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louis c

(8,652 posts)
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 06:21 PM Mar 2016

A Closer Look at Donald J. Trump in Simple Terms

My discussions with Trump supporters are such that I can't get a word in edgewise.

So, I would like to state here what I want to say to them, but they won't listen.

I'm 63 years old, so I am close to Trump's contemporary, in age.

Let's discuss me and Viet-Nam. I came of age during the Viet-Nam War era. I was politically active in 1968, even though I was only 16 years old. I stood against the War. I believed then, and believe now, that there were Patriots on both sides of that issue. Protesters lost they're lives and they're freedom fighting for what they believed in and so did those brave soldiers who went to war. In 1970, as a student in Massachusetts, my draft number was 104. Every man today remembers their number in the year they turned 18. The call, in my Congressional District, came up to 94. I don't know what I would have done if it reached me, but the War was winding down, so that decision never had to be made.

I describe this, because Donald Trump likes to act like some sort of savior to veterans and an ardent worrier should the time come. 5 deferments for the guy who is 5 years older than me, meaning his number did come up, and he made his decision. If he rallied against the War I would respect that, for, after all, the War was wrong. The War was the defining issue of our generation.

Instead, here is Trump's take of what he did during that period of American history: "I've been so lucky in terms of that world (contracting Sexual Transmitted Diseases from sleeping around). It's a dangerous world out there. It's scary, like Viet-Nam. Sort of like the Viet-Nam era. It was my personal Viet-Nam. I feel like a great and brave soldier."

Some Patriot.

Then we move to illegal immigration. There are so many stories of his importing foreign workers to his American businesses that not to see his hypocrisy is mind boggling. The best example is his use of 200 illegal Polish immigrant workers hired to demolish a building so he could erect his signature project "Trump Towers". He paid these undocumented workers $5 an hour, worked them 7 days a week, without overtime. He was caught and brought to court. He settled for a reported $1,000,000.

Some advocate against illegal immigration.

Finally, Trump's diatribes against outsourcing and vilifying America's trade deals. I buy American as often as I can. I hate our trade deals so much, I voted for Perot, Twice. But I never have read a word from Trump, in real time, of his criticism of NAFTA or the trade deals at the time that really mattered, from 1988 to 1994.

Instead, we see that he had no trouble putting profit ahead of Patriotism, as he outsourced his own line of clothing and work to foreign countries, like China and Mexico

It all comes down to this. For the 50 years that Donald Trump has been an adult American citizen, he can't point to a single day that he put this country first.

I have been asked by some of my more intelligent friends, "what historical figures remind you of Donald Trump."

My answer is, "he seems like a cross between Adolf Hitler and Bernie Madoff"

I guess that would make Donald Trump the equivalent of Adolf Madoff

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A Closer Look at Donald J. Trump in Simple Terms (Original Post) louis c Mar 2016 OP
A wonderful post. Thank you. underpants Mar 2016 #1
My pleasure louis c Mar 2016 #2
what kills me is Skittles Mar 2016 #3
That is a great way to put it: he is a cross between Hitler & Madoff. AgadorSparticus Mar 2016 #4
K&R.... spanone Mar 2016 #5

Skittles

(152,963 posts)
3. what kills me is
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 11:02 PM
Mar 2016

these folk, these Trump supporters, they are legitimately pissed off - but they're banking on a privileged, rich white asshole to fix their problems, the very same demographic that is CAUSE of their problems........Trump has been gaming the system since day one and these people are VERY foolish to buy into his bullshit

AgadorSparticus

(7,963 posts)
4. That is a great way to put it: he is a cross between Hitler & Madoff.
Sat Mar 19, 2016, 11:37 PM
Mar 2016

You brought up great points. It brings to task why the media has not discussed these things. All because he is a ratings magnet? I put the blame squarely on the media.

Funny you bring up Ross Perot. I voted for him too. But Perot made really good points, namely, NAFTA, that fell on deaf ears. Instead the media made fun of his ears and other bombastic bullshit. Why hasn't the media taken Trump down? It seems to me like they are coddling him and I just don't understand that....

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