Don, fuzzy on facts, rants at mail
PRESIDENT TRUMP, sequestered away at his Florida resort for the holidays, fumed on Friday morning — lashing out at Democrats, the media and the “dumber and poorer” Post Office.
Trump kicked off his sixth day in the Sunshine State by sending out several social media posts from the confines of his Mar-a-Lago estate.
The President’s latest Twitter tantrum included a new target, as he ranted about the United States Postal Service, encouraging the agency to raise prices for delivering packages for online retail giant Amazon.
“Why is the United States Post Office, which is losing many billions of dollars a year, while charging Amazon and others so little to deliver their packages, making Amazon richer and the Post Office dumber and poorer? Should be charging MUCH MORE!” he wrote.
The independent agency, known as the United States Postal Service since 1971, does not use taxpayer money for its operations.
The post office has lost money for 11 straight years, mostly because of pension and health care costs.
Under federal law, it can’t raise prices more than the rate of inflation without approval from the Postal Regulatory Commission.
Trump has lashed out at Amazon in the past, often belittling company CEO Jeff Bezos (below, who also owns the Washington Post.
The President had no official business lined up for the day, but continued his trend of golfing every day except for Christmas, when he promised “tomorrow it’s back to work in order to Make America Great Again.”
Each morning, a string of tweets, often in response to segments aired on Fox News, have erupted from Trump’s Twitter account.
His tweet about Amazon and the Postal Service came after a “Fox & Friends” segment about tech trends in the new year.
Part of the report looked at Amazon’s future use of augmented reality, allowing shoppers to see how things would look in their homes before buying them.
Trump also shared his thoughts on immigration policy, saying that Democrats “have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration.”
The day wasn’t all about firing off tweets — Trump also made good on a previous invite for members of a U.S. Coast Guard station in Florida to hit the links at one of his namesake courses.
A jovial Trump posed for pictures and joked around with about 60 members from Coast Guard Station Lake Worth Inlet as they took on the 17th green of the Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach.
“So enjoy the course — one of the great courses of the world,” Trump told the group as they posed before a gaggle of cameras, using the moment to promote his property.