The Future President, Donald Trump

You are speaking past tense, he used to be to the left of most republicans, now he has decided to take a completely far right platform and it is working for him, mores the pity.

Real life gremlin Donald Trump continued his assault upon the American electoral system with his biggest pep rally to date in Alabama Friday night. Trump, looking every bit the personification of bad breath, riled up thousands of attendees with all of the gusto (but none of the charm) of U.S. President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho. The rally descended into brain-numbing stupidity faster than you can scream "white power."

Two of the Republican Party's most prominent strategists agreed Sunday that Donald Trump is tapping into a deep well of voters' dissatisfaction with Washington — but they both insisted he won't win the party's nomination for president.

"There's a lot of frustration and anger in the country about the federal government, and about politicians in both parties. And Donald has become a vehicle for that kind of frustration," said Charlie Black, a senior adviser to Sen. John McCain's 2008 presidential bid, on NBC's "Meet the Press."

For now Donald Trump is both the star and the news of this campaign, bigger than the mess Hillary Clinton is making of emails, bigger than an old lefty like Bernie Sanders trying to be George McGovern in 1972. Trump was asked Saturday, after Mobile, if he has simply tapped into the anger of the country about its politicians and its government from his side of this the way Sanders has from his side.

“It may be about anger,” Trump said. “We may be saying the same thing here. But I frankly think it’s more about political incompetency. And, I’m sorry, but Jeb is a part of that. Nice enough guy. But what a stiff.”

Rolling Stone is said to be doing a cover story on trump, or at least is in negotiations. I am mildly optimistic that they will use the time to work on repairing their reputation by doing some good journalism.

Donald Trump wants to make America great again. This is how he wants to do it:

If Trump were elected president, he says, he would launch the U.S. government into a massive building project — and a massive manhunt — both at once.

On the U.S.-Mexico border, Trump would build a long, impenetrable wall. In the rest of the country, he would pressure the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants to “self-deport” — and, if they don't, round them up to deport en masse. Later, Trump says, “the good ones” could come back.

He also wants to go on a building spree.

Modern new VA hospitals. Better bridges, highways, railroads. A new floor at LaGuardia Airport, to replace that shabby terrazzo Trump hates. And, to pay for it all, Trump would not raise taxes. He’d lower them.


Instead, Trump would get other countries to start paying the United States large new sums of money — and agree to receive nothing in return. China, for instance, would pay for new tariffs. Mexico would even pay for America’s new border wall.

“They’re not going to pay for the wall,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly told Trump this summer.

“You have to let me handle that, okay?” Trump said.

One thing is clear: Trump has reversed several positions from his past.

In 1999, contemplating a possible presidential run, Trump said he was pro-choice. Today, he is against abortion. He previously praised the idea of a national, single-payer health-care system. Today, while aiming his fire at the president’s health-care law, he doesn’t.

Trump also seems to have backed off another unusual idea: a one-time mega-tax on the nation’s very wealthy. In 2000, Trump advocated a 14.25 percent tax on people with a net worth over $10 million, which he estimated would raise $5.7 trillion and pay off the national debt in one swoop.

“It’s a win-win for the American people but an idea that no conventional politician would have the guts to put forward,” Trump wrote in his 2000 book, “The America We Deserve.”

Trump doesn’t mention that idea now.

Businessman-turned-Republican presidential aspirant Donald Trump and other GOP candidates sought to capitalize on Monday’s stock market struggles, blaming China — and U.S. politicians — for the sharp drop in values.

“I’ve been telling everybody for a long time,” Trump said in a video posted on social media. “China’s taking our jobs; they’re taking our money.”

He added: “Be careful — they’ll bring us down. You have to known what you’re doing — we have nobody that has a clue.”

My message is that Trump as president might be great for this country . You are so very confused.

hawkeye10 wrote:

My message is that Trump as president might be great for this country . You are so very confused.

And you are calling someone else confused!

And you are calling someone else confused!

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And you are calling someone else confused!

That is one peculiar dude!

korkamann wrote:

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And you are calling someone else confused!

That is one peculiar dude!

He sure is. And obviously a guy oblivious to the term "irony!"

Says the people who claim to have no clue why trump at the moment is so popular. At some point it is going to dawn on you that you dont know what you think you know.