If you listen to his press appearances, Trump parrots whatever somebody who is standing next to him says. He doesn’t even think about it. He just repeats it.
It’s been entertaining watching the WSJ contort themselves into pretzels trying to convince each other market slide was an overdue correction, or forecasts were poorly justified.
He has a concept of a plan which is probably the same for many.
His concept of a plan is to make America great again and make a better economy , that’s the concept and is it enough to be a plan ?
Their "plan" is to create a libertarian fever dream dystopia of a minimal night watchman state, with the night watchman transmogrified into Soviet-style secret police. That's their plan.
I just started listening to an Ezra Klein pod with Gillian Tett. The way she explains it kind of makes sense. Its not that Trump has a plan. Bessent & others have a plan. But its not the same plan as Musk's, Bannon's etc plans. So Trump careens from 1 to another & there is no actual Trump plan.
George, can't the Democrats flood the zone backwards - like keep asking about his Health Care reform plan for a plan.....or where's the wall???? or when will he crack the price of eggs issue....
It's a series of often contradictory impulses. But they are consistent (even if they're incoherent). Trump thinks a trade deficit means the US is "losing," but also wants a strong dollar (which feeds a trade surplus). And he thinks manufacturing things is super special and good, for some reason.
Felon trump's goal is to inflict pain and suffering, to beat down the American people into submission. But the American people are getting angrier by the day. Something's gotta give.
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So of course her premise has to be that Trump has a plan
And she has to snap back at anyone who suggests otherwise
Bezos is smiling.
His concept of a plan is to make America great again and make a better economy , that’s the concept and is it enough to be a plan ?
- What is it?
- It's very important for the future of America!
- What is it?
- It requires some initial pain...
- WHAT IS IT?
- but it will lead to-
- WHAT
IS
IT?
- Trump doesn't explain it well
- WHAT THE FUCK IS THE PLAN???
In the actual 50's rich people had a 90% tax rate on income over a high threshold.
In the 50's we had legal segregation for non-white people.
In the 50's, women couldn't have their own bank accounts w/o a man's signature.
https://popular.info/p/exclusive-memo-details-trump-plan
We'd hate it. Thus Trump has to constantly lie about it.
He stated this on fox news in 2014.
comments made on television in 2014, Donald Trump told Fox News that “total hell” would make America “great” again.
https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-riots-fox-news-obamacare-putin-economy-us-coronavirus-george-floyd-a9544491.html