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Trump's second term agenda

Trebuchet

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Assuming for the moment that Trump get's the R nomination, wins the election, and isn't in jail, what will he be doing in his second term?
I'd say it'll be almost entirely revenge on those he thinks have wronged him.
Democrats. News media. FBI. States that didn't vote for him. State election officials. Health officials, especially Fauci. RINO's who didn't support him sufficiently.
I expect there to be actual arrests on Trumped up charges. Certainly he won't be appointing anyone as AG who doesn't promise to go after his enemies.
Much, of course, will depend on the makeup of Congress.
 
Trump's second term agenda = For there to never be another free and open election in the United States.
 
Mandatory rallies each week to stroke his ego.

Personal gifts from foreign leaders.

A hotter, younger first Lady - or even better an intern.
 
Self aggrandizement.

I doubt he's thought about what he'd do beyond just getting elected to prove that he can be.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Trump's second term agenda = For there to never be another free and open election in the United States.
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I'd really like to tell you that's ridiculous, but I haven't been living under a rock since 2016. My only hope is that he surrounds himself with people too stupid to pull it off.

But, if one were to make the attempt, what would you do? Naturally, you pardon the 1/6 "political prisoners". After that, I think the plan would be largely just do whatever MAGA has been accusing the Democrats of doing, right?
 
Upchurch said:
I'd really like to tell you that's ridiculous, but I haven't been living under a rock since 2016. My only hope is that he surrounds himself with people too stupid to pull it off.
But, if one were to make the attempt, what would you do? Naturally, you pardon the 1/6 "political prisoners". After that, I think the plan would be largely just do whatever MAGA has been accusing the Democrats of doing, right?
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No such luck I am afraid. They learned their lesson from Trump's disastrous transition. They assumed he would lose and they had no plan in place for winning the trifecta, leading to many "dog catching the car" stories.

This time around (and probably ever time after this), there will be a firm plan in place so that they can hit the ground running and do as much damage as possible, as quickly as possible.
 
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No such luck I am afraid. They learned their lesson from Trump's disastrous transition. They assumed he would lose and they had no plan in place for winning the trifecta, leading to many "dog catching the car" stories.

This time around (and probably ever time after this), there will be a firm plan in place so that they can hit the ground running and do as much damage as possible, as quickly as possible.
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Have you read something or just guessing? Seems a bit early to even start to naming cabinet positions
 
Trebuchet said:
Assuming for the moment that Trump get's the R nomination, wins the election, and isn't in jail, what will he be doing in his second term?
I'd say it'll be almost entirely revenge on those he thinks have wronged him.
Democrats. News media. FBI. States that didn't vote for him. State election officials. Health officials, especially Fauci. RINO's who didn't support him sufficiently.
I expect there to be actual arrests on Trumped up charges. Certainly he won't be appointing anyone as AG who doesn't promise to go after his enemies.
Much, of course, will depend on the makeup of Congress.
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Has anyone managed to figure out what his first-term agenda was? Other than "build a wall, lock her up, now what?"
 
Mojo said:
Has anyone managed to figure out what his first-term agenda was? Other than "build a wall, lock her up, now what?"
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Repeal and replace Obamacare. Which the R's never even tried to do when they had the White House, House, and Senate during Trump's first year.
Other than that it was just the standard Republican agenda of further enriching billionaires and big corporations.
 
Trebuchet said:
Repeal and replace Obamacare. Which the R's never even tried to do when they had the White House, House, and Senate during Trump's first year.
Other than that it was just the standard Republican agenda of further enriching billionaires and big corporations.
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They did try, pretty famously as John McCain managed to do something decent while dying and helped block it.
 
Mojo said:
Has anyone managed to figure out what his first-term agenda was? Other than "build a wall, lock her up, now what?"
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Tweak the libs. I simply don't know how much clearer they can make it at this point.

Trump 100% completely fulfilled his entire duty as President to the people who elected him about 4 seconds into election night when Fox News found the first crying liberal college kid to put on camera.
 
Trebuchet said:
Repeal and replace Obamacare. Which the R's never even tried to do when they had the White House, House, and Senate during Trump's first year.Other than that it was just the standard Republican agenda of further enriching billionaires and big corporations.
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They did try, but McCain torpedoed the repeal.

ETA: Beaten like a rented mule
 
People quite naturally assume things about Drumpf's mind that aren't true. Who could imagine a mind so shallow, so narrow, and, especially, so short? Like a rooster or a goldfish, he lives in a severely truncated Now. That's how he can lie so constantly: lying takes no effort when your past lies are forgotten and the future consequences of this moment's lies are unimaginable; lying is safer because it's never real. Knowledge is useless to such a mind, and thus so is experience. Reasoning, that is, depth, is contemptible because it occurs outside of the Now.

Drump's mentality is almost invulnerable, and that, by god, is what makes him dangerous. Psychological isolation is no threat to him. Hell, it's his normal state. Only physical isolation can render him harmless.

So let's all join in the national cry of

LOCK HIM UP!
 
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Given how upset he was when he learned he could not order the FCC to punish Saturday Night Live for making fun of him, I expect his agenda will be “to crush his enemies, to drive them before him, to hear the lamentations of their women.”


I also suspect that Saturday Night Massacre will become a quaint phrase after Trump starts firing people who will not do his bidding.
 
Mojo said:
Has anyone managed to figure out what his first-term agenda was? Other than "build a wall, lock her up, now what?"
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Pretty much to oppose everything Obama did. Not on principle, but out of spite. As mentioned there was Obamacare, but also the Iran deal, and there were some initiatives regarding immigration from what I remember. And instead of isolating North Korea, visiting the chubby one and having a public love-in.

What good he did do (missiles to Ukraine and the development of Covid vaccines) he managed to compromise massively.
 
angrysoba said:
Pretty much to oppose everything Obama did. Not on principle, but out of spite. As mentioned there was Obamacare, but also the Iran deal, and there were some initiatives regarding immigration from what I remember. And instead of isolating North Korea, visiting the chubby one and having a public love-in.
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Think he'll branch out into opposing things Biden did, as well?
 
Upchurch said:
Have you read something or just guessing? Seems a bit early to even start to naming cabinet positions
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I did read something on a liberal blog, but I can't seem to find it again. But while I have no idea what the plans would be, we would be kidding ourselves to think they are not being written just in case.
 
He has to do his first term first, I think that will be 10 years, then we can worry about what his agenda is for his second term. I think it will involve cigarettes and hamburgers on the one side and you name it on the other.
 
Foster Zygote said:
Step 1: Eliminate other two branches of Federal government.
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Step 2: Keep barfing up about whataboutism which seems to the buzzword on conservative media and trying to deflect even though it's just tu quoque-ism fallacy.
 
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Since it will be his second presidential term (his third if you count the current one) and he no longer needs to pander to the lowest denominator to gain more followers for the next election, he will focus on his historical legacy, so he will do his utmost to bring all Americans together in peace & harmony across party lines and ethnicities, and in order to put an end to anthropogenic global warming, he will set a good example by turning all his golf courses into wind farms.
 
dann said:
Since it will be his second presidential term (his third if you count the current one) and he no longer needs to pander to the lowest denominator to gain more followers for the next election, he will focus on his historical legacy, so he will do his utmost to bring all Americans together in peace & harmony across party lines and ethnicities, and in order to put an end to anthropogenic global warming, he will set a good example by turning all his golf courses into wind farms.
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Note: we have contacted the local emergency health authorities and hopefully they can help dann with his breakdown....
 
Foster Zygote said:
Step 1: Eliminate other two branches of Federal government.
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Every Republican policy reduces back to "Why have a government at all?"

All you need is the Lord Jayjuz and a strong male authority figure in your life to tell you how to think.
 
JoeMorgue said:
Tweak the libs. I simply don't know how much clearer they can make it at this point.

Trump 100% completely fulfilled his entire duty as President to the people who elected him about 4 seconds into election night when Fox News found the first crying liberal college kid to put on camera.
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Agreed. Outside a handful or so of issues, Trump really didn't have much of a vision of what he actually wanted to accomplish in office other than self aggrandizement. That's a decent part why the Trump admin was such a bonanza of corruption. For many, many issues Trump wasn't really that interested and would defer to whatever advisor gave him a half-convincing pitch. Those in the Trump orbit could make a decent amount of money and prestige by controlling who got to bend Trump's ear, because he was so easily persuaded on many issues.

I can see why a DeSantis fan might be frustrated by the situation, because DeSantis is actually somewhat diligently doing all the things that these freaks say they want to happen, where Trump was very unfocused and easily derailed while wielding the levers of power. Much of his appeal is rooted in his personality and spite, that's not really a nuanced policy platform.
 
Again, as everyone was repeatedly assured during his campaigns and terms, it was Obama who wanted to destroy the country. People saying that were quite clear and unambiguous.
 
Random said:
I did read something on a liberal blog, but I can't seem to find it again. But while I have no idea what the plans would be, we would be kidding ourselves to think they are not being written just in case.
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I believe we would be kidding ourselves if we thought they were.

In his entire career as a politician Trump has never exhibited the slightest inclination toward forethought of any kind, much less careful planning for some future hypothetical.

And none of his aides or staff stay around long enough to provide anything like continuity, so there's not going to be any help from that quarter.

How well prepared was he when he got elected before?
 
I reckon he's going to go straight to Hitler 1945 if he gets in again. "You all betrayed me, your god! I'm going to burn the country down!!!!!"
 
quadraginta said:
I believe we would be kidding ourselves if we thought they were.

In his entire career as a politician Trump has never exhibited the slightest inclination toward forethought of any kind, much less careful planning for some future hypothetical.

And none of his aides or staff stay around long enough to provide anything like continuity, so there's not going to be any help from that quarter.

How well prepared was he when he got elected before?
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I wasn't really talking about Trump, but rather the various right-wing groups that surround him. You know, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Americans for Prosperity, etc.

None of them thought Trump would win in 2016, and were caught just as off-guard as Trump. That won't happen again. Battle plans will be drawn up, legislation written, legal briefs primed, etc. All of it waiting for the next successful electoral confluence. If not in 2024, then 2026, or 2028, or 2030, or whatever. The right-wing will never be caught off guard by electoral success again.

They will go to a newly elected Trump with their binders of stuff he does not understand or read, and tell him that he can be popular by signing these Executive Orders, of signing this legislation. And Trump will go along with it all because he has no idea how to actually do the job of President.
 
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I wasn't really talking about Trump, but rather the various right-wing groups that surround him. You know, the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Americans for Prosperity, etc.

None of them thought Trump would win in 2016, and were caught just as off-guard as Trump. That won't happen again. Battle plans will be drawn up, legislation written, legal briefs primed, etc. All of it waiting for the next successful electoral confluence. If not in 2024, then 2026, or 2028, or 2030, or whatever. The right-wing will never be caught off guard by electoral success again.
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Why were they caught off guard that time?

Certainly they've been wargaming old and new options and contingencies for decades. I doubt they just started after Trump won.
 
dann said:
Since it will be his second presidential term (his third if you count the current one) and he no longer needs to pander to the lowest denominator to gain more followers for the next election, he will focus on his historical legacy, so he will do his utmost to bring all Americans together in peace & harmony across party lines and ethnicities, and in order to put an end to anthropogenic global warming, he will set a good example by turning all his golf courses into wind farms.
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So, as he's still the "real" president, who won more votes than anyone ever had voted for them, how's he get to stand again in 2024?
 
Trump was a brick thrown through the window of Liberal America.

The groups that jumped at him as the signal to destroy democracy are the insects who flew in the through the hole he left.
 
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My top 10 list:
1) Appoint Walt Nauta as Attorney General
2) Order an end to all criminal proceedings and investigations against himself.
3) Pardon all 1/6 protestors
4) Order the DOJ to conduct investigations into everyone involved in criminal proceedings and investigations against himself.
5) Order the DOJ to conduct repetitive investigations into Biden, Harris, and the members of Biden's cabinet.
6) Rescind all honors and awards that Gen. Milley received during his Army career and cancel his pension.
7) End military aid to Ukraine
8) Withdraw from NATO
9) Change the rules to the maximum extent possible for federal programs to reduce the amount that goes to blue states
10) Bar CNN, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Washington Post from press conferences and briefins.
 
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