Trump votes for fraud
President Trump moved to protect regulations issued by Education Secretary Betsy DeVos that restrict federal student loan forgiveness in a veto issued Friday night. Several veterans’ groups have argued that the rules, which make it more difficult for student borrowers to prove that a college defrauded them, will harm former service members cheated by for-profit colleges, the New York Times reports.
In other words, for-profit colleges, which are a scam to begin with, have won a victory over the students they cheat. Of course Trump is down with that: he’s one of the scammers. Remember Trump “University”? Which was in no way a university, and took people’s money for very nearly nothing?
Trump said the vetoed legislation “sought to reimpose an Obama-era regulation that defined educational fraud so broadly that it threatened to paralyze the Nation’s system of higher education.”
Utter bullshit. The US system of higher education doesn’t depend on for-profit not-universities, and most of them are fraudulent and worthless. They exist to enrich the scam artists who own them, and for no other reason.
And meanwhile, those of us in legitimate higher education institutions are having to do more and more to demonstrate that we are not fraudulent – and I applaud it. I don’t mind the regulations that protect students; they protect us, as well, since most of these for-profit colleges are promising fast degrees with fewer hours of study and work than a standard institution of higher learning, so they look appealing to not only the lazy, but those who are strapped for time between kids and jobs.
“The Trump presidency is over.”
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/31/donald-trump-coronavirus-pandemic-george-floyd-minneapolis-tweets
I wasn’t aware it ever began.
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Oh, yes. It began. Indeed it did.
Just as a horse was once (by legend, by Caligula) appointed a Roman senator, so a Trump was (in similar vain vein) appointed POTUS. (Or should that be POTTIUS, in recognition of the state of mind of the incumbent…?)
President Potty. It has a certain appeal…
Oh, I agree that a ceremony took place and he was moved into the White House; but has he done anything which could be interpreted as presidential? Ever?