Year in Review: 2016

I want to start things off by thanking every person that has come to the blog and read my articles!  Words cannot describe how thankful I am to each reader!  With that said, it is New Year's Eve and if you're like me, you just want this dumpster fire of a year to go away.  As worrisome of a feeling that 2017 will be, we do have to stay optimistic about the current climate.  We need to remember that the People of these United States have the final say in all decisions in this land and shall continue to let our voices be heard and considered!

This blog officially started this month and during that time there were 14 articles written for the site.  There will be many more for sure in the next year!  So let's do the Year in Review and highlight the Top 5 articles published in the year 2016!

Top Five Articles of 2016

1. Buddy System- How picking your really rich friends and campaign contributors is not "Draining the Swamp."
2. A Letter to Donald Trump and His Tweets- Donald Trump needs to be more diplomatic in his tweets.  What he posts matters more so now than it did when he was just a businessman.
3. Science: There's a Reason For It- Creationists and climate deniers need to understand that their views will lead to a lot of destruction in this world.
4. GOP Ambushes NC Politics aka Reichstag Fire Pt. 2- How a last-minute power grab by the North Carolina GOP showed the world that democracy does not matter when you lose.
5. Trump and Netanyahu: Partners in Crime- The worrisome tale of Israel and the rejection of the Two-State Solution.

Let's all have a great New Years and I look forward to writing more for Trump Monitor in 2017!  Thank you everyone!

GOP Ambushes NC Politics aka Reichstag Fire Pt. 2

This year's election proved to be a head turner for sure.  The candidate everyone expected to win lost and right now everything feels like limbo, but if there was a ray of light it's with the state of North Carolina.  But like with every bratty child in existence, it shows that there is a reason we all can't have nice things.

North Carolina during the election made absolutely no sense.  For the Presidential race it went Republican for Donald Trump, but for the Gubernatorial race it went Democrat for Roy Cooper.  One of the main reasons it did not go Democrat for both is because there were enough people that while they definitely did not like Trump, they also did not trust Hillary Clinton so they voted for the governor's race, but left the President's race blank.  Trump had it in the bag now, but the race for governor was too tight to call.

Morning Musings

Is seven in the morning too early to start a blog post?  Not if your profession requires you to be up a lot earlier than that on a daily basis.  Seven is sleeping in for me.  Anyways, here is the Morning Musings also known as "What I plan on posting this weekend."

I have four topics in mind (subject to change of course) that will be either covered all today or some today and some tomorrow:

1. Trump's Cabinet picks so far have a combined wealth of more than 1/3 of all US households
2. North Carolina GOP's last minute power-grabs
3. Russia's involvement in election hacking
4. David Friedman named as Trump's Ambassador to Israel

Stay tuned after I have my morning coffee...