My Predictions on what Trump will ACTUALLY Do. Since He's All About SHOWBUSINESS... [View all]

Trump is all about making a show. And with the aid of a right wing 'news' echo chamber, he's able to get away with it. But what he says, and what he does are two different things.

1. He knows his wealthy friends rely on cheap, undocumented labor, so he's NOT going to send the Army to kick in doors, and deport MILLIONS of undocumented migrants. He'll get Mr. Potato Head Homan to round up a couple of hundred, well known, infamous criminals who happen to be undocumented aliens, and make a big show out of deporting them, with lots of cameras present. He'll claim that he deported 'millions' instead of hundreds, and Fox News will repeat that lie. Then he'll build a couple of hundred miles more fencing; and declare that he's SOLVED the crisis at the border. He'll get a big photo op out of this. Fox 'News' will repeat it on a loop for months; and his cult followers will spend the next four years claiming that Trump solved the border crisis.

2. He's not going to put 25% tariffs on all Canadian and Mexican goods, and 10% tariffs on China (excluding Teslas, of course), for very long. He's as dumb as a bag full of lug nuts, but even he knows that would cause massive inflation. So, he'll sign an executive order calling for 25% tariffs, make a big splash, have a photo op, and then quietly, one by one, start making exceptions to the tariffs, until almost all of them are gone. (The tariffs on China will disappear first, depending on how fast they can grant Ivanka access to the Chinese high fashion market with her brand of crappy, pleather handbags.)

3. He's probably not going to abolish a lot of the federal agencies. But he WILL abolish all of the branches of federal agencies that publish statistics that tell the voters how the country is REALLY doing. Abolish the Bureau of Labor's statistics branch. Abolish the OMB. Abolish the Congressional Budget Office. Abolish the CDC's health and illness statistics. Abolish the FBI's statistics on crime. Then, once these honest reporting agencies are gone, people will only have his word, and the word of the Press (god help us) for how the United States is doing.

We've always know that Trump was all about manufacturing perceptions of success, rather than actual success. This sickening practice reached its zenith when the asshole "told his people to slow the (Covid) testing down" so that the Covid numbers didn't LOOK so bad. That one was particularly bad, because those 'number' represented people actually dying. The only thing that's worse than doing this, is the PRESS and their complicity in it. The United States is the only country in the world that has freedom of the press written into its Constitution; and it's also the only country in the world where the press uses that freedom to be free to NOT do their jobs. They'd rather report what "both sides" are saying, and then leave it to the viewers to 'decide' what the truth is. Contrary to what Humpty-Dumpty Brian Stelter says, that is NOT 'Journalism 101.' That's actually the OPPOSITE of journalism.