He may not be perfect but he is an honest and a liberal person. He doesn’t hold grudge against opponents. He has won fair and square against odds. He will now be nice to his opponents as well.
Even though my equity holdings are down for the moment (2%, 3%, 5%…7%), I am happy.
Please make an effort to see the positives in him and try to like him. Don’t be sad or paranoid or ego-hurt.
My reaction is rather the opposite. I don’t think the consequences of his presidency will be as dire as many are predicting, but on a personal level he is a loathsome human being.
By most accounts, he isn’t honest and he does hold grudges. BUT I’m willing to give him a shot to prove those accounts wrong. Which is to say I don’t care enough to try and stop him now that he’s (nearly) in.
You are an Indian, living in India. Why are you so happy?
I’m sorry, but his public persona, and his choice of VP, don’t incline me to give him the benefit of the doubt. Why should I?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/07/us/politics/donald-trump-presidential-race.html
That is about the asinine bit about him not holding a grudge. And also other rich people did mention that quality Trump has:
Oh, I actually did foresee too that Trump would act nice to guys like Ryan, that is until the next mid-term election.
Doesn’t hold grudges? He’s still chirping Rosie O’Donnell!
Did you miss the part where he was caught on tape bragging about sexually assaulting women, and a whole bunch of women disclosed that they had indeed been sexually assaulted by him?
I think he’ll be a bad President, but that our country is strong enough to survive it. But the evidence suggests that he’s a terrible human being.
Of course he doesn’t hold grudges. His hands are too small!
He pays illegal immigrant workers to hold his grudges for him.
What do you know about his past? What have you read about him that wasn’t pre-approved by him or his cronies? Did you know he stiffed the polling company he hired?
Are you honestly that naive? This sort of limp plea for everyone to smile and get along might be appropriate for just about any other candidate, but Trump really is sui generis. He’s a racist and an abusive misogynist; he has no experience in government and no understanding of how it works (e.g., his proposal to negotiate down the federal debt); and he has, despite what you wrote above, a vindicative and litigious streak. There are many presidents I’ve disliked, but Trump is in a class by himself in both his personal and professional failings.
Not that happy. I oppose him on his views on man-made climate change. Man-made Climate change is as serious as terrorism imo.
I think US policy contributed to killing of 300K+ and counting Syrians. Happy because of his views on Islamic extremism, middle-east policy, trade balance , currency manipulation, befriending India, Russia etc.
Not sure anymore on some of his economic policies.
Plus happy for him for defeating the vicious propaganda, fear-mongering and lies.
One of his pieces of advice is that you should hold grudges and punish people who wrong you.
In 1986, my high school newspaper editor called me a “long-eared vegetarian.” For the past 30 years, I’ve been sending that guy pictures of my normal-sized ears. We live on different continents now – it hasn’t been easy keeping track of him, through the snail-mail decades, into the digital age, and then into the social media age. But I’ve managed to do it, because it’s important that I put my time and energy into such things.
But I don’t hold grudges. No, sir, not me!
So truthSpeaker2, how about giving us some examples from Trump’s past actions (not words) on why we should like him? Please proceed.
Even though it’s the ultimate trigger for the left, the election of Trump is not a good event. His potential downside is remarkably large.
He’s an unabashed or self-deluded liar. Maybe if by “honest” you mean “speaks his feelings without thought” you have a point, but he’ll say something one day and claim he’s never said it the next.
He’s a weirdo populist who’s for and against the same things depending on his audience or the time of day.
Blatantly false.
No he won’t. He’ll continue accusing his opponents of being horrible people at every turn. If the world is lucky that will include enough republican congressmen and senators to keep him from irrevocably turning the US back to the 1950s.
Being deluded about the nature Trump as displayed throughout this campaign might be comfortable, and one can of course be hopeful that the US won’t in two years time be a place where abortion is outlawed and women are sent to jail if they have one, but that’s what he has promised his voters. It’s not paranoid or ego-hurt to acknowledge so, and it is a good reason to be sad.
Did you happen to have any problems with the vicious propaganda, fear-mongering and lies he spread about his opponents?
As long as Trump doesn’t actually try to prosecute Hillary, wasting our tax dollars and national time, actually deport 12 million people, or dramatically change the rules and norms of governance as President, I will make every effort to wish for his success. I voted Hillary, tho I split my ticket (I voted for losers this cycle lol; Martins lost NY’s CD3).
Mutually contradictory statements. His platform is not just conservative, it’s actively reactionary. So he cannot be both honest and liberal.
Have you never actually heard the man speak, at any point in his life? Especially during the campaign, with the lies, the insults, the threats?