Isn’t it funny how pretty much every single statement Trump makes turns into some form of: Well, this is what he really meant?
He was asked point blank:
Hugh Hewitt:
“Last night, you said the President was the founder of ISIS. I know what you meant. You meant that he created the vacuum, he lost the peace.”
Donald Trump:
“No, I meant he’s the founder of ISIS.”
Donald Trump is a conspiracy theory nut job. How anyone can trust him with the nuclear codes is beyond me.
This is absolutely key. At this point voting for Donald Trump would be voting malpractice.
To the question “is there a chance the candidate would launch into thermonuclear war because of a Twitter feud?”, if the answer is yes, there should be zero votes for that candidate.
Yeah, I mean Trump blames all his failings on a Vast Right Wing Conspiracy.
Oh wait, that’s the OTHER conspiracy nut candidate with a persecution complex. You know, the one who seriously believes there is one standard for her, and another for “everyone else.” (Which is true, but the opposite of what she means. Anyone not so connected to the modern Dem Machine would be in prison.)
Neither of these people are fit to lead, I fully concur. Trump is merely an idiot, however, and not malicious. No military officer will accept an order to nuke someone because Trump is having a fit. It just doesn’t work like that. Too many layers and safeguards. Not even JFK could get the USAF to nuke Cuba, and he had a pretty good reason.
Clinton is simply a crook and malicious. Banana republic level crooked.
Well, there are degrees. A loss is probably better than a win. Getting crushed is probably better than a loss. If Trump gets crushed by like 20% or more, it’s a pretty powerful motivator to move away from him. I seem to already see it happening just with how he’s polling. I think there are already people who voted for him realizing they did something incredibly stupid and have probably gotten Hilary elected.
I mean the issues he’s made his core, not his style.
Major cuts in the number of legal immigrants (especially legal immigration from Muslims)
deporting illegal immigrants and preventing further illegal immigration
Anti-interventionist foreign policy
anti-globalism
I disagree. His core is entirely his style. He flip flops on like 1 of his “core” policies weekly, and the people supporting him keep cheering. He has absolutely no core value other than he’s the bestest, he should have all the power, and he’s awesome enough to always make the bestest decision regardless of ideology. His “movement” isn’t about any of those things you listed because his supporters don’t care if he was saying the opposite in the recent past or when he says the opposite in the future.
Serious question- Aside from the speed at which he does it, what is the difference between how he has flip flopped on his positions and how elected presidents past and present have on their platform planks?
There isn’t really a difference, imo, but one of Trump’s main selling points is that he is the anti-politician. Yet, he acts just like a politician; except, he has almost zero understanding of pretty much everything.
Are you talking refugees? All other GOP candidates were saying the same thing as well as house/senate republicans. There is nothing Trumpish about that position other than the muslim ban, which he has backed away from and is hardly a “core” position.
No, this is going nowhere. Its not feasibile, not realistic. Other propositions, such as Romney’s self deportation by strenghening enforcment, e-verify, etc. are already positions within the GOP and are not a Trump position.
I dare you to find one republican candidate or member who is in favor of illegal immigration. Again, that position has nothing to do with Trump.
Is that what he’s preaching when he says pull out of NATO? Or are you talking about when he says he’s going to crush ISIS and rebuild the military?
His trade policies are unique, and should not be adopted by economically literate candidates (i.e. Trump agrees with Bernie). My understanding is people went for this because he’s the best at trade and nobody makes deals like him… its not a position his vice president holds or really anybody who is advising him.
Name a politician in recent history that doesn’t flip flop or evolve on issues. At least Trump said his previous stuff as a business man and not as a politician.
You are saying that about the only group of people that prevented higher taxes in Obama’s second term, the ones who keep the second amendment alive, and host of other nut job left wing proposals.
I agree they are far from perfect but if they crumble as you hope the democrats will rule until there is no country left—hell that might happen if Hillary is elected.
This just kills me. Hugh Hewittt was trying so hard to turn that around and make is sound reasonable. He gave Trump the answer. All Donald had to do was be agreeable… But NOPE. He doubles down. Again.
BTW, a friend of my son’s interned on Hugh’s radio show. I don’t know them personally, but we have some mutual friends. Hewitt seems like a genuinely nice guy.