Posted on 11/18/2016 2:09:08 PM PST by COUNTrecount
A surprisingly optimistic President Obama predicted that Republicans will undo just 15 to 20 percent of his policies when Donald Trump takes office in January — despite the president-elect’s vow to overturn all of his executive orders.
“Maybe 15 percent of that gets rolled back, 20 percent, but there’s still a lot of stuff that sticks,” Obama told the New Yorker.
He conceded that ObamaCare could take a hit.
“That has been a unifying bogeyman for Republicans over the course of the last six years,” the president said.
“In the minds of a lot of the Republican base, it is an example of a big government program designed to take something from them and give it to someone else who is unworthy.”
But, he added, if Trump and the GOP-controlled Congress only “modify but still maintain a commitment to provide health insurance for the people who received it, then a whole bunch of stuff hasn’t gone out the window.”
Obama also said he believed the Iran nuke deal — another frequent Trump target — would survive.
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Here's everything Donald Trump has promised to do on his first day in office (or, in a few cases, things his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence, has promised Trump will do):
• "Repeal every single Obama executive order." (He has also pledged more specifically to "eliminate every unconstitutional executive order.")
• "Repeal Obamacare." (On Trump's campaign website, he's less bullish, promising only to "ask Congress" on day one to repeal Obamacare immediately.)
• "End the war on coal."
• "Begin swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants from this country." (More specifically, Trump has promised to do this in his "first hour" in office, "day one, before the wall, before anything.")
• "Begin working on an impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful, southern border wall."
• Meet with Homeland Security officials and generals to begin securing the southern border.
• "Notify all countries that refuse to take back dangerous illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in this country that they will lose access to our visa programs if they continue to do so."
• Convene his top generals and inform them they have 30 days to come up with a plan to stop ISIS.
• Fix the Department of Veterans Affairs.
• Call the heads of major companies who are moving operations oversea to inform them that they'll face 35 percent tariffs.
• "Contact countries and say…'Folks, we love protecting you, we want to continue to protect you but you're not living up to the bargain'…They're not paying what they're supposed to be paying—which is very little, by the way."
• "Defend the unborn."
• "Withdraw from TPP."
• "Start taking care of our…military."
• Suspend Syrian refugee resettlement.
• "Notify our NAFTA partners of my intention to renegotiate the deal."
• "Designate China as a currency manipulator."
• "Direct every agency in government to begin identifying all wasteful job-killing regulations, and they are going to be removed."
• "Get rid of gun-free zones [in] schools" and "military bases"—which would require repealing a 25-year-old federal law. ("My first day, it gets signed, okay? My first day. There's no more gun-free zones.")
• "Ask Congress to pass 'Kate's Law'—named for Kate Steinle—to ensure that criminal aliens convicted of illegal reentry receive strong mandatory minimum sentences."
Guess again Urkel.
B-O is sadly mistaken. Trump will change everything.
I would not be so confident, Barky. Take notice on how adults get things done.
Just the bad ones.................
S**t sticks to walls, but a good cleaner and disinfectant can get the place clean.
For his sake, I hope they have golf at the ‘ash heap of history’.
Urkel and Merkel, what a pair of buffoons.
let him think that....he is the most dangerous now than ever.
Be my guest, bammy...
Hope that he changes just some.
Change you can believe in!
Move the obama library to GITMO.
Ha Ha, what a delusional fool.
The nation is dealing with a powerful nut until Jan 20th.
Yeah, that was the clear message from the voters: Keep things the same, please.
"All of it."
Heh. Homobama has become a conservative because he hopes for no change.
Well obongo is right, 100% right. Trump will only change some of his policies, that is true. Trump will only change some of obongo’s policies.... but the vast majority of them Trump will void and cancel. Only a small amount of them will be “changed”.
This is going to be stuck in Obama pack courts for YEARS!
Technically, Obama-lama-ding-dong is probably correct. Trump will only “change” some of his policies. Most of them, he’ll outright reverse or repeal.
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