Okay, just want to stop in here to say one thing.
Y'all think Trump is an idiot. He's not.
Trump is a smart guy, otherwise he wouldn't have as much money as he has today.
Trump doesn't think Mexicans are rapists and murderers. Trump knows Iran is complying with the nuclear deal. Hell, he probably knows climate change is real too.
However, a very significant portion of America doesn't. He's essentially playing a massive con game with this faction (and the rest of America). He used them to get elected, and so far they like what he's doing because he's doing the things that they've wanted presidents to do but which presidents never have done because they would be colossally stupid policy. Previous presidents and presidential candidates tried not to lie or harass women or such stupid shit because they were afraid the general public would pick up on it and call them out. But Trump's rewritten the rules so that you can lie, you can "grab women by the pussy", you can insult anybody and anything and people will still like you because you will do the things.
The media has called Trump out on his lies and generally disgraceful behavior, but what did Trump do? He invented the "fake news" narrative to give people an excuse for the horrible stories they hear about him. By now, Trump is completely goddamn immune to anything we can throw at him. News stories and publicity won't do it, we have to be able to actually show the American people how much worse life has become or else they won't believe anything.
That is all. Goodbye.
Well if you're going to leave, I guess we'll just have to rebut you in absentia.
We've had the "crazy like a fox" argument before, though -- actually, I think we've had it fairly predictably, so forgive me if I recycle some points.
1. We don't actually know how much money Trump has today, but he's historically underperformed the market and his business ventures have failed over and over, leaving him saddled with considerable debt. Much of the modern Trump brand, where he licenses out his name and otherwise touches nothing, is Ivanka's doing. If Trump were smart, his noninterference wouldn't be a precondition of at least one bankruptcy proceeding. Now, you can argue that this is just more Trump being brilliant and defrauding the fools who invested in him for personal gain, but as a long-term strategy it has failed miserably. He should have gotten a much higher ROI on the money his dad gave him.
2. Neither Trump nor the Republican establishment wanted Trump to win; running for President was an ad campaign, not a serious attempt to gain the Presidency. Thus the mad scramble to put together an administration, and thus Trump's total disinterest in policy. He doesn't like being President. He likes golfing, rallies, and firing people on TV. The man failed so badly he couldn't even lose competently.
3. He's not doing the things, people know that, and his numbers are terrible and his legislative agenda is mostly dead. Let us not forget that for all of Trump's supposed genius, he has been a historically ineffectual President, so much so that he's been unable to get an ultra-Republican agenda through a Republican-controlled Congress helmed by a craven turtle with no priorities beyond reelection. Trump has failed spectacularly at something that should have been straightforward.
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