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What Advice Would You Give Trump?

Keep doing what your doing. You are doing a fine job on immigration and crime. Build that wall and stop tweeting! Your just giving the media more firepower. Go silent and get it done!
 
1. Be a president, not a king.
2. Get off social media. In fact...ignore the media altogether. Quit badmouthing them. You're just throwing dry kindling on a bonfire.
4. Leave that stupid little gargoyle in NorKo alone. He's at war with the Pacific Ocean and the ocean is still winning.
5. Stop taking the bait so damn much.
6. Continue paring government back. There's still lots of pork and uselessness that needs to go.

7. Subsidize me by..say..$2MM dollars? Yeah, that'll work. Two million.
 
Now I know that there’ll be some who’ll just post ‘resign’, ‘suicide’ or some other non-productive, and frankly boring partisan, posts. I’m hoping for better. An elevated level of discussion and thought.

Yes, Trump is challenged by the office of the President, as is most any other newly elected presidents. Perhaps even more so than most others who have typically come from hands on government executive experience such as Governorships.

Yes, there are areas where Trump and his administration can improve on both their performance and their effectiveness.

Given the hypothetical situation where you had President Trump’s ear, where you could advise him, what advice would you give him?

OK. I’ll start, and set the tone I hope to achieve in this thread.


I’d be interested in what advice for President Trump others might have.

Please, remember to be civil and constructive. It could only lead to greater insights as to how people view Trump’s challenges and where, and how, he needs to, and can, improve.

It's easy to criticize, but much harder to advise. Let's do the latter here.

If you come to this thread just to **** on Trump. So be it, I guess. But I think you’d be shortchanging yourself as well as possibly contributing to a an interesting and thoughtful discussion. (Isn't that why we are all here anyway?)
resign......
 
Arrests are up, not deportations. They need more judges to process the cases.



That was the time to fight for the wall. There was no good reason to delay it.


I gave him credit for the latter. I'm glad Kris Kobach is in charge of it.

You are correct. Arrests, not deportations.

He did fight for the wall but conceded a short delay as a deal maker to get the budget appropriation passed. He'll really fight for it in the upcoming budget negotiations though and I'm pretty sure he'll get at least most of the funding he asks for.
 
Go now, before one of your disillusioned nazi fans takes you out, or Putin serves you some polonium tea.
 
resign......

See the OP. Wasn't what I was hoping the discussion would center around.

Could also look at this as a rephrasing of 'how screwed up is Trump's administration', but coach it in advise as how to improve it.
 
Now I know that there’ll be some who’ll just post ‘resign’, ‘suicide’ or some other non-productive, and frankly boring partisan, posts. I’m hoping for better. An elevated level of discussion and thought.

Yes, Trump is challenged by the office of the President, as is most any other newly elected presidents. Perhaps even more so than most others who have typically come from hands on government executive experience such as Governorships.

Yes, there are areas where Trump and his administration can improve on both their performance and their effectiveness.

Given the hypothetical situation where you had President Trump’s ear, where you could advise him, what advice would you give him?

OK. I’ll start, and set the tone I hope to achieve in this thread.


I’d be interested in what advice for President Trump others might have.

Please, remember to be civil and constructive. It could only lead to greater insights as to how people view Trump’s challenges and where, and how, he needs to, and can, improve.

It's easy to criticize, but much harder to advise. Let's do the latter here.

If you come to this thread just to **** on Trump. So be it, I guess. But I think you’d be shortchanging yourself as well as possibly contributing to a an interesting and thoughtful discussion. (Isn't that why we are all here anyway?)

The problem is Trump was elected on being who he is and now he wants to be who he is. In a way you can't argue with what got him where he is but in another way, it's not really working out all that well so far. He was elected to be different and different he is. The right spent eight years making Obama's life miserable and now that it is payback time, Trump was caught off guard at the level of the "resistance". Society has become so polarized that this is the new politics. Whatever party is not in power becomes nothing but resistant and the party of no and everyone from the top down will try to flip the coin to the other side. Everything has devolved to this and constant litigation and constant investigations, crippling the country so much that nothing can be accomplished by either side. The country has been taken hostage by extreme partisan politics.
 
The problem is Trump was elected on being who he is and now he wants to be who he is. In a way you can't argue with what got him where he is but in another way, it's not really working out all that well so far. He was elected to be different and different he is. The right spent eight years making Obama's life miserable and now that it is payback time, Trump was caught off guard at the level of the "resistance". Society has become so polarized that this is the new politics. Whatever party is not in power becomes nothing but resistant and the party of no and everyone from the top down will try to flip the coin to the other side. Everything has devolved to this and constant litigation and constant investigations, crippling the country so much that nothing can be accomplished by either side. The country has been taken hostage by extreme partisan politics.

Yeah, OK. If you look at the Democrat's losses at the state and federal levels, seems pretty clear that they are on the decline.

Obama’s legacy is a devastated Democratic Party
By Deroy Murdock, December 25, 2016
Obama’s legacy is a devastated Democratic Party | New York Post

As President Obama concludes his reign of error, his party is smaller, weaker and ricketier than it has been since at least the 1940s. Behold the tremendous power that Democrats have frittered away — from January 2009 through the aftermath of Election Day — thanks to Obama and his ideas:

  • Democrats surrendered the White House to political neophyte Donald J. Trump.
  • US Senate seats slipped from 55 to 46, down 16 percent.
  • US House seats fell from 256 to 194, down 24 percent.
  • Democrats ran the Senate and House in 2009. Next year, they will control neither.
  • Governorships slid from 28 to 16, down 43 percent.
  • State legislatures (both chambers) plunged from 27 to 14, down 48 percent
  • Trifectas (states with Democrat governors and both legislative chambers) cratered from 17 to 6, down 65 percent.
 
Trump should try to negotiate a deal like Nixon got.
 
Yeah, OK. If you look at the Democrat's losses at the state and federal levels, seems pretty clear that they are on the decline.

I think Trump being elected was a signal by voters that they want "none of the above" and that they are sick of the partisanship on both sides. They hoped that Trump could drain the swamp but you can't fight mother nature. The swamp ain't goin away no matter who is president.
 
Please, no more Tweeting. At least take a remedial grammar class. His posts are more grammatically atrocious than the average post here. When Trump's grammar is worse than totally uneducated wackjob conspiracy theorists and mindless hacks on the internet, it's an embarrassment for us all.

Also, if he has time between optics disasters: Get rid of the death tax, lower corporate taxes, greatly reduce the capital gains tax, and huge tax cuts across the board. Power to the people.

I find it ironic that a lot of that is taking power from the people, and granting it to the ultra rich.
 
No Wall. Investigate voter fraud and gerrymandering. He's pissed off the MSM, Deep State, Clapper, Comey, the FBI, and the DNI so he's doing something right. Keep Twittering because it bypasses the MSM. Fill the State Dept with loyal Trump people, no weasels from the NeoCons. Get the MIC Generals out of the NSA. Ally with Russia to help Syria and it will also help Iraq. Start some FBI investigations on who hired Steele to produce the fake "Dossier." Investigate Hillary's handling of classified material. Investigate the DNC for misrepresentation of its' constituents by sabotaging Sander's bid. Stop all the wars as quickly as possible. Put the Military to work on internal USA infrastructure. Promote 100% renewable energy nationwide. Shut Nukes and end the Nuclear nightmare. Stop trying to promote Iran and Russia as boogeymen. Shut down the opium flow from Afghanistan to USA Big Pharma. Reform the USA "fiat" dollar or be bankrupted by the One Belt One Road Eurasia infrastructure development. Of course, this is the real reason for creating failed MidEast and African Nations. Initiate a foreign policy that actually is mutually beneficial to all parties and quit killing people all over the World. I don't know what Trump could do on Day Two but I've presented a Day One scenario.
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:lamo That's pretty good, that right there.
 
Now I know that there’ll be some who’ll just post ‘resign’, ‘suicide’ or some other non-productive, and frankly boring partisan, posts. I’m hoping for better. An elevated level of discussion and thought.

Yes, Trump is challenged by the office of the President, as is most any other newly elected presidents. Perhaps even more so than most others who have typically come from hands on government executive experience such as Governorships.

Yes, there are areas where Trump and his administration can improve on both their performance and their effectiveness.

Given the hypothetical situation where you had President Trump’s ear, where you could advise him, what advice would you give him?

OK. I’ll start, and set the tone I hope to achieve in this thread.


I’d be interested in what advice for President Trump others might have.

Please, remember to be civil and constructive. It could only lead to greater insights as to how people view Trump’s challenges and where, and how, he needs to, and can, improve.

It's easy to criticize, but much harder to advise. Let's do the latter here.

If you come to this thread just to **** on Trump. So be it, I guess. But I think you’d be shortchanging yourself as well as possibly contributing to a an interesting and thoughtful discussion. (Isn't that why we are all here anyway?)

First of all, Id' tell him to lose the comb-over and bic that dome.
I'd tell him to scale back his rhetoric a lot.
Take time to reach out to Congress and arrange some VERY public meetings between the leaders from both sides of the aisle with a TIGHT focus on addressing the problems we are facing. Look at the problem of the violence we are facing, our growing nat'l debt, how to keep our economy growing, healthcare and such and make it all about solutions and not about casting blame. Go into such meetings with a well publicized expectation that blame casting isn't going to be part of the discussion and have ALL parties publicly agree to that.
Hold some townhall meetings at small venues.
Assign a new AG who has no political affiliation and is willing to take on the entire process, both internal and external to bring justice to bear on the issues that the AG decides need to be addressed and not who the press, the President, Congress or even The People think should be addressed.
Put out a public list of nominees for a potential SCOTUS position and let that list get vetted NOW.
Either **** or get off the pot when it comes to marijuana. Either push to make it legal nationwide or enforce the laws nationwide.
Get the people he's putting charge of the various Bureaus in front of the cameras and let them explain what they are going to do to make things better.
 
First of all, Id' tell him to lose the comb-over and bic that dome.
I'd tell him to scale back his rhetoric a lot.
Take time to reach out to Congress and arrange some VERY public meetings between the leaders from both sides of the aisle with a TIGHT focus on addressing the problems we are facing. Look at the problem of the violence we are facing, our growing nat'l debt, how to keep our economy growing, healthcare and such and make it all about solutions and not about casting blame. Go into such meetings with a well publicized expectation that blame casting isn't going to be part of the discussion and have ALL parties publicly agree to that.
Hold some townhall meetings at small venues.
Assign a new AG who has no political affiliation and is willing to take on the entire process, both internal and external to bring justice to bear on the issues that the AG decides need to be addressed and not who the press, the President, Congress or even The People think should be addressed.
Put out a public list of nominees for a potential SCOTUS position and let that list get vetted NOW.
Either **** or get off the pot when it comes to marijuana. Either push to make it legal nationwide or enforce the laws nationwide.
Get the people he's putting charge of the various Bureaus in front of the cameras and let them explain what they are going to do to make things better.

An interesting list there. Clearly you've given this some thought, bravo!

The rhetoric scale back, against the media, yeah, that wouldn't hurt. I'd further that point by not giving the media any fodder to make something out of, as often Trump does this all on his own, so self-inflicted in a number of cases. Why hurt yourself, President Trump?

Reach out to congress? Check. He's done that, and that appears to be his style. Instrumental in getting the House version of healthcare legislation over the finish line (only to flounder in the Senate - oh well).

Public meetings with both sides, and someone to ride herd on them to keep them on track? Well, I think that'd be quite a challenge to do for one, hell, even in the presidential debates that was less than completely successful. Adding more people and voices could only make that more difficult. How you gonna get to moderate this? Are you sure that those whom you want to participate would?

AG. Less convinced on this count, as I think that Sessions is a good choice. No sense turning this over at this point in time. Maybe at the end of the first term or early in the second term.

Bully for you. Appreciate you contributing to the discussion.
 
Trump should try to negotiate a deal like Nixon got.

What about the Nixon negotiations, of which I'm not sure anything was made public, do you think Trump should adopt?
 
I think Trump being elected was a signal by voters that they want "none of the above" and that they are sick of the partisanship on both sides. They hoped that Trump could drain the swamp but you can't fight mother nature. The swamp ain't goin away no matter who is president.

Hmm. My intuition has me trending to 'your are right', but the rest of me, the more measured me, hopes that some draining of the swamp can take place, and the rationalization me thinks that any draining of that swamp is a good thing and a step in the right direction.
 
Go now, before one of your disillusioned nazi fans takes you out, or Putin serves you some polonium tea.

Eh? If you've got some civilly phrased criticism of Trump, do please post it.

However, please, maintaining the spirit of the thread, phrase it and compose it as advice to Trump himself, if you please.
 
Eh? If you've got some civilly phrased criticism of Trump, do please post it.

However, please, maintaining the spirit of the thread, phrase it and compose it as advice to Trump himself, if you please.

That was composed as advice to Trump. Did you take it personally? I don't think Putin is aware of you. Or me.
 
That was composed as advice to Trump. Did you take it personally? I don't think Putin is aware of you. Or me.

Go now, before one of your disillusioned nazi fans takes you out, or Putin serves you some polonium tea.

I'm not seeing this as advice to Trump. Perhaps it will if you expand on it, as I really don't see either as being particularly likely of actually happening.
 
I find it ironic that a lot of that is taking power from the people, and granting it to the ultra rich.

Money is power. To the people.
 
What about the Nixon negotiations, of which I'm not sure anything was made public, do you think Trump should adopt?



Whatever Nixon did to avoid being put on trial after he left the White House would be the smart things for Trump to do.

We'll see how smart Trump is as this episode plays out.

:lol:
 
Whatever Nixon did to avoid being put on trial after he left the White House would be the smart things for Trump to do.

We'll see how smart Trump is as this episode plays out.

:lol:

Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps if anything that Trump's done that raises to the level of 'high crimes and misdemeanors', perhaps. Not sure if he has though.

I guess we'll see how this unfolds.
 
Hmm. Interesting. Perhaps if anything that Trump's done that raises to the level of 'high crimes and misdemeanors', perhaps. Not sure if he has though.

I guess we'll see how this unfolds.



That's what I think also.Back when Watergate was about over with I thought that Nixon might be impeached.I still think that he got off easy.
 
That's what I think also.Back when Watergate was about over with I thought that Nixon might be impeached.I still think that he got off easy.

Difficult situation with underlings that went over the line, and he got caught up in it, at least from what I recall from my high school days when I didn't pay much attention to politics in the least (so I may be in error on that).

While yo may think that Nixon got off easy, and I respect that opinion, I can't recall specifically the issues at hand. That being said, a president cannot find himself in a position where he is involved in illegality. That's a non-starter for me.
 
That's what I think also.Back when Watergate was about over with I thought that Nixon might be impeached.I still think that he got off easy.

Yeah, that's very true. The electorate, by far the majority of it, casts their vote and then is relegated to the sidelines to a spectator role and gets to see how their choice, their vote, works out. Yes, very true.
 
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