Donald Trump, a 1950s man

[brooklynite]

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Source: Axios

In this era of drones and driverless cars, President Trump often sounds and feels like a man from the bygone days of station wagons and smokestacks.

"He feels he’s the personification of the American dream. ... That means building things, going back to the era of his dad. He assumes the rest of the country pines for that. " — A source close to President Trump

The source added: "He's not necessarily saying we need to go back to the past. He's saying we need ... the principles that made us successful in the past."

Read more: https://www.axios.com/donald-trump-worldview-past-success-1950s-china-4e778596-522e-43f8-9fdb-3235c0568427.html

[kchamberlin25]

1. Misread that at first as

station wagons and swastikas. As dear leader would say, "Sad."

[KG]

3. um, no.this assumes he has coherent thoughts.

nothing he does or says would suggest such a thing. repeats things he's heard others say.

[UCmeNdc]

4. Trump is just a corrupt politician

People need to quit making excuses for his corruption and selfishness.

[Scarsdale]

5. How many of us

want to file bankruptcy even once, let alone 5 or 6 times, then have to depend on Russia for loans? How many of us would hire contractors, then refuse to pay them for work completed? He must think most Americans are as corrupt as he is. He is more like his grandfather, the PIMP, than his father isn't he?

[Dave Starsky]

6. "Principles that made us successful in the past"?

You mean, be the largest surviving industrial nation after a devastating World War? Is that where he's going with this?

I don't think things will work out for us as well as they did the last time.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

8. Selling your soul for personal gain even if it means selling out the country to Russia. . . . nt

[C_U_L8R]

7. He's built nothing but corruption and bankruptcy

with tacky vainglorious monuments to himself. The ugliest American.

[Larrybanal]

9. this is rich

because trump has zero principals to pine for...nothing but self enrichment

[DonViejo]

10. Locking....

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