How much do we know about Donald Trump?
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Donald Trump:
How Much Do We Know?
Donald J. Trump is the Republican nomination for President of the United States. However, exactly how much do we really know about “The Donald?” No, not the accolades House Speaker Paul Ryan and others were forced into saying about him at last month’s convention, but the REAL stuff. Who is this man now inches away from being in control of the nuclear codes?
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For much of America — particularly those of us who don’t dare watch Fox News or actually believe in the value of Trump University — Donald Trump is the ultimate con man. He has used a shoddy snake-oil salesmanship to promise America the world, yet he’s never once explained how he might possibly deliver on his promises.
Let’s remember, the new Republican presidential nominee once refused to distance himself from the Ku Klux Klan and former Grand Dragon David Duke. He publicly made fun of a handicapped journalist. He considered a federal judge unqualified to handle his Trump University case because he’s of Mexican descent. He incited riots by encouraging supporters to “knock the crap” out of anyone at a rally who didn’t agree with him. He’s also proven himself to be an irresistible magnet to white supremacists and separatists.
Here are 40 additional facts about THE REAL Donald Trump and what he has planned for America:
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1. Build a wall along the southern U.S. border to keep Mexicans out. According to Trump, the “artistically beautiful” wall will be constructed out of hardened concrete, rebar and steel, will be one foot taller than the Great Wall of China, and will be “the greatest wall that you’ve ever seen” — so great that the nation will likely one day name it “The Trump Wall.”
2. Make Mexico pay for “The Trump Wall.” If Mexico refuses, Trump will cut foreign aid, institute tariffs, cancel visas for Mexican business leaders and diplomats, and increase fees for visas, border-crossing cards and port use.
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3. Ban Muslims from entering the United States “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on.” Trump would allow exceptions for certain Muslims who have “proven” themselves.
4. Institute heavy surveillance against mosques in the United States and close others.
5. Create a database of Syrian refugees and Muslims in the United States.
6. Frequently use the term “radical Islamic terrorism.”
7. Bar Syrian refugees from entering the country and kick out those who are already here.
8. “Bomb the s— out of ISIS” and oil fields controlled by the Islamic State, then seize the oil and give the profits to military veterans wounded while fighting.
9. Target and kill the relatives of terrorists.
10. Shut down parts of the Internet so that Islamic State terrorists cannot use it to recruit Americans.
11. Reinstitute waterboarding, which the Obama administration considers torture. In fact, Trump is willing to use interrogation techniques that go even further than waterboarding. Even if such tactics don’t work, “they deserve it anyway, for what they’re doing.”
12. End birthright citizenship.
13. Terminate President Obama’s executive orders related to immigration, including getting rid of “sanctuary cities.”
14. Deport the almost 11 million immigrants illegally living in the United States, but continue to allow lowly paid foreign workers to come to the United States on temporary works visas, since they are the only ones who want to pick grapes or paint our kitchens on the cheap.
15. “If I become president, we’re all going to be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”
16. Eliminate the Environmental Protection Agency.
17. Get rid of Obamacare and replace it with something “terrific” that is “so much better, so much better, so much better.”
18. Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting benefits or explaining how.
19. Defund Planned Parenthood.
20. Pick Supreme Court justices who are “really great legal scholars.”
21. Strengthen the military so that it’s “so big and so strong and so great” that “nobody’s going to mess with us.”
22. Leave troops in Afghanistan because it’s such “a mess.”
23. Fire “the corrupt and incompetent” leaders of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.
24. Be unpredictable. “No one is going to touch us, because I’m so unpredictable.”
25. Find an “out” clause in the Iran deal and then “totally” renegotiate the whole thing.
26. Refuse to call Iran’s leader by his preferred title. “I guarantee you I will be never calling him the Supreme Leader… I’ll say, ‘Hey baby, how ya doing?’ I will never call him the Supreme Leader.”
27. Find great generals — like the next Gen. Patton or Gen. MacArthur — who are rough and foul-mouthed, then not allow them to go onto television news shows to explain their military strategy. “I don’t want my generals being interviewed, I want my generals kicking ass.”
28. Drop that “dirty, rotten traitor” Bowe Bergdahl out of an airplane into desolate Afghanistan without a parachute.
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29. Get rid of gun-free zones at military bases and in schools on his first day in office.
30. Find ways to arm more of the “good guys” like him who can take out the “sickos.” Get rid of bans on certain types of guns and magazines so that “good, honest people” can own the guns of their choice (No word on if he’s changed his stance after police were targeted and killed with the very type of military-grade assault rifles he thinks anyone should be able to own).
31. Allow concealed-carry permits to be recognized in all 50 states. According to Trump, even if a state does not allow citizens to carry guns wherever they wish, anyone with a permit from another state could roam the streets of New York or anywhere in the U.S. with a rifle.
32. Bring back jobs from China — and Mexico, Japan and everywhere else.
33. “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.,” Trump said, adding that cities like Reno, Nev., will “be a big fat beautiful beneficiary” of these new jobs.
34. Replace “free trade” with “fair trade.” Gather together the “smartest negotiators in the world,” assign them each a country and renegotiate all foreign trade deals.
35. Put billionaire hedge fund manager Carl Icahn in charge of trade negotiations with China and Japan, then pick an ambassador to Japan who is “a killer,” unlike current ambassador Caroline Kennedy.
36. Tell Ford Motor Co.’s president that unless he cancels plans to build a massive plant in Mexico, the company will face a 35% tax on cars imported back into the United States.
37. Force Nabisco to once again make Oreos in the United States, then bully Apple into making its “damn computers” and other products here.
38. Ensure that Americans can still afford to golf.
39. Say things that are politically incorrect, because the country is “too nice” and does not have time to waste with political correctness.
40. Start winning again. “We’re going to win so much — win after win after win — that you’re going to be begging me: ‘Please, Mr. President, let us lose once or twice. We can’t stand it anymore.’ And I’m going to say: ‘No way. We’re going to keep winning. We’re never going to lose. We’re never, ever going to lose.”
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Donald Trump has made a ton of lofty promises with little explanation of how he could possibly accomplish such goals. However, Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort did explain that Trump himself won’t be involved in any of the real work. He’d rather deflect the responsibility of actually running the country to his vice-presidential pick, Mike Pence.
“He needs an experienced person to do the part of the job he doesn’t want to do. He sees himself more as the chairman of the board, than even the CEO, let alone the COO,” Manafort said.
Ladies and gentlemen, this is who he is. This is the man who could be your next President of the United States. This is Donald J. Trump.
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Donald Trump has made a ton of lofty promises with little explanation of how he could possibly accomplish such goals.[…]
There you go again DJ, being much too kind. But that's who you are. Don't change.
The truth is, Trump has made a ton of promises with little-to-NO explanation of how he could possibly accomplish such goals. I highly doubt he's even capable of giving any real thought to serious issues. He just shoots off his mouth all the time, and lies with reckless abandon.
Btw- His supporters know. he's full of it. They just don't give a d*mn. They're determined to put his dangerous azz in the White House anyway (which is why I find them to be even more frightening than he is). And we must be doubly determined to keep him Out.
Thanks for the list DJ.