Trump's statements and promises
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warpus
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I haven't really been paying attention to the inauguration or whatever, but from what I've been hearing lately every single thing Trump is going to say during his presidency is going to be too vague to be the truth or a lie
I wonder how long until his supporters start catching on
I wonder how long until his supporters start catching on
innonimatu
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Whatever you think of Trump's promises, he wasted no time in fulfilling a few already.
Timsup2nothin
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Continuing to try to govern via Twitter? He seems to be sticking to that one. Otherwise I haven't seen him do much of anything.
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The TPP.
Timsup2nothin
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...was dead in the water, and still is. So, again, what exactly has Dingbat Don "fulfilled" on?
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subtleDarn Russian kleptos. They'll steal anything!
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Five executive orders in five days. This puts him on track to sign the most in history, outdoing FDR by 50%.
In comparison, Obama signed an average of 32 per year, and because of this, Republicans called him a dictator.
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I think he'll taper off. He just feels he has to do this in order to appear to be fulfilling his campaign promises.
That said, if Congress ever proves unsupportive, I think he'll try to do a ton of stuff through executive orders.
That said, if Congress ever proves unsupportive, I think he'll try to do a ton of stuff through executive orders.
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people forget why the TTP was proposed .... to act as a counter to China, which was not part of it
Now some remaining countries are saying without the USA they should just invite China in, forming a Pacific trade block, any USA tariffs against China would breach WTO rules and would be fought by China as they have said, with the backing of other WTO nations....
He can do a trade deal with china and try to make up the losses from NZ or Australia I suppose ....
Great negotiating skills Trump has .....destroying years of negotiations to contain China only to have it become the dominant force in the new upcoming TTP sans usa
Spoiler :
Small correction: the FBI is not an intelligence agency, it is a law enforcement agency.
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It's refreshing to see a journalist with a sensible, unbiased view of Trump's inauguration.
Well played, England!
Well played, England!
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Five executive orders in five days. This puts him on track to sign the most in history, outdoing FDR by 50%.
In comparison, Obama signed an average of 32 per year, and because of this, Republicans called him a dictator.
The funny part is that I read the text of two of them and they aren't orders at all. Mostly just a page of repetitions of "follow the law." It is instructive that this basically empty page was signed with great fanfare and self congratulation over his "reviving of the Keystone pipeline" that resulted in a 3.5% jump in TransCanada's stock price in the hours before the empty text was released. It would be more instructive to know who bought before the announcement and sold right before the document was released.
It is hard to tell if anyone will really think "dictator" rather than "stock manipulator" even if he stays on the pace that he is on.
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It isn't about "connected to" though. If a source in the Department of Agriculture calls you and says "I am about to make an announcement that will drive orange prices up, buy" then calls the next day and says "okay, I'm going to retract what I announced yesterday, sell" it doesn't make you "connected" to that industry. You're just a successful "speculator" passing by at the right time.
It's straight "insider trading." Tomorrow he might announce that he has "seen the light" and issue an "order" to make sure every transit district in the US has clean electric buses and make a fortune on the electric bus manufacturer's stock that he had a shill buy this afternoon, selling before the "order" is released and we find out that it is just chicken scratch on paper. Unless you know the shill and can follow them there's no way to share the advantage.
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Except that it isn't. Trump has danced on the edge of insider trading his whole career. We have put him in an office where he can drive stock prices in predictable directions any time of any day, at will. What do YOU think he is going to do?
Ferocitus
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He'll stick to the story that he has put others (his family) in charge of the operations.
The fact that he still is a beneficiary of those companies probably won't alarm many
of his supporters.
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I think that will result in someone being shipped off to Africa in a monkey suit.
