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What I think of Trump

 I used to be a political animal here in the United Kingdom.  I lost interest in the last few years of the Conservative term.   Honestly, Brexit broke me!   So when I am asked about President Trump a few things are clear.  First, a leopard does not change his spots; what was true of the first administration is certain to be true of the second.

In the first two years of his first administration, Trump was surrounded by people who were of the faith but had no trouble in speaking to power.  They were all fired!  Those who survived were the ones that prayed to the altar of The Donald.  Yes, I am being hurtful, but the truth always hurts.   Bottom line those who did well in the second half of his administration drank the cool aid.  The problem with the cool aid is that you are divorced from reality.  So the administration wants to kick out all the illegal immigrants, well where will he kick them out?   Will Mexico take back members of MS13?  I know I would let them rot in American prisons.   It's not because a guy is called Lopez that he's Mexican.  

Imposing a tariff is fine, but it's your economy that pays that price.  Let's say that Trump does impose a 25% tariff on all Canadian goods on February 1st.  Who pays for the more expensive cars?   The Americans, sell 100,000 cars per annum to Canada.  What happens if the Prime Minister of Canada says you know what we will impose a tariff of 25% on ALL imported vehicles, which means that the cost of US vehicles will rise by 25%, while the price of European Imports will drop by 15% and by 35% from China.   Suddenly the game is not much fun.  If Trump's objective is to repatriate all car manufacturing to the US, all I can say, is good luck, but it's unclear who will pay the bigger bill.   That's the easy bit.   

How do you do a good job when your first objective is to say how great Trump is.  His first-ever policy is to push AI, that benefits only billionaires and no one else.   this is a project for people who already have all the marbles, yet his mercantile policy means that America will need more construction workers (aka the Mexicans) more electricians, and plumbers and more electricity -- yet he has gone to war against Solar and Wind power.  15% of Texas's power is wind energy.

That's why Trump 2.0 will probably be the same as Trump 1.0.  Anyway, he has been in post for 5 days.  Got to give the guy a chance to screw up

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