I'm 'Unbeatable' in 2020, Trump Declares

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg



By Jennifer Jacobs
December 2, 2017, 11:54 AM EST Updated on December 2, 2017, 12:35 PM EST

President Donald Trump, fresh off a victory in the Senate that puts him a step closer to passing a huge tax-cut bill by year-end, and with the U.S. stock market near record highs, declared himself “unbeatable” for 2020.

“Unless they have somebody that we don’t know about, right now we’re unbeatable,” Trump said Saturday at a Trump Victory Fund finance breakfast in New York City.

Trump said, without elaboration, that “new numbers just came out” backing up his assessment of the electoral landscape. The White House and the Republican National Committee didn’t immediately respond to questions on the numbers the president was referring to.

“One of the reasons is what’s happening with the markets, what’s happening with business, what’s happening with jobs,” Trump told about 450 attendees at the midtown restaurant Cipriani -- the first of three fundraising events for the day that are expected to raise about $6 million.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-12-02/trump-says-he-s-unbeatable-in-2020-on-tax-cuts-stock-market

[TeamPooka]

1. "We'll see about that." said every Democrat in America.

[forgotmylogin]

11. Live video of potential "tax reform" beneficiaries reaction.

[DangerousUrNot]

2. So he is basically banking on the electoral system.

He knows he lost the majority vote and has done nothing to reverse it. Dems should see that and focus on those key states.

[PubliusEnigma]

3. Because he won't be a candidate.

[Jarqui]

4. For sure, .... the vote for his guilt by the jury will be unanimous !

[OilemFirchen]

5. "I was sitting on the toilet..."

"and new numbers just came out".

"I thought it only went to two."

[underpants]

7. Gallup has him at 33+ 66-

Yes Gallup

[red dog 1]

23. + 1

[2left4u]

6. True

Yes we all know.

You tell us all the time how rich you say you are

How innocent you are of any wrong doing

How much smarter you are

How respectful of women you are

How you aren't a useful idiot for Russia

How the tax plan is great for the middle class

Problem for you is the rest of live in reality versus on fantasy island.

[red dog 1]

25. Welcome to DU!

"Narcissists have secret lives..They lie effortlessly."

- Linda Martinez-Lewi, PhD..Clinical expert on the Narcissistic Personality

[Thor_MN]

8. If Trump is a candidate in 2020, I would be very surprised.

I don't expect him to survive a full term. Impeachment or resignation in the face of impeachment are his likely fates.

[underpants]

9. Talk about "spiking the football" he hasn't actually got the tax bill on his desk yet.

[turbinetree]

10. Hey asshole, yes you the narcissistic malignant psychopath, with orange hair that thinks everything

your ego is from the almighty high of a pile shit, when you look in the mirror.

You have two issues from your past, first of all your a fucking traitor,,second and this is really important, do you remember this lady:


https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-summer-zervos-lawsuit_us_5a2054bae4b0392a4ebc50f6



your going to have to give a deposition in this matter---------------and you are fucked, if this judge deems that you are not above the law, remember that asshole, someone else went through this and he was in office way before you, and it was consensual, yours on the other hand was not---------------


And when she gets through with you, maybe we can bring the Logan ACT against you and your bunch, two have already flipped---------and they are going to fuck you and make you squeal like a pig, (sorry pig's your more intelligent), your big concern asshole are these two issues, they will be coming before 2020, you have to make it through 2018, 2019, 2020

[Bradical79]

12. If he lasts that long, maybe

He's been working on ways to rig the system more. Remember that guy he wants to put in charge of the census.

[yurbud]

13. what did he do to make that tax bill happen?

[lagomorph777]

32. Spread around truckloads of Putin's money.

Whatcha think they do in those meetings, anyway?

[yurbud]

34. I thought they got it from OUR oligarchs, but whatever

[TheBlackAdder]

14. It's so predictable that a guy with a SHRIMP DICK would say UNBEATABLE. Can he even find it?

[left-of-center2012]

15. One of the reasons is whats happening with the markets, whats happening with business"

It's we peasants who will take you down.

[marble falls]

16. How unbeatable will he be in 2020 when its debatable he may not survice 2017?

[NotASurfer]

17. Technically, when he's in solitary, other inmates will not be able to beat him

Thus unbeatable. Works for me

[yurbud]

35. I, for one, would not beat a hefty bag full of shit. It might break.

[Mr. Ected]

18. I agree, he'll be unbeatable in 2020

If he's being held in solitary confinement.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

22. It is against the law to beat prisoners or mental hospital patients. . . . nt

[William Seger]

19. "How's your 401(k) doing?"

Fucking moron. Only 14% of American employers offer 401(k) plans, and only about a third of the eligible employees are contributing to them.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-02-21/two-thirds-of-americans-aren-t-putting-money-in-their-401-k

[TexasBushwhacker]

27. 401Ks are a rip off anyway

They only offer a choice of mutual funds chosen by the employer. If those funds don't perform well, and most do worse than index funds, well tough shit. They're worth investing in to get your company match if they offer it. Unless you are able to make the maximum contribution, many folks are better off with a standard or Roth IRA.

[Rollo]

45. It depends on the employer...

Two employers I had in the 1990's had very good 401k's, with Fidelity. A good choice of solid funds; company stock was not one of the choices (there was an employee stuck purchase plan, however).

Later on I had an employer in 2015 with a horrible 401k plan, with very high fees for basic stuff like index funds, and no company match. I maxed out my contributions anyway, for tax purposes, and rolled them over to a Vanguard IRA as soon as I left the company.

401k's can be good for employees for the following reasons:

1) Much higher contribution limit than IRA's
2) Often the employer will match employee contributions up to a certain point
3) 401K funds have unlimited protection against creditor judgements.

IRA's can be good for individuals because:

1) They do not require an employer involvement
2) There are usually far more investment options with an IRA account, often with lower fees
3) IRA funds as of 2015 are federally protected up to $1 million from creditors. However individual state laws may be higher or lower.

[ProfessorGAC]

48. Quite Inaccurate

My employer has zero input into available funds, and the selection of choices involves at least 30 options.
Perhaps you were thinking of 401a retirement accounts, not 401k.

All that said, how is getting to save retirement money on a tax deferred basis, a rip-off? Not having to pay interest on earnings and dividends greatly adds to compounding and is quite to the benefit of the saver.

[Corgigal]

20. Well again

I'm cheering for cholesterol.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

21. The market rate of rise is slower now than in the Obama years. . . . nt

[red dog 1]

24. K&R

[Turbineguy]

26. Sure.

And I just got a job modelling Speedo swimsuits.

No, I'm not posting a picture.

[titaniumsalute]

28. There are no numbers

No one polls any individual states about 2020 until much later. It would be a waste of money. And what is polled state by state is approval ratings. And they ain't good anywhere for him.

https://morningconsult.com/2017/10/10/trump-approval-dips-in-every-state-though-deep-pockets-of-support-remain/

[Rollo]

43. But that's not what the voices in his head are telling him...

.

[Solly Mack]

29. Oh, you're beatable alright.

Beggingly so.

[Maeve]

30. By 2020, we could run a dead polecat and beat him

Of course, by then it may be hard to tell him from a dead polecat....

[lagomorph777]

31. Delusional. He won't be around in 2020.

[kedrys]

33. If they stick him in solitary...

...the other inmates can’t beat him up. *snerk*

[tclambert]

36. Can you run an effective campaign from prison?

[Jim Lane]

40. Yes. In fact, it's been done.

Never at the national level, AFAIK, but James Michael Curley did it in Boston:

Curley's first public notoriety came when he was elected to Boston's board of aldermen in 1904 while in prison on a fraud conviction. Curley and an associate, Thomas Curley (no relation), took the civil service exams for postmen in place of two men in their district to help them get the jobs with the federal government. Though the incident gave him a dark reputation in Boston's non-Irish circles, it aided his image among the Irish American working class and poor because they saw him as a man willing to stick his neck out to help those in need. During that election, his campaign slogan was, "he did it for a friend."[19] He would also quickly gain a reputation for taking kickbacks in exchange for his support.[20]

Trump won't be the only rich guy to benefit from his tax heist. He might be able to recycle the "He did it for a friend" slogan.

[Dr_Pretorius]

37. Yeah, cause he won't be running.

I still have some faith in the system.

[0rganism]

38. and he might be correct on that point

assuming he lasts that long (if he doesn't run in 2020, that kind of makes him unbeatable by default)...
he did an excellent job last year of making the campaign all about him
any discussion of HRC was restricted to her e-mails with a sprinkling of Benghazi
with help from his Russian Troll Farms, the media was saturated with Trump agitprop 24/7
now it has its own momentum - Russian trolls not even necessary
all the focus is on him, one way or another
meanwhile, states' elections infrastructure has not improved nor have soft money sources been regulated, while multiple state legislatures have gone out of their way to make it more difficult for people to vote.
by 2020, thanks to Trump's FCC, the internet will be pay-to-play on a scale we cannot even imagine now; don't count on it for organizing, smart campaigns are probably setting up their phone trees already.

if he survives a legal takedown from Mueller, he will be a formidable opponent regardless of the state of the nation in 2020.

people citing feel-good poll numbers now are walking right into a trap. remember how the corporate media works: if shit is shitty, it's the liberals' fault, and if things are okay, it's because Trump "made it great again." that's what we are up against, that's what we need to overcome, and polls today aren't reflecting events of the next 2-3 years. hell, even when the numbers were current in 2016, they were misleading and flipped on a dime after Comey reintroduced the e-mails.

i don't see signs that our leadership understands this; doesn't mean they don't but i haven't seen any signs.

[Yonnie3]

39. Maybe he's talking about numbers of a different kind.

The kind people smoke and feel they're unbeatable.

[Crowman2009]

41. Well if he's a bottomless pit of junk food, he won't be alive by then.

[Rollo]

42. Trump needs to read some Greek tragedies about the downside of hubris...

.

[moondust]

44. Tell it to your cellmate, bubba.

[Yavin4]

46. One of the surest signs of an impending stock market crash is when pols start bragging about how

well the markets are doing.

[Julian Englis]

47. "I'm unhinged in 2017," Trump Declares; "I'm undead in 2018," Trump decleares; etc. n/t

[Bengus81]

49. Only if you and your THUGS in Congress suspend the 2020 elections...........