Forget the bombast and the hot air.
Forget the bullying and his bizarre hair.
Forget the racism and his exhortations to violence to his foamy-mouthed, poorly-educated supporters.
The very simple, basic, glaring FACT is that Donald Trump is really — as in ‘genuinely — not fit nor remotely qualified to be president of the USA.
And that is a hard thing to write having lived through 8 years of the Cheney Administration with it’s presidential figurehead appointed by the Supreme Court after failing to clearly win the highly questionable election. At least Trump doesn’t have a brother controlling a delegate-rich state….
And, really, George W. Bush was not capable of presidentin’ either, but, like Reagan, he was to be a mere figurehead with Bush’s daddy running things with the GOP Politburo behind closed doors, a heat shield and comedic distraction from Cheney’s neocon agenda. Bush’s entire presidency — “presidency” — was a farce, a Potemkin village hiding Cheney’s agenda.
So, Bush ”at least” had Cheney to actually do the nuts-and-bolts running of the country. Trump has no Cheney to fall back on (currently, of course, that’s a good thing) , which would be a selling point if he wasn’t a human being dead-set on emulating a baboon in a Chinese suit
Nope. I read this interview in the New York Times, a once-credible news outlet that went to bed with the Cheney administration and lost its way. But they still have their name and their building and their paper and they have these people they still pay to do interviews with famous people while trying to continue to sell papers and make money.
So they interviewed Trump. Over the phone, no less. I am posting this to say Donald Trump is a lot more unqualified to be president. I despise the man, personally, but early on I simply assumed he would have more skills than Bush.
Now, I truly do not believe he does. I believe Trump is a case of somebody being “successful” despite who and what they are.
I heard a joke once: How do you get Donald Trump started in a small business?
Give him a big business.
Trump has no common sense, he has no actual governing experience and, specifically, he has no business being president and no business being anywhere near launch codes.
The NYT interview is like an interview with Muammar Gaddafi, Trump is so full of himself.
Maggie Haberman starts with this:
So, you have said on several occasions that you want Japan and South Korea to pay more for their own defense. You’ve been saying versions of that about Japan for 30 years. Would you object if they got their own nuclear arsenal, given the threat that they face from North Korea and China?
TRUMP: Well, you know, at some point, there is going to be a point at which we just can’t do this anymore. And, I know the upsides and the downsides. But right now we’re protecting, we’re basically protecting Japan, and we are, every time North Korea raises its head, you know, we get calls from Japan and we get calls from everybody else, and “Do something.” And there’ll be a point at which we’re just not going to be able to do it anymore. Now, does that mean nuclear? It could mean nuclear. It’s a very scary nuclear world. Biggest problem, to me, in the world, is nuclear, and proliferation. At the same time, you know, we’re a country that doesn’t have money. You know, when we did these deals, we were a rich country. We’re not a rich country. We were a rich country with a very strong military and tremendous capability in so many ways. We’re not anymore. We have a military that’s severely depleted. We have nuclear arsenals which are in very terrible shape. They don’t even know if they work. We’re not the same country, Maggie and David, I mean, I think you would both agree.
Bolding is mine: This is a very lengthy interview; probably worth the entire read, but the stuff Trump has to say — combined with the limitations of Fair Use — I only got so far when it just slammed into me that this man is simply unhinged and knows less about things than I do (despite his alleged education which should have made him a better candidate) , and I am not exactly a student of political history. He has all the wingnut viewpoints that, taken together as a collection, tell me he’s essentially delusional, like the rest of the Wingnutosphere.
There are so many things wrong inside this first paragraph, I don’t need to go too much into the whole thing.
He raises a threat of using nukes. Almost flippantly. Says it bothers him but you know… meh. Our country is so poor we don’t know if our missiles even work. This is a man who does not need to be in the same country with our launch codes.
He thinks America is “poor”. I still think we are a rich country and if we are “poor” its because corporations have divested from the US, taken their jobs and sent them to countries where they don’t have to pay people for labor.
Wealthy corporations have offshored $32 TRILLION.They want to have the safety and support of the US government (that they whine about endlessly) but they don’t want to pay their fair share of taxes.
Rich individuals and their families have as much as $32 trillion of hidden financial assets in offshore tax havens, representing up to $280 billion in lost income tax revenues, according to research published on Sunday.
If America is truly poor right now, something I believe has to be qualified since we have to acknowledge the 99% to 1% reality: a small group of people are very wealthy and a MASSIVE group of people have close to nothing.
CORPORATIONS have moved all our income producing jobs to other countries, refused to pay their fair share, and left Americans with shitty service jobs: housekeeping, burger-flipping, chicken-frying, washing, cleaning, selling crap. For minimum wage which takes 3 full-time jobs to assemble a “live indoors” lifestyle.
So AMERICANS are MOSTLY poor, Donnie, but the rich in this country aren’t. And the rich are totally out of touch with this reality, insulated by their wealthy and means.
The rich have worked hard to screw the people of this country yet turn around and hold us in disdain. Tell us to get jobs and work for what we want, when there are no fucking jobs. No decent ones that one can get and live indoors and have anything left after paying utilities and mortgages or rent.
Sanger goes on to note that sometimes Japan and South Korea suggest they could maybe take care of themselves, particularly if they had nuclear capability.
[Take a sip of coffee and stare into the distance for a laconic moment, and roll the idea around in your brain that smart people are actually talking to Donald Trump about nuclear weapons. Hoo-boy...]
TRUMP: Well, it’s a position that we have to talk about, and it’s a position that at some point is something that we have to talk about, and if the United States keeps on its path, its current path of weakness, they’re going to want to have that anyway with or without me discussing it, because I don’t think they feel very secure in what’s going on with our country, David. You know, if you look at how we backed our enemies, it hasn’t – how we backed our allies – it hasn’t exactly been strong. When you look at various places throughout the world, it hasn’t been very strong. And I just don’t think we’re viewed the same way that we were 20 or 25 years ago, or 30 years ago. And, you know, I think it’s a problem. You know, something like that, unless we get very strong, very powerful and very rich, quickly, I’m sure those things are being discussed over there anyway without our discussion
First we are poor, now we are weak.
Essentially Trump is indicating that we need to return to Reagan-style military build-ups, which is INSANE. We’re poor, remember? Armies are expensive. Missiles aren’t free.
And the MIC is largely a money-laundering scam. Peace cuts into the profits of capitalists. Peace cannot be tolerated for long periods of time. Wars helped build the American economy the conservatives want to hold up as the best times ever.
And in a way they were: people had work, incomes, savings. The ‘2 of everything’ generation was born. A TV downstairs...AND upstairs. The 2 car garage.
But, I am unsure when it started exactly, our jobs started disappearing. I recall it pointedly under Reagan. I remember saying “Ronald Reagan made ANY job a good job”. Jobs just crashed under him. Layoffs loomed across the land, Reagan launched the war against unions.
And, in a way, it never got better. Not much. I worked in the 1990’s, when Clinton was president. I had a job or 2 then.
Then Bush was installed. Poof went my jobs and since 2002 I have probably had 25 jobs, 15 of them problematic. I have been laid off 7 times since Bush was allowed to play president.
So, when does Trump think we were rich and strong? He says he “liked” Ronald Reagan, but Reagan had issues. It was interesting to see him blame Reasgan for NAFTA, while citing Bill Clinton as having sealed the deal.
TRUMP: No if you really look at it, it was the turn of the century, that’s when we were a great, when we were really starting to go robust. But if you look back, it really was, there was a period of time when we were developing at the turn of the century which was a pretty wild time for this country and pretty wild in terms of building that machine, that machine was really based on entrepreneurship etc, etc. And then I would say, yeah, prior to, I would say during the 1940s and the late ‘40s and ‘50s we started getting, we were not pushed around, we were respected by everybody, we had just won a war, we were pretty much doing what we had to do, yeah around that period.
The Good Old Days of America.
Trump liked the Gilded Age, didn’t he?. The time before the Stock Market Crash when the rich had their way with whatever they wanted to do, and crashed this country.
THAT’S what he thinks of as economic health. I like how his wording indicates he is still living in the 20th century: when he said “turn of the century” he meant the 19th century, entering the 20th century. Heyday of the industrial revolution.
This is Trump’s idea of revitalizing America. Returning to the WORST things that ever happened to the common person.
America is NOT poor. It has been impoverished by the actions of the Super-wealthy and the GOP and by the corporations that want us to buy their shit but don’t want to pay anybody anything to produce it.
So, Trump has no real clue about foreign interaction. He holds other countries in disdain and wants to strongarm them for more cash. He wil not lift a finger to get American Businesses to return their companies to American soil so Americans can have jobs.
Donald Trump lies when he says he wants to make America Great Again. His ideas wil never accomplish this. Trump would simply help shove Americans off the cliff.
There’s only one candidate currently that can actually make America great again.
A little bird told me.
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