Dec 12, 2016
The Trumperor has no clothes
Donald Trump is breaking so many promises, he’s become a hero for the left
America, we are Russia’s most useful idiots. Or anyone’s for that matter. We voted in a morality deficient, self-aggrandizing man-child to the highest office in the land. His opponents, naturally, are upset. His proponents should be even more upset.
Here’s why.
Lock her up
Candidate Trump campaigned on the wave of anti-Hillary sentiment that ended in choruses of “lock her up!” at his rallies. He promised to nail “Crooked Hillary.” Trump vowed to Hillary Clinton in a presidential debate “you’d be in jail” if Trump were elected. At the very least, Trump promised to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Clinton.
And now? Naw.
This is merely the beginning, Trump supporters. Settle in.
Repeal and replace Obamacare
On the campaign trail, Trump called Obamacare “a disaster.” Post-election, he vowed — now — that he will allow people with pre-existing conditions to continue to be able to get health care, because with Obamacare “it happens to be one of the strongest assets.” (From CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview). I’m not going to try to translate his next quote because it, as is typical for him, makes no grammatical sense and I fear my Grammarly plug-in will rebel if I try to write it, but he vowed to also try to keep the right for adult children staying with their parents to continue to be on their parents’ health insurance.
Doesn’t sound very “repeal-y,” does it? Sounds very much like “We’ll keep it, make a few tweaks and take credit for it.” Question: Is there anything Donald Trump won’t slap his name on? We’re about to find out.
Drain the swamp
Trump vowed to run the Washington D.C. special interests and deep-pocketed lobbyists out of town. Now? They’re the first to get brought onto Trump’s transition team. I gotta ask, Trump voters, did you actually, really buy that one? Really?
Yes, the Trump turmoil team … I mean, transition team, is red-faced about that and is supposedly walking back their initial plans to invite new swamp dwellers from all the usual swamp breeding grounds. But are you not alarmed that despite Trump’s campaign promise to “drain the swamp,” his first actions were the opposite of what he claimed he would do, in big, gold letters?
Build a wall along U.S. / Mexico border
Candidate Trump promised a “big, beautiful wall” on the U.S.’ southern border, to be paid for by Mexico. Post-election? Not so much.
“I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me — and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.”
We’re marking your words, Mr. Trump. This terrible idea is not happening, even though you vowed it would. Yay?
Trump surrogates are now claiming that “the wall” was really more of a metaphor for enhancing border security. Not an actual “wall” wall. Mkay?
Deport 11 million undocumented immigrants
Including children. Donald Trump’s tough stance against illegal immigration and pledge to enforce immigration laws became one of his loudest rallying cries during his campaign for the presidency.
President-elect trump’s new position is far softer. Post-election Trump told “60 Minutes” on Nov. 13, 2016:
“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably two million, it could be even three million, we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate.”
Delivering about 25 percent of what was initially promised? Sounds about right. Just ask the dozens of small businesses and employees that had the misfortune of doing business with Donald Trump in the past.
Ban Muslims from entering U.S.
In Trump’s most brazen act of playing upon irrational fears of low-information voters, he vowed to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. in reaction to the San Bernardino shooting and again after the Orlando shooting.
And then he didn’t. From USA TODAY, Nov. 10, 2016:
A spokesman for Donald Trump insists he doesn’t want to ban “all” Muslims from entering the United States despite the fact that his own campaign website still calls for “a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.”
“We never said ‘all’ Muslims,” Trump’s spokesman Steven Cheung emailed USA TODAY Thursday night.
The president-elect’s Muslim ban was brought back into the spotlight after the December statement disappeared off his website and then reappeared Thursday afternoon.
Facts and adhering to ones convictions? Mere inconveniences to candidate Trump and President-elect Donald Trump. Why be held accountable for your claims when you can just update your website at will? I mean, who’s gonna know, amiright? Not low-information American voters, that’s for sure.
Bring back the jobs
Trump is not bringing back your lost manufacturing and mining jobs, folks. They’re gone. This very sad reality cannot be undone by wishing it away and voting in a dishonest despot.
Yet another empty promise progressives wish the nation had understood more fully before we voted.
But he’s still a creep
How many of you want to go on the record as being pro pedophile? Anyone? How many of you would like to stand up for incest? Anyone? Anyone?
If you’re not down with those values, then if you voted for Donald Trump, you need reconcile that the himbo you turned the keys to the free world over to is on record making sexually suggestive comments about his own biological daughter.
- Quoteth Trump: “I’ve said that if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”
- Quoteth Trump: “She’s got Marla’s legs. We don’t know yet if she’s got this part yet (mimes breasts).”
- Quoteth Trump: “Is it wrong to be more sexually attracted to your own daughter than your wife?” (Ivanka was 13 at the time.)
‘zat okay with you? We cool on that?
If not, what were you thinking, Trump voters? This is the guy you want to be on the record for? Because he didn’t just get caught in some gotcha campaign to expose his dirty dealings and basest thoughts. He ran on them. If you voted for Trump, you voted for these. You are now these.
Let’s not delude ourselves into considering Donald Trump a communications genius. His tweets amount to poorly thought-out poison that recklessly rock the fortunes of businesses and individuals. This is no Machiavellian marketing guru at work. It’s an overmatched, dangerous simpleton at play.
On the Nov. 13 episode of “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver,” Oliver said the American people have one of two devastating options. “Either we just elected a president who didn’t mean a single word he said, or we elected one who did. And it’s impossible to know which one.”
I have to disagree. I think it’s pretty clear the self-aggrandizing man-child that is about to be inaugurated on January 20, 2017 is in way over his head, had no idea what he was getting into and cannot back up a single ignorant, hate-filled, white-race-baiting promise he made to his naïve, guileless, Russian disinformation-fed voters.
They wanted to say “fuck you” to the establishment. So they voted Trump. They’re getting to see what happens when you vote the school bully in as prom king. He doesn’t suddenly get more honest or compassionate. He won’t do anything with his newfound power other than please himself. He’s as unfit now as he appeared before he was pronounced the winner. Only now we have more proof.
Campaign promises? Suckers!
Which, in a way, for liberals, makes him really more our guy than your guy, doesn’t it, conservatives? We still don’t like “our guy,” but if we can’t have a competent, progressive leader of the free world to guide us in the next four years, we’ll take a grossly incompetent hate-monger who won’t be capable of enacting his short-sighted, selfish plans and sets back conservative ugliness for generations to come.
