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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (88589)	8/12/2018 11:40:31 AM
From: Mannie	4 Recommendations Recommended By bentway combjelly epicure pocotrader Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361678

yes...a true man of the people, a man that has spent his life ripping off everyone he thinks he can get away with, sub-contractors, communities, business partners, and students/victims of his "university." His foundation only served to benefit him. He is an example of what every parent should teach their children to not be.

To: i-node who wrote (88589)	8/12/2018 11:53:50 AM
From: epicure	3 Recommendations Recommended By bentway Ivan Inkling Smart_Asset Respond to of 361678

Not all opinions are equally sane. Psychiatric institutions are full of patients with opinions. So your view would need to be substantiated. One only needs too look at Trump's tweets to see that Trump is all about Trump. If and when the little guy, or any guy, gets something from Trump, it's just because what Trump wants happens to dovetail with their wants. When what's best for Trump isn't good for anyone else, Trump still goes after what's best for Trump. You are enabling a man who is ruining our democracy and the institutions which protect it. He's a criminal- the only question is, how big a criminal is he?

To: i-node who wrote (88589)	8/12/2018 12:08:22 PM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361678

Ok. How was it in the people's interests to let ZTE off the hook?

To: i-node who wrote (88589)	8/12/2018 2:20:23 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 361678

My view is that his actions are not politically motivated andconsistently in furtherance of the people's interests. I'm not sure what politically motivated has to do with anything. Seems to me the choice in motivation is between satisfying his needs vs the needs of the people. I don't think that there's any question that he constantly and injudiciously scratches his own itches. His need for self expression and self gratification is manifest well past the point where shame would rein in just about everyone else at least a little bit. The only question, then, is if he ever willingly acts in the furtherance of the people's interests where they are not coincidental to his own needs. I expect that he went along with that program of Ivanka's Apprenticeship Week. That could be construed as for the people, although he seems to have done it more for Ivanka given that he didn't seem to even know what it was when it was presented. I'm scratching my head for further examples. I imagine that there are some. Still, that's a far cry from being primarily motivated to serve the people. Of course, reasonable people can disagree about what program is or isn't in the people's interest. I think that, among his programs, control of illegal entry would be consistent with the people's interest independent of his own. As would be jobs. After that, I'm back to scratching my head. Even when not including anything that is has a deleterious effect on the people to counteract counteract on net, it's a weak argument that he's all about the people's interests.