Posted on 01/31/2016 9:29:42 PM PST by drewh
If Donald Trump were to win in November, he would be the first man to take the White House without having previously held public office or served at a high level in the military. Because his election would be without precedent, it's difficult to predict what a Trump administration would look like.
He has offered some hints, however.
He's suggested that Congressman Trey Gowdy, head of the committee investigating the 2012 Benghazi consulate attack, could be his attorney general. (That was before Mr Gowdy endorsed Florida Senator Marco Rubio, however.) He's mentioned that 2012 Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin would have a place in his presidential cabinet and billionaire financier Carl Icahn is a possible treasury secretary. He's also said he might tap corporate former chief Jack Welsh and investor Warren Buffett as economic advisers.
Mr Trump has generated political shockwaves with his at-times bellicose campaign style and controversial proposals on US border security and a temporary halt on the entry of all Muslims into the US, but he's started offering a more measured, conciliatory tone.
"When I'm president, I'm a different person," he said recently. "When you are running the country, it's a different dialogue that goes. And we can do that easily."
That's been music to the ears of some Republican insiders, who have suggested that a Trump administration may be open to overtures from the party establishment he has often spurned.
Top priorities: Halting illegal immigration, improving border security, policing trade with China.
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Much like the Obama presidency.
Executive orders for everything.
We’d get tired of WINNING!
All the Europeans celebrated when Zero won. Then they got to see what a post-American world looks like: Total chaos in the Middle East, invasion of ‘refugees’, Ukraine invasion, nuclear Iran, and a much more dangerous world.
It always amazes me to read how the Brits see things here. My wife is from China, and has been here a very long time, and sometimes I still listen to her and think “huh?”...
What is the over/under before he would switch parties?
DICKERSON: What is your definition of conservative?
TRUMP: Well, I think it's a person that doesn't want to take overly risks. I think that's a good thing.
I think it's a person that wants to - in terms of government I'm talking about, a person that wants to conserve, a person that wants to, in a financial sense, balance budgets, a person that feels strongly about the military. And I feel very strongly about the military.
And you have some of these people, they don't even want to focus on the military. Our military is falling apart. I feel very, very -and I have always felt very, very strongly about the military.
By the way, if you look at vision, when you look at the word vision, I was the one that said take the oil. I have been saying that for years. And I said take the oil, let's take the oil. And nobody would listen. Then, all of a sudden, after Paris, they started saying, maybe that's right, we will take the oil.
They still don't do it the proper way.
Huh?
I think the problem with people that have made carreers of government service is that they aren’t intimately familiar with the consequences of poor decisions, poor judgments, poor outcomes, and busted budgets. Failure is an option in government. Coming in over budget is an option in the government. In the private sector, things are run differently-better. I am hoping that Trump brings that mentality to the White House because it has been absent for some time now.
An unmitigated disaster of epic proportions, for which many high-profile supporters of his should be made to give an explanation of their reasons for supporting him.
Maybe he wasn’t talking about building a WALL. Reports are that tonight he was talking about building a BALLroom in the WH.
(Runs and hides...)
Well Omuslim and Mooch and The Muslim Brotherhood would be gone for starters. The paint by number art work tossed. No more wide load rear photos of the First Lady. Boob belts out of style. Bibi gets to come in the front door again.
All in all not bad. :-)
“When i”m president, I’m a different person”
says the person who has never held public office and has never been president.
“You cannot be one kind of man and another kind of president.” - Labor Secretary Lynn Martin - 1992
Just a thought RC. There is an awful lot our overreaching government does I don’t want done more efficiently. That just frees up people for more overreach.
the thread on his Advisors is quite illuminating
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There are very few situations that cannot be fundamentally altered by judicious use of a Minigun ...
Will every State of the Union Speech will start with how many billions of $ he has?
LOLOL....imagine? My gosh he can hurt a whole lot more then eyeballs!
Obama’s third term.
I don’t expect him to switch, but I do see a Trump-Pelosi immigration “deal” coming.
It’ll be interesting... Your’re gambling just a bit with Trump. Thing is, with any of the others, you’re not gambling, more like you simply know you’re gonna die...
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