If Trump pulls off regime change in Iran, it will be his greatest achievement because it will mean stability and, dare I say it, peace in the Middle East — finally. But that’s a big IF. The Iranian people must rise up and overthrow the existing government at some point for this to happen.
Tag: Donald J. Trump
Showmanship
Showmanship. A skill that’s very useful to a politician. Some have it, some don’t. And you can tell right away from the way they speak. The ones that have it speak with a lot of drama and are so convincing, even when they lie. The ones who don’t are bland and unconvincing, even when they tell the truth. But what I saw in the State of the Union speech was truly orchestrated showmanship, beginning with the men’s Olympic team and chants of USA, USA, USA. And metals of honor and other metals as well hyping nationalism. The whole thing was orchestrated by a pure showman — Trump. He definitely knows how to put on a show. That’s very very clear from this performance — not only his speaking but also how he orchestrated the whole program to produce a particular response. Trump the showman. No one can deny this.
Democratic Party
How politics may become self-destructive. Witness how the Democratic Party, in opposition everything Trump, has been forced into really lunatic positions. This is textbook on how pure politics can induce total disfunction.
This happens when a political party takes up positions merely out of pure opposition no matter how insane as opposed to taking up positions that are actually rational and beneficial whether or not those positions agree or disagree with the opposing party’s platform.
A type of insanity unique to politics.
Trump A Winner
Trump is going to win on all the tariff gambits and negotiations with all of these countries, including China, simply because they need the American market much more than we need theirs.
Trump may turn out to be the preeminent president of this century. He is willing to do the tough things.
Tariffs
The US has a terrible imbalance in trade with Europe, Mexico, Canada, and of course China. Much of this is largely due to the fact that these other countries impose severe tariffs on American products, and so these products don’t get sold there.
What Trump is doing by imposing tariffs is to even the trading field so that the US doesn’t have these terrible trade imbalances. In a real sense, that these other countries are using punitive tariffs on American products forces Trump to do what he is doing.
Trump is a businessman, and businessmen want lots of international trade. Given his druthers, I actually think Trump would prefer entirely free trade — no tariffs at all. But what he will not tolerate are these trade imbalances because, in the end, they make the US poorer.
Trump is known as a deal maker. He sees himself in that light. His book is actually titled “Art of the Deal”. Imposing tariffs is his first move in trying to lower or neutralize foreign tariffs against American products. The second move will be the negotiation with each country on setting up equitable or no tariffs.
Trump
Trump is doing something novel for recent presidents — doing things that would actually benefit the country.
Culpable
The ones who paint Trump as another Hitler-like dictator are as culpable of these assassination attempts as the ones who pull the trigger. Gutter politics.
Polite
What the woke crowd can’t stand about Trump is that he can be rude and even mean. Above all, they demand their president be polite. Anything less is unacceptable.
How ludicrous.
True Grit
They threw vindictive and questionable lawsuits at him, the Left-wing press daily grills, distorts, and defames him, and now an assassination attempt grazed him, but Trump keeps chucking along. 99% out there would have thrown in the towel by now — not Trump.
Even if you are a Left-winger who despises Trump, you have to also admire him.
End Ukraine Insanity?
One of the benefits of electing Trump would be ending the Ukraine proxy war promoted by the US and NATO, a war that has virtually destroyed that country and brought back the specter of nuclear war between the US and Russia, which once again is a real possibility.
Trump was a peace president, as shown by his reaction to Iran shooting down an American plane when the State Department demanded retaliation, but Trump said no — didn’t want war with Iran over a single plane. In fact, it appears that Trump, while endorsing having a very strong military, really disparages the US getting involved in any kind of war, for I believe he sees war in general as a negative relative to economic prosperity as well as human life.
First thing Trump would do would be to end all financial and military support for the corrupt regime in Kiev, and he would make it very clear to NATO that the US no longer supported the proxy war, which means that NATO would also back down from it.
The world would breathe a sigh of relief that the nuclear threat would now subside.
Russia could attempt to reestablish amicable relations with Europe again, and Ukraine could begin to heal after the corrupt regime in Kiev is overthrown.
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