A Warning

by Anonymous

It’s a running joke in the White House that one of the worst jobs in the administration belongs to the poor souls charged with designing the president’s border wall. Trump, of course, talks about the wall all the time with a gleam in his eye. Running for president, he vowed that he would build “a great wall, and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me, and I’ll build them very inexpensively…And I will have Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” He admonished rival candidate Jeb Bush for talking about border fencing: “It’s not a fence, Jeb. It’s a WALL, and there’s a BIG difference.”

I have to admit, it’s knee-slappingly hilarious to watch Trump tackle this issue.

Officials would come out of meetings on the subject looking like they’d stepped off the Gravitron at the county fair.

Here’s the truth. Trump has barely built any wall, and his policies have been a thorough failure when it comes to border security.

By all accounts, most of what the president has built is replacement of old fences at the border.

However, not being a man of history, Trump never adopted this view.

“We get these women coming in with like seven children,” he told his listeners, briefly attempting a Hispanic accent.

“They are saying, ‘Oh, please help! My husband left me!’ They are useless. They don’t do anything for our country. At least if they came in with a husband we could put him in the fields to pick corn or something.”

The handful of attendees in the room shifted uncomfortably in their chairs but said n...

They didn’t even know what to say. This is how the president of the United States thinks and speaks about people who would give their liv...

Whenever these quotes find their way to the press, a mid-level communications staffer is dispatched to say Trump w...

No matter what his supporters will tell you, no matter wh...

will try to convince you of, Donald Trump is ...

Fundamentally, Trump does not understand how trade works.

When experts try to explain it to him, he either half listens or only hears what he wants to hear.

This infantile logic has been repeated for ages, despite Adam Smith’s timeless words. Here is what really happens. As soon as the tariff is placed on sweaters, the extra cost will be passed to consumers. The Indians won’t pay the six dollars, Americans will pay for it. Those same Americans will be forced to spend more money on clothing than they were before.

Multiply that across the country and that’s billions and billions of dollars extra they will have to spend on sweaters, and less on other products they need.

S...

some US companies will be incentivized to start making sweaters, creating low-paying jobs. But what will go unnoticed is the impact everywhere else—the billions of dollars other companies will lose because Americans are spending it on somethin...

The economics are painful...

Tariffs don’...

They are just a massive tax on Americans, robbing them of thei...

Regrettably, no living human has been able to help the preside...

Believe me, many among us have tried. His convoluted view of econom...

As with any other issue, the reasonable voices are being sidelined.

This is a sneaky and contemptible way for the president to raise taxes without people realizing it.

Trump knows this is the case.

In the meantime, Trump is acting like a dictator. At one point, he tweeted, “Our great American companies are hereby ordered to immediately start looking for an alternative to China.”

That’s not how a democratic system works, Mr. President. You can’t “order” American companies where to make their products.

Trump’s anti-trade

trade actions are hurting Americans at this very moment.

Estimates show the economy has already lost hundreds of thousands of jobs be...

Other countries are retaliating already with their own tariffs, which magnifies the problem.

Working-class and poor Americans will be hit hardest.

Trade should not be used as a weapon of war in times of peace. It’s a war that everyone loses.

It’s time for the GOP to see the light. The president’s economic policies are bad for Americans, contrary to conservative principles, and cruel—not unlike their architect.

In fact, it seems as if he’s deliberately written a counter-playbook, flagrantly dismissing the RNC’s recommendations and alienating the populations the GOP needs to reach.

On Donald Trump’s watch, the party has become less fiscally conservative, more divisive, less diverse, more anti-immigrant, and less relevant.

How did this happen, you ask? Well, if there’s a theme to Trump’s life—in politics,

business, or family—it’s that he’s disloyal.

Republicans gave the keys to the kingdom to a man who paid hush money to shut up a porn star he’d been sleeping with while married to his third wife,...

Are we surprised he’s run afoul of the party’s most ...

If elected to a second term, he will cheat on naive Republicans ...

“Yeah, sure. Why not?…Might as well. I have second thoughts about everything.”

Conservatives dreaming that Donald Trump is our savior need to wake up.

Not only is he not a conservative, he represents a long-term threat to the Republican Party and what it purports to stand for.

He is redefining us to a degree that makes our platform incoherent. Those cheering him on to a second term—with foaming-at-the-mouth excitement that he is “totally owning” the Left—are unknowingly nailing coffins into the GOP, cementing an end to ...

Let me put a finer point on it. If Republicans believe the president’s handling of their core issues is acceptable, then there is no...

Yes, there are still lone-ranger conservatives t...

traditional GOP causes from inside the administration, but Trump’s leadership of the party (or lack thereof) will be what’s remembered, n...