Are you comfortable with Donald Trump so far?

I'm concerned about his education pick. She'd made huge moves to privatized education in Detroit, and her programs have been abysmal failures.

 

As of today, 12 January 2017, I still do no know what to think about Trump. Perhaps expect is a better word than think. As one who began following politics way back in 1956 watching the Republican and Democratic national conventions on TV, Trump is an unknown, an enigma to me. He certainly doesn't act presidential, but then again he never was a politician or an elected official to any office. Should we expect him to behave the way someone who held elected office all their life?

As a supporter of Ross Perot, he didn't act very presidential either. He acted like what he was, a businessman. Abet Ross had a whole lot more couth than Trump. Trump can be very obnoxious at times and does behave like a 5th grade schoolyard bully at times also. Ross didn't have the thin skin that Trump seems to have, not every little derogatory statement or word got under his skin as it seems to do to Trump. I don't even know if it is fair to compare the two.

Am I leery of a Trump presidency? Very much so. I don't know what to expect from him. I really don't like the idea of a President Trump. To be fair about this, would I have been leery of a Hillary Clinton presidency, not so much as I have or had a good idea of what she would and wouldn't do as president. Of course, like Trump I never liked the idea of a Hillary Clinton becoming president either. My vote showed my disdain for both these two major party candidates.

What I do think is that Trump will either end up being ten times a better president than Hillary Clinton or ten times worst. Which one, I haven't the slightest idea. But from the bottom of my heart, I do wish the Democrats would have run someone other Clinton so myself and perhaps the majority of 8 million others who voted third party could have voted for that someone else other than Clinton.

But what is, is. Trump is president elect and I wish him a very successful presidency.

 

For one, there is still a larger minority; it's not like Democrats no longer exist. Two, I suppose we should just get rid of the army then, school too, maybe just government all together. Because humanity in their natural state does a great job in modern society. The more advanced technologically we get, the more we're going to need people telling us "no". We've gotten to a point in human development where anarchy and hunter-gatherer lifestyles or even just libertarian societies won't be feasible. And if you think that we are like Russia, you are very, very mistaken.

 

Well, at this moment, on January 12, 2017, Donald Trump hasn't been able to do ONE DAMNED THING yet, but he's already got the radical Democrat goon-squad at this throat trying to tear him to pieces over anything and everything!

The only thing he has been able to do is pick appointees to the Cabinet positions, and I've been pleased with all them so far.

But we won't REALLY know anything until Obama shuffles his worthless ass out of the White House for good and Donald Trump takes over completely. Then and only then will we really even begin to find out anything for sure....

 

Yes, Don will be a hard act to follow..
Here's another analogy- Theodore Roosevelt once said "A vote is like a rifle, wasted in the wrong hands", so let's hope that if the Dems field bad candidates in the future, the great patriotic voters will once again mount up and ride to the polling stations to defend America against them..



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Donnie-Boy was supposed to drain the swamp. Instead, he's turning it into a cesspool.

 

Since America claims that our President is " the leader of the free world" they have every right to be concerned when the Electoral college elects a new President.

 

Yes but the republicans tried to drain the swamp by abolishing the ethics committee. And note that Trump's only objection to eliminating any ethical responsibility of the new government was the timing of the action. Apparently the action itself was perfectly acceptable and probably will occur in the next six months with full Trump support.

After all when you have a President with such massive conflicts of interest it is hardly realistic to expect better from the Congress.

Long live the new kleptocracy .

 

Yes, very comfortable and encouraged that he will attempt to make good on his promises to the American people.

 

Whiskey time is best time in white house.

And I want one or two new war outland's.

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But also want Cruz in presential House.

 

So far I am not against his picks. Considering his background the best and brightest people would be millionaires and billionaires. At least it is not the same old politicians and bureaucrats .

 

Au contraire. You will not find a single democrat laughing, unless they crack up and are headed to a mental ward.

Trump has the makings of being our first real president since JFK. We will have to wait to see if he is brought into the corrupt fold. So far, it does not look like it. But he isn't in the office yet.

 

Donald trump has set up a cabinet of monsters. His agenda is one of control. As far as issues that concern the American people - housing, jobs, environment, constitutional rights and freedoms - he doesn't care. He is in denial about anything that has to do with the popular welfare. He is a racist, a misogynist, a fascist, and a demagogue. All democratic successful candidates for President have campaigned with promises to help the people, but end up helping mainly the one percent (GAT, NAFTA, bail-outs, NSA and patriot acts) and screwing The People. Republican candidates have, arrogantly, increasingly refused even to pretend (in campaigns) to want anything done for The people. This tendency has gotten way out of hand with Trump.

 

Amen.

Your post says it all. Too bad trump supporters can't see the truth before their eyes.

 

and most of us ignore them as we should

 

So far okay,
three doors down did made an excellent performance.

 

Obama withdrawal

It won't last all that long

 

No, there still is the ethics committee. All they wanted to do, and still might get done, is to modify rules used by the non binding committee that seems to get a bit out of hand.

When the Congress set up the ethics committee, supposedly that took care of things. Later they added a new group that does not have any authority but to tell the ethics committee who to go after.

Apparently during some of the commotion, complaints were they were acting far too heavy handed.

At my local Real Estate board, I too had been on what we called the ethics committee. When we found a wrong, we had to refer it up to a powerful committee. I later was on that where we really had power. "If the other group got out of hand, we could correct it. One more check was on the Board of Directors, where I also was a director on, we had the final word. But not as to the facts of a case. I do not recall when I was a director ever trying to overturn a ruleing by the other group. But we had to sign off on what they did.

Before you tell me Congress is different, do they have to keep an eye on 3500 members?

We did.

 

Yea, I'm just dying to see his Education pick do her job. And see how Trump definitely doesn't do under the table deals, its not like he owns casinos or anything, or acts like Russia has dirt on him. And see how Trump is like JFK. And see how he totally works with the Republican party and gives you all he promised.

I'm not one of those democrats that's concerned with his misogyny and all that good stuff. You have no idea what a fascist really is and you just throw the term around to anyone you don't like. However, that's not to say that Trump is a good presidential pick. He was just better than Hillary. If any other real politician that's not a socialist ran against him, I'm sure they would have won. Don't you compare JFK to Trump. Don't compare Hitler to Trump either, but don't compare good politicians with people we all know are not good politicians. You can't deny that you would have rather had pretty much any other alt. righter in office. Trump was just the only guy that represented that viewpoint, and so you guys worship him like a God now.

I just hope that next election has better candidates. Which basically just means that the Dems have to run some good people or the alt. right movement has to make their own party that's not the Republican party cuz they can't run anyone but Trump now.

 

Pretending you speak for the more open minded, intelligent members of this forum is probably a measure of your self delusion.

 

An utter disaster, a train wreck in progress. The only thing good about him is he's an arrogant (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) who believes his own propaganda and still thinks we all love him even though he lost the popular vote; so he's making no effort to unify the country and turning more and more people against him every day, which means we can at least limit the damage until 2018 when we make him powerless and begin ending the Republican Party once and for all.

 

Oh what a beautiful day! You couldn't knock the smile off my face with a brick.

 

So far, all Americans have been given is a sales pitch.

Whether that is prelude to a nationalized Trump® U scam or a harbinger of a tsunami of wish fulfillment can only be determined after the political ingénue has experienced the presidency as reality rather than as reality tv.

A cautious "Let's wait and see," may get the Novelty Act's adoring cult in a frenzy, and the majority of Americans who have already formed a negative opinion based upon his tawdry antics may not like it either, but he'll be assessed upon how his performance stacks upon against his profuse promises, nonetheless.

Objective assessment will likely induce hysterical tweetantrums in the witching hours of the tormented soul, no doubt, but dispassionate, sober assessment based upon those promise/performance metrics will be critical.

 

So nice to know you're feeling well, 11/9/18 will be here before you know it

 

So far I have no complaints and I believe he is doing great. He's accomplished more in his President-Elect status than I think anyone expected. I can't wait to see what the first 100 days brings.