PRESIDENT TRUMP

if you want cred maybe post on some games or something dude

I'll stop 'freaking out' when he gives some indication that he has any idea how to do the job.

Nothing I've seen in the last two years is encouraging.

pianotm
The man's openly confessed that he has no idea how to do the job and he never intended to win the election.

Source?

author=pianotm
Of course, he just wants money. That's what his whole life has been about. That's why he refuses to sever his business relations even though it's required by law. That's why every cabinet member he's staffed supports privatization of whatever they're in charge of. The man's openly confessed that he has no idea how to do the job and he never intended to win the election.

Trump said he'd completely step away from his business. He's not president for another 2 months and it's a work in progress. Why do you say he refuses to sever his business relations?

Trump is a 70 year old businessman worth billions. He's not in this for the money. He decided to do the world's worst job for 4/8 years and he's taking no salary for it.

author=harmonic
Trump said he'd completely step away from his business. He's not president for another 2 months and it's a work in progress. Why do you say he refuses to sever his business relations?

Trump is a 70 year old businessman worth billions. He's not in this for the money. He decided to do the world's worst job for 4/8 years and he's taking no salary for it.

If this is honestly what you think then God are you in for a shock.

harmonic

Solitayre
If this is honestly what you think then God are you in for a shock.

So you think he is outright lying when he said he's stepping away from his business

yes

Oh, I'm not at all surprised he's not taking a salary, but you just need to take one look at his cabinet to see that his presidency is going to be all about business. Let's take another look at the peace treaty with Iran. For decades, the U. S. has had a trade embargo on Iran. Peace treaty is made and embargo ends. Trump has specifically said that his first order of business is to put an end to that peace treaty. Next, it's not ONLY a matter of Trump putting his sons in control of his companies. He still has personal holdings in those companies. His sons are merely acting as proxies for Trump. The situation is such that Senator Ben Cardin is now pushing for a resolution to force Trump to put his holdings in a blind trust. Such a resolution could not be considered unless Trump had already been told to abide by legal precedents and in turn told everyone to go to hell. Each of his cabinet picks aren't just fellow billionaires, they're fellow billionaires with very specific views about the jobs they have been selected for. Trump's pick for Environmental Secretary thinks the EPA needs to have the majority of it's functions handled by privately owned companies. His education secretary, Betsy DeVos believes that public schooling needs to be defunded and run by corporations for a profit. His Chief Strategist, Steve Bannon was the founder of Breitbart: there's your extreme alt-right. Jeff Sessions has made so many racist comments in his career, he's been denied appointment to the Supreme Court, so now he's Trump's Attorney General.

Never mind Trump's assertion that there were millions of fraudulent votes. Without any evidence, his Chief of Staff Reince Priebus supports the accusation. Back to Iran, Trump's security advisor, Michael Flynn told his staff that Iran was behind a recent terrorist attack, and then ordered them to prove it. In America, I'm pretty sure the conviction isn't supposed to come before the evidence.

Has there ever been a cabinet better designed to line the pockets of everyone in their private circle? Trump said he was going to drain the swamp, not appoint the swamp people to his cabinet.

Welp, if Trump doubles his personal wealth through corruption and the KKK starts roaming the streets nation wide looking for undesirables to purge, there'll be egg on my face.

If Trump steps away from his business and puts it in a blind trust, great. Objection withdrawn. But so far he has made every indication that his kids will be running things.

author=pianotm
feelings he's engendered in the American people.

Those feelings were always there, guy. They've just been kept underground because of the social climate in the last few years. The climate where everyone is tripping over themselves to prove they're not a bigot, all the while saying very bigoted hypocritical things, and maintaining different standards for people based on their skin color, sex, etc. That's why I kept saying it's a bad idea to be those 3 letters that I'm not allowed to say only at RMN, because it just enflames a reaction that, now, is emboldened by the win of Trump.

This is not something I want. I hate white supremacists and extreme alt-righters just as much as anyone here. That's why I really REALLY wish leftists would stop shaming, shaming, shaming, every day, day in and day out, in all possible forms, because it creates a pendulum swing that you're seeing now. Don't fire the arrow you don't intend to be fired back at you.

This is very helpful advice for the left. If you argue that being Islamophobic creates terrorists, then you have to be ideologically consistent and argue that being extreme leftist creates extreme rightists. ...Unless you go back to having different standards for different people, amirite?

Here's a helpful illustration for what I mean:

"You're being mean to me!" Is neither a valid argument nor a valid justification for the amount of damage the Republican party's values cause.