What Would a Donald Trump Presidency Be Like?

BBC News ^ | 1 hour ago | Anthony Zurcher

[basalt]

I think he would surround himself with the best people possible...and fire them when need be. These other guys always brought their flunkies from Georgia..Arkansas..Chicago..etc

[Mastador1]

I hope not, but have concerns it would be just like California with the Governator, just of course it would be the Trumpinator instead.

[volunbeer]

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.

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The irony is not lost on everyone.... Given a choice there is a point in time where a democracy will vote for self-destruction putting selfish interests ahead of their country. See Greece.

[stylin19a]

I wonder how in the heck he can put all his holdings in a blind trust and they truly are blind. and how he’s not be tempted to touch them.

[nopardons]

He's not going to do that, nick.

Though you can't stand him, even YOU will be happy with President Trump.

[nopardons]

Because he says that being the president will be the ONLY job he is going to concentrate on.

His three eldest kids will run all of the companies and he trusts them.

[PA Engineer]

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.

Agreed. That is why I want an executive in the executive office.

[datura]

Switch parties?

It seems as though he’s building his own from the remains of the old ones.

[longhorn too]

How many people would Trump call Nasty!

[longhorn too]

I hope to hell we don’t find out!

[HANG THE EXPENSE]

Well, hopefully we get to find out.

[Carry_Okie]

The exercise of unlimited power to do "great things."

Just ask him.

[Cboldt]

-- Failure is an option in government. --

Failure is the mission! The system is Byzantine to facilitate accountability avoidance for the failure. Politicians' rhetoric is mostly pushing the blame marble away.

[ichabod1]

To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.

[Carry_Okie]

To make an omelet you have to break a few eggs.

Yeah, there's nothing quite like a dictator to break the bonds of the Constitution. Look at what what Sulla did for Rome!!

Oh, wait... didn't his dictatorship mark the end of the Republic, and wasn't he followed by Caesar taking power as the first emperor?

[r_barton]

I think it will be like Reagan’s 3rd term.

[GnuThere]

Throw the first State Dinner for Bibi! That would blow a lot of minds.

[patriot08]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3391244/posts

[patriot08]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/3391244/posts

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[Daniel Ramsey]

Lots of rebuilding and remodeling.
And being in the concrete business i might have to have my travel bag ready for when the border wall starts going up.

I suspect there will be a lot of moving vans heading to Washington DC as well, lots of new jobs of qualified people, not ones put there as a favor.