Come On?
ANYONE think this guy is gonna do ALL, or even MOST what he sold to thru the media?
The REALITY IS gonna be VERY much LOWER then the entertainment level stuff peddled….
The Guy lives in a Alternate Universe and even he KNOWS his Bull Shit IS Just That….
Don’t believe this?
Read your history on this guy….
He’s been selling and getting over on his lies and embellishment’s for decades….
He just deflects on responsibility that most judges do NOT let him get away with….
In his own telling, President-elect Donald J. Trump wields magical powers to shape world events in ways others never could. The other day, during his first broadcast television network interview since his re-election, he even claimed to have prevented wars that no one knew were about to break out.
“I have stopped wars with tariffs by saying, ‘You guys want to fight, it’s great. But both of you are going to pay tariffs to the United States at 100 percent,’” Mr. Trump said on “Meet the Press” on NBC.
What wars, between which countries, and when? He did not say. Nor did his office identify any when asked afterward. Hyperbole, or perhaps fantasy, has long characterized Mr. Trump’s public career, of course. But as he prepares to move back into the White House, his penchant for extravagant ungrounded claims will challenge his ability to translate bravado into reality.
Mr. Trump has made some of the most expansive, some would say outlandish, campaign promises that any president has ever made, promises that policymakers across the spectrum take seriously in their intent but not in their specifics. While he may make substantial progress on his priorities, few other than committed Trump allies think he will be able to meet his maximalist goals on immigration, federal spending and foreign policy….
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This goes to the old saying about taking Mr. Trump seriously but not literally. Ever since his debut on the national political stage nearly a decade ago, he has made sweeping claims that few held him to precisely, like promising that Mexico would pay for the border wall he wanted to build. (It never did.)
But even supporters of Mr. Trump’s stated aspirations fear that by overinflating what he can accomplish, he could undermine his position…
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“Trump’s claim that he could end the war in 24 hours suggests he does not understand the complexities of the war or how dug in Ukrainians and Putin are on their respective positions,” said Steven Pifer, a former ambassador to Ukraine who is now at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. “At some point, there will be a negotiation between Kyiv and Moscow, but it remains unclear when that will begin, and the negotiation will take time.”
Mr. Trump’s promised mass deportation is not tied to the clock, but it would prove difficult nonetheless. During his entire first term, Mr. Trump deported only 936,000 people — fewer, at an annual rate, than either Barack Obama or George W. Bush did.
To deport 11 million people in four years would require an extraordinary investment of resources toward immigration enforcement never before seen in the United States. Mr. Trump and Congress would have to come up with $88 billion a year over roughly 10 years and hire at least 31,000 immigration agents…
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Mr. Trump has never been a budget cutter. During his first campaign for president, he boasted that he could eliminate the entire national debt — not just the annual deficit, but all the debt accumulated over the history of the country — in just eight years.
Not only did he make no serious effort to reduce the debt, much less wipe it out, he added $8.4 trillion in new borrowing over 10 years, even more than President Biden has since, according to the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, a nonpartisan advocacy group….
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Two-thirds of the federal budget is made up of Social Security and Medicare, military spending and interest on the debt. Mr. Trump has vowed not to touch Social Security or Medicare, a promise he repeated on “Meet the Press,” and has boasted of bolstering rather than cutting the military….
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Any other president might worry about laying out goals that cannot be met. But Mr. Trump bulls ahead, confident that his supporters will see that at least he is trying, and that they will find someone else to blame if he does not meet his targets.
“For most Trump supporters, he’s always going to be faultless,”….
image…The Atlantic
New Open Thread is HERE.…
McConnell Injured in Fall
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell left a Tuesday Senate GOP lunch with a cut on his face and was attended by medical personnel, Politico reports.
Note….
The Senator from Ky is 82 years old….
Morning everyone…..
The Trump Show continue’s unabated ….
And the “ American people” like the “ show” as you put it.
Indeed most think he will do a “ good” job.
Actually?
He ain’t that popular at all
And Yea
There ARE A LOT of fucked up people that didn’t vote at all and those who voted for the convicted felon….
Ain’t saying much, eh?
Well you’re the one who is always throwing poll numbers around.
CNN Poll says 54% think Trump will do a “ good” job and about the same number approve of his transition implicitly being ok with his appointments.
Look you can “ blame” this on the “ media” as you do daily here, the plain fact is as of now?
Trump has a significant amount of good will with “ the American people.”
How long that will last? Well,that is the question.
Jack?
U KNOW BETTER….
They ALL start out with a ‘Honeymoon’ as noted ….
Trump WILL quickly hit a brick wall like he and others do when the friction of Reality asserts itself…..
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