In Tweets, Trump Continues Attacks Against California, WaPo, Amazon

US President Donald Trump speaks during a retreat with Republican lawmakers at Camp David in Thurmont, Maryland, January 6, 2018. / AFP PHOTO / SAUL LOEB (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images)
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President Donald Trump on Saturday morning sustained his long-held grudges against the state of California, Amazon and the Washington Post, the latter two of which share an owner.

California Governor Jerry Brown on Friday pardoned 56 people — five of whom face deportation, according to the Associated Press — and commuted the sentences of 14 others.

AP noted that the pardons don’t totally eliminate the risk of deportation for the five pardoned men, but do remove a major justification for it.

Trump has long railed against the state’s relatively progressive stance on immigration enforcement.

This past week, Trump cheered (on his Twitter account) when Orange County’s board of supervisors voted to join the federal government’s lawsuit over California’s relatively new “sanctuary state” law.

The measure, signed into law last year, limits local law enforcement officials’ cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents. 

As for Amazon and the Washington Post — whose shared owner, Jeff Bezos, provides a frequent target for Trump — the President has long complained that the retail giant is ripping off the U.S. Postal Service.

Slate noted that Trump’s claim of $1.50 lost for every package shipped may have originated in a Citigroup analysis later cited by a Wall Street Journal op-ed in July of last year. 

Josh Sandbulte, whose money management firm owns Fed-Ex stock, asserted in the op-ed that “if costs were fairly allocated, on average parcels would cost $1.46 more to deliver.” That applies to all parcels, not just Amazon parcels. 

The same op-ed noted, though, that Amazon make does use of what are called “last mile” deliveries, in which local USPS depots deliver packages for a lower rate to local addresses.

As multiple outlets have pointed out, USPS faces a slew of problems, and the massive increase in home package delivery fueled by Amazon and other retailers likely isn’t the primary cause of the Postal Services’ years of operating in the red.

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  1. I think I speak for the great people of California when I say:

    I want you to go fuck yourself.

    Strong message to follow.

  2. Avatar for sanni sanni says:

    The day-glo dotard tweets untruths and again metaphorically shows the entire world whining ass. He only ‘shut up’ because it was time to tee up. Laziest president ever.

  3. Some bright, shining day I’ll look forward to an article of impeachment involving these repeated, direct, and financially consequential attacks on the freedom of the press. It’s absolutely outrageous. That it’s tolerated by any GOP officeholder anywhere is a damn violation of their oaths to uphold the Constitution. Sickening.

  4. Avatar for fess fess says:

    …delivery fueled by Amazon and other retailers likely isn’t the primary cause of the Postal Services’ years of operating in the red.

    It may have to do with this:

    The Postal Service is unfairly required to fully fund 75 years of retiree health care benefits in 10 years with an annual $5.5 billion payment.

    P.S. I love Gov. Moonbeam :heart_eyes:

  5. POTUS’s traditional Holy Saturday “fuck you losers!” Tweet.

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