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Locked. No further comments permitted.16 Complete Reversals Made by Our Idiot President
Apr 17 2017 01:16AM more by bangkoklvr
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Donald Trump has made so many promises, from wiping out the national debt � a pledge dismissed last week by his own budget director as �hyperbole� � to changing the name of the Denali peak back to Mount McKinley, that it can be hard to keep track of how many he�s breaking. So here�s a partial list of his reversals and revisions, large and small, to date:

SYRIA In 2013,
when Barack Obama sought congressional approval for military action in response to President Bashar al-Assad�s use of chemical weapons in Syria, Mr. Trump rejected any intervention, in a storm of tweets. On April 6, without consulting Congress, the administration attacked Syria, with the surreal explanation that Mr. Obama�s �weakness and irresolution� made it necessary.

RUSSIA
Mr. Trump has lavished praise on Russia, complicit for years in Mr. Assad�s brutality; he has even encouraged its meddling in the affairs of other nations, like the United States. On April 5, under heavy fire for his campaign�s ties with Russia, he declared relations with Russia worse than ever, �because they�re aligned� with Syria. In another reversal, he denies knowing Vladimir Putin.

NATO
For months, Mr. Trump condemned NATO as �obsolete,� falsely claiming that it doesn�t fight terrorism. Last week, after meeting with NATO�s secretary general, Mr. Trump declared, �It�s no longer obsolete � they made a change and now they do fight terrorism.� NATO didn�t change; Mr. Trump�s mind did.

HEALTH CARE
Mr. Trump vowed not to cut Medicare or Medicaid, then embraced a Republican Obamacare replacement that would drastically raise costs for older Americans. It failed. Now he says he�ll force Democrats to negotiate by cutting Obamacare�s health insurance subsidies for seven million poor people.

TAX REFORM
After his health care overhaul failed, Mr. Trump said he�d pivot to tax reform. Last week he roiled markets by saying he might pivot back to health care (see above).

TRAVEL
Criticizing Mr. Obama�s summer vacation, Mr. Trump said that as president he �would rarely leave the White House because there�s so much work to be done.� Thanks to his weekends in Mar-a-Lago, he�s on target to ring up more bills for travel in his first year than Mr. Obama did in eight years. (And, yes, he used to accuse the Obamas of extravagantly spending taxpayer money.)

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS
In December, the newly elected president pledged to use his fabled deal-making powers to �bring down drug prices.� After he met with drug company chiefs in the White House in January, that promise evaporated.

TAX LOOPHOLES
Mr. Trump said last year that he would close "special interest loopholes that have been so good for Wall Street investors, and people like me, but unfair to American workers.� He then picked Stephen Schwarzman, a financier who has compared closing those loopholes to Hitler�s invasion of Poland, to lead a White House �strategic and policy forum.�

CHINA
Mr. Trump targeted China throughout the campaign, saying that on his first day he�d label it a currency manipulator and act to reverse its entry into the World Trade Organization. Last week, after his first meeting with the Chinese president, he declared that China is no longer a currency manipulator, and said little about its trade practices.

NAFTA
Mr. Trump told workers in Michigan that on Day 1, �A Trump administration will renegotiate Nafta and if we don�t get the deal we want, we will terminate Nafta and get a much better deal for our workers and our companies. 100 percent.� He�s failed to take any action.

THE TRUMP ORGANIZATION
Mr. Trump repeatedly vowed that as president he would give up his business. Instead, he passed day-to-day operations to his oldest sons, while he continues to receive regular updates; is able to withdraw profits; and travels to promote his properties, at taxpayer expense, through high-profile visits.

THE FED
Last year, Mr. Trump blasted the Federal Reserve for keeping interest rates low for political purposes. Last week, he told The Wall Street Journal that he respects Janet Yellen, the Fed chairwoman, adding, �I do like a low-interest-rate policy.�

INCOME TAXES
Mr. Trump first said he�d release his taxes after an audit, and then, after he was president. Two days after his inauguration, he reneged.

EMPLOYMENT NUMBERS
As a candidate, Mr. Trump made up his own numbers, putting unemployment rates as high as 42 percent, calling the government�s statistics �phony.� As president he touts the official numbers, when they�re good.

EXPORT-IMPORT BANK
In 2015, Mr. Trump slammed the export financing agency as �featherbedding� for politicians and big corporations. Last week, he called the Ex-Im Bank �a very good thing,� saying that �lots of small companies are really helped.�

In some instances, President Trump has adopted, for the moment, more sensible positions than the sweeping, outlandish ones he took during the campaign. Some commentators point to the comforting possibility that his reversals mean that Mr. Trump is growing in office, adapting postures born of ignorance or political calculus as he meets the realities of governing.

But then you�d have to overlook the nasty positions he�s stuck to, as he caters to the oligarchs who surround him, builds his personal fortune and stirs the darker passions of his base. Why else would he break his promise to release his taxes or relinquish control of his business? Mr. Trump now surrounds himself with the bankers he once lambasted; he�s lagged behind on promises of infrastructure jobs, manufacturing revival and health care, while opening up bidding on the wall. He�s decried Syria�s gas attack on �beautiful babies� but continues to bar Syria�s children from America.

To attribute the president�s pirouettes to personal growth would also require ignoring what�s actually staring us in the face � that there is no foundation to this presidency. With his all-important ratings tanking, the reality-TV maestro is rewriting the script, enthusiastically swapping out any position in pursuit of a �deal.� He is revealing himself to be a tactical, transactional president, with no guiding convictions or principles beyond �winning.� Not winning for everyone, as he so famously promised. Winning for Mr. Trump.

Democrats or House Freedom Caucus members, NATO members or Middle East dictators, potential allies or adversaries � all must be deeply unsettled by the one clear pattern emerging here, a pattern that is consistent with Mr. Trump�s treatment of others in private life, from his stiffing of his creditors to his swindling of students at Trump University: betrayal.

And where does that leave the working-class voters who pinned their hopes on this man? They can live with what Mr. Trump calls successes, and hope that his interests align enough with theirs to achieve some peripheral benefit. Or they can press their legislators, and demand from Mr. Trump himself, that he stop spinning and start delivering.

      
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Apr 17 2017 01:25AM     link to this

Ya pretty much he's not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
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Apr 17 2017 02:55AM     link to this

DR for POTUS. #upgrade
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Apr 17 2017 02:56AM     link to this

well a few of them changed because he got what he wanted as part of deals worked...nato, china.

i guess you would rather we go straight to war with n korea? or would you rather have china do the heavy lifting there?

nato? they were not spending the agreed amt on defense...they have made a renewed effort to get to 2%...2 or 3 new countries have made it and overall spending is up. the more they spend the less we have to.

if you can't see this...it means you don't really care about it and just want the don to fail no matter what he does to the detriment of the country. just keep copy/pasting the liberal line dribble
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Apr 17 2017 08:52AM     link to this

Yes, don't bother pasting facts because the pea brained neo cons only understand Alternative Facts and rhetoric. And jillydaniels has his "whiny ass man bitch" statement all ready to copy and paste before reading any actual facts.
DelilahRose
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Apr 17 2017 09:54AM     link to this

I would have blown Barry, and stayed quiet about it.
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Apr 17 2017 09:55AM     link to this

you have some pretty loose lips so I doubt it
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Apr 17 2017 09:56AM     link to this

Hardy har
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Apr 17 2017 09:57AM     link to this

Girl you know it's true
DelilahRose
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Apr 17 2017 09:58AM     link to this

Like u know
MUNK
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Apr 17 2017 09:58AM     link to this

Oh I know
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Apr 17 2017 10:02AM     link to this

He did not fool them, they simply had no choice but go along with him once he won the votes
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Apr 17 2017 10:05AM     link to this

You've talked to them?
MUNK
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Apr 17 2017 10:15AM     link to this

No hate just think it's funny
MUNK
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Apr 17 2017 10:41AM     link to this

Aren't we all ...
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Apr 17 2017 11:38AM     link to this

You didn't like him before he got elected, because you didn't like what he stood for. Now he switched to what you like, but you still don't like him. Go figure. Amusing.
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Apr 17 2017 11:47AM     link to this

I'm sure glad Teeman is still asleep. I'd hate to hear what he has to say about my dad.
teeitup
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Apr 17 2017 12:16PM     link to this

Thanks for waking me up.

Your daddy is a ...serenity now, serenity now.




(Too bad OP doesn't speak English. Would have been an even better blog topic. That's what I call blowing it out the rear end. You Go Don the Con.)
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Shuddup
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Apr 17 2017 01:51PM     link to this

Jackdaniels88 I will be sure to post before your 8:30 bedtime in the future.
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Apr 17 2017 02:09PM     link to this

Another day, another mindless left-wing rant about our new President.

Why don't you clueless haters give it a rest a give the man a chance to clean up Obama's mess. He can't do it overnight.

Also, this Bullshit #FakeNews mainstream media narrative about Trump "flip-lops" are straight-up dumb and inaccurate. I'm not gonna go back and forth with you clowns who are too simple-minded to understand the complex and nuanced policy moves one has to make as the chief executive of the world's only superpower.

You anti-Trump morons can just keep on with your relentless liberal circle-jerk. You're totally irrelevant, and serve only as a source of amusement to the other 50 + % of Americans who want to see our President succeed. Which he will.
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Apr 17 2017 02:21PM     link to this

Oh fucccccck you
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Apr 17 2017 02:21PM     link to this

No u ?
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Apr 17 2017 02:24PM     link to this

In the Ass?
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Apr 17 2017 02:28PM     link to this

In your dreams
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Apr 17 2017 02:30PM     link to this

Lol
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Apr 17 2017 02:33PM     link to this

In mine too
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Apr 17 2017 03:09PM     link to this

So it's double or nothin
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Apr 17 2017 03:14PM     link to this

First time reading a post by LateNight...wow, what an idiot. JD88 I know where I've seen him before. Back in high school he was the guy in the back of the class who spent the whole time drawing Rat Fink cartoons on his book covers.......
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buehle
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