One Week of Trump

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(01-27-2017, 09:24 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: So, Donald Trump has been President for a week. I'm interested in getting peoples' observations.

Here are some of mine, for anyone interested:
1) The world didn't end - Since the Anti-Christ hasn't shown up (yet) and there was no "nucyuhlar war of mass destruction" with the Russians, we may be okay.
2) Nothing really unexpected - There were a lot of executive orders, to be sure. But this is all stuff Trump had said he was going to do anyway. None of them were really that shocking, IMO. I'm not saying that I think they are good. Most of them I don't agree with. But he said he was going to do this and he did.
3) I'm starting to get Trump a bit - He fancies himself as the Great Negotiator, and maybe he is. If you want something from him, you have to negotiate and offer him something. And he views everything as negotiable. The Republicans in the House and Senate were the first to get this. Deals were made before he won the nomination. This is why they all get along so well right now. This "paying for the Wall" business with Mexico is negotiation for re-doing NAFTA, mark my words. Same with the China stuff.
4) Trump listens to "Mad Dog" - He backed off the waterboarding issue when Sec. of Defense Mattis informed him it doesn't work. This is reassuring.

Reminded me of something:

http://www.newshounds.us/today_completes_seven_years_since_sean_hannity_promised_to_undergo_waterboarding_for_charity_042116

Quote:Today Completes Seven Years Since Sean Hannity Promised To Undergo Waterboarding For Charity
POSTED BY ELLEN -5216.20PC ON APRIL 21, 2016 · FLAG

 
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On April 22, 2009, Sean Hannity offered to undergo waterboarding for charity as proof that it's not torture. Yet Hanniity, who loves the thought of waterboarding others, has yet to fulfill that pledge.

On April 22, 2009, Hannity was challenged about his "fascist mentality" by actor Charles Grodin and his insistence that waterboarding is just dunking.

Quote:GRODIN: Would you consent to be waterboarded? We can waterboard you?
HANNITY: Sure.
GRODIN: Are you busy on Sunday?
HANNITY: I’ll do it for charity. I’ll let you do it. I’ll do it for the troops’ families.

Keith Olbermann responded by offering $1,000 for every second Hannity lasted. "We'll see if he's anything but a gasbag," Olbermann said. 

Well, after seven years, I think we can definitively say he's a gasbag.

You can email Hannity via his website or tweet him @SeanHannity and let him know that he may want to forget his promise to prove waterboarding is not torture but we won’t!

Watch the video below, from our friends at Crooks and Liars, showing Hannity’s promise to undergo waterboarding and Olbermann's dare.

Those guys who never served sure love to talk tough.