Donald Trump statement on banning Muslims from US 'disappears' from his website

[Alice]

[QUOTE=thelurker1234;51354526][url]https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/trust-us-politicians-keep-most-of-their-promises/[/url][/QUOTE]
Trump is known to lie through his teeth in order to get his way though then turn around and not fulfill promises unless they suit him. I'm honestly less worried about Trump in particular than I am his administration as a whole. Trump doesn't give two shits about something unless it's directly to his benefit/detriment. But those on his cabinet aren't going to view everything the same way. (See: Pence with his extreme anti-LGBT stances.)

[Anderan]

[QUOTE=spectator1;51354221]It was pretty obvious, people are overreacting Presidents aren't as powerful as you'd think except Dictators I guess those can really bring a country into hell.[/QUOTE]

They're not dictators but when you have control of the house, the senate, and possibly the SCOTUS in addition to the presidency you're pretty powerful. The only way he could be even more powerful is if the Republicans had won supermajorities, which they did not.

[DiscoMelon]

Definitely not the first to say this, but I'm thinking Trump is planning to follow through with nearly nil of his campaign promises and instead go forward with what a lot of Trump supporters were afraid Hillary would do and further secure the power of the policy/wall street/whatever we're calling rich corporate elite fuckos. I mean being a rich corporate elite fucko himself you'd think it'd be in his best interest to further quagmire american politics in corporate influence, and I'd imagine him and his friends have a lot of potential to benefit from it long he leaves the White House.

[editline]11th November 2016[/editline]

I mean I'm not saying that I mind him not banning immigrants or whatever else he promised to slide backward into hell during his campaign, but it's definitely not what I expected. I'm seriously wondering what the fuck this guy plans to do now and I imagine if him backpedaling on muslims like he seems to be means anything I imagine his supporters are confused too. It's fucking fascinating in a morbid, sorta maybe schadenfreude-ish kinda way except instead of 'bad things happening to people' its 'bad things that his nastier supporters wanted to happen [I]not[/I] happening' like they've had their golden hate-carrot dangled in front of them before having it pulled away. And it's also still really frightening because man if he's really doubling down on that corporate interest then we're probably in for a lot worse than the TPP.