Trump's endless talking style sank the stock market on Monday. The market, expecting some reassurance from Trump, took his silence as a confirmation of pending recession. We need this man to spend more time at his country club, and restrict himself to golf talk. Meanwhile, back in Washington, co-President Musk called Mark Kelly a traitor. The last time I checked, Kelly was a hero and astronaut. As Kelly replied, you may own spaceships, but you have never been up in one. The country and world is getting tired of the insults coming from the Trump administration, whether by Trump, Vance or Musk.
It would be nice if someone sat Donald and Elon down, and told them how to behave. However, when you combine an ego maniac with the world's richest man, it's a power couple hard to contend with. The tariff war with Canada already has us the losers. I wrote previously that Trump won't be an asset in the mid-terms. Let me correct myself...by the primaries he'll be a liability.
ADDENDUM: This isn't an easy post to illustrate, with Trump the sideshow never ends. I just watched Trump and Musk hawking Teslas in front of the White House. Who could have imagined that?
G_d I’m nostalgic for the glory days of Biden/Harris. How did we let things go so terribly wrong?
ReplyDeleteWow, for a person that’s supposedly an independent and didn’t vote for the Republican candidate for President, you sure worry an awful lot about the electoral success of the Republican Party.
ReplyDeleteIf I didn’t know better, I’d think you were trying to undermine the President with his base.
It’s also curious that you’re not also writing about the democrat party, whose party is in great disarray right now with their “brand” polling at its lowest level ever.
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I am extremely satisfied to have President Donald Trump in office working on behalf of all Americans. It’s nice to know who is really running this nation, and not having to deal with a cardboard cut out.
ReplyDeleteWithout question, President Donald Trump is the hardest working, most visible American President since I began observing all of this beginning with Dwight Eisenhower.
RGR@5:19: I consider conservative the key word in my political identity. Trump is undermining himself with his cult. As for the D's, Co-president Musk just put Mark Kelly in the limelight.
ReplyDeleteIt is a little early to predict all these losses, Tariffs are a tool to encourage others to eliminate the tariff's on our exports and they are many. The U.S., labeled "the richest country in the world", is in fact bankrupt, often facilitated by a bloated bureaucracy that takes up an increasingly large share of the GDP. Government jobs are all an expense, not creators of wealth. Some are necessary, but too much will blead the country dry.
ReplyDeleteThere is much economic pain ahead, all built in by many decades of irresponsible fiscal policy by all politicians willing to pass the buck to someone else. Just pump more money into the economy by deficit spending and let the next generation worry about it.
I believe both Musk and Trump are sincere in wanting to correct the responsibility of the past. It is doubtful they will succeed as your opinion illustrates.
The pain is coming one way or another, and I assume Trump will be the scapegoat of the result of the policies of the past.
The die is cast, the U.S. is destined to suffer economic pain caused by the extravagance of the past. It may feel good to blame Trump, but it will not minimize the economic realities coming.
Ray@6:59:It does not feel good to blame Trump, but I'm not a partisan to defend him. He has realized that Musk's chainsaw was indiscriminate, but his cabinet heads are all brand new and unfamiliar with the departments to which they were appointed. He has gotten carried away with his day 1 promises, and except for the border beef up, everything else has been a disaster.
ReplyDeleteElon Musk has his life threatened every day. Tesla dealerships are being attacked and Tesla autos and charging stations vandalized. Yesterday, Trump publicly purchased a Tesla to demonstrate his support. Musk followed-up with a pledge to double Tesla production right here in America.
ReplyDeleteAs far as I’m concerned efforts by the Musk team have uncovered tax saving opportunities for American taxpayers into trillions of dollars. Downsizing our government bureaucracy is long overdue. Just yesterday, the Department of Education announced 50% of its workforce is being cut resulting in an annual saving of 500 million dollars.
I’m not a fan of Mark Kelly, and free speech allows Musk to say whatever he wants to say about Kelly. By the way, Musk is definitely NOT the co-president. Musk is just another trusted advisor from a group of dozens other experts.
Whose benefits are served by discouraging Trump or Musk?
I know there are great concerns being raised that Trump/Musk will cut out Social Security and Medicaid benefits. Just read the daily Morning Call fear mongering.
ReplyDeleteHere’s the truth, Social Security/ Medicaid benefits will NOT be cut from any legally ELIGIBLE recipients. There are fraudulent payments being uncovered. No matter how large or small an amount those might be represent, those payments should be ended. Cutting out abuses helps every legally ELIGIBLE recipient, of which I am one.
anon@7:42: I hope that there are a few "experts" among his advisors? For the cabinet positions, I wished that he had picked a high ranking whistleblower from each department. That would have put a lot more intelligence behind the cuts.
ReplyDeleteHow about equal time for all American car companies at the White House? To favor one is unfair. Such biases would not fly in the near past, but Trump has lowered our behavioral standards so low that such a show of a government transactional relationship is common. Musk bought a president and we all know it. Musk plays Trump like a toy. All the good Musk could accomplish with just his personal wealth and he selected the weakest link in the world to attach his wealth to. In simple terms he flatters Trump and Trump thinks he must be smart too because Musk likes him. Musk is running a big part of the show. Trump is playing golf and holding fund raisers. Musk is playing a big Xbox game, and Musk is winning.
ReplyDeleteIn 2021, Joe Biden staged electric vehicles on the White House lawn. He left out the biggest EV manufacturer, Tesla.
DeleteTesla, the only major producer built exclusively with American made parts!
What Biden did is irrelevant. Unless you think Biden is influencing trump’s behavior now.
Deleteanon@8:53:I can believe that Musk meant well with DOGE, but got carried away with Trump's complete lack of discretion. That lack turned the White House into a car dealership yesterday.
ReplyDeleteThe truth is whatever is said here, will have no effect on the larger outcome of events. The good news is the critics of Trump are powerless to do anything other than complain. We Republicans know the feeling. We just finished 4 years of exactly that, suffering through the presidency of a clearly senile old man and his administion that actually threw politcal opponents in jail, encouraged censorship, made reckless and provocative statements against a nuclear power, fought an ongoing ugly proxy war that cost a million lives, put 30 billion dollars in a private Citibank account as a slush fund of left wing environmental groups...Considering all this, if listening to complaints about Trump is all we have to deal with I'll take it gladly. I'm sure most of America also find it a very welcome relief. Life is good again, let the complaints about Trump continue, that's they the American way. Again we can do so without fear of retribution or animosity. We can return to respecting and welcoming all points of view and any ensuing debate. As Obama was found of saying, "That's what democracy looks like". Have a great day.
ReplyDeleteWhy are you old guys so focused on what Biden did? The judicial system put people in jail because they committed crimes. Trump flaunts his corruption out in the open, but it's still corruption. He normalizes his behavior, like the meeting with Zelenskyy, but the world knows it's not normal.
DeleteScott@9:55: To me it's unfortunate that our democracy only consists of we Republicans and we Democrats. That partisanship brings us poor choices...like in last November.
ReplyDeleteThat may be true, and Mike, you have ripped both parties equally depending on who's in power. I respect that, I also respect that you allow posts and posters that hold opinions that differ from your own. That's become way to rare in America. Good government and a sound republic depend on the free and respectful exchange of ideas and opinions, no matter how vigorously expressed. Thank you for providing such a platform.
DeleteBy the way, understanding we only have two viable parties, have spent three decades trying to make my party less bad, and less of a problem.
DeleteI will not be hosting comments on the price of this or that, then and now, investment returns, and etc.
ReplyDeleteI am most pleased to see the federal Department of Education being cut back and eventually eliminated in favor of individual state control. Actually, any reduction in the size of our too-big, inefficient government is good. Now, if we could clean-out the deadwood sitting in our Congress I’d be ecstatic!
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