But wait, there's more - Trump's desperate campaign promises
Sept 24, 2024 22:25:30 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Sept 24, 2024 22:25:30 GMT
Lately, Trump seems even more desperate and is making empty campaign promises to different groups.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-23-2024
“There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal,” MSNBC’s Ryan Teague Beckwith wrote on September 21. Beckwith went on to list seven of Trump’s most recent campaign promises, most delivered off the cuff at rallies, that are transparent attempts to close the deal with different groups of voters.
Trump is also threatening voters. On September 19, he told two Jewish audiences that he had not been “treated properly by voters who happen to be Jewish,” and that if he doesn't win the 2024 election, “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” adding in that case, “Israel, in my opinion, will cease to exist within two years.” Opponents were quick to point out that these threats echo old antisemitic tropes scapegoating Jews. When Jake Tapper asked Arkansas senator Tom Cotton to comment on Trump’s statement on Sunday, Cotton’s answer brought small comfort: “Well, Jake, Donald Trump has been saying things like this for at least 11 months.”
Trump’s social media posts about women sounded both desperate and delusional. Trump has boasted of overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion, but that loss is enormously unpopular. So he is caught between the reality that his white extremist evangelical base continues to support banning abortion while voters in a general election are just as adamant that they want abortion rights protected.
Trump insists that there was a driving popular demand for returning decisions about abortion to the states, but this is a lie; there was no such popular demand. And now a two-year lag in the commissions that study maternal death means that stories of women who died because the new laws deprived them of medical care are beginning to hit the news.
On Friday, news broke that maternal deaths in Texas skyrocketed after the state’s 2021 abortion ban, rising by 56% compared to an 11% increase across the rest of the nation. Just before midnight, Trump posted a rant that included his usual lie about after-birth executions:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-campaign-proposals-tax-cuts-rcna171853
Trump is reaching the ‘But wait, there’s more!’ phase of the campaign
Looking to close the most important sale of his career, Trump is getting desperate.
There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal.
Think of Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” desperately trying to get that desk job in New York City, Shelley Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross” pleading with his boss for “the good leads” or poor ol’ Gil from “The Simpsons” anytime he’s on screen.
You can now add to the list Donald Trump, who’s lately reaching new peaks of sweaty salesmanship on the campaign trail as he seeks to turn around a race that he appears to believe he could lose.
Trump’s campaign has reached the “But wait, there’s more!” phase of the infomercial, as he has recently tossed off promises to abolish taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security; make in-vitro fertilization free to patients; cap credit card interest rates; cut car insurance rates and restore the state and local tax deduction in addition to the campaign agenda he already outlined.
If this is the ShamWow campaign, these pledges are more sham than wow.
But if this is the ShamWow campaign, these pledges are more sham than wow.
When normal campaigns roll out a big campaign promise, they give white papers to reporters ahead of time, add a new bit to the stump speech, roll out a new section on the website, send out press releases and post about it on social media. But Trump’s campaign pledges have come off the cuff at rallies, in interviews and on Truth Social, seemingly in response to some recent event or news item.
As a result, there’s very little chance that Trump would actually try to enact any of these proposals — assuming that he’d even have the ability to do so — since they tend to cut against Republican orthodoxy, would cost at least $3.2 trillion in total and in some cases wouldn’t even have much political benefit for his party.
These proposals all sound great at first. But they would either blow a hole in the federal deficit or would require more government controls, things Republicans ostensibly oppose. It’s extremely unlikely that he would be able to pass them if he’s elected alongside a GOP-controlled Congress, the most likely scenario for a Trump win.
Some of these ideas might be worth exploring in the future as part of a more serious-minded discussion of the issues, but that would require an attention to detail that Trump has never shown in any of his three campaigns for president or his four years in office as president.
But when a salesman starts telling you all the extra things you’ll get when you sign on the dotted line, you have to wonder what you’re actually buying.
heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/september-23-2024
“There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal,” MSNBC’s Ryan Teague Beckwith wrote on September 21. Beckwith went on to list seven of Trump’s most recent campaign promises, most delivered off the cuff at rallies, that are transparent attempts to close the deal with different groups of voters.
Trump is also threatening voters. On September 19, he told two Jewish audiences that he had not been “treated properly by voters who happen to be Jewish,” and that if he doesn't win the 2024 election, “the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss,” adding in that case, “Israel, in my opinion, will cease to exist within two years.” Opponents were quick to point out that these threats echo old antisemitic tropes scapegoating Jews. When Jake Tapper asked Arkansas senator Tom Cotton to comment on Trump’s statement on Sunday, Cotton’s answer brought small comfort: “Well, Jake, Donald Trump has been saying things like this for at least 11 months.”
Trump’s social media posts about women sounded both desperate and delusional. Trump has boasted of overturning the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision that recognized the constitutional right to abortion, but that loss is enormously unpopular. So he is caught between the reality that his white extremist evangelical base continues to support banning abortion while voters in a general election are just as adamant that they want abortion rights protected.
Trump insists that there was a driving popular demand for returning decisions about abortion to the states, but this is a lie; there was no such popular demand. And now a two-year lag in the commissions that study maternal death means that stories of women who died because the new laws deprived them of medical care are beginning to hit the news.
On Friday, news broke that maternal deaths in Texas skyrocketed after the state’s 2021 abortion ban, rising by 56% compared to an 11% increase across the rest of the nation. Just before midnight, Trump posted a rant that included his usual lie about after-birth executions:
www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinion/trump-campaign-proposals-tax-cuts-rcna171853
Trump is reaching the ‘But wait, there’s more!’ phase of the campaign
Looking to close the most important sale of his career, Trump is getting desperate.
There’s nothing sadder than an aging salesman trying to close one last deal.
Think of Willy Loman in “Death of a Salesman” desperately trying to get that desk job in New York City, Shelley Levene in “Glengarry Glen Ross” pleading with his boss for “the good leads” or poor ol’ Gil from “The Simpsons” anytime he’s on screen.
You can now add to the list Donald Trump, who’s lately reaching new peaks of sweaty salesmanship on the campaign trail as he seeks to turn around a race that he appears to believe he could lose.
Trump’s campaign has reached the “But wait, there’s more!” phase of the infomercial, as he has recently tossed off promises to abolish taxes on tips, overtime pay and Social Security; make in-vitro fertilization free to patients; cap credit card interest rates; cut car insurance rates and restore the state and local tax deduction in addition to the campaign agenda he already outlined.
If this is the ShamWow campaign, these pledges are more sham than wow.
But if this is the ShamWow campaign, these pledges are more sham than wow.
When normal campaigns roll out a big campaign promise, they give white papers to reporters ahead of time, add a new bit to the stump speech, roll out a new section on the website, send out press releases and post about it on social media. But Trump’s campaign pledges have come off the cuff at rallies, in interviews and on Truth Social, seemingly in response to some recent event or news item.
As a result, there’s very little chance that Trump would actually try to enact any of these proposals — assuming that he’d even have the ability to do so — since they tend to cut against Republican orthodoxy, would cost at least $3.2 trillion in total and in some cases wouldn’t even have much political benefit for his party.
These proposals all sound great at first. But they would either blow a hole in the federal deficit or would require more government controls, things Republicans ostensibly oppose. It’s extremely unlikely that he would be able to pass them if he’s elected alongside a GOP-controlled Congress, the most likely scenario for a Trump win.
Some of these ideas might be worth exploring in the future as part of a more serious-minded discussion of the issues, but that would require an attention to detail that Trump has never shown in any of his three campaigns for president or his four years in office as president.
But when a salesman starts telling you all the extra things you’ll get when you sign on the dotted line, you have to wonder what you’re actually buying.
