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Trump-branded Toilet Paper To Be Sold InMexico, Will AidDeportees: Report
By
Michael Martin
Donald Trump will soon be circling the drain.
A Mexican lawyer plans to market Trump-branded toi- let paper in that country and use the proceeds to benefit deportees, the CNN-affiliated site Expansión reported Wednesday.
Mexico City-based attorney Antonio Battaglia said he was spurred to action after Trump's assertions during the presidential campaigns that cer- tain Mexicans are "bad hombres." “I was very annoyed, and I started looking for a way to do something that had an impact, not in a tone of mockery or bad revenge, but in a positive way,” he told the site.
Battaglia has devel- oped a prototype
featuring a plucky little cartoon charac- ter shaped like a toi- let roll (which looks a bit like the animat- ed bill in the classic Schoolhouse Rock short "How a Bill Becomes Law"). The entrepreneur plans to produce the TPbytheendofthe year, distributing it to grocery stores and donating 30% of proceeds to deportee aid groups.
Battaglia, who comes from a family of shoemakers, reg- istered a Trump trademark in the Mexican Institute of Industrial Property in August 2015, reports Expansión. First daughter Ivanka Trump foiled his original idea. "I tried to register a brand of clothing or footwear, because my family is involved in the pro- duction of shoes," he said. "I thought it was a possibility, but the Trump brand
was already regis- tered. Then I had the idea of produc- ing a toilet paper, a product that was ironic and would be on the market for a while."
Trump toilet paper is already available for purchase in the U.S. TP printed with the president making a kissy face and stab- bing the air with his index finger can be found on Amazon. (The latter has an average rating of four stars, although one review states it's "abrasive and doesn't get the job done.")
This development comes as criticism of the young Trump administration mounts. Earlier this month, Republican senator Bob Corker (R-TN) was quoted saying that the White House was "in a downward spi- ral."
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remain secret.
"Some people think space is an Achilles heel for the US, and that if we were to lose our capabilities in space, we may not be able to fight through," said the Space Aggressors' Captain Barnes. "But the better we can train folks, the better they're going to be able to go out there and prove that despite one or another asset falling away, our guys on the ground, jointly, can still fight through and win the day."
In addition to wargaming in a con- tested space envi- ronment, US troops are also training to fight without access to space — in case one day they have to.
Six years ago, the Air Force held a study called "A Day Without Space" at the Nellis Air Force Base in southern Nevada that sought to replicate what would happen if American forces were deprived of satellite communica- tions and global positioning data.
"It was not good," General Hyten told
the Senate. "We were not ready to do that."
Following the study, the military "relearned" tech- niques for fighting without access to GPS or satellites — using alternate tools like "inertial naviga- tion systems," which don't need orbiting reference points, and even compass- es and maps, Hyten said.
The Department of Defense has spent at least $22 billion in recent years "to defend and improve the resiliency of our assets in space and put potential adver- sary space systems at risk," former US Secretary of Defense Ash Carter wrote in a memo to President Barack Obama prior to the end of the adminis- tration's term.
In April, the Air Force announced it would create a new position for a three- star general to serve as advisor to the Air Force Secretary and Joint Chiefs of Staff on space issues — effectively, a space war czar.
In the same month, the Pentagon gave the Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center,
which went by the confusing handle JICSpOC, a shorter and more descrip- tive title: the National Space Defense Center.
The military also announced a new initiative aimed at deepening defense partnerships in space with US allies known as the Multinational Space Collaboration effort.
That new measure will "explore meth- ods for increased sharing, coopera- tion, and collabora- tion to preserve the safety of spaceflight, and enhance mutual security," Stratcom said in a statement in April.
The first foreign liai- son officer, from Germany, is expect- ed to join the initia- tive at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California this sum- mer. Meanwhile, back in Colorado, the Space Aggressors continue to wage simulated space war to help US troops prepare for a real one.
"I want them to be able to fight through the environment," said Captain Barnes. "The hard- est part of doing this job is that you don't really want to win."
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