What does a TRUMP presidency look like?

[garbon]

Actually I thought it was worth watching.  Otherwise you miss the parts where he starts a sentence on one topic, mid sentence loses track of what he was saying, and then ends the sentence on a completely different topic.

So in line with what I said.*

*as that is not a new behavior for him

[celedhring]

Jonathan Cohn@CitizenCohn
13h13 hours ago

Trump is coming close to 90 minutes, the longest State of the Union ever, which was Clinton's in 2000. But Clinton's address had more than 9,000 words. Trump's tonight comes in just above 5,200.

Yes, he's speaking very slowly.

[crazy canuck]

Actually I thought it was worth watching.  Otherwise you miss the parts where he starts a sentence on one topic, mid sentence loses track of what he was saying, and then ends the sentence on a completely different topic.

So in line with what I said.*

*as that is not a new behavior for him

fair point

[Barrister]

Apparently when Trump said that he wanted legal immigration "in the largest numbers ever", that was not in the prepared text.  He ad-libbed it.

Stephen Miller is going to be so disappointed.

[frunk]

Trump just wants to make sure he has a supply of future ex-wives.

[alfred russel]

Apparently when Trump said that he wanted legal immigration "in the largest numbers ever", that was not in the prepared text.  He ad-libbed it.

Stephen Miller is going to be so disappointed.

#1, there is a track record of what he says having very little meaning.

#2, the statement means little even if true at face value. Raw immigration numbers were quite low in previous times -- all the immigration prior to 1776 for instance just resulted in a population of ~2 million at the time of the revolution. Basically population growth means that only relatively recent times can compete for a title of "largest numbers ever". And those relatively recent times are significantly inflated by illegal immigration.

[Barrister]

Apparently when Trump said that he wanted legal immigration "in the largest numbers ever", that was not in the prepared text.  He ad-libbed it.

Stephen Miller is going to be so disappointed.

#1, there is a track record of what he says having very little meaning.

#2, the statement means little even if true at face value. Raw immigration numbers were quite low in previous times -- all the immigration prior to 1776 for instance just resulted in a population of ~2 million at the time of the revolution. Basically population growth means that only relatively recent times can compete for a title of "largest numbers ever". And those relatively recent times are significantly inflated by illegal immigration.

But Trump's track record has shown he wanted to decrease even legal immigration to the US.

[The Minsky Moment]

If the Dreamers are permitted to adjust it could get close.  The record is 1.8 million in 1991, also driven by an amnesty law.

[Oexmelin]

"Since the founding of our nation, many of our greatest strides, from gaining our independence to abolition of civil rights, to extending the vote for women, have been led by people of faith and started in prayer," the president said on Thursday.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-prayer-breakfast-speech-abolition-civil-rights-today-video-a8768101.html

[Valmy]

Well naturally, public leaders tend to use religion to...wait 'abolition of civil rights'? Are we talking about the PATRIOT Act here? 

[Barrister]

Well naturally, public leaders tend to use religion to...wait 'abolition of civil rights'? Are we talking about the PATRIOT Act here? 

Apparently the written text said something about the abolishment of slavery, and (passing?) civil rights.

[Valmy]

Well naturally, public leaders tend to use religion to...wait 'abolition of civil rights'? Are we talking about the PATRIOT Act here? 

Apparently the written text said something about the abolishment of slavery, and (passing?) civil rights.

Yeah I figured

[celedhring]

 

Donald J. Trump
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North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won't surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!

[Liep]

Donald J. Trump
‏
North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won't surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!

It was the North Koreans who stole those films from Sony, right? What other films have they got.

[Valmy]

Donald J. Trump
‏
North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won't surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!

I mean...why not? Iran and Venezuela are bad. North Korea is good. Why? I have no idea. It all seems to random.