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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Here's Politifact on Trump's campaign promises
It's a bit of a mixed bag.
Disgusted, but not surprisedI mean, it's less "needs no salary because he's a billionaire" and more "because he has much, much, much more money from the US and foreign governments going to him because of his presidency."
He's making millions
straight from taxpayer money.
The President's salary is pretty small when you consider the amount of work that a (non-Trump) POTUS does. And as other said, he makes more than that through corruption.
In other Trump news, Bolton and Pompeo are not getting along. As in, they don't speak to each other unless they have to.
https://www.cnn.com/2019/09/06/politics/bolton-pompeo-not-speaking-tension/index.html
Since Trump likes Pompeo far more, Bolton will probably be out first if it comes to that. But as Kissinger once said about the Iran-Iraq war, its a shame they both can't lose.
Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects.There aren't enough expletives... Trump wants to re-privatize Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, which played a large role in the 2007 financial crisis
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Y'all joke but I've heard Republicans blaming Obama for the Hurricane Katrina response.
Bush's Presidency really has been largely forgotten. So far as the Right is concerned, we had 8 years of Bill Clinton followed by 16 years of Barack Obama.
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They've blamed him for the Afghanistan and (I think) Iraq wars so why not? And by blame I don't mean continuing, I mean starting them. This is not an administration tethered to reality in any way, shape or form.
Prediction: Even after Dorian is over, even if it comes nowhere near Alabama Trump will claim that it hit Alabama.
Edited by tricksterson on Sep 6th 2019 at 6:50:27 AM
Trump delenda estBush was worse than Trump but that gap narrows every day.
Even so, I should point out I think George W. Bush actually had a desire to do his job. He actually attempted to create a viable situation for the residents of Palestine for example.
It's just he also started a pointless war that killed a million people with its aftereffects.
Edited by CharlesPhipps on Sep 6th 2019 at 3:57:30 AM
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I mean, calling him "worse" than Trump is perhaps an overstatement, or at least requires a rather subjective definition. Traits like actually taking your job seriously and not working for a foreign government, while very low bars, are bars that Trump fails to meet. That Bush meets them, no matter the outcome of his presidency, makes him better than Trump.
Or to put it another way, killing a three people with incompetence is still better than killing one person through out-and-out malice.
Leviticus 19:34Bush and Trump are each bad in their own ways. Bush for his war mongering, legalizing torture and restriciting civil liberties, Trump for....well, no need for repeating it again, we live it.
Me personally, I'd still say Bush was a worse, but as was said above, that gap narrows every day. So far, the only thing Trump has really going for him is not starting any illegal wars.
Certified: 48.0% West Asian, 6.5% South Asian, 15.8% North/West European, 15.7% English, 7.4% Balkan, 6.6% ScandinavianDubya started the worst US war since goddamn Vietnam. However even if Trump surpasses that, he hasn't let America sink into civil war like Pierce and Buchanan, or start a system that'd lead to shit like Jim Crow laws like Andrew Johnson. Only when he does something surpassing that caliber can he legitimately be called the worst president ever

Breaking campaign promises and telling lies are not the same thing. You can lie without breaking campaign promises. And you can break campaign promises without having actually lied about attempting them. They're completely unrelated things.
Trump using a Sharpie to extend the National Weather Service's map of Hurricane Dorian's path isn't breaking a campaign promise. It's a lie, and I'm pretty sure it's actually illegal, but he never made any specific campaign promises about always presenting hurricane forecast maps in a truthful and accurate manner.
Trump lies as often as he breathes. But he IS trying to build that stupid wall. He IS trying to cut taxes. He IS tearing down American relationships abroad to "put America first". Etc. etc. He is doing or trying to do the terrible shit he promised in his campaign, and the fact that he frequently lies doesn't change that.
Frankly, we'd all be a lot better off if Trump's entire campaign had been a great big f*cking lie and now he was just kicking back in the Oval Office getting rich off of doing nothing. The worst thing about Trump isn't that he was 100% lying his way through his whole campaign. It's that he was actually being uncharacteristically truthful.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Sep 6th 2019 at 12:14:14 PM
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