Once Trump is inaugurated and actually becomes president, what will change?

[Kablooie]

Right now everything is just talk, and Trump talk never means anything. It can change on the wisp of a whim.
Until he actually makes decisions everything is up in the air.

I expect him to continue to tweet nonsense and continue to take the presidency as a massive publicity campaign for himself.
He will say more outrageous things but once again it will be just hot air as he leaves the actual work of governing to his cabinet and the Congress.

I can't imagine him sitting in on long boring governmental meetings debating the fine points of policy.
He'll probably just breeze in and out, leaving all the decision making to others.
Then they'll give him a 30 second rundown of what was decided and he'll scribble his name on the documents.

I fear that he'll find the military to be the most exciting part of his job. It will be like the movies. He'll have maps and little figures on tables he can push around. Then he'll strut around ordering attacks and campaigns that make him feel like he's George Patton or John Wayne. Once casualty figures start coming in he'll read them with pride.

I have no faith in him taking his responsibilities seriously.
His only goal will be to aggrandize himself.

[pangaia]

1. I agree with all you say exceot perhaps this part..

Right now everything is just talk, and Trump talk never means anything. It can change on the wisp of a whim.
Until he actually makes decisions everything is up in the air.

[msongs]

2. his only role is to NOT VETO any legsilation repubs pass in congress. long as he avoids

vetos he can do anything he wants no matter how nutso and repubs will be glad of it

[boston bean]

3. Life as we know it.

senate and house republicans have big plans.

[handmade34]

4. ...don't want to wait to find out n/t

[madokie]

5. Personally I think

he'll do a lot of strutting around but very little of it as acting pResident. His cabinet will guide his ship. Just like raygun's did, little boots for the most part too

[guillaumeb]

6. Reagan redux.

Another actor with no interest in actual governing. But Reagan hid his racism behind a façade of normality.

[hatrack]

7. The Feast of the Vipers will begin, and he'll hold another pep rally . . .

And in four years, we'll all be neck deep in shit.

[3catwoman3]

10. I feel like it is up to...

...my nostrils already.

[charlyvi]

8. We will be living under the Paul Ryan budget.

If you're thinking your life won't change, you're wrong. Ryan is effectively the most powerful man in this country right now. He's convinced the media and all the "serious people" that he is a gifted policy wonk. He isn't. He is just a far right winger to whom Christmas will come in January, 2017. The coffers will open and he and his fellow ultra right wingers will dismantle the New Deal with relish, destroying the safety net and pumping the money into the pockets of the already rich. Trump won't give a shit and Pence is even more right wing than Ryan.

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a49378/paul-ryan-budget-plan/


Be afraid. Be very afraid. Unless you're already rich, that is.

[uponit7771]

9. Few things will change at first, wait for 6 months out for what Ryan Pence proposes and 1 yr

... out for what they start to implement