This is an example of Trump being a dick.
There’s no chance of Clinton being sent to prison. But Trump won’t admit that. Instead he’s saying she committed crimes but he’s magnanimously chosen to let her go. What he’s actually doing to denying Clinton the chance to be exonerated in court.
I assume you mean 8 years ago.
So you’re saying that Trump will say what he thinks people want to hear, in order to benefit himself.
And now that you all have elected him President, he’s saying the things you wanted to hear? Like, “Hey, I’m not gonna stick Hillary in jail?”
And this makes sense to you in what way? This reassures you for what reason?
Trump is a lying sack of shit. You know it, I know it, the American people know it. So when he talks a big game about not being a total moron, is he lying or telling the truth?
I honestly can’t understand why exactly you believe him when he walks back some of his idiotic campaign promises. You knew they were bullshit, yet you voted for him anyway. And now he’s telling you more bullshit, but this time you believe it.
Our country is finished. Not because Trump is president, we could survive that, but because we have enough people dumb enough to vote Trump into office.
I see he’s also soften his stance on global warming, even saying there is a human link. I find that personally encouraging and hope he continues in this vein. I wonder how the big trump supporters will take to this as denying global warming has been a big part of their dogma.
Trump’s comments on keeping part of the ACA is an interesting case.
When I first heard it, I told myself it was yet another example of a dufus talking about things he doesn’t understand and once he hits reality, everything will change-again. Then I remembered how consistently I have underestimated him.
Anyone who has followed the ACA knows it is an integrated package. The republicans successfully destroyed it precisely because they knew that all the parts had to work together for it to work at all. Trump is proposing to keep the popular parts and discard the rest. Well duh. That piece of brilliant policy just popped up-oh about 20 minutes into the initial planning of the ACA. Keeping the popular parts without paying for them (those unpopular parts everyone wants to get rid of), simply means insurance premiums will skyrocket and no one will have anything. Initially I didn’t think Trump realized that. I suspect he isn’t as dumb as I think. How it turns out I have no idea. Either he will tell congress that they have to fix ACA and call it Trumpcare, or since the good ideas can’t be paid for we will have to drop the whole thing. Perhaps Trump knows which path he will take. There I think I overestimate him.
So he gets points for saying he’s NOT going to act like a dick? As Chris Rock would say, you shouldn’t get credit for doing things you’re supposed to do.
His choice for EPA isn’t a good start. But then, it isn’t like any President listens to the people in the EPA. Too much unpopular news there.
Because we have a Republican controlled Congress and a Republican President, we have to brace ourselves for more conservative policies. However, there are some hopeful signs that the worst fears of the Trump Presidency - the extreme recklessness and divisiveness - won’t come to fruition.
The thing with Trump is that most of his erratic and reckless behavior could have been an act to dominate media coverage. Which is what a lot of his supporters believe, and what a lot of people who didn’t vote for him are now hoping for.
I myself am hoping he will keep his promise on infrastructure spending and lowering taxes. While I believe that lowering taxes on the rich isn’t helpful, lowering taxes in general combined with infrastructure spending could help improve the economy.
Do you actually know anything about DeVos? If not, see if you’re still encouraged after reading this.
Also, Trump just nominated an ignorant anti-science climate change denier, Myron Ebell, as head of the EPA.
Thanks for not saying “WRONG” really close into the microphone. 
I don’t see a lot of room for optimism. People are latching on to the Times interview, but if you’ve been paying attention, his answers were often “we’ll look into that.” On the campaign, that was how he’d blow off a suggestion. He’d only use it when he didn’t want to say “no” to someone’s face. So there’s no reason to believe he will change anything, and the people he’s naming to his administration all have very strong ideological agenda : thry, like communists, will apply their ideology to e everything, even when it’s Benn shown to be as abject failure.
Are “Brownie Points” a good thing? I always associated that phrase with “brown nose” and the brown on that nose was not chocolate. When I accused a colleague of trying to accrue brownie points, it was usually a joke but it was never a compliment.
In any case, what impressed me about that interview was the fragility of any of his views. In many cases that is a good thing but of course that depends on what replaces them. He promised not to touch Medicare or Social Security. Let’s see how that goes.
The problem is that at any point in time he is a blank slate, because nothing he has said indicates where he stands. I can’t give the man any kind of points for that. I remain concerned.
Here is historical information on Trump’s promises and past behavior. Very telling story and what to expect from him…
“In Scotland, Trump Built a Wall. Then He Sent Residents the Bill”
“While some are arguing that Trump might not have meant all those things, that leaves us with two devastating options: either we just elected a President who didn’t mean a single word he said, or we elected one who did.” – John Oliver on Last Week Tonight
Excusing Donald Trump’s reversals and deceptions as being “just what politicians do” baldly misses to important points. First, he campaigned on the basis of not being like career politicians with his promises that he would not be subject to corporate or lobbyist influence and would “drain the swamp”. Second, while we’ve accepted that even candidates of good integrity sometimes have to bend their deeply held beliefs in order to appeal to a broad spectrum of voters, and it is common for politicians to go back on pledges once in office, like, say “Read my lips, no new taxes,” (George H.W. Bush) or “I will not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these programs,” (William J. Clinton), Donald Trump is uncommonly deceitful and mendacious, to the point that when directly caught in an obvious, provable lie his response is to deflect and bluster on rather than answer the challenge to his basic integrity.
Donald Trump is not “like every other politician”; in fact, that was essentially his entire campaign, that he’s not a part of “The Establishment”, that he “tells it like it is”, and that he would remove entrenched interests and corruption from government. This is the platform he was elected upon despite the fact that he had detail proposals on absolutely nothing he promised to do, from building a wall and deporting immigrants to bringing back manufacturing jobs and his secret plan to defeat ISIS. His is a complete fraud with no clear agenda (other than the personal enrichment of Donald J. Trump and his family), and therefore, we have no clue as to what he will do next. This is the man who will shortly have control of the largest and most powerful military in the world, the biggest fielded nuclear arsenal, the most effective Earth climate observation capability, and the largest per capita consumer base. And yet, he is about as predictable as a Magic 8-Ball.
Giving Trump ‘brownie points’ for going back on his ridiculous, unsupportable, and dangerous promises is like rewarding a spoiled seven year old for not throwing a legendary tantrum at a wedding dinner. Yes, it’s very good that little Donnie didn’t jump up and down on the table, but now that you’ve demonstrated that your expectation of normality is anything less than screaming at the top of his lungs and throwing glassware, he’ll now feel like he has a free pass to whine, cry, and spit out his food. And that is not the standard to which we want to define expected behavior from a president because it will inform our expectations for future presidents. Donald Trump is not normal, and accepting his mendacity as acceptable because it is better than it could be is normalizing what would be outrageous by the standard of any other former president or realistic candidate for the presidency.
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Huckster-Politics and Huckster-Diplomacy.
He appealed to the Billy Mays “But Wait! There’s More!” crowd of suckers who are used to getting shaken-down and taken. He’s just pausing to see who he can bilk out of what next.