# What will Trump do when he starts to face the fact that there are no easy answers to our problems **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 24, 2016, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875 "2016-11-24T04:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/21 "2016-11-25T16:18:24Z")
> [@Ravenman](#): > > I’m genuinely curious as to what these people said. Do you have any links? A thread like this is no place for facts! Anyhoo, the real wildcard isn’t even Trump himself - it’s how long his supporters can maintain their starry-eyed fantasies of Trump and what he’ll do. When it turns out that he can’t deliver on, and indeed when it becomes clear he has no intention of even _trying_ to deliver on his nuttier promises and can’t “drain the swamp” or “burn the system” or whatever, will they cling to their fantasies with pathetic hope, or turn on him in savage fury? I’m personally hoping for a fury quick enough to affect the 2018 midterms, blunting any (further) damage he can do, then a solid defeat in 2020 to President-Elect Warren. Of course, that’s dependent on sanity coming to America, which I’ll cheerfully admit is my own starry-eyed fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/22 "2016-11-25T16:27:18Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > Anyhoo, the real wildcard isn’t even Trump himself - it’s how long his supporters can maintain their starry-eyed fantasies of Trump and what he’ll do. When it turns out that he can’t deliver on, and indeed when it becomes clear he has no intention of even trying to deliver on his nuttier promises and can’t “drain the swamp” or “burn the system” or whatever, will they cling to their fantasies with pathetic hope, or turn on him in savage fury? We’re talking about fundamentalist, evangelical Christians. It should go without saying that if anyone is prepared to not only retain and maintain, but vociferously defend a delusion in the face of overwhelming factual evidence to the contrary, it’s them. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/23 "2016-11-25T16:55:43Z")
I know a guy who is a True Believer. I asked him this: ‘Suppose Donald Trump walked up to Hillary Clinton on live TV, and shot her in the back of the head. Would you convict him of murder?’ His reply: ‘No – and I bet 70% of the world would rejoice!’ And this guy’s followers are just as rabid. No matter how badly Trump fails, no matter how many promises he reneges on, no matter how many blatant lies he’s caught in, no matter how unethical he acts or how many times he violates the Constitution, his followers will blame Obama, blame Clinton, blame liberals, blame everyone _except_ Trump. If they would not convict him of murder-one, they’re not going to hold him responsible for anything. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/24 "2016-11-25T16:58:30Z")
Trump would have to do something _really_ shocking, like saying “Happy Holidays”. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/25 "2016-11-25T21:33:12Z")
> [@Magiver](#): > > Years ago there was a huge argument on this board about how we couldn’t lower the price of fuel by drilling for more oil. Couldn’t be done. > > Well it could be done. Instead of all that money pouring out of the country it’s now generating jobs, taxes and lower energy costs. It also generates rising temperatures, but let’s ignore that in order to keep the solution simple. ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/26 "2016-11-25T22:08:35Z")
Trump’s solutions\* are\* simple! Won’t work, but you can’t deny that they’re simple. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/27 "2016-11-25T22:30:11Z")
\*\*What will Trump do when he starts to face the fact that there are no easy answers to our problems \*\* _Trump smash!_ But, yeah: martial law. As we have seen over and over again, Trump cannot abide even the least hint of criticism. And there’s only one way to stop critical remarks from being made on television, radio, print media, and the internet: outlaw them. He can’t do it alone, of course. But we’ve seen the people he’s planning to install in the Executive branch: “hardliners” who think democracy and the rule of law are for sissies. Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, Steve Bannon, Jeff Sessions, and those who will join them are ready to do the Hard Work of Keeping America Safe. You’d better believe they can justify it to themselves. All they need is a precipitating event–mass casualties from one or more attacks by Islamic Extremists–to get started. It will be just until We Can Figure Out What’s Going On, of course. > [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I know a guy who is a True Believer. I asked him this: ‘Suppose Donald Trump walked up to Hillary Clinton on live TV, and shot her in the back of the head. Would you convict him of murder?’ > > His reply: ‘No – and I bet 70% of the world would rejoice!’ > > And this guy’s followers are just as rabid. No matter how badly Trump fails, no matter how many promises he reneges on, no matter how many blatant lies he’s caught in, no matter how unethical he acts or how many times he violates the Constitution, his followers will blame Obama, blame Clinton, blame liberals, blame everyone _except_ Trump. If they would not convict him of murder-one, they’re not going to hold him responsible for anything. Those folks will be 100% behind the new regime; they will see the scapegoats (Muslim-Americans to start) rounded up and their property confiscated and cheer, cheer, cheer. And of course no one can expect Trump to bring back factories with high-paying jobs while he’s dealing with the Terrorist Threat. Trump fans will be happy to see even the low-paying jobs provided by the string of privatized prisons that will be build around the country, and will forgive their hero his promises to bring them financial security. ---
**Author:** ![Esox\_Lucius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/848f3c/32.png) [@Esox\_Lucius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Esox_Lucius)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/28 "2016-11-25T22:38:42Z")
> [@elucidator](#): > > Trump’s solutions\* are\* simple! Won’t work, but you can’t deny that they’re simple. There’s no solution that can’t be made simple by subtraction. Subtract millions of innocent casualties from the equation and poof, nuking the Middle East is easy. Want to grab pussies? Subtract morality and it’s easy to do. ---
**Author:** ![apexadam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/74df32/32.png) [@apexadam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/apexadam)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/29 "2016-11-25T22:52:45Z")
Censorship and imprisonment is most always a result of the oppressive and elitist position of cultural marxism not free market capitalism. Morality? It’s a card played only when it seems convenient. I have never seen secular progressives with any form of conclusive morality, they begin with the idea that no one can define it. My Family of origin: Cultural Marxism, Semite, Son of Holocaust Survivor, 1st Gen Immigrant. Adam ---
**Author:** ![wolfpup](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpup/32/10618_2.png) [@wolfpup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfpup)\ **Post date:** [November 25, 2016, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/30 "2016-11-25T22:54:47Z")
> [@Patrick\_Bowman](#): > > Even his supporters would agree that during the campaign Trump played fast and loose with the truth. For him, truth was whatever he wanted it to be at that instant in time. Why do we think he won’t apply the same approach as president? “Look at this wall! It’s a big, beautiful wall!” “Uh, Mr. President, it’s only 20 miles long.” “I can’t even see the end of it! It’s a big, beautiful wall! And I built it just like I said I would! It’s yuge!” > > On jobs: “I’ve beaten up the Chinese. We’ve got so many jobs coming back. People are saying they’ve got jobs again. It’s yuge!” “But the statistics show that we’ve actually lost jobs.” “We beat the Chinese! It’s yuge! Yuge! We’re making America Great Again!” > > For his supporters, the choice is to believe him or believe the media. It’s not like anyone is going to go out and personally check whether the wall is in place. And the mainstream media is totally corrupt, right? Who’d believe them over The Donald? This. There’s a reason we have at least three threads going on the subject of fake news. Fake news got Trump elected, and fake news might even get him re-elected. Facts don’t seem to matter any more. It’s all reality TV. It will matter only when the impact is so large that it’s undeniable – when the actual Trump acolyte himself has lost his job and his house, and so have his neighbors in plain sight and in large numbers. The less immediately visible catastrophes can be spun and denied, like regressive tax policies, a weakening economy, increasing fossil fuel pollution and climate change, or a growing national debt. To the rubes, those are just numbers out of the elitist media. The rubes don’t do numbers, they do fake news on Facebook feeds. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 7:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/31 "2016-11-26T07:22:56Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > We’re talking about fundamentalist, evangelical Christians. It should go without saying that if anyone is prepared to not only retain and maintain, but vociferously defend a delusion in the face of overwhelming factual evidence to the contrary, it’s them. His supporters were more the angry white guys who hate “PC” not the hard core evangelicals. Truth be told, I think religious attendance among working class whites is declining. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/32 "2016-11-26T08:14:57Z")
> [@apexadam](#): > > Censorship and imprisonment is most always a result of the oppressive and elitist position of cultural marxism not free market capitalism. Morality? It’s a card played only when it seems convenient. I have never seen secular progressives with any form of conclusive morality, they begin with the idea that no one can define it. > > My Family of origin: Cultural Marxism, Semite, Son of Holocaust Survivor, 1st Gen Immigrant. > > Adam “Cultural Marxism” defined by [destroyculturalmarxism blogspot](http://destoryculturalmarxism.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-cultural-marxism.html). > [@](#): > > An offshoot of Marxism that gave birth to political correctness, multiculturalism and “anti-racism.” Unlike traditional Marxism that focuses on economics, Cultural Marxism focuses on culture and maintains that all human behavior is a result of culture (not heredity / race) and thus malleable. Cultural Marxists absurdly deny the biological reality of gender and race and argue that gender and race are “social constructs”. Nonetheless, Cultural Marxists support the race-based identity politics of non-whites. Cultural Marxists typically support race-based affirmative action, the proposition state (as opposed to a nation rooted in common ancestry), elevating non-Western religions above Western religions, speech codes and censorship, multiculturalism, diversity training, anti-Western education curricula, maladaptive sexual norms and anti-male feminism, the dispossession of white people, and mass Third World immigration into Western countries. Cultural Marxists have promoted idea that white people, instead of birthing white babies, should interracially marry or adopt non-white children. Samuel P. Huntington maintained that Cultural Marxism is an anti-white ideology. Critics of Cultural Marxism have maintained that Cultural Marxists intend to commit genocide against white people through mass non-white immigration, assimilation, transracial adoption and miscegenation. [What does RationalWiki have to say?](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Cultural_Marxism) > [@](#): > > Cultural Marxism refers to two things: > > First — extremely rarely — “Cultural Marxism” refers to the general application of Marxist ideology and/or Critical Theory to the social sciences. > > Second — about 99.9% of the time — “Cultural Marxism” is a snarl word used to red-bait anyone with progressive tendencies. The term alludes to a conspiracy theory in which sinister left-wingers have infiltrated media, academia, and science and are engaged in a decades- or centuries-long plot to undermine western culture. > > The conspiracist usage originated in Nazi Germany, where _Kulturbolschewismus_ (“Cultural Bolshevism”) was used to abuse political opponents. The Nazis being the Nazis, they decided that Bolshevism was a Jewish plot. In order to prevent sexual/gender degeneracy, the Nazis also invented the feverish concept of “sexual Bolshevism” — in which secretly communist Jews set out to fan the evil flames of sexual permissiveness, generally. > > If anyone rants about “Cultural Marxists taking over culture!”, feel free to remind them that they’re spouting Nazi propaganda, tweaked for the modern era Interesting. Not that “Cultural Marxism” has anything to do with the topic. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 9:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/33 "2016-11-26T09:32:23Z")
In practice, it appears destroyculturalmarxism blogspot. has a better handle on the term, at least in terms of what it has either morphed into or been intended to be from the beginning. As to the RationalWiky definition #2, it errs only in that an organized, concerted conspiracy is the reason media and academia have become disproportionately loaded with left-wingers (I’ll omit science here but include lower level education all the way down to elementary school, and I’ll add entertainment media to the mix as well. There’s no question that liberals have come to predominate in every way that Americans get information.) But as I said, I don’t think this is necessarily a pre-determined goal on the part of the individual players - more like a loose-knit gathering of those of similar mind coming together to promote left-wing beliefs and point of view, and, increasingly, to browbeat, intimidate or simply overwhelm through superior numbers, those with opposing points of view. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/34 "2016-11-26T14:30:59Z")
Huh. I was not familiar with the term. For some reason, I keep picturing the Bolshoi. ---
**Author:** ![Bridget\_Burke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7cd45c/32.png) [@Bridget\_Burke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bridget_Burke)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/35 "2016-11-26T15:04:42Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > In practice, it appears destroyculturalmarxism blogspot. has a better handle on the term, at least in terms of what it has either morphed into or been intended to be from the beginning. > > As to the RationalWiky definition #2, it errs only in that an organized, concerted conspiracy is the reason media and academia have become disproportionately loaded with left-wingers (I’ll omit science here but include lower level education all the way down to elementary school, and I’ll add entertainment media to the mix as well. There’s no question that liberals have come to predominate in every way that Americans get information.) But as I said, I don’t think this is necessarily a pre-determined goal on the part of the individual players - more like a loose-knit gathering of those of similar mind coming together to promote left-wing beliefs and point of view, and, increasingly, to browbeat, intimidate or simply overwhelm through superior numbers, those with opposing points of view. From[that site](http://destoryculturalmarxism.blogspot.com/2013/01/what-is-cultural-marxism.html), here are _Concepts to Oppose Cultural Marxism_ > [@](#): > > _Genophilia_: The love of one’s own race. A natural instinct that Cultural Marxists want to deny (at least for whites). > > _Identitarian Religion_: An older form of religion that stresses ancestral obligations. Adamantly opposed by Christian Cultural Marxists (at least for whites). Throughout nearly all human history, identitarian religion (aka, ethno-religion), has been the norm. > > _Leukophobia:_ The irrational fear of whites organizing racially. > > \*Nation: \* The very word ‘nation’ (from Latin ‘nasci’) implies link by blood. The traditional (non-Marxist) understanding of nation implies racial homogeneity. (Until very recently Europe has always been racially homogenous and USA, in 1960 census, was 90% white.) **Starving** –do you agree? “Identitarianism” is an awkward word used by [Richard Spencer, alt-right leader](https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/lets-party-like-its-1933-inside-the-disturbing-alt-right-world-of-richard-spencer/2016/11/22/cf81dc74-aff7-11e6-840f-e3ebab6bcdd3_story.html)who recently gathered 300 of his ilk in DC; it’s still a small movement but Trump’s win has energized them. > [@](#): > > “We need an ethno-state,” he said in a 2013 speech, “so that our people can ‘come home again,’ can live amongst family and feel safe and secure.”… > > How, he was asked, in a nation with more than 100 million blacks, Asians and Latinos, could a whites-only territory be created without overwhelming violence? > > Over chocolate croissants and an Americano coffee at a Corner Bakery Cafe, he avoided the question, discussing Nietzsche, communism’s origins, history’s unpredictability. > > Then, at last, he offered an answer. > > “Look, maybe it will be horribly bloody and terrible,” he said. “That’s a possibility with everything.” **Starving** , you live in a fantasy of “The 1950’s”. We’re contemporaries and i know how wrong you are; but I _do_ remember being proud of my father & his generation, who _did_ defeat Nazism. Are you joining with this traitorous minority in “partying like it’s 1933”? ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/36 "2016-11-26T15:16:04Z")
> [@Starving\_Artist](#): > > …simply overwhelm through superior numbers, those with opposing points of view. You mean, like, voting? ---
**Author:** ![Corry\_El](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ecae2f/32.png) [@Corry\_El](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corry_El)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/37 "2016-11-26T15:40:37Z")
> [@Wesley\_Clark](#): > > Trump ran on offering easy answers. It’s a reasonable subjective opinion to think those who voted for Trump on average really think the answers to the country’s problems (as they see them) are any easier than say those who voted for Obama or Clinton, on average. Those voters saw different answers, different questions to some degree, but it’s just an opinion _IMO_ how much more or less realistic voters on either side actually are on average. Trump himself is distinctly less well informed than Obama or Clinton, that’s a clear fact and difference. However again as to whether Trump is really a lot more basically naive about the solubility of national problems than either of the others, harder to say IMO. We’ll find out if Trump is actually held to a different standard by those who voted for him to some degree as approval rating evolves over his term, and more concretely when/if he runs for re-election. Right now it’s pretty much projection IMO. Say the economy improves some (even not provably due to Trump), including in terms of wage growth at the median, some measures have been taken to tighten immigration enforcement, at least some play has been made at modifying trade relations (though probably superficial), etc. Then Trump is rejected because ‘he didn’t do all we he promised, he didn’t solve all our problems’? I doubt it. Say there’s a significant recession (even not provably due to Trump), let alone some obvious serious misstep in foreign policy, etc. He’ll probably be quite unpopular. And in either case the conventional GOP conservative policies likely to be applied in many areas, via a conventional GOP Congress and conventional GOP appointees Trump is already naming for the most part, will be unpopular with liberals and popular with conventional conservatives (though latter is only a part of Trump’s support, and a relatively grudging part). IOW I doubt all around how unique Trump is. Somewhat so, but it can easily be exaggerated. Voters will mainly react to a) how things are generally going economically as well as reacting badly to major foreign policy failures (like Iraq War major, US failure to positively influence the situation in Syria for example isn’t really a core concern of most voters IMO) and b) a fair proportion of voters (though ideologues tend to assume it’s _all_ voters) are ideological. The ones on the left are very unlikely to be pleased with Trump, unless he reverses field to the being the liberal Democrat he used to be according to his public statements years ago…in which case the ideologues on the right will be very displeased. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/38 "2016-11-26T15:53:41Z")
> [@Bridget\_Burke](#): > > **Starving** , you live in a fantasy of “The 1950’s”. _The Turner Diaries_ produced by Desilu. Yes, there’s some war and such, but there’s no foul language and everyone is so clean-cut. Won’t that be nice? ---
**Author:** ![SigMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/13edae/32.png) [@SigMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SigMan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/39 "2016-11-26T19:01:32Z")
I knew that he can’t do things he promised but I can rest assured that since he’s independently wealthy he can’t be bought. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2016, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-will-trump-do-when-he-starts-to-face-the-fact-that-there-are-no-easy-answers-to-our-problems/772875/40 "2016-11-26T20:22:56Z")
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