“a) untrue b) indiscreet c) unpresidential”
They forgot racist, sexist, homophobic, anti environment........Can anybody think of any more?
For a little perspective...
New Air Force One from Boeing: $4 Billion
Total NASA Budget for 2016 $19 Billion
http://www.boeing.com/company/about-bca/
747-8 pricetag: $378.5M
Two aircraft for Air Force 1 usage at the base price: $757M
Price inflation for luxury accommodations, actual communications needs, and traditional military cost overruns: 4.2B - 0.7B = $3.5B
If Donald Trump says that a plane has too much useless luxury at too high a price, perhaps we should listen. He knows luxury and knows what it costs. We could go with a little less chrome and mahogany.
In terms of the bigger picture, it does not seem like anyone on the left listens to what President Trump says (even less than they listen to other republicans). They listen long enough to attack on his topic and don’t bother checking whether he has a point. This will be an interesting eight years.
I say, give them what they want. Make anyone who wants to be part of the Official News Media register and obtain a license. If “fake news” is such a threat, then the First Amendment must allow “reasonable, common sense restrictions,” just like the Second Amendment.
After all, things have changed since the Constitution was adopted. If the Framers didn’t expect “assault weapons,” they sure didn’t expect radio, TV, and Internet.
So for the children’s sake, all news media companies, news writers and news readers should have to obtain a federal license, background check, pay fees, and have training and proficiency testing on presenting and authenticating facts and how to separate opinion from news.
Anyone who accepts paid advertising for publishing should happily accept reasonable restrictions. Oh, and if they violate their license by publishing opinion as news, they lose their license.
Blogs or other sources without a federal license can still publish, but the public will know they might be getting fake news.
I say, if the liberals want it, give it to them where the sun don’t shine. /sarc