Fred99:

 

joker97: He said what he said to get to where he is. Means nothing to me. Did show the world what kind of person he is. But he was an open book. Or so the Americans were led to believe.

What he's going to do next, not even he knows.

 

 

 

Yes he did say what he said to get where he is.  Now that's where I have a problem, as many of those things that he said were very similar to the things that Hitler was saying, inciting xenophobic sentiment, negatively stereotyping entire classes, races and cultures, promoting economic isolationism, and promising "action" on those issues to "Make America Great Again".

 

Remove those "promises" from his campaign, and what are you left with? A tycoon playboy dirty_old_man with a gold-plated 757 and a history of not being very nice to people.

 

So I presume we do know what the people voted for?

 

Even forgetting the racist xenophobic crap, look at something a little more pragmatic and business orientated - some are heralding Trump's wealth as an indication that he's a "good businessman". He's promised to renege on a whole bunch of agreements that the US has made with other nations. If he carries through with those threats to tear up contracts, how would you feel about negotiating any future agreement with the US?  I suggest that the effect would be considerable loss of trust.  Compare that to a deal you've got with your bank for a mortgage, if they screwed up the contract and threw it on the floor even if it was their "right" to do so - would you deal with them again when you wanted a credit card or place to put a term deposit?  Or if they merely wanted to "renegotiate" the contract, then would you willingly and happily sign another contract that was changed - to help "Make The Bank Great Again"?  I expect you might - but only if a gun was held to your head.  Ooops.

 

Trump is only going to succeed if he relinquishes all of his promises, or becomes defacto fuhrer and forces the rest of the world (and his own nation) to do what he tells them to do.  That method of management is very effective when running casinos, apparently, but it's not going to work for a president trying to run a country and to maintain international relations.

 

Yes and here in lies the problem, history is repeating itself.

If you read about Nazi Germany before Hitler invaded Poland the capital works were amazing the Autobahn for one, plus all the other works, he certainly made Germany Great. I found a mention of some "facts" about Hitler please see my disclaimer below.

http://www.topinfopost.com/2015/01/05/things-you-were-not-told-about-hitler

This, while not entirely correct, and if this link needs to be removed please let me know, it is not here to offend, it is here to illustrate that Hitler did a lot of good for Germany amongst the horrific deeds he did to the Jews, Mentally ill and other minority groups.

Trump may be back flipping on his promises, and this may see the right wing quite angry at him, if we see Trump assassinated don't see this as a positive, instead see it as our generations Archduke Ferdinand moment and prepare for a world war.