I think you will find two things. Firstly, a large part of Trump’s constituency are the type of people a shonky mail order business would love to get hold of: they are highly gullible. Secondly, when people get sold snake oil they don’t get angry at the person who sold them snake oil. Instead they cling even more tightly to the view they didn’t get sold snake oil. To do otherwise is to admit to having been made a fool.
Trump will talk up what he does and the same gullible voters who wanted to believe this time around will want to believe next time around.
Trump doesn’t seem to be ideologically committed to any of the campaign promises he made. I think that, now he has successfully sold the con, he will not care about actually fulfilling any of them. He will concentrate on making Trump great again and let his staff and Congress do what they want.
One of the post-election interviews with Old Guys at the Town Cafe featured several who went for Trump because he would re-open the coal mines. One agreed with this from your article:
If this were true explain the Cabinet and other positions appointments he is making. If it were true he wouldn’t be appointing all these crazies and other very questionable people.
I’m not really sure how corporate tax returns work, but I suspect they share some commonality with personal returns.
At least so far as deductions go. I can’t imagine that a corporation can say, “We paid $x in interest on loans” without saying who was the recipient of those payments. Otherwise there’s no audit trail.
I heard Trump on the radio the day after the election. He said, “I said whatever I needed to say to get an outsider elected. But that’s not who I am and not how I intend to run the country.” From his own lips.
So he lied AND got himself elected under false pretenses. I don’t think his supporters will care… at first. The question is, will they blame him in a couple of years when their taxes go UP instead of down* and when the mines and factories don’t re-open. Well, they’ll have their guns, so I guess that’s the most important thing. And they’ll blame Obama… and Hillary (somehow).
I read a quote from one of Trump’s fans (no cite) who said, “Trump is going to lower my taxes from 35% to 15%.” And I thought, yeah, when your income drops to $20K per year, you will definitely fall into a lower tax bracket. :smack:
But this is going to get him conflict with the House and Senate. Why not just go to Paul Ryan, Mitch McConnell, etc and they will provide him with a list of people who will get along with Congress fine?
Or, simply revise history entirely. I saw a video clip of a guy before the election (at a Trump rally). He was blaming Obama for 9/11 because “Obama just sat in his office in the Whitehouse during 9/11 and didn’t do anything to help”.
Yes, he was completely serious.
We’ll see the same with Trump’s broken promises. Complete and utter revisionism.
He doesn’t even know what his own tax rate is. He would have to make over $413,000 a year to have a 35% tax rate. He just sends in his return, gets a refund and spends it on beer and ammo without any idea what tax bracket he is in.
Well, I am happy that posters here are able to enjoy some schadenfreude despite being disappointed with the election results. Lol. The problem is that nutpicking aside, plenty of Trump supporters didn’t really expect Trump to follow through on most of this stuff. Most didn’t expect a Muslim ban, Mexican wall or immediate imprisonment of Hillary. Just like they don’t expect Juicy Fruit to turn them into waterskiing babe magnets.