Conservative activists refuse to believe Trump is spending more on travel than Obama

[highplainsdem]

Source: Vox

They are less concerned — which is to say, not concerned at all — with recent reports that suggest President Trump cost taxpayers nearly as much in his first month in office as Obama did in a year. Their sentiments were widely shared here at CPAC, where attendees gave a wide array of explanations for why they were outraged by Obama’s travel spending but not Trump’s.

“Mr. Obama went on so many vacations and played golf every week. The news media can say, ‘Trump went to Mar-a-Lago,’ and their hair catches on fire. But if they will look at this honestly — and I’m all for the truth — they’ll see Trump is just using his own resources and money to take care of things,” Chaulk said. “It doesn’t bother me one bit.”

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On Wednesday, more than a dozen CPAC attendees greeted those reports with skepticism, hostility, and, in few occasions, mild concern.

Overwhelmingly, the most common reason they cited was that they didn’t trust the underlying story — because they didn’t trust the press to tell the truth.

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Read more: http://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/2/23/14703472/cpac-trump-travel-budget

[Gothmog]

1. Denial is not just a river in Africa

These idiots also think that trump is doing a good job

[Eliot Rosewater]

2. Racism will get you to do and say the dumbest things.

Obama's spent next to nothing in comparison but these people dont care.

They hate black people, period.

[Else You Are Mad]

4. Beat me to it.

But, you are correct.

[Blue_Tires]

23. The Trump Junta has accomplished their goal

of distorting facts and demonizing the media to the point where his voters will *ONLY* believe him, Fox News, and the far-right wingnut punditsphere...

[Kimchijeon]

25. Yeah you can't tell them anything

they will stubbornly believe in whatever silliness fits what they want. Perfect, obedient fascist enablers.

[Else You Are Mad]

3. Simple answer...

"...they were outraged by Obama’s travel spending but not Trump’s"

Obama is black and, to a lesser extent, liberal. That is the only reason why they don't care.

[Orrex]

5. Of course they do, and this is why we call them stupid

Faced with objective facts, they assume that the facts are wrong rather than betraying their faith in their beloved leader.

Stupid. Fucking stupid.

[logosoco]

6. Wow! This is scary. I am glad these folks are in the minority.

And I hope it stays that way and this is not the way we are evolving.

They think tRump is paying for this out of his own pockets, using his own resources? Most of the rich folks i know of are loathe to spend anything. These people are going to just believe whatever they want. And they don't seem to be good at math. Not to mention they seem to have an irrational hatred for Democrats and brown people.

[Lil Missy]

7. It's okay if it's a repub, or ... a white guy. n/t

[hibbing]

8. IOKIYAR n/t

[Botany]

9. The same people also still believe that President Obama is a muslim and that they need lots of ....

.... guns in order stay safe.

[HAB911]

10. Exactly why I terminated all contact those

they are not informed, they only know what is on Faux News, and I will not waste my time

[lark]

11. Lying in defense of the liar in chief,

still is totally lying. Drumpf is not using his own resources and that should be easy to prove. He's on the take and getting every penny he can, just as he always has. He has no ethics, no morals, no caring about the country and it's people. It's all ME, ME, ME AND RUSSIA because Russia can make him rich or take him down.

[muntrv]

12. Reality has a liberal bias.

[More_Cowbell]

13. "I'm all for the truth"

My eyes rolled back so far I think they're stuck that way.

Eventually Pence and Putin will tell Faux News to verify the numbers. Then what will the deplorables "think"?

[Cosmocat]

14. three decades of relentless right wing brain washing

leaves us with this ...

[Panich52]

15. Mass psychosis. Snakeoil addicts can no longer accept reality

[aggiesal]

16. Id approach it the same way if a government corporation was spending too much money, ...

agreed Coleman Theodore, 19 years old

The government has a corporation?
Maybe Coleman should go back to high school civics class.

Oh, wait, there are no more high school civics classes.

[Shell_Seas]

17. Conservative said to me

"Obama used to spend $10billion a year on vacations."

I told her, "No, it was $98million in the entire 8 years."

She accused me of following fake news, then reiterated that it was $10billion.

So, I asked her for her source.

She got mad, told me to "do my own research," and then quit talking to me.

[bronxiteforever]

18. Their minds are so full of hate there isn't any room left for thought

Everything they believe are "feelings ". The feeling climate change is a lie, the feeling illegals are voting and taking away our economy, the feeling all Muslms are Evil.

This post is worthwhile noting as it illustrates this suicidal syndrome. The ultimate concern we have in the thinking world is that these feelings lead to the country in complete ruin according to Mr Darwins laws, sooner or later denial of facts leads realty to teach a painful lesson. One wonders if the GOP is trying to win the worlds Darwin Award by thinking of ways for the country to off itself.

[caballojm]

19. Conservatives deny reality. In other news:

Water is wet
Ice is cold
The sun is hot

[red dog 1]

20. K&R

Conservative activists also refuse to believe:
- that global warming is a fact, not a theory
- that Obamacare can be "fixed"
- that Trump only cares about the top 1 percent
- that Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential elections
- that Trump always tells the truth
- that the media always lies (except for Breitbart, Fox News, Rupert Murdoch & Alex Jones)
- that Hillary would have won were it not for James Comey's letter sent to Congress on 10/28/16

I could go on, but it's not worth my time.

[keithbvadu2]

21. Didn't Trump promise to take more vacations than Obama, spending taxpayer money at a faster rate tha

Didn't Trump promise to take more vacations than Obama, spending taxpayer money at a faster rate than Obama?

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-family%E2%80%99s-elaborate-lifestyle-is-a-%E2%80%98logistical-nightmare%E2%80%99-%E2%80%94-at-taxpayer-expense/ar-AAn1H4A?li=BBnb7Kz

http://tinyurl.com/jqhm4gf

[tanyev]

22. Well, if they had sufficient functioning brain cells, then they wouldn't be conservative activists.

Sort of a Catch-22.

[Merlot]

24. "trumpt using his own resources..."

So these people really think drumpft takes heads of state golfing at Mira Largo and doesn't charge the state for the use of the greens, or for the cost of the dinners?

I felt bad for the President of Japan having to slum it at this tacky golf club. I'm guessing most visiting dignataries would prefer to be at a state dinner at the White House.

Tacky, drumpft, tacky.

[delisen]

26. I think most CPAC know is spending much more on Travel. Willful Denial.Unprincipled

For most this is just a tactic to protect themselves and their leader. They will lie lie, and if caught lying, present another lie, or claim don't believe it.

[FiveGoodMen]

27. Our problem in a nutshell

There really must be one -- and only one -- set of facts upon which we base our decisions.

Lying is a worse crime than murder in the long run.

[JI7]

28. racist scum