In the present election, however, a guy came along who proclaimed he was different. As a businessman he presented a pragmatic approach to governance, offering a clean slate, keeping what works and discarding the rest. During his campaign, much time was spent railing against all the “liars” “phony’s” and “criminals” holding or running for office.
Professionally, his own career was quite spotty, mentioned often here in the past. Four bankrupt Atlantic City casino’s and other failed businesses that included, a USFL team, the Plaza Hotel, the Eastern Shuttle, Trump steaks, Trump vodka, Trump radio, Trump diets and Trump mortgages. He’s also just settled the closure of Trump University for $25 million more in losses.
Nonetheless, despite the glaring evidence of Trump's quite questionable business talent, this writer appreciated the job Trump did while campaigning. Including his mastery in overcoming 16 of the nation’s top Republican politicians to win the presidential nomination. And then, going on to win the presidency itself, against significant, if not overwhelming odds. All of which was based on creating a coalition of disgruntled citizens fed up with government, politicians and the hopeless morass they’d created.
Then during his run for the White House, he vowed consistently that he’d come through for his coalition, whereas he had no political ties nor baggage. Thus, he could give those frustrated, forgotten masses across middle-America what they craved if they simply put their trust in him.
And now today, Evan Halper @latimes.com writes about Trump’s responses in an interview yesterday.
“When the conversation turned to Hillary Clinton, Trump said he will not press law enforcement agencies to prosecute her. And he even said people could argue the Clinton Foundation has done "good work."
And then, “Trump, who once declared global warming a "hoax" perpetrated by the Chinese, backed off his skepticism of climate change. He said he believed there is a connection to human activity and warming — but he is still undecided about how much of one. And he said he has an open mind to keeping in place the international climate agreement President Obama took a lead in negotiating, which Trump has been vowing for months to withdraw from.”
Thus, as mentioned here yesterday, in only two short weeks, two campaign promises are now gone, suggesting more changes of tune will come, be it sooner or later. Which has to be some kind of record for a self-proclaimed new breed of candidate to turn into precisely the same kind of untrustworthy, self-serving, bait and switch politico he swore he was not.
On another subject, in the same vein, much is being made of the New York Times being exposed as little more than the publicity and public relations arm of the Democrat party.
While the disclosure itself has drawn major news coverage and much discussion, the attitude here has been "so what?" Because, obvious leftist bias has led to shrinking readership, making the publication practically irrelevant as to any kind of influence on the votingl public.
And now today, A.J. Katz @adweek.com/tvnewser writes about CNN’s falloff that incudes data on two other left-leaning broadcast news networks. Current results show that Fox News Channel viewership is far greater than all three others combined:
Total Viewers (Live +SD)
- Total day: FNC: 2.102 | CNN: 705 | MSNBC: 726 | HLN: 247
- Primetime: FNC: 3.027 | CNN: 865 | MSNBC: 1.278 | HLN: 287
Chesty Puller added: “They found that out in the election, you would think it would have gotten through those thick heads of theirs...”
However, as time has proven, when it comes to political ideology, logic and rational thought most often don’t really matter all that much.
Aside from the leftist media losing audience rapidly, others on that side of the political spectrum are now retracting prior verbiage, apparently willing to give Trump a chance to prove himself.
As reported by Judy Kurtz @thehill.com: ”Robert De Niro is striking a more diplomatic tone regarding President-elect Donald Trump, whom he previously said he'd like to "punch ... in the face."
“De Niro has previously called Trump "blatantly stupid," a "pig" and a "bullshit artist." He said Tuesday his "punch" comment – made in a video released last month – was “more symbolic.”
“After he said the things that he said, anybody would want to punch him in the face,” De Niro told reporters. “Many people told me, ‘You said what I’d want to say.’ It’s just unacceptable to say those things in the situations that he said them in.”
As for today, though: “De Niro added, “Now he’s president-elect and I just want to see what he’s going to do."
Therefore in this case, De Niro’s backed off and taken a wimpish wait and see stance after coming off like a tough guy in one of his Hollywood scripted roles. Which seems quite typical for show business types. However, there are others who have yet to take steps toward being magnanimous.
Back on November 9th, the day after the election, Catherine Dunn headlined an article @townhall.com: “These 23 Celebrities Said They'll Leave The Country If Trump Wins”
The list included: Jon Stewart, Chelsea Handler, Neve Campbell, Barry Diller, Lena Dunham, Keegan-Michael Key, Chloë Sevigny, Al Sharpton, Natasha Lyonne, Eddie Griffin, Spike Lee, Amber Rose, Samuel L. Jackson, Cher, George Lopez, Barbra Streisand, Raven-Symoné, Whoopi Goldberg, Omari Hardwick, Miley Cyrus, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Amy Schumer and Katie Hopkins.
While it would be no great loss to the nation if those listed were to actually pack up and leave, they’re mentioned here because maybe now they won’t have to.
And that’s because as mentioned above, Trump’s already backed off on two major promises. Indicating he may not follow through on anything else he pledged to do at all. And that would mean that, although Bill Clinton’s wife lost the election, Obama’s legacy may very well remain intact. In turn, making all those anguished "celebrities" quite comfortable after all.
That's it for today folks.
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