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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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
I hope not, but have concerns it would be just like California with the Governator, just of course it would be the Trumpinator instead.
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.
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.
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.
Though you can't stand him, even YOU will be happy with President Trump.
His three eldest kids will run all of the companies and he trusts them.
Switch parties?
It seems as though he’s building his own from the remains of the old ones.
How many people would Trump call Nasty!
I hope to hell we don’t find out!
Well, hopefully we get to find out.
Just ask him.
Failure is the mission! The system is Byzantine to facilitate accountability avoidance for the failure. Politicians' rhetoric is mostly pushing the blame marble away.
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?
I think it will be like Reagan’s 3rd term.
Throw the first State Dinner for Bibi! That would blow a lot of minds.
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.
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