Because I’m The Damn President
Okay, we’re now finding out that in June, Trump met with Native American tribal leaders and told them to “just do it” and go right ahead and extract anything they wanted out of their land.
The tribal leaders informed Trump that they are barred from doing that by regulations.
Trump bodaciously responded, “But now it’s me. The government’s different now. Obama’s gone; and we’re doing things differently here.”
The tribal leaders just looked at one another in stunned silence.
Trump must have picked up on that because he wanted to explain it better.
“Chief, chief,” Trump continued, addressing one of the tribal leaders, “what are they going to do? Once you get it out of the ground are they going to make you put it back in there? I mean, once it’s out of the ground it can’t go back in there. You’ve just got to do it. I’m telling you, chief, you’ve just got to do it.”
The tribal leader looked back at one of the White House officials in the room — perhaps somebody from the White House Counsel’s office — and he said “can we just do that?” The official equivocated, saying the administration is making progress and has a plan to roll back various regulations.
Trump interjected again: “Guys, I feel like you’re not hearing me right now. We’ve just got to do it. I feel like we’ve got no choice; other countries are just doing it. China is not asking questions about all of this stuff. They’re just doing it. And guys, we’ve just got to do it.”
So, I guess you can pretty much do whatever you want to now. We’ve pretty much moved to anarchy. I mean, if China doesn’t ask questions, why should we?
I’m starting up a bourbon distillery right on my own damn property, in the middle of town, because, damn it, I’m just doing it!
Worst slogan Nike ever came up with: Just Do It. Brain donors, that’s what they is, brain donors.
And Trump got his from a guy named Abbn Ormal!
1Yeah, just run that red light; nobody will get hurt.
Burn that oil, nobody will breathe the junk. What can they do to you, anyway?
He’s so despicable. This is obviously the way he was brought up and the way he’s brought up his kids.
ITMFA NOW!!
2Of course, there’s absolutely no history of Native Americans developing stuff and having white folk steal it. Hell, you’d have to be crazy to think he’s setting them up.
/sarcasm
3So the tribe bought rusting bulldozers from the Peabody Company bankruptcy estate and mountain top removed the Black Hills.
4I am absolutely amazed that the chiefs met with the Golden Gibbon. No wonder they were gobsmacked! They all had better sense than he has! What they were hearing was the white man’s thinking when it came to over-riding treaties and stealing all the gold in the Black Hills.
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