President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

The idea that the Cheeto Jesus does anything out of some grand plan is absurd on its face.

 

The term "kneejerk reaction" comes to mind.

 

Will Trump do a better job with infrastructure spending than Obama?

Here’s how President-elect Trump could unify a bitterly divided America, provide well-paying jobs to many of the millions of disaffected workers who voted for him, and lift the economy, stock market and tax rolls.

All he needs to do is what he presumably does best: build something.

And I don’t mean a few miles of asphalt or a paint job on a rusting bridge.

Build something awe-inspiring. Something Americans can be proud of. Something that will repay the investment many times over for generations to come.

Build the modern-day equivalent of the Golden Gate Bridge, the Lincoln Tunnel or the Timberline Lodge. Or even, given Mr. Trump’s passion for the sport, another Bethpage State Park Black Course — the first public golf course to host the prestigious United States Open.

All of these are Depression-era New Deal public works projects started under President Franklin D. Roosevelt that are still in use.

Can anyone name even one infrastructure project from President Obama’s $800 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act? I didn’t think so.

 

Sounds like a politician.

 

That's what the shit shower of competing and conflicting leaks over his cabinet appointments is all about. Nobody can focus on any one disgusting/dismaying name at a time with dozens of other horrifying prospects thrown into the mix.

 

To take two threads back around in a circle: Which pro-am will Pres. Trump first sign up for. Pebble, Doral, Woods' tournament in DC?

 

Serious question: what's the last thing Trump built? Not let somebody else build and then he licensed the Trump name for it. But what's the last thing Trump Corp. actually had ownership of from groundbreaking until the doors were opened?

 

The WGC tourney was outsourced from his Doral course to Mexico, so it won't be there.

 

He owns Doral, right?

But, didn't the PGA pull the tournament?

 

Trump won't play a single hole of golf for official scoring purposes while he's president.

 

Yes, it did. That's why I think he'd play Woods' first. It's very military support themed (nothing bad about that, of course), is in DC and he'll have been in office for about six months, so he could take a little time off without that much criticism. Ford played in several as President, so there's precedent. Also, he craves approval (all of us do, some more than most) and a PGA Tour tournament crowd is about as far from the Hamilton audience as you can get.