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“I think he recognizes the need to overhaul immigration...and he is just the person to do it, IMO.”

If you haven’t already, read Ann Coulter’s “Adios, America!” which was written in 2015. I doubt that he got all of his ideas on immigration from that book (quite to the contrary, his talks about this issue a bit in “The Art of the Deal” written in the mid-’80s), but much of what he has said over the past 5 years might as well have been lifted verbatim from it. The simple fact (which Coulter shows in a very organized fashion and backs up with voluminous sources) is that since 1965 the Democrats have been engaged in a very long-term plan to change the electorate in such a way as to ensure that they someday have unchallenged power on a national level in the same way as they utterly rule California.

The current immigration fiasco started when LBJ heard from his political advisors, shortly after his massive 1964 landslide, that he would be the last Democrat President (barring big mistakes by the Republicans) was based upon the fact that since 1948 the Democrats have failed to win a majority of the white vote, and by the 1964 election that not only hadn’t changed, but it was accelerating away from the Dems. So that’s how we got the 1965 Immigration Act (that, and large Dem majorities in both Houses) that literally turned the quota system on its head - we went from admitting 90% from Europe and 10% from the Turd World to the exact opposite, overnight. That LBJ thing was, btw, part of what Ben Wattenberg (one of LBJ’s press people, and was present at the meeting) mentioned in a PBS documentary that he did about 35 or so years ago about the Democrats. The bill was written by RFK (then the AG) and proposed by Ted Kennedy in the Senate - they clearly were dreaming of a family dynasty and, shameless politicians that they were, used sympathy for their brother’s murder for their perceived self-interest.

Yeah, Trump is the person to do it - the ONLY person to do it. He is the furthest thing from a politician that we’ll ever see in the WH - he is a very intelligent, very creative, extremely hard-working, goal-driven businessman who, being a New Yorker’s New Yorker, doesn’t let what others think or say deter him from getting things done; unlike a politician, he measures success by results that you can see, touch or measure...not by polls or the desire to be liked.

I can see reading your posts you feel much the same way as I do about him.

I was sick to death of professional politicians...and he was a breath of fresh air to me. And still is.

He is the polar opposite of the Clinton or Obama style of politician who parses every single thing they say, subjects every phrase to a focus testing group, studies every poll for the most politically advantageous path, and sticks their finger in the air every few seconds to get the wind direction.

I love it that he says things that are rude, not well thought out, or downright wrong on occasion because...that is the way most of us operate.

I read the book “Let Trump Be Trump”, and here was an anecdote I found hilarious from the 2016 campaign:

There were two women in the media team of Trump’s campaign who were involved in a contentious love triangle, and things came to a head right before a campaign stop. One of the women was one of his speechwriters, I think, the other was a media person.

The speechwriter got so upset at the other woman involved with the same guy she was, that she had to leave the campaign event and didn’t see Trump give his speech. When she returned to the plane, Trump was sitting in his favorite spot they always had set up for him on the plane. It was a place where they placed a bunch of newspapers and magazines for him to read, and when he sat down, nobody would disturb him.

I guess it was his “quiet time”.

So he sits down, and the sulking speechwriter comes aboard and walks by Trump, who pauses reading asks her how she liked his speech, and without much elaboration she says she didn’t see it. Trump didn’t display much reaction, and went back to reading his newspaper, held up to hide his face.

The other woman in the love triangle boarded Trump Force One soon thereafter, and two women began to argue with each other.

The argument got louder and louder, and everyone began glancing nervously at both Trump reading his paper and the two women who were approaching the shouting stage, knowing Trump didn’t want any distractions while he read his papers.

As the spat reached a crescendo, Trump lowers the paper and yells: “Cat Fight!” And just as quickly, goes back to reading the newspaper!

Sigh. I read all of Ann Coulter’s books and even saw her in person one time at Wellesley College (talk about the Belly of The Beast) but she seems to have gone off the deep end in the last five years.

That saddens me, because she was one of the lone conservative voices who was not afraid to speak out in some dark times.

She was also influential in getting me to change my mind on Joseph McCarthy, she piqued my interest enough that I did digging on my own to find out if she was telling the story correctly...and she was.