Trump Thread

[Seamus Fermanagh]

Trump is himself part of the establishment, has been for years and has basically used this position quite a lot himself.
So when he complains about it this much, it does indeed sound like he never expected to win or to be forced to deliver on his promises.
The first thing he should do to drain the swamp is step down, everything else is just hypocrisy and crocodile tears.

Not to forget that Bannon is basically a media mogul himself and Trump filled his entire cabinet with people from the establishment and then claimed he prefers them because they're, well....established....

As for the media not talking about him, cry me a river and welcome to capitalism, the best system in the world! They HAVE to cover him to stay in business, they have zero (monetary) incentive not to.

He is NOT, or at least until election was not, part of the political establishment. Our politicos love to take corporate money, but NOT to have corporate types taking their perquisites. Trump was supposed to keep making money, donate to their campaigns, get a few favorable votes paid for, and then let the princ-lings of the Potomac continue as usual.

Trump's establishment administration team is fraying and falling away. Bannon remains, but Priebus is gone. GOP senators are declaring Trump anathema alongside Dems.

And yes, Trump encourages the media circus at the same time he decries it -- so we CAN add hypocrisy to his list of traits.

I have to agree on his promises. The GOP did not expect him to win and even his own transition team did yack-all to play to execute on some of his campaign promises (even the ones the traditional base loved). Oddly enough, the only person executing policy efforts that attempt to fulfill a Trump campaign promise is Sessions with his measures to enforce existing immigration law -- and Trump has been lambasting him anyway.

I am just sick of the endless media drumbeat attempting to make a "Russian connection" that renders articles of impeachment. The smug glee in each announcer's studied tones when hinting that things could be getting worse.

Trump will run his own presidency into the dirt without assistance, thank you very much, so I wish we could get the "shark frenzy" tone to just go away.