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In reply to the discussion: Trump said whoever 'leaked' info on his White House bunker stay should be 'executed,' new book claim [View all]SouthBayDem
(33,331 posts)62. The WSJ has been consistently critical of Trump.
Although it is editorially conservative, it's more Eastern Establishment (think Bushes) than MAGA/populist. Its position is basically "support his policies, not the person" - for instance its November 4, 2016 editorial:
Yet while this could be a 1980-like moment of economic renewal, Mr. Trump is no Ronald Reagan. The Gipper came to office with a coherent and firmly held world view formed by decades of reading and experience as a Governor. It isnt obvious that Mr. Trump reads anything at all. He absorbs what he knows through conversation and watching TV, and he has no consistent philosophy.
This makes it hard to predict how he would respond to the shocks and surprises that buffet any President. His firmest policy conviction seems to be that trade is a zero-sum game and that America is losing from global commerce. But if he follows through on his vow to withdraw from trade pacts, impose tariffs on imports and punish U.S. companies that invest abroad, he could cause a recession. The main economic battle in a Trump Administration would be between his pro-growth domestic reforms and his anti-growth trade policy.
This makes it hard to predict how he would respond to the shocks and surprises that buffet any President. His firmest policy conviction seems to be that trade is a zero-sum game and that America is losing from global commerce. But if he follows through on his vow to withdraw from trade pacts, impose tariffs on imports and punish U.S. companies that invest abroad, he could cause a recession. The main economic battle in a Trump Administration would be between his pro-growth domestic reforms and his anti-growth trade policy.
And its June 25, 2020 editorial:
...he wasted his chance to show leadership by turning his daily pandemic pressers into brawls with the bear-baiting press and any politician who didnt praise him to the skies. Lately he has all but given up even talking about the pandemic when he might offer realism and hope about the road ahead even as the country reopens. His default now is defensive self-congratulation.
So it's no surprise its White House reporter would come out with a book like this.
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Trump said whoever 'leaked' info on his White House bunker stay should be 'executed,' new book claim [View all]
brooklynite
Jul 2021
OP
The man is quite crazy. And didn't Trump publicly say he never was in the White House Bunker?
Botany
Jul 2021
#2
I'm sure he's only bent out of shape on this topic because it exposes him for the coward that he is.
cos dem
Jul 2021
#3
And relishing in the violence that he created. Just a preview if he regains power.
Evolve Dammit
Jul 2021
#7
I'm sure of it. He only stayed less than an hour, I'm surprised, one would think a rat hole ...
marble falls
Jul 2021
#15
It show his pure cowardice and his use of others to bully his way in the world. He wouldn't ....
usaf-vet
Jul 2021
#24
That will never happen and there isn't enough time in the world for him to fix a thing.
chowder66
Jul 2021
#61