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So after three weeks of the Trump Administration, is he worse than you expected? Is he just about what you thought he would be?
WiffenPoof
(2,404 posts)I'll answer my own question. I'm with Bill Maher - He is far worse than I thought he would be.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)ETA: I mean its one thing to disagree, but this is frigging embarrassing.
AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)Much worse and even more dangerous than I could have ever predicted.
Remember, that even his surrogates in the final days of the campaign were saying that the 'wall' was a metaphor and that trump supporters don't take him 'literally'. And that trump won't be going against constitution like muslim ban or mislim registry, that he was just saying all that to raise awareness, etc. That trump won't do bad things for the economy cause he is a businessman (trade wars), etc.
Turns out he was literal, word for word: muslim ban, muslim registry (coming soon), wall, mass deportations (coming soon), racism, trade wars, open up libel laws against independent press, etc.
frogmarch
(12,154 posts)Phoenix61
(17,006 posts)way, way more incompetent. Also, I did not see the level of protests. It has been heartening to see so many coming together to fight for our democracy.
Johnny2X2X
(19,069 posts)Even his closest inner circle is embarrassed. And that's what's scary, when the shit show gets unbearable they will start a war to try to make things better.
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)And I was expecting a disaster.
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)The bullying of the press, the endless tweets, his promise to start a Muslim registry and ban. That's still going on. When he got in Hillary's shit during the debate about how she didn't change tax laws because it would hurt her friends displayed the same ignorance of government that's on display every day now that he's in office. I just hope my darker expectations don't come true.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Tommy_Carcetti
(43,184 posts)And an absolute mess is what we got.
I never had any illusions that Trump would somehow moderate himself or normalize his behavior once in office.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)skylucy
(3,739 posts)more horrible and incompetent than I imagined.