Trump plots re-election 'the old-fashioned way'

[TomCADem]

Source: USA Today

WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump hasn't been sworn in yet, but he's already talking about how he'll win re-election in 2020.

At an inauguration eve candlelight dinner Thursday night, he told supporters and donors he plans to win re-election in 2020 "the old-fashioned way."

"Were going to win because we did so well because it was so overwhelming the thing that we did, because it was so beautiful how great our cabinet – all of whom are here tonight – how great our cabinet has performed," he said at a black-tie fundraiser dinner for his inaugural committee at Washington's Union Station. “We have a cabinet, I believe, the likes of which has never been appointed. There’s never been a cabinet like this."

In a speech filled with Trumpian superlatives, the president elect dished out big helpings of praise to cabinet picks and senior advisers. “There’s not a pick that I don’t love," he said.

Read more: http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-plots-re-election-the-old-fashioned-way/ar-AAm2K3d?li=AA5a8k

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He didn't mention that his friends at Russia Today are already featuring hit pieces targeted at potential Democratic frontrunners.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Well at least he's like

70 - maybe he will have a stroke? It's common - that and heart attacks.

[Ford_Prefect]

3. But he's too wealthy for that to happen, right?

[IrishEyes]

6. Yeah, Dick Cheney is still alive.

Strom Thurmond lived to be 100. Pat Robertson is 86. These evil men live for a long time.

[tenorly]

11. Swedish-style health care for them.

Something out of John Steinbeck for the rest of us.

[redstatebluegirl]

26. Yea the to mean to die thing fits this.

[CBHagman]

20. Please don't go that route.

Some of us here on DU have had life-threatening illnesses at younger ages than Trump's current one.

No, we need to get him out of office properly -- by impeachment, defeat, etc.

[JustAnotherGen]

21. Hmm - nope

My dad died at 70.
This was August 2011. Go to DU 2 - my journal has his 'last vote' experience.
Agent Pink, White, Green, Orange - kicked his ass 33 years after he left the military - as Decorated Green Beret. The VA went back all of those years UNDER Obama's Admin and post his death gave my mom FULL disability benefits.
He JOINED the US army even though he could not vote in Alabama.
He was home on leave in 1964 (suddenly) in Talladega and it was too dangerous for a man who already have a purple heart to VOTE.

He served.
He loved.
He loved America.
He loved US.

Donald Trump's Vietnam (my dad was Korean, Vietnam and 'war games' in Central/South America)was fucking around like the man whore he IS.

Donald Trump HATES the Vietnam Vets and he's GOING to take their desperately needed benefits away. ONLY the VA is able to identify that specific type of FAST moving cancer that is solely related to exposure to the rainbow of 'Agents'

So - I'm going there.

That pussy maggot wimp fucker is ALIVE and my father is dead?

Fuck that!

This is the New America.
It's mean.
It's cruel.
Get used to it.

[Wabbajack_]

22. President Pence?

Yay?

[JustAnotherGen]

23. I say

What did Pence know and WHEN did he know it?

We start now. Town Councils, School Boards, State Assembly, State Senate, New Governor in NJ.

Then we ride it into the House in 2018.

We just need our current representation to BLOCK everything and say NO

[tenorly]

2. By calling Putin to ask him to hack the voting machines again?

[George II]

4. WTF does this mean?

"Were going to win because we did so well because it was so overwhelming the thing that we did, because it was so beautiful how great our cabinet – all of whom are here tonight – how great our cabinet has performed"

We thought bush babbled most of the time, we're going to need a trump-to-English dictionary to figure this guy out.

[OldRedneck]

18. Sarah Palin . . .

is his speech coach.

[dalton99a]

5. Your last sentence is important.

[NewJeffCT]

8. you mean about targeting potential 2020 frontrunners?

like, how the NY Observer already had a headline blasting Cory Booker?

[lark]

13. Corey Booker is killing his own chances very well all by himself.

Killing the bill to allow importation of drugs from Canada shows that he is not the one to run the party. He's just another person on the take to big pharma, his largest contributor. I will definitely not support him, not one bit.

[NewJeffCT]

15. you do realize that was a non-binding amendment?

and would not have addressed the issue of allowing medicare and medicaid to negotiate drug prices, even if it were binding? Allowing negotiation would do far more for curbing drug costs than allowing re-importation of drugs from Canada without any involvement from the FDA or funding for FDA involvement?

If Booker was a stooge for the pharmaceutical industry, why did he vote for the Wyden Amendment that would have allowed that sort of negotiation?

89% of the money Booker received when running for senator came from individual donors, only 11% from PACs. The largest PAC donor to Booker was in the legal/law firms industry category. With over 115,000 pharmaceutical employees living in New Jersey, the amount of money he received from the pharmaceutical industry amounted to less than $3 per pharmaceutical employee.

[TomCADem]

24. NPR - As Pharma Jobs Leave N.J., Office Space Ghost Towns Remain

What I do not understand is why do folks have such a tough time with the idea that a New Jersey Senator might be protective of an industry that is central to his State. It is one thing if Booker was voting on a bill that really is not all that relevant to his State. But, we are talking about an industry that is central to his State. Does not mean we have to agree with his decision, but his job is to be responsive to the needs of his constituents.

http://www.npr.org/2014/07/30/336337115/as-pharma-jobs-leave-n-j-office-space-ghost-towns-remain

New Jersey used to be known as "the nation's medicine chest," but over the past two decades, many of the state's pharmaceutical industry jobs have dried up or moved elsewhere, and left millions of square feet of office space, warehouses and laboratories sitting empty.

One of those sites is the 116-acre corporate campus of the Swiss drugmaker Roche in Nutley, N.J. There are dozens of buildings on this campus, 10 miles west of midtown Manhattan. In fact, there are enough bio and chem labs, offices and auditoriums to fill up the entire Empire State Building. But since December, all of that space — 2 million square feet of it — has been vacant, the laboratories dark and the sidewalks deserted.

"When this was a thriving site, this sidewalk would have been busy with folks walking up and down," says Darien Wilson, one of just 38 Roche employees still working at the site as the company tries to sell the property. "We had great amenities for people, like on-site child care. You had dinners to-go where you could order food by lunch and take it home with you if you were working late. We had dry cleaning," she says.

Five years ago, Roche acquired Genentech, moved its management to San Francisco and started to slowly withdraw from New Jersey. That's a pretty typical story for what's been happening in the state. In the past 20 years, New Jersey went from having more than 20 percent of U.S. pharma manufacturing jobs to less than 10 percent.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Trump and his cabinet basket of deplorables

will be shredded like sauerkraut by 2020, their chances for reelection
near zero

The protests will never stop

Americans know oppression when they see it, they rise to a crisis
that threatens their lives, they will not tolerate this coup d'etat

[NewJeffCT]

10. don't underestimate Trump and the compliant media

they boosted him up - they can tear down any Democratic nominee using lies, half-truths and made up bullshit.

[lark]

14. He is so fucking delusional.

I think it's unlikely he makes it for a full 4 years. Evidence about him colluding with Russia and taking $ from them for his campaign will destroy him ultimately and he will no longer be president. Either that or some white guy will kill him because his wife is dying and can't get care because assface and the oligarchs kill ACA, and shred Medicaid and Medicare by turning them into block grants and putting no controls on what insurance or physicians can charge.

Only by destroying the constitution will he be able to stay in charge with a coup d'état. He won't get a person that's been demonized by the rw for 30 years again, he won't get someone his little fbi cronies and traitors can destroy with last minute lies. Elizabeth Warren is my hope with Kamala Harris being my 2nd choice. Either would whip his ass.

[SummerSnow]

9. He admitted he cheated.

[RobinA]

17. Good Catch! nt

*

[DeminPennswoods]

12. He'll have a record next time

He won't be some blank slate that people can write their hopes and dreams on.

[SummerSnow]

16. Trump-

“We have a cabinet, I believe, the likes of which has never been appointed. There’s never been a cabinet like this."


your'e right, a cabinet who doesn't know a dang thing

[jmowreader]

25. Durn tootin' there's never been a cabinet like this

Every single one of 'em needs to be locked up, but that's beside the point.

Y'know, I find it slightly difficult to believe there's anyone in America who's so rich they'd just let $100 million slip their mind, but that's what we're expected to believe about Steve Mnuchin.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

19. Getting ahead of himself talking about re-election before actually does anything besides tweet. n/t