Donald Trump

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................ In response to a question at a town hall event in New Hampshire, Mr. Trump urged parents to steer their children away from booze and drugs and said they can do so if they lead by example.

“If you don’t drink and you don’t do drugs, your children … are going to have a tremendously enhanced chance of really being successful and having a good life,” he said.

“The world is so tough and it is so competitive that you can’t put yourself, as a child, or even as a parent, if you want that child to be successful, at a disadvantage of letting them drink or letting them take drugs because it is not going to work,” Mr. Trump said. “They are going to be at a tremendous disadvantage and ultimately they may not recover.”

Mr. Trump said he has never had a drink of alcohol and said he drummed a simple message into his children’s heads at an early age. ............

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... hol-drugs/

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............... Since becoming president in January, Mr Trump has repeatedly pledged to declare a “national emergency” to fight the abuse of opioids such as Percocet, OxyContin, heroin and fentanyl.

From 2000 to 2015 more than half a million people died from drug overdoses in the US and 91 Americans die every day from an opioid overdose — according to US government statistics.

And, according to a commission on drug abuse set up by Mr Trump, 142 Americans died every day from a drug overdose in 2015 — more than the number killed in car crashes and gun homicides combined.

However, instead of declared the opioid epidemic to be a “national emergency” he announced he was ordering a “public health emergency,”The Sun reports.

The declaration does not provide any increased federal funding to address the crisis but the officials said the White House would seek more money from Congress to do so.

The last time a public health emergency was declared in the United States was in 2009 in response to the H1N1 influenza outbreak.

“We will free our nation from the terrible affliction of drug abuse,” he said at the declaration.

“It will take many years, and even decades, to address this scourge in our society ... we can be the generation that ends the opioid epidemic.” ...............

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/healt ... 8b4f395547

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................ The year was 1986. The city of New York had spent six years and $13 million failing to build an ice skating rink in Central Park. In early summer that year, Donald Trump proposed to Mayor Ed Koch that he take over the project for $3 million and promised to cover any excess amounts himself rather than go back to the city. By late October the project was finished and was three quarters of a million dollars under budget. .......................

http://blog.acton.org/archives/49418-do ... cracy.html

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............. Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan says President Donald Trump took off the “handcuffs” placed on Border Patrol agents by the previous administration. The result: illegal border crossings dropped to a 45-year low, he says.

Homan appeared on Fox News and reported the impact of an aggressive border security/immigration enforcement policy.

“Under this president, who’s now letting us do our job and taking the handcuffs off the men and women of the Border Patrol and ICE, arrests are up,” Homan told Sandra Smith on Fox News. .................

https://patriotjournal.org/ice-handcuff ... s-down-45/