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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIf you could give Donald Trump one piece of advice, what would it be?
Let's suppose Donald Trump sometimes reads DU. Here is your chance to give him some good advice. What one piece of advice would you want to give him?
Demonaut
(8,916 posts)likesmountains 52
(4,098 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)roamer65
(36,745 posts)Alice11111
(5,730 posts)Pay folks to come if necessary.
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)Dustlawyer
(10,495 posts)bravenak
(34,648 posts)CaliforniaPeggy
(149,615 posts)Doreen
(11,686 posts)HipChick
(25,485 posts)Doodley
(9,089 posts)you will need to reach out well beyond your core supporters.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)Fuck Off, would it? LOL.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)<img src="" alt="Image result for woman giving trump tower the finger"/>
I knew what FO meant, but I just wanted to make it loud and clear. That is not my aunt in the photo, but she gave the sane gesture to the sexist bigot.
yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)I love it!
Kath2
(3,074 posts)Will do the same on my next trip to NYC.
I'm appalled!
Cha
(297,216 posts)it's just the first thing that came to mind.
Kath2
(3,074 posts)LOL. Samantha Bee's staff are with us, too.
<img src="" alt="Image result for women giving trump the finger"/>
Cha
(297,216 posts)Stronger Together!
Kath2
(3,074 posts)And we cannot and will not accept this person who lost the general election by 3 MILLION votes as our president.
pkdu
(3,977 posts)Cha
(297,216 posts)I said up thread.. it's Universal!
thanks pkdu
leftstreet
(36,108 posts)Right now you'll still be able to sell yourself to a handful of your weird supporters
But if you wait for impeachment, indictments, etc you won't be able to make a dime
Alice11111
(5,730 posts)mikeysnot
(4,756 posts)You Idiot.
calendargirl
(191 posts)Be an adult. Stop reacting based on your hyperinflated ego and putting our country in jeopardy.
Takket
(21,566 posts)dalton99a
(81,486 posts)Kath2
(3,074 posts)You are a disgrace to this country.
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)bdamomma
(63,849 posts)and disrespecting the American people. I hope you and your corporate friends choke on that greed.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)Native
(5,942 posts)world wide wally
(21,743 posts)Go prove it to people
Grassy Knoll
(10,118 posts)Doodley
(9,089 posts)because he wanted big hairy hands for the character - giving Tiny Hands that advice is the perfect answer!
GP6971
(31,156 posts)be on it.
NRaleighLiberal
(60,014 posts)GeorgeGist
(25,321 posts)Be a socialist.
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)I was going to suggest that all he has to do is implement single payer healthcare. Cut the rug right out from under the just say no DLC. He was once in favour as it's actually an advantage for business bidding on international jobs.
I'll bet that if it came from Donald, his supporters would blindly accept it, despite, or more likely because of all the vocal opposition from establishment Republicans.
He'd ride a populist wave right through 2024.
But I'm not going to suggest it.
Doh!
LiberalLovinLug
(14,173 posts)From any competent person.
GitRDun
(1,846 posts)Continuous lying will eventually always result in no one wanting to hear what you have to say....it's inevitable.
Efilroft Sul
(3,579 posts)irisblue
(32,974 posts)Save your brand
mopinko
(70,103 posts)die.
Blue Owl
(50,371 posts)n/t
TDale313
(7,820 posts)Afromania
(2,768 posts)help people.
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)You don't want the job, and hate it, step down.
C_U_L8R
(45,002 posts)Leave the world in peace.
moondust
(19,981 posts)turn on the gold-plated big-screen TV, and stay there.
A HERETIC I AM
(24,368 posts)Laffy Kat
(16,378 posts)You look incredibly stupid.
JTFrog
(14,274 posts)Duppers
(28,120 posts)democrank
(11,094 posts)MrPurple
(985 posts)njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)davekriss
(4,616 posts)(While you still can.)
Phoenix61
(17,003 posts)If you won't do that replace Bannon with a human with a brain, a heart, and federal government experience.
jalan48
(13,865 posts)lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)jmowreader
(50,557 posts)Trump wouldn't accept any advice. Especially not from the likes of us.
But just for the hell of it, let's pretend Trump might actually listen to the things we'd tell him. Under those conditions, and assuming I'm speaking directly to him, I would tell him this.
1. Replace your staff, your advisors and your Cabinet. You're a businessman. If a person with absolutely no experience in food service applied for the job of executive chef in your finest restaurant, you wouldn't even interview him much less hire him - but to run the United States Government, a task far more critical than running a restaurant, you packed the place with absolutely inexperienced and, worse, completely incompetent and ideologically-driven people. The last Republican president was George W. Bush. Faced with the same situation as you - being a new president who has to hire a team to work with him - he staffed mostly with veterans of his father's and Reagan's administrations. Many of those people are still alive, most of the ones who are still alive haven't been sent to prison yet, and a few of the ones who aren't in jail don't hate your guts, at least not yet. You could put together a fairly decent staff out of the ones who like you, and serious political wonks tend to know other people who would be better than the gang of thieves you've come up with.
1a. QUIT PICKING RETIRED GENERALS, DAMMIT!
1b. And quit picking used-up Goldman, Sachs executives. Dude, during the campaign when you weren't ripping Hillary a new asshole over that fucking e-mail server and you weren't ripping her one over Benghazi - do you even know where the hell Benghazi is? - you were beating her to death over having given speeches to Goldman, Sachs. If GS is the devil, why is your staff so packed with people who used to work there?
1c. No more Breitbart people either, especially since the Milo Yiannopoulos allegations have surfaced.
2. No more tweeting. You're embarrassing the country.
2a. Stop lying. (Thanks, Hamlette!)
3. Release not only your tax returns, but your business records.
4. Go before Congress and admit the extent of your dealings with foreign nationals - with special consideration given to anyone in your administration with ties to Russian organized crime syndicates.
5. Report to Walter Reed Army Medical Center and undergo a complete Army enlistment physical, to include a mental health examination. Report the findings to Congress and to the press.
6. Make nice with the press.
7. Attempt to repair the damage you have done to our standing in the world.
8. Completely dissociate yourself from your business empire if you choose to continue to serve as president. If you can't sell it - and you probably cannot, because you're upside-down - place it in a blind trust with a well-qualified administrator who is not related to you.
9. Your children and your son-in-law currently work as advisors in your administration. Remove them from it. Now.
and...
10. While this may seem petty and superficial, get a complete makeover. You need tailored suits, a better haircut and makeup that isn't orange. I realize you're the fattest president since William Howard Taft, but Mr. Taft looked pretty damn good in his three-piece suit and watch chain. You look like you're a homeless bum.
Right now you're a complete embarrassment to the nation. If you can't clean up your act, please admit this "president" thing was a mistake from the start, resign your office and return to your lush former life.
Hamlette
(15,412 posts)3catwoman3
(23,983 posts)...dead.
LW1977
(1,234 posts)Please proceed
joet67
(624 posts)what it is really about and how it all works. You can continue to have a nice life (Russia investigations notwithstanding). You have already proved your point. You won. You will be forever immortalized in history. Let that be your legacy, and move on.
Maru Kitteh
(28,340 posts)with scissors a LOT. Then run with the bulls. Then run with scissors some more.
Keep doing these things until something stops you from doing them anymore.
MyNameGoesHere
(7,638 posts)Eat lots of fairy foods, drink to excess, take massive amounts of drugs, and don't exercise. It's good for you. It will make you greater than you ever were.
Buns_of_Fire
(17,175 posts)Make a reality show about it. You can talk and text all day to the towing guy in Lizard Lick who also has funny hair. You interview people who want to work for you, while the towing guy drags their car away during the interview. Much hilarity will ensue.
Saboburns
(2,807 posts)It's the only solution
Kaleva
(36,299 posts)Croney
(4,660 posts)Over to that triangle-shaped buoy floating through the water toward you.
Stellar
(5,644 posts)AngryAmish
(25,704 posts)But that is my advice for everybody.