-everywhere-he-has-very-busy#.V7cNkkwnauU.twitter

Delegation of authority in response to the flooding. He's "scheduled" to visit 8/23/2016.

Summary:

President Obama has ordered federal aid to help state and local recovery efforts in the areas affected by flooding.

"While in Martha's Vineyard, the President has received updates on the situation in Louisiana, including from the DHS Secretary and the FEMA Administrator, who took separate trips there. The President today directed his team to coordinate with Louisiana officials to determine an appropriate time for him to visit, and together they have determined that the President will visit Baton Rouge, Louisiana on Tuesday, August 23rd. "

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2016/08/17/live-updates-what-you-need-know-about-flooding-louisiana

I realize only a few are buying the "Obama is not helping" angle but I provided the link above for those who may want White House, ah hum, "official" updates.