El Presidente Trump

oik wrote: »

That's always the excuse. Your mistake must be passed off as being the result of someone else's stupidity.

Since when is that always the excuse?

oik wrote: »

Apparently it's impossible to build things near the border because of the climate.

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It would seem that way if you didn't know what you were doing I suppose

oik wrote: »

Making a gesture towards a defeated opponent is now a uturn.

Grasping. At. Straws.

Hypocrisy is not making a gesture. Stupidest. Post. Ever.

oik wrote: »

Complementing a defeated opponent is a gesture.

Promising to take on board the suggestions of your predecessor is a gesture.

No it isn't and you know it. You sound beyond stupid at this point.

biko wrote: »

I think he was just gracious. It'd be pretty tactless to call her crooked even in his victory speech.

Because God knows Trump would never be tactless.

oik wrote: »

so on the one hand he was extremely tactful in manipulating his supporters with false promises all throughout the campaign, yet at the same time he's not someone you would consider tactful. Please make up your mind and stick to it. At this rate I expect you to be praising Trump any time soon.

What on earth are you talking about? You're confusing yourself. He's never been tactful. He's a backpedaling liar and always has been.

biko wrote: »

I think he was just gracious. It'd be pretty tactless to call her crooked even in his victory speech.

Maybe but he also said.

The Wall Street Journal asked about campaign promises to appoint a special prosecutor to pursue criminal charges against his Democratic rival over her use of a private email server to conduct official business as secretary of state.

“It’s not something I’ve given a lot of thought, because I want to solve healthcare, jobs, border control, tax reform,” Trump said. The statement is likely to anger the president-elect’s core supporters, many of whom chanted: “Lock her up, lock her up,” at rallies during the campaign.

And the Obamacare rollback?

oik wrote: »

Trump promised to unite the country. He has 2 months in which to do that and then 4 years in which to roll-out his policy platform.

The media keep asking him questions about policy because they want to create their flip flop narrative to weaken his support and set the stage for impeachment.

Above all else it would be impolite to promise the sitting president he would listen to his suggestions in private and then publicly ignore them.

Black America needs to see that Trump is not going to destroy the legacy of the first black president.

If he implements his own healthcare plan and let's Obama keep his name on it everyone wins.

The media are questioning about his policies because so many of his election promises were so off the wall, that's why they're asking him about it. Not to create a narrative.

gandalf wrote: »

I am laughing now at the beginning of the rollback.

Obamacare = “immediately repeal and replace” before the win, Obamacare = has good parts that he will keep them after the win

Hillary = “nasty woman” and “crooked” and he will send her to prison before the win, Hillary = “She’s very strong and very smart.” after the win LOL!

The wall will turn out to be a hypothetical wall next representing the "tougher" stance of the new administration, just watch this space. I'm surprise Trump isn't wearing a compo collar giving the speed of the u-turns being performed already

I think everyone knew (well I did anyway) that he was being a politician (ie saying one thing before the vote and acknowledging reality of doing only some of that after the vote).

He trolled the political process because he saw what it was like. For that he is more astute than all his opponents. For all his crassness he had one thing that the others didn't. He was at least vaguely in touch with the mood of the nation.

All of course to get into power. That's what the political system is about.

How he's going to use that power is what's going to be interesting.

I do wonder why he doesn't completely destroy Obamacare and as he's got the Congress and Senate. Maybe because he was never an idealogue in the first place, just a guy who connected with mood of the country to get into power (that's a reasonable definition of an astute politician).

Instead he's talking about unity. Maybe he's not that bad. Who knows.

Embrace the red white and blue Reich.

You asked for it you got it.

Donald Trump, patriotic hero.

take everything wrote: »

Instead he's talking about unity. Maybe he's not that bad. Who knows.

But given the extent of the u-turns from what he said and what some of those who elected him believed he could split off his own supporters with his new "softer" stance. I find it interesting that a couple of days after him being elected that the narrative is changing so much.

I would suggest that there are a lot of voters in the rust belt and places like that feeling like they have been suckered (again!).