7 Ways Trump Could Screw Los Angeles

[TexasTowelie]

Well, the electoral college didn't save us after all, and barring celestial intervention, Donald John Trump will be our president in less than two weeks.

We, of course, have no idea what Trump will actually do when he takes office; the guy is nothing if not unpredictable. Yesterday, our own Dennis Romero was busy trying to find the silver lining in all of this. But let's be honest: There are myriad ways President Trump could screw us over royally. We won't even get into some of the really apocalyptic scenarios – nuclear holocaust, civil war, jail sentences for journalists (gulp).

Here are seven relatively realistic things Trump could do, if he wanted to, that would be bad for Los Angeles:

7. Cut off public transit funding.

On Wednesday, officials announced that the federal government is giving L.A. $1.6 billion to speed construction of the Purple Line extension, a subway that will run mostly underneath Wilshire Boulevard, connecting downtown and West L.A. Huzzah!

Read more: http://www.laweekly.com/news/7-ways-trump-could-screw-los-angeles-7794032

[SunSeeker]

1. Depressing.

[Doreen]

2. I have sustpected all this time that he will do things to hurt states that Hillary won in.

Oregon and Washington among them. He could destroy the entire Pacific Northwest. If California was to secede Oregon and Washington would be wise to join. I do not know how serious I am about that last comment it just came out.

[Charles Bukowski]

3. The Los Angeles Metropolitan Area has a larger

economy than Florida. It has a larger economy than most countries.

Trump would be a fool to intentionally hurt any of our big cities. They are the motors that power the US economy.

[dhol82]

4. Ummmm - fool, meet Trump

Hope it doesn't happen but this POS can be counted on to do bizzaro shit.

[msongs]

5. the parasite red states depend on california to prop them up due to their own failures nt

[dhill926]

6. fuck 'im...

we're the 6th biggest economy in the world. We have a Democratic super majority for our state government. We'll figure it out...