Checking The Trump List

Whether it's picking fights with senators from his own party, being labeled a "moron" by his own Secretary of State or questioning the legitimacy of a nuclear weapons treaty, President Donald Trump has a knack for cheesing off everyone if it suits his agenda.  Whatever that agenda happens to be.

Herewith, a quick review of recent events.

• Trump announced his intention to decertify the treaty the U.S. made with Iran's nuclear weapons program, citing their alleged lack of compliance.  Then he leaves the pact alone, passing the whole thing to Congress, which has a dubious recent history of getting anything done.
• He feuded with Republican senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John McCain of Arizona when they took shots at his leadership.  Silly men.  Don't they know that Trump can crush them with a tweet or three, depending on his mood and the time of day?
• After an attack in Niger that killed four American soldiers, Trump allegedly tells one of the soldier's widows that he knew what he signed up for.  That might be true, but it's not something you would normally say to someone who is grieving.  Then again, we've learned to expect things like this from the new Consoler-In-Chief.
• He threatens NBC's broadcasting license because they aired a report that he wanted to double the number of nuclear weapons.  NBC isn't required to have a license, but TV stations owned by their parent company Comcast do.  And it takes years to get that through the Federal Communications Commission.
• The President also wants equal time from late night hosts who rip him a new one every night.  Didn't the Fairness Doctrine go away decades ago?
• Trump signs an executive order to stop funding cost sharing subsidies for Obamacare, leaving some states in the lurch over how to keep their health care plans afloat.  Meanwhile, there's a bipartisan agreement to restore the subsidies for a two year period that initially met with Trump's approval.  Until it didn't. 
• After movie mogul Harvey Weinstien's banishment from Hollywood due to an all-star cast of women accusing him of sexual harassment, it's fair to ask what's going to happen to another alleged sexual predator named Donald Trump.  Well, we've already elected Presidents who fit the profile without our knowing it.  John Kennedy had so many women coming and going during his term, which we didn't know about until long after he was dead.  Bill Clinton was almost impeached because of his dalliances with other women.  Now that Trump's been in the White House for a few months, and his liberties with women are well known, what makes you think this is going to be any different?

Obviously, there's more to come.