Posted on 12/01/2016 8:33:03 AM PST by RoosterRedux
The day before Thanksgiving in New York, I bumped into a Trump adviser who actually knows what is going on inside Trump Tower, as opposed to rumors inhabiting the media such as this Tuesday headline: “Trump’s Team Frays Over Romney.” The message I got was different: “It’s going to be fine. It’s going to be just fine.”
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[T]he Trump transition has been talking to and appointing some of the most accomplished and serious individuals in Republican and conservative politics. Donald Trump isn’t pulling rabbits out of a hat. Somebody at team Trump has a first-rate Rolodex.
By now, it should be obvious that the Trump operation exists in two parts. One half is the operation’s face, Donald Trump. The other half is the operation behind the face. Mr. Trump’s persona has often made it difficult to take the entire Trump phenomenon seriously. That, we learned, is a mistake.
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I’m in an ongoing debate with a liberal family member who believes Trump is just more of the same old same old. She recently asked me a question to which I offered what I believe to be a reasonable answer.
QUESTION: “It’s a Goldman Reunion in Trump’s White House. Is that what you voted for?”
ANSWER:
WE voted for COMPETENCE in government, a commodity SORELY and CONSPICUOUSLY absent from the obozo/jarrett junta! I LIKE Bannon and nearly all his ideas. We’ll have to wait to see about the others. But more f**king Marxist community organizers would have taken us over the edge into a bottomless pit from which it would require a civil war to return.
Where do we get people who understand the currently f**ked up, Marxist central bank , fiat currency financial system? Sadly, from the ranks of those who have mucked about in it in the PRIVATE SECTOR.
That said, should any of those folks, once installed and operating, be found to be committing fraud, enriching themselves, their cronies and friends – as was the MO for the Democrat candidate – trust me when I tell you that IF the same folks who put Trump in office and are now screaming for Hillary’s scalp find themselves being F**KED OVER AGAIN, they will turn on Trump and HIS crew before you can say “pitchforks, tar and feathers”.
And, unlike obozo’s mendacious and malevolent minions, Jeff Sessions would NOT allow himself to be “Lynched” (in BOTH meanings of that word) for turning a blind eye to that corruption.
What does concern me, however, is that the departing crew of criminals, understanding that obozo’s and his criminal associates’ skin color immunized them from closer scrutiny or removal for CLEAR ACTS OF TREASON, were so brazen and in our faces that it may take us some time to see it among the new guys!
But should it come to that, WE WILL ULTIMATELY SEE IT AND ACT IF NECESSARY!
The problem is that he didn’t present this as a candidate. It was hard to say that he had any principles at all, except that he felt he should be president. He was ill-served by whoever was in charge of this. More people would have voted for him if they actually had known all this.
But it really doesn’t matter. I and many others who were dubious voted for him, he’s the incoming President, and his appointments have been excellent so far! That’s all we need. And just by being off the wall, he may be able to carry off some things that a more polite candidate couldn’t have done.
Nonsense.
His father was a respectable builder in Brooklyn and Queens and was against Donald's move into Manhattan.
Trump (Donald) borrowed and repaid a $1 mil loan to start building the Grand Hyatt in Manhattan.
The rest is history.
Fred Trump thought it was lunacy to go into Manhattan and strongly opposed it. That’s about as far from “giving the Manhattan portion” to Donald Trump as you can possibly get, since it didn’t exist.
Thank you!
I have been in the wilderness with WP threads.
You are from ‘upper west side’ NYC and you are clueless about Trump’s real life?
Upper west siders generally know about rent control, wegmans, saturday night live, the safest places & times to go in central park and morning side park but not much else to speak of. The newbies there only know about the Trump skyline on the west side. They don’t know about Trump’s earlier life in the 70’s & 80’s & 90’s in NYC. Trump has been a fixture in NYC for a long long time.
Let me give you snowflakes a little world lesson. Your had. For example, all I got to do is use the word retard in a conversation, look at the reactions, and I instantly know the snowflakes in the crowd. Lol.
His grandmother was widowed with three children. The oldest was eleven. He was Donald’s father Fred. Mom sent Fred to trade school (when he was legally to young to attend.) he graduated from high school and trade school he same year.
Mom would buy the houses. Fred would hire a friend or two fix the property up and then mom sold it. She was able to put the two younger children through college with the money she and son made. He became wealthy by building homes for the veterans returning from WWII He is also responsible for adding an attached garage to the modest homes he built
The need for single bedroom apartment were in process before the government gave the OK to build them He saw the need !
Uncle John is responsible for the development of radiation you use in medical treatment. and worked with the Btitish to develop the radar that saved Them during WWII. He was a lot more than just a professor at MIT
It is because of the family work ethic that the family grew from poor immigrant to billionaire in three generations. It’s the American Dream on Steroids.
I suggest you do your own research and not rely on the pabulum the MSM feed you!
I am out in fly-over country. My introduction to Trump was via 'Cindy Adams' pieces on 'the Donald'... Trump was a 'business man', and I really never paid much attention to him, and never watched his Apprentice show... But I have heard out of Trump's own mouth that his first job was in Ohio, sent there by his father... And he is particularly fond of Ohio and lessons learned there. Trump has repeatedly stated that he got a 1 million dollar loan from his dad to start his business... and that he repaid that loan...
I am amazed at all the 'fake news' filled with green eyed envy over an American success story.
I wasn’t talking about his family. They were good immigrants, the type we need. I grew up in NYC so I’m well aware of his background.
I was talking about Donald Trump now, who was born with a very large silver spoon in his mouth. This isn’t a bad thing, but he certainly wasn’t a “self-made man.” However, if he’s encouraging self-made men - and women - that’s a good thing.
As I said, I didn’t like him but I voted for him, and I’m happy with the results.
I first read about Trump's ideas on what needed to be done to fix this country in his book, "Time To Get Tough - Making America #1 Again", published in 2011.
During the campaign, he published his plans on his web site and gave multiple speeches spelling it all out.
The web site publications and the speeches pretty much mirrored what he was saying in 2011 and even as far back as the 80's with updates for current issues.
He has always been staunchly patriotic and always believed in putting America first.
So my point is, anyone who is surprised by what is happening didn't bother to check out the information available including information many of us presented right here on FR.
Me too. Palin at the VA would be amazing.
Actually, Trump got his start in Cincinatti - he bought, renovated and then sold a large apartment complex there and made several million dollars (in the early ‘70s, when that was real money). From there he went into Manhattan real estate, because he was bored to death with residential, and also saw the potential to really make money in commercial R/E. He certainly called that one right - and, as you said, against his father’s wishes and advice.
But, yes, his true start was with a $1 million loan and a Wharton’s education, plus his years of experience working for his father. He made it largely on his own.
Right.
I forgot about that.
Well, if you grew up on the UWS in the 1950s, you’d know all about this. The UWS was a mixture of middle class Jews, who lived on West SIde Avenue, the Drive or CPW, and in between on the side streets,Irish, Italians and Hispanics. There was a large scattering of elderly or dysfunctional SRO (single room occupancy) residents starting in the 1960s. Except for certain areas, it only became “hot” in the late 1990s. Parts of it are still not “hot.”
Trump was gruesome tabloid fodder for years because of his spectacular divorces. He did a great thing with the Wollman Rink and various other initiatives after that, but he never seemed to move on politically and dropped out of the mayoral race, His real niche came with his reality TV shows and that was the type of business he was good at doing.
I’m not criticizing or saying this is bad, simply that it wasn’t the normal way of doing politics but perhaps that’s why he won, But he’s done a good job of picking people with experience and good conservative ideas and I think it’s all going to be fine.
De Blasio has not yet completed his first term.
“... and have bought the caricature that Trump is a buffoon, ...”
...who turned a huge $1 million loan into a small estate worth only about $10 billion and likely producing only several hundred million of free cash flow every year. Yup, real stupid. We’re talking about not mere world-class stupidity, but galactic-class STOOOOOPID.
You know, for the Dems/Left (same thing), every Republican is either stupid or evil. I guess that they haven’t picked up on his smarts (maybe that is part of his smarts, the ability to hide it so that others underestimate him and let down their guard), so he can’t be evil (only smart Republicans can be evil, as stupid apparently precludes this). Oh, well, let them continue on with these delusions - its just a bunch of name-calling that hurts no one, but it stops them from doing a realistic assessment of the world as it is - and thus causes them to become arrogant and make mistakes (like, for instance, nominating a vicious, corrupt, lying old hag with no charisma). Let’s not stop them from destroying themselves.
I just read about it last summer when, right after he declared, I took “The Art of the Deal” out of the library. I figured that the best way to assess who he really was/is was by seeing what he had to say several decades before running for POTUS. FYI, it was essentially the same thing that he said throughout the campaign. He thought government to be stupid, slow, utterly careless with taxpayer money, and pretty much unable to do anything well. He bemoaned our terrible trade agreements, how the middle class was getting it in the neck, how vets were treated terribly and how we didn’t give the police enough credit for what they do. He was a strong backer of Israel, and knew that we needed a military second to none. IOW, he is the same guy, who has honestly stated how he really looks at the world and its problems. Obviously, it also spoke about his deals, and various travails related to them, and he tooted his own horn more than a bit (but, then again, who isn’t the hero in his own autobiography?). All things said, it was very interesting and very educational - we could ALL learn a lot from him, despite his many flaws (and he acknowledges those, too - so there’s some not insignificant amount of humility, which the public persona rarely shows).
“I’m not criticizing or saying this is bad, simply that it wasn’t the normal way of doing politics but perhaps that’s why he won, But he’s done a good job of picking people with experience and good conservative ideas and I think it’s all going to be fine.”
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