If you weren't such a jerk, I would of voted for you. No worries though, I didn't vote for Hillary. People like me, who did vote for you, or against the liberal agenda, would hope that you would start acting like a true leader. Our country needs a lot of improvements. Immigration reform, health care, tax reform, a creation of good paying jobs are first and foremost. I know you tried on health care, but why would you send a bill through without knowing you had the votes? Control immigration, your wall idea is stupid though. On tax reform, help the working middle class, reward working people, stop kissing the 1%ers butts, workfare, not welfare. I was hoping that you could work with both parties, but not so far. Ignore the far left, and the far right, and concentrate on the middle ground. Working class people are the ones who got you elected. Don't be a hypocrite, get off the golf course and run this country correctly. Remember the Constsitution. But most of all, get off the f***ing internet, and your stupid tweets. Bring this country together. We are a stronger nation, when we are together.
Come clean with your Russian ties. IOf you had any funny business with Putin, then you and the Clintons can rot in jail together.
That's all I have for now. Remember people, be nice, I'm still new out here.
Maybe you should tweet him, pretty sure he doesn't drop by here to read things.
But really, I did vote for Trump. After saying here leading up to the election saying I couldn't in good conscious vote for him, or Hillary (I voted Sanders in the spring primary). After voting 3rd party the last two Presidential elections and after trying to find a 3rd party candidate to vote for again, I woke up the morning of November 8th, laid there for a bit and asked "well what do I do". I decided to focus on the things I agreed with in the candidates messages, not the person, but where they stood on the issues and that led me to my Trump vote.
I posted my hopefulness on what a Trump Presidency could look like here following the election. Now, a few months after he has been in office, I wouldn't say I regret the vote compared to a Hillary or 3rd party vote, but I don't think any of what I wanted is going to happen.
The thing I underestimated most is that Trump would be a Republican President beholden to Republican leadership. I didn't vote for a Republican in 2008 or 2012 and I really didn't want to vote for one in 2016, but I thought Trump was different. Like alot of people, many didn't really think he was a Republican. What I wanted was a President that would bring in Schumer and McConnell with Ryan and Pelosi and say "ok here is what we are going to do - Chuck you are going to get something you want, Mitch you are going to get something you want". "And Nancy I'm going to see that you get this, but I need you to go to work on this thing that Paul wants in order to get that".
I hoped we would get a broker of compromise. How naive. We got a broker in partisanship instead. Although I am not sure the political environment in today's America that any President can constructively work with either party just as I am not sure that the minority party can constructively work with a President of the majority party. As talk radio, the internet and increased political activism on both sides has grown, now both sides view compromise as working with the enemy and all that matters is getting power back (or retaining it) so one party can continue to rule.
So as much as this is a waste of time, but I enjoy it all the same...
Mr President,
Abandon political ideology that hamstrings you to only work with one side of the aisle in Washington. You've expressed many different views through the election process, some objectionable to the right and some objectionable to the left. Stop attacking people that you need to work with to get things done. Allow your opponents a seat at the table and give them a room to work in crafting legislation that looks towards the end results that America needs and wants. Just because the electoral process voted for a Republican President, doesn't mean the entire country sees the world through red colored glasses. All that should mean is that you sit at the head of the table, it doesn't mean that every other seat at the table is a Republican. In order for this to work, your opponents need to equally turn their backs on their loudest partisan supporters to focus on the bigger picture, which is not the next election and not party affiliation, but the country in which we all live.
Alas, it's fairy tale.
A lot of voters saw Trump as an "outsider" who wasn't beholden to political ideology, similar to Arnold or Ventura. But a lot of people, like myself, saw someone who had absolutely no political ideology - he said whatever suited the situation, constantly contradicting himself, or making promises that were unrealistic (health care for all! I will crush ISIS!). Sure, the Republicans weren't enthusiastic about him because he was such a wild card, totally uncontrollable, which is why their "rallying" cry at the convention was the tepid "anyone but her". They already felt defeat, regardless of which candidate won. Remember, prior to the election, people were wondering how the Republican party was going to regroup after (potentially) 12 years of Democrats in the White House.
But then Trump won and he went on to build the most partisan cabinet in decades. His Twitter might not be controllable, but the trust he has placed in Bannon has somewhat neutered Trump. The Republicans might have the majority, but Trump's limited governing experience indicates he thinks that means he should have a rubber stamp - when due process stymies him, a tantrum ensues. It's only a 52/48 split in the Senate, you can't govern only (less than) half of the people. His agenda has to suit the whole, not just the people who show up to his rallies and inflate his ego.
Ironically, a lot people voted against Hillary because they were tired of politics as the family business, whether it was decades of Bushes or Clintons. But a Trump Presidency was always about business, and there doesn't seem to be a single Trump who isn't profiting (politically, financially, or professionally) from their place in this administration.
So far, the Trump administration is exactly what I expected. It's been a corporate takeover.
So far, the Trump administration is exactly what I expected. It's been a corporate takeover.
