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Posted By: the G-man Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-20 6:47 PM
Watch the inaugaration live here

Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-20 10:16 PM
http://nypost.com/2017/01/20/hillary-clinton-puts-on-a-brave-face-as-she-arrives-for-inauguration/

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Posted By: Pariah Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-20 11:23 PM
There is a literal army of cops, military, and secret service in DC, apparently. They correctly anticipated these fucking retards, who feed on obnoxious protest events, would be shutting down highways and tearing up streets.
I didn't get my invite to the inauguration. It must have got lost in the mail.
"Rioting is the language of the unheard." -MLK

doesn't explain why damn near every actual rioter and vandal I've seen amid the protests has been some white kid. see, there's legitimacy to the fear of black Americans, and I think they're right to protest this moment. the interesting thing is, they've been far more orderly (from what I've seen; coverage varies from network to network) than their self-designated "allies". yes, a lot of people are loud and angry, and I support their right to be. but it's easy to tell who's wearing their Privilege Armor during their storm of egowank and virtue-signaling. the really sad thing is, when things get hand-to-hand violent and arrests and beatings start, the "allies" will fare far better than the mostly peaceful protesters.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-21 11:05 AM
I'd correct Martin Luther King, Jr, and say that Rioting is the opportunism of those pursuing an agenda other than The Unheard.

I've never seen rioting, whether in L.A. following the 1991 Rodney King verdict, Ferguson Missouri, Baltimore, or anywhere else that it didn't do the most destruction to The Unheard. That it didn't destroy the jobs, property and businesses of precisely those the rioting was alleged to champion.

Yes, it is rather odd that a lot of the people I saw filmed on that inauguration parade route wearing BLACK LIVES MATTER shirts were entitled bearded hippie-looking white kids. I don't know whether their skin color would prevent them from being arrested, but certainly their parents will provide them, if arrested, with far better lawyers than the black kids.



Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-21 9:49 PM

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[anti-Trump peace protestor]
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Gee, what a shock.
The liberal media uses a Hitler reference with a Republican president.
That's never happened before!
Posted By: iggy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-22 6:26 AM
Articles from libprop sites on Facebook have been fun. Here is an exchange from this morning...

 Quote:
Random yahoo on article posted by .Mic: "Proud of all who are marching today!!! We must fight back because we all matter!!!!"

Me: Oh. so now all lives matter...huh?
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-22 8:03 AM
 Originally Posted By: iggy
Articles from libprop sites on Facebook have been fun. Here is an exchange from this morning...

 Quote:
Random yahoo on article posted by .Mic: "Proud of all who are marching today!!! We must fight back because we all matter!!!!"

Me: Oh. so now all lives matter...huh?


\:lol\:
Trump got more fat women out walking than Michelle Obama ever did.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-22 10:55 PM


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Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-23 5:20 AM


Ah, those delicious tears of sorrow!



It's possibly staged, but delicious nonetheless.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-23 3:05 PM
CNN Gigapixel Image of Crowd During Trump Inauguration Speech Confirms Sean Spicer Correct
I think everybody realizes that angle would make it look fuller but here's time lapse video of the mall that shows it never filling up... PBS time lapse video

It's gotta be embarrassing for the piece of shit's cheerleaders to be told obvious easy to debunk lies. At least his staff gets paid anyho
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-24 5:54 AM


"The piece of shit's cheerleaders..."

Well, hey, glad you're not bitter. \:\)
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-24 4:13 PM
I'm starting to think we don't hear from MEM much these days because he's busy boarding airplanes and harassing fellow passengers.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-24 10:36 PM




It's beautiful to see the airline take sides with the Republican guy who was harassed.

I'd love it if M E M could at least acknowledge how off the deep end this was.
And how Democrats' opposition to the rule of law regarding Trump's win despite that he
LAWFULLY WON THE ELECTION is likewise anti-American and way off the deep end.
I don't condone her behavior but than I don't condone bragging about being able to commit sexual assault either.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-25 9:38 PM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
I don't condone bragging about being able to commit sexual assault either.


This guy does

You guys have accused him of all sorts of things but bragging about being able to commit sexual assaul is a new one. Can't even imagine WB using the "everyone talks like that" line to defend a Clinton in that hypothetical.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-26 4:33 AM
"better put some ice on that"
and he would have never became president if that was on tape much less have you and WB defend him like you have with Trump.
Posted By: Pariah Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-26 12:40 PM
After a year of constantly saying that Trump's behavior is going to keep him from winning, I don't think you're in any position to be saying what would have lost him the election. Especially since CNN, MSNBC, et al. treated the recording as though it was the proof that such an incident occurred.
I thought he had a chance as polls would tighten up and Comey along with Russia helping Trump probably gave the piece of shit his electoral win.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-26 5:09 PM
Yes, damn those pesky Russians for leaking true, but negative, things about Hillary.

Funny how, out of one side of the libs' mouths we get "Hillary won the popular vote," and out of the other we get "the Russians cost Hillary the election."

If those emails were so damn dispositive, she shouldn't have won the popular vote, correct?
You can review what you guys were saying when the Russian hacked emails were being dribbled out at the tail end of the election. Along with the FBI inserting itself into the election to help Trump I watched a big Clinton lead dwindle down to a couple of points. Your logic that stuff like a gossipy Podesta emails has to be either enough to lose the popular vote or had no effect honestly seems dumb.
Posted By: the G-man Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-27 5:15 PM
Keep blaming everyone but your flawed candidate and her flawed campaign. The fact of the matter is that even Bill knew she was screwing up but no one would listen to him.

  • As it became clear on Tuesday night that Mrs. Clinton would lose to Donald J. Trump, supporters cast blame on everything from the news media to the F.B.I. director’s dogged pursuit of Mrs. Clinton over her personal emails, and to a deep discomfort with electing a woman as president.

    But as the dust settled, Democrats recognized two central problems of Mrs. Clinton’s flawed candidacy: Her decades in Washington and the paid speeches she delivered to financial institutions left her unable to tap into the anti-establishment and anti-Wall Street rage.

    And she ceded the white working-class voters who backed Mr. Clinton in 1992. Though she would never have won this demographic, her husband insisted that her campaign aides do more to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s support with these voters. They declined, reasoning that she was better off targeting college-educated suburban voters by hitting Mr. Trump on his temperament.

    Instead, they targeted the emerging electorate of young, Latino and African-American voters who catapulted Mr. Obama to victory twice, expecting, mistakenly, that this coalition would support her in nearly the same numbers. They did not.

    Early on, Mr. Clinton had pleaded with Robby Mook, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager, to do more outreach with working-class white and rural voters. But his advice fell on deaf ears.
It's really a case of you not wanting to admit the Russians helped your party win the election and what that means. They recognize Trump for what he is and what he'll accomplish for them.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-28 7:47 PM
 Originally Posted By: the G-man
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
I don't condone bragging about being able to commit sexual assault either.


This guy does



I'll say it again: If all the allegations against Trump were true (and they're definitely not), they would still pale beside what Bill Clinton is PROVEN to be guilty of.

When will M E M and the Democrat/Left give up this canard?
Or at least hold their own to the same standard?
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-28 8:01 PM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
You guys have accused him of all sorts of things but bragging about being able to commit sexual assaul is a new one. Can't even imagine WB using the "everyone talks like that" line to defend a Clinton in that hypothetical.



I've known many guys who bragged about stuff they didn't actually do.

And yes, I do defend that as just locker room talk, to try and impress.
Unlike Bill Clinton, Trump even in his bragging didn't force or intimidate a girl into doing anything. In Trump's recorded audio on the bus, Trump says that when you're famous, beautiful women want to be close to you, and they willingly let him (or other celebrities) do whatever they want with them. So in this hypothetical Trump bragged about, even if he really did it, it was always consensual.

Compare that with statements by Paula Jones or Juanita Broaddrick (to name only two), who were assaulted by Bill Clinton.
And arguably assaulted again by Hillary Clinton, when she led the campaign to destroy these women, knowing these women were not lying about what Bill Clinton did to them.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-28 8:16 PM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
It's really a case of you not wanting to admit the Russians helped your party win the election and what that means. They recognize Trump for what he is and what he'll accomplish for them.


Another false narrative you are deceitfully trying to front. There is no evidence to support this.
The intelligence evidence is that even the Russians thought Trump would lose, and that the best they (the Russians) could do is undermine her credibility as an elected president. They DIDN'T plan on Trump winning. PERIOD.

Further, the evidence is that WikiLeaks obtained the self incriminating e-mails of Hillary, Podesta, Wasserman (Bitch-Cunt) Schultz and other DNC officials through DNC officials, **NOT** from the Russians, as Julian Assange has said himself.
Such as the suspiciously murdered Seth Rich, who arguably the Hillary campaign had killed to silence.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-28 8:24 PM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
You can review what you guys were saying when the Russian hacked emails were being dribbled out at the tail end of the election. Along with the FBI inserting itself into the election to help Trump I watched a big Clinton lead dwindle down to a couple of points. Your logic that stuff like a gossipy Podesta emails has to be either enough to lose the popular vote or had no effect honestly seems dumb.


 Originally Posted By: the G-man
Keep blaming everyone but your flawed candidate and her flawed campaign. The fact of the matter is that even Bill knew she was screwing up but no one would listen to him.

  • As it became clear on Tuesday night that Mrs. Clinton would lose to Donald J. Trump, supporters cast blame on everything from the news media to the F.B.I. director’s dogged pursuit of Mrs. Clinton over her personal emails, and to a deep discomfort with electing a woman as president.

    But as the dust settled, Democrats recognized two central problems of Mrs. Clinton’s flawed candidacy: Her decades in Washington and the paid speeches she delivered to financial institutions left her unable to tap into the anti-establishment and anti-Wall Street rage.

    And she ceded the white working-class voters who backed Mr. Clinton in 1992. Though she would never have won this demographic, her husband insisted that her campaign aides do more to try to cut into Mr. Trump’s support with these voters. They declined, reasoning that she was better off targeting college-educated suburban voters by hitting Mr. Trump on his temperament.

    Instead, they targeted the emerging electorate of young, Latino and African-American voters who catapulted Mr. Obama to victory twice, expecting, mistakenly, that this coalition would support her in nearly the same numbers. They did not.

    Early on, Mr. Clinton had pleaded with Robby Mook, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign manager, to do more outreach with working-class white and rural voters. But his advice fell on deaf ears.


Another narrative by M E M and the DNC/Left easily disproven by the facts.

It wasn't the Russians, it wasn't FBI director Comey, it wasn't "fake news" (IRONY, how the Obama/Hillary-adoring media tries to float that one!), it wasn't any unfair leverage unleashed against Hillary.
Despite that she out-spent Trump more than 2-to-one, despite having the collective media on her side, despite every dirty trick unleashed on Trump, despite even the Republican establishment attacking and undermining Trump, Trump still won.
Fair and square.
By campaigning harder, and campaigning on the issues that mattered to the public, and with a stated resolve to actually change course, that we have seen implemented with incredible speed in the last 7 days.
 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
It's really a case of you not wanting to admit the Russians helped your party win the election and what that means. They recognize Trump for what he is and what he'll accomplish for them.


Another false narrative you are deceitfully trying to front. There is no evidence to support this.
The intelligence evidence is that even the Russians thought Trump would lose, and that the best they (the Russians) could do is undermine her credibility as an elected president. They DIDN'T plan on Trump winning. PERIOD.

Further, the evidence is that WikiLeaks obtained the self incriminating e-mails of Hillary, Podesta, Wasserman (Bitch-Cunt) Schultz and other DNC officials through DNC officials, **NOT** from the Russians, as Julian Assange has said himself.
Such as the suspiciously murdered Seth Rich, who arguably the Hillary campaign had killed to silence.




I don't care what your fake news narrative is. I read what I could of the intel our government gathered. Russia played us and it paid off big time.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-29 5:06 AM

The U.S. intelligence leadership said that they intercepted Russian internal communications about the Nov 2016 election. And prior to the election, the Russians resigned to the fact Hillary was going to win. They were formulating an alternative plan post-election, to undermine Hillary's credibility, which they figured was the best they could do at this point.
Far from the Russians planning and orchestrating a win for Trump, their own intercepted intelligence showed they had resigned to a Hillary victory that didn't happen!
So much for the Russian-orchestrated Trump victory.

Even the liberal-partisan Politifact confirms these findings.
What alternate reality are you living in?
So you have not seen any news about the Russians doing anything that helped Trump win? The Wikileaks's were what the Russians used to deliver their hacked emails. Trump barely won electorally as Clinton's lead shrunk while the hacked emails were doled out in a way to hurt Clinton the most.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-29 6:30 AM

So... the Russians are to blame because Hillary, Podesta, , Wasserman Bitch-Cunt Schultz, Donna Brazile and their minions incriminated themselves in e-mails, and THE TRUTH was revealed to the American public. There were no dirty tricks, no deceptions, just giving the American public the FACTS about who and what Hillary Clinton and her inner circle were.

The Russians didn't create these facts.
The Russians didn't pay thugs $1,500 each to go to Trump rallies and provoke violence and try to blame it on Trump. And the Russians didn't openly brag, on video, to Project Veritas that they were doing all this for the Hillary campaign, with a "double wall" of secret funding and deniability.

And it was not the Russians who revealed these facts. Julian Assange says the Russians were NOT their source.

All these exposed wrongs are on Hillary Clinton and her vile inner circle. As I already sourced above, there is only innuendo that allows you to slime Trump and allege he is a puppet of the Russians. Even intelligence sources say there is no connection to the Russians.
And as I said, Julian Assange denies that any of his information came from the Russians.

Nothing but anonymous sources, garbage intelligence reports (again: Bob Woodward), and half-baked innuendo to try and save face for Hillary and the Democrats. And their continuing to front these lies just alienates the American public even more from them.
I trust our intel more than Julian Assange. Trump is a proven lying sack of shit, no sliming necessary. I'm proud to resist him \:\)
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-29 6:58 AM
Like the guy said in my previous YouTube post:
"Who do you trust more, Julian Assange, who has never been proven inaccurate in 10 years with WikiLeaks... or the guy who said if you like your healthcare plan, you can keep it?"

The same Obama (and Hillary) who lied to us about the Benghazi attack, who lied to us about the IRS targeting Tea Party and religious conservatives, and targeting other Republican donors.
The same Obama who gave us Jonathan Gruber who boasted about Obamacare passing because of "the stupidity of the American voter".
The same Obama who collapsed U.S. power in the mid east and earned the distrust off our allies.
The same Obama who called ISIS "junior varsity" and let them spread to over 40 nations.
The same Obama who made a bad deal with Iran that allows them to get nuclear weapons in 10 years, who chanted "death to America" the same day it was signed.

Contrasting with that track record, I believe Julian Assange.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-29 7:00 AM

And again, Pulitzer-winning reporter Bob Woodward called that half-baked intel report "complete garbage" that never should have been released.
Obama didn't produce the intel but was briefed on it. You believe the guy who brags about being able to sexually assault women and obvious lies about crowd sizes. You don't have to tell me who you believe
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-31 3:27 AM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Obama didn't produce the intel but was briefed on it. You believe the guy who brags about being able to sexually assault women and obvious lies about crowd sizes. You don't have to tell me who you believe


Obama has a circle of yes-men who do whatever he says. As president, he would sack generals who gave him advice (to increase military presence in Iraq and Afghanistan) that he didn't want to hear. If given advice he didn't want, Obama would fire these generals. The yes-men who pushed for that "complete garbage" (again, Pulitzer winning journalist Bob Woodward) report to be given to Trump were those Politburo intelligence appointees Obama left behind.

And again, Trump's recorded bus comments from 10 years ago, boasting about sexual exploits with women who eagerly gave themselves to him because he was famous, pales beside the ACTUAL and MULTIPLE sexual assaults of Bill Clinton.
Is having sexual relations with his 23 year old intern Monica Lewinsky more presidential?
Was violating Lewinsky with a cigar more presidential?
Was Hillary Clinton leading the charge to destroy Bill Clinton's female accusers, women she destroyed even though she KNEW they were telling the truth about Bill Clinton?
Was renting out the Lincoln bedroom more presidential?
Pedophile island.
Whitewater.
Pay-to-play between donations to the Clinton Foundation buying influence in Hillary Clinton's State Department.
Hillary's private server allowing national security to be hacked EVERY DAY of the four years Frau Hitlery was secretary of state.


You obsess over the grain of sand that implies Trump guilty of something, while giving a free pass to the MOUNTAIN that proves the Clintons guilty beyond all doubt.

Again: If Trump were guilty of all alleged about him, it would still pale before what Bill Clinton is PROVEN guilty of. And Hillary as well.
Trump has a lifetime of being that person who brags about being able to commit sexual assault. Even with having everyone who works for him signing non-disclosure there are plenty of stories. That one was just on tape and therefore harder for you to ignore. Your comment about yes men is laughable considering that's exactly what Trump is doing.
Posted By: K-nutreturns Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-31 5:59 AM
You guys will never stop this will you? You're seriously planning on dancing to this tune of "Your guy is stupid cuz of this!" And then go back and forth with nuh uh and yeah huh until you all die...or the boards do. Every now and then I peek in here and see if it's any different. Nope. Same crap. Every single election. All you all do is switch sides in the same room.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-31 7:00 AM
 Originally Posted By: Matter-eater Man
Trump has a lifetime of being that person who brags about being able to commit sexual assault. Even with having everyone who works for him signing non-disclosure there are plenty of stories. That one was just on tape and therefore harder for you to ignore. Your comment about yes men is laughable considering that's exactly what Trump is doing.



The people Trump is appointing, such as defense secretary Mattis, and former head of Exxon Tillerson his secretary of state, or Sen Jeff Sessions his attorney general, are absolutely NOT your typical political appointees or yes-men. These are people who speak their mind, are respected thinkers, who are not afraid to speak their mind to Trump or anyone else, and would not kiss ass just to avoid being fired. I don't know who you're trying to fool by trying to float that one.

As opposed to Obama's inner circle, that was very insular, and where he DID fire people for not being ideologically on board. To the point that those still on staff would NOT challenge him anymore.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-31 7:05 AM
 Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns
You guys will never stop this will you? You're seriously planning on dancing to this tune of "Your guy is stupid cuz of this!" And then go back and forth with nuh uh and yeah huh until you all die...or the boards do. Every now and then I peek in here and see if it's any different. Nope. Same crap. Every single election. All you all do is switch sides in the same room.


I didn't just say "Did not" "Did too."
I cited sources and facts to counter M E M' s liberal-partisan propaganda. I haven't even been here for 2 days, and just responded and debunked, as raised, the liberal talking points he was fronting.
Trump made a point of getting rid of a lot of experienced people that worked under both parties. That was the piece of shit's first week!
Posted By: K-nutreturns Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-01-31 9:19 PM
 Originally Posted By: Wonder Boy
 Originally Posted By: K-nutreturns
You guys will never stop this will you? You're seriously planning on dancing to this tune of "Your guy is stupid cuz of this!" And then go back and forth with nuh uh and yeah huh until you all die...or the boards do. Every now and then I peek in here and see if it's any different. Nope. Same crap. Every single election. All you all do is switch sides in the same room.

I didn't just say "Did not" "Did too."
I cited sources and facts to counter M E M' s liberal-partisan propaganda. I haven't even been here for 2 days, and just responded and debunked, as raised, the liberal talking points he was fronting.


My fault wondy. I should have been more specific. My message was to those who I believe are salvageable. (Mem, pariah...heck even g-man) You, however, are clearly beyond hope. Feel free to disregard.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-02-05 4:36 AM

Beyond empty insults, I don't see a basis for your snarky remarks, Knut.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2017-02-22 9:02 PM
Immigration continues to be the central lightning-rod issue for Trump.


I'm awed at how much Trump has done in his first few weeks as president, despite all Democrat and Soros-astro-turfed fake protests obstruction.

Hannity, in his Feb 21st program, did a good job in his opening editorial, and in the closing segment, laying out what Trump is putting in place to shut down illegal immigration and sanctuary cities. Hannity also cites statistics of the number of crimes by illegals, and the enormous cost in the hundreds of billions annually of illegal immigration to Federal, state and local governments:



Democrats' response: "Trump is a racist who just hates brown people."
Or: "Trump is tearing [illegal] immigrant families apart!"

But Democrats never acknowledge the families of U.S. citizens torn apart when their families' members are killed by illegal immigrants.

Geraldo Rivera is all "Ohh, well immigrants statistically commit crimes at a lower rate than U.S citizens." But that bypasses that tens of thousands annually are murdered, raped, killed by drunk driver illegals, that should never have been here in the first place.
Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2018-07-14 11:28 PM





Y'know, despite the wildest wet-dreams of the Democrat/Left, this just hasn't happened.



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Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2019-04-29 9:23 AM


Victor Davis Hanson -The Case For Donald Trump






Posted By: Wonder Boy Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2019-05-14 12:59 AM



Trump could be the most honest president in modern history


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By Marc A. Thiessen,The Washington Post Writers Group
October 16, 2018, 3:35 PM


Donald Trump may be remembered as the most honest president in modern American history. Don’t get me wrong, Trump lies all the time. He said that he “enacted the biggest tax cuts and reforms in American history” (actually they are the eighth-largest) and that “our economy is the strongest it’s ever been in the history of our country” (which may one day be true, but not yet). In part, it’s a New York thing — everything is the biggest and the best.

But when it comes to the real barometer of presidential truthfulness — keeping his promises — Trump is a paragon of honesty. For better or worse, since taking office, Trump has done exactly what he promised he would do.


Trump kept his promise to move the U.S. Embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, something his three immediate predecessors also promised yet failed to do. He promised to “crush and destroy ISIS,” and two years later he is on the verge of eliminating Islamic State’s physical caliphate. He promised to impose a travel ban on countries that he saw as posing a terrorist threat, and after several false starts the final version of his ban was upheld by the Supreme Court.

Trump pledged to nominate Supreme Court justices “in the mold of Justice (Antonin) Scalia,” and now Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh sit on the high court. Trump also pledged to fill the federal appellate courts with young, conservative judges, and so far the Senate has confirmed 29 — more than any recent president at this point in his administration.

Trump promised to cancel President Barack Obama’s Clean Power Plan, withdraw from the Paris climate accord, approve the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to exploration. He fulfilled all of those pledges.

On trade, he kept his promise to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and impose tariffs on steel and aluminum. He also committed to renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement — and recently signed new deals with Mexico, Canada and South Korea. He committed to imposing tariffs on China to force it to open its markets and stop its theft of intellectual property — and is following through on that pledge. Whatever one thinks of Trump’s trade policies, he is doing exactly what he said.

Where Trump has failed to keep promises, such as building the wall or repealing Obamacare, it has not been for a lack of trying. Only in a few rare instances has he backtracked on a campaign pledge — such as when he admitted that he was wrong to promise a complete withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan and reversed course. I’m glad he did.


But whether one agrees or disagrees is not the point. When Trump says he will do something, you can take it to the bank. Yes, he takes liberties with the truth. But unlike his predecessor, he did not pass his signature legislative achievement on the basis of a lie (“If you like your health care plan, you can keep it”) — which is clearly worse than falsely bragging that your tax cut is the biggest ever.

The fact is, in his first two years, Trump has compiled a remarkable record of presidential promise-keeping. He’d probably say it’s the best in history — which may or may not end up being true. It’s too soon to tell.

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Marc A. Thiessen writes for The Washington Post. He is a fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and former chief speechwriter for President George W. Bush.

Posted By: MisterJLA Re: Inauguration Day for Donald Trump - 2020-11-07 4:15 AM
Originally Posted by the G-man
Keep blaming everyone but your flawed candidate

Irony, thy name is G-troll.
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