Politics –
America Is Being
Tricked By Trump
Hey, America: are you savvy enough to know when you’re being played for a fool? If not, what will it take for you to realize that you’re being tricked by Trump?
Politics
Donald Trump ran for president on the premise that he would be different. He alone had the knowledge to fix things and he alone could “Make America Great Again.” Trump even went so far as to promise that America was going to win, win, win so much, that we’d all get tired of winning. Well, how’s all that working out so far? Hmmm… not so well!
Trump frequently blasted former President Obama for taking (in his opinion) too many personal vacations at taxpayer expense, yet he has jetted off to his Mar-a-Lago Florida golf resort every single weekend since the inauguration. Trump also promised to reign in presidential spending after prodding former President Obama for overspending and costing taxpayers unnecessarily. However, Trump’s presidential travel expense has cost more in 1 month than Mr. Obama’s in an entire year. In fact, Forbes says Mr. Obama’s travel bill over his entire 8-year term was $97 million, while Donald Trump is well on track to surpass that in just his first year.
Trump promised to take care of the “forgotten Americans,” particularly the poor, white, blue-collar workers across the rust belt and the Appalachian mountains who helped elect him. However, he never told them that when he was ready to tear down Obamacare, he would also be throwing those same people off of the health rolls and making necessary drugs for such ailments as coal miners disease suddenly unaffordable. He also promised these same people that he would bring coal jobs back, despite the fact that America’s need for coal in 2017 is about as necessary as America’s need for a VCR.
Donald Trump tricked America into voting for him, and now, he’s tricking America into believing that he knows what he’s doing and he’s got all of our best interests at heart. He doesn’t. Trump is not “running” America — Steve Bannon is. Trump is doing very little in the Oval Office, despite The White House trying to make him appear as busy as a bee. In the words of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria, “Do not confuse motion with progress.”
Take a look at the video below and find out from Fareed Zakaria himself how Donald Trump is tricking America!
Trump is famously hostile to the notion of learning: no-one has anything to teach him. He was born rich, and that means he’s a genius and that everyone must respect him. He appears to have no ability for self-reflection. The mirrors he has in his house may be framed in gold, but he’s never been able to bring himself to look in them for more than a few seconds. Instead, he’s surrounded himself by people who tell him what he wants to hear, who repeat back to him his inner mantra: you’re the richest, the best, the greatest writer, builder, statesman, etc etc etc. But it’s his inner voices that are the problem, the ones that tell him that he’s nothing, a failure, that everyone sees him as a joke.
I love Fareed Zakaria because he always tells it like it is. Everybody got tricked by Trump because they thought he was going to do all this stuff magically and not hurt them. But people are starting to wake up and see they got played. Plus does Trump ever work weekends? He is always in Florida playing golf instead of doing his job. Somebody needs to tell him president isn't a monday through Friday gig.