Wildchild said the American people voted for Trump to be president.The American people did not vote for Trump to be president if someone else got millions more votes.
It hardly matters any more; the US has elected so many bad Presidents over the last few decades. We see a lot of proud Americans on this site but the US just seems to be a giant mess socially in the broader picture. I can't see the expanded federal debt and purposeful destruction of the world economy as serving middle and lower class Americans well moving forward. Guess we'll find out. At some point, Trump will be out of the picture, and it will be clear almost everything he did had negative consequences. I don't see anyone talking about the legacy of George W. Bush in a positive light, even among his most avid supporters. Guess a huge financial crisis and expensive unnecessary war are hard to bs around and ignore. At one point Americans loved George, even if many outside of the US wondered how the hell he got elected and what you saw in him.
For once we are in agreement. Can you understand that a lot of voters do grasp that and it was part of Trump's appeal. He represented something totally outside the norm and seemed to be genuinely sympathetic to ordinary Americans. Countries generally derive some benefits from free trade. The problem is that the relative benefits are not equal. The economies of China, Japan and Germany are hugely dependent on exports. They derive vastly more benefit from free trade than the US, which has the means to be largely self-sufficient. Trump is merely demanding that the benefits of trade be shared more equally. Of course those who have been able to get unfair advantages resist.
another self hating quazi American like the two/one if the same Canadians. came from the north part of Ireland as a kid? Hate in your blood from a young age for sure.
and that leaves AAAinthebeltway, the worst of them that went crazy with Obama in office. another smart man who got consumed by the devil.
Watch him tweet insults to this guy. Conservative drops bomb on Trump: ‘We’re not laughing with you — we’re laughing at you’ In a brutally blunt– and highly sarcastic column — for the Bulwark, a conservative columnist compared Donald Trump’s comedic skills to those of a 13-year-old middle school boy attempting to make his friends laugh — only less successfully. According to the Bulwark’s Christian Schneider, Trump’s inability to say something truly funny is the result of the fact that his attempts at jokes are largely witless or sophomoric at best. “Attempting to delight his own fans, America’s Comedian-in-Chief Donald Trump has committed to his own style of humor, melding insult comedy with groan-inducing inappropriateness,” he writes, adding, “It seems to be working for Trump. His rallies are often accompanied by howls of laughter from the #MAGA-heads in attendance.” Outside of Trump’s true believers, few find Trump funny in the least, he writes. “Trump’s humor is largely dependent on the shock value of him saying things unbecoming of a U.S. president,” he explained. “Or, for that matter, a normal, well-adjusted adult. His sick burns are obvious, often juvenile nicknames he gives to people who are clearly renting space in his head: ‘Sleepy Joe,’ ‘Crooked Hillary,’ ‘Crazy Bernie,’ ‘Pocahontas,’ ‘Lyin’ Ted.’ Over the weekend, he dubbed Pete Buttigieg ‘Alfred E. Neuman,’ which does nothing but remind people how very old the president is.” “None of Trump’s one-liners display clever turns-of-phrase or sharp insights. Instead, his biggest laugh lines—his insults—are sledgehammers, notable only in an ‘Oh my God, I can’t believe he said that’ sort of way. Such stream-of-consciousness observations take exactly zero talent; 13-year old boys are currently doing better routines at middle schools across the country,” he continued. For conservatives who are not under Trump’s sway, having a Republican president this oafish is painful. — and the only laughter he induces is of the painful kind. “But the only time Trump is truly funny is when he’s trying to be deadly serious. Watching him try to explain U.S. trade deficits with China is as adorable as viewing a rat on the New York City streets try to drag a piece of pizza up a flight of stairs. It’s funny because we’re not laughing with him; we’re laughing at him,” he concluded.
China has had the most remarkable economic growth and transformation over the last 30 years... that the world has ever seen. Mostly with the help of the US. Much of that was our "handing over" the manufacturing part of our economy to them so they could take advange of cheap labor and we could buy cheap imports from them. As a result, China has something like $4Trillion in cash/reserves... while we have $22Trillion in debt. DUH! China is now WEALTHY... America is debt-poor (a problem of our own making, BTW). Of course the Chinese don't want to give back the advangtages handed to them. Who would?