The Donald Trump Score Card

[SIZE=11pt]Sorry I haven’t been contributing very much to the debate but I’ve had othe commitments BUT it is also due to what someone else said here – this is frigging insane, and its hard to debate insanity in any rational way you can record it as Meagain and others are doing a heroic job of doing but how do you analyses this madness. [/SIZE]

[SIZE=11pt]What I will say is this is being noticed around the world and America’s (often shaky) standing in it has been much diminished.[/SIZE]

 

There hasn't been this much excitement since Michael Dukakis rode a tank in the 1988 presidential election campaign.

 

especially from the upstairs windows.

 

The time interview was horrible, I couldnt finish it. For those who havent read it, it goes a little something like this

Babblbabblebullahiti'malwaysrightbullshitbabblebabble

 

In short, Trump is right about everything.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/23/us/politics/what-trumps-time-interview-shows-about-his-thinking.html?_r=0

"I’m a very instinctual person, but my instinct turns out to be right."

"I have a lot of respect for Judge Napolitano, and he said that three sources have told him things that would make me right."

"And then people said, “You know, Trump was right.”"

 

A great job here from Meagain, egger and others. If anything comes up from the UK side I've been trying to post it, but mainly just reading through as a kind of news digest.
Comment seems largely unnecessary. Sadly, the developing facts speak for themselves.

 

During the photo-op with Merkel, Trump ignored numerous calls from the press to shake hands with Merkel.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3118428/donald-trump-ignores-handshake-request-from-angela-merkel-in-front-of-cameras-at-white-house-meeting/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLfukuEutIU

 

Trump's peeved expression when asked to shake hands with Merkel looked like that of Sylvester when being asked to kiss the little birdie.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-XR_fEoUD0

 

In contrast, Trump did a 19-second handshake with the PM of Japan with a big smile on his face. Trump even caressed Abe's hand twice in addition to a hug.

They also went to the Mar-a-Lago mansion for, as Spicer would say, strategic wining, dining, golfing, and a Trump selfie with the bridesmaids (the event that North Korea snubbed by launching a missile over Japan).

People are speculating that Trump and Abe might be engaged. Trump doesn't caress the hand of his wife Melania to that extent. He left Melania at the limousine and went up the White House steps by himself on inauguration day.

http://fox6now.com/2017/02/10/strong-hands-trumps-handshake-with-japanese-pm-lights-up-social-media/



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiitQ-5_E_Y

 

Ok trying to make sense of the madness

I said earlier in this thread that I didn’t think many of the ‘big promises’ Trump made on the campaign would survive his actual presidency – that they wouldn’t get a budget , get blocked in the courts or in congress or they would get changed beyond all recognition from what was said.

I thought this because basically Trump is a bull shitter who played to the crowd saying the things they liked to hear, ‘lock her up’, ban the Muslims, build the wall (and get someone else to pay for it) , get rid of Obamacare etc – I don’t think he actually believed in these things he was just playing the crowd.

Yes some things are going on like the creeping deportations, the end of climate change research, and the proposed deregulation and military spending and the ‘deconstruction of the administrative state’ but I don’t think Trump gives these thing that much thought either, they are the pet projects of those around him.

I mean look at the signing of all those executive orders to great fanfare, most were meaningless but they made it look like something was been done, take the Muslim bans, they were so badly constructed that you think his heart wasn’t in it - it wasn’t real - but it did grab headlines and make ‘the crowd’ think promises were being kept and now the healthcare fiasco again the Trump team didn’t seem that interested, I get the distinct impression that Trump didn’t even read it, they throw it to Ryan and Ryan fumbled it and now the Trump team shrug, give up and move on.

But move on to what?

Because I think there is one thing Trump and his circle are interested in and really want to make their priority and that is tax cuts that will favour the rich.

That is the thing that the private Trump seems to get excited by and while I could be wrong (the Trump team don’t seem that competent) I think that will be the subject they put their most effort into achieving.

I’m guessing tax cuts will not just get dropped like replacing Obamacare or forgotten about like the Muslim ban or put on hold like many of his other promises (is she locked up yet).

What has happened so far is insane – but rather half-hearted insanity, a lot of sound and fury that has played well to the base but I think with the tax cuts it’s going to get serious.

Apologise to MeAgain for this aside

 

A Republican president's health care proposal is scrapped by a Republican congress...and it is the Democrat's fault.

 

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/768541/Vladimir-Putin-Russia-backs-Marine-Le-Pen-French-election-EU-Ukraine-sanctions
http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/768541/Vladimir-Putin-Russia-backs-Marine-Le-Pen-French-election-EU-Ukraine-sanctions
http://www.apnewsarchive.com/2017/French-far-right-presidential-candidate-Marine-Le-Pen-has-said-that-Russia-and-France-should-unite-shortly-after-arriving-in-Moscow-less-than-a-month-before-French-elections/id-9fd3a3f874b343d8a8bd00a24fdd088e

 

Yes. Taxing the rich never solved anything. Eventually governments had to tax the poor as well. Cut government spending and have a flat rate tax or tax imports and home goods.

 

That isn't evidence that he released the tax forms himself.

 

You're looking at one.

 

Obama spent more time golfing than he did acting in office. Your point?