He was quoting from Back To The Future, the sequel to which, oddly enough, had the Trump avatar Biff Tannen cheating his way to wealth and self-aggrandizing fame.
Trump may be found laughable by other nations, but they should not be so quick to be dismissive. Trump-like demagogues are popping up all over the place, from Rodrigo Duterte in the Philippines and various nationalist movements popping up all over Europe to nationalist sentiment all over Asia by nations previously driven by economic prosperity and commercial expansion. This is not just an issue for the United States; a sort of collective international response to globalization is at the root of this, as formerly prosperous and economically driving nations have ceded responsibility for manufacturing and production to developing nations to achieve greater short-term prosperity but lacking opportunities for future growth, while developing nations who now have the capacity to be first rate producers of goods (and in discovering their own problems with maintaining pools of cheap labor tacitly or explicitly import emigrants from less developed nations to do the heavy lifting) desire a seat at the big nations table.
Economic experts looking at constraints to growth in developing nations and the dependence of the developed nations on globalization to maintain growth have been warning of exactly this scenario for at least fifteen years. The election of Trump is not a cause of anything–he’s certainly anything but original in his thinking–but rather a symptom of the uncertainty and fear that comes with the economic turmoil that was exacerbated by the 2007-08 global financial crisis.
I had several friends who, especially after 2012, said: Not my President!
Now I know how they feel.
This country, as divided as it is, is better than him. He will never be my president.
I hope that there are no crises in the next four years. The Donald can do pretty well cutting deals at his pace, so if things are peaceful, he might do some good things. Still won’t be my President though.
If the shit hits the fan, Donald is going to lose it and I really fear for our country and the world.
Nope, not going there. Like it or not, Trump is our President, just as much as Obama and GWB were our Presidents. He’s entitled to the basic minimum respect that every U.S. President deserves, just for sitting his fat ass in the Oval Office chair.
Which fucking sucks. But to be a good citizen, you have to accept that as given. No one says you have to like it or even be proud of it.
My Panamanian friends are both aghast and bemused. They are used to demagogues and buffoons coming to power in Latin America, but they expect more from the USA. We’re now just another Third World country led by a Banana Republican.
A quick-and-dirty check on Wikipedia shows 16 Presidents, including Garfield, have never had commissioned U.S. Navy vessels named after them (19, if you count the incumbent and his two immediate predecessors).
I go the to VA hospital everyday because I work across the street. They have a professional, distinguished portrait of President Obama displayed. Soon there will be a horrendous picture of Frump and his hair. Unbelievable. Living blue in a red state.