Posted on 01/28/2016 9:39:00 AM PST by ghost of stonewall jackson
The billionaire says that America has been wrecked by immigrant rapists, idiot politicians, is imperilled by Muslim maniacs, and mocked by the rest of the world. Announcing his run at Trump Tower, his Manhattan skyscraper, he lamented: "We got $18 trillion in debt...we need money. We're dying. We need money...Sadly, the American dream is dead."
Fortunately, Mr Trump has a plan to "make America great again", a Reaganite phrase he has purloined. He wants to deport 11m illegal immigrants and their offspring, impose a 45% tariff on Chinese imports, kill the relatives of terrorist suspects and bar Muslims from entering America. To stanch the influx of "rapists" (never mind that for the past six years there has been a net outflow of people from America to Mexico), he would build a "beautiful wall" along the border.
Mr Trump's biggest fans are the most pessimistic Americans, working-class whites. "The country's spiralling downwards, people are not getting pay rises, we're not the superpower we think we are," lamented Todd Winslow, an office-equipment supplier, at a Trump rally in Claremont, New Hampshire. "He tells us what we all think but are afraid to say," Mr Winslow declared. Others in the crowd liked the fact that he was not a politician. These qualities were evident in the diatribe that followed.
Ad-libbing as usual, Mr Trump boasted of his "big beautiful brain", suggested dumping Bowe Bergdahl, an American prisoner-of-war released in a hostage swap with the Taliban, from the air over Afghanistan, and, after inviting questions from the crowd, showed familiarity with none of the issues raised. Asked whether he supported equal pay for men and women, he said: "I love equal pay, I mean I have many women, I was very, very far advanced on women…We're going to come up with the right answer."
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So are you on the Open Borders Payroll?
Fasten your flak jacket when you defend open borders on FR.
He’s just establishing an initial bargaining position.
pointing out the idiocy of trump equals support for open borders?
Didn’t “The Economist” used to have some good writers?
Really? In the next sentence you admit that median incomes have actually fallen while this clown has been in office. As to the unemployment rate, many have just dropped out of the labor market (Discouraged Worker Hypothesis), taken jobs far below their skill levels (underemployed), or are working part time. You have to remember this publication is published in England and is Socialist-oriented.
Of course it does. Questioning anything Pied Piper Trump does makes you very, very bad person.
One more question.
Are you a contributor to Free Republic?
Yes or no.
does it matter?
Bothers the hell outta ya dont it. Good
No you really can’t. Trump is lying. He does not intend to deport 11,000,000 illegals. Never did and never will.
You answered the question.
Typical Freeploading Cruz thug.
We are through here!
bye
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