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Rustynaerduwell

(664 posts)
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 03:58 PM Oct 2019

At the start of Trump's term I made 20 predictions. Check out #12

Any Trump voters want to put twenty dollars down on the promises your man made? I’ll bet a dollar on each prediction below. In the next four years:
1- The wall will not be built.
2- There will be no special prosecutor regarding Hillary Clinton’s e-mails or the Clinton Foundation.
3- The percentage of Low skilled manufacturing jobs in the workforce will never be higher than it is now.
4- Unemployment will rise.
5- Your taxes will not go down (unless you’re rich).
6- The deficit will be higher every year of Trump’s presidency than in President Obama’s last budget year.
7- Trump will deport fewer illegal immigrants than President Obama did.
8- There will be no ban on Muslims entering the country.
9- GDP will remain under 4%.
10- More Americans will die from terrorist attacks in the next four years than in the last four years.
11- The Middle East will remain a mess while Putin’s Russia becomes stronger.
12- We won’t get Syria’s oil. If anybody does, it will be Russia (but President Trump’s Sec of State might get richer off of it).
13- For the first time in more than 8 years, a member of a US President’s administration will be indicted, or will resign or be pardoned before he is indicted.
14- US oil production will be smaller in 2020 than in 2015.
15- Jobs in coal mining will not increase beyond their peak under President Obama.
16- The price of coal will be higher and the cost of renewable energy will be lower in 2020.
17- In 2020 Barack Obama will have a higher approval rating than Donald Trump.
18- Inflation will increase faster in the next four years than in the last four years.
19- Income inequality will widen; the CEO to worker pay ratio will increase.
20- Donald Trump will be a one term President.

In January 2020, I will pay anyone who wants to take me up on it a dollar for everyone I get wrong, and the he or she will pay me a dollar for every one I get right. Any takers?


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At the start of Trump's term I made 20 predictions. Check out #12 (Original Post) Rustynaerduwell Oct 2019 OP
Good calls blm Oct 2019 #1
Prescient malaise Oct 2019 #2
A few are wrong already. former9thward Oct 2019 #3
I was just going to post a list of everything that poster got wrong Polybius Oct 2019 #5
Well done, Cassandra! Karadeniz Oct 2019 #4

former9thward

(32,023 posts)
3. A few are wrong already.
Mon Oct 7, 2019, 04:15 PM
Oct 2019

#4 Unemployment at a 50 year low. #14 is going to be wrong. #18 is wrong. #13 was wrong at the beginning -- ,Obama's head of the CIA David Petraeus was indicted and plead guilty to misuse of classified information in 2015. #12 has bad assumption -- we never wanted "Syrian oil". They have little to begin with. #15 According to CNBC coal mining jobs are up about 2000 from Obama's time. #5 is wrong. Ask any tax accountant. I am not rich and my taxes have gone down. I don't know anyone's that have gone up. #1 is wrong. Not much of the wall is being built but some is. #11 LOL "The Middle east will remain a mess" Well yeah and the sun will rise in the east. Sorta a gimmie.

Polybius

(15,428 posts)
5. I was just going to post a list of everything that poster got wrong
Tue Oct 8, 2019, 02:13 AM
Oct 2019

You said it a lot better than I could have. Maybe 20 will be wrong as well, God forbid.

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