Why I Like President Trump

[PrettyRegular]

First of all, I live in Europe. Majority of the people and especially media is turning more to the left. I'm interested about Mr. Trump and U.S.A.'s politics in common. In here you can hear from the media, if they misunderstood his joke or he drinked water be the wrong way. Too bad that you don't hear about his work and accomplishments.

He's a billionaire with a great and colourful life. Trust me, he doesn't have to do the hardest job in the world with no sallary, but he still does it. He knew that not only economy, but many other things too were going wrong and he wanted to fix those things. He's a great example that a great businessman can run companies, but even great countries also.

Major medias has been against him from the day one (except Fox). I kinda got it during the rally. They maybe taught that he don't have enough political experience and he might even seem a bit arrogant sometimes. Now when he's president, they have a choice to make every single day. Choise between would they make fair news about him and treat him like a respected man, who's doing well in his job, or do they continue this hate against him. So far they are confortable with the last one.

http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2018/07/29/media-continue-attacking-trump-despite-his-week-accomplishments-and-strong-economic-growth.html

One of the great things about him is, that he's very outspoken, as a president should be. He doesn't save anyone, if he sees a reason to make a comment about someone/something. Something that I would likely do. I have no problem to attack against people, when it's time for it. I have noticed that it has made him a "racist" and a "sexist". I have a great respect for both black people and women and that's where I really dislike dems. Democrats think that black people and women are not adults. They think that it's wrong to criticize them. If Trump said something about a white men, the media were like "cruel but fair" or "what a funny guy". When this happened against someone else, he was either sexist or a racist. It's important to address this problem and come out from the darkages. Women and black people should get an equal treatment. I always try to be equal for all people. Democrats, now it's your turn.

I always liked to watch the Celebrity Apprentice as a kid. The best part of the show was, when they went to the Trump Tower and that smart and confident businessman fired someone. I think it was very entertaining and I bet I learned something from that show. I really respected him and I would still have respect for him, even if we would disagree politically. We have pretty much the same ways to think though.

I know that he divides opinions. In the comments I bet that some people are blessing my soul and some people are calling for my head. I don't blame people, who disagree with him, but even you should respect him. I think it's a great story how he became a president. He is a great leader and it's nice that he interested about politics and is doing a lot of good. If he wouldn't be elected, it would have been a loss for the America. Also, I don't like or dislike anyone for their political views. I think it's very shallow. People shouldn't devide because of a thing like that.

He has made a great businesscareer. I took some photos from his career for this MyTake:

1973: Trump in New York as 27 years old

2004: Trump with his talking Trump doll. What a great present.

80s: Trump met with his political icon Ronald Reagan (ex actor by the way)

[Massageman]

Politicians from both sides dislike him because he has changed the playing field. He is NOT a politician. Politicians depend on NOTHING of any substance being accomplished. Then they can run for reelection claiming,"We've just started- you must re-elect me". After their next term, they might say, "We're still going strong, but there is such left to do. Re-elect me, etc etc etc etc. (Think Lapinski, Durbin, etc). Trump, however , is a businessman, and a successful one at that. He got to that point by being able to say what he was going to do and then actually doing it. THAT is what professional politicians don't like. Like him or not, he said what he was going to do, and he's getting an amazing amount of it done.

[Iron_Man]

I like Donald J Trump I voted for him

[Iron_Man]

Thank you for most helpful award my friend

[PrettyRegular]

No problem. You got it by your Trump positive attitude. 😃

[Iron_Man]

Thanks

[Wowgirl10q]

Good job😀

[PrettyRegular]

Thank you. 😃

[BillieJean1070]

#I LOVE 45

[PrettyRegular]

#That'sTheSpirit 😃

[BillieJean1070]

Thanks for the MHO!

[PrettyRegular]

No problem

[gravygirl]

Yes, his "businesscareer" is very inspirational! It's embarrassing to share oxygen with you.

[BillieJean1070]

@gravygirl why don't you just stop breathing then?

[nightdrot]

Cards on the table I write this as a Republican who is NOT a fan of the President and did NOT vote for him. So with that said, this is a very unusual defense of Mr. Trump and not entirely without merit.

To be sure, there has been a focus in much of the media on minutia at the expense of more substantive questions. That is debatable as to whether that is mere bias - some of it surely is - or just the nature of the media.

(24/7 coverage compels editors to find a multiplicity of things to talk about. Back in the day when coverage was essentially three TV networks for 1/2 hour on week nights, editors were forced to zero in on matters of great moment. Now, not so much.)

However, that all said, it is not clear that the author is not making the same mistake. For example, to focus on the fact that Mr. Trump was a businessman and entertainer is dispositive of nothing in terms of his qualifications to be President.

Secondly, the author refers to the President being right wing and this being an antidote to "left wing" media bias. This question gets tied up in somewhat conflated taxonomy. (What Americans call conservative is, for example, actually a variant of classical liberalism.)

That all said, Mr. Trump, in truth, has no discernible philosophy. He is a populist, which is not so much a schematic philosophy as a sort of political disposition. It plays on resentments and not on any specific vision of how the world should look.

To be sure, Mr. Trump's policies have so far been fairly conventional and have provoked a reaction disproportionate to their real effect. However, that stems from where Mr. Trump most differs from the man the author calls Trump's "political icon." Ronald Reagan.

Reagan's policies were controversial in his day, but his style was to calm the waters. He brought the country out of the social turmoil of the 60s and 70s, and lowered the temperature. In this he could not have been more different than Trump, whose style is to pour salt in the wounds.

Indeed, if anything Mr. Trump looks like nothing so much as the husband of the woman he defeated. Surrounded by men of dubious character, no discernible ideology, a problem with truth telling and a seeming inability to keep his pants on around women.

Donald Trump or Bill "Slick Willie" Clinton? Is there really a difference? Both delivered a strong economy and an equally strong absence of character. We had an impeachment and the absence of character won. The country has reaped what it sewed.

[PrettyRegular]

Trump is one of the smartest politicians of the history. If he wants to entertain people (which is important), it doesn't make him a populist. He had big and important plans and he's working very hard to make 'em come true. I'm so happy that he got the chance to be a president. What a great moment in his great career. Whoever is elected in 2024, has a lot to do to be anywhere close of Mr. Trump.

[nightdrot]

Mr. Trump has opposed reform of SS and Medicare and made vague overtures to the idea of universal health care. He has been a protectionist. He has opposed immigration - Reagan, you may recall, pardoned illegals. His tax cuts are standard GOP fare.

Beyond that I would be hard put to say that Mr. Trump has offered much on specifics. On matters like the NFL and such, it is more symbolism than substance.

This is not to say that there is not some thing to say in defense of such policy positions - a broken clock is right twice a day after all, if nothing else. However, in some of these you will note that Mr. Trump is antithetical to where Mr. Reagan stood. Moreover, as noted, their approaches to governance in their role as Head of State could not be more different.

Beyond all that, to ignore Mr. Trump's populism is like shouting into a hurricane. He plays on resentment of "elites" and bashes established institutions with care free abandon. No "shining city on a hill for him." Just rubble.

[newbie2015]

excellent reponse!!! it says it all. thank you

[Trollfather]

As far as I know, Trump isn't part of the Bush/Clinton/Obama New World Order cabal.

I could be wrong though.

[nightdrot]

@newbie2015 Thanks for your kind comments. Very generous.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather Honestly, I scarcely know what to make of that particular comment. If it helps, I can point to four distinct strands of thinking in each Trump, Obama, Clinton and Bush.

It is unlikely - given that - that there is a "cabal" of any of them. Not to mention the unlikelihood that a nation of 320 million people with an elaborate and time tested constitutional system is apt to be captured or manipulated by a cabal of any kind.

So rest easy tonight.

[Trollfather]

@nightdrot

That's because you don't know how the New World Order operates. But all will be revealed. It's already begun.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather Well, I've only worked in government and politics since the 1980s, but if you say so.

[Trollfather]

So you've seen firsthand the corruption. Great.

[PrettyRegular]

@nightdrot If you work in the government, do you ever meet Trump? You could ask for autographs and sell 'em.

[nightdrot]

Sorry, although I am a Republican, I am not a fan, did not vote for President Trump. In any case, though currently a consultant, all of my government work - save a brief consulting stint at the State Department under Mr. Clinton, of all things - has been in the legislative branch.

However, should I run across him I will be sure to ask on your behalf.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather As someone once said, "Paranoia is just another word for ignorance... If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

[Trollfather]

Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they aren't watching you.

Use your mind. Governments exist to enslave the population. They serve no other purpose.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather “Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Men have a right that these wants should be provided for by this wisdom. Among these wants is to be reckoned the want, out of civil society, of a sufficient restraint upon their passions. Society requires not only that the passions of individuals should be subjected, but that even in the mass and body, as well as in the individuals, the inclinations of men should frequently be thwarted, their will controlled, and their passions brought into subjection. This can only be done by a power out of themselves; and not, in the exercise of its function, subject to that will and to those passions which it is its office to bridle and subdue. In this sense the restraints on men, as well as their liberties, are to be reckoned among their rights...

CONT.

[nightdrot]

But as the liberties and restrictions vary with times and circumstances, and admit of infinite modifications, they cannot be settled upon any abstract rule; and nothing is so foolish as to discuss them upon that principle.”

― Edmund Burke

[Trollfather]

Except government does not provide for human wants.

All it does is create career politicians, so they can stuff their pockets, fuel wars.

Ban drugs while the CIA ships in the "other drugs" and so on. It's just a perversion of what leaders should be doing.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather Imagine your life without it. Free speech? How free would you be if people were free to pop you in the face when you speak. Free to live secure in your home? Not likely if there is no law and no instrument to enforce it.

As to war, when was that not part of the human condition? As to drugs, well... Having seen a maternity ward filled with "border babies," that is babies born to drug addicted mothers, you'll forgive me if I don't shed a tear that government restricts that.

Bottom line: You appear to subscribe to Rousseau's idea that man is a "noble savage." That he does not need government and is merely corrupted by it. The savagery I conceded. The nobility is more problematic.

[Trollfather]

1. I would shoot them in the face.

2. Sorry but the drug war is a hypocrisy. The government wants to outlaw PLANTS but there's drug stores on every corner selling everything from viagra to depression medications.

Maybe. It would require that we respect each other enough not to kill each other. At this point, it doesn't seem possible anyway.

[nightdrot]

@Trollfather Not sure of your point. As to the drug war and hypocrisy, I subscribe fully to the idea that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. I'll take it.

As to the rest, no fact begins with "If," and as to shooting people in the face. I think you've made my point.

[bubbatxman]

This guy is a perfect narcissist, who doesn’t give a shit about anyone else, or morality, or ethics. He is entirely corrupt, from his bribing NY city and state officials to build buildings to his greed in working with foreign governments to get him elected to the highest office in the land. He certainly punishes his enemies, but he also punishes his friends. He is no better than a street thug, except that his daddy was rich and influential in NYC 40-60 years ago. He deserves to be in jai. He even bragged about his exploits and deals. If you look more closely, his deals are failures, his properties are not “the best”, and he effectively hires foreign slave labor to staff his properties. He’s on his 3rd wife. All of the “exes” in his life have been paid not to talk. And there’s a lot more than just Stormy Daniels (a US porn star he fucked). He has the morals of an alley cat. He is the opposite of what I would want from a world leader. He will try to start a war before the end of his term in office. He will literally “do anything” to get another 4 years as President.

[Aynsof]

Ok I see several things wrong here but I will just point out a couple
First of all the majority of people here in Europe are not turning left nor is the media
Quite the opposite
You make a point of him not taking his salary that is great... he earns way more than his salary would have been having diplomatic meetings at resorts he owns charging everyone for their stays charging secret service for renting rooms in his tower while they were there to protect his wife and son and so on... so he just profits otherwise
You also claim he is a great businessman but no he is a pretty poor businessman with several bankruptcies in his past and a net worth far far far below what it would have been had he simply invested the money he was given to start off

The media is hard on him that is true... and he may not be as bad as he is made out to be... but he continues to give them ammunition
If he just shut up stopped lying got off the golf course and actually did the job that he ran for and presented his actual results then perhaps they would not be so hard on him

[PrettyRegular]

He started with a few million and now he's a billionaire. Some downslides on the way, but he has been succesful.

[Aynsof]

Start:
www.washingtonpost.com/.../
Success:
amp.timeinc.net/.../donald-trump-index-funds

[MrKinktastic]

I dislike him because he's a racist, sexist bigot and lies every time he opens his mouth. He's pathological.

I also think its hilarious everyone keeps touting him as this strong independent businessman when he's tanked more companies than he's succeeded with and would never have gotten anywhere without his rich daddy bailing him out repeatedly. His own projects were disasters and he refused to pay his workers, screw that guy.

If Reagan is his model thats even more concerning, that man should rot in the deepest pit of hell in my opinion.

[goaded]

"Democrats think that black people and women are not adults. They think that it's wrong to criticize them."

That's just missing the point entirely. It's fine to criticize anybody for what they do or what they believe, just not what they are.

You're wrong because you missed the point.
Stupid Finnish guys never get anything right.

(See the difference?)

Great business people don't go bankrupt as a general strategy, and they pay people what they owe. The Apprentice is just a TV show where he pretended to be like that; they even had to build him a fake office.

[PrettyRegular]

I don't think that a bankrupt was his strategy. Many great persons have had downhills too. I don't know about his ways to arrange his debts. That's his personal business.

[goaded]

"The six bankruptcies were the result of over-leveraged hotel and casino businesses in Atlantic City and New York" en.wikipedia.org/.../Donald_Trump

That means the businesses didn't perform well enough to service the debt. A good businessman wouldn't have got into that position in the first place. Let alone six times.

[goaded]

It turns out he got a lot of money through fraud. Surprise!

Why are there no MHOs on this old post?

[PrettyRegular]

I could do that.

[goaded]

That's not the point, I'm wondering how things are supposed to work these days.

[PrettyRegular]

I picked the top 4. Good notice.

[goaded]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM9f2YAKIJg

[Bruce_VVayne]

As Republician, he is trying to make USA powerful as much as it can be and some of his actions seem to be working. However, in long term his policies will be harmful for USA.

Even trying to compete with China is a short term action. China is a country where they can just rise again from the inside. Their market doesn't depend on the other countries and Trump's policies are one by one may turn to a huge embargo in future.

If there was a war, I would have choosen USA's side by the way. I am not a China fanatic person, that is just my aspect.

[ChronicThinker]

It's too bad every time the media fact checks him he gets his period and essentially runs a toxic campaign against legitimate media (who work to scrutinize politicians, not for personal agenda, but to hold them accountable for the sake of the people and protection of democracy)

Gonna have to disagree. Don't hate, but as media, I can't get behind him.

[AgentDearestZ]

I don't see any policies being mentioned. It seems you only like him for him rather than what he can do for the country. And let's forget his bankruptcies since you think he is a successful businessman. How many times he almost started WW3? (Not a hyperbole), clear corruption, and how the economy is about to burst because he put the tax burden on the poor and middle class while cutting it for the ultra rich.
Don't forget he wanted to enable libel laws. Since you're from Europe you know how bad it is and how it violates the first amendment.

P. S. you linked an ~opinion~ piece that even shows how badly he treats the entire media that doesn't bow to him.

[Lilmiss98]

Thank you for your opinion. I personally like Trump, for all his blood and vinegar, he's truly a good hearted person. The media here IS biased against him and I do believe they think we're stupid. I'm proud to have voted for him.

[Tomblebee]

Did you hear the elephants thing? I'm not sure if it's true but protectionism is outdated.

[Tomblebee]

Did you even read it? I disagreed with you and you gave me a thumbs up..

[PrettyRegular]

I usually like the comments, even if they don't agree.

[Tomblebee]

I like to think of that as everyone getting a pay rise and rents going up.

[Tomblebee]

Downvoter I'm sorry please come back I wanna tell you smething..

[Trollfather]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7ZuffBrloo

I like Trump too. I just hope he's not controlled opposition, as David Icke will have you believe.

[jabbahut]

I don't agree with President Trump's protectionist outlook, I think on the world stage it diminishes the sway of the US.. Trump's view on the Middle East is also demoralising - disengaging with the Middle East will only create a vacuum that Russia or China will try to fill. Worse yet it will allow Iran and it's proxies free reign to antagonise Israel and Saudi Arabia. Pulling out the Iran deal does little to help - and is outright stupid, only sways tensions further.

[litty]

Referred to his daughter as a piece of ass
Cyberbullies people despite Melania fighting cyber bullying
Got caught on tape saying being rich let's him genital grab women
Says Obama isn't transparent but can't even show his tax return
Replaces his US cabinet like they are triple A batteries

[John13131]

I think the call to respect Trump goes a little far. Requests to respect the office or treat him with respect are ok but it is not the case that those who disagree with him 'should respect him'. If a man's actions do not warrant respect then the man is not worthy of respect. Civility is as much as I can offer to Trump.

[Anonymous]

he’s just dumb. he wants money and more money. it’s a fact.
he destroyed everything barack obama did (i heard something there.)
he wants to build a wall between mexico? is he dumb? are we in the ddr when there was a wall between east & west germany? no thanks. i hate him sm even though i live in germany.

he is racist af and not politican at all.

“make america great again”
pahah i’m dying from laughing

[natasha3012]

Heyy... I would just like to know how you reached to such assumptions. No hate towards you.. but would be thrilled I'd you answered these question
1. He has different ethnicities as employees in both the white house and his business. So how is he racist?
2. Is it bad that he cares so aggressively for the actual citizens of America? Come on now let's not get on to the history.
3. He is not a politician? But at least he is a great great business man... Obama's presidency left the country in huge debts. Recovering from debts isn't a one day issue.. he is doing his best tho
4. Obama did the same thing to illegal immigrants... why did he not receive hate?
5. He is behind money? Haha.. he doesn't take salary for his presidency... He wants the economy to grow thats all
Wooosh!

[PrettyRegular]

@natasha3012 Do I get this right? You're very cute U. K. girl and you are also smart? I'm moving to U. K. soon. I hope all girls are like you. 😃

[natasha3012]

Yupp I am😄😄would love to see you if you come here

[PrettyRegular]

@natasha3012 Sure. I wouldn't mind. I won't really know anyone, so I would love to know you. 😃

[Arborialhedgehog]

@natasha3012 Why was he born rich? Why was I born poor? I hate life, I want to be a millionaire, I want to sit in the back of a chauffer driven limo, hand out on a mega yacht and have sex with women young enough to be my granddaughters, but, I can't because I'm not rich, I hate this lousy world, why are other people rich but not me? I hope Trump gets assassinated, and I hope Brandon's space ship crashes and kills him and I hope one of the Queens footmen gets sick of being forced to work long hours for low pay and sticks an ice pick in the Queen's brain. I hate rich people.

[gravygirl]

@natasha3012 Are you a Russian troll? No honest person would claim idiot Trump does anything good with deficits.

[Iron_Man]

@gravygirl You are the troll and you have been reported. Stay out of my area

[gravygirl]

@Iron_Man That was super fast. Earning your rubles like a good servant?

[Iron_Man]

You don't even make sense clown

[gravygirl]

@Iron_Man So a voice that isn't a Russian troll is dumb? Or are you an American who is dumb enough to parrot the Russian trolls?

[Iron_Man]

I didn't read her post you left a bad comment in my area I found you here is all

[LuvAsh]

I don't really like President trump that much but I rather him over Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama rofl

[Trollfather]

I like Trump too. I just hope he's not controlled opposition, as David Icke will have you believe.

More DEMORATS in office would have been pure cancer for America.

[Anonymous]

Anyone was better than a Clinton. The media shows you what it wants you to see.

[Lance1965]

I have never liked any president in my living memory but we really hit rock bottom with Trump. It says more about how people think in this country more than anything else.

[PrettyRegular]

He's fine and economy is going well. You're too negative.

[MarketData]

No, dude. The economy is fake.

[lilaqua]

Bad politician and the US is going to have a hard time recovering. I mean doesn't matter anyway, it's not a true democracy anyway.

[VIVANT]

+1

Very true, it’s not true.

[Massageman]

Except he isn't a politician.

[Arborialhedgehog]

I hate him because he was born rich and I was born poor, he famously started his first business with a small loan of one million dollars from his father, who's to say I couldn't:very been as successful as Trump if I'd had a rich father. I hate successful people, I'm only ever happy when their businesses go bankrupt and they loose everything.