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What can Trump do to change your mind on him?

What can Trump do to change your mind?

  • Resign as President

    Votes: 24 58.5%

  • Cure Cancer

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • Bring World Peace

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • Nothing I hate him!

    Votes: 4 9.8%

  • Complete all his campaign promises

    Votes: 6 14.6%

  • Send everyone $10,000 cash tax free

    Votes: 2 4.9%

  • Join the EU and get rid of the Constitution

    Votes: 1 2.4%

  • Ban Guns!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    41
  • Poll closed .
Cephus said:
No, just lots of things you don't like. His actual job performance, what he was put in office to do, has been surprisingly good. The economy is much better than it was under Obama. We're heading in the right direction. This is an objective fact. You just don't care about facts, you care about feelings.

It's why regressivism is so damn stupid.
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Blunders: Hiring Flynn. The Muslim ban. Firing Comey.
Idiotic Statements: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Twitter Tirades: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
 
Cephus said:
That's because you can only see the world through liberal-colored glasses.
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I see the world through the lens of reality not some version where Trump doe snot act like the idiot he is. All he has done is say incredibly stupid things, appoint equally idiotic people to important positions, blame others for failures, and harm America's stance in the world.
 
Verax said:
Blunders: Hiring Flynn. The Muslim ban. Firing Comey.
Idiotic Statements: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
Twitter Tirades: https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump
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You mean the Muslim ban that Obama came up with? After all, Trump took all of the countries that he wanted to temporarily ban Muslims coming from straight from Obama. Guess you think Obama was an idiot. I also don't give a damn what he, or anyone else, says on Twitter. Only morons pay any attention to social media.
 
Cephus said:
No, just lots of things you don't like. His actual job performance, what he was put in office to do, has been surprisingly good. The economy is much better than it was under Obama. We're heading in the right direction. This is an objective fact. You just don't care about facts, you care about feelings.

It's why regressivism is so damn stupid.
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How is the economy not just a continuation of the trend under Obama? You would have to be incredibly stupid to think that the American economy was somehow doing bad under Obama.
 
Cephus said:
You mean the Muslim ban that Obama came up with? After all, Trump took all of the countries that he wanted to temporarily ban Muslims coming from straight from Obama. Guess you think Obama was an idiot. I also don't give a damn what he, or anyone else, says on Twitter. Only morons pay any attention to social media.
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It is how Trump communicates with Americans and the rest of the world, it is incredibly relevant.
 
Marco Montana said:
Well we did renegotiate NAFTA, we got out of the TPP, we got out of the Paris Accord, we got NATO to pay their fair share and we have Tax Cuts coming... Thats a lot of promises kept no?
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Not without changing them and/or moving goal posts.

Top 5 promises Donald Trump's voters expect him to deliver on - CNNPolitics
Top 5 promises Donald Trump's voters expect him to deliver on

The wall
Without question, Trump's central campaign plank was his pledge to build a wall on the US-Mexico border. Trump made immigration a top focal point from the moment he launched his White House bid in June of 2015, when he controversially claimed that Mexico was sending "rapists" and "criminals" across the border.

'Lock her up'
The chants began during the Republican National Convention. Soon, "lock her up" became a ritual at each of Trump's rallies. And at the second presidential debate, Trump told Hillary Clinton that, were he to win, he would "instruct my attorney general to get a special prosecutor to look into your (missing email) situation."

Muslim ban
Almost a year ago, following the massacre in San Bernardino, California, Trump issued perhaps his most dramatic proposal: "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."

Repeal Obamacare
Republicans have been trying to repeal President Obama's signature health care law pretty much from the moment it was signed in 2010. Now the GOP will finally have someone in the White House to finish the job.

Unravel NAFTA and TPP
Trump's improbable win on Tuesday was driven in large part by his triumph in the Rust Belt, with states like Wisconsin and Pennsylvania going to the GOP for the first time since the 1980s, and Trump leading in a third, Michigan. He inspired voters there with a populist message on free trade, promising to return their communities to the golden years by scrapping what he described as horrible deals for workers.
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That's beside the point I was making, anyway.

I'm beginning to appreciate that at least I should personally be in a position to take advantage of things like the near term stock market surge (that's been running for 9 years, btw) far more than the average rust belt dead town folks that elected Trump.

#48 has a better summary than I could be bothered to write.
 
antiquity said:
You mean like Hillary? ROTFLMAO
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Who said anything about Hillary? If Trump let someone else much better qualified be President, it wouldn't be her. That isn't how this country works.

I never thought she would make a great President. Trump, however, did. He was her biggest fan at one time. I wonder why he changed his mind on that.
 
Cephus said:
You mean the Muslim ban that Obama came up with? After all, Trump took all of the countries that he wanted to temporarily ban Muslims coming from straight from Obama. Guess you think Obama was an idiot. I also don't give a damn what he, or anyone else, says on Twitter. Only morons pay any attention to social media.
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No. The one Trump promised:
Muslim ban
Almost a year ago, following the massacre in San Bernardino, California, Trump issued perhaps his most dramatic proposal: "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
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RetiredUSN said:
None of the above:

Trump is a insecure braggadocio and never measured very highly with me. That is why I didn't push any buttons on the presidential selection this time.

Politicians of today could take lessons from fairly recent former presidents like Reagan and Carter, who were gentlemen first when it came to disagreements.

Hillary and Donald is the best we can do?

I thought we were better than this.
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Don't be so disappointed after all we did get the shiniest of two turds. Isn't that a good thing?

All kidding aside. I have always said Trump is a shark, that said I am pleasantly surprised by what he has done policy-wise. I would have expected to get bit more and harder. His policies lot more conservative than I would have expected from him. A lot of people have trashed the tax plan that was passed, that plan is going to put him in more peoples good graces come tax time. I don't care if he is a loud mothed braggadocio, so long as he continues to govern as he is. I think we may be hitting 5% growth by the end of the year. If that's the case a lot more people are going to be joining his bandwagon especially the millennials who have been kinda of hosed by no or slow growth.
 
Cephus said:
You mean the Muslim ban that Obama came up with? After all, Trump took all of the countries that he wanted to temporarily ban Muslims coming from straight from Obama. Guess you think Obama was an idiot. I also don't give a damn what he, or anyone else, says on Twitter. Only morons pay any attention to social media.
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Trump's Muslim ban was a blunder. What Obama did was intelligently directed.

Only morons pay attention to what the president says? What a sad outlook you have. Though there is some merit to ignoring the current POTUS.
 
MSgt said:
You want to see how ridiculous Trump haters are by providing ridiculous poll answers? How about this...

Discover Professionalism.
Be a proper statesman.
Understand that you don't have to act like a teenage girl in order to use Twitter.
Be consistent and figure out a Foreign Policy not based on Obama's.
Be a leader that strives to be more than simple moronic slogans.

But the real problem that many people have, I think, is not so much about Trump's immature and embarrassing buffoonery as much as it is his pathetic flock of fanatics who are so weak minded that they betray everything they use to stand for, while pretending that its everybody else who wonders the political waste land confused as hell.
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The only thing I care about is results. Show me the money. So far the results have been good. Better than expected. That for me gets him more bites at the apple. I can care less if he acts like a teenage girl on Twitter, or unprofessional or not very statesmanlike, that's all perception which right now doesn't match up anywhere near reality.
 
Cephus said:
Now point to the actual bill that he proposed after being elected. Campaign promises mean nothing.
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...moved goal posts...

Bill? He tried what, 3 EO's? No bills. Rule by exec fiat. One of the things he complained about with Obama. And now you are even holding up Obama as the real author of Trump's Muslim ban.

Wow...

The only real legislation these clowns enacted is a tax giveaway. Ride the market while the crack high lasts. Get out before the bubble pops, though.

Some of the dereg moves I approve of. Letting the generals run the military is working okay to date.

The rest is stupid, especially this net neutrality idiocy and 'see-no-evil' re Wall St. Plutocrats carving up the country isn't good for long term health, but let's just think about short term profits!
 
PirateMk1 said:
Don't be so disappointed after all we did get the shiniest of two turds. Isn't that a good thing?

All kidding aside. I have always said Trump is a shark, that said I am pleasantly surprised by what he has done policy-wise. I would have expected to get bit more and harder. His policies lot more conservative than I would have expected from him. A lot of people have trashed the tax plan that was passed, that plan is going to put him in more peoples good graces come tax time. I don't care if he is a loud mothed braggadocio, so long as he continues to govern as he is. I think we may be hitting 5% growth by the end of the year. If that's the case a lot more people are going to be joining his bandwagon especially the millennials who have been kinda of hosed by no or slow growth.
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If consumer and small business confidence equals overall growth predictions for 2018, then I think we are on the right path. I have about 3 dozen associates/friends out there running their own small businesses, and they are liking what they see so far.

I will split my time between driving dumps for a local highway construction company and doing my own thing on the side. The only reason I drive the dumps at all is because there are 5 other Navy retirees that I get to be around everyday, and most of us have been together off and on for the past 35 years. Kinda like a hooligan family. ;)

I will let my son contract a few jobs under my state builders license (pulling permits) which makes it a win for both of us. I will take a cut of the profit margin, and he happily agreed to pay 1/2 of my limited liability insurance. In 20 months, I will retire at 62 and gladly take the SS cut while still rehabbing houses.
 
Marco Montana said:
I wanted to see how ridiculous Trumps haters are and if their is a modicum of fairness in them. What could Trump do to change your mind on him to maybe a neutral stance?
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- be prepared to uphold his oath of office with respect to protecting us from Russia and North Korea rather than exposing us to immediate danger like the feckless coward that he is
- stop attacking his own constituents and encouraging conflict for no discernible gain (football players taking a knee, etc.); you can't run a country on liberal tears
- stop attacking world leaders halfcocked and unprepared, with no consideration of the consequences
- stop attacking experts, academics, the media, intelligence agencies, and the rule of law; these things are extremely helpful to good leaders
- stop abusing the office to accrue profits (using a hurricane to sell $40 MAGA hats, using missiles launched at Syria to sell chocolate cake, using Trump properties to accept foreign gifts, etc.)
- stop with the nepotism (Kushner, Ivanka, Miller, etc.)
- stop attacking our environment
- stop the handouts to the rich (tax bill, private prison system & sessions, private education system & devos, etc.)

I could go on.
 
RetiredUSN said:
If consumer and small business confidence equals overall growth predictions for 2018, then I think we are on the right path. I have about 3 dozen associates/friends out there running their own small businesses, and they are liking what they see so far.

I will split my time between driving dumps for a local highway construction company and doing my own thing on the side. The only reason I drive the dumps at all is because there are 5 other Navy retirees that I get to be around everyday, and most of us have been together off and on for the past 35 years. Kinda like a hooligan family. ;)

I will let my son contract a few jobs under my state builders license (pulling permits) which makes it a win for both of us. I will take a cut of the profit margin, and he happily agreed to pay 1/2 of my limited liability insurance. In 20 months, I will retire at 62 and gladly take the SS cut while still rehabbing houses.
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The current limit on income while collecting Social Security is 16,900. After that you have to pay back $1 for every $2 over. Just in case you didn't know.
 
JMR said:
The current limit on income while collecting Social Security is 16,900. After that you have to pay back $1 for every $2 over. Just in case you didn't know.
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I end up using my entire military pension every year just to stay even with my taxes right now.

I will work till I am dead anyways, because turning over older houses is a passion of mine.
 
Well I dont hate the man and the OP isn't really specific. Theres certain things I feel about Trump that can never be changed because he already proved them and most were before he was even president lol

I don't think he will ever be a good president and he will probably easily be the worst president in my life time.

How can he change that? Simply be a good one
Delete twitter, talk waaaaaaay less, grow some skin, do things that will benefit most americans, support equal rights

as for the poll I didnt vote cause i dont hate him but bring world peace would be amazing for anybody lol
 
Marco Montana said:
I wanted to see how ridiculous Trumps haters are and if their is a modicum of fairness in them. What could Trump do to change your mind on him to maybe a neutral stance?
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I could not respond to the poll as "Other" was not a choice.

Donald Trump is incompetent. Donald Trump likely requires physical and psychological help which he apparently refuses. Beyond his malignant narcissism he may also have dementia and perhaps other issues. Trump is not fit to serve as President of the United States. It would appear that as a result of his challenges he is incapable of recognizing his own disabilities.
 
PirateMk1 said:
The only thing I care about is results. Show me the money. So far the results have been good.
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Sitting on the toilet often produces a result too. I guess it all depends on what you consider "good." His "accomplishments" almost entirely rely upon merely rolling back the efforts of the past.

- He went from declaring NATO obsolete to it not being obsolete anymore.
- He went from declaring China a currency manipulator to it not being a manipulator anymore.
- He went from "lock her up" to he's not interested anymore.
- He has the worst "First 100 Days" on historical record by far.
- His attempt to address terrorism relied upon a State Department list of countries under Obama.
- He failed to repeal Obamacare because he had no plan.
- His Foreign Policy relies upon Obama's weak Foreign Policy.
- He makes bad international decisions and has actually managed to place our allies, the UN, and our enemies on the same side as they condemn us.
- He has no way to pay for his silly wall and has added a tax-cut for the wealthy (which addressed Obamacare) on top of that.

Sure, "good" results. As far as "showing you the money," look for new taxes on the Middle Class next year to compensate for this tax-cut Bill.
 
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Absentglare said:
- be prepared to uphold his oath of office with respect to protecting us from Russia and North Korea rather than exposing us to immediate danger like the feckless coward that he is
- stop attacking his own constituents and encouraging conflict for no discernible gain (football players taking a knee, etc.); you can't run a country on liberal tears
- stop attacking world leaders halfcocked and unprepared, with no consideration of the consequences
- stop attacking experts, academics, the media, intelligence agencies, and the rule of law; these things are extremely helpful to good leaders
- stop abusing the office to accrue profits (using a hurricane to sell $40 MAGA hats, using missiles launched at Syria to sell chocolate cake, using Trump properties to accept foreign gifts, etc.)
- stop with the nepotism (Kushner, Ivanka, Miller, etc.)
- stop attacking our environment
- stop the handouts to the rich (tax bill, private prison system & sessions, private education system & devos, etc.)

I could go on.
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In other words be someone else....
 
Risky Thicket said:
I could not respond to the poll as "Other" was not a choice.

Donald Trump is incompetent. Donald Trump likely requires physical and psychological help which he apparently refuses. Beyond his malignant narcissism he may also have dementia and perhaps other issues. Trump is not fit to serve as President of the United States. It would appear that as a result of his challenges he is incapable of recognizing his own disabilities.
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Risky, don't you think that if he were showing signs of dementia, somebody who interacts daily with him would be whispering? Pillow talk or maybe part of the housekeeping staff or somebody? Serious question.
 
nota bene said:
Risky, don't you think that if he were showing signs of dementia, somebody who interacts daily with him would be whispering? Pillow talk or maybe part of the housekeeping staff or somebody? Serious question.
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They aren't just whispering. His administration leaks like a paper bag.

There was his bizarre slurring of speech on Israel.

There are many rants, like the NYT interview, that are brazenly incoherent, even by his incompetent standards.

Fact is; we've never had, in our history, a president where his administration is going to so much effort to filter his narrative in order to guide his behavior away from his potentially catastrophic impulses.
 
Marco Montana said:
I wanted to see how ridiculous Trumps haters are and if their is a modicum of fairness in them. What could Trump do to change your mind on him to maybe a neutral stance?
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Trump is so far beyond redemption, so far out of touch with much of the country, and such an inherent consummate liar, that for some of us - definitely myself - there's nothing he could do to win us over. He's crossed the bridge too far.

He's undoubtedly not just the worst President of my lifetime, but one of the worst human beings I'm aware of. It's hard to believe one person could possibly contain nearly every one of the human attributes I consider negative, but somehow he has managed! He is the guy you point to, and tell your kids: "Don't ever grow-up to be like him"

And yet somehow, of all things, he got the Evangelical vote! Go figure. (due to this, I just wrote them off now too)

My, how far we've come in my lifetime, from respecting our President, to a President himself that doesn't respect the office.
 
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