Is This Transparency?

Okay, so besides the obvious conclusion that Donald Trump was incredibly crass in his remarks to Brigitte Macron, no one can say that they were unexpected or out of character. But keeping in mind that Trump promised to have a very transparent administration, what does it say about that same administration when it tries everything possible to hide information including deflecting by sending out obnoxious and irrelevant tweets? So the information that Natalia Veselnitskaya was in the United States on a visa related to her defense of a Trump associate against the charge of money laundering is hidden and she smiles coyly during questioning. The information that Rinat Akhmetshin was in the Trump Tower room with Don Jr., ostensibly acting as a translator, had to be pulled out like rotten teeth. And Trump who is famous as a micro-manager says he knew absolutely nothing about the meeting that included his son, his son-in-law, his campaign manager, those two named Russians and at least three other unnamed persons . We know Trump is of German Scottish extraction but we didn't know he was the model for Sergeant Schultz.

Yet and still Republicans are at nearly 90% approval rating for Trump, so my question ends up being, "What has he done for you?" There were more jobs created in the last five months of Obama's administration  than in the first five months of Trump's. There are literally hundreds of jobs that have not been filled in government offices that are Trump's responsibility to fill for the smooth working of the people's government. The current iteration of the health law that McConnell says he will call the vote on next week will mean that anyone with a pre-existing condition (Without the language of the bill no one knows just what qualifies as a pre-existing condition. Prior to the ACA simply being female was counted as a pre-existing condition.), will not be able to afford insurance at all and will therefore have little chance of receiving care. Betsy DeVos says that young women who are raped at their colleges are just as guilty as the young men who rape them so both should be punished equally. The appalling list goes on but Republicans sit around with grins on their faces because people like me are angry.