Trump makes a campaign promise to end all campaign promises
I’d like to think that this was some sort of joke, but it doesn’t appear to be:
[Donald Trump] said Saturday morning that if he wins the presidency, all problems in the country will be fixed.
“Wisconsin has suffered a great loss of jobs and trade, but if I win, all of the bad things happening in the U.S. will be rapidly reversed!” he tweeted.
Not just some, but all.
Not just reversed, but rapidly reversed.
And it wasn’t April Fools Day anymore.
And note that this isn’t just something Trump said in a moment of excitement during a rally, pumped up by the crowd. He wrote this.
As I said, it doesn’t sound like a joke, although that would be the best possibility. His supporters might claim it’s hyperbole, some sort of New York style of bragging, but I know New York very well and even New Yorkers (and certainly Wisconsinites, to whom it’s addressed) don’t like that sort of thing in their politicians.
Trump out-Obamas Obama, who merely modestly promised a reversal of the ocean rise. Trump is either an even worse megalomaniac, or an even-more-exteme con man, or both. Trump may be thinking that after all, this is only what a lot of his supporters think he can do, so why not say it? The jury is out on whether he agrees with them or whether he is just playing to them. But the Tweet makes him sound unhinged to everyone else.
He must have Napoleon Dynamite as his campaign advisor now.
The Messiah cometh for the Democrat welfare whites and Jacksonian KKK factions who refused to go Reagan and GOP in the past! Finally, somebody is listening right.
But one False Messiah is just about the same as another False Messiah.
Donald is playing up to the white welfare demographic, as usual.
DJG
You beat me to it. “Vote for me and all your dreams will come true.”
I’m waiting for that movie reference on Fox.
Cruz: ‘Trump May Be A Rat But I Have No Desire To Copulate With Him’ [VIDEO]
That is now clear, take a deep breath y’all.
I think it is easier to fix the social, political, and economic problems of the United States than it is to heal the Earth (in case it needs healing) and to fix the oceans (in case they need fixing).
More seriously, the media seem to fixate on stupid things said by Trump more than they do on equally stupid (or similarly stupid, or more stupid) things said by democrats. For example, is building a wall on the Mexican border really stupider than building a fence — which Obama not only supports but brags about having done:
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2011/may/16/barack-obama/obama-says-border-fence-now-basically-complete/
Partly this is due to Trump’s delivery, and partly it is due to bias. Imagine if the press pushed Hillary to articulate her position on 10-th month abortions.
All of Donald Trump’s shortcomings *and* all of his good points aside [I’m happy to assign credit when and where due], . . .
dunno ’bout you, but I am by now *very* tired of his act — in this particular illustration, his incessant hyperbole. What he says is about as meaningless as when lefties hurl “raaacist” at people: equally meaningless. Like, so what else is new.
I just looked at a Facebook post from one Trumpster that proclaimed “I believe in Donald Trump”.
WHAAAATTT!!??!
Hey, it’s possible to believe he’s the last best hope, it’s possible to believe believe he’ll make Amercia great again, but, after all the Trumpian corrections and reversals and walk-backs . . .
this has *got* to be a person who is *seriously* deranged.
Sez M J R.
Oh, come on! How can anyone miss such an obvious classical reference:
“Number 1: We got this guy Not Sure.
Number 2: He got a higher IQ than any man alive!
Number 3: He’s gonna fix everything…”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGUNPMPrxvA
Though I don’t know if president Trump can cure acne and car sickness in one week. Stay tuned!
This YUGE!
He just keeps digging himself deeper and deeper into a hole of his own making…
Claiming that all Mexicans are rapists and thieves…
Every other candidate is unfit, even to shine his shoes.
Perception: Abortion should be outlawed and women punished.
If elected, he will exercise the power of a demigod and fix everything.
“Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad”… spoken by Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem “The Masque of Pandora”
Bret Stephens (of the WSJ said it best last year (around this time) “If you do not find Trump appalling, you’re appalling”.
M J R, 4:42 pm — CORRECTION: [located it again]
The Facebook post read, “I Trust Trump. PERIOD.”
“And he’s gonna do it all in twoooo weeks.” The film “Idiocracy” was for entertainment purposes only, not a how-to video on the way populism can deceive both sides of the political spectrum. Bernie is just as bad. The ramifications of both sides failing will have broad implications forward.
Neo:
“this is only what a lot of his supporters think he can do”
Followers vs supporters. Or perhaps, followers and supporters vs strategic core supporters.
The (strategic core) supporters, the Trump-front alt-Right activists that are the creative engine of the Trump phenomenon, are clear eyed. To them, the Trump campaign is means, not end, for this foundation-laying step of their Gramscian march to paradigm-shift America.
He’s an instrument and they’ll support his campaign as long as it’s useful to their goal, which is not electing Trump president. Rather, they’re building a competitive activist social movement, which involves displacing conservatives in order to clear out the political social space for takeover.
The “alt-right” for those with eyes that see are poorly disguised leftists, aka saboteurs. Chumps that believe otherwise are fools. Ditch and switch. If they were truly seeking to over throw the gope, they would have been in the trenches seeking to supplant the gope with real conservatives at the primary level and played the long game. But too often the mythical “alt-right” were absent where the ground game counts. The answer is simple, they are not alt anything, they are agents from the left.
There may be some who polish their imaginary medals of “alt-right” but they are dupes, aka running dog lackeys. Larga vida a la revolucion cultrual.
Eric,
With politeness, your mythical activist scenario, ‘they’ have no intention to build anything beyond destruction. We have been there before, nous avons tous ete ici avant. A dog or cat may chase its tail, but it remains a dog or cat.
We either are victorious on the battlefield of ideas or we turn to the cartridge box.
Actually Trump appears to be following — almost to the letter — the ‘advice’ of Eric Hoffer — as revealed in “The True Believer.”
Rex comments very much in the style of a True Believer.
The problem with True Believers is that there are nowhere near enough of them to put Donald into office.
Donald does not connect with the logical crowd — which is very much in evidence here in neo’s house.
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I sense a disturbance in the force — as if Trump momentum has flagged.
Must be a terrible thing to have Trump ” living in your head” all day every day!
Maybe its just that nobody believes anyone from the elite political class anymore and thus having someone promise the world is not that much different than promising the world with specific policy prescriptions. After all, what politician doesn’t essentially say the same thing (promising to make every thing better)? What it seems you want is specific policies that really will have no relation to what actually happens once in power anyway.
I don’t support Trump – actually think he is the most worrisome of this field of incompetents. But don’t you think that your posts are a bit unhinged?
GB, your reference of Longfellow’s The Masque of Pandora and that famous line is so true. Off topic a little, but I’ve been an admirer of Longfellow since childhood. He is a much underrated poet, probably because he was so popular – the Philistine put down. The emotional content of his poetry, from simple pieces like The Children’s Hour to epics like Evangeline make him accessible. One of his greatest efforts is Hiawatha, a much maligned poem. True, it is could be called gimmickry for the use of Trochaic meter, but the sheer genius of writing an epic poem with a rhythm the opposite of the natural Iambic rhythm of English is lost on critics.
Here’s something for a Sunday morning full of reminiscense:
The Children’s Hour
Between the dark and the daylight,
When the light is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day’s occupations,
That is known as the Children’s Hour.
I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.
From my study I see in the lamplight,
Descending from the broad hall stair,
Grave Alice, and laughing Allegra,
And Edith with golden hair.
A whisper, and then a silence:
Yet I know by their merry eyes
They are plotting and planning together
To take me by surprise.
A sudden rush from the stairway,
A sudden raid from the hall!
By three doors left unguarded
They enter my castle wall!
They climb up into my turret
O’er the arms and back of my chair;
If I try to escape, they surround me;
They seem to be everywhere.
They almost devour me with kisses,
Their arms about me entwine,
Till I think of the Bishop of Bingen
In his Mouse-Tower on the Rhine!
Do you think, o blue-eyed banditti,
Because you have scaled the wall,
Such an old mustache as I am
Is not a match for you all!
I have you fast in my fortress,
And will not let you depart,
But put you down into the dungeon
In the round-tower of my heart.
And there will I keep you forever,
Yes, forever and a day,
Till the walls shall crumble to ruin,
And moulder in dust away!
Check out the Wikipedia page “Gabriel Over the White House”.
Here’s the trailer.