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Although Ann Coulter and millions of other alt-right Trumpers have yet to fully grasp how badly they have been punked by the consummate bombastic flim-flammer Donald Trump. Their demigod has been quite busy ignoring or canceling his signature promises for action on "the first day" of office. Yet, as recently as January 19th, the Trump groupie Judge Napolitano on FOXNEWs announced that Trump had assured the Judge he would be signing up to 200 executive orders on his first day in office.
Counts vary but observers have tallied over 36 promises for action on Day One, the most important of which are those on immigration that launched and symbolized his campaign of "telling it like it is", and which subsequently swept 14 million primary voters into the ecstasy of Trump delirium if not episodes of partisan glossolalia.
Donald Trump promised action on his pledges in the two issue areas foundational to Trump’s campaign support: immigration and (then) trade. It was in the summer of 2015 Trump exploited the hottest button in national politics, immigration, and pounded on it like it was a video game fire button. Trump warned his base that Mexico was not sending “its best” (although Trump said he was sure there were some “good ones”) and assured millions he would secure the border with a ‘great, big, beautiful wall’ paid by Mexico and cancel Obama's illegal executive orders.
Not long after, Trump seized on China and unfair trade.
To be sure, since then Trump has made dozens of additional first day pledges on Climate Change, US Defense, Nato, Healthcare, Ethics, and Regulation but the following “first day pledges” have been been his signature issues for 18 months, the key issues that fueled his blue collar support. :
On the FIRST DAY Trump pledged to:
– Order all federal funding of sanctuary cities to cease.
– Immediately Cancel of Obama’s two executive amnesties of illegals, and return to full enforcement of the law.
– Begin the deportation of over 2 million criminal illegal immigrants.
– Begin the process of building a great wall across the southern border
– Formally request of Congress to pass Kate’s law
– Suspend immigration from terror prone areas where vetting is ineffective.
– Suspend Muslim immigration
– Order the DECLARATION OF CHINA as a currency manipulator
– Cancel the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement
– Announce his desire to renegotiate NAFTA
– Cancel every one of Obama’s “unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order by President Obama”
If Ann Coulter, and millions of others, waited expectantly for Trump to demonstrate he is not a politician but "the real deal", they are waiting for Godot. Of the 36 or more pledges, he kept at most three (8 percent.). More importantly the news is now leaking that Trump no longer wishes to deal with immigration till later, and wishes to continue the Obama's policy of enforcement. In other words, Trump is "busy" undermining, delaying, or sinking ALL his major major promises to ACT on day one.
In short, he made a monkey out of the 14 million Trump primary voters that thought he was their salvation...LOL.
Counts vary but observers have tallied over 36 promises for action on Day One, the most important of which are those on immigration that launched and symbolized his campaign of "telling it like it is", and which subsequently swept 14 million primary voters into the ecstasy of Trump delirium if not episodes of partisan glossolalia.
Donald Trump promised action on his pledges in the two issue areas foundational to Trump’s campaign support: immigration and (then) trade. It was in the summer of 2015 Trump exploited the hottest button in national politics, immigration, and pounded on it like it was a video game fire button. Trump warned his base that Mexico was not sending “its best” (although Trump said he was sure there were some “good ones”) and assured millions he would secure the border with a ‘great, big, beautiful wall’ paid by Mexico and cancel Obama's illegal executive orders.
Not long after, Trump seized on China and unfair trade.
To be sure, since then Trump has made dozens of additional first day pledges on Climate Change, US Defense, Nato, Healthcare, Ethics, and Regulation but the following “first day pledges” have been been his signature issues for 18 months, the key issues that fueled his blue collar support. :
On the FIRST DAY Trump pledged to:
– Order all federal funding of sanctuary cities to cease.
– Immediately Cancel of Obama’s two executive amnesties of illegals, and return to full enforcement of the law.
– Begin the deportation of over 2 million criminal illegal immigrants.
– Begin the process of building a great wall across the southern border
– Formally request of Congress to pass Kate’s law
– Suspend immigration from terror prone areas where vetting is ineffective.
– Suspend Muslim immigration
– Order the DECLARATION OF CHINA as a currency manipulator
– Cancel the Trans Pacific Trade Agreement
– Announce his desire to renegotiate NAFTA
– Cancel every one of Obama’s “unconstitutional executive action, memorandum, and order by President Obama”
If Ann Coulter, and millions of others, waited expectantly for Trump to demonstrate he is not a politician but "the real deal", they are waiting for Godot. Of the 36 or more pledges, he kept at most three (8 percent.). More importantly the news is now leaking that Trump no longer wishes to deal with immigration till later, and wishes to continue the Obama's policy of enforcement. In other words, Trump is "busy" undermining, delaying, or sinking ALL his major major promises to ACT on day one.
In short, he made a monkey out of the 14 million Trump primary voters that thought he was their salvation...LOL.
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