Opinion - Trump 2.0: How many days before he loses momentum?
(The Hill) The Wall Street Journal recently featured a line from the Karate Kid movie to describe President-elect Trumps agenda for his first 100 days in the White House: Strike Hard, Strike First, No Mercy.
That means on day one, Trump wants GOP majorities in the House and Senate voting to lower taxes, cut spending, increase border security and end subsidies to promote clean energy.
But as boxer Mike Tyson once put it, Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. The punch that is already rattling the Trump agenda is the jolting fear of immediate failure.
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bucolic_frolic
(47,531 posts)do the world a favor, blow that gasket.
magicarpet
(16,893 posts)ANEURYSM,... the exploding variety would be just dandy.
sop
(11,544 posts)This inaugural address will be Trump's long-awaited thumb in the eye to all the people he feels slighted him over the last four years. His 2017 "Carnage" speech will seem like a bouquet of roses compared to the dark, violent threats he'll make this time around. Trump's advisers won't be be able to contain him.
SergeStorms
(19,335 posts)In the demented Turd's mind that includes just about everyone, doesn't it? I'm not at all sure some of his family members could escape his evil gaze on that count.
He is, without question, the most thin skinned and immature being I've ever encountered. Omitting the "human" before "being" was NOT an omission by accident. I've seen no empirical evidence he's a human being. 😉
Callie1979
(229 posts)How far he bends over for Putin
How much foreign allies are willing to put up with.
Will the deportations REALLY focus on the criminals? Will they have ANY actual success with it?
How will the business community react to the next 6 months?
Will he really be stupid enough to try to charge people like Schiff & Cheney??
bronxiteforever
(9,545 posts)People think he wont do it. He will.
Callie1979
(229 posts)Too many of these business people who have been giving him money are going to tell him not to
Plus, he bluffs a LOT in EVERYTHING
bronxiteforever
(9,545 posts)Bullshit seems closer to the mark
JHB
(37,463 posts)It's as consistent as "barely knew the guy", "he delivered coffee, I think", etc.
Ray Bruns
(4,717 posts)Javaman
(63,189 posts)we will see weird shit going down in Washington with the orange assholes scrall on it, but mysteriously, he will be golfing somewhere, miles and miles away from DC.
dalton99a
(84,831 posts)Autumn
(46,643 posts)He had lost momentum before he was elected.
Initech
(102,472 posts)And fuck Fox News and Elon Musk for propping him up like this.
DENVERPOPS
(10,127 posts)and has been in the news everyday for the past 8+ years. Now, he is really on a roll.......
The only thing that will stop him from going Hyper-Trump is if, the day after inauguration if the house does the 25th amendment thing, and the Senate joins in..........
Otherwise it will be mayhem with every RepubliCON Politician and every corporation going into warp speed to try and engage WarpDrive for their particular agenda.......
There has never been a time like this before...............The RepubliCONs have worked long and hard for this moment and will not back away in the slightest, this time around.............
Martin68
(24,711 posts)Quanto Magnus
(1,029 posts)like last time... Then lie
then lie some more
then lie some more...
Orrex
(64,284 posts)What the fuck is he waiting for?
Aussie105
(6,452 posts)have kept him alive so far.
Plus his hatred for the rest of the human race. Hate can be a great energizer.
magicarpet
(16,893 posts)..... he can't die. Just so many more people to be royally screwed by djt.
Aussie105
(6,452 posts)He will find out once at the oval office desk, that governments move slowly and his planned instant takeover and destruction of Democracy isn't a smooth process.
All it needs is some Trump appointees to show how incompetent and unprepared for their jobs they really are, and Dems to fold their arms and say 'No you can't!'
bmichaelh
(639 posts)Tonight, On Ari Melber's The Beat, Trump's favorability rating is 41%.
That compares to George Bush's 49% in December before his second term and Obama's 57% in December before his second term.
Diraven
(1,086 posts)By the second week. Elon Musk and JD Vance will be left running things.
NameAlreadyTaken
(1,630 posts)Except apparently Ivanka.
Frank D. Lincoln
(644 posts)They better vote in lock-step against Trump's destructive agenda. No reaching-across-the aisle bullshit. Absolutely NO compromising.
If Hakeem Jeffries attempts to appease Republicans and help Trump force his toxic agenda on us, then Democrats in the House should revolt against him.
Now we're going to find out for sure if we live in an oligarchy that controls both Republicans and Democrats.
Democrats had better not make nice with fascism or the Democratic Party will be completely finished.
azureblue
(2,322 posts)He originally thought of Elon as a rich rube, but Elon is buying his way into the government, and pushing his own ideas, most of which agree with Trump's. But Trump will not let Elon steal the limelight, so Trump is going to forget all the promises he made and forget his agenda. Trump will get nothing done, and the GOP is already a mess.
Dulcinea
(7,591 posts)The Oval Office isn't big enough for these two colossal egos.
doc03
(36,917 posts)lees1975
(6,090 posts)So I think the wheels will come off before he is inaugurated.