Trump is an inspiration

Liberals accuse him of the opposite and call him every bad thing possible but i view him as an inspiration in so many ways.

First and foremost, the guy didn't need to do this. He had been living the life of a king, a life everyone envies. He was 69 years old, an age where taking on this job can be challenging. He obviously didn't take the job to enrich himself as he already had billions. Trump didn't do this for personal gain, he did it for love of Country and nothing more. For those who say it was because of his ego and lust for power, take a look at this brief clip of 40 year old Trump expressing a passion for his Country and talking about the very same things he campaigned on! This is a man that has always had these views, always loved his Country and always wanted to fix things. Notice how he says that if he ever ran, he would win.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEPs17_AkTI

Decades ago, in another interview, Trump stated that he always wanted to see a person run for president on strong views which were right but maybe unpopular. This is exactly what he did when he took on both parties. Below is the clip which lasts a few seconds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5VEjF1uhYo


The guy knew that running for president was a big risk, for him personally and for his business. Trump spent millions on his campaign, took on the media and both parties. He stood to lose a lot - hit to his brand, lose business, having his past personal life exposed and he still had the courage to do it.

The man's work ethic is off the charts. I'm absolutely amazed at how hard he worked during the campaign, he was all over the place and in the last 4 weeks showed mitt romney how it's done - 3-4 cities a day! meanwhile Hilary had Obamas, Biden and Bill help her cover ground and they still couldn't match Trump's energy and work rate. Trump has been president for 1 week and look at all the things he has already done, pretty much going through the campaign promise checklist, tackling one issue after another. Whether you agree with him or not, every liberal or conservative has to take inspiration by someone that works this hard and delivers on his promises no matter what resistance he gets from either party.

 

Well Said.

I've always been skeptical of Trump, but so far, I am very impressed!

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No, he's just a narcissist. And delivering on his promises is a problem, because he and his supporters have a lot of really stupid ideas. Let me elaborate on a particular area.

He thinks he's going to make America safer, but his actions so far have done the opposite or nothing. He wants to ban muslims. What kind of (*)(*)(*)(*)ing idiot does not realize that people can lie about their religion? That's republicans for you. All they have is fear and hate and THEY DON'T THINK. Okay, then he bans immigration from specific countries. Notice that NONE of the countries in question have conducted a terror attack on US soil. And even if they had, one can just as easily come from any other country. One of the terrorists who attacked us in the past few decades was from Britain FFS, some were US citizens. And then when you tell our allies in Iraq that they can't immigrate here, that there is something wrong with them because of where they are from, maybe it's not such a good idea to cooperate with the US huh? ESPECIALLY when the president stands in front of the CIA memorial and laments the fact that we didn't take their oil, and "maybe we'll get another chance." Trump should be awarded with an MVP award by terrorists - they could not have hoped for a better useful idiot for their cause.

The nicest thing I can say about him is he's good at making it look like he's making a difference to people who don't think. And Americans don't.

 

I agree that he really is an inspiration. However, above all of the things you mentioned, I can't wake up in the morning without finding out that he did something else to try and make good on his campaign promises.

I might have heard from Obama once every few months, and inevitably it was something that hurt us. With Trump, my newsfeed can't keep up with the guy!

And ya know, I do have to feel sorry for my leftist friends. If Hillary had won, and been this busy every day, I would have suffered a heart attack by now!

"OMG! She just let a million syrians into the country!"
"Arrrrgh!!!!! She just raised taxes!"
"RAWRRRGG!!!! She just made women's studies a required major in every university that accepts federal funding!"

 

There is no way Trump is an inspiration to civilized decent people maybe to the Kremlin trolls

 

What do you think about the border wall idea?

 

Well said!

And the liberal tears keep flowing.....

 

Even the CONSERVATIVE media says Trump is delusional:


http://www.theamericanconservative.com/larison/trumps-inaugural-address/



Trump’s inaugural address contained a lot of populist boilerplate and committed to achieving a lot of overly ambitious or impossible goals. One of the more unrealistic pledges he made concerned combating jihadists:

We will reinforce old alliances and form new ones – and unite the civilized world against Radical Islamic Terrorism, which we will eradicate completely from the face of the Earth.

First, that isn’t going to happen. We have seen that the U.S. doesn’t know how to do this, and it is better at destabilizing countries and creating opportunities for jihadist groups to flourish. It’s not even clear why it should be the responsibility of the U.S. to take on such a mission if it were possible. Trump emphasized that “America first” would be the guiding principle of his administration, but at the same time he committed to some version of Flynn’s multi-generational global war that would condemn Americans to fighting foreign wars for decades to come. One can have a foreign policy that prioritizes American interests, or one can have a global mission to eradicate an ineradicable phenomenon, but in order to have the latter the former will have to be cast aside. The endless, global war implied by this statement has nothing to do with benefiting “American workers and American families,” and it dooms the U.S. to deeper entanglement in precisely those parts of the world that we don’t understand and where our involvement earns us nothing but hostility.

Many lines in Trump’s address were unobjectionable by themselves, but it was hard to take Trump seriously when he said them. For instance, he said, “We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world.” That sounds very good, but it’s incompatible with an administration overflowing with hard-liners that seem to be looking for reasons to pick fights with other countries. Likewise, his populist rhetoric doesn’t square with the people he has selected for his Cabinet or the policies they favor. Some of his more grandiose statements of national purpose read almost like a parody of an activist government championed by so-called “national greatness conservatives” at the start of the century:

We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.

In addition to the many unrealistic or exorbitant promises contained in the speech, Trump presented everything in very broad strokes and gave us no sense of what he considers to be his priorities at the start of his presidency. If Trump and his advisers know what they are, they don’t seem to be interested in telling us about them.

 

so read my post carefully, it's not about whether you agree with his views or not it's about how he took on this job when he had nothing to gain from it and a lot to lose, how hard he works and how he took on everyone, even his own party. I don't agree with Trump on everything but one thing i admire is his work ethic and how he is delivering on virtually every campaign promise he ran on and a lot of it on week 1!!! he's done more in a week that presidents do in 1 year!

now as far as your views (which are irrelevant to my OP) let's talk about it. I tend to agree that banning millions of muslims from certain Countries is not the 'American way' but i'll be honest with you, i'm torn on this. Most muslims are good people but the Country's leaders are not and something has to be done. Iran's leaders? they want to nuke Israel and ruled by a 'supreme leader' who hates the west and rules based in Islamic principles. Saudi Arabia? a *******n monarchy! under Sharia Law! where human civil rights are violated and radical islam tought in schools all over the Country! Iraq? a mess, full of terrorists. Syria? an oppressive regime with many terrorists planted in the Country. Lybia? a total mess infiltrated with terrorists... the list goes on.

So i'm torn because i feel for the citizens (most peaceful muslims) but have a big f problem with the governments and leaders, all of them are bad and do nothing to fight radical islam. These f leaders are afraid to take on terrorists because it's politically inconvenient, try to impose Islamic principles on it's people and allow radical islam to be taught. There is a school of thought that we need to be tougher on these Countries, put more pressure on them to fight human rights abuses and fight terrorism more. These measures by Trump may play a part, or it may make things worse..who knows. I do think we should be tougher with these government though, they simply don't do enough to fight terrorism. Maybe they will start realizing that they need to clamp down on these schools that radicalize people, come down harder on terrorists so they can have better relations with US..

 

That's the perception he is going for, but it mostly reflects his lack of thinking things through. It's easy to sign three documents a day when he doesn't have the insight to be conscientious. He did work hard on the campaign trail and in general. So do most people who run for president. His motives are hard to say, but ego and bigotry are high on the list.

It would behoove America to stop trying to fix the problems of other nations, particularly with the culture difference of islam versus secular. It backfires. Terrorism against America is primarily motivated by the condescending interventionism we display, with a lesser contribution from our support of Israel, which was artificially recreated in modern times.

Trump should have simply made more stringent vetting, though it was already pretty good. We don't need to exclude Iranian doctors and Syrian children. That's not who we are.

 

And the welts on the Democrat's ass are very painful and bleeding profusely. Time to rub some Kosher rock salt in their wounds so they'd be able to take a harder beating in 2020.

 

This. He is the ultimate example of insecurity. he's a great example of what happens when children are raised by nannies, instead of solid parenting. He's constantly trying to prove himself.

 

Being an inspiration isn't necessarily a good thing. After all, Hitler was an inspiration. So was Pol Pot. So was Stalin. So was Tojo. But none were a positive inspiration and neither is Mr. Trump. He's a textbook narcissist. He has a less than sterling personal history. He's incredibly rude and vindictive to those who have the audacity to question him. His ego knows no bounds. He's a hedonist who has demonstrated disrespect for women and the disabled. But worse, he's a habitual liar.

No, I wouldn't call him even remotely inspirational.

Regards,

Jason Bourne

 

So in other words he's pretty much identical to Barack Obama?

 

Well said. Something has GOT to start toughening them up. Watching all these hysterical snowflakes melt over the results of an election has been sickening. Hilarious, but also sickening.

 

Not even close. But as regards the Obama Presidency, I have to give Trump credit for making a world class fool of himself for championing the birther insanity.

Regards,

Jason Bourne

 

I dunno. According to your description they seem pretty much interchangeable.

 

Obama is a respected legal scholar and world leader, a cultured geltleman, a doting father and husband and a successful United States Chief Exective. Trump is simply a wealthy narcissistic womanizing bully who is mentally unstable.

Regards,

Jason Bourne

 

He is an inspiration.
He inspires me to check his Twitter feed and the news to see what ridiculous antic he he's pulled.

 

Good OP

I've said this a few times but I believe a big problem Hillary had was that she wanted to be president because it was "her turn".

Trump considered it for a long time and previously stated he would only do it if it were urgent. He came in with a distinct, strong message and it won.

Trump really is an inspiration and he took a lot risks to get the job done. He faced scrutiny from all over but came out on top.

 

2018. Supermajority here we come. Its not a coinciedence a lot of the jobs being created are in states that have a democratic senate seat up for grabs in 2018.

 

Trumps winning is getting pretty tiring lol. I am sure he will be met with opposition from the left, due to how radical they are. But so far so good!

 

Granny says, "Dat's right - dey found `em some bleedin'-heart, lib'ral, weak inna knees pro-active pansy judge...

US Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Trump Order on Immigration
January 29, 2017 - President Donald Trump’s executive order limiting immigration to the U.S. from seven Muslim-majority countries led to widespread confusion Saturday as refugees, green-card holders, students and workers were detained at American airports or barred from boarding international flights to the U.S.

See also:

Trump Signs Orders on Defeating IS, Reorganizing NSC, Lobbying
January 28, 2017 - President Donald Trump signed three more executive orders Saturday, calling for a plan to defeat the Islamic State group, a reorganization of the National Security Council and a three-year expansion of the lobbying ban on administration officials.

 

his biggest hurdle will be corrupt RNC hacks trying to sabotage his presidency.

Trump has been absolutely awesome. I always had a gut feeling he would be great if he could get there.

Thank God Putin helped him out and got away with it LOL. Just think.... we could have Hillary Clinton Now!

Remember this my fellow americans.....

whenever your having a bad day always think to yourself.... Hey..... at least Hillary is not president. You will immediately feel better.

Rock on Vladimir!

* Note... there is an element of sarcasm here. It is not meant to attack anyone or cause any hard feeling towards a member of these boards. If that happens I am sorry and understand that it was a poor attempt to lighten the mood.

translation..... Mods please dont give me an infraction for a little joking around.

 

dont worry this was all part of trumps plan