Draining the swamp in the WH

Oct 19, 2017 – Shortly before Election Day last year, Donald Trump rolled out a package of ethics reforms that he promised to implement as president, using for the first time a now-famous phrase: “drain the swamp.” A year later and nearly nine months into his presidency, Trump has failed to deliver on most of those …

Jan 30, 2018 – Nearly a year has passed since Donald Trump strode into Washington with the confidence of a conqueror and famously declared he would “drain the swamp.” The president must now wonder if he’s knee deep in the big muddy. His administration is mired in chaos. Key appointments are unfilled. Lawyers …

Sep 21, 2017 – There is no campaign promise that Donald Trump has failed to honor more flagrantly than his oft repeated pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. He has violated the letter of his promise and trampled all over its spirit. His supporters ought to be furious. But few perceive the scale of his betrayal or …

Oct 16, 2017 – Trump promised to “drain the swamp” at a rally that day in Green Bay, Wisconsin, the first time he did so during the campaign. He did it the next day, October 18, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. In Fletcher, North Carolina, he called Clinton “the most corrupt person ever to seek the office of the Presidency.

Apr 26, 2017 – President Trump’s campaign rallies were defined by three slogans, three syllables each, which the candidate led the crowd in chanting: “Build the wall,” condemning illegal immigration; “Lock her up,” attacking Democratic rival Hillary Clinton; and “Drain the swamp,” all about cleaning up Washington.

Oct 24, 2017 – Trump’s Mar-a-Lago trips, coupled with Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s financial scandals, reveal a larger problem.

Jan 9, 2018 – President Donald Trump, who came to Washington vowing to “drain the swamp,” mused Tuesday about lifting the ban on congressional earmarks, the practice of larding legislation with pork-barrel payoffs. Earmarks, which are provisions in legislation channeling federal funding to specific projects, have …

More than a year has passed since Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp“, but many question …

Dec 22, 2017 – In the waning days of the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump repurposed a well-worn catchphrase at a Wisconsin rally that not only resonated with his base of supporters but seemed to sum up his outsider White House bid: “Drain the swamp.” One year into his first term, however,Trump’s pledge to …

In mid-October, Donald Trump unveiled a major campaign slogans: “Drain the swamp.” “It’s become the hottest expression,” he said at a rally in New Hampshire.“If we win on November 8th, we are going to Washington, D.C.—when we win, OK—and we are going to drain the swamp.” Trump used the term …

Donald Trump’s pledges to “drain the swamp” of corruption in Washington attest to his genius for unintentional irony. Nepotism, egregious conflicts of interest, flights on the public dime to see Wimbledon and the eclipse — the Beltway wetlands are now wilder and murkier than ever. It would be a mistake, …

Stupefaction and confusion are giving way to hard-nosed capitalism as K Street realizes all the business opportunities to be had. As part of his populist appeal, Trump promised to drain the fetid “swamp” along the Potomac, an incestuous bog teeming with powerful politicians and moneyed interests, and to …