http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/transcript-ap-interview-trump-46970040
Reading this transcript is like reading a translation of Trump during a R.E.M. sleep episode...except it is live.
Delldude: serious question here. Can you honestly say this guy is fit to have our military arsenal at his beck & call?
If you tell me that he is somehow playing everyone, I'm not buying it. Those days are over. He could get away with that when he didn't have the spotlight on him.
I really think he is ill. This may end badly.
I appreciate you and KC here. I have all the other trolls on ignore. The scab ('nuff said).
I am in some great forums with the aviation community. They actually have great convos, with limited troll action. We all get along, but have serious policy disagreements.
Kind of like we used to have here.
Take care man.
To answer your question, reread his comments and concerns over the Tomahawk attack. Those comments go great lengths to where his head is at militarily. He is the first President in a long while to give his Generals free reign to do their jobs without incessant micromanaging from the oval office. I read recently, many of the sorties flown to interdict ISIS, something like 73%, came back with ordnance still on the rails. 73%......because it just wasn't right from the President or some deputy's perspective. Many missed opportunities while wringing hands. I trust Trump to listen to his Generals and take their advice. You know even the Generals have to weigh the consequences of their decisions and recommendations.
I know he said many things on the campaign trail....that's why I made the comment about "there is a fence around the White House"......you can says lots of things about this and that and what you are going to do, but once you get inside the fence, the reality sets in and its totally different from ones perception from the outside. Read the interview and he directly addresses that several times.
Did you hear his mention of several cost saving moves he's made and his comments where you won't read about that? Consider the fact that the same media that tirelessly tried to assassinate him through the primaries and failed are still doing the same on every issue? How many sensational headlines come out over something said or done, only to be found it was overhyped BS a couple days down the road. How many things have been blown out of proportion that end up being retracted? Once a misreported story is in the news cycle a couple days, it holds the weight of the truth by then....retracted or not.
I saw foaming at the mouth leftists swooning over the fact that Trump called Erdogan and congratulated him on his recent win. Duh.....Obama did the same thing...even when Erdogan was tossing people in jail. Point is before people on the left start pointing fingers at Trump, more often than not, a quick check will show Obama or some other did the same thing and it wasn't an issue at the time......so WTF?
I read most of the AP interview, found it interesting, revealing and informative. I don't know about some R.E.M. catatonic trance thing.I think you jump off the deep end too quickly regarding Trump, at times.
Guarantee you he is not a politician and not a member of the establishment crowd. That's why people elected him. He's learning just as almost every President before him has......are you aware every President before him has had bimbo gaffes with staff and the press the first year really not much different than Trump?
Take care and be objective....it's our only way out.
Trump budget chief Mick Mulvaney on Fox News Sunday: "We put up more executive orders than any previous administration in the last 50 yrs."
Before I'd go with this as some indication that he's a mad man drunk on power, I'd look into what the Eo's covered and the reasons they were cut.
Kinda like 700's Occupy Democrat memes......GOP VOTES AGAINST VA FUNDING BILL only to find the dems put in an amendment for free welfare for the entire country on the bill.
