Trump Faces the Moment of Truth
Repository for Trump Promises
(R.I.P.)
Trump’s
#1 promise among all these 75 other promises is his campaign slogan: “Make
America great again.” (I note: That implies America is weak?).
1.
Build a wall along the southern border and it will be “the greatest wall that you've ever seen.”
2. Make Mexico pay for the wall and if Mexico refuses, then the United States will
impound all remittance payments taken from the wages of illegal immigrants, cut
foreign aid, institute tariffs, cancel visas for Mexican business leaders and
diplomats, and increase fees for visas, border-crossing cards, and port use.
3. If I
become president, we're all going to be saying 'Merry Christmas' again.
4. Get rid of Common Core because it's “a disaster and a very bad thing.” Trump says he wants to
give local school districts more control and might even eliminate the
Department of Education.
5. The Environmental Protection Agency
might also disappear.
6. Get rid of Obamacare and replace it
with something “terrific and so much better, so much better, so much better.”
7. Knock down the regulatory walls
between states for health insurance making
plans available nationally
instead of regionally.
8.
Rebuild the country's aging infrastructure – especially bridges and airports that look like they belong in a
third-world country.
9. Save Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security without cutting
benefits.
10. Defund Planned Parenthood.
11. I will take care of women, and I have great respect for women. I do cherish women, and I will take
care of women.
12. Frequently uses the term radical
Islamic terrorism.
13. Temporarily ban most foreign Muslims
from entering the United States “…until our country's representatives can figure out what is going
on." Trump would allow exceptions for dignitaries, business people,
athletes and others who have proven themselves. (Update abandons that and now
adopts the JEB Bush “path to being here legally…etc. paperwork.)
4. Bar
Syrian refugees from entering the country and kick out any who are already
living here. Trump says wealthy Persian Gulf nations like Saudi
Arabia should pay to set up a heavily guarded “safe zone in Syria.”
15. Heavily surveil mosques in the
United States. Trump has said he's open to the idea of closing some
mosques.
16. Create a database of Syrian
refugees. Trump hasn't ruled out creating a database of Muslims
in the country.
17. Never take a vacation while serving
as president.
18. Prosecute Hillary Clinton for her use of a private e-mail server while serving as secretary of
state.
9. Make
medical marijuana widely available to patients and allow states to decide if they want to fully legalize pot or not.
20. Stop spending money on space
exploration until the United States can fix its potholes.
Encourage private space-exploration companies to expand.
21. Pick Supreme Court justices who are “really
great legal scholars.”
22. Ensure that Iowa continues to host
the nation's first presidential nominating contest.
23. Strengthen the military so that it's “so big and so strong and so great that nobody's going to mess with us.”
24. Be unpredictable no one is going to touch us, because I'm so
unpredictable.
25. Allow Russia to deal with the
Islamic State in Syria and to work with Russian President Vladimir Putin to
wipe out shared enemies.
26.
Bomb the sh*t out of ISIS and also
bomb oil fields controlled by the Islamic State, then seize the oil and give
the profits to military veterans who were wounded while fighting.
27. Target and kill the relatives of
terrorists.
28. Shut down parts of the Internet so that Islamic State terrorists cannot use it to recruit American
children.
29. Bring back water boarding which is torture. He's willing to use it and go even further
than water boarding he says.
30.
Leave troops in Afghanistan because it's such a mess and protect Israel. And increase U.S. military presence in the East and
South China Seas.
31. Find an “out clause” in the Iran
nuclear deal and then totally renegotiate the whole thing.
32. I
promise I will never be in a bicycle race. That I can tell you. (This promise is connected to criticism of
Secretary of State John F. Kerry, who was injured while riding a bicycle amid
the Iran negotiations.)
33. Refuse to call Iran's leader by his
preferred title saying I guarantee
you I will be never calling him the Supreme Leader ... I'll say, “Hey baby, how
ya doing?” But I will never call him the Supreme Leader.”
34.
Negotiate the release of all U.S. prisoners held in Iran before taking office. (Five hostages were recently released, including Washington Post
reporter Jason Rezaian; Trump has taken some credit for this.)
35. Oppose
the killing of journalists “I hate some of these people, but I would never kill
them.”
36.
Find great generals like Patton or MacArthur -- do not allow them to go
onto television news shows to explain their military strategy: I don't want my generals being interviewed, I want my generals kicking
ass.” Trump likes generals who are rough, foul-mouthed and beloved by their
troops.
37.
Drop that “dirty, rotten traitor” Bowe Bergdahl out of an airplane into
desolate Afghanistan without a parachute.
38.
Fire “the corrupt and incompetent leaders of the VA and dramatically reform the agency. Allow veterans to
take their military identification card to any medical facility that accepts
Medicaid patients to receive care. Embed satellite VA clinics in rural
hospitals and under served areas, and ensure than every VA hospital is
permanently staffed with Ob-Gyn doctors.
39.
Invest more heavily in programs that help Vets transition back to civilian
life, including job training and placement services. Also
increase funding for the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder, traumatic
brain injuries and mental health issues. Veterans who apply for a job at a VA
facility will have five points added to their qualifying scores.
40. Bring back jobs from China and
Mexico, Japan, and elsewhere.
41. I
will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created.
42.
Students at Wofford College in South Carolina, where Trump attended a town
hall, will all have jobs at graduation.
43. Aggressively challenge China's power
in the world declaring the country a currency manipulator, adopting
a zero tolerance policy on intellectual property theft and forced technology
transfer, and cracking down on China's lax labor and environmental standards.
44.
Rather than throw the Chinese president a state dinner, buy him a McDonald's
hamburger and say we've got to get down to work.
45. Replace free trade with fair trade. Gather together the smartest negotiators in the world, assign them each
a country and renegotiate all foreign trade deals.
46. Put billionaire hedge fund manager
Carl Icahn in charge of trade negotiations with China and Japan pick an ambassador to Japan who is a killer, unlike
the current ambassador, Caroline Kennedy.
47. Tell Ford Motor president that
unless he cancels plans to build a massive plant in Mexico, the company will
face a 35 percent tax on cars imported back into the United States.
48.
Force Nabisco to once again make Oreos in the United States and bully Apple into making its “damn computers
and other products” here.
49. Impose new taxes on many imports
into the country. Numbers thrown around have included 32 percent, 34 percent
and 35 percent.
50. Grow the nation's economy by at
least 6 percent.
51. Reduce the $18 trillion national
debt by vigorously eliminating waste, fraud and abuse in
the federal government, ending redundant government programs and growing the
economy to increase tax revenues.
52. Cut the budget by 20 percent by
simply renegotiating.
53. Get rid of the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.
54.
Simplify the U.S. tax code and reduce the number of tax brackets from seven to
four. The highest earners would pay a 25-percent tax. The
corporate tax rate would fall to 15 percent. Eliminate the marriage penalty for
taxpayers and get rid of the alternate minimum tax.
55. No longer charge income tax to
single individuals earning less than $25,000 per year or couples earning less
than $50,000. These people will, however, be required to file a
one-page form with the Internal Revenue Service that states: I win.
56. Ensure that Americans can still
afford to golf.
57. Allow corporations a one-time window
to transfer money being held overseas, charging a much-reduced 10 percent tax.
58. Get rid of most corporate tax
loopholes or incentives, but
continue to allow taxpayers to deduct mortgage interest and charitable
donations from their taxes.
59. On his first day in office, Trump
would get rid of gun-free zones at military bases and in schools.
60. Use common sense to fix the mental
health system and prevent mass shootings. Find ways to arm more of the “good guys like him who can take out the “sickos.”
Get rid of bans on certain types of guns and magazines so that “good, honest
people” can own the guns of their choice.
61.
Impose a minimum sentence of five years in federal prison for any violent felon
who commits a crime using a gun,
with no chance for parole or early release.
62. Fix the background check system used
when purchasing guns to ensure states are properly uploading criminal and
health records.
63. Allow concealed-carry permits to be
recognized in all 50 states.
64. Sign an executive order calling for
the death penalty for anyone found guilty of killing a police officer.
65. Provide more funding for police
training.
66. And provide more funding for drug
treatment, especially for heroin
addicts.
67. On
the first day in office, terminate President Obama's executive orders related
to immigration. This includes getting rid of sanctuary cities that
Trump says have become refuges for criminals.
68. Deport the almost 11 million
immigrants illegally living in the United States.
69. Triple the number of U.S.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers.
70. Continue to allow lowly paid foreign
workers to come to the United States on temporary works visas because Trump says they are the only ones who want to pick grapes.
71. End birthright citizenship (repeal
the 14th Amendment).
72. Say things that are politically
incorrect, because the country does not have time to waste with
political correctness.
73. Be
a cheerleader for America and bring the country's spirit back. “Take the brand of the United States and make it great again.”
74. Bring back the American Dream.
75. Start winning again. “We're going to win so much – win after win after win – that you're
going to be begging me: Please, Mr. President, let us lose once or twice. We
can't stand it anymore. And I'm going to say: No way. We're going to keep
winning. We're never going to lose. We're never, ever going to lose.”
Donald J. Trump – candidate of
promises and Talk Radio sound bites lacking any substance whatsoever.
Historical note:
Trump is just like this former GOP presidential candidate who won on a series
of promises. To wit:
Despite Hoover’s landslide
victory over Alfred E. Smith, the Republican Party's promise of prosperity was
derailed seven months after Hoover took the oath of office with the stock market crash of 1929 which
plunged the country into the Great Depression and
people eventually lost confidence in Hoover thereby laying the groundwork for “The
New Deal” presidency under FDR that began in 1932.
What we see now is history
repeating itself. Thanks for stopping by.
