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WALLACE: When Democrats flipped the House back in 2006 and picked up 30 seats, President Bush 43 had a news conference the next day and said, We had a thumping. Last week, in this election, the House picked up, so far its 36 seats, it may be on the way to 40 seats, and your reaction was that it was almost a complete victory.

 

TRUMP: I won the Senate; you dont mention that.

 

WALLACE: But, well I

 

TRUMP: Excuse me, I won the Senate.

 

WALLACE: I understand that, but

 

TRUMP: I think they said 88 years.

 

WALLACE: But this was a this was a historically big defeat in the House. You lost 36, maybe 40 seats. Some would argue that it was a thumping. And I want to talk about some of the ways in which you lost. You lost in traditionally Republican suburbs, not only around liberal cities like Philadelphia and DC, but also red-state big cities like Houston and Oklahoma City. You lost among suburban women. You lost among independents and, in three key states that I think you remember pretty well Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan you lost both the governor seats and the Senate seats.

 

TRUMP: Are you ready? I won the Senate, and thats historic too because if you look at presidents in the White House, its almost never happened where you won a seat. We won we now have 53 as opposed to 51 and we have 53 great senators in the US Senate. We won. Thats a tremendous victory. Nobody talks about that. Thats a far greater victory than it is for the other side.

 

Its true that its unusual for the presidents party to gain Senate seats in a midterm election. But the fact remains that it was a weird map, and Republicans got very few votes. As Wallace tried to point out, if these results carry over to 2020, Trump is not going to be reelected. Which is no surprise his approval rating is bad and hes unpopular.

 

Theres nothing wrong, per se, with becoming unpopular midway through your term. Its happened to lots of presidents, and many of them have bounced back to win reelection. But that bouncing process usually requires some acknowledgment that you need something different to happen in the future.

 

Trump, by contrast, oscillates under follow-up questions from Wallace between insisting that we had a tremendous set of victories and insisting that the GOP defeat had nothing to do with him because I didnt run. I wasnt running. My name wasnt on the ballot.

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Trump thinks US special forces did a bad job on Osama bin Laden

 

. After several unproductive exchanges, Wallace hits on the idea of quoting retired Adm. Bill McRavens thoughts on the subject, believing that Trump will be bound to offer at least some respect for a highly decorated special forces commander.

 

Trump, however, is the president who couldnt be bothered to show up for a Veterans Day ceremony, and in his book, if McRaven has criticized him, that just goes to show that his whole career was overrated:

 

WALLACE: Bill McRaven, retired admiral, Navy SEAL, 37 years, former head of US Special Operations

 

TRUMP: Hillary Clinton fan.

 

WALLACE: Special Operations

 

TRUMP: Excuse me, Hillary Clinton fan.

 

WALLACE: Who led the operations, commanded the operations that took down Saddam Hussein and that killed Osama bin Laden, says that your sentiment is the greatest threat to democracy in his lifetime.

 

TRUMP: Okay, hes a Hilary Clinton, uh, backer and an Obama backer and frankly

 

WALLACE: He was a Navy SEAL 37 years

 

TRUMP: Wouldnt it have been nice if we got Osama bin Laden a lot sooner than that, wouldnt it have been nice? You know, living think of this living in Pakistan, beautifully in Pakistan, in what I guess they considered a nice mansion, I dont know, Ive seen nicer. But living in Pakistan right next to the military academy, everybody in Pakistan knew he was there. And we give Pakistan $1.3 billion a year and they dont tell him, they dont tell him

 

An incredulous Wallace then asks, Youre not even going to give them credit for taking down bin Laden?

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What he said about Bill McRaven was so focked up. What an utter focking embarrassment this guy is. Absolutely zero ability to take any criticism. It's all about Trump, and nothing about our country. Going to take years and years to repair the damage this mental midget is doing.

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What he said about Bill McRaven was so focked up. What an utter focking embarrassment this guy is. Absolutely zero ability to take any criticism. It's all about Trump, and nothing about our country. Going to take years and years to repair the damage this mental midget is doing.

 

I was with you until the last sentence. I can't reconcile the two.

 

Sure Trump doesn't take any criticism and he says things most any President would never say. However that is just words......most of his actual policies that he supports aren't all that crazy.....even good.

 

So what exact damage to the country is going to take years to "undo" by his arrogance? Some of you get so caught up in the stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.

 

Policy > Rhetoric

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TRUMP: I won the Senate; you dont mention that.

I support DT but the problem with his thinking is almost all the seats up for grab in the Senate were held by D's . In a 50/50 open seat year it would probably have been different. I am happy we picked up seats but I am not overjoyed. Just like I am very happy that we dodged a socialist bullet here in GA. But here in the south these races should not have been so close.

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Sure Trump doesn't take any criticism and he says things most any President would never say. However that is just words......most of his actual policies that he supports aren't all that crazy.....even good.

 

So what exact damage to the country is going to take years to "undo" by his arrogance? Some of you get so caught up in the stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.

 

Policy > Rhetoric

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I was with you until the last sentence. I can't reconcile the two.

 

Sure Trump doesn't take any criticism and he says things most any President would never say. However that is just words......most of his actual policies that he supports aren't all that crazy.....even good.

 

So what exact damage to the country is going to take years to "undo" by his arrogance? Some of you get so caught up in the stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.

 

Policy > Rhetoric

I personally don't think he has the mental capacity to even understand the policies being implemented, not that he's actually reading the bills in the first place.

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I was with you until the last sentence. I can't reconcile the two.

 

Sure Trump doesn't take any criticism and he says things most any President would never say. However that is just words......most of his actual policies that he supports aren't all that crazy.....even good.

 

So what exact damage to the country is going to take years to "undo" by his arrogance? Some of you get so caught up in the stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.

 

Policy > Rhetoric

Trumps policies are the same old trickle down economics that have been a proven failure since Reagan. The only thing that differentiates Trump from say Cruz or Jeb is that hes a particularly classless piece of human dogsh1t.
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Trumps policies are the same old trickle down economics that have been a proven failure since Reagan. The only thing that differentiates Trump from day Cruz or Jeb is that hes a particularly classless piece of human dogsh1t.

I support his tough stance on immigration and 2nd amendment rights. I agree that our European allies need to take a more active financial role in the stabilization of their own continent.

 

I think his tax cuts were for his friends, and did close to zero to ease the burden on the middle class (and in states like mine, did the reverse).

 

I think his foreign policy is mostly terrible. He got suckered into a PR photo shoot with Kim Jung Un and is emboldening Russia and other totalitarian governments. At the same time, he is ostracizing our closest allies.

 

I think nationalist policies and protectionist trade do not work in a modern world with a global economy and trans continental trade. As much as I'd like to see China respect IP and trade reciprocally, it's not going to happen.

 

I think he is running a deficit that scares even the most liberal of democrats.

 

I think climate change is absolutely real, and we should be investing more on clean technologies, and renewable energy instead of propping up the fossil fuels industry.

 

Last, and most importantly, I think he is surrounding himself with a bunch of yes men, instead of people who are actually competent and qualified to do the job. When he does have someone like Mattis or Kelly in a position they're qualified, he clips their wings and constantly undermines them. I think that is very dangerous, when you have a guy as incompetent and arrogant as Trump running the country.

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Trumps policies are the same old trickle down economics that have been a proven failure since Reagan.

 

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I was with you until the last sentence. I can't reconcile the two.

 

Sure Trump doesn't take any criticism and he says things most any President would never say. However that is just words......most of his actual policies that he supports aren't all that crazy.....even good.

 

So what exact damage to the country is going to take years to "undo" by his arrogance? Some of you get so caught up in the stuff that really doesn't matter in the long run.

 

Policy > Rhetoric

This is exactly the same with millennials when you ask them hard questions like that. They cant give you specific policies that trump has put into place that are bad. They just say hes going to take away womens rights, take away minority rights, rape women, etc.

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I personally don't think he has the mental capacity to even understand the policies being implemented, not that he's actually reading the bills in the first place.

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I support his tough stance on immigration and 2nd amendment rights. I agree that our European allies need to take a more active financial role in the stabilization of their own continent.

 

I think his tax cuts were for his friends, and did close to zero to ease the burden on the middle class (and in states like mine, did the reverse).

 

I think his foreign policy is mostly terrible. He got suckered into a PR photo shoot with Kim Jung Un and is emboldening Russia and other totalitarian governments. At the same time, he is ostracizing our closest allies.

 

I think nationalist policies and protectionist trade do not work in a modern world with a global economy and trans continental trade. As much as I'd like to see China respect IP and trade reciprocally, it's not going to happen.

 

I think he is running a deficit that scares even the most liberal of democrats.

 

I think climate change is absolutely real, and we should be investing more on clean technologies, and renewable energy instead of propping up the fossil fuels industry.

 

Last, and most importantly, I think he is surrounding himself with a bunch of yes men, instead of people who are actually competent and qualified to do the job. When he does have someone like Mattis or Kelly in a position they're qualified, he clips their wings and constantly undermines them. I think that is very dangerous, when you have a guy as incompetent and arrogant as Trump running the country.

1. Meh

2. All tax cuts are for those who pay taxes. And he got rid of the high property tax loophole which had me paying for your schools. No thanks.

3. He has no foreign policy and no President has since Reagan. Allies? Is that even a word anymore.

4. This is the nuts and bolts, and you yourself admit there is very little we can do. He's trying to hold China's feet to the fire and should get more support for it.

5. The deficit is a problem. Raising revenue is the only solution, which means taxing people to death or cutting every service under the sun. If we are serious about maintaining infrastructure in this country, the deficit will suffer.

6. Obama spent billions on clean energy. Didn't help. Better to spend the money making fossil fuels more efficient, which solves 2 problems. C'mon science.

7. Don't know about the last one. People go to work every day. We only hear about .001% of what is happening.

 

 

 

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This is exactly the same with millennials when you ask them hard questions like that. They cant give you specific policies that trump has put into place that are bad. They just say hes going to take away womens rights, take away minority rights, rape women, etc.

You can flip that around pretty easily. In fact, I think we've done so here. Whenever you ask what good Trump has done, what's one of the first words that one of the trolls spits out? Regulatory!

 

Okay, what specific regulations has he rolled back that you think are a huge Boon to the United States?

 

Umm, Maga?!

 

The worst part is, you could easily lump Trump in there as well.

 

Idiot really doesn't know the difference between a signing ceremony & actual legislation.

 

You say it's hard to pin anybody down on what Trump has done that's so bad, the far more accurate statement would be it's hard to pin anybody down on what exactly Trump has done of any substance at all to anybody but the uber rich and lobbyists.

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I remember libtards making light of the fact that Bush didn't get Bin Laden and asking what was taking so long. Stifle with your self righteousness now.

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The problem with the hacks here who say things like "Oh, I don't really care what POTUS says or does" -

 

Are usually the same ones who lost their absolute SHIIITT when Obama did a fraction of what Trump's done/said.

 

For Example: Remember "Salute Gate"? - When Obama DARED return a Marine salute when he was holding GASP a cup of tea whilst disembarking Marine One? Jesssus Mother of Gawd, you'd swear he'd focked the Marine's wives!

 

 

Last night, a “shocked” Sean Hannity asked Karl Rove, “Would President Bush ever do that?” Karl didn’t answer—because Bush did do that. Not with a coffee cup but with a dog, when, holding tight onto Barney, he saluted service members at Andrews Air Force Base.

 

So Rove avoided the question by letting loose a string of adjectives about POTUS: “We’ve got a chai-swillin’, golf-playin’, basketball trash-talkin’, lead from behind, I’ve got no strategy, Osama bin Laden is dead/GM is alive, a community organizing commander-in-chief. How disrespectful was that?”

 

...and that's just one instance.

 

- So - One handed salute? DAYS of controversy! Not visiting troops in the field,Blowing off Arlington & Paris, openly criticizing soldiers, widows, generals, etc.. - "Oh, who cares?"

 

And if you think THAT's a big of deja vu - Goggle Hannity, Krauthammer Impeachment Obama Immigration...

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What's particular moronic and that's a stretch with this guy, is it's not like mcraven's job was to go find obl. The CIA developed the Intel, and then POTUS and his team spun up spec ops.

 

I mean Jesus dude, I get that you're a moron, but you seem to really like movies and whatnot? Try watching one of them.

 

And, in news that will surprise no one, Trump's comments are a hundred eighty degrees different from what he said right after obl was killed.

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That one hurt. Hes been lashing out since yesterday.

 

POW! 😂

Right. You've been begging for my attention. I finally gave you some. What are you and backfat up to for the holiday? I bet she gets the drumstick.

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I really wish Chris Wallace would have pursued Trump on the whole obl raid issue. I mean that's important. If our commander and chief doesn't have the understanding that a 9 year old who watched a movie one time has about the distinction between Intel and spec ops? That's a big deal.

 

You have to wonder what the operators deployed around the world as we speak think of shiit like that.

 

for the knee-jerk defenders. That's not just Trump being Trump. That shows a fundamental ignorance on the most basic level that occurs on a damn near daily basis in the world these days.

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I remember libtards making light of the fact that Bush didn't get Bin Laden and asking what was taking so long. Stifle with your self righteousness now.

Bush quit looking for bin Laden and decided to focus on a constitutional amendment banning gay marriage. At least that's what he said he was going to do when he ran for re-election. And privatize social security. He did neither, but he did manage to wreck the economy and leave Iraq and Afghanistan unstable messes, strengthening Iran. America elected a black, Marxist Muslim and the economy improved and the socialist Muslim that was born in Africa gave the order to kill militant Muslim extremist Osama Bin Laden.

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